How to get spirit stones

[Div]

From what I understand, the only 2 ways to get spirit stones are merchants and smelting.

I takes 3000 Qi to get a single spirit stone fro m smelting. In 20 hours of game, I am yet to have an item that has gathered 3000 Qi... So I don't think that's the way.

Most items I can sell to merchants are worth almost nothing (1-10), or worth too much for me to want to get rid of it.

So then, what is the intended way to get spirit stones in game? ^^'

[Draken]

Someone said something about growing a lot of cotton, making clothes out of them, and then selling those. With a high level crafter.

[Shard]

I'm still a noob, but I've gotten quite a bit by just chopping down forests and selling timber, as well as hunting animals and selling excess meat/fur.

[★ PENTA Vivian ★]

Merchants, you can sell plants for so much money. I hope they make mortal resources worthless as it's very unbalanced.

[Neccarus]

You could make a giant wheat farm and grind it all to flour. My modest sized field produced tons of wheat and I was able to sell 1500 flour to my last merchant (worth 1500 spirit stones)

[Multi(iple) Cults]

Originally posted by Div:

From what I understand, the only 2 ways to get spirit stones are merchants and smelting.

I takes 3000 Qi to get a single spirit stone fro m smelting. In 20 hours of game, I am yet to have an item that has gathered 3000 Qi... So I don't think that's the way.

Most items I can sell to merchants are worth almost nothing (1-10), or worth too much for me to want to get rid of it.

So then, what is the intended way to get spirit stones in game? ^^'

It's every 500 Qi in an item gives 1 spirit stone. It's best to just sell whatever you have in abundance to traders or in trades with other Sects.

[Ccrack]

i find that most of the time the merchants will trade spirit stones for hide in a 1:1 ratio

[LaGru]

Hey all! Best early game way to get Spirit Stones is to make Bracelets out of Spirit Stone Blocks.

1 Spirit Stone turns in to 4 Blocks, and making Bracelets cost 2 Blocks each, which sell for 7 Stones to the Traveling Merchant.

So for the cost of 1 stone you can make and sell 2 Bracelets for 14 Stones. It's easy money. Best used if you have the Call the Merchant mod.

[Darth Nocturnis]

Artifacts smelt for a single spirit stone at minimum.

[Rainnd]

Cotton>Fabric is probably best in unmoded base game. You can also get ~9000 spirit stones for giving cetain coin to mutated torch dragon, which you get from dumplings. You can get those in crates dropped by little elf event. Don't sell timber or wheat, better to use those for agency buildings and policies.