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Interesting: How do YOU earn your currants?

I just read about someone owning stuff worth 70.000 currants and I'm SHOCKED to my glitchy bones! So, I'd like to ask this question, that was in my mind since I found out that there are houses for 50.000...

Would you mind telling something about how (HOW!!?) you earn most of your millions of currants or, if it's mainly a secret, give a little hint to someone who isn't very clever (at all) at saving: My current currant-account says 490(!). (Oh, I just found out what I could contribute to the other thread about whether our avatar resembles us:)))
I mean, is it mostly the fact, that you are nibbling piggies/mining rocks for hours/days in order to sell the products at auctions, while, for instant, I am running around desperately in search for the 10 different ingredients to fulfill my next quest (because I honestly find it a little boring to pet-nibble, pet-nibble, pet-nibble...)?

Posted 17 months ago by Kuki, very sad. Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Just found an old thread on the same question: http://beta.glitch.com/forum/general/1928/.
    A few people answered that the best way to get rich are high mining skills. Do you all agree?
    Posted 17 months ago by Kuki, very sad. Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I agree... sell anything to the vendors... Gems are good... you can sell overages of meat, milk, etc.  Buy low, sell high.
    Posted 17 months ago by napabeth Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There are various ways of earning currants, Kuki.  Most people seem to get them from mining, then you get gems which you can sell or donate to shrines which earn currants too.  At the higher levels you get more rewards for some things so that adds up as well.

    Personally I am not so keen on mining, so once I had my nice house in Alakol I concentrated on farming and gardening.  With higher level skills the rewards are greater and I sell produce and meals for currants.  Growing things in the garden is not so profitable as mining, but it gets me by.  At the moment I have about 90,000 currants, but it has been more and less.  I don't buy much at auction as I don't contribute to projects very much.

    My next task before reset will be to do the engineering stuff, which I have left until last.  Then I will need to buy Blockmaking equipment which is slightly expensive, but even so I will have lots of currants left. 

    I think at the moment, before the game goes live, we earn currants quite easily, completing quests and tasks etc. this may change in the future.

    If you need any currants, just say, as there is nothing much for higher level players to do with them except give them away, so just ask and you will be welcome.  IM me in game.
    Posted 17 months ago by Cassandria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • right now i have almost 38k, but i recently donated about 45k to a street project, *and* i have never really done that much to make money.  but unfortunately the secret to my success is no longer available.  until very recently (just the last test?), you got increasingly bigger rewards of currents upon reaching a new level.  this is no longer the case, i believe after level 20, as it became apparent that the rewards were getting stupidly big. 

    so, to get currants, complete quests, reach level 20, and otherwise, yeah, probably mining and gardening.  you could also probably do well for yourself by harvesting trees and selling the basics at auction, especially spice and beans, which are needed by cooks everywhere!
    Posted 17 months ago by katlazam Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for your answers!
    Cassandria, WOW! :)) Thanks for sharing your personal strategy and, well, thanks for the extremely generous offer, which - naturalmente! - I cannot accept (I guess it would not satisfy my glitches' ambitions to take those magic currants as a present;)).
    Sure, I will have to reach higher levels and also higher skill levels to achieve more rewards. Perhaps I should focus on deepening a part of my skills and leave the others for the future. And you remind me of donating! Until now, I hadn't much to donate (the shrines nearly always complained about the low quantity of my donations...). I preferred to spend my items either for completing quests or gaining energy food. Probably giant favour also helps more with moving forward in the game than I thought...
    Posted 17 months ago by Kuki, very sad. Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I mine mostly to get gems and to crush the rocks to get elements to make powders -- so i don't usually sell rocks.  I have butterfly milkers and meat collectors and i sell the extra meat and milk and i try to sell in small quantities and at reasonable prices in the auctions.  i sell drinks and chicklets and piglets. I also sell bubbles and gas.  Loam is also a big seller.  Auctioning items was important to me when i needed currants to buy a house.  Now I just want to get the stuff out of my bags!  I've heard from other players that you get more currants if you sell to street vendors.  But one of the things i like about this game is the auctions.  I like the interaction with other players and I like seeing what people buy.  For instance, it never occurred to me that people wanted guano until i put it up for auction and it sold right away.   Who knew?!
    Posted 17 months ago by Cat A. Tonic Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Harvest and sell. That works for me. There's such a huge demand for cherries, beans, gas, spices... 
    I don't mine. It doesn't appeal to me at all, standing around in a dimly lit area and banging on rocks seems more like a particularly nasty type of prison sentence than 'fun' to me.  So I avoid the caves, unless it's for a quest or achievement.  
    I do however love walking around the forest and meadow areas, and just generally being out and about in the open spaces of the Glitchiverse, so walking around and harvesting is something that I find both relaxing, fun, and very profitable. 
    I found the last test, that I could easily make 10,000 currants in half an hour of game play, just through harvesting and selling what I picked.  
    So 2 and a half hours of game play, give or take as you need to deduct a little of the profits to refuel energy and for the random "oh! I have to buy this thing right now!" moments, plus allowing some time to be sociable and talk to fellow glitches as they pass by = 1 x Large house.  
    Of course eventually you do run out of trees, but ...that's why new days coming around so frequently are so handy :D  Besides, need some time off from harvesting for chatting and the all important selling of the loot.
    Also, it's not only the fruit/veg/spices you get from the harvesting, it's the random music blocks, juices and planks that end up being given out from the trees too.   
    It's a way that suits me. 
    I think this is why Glitch appeals to me so much, there's not just one set way to make your 'living'. Just like real life, in Glitch people can find different career paths. 
    Only in Glitch, you can be more choosy about how you'll earn a crust, and can pick the way best suited to your individual tastes. 
    It's like real life, but on a good day :)  
    Posted 17 months ago by Ebil Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Not spice and beans. Spice and cherries. Seriously, these thing are just incredibly expensive. You could spend like one game day gathering a load of those stuff, auction it off at about 10 currants a piece (seriously, people would actually buy it. Not me myself tho) and make a small fortune.
    Me myself.....meh. I hate running about picking stuff from trees. I cook instead and give to friends. When I get desperate for $$, allspice and cherries, I walk all the way from Alakol to the mines, via GF, and pick all  need from trees, then go mining. Tho, now that spice can't be planted in the Forest, looks like I may have to alter my path. I guess going through the Meadow instead, going through the Ix Spices, and using the Ix route to Uralia might work. Oh well. I get more Allspice going through the forest and the Spices. That is, before the Spice Trees died. *sigh*
    Posted 17 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I found recently that vendors buy at different prices. the best are the tools vendors in Ilmenskie - one on Eastern Approach (?) and one down in the caverns.
    Try looking at what sells in auctions - some things sell well, but you may not get much for them. I get most of my currants from mining - gems sell well to vendors and at auction if you don't need them for favour. Soemtimes I sell the rocks if I have lots of them.
    The more you process something the more you get e.g. metal ingots sell for more than the rock, and molybdenum ingots (if you have alchemy skill) sell for most. Crystals sell well if you can gather enough fireflies and barnacle talc. Food sells for more than raw ingredients.

    I remember a time when I was always struggling for currants, not so much now I have most of the skills and am at a high level - the reset is going to be a shock!! If there's anything you need - especially tools, drinks etc. maybe bring up a specific request in live chat or the forums - people often have spares, especially once they start making them. Spare bags too. If you feel awkward about taking for free then 'repay' with a drink or special item or commonly used resource such as loam or fireflies later. What goes around usually comes around it seems.

    Same applies to anyone trying for achievements- especially the musicblocks one - there's usually someone who can 'lend' you the box you have missing to get the trophy. Maybe next time it could be you who does the lending!?
    Posted 17 months ago by Twoodle Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Always have something to trade to The Rube.  I haven't seen him much the last few tests, but when I have seen him, I have been able to get expensive equipment (pieces of blockmakers, etc.) in exchange for emo bears and other lower-value items.

    The catch is that he can't trade for anything that's not in one of your main pack slots.  So he won't offer for anything that's in your bags, for instance.
    Posted 17 months ago by jasbo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • There are lots of ways to make currants, especially as you advance further up the skill tree and I've posted elsewhere about that. One important thing is to specialise in one part of the skill tree so that you get the higher rewards that come with those higher level skills.

    Everyone says to go mining to make money, but I find mining a bit boring and I've never bothered with it so much. I prefer to while away my time cooking things. Once you learn all the Animal Kinship, Gardening and Soil Appreciation skills, you become pretty efficient at gathering the raw ingredients, and can easily make a nice living just selling those on. Add in the cooking/blending/cocktail crafting skills and you can make a whole bunch of things that other folk will buy in auction. The miners love Earthshakers and Flaming Humbabas, for example.

    I don't try that hard to make cash, but probably spend a little time each game session making sure that I've got a bunch of things up in auction. Pricing is important. Don't overprice things, and don't try to undercut everyone else - neither is worth it in the long run - you either end up with a load of unsold stuff, or you'll expend a tonne of effort to make peanuts. On the whole, if you price things around the recommended price, then they'll sell. 

    Also be selective about what you put up in auction. People tend to buy the same things all the time. Awesome Stews go like hot cakes. Expensive Grilled Cheese and Divine Crepes often take a few rounds of auction before they sell. Jars of onion sauce will languish on the shelf forever. Pay attention to your auctions and make note of what sells and what doesn't, and you'll soon spot patterns. Make more of the stuff that sells.

    That's how I made my currants (currently at 257,506₡)
    Posted 17 months ago by dopiaza Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 257,506₡! Ts!;)
    Wow, I learn so much here. Seems I opened an absolutely priceless thread:)

    For example, I didn't notice, that vendors buy differently! I sometimes sold them my things absolutely light-heartedly... OK, and when I read about how detailed you know about auctions and what food is selling, I come to think, that probably I haven't even deserved in being rich (yet!).

    I didn't even know about The Rube and his very special conditions. How does he look?
    Posted 17 months ago by Kuki, very sad. Subscriber! | Permalink
  • This is the Rube!
    Posted 17 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • If you mine at uralia sell gems to level 4 merchant. He do not look like a shroom like others - more like gator with a mask. All other buy gems at alot lower prices.
    Posted 17 months ago by Lilla My Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Tool Vendor

    They are just Bureaucrats in disguise!   You will meet them when you go to buy a house! :)
    Posted 17 months ago by Pirate Apples Subscriber! | Permalink
  • P_A, I met 'em long before I wanted to buy a house - you need to jump through their hoops to ride the subway, too!
    Posted 17 months ago by jasbo Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I earn currants by selling meat and milk at auctions. I admit it doesn't earn me much, but I'm not really a big spender so I am able to save currants in case I feel the need to buy something expensive.
    Posted 17 months ago by roderick ordonez Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mining is quite good, although I agree with Ebil I don't like being stuck in dark caverns so I tend to mine in Bortola or in the forest...anywhere where you can get outdoor rocks and can also pet and harvest trees etc.

    To be honest I think I must get most of my money from vendoring music blocks...garden and you get music blocks, pet trees the same...last test even squeezing chickens gave me a pile of them :)...and I do enjoy heading off for the crabs to see what they will give me for them...before I vendor :) Double whammy :)
    Posted 17 months ago by Violet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just love earn currants at the swamps, collecting barnacles, fireflies, peat bogs and jellisacs. Them I sell barnacle talc, bricks, fuel and crystals on auction. I think the secret is put things on auction and forget about them... Suddenly BAM! somebody bought your stuff and you´re rich! It´s almost like a wage that you receive often. :)

    Mining is pretty boring for me too, and takes too much time and energy (specially when you´re on low level mining skills) for collect. I rather take few valuable things quickly than spend all my time collecting cheap stuffs.
    Posted 17 months ago by acreditando Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mining, nearly every test I am able to make well over 50k, I just spend it all very quickly.
    Posted 17 months ago by Laurali Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I used to be just barely above a subsistence farmer. But now I mine mine mine like crazy. It's incredibly easy to make money that way, even if you don't get gems.

    Maybe too easy. I would understand if the developers would want to nerf it... But in that case, I'd want farming incomes bumped up a notch, too.
    Posted 17 months ago by Liridona Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I am sort of a middle-class Glitch, with about 45K on hand right now and I made mine mostly just by leveling up and completing quests.  Don't mine much, don't sell stuff at auction much, sometimes sell to vendors.  Of course that has all changed, now that there are no currant rewards for leveling up **farts in Tiny Speck's general direction**  past 20 or was it 30, ANYWAY, now I have to get a job *sobs*
    Posted 17 months ago by Nanookie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • When I started it took me quite a long time to figure out how to make money. Any and all the money I received from leveling up was quickly spent at vendors, buying ingredients necessary for various quests. And it felt like I needed to eat all of the food I was making for these quests in order to stay alive and out of Hell. And there was always something else, one more item, or another bag, that I felt I needed, that kept my currant level pretty low.

    Eventually I discovered the Auction and learned that I could sell some of the fruits and spices of my labor, enabling what was a HUGE step forward for me,  when I finally (maybe on my 3rd test?) felt like I could throw down 1000 currants for my first apartment in Louise Pasture. At that time I looked around and wondered "How oh how oh how can any of these Glitches be living in those 10,000 Currant Palaces? Surely they are all vacant!" (This was before the rise of the 30-50,000 Houses)

    Enter the mining skill. The difference in income was immediate. Even with Mining I. If you do choose to mine you can drink Earthshakers which will let you mine without losing energy. You can buy them at Auction, usually for about 100-150 Currants each, but you can make your own (to drink, sell, give away) if you level up your Blending skills.

    So yes, to get back to your original questions, at some point many Glitches do spend lots of time "grinding", harvesting or mining to sell to vendors or at Auction. But there is just a hump you have to get over, like getting the house you want, and then with all the skills and knowledge learned reaching your goal you can kind of relax again and get back to whatever it is you enjoy the most in Glitch.
    Posted 17 months ago by The Cat Face Subscriber! | Permalink
  • It's kinda like real life... the people with 1,000 currants have to work hard to earn another 100, but the people with 100,000 currants can get their hands on another 1,000 for little effort :-)

    When you think about the process of making money in the game, you're basically using your personal time plus your Glitch's energy to create added value. eg you start with a handful of ingredients and turn them into a meal by adding points from your energy stack. The meal is worth more than the ingredients that went into it. So when you sell/auction that meal, you're monetizing your energy points. So it pays to learn as many skills as possible in your chosen line of 'work' so as to minimize the energy costs for creating things.

    Also, when it hits11pm game time, stop whatever you're doing and find something that takes lots of energy to fill the rest of the day - make meals, crush rocks, harvest trees, because you're effectively getting that monetary value for free. Your goal should be to hit the midnight energy refill with an energy level of no more than 20  :-)
    Posted 17 months ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • 4 hrs of mining selling and eating = 50K 60k
    Posted 17 months ago by Ben Affleck Subscriber! | Permalink
  • ALWAYS sell to the Tool Vendors. I have one of my teleport points set to one. 

    "Tool Vendors pay you 80% of the item's street price. Helga pays you 50% and so does the Gardening Tools Vendor in Community Gardens. Everyone else pays you 70%, except for Sno Cone Vendor, who has no interest in buying anything."

    Tool Vendors can be found inIlmenskie CavernsLevel 4 EastUraliaCebarkul

    From: Glitch Strategy Wiki 

    :) 
    Posted 17 months ago by NutMeg Botwin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Well I haven't been the best money maker.. I've been farming and cooking a lot. Selling baby chicks and pigs seems a way to make more money with less planning and ingredients than some dishes you can cook. Plus, your chickens can incubate your eggs while you tend to your plot. I hope the baby animals are happy in their new homes when I sell them!  :) :
    Posted 17 months ago by sakmet Subscriber! | Permalink
  • That's really odd... I can understand the specialty vendors being exploitative but why would one of the standard street vendors give better prices than all the others?

    There doesn't appear to be any obvious logic to it to me. Unless the intention was to just make it one of those little hidden insider things that some people notice and some people don't. Like the hidden passage when you walk off the screen on I-forget-what-street-it-is.
    Posted 17 months ago by Snazzlefrazz Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mostly through my musical career.
    Posted 17 months ago by Taylor Swift Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Go to Baqala or Choru at the beginning of a new game day - the quoins are much higher value there! :-)

    I say at the beginning of the day only because, that way, you don't reach your daily limit too soon. :P
    Posted 17 months ago by ♥joby♥ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Mining. And walking the streets.
    Posted 17 months ago by Cerulean Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I'm pretty sure that they put the tool vendors there with the higher buying price because 

    1) There are only two of them- it's not like you'll find them every other street. To get to them, you have to go to more trouble. 

    2) It's probably like you said, one of those hidden things to catch on to. 

    :)
    Posted 17 months ago by NutMeg Botwin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Go walk around the savanah places and collect the quions there. They give like 66 currants + each.
    Posted 17 months ago by Chemisie Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I think you can still earn currants for leveling up past 20, it's just that it's at longer intervals now. After 20, level 25 is the next you get currants for leveling up, then 30, 40, 50, etc. At least that's the compromise stoot seemed to like and was going to try according to the thread about the no currants after 20. I'll let you know in 2 levels after it opens whether I get currants at 25.

    But yea, I think I've made most of my currants through leveling up before 20, doing quests and mining some. I did the mining to get my house, but since then I haven't done a lot. I'm only around 9850 currants, but they haven't been something I've needed a lot right now, since I don't really want any of the 50k houses.
    Posted 17 months ago by Little Miss Giggles Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I made 40K at the auction house last test in about 2 hours. I check the AH nearly every day and see what's trading highest and if it's easily gained, I'll put up as much as possible for auction!
    Posted 17 months ago by A Magical Unicorn Subscriber! | Permalink
  • IMO, I think the tool vendors buy high because they are bureaucrats...and like a stereo-typical gov't bureaucrat they pay too much for items that could be purchased for less.  It's my spin on why only lizards are now Tool vendors.

    Also, note that the mining vendors in the deeps only pay about 50% as well, I think (maybe it's 60%, but definitely lower than the others, and they gouge you on what they sell - ex: Earthshakers are 4x the cost from Helga, the liquor vendor, and most tools are significantly more too).  The wiki vendor blurb hasn't been updated with them.  So, it's best to teleport up to Level 4 E to get to that tool vendor. 

    I think part of the fun of this game are those little things that you have to pay attention to, like prices by vendors...

    Mining and cooking seem to be the most popular and easiest ways to make lots of loot.  However, I think barnacles -> talc are the sleepers for making some good dough too, though it takes a bit more time to gather them.

    Remember at reset that folks will have to rely more on selling to the vendors at first (probably only for a day or two) since everyone will start back at zero currants, so won't have the extra cash for the current big spending in the auctions. I'm curious to see how the auctions adjust right after reset...especially since folks won't be getting the huge leveling up bonuses after 20 like they once did.
    Posted 17 months ago by b3achy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I just mine. 

    I've never put any up for auction. Don't know why. Just haven't gotten around to it.
    Posted 17 months ago by Piratice Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have to admit that most of my currants came from leveling. I used to sing to butterflies a lot, just to level and to get my level up bonus.......... but, now I do some mining and cooking. I can easily make 20,000 currants per game day, with the entire mining skill tree with me. I also like to cook, and that's what I do normally. But I have to admit, most of my income comes from the trips to the mines every few days or so. Not that I really need currants. Occasionally I TP to Groddle to collect cherries and stuff, but I have a garden so naturally I grow everything at home. Only once in awhile, I go and mine a bit, or go grocery shopping.
    Posted 17 months ago by KitkatCat Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I have a special street corner in game where I ply my trade.
    Posted 17 months ago by Violet Faulds Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Cooking and bartending as well as selling all the tons of radios that I get.
    But, this time when the game opens, I think I'll do quite a bit of mining to earn back all of the currants I spent in the auction while the game was down lol
    Posted 17 months ago by sgjo Subscriber! | Permalink