How to make money? | Strategy guide Risen 3 Guide

Similar to the previous games of the series in Risen 3: Titan Lords you will almost never have too much of cash and it's difficult for your hero to gather wealth. In addition many items and services are very expensive (you can read more about this topic in the chapter What to spend money for?). Underneath you will find tips about making money, both general and very specific (such as meeting particular NPCs).

You can acquire gold mainly through the completing quests and exploring the game's world.

Two main sources of income in Risen 3 are pretty obvious:

• Completing main quests and side quests. In most cases You will be rewarded for completing a quest with a few hundred gold pieces, however more complex quests can give you advantage of even one thousand gold pieces. In this guide you can find our walkthrough through all the quests . In description and summary of each quest we included information about money that you can earn by completing it.
• Exploring the game's world. Studying every newly visited place is very beneficial, however it may be limited by your character's abilities. Large amount of gold is hidden in chests, especially closed ones which require to develop the Lockpicking skill. Also it's a good thing to look around for pouches that you can find sometimes on the ground. Most of them contain between 50 to 100 gold pieces.

Remember! The Nameless Hero needs a picklock to open a chest. You can find more on this topic in the chapter What to spend money for?

Remember! Don't forget about the possibility of using the spell scrolls of Parrot Flight and the ability of Monkey Trainer to reach the treasures seemingly inaccessible.

Sell items you have found BUT only if you know you won't need them.

While studying your environment you don't have to look only for gold. Our main hero can make use of different equipment you can find, such as weapons, precious ornaments, spell scrolls or resources. The reason of it is that in Risen 3 there are no limitations related to how much can you bear - involving neither weight, nor the amount of slots in your inventory. You can get rid of the item you have found by selling it to the local merchant. However you HAVE TO do it carefully, since some objects from your inventory may be very helpful in further parts of the game. You should keep recipes for potions, alchemic components and also magic rings that can increase most important abilities of your hero. I think the safest thing you can do is to sell all the unnecessary weapons, outfit and also items like brooms, knives and forks. You can as well consider selling unimportant magic scrolls or provisions. Instead of using food much better way to regenerate your health bar is using the alcohol (such as rum) and taking with you on your adventures the NPC called Bones who possesses the healing spell.

Remember! Merchants from the game's world can buy from the Nameless Hero any amount of equipment. You can use that and get rid of unnecessary items using only the specific shopkeepers. It will help you buy back some important item if you sold one by an accident.

The game allows you to pickpocket some NPC's and steal from their houses.

An interesting way to get rich is stealing from the NPC's you can meet. Unfortunately the game allows you only to pickpocket specific characters which you can recognize during the conversation, when you can find the dialogue option of Pickpocketing. Pickpocketing will end up with success if your Pickpocket skill at the moment is higher than vigilance of your interlocutor. Most of the NPC's has their vigilance close to 100 points, which means that pickpocketing requires from us a lot of investment. Unfortunately even the successful theft almost never ends up giving the Nameless Hero any valuable items.

Much more profitable is stealing treasures from the NPC's houses. In many buildings you can find valuable items in chests or even in sight. NPC's obviously try to protect their possessions. You can try to avoid their security and just run into the room in hope you will find something precious fast enough, but the better solution is to use Sneak skill (which you have to learn first). Additionally it is better to wait for the night, when most of the NPC's goes to sleep, since sneaking will not help you if the Nameless Hero will stay in someone's sight.

Many of the killed monsters will leave you some interesting "souvenirs".

Another way of getting cash is gathering many kinds of trophies that you can find after defeating monsters during your adventures. For example you can find mussels after fighting the crabs or tongues from the bodies of alligators. You can sell or save your trophies for later, since you may want to use them to craft magic scrolls or potions. Unluckily your hero is not a well-trained hunter and as the result can't get all kind of trophies at the beginning of the game. It will be a good decision to change it and even in the earliest parts of the game to develop your skills by taking some lessons from one of the hunters you can find in the realm, such as Bronach living near the hut in the forest in the Calador. It is especially beneficial since you can't go back to once killed monsters in later parts of the game and if you will not have needed abilities you will lose a potential trophies for ever. It's a good thing to start collecting trophies as soon as it's possible.

Winning in mini-games gives a chance to earn some gold very fast.

In many villages and towns you will visit during your adventures you can find NPC's offering you a possibility of playing some mini-games. All of them are thoroughly described in the chapter Mini-games, however their common feature is that they are quite easy (or even very easy) to win. You should play especially in these kinds of competition that you will have to be a part of if you want to finish few of the side quests. In these situations rewards are much higher and often they rewards reach even few hundred gold pieces. Additionally since time to time there appears an opportunity to get some bonus gifts (including legendary items). Casual variants of competition are not as profitable, since they mostly offer rewards not higher than few dozens of gold pieces.

Remember! While playing mini-games the Nameless Hero often has to gamble his own money. You should save your game before you try to be sure you will not lose too much of your property.

You can bring some characters items that they are looking for.

Apart from described earlier general ways of making money you can also search for specific opportunities for easy and fast income. Underneath you can find few examples:

• You can bring Raw Fishes to Nate from the Calador and every one of them will be worth 15 gold pieces. You may find more information about this topic in the description of the side quest related to Calador - "The Long March".
• You can bring the Iron Ore to Wilson from the Calador and every piece of it will be worth 25 gold pieces. You may find more information about this topic in the description of the main quest related to Calador - "New Allies".
• You can bring the Silver Goblets and Silver Plates to Colby from the Kila Island and every one of them is worth 80 gold pieces. You may find more information about this topic in the description of the side quest related to the Kila Island - "The Precious Silverware ".
• After you will return with the apprentice Horas to Taranis you can start bringing him Rock Crystals, getting for each one of them 100 gold pieces. You may find more information about this topic in the description of the main quest related to Taranis Island - "A Follower of Magic" and in the description of the crew's quest - "Magical Efficiency".
• After you will recruit Mendoza you can star bringing him Soul Dust found in the Underworld and each set of five of them will be worth 200 gold pieces. You may find more information about this topic in the description of the crew's quest - "Black Magic Experiments".
• You can recruit gnome Jaffar from the Taranis Island and start to explore the realm in his company. Jaffar will automatically find valuable items from the surroundings such as pouches with gold. It's a great way to multiply your cash if you don't want to study your surroundings by yourself and you don't want to develop Astral Vision skill, which is very helpful due to the highlighting the important items. You may find more information about this topic in the description of the crew's quest - "Sign Jaffar On".