How to make 77 gold per minute in Terraria by just crafting thread

How to make 77 gold per minute in Terraria by just crafting thread

What if you could buy something at a price A, 
then sell it somewhere else for a higher price B?  Well, in real life, that’s called arbitrage, and 
it arises out of market inefficiencies. Due to   the nature of the market to tend toward 
equilibrium though, these opportunities   are generally quite rare and fleeting.
However, in Terraria, there is no market – but   instead fixed prices on goods. This means that 
there’s no self-righting force bringing the market   to equilibrium – meaning that if we can find price 
discrepancies we can infinitely exploit them.  This is quite difficult though, given that item 
sell prices are always five times lower than their   buy prices. This means that even with the maximum 
discount and sell boost, it is impossible to make   a profit purely by buying and selling goods 
– you’d still lose 54% of your investment.  However, there’s a way around this – crafting. 
If we buy A and then craft it into B,   we can potentially turn a profit if 
B is not priced correctly relative   to A. If the cost of ingredients to make 
something is lower than what it sells for,   we can turn a profit purely by crafting.
A lot of these opportunities were introduced   with shimmer decrafting in 1.4.4, but pretty 
much all of them have since been patched.  However, there is one that remains, and it is 
one that is quite useful. With just crafting,   you can make many platinum in just minutes.
It all starts with Green Thread. Green Thread is   a fairly niche item, with its only purpose being 
to make the Hero’s Armor vanity set. However,   for today, all we care about is that it sells for 
a whopping 4 silver each – which is quite a lot!  Green Thread is crafted with three Jungle Grass 
Seeds, which aren’t sold by any NPC. However,   Mushroom Grass Seeds are, and Mushroom Grass Seeds 
shimmer into Jungle Grass Seeds – meaning Jungle   Grass Seeds are super easily obtainable.
Three Mushroom Grass seeds bought from the   Dryad in a Glowing Mushroom Biome have a 
base cost of 4 silver 50 copper. At first,   this seems like a loss – it costs us 50 
copper more to craft then we get from   selling – but we haven’t yet considered happiness.
By moving the Dryad in with the Witch Doctor in a   Glowing Mushroom Biome, she will discount 
her seeds down to 1 silver 33 copper – a   11.3% discount. This is the happiest we can 
get her in this biome before the Princess.  This gives us a net cost of 3 silver 99 
copper per thread, which is barely a profit.  However, happiness also gives us a boost to 
sell price. Take your thread and go to a NPC   with maximum happiness – this gives us a whopping 
33.3% boost to sell value. The most practical   setup for max happiness is probably the Goblin 
Tinkerer with the Mechanic and Dye Trader while   in the Underground/Caverns – not only is this 
convenient as you can put it near the Aether   and/or the Glowing Mushroom biome, but it also 
maximizes the happiness of the game’s biggest   money drain. Kills two birds with one stone.
Anyway though, with the 33.3% boost we can   sell our thread for 5 silver 33 copper each 
– netting a profit of 1 silver 34 copper per   thread. That’s quite significant – a 34% markup!
What’s crucial about this is that it’s easily   scalable. You can buy thousands of seeds per 
second and bulk shimmer whole stacks of 9999   at once. Overhead here in time is very minimal.
The only true time consideration is the crafting   step, since Terraria only lets you craft 60 
items per second, unfortunately. This means   it would take you just under a minute to 
get through 9999 seeds to make 3333 thread,   netting a profit of 45 gold per stack. All 
that – nearly half a platinum – in just a   minute (plus the minimal overhead, of course).
The best part is that this is all very easy to   set up and can be done as early as pre-Hardmode. 
This is quite a boon for those money-hungry   reforges and shop items later game, and is 
probably extremely handy and convenient for   when you just need a burst of money easily.
Then, once you get into Hardmode, this becomes   even more profitable as we can introduce the 
Discount Card and the Princess into the equation.   This boosts profits slightly – netting us 2 silver 
30 copper per thread with both equipped (or 77   gold per stack/minute) which is quite phenomenal.
Oh, and also, if you have a high refresh rate   monitor like me, you can actually craft 
faster by turning frame skip off, which   uncaps Terraria’s framerate from 60 and sets it 
to your monitor’s refresh rate – in my case, 180.  While this doesn’t make the game actually 
tick faster, it does affect things like   animations and crafting. So, yeah, I can 
use this to craft 3x faster. In fact,   this is sometimes a competitive advantage.
This means I can earn 1 platinum 34 gold per   minute / 3 stacks in pre-Hardmode and 2 platinum 
30 gold per minute / 3 stacks in Hardmode,   which is really, really good. It turns 
it from phenomenal to outstanding.  So yeah, that’s the money-making method. Buy cheap 
seeds, shimmer, craft green thread for a bit,   sell to happy goblin for more money. Very simple 
and very effective. If you don’t have the capital,   build up in smaller amounts and you’ll 
soon be able to mass craft in bulk.  I’m sure this is gonna get patched in 1.4.5, 
probably… so enjoy it while you can! It’s   your riches at the Dryad’s expense, and 
best of all… at the shitty Goblin’s too! 

How to make 77 gold per minute in Terraria by just crafting thread
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:13 Green Thread
1:26 Buying Mushroom Grass Seeds
1:52 Reducing cost! Increasing value! MONEY!
2:48 Scalability and earning lots of gold
3:33 Becoming even better in hardmode
3:48 High refresh rates: triple the profit!
4:24 Conclusion

Credits:
Tomsod on the Terraria Wiki for first documenting this. https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Mushroom_Grass_Seeds?direction=next&oldid=914268

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OMORI – Snow Forest – A Single Flower Blooms

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How to make 77 gold per minute in Terraria by just crafting thread