Overview
Learn how to accumulate cubits, earn profit, and create a store, as well as how to invest in items. Learn tips to buying and selling items for good prices. You will need 0 cubits to begin, and if you already have cubits, that’s great!
Collecting Cubits
Daily quests are easy ways to get quick cubits. Completing a daily quest will give you 50 cubits for simply crafting or mining certain items. You receive 1 daily quest a day and can have a max of 3 in your quests. Just like that, you have 50 cubits in your pocket.
Mining
Occasionally, a cubit will pop out of a block that you just mined. This is a very slow way to collect cubits, but if you’re lucky, 100 cubits might pop out instead of just 1. The resources and blocks that you mine can also be sold to other players, but we will discuss this later.
Donations
Do not ask for donations. These ruin the fun of earning cubits yourself. In addition, say you were given 1,000 cubits for free. Because you didn’t go through the process of making profit and learning how to invest, you go ahead and buy a cool looking hat for 500c that can easily be bought for 200c. Then, say you enter a shop and see a bunch of clothes. You buy several items for large prices and lose a lot of cubits in the long run. Believe me, it happens. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen a 5 digit number next to my cubits and started buying things like crazy.
Selling Items
What to Sell First
Now, you probably have a budget of 50 cubits to 100. Your next priority is to get your hands on a cash register. The easiest way to do this is to simply buy one from somebody. If you want to craft it instead, go ahead. Check several places that sell cash registers before you buy one, so that you know your getting a low price.
The first things that you might want to sell are resources. This includes ores (stone, iron, coal, silver, gold), blocks (grass, dirt, sand, water, and maybe a few others that you find in mines), tree trunks, harvest-able items (all berries, cotton, and rubber), and dehydrated cubes.
Where to Sell
There are several options for where you can sell your items.
1. Your own store
2. Realms where other players buy your items
3. A trustworthy rental realm, such as Pen’s Yard Rentals (not owned by me, in case you were wondering)
What Price to Sell For
If your selling resources that you mined yourself and spent 0 cubits on, then the pricing is up to you, since you will make profit on any purchase no matter what. However, check other people’s shops to see what prices they are selling the same items for so that you can get an idea of how much each item is worth.
Here are some basic prices that I have observed as of 4/26/21:
Ores:
Stone: 10/1c – 5/1c
Coal: 15/1c – 10/1c
Iron: 15/1c – 10/c (Sometimes you can sell for 8/1c)
Silver: 10/1c – 5/1c
Gold: 8/1c – 5/1c (Or even 3/1c)
Blocks:
Dirt: 15/1c – 12/1c
Grass: 15/1c – 10/1c
Tropical Grass: 15/1c – 8/1c (This one may be a bit inaccurate)
Sand: 15/1c – 10/1c
Water: 15/1c – 10/1c
Lava: 10/1c – 5/1c
Mountain, Mountain Grass, Mud, Soil, Deep Forest Grass, Things like that: 20/1c – 15/1c (Note that these blocks are very low in demand; not very many people want these.)
Oil: 10/1c – 5/1c
Raw Stone Block: 8/1c – 4/1c
Snow: 10/1c – 8/1c (I’m not too sure)
Ice: 10/1c – 8/1c (Not sure about this either)
Mountain Boulder and Boulder: 6/1c – 4/1c
Ice Boulder: I don’t think anybody buys these at all.
Blue Marble: 2/1c – 1c
White Marble: 2/1c – 1c
Black Marble: 1c – 2c
Trees:
Regular Trunks: 10/1c – 8/1c
Mossy Trunks: Not really worth anything.
Deep Forest Trunks: No clue.
Rubber Trunks: 10/1c – 8/1c (Worth more than regular, though)
Pine Trunks: 10/1c – 8/1c (Higher in demand)
Dead Trunks: 10/1c – 8/1c (Worth more than regular)
Palm Trunks: 10/1c – 8/1c
Almost All Leaf Tops: 20/1c
Stick: 30/1c – 50/1c
Farm-able Items:
Basically all berries: 20/1c – 15/1c
Rubber: 10/1c – 8/1c
Cotton: 10/1c -8/1c
Dehydrated Cubes
Red: 5c – 10c
Purple: 10c – 20c
Blue: 100c – 200c
Green: 500c – 800c
Golden: Unknown, Maybe around 2k…
Diamond: Unknown
Emerald: Unknown
Making a Shop
What You Need
Here’s what you need for a shop:
1. Items to sell
2. A cash register
3. A room/ream (preferably one that is not being used for anything else)
And that’s basically it.
What the Shop Should Look Like
When you are making your shop, be sure to have a flooring that’s not random blocks put together. Don’t scatter your items anywhere in your realm and on the floor. Most higher level players will not be interested in your shop if it looks boring. Do not do this:
Instead, make sure you have a nice floor and have items set up properly and neatly. Something like this would be ideal:
In case you don’t know how to display an item without it vanishing, simply drop the item onto whatever you want to display it on, and place a glass block onto it. The item should then center itself in the glass.
What to Sell
1. Resources
2. Tools
3. Simple clothing items, such as shirts, pants
4. Other wearables once you know how to get good deals
Negotiating
Buying
Get a good idea of how much wearables are worth before you start buying them!
Ask for prices if they are not given. I don’t usually offer a price on an item, because you never know how cheap they are willing to sell for. Don’t be afraid to counter offer. If they throw out a price that’s too high for you, go ahead and offer something less that you are willing to pay for. Don’t be afraid to say no. If you cannot meet the given price, simply say “no thanks” and look for another item to buy.
When you are buying an item, do not give the impression that you really want that item, because the seller knows that if you really want it, they know that you will pay a higher price for it. If you seem uninterested in the item, the seller knows that you won’t pay a high price. Offering for the item lots of times will also give the impression that you really want that item.
Selling
When you are selling items, listing prices is alright. However, you never know how high the potential buyer is willing to pay for a certain item. If you let them offer, they might offer a price higher than you intended.
Pay close attention to whether or not the buyer really wants something or not. If they really want the item, don’t let them get away with a low price. If they are not very interested, don’t be afraid to say no thanks if they offer too low for you.
Conclusion for Both
Don’t be afraid to say no thanks. Make counter offers (but not too many). Stand your ground; if you are not willing to change your price, re-offer that price. They just might give in. Be polite and never call someone “scammer” for offering an outrageous price. Pay attention to whether or not the buyer or seller really wants the item or really wants your cubits.
Investing
Buying Limited Items and Pack Items
Once you have a good amount of cubits saved, investing is a good way to earn lots of cubits in the long run. The idea is that you buy seasonal pack items while they are cheap (which is usually a couple days after they come out) hoping that they will not return to the game again. If they don’t 
Make sure you grab limited time items, such as event items. Some examples would be:
-Monster Mash, Mutant Pets, and Kewberno’s machine parts (2019 Halloween event)
-Viruses and masks (2020 virus event)
-Turkey Berries, Deluxe Hunting Nets (which, by the way, are crafted with turkey berries), Turkey Bolo Hats, and Pumpkin Hats (2020 Fall Cook-off event)
-Amulets/Pendants and Good/Bad relics (2020 Halloween event)
These are the only items that I personally remember because I didn’t join the game back in the early years.
The more you play and watch packs come and go, the better you will be able to predict which items will and won’t return. While this method of cubit making takes a long time, it can be VERY rewarding.
When to Sell Limited Items and Pack Items
The big question; when do I sell? There are two phases of prices rising that I have observed.
Phase 1: The impulse rise; usually before a seasonal pack comes out, people begin buying and selling items that came out the previous year for this specific pack. If most people think that an item won’t return, they will try to buy it for more than what it’s actually worth, which is what I call the impulse rise. I suggest you only sell during the impulse rise if you have multiples of the item you are selling. This is because during phase 2, the item might be worth even more than it was during the impulse rise phase. If you have multiples, then you can sell one during phase 1 and sell one during phase 2.
Phase 2: The true rise; If the item indeed does not return, then the price will continue to rise, and likely will not come back down unless the item returns in a later year. If the item DOES return, then the price will drop significantly. During the true rise, you decide when you want to sell your item. You may sell it years later for tons of cubits, but there is slight risk because the item might still come back later, such as Gingerbread Head did during the 2019 Yuletide pack, which had not returned for a couple years.
Hopefully, you understand all of this, but even if you don’t, this is something you begin to learn over time
Making Profit
How to Make Profit
Now that you know how to buy and sell and where to buy and sell, start with your base of 50-100 cubits and go from there. First, mine some resources and sell them. Say now your budget is 150 cubits. Visit lower-level player shops. You can find some good deals at stores from new players.
Now that you have bought some items, have people come to your own store to sell them, or rent a plot somewhere to sell your items. Write down the prices that you bought certain items (unless you can simply remember them, of course). Then, try to sell your items for higher prices than you bought them. And that’s it! You’ll end up with more cubits than you started with. Continue doing this and investing in higher-priced items to continue growing your cubit amount.
