Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
Optimise your gold farming techniques with this Darkest Dungeon money farm guide to upgrade your Hamlet, reinvigorate heroes, improve equipment, purchase important trinkets and enhance your hero talents.
The best way to make money is to use the weak Antiquarian class in a party of fresh Stage Coach recruits to farm antiques from curios before dismissing the stressed heroes and repeating the process. Combined with tactical spending within the Hamlet and selling excess trinkets players will quickly accumulate gold with these methods that are described in detail below.
Table of Contents:
– Gold Farming Options
– Gold Saving Tips
Gold Farming Options
The methods I recommend for Darkest Dungeon gold farming in order of effectiveness are: Antiquarian and Sacrifice Hero Runs > District Upgrades > Sell Unwanted Trinkets
Antiquarian and Sacrifice Hero Runs
By using the weak Antiquarian class in your dungeon expeditions and filling your remaining party slots with fresh Stage Coach heroes players have an easy to use gold farming strategy. The Antiquarian increases the maximum gold in each inventory slot and can also find minor or rare antiques from battles and curios (Antiquarian must be the hero to activate a curio) that significantly improves gold gain per expedition.
By adding fresh new recruits to this Antiquarian players can focus on a quick and high risk expedition where you will flee at some point. This speeds up gameplay but also saves gold on initial supplies and by dismissing these recruits afterwards any potential stress recovery costs.
This money farming strategy means early investments in the Stage Coach are critical as you’ll have a wider range of heroes to hire and occasionally some at higher level. As you progress and naturally build up a few powerful Antiquarian heroes players can shift your focus towards party survival and also allows players to use some different tactics such as investing in provisions to maximise curio gains, using scouting trinkets to optimise your route and manipulating light throughout the expedition.
For light manipulation this mechanic has players drop the torchlight down to 0 at the end of each fight or before curio activation for the bonus loot and requires extra torches to compensate. Alternatively some players may prefer to clear an entire dungeon without activating any curio before dropping the torchlight down to 0 and backtracking through the dungeon for each curio with enhanced loot from the low light level.
District Upgrades
First introduced in the Crimson Court (CC) DLC and later enhanced with The Colour of Madness (COM) DLC the District area provides another location to invest resources for positive benefits. Important purchases include the Bank (CC) that provides 5% interest on any gold each week for a passive source of gold.
Other useful District investments are the Cartographer’s Camp (CC) which provides better loot gain at higher light levels and the Geological Studyhall (COM) to stack one additional gem in your inventory slots.
Sell Unwanted Trinkets
Trinkets fill up your inventory and even common tier ones have reasonable gold value when sold. Given heroes are capped at only 2 trinkets, the small number of heroes you will push with to higher dungeon levels and several hero archetypes you might not even use there are many trinkets you can sell without impacting your adventure.
Gold Saving Tips
While money farming techniques are useful to accumulating wealth in Darkest Dungeon being efficient with how you spend your gold is equally important.
- Consider using the Darkest Dungeon backer trinkets that are available given these are free and allows you to sell other trinkets for gold.
- Don’t overprovision your expeditions (other than boss fights) as this can quickly lead to gold leakage as you invest resources that are likely wasted. Learning the curios in each game area in particular can help you save gold and acquire additional gold during an expedition.
- Stress management is vital to limiting the gold you need to spend on recovery after an adventure. This includes having reliable ways to attack the enemy backline where the stress damage dealers are, having abilities that remove stress in your party and regularly using your camp skills for stress management even if you don’t need to camp.
- Early on placing any trinkets you find during an expedition in available empty trinket slots on your characters can allow you to leave the expedition with more total gold. These can then be unequipped when you return to the Hamlet to be sold for gold.
- Pay attention to town events as these provide opportunities to spend less gold. These include reducing provision costs, free equipment upgrades and reduced costs for stress healing, quirks and disease activities.
- Districts through Darkest Dungeon DLC have a range of gold saving mechanics including the Granary which provides a regular source of food and the Puppet Theatre to improve idle stress relief.
- Focus your Hamlet upgrade investments on the Blacksmith, Stagecoach and Guild as these are highly effective buildings to progress your heroes. Focusing on the cost reduction upgrades of these buildings first can also help you save gold across a playthrough.
