Stupid things that are worth more than gold

[jinxs2011]

So as we all know resources are stupidly cheap. This includes things which are very expensive irl, such as gold, uranium and plutonium ore.

In this game, gold has a mass of 0.8, and a value of 24, giving it 30 value per mass.

Now, that is of course gold ore, which is worth a lot less than solid gold. How much less I'm not sure, but honestly I don't particularly care, I'm just poking a bit of fun here.

Let's all list things which have no place being worth more their weight than gold, but are in this game. Here are just some.

An empty toilet paper tube: 0.01 mass, 3 value, 300 V/M
A pen: these vary in value a bit, roughly between 5-12. 0.01 mass, 500-1200 V/M
A succulent plant: 0.25 mass, 12 value, 48 V/M
A glass vial (various appearances): 0.1 mass, 55 value, 550 V/M
A steel fork: 0.05 mass, 5 value, 100 V/M
A fine dining fork (very fancy): 0.05 mass, 35 value, 700 V/M
A foam cup: 0.01 mass, 5 value, 500 V/M
A (rip)shank: 0.4 mass, 365 value, 912 V/M
A baguette: 0.2 mass, 55 value, 275 V/M

[dollars202]

resources are basically free in this game. There is more gold than anyone knows what to do with on tons of planets. All those other things you are listing are industrial products. Which take way more energy to get than gold.

[Dark Thoughts]

On a serious note on that not so serious topic: Space mining, especially with grav drives, would make all minerals kind of worthless, relatively speaking. Gold usage is also fairly limited. It's a good conductor but typically used for jewelry. Even on Earth the value of gold is already kind of artificial. But who knows. Assuming such a fantasy tech became reality, we'd likely also see a boom in certain alloys that would be required for our space expansion, which in turn would increase the value of certain minerals again. But it's really hard to gauge how much that would be even affected once you start large scale asteroid mining operations.

[Al Capwn]

I know you mentioned not being particularly interested in the real-world value of gold ore but I hope I can be forgiven for interjecting on the subject regardless.
The going price for gold is, at time of writing, about 60$ per gram. High quality gold ore, as defined by the grading system of the World Gold Council, contains between 8 and 10 grams of gold per ton. This gives high quality gold ore a real-world value of about 0.6$ per kilogram, assuming 10 grams per ton and going by nothing but the material value. The cheapest fork I can easily find on IKEAs website costs 0.75$ and weighs in at 35 grams. This yields a value of about 20$ per kilogram of IKEA forks, over 30 times the per-kilogram material value of high quality gold ore!
(All of the above comes with reservation for poor sourcing, dodgy math and general ineptitude)

[YukkuRIM]

This game is far from reality. however, If the Earth were to be destroyed, I think relics of the past would become expensive.
my favorite is the goldfish bowl. It is interesting that the value of earth's relics is high.

[NuclearSnail]

Originally posted by jinxs2011:

So as we all know resources are stupidly cheap. This includes things which are very expensive irl, such as gold, uranium and plutonium ore.

In this game, gold has a mass of 0.8, and a value of 24, giving it 30 value per mass.

Now, that is of course gold ore, which is worth a lot less than solid gold. How much less I'm not sure, but honestly I don't particularly care, I'm just poking a bit of fun here.

Let's all list things which have no place being worth more their weight than gold, but are in this game. Here are just some.

An empty toilet paper tube: 0.01 mass, 3 value, 300 V/M
A pen: these vary in value a bit, roughly between 5-12. 0.01 mass, 500-1200 V/M
A succulent plant: 0.25 mass, 12 value, 48 V/M
A glass vial (various appearances): 0.1 mass, 55 value, 550 V/M
A steel fork: 0.05 mass, 5 value, 100 V/M
A fine dining fork (very fancy): 0.05 mass, 35 value, 700 V/M
A foam cup: 0.01 mass, 5 value, 500 V/M
A (rip)shank: 0.4 mass, 365 value, 912 V/M
A baguette: 0.2 mass, 55 value, 275 V/M

Well, in space gold is common. Toilet paper is not.

[♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

Can you wipe your arse with gold ore?

No seriously, can you? I accidentally jettisoned all my toilet paper and just did a number two in the workshop because I couldn't find the ladder to the toilet.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

Resources weigh far too much. Everything should be halved, in my opinion.

[Old Man Gamer (OMG)]

Originally posted by Deterbeest:

Can you wipe your arse with gold ore?

No seriously, can you? I accidentally jettisoned all my toilet paper and just did a number two in the workshop because I couldn't find the ladder to the toilet.

This is a thing. There is gold toilet paper in the real world. Lol.