Silver Coins

[Kdense]

Does anyone have a rundown on this? What are they used for? I have a ton but I don't know what I'm supposed to be doing with them?

[truelyconfussed]

buy items from the dock. either order specific things or off boats that come in every year or so.

[TheLastGatsby]

I did spend some coins on pies just to make my people a little happier. "My people" sounds kinda trite in 2022....

[Ready2produce]

The game calls them citizens.

[Zairya]

How can you have "a ton" of them? I do the starting quests which reward me with some coins but I usually spend them on the wandering merchant to buy good food (happiness + health boost in early game for about a year).
So far, I know you can make them now (after trade update introduced factions) but is that really the only way? I can understand that getting coins off the dock is bit too easy but the caravan doesn't give me coins either... that is not what I understand as "trade" or "economy".

[Technomage]

To get more - use trading post(s) to send caravan with your goods to faction,coins + reputation (what unlocks things specifc to faction, and some things are good)

[Star]

you can use them to order items from the docks that you need but can not trade for, an example I looked at was seeds, however it was really expensive to order them in

[RoyleBuffdaddy]

You can also do silver mining and then mint that into coins. It's come in quite handy to order animals and seeds from the dock or when I don't have enough trade items to make a balance.

[schorsch_morsch]

Coins allow you to trade for goods that you cannot produce at the moment. Buying food from the ship doesn´t help you that much,

Example: you research letherworks, buy 1000 leather for 5000 silver, make shoes for the villagers and sell whats left to the trading partners to get other stuff you need.

In the process you gain reputation, can build better fields, or make high quality cloth from cotton and so on.