Large Single Item Expenditures

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Item Uses
Academic Book Cartography
Contraband Curiosity Currency
Elder Goods Great Game
Historical Infernal Influence
Legal Luminosity Mysteries
Nostalgia Osteology Rag Trade
Ratness Rubbery Rumour
Sustenance Theological Wild Words
Wines Zee Treasures Low Tier

For a guide to getting these items efficiently, see Item Grinding (Guide).

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Fallen London has a highly complex internal economy, and when deciding which items you can afford to sell, it can be hard to determine if there is demand for any large quantities of them. As such, a way of tracking large quantity actions is required.

This page exists to attempt to track every instance within the game where a large amount of a specific item is required to progress. The following rules as to what to include here apply:

  • Actions or items that have a high Echo cost are not included.
  • Actions which require a large number of different resources, such as some Ambition pages, are not included- although if an action does have a large specific item requirement in addition to various other resources, then that will still be tracked here.
  • If the expenditure is split up over a number of near-identical actions, that still counts for the purposes of this tracking, but should be noted.
  • Up-conversions of items are not included here; for those sorts of uses, see Item Conversions.

Tier 1 Items[edit]

Action (link) - Total of this Item Required - Total Cost in Echoes - Storylet - Unique or Repeatable

Bone Fragments- 1p[edit]
Bottle of Greyfields 1879- 1p[edit]
Bottle of Greyfields 1882- 2p[edit]
Cryptic Clue- 2p[edit]

The option Send a Glass of Teeth is only available during the Feast of the Exceptional Rose. It costs 500 Cryptic Clues.

Drop of Prisoner's Honey- 2p[edit]

Prisoner's Honey will likely always be useful, especially upon unlocking Parabola. It is not recommended to sell it.

During the Feast of the Rose, you can Send someone a Singed Playing Card for 500 Prisoner's Honey.

Fistful of Surface Currency- 3p[edit]
Foxfire Candle Stub- 1p[edit]
Jade Fragment- 1p[edit]
Lump of Lamplighter Beeswax- 1p[edit]
Moon-Pearl- 1p[edit]
Nevercold Brass Sliver- 1p[edit]
Nodule of Deep Amber- 1p[edit]

Creating The Noman at Christmas includes a variable cost of Deep Amber, increasing from 312 on January 5th up to nearly 6000 by January 18th.

Piece of Rostygold- 1p[edit]

Rostygold is a very useful currency, so it's advisable to keep a hold of it if possible.

Primordial Shriek- 2p[edit]
Proscribed Material- 4p[edit]

The Mr Eaten Storyline has two options which require over 2000.

Rat on a String- 1p[edit]
Relic of the Fourth City- 5p[edit]
Shard of Glim- 1p[edit]

Shards of Glim are often very useful, especially if you are doing Ambition: Light Fingers. It is not recommended to sell them.

Silk Scrap- 1p[edit]
Soul- 2p[edit]
Stolen Correspondence- 5p[edit]
Whispered Hint- 1p[edit]


  1. 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 1.15 1.16 1.17 1.18 1.19 1.20 1.21 1.22 1.23 1.24 1.25 1.26 1.27 1.28 1.29 1.30 1.31 1.32 1.33 1.34 1.35 1.36 1.37 1.38 1.39 1.40 1.41 1.42 1.43 1.44 1.45 1.46 1.47 1.48 1.49 1.50 1.51 1.52 1.53 1.54 1.55 1.56 1.57 1.58 1.59 1.60 1.61 1.62 1.63 1.64 1.65 1.66 1.67 1.68 1.69 1.70 1.71 Other items required.
  2. Part of the Mr Eaten Storyline
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Part of the Railway Storyline
  4. Part of Ambition: Bag a Legend
  5. Also requires 3 actions.
  6. Can also be bought via the A merry gentleman card for 50 x Antique Mystery (worth E 625)
  7. This can be done instead be done for free with a 5 action cost with Climb to the Flit.
  8. Via 7 x Bejewelled Lens
  9. Note: this amount can be acquired by entering the Labyrinth on a visit and working in the first coil (part of the Dangerous storyline) until you get Business with the Tiger Keeper, at which point he will give you 7000 Rats.
  10. If you have either the Majestic Pleasure Yacht or Captain Amelia Whitlock, the cost here is reduced to 5500 Shards of Glim.
  11. This is only available so long as the world quality Preparations for a Vast Revel is active.
  12. This trade can be done more cheaply (48 Echoes compared to the 65 Echoes cost here) at the Museum of Souls in Burrow-Infra-Mump
  13. Can also be bought on the Bazaar Side-streets for 50 x Bazaar Permit (worth E 625).

Tier 2 Items[edit]

Amanita Sherry- 10p[edit]
Appalling Secret- 15p[edit]
Bottle of Morelways 1872- 10p[edit]
Femur of a Surface Deer- 10p[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

First City Coin- 25p[edit]
Flask of Abominable Salts- 10p[edit]
Flawed Diamond- 12p[edit]
Infernal Contract- 20p[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Inkling of Identity- 10p[edit]
Intriguing Snippet- 20p[edit]
Jasmine Leaves- 10p[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Maniac's Prayer- 10p[edit]
Map Scrap- 10p[edit]
Nodule of Warm Amber- 10p[edit]
Phosphorescent Scarab- 10p[edit]
Relic of the Second City- 15p[edit]
Relic of the Third City- 10p[edit]
Romantic Notion- 10p[edit]
Rusted Stirrup- 10p[edit]
Sapphire- 12p[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Sighting of a Parabolan Landmark- 10p[edit]
  • Draw in another place - 125 x Sighting of a Parabolan Landmark - E 12.50 - Oneiropomp - Repeatable
  • Prowling practice - 450 x Sighting of a Parabolan Landmark - E 45.00 - Training Shadowy - Repeatable
Silvered Cat's Claw- 10p[edit]
Surface Silk Scrap- 10p[edit]
Venom-Ruby- 10p[edit]
Well-Placed Pawn- 10p[edit]

Tier 3 Items[edit]

Ambiguous Eolith- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Bessemer Steel Ingot- 0.5E[edit]
Bottle of Strangling Willow Absinthe- 0.5E[edit]
Brilliant Soul- 0.5E[edit]
Compromising Document- 0.5E[edit]
Correspondence Plaque- 0.5E[edit]
Dark-Dewed Cherry- 0.7E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Deep-Zee Catch- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Dubious Testimony- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Final Breath- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Hand-picked Peppercaps- 1 Scrip[edit]
Journal of Infamy- 0.5E[edit]
Memory of Distant Shores- 0.5E[edit]
Memory of Light- 0.5E[edit]
Moves in the Great Game- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Mystery of the Elder Continent- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Nightsoil of the Bazaar- 1 Scrip[edit]
Ostentatious Diamond- 0.5E[edit]
Palimpsest Scrap- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Royal-Blue Feather- 0.5E[edit]
Scrap of Incendiary Gossip- 0.5E[edit]
Solacefruit- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Survey of the Neath's Bones- 1 Scrip[edit]
Tale of Terror!- 0.5E[edit]
Trace of the First City- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Unidentified Thigh Bone- 1 Scrip[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Venge-Rat Corpse- 0.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 100 or more.

Vision of the Surface- 0.5E[edit]
Whisper-Satin Scrap- 0.5E[edit]
Zee-Ztory- 0.5E[edit]
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Other items required.

Tier 4 Items[edit]

Aeolian Scream- 2.5E[edit]
An Identity Uncovered!- 2.5E[edit]
Basket of Rubbery Pies- 2.5E[edit]
Bottle of Broken Giant 1844- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits- 2.5E[edit]
Extraordinary Implication- 2.5E[edit]
Glass Gazette- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Justificande Coin- 2.5E[edit]
Knob of Scintillack- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

London Street Sign- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Mourning Candle- 2.5E[edit]
Muscaria Brandy- 2.5E[edit]
Partial Map- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Presbyterian Passphrase- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Preserved Surface Blooms- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Stolen Kiss- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Strong-Backed Labour- 2.5E[edit]

While no action requires an expenditure of 50 or more, Strong-backed Labour is good for Forgotten Quarter expeditions.

Sworn Statement- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Thirsty Bombazine Scrap- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Touching Love Story- 2.5E[edit]
Unearthly Fossil- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Vienna Opening- 2.5E[edit]

No action requires an expenditure of 50 or more.

Volume of Collated Research- 2.5E[edit]
  • A new home - 250 x Volume of Collated Research - E 625 - Housing Creation - Unique