A while ago, I was playing on RoF and a player asked me if a certain item was sold in the shop. I didn’t know, and I had to search through the entire shop to see if it was in fact sold. This made me wonder why there wasn’t a list of all items sold in the shops yet, and thus the RoF Shop Items list spreadsheet was born. Originally created by me, it was extended by tyukmn to also include the prestige shops.
The main purpose of this spreadsheet was to aid people in finding which items were sold in the shops, and which item was sold in which shop specifically, but it also proved useful for other reasons: Providing a wide array of data to analyze and compare. I started asking questions—How much cookies would it take to buy one of everything in RoF? How are the shop prices compared to player “incomes”? What are the most expensive items? The most expensive shops in terms of total items? What’s the average price of all items? And so on and so forth. I did some calculations and made some interesting observations.
Before I begin sharing my results, let’s determine player incomes per round. When I talk about a certain rank’s income, I’m talking about the figures from the third column in the following table, expressed in average cookies per round:
| Rank | Cookies Per Round | Income (avg. cookies/round) |
| Player | 10-30 | 20 |
| Crafter | 30-60 | 45 |
| Apprentice | 60-100 | 80 |
| Journeyman | 100-150 | 125 |
| Expert | 150-200 | 175 |
| Master | 200-250 | 225 |
| Grandmaster | 250-300 | 275 |
With that out of the way, let’s start with the data- Beginning, of course, with the Player shop.
THE PLAYER SHOP is meant to be the very first shop of RoF. Unlike all other shops it is unlocked by default and any Player can enter it without needing to buy a rank. It’s not really supposed to be a proper shop, but more of an introduction to the shop system. There are a total of 33 items being sold in the Player Shop, with only one item costing two cookies instead of one: the tasty Red Apple. The shop is not that impressive, with cheap and almost useless items being sold for almost nothing.
Everything is very cheap, even for Players: As their income is 20, most items cost barely 1/20th of their income. Still, I don’t recommend Players to buy anything from the Player Shop—Most items are garbage and a wiser option is to save up for Crafter.
The Player Shop also includes the Dye Closet, a small subset selling -you might have guessed it- various dyes for one cookie each.
THE CRAFTER’S WORKSHOP is the first real shop and it comes with quite a few advantages. It’s the first shop with workbenches (in fact, it has the most workbenches of all shops with 24 in total). It’s also the first shop with furnaces (also offering the most with 52) and most importantly, it provides an enderchest to players for the first time. The ender chest is an essential piece for most players, extending player’s inventories and giving them the ability to save special or rare items in the case that they die.
The total cost of all items in this shit is considerably higher than the total cost of all Player shop items, with 407 cookies vs 33. It only sells 9 more items than the Player Shop, 41 in total. The average price of an item is 10 cookies, while the most expensive one is 25.
Most of the things sold in this shop are bare necessities for any RoF player, reflecting the services offered in the shop: Not only is this shop the first place for players to craft items, smelt minerals and store things in their enderchest, but various essential blocks and items are also sold. The most essential one, in my eyes, also happens to be the most expensive one: the sponge. This is a valuable item for any RoF player, being a helpful savior in most dangerous situations.
Still, it is considerably more expensive compared to the Player Shop’s most expensive item, being 55% of a Crafter’s income. In my eyes, it’s the perfect balance: While kind of expensive for lower ranked players, it’s cheap enough that the highest ranked players can buy a ton of them without having to worry about losing all of their money—ensuring access to one of RoF’s most helpful anti-flooding tools for a very low price.
Other important things sold in the Crafter’s Workshop are pumpkins, nether bricks, stone bricks and charcoal. All very important items which only cost 2 cookies each.
Of course, the Crafter Shops are split into three different sections: The Crafter’s Workshop offers bare essentials for cheap, while the Firework Factory and Glasswork Shop sell, as you might expect, custom fireworks and stained glass. Each piece of firework costs 15 cookies while each different piece of stained glass costs 8 cookies. While they are part of the Crafter Shops, these two subshops are clearly aimed at higher ranks: Too expensive for Crafters, higher ranked players would be more inclined to shop here once they earn 20x the cost of a single item in these two shops.
Next up is the APPRENTICE’S PLATFORM, the first shop with its own custom warp. It’s most certainly the least impressive of all shops: With only 14 items sold in total and not a single service offered, you can explore the entire shop within a minute. It sells three sets of tools (stone, iron and gold), leather and a Pumpkin of Loden. That’s it.
The title of most expensive item is rewarded to two items, the Iron Pickaxe and the Iron Axe with 86 cookies. The stone tools only cost 1 cookie each. The average price is 28 cookies, while the total cost is 393.
The JOURNEYMAN’S FOCUS is another major step-up and introduces many new things to players. It’s the first shop with an enchanting table (with 7 being the maximum level), and the first shop with brewing stands, offering eight of them in total. Some water is also provided to re-fill your bottles.
It’s an extension to the Apprentice’s Platform, being of more value to any warrior: Whereas the Platform was the place to be for basic sets of tools, the Focus offers basic sets of armor. Full sets of leather, gold and iron armor can be found in this shop. The most expensive item is the Iron Chestplate with 230 cookies. Other expensive items include the Enchanted Emerald (100 cookies) and the Magical Elixer (100 cookies). A saddle can also be bought for 100 cookies.
24 items are sold in the focus at an average price of 70. The combined cost of all items is 1686. This is considerably more than most other shops—430% more than the Apprentice’s Platform combined cost. In fact, You could buy everything in the Player, Crafter and Apprentice shops twice and still be able to buy two minecarts in the Focus.
Following the Focus is the EXPERT’S DWELLING. This one feels more centered on filling specific niches: It sells almost all music discs (for 700 cookies), a few potions, redstone-related items and a few general rare-ish items. It’s the first shop with cauldrons, having 7 of them, and it’s also the first shop where players can use anvils.
There are 3 workbenches, 17 furnaces and an enderchest. The enchantment table has received an upgrade too, now allowing for 14 levels to be spent. 6 brewing stands are also available.
The combined cost of all items in the Dwelling is 7710 cookies, spread over 40 items in total. Each item costs, on average, 192 cookies. The most expensive items are all the music discs at 700 cookies. The most expensive non-music disc item is the Potion of Cloaking with 170 cookies. The music discs are expensive, four times an Expert’s income.
The next shop, and in my eyes the most useful one, is the MASTER TEMPLE. It’s the place-to-be for most of the important endgame items, even for Grandmasters. It’s also, without a doubt, the most exhaustive expensive one. It’s the biggest shop by far with 91 items sold at an average price of 3010 cookies. The combined cost is the following:
273948 cookies
You read that right—273 thousand cookies. That’s a 3500% increase from the previous shop.
In this shop, diamond tools and armor are sold. They cost a considerable amount of money, with the Diamond Pickaxe being 2.21x a Grandmaster’s income. Almost all enchanting books are sold as well, with prices ranging from a measly 100 cookies for Aqua Affinity I and Respiration I to 1000 for Infinity I.
Other items being sold in the shop are potion ingredients and potions, but none of those even reach 500 cookies. So why is the combined cost so big? One thing: Heads. In one section of the store, mob heads and heads of (ex-)RoF Staff are sold for 10000 each. A few even cost 20000. This quickly adds up to 190 thousand cookies—explaining where the bulk of that money comes from. Still, that leaves another 80 thousand. What else is so expensive?
Turns out there’s a subshop: The Armory. In this shop, many different sets of custom armor are sold. They have various affects such as giving you more health at the cost of stealth, or higher speed at the cost of attack damage. Although currently closed, these cost 2500 cookies per set. A hefty sum, up to you to decide whether they’re worth the price.
The Master Temple also offers an upgrade in terms of services, offering everything the Exper’s Dwelling has along with 30 levels for the enchantment table. In many ways, it’s the highest level for all services.
The Armory was a later addition to the Temple, being added years after the Temple itself was originally released. Another section was also built but never properly implemented. Supposed to be a place where you would’ve been able to buy many different drinks and potions, it was scrapped before any real progress was made. Still, the physical shop remains in the server and can still be accessed by staff—it’s just been blocked off from regular players.
Fun fact—If a Master would want to buy one of each in the Temple, it would cost them 1217000% of their income.
The GRANDMASTER’S TEMPLE is without a doubt the most beautiful and architecturally impressive shop. It’s gigantic, grotesque, it leaves an impression. It’s one of the few places on RoF where a high render distance is required in order to be able to fully appreciate it.
The shop doesn’t live up to its building—It offers no services except a single level 7 enchantment table and only 10 items are sold in the shop.
Even though there are few, they certainly are expensive: The combined cost of the Grandmaster’s Temple shop is 165250 cookies, with items being on average 16525 cookies. The most expensive one is the Saturation Chestplate at 50000 cookies.
That sums up the non-prestige shops. The total cost of all items in the non-prestige shop is 449427 cookies—60% of that is from the Master’s Temple alone. 252 items are sold in total for an average price of 1783 cookies.
Remember that blog post I did some time ago about the richest player on RoF? Well, that player would be able to buy everything in the non-prestige shops—8.3 times.
This was part one of an analysis of RoF’s current shops. Join me next time when I analyze the prestige shops and the regular + prestige shops as a whole. I deducted all of this by making use of the RoF Shop Items spreadsheet. After Part Two has been published I will also post my spreadsheet which I used to make most of my calculations.
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