Corsair Cove: Best Ways To Make Money

Corsair Cove is yet another game jumping on the recent pirate-game bandwagon, offering a colony-builder sim that stands out within a saturated field as a true swashbuckling adventure with depth, nuance, and, of course, naval warfare.

However, as you start to expand your pirate hideout, you'll find that the best unlockables in the game don't come cheap, and you'll need to get your hands on some pirate booty to fund your rum-fueled endeavors.

So, to help you make your little sanctuary into a profitable hub of industry, we have some great ways to make cash in Corsair Cove.

Take To The Seven Seas

While there are many ways to make money while at your hideout through more passive means, there is simply no substitute for going out there, braving the high seas, and taking what doesn't belong to you, as pirates do.

Many quests and events on the Seven Seas map offer opportunities to earn lots of gold, provided you have a ship that can withstand the inevitable battle and the tactical acumen to navigate the turn-based fight.

But just remember to check if the quest you're doing is one that has gold listed in the rewards section

Crows Next Discoveries

A Compass unlock you'll want to get as soon as possible is the Crow's Nest, as this building will gift your gold as soon as you start sailing beyond Skull Rock's port.

This building will cost you 125 Gold to build but will return 20 Gold for every discovery event you partake in, which is a bit of an investment for a later payoff. But, considering how much of the map you need to chart early on, this will pay you back tenfold, so maybe even consider building more than one to stack effects.

Build A Trading Post

If you're familiar with how a Warehouse behaves in Corsair Cove, then just treat the Trading Post as another warehouse. Only, this one isn't for storing useful goods for later. It's used to store excess or unwanted goods to sell for cold, hard cash.

This does ask players to part with 100 Gold upfront, but the trade-off is a dedicated means of commerce on your island, meaning you won't always have to ready a crew to make some money; you'll just need to up production.

Random Events

Random events, as the name suggests, can vary widely in nature. Usually asking you to make an impossible decision to find the best-case scenario when dealt a terrible hand. But sometimes you can be the one exacting cruelty for personal gain.

Players may occasionally gain the option to rob drifters seeking refuge of their gold, or to tax their own people. These options will also come with drawbacks, but you'll be too busy spending all your gold to care.

Cabaret Recruitment

An unlockable asset you can get relatively early in the Cabaret building, which is a great incentive to bring more drifters to your island, even if that is more mouths to feed.

You see, for every drifter that you recruit while this building is active at camp, you'll get 10x Gold per recruit. Which can be a really sizable cash injection as recruitment tends to come in batches of 10-30 pirates.

Loan Shark

This one is an unlockable that doesn't become available until well into your adventure, and, in truth, it's not a reliable way to make money. But it is a good way to get money fast.

This allows players to take out an aggressive loan, providing an immediate cash injection to make necessary changes or builds to their hideout. With the trade-off that you will need to pay that amount back in full, with interest applied.

If used sparingly, it can be a good way to spend up progression or even provide a security net of sorts. But it could also be the thing that buries you if you aren't careful.

Brawler Arena

Lastly, we have another mid-to-late-game unlockable that will be another way to make cash on the island.

The Brawler Arena is exactly what it sounds like. A place where you can host fights, have punters bet on the result, and rake in the cash, because as we all know, the house always wins.

You'll need to spend 12 Empire points to unlock this one, so it'll take a while, but the payoff is battles to the death and overflowing coin purses.