Even in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon’s grimy, plague-stricken universe, gold reigns supreme. If you’re looking to level up your gear, purchase spells that deal tons of damage, or even just survive your trek through cursed land, you’ll find that cash is a fundamental aspect. Unfortunately, gold can be rather hard to find if you’re not grinding quests or taking odd jobs.
Luckily, there are a few working ways to accumulate your wealth. From sneaky kitchen tricks to an outright wizardly cheese factory, here’s the route from rags to riches in no time.
Early Game Wealth Creation: Cooking to Gold
The best way to earn money early in the game is actually extremely simple: sell food. You can start by buying low and selling high, but the highest-paying route—specifically for Practicality-based characters—is through cooking.
Preparation for Profitable Cooking
Before you jump into the cooking business, ensure you’re specced correctly. Spending on the Practicality skill tree, specifically the Crafting & Trading branch, is a must. Prioritize unlocking:
- Mercantile Skills – Enhances selling prices.
- Side Dish Mastery – Increases meal worth.
- Reusable Resources – Decreases amount of ingredients being used.
These three abilities greatly enhance your profitability when selling prepared meals.
How to Begin Cooking
Visit the kitchen in the Horns of the South Keep. Speak with the cook there and express an interest in learning to cook—this unlocks the trading capability with him. Once you’ve completed the dialogue, you can purchase all ingredients he has for sale.
Now venture out and find a nearby campfire to begin cooking. You have two options here:
- Use pre-existing recipes to prepare food with predictable outcomes.
- Try using random ingredients, which usually yield Undercooked Food, but sometimes unlock new recipe meals.
Though the second option is unreliable, it’s worth taking early on. Each successful experiment will unlock a recipe forever, adding more choices along the way.
Once you’ve finished cooking, return to the kitchen and sell everything you’ve made. Even undercooked meals fetch a decent price, and proper dishes can be surprisingly profitable.
The Cheese Method: A Magical Path to Wealth
For those looking to make serious gold in the mid-to-late game, few methods are as unusual—or as effective—as the infamous cheese method. This approach turns summoned creatures into literal wheels of cheese, which can then be cooked and sold for massive profits.
What You’ll Need
To make this method work, your character should either be:
- Level 20+ with high stats in Spirituality and Practicality, or
- At Level 10+ with the capability of using a number of Origin Potions to respec your character as needed.
Regardless of what level you’re at, you’ll need some specific items:
1. The Spell: Rumpolt’s Revenge
The spell allows you to cheese-ify monsters. In order to get it:
- Begin Orlaith’s questline (she can be found at her stall near the front gate of the Horns during the day).
- Make your way through the quest up to the dungeon beneath the Ruined Broch.
- There, you’ll meet Rumpolt. Finish his quest to receive the spell.
2. A Summoning Spell
Because Rumpolt’s Revenge works on friendly targets, you’ll need a way to summon your own creatures. Two great summoning spells available in Act 1 are:
- Wolf’s Call – Found in the Miner’s Tunnels northeast of Blood Lake. Inside, locate the underground lake and search the crates on the far side.
- Skeleton Army – Killed by the Necromancer in the Ancient Crypt.
3. Mana and Channeling Time
Cheesing a summoned monster will cost around 8 seconds of uninterrupted channeling. You’ll need around 80–100 mana depending on how much Spirituality you’ve invested and the length of spells last for you.
Plan accordingly: bring mana potions, gear that can help regenerate, or use shrines that give temporary magical boosts.
How It Works: Cheese into Gold
With everything set up:
- Call an animal out with Wolf’s Call or Skeleton Army.
- Cast Rumpolt’s Revenge on your minion and cast the spell.
- Watch as the creature is reduced to about a dozen pieces of cheese.
You now have two options:
- Sell the cheese directly to a vendor for some 3 gold per piece.
- Cook it up into “Cheese Balls of Doom,” a high-end dish that can fetch 19–40 gold each, depending on the quality of your cheese and your degree of Practicality.
While more preparation and time are required than just cooking, it is a closed, self-feeding loop. Once you’re in production, you won’t be spending any gold whatsoever on ingredients—just call, transmute, cook, and profit.
