Currency sets the pace of progression in EFT. Your income depends on survival rate, map knowledge, and how efficiently you convert loot and crafts into value. Because every death risks a full reset, stacking money is quite hard.
In EFT, players trade both readily usable currency and valuable bartered items. Successfully extracting just one item can cover the costs of several raids, but a single failed raid can wipe out an hour of progress.
What Currencies Exist
Escape from Tarkov has three spendable currencies and two high-value items often treated like reserve wealth. All of them are slow to build without reliable routes and disciplined extracts.
- Rubles: The primary money for most Traders and the Flea Market. Hard to farm without consistent survival and safe loot chains.
- Dollars: Required by Peacekeeper. Early wipe they are scarce and usually come from quest rewards, sales to Peacekeeper, or limited trader exchanges.
- Euros: Used in select Trader offers and crafts. They trickle in through quests and favorable resales and tend to accumulate slowly.
- Physical bitcoin: A rare barter item and major store of value. Early wipes rely on lucky spawns, while steady supply comes only after building a Bitcoin Farm in the Hideout.
- GP coin: A rare barter token for useful trades. Drops are inconsistent, so collecting enough for barters takes time.
What is Currency Used For
Currency funds everything outside and inside raids. You buy gear from traders, repair and insure equipment, and mod weapons for better ergonomics and recoil control.
In raid, rubles matter for paid exits like Vehicle Extract where available. High-value items such as Physical bitcoin and GP coin can be bartered or sold when you need fast liquidity for builds, Hideout upgrades, or steady Flea Market activity.