What's your best way of making money?

[Sana]

So far i've been trying to get money to increase my stats, but its just so expensive. To get some stats to a reasonable level you need almost 2k gold, and thats for one skill. Adventuring skills are so expensive haha!

[djinnxy]

I find money fairly easy and get it through miscellaneous means, but when I'm in a hurry I cut expensive wood.

[SamV]

If you start with or can get a pickaxe you can mine ores or gems to sell. If you level up the Adventuring skill you can smelt the ores into bars for more money. You can sell plain stone as well but it takes longer since it doesn't sell for as much. If you can get an axe you can cut wood to sell. I like clearing the points of interest that pop up as I travel the world map and sell the loot and meat/fish that I don't need. If you find a small town that doesn't have any useful tradespeople you can kill off the folks that live there and sell their stuff to another town.

The farming skill tree has some useful ways to get money as well. I've heard that bee hives are very lucrative and give a lot of honey to sell. You can also grow wheat and make bread to sell if you can figure out all the steps to that process.

[Adversary]

Finished products can net a pretty penny. Otherwise, just chop down trees which provide firewood.

[Sana]

Gotcha, ive been doing all that but only make 5 to 10k after a run or two. In the end, thats not very much money, maybe like 5 to maybe 8 points into skills. I was just curious if yall found anything else other than wood lol. Paper has been where its at

[Yolheim]

Originally posted by djinnxy:

I find money fairly easy and get it through miscellaneous means, but when I'm in a hurry I cut expensive wood.

For me, the best way to earn gold is still brewing beer.
We are talking about tens of thousands of gold, not pocket money.
You collect wheat, extract the grain with a flail, then at the alchemy table (opens at level 13 of construction or look in cities) from the grain, brew beer, which opens at level 12 of agriculture.

[Drikon]

For players starting out with skills that yield no immediately useful tools, players that do not start with a pick(axe) or hatchet, when starting you can pick a family with a trade.

I like fishers so I start with a town with a river. I buy raw fish from my family and cook it at someone else's oven and sell it to an inn or such that is not owned by my family. Usually my family's "raw fish meat" price verse non-family's "cooked fish meat" price is enough to get me started.

Note that prices can change when you leave and re-enter town. So I buy, cook, haul, sell fish until my family has no more fish for that day (or the buyer is out of coin). So you start with 20 coin and just keep buying/selling more and more each round of sales until you can't haul no more per sale.

I try to buy and sell in bunches that have no lost "cents"/change. When buying it rounds cost up to a whole coin and when selling it rounds down to a whole coin, so for each buy+sell transaction that's a 2 coin loss. So for the first buy with your 20 coin watch out for that.

To get xxx.00 coin on the sell, works out to be five clicks of the double arrow for stackable items like fish, when selling to an npc. However you'll need enough strength to carry that.

[XartaX]

Picking adventuring and carpentry lets you start out with the recipes to make firewood and firewood into torches (and you get to start with a hatchet for chopping down trees). Letting you easily cap out both carpentry and adventuring before you even do anything dangerous and have a decent stash of money, as well as some starting wooden gear (and great bows if you go for the hunting skill). Once you have that you can chop down trees to craft whatever you want to make money.

If you start with the pickaxe you can also mine metal, which you can smelt with the adventuring skill to make your starting knife without having to enter combat.

Gear>weapon skill in the beginning, extremely so. Craft a shortbow with decent wood (like buying mahogny from a vendor) and you will do a lot of damage to early stuff, which you wouldn't do starting with the hunter skill and the default bow.

[Jovial]

Playing as a merchant and buying up things like gems/wood from settlements when they're at the lowest percentage and going town to town selling them at their highest percentage (87/88%). You will quickly see your gold balloon into the tens of thousands. The more money you have, the more you can buy at once, meaning you need to have money to make money. Once you get your gold above 20,000, always try to keep it above 20,000 so you can buy hundreds of gems at a time. When you unlock Adamantite Ingots, spend a could hours farming adamantite ore and you turn it into ingots for hundreds of thousands in profits.

[Dwarfurious]

Originally posted by Jovial:

Playing as a merchant and buying up things like gems/wood from settlements when they're at the lowest percentage and going town to town selling them at their highest percentage (87/88%). You will quickly see your gold balloon into the tens of thousands. The more money you have, the more you can buy at once, meaning you need to have money to make money. Once you get your gold above 20,000, always try to keep it above 20,000 so you can buy hundreds of gems at a time. When you unlock Adamantite Ingots, spend a could hours farming adamantite ore and you turn it into ingots for hundreds of thousands in profits.

This. I've found the best way to make money is to sometimes just get lucky, you'll find a settlement with a family thats selling 2000 gold ore and thats just pure profit even if they're charging 150% you'll STILL make a fortune turning them into ingots, if not just buy ore from everyone everywhere and make it into bars to sell. I feel like now before i do anything i only invest gold into making gold and not into my character so economy might need a balance pass. Cutting down epic trees early game is probably the best bet you'll get more gold per zone than metal hunting and it can be a lot easier to "spot" a forest than a hole in the ground.
Beer works but you'll probably want to do it on an int character because it'll take you FOREVER (no seriously stock up on water and food and take sleep breaks) to craft large enough piles to make money, like 10g a pop, you'll probably need to drag it rather than carry it. If your map has a lot of Peaks then yeah go adamantium farming, make sure you have enough Hunting skill to track mobs in case of golems.
Unfortunately going out and slaying ♥♥♥♥ isnt a great way to make money because even legendary drops wont cover a fraction the cost of upgrading a skill


I personally think the value rewards from clearing hard/extreme camps could be increased for the combat types; and all crafting trees should include some passives to help with income for the passive types. Like "Your crafted wears sell for 10% more" as 30/50 bonus for armor/weapon/leather/carpentry/tailor/imbueing so if you wanted to go pure merchant you could rake in a lot. You'd be weak but you'd be rich ! But atm anything you craft besides ingots is going to sell for less than the raw materials would; so being a Crafter is a gold sink rather than an income.

[PedoBeaver]

The most lazy money is producing honey (stackable, x5 gold (86% sell price almost anywhere), 19 lvl of Agriculture requared).
1 honey per day from every beehive (to build 1 beehive you need only 4 wood)

also, at 10 lvl of Carpentry you can mass crafting and sell wooden shields at the same price for 1 wood each.

[Kael'Rus]

Buy meat, cook it, sell cooked meat, rinse repeat until I can start smelting copper into ingot en masse and then go up the chain to iron/silver/gold.

[[EL] Elitus]

Originally posted by Kael'Rus:

Buy meat, cook it, sell cooked meat, rinse repeat until I can start smelting copper into ingot en masse and then go up the chain to iron/silver/gold.

How do you find a mass supply of ores? Its such a pain to go into every town and check every family, then sometimes they do and sometimes they dont sell it.

Also since I'm thinking about it, do you have to buy at a discount or does it still turn a profit buying at full price/over paid?

[Dwarfurious]

Originally posted by EL Elitus:

Originally posted by Kael'Rus:

Buy meat, cook it, sell cooked meat, rinse repeat until I can start smelting copper into ingot en masse and then go up the chain to iron/silver/gold.

How do you find a mass supply of ores? Its such a pain to go into every town and check every family, then sometimes they do and sometimes they dont sell it.

Also since I'm thinking about it, do you have to buy at a discount or does it still turn a profit buying at full price/over paid?

Atm buying any ore at any price is still worth a profit as long as you sell ingots at non-marked down price, usually in the 80% range. Economy itself atm is a bit whacky and starting in a family that has thousands of ores/ingots in stock to sell can make a run stupidly easier. I hope the whole economy/trading/settlement production gets a pass to even out the curve.

[Sana]

Thanks yall! ill start trying out these methods! My recent method was to go and sell paper LOL! i was making 10k a run but that seems way more efficient, ill give them a go!

[MasterWaffle]

What's the best wood to cut where I can get a bunch of it? Where to find it? Where can I find elven wood or mahogany?

hm, elven wood is worth 30. Highest priced wood probably. It could be a viable method to commit knife ear genocide on there tree and cut the whole thing down and sell it to another elf village.

Edit: Genocide is extremely profitable and easy. Pick a elven settlement with a high population. Kill everyone. You can sell all there crap to each other too. Just be careful. Recommend having good equipment. And sometimes you need to run to clear it out. Then once you have it clear you can start chopping down all that sweet sweet elven wood. Big money.