Money is important even in the plague-stricken lands of Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon. Gold is the main form of currency here, unless you're constantly doing quests or other menial tasks, you'll likely find yourself broke more often than not.
Gold is used for both purchasing and upgrading gear in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon, and both can be pretty expensive. Luckily, there's a way to literally cheese your way from rags to riches, and all it takes is a bit of effort and a lot of patience.
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Best Way to Get Gold in Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
As far as the early game is concerned, the best way to get Gold is to sell food. You can do this the old-fashioned way of buying for less and selling for more, or you can do the cheese method if you're building your character as any sort of mage.
Before starting, make sure you have points in Practicality and that you have maxed out the Mercantile Skills, Side Dish Mastery, and Reusable Resources skills under the Practicality → Crafting & Trading skill tree.
To make money early, visit the kitchen in the Horns of the South Keep, and buy every ingredient sold by the cook there. In order to make him sell stuff to you, make sure to tell him that you want to learn how to cook.
With ingredients in tow, head for the campfire outside and interact with it. From here, you can do two things:
- Cook as much food using recipes you already know
- Throw random ingredients together and hope for the best
The fastest way to make meals is to just use random ingredients to make random food. You'll likely end up with Undercooked Food most of the time, but you may also end up with proper meals that you don't have the recipe for. By doing the latter, you permanently unlock the recipe for whatever you just cooked. After cooking, sell everything you made back to the kitchen for a decent profit.
The Cheese Method
This method has a number of requirements, and you'll need either a level 20+ character that's specced into Spirituality and Practicality, or a level 10+ character with a lot of Origin Potions to burn through. Either way, players will need points in Practicality in order to make this method profitable.
First, you'll need Rumpolt's Revenge, a spell that turns targets into cheese. You can get it by doing Orlaith's questline. She'll be at her stall near the Horns' front gate during daytime. Finish her quests, and you'll find yourself in the dungeon underneath the Ruined Broch, where you can find Rumpolt. Finish his quest, and you'll get the spell.
Next, you'll need a minion summoning spell. Rumpolt's Revenge works on friendly units, and that means you can turn any summoned creature into cuts of cheese. There are two summoning spells in Act 1 that work perfectly for this:
- Wolf's Call can be found in the Miner's Tunnels northeast of the Blood Lake. Inside the mine, look for a hole leading to an underground lake. Swim to the other side, and search the area for a crate containing the spell.
- Skeleton Army is dropped by the Necromancer in the Ancient Crypt.
Lastly, you will need a fair bit of mana for this work. It takes approximately eight seconds' worth of continuous channeling to turn a wolf from Wolf's Call into cheese, so depending on how much Spirituality you have, you'll need at least 80 mana plus 10-20 to account for the mana used to summon and maintain minions.
Once you have all the requirements, just summon a minion and turn it into cheese. You'll get about a dozen pieces of cheese for each minion sacrificed this way. You can either sell the cheese as-is for roughly 3 Gold per piece, or you can cook them into Cheese Balls of Doom, which can sell for anywhere between 19-40 Gold per piece depending on your Practicality stat and the quality of the cheese itself.
This method is a little time-consuming, but it's much more consistent compared to simply selling random food. Plus, you don't need any capital for it to work, since you won't need to buy any ingredients in the first place.
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
- Released
- May 23, 2025
WHERE TO PLAY
- ESRB
- Mature 17+ // Blood and Gore, Intense Violence, Language, Use of Drugs
- Developer(s)
- Questline
- Publisher(s)
- Awaken Realms
- Engine
- Unity
- Number of Players
- Single-player
- Steam Deck Compatibility
- Verified
- Early Access Release
- March 30, 2023
- PC Release Date
- May 23, 2025
- Xbox Series X|S Release Date
- May 23, 2025
- PS5 Release Date
- March 25, 2025
- Genre(s)
- Action, RPG, Open-World, Survival Horror
- Platform(s)
- PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, Xbox Series S, PC
- OpenCritic Rating
- Strong
- How Long To Beat
- ~50 hours
- X|S Optimized
- Yes
- File Size Xbox Series
- 33.66 GB
