Guide

Dealing with rubbish without losing the day

How to keep on top of rubbish in Supermarket Simulator while treating it as the separate job it is.

Applies to

1.6.0 (223), read from the copy of the game this site was built from (see the sources page)

Before you start

• A shop with bins and bags available
• Somewhere to put a bag out
• A janitor if you have one

Steps

1. Separate rubbish from dirt and dust before you start, because they are different jobs.
   cleaning is split into named actions for dirt, dust and rubbish, with a kind that tells them apart
2. Expect rubbish to be produced rather than only left behind.
   the game keeps a generator and a manager for rubbish
3. Treat the mess as objects in the world, not as a texture on the floor.
   there is a rubbish object and a trash object of the game's own
4. Use the bins and bags the game provides rather than your own arrangement.
   rubbish has bins and bags of its own
5. Count going to the rubbish as a step of its own when you plan a lap of the shop.
   going to the rubbish is a step of its own
6. Know that putting a bag out is an action which can be switched off.
   the bag has its own interaction and the action can be disabled
7. Look for the bin that comes with the thing you placed.
   the ice cream stand has a bin of its own
8. Hand the job to a janitor if you have one, and it will keep its own states per kind of mess.
   the janitor runs through a manager and a state machine, with separate cleaning states for dirt, dust and rubbish, and it works in a shared shop

Common mistakes

• Mopping as if rubbish were dirt and then wondering why the mess is still there.
• Filling bins you cannot reach instead of using the bags.
• Forgetting that a bag left ready to go out is not the same as gone.
• Buying a janitor and then doing the cleaning yourself anyway.

Related entries

Running the shopDirt, dust and rubbish are three jobsCleaning is split into named actions for dirt, dust and rubbish.Running the shopThe rubbish and where it goesRubbish is produced rather than only left over: the game keeps a generator and a manager for it.StaffThe janitor and what he cleansThe janitor runs through a manager and a state machine of his own.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.