How can I get an insane amount of gold?

[Choosechee]

So, in my playthrough, one of my goals is to floor my dining/recreation/throne room and my bedrooms with gold. I know I will need a TON of gold to do that, so what is the best way to get gold?

[Razorblade Nipples]

Install minecraft mod and mine it.

[stlyau]

Ground Penetrating and Long Range Scanners. Long Range I believe can be set to search for Gold only on other Tiles that you would have to caravan to mine and bring back. Ground Penetrating is less effective at this as it's just finding any of the resources on your own tiles to be mined with Deep Drills.

[Garatgh Deloi]

Originally posted by Choosechee:

So, in my playthrough, one of my goals is to floor my dining/recreation/throne room and my bedrooms with gold. I know I will need a TON of gold to do that, so what is the best way to get gold?

No idea on the actual question, but just a word of warning. Doing something like this might increase your settlement value to ridicules levels, causing insanely huge raids :P.

[Evilgenius]

The Long Range scanner is your most reliable way of doing it. And trading with other settlements if you produce a ton of tradeble stuff.

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

No idea on the actual question, but just a word of warning. Doing something like this might increase your settlement value to ridicules levels, causing insanely huge raids :P.

That is what I would call fun :P

[Astasia]

Quests. The long range mineral scanner is the way to target farm it. You'll get like a few hundred from each deposit. Quest rewards are based off like 5% of total colony wealth, late game a quest that rewards gold can give you like 2000+ each, if you are lucky. I usually stop using long range scanners after mid game, quests somewhat reliably can keep you stocked in uranium, plasteel and gold.

[darksouls]

Originally posted by Choosechee:

So, in my playthrough, one of my goals is to floor my dining/recreation/throne room and my bedrooms with gold. I know I will need a TON of gold to do that, so what is the best way to get gold?

no mods = painful trade hell

with mods = close settlement + directly abandon + multicolony + setup camp + quarry + deeprim + mines (as mentioned) + vaults handy things + etc

[Blazikasu]

Originally posted by 76561198151966731:

Originally posted by Choosechee:

So, in my playthrough, one of my goals is to floor my dining/recreation/throne room and my bedrooms with gold. I know I will need a TON of gold to do that, so what is the best way to get gold?

no mods = painful trade hell

with mods = close settlement + directly abandon + multicolony + setup camp + quarry + deeprim + mines (as mentioned) + vaults handy things + etc

Huh? that sounds convoluted as hell, as said before vanilla has really direct ways of getting gold with long range scanner and quests.

[Xeno42]

scan for gold and set up allies to get trade caravans i believe wither bulk goods or exotic goods has the most gold on average

[RCMidas]

Originally posted by evilgenius:

Originally posted by Garatgh Deloi:

No idea on the actual question, but just a word of warning. Doing something like this might increase your settlement value to ridicules levels, causing insanely huge raids :P.

That is what I would call fun :P

Isn't 10K points the largest raid size you can get in vanilla? Spawnable via dev mode, so set up a powerful defense, save and spawn one of them in, and see if you can survive it. If yes, reload and start getting your gold.

Then you can think about spawning two raids of that size and seeing if you can survive that for the next step. Or start going around the world wiping out all other hostile factions so that only a mechanoid raid will ever occur again (and the occasional infestation).

[darksouls]

Originally posted by Dozo:

Originally posted by 76561198151966731:

no mods = painful trade hell

with mods = close settlement + directly abandon + multicolony + setup camp + quarry + deeprim + mines (as mentioned) + vaults handy things + etc

Huh? that sounds convoluted as hell, as said before vanilla has really direct ways of getting gold with long range scanner and quests.

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it does?

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well hey check some of them out deeprim is one of the greatest ones combined with misc robots

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2164179860

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=747645520&searchtext=misc+robots+%2B%2B

[KPJFormat]

If you're going to use a mod only to get a bunch of gold, why not just cheat yourself a bunch of gold? Seems faster.

[RCMidas]

Mods feel vaguely more legitimate. Although bearing in mind it is a single player game...who is going to frown at you for whatever you do? Yourself? Pfffft!!

[ROE]

Scanners, quests, deep drills, and drugs.

Grow a crap ton of leaf and make it into flake. Sell it to nearby settlements, trade ships, and caravans in exchange for their gold.

If you're going to the trouble of using mods just open the dev console and give yourself some gold. That will save you a great many headaches.

[Choosechee]

Okay guys, thanks for the help!

[ShadowTani]

In vanilla I have several silver sources:
1. Leather industry, with 1.3's auto-slaughter system this is going to be an even better silver source
2. Quests, try to accomodate for as many as possible
3. Smokeleaf joints and Flake (Flake has a better psychoid to silver ratio than yayo)
4. Sell off any excess of Ambrosia and Milk stocked up
5. Chocolate farms
6. Small Statue production, my favorite material for this purpose is uranium which you get in excess from quests

With these silver sources in vanilla I quickly reach a point where I struggle to find enough things to spend silver on