In New World: Aeternum, the best gold farming methods shift based on your level and server economy. While low-level players should focus on raw materials, end-game players maximize gold through high-end crafting, daily activity bonuses, and market flipping.
This New World Guide will walk you through the best and most effective Gold Farming Methods currently available, from low-effort gathering to endgame Daily High-Income Activities.
Beginner Gold Farming Methods
Resource Gathering
For newcomers to Aeternum, strategic resource gathering provides the most accessible and reliable income source. While the amounts may seem small at first, consistent gathering during your exploration establishes crucial habits and builds your initial capital.
- Priority Resources: Focus on Tier One resources like iron ore, green wood, and hemp. While these may seem common and inexpensive, they maintain constant demand from crafters leveling their skills.
- Efficient Routes: Develop circular routes that pass through dense resource areas like Windsward Route for hemp, or Iron Ore Route. With resources respawning regularly, you can establish efficient loops that maximize your gathering time.
- Luck Optimization: Invest in Lumberjack gear set, to increase your chances of finding rare resources. These rare drops can significantly boost your income from gathering sessions.
Banana Tree Farming
One of the most legendary and consistent farming methods involves a humble fruit: the Banana. Its value isn’t in its nutritional content, but in its role as a key ingredient in crafting high-tier, attribute-boosting meals like the Banana Parfait, which are essential for endgame PvE and PvP. This creates a constant, high demand on the Trading Post.
Maximizing Your Yield:
- Tree Size Matters: Focus on large banana trees, which can drop between 1 and 20+ bananas, whereas small ones typically only yield 1–3.
- Luck Gear & Buffs: While base drops are common, luck helps you maximize your gathering rate. Use a Lumberjack gear set, a logging axe with the Logging Luck perk, with Logging Gathering Trophy, and eat Bear Flank and Cabbage (for more luck).
- Efficiency Boosters: Play a luck-increasing song before you start and use a Proficiency Booster to increase the total number of items gathered per tree.
The Best Spots For Gathering Bananas
A highly efficient and relatively safe route exists in Monarch’s Bluffs just west of the town of Pidwin. You can run along the beach and the surrounding area to find dense clusters of banana trees without facing high-level threats.
Mid-Game Methods
Elite Chests
Once you’ve reached the mid-game, Elite Chest Runs (ECRs) become one of your most valuable daily activities. These organized group events involve clearing dangerous areas to access elite chests that contain valuable crafting materials, gear, and rare items.
- Finding Groups: Watch for recruitment messages in global chat with phrases like “XM Merc” or “XCK,” which indicate players are organizing chest runs in specific areas.
- Valuable Loot: These chests drop high-demand crafting materials like Golden Scarab, which can be sold for substantial profits.
The Best Spot
Brimstone Sands is widely considered the premier zone for Elite Chest Runs (ECRs) because it is the only region where you can find Golden Scarabs. These items are essential for high-end crafting and typically sell for a significant amount on the Trading Post. Every Elite Ancient Chest and Glyph Chest in this zone has a chance to drop a Golden Scarab. You can loot up to 10 per day across the zone.
Endgame Daily High-Income Activities
Daily high-income activities are essential “checklists” that provide consistent gold rewards with relatively low effort. These activities often have daily limits to prevent market inflation, making them a priority for any endgame player.
Random Expedition
Using the Activity Finder (default key K) to queue for random expeditions is one of the most reliable daily gold sources.
- Normal Random Expeditions: Completing these rewards you with an Expedition Bonus Cache. You can earn this bonus up to 3 times per day.
- Base Reward: 750 gold per run for DPS Players.
- Role Bonus: Players who queue and complete the run as a Tank or Healer can earn an additional 1000 gold per cache, totaling up to 3,000+ gold daily from just these three runs.
- Mutated Random Expeditions: These are more difficult versions of normal dungeons and offer even higher rewards. You can earn a Mutator Bonus Cache up to 2 times per day.
- Base Reward: 1,000 gold per run for DPS Players.
- Role Bonus: Tanks or Healers can earn 1500 gold per run.
Faction Missions
Your first three faction missions completed each day provide a 10x gold multiplier.
- Optimization: To maximize this bonus, pick up the highest-level missions possible. Missions in end-game zones like Brimstone Sands, Elysian Wilds, or Shattered Mountain typically offer the highest base gold, which is then multiplied.
- Solo Strategy: Many players prefer quick, soloable PvE missions in Cutlass Keys or elite missions in Ebonscale Reach to finish these quickly.
Daily Crafting
Once your refining trade skills reach level 200 – 250, you can craft powerful, time-gated materials once every 24 hours.
- The Big Four: Asmodeum (Smelting), Prismatic Ingot (Smelting), Phoenixweave (Weaving), and Glittering Ebony (Woodworking).
- Selling Your Cooldown: If you don’t want to farm the materials yourself, then Buy the mats or you can sell your daily limit to other players. They provide the raw materials, you craft the items, and you charge a crafting fee.
Final Thoughts
Consistency is your greatest ally in Aeternum. By integrating daily Random Expeditions and your Refining Cooldowns into your routine, you ensure a baseline of wealth that allows you to take bigger risks with crafting or flipping. Remember that the value of items like Asmodeum or Prismatic Ingot can fluctuate wildly based on your server’s population and current faction wars, so it is always wise to check the Trading Post before committing to a long farming session.