Acid Lab: setup, supplies and stock estimates

Complete the opening route

Rockstar’s documented route is to finish First Dose, recover the necessary lab equipment, then install it in the MTL Brickade 6x6. First Dose comprises six missions for one to four players. Los Santos Drug Wars notes.

What the lab does

The installed Acid Lab is a mobile business that can be requested and driven in Freemode. Its source missions obtain supplies, which become product to sell. The included Manchez Scout C is used for deliveries.

Plan a supply batch or full stock

Compare four reviewed stock examples using the Equipment upgrade setting that matches the business you want to model. These are original-model estimates for unnamed product without boosts. Hands-on production comparison, original batch model.

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Acid Lab stock estimate

Equipment upgradeStock example

Unnamed product · solo Invite Only · no boosts. This example starts with empty stock and supplies.

100 / 160 stock units

Gross sale estimate: GTA$ 209,500
Supplies consumed: GTA$ 60,000
After consumed suppliesSupply contribution: GTA$ 149,500
Estimated production time: 2 hr 30 min

Production time assumes you are online and the supplied lab is actively producing. Supply arrival, pauses and your delivery add time. Values assume a completed sale and exclude setup costs and other expenses.

Purchases, leftover supplies and sources

In this example, buy another whole supply batch only after the previous batch runs out.

1 whole purchase × GTA$ 60,000: GTA$ 60,000
Supplies left for later, at purchase cost: GTA$ 0
Sale value minus purchase cash: GTA$ 149,500

Cash paid for purchases and consumed supplies are different measures. Leftover supplies remain available for later production; they are not refunded. Supply contribution excludes other costs and delivery losses.

These fixed examples cover unnamed product at normal rates. After consumed supplies excludes other expenses and delivery losses.

Empty starting stock and supplies; Equipment setting as selected.
Unnamed product, no daily production, mansion, membership, event or public-session modifiers.
Solo Invite Only sale, with complete successful delivery assumed.
Online, supplied and actively producing. Arrival delays, pauses, travel and delivery add time.
The original authors reported these fixed models; later limited corroboration is not a new controlled gameplay test.

Acid Lab: original before/after Equipment comparisonGTA BOOM / Hassan Sajid
Acid Lab: original supply-batch and production modelLogOfOne / r/gtaonline
Acid Lab: original solo routine and supply allocationC-5-D / r/gtaonline
Acid Lab: recorded full-stock displayHazard
Acid Lab: original two-purchase routinePrize-Poet-5681 / r/gtaonline
Update 1.64: Los Santos Drug WarsRockstar Games
Update 1.61: The Criminal EnterprisesRockstar Games

Model reviewed 15 Sept 2026 · review due 17 Sept 2026, 06:00 UTC.

Make the delivery

The included Manchez Scout C is your Acid delivery bike. The reviewed solo selling routine uses it for full stock, and Acid sales can run in an Invite Only session. Allow separate time for the delivery route; it is not included in the production estimate. Rockstar’s vehicle description, original solo routine, Invite Only selling.

First Dose and Dax jobs are separate

After Welcome to the Troupe, Dax becomes a contact for Fooligan Jobs. Those jobs are separate from the six First Dose story missions. The Equipment upgrade is a separate purchase unlocked by completing ten Fooligan Jobs. Finishing First Dose alone does not unlock it. Equipment unlock and purchase.

Choose your next action

Still on the introduction? Continue First Dose. Finished it? Follow the equipment and installation prompts. Already operating? Use the stock examples to compare supplied production, then plan time for your delivery.