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).

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

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.)

check out this profit calculator

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.

These are my main crops to plant in bulk:

Spring- strawberry

Summer- starfruit

Fall- cranberries

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I have an excel sheet for what gives me the best price compared to what I put into it and when I can harvest it. I'd be willing to make a copy on Google Docs and share it with you if you'd like.

Spring - a bit of everything. I focus on potato’s mostly but strawberries are good from year 2.

Summer - hot peppers with a few rows of melons.

Autumn - cranberries

All three only need planting once and keep producing so it saves time and cost in the long run.

You can sub hot peppers with corn as that’ll grow over both summer and autumn but don’t have as much yield.

For Big Money

Spring...strawberries, cauliflower and potato's. Summer..melons, star fruit and cabbage. Fall... Pumpkins Green house... ancient fruit and star fruit.

It depends on your goals and resources.

Goals: Are you trying to complete Community Center bundles? Trying to max cash for Joja Community Development?

Resources: How much cash do you have? Do you have sprinklers? Upgraded watering can? Junimo huts? How much time effort are you willing to spend watering, harvesting, and replanting?

For example, coffee can be exponentially profitable, but it requires a big time and effort commitment: clearing land, planting more every time you harvest beans, so many plants to water and harvest, and replant.

Spring - potatoes and strawberries. Summer - blueberries, corn and hops. Fall- cranberries and pumpkins.

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.

Strawberry, blueberry, and cranberry I believe.

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

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

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.

Zucchini that you plant one time, and harvests two dozen every two days? And it sells for zero. Plus no one likes it, but there’s a quest to give one to every person?

Carrots, lemon trees, and lime trees. It would also be neat to see a giant head of lettuce.

Zucchini for sure! I want the gardening experience of growing way too much zucchini and having to give it away to everyone I see

I would love a flower bush - that grows and has multiple harvests. It would be so pretty outside and also on the greenhouse, sheds and house

Persimmon tree that’s the only one that has fruit in winter

Im asuming melon , cauliflower and pumpkin for normal ones but im guessing for fall rare seed is the best But for all go for ancient seed , super worth

As far as I know Strawberries for Spring, Blueberries for Summer and Cranberries for Fall. At leasts thats what I did all the time.