Gold Coin
Material · Money0★The currency in circulation on Palpagos Island; merchants will trade items or Pals for it.
Gold Coin feeds 5 different recipes, which is why it is worth farming past the point you think you need it.
Details
It stacks up to 99,999,999. It sells for almost nothing, so do not bother hauling it to a shop.
Gold Coin Crafting Recipe
Ingot×30Crafting it takes 30 materials across 1 type. Each craft returns 20000, so the real cost per unit is lower than the list suggests.
Where to Find Gold Coin
5 Pals drop Gold Coin when defeated or captured, which is usually the faster route if you are already out hunting — the drop list below is sorted by how reliably each one gives it up.
If you would rather just buy it, the seller is Bounty Shop at 1 Successful Bounty Token.
It also shows up as world loot — chests in the Grasslands, treasure chests in the Grasslands and chests in the Forest, and 66 more pools besides, usually 700–1000 at a time. Higher-grade chests carry the better rolls, so the ones guarded by a camp are usually worth the detour.
Chests inside 10 caverns, including Astral Mountains Cavern and Cavern of the Dunes, can hold it as well.
Hands-off option: Mau produces it at a Ranch, so a single assigned Pal keeps a slow supply coming in.
| How | Where | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Merchant | Bounty Shop | 1 Successful Bounty Token for 2000 |
| World loot | Chests in the Grasslands | Grade 1 · 100.0% chance · 700–1000 at a time · also in Hillside Cavern, Isolated Island Cavern and Ravine Grotto |
| World loot | Chests in the Forest | Grade 1 · 100.0% chance · 1200–1600 at a time · also in Mountain Stream Grotto |
| World loot | Chests in the Desert | Grade 1 · 100.0% chance · 1700–2300 at a time · also in Cavern of the Dunes |
| World loot | Chests in the Mount Obsidian | Grade 1 · 100.0% chance · 1500–2100 at a time · also in Volcanic Cavern |
| World loot | Chests in the Snowfields | Grade 1 · 100.0% chance · 2000–2500 at a time · also in Astral Mountains Cavern |
| World loot | Treasure chests in the Sakurajima | Grade 1, 3 · 100.0% chance · 2500–3500 at a time · also in Cherry Blossom Cave |
| World loot | Treasure chests in the Feybreak | Grade 1 · 100.0% chance · 3000–3500 at a time · also in Feybreak Cavern |
| World loot | Treasure chests in the Sunreach Isle | Grade 1 · 100.0% chance · 3500–4000 at a time · also in Sunreach Skies |
| World loot | Enemy camp loot in the Grasslands | Grade 1, 3 · 100.0% chance · 1000–2500 at a time |
| World loot | Enemy camp loot in the Desert | Grade 1, 3 · 100.0% chance · 4000–6000 at a time |
| Dungeon chest | Astral Mountains Cavern | Chest loot |
| Dungeon chest | Cavern of the Dunes | Chest loot |
| Dungeon chest | Cherry Blossom Cave | Chest loot |
| Dungeon chest | Feybreak Cavern | Chest loot |
| Dungeon chest | Hillside Cavern | Chest loot |
| Dungeon chest | Isolated Island Cavern | Chest loot |
| Dungeon chest | Mountain Stream Grotto | Chest loot |
| Dungeon chest | Ravine Grotto | Chest loot |
| Ranch | Mau at a Ranch | Ranch Lv 1 |
Using Gold Coin Well
The recipe on this page is not something you hand-craft — it only runs on the Gold Coin Assembly Line, a base structure unlocked at Technology Lv. 73 for 4 points. Putting one down costs Soralite Ingot x100, Ancient Civilization Parts x20, AI Core x10 and Ancient Civilization Core x5, so in practice it arrives after Feybreak and the Sakurajima ore chain are already running. It has to sit inside a base near the Palbox, it needs an electric feed, and only Pals with Handiwork can be assigned to it.
Treat the line as an overnight earner, not a coin printer. One batch of 30 Ingot into 20,000 coins carries 2,000,000 work — 100 work per coin, and two hundred times the effort of erecting the structure itself. Stack every high-rank Handiwork Pal you have on it, keep a food box and beds in range, and let it grind while you play elsewhere. If you want coins in the next ten minutes, Mimog kills (8,500-11,000 a drop) and a Sunreach Isle or Feybreak chest circuit still beat it outright; the line wins on the fact that it never runs out of nodes.
Watch the SAN bar more than the ingot stock. The assembly line drains sanity at 0.5 per work tick — the single harshest workstation in the game, over four times the plain workbench's 0.11 and more than triple the 0.15 that furnaces and generators charge. Assigned Pals will hit depression and walk off long before a batch completes, so rotate workers, keep a hot spring adjacent, and favour Pals with Positive Thinker or Workaholic. Power draw is the easy part: 200 units, tame next to the 2,000-3,000 that Ancient Blast Furnaces and Oil Pumps demand, so an existing generator line will usually absorb it without a new build.
The facility's own description flags that minting your own currency is not strictly legal on Palpagos — it warns of severe scrutiny from the PIDF. There is no mechanical penalty attached to it; it is flavour on the one structure in the base menu that exists to counterfeit money.
Trading Gold Coin with NPCs
Gold Coin is what you get back for handing in Baked Berries — a route that costs nothing but the cooking.
What Gold Coin Is For
Gold Coin is what the quest "Medical Bills" asks you to bring — that is the reason it exists, and why holding on to one is worth more than selling it.
