Idle Clans Money Making Guide

Crafting for profit: inputs bought, output sold

These recipes make money even when you buy every input at the cheapest sell offer and list the output at the current lowest ask, after the 1% tax the player market takes from sell offers. Only outputs that traded at least 100 units over the last 7 days are listed, so each row has buyers behind it.

"Profit/hr, base" repeats the craft at the published action time with no tools, upgrades or potions. "Profit/hr, capped" limits that to the output units the market traded over 7 days divided by the 168 hours in the window; orange means demand runs out before your crafting speed does. If you gather the inputs yourself, you keep the full "sells for" figure, and the input cost is what those materials would have fetched on their own. Every recipe, including the losing ones, is in the crafting profit calculator.

Crafts that lose gold at today's prices

These outputs sell for less than their inputs cost. They still train the skill, but crafting them to sell turns good materials into less gold. Sell the inputs instead, or make these only from materials you gathered for the XP.

Gathering: gold per hour with nothing to buy

Gathering needs no starting gold, which makes it the first money maker for a new account and the steady one for an idle account. The capped column prices the smaller of what you can gather and what the market bought per hour over the last 7 days.

This table shows gross output value at the current lowest sell offer, before the 1% market tax. Gathering tasks consume no inputs, so there is nothing else to subtract. Rates are base action times with no boosts.

Flipping: the widest gaps with volume behind them

The gap is the distance between the best standing buy offer and the cheapest standing sell offer, before the 1% tax on your sale. Only items that moved at least 1,000 units over the 7-day window are listed; on a thin book two stale offers can sit 30x apart and never fill. The last column multiplies the gap by the item's hourly trade rate. That is a ceiling that assumes you sit on both sides of every trade, so use it to rank, not to forecast.

How to work a flip

Place a buy order just above the highest standing buy and a sell order just below the lowest standing sell, then wait for both to fill. Buy offers pay no tax, so the tax only comes out of the sale. Check the trend first: an item that fell all week fills your buy order fast and leaves you holding it. The 7-day movers board shows which way each item has gone, and each item page has its own price series.

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