How to love gooooooold

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I kinda like gold, but I don't know if I can love gold. This is one of the new Crypt of the Necrodancer achievements:

I love gooooooold!

Have 6000 coins in a single run

Is there a roughly general strategy you can use to get this achievement?

  • Should I go for a golden longsword in health shops and a ring of war or a regular weapon and a gold ring?
  • Do I want a shrine of war for more enemies or a shrine of rhythm for a bigger multiplier?
  • Are there other gold-affecting items I should be aware of?

Best Answer

  • Get a gold weapon (preferably the longsword) from one of a blood shop (they're pretty common in 1-1). According to the wiki, what they do is drop 1-3 extra coins per monster, although I had the feeling that they would increase gold drops by significantly more than that. The gold longsword does costs 1.5 hearts to buy (leaving you with half), but it's a perfectly reasonable and reliable weapon to win the game with.
  • The ring of war increases your damage, your knockback and the amount of enemies spawned in future floors. More enemies means more gold.
  • The ring of shadows lets you get items from all shops for free. That can be very helpful early on.
  • The crown of greed doubles all gold pickups, but you lose 1¢ per turn. You can get it by killing the shopkeeper, which is easier said than done. As a side effect, this kills the shopkeeper on all floors, which means shops will be empty.
  • Ballet shoes mean you will only lose your coin multiplier when you take damage.
  • If you can find a green scroll of need and you have precisely 0¢, you'll get 500 for free.
  • The yellow scroll is easier to take advantage of: use it when your coin multiplier is 3 to get 150¢.
  • If you have an obsidian shovel, get a coin multiplier of 3 and use a purple scroll in the neighbourhood of a shop. While gigantism persists, you can dig down gold walls for 10¢ apiece.
  • Even just a regular pickaxe, however, leaves you with lots of leftover bombs. Use bombs on the inner corners of shops for 50¢ a pop. That makes transmogrifying your basic shovel easily worth the price.
  • The shrine of war makes all enemies in future floors into their hardest variants (e.g. all skeletons will be black and all bats red). Harder enemies means more gold (but those black riding skeletons are quite annoying to deal with).
  • Arena runes (the black ones) give you two more minibosses to defeat, with the associated gold.
  • Wait for zone 4 to be released. So far it seems like you really have to get the crown of greed to get above 6,000¢ by the end of zone 3. When Zone 4 will be released, you can probably reach that milestone by simply using a gold weapon, killing all enemies and a ring of war.
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