Towards endgame you can fill every farmable tile with ancient fruit, only needing to replant once on spring 1 every year. No seed purchases necessary, just dump the first crop yield into a seed machine or whatever. Incredibly higher overall gains

Exactly. At the start of the game, you want your crops to be profitable, and quickly.

By the endgame, I want the most money per click, even if that means that a star fruit seed doesn’t earn anything for almost three seasons after planting (as iridium quality wine).

More work in the early game, and reduced space in the late game. Yeah, I can buy 20 beet seeds for the price of 1 starfruit seeds, but that also means the Starfruit takes up 95% less space.

If the iridium scythe had an enchantment that would replant whatever it harvests if you have the matching seed in your inventory would be a game changer for the late game

Maybe something to lock behind true perfection tbh

> in the time it would take to plant, harvest, and keg the starfruit

Your crops don't stop growing while your kegs are running. So over longer periods of time, you get some overlap, and it's more useful to just measure total income per period of time (without tying it back to which part started when).

The other thing is "I have 1200g to spend", which eventually you should have a lot more cash (in addition to limited space, as you noted). If you instead assume that you can afford a few hundred of any type of seed, and also that you have (say) 60 spaces open (in season, or in the greenhouse or on the island):

• 180 beet seeds (3600g) grown and milled gives 540 sugar (27000g). That's 650% profit, but only 23400g.
• 60 starfruit seeds (24000g) grown and kegged gives 60 starfruit wine (135000g, even without Artisan bonus). That's only 462.5% profit, but a total gain of 111000g.

Hops and coffee technically give more money per day than even starfruit, but only if you do more labor (especially coffee). I only do a certain amount of those, with coffee mostly saved to make triple espresso when the "100k of fresh food/drink" quest shows up. (You could also buy and/or grow/mill lots of wheat flour for bread.)

Well in my opinion

Spring: -Rhubarb(desert) -Cauliflower -Strawberry

Summer: -Starfruit(Desert) -Melons -Blueberries

Fall: -Pumpkins -Cranberries -Rare seeds (If you have collected a bunch in the prior seasons)

Are you artisan?

Edit: what is downvote for

This is probably the best tool https://thorinair.github.io/Stardew-Profits/

Assuming you make artisan goods, the simple answer is ancient fruit - Spring, summer and fall. If not, here is my recommendation.

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Spring: Strawberry jam - 1,930g or rhubarb jam - 1,172g per a plot.

Summer: Pale ale - 7,920g or Starfruits with deluxe speed gro - 8,340g per a plot.

Fall: Pumpkin pickle - 1,732g per a plot or 2,598 per a plot with deluxe speed gro.

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Spring - Strawberry is the best crop in spring, but seeds probably is not available at day 1. If that's the case, rhubarb, kale, potato, garlic jam/pickle will provide very similar gold. Even with strawberry, spring is pretty lackluster season in terms of profit.

Summer - Summer is by far the best season in terms of profit. As you see from the recommendation, summer crops make more than 4 times compared to spring or fall crops. Make crazy number of hops or starfruits and process throughout a year. Pale ale makes more gold than starfruits. But, it's labor heavy crop, and I would recommend starfruits, if you can purchase them.

Fall: Without deluxe speed gro from pumpkin, cranberry jam makes 50% more than pumpkin pickle. But, you need 5 times more jars to process 10 craberries than processing two pumpkins, and I don't think it's worth it. Or, if deluxe speed gro are used, gold are basically same, and pumpkin pickles need 1/3 of jars to process compared to cranberry.

https://stardew-valley-expanded.fandom.com/wiki/Crops

Here is the list of SDV expanded crops and their profit per day.

Starfruit and pineapples are objectively inferior to ancient fruits. But hops, if you regularly use them on kegs, they are more profitable than ancient fruit. If your goal is just money, if you don't care about variety, ancient fruit and hops are the way to go. However, starfruit can still be better to make aged wine. Blueberries and cramberries are great too if you don't have more room for processing crops

Wish there was a SVE version of that profits chart!!

Use basic/quality fertilizer when you plant crops. Increases the chance for higher quality produce.

Put normal quality crops into preserve jars for veggies and kegs for fruit, this increases their sell value. Sell gold crops and silver if you have plenty of normal quality to put into jars and kegs.

At somepoint Demetrius will talk at the start of the day and offer to turn a cave into something. Choose bats for some fruit to help with community center, but I prefer mushrooms. With shrooms you get a dehydrator that can take any 5 of mushroom except red and increase the sell vaule. Also works for fruit, if you have spare not goign into kegs.

Make tappers, just some wood and copper. Put them on non-fruit trees to get a little extra crop for crafting or to sell.

Remember to keep items for the community center bundles.

No need to horde everything early game. Keep wood, stone coal and fiber and enough copper, silver and gold for tool upgrades and crafting. Sell nearly everything else.

The quests on Pierre's noticeboard can also be a nice earner.

Finally fishing. Fishing is the best way to make money quickly. Once you have a spare 10K Willy sells plans for a fish smoker. So you can take one of those with a lot of coal when you go fishing and put your catch through the smoker to doubel the sell price (only put something worth over 100g in)

During winter rework your farm for any sprinklers you have and make/plant winterseeds and powdermelons. They can be a nice earner during winter.

One you get the bus working, make sure to buy the seeds at Sandy’s shop in Calico Desert. Those are worth the most. Ancient Fruit is worth the absolute most but you only get an ancient fruit seed by total luck of the draw in the mines.

year 1 no bus the best crops are

spring - potatoes and strawberries

summer - blueberries

fall - pumpkins and cranberries

use a dehydrator or preserves jars to process your crops for way more cash

fishing is also excellent for money in the first year

Crops alone aren't a huge money maker, especially early on.

The first weeks fishing is much better (up to 7000g per day with a bait maker at the mountain lake.

Depending on your gaming background skull cavern could be the next step (go to level 120 of the mines and complete the vault room in the community center with your fishing money). A lot of people seem to struggle with skull cavern, but if you play whatever game before that involved some fighting and don't completely ignore the guides out there, it should be easy and get you 30-90k on a good day.

If you strictly want to focus on crops, I would recommend growing ~190 kale or ~400 parsnip (plant all at the same time to profit from rainy days) plus the crops for the community center in spring. This allows you to reach farming level 6 and craft quality sprinklers.

Them you can go crazy on blueberries and cranberries/pumpkins in summer and fall (or starfruit if you unlocked the bus). Plant as many as you can craft quality sprinklers.

Later on ancient fruit and starfruit are the best crops. Starfruit are a little bit more reward and more effort.

It depends on the crops. For example apples take 10 apples to make one seed, which star quality sells for $1050. If you turn those 10 apples into jam they sell for $144 each, so multiply by 10 you're getting $1440 for those same 10 apples. From what I've generally seen bok choy and potatoes are usually better to turn into seeds, most things are better to persevere.

I'd also add to your consideration for his. Preserves jars are solely for turning things into profit. Seed makers are needed to continue your garden by making seeds. My seed makers are frequently tied up in making more seeds to plant in my garden and can't always be devoted to making profit. When you're later game and can afford tons of crafting slots then it won't matte as much since, but early game it does.

Then there's also the time factor to add in. Seed makers are often faster than preserves, but that also means needing to log in more often to keep feeding in crops, and that's not always possible for everyone.

All that to say the difference is usually very minimal. So minimal that for most the best thing to do is use what's available. Seed makers tied up in crops you need to replant? Preserve it. Preservers all tied up but nothing in your seed makers? Turn it into seeds. The small hit in profit from not doing the most optimal one is nothing compared to the hit in potential profit you will take by not having everything running.

I started the game recently and made a quick google sheet, here's the summary of what you need to do with crops:

https://preview.redd.it/mrx48fe96mbf1.png?width=419&format=png&auto=webp&s=6295336c5c015f3a9ad9b4d619113b75e139986e

I calculated based on the value for non-starred and starred crops, then how many crop for a seed and the difference of value between preserve jar or seed maker.

Sometimes it's not a big difference in money, but it's always more money anyway

There are spreadsheets out there because I believe it varies by crop - some you’re better off preserving. Hopefully someone else has a more recent one but here’s one that I have bookmarked in the meantime

Edit - wait this one is better than the first one

https://www.reddit.com/r/Palia/s/1Dcp96LuZa

The best passive profit i found are apples. Use preserves until you reach the gold limit of 1 mil then make seeds and store them, I store 1000 seeds. When you spend gold sell the seeds to cover the spent gold and replenish the storage back to 1000. This is what I found takes the minimum effort.

Kelp, watermelon and pumpkin. I started a new world and had to compost all my pumpkins and melons as I was producing so much in the auto farms.

If they nerf bamboo because of you, won't they nerf the next thing you exploit?

They nerfed bamboo because of u? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Melons, probs

Moss, or melon (slices) with auto farms

Berries are basically your best friend.

Strawberries, blueberries, cranberries.

Ancient fruit is actually the best but it can be slow going to get your first full crop.

Sweet gem berries arent really worth the trouble IMO.

Spring: cauliflower Summer: blueberries/starfruit (wine) Fall: pumpkin (pickles)

Definitely strawberries, blueberries, cranberries. They don't have to be replanted and grow multiple berries per harvest.

Spring: ancient fruit. Summer: ancient fruit Fall: ancient fruit

I haven't tried all the crops but here are some profitable crops

spring: strawberries, cauliflower

summer: hops(for pale ale), blueberries, melon

fall: cranberries, pumpkin

so far those are the crops that I planted and made profit of

Looks like a user did this recently!! Thank you /u/shootingclouds ☺️

https://www.reddit.com/r/RootsOfPacha/s/tDzMUpqJa2

The cheaper crops like tomatoes, turn into juice then wine them vinegar (so much processing). The best thing I've found is pickling fish or your highest veg. That and turning any grain into beer

Ancient Fruit is the most profitable by far in the Greenhouse, and is marginally better than the best possible combination of seasonal crops outdoors. Once you have a lot of kegs to process stuff, Starfruit and Hops can come close, but they're still less profitable than Ancient Fruit and take a lot more work to maintain.

In the long run definitely ancient fruit since you don't have to keep replanting it and (once you have the greenhouse full) you don't have to set aside part of your harvest to make into seeds.

One link to answer all:

https://thorinair.github.io/Stardew-Profits/