Is it worth making coins?

[TeKett]

From what i understand they dont have quality so they are less worth then other goods, but do they at least have any other upside like saving space/time?

Or i could just ignore all that and hoard millions of them like some people out there.

[Strifeboy]

Man I completely forgot their were coins in this game.

[High Lord Denix]

They are just a left over thing from a system that was taken out of the game a long time ago, not really any point in making them.

[RefuseOrchestra]

You can fling them out of minecarts at your enemies I suppose.

[LastChime]

They used to train metalcrafting, jobs are weird now.

You could also use them for the ancient art of dwarven metal stretching to make thousands of ingots from 1....you can't break them up with the trader any longer and I haven't !!SCIENCE!!d hard enough to split them in this version, minecart derails I think are out because that just chucks a stack of 500 coins at the head of your legendary engraver usually.

Currently thinking I might use them to fix make something moodlets cause they have no quality and even the stack melts for a better return than you put in.

[MadAsgardian]

If you think it's cool to hoard a bunch of coins, make coins.

[Dirty_Curty]

Might be fun to mint 1 a year to see the description. Other than that, I don't think they have much use.

After a quick trip to the DF wiki it seems there are some unusual game-y uses for them, but personally I don't bother.

[Darzan]

I think I seen design somewhere where they constantly dropped coins on your dwarves in some high traffic area to train up their dodge/avoidance skills.

[Felyne Honkers (Jake)]

Coins are currently the only way to make an adamantine replicator if you're interested in that.

[Graknorke]

they're cool to have, each year you get a unique coin description for each kind of metal. i like to do at least one batch a year in a precious metal and at least one in a "common" metal.

[Baronfuming]

Do elves accept coins?

[Sawedoffsob ™]

coins are lightweight if that helps

[Pogey-Bait]

In adventure mode, you can throw coins at certain monsters and hurt them.

[PhearedPhantom]

Originally posted by Pogey-Bait:

In adventure mode, you can throw coins at certain monsters and hurt them.

Imagine that being the only use for money 😂

[PhearedPhantom]

Originally posted by Baronfuming:

Do elves accept coins? :Star_Explorers_Scroll:

As long as it isnt wood, they do not care

[76561188078797539]

You can use them for unlimited metal.

Basically, you manufacture coins in a stack. There's no manual way to separate them, BUT tantruming entities will throw individual coins. Individual coin has more metal content than when part of the stack (dwarven physics, don't question it).

You can make a cell with fortification for walls for captives, kept in conditions ensuring inevitable tantrums, and dump coin stacks for them to separate. Melt the individual coins, get more metal than you put into, profit.

Saw a detailed post somewhere about the setup.

Other than that, coins are very useful in adventure mode. Not just for throwing.