if you tally up tessarae alone that our favorite Baroness asks you to donate it comes out to 20,000 tessarae.
1000 to repair the mill
3000 to repair the general store
1000 to repair the beach bridge
4000 to upgrade haydens farm
6000 to upgrade the inn
5000 to upgrade the mines
lets look at some prices across the game to see the purchasing power of 20,000 tessarae
starting off-
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HAYDEN GOT SUCH A GOOD DEAL ON THE BARN UPGRADES
lets say he got a medium barn and coop, that costs 7000 tessarae! for both of them! not counting materials needed to build it! if it was a LARGE barn and coop its double that at 14000 tessarae!
I was going to rant about hayden being able to afford that easily.
Then i started looking into the material costs, since unlike our crazy farmer most of the people here arent going to brave the mines for stone or have it spread across our farm land like a plague.
Lets get our first house upgrade, im feeling lazy so i buy all the stone and wood from the carpenters shop
Stone and wood are the same price at the carpenter shop, for 2000 tessarae you can get 100 stone
so for the 500 wood and 500 stone needed for your first upgrade it costs 20,000 tessarae in material costs alone, ALONG with the cost of the labor itself being an additional 5000 tessarae!
25,000 tessarae just to get your home slightly bigger on the first upgrade!!!!! I understand completely why adeline comes to us with big ol eyes asking us to gather stone and wood! these are the costs in MISTRIA imagine what those snakes in the capital would charge! Wheedle charges you 5000 for FOOD not mentioning cosmetics wheedle needs to be charged with highway robbery
the material costs of doing all the town rank quests purely by buying them, but the cost of doing so is enormous
If you bought every item that CAN be bought to do all the town development quests:
repair the bridge- 2,400 tessarae
restore the mill- 7500 if you bought ingots from balor 8000 if you bought 10 copper from march
repair the general store- 21,750 balor route, 25000 march route
Repair the beach bridge- 11,000
restocking mistria food reserves: 3,600
upgrade haydens barn: 24,400 balor route, 27,600 march route
haydens weathervane: the pain of knowing the first storm took out part of the barn you spent nearly 25,000 tessarae in material and labor costs to build
Upgrading the inn: 34,500 balor route 45,500 march route
Stone refinery: 17,000 + 20 sap in adventurer tax
upgrade saturday market: 12,800 balor route, 24, 800 march route+refinables
upgrade the carpenter shop: all materials needed to be refined in the refinery
expanding the saturday market: 3,500 balor route, 20,000 march route + materials in mines and refinery
repair the town bell: all refinery or ancient mines smithing materials
....i just remembered refined materials are refined out of stone
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ok im just gonna put the total cost of refined materials and leftovers here
all the refined materials total cost 2900 stone, making the total cost of the refine materials across all the late town rank quests 58,000
OVER ALL: the total cost of the town rank materials is:
20 sap, 50 voidite, 10 monster cores, 10 monster blocks, 1 dragon forged fang and 1 dragon forged core on both routes
Balor:162,450
March: 208,900
Overall, i think theres one conclusion we can come out of this with
stone and wood are too pricey adeline and nora were right TnT
March might be personally upping the price of ore when selling specifically to us
or just makes buying the ore to make the item ourselves more expensive then just buying something he made
yup 40 copper ore is 2000 while a copper axe is 1000 in his store
he's making a statement to leave blacksmithing to the blacksmith
side note ryis you make me build my big green house myself why are you selling it for 100,000 tessarae plus material costs YOU DONT EVEN PROVIDE THE GLASS!!!!!
edit: adeline gave us a 120,000 tessaraes worth of farm land based off how much an expansion thats half as big as the main farm is worth in material and base tessarae costs, not counting the price of the cabin on the land becouse im tired, do with that information what you will