Money Making

Updated: 2026-03-29

Current Money Making Methods sorted into Early-Mid Game (Fresh Pals)
and Late Game (Maxed Pals).

Early-Mid Game

The profit is the estimated profit with certain requirements. You will struggle to reach these rates without the respective boosts.

Early GameEstimated Max ProfitRequirementsWork Skills
Dungeon Farming~600k G/hrLv 5+
Grapple, Mount, Glider
Junk Piles~450k G/hrLv 10+
Grapple, Mount, Glider
Black Marketeer~360k G/hrLv 4+
Free base
Nails (active)~130k G/hrLv 10
Rushoar
Kindling
Handiwork
Frostplume~100k G/hrLv 15+
Noble/Fine Furs
Berries (Work Lv 2)~20k G/hrLv 5
Noble/Fine Furs
Planting
Watering
Gathering
Kindling
Transport
Nails (passive)~13k G/hrLv 10
Mining Base
Mining Lv 2+
Transport
Kindling
Handiwork

Dungeon Farming – Up To 600k G/hr – Active

Intro
This strategy focuses on running early game dungeons and selling loot. The main focus is to sell Lotuses, but there are also gems, schematics and other items to sell or collect.

Estimated GPH
~600k GPH can be expected if you enter dungeons and quickly clear the lotuses and alpha boss, skipping bad layouts and other loot/detours.

Requirements
A decent mount and Grapple + Glider is needed to speed up the process.
Noble + Fine Furs is optional.

Notes
Early/Mid game dungeons are a great source of other loot than just gold. Bring a Rushoar to mine Paldium Fragments. You can sell schematics you never plan on using. Dungeons are active for 300min, then closed for 60min. Defeating the alpha boss reduces the 300min timer to 10min.

Early Game Dungeon Farming Video Guide

Junk Piles – Up To 450k G/hr – Active

Intro
This strategy focuses on getting to Sakurajima or Feybreak early and clearing out the Junk Piles for Gold, Dog Coins and Spheres to keep or sell.

Estimated GPH
~450k GPH can be expected if you know the junk pile locations and have a decent mount+grapple+glider setup.

Requirements
Mount and Grapple + Glider, more speed = more gold.
Noble + Fine Furs is optional depending on if you are selling Spheres or not.

Notes
Junk Piles are a great source of Dog Coins for early Accessory Slots, Multiclimate Shirt and Ultrakill Armor. While clearing them it can also be worth it to check nearby eggs and treasure chests.
Junk Piles have a 300min Respawn Timer.


Black Marketeer – Up To 360k G/hr – Semi Active

Intro
This strategy focuses on using a Hanging Trap and Campfire to farm Black Marketeers.

Estimated GPH
~360k GPH can be expected if you use a base to teleport away and back again to respawn the Black Marketeer. 360k GPH requires no extra setup.

Requirements
Just Campfire, Hanging Trap and a way to reset the spawn (Mount or Teleporting with an extra base)

Notes
You can buy from the Black Marketeer while he is burning.
You need to punch the Black Marketeer from behind while he is hanging.

How to Burn Black Marketeer

Nails – Up To 130k G/hr – Active

Intro
This strategy focuses on manually mining ore and selling Nails.

Estimated GPH
~130k GPH can be expected if you use a combination of Rushoar, Grapples and ore clusters.

Requirements
Rushoar speeds up manual mining.
Grapples or extra bases to move when over the weight limit.
Kindling and Handiwork Pals to make the nails while you mine.
Noble/Fine Furs is Optional.

Notes
There are several ore clusters, see map.
You can swap the Grapple Gun weapon slot to reset cooldown.

Ore Cluster Map

Frostplume – Up To 100k G/hr – Active

Intro
This strategy focuses on farming Frostplume and selling the loot.

Estimated GPH
~100k GPH can be expected if you have the damage to quickly clear Frostplumes and the movement speed to move between spawns.

Requirements
Better fighting pals/weapons speeds up farming Frostplume.
Noble + Fine Furs helps when selling loot.

Notes
Frostbitten Isle, -80,-947.

Frostplume Farming Video Guide

Berries – Up To 20k G/hr – AFK

Intro
This strategy focuses on having Pals produce Baked Berries to sell.

Estimated GPH
~20k GPH can be expected if you have 1 base of work Lv 2 pals dedicated to making Baked Berries. Better Pals will increase GPH a lot.

Requirements
Planting, Watering, Gathering, Kindling, Transport.
1 Dedicated Base.

Notes
This is a very basic setup without research, work Lv 3+ Pals or food buffs.


Nails – Up To 13k G/hr – AFK

Intro
This strategy focuses on having Pals in base mine ore to turn into Nails to sell.

Estimated GPH
~13k GPH can be expected if you have 1 base clear 8 ore nodes per in game day (~30min respawn).

Requirements
Mining Lv 2, Kindling, Transport.
1 Dedicated Base.
Mining Lv 2+ is needed for Ore Nodes.

Notes
This is a very basic setup without research, work Lv 3+ Pals or food buffs.


Late Game

The profit is the estimated profit with all research, maxed pals and all buffs. You will struggle to reach these rates without the respective boosts.

Early GameEstimated Max ProfitRequirementsWork Skills
Legendary Sphere Factory~15m G/hrLv 44.
Wandering Merchant.
Noble + Fine Furs.
Mining
Transport
Kindling
Handiwork
Electricity
Coin Assembly Line~4.5m G/hrLv 48.Mining
Transport
Kindling
Handiwork
Electricity
Salad Base~2.8m G/hrLv 25.
Noble + Fine Furs.
Planting
Watering
Gathering
Kindling
Transport
Electricity
Ranch Base~200k G/hrNoble + Fine FursTransport

Legendary Sphere Factory – Up To 15m G/hr

Intro
This strategy focuses on running a factory base to produce and sell Legendary Spheres.

Estimated GPH
~15m GPH can be expected if you have maxed research, buildings, food and sanity. It also requires buying certain items instead.

Requirements
Legendary Spheres unlock at Lv 44.
You also need to catch the visiting merchant that sells Paldium Fragments and Pal Fluids.

Catching Visiting Merchant Video Guide

Research is important for Work Speed and Multicraft.
Noble + Fine Furs.

Pals
Mining: 11
Transport: 3+
Kindling: 1+
Handiwork: 1+
Electricity: 1+
Pals with Mining + Handiwork/Kindling work best with some Applied Technique Books. Great options are Sootseer, Incineram and Penking Lux.

Legendary Sphere Factory Video Guide

Coin Assembly Line – Up To 4.5m G/hr

Intro
This strategy focuses on mining ore and turning it into coins using the Gold Coin Assembly Line.

Estimated GPH
~4.5m GPH can be expected if you have maxed out Mining, Kindling and Handiwork Pals and infrastructure.

Requirements
The Assembly Line unlocks at Lv 48.
The Sanity drain when making gold coins is very high, you might require 2+ Handiworkers.

Notes
Less setup than Legendary Spheres but worse in all other ways.

Pals
Mining: 11
Transport: 3+
Kindling: 1+
Handiwork: 1+
Electricity: 1+
Pals with Mining + Handiwork/Kindling work best with some Applied Technique Books. Great options are Sootseer, Incineram and Penking Lux.


Salad Base – Up To 2.8m G/hr

Intro
This strategy focuses on using a Plantations and farming pals in a base to make and sell Salad.

Estimated GPH
~2.8m GPH can be expected if you stay in render distance with maxed pals.

Requirements
You can start already at lv 25, but it will be much slower.
For max GPH you need maxed pals, several Prunelia and full research.

Notes
Transport breaks if you are far away from your base.
No sanity costs.
Can cause performance issues if too much food is left on the ground.

Pals
Planting: 4
Watering: 4
Gathering: 4
Kindling: 1
Transport: 3
Electricity: 1
At 4-stars Prunelia gives a +35% yield bonus when in the base, stacking.
It is best to use 4 Watering Pals, then only Prunelia with Applied Technique Books for all 8 slots for Planting/Gathering.
Kindling is usually done in a seperate base, or those pals can be swapped in when needed.


Ranch Base – Up To 200k G/hr

Intro
This strategy focuses on having Dumud Gilds in Ranches in a Base.

Estimated GPH
~200k GPH can be expected if you use 10 Maxed Dumud Gild in a base.

Requirements
4-star, max souls, 4/4 passive Dumud Gilds.
Maxed Transporters.

Notes
Ranches cause heavy transport issues and major lag, as well as being slow in terms of GPH.