Wheat is the best all around, good all year. Per season, onions corn and kale have the best ROI. But if you don't have sprinklers yet, rice fields are easy and low maintenance.

I like that I don’t have to water my rice.

Sugar, wheat, potatoes, lettuce, onion, tomatoes, cotton are the ones I find myself low on the most.

Sugarcane, onion, and wheat are the ones that always run out for me.

Honestly, for quests, starpath, gifts, what have you, I find it useful to have some of everything planted. Truly, you will never know what you need until you need it.

So best money per day would be Spring: Strawberries Summer: Blueberries Autumn: Cranberries All of these crops allow multiple harvest making them the most reliable source of money.

Also hops in fall—turning them into pale ale doesn’t take much time, and you can harvest enough to usually keep brewing through winter ��

Starfruit are great in summer if you make them into wine.

I find peppers in Summer are cash money

Rhubarb gives the best profit per day in spring when preserved, but strawberries are great since you have more time for other things. Have 1 plant per preserve jar and your harvest/preserve completion will be in sync.

Red cabbage in summer. With the 10% speed boost fertilizer, you need 2 plants per preserves jar and you will have little production downtime.

Pumpkin is best in fall, hands down. Yes, you have to buy the seeds and replant, but your return from pickling it makes it far more profitable than cranberries and worth having to replant. You can't guarantee a third harvest with any fertilizer so no need to use it unless you want to harvest some wheat after your second harvest. If you can, plant 7 pumpkins for every preserves jar to keep your preserves jars running through winter and until your first strawberry harvest the following spring.

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.

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.

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.

These are my main crops to plant in bulk:

Spring- strawberry

Summer- starfruit

Fall- cranberries

Year 1 spring cauliflower, summer melon, fall pumpkin.

Put whatever you can in as many preserve jars first, then kegs. Then from kegs into cask if you can afford the basement.

It’s the berries that don’t require replanting and are excellent supplementations but not that profitable.

Selling crops gets you income instantly but you’re hurting yourself in the long run by not processing them as you should be. That’s why you can build sheds for processing large batches.

Preserves Jar

(It should be noted that these calculations only involve the value gained in terms of max profit; if looking at profit per day based on the time required, the preserves jar outpaces the keg regardless of the base value of the item (in every case except for Hops and Wheat) since the preserves jar has a much faster processing time.)

For Spring, I plant kale until the egg festival if I don't have strawberries, then strawberries after buying them at the festival with the kale money, ensuring I buy as many extra strawberry seeds as I can to have them for the start of next Spring rather than the middle.

For Summer, I plant blueberries, if I don't have access to the desert, or starfruit, if I do.

For Fall, I plant cranberries, if I'm sitting on a lot of money, or pumpkins, if I'm not, or whichever combination of them I can afford that fills my sprinkler capacity.

But eventually it's all ancient fruit all the time, once I have enough fruit lying around to sustain seed production for the whole farm. At which point, I plant them by Spring 7 and let them grow through all three seasons.

check out this profit calculator

i recommend getting the greenhouse and desert as fast as possible, i made the mistake of getting it really late and have hardly done anything in like year 7

Routinely available:

• Spring - potato, strawberry (festival on 13th, consider buying some extra for next year), cauliflower (more important once you have a significant number of kegs/jars)
• Summer - blueberry, melon (see cauliflower), hops (put in kegs for big profit)
• Fall - cranberry, pumpkin (see cauliflower)
• Winter - wild seeds (craft 4 items into 10 seeds, repeat u til final week of season, save some to jumpstart next winter - this is also the easiest way to get more leeks for George and horseradish for Krobus)

Rare seeds can be bought at the traveling cart each Fri/Sun in spring/summer. Plant on fall day 1. Can’t be processed, so eventually other stuff outpaces them.

Ancient seeds can be obtained several obscure ways. Plant in the greenhouse or on the island and they produce forever, or outdoors on spring day 1 for several harvests. Use seed makers to make more seeds. High priority for kegs.

Unlocking the desert lets you buy some more seeds. Starfruit is top priority for kegs, but ancient fruit regrows (and faster) after the usual wait.

Coffee beans are sometimes sold at the cart or dropped in the icy mine levels. Plant in spring or early summer to grow a bunch more beans, which can be replanted until you decide you have enough. Put in kegs for coffee to sell and/or drink yourself, Gus also sells a Triple Shot Espresso recipe.

Ancient fruit in greenhouse for constant money.

Starfruit in summer for cash boost.

Rare seeds sell for shitloads each as a base price. Just take ages to grow.

Winter seeds are a good way to keep crop spaces open, and give you plenty of forage to sell for winter money outside of fishing. Would reccomend most if you have sprinklers.

You dont really need to worry about Gold. You will soon be earning more than you can spend.

Seriously the game is super unbalanced. You need gold to get bigger barns & coops, but after getting them & some processing machines you start to earn millions.

Just have a go at growing everything & keep some of the produce to experiment on later when you have Kegs & Preserve Jars.

Spend time fishing in different spots. Go to the mine & see how you go without dying. Build chests & keep multiples of everything.

>!Use your first rare seed in the secret woods at the statue.!<

Strawberry, blueberry, and cranberry I believe.

The Traveling Cart has them on Fridays and Sundays in spring and summer.

For money prob melons for xp mushrooms and for both money and xp I would go with pumpkins

Be sure to max out your farming tools, farming level, lotus equipment, armour So then you can get more farming fortune to maximise profits

for some reason i find wheat way more profitable than any other crop, although i don't know if my trackers are messed up or what, it says 15-20m in biohazard armor

Every crop

Do you guys go for maxes out tools for each crops? And are the tools from contests (mathematical, melon slicer, ...) the best in the game?

Big fields of wheat. Just feels super satisfying to wield the scythe tbh. No honest answer as to why

I love busting open those giant crops and letting the little pieces rain down on me.

Cranberries!

100% on that blueberry sound effect.

I built my life on the potato grind. Never forget where you came from