Factory Market Report | Jan 24

🏭 War Era Factory Market Report

Jan 24 – “Steak Remembers Who It Is”

Compared to yesterday (Jan 23)

Input prices shifted just enough to reshuffle the podium, and for the first time in days, the winner isn’t about deposits, timing, or luck — it’s about clean margins.

🥇 Today’s Winner: Steak Takes the Lead (Again)

🥩 Steak – Victoria, Australia

Profit per point: 0.13101
Change vs yesterday: ⬆️ Clear jump

Cheaper livestock and steady output prices push steak back into first place. No deposit crutches, no volatility spikes — just efficient conversion.

👉 Steak is now officially back in the S-tier conversation.
👉 Still swingy day-to-day, but when inputs behave, it prints.

🥈 Steel: Still Rock-Solid

🔩 Steel – Transylvania, Romania

Profit per point: 0.12830
Change vs yesterday: ➖ Marginal slip

Steel barely moves and holds second place comfortably. Iron costs rose slightly, but specialization absorbs the hit.

👉 Steel remains the safest long-term factory in the game.
👉 It doesn’t need to win every day to win overall.

🥉 Concrete vs Cooked Fish: A Photo Finish

🧱 Concrete – Masovia, Poland

Profit per point: 0.12608

🍽️ Cooked Fish – Uruguay

Profit per point: 0.12603

This is effectively a tie. Concrete edges out cooked fish by a rounding error, but both are operating at peak efficiency for their category.

👉 Concrete: simpler, cheaper, easier to scale
👉 Cooked Fish: higher total profit, heavier commitment

Pick based on capital and patience, not headlines.

🐟 Raw Fish: Still Riding the Deposit

Fish – Northern Finland

Profit per point: 0.12407
Change vs yesterday: ➖ Stable

Raw fish continues to overperform as the deposit approaches its final day.

👉 Strong right now.
👉 Likely to fall fast once the deposit ends.

💣 Heavy Ammo: Stuck in Neutral

Heavy Ammo – Spain

Profit per point: 0.11988
Change vs yesterday: ➖ Flat

Heavy ammo can’t quite break out. Lead prices stabilized, but output didn’t follow.

👉 Not bad.
👉 Not exciting.
👉 Clearly no longer meta.

🔫 Ammo & Light Ammo: Quietly Respectable

• 🔫 Ammo – Venezuela → 0.11806

• 🔫 Light Ammo – South Africa → 0.11808

Both hover just below heavy ammo, proving that smaller factories can compete when inputs are cheap.

⛏️ Deposit Plays: Final Hours Energy ⚠️

• ⛓️ Iron – Portugal → 0.12072 (expires today)

• 🐟 Fish – Finland → 0.12407 (expires tomorrow)

• 🐄 Livestock – Ukraine → 0.11100

• 🛢️ Petroleum – Angola → 0.11750

• 🌿 Coca – Mozambique → 0.10405

👉 These are harvest-only plays now.
👉 New builds here are pure cope.

🚫 Bottom of the Table (Still)

• 🍞 Bread – Egypt → 0.09932

• ❄️ Cocaine – Latvia → 0.07858

Nothing new, nothing saved.

📊 Jan 24 Snapshot Summary

🏆 Top Tier

• Steak

• Steel

✅ Strong

• Concrete

• Cooked Fish

• Raw Fish (deposit)

🟡 Mid Tier

• Heavy Ammo

• Ammo

• Light Ammo

⏱️ Exit Soon

• Iron

• Fish (raw)

• Livestock

• Petroleum

• Coca

🚫 Avoid

• Bread

• Cocaine

📌 Jan 24 Takeaways

• Steak proves it’s not dead — just temperamental

• Steel remains the safest long-term anchor

• Concrete and cooked fish are effectively tied

• Deposits are now about exit timing, not entry

• The market is stabilizing into a real hierarchy