Gold and Falling Everything: Printing Money in Early Game Noita

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When playing Noita, few things in the early game suck harder than the moment you’re forced to choose: do you reroll for a better perk, or grab that wand with the workable stats, or the one with juicy spells? The reason you can’t do it all? Not enough gold.

Sure, you could grind through each biome, blasting enemies one by one until you've hoarded enough coin for whatever fresh freemium blessings await in the next Holy Mountain... but usually, it’s the enemies grinding you, and you end up limping to the Holy Mountain for your next fix... sorry, full health refill.

But there’s a faster way to collect coin. "Cleaner" ethically. More violent.

A much quicker way to accumulate gold is by performing "trick kills" on enemies which rewards Mina with double the gold per kill. Now trick here simply means the enemies dies of damage that's not directly from Mina's projectiles (There are exceptions eg summon rock).

Environmental damage like explosives and toxic substances all around the biomes and the fires Mina constantly starts are all trick kills if they deal the final blow to the enemy. Actually, a good number of enemies will not attack at all when they are on fire so that's a plus and the Hiisi are collectively alergic to toxic sludge.

The best and most reliable evironmental damage is impact damage, yeet any physics object at an enemy and watch their health melt away like they weren't just soaking in your projectiles like a sponge just a moment ago (I'm looking at you Steve).

The first biome has an emerald tablet perfect for these purposes, yeet it at everyone in the first biome and you are twice as rich. The tablet can be a little moody about whether it counts as a projectile or a physics object, but when it works, you’re basically mugging the Mines. The tablet is convinient because it can be picked up by Mina making aiming easy as compared to most of the other physics objects not tied to the ground that Mina can only kick around.

But even if it's tied to the ground, or is the ground, you can always change that. The ice in the Snowy Depths that you can drop on enemies is the perfect example. You can however always drop any terrain on your enemies using the Earthquake spells, careful with those, otherwise go drop a few tons of ceiling on your problems. Just remember; trick kills are not just about sadism, they're economics.

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You can read more about the various damage types here on The Wiki.
Most ways to perform trick kills are viable for the pacifist achievenent run, if you are interested in adding challenge to bring out your A game on trick kills then click here to check that out on The Wiki.