Stuiver Grinding (Guide)

Early Firmament Content

Warning:
This Guide was created during the release of the first chapter of Firmament (up to Firmament 90). It has not yet been updated with the chapter 2 Stuiver sources.

StPA: Stuivers per Action

The EPA on this page does not represent the total value of the carousel, but the total value of the items that can't be converted into Stuivers. For example, Ecdysis earns you 3.8 Echoes (EPA) and 32 Stuivers (StPA) per action, or 5.4 EPA if the Stuivers are converted into Echoes.

Stuiver exclusive items

Why grind Stuivers? Here's a list of items that are currently only purchasable with Stuivers:

Stuiver Sources

Stuivers can be gained directly by selling items in Hallow's Exchange or in The Midnight Market. Popular and reproducible items are Nodules of Warm Amber ( 1), Tempestuous Tales ( 10), Roof-Charts ( 50) and Memories of a Much Stranger Self ( 250).

The Stacks

Depending on the book sought, The Stacks provides:

• 9 x Caustic Apocryphon and 35 x Tantalising Possibility (Walk in, Index of Banned Works, 1899 Edition)
• 1 x Glim-Encrusted Carapace and 495 x Tantalising Possibility (Return with one of the carcasses, Annal of Lost Stars)
• 40 x Roof-Chart (Return with the lighthouse-keeper's ledgers and charts, Annal of Lost Stars)
• 1 x Glimpse of Anathema (Chained Octavo, only available at most once every ten runs)

along with any Tantalising Possibility you may have picked up on the way – in groups of 40 or 50. The other books do not pay out in enough Stuiver-sellable goods to be worth listing here.

The Stacks is an RNG-heavy activity, with some difficult stat/skill checks, so number of actions per cycle can vary considerably. Assuming 20 actions per run, Index gives 116 StPA, Annal's carcass option gives 112 StPA, and Annal's ledgers option gives 100 StPA.

The Midnight Trade

The Midnight Trade (Guide) provides 1 x Memory of Moonlight and 1 x Ascended Ambergris per carousel, resulting in 50 StPA.

Option	Reward
End your shift	1 x Memory of Moonlight 1 x Ascended Ambergris 2 x Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits 2 x Basket of Rubbery Pies 2 x Zee-Ztory 2 x Memory of Light	Total: 12 + 300
		EPA: 2	StPA: 50

Ecdysis

Ecdysis provides 1 x Memory of a Much Stranger Self and 7 x Tempestuous Tale per carousel, resulting in a maximum 32 StPA.

Option	Reward
Emerge as a freshly-made self	1 x Memory of a Much Stranger Self 1 x Direful Reflection 1 x Emetic Revelation 1 x Antique Mystery 7 x Tempestuous Tale -1 CP Wounds +1 CP Nightmares	Total: 37.5 + 320
		EPA: 3.8	StPA: 32

Lab Research

Three new experiments have been added to the Laboratory which can produce Stuiver-sellable items.

The table below assumes an average of 25 x Laboratory Research per action, as well as two actions for setting the experiment up/concluding it. The total value factors in the resources spent at the beginning of the experiment.

Items and Research Needed	Reward
Make a study of a few samples from a Starved citadel
5 x Starved Expression 550 x Laboratory Research	5 x Tempestuous Tale 2 x Emetic Revelation 15 x Extraordinary Implication	Total: 62.5 + 0
		EPA: 3.6	StPA: 0
Make a cartographical study of the ceiling
5 x Tempestuous Tale 550 x Laboratory Research	14 x Roof-Chart 11 x Extraordinary Implication	Total: 27.5 + 650
		EPA: 1.1	StPA: 27.1
Study the geochemical properties of Roof drippings
1 x Sample of Roof-Drip 100 x Laboratory Research	5 x Tempestuous Tale 4 x Extraordinary Implication	Total: 10 + 48
		EPA: 1.7	StPA: 8

Bone Market

At the Bone Market, the Zailor with Particular Interests is the primary source for Nodules of Warm Amber.

• He pays in Nodules of Warm Amber as his primary reward for skeletons. It needs to have Antiquity and Amalgamy.
• If you want to get rid of some Forty-Nine-Voiced Warblers, he buys them for 100 x Nodule of Warm Amber per bird.

Godfall

Take in the architecture for 20 x Nodule of Warm Amber. StPA: 20. No menaces or rewards on failure.

Forgotten Quarter Expedition

Expeditions to Stonefall Copse in The Forgotten Quarter rewards 250 x Nodule of Warm Amber.

• Underclay sourced Strong-Backed Labour Supplies, results in 25 Actions and StPA: 10.