Rust & Shine

Close-up restoration incremental where cleaning tools, crate suppliers, and bots scale one bench.

How a run starts

A rusted antique lands on your bench, still unidentified, and you pick a brush, a water gun, or a sandblaster.

What you do

You strip corrosion until the object is recognizable, then sell it, or hold a rare piece for a hand finish.

What carries over

Cash buys stronger tools and rarer crates; contract deadlines and a move to a larger shop reset the pace with kept renown skills.

Pick this if

• Three named cleaning tools change the job, and bots can take feed, clean, and sell only after you unlock them.
• Contracts add a deadline, so the loop is not only a number going up.

Skip this if

• Identification is described as a reveal, not as a puzzle with wrong answers.
• Bot automation can sideline the hand-clean once the workshop is staffed.