Read the current city requirement
Use the exact requirement shown in your save. The official store confirms the rewards of city development, but it does not publish a complete cost table.
Progression / City · checked 2026-08-13
Chop Chop Inc City Upgrades Guide
Use city upgrades to unlock customers, missions, secrets, and character upgrades without guessing at unverified costs.
Direct answer
Treat the city as a progression gate: complete the visible city requirement, deliver the requested output, then check which customer, mission, secret, or character upgrade becomes available.
- Confirmed rewards
- Customers, missions, secrets, character upgrades
- Public cost table
- Not published by Steam
- Primary loop
- Produce, deliver, recheck unlocks
Prepare one delivery chain
Trace the requested output backward through its furniture, refined materials, machines, and raw resources before producing a large batch.
Complete the upgrade interaction
Deliver or build at the named city target, then wait for its model, marker, or objective state to change.
Audit the new unlocks
Check customers, missions, secrets, and character upgrade options immediately so the next production run has a clear purpose.
Failure branch
The city does not advance
Re-read the active requirement and check whether it expects a finished object, a set, a build action, or a mission handoff. Similar material names and partial sets do not satisfy a finished requirement.
Completion signal
A new city route becomes available
The upgrade is complete when the city state changes and at least one new customer, mission, secret, or character-upgrade route appears.
Start over
Recheck the first missing step
Return to the first condition that is not yet true instead of repeating the final action.