Welcome to Elderfield Shops and Money Guide

Last updated: 2026-09-26 · 13 min read

Almost everything in Elderfield is priced off one number, and once you know it you can read any counter in the game from a single glance at the shelf. The trap is the other direction: selling is the slowest way to turn a harvest into gold, and the game hides its best buyer behind a weekend schedule it never announces. This page lists every vendor, what each one charges and pays, and the order in which the money loops actually pay out.

The One Economy Rule

Look down any price list in the game and the same ratio appears. A shop's buy-back price is half its sale price, rounded down where the number does not divide cleanly.

Two rules fall straight out of that table. First, anything you would have to buy back later costs you double to correct, so do not sell materials a recipe is going to ask for — the Copper and Iron bars you dump at 30g and 40g come back at twice that. Second, the shop counter is the floor price of price of everything you own, not the market price. Elderfield has exactly one buyer who beats it, and he only works weekends — no shop in the game will do better for you.

Shop Directory by Area

Every shop in Elderfield, grouped by where you will find it.

Town Shops

The General Store is the one shop in town you should visit before you need it. The Extra Pouch is 50g for a permanent inventory slot and there are only five in stock, and the Shovel is the only way to dig up buried treasure at all. Nothing in this section rotates: these six shops keep the same stock every day, and the only seasonal one among them is the Decoration Shop.

The Decoration Shop is the easiest shop in the game to miss, because it is seasonal rather than permanent: it stocks Halloween decorations on Wednesdays and a separate Harvest Festival set during the festival. If you have been looking for a way to spend gold on the house and found nothing, the stock had already rotated out. It is the one shop in town that will not sell you its full list on demand.

FIG. 01 — A roadside stall with a SEEDS sign. Several of the game's vendors work a rotation rather than a fixed shopfront, so the stock you want is often not there on the day you look.

Outskirts and Farm Shops

The Forge Shop's Coal is priced the same as everywhere else at 20g, which matters more than it looks: every bar you smelt burns Coal, so the Forge Shop is quietly the most expensive shop in the game for anyone running a furnace. Old Man Crawford is the other half of the early game — he sells the 2g tools that make farming possible and the Cleansing Balm that clears Ghost Tentacles off your land. The Seed Shop and the Forge Shop are the two you will walk past most often, and between them they cover every material a young farm needs.

Ranch Shops and Buildings

The Ranch is where gold turns into gold, and the Ranch Shop and the Construction Shop are the only shops that sell you daily income rather than supplies. The Basic Coop at 500g is the cheapest building that produces something every single day, and a Giant Crow lays an egg daily as long as it is fed and it is not raining. The Barn chain doubles the entry price and takes longer to mature, which is why the Coop is the usual first build.

Note the shape of the house upgrades: size 1 costs 3,000g and unlocks the Juicer, size 2 costs 10,000g and unlocks the Tinker's Desk, and the Farm Basement costs another 10,000g and unlocks Casks. Those are the gates that turn raw produce into aged, processed goods, so they pay for themselves out of the money loops below rather than out of savings.

The Mall Pair

The two cheapest shop purchases in the Mall are also the two easiest to walk past. The 25g Toy Heart is 25g of nothing in particular. Every tome on that list is a permanent unlock — a skill or ritual you keep — so a 100g Torrent of Darkness is a better purchase than almost anything else in the building.

The Garbage Man

The Garbage Man is the cheapest supplier of processed metal in the game and the only shop that sells a finished bar, and he restocks only occasionally, on Mondays and Thursdays. His Coal comes in stacks of ten, and his bars are the only place you can buy one without touching a furnace.

Read those bar prices against what a bar is worth at any other counter and the point lands: 60g for a Copper Bar, 80g for an Iron Bar and 120g for a Gold Bar, all without spending a single piece of Coal. If you need metal for a recipe and you do not want to run a furnace, this is the counter. A Gold Bar works out cheaper here than buying Gold Ore and paying five Coal to smelt it.

Old Woods and the Catacombs

The Skeleton Merchant is the most expensive till in the game and the only one that is not optional. The three tools on his list — Small Hammer, Large Hammer, Wire Cutters — are what open the Catacombs doors, bone piles and metal grates, and at 1,500g, 2,500g and 3,500g they are the reason a Catacombs run needs planning rather than pocket money.

What Actually Makes Money

Four loops, in the order they pay. None of the four needs a shop at all, which is the point — the ranking is not an opinion about which is fun, it is about how many gold each one returns per unit of time you have to be awake for. The shop counter is the floor of what your work is worth; the weekend is the ceiling.

Two calendar events sit on top of those loops and both are easy to miss. The Travelling Merchant is the weekend buyer described above. The Tax Man is the opposite transaction: he comes to your farm every two weeks to collect what you owe, so a windfall you spend instantly is a tax bill you cannot pay.

FIG. 02 — The game is blunt about it: "I have returned, to collect my due." The Tax Man visits every two weeks, and the money is not optional.

What to Spend On First

Early gold has an obvious order. The Basic Pickaxe at 150g comes first because it opens the Mall Mines and the ore inside them. The Extra Pouch at 50g comes almost as early — five permanent inventory slots for less than the price of a Pizza is the best ratio in any shop. After that, the Basic Coop at 500g is the first purchase that pays you back every morning.

The things to leave alone until later are the decorative ones. Pet Shop animals at 500g and 1,000g cannot be sold back at any price, the Odd Merchant's furniture is pure decoration, and the Nursery's tree seeds start at 1,400g and take 28 days to grow before they produce anything. None of them are traps — they are just not where a young farm's gold should go.

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