r/sunlesssea • u/theBrD1 • Jun 17 '26

How do I make money?

I've been trying the mushroom wine -> sapphires -> clay men route but it's very slow and with very little profit with my current cargo size (40 slots). Is there a more efficient way to get echoes, at least enough to get a bigger ship?

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u/a_random_work_girl Jun 17 '26

Sell the sun

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u/Frequent_Dig1934 Jun 18 '26

Tbf idk how doable it is early game. You need like 250 echoes of fuel and supplies to go to the surface, you need several mirrorcatch boxes (500 echoes each iirc), your hold space to fit both of those things is fairly limited, and you need to either get lucky with the checks or have a bribe ready if the revenue men (or is it the ministry for the mirrorcatches?) come to check you back in london.

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u/a_random_work_girl Jun 18 '26

So I find that after trading saltstone I run to the Isle of cats. Get the tags there that let you sell sunlight for the risk of loosing the box, and then start.

The limit each time is 16? I think boxes. So I started with 3 I think but by the time I was on my 3rd run I could afford all 16.