A true story first

In 2016, one Diamond Lock cost Rp100,000.
This year it costs Rp299.

Growtopia's money lost 99.7% of its value. The game kept printing it. I grew up trading in that economy.

Lowest seller prices per Diamond Lock in Indonesia: blog listings 2015–2018, itemku 2019–2026 (archive.org snapshots).

This town has no money and no printer.

40 traders barter salt, fish, rice, cloth and wood. Nobody, not even me, can create goods or crown a currency. Every town keeps its goods differently, so the rulebook alone won't tell you which one becomes money. Read the market, guess before everyone else, stock up, and get out before the rains.