Help with how to earn money to unlock skills?

[Kay]

Hey guys!
I'm playing on Adventure mode for my first playthrough.
I don't know if I'm dumb or like dumb.

I started by fighting goblins but ran out of food and don't know where to get more food?
I can't see it in the shop, can't buy cooking or fishing or anything.
I have like 40 coins lol.

Am I missing something? Can someone please explain where to go in the begining of adventure mode to progress?

[deegeeooh]

Fishing and cooking will give you food.

For money, I'm just slaying Cows for now, seems to gross the most (50-150 per kill for the leather drops)

[ventuz]

Go to fishing - fish shrimp
Go to cooking - cook raw shrimp
Now you have food... I'm not sure if this process work in adventure mode, haven't tried adventure mode.

I think maybe it's easier to go fight plant / chicken than golbin, golbin is slight tougher. Plant drop potato that you can eat right away, heal 10 hp. Again I'm not sure if you can access there right away in adventure mode, haven't tried adventure mode.

edit - do as above, cow gives a lot cash, get their leather, do crafting on leather, sell leather gear for 75 each.

[Desozy]

You should start in the farming area with plants for potatos as first food, then go on chicken or cows and sell the feathers/leather.

Once you got 10.000 gold go for fishing as first skill, to get stuff to cook and sell while being offline. It keeps continuing fishing when your offline.

Second skill take cooking so you can cook the shrimps/fishes you got.

[misterbill5]

Chopping trees eventually pays very well and also provides seeds for farming from the occasional birds nest. Magic trees sell for 300-400 g apiece. Mining gold also pays well...

[#sir.Kurtz :>]

In the very early game you can go to the Farmlands and slay plants for potatoes, they heal 100 HP each. Fishing and Cooking are better options once you leave the very early game.

LIke mentioned before, hunt Cows for leather. But don't sell the leather.. Make them into Green Dragonhides via the shop for an extra 50 GP per leather. Also hunt cows to upgrade your Combat Level to atleast 10+. After you have some 100+ Potatoes, start farming for gear in the Castle of Kings. Rince and repeat until you've got a full Steel set.

[misterbill5]

I made a full steel set from mining and smithing...Combat level is now 15 or so. Have unlocked Mithril armor in smithing--just need to mine it to make that armor set...

[Myll]

Originally posted by KookiePopz:

Hey guys!
I'm playing on Adventure mode for my first playthrough.
I don't know if I'm dumb or like dumb.

I started by fighting goblins but ran out of food and don't know where to get more food?
I can't see it in the shop, can't buy cooking or fishing or anything.
I have like 40 coins lol.

Am I missing something? Can someone please explain where to go in the begining of adventure mode to progress?

In Adventure Mode, initially - you're restricted from doing all of the things being suggested here, such as "...use fishing, then cook" -- because it costs lots of gold to unlock the first skill (10k), and then progressively more gold (25k) to unlock the next skill, and so on. In Adventure Mode, you need a Gold + Combat grinding plan.

The best first-kill/grind in Adventure Mode is to only fight Plants and stack up the Potato loots as your going food source, and then move on to chickens to grind feathers for gold (that you need to start unlocking skills in Adventure Mode), and so on.

A "way" to tackle Adventure Mode and make the gold that you need, is to focus on setting yourself up to infinitely kill/harvest from Cows without fail, and sell their 50 GP value hides. My own path that I have done an experiment with, is to unlock Mining first, Smithing second, with the logic that you're starting with a Melee character and buying the means to mine and make your own Melee gear simply makes sense. You end up with a decent gear set for killing Cows without death being a problem, and if you can leave the computer on to grind killing cows on the side for hours, and balance your Attack/Strength/Defense level-ups by changing weapons (I trend toward Swords+Shield/Attack, Scimitar+Shield/Slash, and 2H Sword for Block).
Since your Combat skill caps your non-fighting skill top end, you'll only end up with Iron Gear for a bit, but that puts you into the range to kill cows continuously without death. In terms of leveling up Combat, a Cow has 800 HP so even with the elevated Adventure Mode's stats for combat (if one hasn't played Adventure Mode, there is a significantly different scaling of combat skills and character HP) -- this elevated scaling means you're able to hit the cow at least twice before it dies, ensuring you're leveling up that combat skill more than just a one-hit kill that must reload. Later on, you'll find the "easy kill" equivalent of cows to grind on, but cows are a great starting/grinding point for this technique.

From there, it's just a matter of how much you want to let the Grind play out for your Combat skill - one could theoretically just let their PC grind out on cows until they top out at 99, and then the entire game's skill are open for max leveling, or you could stair-step with accompanying skills on your march to 99 Combat Skill. But I say this because - in theory, a player could just buy Mining and Smithing and no other skill, and make it to level 99 Combat without food of any sort (you can also choose to simply kill as many as you can early on then loot and run away, come back when healed from killing plants and munching potatos, etc.).

My "why" on Mining first in Adventure Mode also - if you do offline work, mining will render a lot of gems that you can sell for accumulating the gold you need to unlock other skills, plus the melee gear. Once you unlock Silver Mining and Silver Bars, going offline mining Silver can make an enormous amount as the bars sell for 51 GP each. However, if a player wants to suddenly deviate to a Ranged or Magic character in Adventure Mode, a new-to-game player should consider that moving away from Melee effectively will require unlocking multiple skills to ensure you have top-notch gear, so it's quite a grind to try and switch away from Melee in Adventure mode -- not impossible, but a lot more time-consuming and never guaranteed to be infinitely "on" due to consumption of some components, be it arrows or runes.

[Dylen]

I like to kill cows. They give 1-3 hides that are worth 50 gold. But instead of selling it for the 50 gold instead buy a green dragonscale for 1 leather + 100 gold. Sell the green dragonscale for 200 gold and you are effectively getting 100 gold per hide meaning 100-300 gold per cow.

[Myll]

Originally posted by Dylen:

I like to kill cows. They give 1-3 hides that are worth 50 gold. But instead of selling it for the 50 gold instead buy a green dragonscale for 1 leather + 100 gold. Sell the green dragonscale for 200 gold and you are effectively getting 100 gold per hide meaning 100-300 gold per cow.

That's a great tip, hadn't approached it that way and I was direct-selling the hides, so I will have to use this option from now on (unless the Dev kills/patches it out!).

[frank2351]

I'm mining gold and then smithing into bars. Sell the bars. I'm swimming in moneez. Before logoff put in the gold mining action. Then smith the next day. You'll be filthy rich from offline mining in two days. If i want a hide i buy it. Ain't nobody got time for cow farming. Smithing goldbars is where the money is.

[misterbill5]

Magic logs are now bringing 600 g each...used to be 300 and then 400, so it seems the price goes up with skill level (???)...