Gold

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Gold
	The primary currency

Gold is the primary currency of Soulbound: Online. It is held in the Currency tab of the Bag, is fully tradable between players, and pays for almost everything with a price on it: vendor purchases, crafting and upgrade fees, crafting station use, Apartment costs and player-to-player trades.

How earning works

Every way of earning Gold in the game is one of three channels. Understanding the difference is most of understanding the economy.

Channel	Who pays you	How the price is set	Instant?
Selling to an NPC vendor	A vendor NPC	Fixed — the item's Sell Value	Yes
Selling to other players	Another player	Whatever the two of you agree — PixelBay listings, in-game chat or the Discord	Only when someone buys
Direct Gold	The game itself	No item involved — dungeon chests, contracts and quest rewards pay Gold outright	Yes

Vendors are the floor. Every sellable item has a fixed Sell Value, and a vendor will always pay it, instantly, in any quantity. It is the lowest price you will get and the only guaranteed one.

Players are the ceiling. Anything another player actually wants — gear, rare materials, recipes — is usually worth more than its Sell Value on PixelBay or in a direct trade. The catch is finding the buyer: a listing can take days to sell, and chat trades take negotiation.

Direct Gold needs no buyer at all. Chests, contract rewards and quest payouts put Gold straight in your bag. Quests pay once; chests and contracts repeat.

What an item is worth

An item has two prices, and they are usually different:

Its Sell Value — the fixed amount a vendor pays, recorded on the item's own wiki page.
Its player price — whatever it last sold for on PixelBay, which moves with supply and demand and is not recorded here.

Worked example: one Raspberry Cake has a Sell Value of 200 , so cooking one and walking it to a vendor is a guaranteed 200. Listing it on PixelBay might fetch more from a player who needs the buff and does not cook — or nothing at all if nobody bites. Which channel is better depends on the item and your patience, and that trade-off is the whole game of making money.

This wiki records the vendor Sell Value as the canonical price of an item — one number per item, on a value data page — and the Money making guide computes every gold-per-hour figure from those numbers. If a Sell Value is wrong, fix it once there and every guide follows.

Earning rates

This page explains the system; rates live in the Money making guide, which lists every known money-making method with an estimated gold per hour, sortable, and openly editable. If you want to know what to actually go and do, start there.

Vendor price reference

Prices players have recorded so far. All of them are editable — if a vendor pays a different amount, correct the number here and on the item's value page.

Brews

Chemistry products sold to vendors:

Brew	Sell price
Vials	40
Flasks	80
Health Stim	180

Cooked food

Cooked food sold to vendors. Ingredients: water and milk from Wefco Mart, fish from the Fishmonger.

Food	Sell price
Aubergine Bake	250
Bag of Flour	17
Beef Burger	185
Beer	175
Bread	15
Cheese Cake	225
Chocolate Gelato	145
Cookie Dough Gelato	225
Coq Au Vin	180
Cream Chowder	175
Cup of Coffee	45
Cup of Tea	150
Fish Burger	99
Fish Cakes	125
Fish Soup	115
Fish Stick	40
Fish Taco	130
French Fries	105
Fried Egg	2
Grilled Cheese Sandwich	180
Jam Toast	65
Mapo Tofu	110
Onigiri	80
Pizza	85
Porridge	40
Raspberry Cake	200
Raspberry Gelato	175
Raspberry Smoothie	110
Ratatouille	99
Salad	48
Sashimi	165
Sugar	40
Sushi	150
Tuna Salad	100
Watermelon Gelato	250
Watermelon Smoothie	185
Strawberry berry Smoothie	175

What Gold is spent on

Vendor purchases — food, consumables, seeds, crafting essentials.
Crafting and upgrading — Gearforging fees, weapon and ability upgrades, station use.
Apartments — furnishing and running one.
Contracts — 50 to refresh the commission list at the Pioneer's Guild.
PixelBay and player trades — buying from other players.

Notes

Gold is an in-game currency only. It is not a cryptocurrency and cannot be exchanged for real money.
Player-to-player trading is free — no tax is charged on trades.
Gold Bonds were a reward currency from a trading system that has been removed from the game; see that page for the history.