Guide talk:Making money

Gel is actually one of the only thing you can have unlimited amount of in Terraria, not the opposite. --The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.220.110.243 (talk).

You can have unlimited wood and mushrooms as well. I just meant that you can't really farm them, barring magma traps and suchlike. -Cromage 23:37, 11 June 2011 (UTC)

New Layout
The old layout for the selling guide seemed rather slapdash, so I thought I'd try this one out and see what people think. The new layout features different sections on what to buy, what to sell, etc, touching on inventory management and narrowing down to specific farming strategies at the end with profit analyses for each. Pictures would make it better, so anyone out there with some illustrative screenshots should chip in. MasterShizzle 07:47, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

General Tips
Is it really better to sell things you don't have a use for right now? You can simply craft more chests to hold excess items. Games in which this advice is good generally do not give the player any way to increase the limited available storage space, and/or have a lot of class-specific items which other types of characters will never be able to use. Most of the raw items obtained in Terraria have some kind of use (unless we're talking about duplicates of unique items like the Magic Mirror), while most of the decorative ones have to be actively created by the player. - Spinfx 00:26, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * If you're trying to collect one of each item in the game, that's a separate goal than wanting to make a lot of coins. And since you're reading a guide on how to effectively sell items I'd assume that's the goal the player in question has in mind. After all, what can you use that many raw materials for?
 * Yeah, I guess I had starting players in mind, who don't have much stockpiled yet. I suppose if you already have the best armor and items there's no need to keep the raw materials. - Spinfx 03:29, 19 July 2011 (UTC)