To unlock smithing parts faster, craft the best you can and then break it all down. Don't worry about breaking down weapons that sell for 5k as you'll very quickly learn the parts that will sell for 20 or 30k. As a mercenary, capture lord's that you beat and then give them to a clan members prison. This will get you influence, a ton of charm and relations with the Lord. If you have 7 attributes on social and five skill levels on charm, you can quickly level up charm to be max rank where it gives you 5+ influence per day for free, which means free money for doing nothing. You can also free lords you fight after a battle for charm and relation. Once you're ready to start a kingdom you can go to war with a kingdom of your besties and convert them to your kingdom with your charm, relation and gold. I've been playing since release... I should probably make a video about this stuff ;)
Who sells hardwood? I can turn a single hardwood into 3 charcoal, that I can use to make 60-75k. Selling hardwood for anything under 20k each is a poor investment.
Those rumors pissed me off to a rage quit. I wanted to try a trader build focusing on leveling trade. Was doing kinda decent, found some velvet being sold "cheap" and saw rumors of it having 5x the price on the other side of the place. Made the dangerous journey and the rumored town was buying them for less than I bought them 😢
You can easily smith early game It’s the first thing I do when I start a fresh game. Just make 2 handed swords max out the size of everything and you’ll be able to sell them for about 1k or so after a little bit of running back and forth from the villages for raw materials and smithing you’ll start raking in profit and easy levels
This helped me a lot. Thank you. I was contstantly struggling once i hit close to tier 4 clan and it was time to make a kingdom. I was trying so hard with caravans and workshops, but i couldn't even break even on daily denars when having high tier units in my army which are needed for fighting lords. I was on like my 4th save in a week trying to figure out what i was doing wrong. The smithing method is insanely effective.
really glad this helped! No question it is expensive to have a large amount of high tier units and I struggled with it myself at first. I built my kingdom on the back of smithing and I'm sure you can to!
Loot from merc work isn't bad at all. It's one of the better deals, because it builds renown too and can be done quickly/easily in IRL time if you have some tactics to just win easy fights.
Don’t be a mercenary or vassal and run caravans. They will rarely get attacked… take over rebel towns once you have enough men. Don’t declare a kingdom. Set low budget for garrison wages… I’m at 20million right now
I disagree with what you are saying about mercenary work as it is actually a very good source of infinite income if you pick your battles wisely, as if you have a ton of horses and max troops in your party your inventory space is huge and you can carry a ton of prisoners meaning you can ransom lords for huge profits as well as selling all the enemy's loot for huge free profits.
What he meant was probably that the mercenary salary for itself is nothing to write home about, but you are right, becoming a mercenary in the early game enables you to fight lords parties who are hostile to that kingdom (or raid caravans of hostile kingdoms if you are quick enough to catch them) without getting a criminal rating and you can make a huge income from the loot that defeated parties drop and from the prisoners you sell. Those parties drop much better loot than meager bandit parties. The steady mercenary payment from the influcence you gather is just a bonus.
Ive found this to be too tedious recently, too slow, horses dont re-spawn fast enough, and Vlandia doesnt seem to use the horses you sell fast enough to make the travel cost worth it anymore
Market saturation is a thing in this game even though there are almost no hints to it and no in-game explanations. Try buying out other breweries in the region and converting them and/or manipulate the market by purchasing all the beer in the region to create scarcity. On the flip side keeping grain as cheap as possible in the city you produce beer in will help with profits. Kinda dumb imo wish they were mostly reliable passive income that you could game to make higher profits if you wanted, but it makes workshops more "engaging" I guess.
thats rough, i was there myself on my first couple playthroughs, spent more time in prison then playing the game, i just restarted a few times till i got the hang of it
smithing is all fun and games and you say we can make 80k in 30secs of work, but you fail to mention the dozens of hours and 100k of investment you have to make in order to unlock every smithing part...
Smithing midgame lol you can just start off do a few tournaments and then focus on smithing before you start smithing get a wife and your brother a wife and have them with you its super ez then after smithing is high make some money you can ez make something worth 30-40k a piece then just level up your trading to max you can again ez do this in 30minutes and boom you can buy fiefs
To unlock smithing parts faster, craft the best you can and then break it all down. Don't worry about breaking down weapons that sell for 5k as you'll very quickly learn the parts that will sell for 20 or 30k.
As a mercenary, capture lord's that you beat and then give them to a clan members prison. This will get you influence, a ton of charm and relations with the Lord. If you have 7 attributes on social and five skill levels on charm, you can quickly level up charm to be max rank where it gives you 5+ influence per day for free, which means free money for doing nothing. You can also free lords you fight after a battle for charm and relation. Once you're ready to start a kingdom you can go to war with a kingdom of your besties and convert them to your kingdom with your charm, relation and gold.
I've been playing since release... I should probably make a video about this stuff ;)
This is really amazing information, i am sure you have enough knowledge to make many videos!
tried and tested and by FAR the best method to learn new parts
Hardwood: "can be sold at Ceona for 30 denars" bro these rumors ain't loyal
Who sells hardwood? I can turn a single hardwood into 3 charcoal, that I can use to make 60-75k. Selling hardwood for anything under 20k each is a poor investment.
I didn't realize the rumors were bullshit and I lost pretty kuch everything before I realized lol
@@DukeAugustine Gee idk maybe new people. You know the people that would be Watchung a video like this 🙄
Those rumors pissed me off to a rage quit. I wanted to try a trader build focusing on leveling trade. Was doing kinda decent, found some velvet being sold "cheap" and saw rumors of it having 5x the price on the other side of the place. Made the dangerous journey and the rumored town was buying them for less than I bought them 😢
Had jewelery apparently worth 980. Got there and it was worth 400. Rumours made but theyre false
This game is so awesomely complex I fucking love it. It’s the game I didn’t know I needed this whole time.
it really is amazing that way, hundreds of hours in and I am still finding new mechanics and quirks, it's awesome!
You can easily smith early game It’s the first thing I do when I start a fresh game. Just make 2 handed swords max out the size of everything and you’ll be able to sell them for about 1k or so after a little bit of running back and forth from the villages for raw materials and smithing you’ll start raking in profit and easy levels
I’m new to the game and I still don’t really know what to do and I don’t understand exactly how to get materials for smithing
This helped me a lot. Thank you. I was contstantly struggling once i hit close to tier 4 clan and it was time to make a kingdom. I was trying so hard with caravans and workshops, but i couldn't even break even on daily denars when having high tier units in my army which are needed for fighting lords. I was on like my 4th save in a week trying to figure out what i was doing wrong. The smithing method is insanely effective.
really glad this helped! No question it is expensive to have a large amount of high tier units and I struggled with it myself at first. I built my kingdom on the back of smithing and I'm sure you can to!
Great explanation of the workshop thing. I've struggled with what to choose when it comes to this
Tbh this has probably been the most helpful guide I've seen outta a good bit. Simply put and very educational. Thank you, good vid ❤
Thank you for the kind comment!
This is the best and simple video I've watched, not 20 minutes of mumbling where I can't understand shit.
War. War is money
no doubt about it
Great guide! Perfect for those new players like me to avoid excessive grind. Thanks a lot buddy. Subbed
Selling charcoal post efficient charcoal perk has been achieved is amazing
You saved my entire week or more! Thank you brother ☺️
happy to help!!
Damn kinda regret not bothering with smithing I’m like clan level 5 and didn’t even touch it
it is never to late to start! My first playthrough I did not bother with it and it made the end game a bit rougher.
How do I get charcoal tho it’s a hard resource to find.
@@flipflop2221 craft it in the forge, you need wood
Loot from merc work isn't bad at all. It's one of the better deals, because it builds renown too and can be done quickly/easily in IRL time if you have some tactics to just win easy fights.
Yeah i have had a couple of people tell me this, great advice! I need to do another playthrough to check it out again!
For me in early game, the best option is mercenary. Easy to win money and stuff with a lot of battle.
Don’t be a mercenary or vassal and run caravans. They will rarely get attacked… take over rebel towns once you have enough men. Don’t declare a kingdom. Set low budget for garrison wages… I’m at 20million right now
This channel is a gem 💎 i subscribed, much love from Italy
thank you so much for the kind comment! Much love
Man when i saw the thumbnail i thought is was Evan from Evan and Katelyn for a second: Thanks for the tips and tricks
I can see the resemblance and take it as a huge complement to be compared to such as successful channel, thank you!
I disagree with what you are saying about mercenary work as it is actually a very good source of infinite income if you pick your battles wisely, as if you have a ton of horses and max troops in your party your inventory space is huge and you can carry a ton of prisoners meaning you can ransom lords for huge profits as well as selling all the enemy's loot for huge free profits.
War is profitable in this game
What he meant was probably that the mercenary salary for itself is nothing to write home about, but you are right, becoming a mercenary in the early game enables you to fight lords parties who are hostile to that kingdom (or raid caravans of hostile kingdoms if you are quick enough to catch them) without getting a criminal rating and you can make a huge income from the loot that defeated parties drop and from the prisoners you sell. Those parties drop much better loot than meager bandit parties. The steady mercenary payment from the influcence you gather is just a bonus.
Quality video. Nice work
thank you, I appreciate the kind comment!
u can make hella money at lvl 1 just crafting. it is ALWAYS a profit.
Thanks very nicely done!
thank you for the nice comment!
I’ve just done the laziest approach and just got like a caravan and a workshop and took a sleep for like a day
Trade horses, that gives a lot of money too
Ive found this to be too tedious recently, too slow, horses dont re-spawn fast enough, and Vlandia doesnt seem to use the horses you sell fast enough to make the travel cost worth it anymore
I made a brewery with a grain village next to the town and I am only making 60 a week from it. Is this normal?
Market saturation is a thing in this game even though there are almost no hints to it and no in-game explanations. Try buying out other breweries in the region and converting them and/or manipulate the market by purchasing all the beer in the region to create scarcity. On the flip side keeping grain as cheap as possible in the city you produce beer in will help with profits. Kinda dumb imo wish they were mostly reliable passive income that you could game to make higher profits if you wanted, but it makes workshops more "engaging" I guess.
@@TheSmrtAlec great explanation
I keep getting my ass kicked. I have no troops. 15 denairs I'm only level 3
thats rough, i was there myself on my first couple playthroughs, spent more time in prison then playing the game, i just restarted a few times till i got the hang of it
HELP WHAT DO I DO IM LOSING 9k A DAY PLEASE TIPS FOR MAKING MONEY WHEN HAVING A BROKE NEW KINGDOM IM TRADING AND SMITHING BUT ITS NOT ENOUGH😭
How do I get the green and orange prices?
Whats that leather armor your wearing and is it any good?
how to make money in banner lord:
step 1: play the game
Run caravans OR become a mercenary)
smithing is all fun and games and you say we can make 80k in 30secs of work, but you fail to mention the dozens of hours and 100k of investment you have to make in order to unlock every smithing part...
Never use smithing. Don’t understand its use.
I'm losing 5600+ !😞
I’m on 300th day in my campaign and I’m barely making it through the daily wages 😂😢
Smithing midgame lol you can just start off do a few tournaments and then focus on smithing before you start smithing get a wife and your brother a wife and have them with you its super ez then after smithing is high make some money you can ez make something worth 30-40k a piece then just level up your trading to max you can again ez do this in 30minutes and boom you can buy fiefs
Easy*
Im over here with more Denars than this dude and I'm just playing the game without guides...
Outside of smithing, what's the best way to make money in Bannerlord?
Just smith 2hspear 🤦♂️