House 13 Money, Shop Items & Weapons

How money arrives (observed): the HUD keeps a running MONEY total. At the 06:00 AM settlement screen the run reports how many people were sheltered and adds a payout; in this session the night payouts ran from $10 to $40 and scaled with the number sheltered. The exact payout rule is not stated anywhere first-party, so treat the amounts as this session’s numbers, not a formula.

Where a bought item actually comes from (observed): paying at the in-house terminal is only the first half of a purchase. In the recorded session the flashlight was bought at the terminal at 17:40 and then taken out of the delivery crate outside the house straight afterwards (observed 17:40–17:43) — the same delivery point the free Signal Jammer request arrives at, per the controls reference. Nothing you buy appears inside the house before the crate is emptied, so the route to the flashlight is terminal purchase, then collect the crate, not a pickup already lying in a room. The amount charged is equally unsettled: the terminal listed $75 while the same session’s MONEY counter dropped by $45, so treat both the list price and the deduction as one session’s numbers.

Not established: whether these are all the items, what each weapon’s damage or ammo economy is, whether the shop rotates, whether money carries between modes, or whether any of it changes the survival badges. Nobody has published a first-party price list, so nothing above should be quoted as a fixed price.

• Front-door console: three controls — a check control, a let-in control and a close-door control — plus dialogue prompts to question the visitor (observed 01:45–02:12).
• Signal Jammer: a wall unit with a stability readout that decays over the night and is topped back up by holding the interact key (observed 01:23–02:47).
• Windows: forced open from outside and closed by interacting with them (observed 11:18–11:21).
• Closets: opened from the inside by an entity and shut by interacting with the door (observed 19:28–19:30).

The window rule and the closet rule are the same rules the official badges name for The Reacher and The Nester, so the badge text stays the authority for those two. The console and the Signal Jammer have no official description at all; they are observed only. How each of these fixtures is operated is documented by control on the House 13 controls reference.