How to make money

In this guide, you will find a handful of helpful tips on how to make money. Some methods require more knowledge and talent than others, however, you have a lot of options to choose from. It's not always easy, but in the end, you'll be wiping your bum with money.

Method 1: Donating

This is one of the easiest ways to get money and it helps out the server. Here are the rates:

$10 = 10000
$20 = 22000
$30 = 33000
$40 = 44000
$50 = 55000
$60 = 72000
$70 = 84000
$80 = 96000
$90 = 108000
$100 = 120000

Method 2: Mining

Mining is a great way to make money. It is easy and can be very profitable. There is a lot of different ways to mine and all of them make money. As a reminder, if possible keep EVERYTHING you mine. Even cobble sells to players for about $5-7 each stack. Almost double the server price.

Mining Method 1:

This method is to strip mine. There are mainly two ways to strip mine. Vertical and horizontal. I personally believe that horizontal strip mining is a better money maker. A large strip mine at levels 12-16 has the potential to make more money then a large quarry.

NOTE 1: I say to mine on levels 12-16 because those are the levels I find the most diamonds on. These levels also contain high amounts of red stone which are very profitable. These levels is also where the large pools of lava at the bottom of the map commonly start.

Mining Method 2:

This method is to branch mine. I find this mining technique is much more efficient and effective then strip mining. Once again this can be done horizontal and vertical. It is not recommended to do it vertical because you can die easily if you dig and fall into a large pit or into lava. Horizontal branch mining is very efficient at levels 12-16. This due to the reason that MOST large lave pit start at level 12. Remember to make your branches have 2 blocks in between for the best system and it leaves the least amount blocks unsearched. This can be in grids if you want a more organized mine.

NOTE 2: I find that if you combine the mining methods 1 and 2 together for a very organized mine. I like to make a 7 long and 4 high strip mine down the middle of my mine and make branches off of my strip mine. The strip mine not only gives you a starting point for your branch mining, it allows you to make a base camp down there with lots of extra room for chests, furnaces, etc. Also take note that there are many more advanced ways to mine, I'm just giving you the general idea on the styles. If you want to look into mining more there are many different ways to mine more efficient all over the internet.

Mining Method 3:

This method will be about caves. Caves can be very profitable, but very dangerous. The profit margin is is better then the other mining methods, but are harder to find. There are three techniques to finding caves. The first one is the easiest. Walk around until you find a cave above ground. These caves are on average, the least profitable out of the other techniques due to the fact that the sought after minerals are further down and the chances of you finding a cave that goes down deep is low. The second technique is to dig straight down to find caves. Once again, I will highlight that this is not the smartest choice to find caves or mine. The third way is similar to the second technique, but it is safer. This technique is to make a staircase down to whatever level you want to stop at, but I would stop at level 12. This method has the highest chance of finding a good cave.

NOTE 4: Once in a cave, you can press F3 to see mobs in other caves.

Method 3: Farming

I find that farming is a slower way to make money then mining because almost everything you mine you can sell to players for a high profit. If you can find the right balance between the two, you can make more money than doing either or.

Farming Method 1:

Reed farms are a decent way to make money, but are very time consuming when you harvest. With the price of reeds being nerfed by 40%, they are no longer the best way to make money. It is however a fairly simple and easy way to make money.

QUICK NOTE: The price is said to go up. It could be wise to stock up now.

Farming Method 2:

Wheat farms are not the best way to make money, but once again fairly easy to build. You can make a auto harvesting system with water, but it is a pain to replant your crops after a harvest. As benefit you get food to take with you mining.

Method 4: Jobs

As you spend time on our server you will notice a lot of fairly simple, but time consuming manual labor jobs that come. If you are needing money, I would suggest to never leave the trade channel as jobs frequently pop up there. Also don't always wait for jobs to come up. Make a forum post saying you are looking for a job. If you are a good interior designing or house builder make a post offering your services. You never know what might pop up. Try to include pictures of your past work to help entice possible clients. Regardless of what you are doing for someone, try to not build up a reputation of not finishing jobs or taking to long on jobs as that can tarnish your chances at getting jobs down the road.

Method 5: Trade/Auctions

This is a fairly easy way to get money, but you need a little start-up cash and can afford to lose some money every now and again. This method consists of mainly reselling. You can get some cheap items in the trade or auctions if you keep your eye out. If you aren't really looking to buy items always bid close to the server price because you can always make a profit on those. If you are looking to buy items for your store bid lower then the player price. Try to negotiate when buying items in trade because chances are they will be willing to take lower. Also you can't be scared to hold onto items if you can't sell them.

Method 6: Stores

Once you grind your way to residency, you can make a store. Stores are a great way to make money because you can put a relatively large markup on items. Try to carry essentials materials in your stores like cobble, smooth stone and glass. You make a lot of money selling those to the public. Also try to look at competing stores to make sure you have the best prices.

Method 7: Server Store

You can buy many materials in bulk at the server store. You can resell these items to players who missed the store for a quick profit. There materials are once again cobble, smooth stone and glass. Seeing as how they are a common building material. Also remember to buy other materials to restock your store to keep people coming back. Remember to always keep a couple of thousand on you for when the server shop opens.

Method 8: Economy manipulation

Please note that this is a very hard task to do and requires a lot of money and patience. This is not a short process and can be very risky if something happens to the player price. This method is to buy all of one type of rare resource until you delude the market and driving the demand up and thus driving prices up. This can be very risky because this requires you buying a lot of a very valuable resource at sometimes higher prices. Also a large event on the server can release a lot of these resources into the market and bring the price down and mess your operation up and make you lose a lot of money. You need to basically twist the market under your grip and release to sell the materials at a higher price.

Example: Let's way that for 2 weeks you buy every diamond that comes up. This would create a void in diamonds being passed around to other players and making the demand higher. After the 2 weeks the price would be higher due to people trying to pay more for diamonds and you having a lot of diamond, would sell to make a healthy profit.

NOTE 5: I've never seen this done, but I've seen it done on MMO servers and usually by a large group of people or guild. It can be applied to our server, but I would take a large caution when attempting.

Method 9: Events

Andrew and other members of the community will host contests and events quite frequently and can have some large prizes for them. I will say it's not the best way to make money, but they are usually fun and can prove to have a lot of benefits to them.

Method 10: Art work

Something which isn't done on this server a lot. You can charge people for sigs, avatars or art for their towns posts. If you have enough talent, you can start making a lot of money doing this. Always remember to showcase your art to get people to buy it.

This is all I can think of right now. I will upload pictures later. I will also add more advanced ways and tutorials to some of methods. I hope you enjoyed it. If you have any suggestions or feedback it would be appreciated.

Version History

V1.0 The general guide
V1.1 Removed Mushroom farms from the guide *CURRENT*

 

Thanks for the feedback. I'll start adding picture/more info next week when I have time. My big mushroom farm is coming soon, so expect more on that next week.

 

I plan on releasing info on some mushroom farm builds and maybe mining if I have time.

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Guys I have some ideas on what I'm going to add next, but I thought I would ask what do you guys want in here? What sections do you want done first? By this I mean what do you want me to elaborate on first. I would rather help you guys out sooner rather then when I get around to that section.