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Author Topic: So I wanna trade away some stuff at the depot... how useful are gold coins?  (Read 602 times)

Zyro_Falcon

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'cause I struck a whole lot of them veins, and the DFHack description says they're "surprisingly useless in trade"?
« Last Edit: July 27, 2016, 12:32:15 am by Zyro_Falcon »
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PatrikLundell

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Coins are basically junk currently, less useful than bars, because the economy is broken. Generally there is no lack of wealth to be traded away, but if you want to trade gold off you should make stuff out of it (probably just about anything, but I'd go for goblets and trade off all that aren't masterworks, to supply my dorfs with goblets worthy of the fortress). You could also go for gold furniture or trinkets.
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Skorpion

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TRADE gold? When there's all that otherwise useless bone to use? Bone crafts, man.
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Luriant

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http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Maximizing_value

Use some with quality modifier please. Weapon trap (wood, glass, weapon metal), or legendary roast . i buy the caravana with meals of my chef, and make more with the food i bought.

Coins are good form make and smelt, they give 110% the original metal, and without quality dont give bad thoughts if you melt a masterwork. But is an exploit.
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It is also slow; if you can you're usually better off just mining more.

Dunamisdeos

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Yeah you are better off making literally anything else aside from coins.

I usually make on batch a year or some such since they have history on them.
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