Guide for beginners/Getting Golden Bread

**Golden Bread** is the premium currency of starve.io. You earn one golden bread for every thousand points you earn in a game (rounding down), with a few exceptions. It may also be purchased with real money. It is primarily used to unlock Skins and Cosmetics, but can also be used to purchase a temporary "starter kit" that spawns the player with a Book and Bag. Being sought by everyone with an account, it is often difficult to obtain large amounts of, especially for newer players, and can be very frustrating to acquire.

## How it works

There are 3 possible ways of obtaining golden bread: obtaining them from points earned in any gamemode other than Community Mode, placing in the top 3 players in the Leaderboard by the end of the season, and buying some with real-life money. This article will focus specifically on obtaining it through points earned in a game, as the other two methods are not feasible options for many players.

Points are earned in-game from various actions such as crafting, combat, harvesting resources, completing the Chrono Quests, plus a flat rate of 500 points per day survived. Upon the player's death, they will earn 1 golden bread for every 1000 points they earned during that game. If you kill a player, you only gain 1/6 of their score, so savaging is generally innefficient. Players are also limited to gaining 1 golden bread per minute, and 500 golden bread (500,000 points) per game. The only way to break these limits is to level up, in which case you earn a bonus of 10 times the level you were just at. If you earn more that 1k per minute, you can level up faster, which indirectly contributes to your golden bread.

## Methods of obtaining

### Farming for points

You earn points for killing each mob. Higher level mobs earn more points than lower level mobs. The best way to earn points is to farm sandworms. An easier but less efficient way is to craft hoods and recycle, or to kill lava monsters. All of these methods earn more than 8k per day, giving the maximum amount of golden bread. However, sandworm farming lets you level up much faster, giving you additional golden bread.

### Questing

You earn points upon claiming each quest. One way to farm golden bread is to do quests, claim them, and repeat. The points are as follows:

* 3K for blue gem, orange gem, winter peasant, and winter hood.
* 6K for golden pitchfork.
* 7.5K for dragon orb, dragon cube, green gem, lava cube, and pilot hat.
* 10K for lava orb and each bag quest.

In addition, you earn points for making the equipment. The golden pitchfok is the easiest to craft, once you have completed the quest, and you earn 8k for this. Some items give 9k for crafting, and a lava sword gives more than 15k.

Here are some examples:

* Do the golden pitchfork and sandworm quests. This should take around 4 days. You earn 6k from the golden pitchfork quest, 8K for crafting the golden pitchfork, and 10K for the sandworm quest. This is a total of 24K, plus additional score as you play.
* Do lava, pilot, and 2 bag quests. You earn a total of 60K when you claim the quests, plus additional score as you play.
* An extreme example: Do 11 quests. See Guide to the 11 Quest Challenge. You earn almost 80K when you claim the quests, plus 8K for crafting the golden pitchfork.

### Crafting

You earn points each time you craft an item, then you can recycle and repeat. Note than when you recycle, you will need to replenish some of the ingredients. The best way to earn points is to make and recycle hoods, as each hood earns 1K. Use a sword to kill the wolves and spiders, and use a spear to kill the rabbits.

### Savaging

Savaging is not recommended, as you only gain 1/6 of the score of the person you killed. Only savage for golden bread if someone has hundreds of thousands of points. Alternatively, if someone has dragon or lava gear, you can kill them, then use that gear to defend an emerald machine. Never kill low-score players who only have basic resources.

## Notes

1. ↑ Note that if a player is disconnected, they do not earn any golden bread.
2. ↑ Points lost by becoming a resurrecting from a ghost also result in a loss of golden bread for that game.