How to Make Money
All credit goes to worstcase11!
Start
At the start of the game try to go fishing as often as you can. While you should keep superior grade catches, you can basically sell anything else (Fish for missions can be bought from the fishmonger, if you are in a pinch but ideally you catch them all yourself).
What you are mainly aiming for are the three species of Lucky Fish you can catch at any fishing spot in the game with any of the rods. Unless you want to turn them into a wall decoration there is no real further purpose for them. Later on you can keep some fish for cooking.
Checking
Always check what the Wandering Vendor wants as ‘Bulk Orders’ every season. She will appear in the Ferry stop market only during the 1st solar term and the solstice/equinox solar term of any season. Trade as many of your crops for her plum coins as you can. Then use those coins to buy Spirit Gras Seeds. She brings 50 bags of those every solar term she is in the market (so you can buy 100 bags a season). Sell the low quality Spirit Gras and keep anything that is higher quality for missions etc.
Once the Main Hall is repaired, grab the Sect Budget every season. It is easy to forget…
Plant Sesame seeds
You will only unlock those once you have opened the Q-Pavillon, while you can use them in Alchemy recipes later on, you will harvest enough to sell off a lot and they grow in any season.
Blueprint
Once you have the blueprint, make a few fermentation jars – and upgrade them as soon as you can. Also get a mill/turtle mill and at least one drying rack (facility not decoration) set up. Turn Wheat into liquor, flour, dry Persimon & Chrysanthemum etc. even if you don’t sell the items, you save money, if you make them yourself instead of buying them for cooking.
Befriend Song Yantong
Not only does she teach you how to keep bees and get honey, she will also give you a Fermentation Jar recipe for Honey-Jujubes – once you can make those you’ll never need to worry about stamina consumption again.
Set up 10 beehive boxes on your farm and grow flowers around them. The more flowers you plant, the more faster the hive boxes fill with honey. With a hive box in the center a 5×5 Flower field (24 flowers, 1 hive box) you can harvest 3 jars of honey every morning with 10 boxes that sums up to 30 jars of honey. As long as you don’t harvest the flowers, you don’t have to water or replant them, which gives you a passive income of at least 3,000 Spirit Stone Shards per day (varying by type of honey and quality, also you might want to keep some for cooking and processing).
Some people swear upon using Harvest Talisman from the Wandering Vendor to mass harvest only a few times a year and sleep in between, never tried that myself because that should keep you from completing a lot of the side quest.
Important note: You can plant the flowers in such a way that the 5×5 fields overlap, (two tiles distance between hive boxes) that way the honey field is smaller but you still get the 3 jar per day harvest. There is a suggestion for a planting pattern in the beginners guide, though it is a setup for getting all kinds of honey, not max. profit.
Be the first to comment