healroot and medicine are undervalued imho

[The Blind One]

healroot is the worst crop to plant for profit despite it requiring quite a decent skill of 8. It's simply not profitable compared to other crops. Medicine likewise is artificially cheap to buy and always unprofitable to sell.

You'd think in a wasteland apocalyptic world where everyone is dying left and right they'd be selling medicine at a premium.

But in terms of economics medicine is just plain bad to sell. Input cost is 20.5 value and output is 18 making it never profitable. Practically and economically speaking just buy the stuff lol. Neutroamine is also rare to come by so just buying it saves you in neutroamine inputs and oppertunity costs aswell.

Now compare wake-up which requires 12 value input (2 neutroamine valued at 6 a piece) gives you 35 value output. That's a ~200% profit. (profits may vary depending on Trade Price Improvement from negotiator) but this is a crazy discrepancy.

In other words, save up on neutroamine by not making medicine, buy it instead, turn the neutroamine into wake-up for the profits. Also don't grow your own herbal, just buy it off the merchant whenever possible to save yourself pawn work time.

That's all.

[Malthar]

tbh, herbal meds work fine, save even more money by just not buying meds unless absolutely necessary

[The Yeen Queen]

Well, probably because the primary use for herbal medicine and plain medicine is for tending to your wounded and not as a money making product. Just grow enough healroot to keep your medicine cabinet stocked.

[Raymond]

rimworld is not an apocalyptic world.
Min-maxing your production based on profitability is also pointless. Wealth bloat aside, trader is not a reliable source of such critical resources like medicine. It's like saying you shouldn't grow rice or any food plant just because yayo is more profitable.

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by Night Foxx:

Well, probably because the primary use for herbal medicine and plain medicine is for tending to your wounded and not as a money making product. Just grow enough healroot to keep your medicine cabinet stocked.

Yeah but the economical way is to not even grow healroot to begin with and just exchange for raw food when a trader pops by. Lets also not forget that you can run an art studio in this game and sell art to traders which is arguably a much worse tradegood in a post apocalyptic scene.

Food on the other hand is too scarce to live on through traders, healroot and medicine can be bought relatively securely and consistently.

Is rimworld sponsored by Masterworks?

[Malthar]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Originally posted by Night Foxx:

Well, probably because the primary use for herbal medicine and plain medicine is for tending to your wounded and not as a money making product. Just grow enough healroot to keep your medicine cabinet stocked.

Yeah but the economical way is to not even grow healroot to begin with and just exchange for raw food when a trader pops by. Lets also not forget that you can run an art studio in this game and sell art to traders which is arguably a much worse tradegood in a post apocalyptic scene.

Is rimworld sponsored by Masterworks?

Originally posted by YariMurai:

rimworld is not an apocalyptic world.

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by YariMurai:

rimworld is not an apocalyptic world.

Have you not seen the ancient debris and pollution littered around the world map? Also the pirates roaming free ...

[Malthar]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Originally posted by YariMurai:

rimworld is not an apocalyptic world.

Have you not seen the ancient debris and pollution littered around the world map?

The rims have already RECOVERED from anything close to an apocalypse, it is not longer apocalyptic. They are fully settled with interplanetary and interstellar trade relationships.

[The Blind One]

Originally posted by Malthar:

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Have you not seen the ancient debris and pollution littered around the world map?

The rims have already RECOVERED from anything close to an apocalypse, it is not longer apocalyptic. They are fully settled with interplanetary and interstellar trade relationships.

My bad I should have stated 'post-apocalyptic' 'mad-max induced' 'hell hole' 'filled with raiders and roaming bands of cannibals' bartering with 'silver' as their 'primary currency'.

[Malthar]

Originally posted by The Blind One:

Originally posted by Malthar:

The rims have already RECOVERED from anything close to an apocalypse, it is not longer apocalyptic. They are fully settled with interplanetary and interstellar trade relationships.

My bad I should have stated 'post-apocalyptic' 'mad-max induced' 'hell hole' 'filled with raiders and roaming bands of cannibals' bartering with 'silver' as their 'primary currency'.

the vast majority of our current planet uses silver and gold as our primary cunrency represented by our local bills and coins. the cash aint whats valuable, its what it represents.
lets also ignore how the rims are essentially the hood of the galaxy, theyre ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ backwaters but that still doesnt make the apocalyptic.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Many parts of Earth you will encounter ancient ruins or toxic waste dumps, there are even primitive cannibal tribes out there and roving bands of slavers and pirates but Earth isn't post apocalyptic.

Its no Glitterworld sure but there are worse places in the galaxy than even the most unfriendly setting of Rimworld.

[psychotron666]

Why would you sell medicine when you should be using it anyway?

[Steelfleece]

It's not corn, cloth or drugs, of course it isn't a cash crop. It's something you grow to keep a stock of for treating raiders and animals so you can save the good medicine for your colonists. You could buy it from traders, but given the difference in buy/sell prices and sporadic availability depending on storyteller, probably just best to grow it when you have the available farmland and don't have full stacks in cold storage.

I'm going to assume it's cheap because on every rim world there're probably tons of tribal foragers running around picking healroot off maps for free and then selling them to industrial colonists in exchange for metal weapons with which to raid any hapless crashlanders.

[Jigain]

So it turns out drugs sell for more than basic, generic healthcare items like bandages, poultices and splints?

Yeah, that seems illogical, that's not how it works IRL.

[Astasia]

Healroot is low effort money. You plant it, it grows slowly, it harvests for one and is easy to haul in, and herbal meds can immediately be sold to many traders with no processing required. The value per day per tile of growzone in terms of raw output is similar to other plants, healroot on fertile soil will make more money per day selling herbal meds than you would get selling psychoid leaves for example. Of course you can take the extra step to turn the psychoid leaves into something with more value if you wanted, that requires research and another set of workers. Healroot does take a fairly good chunk of time to sow though, so it's not a clear win in colonist efficiency, but I've had people ask me before what the best way to amass a ton of wealth as quickly as possible and my replay has been to grow giant fields of healroot. There's no bottleneck (other than storage or trader silver limits), you just keep planting more and more.

Medicine isn't meant to be worth selling to enforce the idea that you should be holding onto it. Further, neutroamine is a limited resource, so you couldn't mass produce it even if you wanted to.

[gimmethegepgun]

Originally posted by Malthar:

the vast majority of our current planet uses silver and gold as our primary cunrency represented by our local bills and coins.

No it doesn't. Precious metal standards were abandoned by most of the world during the Great Depression in favor of fiat currency, and the US officially ended convertibility to gold in 1971.