So, this is sorta bragging, but really it's not. Because it's so bad. However, I thought I should share.

>You open the copper strongbox...

>In the copper strongbox you see a colorful elbaite runestone, a grimy marble pestle, a small pewter bar, and a small pewter bar.

Feel free to post your own. I'm sure you have them.

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You skillfully remove the vanilla cheesecake from your abdomen leaving the wound no worse than it was before.

I get boxes like that routinely every single day.

What should be gems and coins averaging around 25000 coins turns out to be:

>In the blah blah blah you see a medium silver nugget.

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Now watch out here as I fly into my rant on this for the second or third time now.

Every creature has been created by the staff to have a "coin value", that's not their term for it, I don't know what is.
Basically it's an average coin output for each creature which is the sum of everything the creature drops that has value. Coins, Skins, Gems, and Boxes.
So a critter that drops Coins and Gems and is Skin-able will have Box loot that is not as good as a same ranked critter that also drops Coins and Gems but is not Skin-able.

My problem with these nuggets is that they are actually replacing gems in the box loot roll.

This causes a severe reduction in average coin value for anything that drops boxes, throwing the system completely out of whack.

What should of been nearly 25000 coins was instead 3000.

Obviously it's a pretty small difference overall since only maybe 5-10% of my boxes turn out this way, but day in day out over long stretches of time... it adds up to be a lot of coins, leaving me less than thrilled.

On the bright side, pewter has fairly high toxicity as an alchemy catalyst.

If Poisons is ever a thing, it might be useful.