How to get rich?

[uHu]

Hi

In my current playthrough I don't have a jeweler at the Stilt.
(Also didn't find one yet somewhere else.)
And even though I have a dromad at the stilt, it did not offer me any Taco Suprema (or jewels) yet.

So it's a very hard to exchange all the loot into valuables without getting too much weight.
Do you have any tips for me?

Of course I already set down a chest to put in stuff.
But still I'd like to be able to acquire more money, which I can actually carry around.

[glass zebra]

If you have decent trade values:
- Get rich in (weightless) bits, sell laser rifles etc.
- Buy other food
- Buy floating glowspheres

Always possible:
- Get a tanky follower to carry all your stuff

[uHu]

Originally posted by glass zebra:

If you have decent trade values:
- Get rich in (weightless) bits, sell laser rifles etc.
- Buy other food
- Buy floating glowspheres

Always possible:
- Get a tanky follower to carry all your stuff

Good tip!
Totally forgot about followers carrying stuff.

Yes, floating glowspheres, Taco Suprema ...
But everything seems to be so rare now.
I am not sure, if I just have bad luck or if it was changed by an update.

In any case, for the next runs I will probably immediatly restart the game, if I don't get at least one jeweler at the stilt.

[I blame Earthshaker]

Originally posted by uHu:

In my current playthrough I don't have a jeweler at the Stilt.
(Also didn't find one yet somewhere else.)
And even though I have a dromad at the stilt, it did not offer me any Taco Suprema (or jewels) yet.

So it's a very hard to exchange all the loot into valuables without getting too much weight.
Do you have any tips for me?

Steps to fixing stilt not giving you whatever merchants you need (jeweler, scribe, whatever):
Step 1: Get pure warm static (ideally 4 drams to reduce number of polygel needed, but you can make it work with 1, just need more polygel)
Step 2: Get metamorphic polygel
Step 3: Repeat step 2 at least 7 times
Step 4: Polygel however many drams you have, then combine the results for geometric progression (1+1=2, 2+2=4, etc.)
Step 5: Repeat step 4 until you have at least 128 drams of pure warm static (2 64 dram waterskins)
Step 6: Put 1 waterskin of 64 drams in your chest of lewt to save for later
Step 7: Pour the other waterskin of pure warm static on goats or pigs or whatever in the stilt 1 dram at a time to randomize the creature into another creature
Step 8: Repeat step 7 until you get your preferred merchant or empty the waterskin (if it turns into something hostile, IMMEDIATELY pour another 1 dram onto it since it won't react for exactly 1 turn)
Step 9: (only necessary if you run out of the first waterskin): Repeat step 4 using your backup waterskin of 64 drams
Step 10: Repeat step 7

Or just wish for whatever you want if you're a dirty cheating sack of ass (since wishing hasn't been added into the vanilla game yet as a real option instead of a debug option).

[uHu]

Originally posted by I blame Earthshaker:

Steps to fixing stilt not giving you whatever merchants you need (jeweler, scribe, whatever):
...

That's an interesting idea.
I think I already got 2 drams of Warm Static.
But after reading about it in the Wiki, I thought I'd rather not touch it. 😅

I think it would be cool, if there was at least one of every kind garantueed at the stilt.

If someone has any other idea, how to build up wealth in Qud, let me know.

[I blame Earthshaker]

Originally posted by uHu:

I think I already got 2 drams of Warm Static.
But after reading about it in the Wiki, I thought I'd rather not touch it. 😅

It's only really "dangerous" if you drink it as mutant or pour it on yourself. Not like the game has an "Oops, I spilled pouring option!" Or at least not yet, that could be an interesting way to mitigate some of the warm static cheese (since that's really the only dangerous thing to pour). Although I guess maybe sometimes you spill the neutron flux!

Originally posted by uHu:

I think it would be cool, if there was at least one of every kind garantueed at the stilt.

The merchants in the lower right zone of the stilt are static, so there is always a guaranteed ichor merchant, apothecary, cybernetics merchant and kipper. But EVERY kind guaranteed? Let's just say the least insulting way to put it would be: "TOO EASY!"

Originally posted by uHu:

If someone has any other idea, how to build up wealth in Qud, let me know.

When you consider how much rare liquids cost, I literally just gave you a recipe to be Scrooge McDuck rich. There's actually a much faster way that involves warm static, but the devs accidentally patched that out a few months ago, and then maybe restored it more recently. But I haven't had time to test whether it was really fixed or not, and even then I probably won't share it since it might then for real get patched out.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by uHu:

I think it would be cool, if there was at least one of every kind garantueed at the stilt.

I think it is pretty cool that that is not the case. It makes every run more distinct from the other.

[Frank]

Cover your whole body in glowcrust and pick it every time it regrows for infinite free weightless money, but this is time consuming and will cause arthritis due to the amount of key mashing

Set up recoilers next to the merchant you want to buy stuff from, acquire like 100 waterskins, go to fungal forest and fill all the waterskins with primordial soup and then recoil to the merchant

Take domination, beguile, or proselytise and use them on merchants to make them hand over their items for free and skip the games entire economy.

More then that though, selling items is small time. Real CoQfiends keep literally every item they ever get in case a baetyl asks for it.

[I blame Earthshaker]

Originally posted by Frank:

More then that though, selling items is small time. Real CoQfiends keep literally every item they ever get in case a baetyl asks for it.

That's super tedious, usually just easier to remember where stuff is likely to be found or sold... but yeah, baetyls can ask for the weirdest ♥♥♥♥; including stuff that weighs an absurd amount, like molting basilisk husks.

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by I blame Earthshaker:

Originally posted by Frank:

More then that though, selling items is small time. Real CoQfiends keep literally every item they ever get in case a baetyl asks for it.

That's super tedious, usually just easier to remember where stuff is likely to be found or sold... but yeah, baetyls can ask for the weirdest ♥♥♥♥; including stuff that weighs an absurd amount, like molting basilisk husks.

"Give me 5 eaters nectar and I will grant you maybe 3 attribute points!". Beatyls are not the only ones trying to agitate you. Klanq quest can also have stuff like "puff on a member of the troll faction".

[I blame Earthshaker]

Originally posted by glass zebra:

"Give me 5 eaters nectar and I will grant you maybe 3 attribute points!".

That definitely made me giggle, I'm kinda surprised that eater's nectar isn't excluded from the baetyl's request pool if it isn't already.

[ThccHrnySlt]

Heres actual good guide how to get dirty rich:
Buy all containers you can and empty them (just dont buy expensive ones\buy empty ones)
Go to rainbow wood
locate wine weep
Collect all the wine you can carry
Sell the wine
Moni
$Rich$

[ThccHrnySlt]

If you are en esper - ask your buddy follower to carry your stuff for you.
Good luck - Live and drink friend

[glass zebra]

Originally posted by Dummy Thiccens:

If you are en esper - ask your buddy follower to carry your stuff for you.
Good luck - Live and drink friend

Everyone can learn proselytize and normal mutants (and to some degree others) can learn beguile. There is nothing specific only Espers can do.

Originally posted by Dummy Thiccens:

Heres actual good guide how to get dirty rich:
Buy all containers you can and empty them (just dont buy expensive ones\buy empty ones)
Go to rainbow wood
locate wine weep
Collect all the wine you can carry
Sell the wine
Moni
$Rich$
:swirlies::stardog::swirlies:

The primordial soup has the same value as wine and requires no locating. It does not replenish however

[uHu]

Lots of good tips on how to make money.
However that was not my question.

My question was how to store that money without getting too heavy.
In my other playthroughs I had at least one jeweler.
This time I don't have any.

[I blame Earthshaker]

Originally posted by uHu:

My question was how to store that money without getting too heavy.

Originally posted by I blame Earthshaker:

When you consider how much rare liquids cost