Does anything actually give you MONEY in this game?

[maestro]

Seriously.

Everything sells for <10gol even the fish, and I can't find anything at all other than doing commissions (which is difficult because you constantly run out of stamina every 30 seconds). I haven't checked to see if accepting a commission is once/day (wouldn't surprise me, that's how Portia was), yet but still. 200 here, 190 there with the occasional ridiculous commission you can't possibly hope to achieve giving 500-600.

Meanwhile they want you to dump 600 into upgrading a tool here, another 600 for that tool over there, 200 for this blueprint, 200 for that blueprint...

Meanwhile all the other workshops are soaring to ridiculous numbers on the leaderboard that seem outright impossible to achieve.

Something feels a bit whack on the balance here.

[jdhlsc169]

Originalmente postado por maestro:

I wouldn't say it's "Just like Portia" because in Portia, you open that chest along the wall to get 100 gol, and the 100 gol you start with, gives you 200, which is enough to buy almost 70 worms from your next-door neighbor.

Then, you kick trees to get 2 cocoons, and break rocks until you get 3 ore, make the furnace, and smelt the bar, and make a fishing rod.

By day 4 you can get yourself at bare minimum 1980gol on the first day after you make the fishing rod. Bare Minimum, assuming each fish you catch is only worth 30gol (and assuming no rusty pipes/rackets/etc, and assuming you successfully catch every fish which really isn't hard to do). If you're good enough, you could fish at the waterfall and maybe catch a goliath or two, but really, fishing up by the dock you arrived on is going to be much easier. The Bubblefish are 100gol each, and the other two fish are 30-50gol each.

Totally agree with everything you said. I'm in Autumn in Sandrock (just started playing recently) and I'm still scratching my head trying to figure out how to make money like you do in Portia. Also, the fish breading is a real money maker in Portia.

[EthanT]

With high workshop ranking and the perk, you can do 4 commissions a day. The best commissions arent the ones that give the most Gols, its the ones you can do instantly. All you have to do is mine alot and grab scrap alot. Make the goods you see commissioned all the time. Bars, hoses, latches, glass lens, rivets, bloodstone saws and cores, etc.

With a large reserve of those items you can reliably finish 2-3 commissions per day instantly, then focus on a 4th for a an odd out type of item. There is no get rich early yet like stone stools and fish for Portia. Just focus on same day commissions and get the perks for more gols for same day deliveries and the perks for more commissions.

dried sandacuda are ridiculously good for stamina gains, so much so that you can spend one day fishing and reliably get 60+ if you have the bait. sandcarps are OK, but better than nothing. ive got 3 drying racks and i keep them full at all times. I just do 3 day rotations. Fish, Mine, Scrap, over and over with 4 commissions per day. Youll always have energy food, gols, and instant commissions.

Also, making 8-10 dew collectors can solve your water needs to the point where you only need to buy it once a month.

[Livia]

I literally started a new game this week and I have found the balance to be perfect this time. I am only in the first month still and I already am in second place and a 2 star workshop.

Things to do in the opening of the game:

1) Mi-an lets you take dried meat from her, but you can also steal it and a copper or bronze bar from Yan every few days.

2) Sell the decorations on the house exterior (ex: roof, chimney, etc) as they do not give you anything but can give you a nice chunk of gols.

3) Buy lots of salt from By the Stairs the week you get the 50% discount for making leather later.

4) Always buy when the market is low and sell when the market is high. Even selling the literal trash you pick up gives you gols. When the market is very low (like -15%), buy two sharpening stones from Hugh and upgrade to bronze weapons. If something at Vivi's will give you more stamina, also buy that.

5) Look for all the treasure chests you can access at the start. Good ways to increase your stamina first thing.

6) Complete side quests from citizens. This gives gols and rep (which increases your commissions).

7) Work on building up your relationships with the citizens who give you benefits (ie: Mi-an gives you stamina, Yan increases the gols you make on a commission, etc)

8) Dive for relics. At the early stage you don't need to be swimming in copper - get a good chunk over a few days, then just focus on collecting everything else in the ruins. There's stamina boosts available to you there (and you can spam them).

9) Increase the size of your yard to increase the number of boosts you can have (don't go overboard, keep it in your budget).

10) When you are out of stamina, as noted, work on relationships with the citizens as this will help you. You can also gather manure, trash, bullets (at the shooting range), and destroy tumbleweeds - none of this uses stamina and are all useful.

11) Vary your collection days - don't just always be mining. Spend a day collecting wood, then rocks, scrap, monsters (for various needed items), then dive for a week. Repeat.

12) Give data discs to Qi and get going on your machines of course.

13) Look at your knowledge tree carefully - there's various things that increase your experience to give you more knowledge to unlock features to reduce your water and fuel usage, to increase the gols you get for same day commissions and higher quality commissions.

14) Increase your luck with boosting items (donate 40 items to the museum when you can - get that luck necklace!)

With these basics, I usually have $10K in my pocket and I still haven't finished the first month yet. Once you get to the point of 4 commissions a day PLUS the four you can also take with a later game add on, you'll be swamped in cash. I have a fully yard and a giant mansion, plus a large office building on my property, and I'm still nearly at $500,000 again (this is after many millions on my yard and home).

The developers have already made HUGE improvements to the start point of the game - I really didn't have many issues at all this playthrough.

[Frieren]

As soon as you can farm, plant chestnut trees and or the coffee tea leaves tree ...
999 chestnuts on high market days gives you - 4995 gols
999 tea leaves or coffee beans on high market days gives you - 14985 gols ...
thats where i make my money ... plus the commissions that Yan throws out every week or so ... I don't do any commissions for less then 1000 gols once you get to that stage .. but before that i grab anything that gives high rep and higher gols ..
also grab the ad thing from the board that seems to help ..

[Ihateeverybody]

NOOOOOOOO

2) Sell the decorations on the house exterior (ex: roof, chimney, etc) as they do not give you anything but can give you a nice chunk of gols.

Now everybody knows, including the devs (Joking, they already knew)

[DarknessShallFall]

The way I make a lot of money is by turning everything that I think is worth it to purple during commissions if I have the skill that allows me to make more gols for higher priced items. So say if I give pen a purple level Iron spear, the commission original price is 2.5k gols, with that passive, alongside other passives, that price can nearly double. There is also the advertisement at the workboard, it can give you up to 3 passives, which you can make stronger with a skill, It can give more gols, XP, or workshop ranking points.

I also mass produce things in the furnace and sell them if I think its worth it and I got enough fuel and water, you can get a trait where you can sell items for more, not by much mind you, but it stacks eventually, also you want to sell the items on days where the interest rates are in the red, and you want to buy when its in the green.

So if you want for a day the interest rate is deep red, you can make a lot.

Mass produce things to sell like Chromium Ingots or whatever else you might have, I also plant and sell a lot of Rhino cactus, one, because I get commissions for that one all the time, and two one sells for about 40 some gols.

You can also collect items, say gold, keep them, get the second upgrade for the jewelry crafting station and make gold rings, they sell for a lot.

A lot of items in this game has a price, and sometimes if you use them to make other items, its worth more than all the materials combined and you can sell those for more.

Also Sulfur. Its worth about 10 gold a piece, but you can get so many of them so fast, that you can sell those for a lot.

I would say you could fish for the king fish, but one, its not really worth it in my opinion, and two, some of those king fish are good gifts for fang once you do the quest that allows you to give him gifts. (You can sell the sandcarp ones as for those aren't his favorite, but all other king fish are)

Also quest reward clothing you get, if you're not using it, and you can't put it in a museum, sell it, they can go for a lot.

The more TL;DR version of this: Mass produce plants and smelting things in the furnace.



As for stamina, lots of Dried Sandacuda for me. I just buy berries from Arvio, get a pet and have them gather, and go fishing.

If you have issues with water, get 3 pets, you can send them out to do things for you, like get more water (They can come back with barrels, dew, scorpions and sandworms if you do this), they can also get scrap and some materials from digging, which isnt worth it too much in my opinion, as well as gather some museum artifacts, and they can also get you sandberries, cactus fruit and sandrice and seeds.

Here is the wiki on them in case you want to learn more: https://mytimeatsandrock.fandom.com/wiki/Pets

I know not everyone knows about the pet thing.

[Livia]

Originalmente postado por KarmicRequiem:

As soon as you can farm, plant chestnut trees and or the coffee tea leaves tree ...
999 chestnuts on high market days gives you - 4995 gols
999 tea leaves or coffee beans on high market days gives you - 14985 gols ....

I was going to edit mine as I had forgotten this, but you beat me to it.

Originalmente postado por Ihateeverybody:

Now everybody knows, including the devs (Joking, they already knew)

I assumed they did that on purpose. I don't sell any of the furniture though - I keep those stats.

[Frieren]

Originalmente postado por Livia:

Originalmente postado por KarmicRequiem:

As soon as you can farm, plant chestnut trees and or the coffee tea leaves tree ...
999 chestnuts on high market days gives you - 4995 gols
999 tea leaves or coffee beans on high market days gives you - 14985 gols ....

I was going to edit mine as I had forgotten this, but you beat me to it.

Originalmente postado por Ihateeverybody:

Now everybody knows, including the devs (Joking, they already knew)

:laughing_yeti: I assumed they did that on purpose. I don't sell any of the furniture though - I keep those stats. :stella_happy:

yea its my go to for money LOL ...

[Dimensional Traveler]

No, nothing in this game gives you actual money, just Gols.

[DarknessShallFall]

Originalmente postado por Dimensional Traveler:

No, nothing in this game gives you actual money, just Gols.

Damn, and I have no points for an award. Luckily someone else beat me to it.

[Dimensional Traveler]

Originalmente postado por DarknessShallFall:

Originalmente postado por Dimensional Traveler:

No, nothing in this game gives you actual money, just Gols.

Damn, and I have no points for an award. Luckily someone else beat me to it.

*bows*