Because I always have to pin a major correction: Turns out fertilizer DOES work on multi-harvest crops. Where is DOESN’T work is when you get multiple crops per harvest, like blueberries or cranberries. In this case, only one of the crop will get the fertilizer boost. You’d think 600 hours in-game would be enough…
I never used fertiliser on multi-harvest crops because I assumed that fertiliser didn't affect them, both from experience with blueberries/cranberries and from your videos. Learn something new every day
You forgot that wheat can actually be used to make beer in a keg. It brews faster than pale ale and sells about 200g which makes it a pretty good money maker.
quoting Mr PenguinPanda on this one: Wheat, theoretically, is actually one of the best crops in the entire game. it makes 20x your initial investment compared to starfruit wine, making 7x your initial investment. The reason why barely anyone uses wheat though is because we should be judging something's profitability using profit per tile, for 2 reasons: 1 - a profitability percentage assumes you have infinite space, and don't care about how much the actual profit is. 2 - profitability percentage doesn't accurately rank profit; wheat will make you 190 profit when turned into beer and starfruit wine will make you 2750 profit. So in reality, wheat is actually not that profitable compared to other early game summer options like melons or blueberries. Even though it is faster, it's not as profitable as starfruit/melons if you are going the keg route and it's not as profitable as blueberries if you are going the raw route. Wheat is really useful for carrying over tilled land/fertilizers from summer to fall though. *EDIT: Looking back, I completely misunderstood your comment. I thought you said that wheat was one of the best money makers, but in reality you are just saying it's good, which I agree with. Sorry for being a dork and nerding out, I didn't mean to haha.*
You also get hay as a byproduct of harvesting. If you have lots of animals it’s a cheaper way of getting hay than buying it from Marnie (assuming you have no grass to scythe).
Wickedy! XD I play this with my Daughter since she was 7, and I'd go crazy! Tilling soil, planting seeds, watering, chopping trees, cutting weeds, necking coffee 24/7 .... only to realize at 7pm I hadn't seen her all game! "Eliza?!?! Where are you? I'm working here! What you up to?". She's in Pelican town, spending ALL our money on gifts from the saloon and handing them out willy nilly all day! Or redecorating her cabin in jojo wallpaper and lime green carpets! Goodbye profits! Then she'd hide my horse behind a tree, and I can hear her laughing from her bedroom hysterically! Drove me insane. She is amazing at fishing though! So I let her off.
Wheat will also give you hay, which you can feed to your animals. It's also a transitional crop, summer to fall, and can preserve your fertilizer across the season change. Very thorough!
Omgosh! I've been playing this game for years, logged over 1000 hours on my Switch (due to many nights I've stayed up until 5am telling myself "just 1 more day then I'll quit "). I'm learning today that tulips are an energy source in the first spring!
11:40 This moment, where Salmence was at a loss for a reason to grow radishes, inspired me to do a bit of a research-dive to prove that not only can radishes be economically viable, pretty much every lower gold-per-day crop with relatively lower growth times have a lot of money-generating potential, mostly depending on if you have tiles yet to fill on the farm. The gist is this: You make more money growing more crops at once, so if you can't fill a field with a bigger value crop, filling it with a smaller value one will result in a much bigger payout. If you can't fill 100 tiles with Starfruit then go for Radishes, essentially. Therefore, the use for Radishes then, is if you can't afford a bunch of Melons or Starfruit, but you can afford a lot more Radishes, they will make you more money in the long run. I wrote a guide on the math behind these ideas, with some graphs and calculations that prove the "why" more mathematically, but for the sake of shortening this comment (and also I think linking the guide directly will sink this comment a bit?) I'm just gonna go over the big ideas and concepts and save the guide in the first reply for those that want to check more in-depth with some visuals (the graphs help a lot in seeing how this stuff all works together, and what the GPD numbers themselves actually end up meaning in the grand scheme of things) And before I start, quick note: From now on I'll be shortening gold-per-day to GPD. Okay, so the radishes: Why bother with them? Radishes are much like crops like Parsnips, Kale, etc. where they don't have a ton of GPD, and they have a quicker growth cycles of 4-6 days compared to higher GPD crops like like Cauliflower and Starfruit. Starfruits are considered the most lucrative crop for good reason, as they have the highest GPD. However, the most important factor for generating cash through crops is noting that every tile of growing a crop effectively applies its GPD every day until it grows. Growing more Starfruit than Radish is more profitable, but if you don't have the money to completely fill your field's capacity with Starfruit due to budget constraints, Radishes can pull ahead for two reasons: The first reason is upfront investment into filling the field. Say you've got like, 100 tiles of farmland you're willing to tend crops on, and you've only got 2,000g to spend at the moment. Starfruit seeds are 400g, while Radishes are 40g. Therefore you can choose to either buy 5 Starfruit or 50 Radishes. Starfruit sell for 750g base quality (and since quality generally has the same distribution we can ignore its effect on price for the sake of this example), while Radishes sell for 90g per crop. Those 5 Starfruit sell for 3,750g by day 12, while the 50 Radishes sell for 4,500g by day 6. So it seems the radishes made a little bit more. But remember that these radishes grow 6 days in, and the Starfruit otherwise wouldn't be finished yet. You can then spend another 2,000g on another round of 50 Radishes to produce a second 4,500g. Subtracting the 2,000g buy-in of the Starfruit and the 4,000g buy-in of the Radishes respectively, the Starfruit earns 1,750g in 12 days, while the Radishes earned a whopping 5,000g in that same time using the same initial 2,000g starting investment. However, note that I mentioned a 100 tile field was ready to use. Only 50 of those tiles were used at once. This is the second way cheaper crops can pull their weight: Reinvestment. We'll jump back to the first 6 day harvest of Radishes with our 4,500g. Instead of buying 50 Radishes, we can instead reinvest as much as we can to fill all 100 tiles using 4,000g. After 6 days, the 100 Radishes sell for 9,000g. Adding on the leftover 500g after reinvestment, 2,000g was turned into 9,500g after 12 days using in total 100 tiles of land, a 140% increase of the ending wallet compared to the 3,750g the Starfruit route turned into. The reason the Radishes were able to produce so much more cash is due to the fact that its GPD was applied so much more often than the Starfruit. Tile for tile the Starfruit's far better, but if you've got the space you're pretty much always gonna make a whole lot more filling it all as much as you can. Therefore, Radishes make more money when you can't afford as many Starfruits, or other similarly high GPD and slower growing crops, instead.
I’d love to see the graph. But also, don’t regrowables fill the niche better assuming there are enough profitable regrowth periods? For example peppers cost 40 as well but sell for 40. It’s 5 days initial growing with 3 days regrowth, so you get harvests on 5 days after planting, then 8, and then 11 for 6000g, -2000 for seed cost for 4000g. One more growth cycle at 14 days and you’ve pulled ahead of radishes. So assuming you plant any time on or before the 14th to get 4 or more harvest, planting hot peppers net you more at the end of the month. I feel like this limits the use case to times where there won’t be enough regrowth periods, or when you need the money in your pocket ASAP(ie on day 6 you need 4500g from your 2000g investment). Radishes are great at utilizing tiles, but it seems they’d hit the limits of sprinkler capacity, or requiring the player to burn time and stamina recovery to keep the fields watered.
This is super cool!! Thank you for the explanation! I’ll definitely make use of them more now especially in early game. I’ve always used those quick-growing cheap crops as end of season filler; around the 20-21st of the season I do a big mining/fishing spree for gold then buy up as many parsnips or whatever as possible, and cover my farm in them. Massive cash boost then right as you’re buying seeds for the next season which is usually when I need the biggest amount of money all at once.
Sometimes, especially early game, you are limited more by your gold, and haven't designed the final size of your crop field yet, so I added one more column. Cheaper crops may have smaller gold per day, but you can buy more with the same amount of gold, so what I will be doing is dividing the gold per day over the price of the crop, then multiply by 100 just so it looks nicer, so kind of a return of investment stat... SPRING: Parsnip 18.75%, Potato 16.67%, Blue Jazz 9.52%, Cauliflower 9.89%, Kale 9.52%, Tulip 8.33%, Green Bean 11.11%, Rice -4.17%, Strawberry 11.67%, Rhubarb 9.23%, Garlic 12.50% SUMMER: Blueberry 26.25%, Corn 5.00%, Hops 22.50%, Hot pepper 27.50%, Melon 17.50%, Poppy 5.50%, Radish 21.25%, Summer Spangle 10.00%, Sunflower -12.00%, Tomato 19.00%, Wheat 40.00% (!!), Starfruit 6.75%, Red Cabbage 18.00% FALL: Amaranth 16.43%, Bok Choy 15.00%, Fairy Rose 3.75%, Pumpkin 17.00%, Sunflower -7.50%, Wheat 37.50%, Yam 16.67%, Corn 1.33%, Cranberry 7.92%, Eggplant 55.00%, Grape 26.67%, Beet 67.50%, Artichoke 55.00% DISCLAIMERS: This data is only useful if you plan to spend a fixed amount of money, as opposed to buying a fixed amount of seeds. All the provisos in the video still apply.
Keep in mind that while this is true there is also an element of energy efficiency here, in the first few days you are much more restricted by energy, watering all crops takes the same energy, making gold per day efficient crops in theory better.
@@playerpp3733I really like "gold per labor" crops myself. Until you have sprinklers, extensive crops other than rice or taro are annoying to maintain. What I look for in an early game crop is something that takes little effort to maintain per gold I receive and makes efficient use of my capital. Gold per day is a good rough measurement of this, but sometimes leads you astray.
Rice is a terrible crop if you buy the rice shoots to plant. However, the whole point of rice is that they're a 100% profit crop if you don't buy them. The rice shoots is a fairly common loot in fishing treasures, from grubs in the mines/mutant bug lair/skull cavern, and also artifact spots in spring. Then you plant your free shoots near a water source, meaning never having to water them, and in 6 days you have a free crop to do with as you please. As an added bonus they have a 10% chance of yielding an extra crop when harvested.
I love wheat for a few reasons: 1. It is actually a good money maker. It’s fast and efficient, and can be turned into beer for a hefty profit with a row of kegs. 2. It is easy to harvest (scythe instead of picking) 3. It produces hay for my animals, effectively saving 50g/hay in cost to buy 4. 1 trick I like to use is plant a field full of hay at the end of every season so the following season, I get to keep the tilled soil. And its cheap price makes this strategy viable.
Crop guide: I’m not including ginger island crops for this, any feedback is appreciated (I wasted so much time in this for no reason lol, you better use it) Spring: Parsnip: quick buck Potato: best g/d from Pierre Blue jazz: best spring honey booster (100->200) Cauliflower: low maintenance, but takes longer to get your money Kale: quick harvest and best xp/d Tulip: best energy early game (45 energy per 20g) Green bean: only regrowable crop in spring Rice: bad money maker, but with mill 18.3 g/d and you also don't have to water it Strawberry: highest profit spring but only obtainable at egg festival (13th), use speedgrow to boost g/d with +6 Rhubarb: sold in desert, highest g/d excluding strawberries Garlic: better parsnip (higher g/d, same growth time), needed for the Oil of Garlic (temporarily removes infested floors, swarms and removes all enemies in the mines) Summer: Blueberry: best g/d crop in summer, available from day 1, very good for preserves jars Corn: best used if planted summer day 1 and kept for the entire season of summer and fall, can be used to preserve fertilizer over seasons Hops: good amount of g/d and it’s the 2nd best crop for use in kegs, also gives the best xp/d Hot pepper: shortest initial grow time for summer, alright g/d Melon: better version of the cauliflower, long growth time, 2nd best g/d for crops in the summer, best for use in kegs Poppy: best honey in summer (100->380), best xp/d for single harvest summer crops Radish: only good if you have exactly 6 days left to plant Summer spangle: alternative to the poppy, costing half the price and increasing honey prices from (100->280) Sunflower: not worth it for money, good for making oil, preserves fertilizers over season change, if grown before fall, can be used as a honey booster for the first few days (100->260) Tomato: mediocre g/d, needed for 8 cooking recipes Wheat: cheapest crop in the game, good for a quick buck, or put in to a mill to double the g/d, and the wheat flour is required for 20 different cooking recipes, cheapest way to keep fertilizer over the season Star fruit: best g/d, tripled if put into kegs Red cabbage: useless except for the community center Fall: Amaranth: average g/d Bok Choy: quick buck, best xp/d for fall Fairy rose: largest buff to honey (100->680), needed for fairy dust Pumpkin: best for kegs in summer Sunflower: practically useless to plant in fall except if you need oil Wheat: the same as in summer Yam: only useful for community center Corn: best if planted in summer, no reason to in fall except for community center. Cranberry: best g/d for fall, good for putting into preserves jars Eggplant: required for community center, used for crafting survival burgers (+3 foraging) Grape: only if you forgot to donate it in the summer to the community center Beet: gotten from desert, put into mill for sugar (if normal/silver quality), (sugar is used for 18 cooking recipes) Artichoke: year 2 crop, .5 less g/d than pumpkins, but takes less time to grow Specialities: Coffee: spring/summer crop, use it in a keg for coffee Sweet gem berry: fall crop, takes 24 days to grow but sells for 3k, also needed for a starddrop Ancient fruit: spring/summer/fall crop, hard to get seeds, if you have enough, better than starfruit, tripled worth if put in kegs
I’m a year late but there is a huge benefit of parsnips you didn’t mention. I always save mine to make farmers lunch (1 parsnip, 1 omelet). It gives +3 farming so it’s great to eat one on big harvest day and see those gold veggies rain!
Gold star sells for more than no star or silver star. Also some bundles require gold star crops. I will typically put my base (no star crops) into preserves or keg to increase value edit also if you need to do your display for the festival where you display items gold star gets you more points. Luau adding gold star item will help too (I add gold truffle)
Thank you for making a one stop shop for all things crops. Much appreciated and you've helped reignite that "just one more day" passion for Stardew for me so thank you.
About blueberries/cranberries being good in preserves jars: In terms of the increase of money, they do give a larger proportional boost than more expensive options. However, how abundant they are actually works against using the berries in jars, since you need more jars to process the berries fully than you would need to process a slower-growing, single harvest crop that pays out more for each induvidual thing of jam.
Yeah. People are sleeping on putting cabbage and similar vegetables in the preserves jar for this reason. Sure it's not the greatest money gain possible, but creating a few dozen preserves jars and pickling a few dozen cabbages can net you a lot of money with only stone, wood, and coal to make the preserves jars. It isn't until you've ground out a shed full of preserves jars that it makes sense to plant a ton of corn and can all of it.
1.6 update: extra cranberries and blueberries can now be dumped into the dehydrator. Only a 1.5x +5 value increase, but each machine can handle 5 fruit per day. Counts as artisan, but has no quality.
Sunflower is actually really good when combined with garlic. Use sunflower to make oil. Get combat to lvl 6. Then make OIL OF GARLIC. OOG sells for 1000 gold
Actually red cabbage, if you can get over the trauma of obtaining it, is a pretty profitable crop to put in a preserves jar. I keep my starfruit for wine only.
Ive watched a lot of stardew guides since I’ve only been playing for a few months and so I can confidently say that your guides are the best! Very thorough and I find the charts so useful, thank you!
I put this on to watch in the background while I did some work. 4 minutes in and I had zoned out in such intrigue watching this. This video is so well done. The graphs, stats, charts, info, editing, it’s all so good. I had to put my self on lunch to complete watching this video. I recently started playing Stardew, and like every game I play, I HAVE to know EVERYTHING about the game to play because I hate missing out on gameplay. Especially sand box games like these. So I really appreciate the time and effort that Salmence put in this video. I am going to farm in Stardew so much more differently than before ❤
I totally love the intro to this video! The pacing was perfect for something informational like this. I learned more that feels like it will stick then the season guides. My question is are you interested in speed running or making videos breaking down the world record techniques in speed running the most popular categories?
At the moment that's completely out of my wheel house. I know next to nothing about the speed runs, but I wouldn't be opposed to eventually learning it!
I've played enough stardew to have a pretty good concept of all the crops and what they're good for, and even made myself my own spreadsheet, similar to these charts, back in 1.3, though I never got around to updating it with the 1.4/1.5 updates. However, I quite like watching this type of video, to see if there's anything I've missed or refresh myself on things- though I find a lot of guides to be incompatible with my playstyle, as they're often aimed at people intending to make the most amount of money, and tend to disregard less profitable crops. This was a refreshing change of pace from that, being thorough, easily digestible, and entertaining. Thank you very much- I'm sure this is very handy to newer players, and it's a very nice refresh for veterans. Also, that intro was 10/10, instantly had me hooked
Fertilizer doesn't go away after the first harvest, it goes away after the season changes. This can also be avoided by planting a multi seasonal crop, such as wheat or coffee. Speed grow doesn't affect multi harvest crops, but the fertilizers keep working.
To be honest, the best option is fiber seeds! They are all-seasons (which means you can maintain fertilizers through winter too!), work with established fertilizers, don't need watering, and can be used to make tea saplings for extra cash and tree fertilizer for wood and hardwood! That aside, I wish coffee was worth planting as a cross-seasonal crop... Sadly, compared to wheat, coffee is very suboptimal as a choice just to retain fertilizer; you're better off buying enough parsnips to cover the areas you want to retain the fertilizer and letting them die going into summer 1st. (80g for 4 parsnips vs 300g for coffee from Gus that the same 4 coffee beans could make in a keg.)
oh my god the avatar intro!!! I love it so much!! (also for anyone else curious about fertilizers when it comes to regrowable crops, it does affect every harvest. But for crops that produce more than 1 of the crop upon harvest, only one of the crops are affected. Speed-gro still only affects the initial growth time though.)
Thanks for this my dude, I've started the game a couple weeks ago and despite already having so many hours I don't get much of the farming mechanics at all. This has really helped me out though with understanding all the crops uses, so again a huge thanks for the video.
I loved the video, really well put together. I'd just like to make a little addendum to Artichokes, you can technically get them on Y1, mixed seeds during fall, or fall and winter in the greenhouse, have a small chance of growing into Artichokes, from there you can use a seed mixer to multiply them.
@@haileygiabiconi8830 I can only assume they’re using a mod that allows your pet to bring you gifts? I don’t think the wild cat cave mod includes seeds as a drop
Sal , your videos are the only reason i bought this game 5 days ago. You single handed taught me how to play this game. Thanks for your videos. without them , there was no way in hell i would have figured this game out . Cheers.
Youve become my favorite stardew YTer. All your vids are so well made and organized. I just started a new playthrough of stardew expanded and finished the community center in year one from your other guide. Just wanted to say thanks for making vids!
10:30 Hops are the 2nd best keg crop only when using deluxe speed-gro or higher on starfruit. Without speed-gro hops are the best money/day crop when using kegs.
Your videos have helped me so much playing this game! When I first started, I didn't even make it past spring because I was so frustrated. Thank you for making Stardew Valley fun for me again
Amaranth is worth a nice amount if you put it into preserves jars. With Artisan profession they become worth just a bit less than pumpkin juice, so you can grow them late season and preserve them over winter. Always worth some space on the farm. And yeah you do have a mission to grow some for Marnie. Even if it isn't loved, it's an easy liked gift for her. Also growing winter seeds to get crystal fruit that you can make into wine is a nice bit of extra profit in winter.
And just to break down the amaranth situation, you can grow 4 crops of amaranth in the same time as 2 crops of pumpkins. The amaranth takes 4000m to process into pickles and with Artisan profession each jar sells for 490G. The pumpkins take 6000m to turn into juice in kegs and with Artisan sells for 1008G. So you get 980G worth of pickled amaranth in a similar time. That's a pretty solid crop in my book, especially since I usually have more crops competing for keg space than for preserves space. Also, once pickled they're loved by Harvey.
I don't know where this misinformation is coming from, but 1:56 is incorrect. Fertilizer DOES affect later harvests, what it doesn't do is provide improved quality in cases where a single harvest yields multiple crops (berries, coffee beans, ...). Meaning that for example with coffee, your first (i.e. day 10) harvest will have one bean with the buff and 3 without, the next (day 12) will again have one bean with the buff and 3 without and so on. The mechanic you mentioned does not apply to multi-harvest crops, it applies to extra-harvest crops.
A note that rare seeds are viable with the seed maker strat if you plant them in the greenhouse or Ginger island. I normally grow my 6 to 8 rare seeds in fall, seedmaker all but 2 (one for the stardrop, and a gold to sell) and start the new growth in my greenhouse. I normally do a 3/8 split rare and ancient fruit dedication to start (rest being coffee) before transferring the greenhouse solely to ancient fruit. At this point I have a plot for repopulating my rare seeds for fall In ginger island, a plot for pineapples as my mining food of choice (eat gold, sell the rest), and everything else is star fruit or ancient fruit. This means I can feel good about dedicating the rest of the farm to the pretty crops and pure aesthetics rather than making money
You didn’t mention tea or the sessional crops seeds that you make with the random items that you find in the season. Also you can get ancient seeds by donating the ancient seed artifact to the museum. It’s probably the easiest way to get it unless you want to spend days putting stuff in the seed maker.
Yeah but you can only donate one ancient seed artifact and only get one plantable seed back. That's why people spend so much time putting ancient fruit in the seed maker for more: they've already used their one museum seed.
@@elizabethshaw7472 i do agree with that aspect at least. But I was more so referring to the (I think around 0.1%) chance to get the seeds from putting any type of crops in the seeds maker! There is a chance that the seed maker will “fail” and instead of making let’s say potato seeds from a potato it will make an ancient seed instead! And doing that is slower and more tedious than getting the artifact and then growing it to get more fruit to then turn into seeds!
You can get Artichokes in Year 1 by planting mixed seeds. I save all mixed seeds from Spring and Summer and plant them in the Fall just to get Artichokes early.
I bought 5 ancient fruit seeds from the travelling cart during year one spring. It produced all the way through the fall and I ended up with a good buffer of seeds for when I unlocked the greenhouse
Rice is not the only set and forget crop, so is wheat, I planted over 1000 wheat on the sand area of the beach farm and you never have to water them as you will always get 4 days of rain. Then harvest and sell as is or make beer to sell for a nice profit.
as an old veteran who hasn’t done a full playthrough in a few years (my last fp was at least three years ago on the Xbox version, lmao), this guide is very helpful for the farm I plan on starting to fulfill my nostalgia itch. It’s going to be fun seeing what new stuff there is in the game.
In my playthroughs so far, I've done spring: parsnips (with 2 cauliflower, 1 green bean, and 1 potato), then potatoes (with any wild seeds I get from scything weeds), and finally strawberries (with usually spring seeds and cauliflower gotten from completing bundles and donating stuff to the Museum). Made me a decent amount of money in year 1 - enough to upgrade my pickaxe by Spring 27 with a little over 6k gold left over the following day. I haven't gotten to summer yet, but I am planning on doing blueberries with at least 1 or two of the other crops needed for the summer crops bundle (fertilized of course).
You can also buy ancient fruit seed at the traveling merchen. In the file I play now, I got 2 in spring year 1! And the first one was before I donated it to the museum!
Love the avatar opening sequence!! I discovered your channel after you played haunted hide and seek with seanie yesterday, and I've been thoroughly enjoying your videos! Very informational and chill. Thanks!
Another thing about the flowers, first year there are alot of people for whom you will not have the loved gift for in the first year, and as you said for one of the flowers in summer, but actually applies to all flowers, they, with the exception of poppy, are concidered a universally liked gift, with only Clint, George, and Sebastian not liking them (and certain ones being partically liked by some characters) As Spring forageables aren't classified a flowers by the game, and Mayor Lewis birthday is the first one you go past being on the 7th of Spring and the Tuilp is a 6 day harvest, you should be able to have one ready for him if you plant it on the first day, and get some of that birthday friendship
Nice intro :D One thing that you should throw at the end of each skill is a short talk in their professions. If we are to become Master of the Five Skills, it helps to know the benefits to get after each mastering, doesn't it? ;)
quick tip! if you start donating artifacts and minerals to gunther you can get a starfruit seed relatively quickly so you can start growing a starfruit and turn it into more seeds early on
Radish shares a quality alongside with parsnips and wheat, you did not mention. It is not easy to explain, but really helpful for the beginning of a season: At the beginning of the new season, you have to hoe most of you spaces again. But if you had grow a crop, the space stays open, even if this crop withered. Then you just to have kill this crop with your scythe, what costs no energy and is much faster. But as this crop decays, you want to chose the cheapiest crop for that. For spring to summer the cheapiest crop to use for that trick is parsnips with 20 gold per space. For summer to fall it is a little bit complicated. If you had your last harvest on day 25, you should plant wheat. You will harvest it on day 1. Perfect! But later if you chose wheat, it wouldn't be ready on day 1 and you cannot destroy this crop in a fast way, if you want to plant your new crops right on day 1. Therefore you can chose the 2nd cheapiest crop of summer for holding your spot free: radish for 40g per spot.
This is a bit of a year 2 spring kind of thing but, green beans are one of the best energy sources in the game at that time if you need one. By then the level 7 friendship Clint recipe for Bean Hotpot is available. The recipe is just _two greenbeans only_ to take the item from two, small and slow 25 energy heals, to a whopping 125 energy heal instantly, a massive practical, _and_ value boost from thin air that is easy to make a bunch of with very low effort and time cost. If you have access to a Junimo hut, you can even clog all the trellis's in a blob since they can harvest through those tiles, especially with a few iridium sprinklers for it. When placed, it can reach around 250+~ trellis's around the Junimo hut, or ~750 bean hotpots over the course of spring year 2. The seeds will only cost 15k, even if we include the price of the jumino hut and the starfruit to build it, it's still ~4x as energy per gold efficient as buying that many salads.
If you harvest the greenbeans manually, it's 12x efficient to buying salads. 60g trellis gives 3 bean hotpots. 125 x 3 = 375 energy. 375 energy / 60g = 6.25 energy per gold. A salad is 113 energy for 220 gold, or 0.513 "epg".
Radish is usually the first crop I plant intended just for cooking. It's nice to see that money and space aren't such limiting factors anymore compared to spring and you can now start planting for other reasons than money, quests or the community center. Yams fit very nicely in a growing cycle with deluxe speed-gro. 3 rounds of starfruit, 1 round of wheat, 2 rounds of pumpkins and 1 round of yam.
I thought by mastering the 5 skills, you summoned Captain Planet who brings harmony to the world? Fun fact, I cleared the volcano first time eating crab cakes, ginger beer and eggplant parm. So grow tomatoes and use crab pots lol. Also keep lobster bisque for fishing legendaries. Fairy rose are also awesome for gifting. And poppy's if you were interested in Penny. Also taro root is the easier way to do 100 for Caroline on the board. If you stockpile tubers in advance. I waited until after I got the obelisks done and return scepter to begin growing on Ginger Island. Now I got large fields of star fruit and I placed a bunch of kegs by the frog cave.
if you set fairy roses up with deluxe retaining soil or a sprinkler and surround it with bee houses you get easy tons of money since the roses never die and it gives a use to the other side of your ginger island farm
Great video showing everything crop related! Could have gone through mixed seeds and seasonal seed packs (briefly since they give foraging xp), and showed winter and how it is the slow season for crop farmers.
Nice one, I really liked the Intro and all these lists :D You make the best Stardew content at the moment in my eyes. Just wanted to say that red cabbage is actually my favourite crop! I love its color, and it looks so delicious... I always finish my Community Center in summer/fall of year 2, I don't really get the cabbage hate :( for speed runners, okay, but that's literally not the intended playstyle at all. Wouldn't the game get boring super fast If you finished everything by Winter 1?? Just my two cents. :)
Putting cabbages in kegs or preserve jars isn't too bad either. And they grow faster than pumpkins, so you can get three crops in a season instead of two. But they do look beautiful, especially before you harvest them :)
Starfruit are de facto the best crop in the game. Ancient Fruit seem better because of not needing the 400g investment, but the wine you get from Starfruit is actually ALWAYS more profitable than the equivalent Ancient Fruit, even factoring in the 400g seed price. AF wine sells for 1,650 raw (no Artisan, no ageing), while SF wine sells for 2,250 raw. Subtract 400 and you have 1,650 vs 1,850. When aged and with Artisan, you're looking at 4,620 for AF and a whopping 6,300 for SF. That means that a Starfruit is actually 27.7% more valuable than an Ancient Fruit even when factoring in the seed cost. IIRC, I did the math before but don't have the numbers right now, a barn full of pigs is just barely more profitable than a greenhouse full of Ancient Fruit that you turn into wine on average. Your mileage may vary, but a greenhouse full of Star Fruit is actually even more profitable than a barnful of pigs.
There is at least one unmentioned crop, and that is fibre. It can be used to carry over feertilizer across any of the seasons, and it is one of the few crops able to be grown in winter. The other being wild winter crops.
Didn't even pay any tribute to the wild seeds though. I know they probably arent the most efficient but in winter its the only way to grow anything at all. I suppose since you cant control which one grows from the seed you cant really accurately put a "price per day" onem but still worth mentioning
Because I always have to pin a major correction:
Turns out fertilizer DOES work on multi-harvest crops. Where is DOESN’T work is when you get multiple crops per harvest, like blueberries or cranberries. In this case, only one of the crop will get the fertilizer boost.
You’d think 600 hours in-game would be enough…
I never used fertiliser on multi-harvest crops because I assumed that fertiliser didn't affect them, both from experience with blueberries/cranberries and from your videos. Learn something new every day
You forgot coffee beans.
600 is rookie numbers. But there are tons of misconceptions of the game out there, so I doubt anyone is going to give you slack for it.
Wow great suggestion. Then i can actually use fertilizer on ancient fruit for higher quality. Thanks a lot.
@@cuterabbit_2757 just use kegs
You forgot that wheat can actually be used to make beer in a keg. It brews faster than pale ale and sells about 200g which makes it a pretty good money maker.
Came here to say this, it is a nice extra cash if you have a few kegs laying around.
quoting Mr PenguinPanda on this one:
Wheat, theoretically, is actually one of the best crops in the entire game. it makes 20x your initial investment compared to starfruit wine, making 7x your initial investment.
The reason why barely anyone uses wheat though is because we should be judging something's profitability using profit per tile, for 2 reasons:
1 - a profitability percentage assumes you have infinite space, and don't care about how much the actual profit is.
2 - profitability percentage doesn't accurately rank profit; wheat will make you 190 profit when turned into beer and starfruit wine will make you 2750 profit.
So in reality, wheat is actually not that profitable compared to other early game summer options like melons or blueberries. Even though it is faster, it's not as profitable as starfruit/melons if you are going the keg route and it's not as profitable as blueberries if you are going the raw route.
Wheat is really useful for carrying over tilled land/fertilizers from summer to fall though.
*EDIT: Looking back, I completely misunderstood your comment. I thought you said that wheat was one of the best money makers, but in reality you are just saying it's good, which I agree with. Sorry for being a dork and nerding out, I didn't mean to haha.*
Also beer is a liked gift by Sam and loved by Shane.
You also get hay as a byproduct of harvesting. If you have lots of animals it’s a cheaper way of getting hay than buying it from Marnie (assuming you have no grass to scythe).
@@neokatwastaken hey this was helpful to read, don't be sorry
Omg this is a FARMING game? I've been doing it wrong this whole time. Thank you for showing me the error of my ways, I'll be forever changed.
It could also be considered a dating sim game 😂, or an RPG, really
Wickedy! XD
I play this with my Daughter since she was 7, and I'd go crazy! Tilling soil, planting seeds, watering, chopping trees, cutting weeds, necking coffee 24/7 .... only to realize at 7pm I hadn't seen her all game! "Eliza?!?! Where are you? I'm working here! What you up to?". She's in Pelican town, spending ALL our money on gifts from the saloon and handing them out willy nilly all day! Or redecorating her cabin in jojo wallpaper and lime green carpets! Goodbye profits! Then she'd hide my horse behind a tree, and I can hear her laughing from her bedroom hysterically! Drove me insane.
She is amazing at fishing though! So I let her off.
@@TheVanillatech very wholesome
@@TheVanillatechthis is why i read UA-cam comments
Honestly it's more of a do whatever tf you want simulator
Wheat will also give you hay, which you can feed to your animals. It's also a transitional crop, summer to fall, and can preserve your fertilizer across the season change.
Very thorough!
Yea I sometimes grow it in my greenhouse in the winter to get a chance at some hay boosts.
He mentioned that it keeps your fertilizer safe
And you can use it to make beer after you’ve keged all of last harvest and have empty kegs until next harvest
@@yes-sb9jlyear 2 beer farm is definitely the strat
@@VampguyN85hay isn’t expensive, 250 hay (1 silo) only costs 2500 g and you should have like 5k available in winter to last the full season
Omgosh! I've been playing this game for years, logged over 1000 hours on my Switch (due to many nights I've stayed up until 5am telling myself "just 1 more day then I'll quit "). I'm learning today that tulips are an energy source in the first spring!
WTF I JUST KNEW TOO💀💀
11:40 This moment, where Salmence was at a loss for a reason to grow radishes, inspired me to do a bit of a research-dive to prove that not only can radishes be economically viable, pretty much every lower gold-per-day crop with relatively lower growth times have a lot of money-generating potential, mostly depending on if you have tiles yet to fill on the farm.
The gist is this: You make more money growing more crops at once, so if you can't fill a field with a bigger value crop, filling it with a smaller value one will result in a much bigger payout. If you can't fill 100 tiles with Starfruit then go for Radishes, essentially. Therefore, the use for Radishes then, is if you can't afford a bunch of Melons or Starfruit, but you can afford a lot more Radishes, they will make you more money in the long run.
I wrote a guide on the math behind these ideas, with some graphs and calculations that prove the "why" more mathematically, but for the sake of shortening this comment (and also I think linking the guide directly will sink this comment a bit?) I'm just gonna go over the big ideas and concepts and save the guide in the first reply for those that want to check more in-depth with some visuals (the graphs help a lot in seeing how this stuff all works together, and what the GPD numbers themselves actually end up meaning in the grand scheme of things)
And before I start, quick note: From now on I'll be shortening gold-per-day to GPD.
Okay, so the radishes: Why bother with them? Radishes are much like crops like Parsnips, Kale, etc. where they don't have a ton of GPD, and they have a quicker growth cycles of 4-6 days compared to higher GPD crops like like Cauliflower and Starfruit. Starfruits are considered the most lucrative crop for good reason, as they have the highest GPD. However, the most important factor for generating cash through crops is noting that every tile of growing a crop effectively applies its GPD every day until it grows. Growing more Starfruit than Radish is more profitable, but if you don't have the money to completely fill your field's capacity with Starfruit due to budget constraints, Radishes can pull ahead for two reasons:
The first reason is upfront investment into filling the field. Say you've got like, 100 tiles of farmland you're willing to tend crops on, and you've only got 2,000g to spend at the moment. Starfruit seeds are 400g, while Radishes are 40g. Therefore you can choose to either buy 5 Starfruit or 50 Radishes. Starfruit sell for 750g base quality (and since quality generally has the same distribution we can ignore its effect on price for the sake of this example), while Radishes sell for 90g per crop. Those 5 Starfruit sell for 3,750g by day 12, while the 50 Radishes sell for 4,500g by day 6. So it seems the radishes made a little bit more. But remember that these radishes grow 6 days in, and the Starfruit otherwise wouldn't be finished yet. You can then spend another 2,000g on another round of 50 Radishes to produce a second 4,500g. Subtracting the 2,000g buy-in of the Starfruit and the 4,000g buy-in of the Radishes respectively, the Starfruit earns 1,750g in 12 days, while the Radishes earned a whopping 5,000g in that same time using the same initial 2,000g starting investment. However, note that I mentioned a 100 tile field was ready to use. Only 50 of those tiles were used at once.
This is the second way cheaper crops can pull their weight: Reinvestment.
We'll jump back to the first 6 day harvest of Radishes with our 4,500g. Instead of buying 50 Radishes, we can instead reinvest as much as we can to fill all 100 tiles using 4,000g. After 6 days, the 100 Radishes sell for 9,000g. Adding on the leftover 500g after reinvestment, 2,000g was turned into 9,500g after 12 days using in total 100 tiles of land, a 140% increase of the ending wallet compared to the 3,750g the Starfruit route turned into. The reason the Radishes were able to produce so much more cash is due to the fact that its GPD was applied so much more often than the Starfruit.
Tile for tile the Starfruit's far better, but if you've got the space you're pretty much always gonna make a whole lot more filling it all as much as you can. Therefore, Radishes make more money when you can't afford as many Starfruits, or other similarly high GPD and slower growing crops, instead.
I really appreciate this lol
I’d love to see the graph. But also, don’t regrowables fill the niche better assuming there are enough profitable regrowth periods?
For example peppers cost 40 as well but sell for 40. It’s 5 days initial growing with 3 days regrowth, so you get harvests on 5 days after planting, then 8, and then 11 for 6000g, -2000 for seed cost for 4000g. One more growth cycle at 14 days and you’ve pulled ahead of radishes. So assuming you plant any time on or before the 14th to get 4 or more harvest, planting hot peppers net you more at the end of the month.
I feel like this limits the use case to times where there won’t be enough regrowth periods, or when you need the money in your pocket ASAP(ie on day 6 you need 4500g from your 2000g investment). Radishes are great at utilizing tiles, but it seems they’d hit the limits of sprinkler capacity, or requiring the player to burn time and stamina recovery to keep the fields watered.
This is super cool!! Thank you for the explanation! I’ll definitely make use of them more now especially in early game.
I’ve always used those quick-growing cheap crops as end of season filler; around the 20-21st of the season I do a big mining/fishing spree for gold then buy up as many parsnips or whatever as possible, and cover my farm in them. Massive cash boost then right as you’re buying seeds for the next season which is usually when I need the biggest amount of money all at once.
Curious about your guide!
Holy mathematics Batman. Now im curious to give this a shot
You didn’t mention this but corn can also be turned into oil and it’s cheaper than the sunflowers. It’s pretty handy
But takes longer.
He did mention it lol
@@Guess-ky2ir No he didn't. Saw this comment before getting to that section and specifically listened for him to mention corn oil but he didn't
also sunflowers are renewable
@@usernametaken017not as renewable as corn
Sometimes, especially early game, you are limited more by your gold, and haven't designed the final size of your crop field yet, so I added one more column. Cheaper crops may have smaller gold per day, but you can buy more with the same amount of gold, so what I will be doing is dividing the gold per day over the price of the crop, then multiply by 100 just so it looks nicer, so kind of a return of investment stat...
SPRING: Parsnip 18.75%, Potato 16.67%, Blue Jazz 9.52%, Cauliflower 9.89%, Kale 9.52%, Tulip 8.33%, Green Bean 11.11%, Rice -4.17%, Strawberry 11.67%, Rhubarb 9.23%, Garlic 12.50%
SUMMER: Blueberry 26.25%, Corn 5.00%, Hops 22.50%, Hot pepper 27.50%, Melon 17.50%, Poppy 5.50%, Radish 21.25%, Summer Spangle 10.00%, Sunflower -12.00%, Tomato 19.00%, Wheat 40.00% (!!), Starfruit 6.75%, Red Cabbage 18.00%
FALL: Amaranth 16.43%, Bok Choy 15.00%, Fairy Rose 3.75%, Pumpkin 17.00%, Sunflower -7.50%, Wheat 37.50%, Yam 16.67%, Corn 1.33%, Cranberry 7.92%, Eggplant 55.00%, Grape 26.67%, Beet 67.50%, Artichoke 55.00%
DISCLAIMERS: This data is only useful if you plan to spend a fixed amount of money, as opposed to buying a fixed amount of seeds. All the provisos in the video still apply.
That's such a good idea! Yeah if you have more space than you can fill, this is definitely useful information!
Keep in mind that while this is true there is also an element of energy efficiency here, in the first few days you are much more restricted by energy, watering all crops takes the same energy, making gold per day efficient crops in theory better.
@@playerpp3733I really like "gold per labor" crops myself. Until you have sprinklers, extensive crops other than rice or taro are annoying to maintain. What I look for in an early game crop is something that takes little effort to maintain per gold I receive and makes efficient use of my capital. Gold per day is a good rough measurement of this, but sometimes leads you astray.
The main reason to grow multiple types of crops…….it looks far less boring and monotonous when you walk in your farm
Hail the capitalist monocultures😂
Rice is a terrible crop if you buy the rice shoots to plant. However, the whole point of rice is that they're a 100% profit crop if you don't buy them. The rice shoots is a fairly common loot in fishing treasures, from grubs in the mines/mutant bug lair/skull cavern, and also artifact spots in spring. Then you plant your free shoots near a water source, meaning never having to water them, and in 6 days you have a free crop to do with as you please. As an added bonus they have a 10% chance of yielding an extra crop when harvested.
I love wheat for a few reasons:
1. It is actually a good money maker. It’s fast and efficient, and can be turned into beer for a hefty profit with a row of kegs.
2. It is easy to harvest (scythe instead of picking)
3. It produces hay for my animals, effectively saving 50g/hay in cost to buy
4. 1 trick I like to use is plant a field full of hay at the end of every season so the following season, I get to keep the tilled soil. And its cheap price makes this strategy viable.
Worth mentioning that pickling vegetables increases their value significantly-pickled red cabbage is actually great for this.
ok but the intro looks great! mad props
do you mean mad crops
Crop guide:
I’m not including ginger island crops for this, any feedback is appreciated (I wasted so much time in this for no reason lol, you better use it)
Spring:
Parsnip: quick buck
Potato: best g/d from Pierre
Blue jazz: best spring honey booster (100->200)
Cauliflower: low maintenance, but takes longer to get your money
Kale: quick harvest and best xp/d
Tulip: best energy early game (45 energy per 20g)
Green bean: only regrowable crop in spring
Rice: bad money maker, but with mill 18.3 g/d and you also don't have to water it
Strawberry: highest profit spring but only obtainable at egg festival (13th), use speedgrow to boost g/d with +6
Rhubarb: sold in desert, highest g/d excluding strawberries
Garlic: better parsnip (higher g/d, same growth time), needed for the Oil of Garlic (temporarily removes infested floors, swarms and removes all enemies in the mines)
Summer:
Blueberry: best g/d crop in summer, available from day 1, very good for preserves jars
Corn: best used if planted summer day 1 and kept for the entire season of summer and fall, can be used to preserve fertilizer over seasons
Hops: good amount of g/d and it’s the 2nd best crop for use in kegs, also gives the best xp/d
Hot pepper: shortest initial grow time for summer, alright g/d
Melon: better version of the cauliflower, long growth time, 2nd best g/d for crops in the summer, best for use in kegs
Poppy: best honey in summer (100->380), best xp/d for single harvest summer crops
Radish: only good if you have exactly 6 days left to plant
Summer spangle: alternative to the poppy, costing half the price and increasing honey prices from (100->280)
Sunflower: not worth it for money, good for making oil, preserves fertilizers over season change, if grown before fall, can be used as a honey booster for the first few days (100->260)
Tomato: mediocre g/d, needed for 8 cooking recipes
Wheat: cheapest crop in the game, good for a quick buck, or put in to a mill to double the g/d, and the wheat flour is required for 20 different cooking recipes, cheapest way to keep fertilizer over the season
Star fruit: best g/d, tripled if put into kegs
Red cabbage: useless except for the community center
Fall:
Amaranth: average g/d
Bok Choy: quick buck, best xp/d for fall
Fairy rose: largest buff to honey (100->680), needed for fairy dust
Pumpkin: best for kegs in summer
Sunflower: practically useless to plant in fall except if you need oil
Wheat: the same as in summer
Yam: only useful for community center
Corn: best if planted in summer, no reason to in fall except for community center.
Cranberry: best g/d for fall, good for putting into preserves jars
Eggplant: required for community center, used for crafting survival burgers (+3 foraging)
Grape: only if you forgot to donate it in the summer to the community center
Beet: gotten from desert, put into mill for sugar (if normal/silver quality), (sugar is used for 18 cooking recipes)
Artichoke: year 2 crop, .5 less g/d than pumpkins, but takes less time to grow
Specialities:
Coffee: spring/summer crop, use it in a keg for coffee
Sweet gem berry: fall crop, takes 24 days to grow but sells for 3k, also needed for a starddrop
Ancient fruit: spring/summer/fall crop, hard to get seeds, if you have enough, better than starfruit, tripled worth if put in kegs
thank you!!
I’m a year late but there is a huge benefit of parsnips you didn’t mention. I always save mine to make farmers lunch (1 parsnip, 1 omelet). It gives +3 farming so it’s great to eat one on big harvest day and see those gold veggies rain!
Gold star sells for more than no star or silver star. Also some bundles require gold star crops. I will typically put my base (no star crops) into preserves or keg to increase value edit also if you need to do your display for the festival where you display items gold star gets you more points. Luau adding gold star item will help too (I add gold truffle)
Thank you for making a one stop shop for all things crops. Much appreciated and you've helped reignite that "just one more day" passion for Stardew for me so thank you.
About blueberries/cranberries being good in preserves jars:
In terms of the increase of money, they do give a larger proportional boost than more expensive options. However, how abundant they are actually works against using the berries in jars, since you need more jars to process the berries fully than you would need to process a slower-growing, single harvest crop that pays out more for each induvidual thing of jam.
Yeah. People are sleeping on putting cabbage and similar vegetables in the preserves jar for this reason. Sure it's not the greatest money gain possible, but creating a few dozen preserves jars and pickling a few dozen cabbages can net you a lot of money with only stone, wood, and coal to make the preserves jars. It isn't until you've ground out a shed full of preserves jars that it makes sense to plant a ton of corn and can all of it.
1.6 update: extra cranberries and blueberries can now be dumped into the dehydrator.
Only a 1.5x +5 value increase, but each machine can handle 5 fruit per day.
Counts as artisan, but has no quality.
Sunflower is actually really good when combined with garlic. Use sunflower to make oil. Get combat to lvl 6. Then make OIL OF GARLIC. OOG sells for 1000 gold
Actually red cabbage, if you can get over the trauma of obtaining it, is a pretty profitable crop to put in a preserves jar. I keep my starfruit for wine only.
Thanks for the tip! I refused to rush for year one completion, so this will give me plenty to do for year two.
@@slwrabbits JUNIMO HUT
Red cabbage is one of the only veggies that are better in kegs than preserves jars...
Ok so, Ancient fruit regrows every 7 days, And a keg takes 7 days to produce, thats just something i found as a "quality of life" thing
Sprinklers do work indoors, you can use them on the greenhouse and the slime hutch.
Ah, I should’ve specified in sheds or the house!
Ive watched a lot of stardew guides since I’ve only been playing for a few months and so I can confidently say that your guides are the best! Very thorough and I find the charts so useful, thank you!
THE INTRO THOUGH???
I put this on to watch in the background while I did some work. 4 minutes in and I had zoned out in such intrigue watching this. This video is so well done. The graphs, stats, charts, info, editing, it’s all so good. I had to put my self on lunch to complete watching this video. I recently started playing Stardew, and like every game I play, I HAVE to know EVERYTHING about the game to play because I hate missing out on gameplay. Especially sand box games like these. So I really appreciate the time and effort that Salmence put in this video. I am going to farm in Stardew so much more differently than before ❤
I totally love the intro to this video!
The pacing was perfect for something informational like this. I learned more that feels like it will stick then the season guides. My question is are you interested in speed running or making videos breaking down the world record techniques in speed running the most popular categories?
At the moment that's completely out of my wheel house. I know next to nothing about the speed runs, but I wouldn't be opposed to eventually learning it!
I've played enough stardew to have a pretty good concept of all the crops and what they're good for, and even made myself my own spreadsheet, similar to these charts, back in 1.3, though I never got around to updating it with the 1.4/1.5 updates.
However, I quite like watching this type of video, to see if there's anything I've missed or refresh myself on things- though I find a lot of guides to be incompatible with my playstyle, as they're often aimed at people intending to make the most amount of money, and tend to disregard less profitable crops. This was a refreshing change of pace from that, being thorough, easily digestible, and entertaining.
Thank you very much- I'm sure this is very handy to newer players, and it's a very nice refresh for veterans.
Also, that intro was 10/10, instantly had me hooked
I wish I could find more decoration inspiration that doesn't involve mods. I have played so much I no longer play for mass money. Lol
Fertilizer doesn't go away after the first harvest, it goes away after the season changes. This can also be avoided by planting a multi seasonal crop, such as wheat or coffee. Speed grow doesn't affect multi harvest crops, but the fertilizers keep working.
To be honest, the best option is fiber seeds! They are all-seasons (which means you can maintain fertilizers through winter too!), work with established fertilizers, don't need watering, and can be used to make tea saplings for extra cash and tree fertilizer for wood and hardwood!
That aside, I wish coffee was worth planting as a cross-seasonal crop... Sadly, compared to wheat, coffee is very suboptimal as a choice just to retain fertilizer; you're better off buying enough parsnips to cover the areas you want to retain the fertilizer and letting them die going into summer 1st. (80g for 4 parsnips vs 300g for coffee from Gus that the same 4 coffee beans could make in a keg.)
oh my god the avatar intro!!! I love it so much!!
(also for anyone else curious about fertilizers when it comes to regrowable crops, it does affect every harvest. But for crops that produce more than 1 of the crop upon harvest, only one of the crops are affected. Speed-gro still only affects the initial growth time though.)
Wait WHAT!? I can’t believe I’ve been interpreting that wrong this entire time
@@salmence100 haha, don't worry. I only realized how it actually worked after I got into challenge runs lol
Thanks for this my dude, I've started the game a couple weeks ago and despite already having so many hours I don't get much of the farming mechanics at all. This has really helped me out though with understanding all the crops uses, so again a huge thanks for the video.
Blue jazz is used in lucky lunches. It's very useful in skull cavern
The pumpkin is actually the best crop in the game, because its necessary for the most important recipe in the game, the jack-o-lantern
Always epic. Just got perfection on my save thanks to all your guises.
I loved the video, really well put together. I'd just like to make a little addendum to Artichokes, you can technically get them on Y1, mixed seeds during fall, or fall and winter in the greenhouse, have a small chance of growing into Artichokes, from there you can use a seed mixer to multiply them.
Pineapple seeds can also be given by cats! Had it happen twice on the same pre-island farm. Pleasant surprise!
How??
@@haileygiabiconi8830 I can only assume they’re using a mod that allows your pet to bring you gifts? I don’t think the wild cat cave mod includes seeds as a drop
The intro is actually so cool now i want to watch without stopping
The intro is absolutely great
Sal , your videos are the only reason i bought this game 5 days ago. You single handed taught me how to play this game.
Thanks for your videos. without them , there was no way in hell i would have figured this game out .
Cheers.
The intro alone had me! But, it was the content that kept me. I look forward to the next one. ❤
One of the best UA-cam introductions I've seen that brings a lot of nostalgia.
The intro alone has won you so many brownie points with me, I’m more than likely subscribing after this video.
Youve become my favorite stardew YTer. All your vids are so well made and organized. I just started a new playthrough of stardew expanded and finished the community center in year one from your other guide.
Just wanted to say thanks for making vids!
10:30 Hops are the 2nd best keg crop only when using deluxe speed-gro or higher on starfruit. Without speed-gro hops are the best money/day crop when using kegs.
Your videos have helped me so much playing this game! When I first started, I didn't even make it past spring because I was so frustrated. Thank you for making Stardew Valley fun for me again
Amaranth is worth a nice amount if you put it into preserves jars. With Artisan profession they become worth just a bit less than pumpkin juice, so you can grow them late season and preserve them over winter. Always worth some space on the farm. And yeah you do have a mission to grow some for Marnie. Even if it isn't loved, it's an easy liked gift for her.
Also growing winter seeds to get crystal fruit that you can make into wine is a nice bit of extra profit in winter.
And just to break down the amaranth situation, you can grow 4 crops of amaranth in the same time as 2 crops of pumpkins. The amaranth takes 4000m to process into pickles and with Artisan profession each jar sells for 490G. The pumpkins take 6000m to turn into juice in kegs and with Artisan sells for 1008G. So you get 980G worth of pickled amaranth in a similar time. That's a pretty solid crop in my book, especially since I usually have more crops competing for keg space than for preserves space. Also, once pickled they're loved by Harvey.
Artichokes are a really solid preserves jar crop as well.
I don't know where this misinformation is coming from, but 1:56 is incorrect. Fertilizer DOES affect later harvests, what it doesn't do is provide improved quality in cases where a single harvest yields multiple crops (berries, coffee beans, ...). Meaning that for example with coffee, your first (i.e. day 10) harvest will have one bean with the buff and 3 without, the next (day 12) will again have one bean with the buff and 3 without and so on.
The mechanic you mentioned does not apply to multi-harvest crops, it applies to extra-harvest crops.
Yup, I’m sorry about that. It comes from me misinterpreting “doesn’t affect multiple crop harvests” thing.
A note that rare seeds are viable with the seed maker strat if you plant them in the greenhouse or Ginger island. I normally grow my 6 to 8 rare seeds in fall, seedmaker all but 2 (one for the stardrop, and a gold to sell) and start the new growth in my greenhouse.
I normally do a 3/8 split rare and ancient fruit dedication to start (rest being coffee) before transferring the greenhouse solely to ancient fruit.
At this point I have a plot for repopulating my rare seeds for fall In ginger island, a plot for pineapples as my mining food of choice (eat gold, sell the rest), and everything else is star fruit or ancient fruit.
This means I can feel good about dedicating the rest of the farm to the pretty crops and pure aesthetics rather than making money
You didn’t mention tea or the sessional crops seeds that you make with the random items that you find in the season. Also you can get ancient seeds by donating the ancient seed artifact to the museum. It’s probably the easiest way to get it unless you want to spend days putting stuff in the seed maker.
Yeah but you can only donate one ancient seed artifact and only get one plantable seed back. That's why people spend so much time putting ancient fruit in the seed maker for more: they've already used their one museum seed.
@@elizabethshaw7472 i do agree with that aspect at least.
But I was more so referring to the (I think around 0.1%) chance to get the seeds from putting any type of crops in the seeds maker! There is a chance that the seed maker will “fail” and instead of making let’s say potato seeds from a potato it will make an ancient seed instead! And doing that is slower and more tedious than getting the artifact and then growing it to get more fruit to then turn into seeds!
@@The_hot_blue_fire_guy oh, I see what you mean
30 seconds in and this is already the highest production value Stardew Valley Video I've seen.
You can get Artichokes in Year 1 by planting mixed seeds. I save all mixed seeds from Spring and Summer and plant them in the Fall just to get Artichokes early.
I bought 5 ancient fruit seeds from the travelling cart during year one spring. It produced all the way through the fall and I ended up with a good buffer of seeds for when I unlocked the greenhouse
I buy 114 first 3 weeks of spring year one for 100g each 🗿
Rice is not the only set and forget crop, so is wheat, I planted over 1000 wheat on the sand area of the beach farm and you never have to water them as you will always get 4 days of rain. Then harvest and sell as is or make beer to sell for a nice profit.
as an old veteran who hasn’t done a full playthrough in a few years (my last fp was at least three years ago on the Xbox version, lmao), this guide is very helpful for the farm I plan on starting to fulfill my nostalgia itch. It’s going to be fun seeing what new stuff there is in the game.
I love the Avatar style intro!
Thanks it took forever lol
In my playthroughs so far, I've done spring: parsnips (with 2 cauliflower, 1 green bean, and 1 potato), then potatoes (with any wild seeds I get from scything weeds), and finally strawberries (with usually spring seeds and cauliflower gotten from completing bundles and donating stuff to the Museum). Made me a decent amount of money in year 1 - enough to upgrade my pickaxe by Spring 27 with a little over 6k gold left over the following day. I haven't gotten to summer yet, but I am planning on doing blueberries with at least 1 or two of the other crops needed for the summer crops bundle (fertilized of course).
You can also buy ancient fruit seed at the traveling merchen.
In the file I play now, I got 2 in spring year 1! And the first one was before I donated it to the museum!
My gosh since you posted the original guides I've wanted this. THIS IS PERFECT. Also the avatar intro got me laughing.
Amazing video, as always. Already looking forward to the later guides (such as combat, which i am bad at)
Me too! I'm swinging around a club and trying to earn fishing xp with crab pots. Could definitely use some tips.
Love the avatar opening sequence!! I discovered your channel after you played haunted hide and seek with seanie yesterday, and I've been thoroughly enjoying your videos! Very informational and chill. Thanks!
Another thing about the flowers, first year there are alot of people for whom you will not have the loved gift for in the first year, and as you said for one of the flowers in summer, but actually applies to all flowers, they, with the exception of poppy, are concidered a universally liked gift, with only Clint, George, and Sebastian not liking them (and certain ones being partically liked by some characters)
As Spring forageables aren't classified a flowers by the game, and Mayor Lewis birthday is the first one you go past being on the 7th of Spring and the Tuilp is a 6 day harvest, you should be able to have one ready for him if you plant it on the first day, and get some of that birthday friendship
Dude that intro was SO good~!
Poppy's are actually loved by Penny! So not universally hated. :)
Can I just say I love that intro, it's actually really good.
I freaking love this game. This video was so informational but there are still more things you can do like it’s never ending 🥰
I’m excited for Avatar: The Last Farmbender
The start was so perfect
Bro this guide is amazing!! I started playing again yesterday and this guide is extremely useful, thanks for the work man :)
This was really useful and I found out new information that I did not know before. Great job!
Nice intro :D
One thing that you should throw at the end of each skill is a short talk in their professions. If we are to become Master of the Five Skills, it helps to know the benefits to get after each mastering, doesn't it? ;)
Your opening cracks me up. Well done, glad I found your channel!
quick tip! if you start donating artifacts and minerals to gunther you can get a starfruit seed relatively quickly so you can start growing a starfruit and turn it into more seeds early on
Radish shares a quality alongside with parsnips and wheat, you did not mention. It is not easy to explain, but really helpful for the beginning of a season:
At the beginning of the new season, you have to hoe most of you spaces again. But if you had grow a crop, the space stays open, even if this crop withered. Then you just to have kill this crop with your scythe, what costs no energy and is much faster. But as this crop decays, you want to chose the cheapiest crop for that. For spring to summer the cheapiest crop to use for that trick is parsnips with 20 gold per space.
For summer to fall it is a little bit complicated. If you had your last harvest on day 25, you should plant wheat. You will harvest it on day 1. Perfect!
But later if you chose wheat, it wouldn't be ready on day 1 and you cannot destroy this crop in a fast way, if you want to plant your new crops right on day 1. Therefore you can chose the 2nd cheapiest crop of summer for holding your spot free: radish for 40g per spot.
This is a bit of a year 2 spring kind of thing but, green beans are one of the best energy sources in the game at that time if you need one. By then the level 7 friendship Clint recipe for Bean Hotpot is available. The recipe is just _two greenbeans only_ to take the item from two, small and slow 25 energy heals, to a whopping 125 energy heal instantly, a massive practical, _and_ value boost from thin air that is easy to make a bunch of with very low effort and time cost. If you have access to a Junimo hut, you can even clog all the trellis's in a blob since they can harvest through those tiles, especially with a few iridium sprinklers for it. When placed, it can reach around 250+~ trellis's around the Junimo hut, or ~750 bean hotpots over the course of spring year 2. The seeds will only cost 15k, even if we include the price of the jumino hut and the starfruit to build it, it's still ~4x as energy per gold efficient as buying that many salads.
If you harvest the greenbeans manually, it's 12x efficient to buying salads. 60g trellis gives 3 bean hotpots. 125 x 3 = 375 energy. 375 energy / 60g = 6.25 energy per gold. A salad is 113 energy for 220 gold, or 0.513 "epg".
Hahaha Nice intro! Great effect editing. And thx for the video that I also came to see about crops XD.
Got me mesmerised, wasn't expecting that
I can't tell you how much I appreciate that intro. 😅
The intro alone is worth a subscribe! good job fellow nerd!
Radish is usually the first crop I plant intended just for cooking. It's nice to see that money and space aren't such limiting factors anymore compared to spring and you can now start planting for other reasons than money, quests or the community center.
Yams fit very nicely in a growing cycle with deluxe speed-gro. 3 rounds of starfruit, 1 round of wheat, 2 rounds of pumpkins and 1 round of yam.
I do love your charts by the way! So organized 😁
I thought by mastering the 5 skills, you summoned Captain Planet who brings harmony to the world?
Fun fact, I cleared the volcano first time eating crab cakes, ginger beer and eggplant parm. So grow tomatoes and use crab pots lol. Also keep lobster bisque for fishing legendaries.
Fairy rose are also awesome for gifting. And poppy's if you were interested in Penny.
Also taro root is the easier way to do 100 for Caroline on the board. If you stockpile tubers in advance.
I waited until after I got the obelisks done and return scepter to begin growing on Ginger Island. Now I got large fields of star fruit and I placed a bunch of kegs by the frog cave.
if you set fairy roses up with deluxe retaining soil or a sprinkler and surround it with bee houses you get easy tons of money since the roses never die and it gives a use to the other side of your ginger island farm
Opening is sooo good 😂
That intro was FANTASTIC.
Great video showing everything crop related! Could have gone through mixed seeds and seasonal seed packs (briefly since they give foraging xp), and showed winter and how it is the slow season for crop farmers.
Thank you for all the help it’s made my experience so much better
You glossed over the most compelling reason to grow hot peppers! Getting that sweet, sweet Shane lovin!❤
What an epic and unique intro 👌
Nice one, I really liked the Intro and all these lists :D You make the best Stardew content at the moment in my eyes.
Just wanted to say that red cabbage is actually my favourite crop! I love its color, and it looks so delicious...
I always finish my Community Center in summer/fall of year 2, I don't really get the cabbage hate :( for speed runners, okay, but that's literally not the intended playstyle at all.
Wouldn't the game get boring super fast If you finished everything by Winter 1?? Just my two cents. :)
Putting cabbages in kegs or preserve jars isn't too bad either. And they grow faster than pumpkins, so you can get three crops in a season instead of two. But they do look beautiful, especially before you harvest them :)
Starfruit are de facto the best crop in the game. Ancient Fruit seem better because of not needing the 400g investment, but the wine you get from Starfruit is actually ALWAYS more profitable than the equivalent Ancient Fruit, even factoring in the 400g seed price. AF wine sells for 1,650 raw (no Artisan, no ageing), while SF wine sells for 2,250 raw. Subtract 400 and you have 1,650 vs 1,850. When aged and with Artisan, you're looking at 4,620 for AF and a whopping 6,300 for SF. That means that a Starfruit is actually 27.7% more valuable than an Ancient Fruit even when factoring in the seed cost.
IIRC, I did the math before but don't have the numbers right now, a barn full of pigs is just barely more profitable than a greenhouse full of Ancient Fruit that you turn into wine on average. Your mileage may vary, but a greenhouse full of Star Fruit is actually even more profitable than a barnful of pigs.
The format of this video and the intro ie top tier
The ATLA beginning of this video is all I needed to see to subscribe 😂❤️
I usually skip intros but this one was too good as an ATLA fan so A+
I like planting the cactus plant in a pot inside as a nice decoration with a bonus of being a villager gift or profit.
That intro hooked me instantly!
This video is the biggest W. That intro was SS tier
I put 100 hours into this game a couple years ago. Decided to jump back in and realized I forgot how to play efficiently. Thanks for the video.
Subbed for the intro! Fantastic job.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! It was like half of the production time of the video lol
@@salmence100 Lmaoooo
Bro I love the "Avatar The Last Air Bender" opening bro. FIRE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is really wonderful, one of the best Stardew videos I've seen. Eagerly looking forward to the upcoming guides. Thanks!
There is at least one unmentioned crop, and that is fibre. It can be used to carry over feertilizer across any of the seasons, and it is one of the few crops able to be grown in winter. The other being wild winter crops.
13:50 Wheat also can go in kegs to make beer for gifting or more profit than flour - and has a chance to drop hay for feed.
Didn't even pay any tribute to the wild seeds though. I know they probably arent the most efficient but in winter its the only way to grow anything at all. I suppose since you cant control which one grows from the seed you cant really accurately put a "price per day" onem but still worth mentioning