GuideToGold

Gold is required to buy buildings, fruit trees, dragon flowers and many decorations, along with planting crops without seeds, using the laboratory, and upgrading the house and other items on your home island.

Gold is earned primarily by fulfilling board orders and helicopter orders. Other means of earning gold include:

* Completing quests
* Opening treasure boxes
* Completing certain collections
* Leveling up
* Watch ads on the offers panel or by tapping pop up balloons, backpacks and drones
* Purchasing with gems, but this is not recommended because gems are useful for other things
* Fulfilling orders on the order board or special orders
* Completing rows of boxes at the helicopter
* Retrieving Codes: at least once a week the game developers give a code with free gifts (originally posted on facebook)
* Selecting gold and collecting it in the Future Rewards Ship

In the following pictures you can see the images of the treasures from which you can get extra gold.

Balloon (eventually with ads)Backpack (eventually with ads)Blue BagViolet BagBottleBottle in sandBottle in waterBrown ChestGreen ChestPink BoxPile of goldPot of goldTreasuresBasement
Tips and Market prices reproduced with grateful thanks from *Chase Apollo* at the Facebook group Dragonscapes Adventure Friends. For a different language, use the translation service on facebook and read Apollo's post on facebook.

## Selling prices

Normal orders and special board orders give the same amount of gold per any particular resource or manufactured item. The difference between the two is that special orders require larger quantities, which is rewarded with a bonus when fulfilled. The bonus can include chocolates, fruits, honeycombs, iron ore, energy, gems. Helicopter orders also give the same amount of gold any other order per item; but the bonuses are handled differently. Since most gold comes from fulfilling orders, here is information on the value per 1 basic resource.

**Crops**:

* Corn = 5 gold
* Wheat = 6 gold
* Sugarcane = 10 gold
* Carrot = 12 gold
* Cotton = 19 gold
* Tomato = 25 gold
* Potato = 34 gold

**Fruits**:

* Apple = 13 gold
* Banana = 14 gold
* Coconut = 16 gold
* Lemon = 15 gold
* Mango = 16 gold
* Orange = 19 gold

**Materials**:

* Big leaf = 6 gold
* Honey = 23 gold
* Iron bar = 27 gold
* Seed = 3 gold
* Stone = 4 gold
* Truffle = 8 gold
* Wood = 5 gold

You can find the other prices in the apposite pages of the products: trees and flowers, factories and food buildings.

### Gaining gold

Fulfilling board orders that only use crops, or products made only from crops, is a good and reliable source of income. It is a self-sufficient process: the gold earned can be used to plant new crops while still turning a profit, and the cycle can be repeated indefinitely. Higher crops that take longer to grow will give a better profit from a greater exchange rate between planting cost and order payment.

Do not be afraid to cancel unappealing or difficult board orders, or send the helicopter away early. Long periods of time spent producing the goods needed can hinder your quest progress and slow your gold income. A large payout is not necessarily better than multiple smaller ones.

While it may seem to be a good idea to fulfill orders with fruit, fruit alone will lose you money; it is only in combination with grown items can fruit be profitable. If you want to see a breakdown of the Profit/Loss list of the items, check it out here.

Trader Rahul is located on every island, and once activated you have 7 days to complete his requests. Since the items he asks for are only used for him, there is no reason not to fulfill his requests. He should be a priority to complete as he gives a good amount of gold and some gems for generally a simple amount of work, and in time you will likely amass a surplus of what he desires.

*Be patient*. The game has a slower progression unless you spend real money, and it can feel like you don’t or won’t have enough gold and resources to get what you want to get done. Be smart with your gold and focus on your goals, then you will find a balance of spending and earning for your play style.

### Using gold

It is better to plant crops with gold than it is with seeds. This is because energy is a more valuable resource and better spent not clearing grass unless necessary. As pointed out in tip 1 for gaining gold, if properly using the order board then planting with gold is a self-sufficient, steady source of income. This allows energy to be used for gathering other resources, reaching hidden treasures, and completing quests, all of which directly or indirectly help increase your gold income.

Buying fruit trees and dragon flowers can quickly diminish your gold, especially given the fact that they increase in price with each purchase. Keeping an X amount of each type (apples, bananas, small dragon flowers, etc) can help, with X being an amount you feel confident you can continuously maintain. Patience is key in building up your stockpile of fruits and petals, and make sure to be thorough in exploring islands to find them.

When replacing fruit trees and dragon flowers, it is best to do so when all of a type (apples, bananas, small dragon flowers, etc) are depleted. This way when you start buying that type again, the cost has been reset to the lowest amount for the first, second, third, etc. To help with this, it can be useful to only collect a certain type when all of those trees or flowers are ready, keeping them in the same cycle.

Do not worry about buying factories until you have the actual quest to do so. Trying to progress too quickly can hinder your progress instead, especially when it comes to your gold.