Elin: Complete Guide To Tourism

Elin's tourism system is unique. Unlike other game mechanics, leveling won't save a failing theme park; careful management of tourism mechanics is key. While crafting and combat skills are still important, they aren't sufficient on their own. This guide covers tourism mechanics, maximizing profits, and visiting other players' tourist maps.

Attracting Tourists

Activate the "Open For Business" policy on your home board to attract tourists. They'll stay for a few days, explore, and pay you. Importantly, tourists won't access your public chests.

Before opening your town to tourists, ensure:

• Safety: A perimeter wall and border guard policy usually suffice.
• Lodging: Assign beds for guest use (middle-click on beds).
• Privacy: Set room permissions to restrict guest access to personal areas.
• Tax Exemption: Designate the land as tax-free to avoid heavy taxation on tourism income.
• Aesthetics: Make your town visually appealing.

Boosting Tourism Value

Check your home board; hovering over your property value displays your tourism value—a measure of your town's popularity as a destination. This is calculated differently from land value.

Several items boost tourism value. For optimal results, use them together. Only furniture explicitly stating tourism value improvement will be effective (a newspaper offers more tourism value than a display case with a legendary weapon).

Furniture	Source	Tourism Value	Notes
Posters, Banners, Newspapers	Crafted (writing tool)	Low	Cashmere increases value and tourism value. Golden snow putit yields golden wool for superior posters.
Memorial Blocks	Fortune Drum Raffle	Very High	Early-game raffle tickets (from crafting recipes) are plentiful. Find a raffle at Tinker's Camp.
Paintings	Purchased or Stolen	High	Obtainable with furniture tickets; easily pickpocketed due to their light weight.
Felmara's Paintings	Felmara's Quest	High	Felmara creates these; he sells duplicates of unlocked paintings.
Miniatures	Casino, Little Garden	Medium	Many are easter eggs referencing other games.
Figures, Cards, Statues	Monster Drops	Variable	Cards improve drop rates and unlock bestiary entries; figures only boost tourism.

Duplicate items don't increase tourism value (checking requires placement). Pinning tourism value to the status bar speeds up the process. Items cannot be placed in the same tile to gain points.

Non-item boosts act as multipliers:

• Publicity Skill: Level up by spending gold or recruiting bloggers.
• Policies (e.g., Solo Exhibitions): Provide significant bonuses but require policy points.
• Land Bonuses: Look for features like "monolith" or "dinosaur fossil" (often the third land feat).

Sculpting for Tourism

Figures are the biggest tourism value source. Sculpting level impacts quality (Godly is highest), acting as a multiplier. You must have defeated the creature to sculpt it. You can't sculpt creatures more than 15 levels above your sculpting skill.

To create the best sculptures, kill unique characters (they respawn). Unique characters always drop their card, making identification easy. Killing them also yields rare items. Efrond's Guitar is obtained through regicide.

Use material hammers sparingly on godly-quality figures. Most statues reach godly quality with high double-digit sculpting skill (except Innos Tur'as, whose statue is exceptionally tall).

Material quality affects sculpture value:

• Gold: Easily obtained from the Derphy Thieves Guild.
• Gemstones: Baked into ingots for colorful statues.
• Ether: Highest value but difficult to acquire.

UI mods allow direct inventory tourism value checks.

Monetizing Tourism

Tourism provides passive income with the right policies, decorations, and lodging. Policies like "Platinum Ticket," "Luxury Suite," and "Traveler's Inn" increase tourist payments. Use tax-free land to avoid heavy taxation.

For substantial profits, open a gift shop using the "for sale" tag (crafted at a sign workshop). This designates a container as a shop. The tag remains in the container, ensuring items are always for sale. Policies increase selling prices but slow sales. "Celebrity's Heaven" increases wealthy tourists.

Profitable shop items:

• Alcohol (Restaurant License): Mushroom wine (automated with farming/container management), rice sake (higher value), bonito flake wine (uses leftover fish).
• Sculptures (Furniture Store): Sell duplicates or lower-quality sculptures.
• Foreign Doors (Furniture Store): High selling price, inherits price modifiers from materials.
• Equipment (General Store): Set chest to public; villagers use equipment, leftovers are sold.
• Food (Restaurant): Good way to recoup cooking skill costs.

Gift shop items have higher profit margins than shipping chests but don't reward gold bars.

Publishing and Visiting Maps

Use a moongate (Tinker's Camp) to visit other players' published maps or publish your own at the hearthstone (requires top 100 property value). Rare furniture (body pillows) quickly boosts property value.

Visiting other maps offers benefits:

• Discover unique enemies.
• Access crafting tables and recipes.
• Harvest rainbow seeds.

Death on a visited map results in irretrievable dropped money. The hearthstone publishes a map copy to your Starseeker's Portal, useful for private sharing or material duplication (e.g., duplicating valuable flooring materials). Not all aspects are perfectly duplicated (crop levels, livestock).

Stealing from your duplicate allows material conversion (disassembling statues yields logs).

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