What this Schedule I mix calculator does
In the game Schedule I, the difference between scraping by and running an empire is mixing. Every ingredient you add to a base product transforms its effect list, every effect carries a price multiplier, and the final selling price is the base price scaled by everything you've stacked. Doing that math in your head, mid-game, with ingredient costs on the other side of the ledger, is exactly the kind of arithmetic that calculators were invented for.
This tool holds the full product and ingredient database: pick your base, add ingredients in order, and it shows the resulting effect stack, total ingredient cost, final selling price, and profit per unit — so you can compare recipes before spending in-game money discovering they don't pay.
The mixing economy in a nutshell
Three rules drive everything. First, effects multiply price rather than add to it, so one high-value effect can be worth more than three mediocre ones. Second, the eight-effect cap changes strategy completely once you hit it: past that point, new ingredients only transform existing effects through the game's mixing rules, which is where the deep recipe engineering lives. Third, ingredient cost scales with mix length — a spectacular-sounding recipe can be a worse business than a simple one once you subtract what its ingredients cost per batch.
That third rule is the trap the calculator exists to catch. Margin, not sale price, is the number that matters, and the results panel puts it front and centre. A mix that sells for less but costs a fraction to produce routinely beats the flashy expensive one on profit per unit — and dramatically beats it on profit per in-game day once you factor production volume.
A note on accuracy and patches
Values here track the game's published base prices and effect multipliers. Schedule I receives regular updates, and balance patches occasionally reprice ingredients or rework effects — when that happens shortly after a patch, in-game values are the tiebreaker. And for clarity, since search engines occasionally conflate the two: this page is about a video game, and has nothing to do with legal 'Schedule 1' documents of any kind.