Conch Coins

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Original Name:海螺币 (hǎi luó bì)Gender:NeutralKind:ItemScope:Novel-specificStatus:ActiveSource:AIOccurrences:693Chapters:277
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Feature Details
Name Conch Coins
Original Name 海螺币
Type Currency used in the sailing survival game and by indigenous merchants and communities 1 7 10 328 372 862
Uses Player and indigenous trading, additional World Channel messages, laboratory equipment and construction, information purchases, language learning, fleet registration and expansion, equipment repairs, and institutional funding 1 10 33 42 235 328 339 459 658 1011
Forms Physical coins and digital account balances; coins can be deposited into or withdrawn from system accounts 255 362 495
First Appearance Mentioned in the World Channel payment rules 1
First Obtained by Yang Yi 100 coins from a waterlogged chest 4

Appearance

  • Front: Stamped with a conch 4.
  • Back: Bears a cartoon octopus head 4.
  • Condition: Yang Yi’s first batch consists of corroded coins found inside a waterlogged chest 4.
  • Physical storage: Coins can be carried in ordinary containers or spatial storage items. Indigenous ships contain jars of coins, while Cui Xiya keeps part of her savings physically in her Money Bag 255 372.

Uses

Trading and Transfers

  • Coins can purchase goods outright or form part of a mixed offer alongside equipment, resources, food, and water. Yang Yi includes 400 coins in his first Holy Water trade 10.
  • Payments can be credited directly to a player’s account, and players can transfer coins to one another through the Sailing Log 34 41.
  • Before remote trading becomes available, players report that exchanges require meeting in person 7.
  • Physical coins collected as loot can be digitized and credited to an account. Conversely, Yang Yi can withdraw exact amounts from his system account as physical coins 255 495.
  • Indigenous merchants also accept Conch Coins. Yang Yi pays Old Dad 27,180,800 coins as a physical pile, which the merchant inspects before collecting 332.
  • After obtaining the system, Cui Xiya gains digital coin storage and withdrawal despite remaining unable to use player trading, the forums, or the World Chat Channel 362.
  • Coin transfers are also used for rewards and loot distribution. Yang Yi gives Cui Xiya 10,000 coins for useful pictures, later rewards her with 5,000 coins after battle, and transfers 1.7 million coins to Su Na from the Cook Island haul 362 372 388.

World Channel Messages

  • Each player receives ten World Channel messages per day without charge 1.
  • Every additional message costs 100 Conch Coins 1.

Laboratory Equipment

  • Su Na’s Occultism interface accepts Conch Coins for laboratory equipment and occultism research 33.
  • Available purchases are largely restricted to experimental equipment and medical tools. Larger, more complicated tools cost more 41.
  • After receiving funds from Yang Yi, Su Na purchases a modern blood-drawing kit through her log 41.
  • Coins also finance specialized research infrastructure, including a Temperature Gauge and a furnace and molds for processing the Crystal Giant’s remains 121.
  • The Exceptional-quality Witch’s Treasure Bag can provide tools and assemble a temporary Test Bench outside the laboratory. These tools consume money and disappear after twenty-four hours 388.
  • A later Witch Laboratory upgrade allows the Witch to design its greatly expanded interior and spend Conch Coins on construction within its independent space 1011.

Information Services

  • The Great Newspaper sells its weekly publication for coins and pays contributors for useful maritime intelligence 42 43.
  • Monster-information submissions require relevant loot or corpse information as proof. The newspaper quotes a minimum reward of 200 coins, with higher payments for more detailed information and no stated upper limit 43.
  • Information can also be sold directly to other players. Yang Yi sells Song Yingwen the Extreme Winter Sea exit coordinates for 50,000 coins 121.
  • The newspaper’s later services include native-faction intelligence and maps. Following the major system update, it announces a publication pause and a tentative increase to 1,100 coins per issue because of transaction fees; recipients must also pay the system’s 1,000-coin transaction fee. VIP customers remain exempt from the publication charge but not the system fee 242.
  • Valuable reference material can be sold for its informational utility. Yang Yi receives 20,000 coins from the Great Newspaper for the Fishman Language dictionary, which permits free language learning and is absent from the Electronic Library 375.

Language Learning

  • After the system identifies certain scripts, the activity log offers paid language-learning options. Learning the ghoul language and the abyss language each costs 1,000 coins 339.
  • During the same visit to Old Dad’s library, Yang Yi learns the ghoul, abyss, fishman, and ancient Ilian languages 339.

Fleet Registration and Expansion

  • Following the major version update, establishing a fleet costs 100,000 coins and initially permits 1,000 members 235.
  • Each additional block of 1,000 member slots costs another 100,000 coins 235.

Equipment Repairs

  • The Greedy Craftsman’s Hammer accepts Conch Coins to channel its craftsman’s soul into the wielder and repair items of Exceptional quality or lower, subject to its seventy-two-hour cooldown and material requirements 459.
  • Larger payments make the craftsman work harder and may even improve an item’s quality, although the stated risks include turning treasures into relics, destroying an item, or reducing its quality 459.
  • Yang Yi’s initial arrangement with Grand Craftsman Banks costs five million coins. The hammer consumes the physical coins, and Banks’s soul body expands from a head into a complete, burly figure 495.
  • Coins do not guarantee Banks’s cooperation. During the second repair attempt, he refuses both the money and the work, later offering free repairs if Yang Yi can find him a body that Soulfire cannot burn 514.
  • Yang Yi subsequently arranges a paid equipment repair for another player at 5.5 million coins, using repairs as a commercial service 579.

Merchant Deposits and Service Fees

  • Old Dad requires a 100,000-coin trading deposit at the location Yang Yi visits. If purchases do not reach that amount, the deposit is not refunded. Old Dad explains that the previously reported 10,000-coin deposit applies to the special-price zone 328.
  • The One-Eye Commerce Guild’s Treasure Ship costs 10 million coins to repurchase from the guild president if destroyed 850.
  • Aboard his Treasure Ship, Yang Yi charges visitors for facilities and passage. During the confrontation with the Ice Nest Elders, the Wealth-and-Fortune Staircase reaches 100,000 coins per step, later escalating to one million per step 859 860.
  • Cui Xiya also posts signs demanding a one-billion-coin heating-service fee during this confrontation; these extraordinary charges are part of the crew’s treatment of that particular group, rather than ordinary market rates 858 859.

Organizational Funding

  • Conch Coins support religious and commercial organizations as well as individual purchases. The One-Eye Cult initially collects an annual membership fee of 2,500 coins from indigenous followers 657.
  • After Steam Island’s salvage operations, Yang Yi and the Iron Brotherhood place the proceeds in a public account for island development, including supplies, a commercial district, and improved defenses 647.
  • Yang Yi provides the financially troubled One-Eye Cult with one billion coins in exchange for shifting its focus to Steam Island and supplying personnel to maintain order and operate the Commercial District 658.
  • On a later visit, Yang Yi transfers four billion coins from Steam Island’s corporate account before attending to the island’s shops and construction 777.

Acquisition

Source Documented Yield Details
Waterlogged chest 100 coins Found after Yang Yi kills the Human-Head Octopus hiding inside 4.
Defeated player 400 coins Collected from the pirate’s loot orb; Yang Yi suspects these were the coins the man had carried 9.
Monster Gacha Machine 200 coins in one reward Obtained during the Demon Hammerhead Shark draws 23.
Sale of valuable goods 5,000 coins, alongside other goods Included in Shen Guanquan’s payment for the Pirate Ship Blueprint 34.
Chest Clam 600 coins Retrieved from a clam that collects shiny objects from the seabed 35.
Fishing 650 coins over a gathering period Listed among Yang Yi’s catches alongside resources and fresh water 36.
Sale of intelligence 800 coins Paid by the Great Newspaper for Demon Hammerhead Shark information 43.
Repeated monster gacha draws 100 coins total Part of the payout from adult Tinder Wool Spider corpses 49.
Newspaper payment 400 coins Yang Yi receives the payment after buying a newspaper, effectively recovering its price and gaining another 300 coins 57.
Equipment sales 46,200 coins total Proceeds from repaired armor and assorted weapons and medical equipment; his balance reaches 57,500 coins 82.
Gacha reward 200 coins A later Gacha converts directly into coins credited to Yang Yi’s account 89.
Sale of monster intelligence 30,000 coins Payment for information on Ice Nest Believers, an Ice Nest Elder, and the Crystal Giant 121.
Sale of exit coordinates 50,000 coins Song Yingwen buys the Extreme Winter Sea exit coordinates 121.
Bulk timber sales 250,000 coins Two transactions sell 10,000 units of timber to the Iron Will 127.
Sea-salt sales 750,000 coins Earned by selling fifteen tons harvested from the Rotting Whale 158.
Indigenous ship loot 8,952 coins credited Coins taken from nine earthenware jars are digitized into Yang Yi’s account 255.
Looted bag 3,327 coins Found alongside weapons, food, water, Light Containers, and assorted limbs 275.
Shop and equipment sales 980,000 coins in one trading session Includes 20,000 coins for the Fishman Language dictionary; further sales and ship dismantling raise Yang Yi’s balance to 4,782,787 over the following three days 375.
Cook Island village chief’s valuables Over 2.7 million coins Discovered in spatial storage bags in the chief’s concealed storeroom 387 388.
Blind-box reward One brand-new coin A minor reward among Yang Yi’s hundred blind-box draws 644.
Combat Robot Gacha sales 77 million coins Shen Guanquan buys all seventy-seven at one million coins each; combined with other sales, Yang Yi’s receipts soon exceed 150 million 647.
Steam Island salvage and sales 1,157,279,012 coins in net earnings After three days of clearing and processing wreckage, Yang Yi and the Iron Brotherhood agree to a 60–40 split and deposit the proceeds into a public development account 647.
Ice Nest Elder’s possessions Tens of millions of coins Spill out with a Golden Commerce Guild VIP card after Yang Yi kills an elder who refuses the staircase toll 859.
Public discussion and influence Nearly one billion coins A discussion of Mythic-level advancement, together with the influence from destroying the Goddess Statue, earns Yang Yi this amount 991.
Private wagers Several hundred thousand coins for the winning bettor Female players bet 50,000 coins each on whether Banks had been summoned by One-Eye 1047.

Market Value

Early Trading Conditions

When trading first opens, players have few coins and no established standard prices. Many barter instead, and some refuse coins entirely. Wood and cloth initially function as more desirable hard currencies 10.

During the Storm Sea crisis, demand for ship repairs drives timber prices sharply upward. One buyer offers 30 coins per unit, while some sales reach 50 coins per unit 20.

Documented Exchange Rates

Resource Category Approximate Price Conditions
Basic supplies 5 coins per unit Reported market rate; actual trades cost slightly more 36.
Advanced supplies 25 coins per unit Approximate market price 36.
Timber during the Extreme Winter Sea period 30 coins per unit, subsequently falling to 28 Yang Yi evaluates harvested wood at 30 coins before increased selling pressure lowers the market price 126.
Bulk timber sale 25 coins per unit Realized price for 10,000 units sold for 250,000 coins 127.
Basic supplies after the later ship expansion 7 coins per unit Lumber, stone, and cloth rise in price as acquisition becomes largely dependent on fishing and Gacha 226.
Advanced supplies after the later ship expansion 32 coins per unit Applies to steel, crystal, and sulfur under the same conditions 226.
Crystal diamond from Old Dad 400 coins per unit Price after Yang Yi’s twenty-percent discount 328.
Magic stones About 480 coins per unit Yang Yi buys 10,000 from multiple sellers for almost 4.8 million coins 514.
White Shards sold to the Ice Nest church 10–100 coins per shard discussed The church’s publicly known purchase prices help explain the local population’s limited purchasing power 862.
White Shards bought by the Mystery Merchant Generally 1,000–100,000 coins each Yang Yi pays much more than the church; larger shards command higher prices, with no stated upper limit 864.

The exchange rate remains unstable. Even when down jackets are available for coins, sellers prefer payment in cloth 36.

Goods and Service Prices

Listings, labor fees, and completed transactions are distinguished below; these are not fixed system-wide prices.

Good or Service Price in Conch Coins Details
First Aid Bandage 10 each Early trading listing 10.
Rum 30 per bottle Advertised as also usable for disinfection 10.
Holy Salt 100 per packet Early trading listing 10.
Down jacket About 600 each Alternatively priced at 105 cloth at the time 36.
Tinder Wool Sweater or trousers 100 labor fee per garment Buyer must also supply the materials; a full set costs 200 coins in labor 37 38.
Maritime Weekly 100 per issue Monthly membership costs 300 coins and includes at least four issues 42.
Holy Water 2,000 per bottle Later advertised price; equipment and item exchanges are also accepted 42.
Savage Catapult 2,000 asking price; 650 final unit price Yang Yi negotiates an order for four, totaling 2,600 coins 42 44 45.
Bulk spoiled food 100 total Yang Yi buys several hundred jin of rotten food for poisoned bait 45.
White Rose revolver 120,000 Reported completed sale of a Treasured firearm, considered an astronomical price at the time 57.
Black Bread About 25 per loaf Also priced at five units of wood 62.
Sausage 50 each A common food providing protein and salt 62.
Dried apples 4,000 for 2.5 kilograms Completed purchase for vitamin supplies 62.
Great horse-slaying saber 15,000 Fine-quality weapon listing 62.
Two-handed greatsword 20,000 Fine-quality listing; the seller refuses to negotiate 62.
Refined steel spear 12,000 Fine-quality weapon listing 62.
Broken Iron Greatsword 50,000 asking price Seller initially refuses bargaining, citing its high Strength requirement 63.
Down clothing, padded hats, and fleece-lined boots 1,200 for two clothing sets; 800 for two hats; 2,000 for four pairs of boots Completed cold-weather equipment purchases 64.
Full plate armor 16,000 Completed sale after Yang Yi repairs it 82.
Crude Repeating Crossbow 2,000 each Seven sold; competition among crafters repeatedly drives the price down 82.
Heal-Fast Bandage 700 Completed sale amid competition from similar medical supplies 82.
Common hand axe 500 Completed sale 82.
Spiked Flail 15,000 Completed sale of an Excellent-quality melee weapon 82.
Light Steel Small Round Shield 11,000 Purchased for Su Na 82.
Ordinary refined fat 100 per liter Fine-quality competing product without the medicinal effects of Su Na’s version 127.
Su Na’s refined fat 300 per liter Yang Yi’s listing price 127.
Low-Tier Artisan Inscribed Stone or Low-Tier Abyss Soulstone Around 80,000 Scarce enhancement items; buyers often must offer extra to secure one 136.
Vitality Coconut 300 each in Yang Yi’s purchase; 500 market price Yang Yi buys 200 from Shen Guanquan for 60,000 coins 141.
Salt 5,000 for five kilograms Completed purchase of ten packets 141.
Eye of Greed 155,000 Completed purchase of a treasure-finding telescope 158.
Maritime Weekly after the major update Tentatively 1,100 per issue, plus the recipient’s 1,000 transaction fee Announced price increase; VIP readers still owe the system fee 242.
Beam Rifle 54,000 One-Eye’s Fine General Store listing; condition varies and dispatch is random 306.
Beam Pistol 21,000 Store listing 306.
Assault rifle 12,000 Includes one magazine 306.
Anti-materiel sniper rifle 120,000 Includes one magazine; only three offered 306.
Fragmentation grenade 8,000 each Store listing 306.
Assault rifle magazine 300 Holds thirty rounds 306.
Sniper rifle magazine 1,000 Holds six rounds 306.
Rat-fur set No more than 2,000 each Excluded from the store’s promotion 306.
Mars’s assembled body 228,000 total Cost of the selected corpse and limbs before the resurrection procedure 335.
Night Crow Feather Pen 70,000 Treasured magic-circle drawing tool 337.
Tanned Parchment 10,000 per book Each offered book contains more than ninety sheets 337.
Ordinary books from Old Dad’s library Around 1,000 each The selection includes a World Sea Chart 338.
More than two hundred non-duplicate books 254,400 total Discounted purchase by Yang Yi and Su Na 339.
Damaged alchemy manual 500,000 quoted price Contains valuable arrays and techniques despite burn damage 339.
Low-Tier Artisan Inscribed Stones from Angler’s Home 420,000 for five Completed purchase from He Qi 375.
Mid-tier Artisan Inscription Stone 10 million Completed purchase during Yang Yi’s later equipment upgrades 468.
Two Mid-tier Artisan Inscription Stones 19 million total Later bulk purchase for upgrades and reserve stock 492.
Collector contract items Generally 100,000–2 million Price varies by contract type and associated danger 584.
Combat Robot Gacha One million each Shen Guanquan buys seventy-seven 647.
High-level Abyss Soul Stone 800 million each Huang Zhuang offers Yang Yi three for 2.4 billion coins 705.
Daydream wine 50,000 per barrel; 28,000 after discount Gordon’s quoted prices; Yang Yi buys the cellar’s stock 707.
Ordinary slaves requested for Su Na 53.72 million before discount; 30,083,200 paid Completed purchase from Gordon 707.
Mutant Cyclops 200 million asking price Yang Yi does not purchase it 707.
Apple aboard Yang Yi’s Treasure Ship 50,000 each Far beyond the means of the indigenous visitors who inspect it 854.
Bottled water aboard Yang Yi’s Treasure Ship 500 per bottle Price observed by the same visitors 854.

Later Economic Conditions

Scarcity and competition affect different markets in different ways. Crude Repeating Crossbows fall to 2,000 coins as multiple crafters undercut one another, while enhancement stones maintain high prices because they can turn relatively inexpensive firearms into much more valuable Treasured weapons 82 136.

Supply shortages also increase the cost of ship development. Yang Yi spends 423,000 coins on materials for expansion-building upgrades, and later spends 260,000 coins on a mixture of basic and advanced supplies and three hundred loaves of Black Bread after arriving in the Sea of No Light 226 242.

By the Steam Island sales, players generally have more savings and stronger purchasing power than before, allowing Yang Yi to sell large quantities of expensive goods quickly 647.

Indigenous purchasing power varies sharply. Cui Xiya recalls having about 5,000 coins per month left after living expenses while studying in the Holy Capital, whereas the Ice Nest church pays miners very little for White Shards. Yang Yi’s much higher purchase offers consequently make the Mystery Merchant appear extraordinarily generous to the local population 372 862 864.

Yang Yi’s Documented Financial Scale

Point in the Story Balance or Financial Event Context
Initial laboratory funding 1,050 coins remaining After transferring 1,000 coins to Su Na 33.
Preparation for the Extreme Winter Sea 56,000 coins remaining After purchasing preserved food and dried apples 62.
Equipment sales and research allocation 57,500 coins before purchases; 30,000 afterward Yang Yi buys Su Na an 11,000-coin shield and transfers 16,500 for research 82.
Sale of the Extreme Winter Sea exit 80,000 coins Before the subsequent 30,000-coin research allocation 121.
Later supplies purchase 1,597,500 coins Balance after buying Vitality Coconuts and salt 141.
Ship expansion and laboratory funding 820,000 coins remaining After 500,000 for Su Na and 423,000 in upgrade materials 226.
Sea of No Light supply purchase 1.22 million coins remaining After spending 260,000 coins 242.
Completion of Old Dad’s shopping trip A little over two million coins remaining A fortune exceeding fifty million is largely spent, including 14.4 million for a Mid-tier Artisan Inscription Stone and a Mid-Tier Abyss Soulstone after discount 340.
Sale of Cook Island’s surplus loot 9,782,787 coins Balance after the remaining equipment and materials are sold 395.
Exceptional weapon sales 94.37 million coins Balance after compensation payments and the sale of several weapons 464.
Heavy supply and enhancement purchases 26.72 million coins remaining Nearly six million spent on supplies and almost thirty million more on soulstones and an inscription stone 514.
Steam Island salvage operations 1,157,279,012 coins in net earnings Proceeds assigned to island development under the agreement with the Iron Brotherhood 647.
Cult support agreement One billion coins transferred Funding exchanged for the One-Eye Cult’s relocation and staffing commitments 658.
High-level enhancement purchases 2.2 billion coins initially available Yang Yi agrees to buy three High-level Abyss Soul Stones for 2.4 billion 705.
Return from the Holy Capital Four billion coins transferred from Steam Island’s corporate account Yang Yi resumes managing the island’s commercial facilities 777.
Mythic-level discussion and public influence Nearly one billion coins earned By this point, Yang Yi no longer considers himself short of money 991.

Research Funding

  • Initial allocation: Yang Yi transfers Su Na 1,000 coins for laboratory equipment, leaving himself with 1,050 33.
  • Additional allocation: After selling the Pirate Ship Blueprint, he gives her another 1,000 coins 34.
  • Medical equipment funding: During the investigation of Spider’s Kiss, he transfers a further 2,000 coins after Su Na says she has run out 41.
  • Post-equipment-sale allocation: Yang Yi gives Su Na 16,500 coins for research after buying her the Light Steel Small Round Shield 82.
  • Temperature Gauge: He transfers 29,200 coins because Su Na needs funds to purchase the instrument 121.
  • Crystal-processing equipment: A further 30,000 coins funds a large furnace and molds for experimenting with the Crystal Giant’s remains 121.
  • Expanded laboratory funding: After exploring the expanded, two-level Witch Laboratory, Yang Yi transfers 500,000 coins to Su Na 226.
  • Experimental bodies and living specimens: At Old Dad’s market, purchases including Mars’s prospective body and several live research subjects cost approximately 5.5 million coins after the stated discount 335.
  • Cook Island loot allocation: Yang Yi transfers Su Na 1.7 million coins from the village chief’s stored wealth, giving her the larger share because she discovered it 388.
  • Later funding requirement: Yang Yi notes that Su Na still needs 200 million coins, a difficult target despite his substantial trading income 492.
  • Further specimen purchases: Gordon receives 30,083,200 coins for the ordinary slaves of the species Su Na requested 707.

Special Interactions and Limitations

Collector Encounters

After comparing two encounters, Yang Yi hypothesizes that earning a large amount of Conch Coins within a short time can attract a Collector. Both affected players also encountered the figure while retrieving wood at night. He further suspects that looking at the Collector serves as an invitation, allowing it to board and demand a trade; these are his deductions rather than confirmed universal rules 134.

Failed Duplication

Yang Yi attempts to duplicate Conch Coins with the Mirror of the Long-Legged Sardine, but the copied coin’s conch design becomes a Long-Legged Sardine. He regards the resulting imitation as worthless, so the experiment does not provide usable currency 954.

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