Making Money
Revision as of 02:34, 17 August 2019 by Pokedragonboy (talk | contribs) (Created a new guide on how to make money. Currently, there are two methods listed, but I intend to add more and would be happy if others wanted to add as well)
The definitive list of get-rich quick schemes in Caves of Qud!
Big Game Hunting (Salt Kraken)
You will need:
- A Salt kraken
- One of many ways to kill a Salt kraken
- Lots of Fresh water
- Lots and lots of empty containers
- A Recoiler with its location set to a merchant hub. (Seriously. A Kraken corpse is worth 15,000 drams. Tam won't cut it.)
Steps:
- Wander through the Great Salt Desert until you come upon a Salt kraken. Do not be discouraged if it takes a bit, they are rather rare. Trust me, they are out there.
- Once you find the Salt Kraken, you now must kill it. There are many, many ways to do this, but attacking at range, using companions, or other low-personal danger methods are preferable for obvious reasons.
- When the Salt kraken dies, there is a 9/10 chance for it to leave a corpse. If, unluckily, it did not drop, you now must repeat steps 1 and 2. If it did, pick up the corpse and use your recoiler to teleport away.
- You should now appear in the merchant hub you chose. Pick the merchant you want to sell the Salt kraken corpse to. This should be a merchant with lots and lots of high-value goods.
- Drop the Salt kraken corpse, move one tile towards your merchant of choice, then, using your interact nearby keybinding (ctrl + direction by default), pick up the Salt kraken corpse from the adjacent tile. Repeat this step until you are close enough to sell it to your merchant of choice.
- Sell the Salt kraken corpse in return for what will likely be the merchant's entire inventory.
BurgeonCane Farming
You will need:
- The Burgeoning Mutation at a level which will create Yonderbrush
- The Harvestry ability
- Optional: the Meal Preparation skill (For those who are willing to drop a bit of profit for convenience)
Steps:
- Find an uninhabited, empty map tile relatively close to a merchant or merchants. (The portion of the Great Salt Desert just outside the Six Day Stilt works great for this)
- Using a combination of Burgeoning and wait 100 turns, fill the screen with summoned plants. Then, carefully walk through, harvesting the Yondercane and making sure to avoid any aloe-type plants. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you are satisfied with the amount of Yondercane you have aquired.
- If you have Meal Preparation, build a campfire and preserve all of your Yondercane into Fermented yondercane.
- (You will lose 25 commerce value on each Yondercane you preserve, but this is balanced by the fact that Fermented yondercane is an incredibly convenient currency due to its weightlessness and low value per unit)