Overview
City Delivery is the truck-driving entry in the Hethereau Hobbies roster. Players take a job from the Courier near the delivery vehicle, drive a cargo truck from a pickup point to a drop-off point inside Hethereau, and earn Fons based on how fast they finish the route and how intact the cargo arrives. The activity sits in the high-stamina, high-payout band of the hobby menu alongside Swift Travel (the taxi job), and it pays roughly twice as much per attempt as the smaller arcade hobbies.
Unlike taxi work, City Delivery uses a dedicated cargo truck that handles slower than a personal car, and the cargo itself can take damage from collisions. This shifts the optimal driving style toward smooth, defensive lines instead of aggressive shortcuts. Players who treat City Delivery like a race tend to lose Fons to broken cargo; players who treat it like a careful tour of the city tend to clear the daily quota cleanly with maximum payouts.
How to Unlock
City Delivery becomes available once the account meets all three of the following requirements:
City Tycoon Level 8, which sits at roughly 1,146,000 Fons of lifetime earnings.
House Comfort 20 inside the player's owned residence under the housing system, which means the home has been furnished past the early decoration stage.
Cafe Management Level 2 at The Cafe by Origen, which is reached by stocking and operating the first cafe for a few in-game days after purchase.
Until those gates clear, the City Delivery row in the Hethereau Hobbies menu is visible but cannot be queued. New accounts that want to reach City Delivery quickly typically focus on cafe income and house decoration first, since those two requirements can be satisfied in parallel without much extra effort.
How to Start a Delivery
To run a delivery, the player opens the City Tycoon app, navigates to Hethereau Hobbies, and selects City Delivery. The activity pin appears on the city map, marking the depot where the delivery trucks are parked. Driving or fast-traveling to the depot puts the player in front of the Courier NPC who hands out jobs.
From the Courier, the player picks a job from the available list. Each job preview shows the route as a green line on the minimap before commitment, which makes it possible to scout sharp turns, narrow alleys, and known collision hazards before starting the timer. Once a job is accepted, the truck spawns next to the player, the timer begins, and the route turns live.
The delivery itself follows the standard four-step loop:
Drive to the destination within the time limit.
Park the truck inside the blue frame at the drop-off point.
Step out to talk to the receiving NPC.
Collect the Fons reward, which is calculated from the Professional Rating earned on the trip.
Cargo Types
The Courier hands out four cargo types, and each carries a different Condition rating ceiling. Condition is the cargo's durability bar; it ticks down whenever the truck collides with a wall, another vehicle, or roadside obstacles. The cargo type also determines whether the route prioritizes raw speed or careful handling.
Cargo Type | Maximum Condition | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Common | 300 | Standard goods. Low priority, generous time limit, forgiving Condition pool. The on-ramp cargo type for new drivers. |
Express | 300 | Rush package with a tighter timer. Same durability as Common, but the route is harder to clear inside the time window without aggressive driving. |
Fragile | Reduced (below 300) | Brittle goods that lose Condition fast on impact. The careful-driving job; speed comes second to clean lines. |
Large | 600 | Big-ticket goods carried in the bulk truck variant. Higher Condition pool absorbs more incidental hits, which suits players who prefer assertive driving. |
Only one job per cargo type per day is available, so a player who wants to run all four daily slots needs to clear at least one Common, one Express, one Fragile, and one Large delivery before repeating. The total daily quota is six deliveries, which leaves room for a couple of repeats on the player's preferred cargo type after the four unique slots are cleared.
Time Limits
Each delivery has a time limit baked into the route, typically either 5 minutes or 10 minutes depending on the route distance and the cargo type. The timer is generous in most cases (deliveries usually allow noticeably more time than a careful run actually needs), so the practical bottleneck is cargo Condition rather than speed. Players who treat the time limit as a cap rather than a target tend to score higher on the Professional Rating.
Professional Rating
Each completed delivery is scored on a Professional Rating that reflects both the time used and the cargo's surviving Condition at drop-off. The rating directly determines the Fons payout: a Professional Rating of 90 or higher pays the maximum reward bracket for that job, while lower ratings drop the payout proportionally.
One detail makes the rating system more forgiving than it first appears. Even if the cargo's Condition bar drops to zero (meaning every package is theoretically broken on arrival), the delivery does not fail outright. Instead, the Professional Rating bottoms out at +20, which still pays a small Fons reward and counts the delivery toward the daily quota. This means a disastrous run is recoverable rather than a total loss, although the payout is much smaller than a clean clear.
Rewards
Each delivery pays 8,000 Fons or more depending on the Professional Rating earned. Maximum-rating clears on the larger Express and Large jobs typically pay above the 8,000 baseline, while a partial clear on a Common job can land closer to the floor. Across the full six-delivery daily quota, a clean run earns roughly 50,000 Fons in active income, on top of any passive cafe revenue accumulating in the background.
Result | Approximate Fons Per Delivery | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Professional Rating 90+ | Maximum bracket (8,000+ Fons) | Achievable on most jobs with smooth driving and route preview. |
Mid-rating (cargo damaged, time used) | Reduced from maximum | Still profitable, but leaves Fons on the table. |
Cargo Condition reaches 0 | Minimum +20 rating bracket | Delivery does not fail; small payout still applies. |
City Stamina Cost
City Delivery follows the same shared formula every other progression hobby uses: 1 City Stamina point per 1,000 Fons earned. A maximum-rating Common delivery worth 8,000 Fons costs 8 City Stamina, while a higher-paying Express or Large run can cost more in the 9 to 12 stamina range depending on the final payout.
Because stamina is shared across every Fons-earning activity, a full six-delivery daily quota burns close to 50 City Stamina on its own, which is comparable to a full session of Swift Travel taxi runs or a heavy round of Owner's Selection star clears. Players who run all three high-payout hobbies in the same day usually need to plan around the daily stamina cap rather than chase every available job in one sitting.
Truck Handling
The delivery truck is noticeably slower than the player's personal cars and carries more weight at every step of the handling model. Acceleration is sluggish off the line, top speed is capped well below a sport sedan, and the brake feel is heavier under load. None of this is a flaw; it is the design intent. The truck is meant to encourage measured, deliberate driving rather than the high-speed cornering that Street Racing rewards.
Two practical consequences fall out of this. First, the wide turning radius means narrow alleys and tight corners are real obstacles. Routes through downtown side streets often demand slower speeds and more space at every junction than a personal car would need. Second, weight transfer matters more under braking, so stopping early at red lights and busy intersections preserves Condition on Fragile cargo specifically.
Special Items and Character Skills
A handful of long-term unlocks expand the activity beyond the standard daily six-delivery quota.
Source | Effect |
|---|---|
Old Mailbox (apartment furniture) | Placed inside the player's owned residence under the housing system. Unlocks one bonus delivery per week that does not count against the daily six-job quota. |
Hathor Life Skill (max upgrade) | Hathor's courier-themed Life Skill, when fully upgraded, automatically completes one delivery per day on the player's behalf. The auto-completed delivery still pays out Fons, freeing the player to spend the day's stamina on other deliveries or other hobbies. |
Hathor's auto-delivery skill ties into her in-fiction role at Sterry Express, the courier company she works for as an elite courier. It is one of the more efficient long-term tuning decisions for City Delivery focused accounts, since the auto-completed slot effectively raises the daily payout ceiling without requiring additional player time.
Compared with Swift Travel
City Delivery and Swift Travel are the two high-stamina vehicle hobbies in the Hethereau Hobbies menu, and they are easy to confuse because both involve driving through Hethereau for Fons. The table below clarifies the differences.
Aspect | City Delivery | Swift Travel (Taxi) |
|---|---|---|
Vehicle | Dedicated cargo truck (slow, heavy) | Taxi sedan (faster, lighter handling) |
Failure cost | Cargo damage reduces payout but does not fail the run | Customer patience drains; expired patience cancels the fare entirely |
Daily availability | Six deliveries per day, one per cargo type per day | On-demand fares as long as City Stamina holds |
Driving style rewarded | Smooth, defensive lines that preserve Condition | Confident, on-time arrivals (smooth driving raises tips, but on-time matters more) |
Per-trip Fons | 8,000+ at max rating | Variable; depends on distance and tip |
Tips
Preview every route before accepting. The green line on the minimap shows the full path, including the worst corners. Spotting a sharp turn or a narrow alley up front lets the player plan brake points instead of discovering them mid-run.
Drive for cargo Condition first, time second. Most deliveries give noticeably more time than a careful run actually needs, so trading a few seconds for a clean line is almost always the right call.
Restart deliveries by stepping out of the truck. Exiting the vehicle mid-run cancels the job without spending the full stamina budget, which is faster than waiting for the timer to expire on a botched route.
Pick Fragile jobs when traffic is light. The Condition pool on Fragile cargo is small, so timing the run for low-traffic in-game hours reduces the risk of a stray car spike.
Use the Large cargo type for assertive runs. The 600 Condition ceiling absorbs incidental hits, so players who prefer aggressive driving make Large their default and slow down only for known hazards.
Place the Old Mailbox in your residence. The bonus weekly delivery is genuine extra income that does not count against the daily quota or interact with the City Stamina cap.
Max out Hathor's Life Skill if you run delivery often. The auto-completed daily delivery saves the player a full real-time slot per day and pays out at the high bracket on its own.
Stack delivery runs with cafe restocks. The depot is in a different district from most cafes, so chaining a delivery into a restock loop minimizes wasted city travel time.
Treat the activity as a Fons-per-stamina contest, not a race. The maximum payout per delivery is fixed at the Professional Rating ceiling, so improving driving skill never raises the per-job ceiling; it just lets the player hit the ceiling more reliably.
Related Pages
Hethereau Hobbies - Umbrella guide to every leisure activity in the city.
Swift Travel - The taxi sister hobby; also a high-stamina vehicle activity.
Sterry Express - The in-fiction courier company tied to Hathor's auto-delivery Life Skill.
City Tycoon - The progression track that gates the City Delivery unlock at Level 8.
Vehicles - Driving system reference; the truck behaves the same way personal cars do, with heavier weight.
Fons - The city currency City Delivery pays out.
City Stamina - The shared daily pool the activity draws from.