Money
"Now it's probably about time you starting making some money from all your hard-earned produce! After all there's mouths to feed, bills to pay, forest rent due..."
Money in APICO is split into two categories - Rubees and Honeycore! Rubees are the standard currency in the game that things can be sold or bought for. Honeycore is a special currency that is gained by selling mined Honeycore to Bobbee. Honeycore can only currently be spent in Bobbee's shop.
Money
Game Mechanics
Rubees
Rubees can be made in several ways:
- Selling Bottled Liquids (water, resin, honey, Apicola)
- Selling Special Produce extracted from Frames
- Completing quests at the Noticeboard
The most money that can be for a single item is by making Apicola and then handing it into Skipper's Noticeboard quests, as this gives the player Mainlander Money which can be sold for the most amount of Rubees.
Honeycore
Honeycore can be got in two ways:
- Mining Honeycore and selling it to Bobbee
- Using Crystal bees in Apiaries to produce Honeycore Shards which can be sold to Bobbee
- Buying Honeycore crystals from Merchant to sell to Bobbee
As Honeycore can be mined for free, buying from the Merchant costs money but does allow you to "convert" Rubees into Honeycore if you have a surplus of Rubees.
Trivia
- Based on the Merchants selling price, the exchange rate works out as 50 Rubees to 3 Honeycore.
- The existence of Mainlander Money implies that Rubees only work as currency around the islands of Port APICO