The best way to make money is by doing what you enjoy doing and then selling whatever drops from that activity that you don’t need for yourself.
While farming gleam (why is b a l l s censored?) may be very profitable, it’s boring and you will burn out quickly.
If you enjoy hunting with groups, it’s one of the best ways to make good coin - however, if it’s a frustrating lag fest, you won’t be enjoying it too much.
Do you enjoy mining? There’s also great profit in that…
Enjoy exploring planets whilst hitting plants and mushrooms? Nice profit there too…
Either mix it up so you don’t burn out on the one thing, or discover which in-game activity you can happily do for hours upon hours - that’s where you will make the good money!
There’s usually some coin to be made in almost any activity. Gathering sap/bark? Save the trunks and make warp conduits with all your extra rocks. Shimmering and pulsating orbs get you stacks of growth and sponge, which will mint for more than enough to pay for tools.
Edit: Deconstruction resin 1 goes pretty well with a minter too if you got some extra volatile blood sitting around
I have recently been on a bit of a collecting spree, everything from gems to bitter beans.
I have increased my coin stack by just over 16m and can say that without any doubt at all mining was by far the best coin maker.
While I made the biggest chunk getting sapphires on my sovereign (public access via carcass to new javas) the amount of iron, tech components, fossils and coal also added a huge boost to this.
Immediately above my sapphire mine is a huge bitter bean farm but the numbers there just cannot keep up with sapphires . I was getting about 6 sapphires for every 1 bean I could gather. So despite the fact beans sell for more than 2x as much, it was much slower coin overall
Use BUTT and buy low, sell high.
You travel a lot… I made 0.6 million that way once and 0.7 another time (over many days)
It won’t make you rich but you’ll have sufficient coin.
If anyone is interested these need filling for my spark supply. If not i can just buy it… I might start doing the same at my glass farm…but we will see
I know my sister tends to go on hunts ands ell her stuff to get money that way. i’m not on enough to actually do hunts since i have two kids, so I’m normally farming rocks, gleam, or anything I can and selling on a minter if it’s not worth much. Gleam is a good one, though, because if you can find places, like on the butt website, people are also buying gleam and reguarly refill those baskets.
