Shop item restocks
What TornLife's research has established about Shop item restocks, and the questions players asked about it.
What TornLife has verified
- City shops impose a personal purchase cap of 100 items per 24 hours per player, independent of the shop's own restocking. (confirmed by Torn; How long it takes for a shop to restock?, )
- The Torn Wiki states an item's restock time is based on how long it took to sell out, illustrated by the hypothetical case of a Platinum PDA sold in Dubai before removal, which would have taken several years to restock given its slow sell rate. (documented; Digital Organizer › Trivia, )
- Torn staff (CloudJumper) confirmed restocking, both overseas and in city shops, only happens at xx:00, xx:15, xx:30 or xx:45 marks, not continuously or at arbitrary times. (confirmed by Torn; Clarification on restocks, )
- Staff (bogie) said in 2021 that restocks can take up to around 15 seconds after the tick to actually appear, which explains apparent inconsistency when players check at a precise second; the restock itself is not instantaneous at the tick mark. (confirmed by Torn; City restock, )
- Restocking is driven by server-side automated jobs (crons); when these crons went down in 2018, plushies and other items stopped being replenished across every country until a developer restored the crons. (confirmed by Torn; Plushies are no longer restocked, )
- Patch list #413 (16/12/2025) changed drug prices, restock quantities, and restock frequencies specifically for areas abroad, stated by staff to make them more competitive. (confirmed by Torn; Overseas item restock, )
- Following the December 2025 patch, Torn staff confirmed the overseas restocking mechanism itself was changed so that not all items stay in stock all the time, and that staff are actively monitoring and continuing to tune restock frequency. (confirmed by Torn; Overseas item restock, )
- The Torn Wiki's Sally's Sweet Shop page states the candy shop follows the same restock rule as other shops: the time before a restock is half the time it took the item to sell out, rounded to the nearest 15 minutes. (documented; Sally's Sweet Shop, )
- Torn staff (CloudJumper) confirmed that restocking of specific items abroad (e.g. Zip ties in Mexico) can be manually toggled on or off by a staff member (Ched), independent of the general restock formula, and that removal of an item's restock is not necessarily a bug. (confirmed by Torn; Zip ties not restocked in Mexico, )
- Staff (CloudJumper) stated in June 2026 that they had queried the sell-back/restock-blocking behaviour internally and were told it should not be an issue, and said they would ask another staff member to confirm whether it was working as intended; by July 2026 they asked the reporter to file a new report for a related but distinct issue. (confirmed by Torn; Travel Update - Selling items back to abroad shops resets restock timers, )
Questions about Shop item restocks
- How do shop item restocks work in Torn, and is the time between restocks fixed or variable?
Restocking follows a formula, not a flat timer: the time before an item restocks is roughly half the time it took that item to sell out last time, ro…
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