Trading sticks

Trading sticks are the main currency of the jungle village of Tai Bwo Wannai. They can only be received by doing the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame, selling items to the to the shop inside the wooden fence that you reinforce in Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup, killing monsters, or buying them from other players.

Getting Trading Sticks
There are three ways to get trading sticks. The most common way is doing the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame, the next way is selling to the shop within the wooden fence, and lastly trading with other players.

Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup
During the Tai Bwo Wannai Cleanup minigame, you receive favor. Telling villagers that you’ve done some work, they will exchange your favor and give you trading sticks. After a villager has exchanged with you, the villager will not exchange with you until a variable amount of time. This is the most efficient way to get trading sticks since you also get several skills trained by doing the minigame.

Selling Items
This is the quick way to get trading sticks. If you’ve completed Shilo Village, and mine gems, or you make a lot of cocktails, it is easy to sell items in the shop. They buy all of the Shilo gems, uncut and cut, and all of the cocktails. But you should only sell after you’ve collected a lot of the gems so you don’t slowly mine an inventory, cut, then sell, or make an inventory of cocktails and then sell.

Trading With Other Players
The title says it all, It’s that simple. Since trading sticks are tradable, you might sometime see someone sell trading sticks, but it isn’t that common.

Spending Trading Sticks
There are two places to spend these lovely sticks: the shop within the village fence, and the rare tropical trees.

The Village Shop
The Village Shop is within the wooden fence of Tai Bwo Wannai. You can choose to trade for cocktails, or the village items. They sell all of the villager robes, the gem machetes, tropical gems, and other specialties such as gout tubers, opals, jades, and red topaz. these are normally out of stock. As Allchild points out, wearing the villager robes will cause the natives to give you more trading sticks at a time, and wielding the gem edged machetes cause you to have a higher chance of getting a thatching spar while hacking the jungle. These are not recommended if you simply want snakeskin.

The Tropical Trees
Near the eastern end of the village is an enclosed area known as the Hardwood Grove. Inside are mahogany and teak trees, however you must pay 100 trading sticks to enter.

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