This is just a quick guide to recommend you some ways to make quick money.


I recommend doing the poison route. From my testing (with my stopwatch :D) it's the fastest in terms of effort/profit.
Gunpowder is the most profitable but you need a lot of base gold already and the menure collecing is annoying.
Bread and Crab Soup I can't recommend because it's not enough profit for bread and crab soups takes too long.
Charcoal route is about equal to Poison and the steps are really easy. You also only need to venture 2 maps that are right next to eachother.

So do Charcoal or Poison, you can start doing those in the first 30 minutes of the game and ramp up enough gold to get you through the game smoothly.