You get gold by mining gold veins. It’s common to find gold on creatures and in treasure chests, too.
You can store gold pieces in a [[treasure chest]], if you like. Gold is used to build [[:Installations#Statue|statues]], and can also be used to recruit specialized units and purchase goods from certain factions. Golden statues are a reliable and indefinitely-accessible way to seriously increase your population cap. Hoarding too much gold will attract [[: Bandit|bandits]].
Gold is also used to install high-end furniture (traning facilities that aren’t capped and high-Luxury beds & flooring) and is necessary for Demon Shrines, if your faction uses them. Once your faction reaches malovelence level 10, you can install a Throne for 500 Gold: it tends to aggravate hostiles, but sitting on it summons all creatures (or at least as many as will fit) in your faction to the room. As such, invader-accessible Thrones are considered the sporting choice before retiring your dungeon for online play.
Some units carry gold, but not many and not a lot of it. Building a solid defense will no longer farm gold from enemy dead. (Their settlements may have pleasantly-stocked treasuries, though.)
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