Having trouble getting Gold in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon? This brief guide deconstructs two effective early-game strategies to pile up your coffers—cooking for consistent profit or magical cheese alchemy for substantial payouts. Are you a shrewd trader or a savvy mage? Here’s how to turn basic ingredients or summoned minions into a steady money maker.
Easy Gold in the Early Game: Cook or Cheese Your Way to Profit
Want a fast method for piling your pockets with Gold early on in the game? Whether you’re an aspiring merchant or a wizardly cheese master, two major routes are ahead of you—and both are fairly profitable.
Path 1: Cooking for Cash
Step 1: Skill Setup
Prior to flipping pancakes for cash, ensure that your character is set up properly:
Put points into Practicality
Max out:
- Mercantile Skills
- Side Dish Mastery
- Reusable Resources
- These are all found under the Crafting & Trading section of the Practicality skill tree.
Step 2: Gather Ingredients
Visit the Horns of the South Keep and talk to the cook in the kitchen. Tell him you want to learn about cooking—this will open up his shop. Purchase everything he has for sale.
Step 3: Hit the Campfire
There’s a campfire just outside the kitchen. Use it to:
- Cook known recipes
- OR toss random ingredients together and see what comes out
Although the second approach is kind of messy, it’s actually quicker and opens up new recipes if you happen to create something decent. Most of what you’ll be cooking will be Undercooked Food, but periodically you’ll make a real dish—and that recipe is yours to keep.
Step 4: Profit
Sell all (including the flops) back to the kitchen. You’ll make a good amount of Gold, particularly with the proper skills active.
Path 2: Magical Cheese Farming (Mage-Style)
This one’s a bit more advanced, but way more fun if you’re rolling with a mage build.
Requirements:
- Level 20+ with high Spirituality and Practicality
or
- Level 10+ if you’re willing to burn some Origin Potions
- Points in Practicality are still essential
Step-by-Step Breakdown:
1. Get the Cheese Spell
Find the spell Rumpolt’s Revenge, which lets you turn friendly targets into cheese. Here’s how:
- Complete Orlaith’s quests (she’s near the Horns’ front gate during the day)
- Her questline leads you to Ruined Broch
- Finish Rumpolt’s quest in the dungeon below and earn the spell
2. Summon Some Victims—er, Minions
The cheese spell works on allies, so you’ll need a way to summon friendly creatures. Two early options:
Wolf’s Call – Located in the Miner’s Tunnels northeast of Blood Lake
Skeleton Army – Dropped by the Necromancer in the Ancient Crypt
3. Stack Mana
To cheese your minions, you’ll need about 80–100 mana, since the transformation spell takes roughly eight seconds of continuous casting. Don’t forget you’ll also need mana to summon and maintain those minions.
4. Make the Cheese
Summon a minion → Cast Rumpolt’s Revenge → Collect cheese.
Each summon yields around 12 cheese pieces.
5. Sell or Cook It
- Sell raw cheese at 3 Gold per piece
- Or cook it into Cheese Balls of Doom, which sell for 19–40 Gold depending on your Practicality and the cheese’s quality
Why the Cheese Route Wins (Eventually)
- No need to buy ingredients
- Fully self-sustaining once set up
- Consistent Gold output, unlike random cooking
Both methods work well for early-game income, but the cheese route is especially great if you’re into magic, resource optimization, and don’t mind the occasional lactose-related war crime.
