Poring Coin System

Poring Coins are the server's second currency. Almost every monster can drop one, most events pay them, and Lydia in Prontera turns them into something useful.

Coins are an ordinary tradeable item. You can sell them, store them or hand them to a friend. Grinders can sell coins for zeny, rich players can buy them. Both sides get what they wanted.

Where coins come from#

Monsters. About 5 percent of kills drop a coin, on almost everything in the game. A Poring and a Baphomet have the same odds. No level requirement, no map restriction.

Three exceptions exist, all aimed at farm spots rather than at normal play:

1. Things that cannot fight back pay nothing.
2. Five crowd monsters pay 1 percent instead of 5.
3. Kills stop paying while you are away from the keyboard.

Everything else pays the full rate. The exact lists are below.

Events. Most events pay coins on top of their own prize. The Poring Invasion pays Golden Gamble Pouches instead.

Event	Coins
Find the Mushroom	2 per mushroom
Disguise	3 per round won, up to 30 per event
Reverse Race	20 to the winner
Zombie Survival	25 to the last one standing
Cluckers	10 plus an Old Blue Box
Poring Invasion	25 to whoever finishes the Poring King

The Reverse Race and Zombie Survival also roll a 5 percent chance at a supply pack and a 0.1 percent chance at a Hunter's Cache on top.

Seasonal events pay too. Christmas rings 10 to 15, Halloween 5 to 15, Valentine's chocolate 3 apiece, Uneasy Cemetery 10.

Voting pays Vote Points, a separate account-bound currency with its own shop. See Vote Rewards.

Monsters that pay nothing#

They stand still, they do not fight back, and most give no experience. Since 9 August 2026 they drop no coins.

Monster	ID	Mainly found
Ant Egg	1097, 1236	Ant Hell F1
Thief Bug Egg	1048	Prontera Culvert F1 to F3
Peco Peco Egg	1047, 1232	Sograt Desert
Hydra	1068	Byalan Island, Sunken Ship
Red, Blue, Green, Yellow and White Plant	1078 to 1082	fields and dungeons everywhere
Shining Plant	1083, 1878	fields and dungeons everywhere
Black and Red Mushroom	1084, 1085	Geffen Field 11, Byalan F2, Payon Field 1, Mjolnir
Thief Mushroom	1182	does not spawn in Pre-Renewal, listed for completeness

Where two IDs share a name, an event or guardian copy exists. Both are covered.

Monsters that pay 1 percent#

Five monsters that stand sixty to eighty deep on one floor and die in a hit or two. Only the coin rate moved. Experience, drops, cards, kill counter, quests and achievements are untouched.

Monster	ID	Mainly found
Thief Bug	1051	Prontera Culvert F2 (70) and F1 (30)
Thief Bug Female	1053	Prontera Culvert F3 (65)
Familiar	1005	Pyramids F1 (50), Mjolnir Dead Pit F1 (30), Ant Hell (40)
Tarou	1175	Prontera Culvert F2 (60), Mjolnir Dead Pit F1 (60)
Orc Zombie	1153	Orc Dungeon F1 (80)

Ant Hell's actual ants were left alone on purpose. Andre, Piere and Deniro have real health and real experience. The same goes for Eggyra, Spore and Plankton. The test was never the name, it was whether the monster fights back.

The AFK rule#

After 90 seconds without any action from you, kills stop paying coins. Moving, attacking, using a skill or item, or talking to an NPC resets the timer. Anyone playing normally never sees this rule.

Kills your homunculus or mercenary made on their own carry a second limit. They also stop counting after three minutes without a real change of position, which means ten cells or more from where you last stood. One click on the ground does not count, you have to arrive somewhere. Your companion resets neither timer, it runs its own clock.

An Alchemist who parks a homunculus and walks away stops earning coins after a minute and a half. An Alchemist who plays normally earns coins for every homunculus kill.

Both timers pause the same three things for companion kills: coins, autoloot and the kill counters. The drops still land on the ground and you can pick them up by hand. Everything restarts the moment you act or move.

What Lydia sells#

Lydia stands at /navi prontera 124/210. Four categories.

Scrolls and potions#

Item	Coins
Speed Potion 10 Box	5
LV10 Blessing Scroll	6
LV10 Agil Scroll	6
Life Insurance	10
Medium Life Potion	15
Regeneration Potion	15
Tyr's Blessing	25
Blessing Scroll 10 Box	60
Increase Agility Scroll 10 Box	60
Medium Life Potion 10 Box	150
Regeneration Potion 10 Box	150

Boxes cost exactly ten times the single item. Bulk saves clicks, not coins, on purpose.

Life Insurance does not revive you. Use it beforehand and it protects your EXP from death for 30 minutes. Ten coins well spent before an MVP attempt.

Wings and travel#

Item	Coins
Giant Fly Wing 50 Box	30
Green Butterfly Wing 5 Box	50
Blue Butterfly Wing 5 Box	50
Red Butterfly Wing 5 Box	50

Boxes and rare#

Item	Coins
Kafra Card	20
Barricade Repair Kit	75
Adventurer's Cache	80
Alchemist's Cache	140
Kafra Card Box (10 cards)	200
Veteran Hunter's Cache	200
Dead Branch 10 Box	250
Mysterious Dyestuff	500

The three caches are SecondWind RO's own mystery boxes. Adventurer's holds building supplies, Alchemist's holds brewing materials, and the Veteran Hunter's Cache is the endgame one with a guaranteed +7 Weapon or Armor Refine Ticket in its top slot. Euphy's ticket refiner redeems those.

The plain Hunter's Cache with the real Bloody Branch chance left the shop on 5 August. On a server with 1x MVP cards, a buyable box with unlimited supply was the wrong route to a Bloody Branch. It only exists as a 0.1 percent event prize now.

Big ticket#

Item	Coins
Reset Pass	350
Costume Ticket	400
Name Change Voucher	500
Gender Change Voucher	500
Field Manual 100%	600
Bubble Gum	1,000

The Reset Pass goes to the Reset Girl and covers stats, skills or both. The Costume Ticket pays the Costume Converter fee instead of a million zeny.

Hobota, the same shop for Mission Points#

Hobota stands next to Lydia at /navi prontera 127/213 and sells at one and a half times the price, paid in Mission Points from the Hunting Board. Points cannot be traded and the board hands out at most 210 a day, while coins keep dropping the whole time you play. He carries everything except the three caches and the name and gender vouchers.

Running both currencies beats either alone. Coins pile up while you play, points fill from missions you would run anyway.

Two more places that take coins#

Lydia and Hobota are not the only counters any more.

Dimonka at /navi prontera 189/181 builds 26 headgears. Prices run from 700 to 3,000 coins, and every hat wants gathered materials on top. This is the long goal to save for.

The Slot Machine in the Comodo casino at /navi cmd_in02 182/84 takes six coins a spin. Roughly one spin in three pays something back, and there is a one in ten thousand shot at a million zeny. Full odds on Comodo Casino.

Why nothing here makes you stronger#

Neither shop sells anything that affects a fight. No stat food, no equipment, no cards, no converters. A currency that drops from every monster and trades for zeny is a currency you can buy. The moment power sits on that shelf, the server has a pay-to-win problem.

So the shops sell convenience, cosmetics and consumables. A few items crossed the line and were pulled: elemental converters and stat food (players craft those, a shop undercuts them) and the Gym Pass (permanent weight capacity for a farmable currency).

Drop rate history#

Launched at 5 percent. Cut to 2.5 in late July while shop prices were being fixed. Back to 5 percent on 2 August. Since 9 August the rate stays put and the farm-spot exceptions above do the balancing instead. Coins in your pocket are never touched by any of this.