Best ways to make money?

[blonde_guardian]

Hi all,

For someone at the beginning stages of the game, what is the best way to make money? I've already gotten to the point where I have to give carrots to the donkey, so there is no steady stream of bodies at the moment. I broke my tools but can't afford a new whetstone yet, so really need some moolah. Any advice is appreciated! Thanks

[Salem616]

You can make a fair bit selling any excess stone to Cory and billets to Tress. If you've a furnace and anvil unlocked, you can make some quick cash selling simple iron bars or simple iron parts to Krezvold too.

If you've not done the merchant quest yet (when unlocking the garden) you can him about seeds, he'll offer you a loan. Farming is actually quite a good way of making money early game, Buy seeds from the farmer, the sell the produce back to him, and pick up a few extra seeds with any profit. You'll have made enough to repay the loan in no-time.

[billplatypus]

The best ways to make money early game are firstly by burying corpses and selling the burial certificate that comes from them (so make sure you buy carrots from the farmer and grow them to give to the donkey so you can get that stream of bodies).
The second way is with sermons which gives quite a lot more silver, but can only be done once a week on the purple pride day. It doesn't require anything other than a starting prayer that the bishop gives you.
Also, get a teleportstone from the inn as quickly as you can. It's so helpful.

[CloudSeeker]

The best way to make money at the start is to start two of the DLC's, especially Better Save Soul. That give a whole gold piece just for basic stuff.

If you want money before that and is right at the start. Just go and get the refugee camp by becoming a cleric, and then find the quarry towards the north west corner of the map. There you can mine coal and sell it to the blacksmith in town. It will not give you much as the blacksmith have limited amount of money. But it is at least a start.

[blonde_guardian]

Thanks, everyone! All of this was new and helpful information. My experience is from games like Harvest Moon, so this one is not exactly intuitive.

[chefcook90]

If all of your tools are broken and you can't use anything but your bare hands, then I'm afraid collecting donations at the church is your best bet at earning money :(
For future reference, the higher your graveyard skull rating, the more money you get - the number of church-goers mainly effects faith gain and how successful the sermon is, not total church donations.

Once you get enough silver for another whetstone, I recommend progressing the Inquisitor's quest line until you get access to the vineyards, buy some grape seeds from your merchant friend, then start making wine (don't forget to use Peat from the compost pile and Boost fertilizer to increase your yield).
If you haven't unlocked alchemy yet to make the potion ingredients for fertilizer, search the swamps to the weest until you find the Witch - starting her quest line will unlock potion making in the tech tree.

Bronze and silver quality wine can be sold at the Dead Horse, bu gold quality wine can only be sold to the merchant.

-Just be aware that unlocking the entire wine-making tech tree will cost quite a bit of blue science points, but once you do you'll be making money hand-over-fist.

Once you have enough capital, progress the Merchant quest line and get the Trade License from the kingdom mailbox by the church, and you can start selling all sorts of stuff by the crate-load.

Oh yeah and minor spoilers, but you'll want to progress Snake's quest so you can get access to the back area of your cellar - that's how you get zombie workers.