Making zeny can be incredibly daunting for any new user especially with the drop penalty system.

The following guide and prices shown are tailored to the “Baphomet” server, but the same principles can apply to any server.

Notice: All listed prices are subject to change. Please research current market price.

• Players should make a merchant for NPC trading and creating vending shops.
• Pay attention to the market for popular items. Check Official Market Tracker.
• Use Kafra.kr to check average market prices for items.
• Use Divine-Pride to get Korean Names.
• The best method of making zeny is always fulfilling a demand. The difficulty is finding the demand.
• Methods listed below can overlap which yields higher profits.

Farming high drop rate common items is one of the easiest ways to make zeny. Thief jobs excel at this method due to Steal skill.

Monster	Level Range	Item	Approximate Market Price
Rocker	15	Grasshopper's Leg	1,000z
Bigfoot	29	Bear's Footskin	1,000z
Yo-yo	38	Yoyo Tail	2,000z
		Cacao	8,000z
Metaller	55	Grasshopper's Leg	1,000z
Alligator	57	Anolian Skin	4,000z
Sidewinder	70	Venom Canine	1,000z
High Orc	81	Ogre Tooth	25,000z
Bathory	86	Witch Star Sand	2,000z
Kobold	101	Blue Hair	3,000z
Desert Wolf	103	Claw of Desert Wolf	3,000z
Arclouse	107	Round Shell	12,000z
Anolian	109	Anolian Skin	3,000z
Dark Pinguicula	113	Elder Branch	10,000z
Biolab 5	176	Cursed Fragment	40,000z

Players can make zeny by selling Instances rewards. This includes but not limited to:

• Unknown Part
• Geffen Magic Contest Coin
• Bloody Coin
• Coagulated Spell
• Barmil Tickets
• Cor Core
• Contaminated Spell
• Amethyst Fragment

If you have multiple accounts, you can increase the profits by running the instance as a party.

Obtaining cards can be very tedious. Therefore, you should hunt an expensive one or a place with multiple valuable items.

You can use this kafra.kr link to look at all cards. Go to the last pages to see the most expensive ones.

Farming directly for zeny is very difficult due to the drop penalty. However, there are a few spots at certain level ranges:

Area	Level Range	Notes
Tamruan	73	Crimson Two-Handed Sword [2] can either be sold to NPC or vended. Vend the Mystic Rough Runestone
Mi Gao	83	Mud Lump can be sold to NPC for a hefty price. Keep the Sand Clump because they can be vended or used for Eden Item Gathering.
Mavka	84	Crystal Mirror Witherless Rose Mavka Card
Geffenia	119	Majority of the loot from here can be sold.
Abyss Lake Floor 3	130	Sell the equipment Morpheus's Hood, Morrigane's Helm, Fricca's Circlet, and Stone Buckler [1] to the NPC. Vend the Bijous.
Bifrost Tower Floor 3	146	A lot of high value common drops such as Bookclip in Memory, Leaf Bookmark, and Dustball.
Illusion of Labyrinth	170	Currently the best raw zeny per hour due to no drop penalty in Illusion Dungeons.

Every job requires a consumable or item and almost every item has a purpose. For example, you will consistently find vendors in Eden Group who sells the items needed for Item Collection Quest.

Some of these items are stated in the previous section, Common Valuables. However, there are Geneticist potions, Guillotine Cross poisons, Rune Knight runes, and Pet & Evolution items which you can research and vend their loot.

Desert Wolf is an excellent example. It drops Claw of Desert Wolf which is used for Rune Knights. So you can level here while making zeny.

With the update that allows converting Crimson Weapons into Guarantee Refine Certificates, you would find players selling high refine Crimson Weapons as an pseudo-method of trading these account-bound certificates. The alternative is using the Refine Certificate Packager. However, players will still buy no refine Crimson Weapons to gamble. Check out the RO Official Event Calendar to see if a refine event is approaching. You can easily increase the price when vending the weapons. Depending on the element and weapon type, they can go from 50,000z (Fire Element) to 2,000,000z (Holy Element) each. Remember, Crimson Weapons can be sold to NPCs for a decent amount of zeny.

• Crimson Dagger [2]
• Crimson Sabre [2]
• Crimson Two-Handed Sword [2]
• Crimson Two-Handed Axe [2]
• Crimson Mace [2]
• Crimson Spear [2]
• Crimson Lance [2]
• Crimson Bow[2]
• Crimson Katar [2]
• Crimson Knuckle [2]
• Crimson Bible [2]
• Crimson Rod [2]
• Crimson Staff [2]
• Crimson Violin [2]
• Crimson Wire [2]
• Crimson Huuma Shuriken [2]
• Crimson Revolver [2]

Energy Fragment are account bound items that are in high demand for Fallen Warrior Manteau [1] and Biolab 5 Headgears.

However, players can convert specific weapons into Energy Fragments.

This creates a pseudo-market for energy fragments by vending the weapons. Players can find these weapons by farming Biolab 3, Old Purple Boxes, or Kachua Diamong Exchange.

Sources:
https://www.inven.co.kr/board/ro/1957/1735
https://www.inven.co.kr/board/ro/1957/1788
https://www.inven.co.kr/board/ro/1957/1789
https://www.inven.co.kr/board/ro/1951/5174
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDpiDYx5xws
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcvar3AZC5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi_XLkSrvDI