Is your Trade Squishy Dumplings deal fair?

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Where These Values Come From

Straight answer, because this is the thing most sites in this niche are cagey about: this is a hand-maintained list of 14 squishies across seven rarity bands. There is no live price feed behind it, no trade telemetry, and no daily automated review. Trade Squishy Dumplings publishes no trade data, so nobody has those things, and a site claiming otherwise is describing something that does not exist.

What the numbers are: our estimate of what a sensible trade looks like, kept internally consistent so that both sides of a deal are priced the same way. Mutated squishies are valued at a flat ×3.5 their normal estimate. The rarity band does most of the work, and the top-band numbers are the ones we are least confident in, simply because there is less to go on up there.

Use them as a guardrail against clearly bad trades, which is what they are good at. Do not use them as proof in an argument over a few percent. The full reasoning, including where the model breaks down, is in how our values are set.

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How we value trades (methodology)

Every verdict on this page comes out of one dataset, so it is worth being plain about what that dataset is and where it stops being reliable. It covers 14 squishies across seven rarity bands, from Plain Pork at the bottom to Cupid Dumpling at the top, and each entry carries a base value, a rarity band, and a demand trend. That is the whole model. There is nothing hidden behind it.

The band is the strongest signal. Values inside a band sit close together, and the jumps between bands are large. The jumps also get smaller as you climb: moving up from the Common band roughly triples your value, while moving from the Animal band to the Heart band does not even double it. Mutations are handled with a single flat rule, x3.5 on top of the normal estimate, applied identically at every tier.

The honest limitations: this game publishes no trade data, so these are consensus-style estimates rather than recorded clearing prices, and the top-band numbers are the ones we are least confident in simply because there is less to go on up there. A game update that changes how an item is obtained can also reprice it faster than any value list reacts, which is why the update log exists alongside the numbers. Use the verdict as a guardrail against clearly bad trades, not as a weapon in an argument over a 4 percent gap.

What a "fair trade" verdict does not mean

Fair does not mean identical. It means the gap between the two sides landed inside a tolerance band, and every tool here uses the same one: 5 percent. On a trade worth 1000 points, that band still permits a 50 point difference between the sides. The tolerance has to exist, because two piles of dumplings essentially never total the same number, but it has a cost that nobody warns you about.

The cost is that the band compounds. Take the unfavourable end of a 5 percent band on every trade and you keep about 95 percent of your value each time. Do that across six trades while climbing the rarity ladder and you keep roughly 74 percent of what you started with. A quarter of your inventory can quietly disappear into trades that every calculator called fair, without a single person scamming you.

The fix is not to demand perfect trades, which will get you ignored on the board. It is to notice which end of the band you keep landing on, and to make fewer, larger hops instead of many small ones. Every hop you skip is a spread you never pay. The profit calculator is built for exactly that: planning the hop before you make it rather than grading it afterwards.

When a big bundle is worth less than it looks

The volume offer is the one worth learning to price on sight. Someone stacks up eight or ten low-tier squishies against a single good item, and the offer looks generous because it is physically large. Your eye counts items. The calculator counts value. Sometimes those agree, and the interesting part is knowing when.

Run the arithmetic once and it sticks. Commons sit at 5 to 6 in our dataset, so ten of them come to 50 or 60. Against a Rare at 45 to 52, that is a genuinely reasonable offer. Against an Epic at 120 to 140 it is roughly half, and it would take somewhere between 20 and 28 Commons to get there. Against a Heart-tier squishy at 900 to 1100 the same pile is a rounding error: you would need Commons on the order of two hundred to match one.

So the rule is not "volume offers are bad". It is that a pile of low-tier items scales linearly while the rarity ladder does not, and the mismatch gets worse the higher the item you are trading for. Ten Commons for a Rare deserves a look. Ten Commons for a Heart is not a negotiation, and the pile also leaves you with inventory you must trade away again, paying the fair-band spread each time.

The volume trade does have a strong version, and it runs the other way. If you are the one holding volume and can find a partner willing to take a bundle in a single exchange, converting a pile of low-tier items directly into one higher-tier item pays the spread once instead of five times. On the arithmetic above, that is the cheapest way up the ladder we can see for a new player, and it is why the crafting recipes page exists.

Mutations: the x3.5 rule and where people misapply it

A mutated squishy is worth about 3.5 times its normal estimate here, and that multiplier is the same whether the item is a Plain Pork or a Cupid Dumpling. What changes enormously is the absolute premium. A mutated Common adds roughly 13 points on top of the base. A mutated Heart-tier squishy adds close to 2750. Same rule, completely different consequence.

This is where trades go wrong. Players internalise "mutations are worth more" and then treat every mutation as a similar-sized bonus, which makes a mutated top-tier item look like a reasonable thing to throw in to round out an offer. It is not a rounding item. At the top of the ladder, the mutation is usually the single most valuable thing on the board, worth more than everything else in the trade combined.

The reverse mistake is just as expensive during a swap: a mutated item and its normal twin look nearly identical on the board and keep the item count the same, so downgrading one for the other is the easiest last-second switch to miss. Check the mutation flag, not the item count, before you confirm.

Reading demand before you accept

Raw value is only half the picture. Each squishy also carries a demand label, and the WFL checker uses it: items we have marked as rising count for 1.15x their base and cooling items count for 0.90x before the two sides are compared. Those two multipliers sit 25 percentage points apart, which is five times the width of the fair band itself.

Be clear on what that label is, though. It is a hand-maintained field in our dataset, our own read of which way an item is moving. This game publishes no trade volume, so nobody has a measured demand figure, and anyone who tells you otherwise is inventing it. What follows from the label is a rule of thumb, not a finding.

The rule of thumb: given two items in the same rarity band, we would take the rising one even at a slightly worse raw price, because the thing that usually stalls a climb is being stuck holding something nobody currently wants. And if the raw calculator says fair while the WFL checker says lose, you are trading down a demand gradient. That disagreement is the whole reason both tools exist.

The ninety seconds that prevent most scams

Scams in this game are not clever, they are procedural, and they all share one requirement: they need you to move faster than you want to. The offer is expiring. They have another buyer. They are doing you a favour and you are being difficult about it. Time pressure is the tell, and it is present in every version of every scam on the board.

A player with a genuinely fair offer will happily wait ninety seconds while you check it, because they know the check will pass. So make those ninety seconds automatic rather than a decision you have to justify: run the offer through the calculator above, then read the board again immediately before you step onto the accept button, and confirm the tier and mutation state of every item rather than the item count.

Two rules cover the rest. Never send first, no matter how procedural the reason sounds, because a trade split into two steps has a gap in the middle and the gap is where your dumpling goes. And treat any duplication offer as a scam by definition: anyone who could actually duplicate rare squishies would already have unlimited ones and no reason to want yours. The trade safety checker and the duplication scam breakdown go through the specific patterns.

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Guide sections and value model last updated 2026-07-14. Values are community estimates, not official SGR Studios figures.