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[Nsidious]

So, I have this fortress in a sinister biome and mucus that puts blisters on my dwarves, so far I have the environment under control, except trade. With all gold, is coins a viable option for trade? Or should I just smelt bars and trade those directly? Basically I'm asking, what would make me the most money?
Thanks in advance

[Corai]

Encrust stuff with gold, then sell those items.



Silver swords + Gold encrustments = Moniez.

[TheBlueSteel]

Either than or make gold mechanisms. I've never tried it, since I put my gold into making jails or giant statues generally, but regular mechanisms sell for a butt ton considering the puny amount of resources it takes to make them.

[Xenos]

Can you stud/encrust sawblades or giant spiked balls made of silver? 

[Nsidious]

Aha! I've never encrusted anything before, guess we'll make mechanisms and try some encrusting then.

[UltraValican]

Just a warning goblins will ambush the hell out of you when you start raking in the cash.

[Loud Whispers]

So, I have this fortress in a sinister biome and mucus that puts blisters on my dwarves, so far I have the environment under control, except trade. With all gold, is coins a viable option for trade? Or should I just smelt bars and trade those directly? Basically I'm asking, what would make me the most money?
Thanks in advance

As a trade good, gold coins are not that good, not having a quality modifier.

HOWEVER

Melting small stacks of coins down gets you more metal than you started with. Which means splitting stacks of coins is a very viable method of profit.

[tahujdt]

So, I have this fortress in a sinister biome and mucus that puts blisters on my dwarves, so far I have the environment under control, except trade. With all gold, is coins a viable option for trade? Or should I just smelt bars and trade those directly? Basically I'm asking, what would make me the most money?
Thanks in advance

As a trade good, gold coins are not that good, not having a quality modifier.

HOWEVER

Melting small stacks of coins down gets you more metal than you started with. Which means splitting stacks of coins is a very viable method of profit.

Yes, but how do you split? Do you use the new trading feature? Wait, this could be a new candy factory method for splitting bolts. Just trade them one by one.

[peskyninja]

There was a thread somewhere about this...

[Loud Whispers]

Yes, but how do you split? Do you use the new trading feature? Wait, this could be a new candy factory method for splitting bolts. Just trade them one by one.

What new trading feature? Anyways, you just do as you did before with bolts, except coins are cheaper.

[tahujdt]

Yes, but how do you split? Do you use the new trading feature? Wait, this could be a new candy factory method for splitting bolts. Just trade them one by one.

What new trading feature? Anyways, you just do as you did before with bolts, except coins are cheaper.

The current version of DF allows you to choose how many items of a stack you want to trade. It used to be that you had to make a complicated logic machine to split up the stack, but I guess you don't need that anymore. OF course, some of us want to make complicated logic machines anyway.

Anyways, you just do as you did before with bolts

That doesn't work, because the method of splitting bolts requires you to have marksdwarves firing them.

[Loud Whispers]

That doesn't work, because the method of splitting bolts requires you to have marksdwarves firing them.

No, I meant with trading. Pretty certain this has been out for as long as .34 has been released.

[Nsidious]

Thank you The remelting coin things seem a bit cheaty, unless there's a reason in the game that it does give you more metal? Also, dug out ALL the way down to magma, and there is HONESTLY only gold on this map, it's hilarious, so I'm gonna stoke up some  MAGMA FORGES! Uhm, that is, after I sort out the magma spewing everywhere problem x) I've never done the magma forge thing before. haha

[Friendstrange]

ONLY Gold?

Well you know what you must do then. Make sure you got the right moods and make a full set of artifact gold armor. Do it. Do eeeet.

[Nsidious]

Honestly, only gold. And it's too bad, my fortress died.
And the reclaim died, cuz they were a bunch of lazy bastards.