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* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegacy'', ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfLegacy'', the mysterious continent of Avalon suddenly appeared, and the city of Initium was founded both to sell supplies to adventurers and to buy any treasure they come back with.
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* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', delving the sunken kingdom is a mainstay of the region's economy, including supporting niche industries like body recovery, tourism, and maintaining campgrounds. Slightly deconstructed in that the upper levels of the dungeon have been picked clean already, so most of the wealth is from searching for secret passages, harvesting monster parts, or trading with the orcs and outlaws that decided to live in the dungeon. Even more interestingly, a flashback with Marcille shows that Dungeons are a natural phenomenon. Building one, even a tiny one in a glass jar, will generate magic and spawn monsters. Falin reveals she's extremely good at it, even carefully cultivating a cave's ecology to be a self-sustaining source of magic. The economy is based on making dungeons, not just looting them!
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** Even more interestingly, a flashback with Marsillia shows that Dungeons are a natural phenomenon. Building one, even a tiny one in a glass jar, will generate magic, which will then spawn monsters. Farlyn reveals she's extremely good at it, even carefully cultivating a cave's ecology to be a self-sustaining source of magic. The economy is based on making dungeons, not just looting them!
** Even more interestingly, a flashback with Marsillia shows that Dungeons are a natural phenomenon. Building one, even a tiny one in a glass jar, will generate magic, which will then spawn monsters. Farlyn reveals she's extremely good at it, even carefully cultivating a cave's ecology to be a self-sustaining source of magic. The economy is based on making dungeons, not just looting them!
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* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'': The Adventurers Guild trains warriors and mages to prepare them for exploring ancient shrines and tombs, which is how they earn their living. Genie, Melissa, and Merril come [[CityOfAdventure to]] [[PunnyName Ophun]] in search of a mage for their travelling party (all they have is [[WhiteMagicianGirl a healer]]). Unfortunately for them, [[IneptMage Louie]] was the only one available.
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* ''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'': The Adventurers Guild trains warriors and mages to prepare them for exploring ancient shrines and tombs, which is how they earn their living. Genie, Melissa, and Merril come [[CityOfAdventure to]] [[PunnyName Ophun]] in search of a female mage for their travelling party (all they have is [[WhiteMagicianGirl a healer]]). Unfortunately for them, they wind up with [[IneptMage Louie]] was the only one available.instead.
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* Economy in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' works the same way, albeit [[{{downplayed}} to a lesser extent.]] Whenever Lina's strapped for cash, she'll sell merchants whatever she's looted from local bandits, or any treasure she's carrying, but doesn't have a need for. It helps that she actually has training in how to convert her loot into stuff with higher resale value.
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*''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'': The Adventurers Guild trains warriors and mages to prepare them for exploring ancient shrines and tombs, which is how they earn their living. Genie, Melissa, and Merril come [[CityOfAdventure to]] [[PunnyName Ophun]] in search of a mage for their travelling party (all they have is [[WhiteMagicianGirl a healer]]). Unfortunately for them, [[IneptMage Louie]] was the only one available.
*''Anime/RuneSoldierLouie'': The Adventurers Guild trains warriors and mages to prepare them for exploring ancient shrines and tombs, which is how they earn their living. Genie, Melissa, and Merril come [[CityOfAdventure to]] [[PunnyName Ophun]] in search of a mage for their travelling party (all they have is [[WhiteMagicianGirl a healer]]). Unfortunately for them, [[IneptMage Louie]] was the only one available.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': Whenever a ''TabletopGame/SpaceHulk'' appears in a system, it's usually followed by every local with a ship (and sometimes official factions like the Adeptus Mechanicus) to enter and loot the millenia-old technology. This is extremely stupid, as hulks are often used by tyranids and orks as transportation devices, making them aware of an inhabited system to eat/plunder nearby.
** The GaidenGame ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'' is located in a hive city, a kilometers-tall spire continually built up, so lower levels are full of archeotech and advanced weaponry that locals dig for. They're also full of mutants, outcasts and giant spiders.
** Similarly, a ''TabletopGame/RogueTrader'' is essentially an economy unto himself who can easily create his wealth out of plundering archaeotech and other ancient prizes in the setting's equivalent to dungeons both space-borne and planetary.
** The GaidenGame ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'' is located in a hive city, a kilometers-tall spire continually built up, so lower levels are full of archeotech and advanced weaponry that locals dig for. They're also full of mutants, outcasts and giant spiders.
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**The GaidenGame ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'' is located set in a [[MegaCity hive city, city]], a kilometers-tall spire continually built up, so lower levels are full of archeotech and archeotech, advanced weaponry and [[ScavengerWorld valuable raw materials]] that locals dig for. They're These levels are also full of mutants, outcasts and giant spiders.
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* ''Manga/DungeonMeshi''. Delving the sunken kingdom is a mainstay of the region's economy, including supporting niche industries like body recovery, tourism, and maintaining campgrounds. Slightly deconstructed in that the upper levels of the dungeon have been picked clean already, so most of the wealth is from searching for secret passages, harvesting monster parts, or trading with the orcs and outlaws that decided to live in the dungeon.
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* ''Manga/DungeonMeshi''. Delving the sunken kingdom is a mainstay of the region's island's economy, including supporting niche industries like body recovery, tourism, and maintaining campgrounds. Slightly deconstructed in that the upper levels of the dungeon have been picked clean already, so most of the wealth is from searching for secret passages, harvesting monster parts, or trading with the orcs and outlaws that decided to live in the dungeon.
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** RealityEnsues in the True Ending for the first game, [[spoiler:as the loss of the dungeon means that the inhabitants of the base camp town would drift off to other locations with the loss of a steady income of materials]].
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* Economy in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' works the same way, albeit [[{{downplayed}} to a lesser extent.]] Whenever Lina's strapped for cash, she'll sell merchants whatever she's looted from local bandits, or any treasure she's carrying, but doesn't have a need for.
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* Economy in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' works the same way, albeit [[{{downplayed}} to a lesser extent.]] Whenever Lina's strapped for cash, she'll sell merchants whatever she's looted from local bandits, or any treasure she's carrying, but doesn't have a need for. It helps that she actually has training in how to convert her loot into stuff with higher resale value.
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** Justified with Kraagor's Tomb. It was created to protect one of the Gate's preventing the end of the world and has very powerful magic that causes the monsters that inhabit it to regularly re-spawn. A colony of Bugbears has taken up residence nearby killing and taming the monsters for food and other supplies.
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* In Robin Hobb's ''Literature/RealmOfTheElderlings'', the Rain Wild traders make their living by trading artifacts found among the ruins of a mysterious forgotten Civilization.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' uses similar city mechanics to [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons its predecessor,]] though one nation in particular, [[ScavengerWorld Numeria,]] uses brings this trope out in full effect. Numeria is the site of a [[ImportedAlienPhlebotinum spaceship crash]] thousands of years ago, which scattered [[SchizoTech extremely advanced tech]] among the warring barbarian tribes in the area. The ship itself, later called the Silver Mount, has become the single largest economic factor in Numeria, as adventurers come from around the world to plumb its depths for unique, and often broken, equipment.
** Even non-adventurers have integrated this into their daily lives. One of the most popular pastimes in Numeria is shooting the ground and drinking the [[DisposableSuperheroMaker Numerian Fluid]] - which consists of brake fluid, engine coolant, or myriad other things - that bubbles up.
** Even non-adventurers have integrated this into their daily lives. One of the most popular pastimes in Numeria is shooting the ground and drinking the [[DisposableSuperheroMaker Numerian Fluid]] - which consists of brake fluid, engine coolant, or myriad other things - that bubbles up.
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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Whenever a ''TabletopGame/SpaceHulk'' appears in a system, it's usually followed by every local with a ship (and sometimes official factions like the Adeptus Mechanicus) to enter and loot the millenia-old technology. This is extremely stupid, as hulks are often used by tyranids and orks as transportation devices, making them aware of an inhabited system to eat/plunder nearby.
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* ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'': The world of the series being an MMORPG that suddenly became all too real for all the players, it's unsurprising that the only source of gold in the setting are monsters. The entire economy of Akihabara, once it's kick-started by more enterprising Adventurers, springs from monster-hunting and dungeon-raiding for money and high-level resources and artifacts.
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* In ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}'', a significant part of the Last City's economy depends on the [[PlayerCharacter Guardians]] going out into the wilds and recovering various items from either Golden Age ruins or humanity's myriad enemies. A particularly valuable resource is Glimmer, a programmable material used in nearly every industry in the City, which is often taken from old caches, enemy bodies, or Golden Age machines that mine out suitable matter to convert to Glimmer.
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** RealityEnsues in the True Ending for the first game, [[spoiler:as the loss of the dungeon means that the inhabitants of the base camp town would drift off to other locations with the loss of a steady income of materials]].
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has gone to varying lengths to justify this or not in its settings. The history of any given D&D world is packed full of fallen ancient empires rich in magic and gold, and while modern economies are largely self-sufficient, adventurers are a known factor who occasionally drag in hauls of fantastic wealth. The ''TabletopGame/TombOfHorrors'' novelization justified the dungeon-delving plot as an expedition funded by the nation of [[TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}} Nyrond]], [[SchmuckBait chasing rumors of ancient wealth]] after being impoverished by the Greyhawk Wars.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', the city of Stormreach bases a not-insignificant part of its economy on the artefact trade out of the ruins of the ancient giant civilization across Xen'drik, along with other forms of exploitation of the continent's resources. As a result, the people of Sharn back on Khorvaire also turn a pleasant profit from the Xen'drik trade (in both directions), as Sharn is the closest safe port to Stormreach.
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* The world of the Dungeon Divers storyline in ''Webcomic/ScenesFromAMultiverse''.
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** Even more interestingly, a flashback with Marsillia shows that Dungeons are a natural phenomenon. Building one, even a small tiny one in a coffee can, glass jar, will generate magic, which will then spawn monsters. Farlyn reveals she's extremely good at it, even carefully cultivating a cave's ecology to be a self-sustaining source of magic. The economy is based on making dungeons, not just looting them!
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* ''Manga/dungeonmeshi''. Delving the sunken kingdom is a mainstay of the region's economy, including supporting niche industries like body recovery, tourism, and maintaining campgrounds. Slightly deconstructed in that the upper levels of the dungeon have been picked clean already, so most of the wealth is from searching for secret passages, harvesting monster parts, or trading with the orcs and outlaws that decided to live in the dungeon.
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* ''Manga/dungeonmeshi''.''Manga/DungeonMeshi''. Delving the sunken kingdom is a mainstay of the region's economy, including supporting niche industries like body recovery, tourism, and maintaining campgrounds. Slightly deconstructed in that the upper levels of the dungeon have been picked clean already, so most of the wealth is from searching for secret passages, harvesting monster parts, or trading with the orcs and outlaws that decided to live in the dungeon.
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** Even more interestingly, a flashback with Marsillia shows that Dungeons are a natural phenomenon. Building one, even a small one in a coffee can, will generate magic, which will then spawn monsters. Farlyn reveals she's extremely good at it, even carefully cultivating a cave's ecology to be a self-sustaining source of magic. The economy is based on making dungeons, not just looting them!
** Even more interestingly, a flashback with Marsillia shows that Dungeons are a natural phenomenon. Building one, even a small one in a coffee can, will generate magic, which will then spawn monsters. Farlyn reveals she's extremely good at it, even carefully cultivating a cave's ecology to be a self-sustaining source of magic. The economy is based on making dungeons, not just looting them!
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* The human civilization of ''VideoGame/MegaManLegends'' relies on people known as Diggers to secure new power sources after the world's landmasses sunk under the oceans. It is fair to say that the economy and survival of a town rests on Diggers going into {{Precursor}} ruins to find energy crystals and bring them back intact.
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* In ''Literature/TheBookOfTheNewSun'' by Gene Wolfe, set JustBeforeTheEnd in a very, very far-future Earth, the planet has been inhabited for so long that "mining" is basically dungeon-crawling for artifacts.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Recettear}}'' You run the local item shop for adventurers who go out to dungeons. You get to follow them into the dungeon if you want to. Part of the story even involves how the dungeons work.
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->''"Oh, lordy me, yes! There's a new dungeon. This one has been said to hold new food and medicine for us! We must make haste to secure its treasures!"''
-->--'''[[WastelandElder Gesia]]''', ''Webcomic/HeroOhHero, [[http://neorice.com/hoh_344 Page 344]]''
DungeonCrawling is very dangerous, but also surprisingly [[MoneySpider lucrative]]. In some works of adventure fantasy, the dungeons are big enough business to support a whole town or civilisation. Either from the "tourism" money brought in by treasure hunters, or the treasure itself (or both).
This trope manifests differently depending on the medium. In some video games this can take AnEconomyIsYou to the logical conclusion; the player can invest wealth from the dungeon to improve the town's facilities, gradually building a tiny hamlet into a thriving town where, naturally, almost every business caters primarily to adventurers who explore dungeons. On the other hand, more narrative based settings involve towns situated over and around enormous dungeon complexes with thriving communities of delvers and associated businesses.
This often invokes some degree of FridgeLogic over where the dungeons come from if it isn't the source of an OntologicalMystery. The setting could simply be a ScavengerWorld or DeathWorld, where unexplored ruins are commonplace. Alternatively, a single dungeon (and/or the forces behind it) could turn a nearby settlement into a CityOfAdventure.
Often the result of a PlayerGeneratedEconomy or an RPGMechanicsVerse. If war breaks out, this might lead to an ArchaeologicalArmsRace.
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*''Manga/RuinExplorers'' derives its name from that concept. Local villages thrive off the exploits of brave adventurers, who sell them the relics, tomes, and treasure looted from ancient ruins. Merchants then sell those goods to scholars, collectors, or other adventurers.
*Economy in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' works the same way, albeit [[{{downplayed}} to a lesser extent.]] Whenever Lina's strapped for cash, she'll sell merchants whatever she's looted from local bandits, or any treasure she's carrying, but doesn't have a need for.
* In the world of ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', The dungeon works like a coal mine. Adventurers go into the dungeon and harvest the magic stones from monsters, which are then used by the guild to produce power sources for appliances and other purposes.
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* In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Jakku is a scavenger economy living off the remains of old battles. People travel the desert looking for derelict machine parts they can salvage and sell or trade for food.
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* {{Implied}} in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''. Ron off-handedly mentions in a letter to Harry that his eldest brother Bill makes his living breaking curses on Egyptian tombs for Gringotts Bank (implying that Gringotts then mines the grave goods).
* In ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'', the colony of Tranquillity was established near the remains of an ancient alien civilisation. Exploring these ruins for valuable artefacts is one of the colony's more lucrative industries.
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* The Ninth World setting from ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'' RPG is based around this concept. Growing up among the ruins of the previous eight great civilizations, the Ninth Worlders seek out their secrets (by crawling through said ruins) to build their own great civilization, piece by piece.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Alchemists}}'' the players are university researchers trying to develop new alchemical recipes. Buying magical artifacts and publishing alchemical theories is costly so the alchemists need to earn money to fund their academic endeavors. They can try to get grants or perform X-to-gold transmutations but the fastest way to get a lot of cash is to sell potions to the various adventurers who visit the town.
* ''TabletopGame/VaultWars'' is a spoof of ''Series/StorageWars'' where the players are entrepreneurs bidding on storage vaults left by adventurers who died while exploring dungeons. Some of the vaults contain priceless treasures the adventurers looted on their previous expeditions while others contain worthless junk. The players have been contracted by adventurer-wannabes who want to buy sets of equipment to start their own dungeon delving careers.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonBazaar'' the players are merchants who sell equipment to adventures seeking to explore the nearby dungeon. The equipment is actually salvage obtained from all the prior adventurers who died in the dungeon. Apparently the merchants have an "arrangement" with the dragon that lives in the dungeon.
* ''Stormbringer/Elric'' supplement ''Stormbringer Companion'', adventure "The Hall of Risk". A section at the end lists further adventuring possibilities, such as setting up businesses outside of the Hall to cater to adventurers going inside.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' adventure ''Parlainth: The Forgotten City''. The town of Haven was carved out of the ruined city of Parlainth. It is dedicated to servicing and supporting the adventurers who explore the rest of Parlainth.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Whenever a ''TabletopGame/SpaceHulk'' appears in a system, it's usually followed by every local with a ship (and sometimes official factions like the Adeptus Mechanicus) to enter and loot the millenia-old technology. This is extremely stupid, as hulks are often used by tyranids and orks as transportation devices, making them aware of an inhabited system to eat/plunder nearby.
** The GaidenGame ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'' is located in a hive city, a kilometers-tall spire continually built up, so lower levels are full of archeotech and advanced weaponry that locals dig for. They're also full of mutants, outcasts and giant spiders.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Recettear}}'' You run the local item shop for adventurers who go out to dungeons. You get to follow them into the dungeon if you want to. Part of the story even involves how the dungeons work.
* The ''VideoGame/{{FATE}}'' games concern a series of towns that developed around vast dungeons (at least one of them hypothetically infinite) in order to serve the adventurers.
* Played with and ultimately inverted in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. An otherwise normal village was made capital of its country because its local church housed one of the lords of Hell in a secret catacomb. The Prime Evil gradually corrupted the king, who bent the kingdom to ruin, but for a while, the town did well by selling to adventurers venturing into the church to fight demons. by the sequels, however, the demons had overrun the town and killed everyone.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The player inherits a hamlet beset by horrors unleashed by their ancestor and hires parties of adventurers to delve into their lairs and recover loot and family relics, used to upgrade buildings in the town.
*In ''VideoGame/TheEnchantedCave'', the town is explicitly based on serving the adventurers who come to loot the dungeon--which in turn was deliberately stocked with gold by a villain who can easily create it, in order to attract test subjects.
* ''VideoGame/AzureDreams'': all the economy is around the eponymous tower in the center of the town where adventurers gather to get their mons and some other materials that are obtainable there. The player has the capacity to literally use the dungeon economy to build up the town.
* In ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' the town of Gruberirk is built around this, as most of the economy comes and deals with items found in the dungeon. Basically it is where the [[{{Roguelike}} Ancient Cave]] lies.
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegacy'', the mysterious continent of Avalon mysteriously appeared, and the city of Initium was founded to both sell supplies to adventurers and to buy any treasure they come back with.
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* In ''WebComic/HeroOhHero'', the desert town of Rauel gets all its resources from the dungeons which spring up (traps, enemies and all) for 24-hours and disappear. It's so common that the townsfolk consider them a natural resource. [[spoiler: While it's routine, it can still be very dangerous, [[BreakTheCutie as the first chapter demonstrates.]]]]
* A town in ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' gets wind of adventurers coming and hurries to put price stickers on everything adventurers might be interested in buying before they arrive (including on an old guy in a rocking chair reading "cryptic ramblings from an old man").
* ''WebComic/{{Nodwick}}'' is all around this trope. Adventurers have the whole "bring everything nailed to the ground" mentality and the henchmen to carry it out. It is a plot point in some adventures. Not to mention the building where all the stuff gets sold is called the Tomb Depot.
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* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island Oak Island]], Nova Scotia, has an economy revolving around the Oak Island Money Pit, where (allegedly) Blackbeard or another pirate buried treasure long ago.
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-->--'''[[WastelandElder Gesia]]''', ''Webcomic/HeroOhHero, [[http://neorice.com/hoh_344 Page 344]]''
DungeonCrawling is very dangerous, but also surprisingly [[MoneySpider lucrative]]. In some works of adventure fantasy, the dungeons are big enough business to support a whole town or civilisation. Either from the "tourism" money brought in by treasure hunters, or the treasure itself (or both).
This trope manifests differently depending on the medium. In some video games this can take AnEconomyIsYou to the logical conclusion; the player can invest wealth from the dungeon to improve the town's facilities, gradually building a tiny hamlet into a thriving town where, naturally, almost every business caters primarily to adventurers who explore dungeons. On the other hand, more narrative based settings involve towns situated over and around enormous dungeon complexes with thriving communities of delvers and associated businesses.
This often invokes some degree of FridgeLogic over where the dungeons come from if it isn't the source of an OntologicalMystery. The setting could simply be a ScavengerWorld or DeathWorld, where unexplored ruins are commonplace. Alternatively, a single dungeon (and/or the forces behind it) could turn a nearby settlement into a CityOfAdventure.
Often the result of a PlayerGeneratedEconomy or an RPGMechanicsVerse. If war breaks out, this might lead to an ArchaeologicalArmsRace.
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*''Manga/RuinExplorers'' derives its name from that concept. Local villages thrive off the exploits of brave adventurers, who sell them the relics, tomes, and treasure looted from ancient ruins. Merchants then sell those goods to scholars, collectors, or other adventurers.
*Economy in ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' works the same way, albeit [[{{downplayed}} to a lesser extent.]] Whenever Lina's strapped for cash, she'll sell merchants whatever she's looted from local bandits, or any treasure she's carrying, but doesn't have a need for.
* In the world of ''LightNovel/IsItWrongToTryToPickUpGirlsInADungeon'', The dungeon works like a coal mine. Adventurers go into the dungeon and harvest the magic stones from monsters, which are then used by the guild to produce power sources for appliances and other purposes.
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* In ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', Jakku is a scavenger economy living off the remains of old battles. People travel the desert looking for derelict machine parts they can salvage and sell or trade for food.
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* {{Implied}} in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban''. Ron off-handedly mentions in a letter to Harry that his eldest brother Bill makes his living breaking curses on Egyptian tombs for Gringotts Bank (implying that Gringotts then mines the grave goods).
* In ''Literature/TheNightsDawnTrilogy'', the colony of Tranquillity was established near the remains of an ancient alien civilisation. Exploring these ruins for valuable artefacts is one of the colony's more lucrative industries.
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* The Ninth World setting from ''TabletopGame/{{Numenera}}'' RPG is based around this concept. Growing up among the ruins of the previous eight great civilizations, the Ninth Worlders seek out their secrets (by crawling through said ruins) to build their own great civilization, piece by piece.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Alchemists}}'' the players are university researchers trying to develop new alchemical recipes. Buying magical artifacts and publishing alchemical theories is costly so the alchemists need to earn money to fund their academic endeavors. They can try to get grants or perform X-to-gold transmutations but the fastest way to get a lot of cash is to sell potions to the various adventurers who visit the town.
* ''TabletopGame/VaultWars'' is a spoof of ''Series/StorageWars'' where the players are entrepreneurs bidding on storage vaults left by adventurers who died while exploring dungeons. Some of the vaults contain priceless treasures the adventurers looted on their previous expeditions while others contain worthless junk. The players have been contracted by adventurer-wannabes who want to buy sets of equipment to start their own dungeon delving careers.
* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonBazaar'' the players are merchants who sell equipment to adventures seeking to explore the nearby dungeon. The equipment is actually salvage obtained from all the prior adventurers who died in the dungeon. Apparently the merchants have an "arrangement" with the dragon that lives in the dungeon.
* ''Stormbringer/Elric'' supplement ''Stormbringer Companion'', adventure "The Hall of Risk". A section at the end lists further adventuring possibilities, such as setting up businesses outside of the Hall to cater to adventurers going inside.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' adventure ''Parlainth: The Forgotten City''. The town of Haven was carved out of the ruined city of Parlainth. It is dedicated to servicing and supporting the adventurers who explore the rest of Parlainth.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40K'': Whenever a ''TabletopGame/SpaceHulk'' appears in a system, it's usually followed by every local with a ship (and sometimes official factions like the Adeptus Mechanicus) to enter and loot the millenia-old technology. This is extremely stupid, as hulks are often used by tyranids and orks as transportation devices, making them aware of an inhabited system to eat/plunder nearby.
** The GaidenGame ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'' is located in a hive city, a kilometers-tall spire continually built up, so lower levels are full of archeotech and advanced weaponry that locals dig for. They're also full of mutants, outcasts and giant spiders.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Recettear}}'' You run the local item shop for adventurers who go out to dungeons. You get to follow them into the dungeon if you want to. Part of the story even involves how the dungeons work.
* The ''VideoGame/{{FATE}}'' games concern a series of towns that developed around vast dungeons (at least one of them hypothetically infinite) in order to serve the adventurers.
* Played with and ultimately inverted in ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}''. An otherwise normal village was made capital of its country because its local church housed one of the lords of Hell in a secret catacomb. The Prime Evil gradually corrupted the king, who bent the kingdom to ruin, but for a while, the town did well by selling to adventurers venturing into the church to fight demons. by the sequels, however, the demons had overrun the town and killed everyone.
* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': The player inherits a hamlet beset by horrors unleashed by their ancestor and hires parties of adventurers to delve into their lairs and recover loot and family relics, used to upgrade buildings in the town.
*In ''VideoGame/TheEnchantedCave'', the town is explicitly based on serving the adventurers who come to loot the dungeon--which in turn was deliberately stocked with gold by a villain who can easily create it, in order to attract test subjects.
* ''VideoGame/AzureDreams'': all the economy is around the eponymous tower in the center of the town where adventurers gather to get their mons and some other materials that are obtainable there. The player has the capacity to literally use the dungeon economy to build up the town.
* In ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'' the town of Gruberirk is built around this, as most of the economy comes and deals with items found in the dungeon. Basically it is where the [[{{Roguelike}} Ancient Cave]] lies.
* In the backstory of ''VideoGame/LegendOfLegacy'', the mysterious continent of Avalon mysteriously appeared, and the city of Initium was founded to both sell supplies to adventurers and to buy any treasure they come back with.
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[[folder: WebComic]]
* In ''WebComic/HeroOhHero'', the desert town of Rauel gets all its resources from the dungeons which spring up (traps, enemies and all) for 24-hours and disappear. It's so common that the townsfolk consider them a natural resource. [[spoiler: While it's routine, it can still be very dangerous, [[BreakTheCutie as the first chapter demonstrates.]]]]
* A town in ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' gets wind of adventurers coming and hurries to put price stickers on everything adventurers might be interested in buying before they arrive (including on an old guy in a rocking chair reading "cryptic ramblings from an old man").
* ''WebComic/{{Nodwick}}'' is all around this trope. Adventurers have the whole "bring everything nailed to the ground" mentality and the henchmen to carry it out. It is a plot point in some adventures. Not to mention the building where all the stuff gets sold is called the Tomb Depot.
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[[folder: RealLife]]
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Island Oak Island]], Nova Scotia, has an economy revolving around the Oak Island Money Pit, where (allegedly) Blackbeard or another pirate buried treasure long ago.
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