Meadgard how to earn more gold is mostly a matter of picking it up: customers throw their coins on the floor when you serve them, and the balance on the counter HUD only goes up when you physically collect them. Serve fast, sweep the floor immediately, and put the takings straight back into the tavern rather than sitting on them.

Meadgard how to earn more gold: three ways to get paid

  1. Drinks and food. Mead is the fastest sale and the volume comes from keeping the dispenser full, so refilling the barrel and pouring is the base income of every shift. The mead barrel guide covers the refill loop and the upgrade that fixes it.
  2. Music. Strum the lute for a moment and the payment comes straight away, without waiting for an order to be served.
  3. Quest progress. The daytime objectives that push the tavern forward unlock better stations, recipes and vendors, and those raise how much you can take per night. The quest rewards guide covers what those objectives actually pay out.

The floor is where the money is

A customer served drops their coins on the tavern floor, and a pickup toast confirms the collection — "ADDED TO INVENTORY / Coin x11". Your total sits in a coin counter at the top right of the counter HUD: 19 during a shift, 564 on the recipe book screen, 286 on Sven's shop panel in the demo.

That is also where the goblin lives. One shows up about half a second after the gold hits the ground, so a coin left on the floor is a coin you will not have — the coin goblin guide covers the chase.

The Meadgard counter HUD during a shift: the coin total reads 19 in the top right corner and a toast in the lower left confirms ADDED TO INVENTORY / Coin x11.
The shift coin total and the Coin x11 pickup toast.

Reinvest, do not hoard

The rule the game gives is to reinvest: every successful service brings gold, and reinvesting it is what lets you handle bigger crowds and grander feasts. The demo's early economy punishes hoarding, because a balance of over 500 gold can be gone the next day, and a perfect shift can still leave you unable to buy even one upgrade. The tavern upgrades guide covers what to buy with it.

Where the money goes

The shop is where the money leaves. Sven the Travelling Merchant sells food, materials and weapons with the price shown against your purse — a raw fish item costs 20 while you have 286 gold in the demo — and the tavern upgrades are bought with the takings. Getting Sven and his price list in front of you is part of the quest chain, which the recruiting townsfolk guide covers.