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#### What is a good way to earn currants?

I need to find a good way to find 50k currants. I seem to have little to no money. :( Please help!

Posted 12 months ago by Lil' Reader | Permalink

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- Start with Mining, move into alchemy.
  OR
  Start with farming and move into making Awesome Stews
  That will get you there in no time
  Posted 12 months ago by MrVolare | Permalink
- You could get a key to Neva Neva and mine sparkly. If you sell the sparkly it to the tool vendor I think it is possible to get 50k on one trip using as many big bags as allowed.
  Posted 12 months ago by diaveborn ♥ | Permalink
- Gather whatever you can gather a lot of while having fun, keep enough to feed yourself and sell the rest to vendors or on auction. Actually, sell basically whatever you're willing to part with to the tool vendor or on auction (vendors pay right away and reliably, which is nice.) I can make a lot of money selling meat and eggs to the vendor, or cooking things and selling that.
  Alternatively, you might buy a cheaper house...
  Posted 12 months ago by Niqster | Permalink
- It depends on what you enjoy doing and what you have time to do. If you have a lot of time to sit and play in front of your computer, mining is probably the way to go. If you want to just check back occasionally, farming is very profitable when you get higher levels of skills.
  Posted 12 months ago by Jambalaya | Permalink
- Don't worry about having little money, we all started that way. ^_^
  Just play to enjoy and the currants will follow, just take note that there are only 2 Tool Vendors in Ur (Cebarkul & Level 4 East) and that they pay the most (NPC-wise) for stuff you want to sell.
  ... I suddenly feel nostalgic for those times that I was extremely happy just to have 5,000 currants to my name.
  Posted 12 months ago by Mal'akh | Permalink
- I had a lot of fun "flipping" houses. I bought a cheap house with a few garden plots, gardened my little heart out, sold the goods, and did this repeatedly until I had enough money with the price of selling the house + new cash to buy the next step up. Did this multiple times until I had the 50k house (which, incidentally, I sold recently to buy an herb-gardening house.)
  Posted 12 months ago by Tyskkvinna | Permalink
- Seconding the "do what you enjoy" advice. I ran a bit of an experiment on the best way to earn currants purely through raw material gathering (so no cooking, tool making, ingot smelting or any other sort of processing). It turns out that wandering around harvesting all the trees, nibbling all the pigs, and milking all the butterflies was just as good as mining (a touch better, even, but not so much better that if you like mining you should give that up).
  Once you have a lot of stuff ready to sell, you can sell it on auction or to the tool vendor in Cebarkul (he pays a bit more than the regular vendors). You'll be surprised at how quickly it adds up.
  The more you do and explore, the more you'll figure out what you *like* doing and you'll find ways to support that. One of my friends loves making tools, another loves making seasoned eggs (and hatching them into animals) and so that's what they do. I like bouncing around and acting a bit crazy... so I started a delivery business. It doesn't make a lot of money, but it gets me what I need. But by this point in the game, I have my house and no real reason to make a ton. You'll get here, too. And sooner than you think right now with currants so tight. :)
  edited to add: oh! you'll earn more and more easily the higher up a skill chain you go. So getting those top end (super long to learn) skills will help.
  Posted 12 months ago by Vera Strange | Permalink
- It's worth trekking through the Ancestral Lands regularly--you can get really great stuff out of the dust traps. Sure, most of the time you get paper, or a drink, or an Expensive Grilled Cheese... but sometimes you get a big-ticket item like a focusing orb.
  I was determined to get back into a Groddle house ASAP post-reset, and while I was rebuilding my Animal Kinship skills, this was a HUGE part of my strategy... ancestral lands, auction, rinse & repeat.
  Plus, the abundant high-value coins in the AL will probably save you from having to eat for a while.
  Posted 12 months ago by Georgia | Permalink
- Can we make this a sticky already?
  Posted 12 months ago by Sly Hoax | Permalink
- Currants are just energy that has been transformed. The simplest example is turning butter into cheese, which consumes 5 energy; the cheese, can be sold for 5c, or eaten, returning it into energy.
  Of the basic gathering skills, mining is the most efficient in the conversion into currants. With mining 2, 12 energy easily transforms into 30 currants (vendor value of 5 sparkly chunks). Pick repair offsets this somewhat, but the bonus gems have a far greater positive impact. The other big kicker is "help" -- if you are in neva or bliss, the bonus chunks really add up, and with M2 you go so slowly you don't expend much energy.
  Animal kinship can also do a decent job, 2 energy generates 30 currants of meat with AK3 (? Numbers may be off, going from memory here). The meat can be turned into sammiches for a cost of 12c and return of 19c, further increasing the value of the meat.
  Ultimately the best way is to have stuff that turns a huge profit at auction -- stacks of allspice are a good example here. The market is very unstable though, so your return will vary.
  [Edited: Corrected sammich cost - 9c for the bun from a vendor, +3e to make it]
  Posted 12 months ago by Sturminator MoOre | Permalink
- If you're lazy, you can spend around 15 minutes every game day converting butterfly milk to very very stinky cheese. Here's what you do.
  1. Buy some no-no powder from the Auction House.
  2. Load up on Butterfly Milk
  3. Make sure you have a ton of extra bags in your inventory (you'll need the space)
  4. Use no-no powder, giving you 6 minutes of unlimited energy and mood in exchange for dying after you crash.
  5. Convert milk to very very stinky cheese until you die
  6. Come back from hell and sell very very stinky cheese to a tool vendor (they buy for 19 currants each if I remember correctly)
  7. Wait for next game day.
  You get back something like 2-3 times your investment doing this, and it doesn't take very long.
  Posted 12 months ago by Hollai | Permalink
- I got most of the money for my house cooking everything I could gather and also selling allspice on auction. Watch all the harvested goods because they sometimes sell for a nice profit. Good Rube trades helped, and make sure you play a music block for the crab because he'll give you a couple hundred currents.
  Posted 12 months ago by Lucille Ball | Permalink
- During the week i walk around harvesting all the things i can, then at the end of the week i sell them, either on the auctions or to a vendor.
  I also have a "Max Coins" nearly every day i play by going to the Ancesteral lands or Grodle Forest junction. :)
  Posted 12 months ago by BrookesNotToBlame | Permalink