The Rat Market (Guide)

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Rat Market:
The Rat Market is: Open, based on the timestamp: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 17:50:21 +0000

Last updated on: 11:15, 22 Jul 2024 (UTC)

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The Rat Market is a periodic, dynamic piece of content released in September 1899 (2021). Its mechanics make heavy use of World Qualities. According to the announcement post, one of the goals of the Rat Market is to introduce a regular source of variation, so that players are encouraged to experience more of the available content.

Every week, the Rat Market is only open for three days spanning the weekend. It opens at 11am UTC on Friday, and closes at 11am UTC on Monday. Check your local time zone to see when it's accessible for you, and beware of Daylight Savings Time.

You access the Rat Market from a storylet in the Flit. Entering the Rat Market for the first time will cost 3 actions, but every subsequent entry that weekend will cost 0.

Mechanics[edit]

The most important to know up-front is that you cannot save Rat-Shillings. 72 hours after you enter the Rat Market (and gain the A Rat for the Weekend quality), any Rat-Shillings you have left will be converted to an assortment of Currency items (primarily Rostygold) at a rate of 10 pence-equivalent per Rat-Shilling.

The second-most important thing to know about is The Rat Market (Bazaar), and the consistent things you can purchase from it. In some cases, this may be the purpose of your visit. In other cases, this may be an outlet of Rat-Shillings that would otherwise become Rostygold.

World Qualities[edit]

On any given week, only some items can be sold for Rat-Shillings. New saleable items are randomly chosen weekly and can be sold during the two following weekends.

What you can buy with Rat-Shillings changes with a variety of different World Qualities:

  • The Rat-Wind and Rat-Moon change randomly every week to a new value. These mainly give access to powerful Bazaar equipment at a discount, though two of the Rat-Wind items are exclusive to the Rat Market.
  • The Rat Season advances one season every week, and allows you to purchase particularly valuable or hard-to-get items. These items are not discounted, and the cheaper items are even heavily marked up, but they are more difficult to obtain elsewhere.
  • The False-Season follows real-world seasons and serves to unlock a unique piece of buyable equipment, for a total of 4 different pieces of equipment.

Cryptic Clues[edit]

While the market is only available on weekends, the clues to next weekend's items are revealed earlier by the Gazette in Your Lodgings. The Rat-Moon and Rat-Wind hint at some items that can be gained that season, whereas the items the rats are looking to buy are stated explicitly.

For example:

East - "The unseen Rat-Wind is in the east; time is shorter this season! Look to your wrists!"

This refers to the Ratwork Watch

Soft - "However, the hidden Rat-Moon is soft, they say. Soft as skin and pink as a gentlerat's paw."

This refers to the Lenguals

Selling Items for Rat-Shillings[edit]

On any given week, only some items can be sold for Rat-Shillings. New saleable items are randomly chosen weekly on Mondays and can be sold during the two following weekends. The different stalls buy items of different types.

Unlike when selling items at the Bazaar, the sell value of items in the Rat Market decreases based on the number of items you've sold this week. This is controlled by your Rat Market Saturation, which increases after every sale by the sold item's base value in pennies.

  • Items sold below 65,000 Saturation receive a 32% markup to their base value.
  • Items sold at or above 65,000 Saturation but below 180,000 receive a 12% markup.
  • Items sold at or above 180,000 Saturation receive no markup, and simply receive their echo value in Rat-Shillings.

For more info, see The Rat Market (Guide)/Calculators.

Sale order of different items does not affect the number of Rat-Shillings received. The player cannot sell more than 800,000 Saturation worth of items in one week.

Echo value Shillings range Ratly Demand
Soft Saintly Maudlin Inscrutable Tempestuous Intricate
Possibly present next week[1] ✗ ✗ ✗ ✓ ✓ ✓
E 12.50
[2] 		125 Fourth-City Echo
Tier 5

E 12.50

165-125[3] Ratty Reliquary Uncanny Incunabulum Storm-Threnody Unlawful Device
Tier 6

E 62.50

825-625[3] Parabola-Linen Scrap Captivating Ballad Night-Whisper
Tier 7

E 312.50

4125-3125[3] Scrap of Ivory Organza Parabolan Parable Cartographer's Hoard Corresponding Sounder
  1. ↑ When a demand is chosen, it is present for 2 weeks, and then is on cooldown for 3, where it cannot be picked again
  2. ↑ Assumed value, may not be sold directly
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Depending on current Rat Market Saturation level. 32% markup up to 65,000 Saturation and 12% markup up to 180,000 Saturation

Fourth-City Echoes can be sold every week via the Bazaar tab. This item has no other repeatable uses at this moment, and can be farmed in L.B. Industries at a competitive rate. Because they are sold through the Bazaar tab, they do not contribute to Rat Market Saturation.

Buying Items with Rat-Shillings[edit]

Items can be purchased with Rat-Shillings from four shops in the Bazaar tab, or two storylets which do not cost actions. A single Rat-Shilling is assumed to have a value of ten pennies (E 0.10). The actual exchange rate varies by good, but that's an easy value by which to compare.

In the Bazaar tab, cheap economic items can be purchased for a value equal to their Bazaar sell price, while more expensive items have a mark-up, going up to a 100% cost increase for items selling for E 2.50 or more. Equipable items can be purchased from the Rat Market for slightly cheaper than they cost in the Echo Bazaar (which is always still greater than the value of selling them back to the Bazaar).

From the (Ratty) Bazaar[edit]

Crow-Crease Cryptics:

Item Sale Value Shillings
(mark-up)
Inkling of Identity E 0.10 1 (at value)
Maniac's Prayer E 0.10 1 (at value)
Appalling Secret E 0.15 2 (+33%)
Compromising Document E 0.50 7 (+40%)
Correspondence Plaque E 0.50 7 (+40%)
Journal of Infamy E 0.50 7 (+40%)
Tale of Terror!! E 0.50 7 (+40%)
Touching Love Story E 2.50 50 (+100%)
Blackmail Material E 12.50 250 (+100%)

Extramurine Trading Company:

Item Sale Value Shillings
(mark-up)
Royal-Blue Feather E 0.50 / 1 8 (+60%)
Solacefruit E 0.50 / 1 8 (+60%)
Hand-picked Peppercaps 1 10 (+100%)
Nightsoil of the Bazaar 1 10 (+100%)
Preserved Surface Blooms E 2.50 / 3 25 (at value)
Carved Ball of Stygian Ivory E 2.50 / 5 45 (+80%)
Crate of Incorruptible Biscuits E 2.50 / 5 60 (+140%)

Merry Gun's Exchange:

Item Sale Value Shillings
(mark-up) 		Buy price at the Bazaar
Amanita Sherry E 0.10 1 (at value)
Map Scrap E 0.10 1 (at value)
Phosphorescent Scarab E 0.10 1 (at value)
Flawed Diamond E 0.12 2 (+67%)
Palimpsest Scrap E 0.50 7 (+40%)
Rattus Faber Rifle E 2.50 50 (+100%)
Skyglass Knife E 3.20 63 E 6.40
Set of Kifers E 32.40 640 E 64.80
Ravenglass Knife E 51.20 1000 E 102.40
Set of Intricate Kifers E 312.50 3999 E 400.00
Ratwork Derringer E 250.00 4000 E 400.00

Nightclaw's Paw-Brokers:

Item Shillings Buy price at the Bazaar
Well-Placed Pawn 2
Pair of Scarlet Stockings of Dubious Origin 20 E 4.00
Antique Constable's Badge 300 E 30
Copper Cipher Ring 400 E 40
Red-Feathered Pin 400 E 40
Tiny Jewelled Reliquary 400 E 40
Engraved Pewter Tankard 500 E 50
Old Bone Skeleton Key 600 E 62.50
Ornate Typewriter 600 E 60


Direction of the Rat-Wind[edit]

Current value: West

Item Rat-Wind Currently available? Buy price at the Bazaar Shillings
(discount)
Ratwork Watch East ✗ E 460.00 3200 (-30%)
Poison-tipped Umbrella South ✗ E 450.00 3200 (-29%)
Ratwork Pocket Piece West ✓ N/A 3200
Rat's-Head Cane North ✗ N/A 3200


Phase of the Rat-Moon[edit]

Current value: Runny

Item Rat-Moon Currently available? Buy price at the Bazaar Shillings
(discount)
Fecund Amber Tiara Blue ✗ E 400 2800 (-30%)
Pair of Lenguals Soft ✗ E 400 2800 (-30%)
Smock of Four Thousand Three Hundred and Eight Pockets Hard ✗ E 420 2800 (-33%)
Pair of Vakeskin Boots Runny ✓ E 320 2800(-12.5%)


The Rat-Season[edit]

Wiki note: The slate of items available during each Rat-Season has recently changed and is still being mapped out.

Rat-Season Abbreviations:

  • FaF: Freeze-and-Fall
  • LL: Lying-Longing
  • CC: Candle-Canker
  • WaW: Wink-and-Wane
  • VV: Vial-Vane
  • TaT: Take-and-Toil
  • WW: Wine-Whisper
  • RaR: Rise-and-Rake
  • NK: Nitre-Knife
  • KC: Kifer-Caitiff
  • SS: Skitter-Scatter
  • DD: Dimmest-Dark

Current season: Freeze-and-Fall (FaF)

The Rat-Season:
FaF LL CC WaW VV TaT WW RaR NK KC SS DD
Jul 26 - Jul 29 Aug 02 - Aug 05 Aug 09 - Aug 12 Aug 16 - Aug 19 Aug 23 - Aug 26 Aug 30 - Sep 02 Sep 06 - Sep 09 Sep 13 - Sep 16 Sep 20 - Sep 23 Sep 27 - Sep 30 Oct 04 - Oct 07 Oct 11 - Oct 14
? Elemental Secret Legenda Cosmogone Fecund Amber
Irrigo Mirrorcatch Box Starstone Demark Coruscating Soul Reported Location of a One-Time Prince of Hell


The False-Season[edit]

Current value: Summer

Item False-Season Begins on[1] Currently available? Shillings
Venge-Rat Waders Autumn Sep 3 ✗ 10000
St Eligius' Beard Hairs Winter Dec 3 ✗ 10000
False-Star Catalogue Spring Mar 4, 2025 ✗ 10000
Leviathan-Bone Knife Summer Jun 4 ✓ 10000
  1. ↑ The value updates on the first Tuesday of the corresponding month


Unique Items[edit]

A handful of items in the Rat Market have no other sources.

Item Accessibility Currently available? Shillings Slot Stats
Rat's-Head Cane Rat-Wind: North ✗ 3200 Weapon
Ratwork Pocket Piece Rat-Wind: West ✓ 3200 Weapon
Stainless Gloves The Rat-Season: Kifer-Caitiff, Skitter-Scatter or Dimmest-Dark ✗ 4000 Gloves
Venge-Rat Waders The False-Season: Autumn ✗ 10000 Boots
St Eligius' Beard Hairs The False-Season: Winter ✗ 10000 Affiliation
False-Star Catalogue The False-Season: Spring ✗ 10000 Weapon
Leviathan-Bone Knife The False-Season: Summer ✓ 10000 Weapon
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