In order to max out the skills of your character, you will need tons of gold. Based on my experience with this game, I have written down the most effective way to increase the picked up gold. Note that this also increases with more difficult pyramids and floors, as you get further in the game. So playing the second or third pyramid will automatically mean more gold, but on other hand they are more difficult and you might not survive so long in them, as in the first one. So no shame in repeating the first one over and over, until you feel enough strong for the later ones.

MORE GOLD - This upgrade is the most obvious way, you should level it even before combat skills, since you will need the gold for literally every skill node. It has 20 levels and it increases up to a beefy 200%.



GOLD RUSH - I recommend to upgrade this soon as possible, even before you would max out the Gold Upgrade. All chests will drop a additional Topaz, which is worth several hundreds of gold. Since you will find a lot of chests, either in chest rooms, by completing challenges or even hidden in normal rooms, this upgrade will be the backbone of your finances.

HATHOR - You need unlock Hathor's Favor. The Goddess of Mining has the passive ability to increase the gold picked up, although you need also the Hathor Upgrade to increase it's effectiveness. Outside of this she also comes with the excellent weapon Fourth of July and her active skill - a climbing hook, with which you can easily reach high places or move fast betwen platforms as long there is a wall to connect the hook. Also useful if you need pick up fast disappearing stuff on high platforms.


ABUNDANCE MEDALLION - you should find this blueprint in the first pyramid. Ammo, health and gold pickups will be more effective, however they will disappear at a much faster rate. Hathor's hook can you helps in this, also the Telekinesis scroll, which allows items to be picked up from a greater distance or the Experation Date scroll, which increases the duration of drops.

The random way to increase your gold will be scrolls, since you cannot really predict what kind of scrolls will you get. Appareantly there is also a scroll which makes you lose 20% of your gold, but in 50 hours I never found it.
PAY DAY - a scroll which increases the ammount of gold picked up, similarly to Gold Upgrade and Hathor, also stacks with their bonuses.

JACKPOT - a single-use scroll which adds 1000 gold. Might be useful in early stages of your playtrough, but eventually you will notice that this sum is relatively tiny later on. Well, still better as to pick up a bad or useless scroll.

LUCKY VESSELS - vessels normally have no content, however it changes with this scroll. They will start drop small ammo boxes (large with the Infinite Ammo scroll), chicken legs (low tier healing item but can come handy) and for us most importantly - silver coins. Ideally if picked up early in pyramid, since bottom floors are much larger and therefore will contain more vessels. This can be also grinded out, since if you quit the game and come back again, all broken vessels will respawn, while cleared out enemies will not.

MONSTER HUNTER - clearing out all enemies on the floor will give you a bonus. In practice this means, that the last killed enemy will drop 2 topaz gems. Very nice, especially if you aim clearing out the whole pyramid. Bosses do not count into this as they are separate entities. This will cause that the boss will also drop 2 topaz gems in extra besides the 2 for clearing out the same floor. Kinda problematic with bosses on the apex as long the gems drop down into the light and if you step into, you cannot pick them up anymore, unless you have the Telekinesis scroll. Just as Lucky Vessels, this is best picked up early on.

CRITIGOLD - my personal favorite. If you have a high critical chance and have equipped a automatic burst fire weapon, each critical hit on the enemy will cause to drop a bronze coin. With weapons like Assault Rifle or Machinegun (alternatively Uzi or Gatling, though those are much less accurate), you can make high HP enemies shower coins. Same as above, get early as you can.

WALL STREET WOLF - doubles your money, but you lose 75% of your health. Unlike above, this is best to be picked up later as possible to maximize the gain. It might be problematic to heal back on, however is not impossible to get 100 000 or more gold this way. If you need cash, is very useful even if it means that you will have not enough HP to face enemies, as long you keep the gold even after dying.

TREASURE HUNTER - chest rewards will be better. Means there will be more loot inside or they will be of a higher value, possibly both. But since chests will also give other stuff as gold - you might get large ammo boxes or several meat steaks. For some reason this scroll does not seem to work with skill room chests.