Ginormosia FAQ - Part 2 - Cashnuts & The Don

Your Dosh is Worthless Here - Get Cashnuts

All of the merchants in this area only take acorns called cashnuts as payment. Leafe only give you one cashnut for finding them. And completing events doesn't get you very many either, usually a maximum of 3. The primary way to earn cashnuts is by stocking the vegetable stands at each village called Evershops.

Each vegetable stand lets you place 30 vegetables (5 veg per slot, 6 slots) which sounds like a lot, but it really isn't once you start looking at the price of items in the shops. (Note: Selling items to Ginormosia merchants will still pay you in dosh, not cashnuts.) If you want to earn more cashnuts early in your exploration you should prioritize looking for these villages and their stands so you can restock them frequently.

Each vegetable stand seems to sell out about every 2-3 hours. You can therefore plant seeds, stock vegetable stands, play or go do something else for an hour, come back to water your veggies, leave again for an hour, and then come back to harvest your vegetables and go check your stands again to collect your cashnuts and restock. Bear in mind that time passes while the game is in suspended mode or the Switch is asleep, but not if the game is closed or off.

You can essentially convert your dosh to cashnuts by buying the basic vegetables at the shop on Faraway Island (Restaurant at Tarrasa Farm) to sell in Ginormosia. However higher rank vegetables provide quite a few more cashnuts each so if you really want to be more successful you will need to be farming back at your home base. You can also get vegetables from the Viridia Plateau farming plots and Treasure Groves.

Rarely, one of the vegetable stands will have a bonus for a certain category of vegetable that grants 2x the cashnuts and so you want to have all the varieties of vegetables on hand to take advantage of that when it happens. If you want to just keep it simple, just grow as many Shadow Carrots as you can.

Dosh to Vegetable to Cashnut Conversion

Exchange Rate: 20 dosh = 1 cashnut

Terrasa Farm Restaurant Shop: 1 vegetable = 80 dosh

Marco's Base Camp Shop: 1 bag of seeds = 150 dosh

Cashnut Value of Vegetables

Basic Vegetables

Carrot, Pumpkin, Potato, Onion, Lettuce, Radish = 1 cashnut

Shadow Carrot = 5 cashnut

Second Rank Vegetables

Crimson Carrot, Pale Onion, Busy Baatato, Raging Radish, Smiley Pumpkin, Purple Cabbage = 3 cashnut

Corrupt Carrot = 10 cashnut

Third Rank Vegetables

Hermit Carrot, Demonion, Dandy Potato, Mungus Radish, Gourdy Pumpkin, Gemini Cabbage = 5 cashnut

Fallen Carrot = 15 cashnut

Fourth Rank Vegetables

Giant Mandrake, Armored Onion, Spooky Spud, Great Spirit Radish, Kaiser Pumpkin, Godly Cabbage = 10 cashnut

Wicked Mandrake = 20 cashnut

Settlement Shops

The Tool Merchants in the monster settlements stock consumables, materials, tools, weapons, recipes, shields, and armour. Each settlement has a different stock that reflects the vibe of the area they're in. What is available is only unlocked by ranking up that area, however all recipes can be unlocked with Rank 5.

This can be a way to acquire equipment or materials before you have unlocked that part of the story, or acquire equipment that you cannot craft yet. The recipes they sell also are sometimes required to complete a few side-quests.

You can check the inventories of these shops and what each item costs on the Shops page.

The Wandering Don

The wandering bear merchants who appear on the map as green backpacks are both named The Don. Yes, there are definitely two of them. They continuously travel across the map in predictable routes that follow IRL time. They usually are travelling between certain villages and campsites. Sometimes you may only be able to see one icon on the map if the second is too far away from you when you enter the area. If that is the case hop around between towers until the other one appears.

Each Don merchant will always have a different assortment of consumable items, a single Treasure Grove sapling, and random limited-availability materials. The number and type of items that appear in their inventory depend on the rank of the area the merchant is in when they spawn. If you get them in an area up to Rank 5+ they will start carrying endgame and postgame materials that are essential to making the best weapons and tools. The stock available is not restricted by your level or your story progress, so you can acquire rare materials early this way. It also includes Treasure Grove-exclusive materials like Magic Ore, however it does not include drops from Legendary Event spawns that are necessary for the Legendary recipes.

The Dons also stock high level (and cosmetic) recipes that can't be gotten anywhere else. Their inventory changes every time they change areas so you can theoretically check them repeatedly throughout the day. I believe their stock changes depending on what area they are in, but I have not got enough evidence of this yet to pin down what appears where.

The Dons also have the recipe for Napdragon Cruiser RED, a motorcycle mount, and two other mounts: Black Horse Saddle and White Horse Saddle.

You can see a list of the Dons inventory on the Shops page.

I am still not sure if there is a way to "reset" the Dons' inventory immediately if they spawn into a low ranked area. If you change the rank up to a higher one and talk to them again they seem to be stuck with their more limited stock and you just have to wait for them to move into another area.