Money sinks 💸

[genboom]

Crafting Generic Building Chunks for Faster Construction

I recently decided to try to do a big build and it just takes too long. I really think things like pillars, floors, roof tiles, and walls could be an actual item that you must use the carpenter to craft so that they can be placed much faster. instead of placing the 102 blocks for a max length section of wall you could have it crafted by the carpenter for the discounted building cost of 2 blocks of wood (could adjust based on difficulty level, I would suggest 21 for hard mode). I imagine it does…

Construction Pallets

I would love to see some way of creating a pallet or chest that could contain construction materials for building projects. I’d imagine it would work something like a mixture between a chest and a material pile, where the carpenter would build it, you would place it on the ground next to your storage area, then you would select what material it would contain (wood, stone, clay bricks). The hearthlings would then fill it to capacity. Once full, hearthlings would no longer add to the pallet, and …

Trading Contracts - Bulk and Rare

Trading Contracts With trading contracts, much like the trader works today- the trader offers a deal and gives you a limited time to complete the task. If the task is completed then you gain more trust with the trader and can sell more expensive and rare goods, and fill a higher quantity of bulk orders. Bulk and Rare I think there are two main categories of trade- bulk and rare. Trading items in bulk would earn you more gold of course, but would also give you favor with the trader with incr…

Trading with Lore - A Multiplayer Idea

Have you ever wondered who crafted all those items the trader offers? What if every time you sold an item to a trader it was added to a list on the server you were playing on with the name of the hearthling that crafted the item, the town it was made in, and the player who sold it. Whenever the trader appears after this, the player created items are within the trading window. Each time the item is sold by the trader the player that crafted the item would get royalties/discounts for creating s…

[Kittyodoom]

It’d be interesting if crafting recipes cost a coin or few each, as a show of paying your craftsmen to work

[RallyPoint]

Along those same lines… perhaps you could throw more gold at them to ensure a higher quality tier that gets produced.

[coasterspaul]

New idea for money sinks: make drystones extremely expensive to buy from merchants.

[TechnoRunner18]

I read that with the new ACE 0.9.3 update that you can now smelt coins into gold ingots and gold ingots back into coins, check it out!

@DaniAngione

The blacksmith can now melt gold coins into gold ingots. It is also possible to unlock recipes for making gold flakes and gold ingots into coins, on a ratio much higher than selling (even with the Cunning banner): 100 coins per ingot. However these recipes are locked behind the Guildmaster’s choice (Tier 3)

[ThisDude]

Hey, you all, I have came across this problem my self, and I think it might be a solution to be able to “pay” for some quests. Meaning that some quests required you to pay for some reason. If you are imaginative enough, it could solve the problem. For example: I read that in ACE there are plans for a crazy pirate NPC. He could give you a quest for a “lost treasure”. He would ask you to pay a large amount of money to support his journey. And than you could get some reward