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.

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

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

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.)

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

I usually get sprinklers preset in my greenhouse like THIS: 4 iridium sprinklers in the center and quality along the sides.

• As I get Ancient Fruit seeds, I gradually begin filling out one of the 24 iridium sprinkler sections via the seed maker.
• In the other iridium sprinkler sections I plant Starfruit — if I can’t afford to buy all the seeds at the time, then I buy as many as I can and slowly propagate more via the seed maker. I turn the Starfruit into wine.
• As I get more Ancient Fruit, I begin to gradually replace more of the sprinkler sections with it until all 4 iridium sprinkler plots are full. (Starfruit makes more money, but it is also much more work intensive, and I would rather have the ease of harvesting AF 1x a week.)
• Along the sides I plant coffee beans (planting more as a I harvest beans) along one side and possibly Sweet Gem berries along the other. I have 3 kegs right in the green house that brew coffee in for triple shot espressos, and a chest to store extra fruit that needs to be processed, extra seeds, and extra coffee beans.

Anyway, I know there are many ways to run your greenhouse, but that is my system. 🤷🏻‍♀️🙂

I do Ancient Fruit, Sweet Gem Berry, Starfruit and Cactus Fruit. And maybe some other stuff. Starfruit and Cactus Fruit you can get at Calico Desert from Sandy. Sweet Gem Berry is actually easy to find, you can visit the Traveling Merchant near Marnie's ranch, she usually has a "Rare Seed" in stock. Grow that into a Sweet Gem Berry, but it does take an entire season. Ancient Fruit is harder to get, look in the caves or from fishing treasure chests for an Ancient Seed, donate it to Gunther and he'll give you an Ancient Seed to plant and a recipe on how to make Ancient Seeds.

I usually do blueberries or strawberries until i find ancient seeds.

Best is ancient fruit

By giving an ancient seed to Gunther (Ancient seed can be dropped by the enemies in the cave and by fishing etc.)

While I waited for enough ancient fruit seeds to fill up the whole greenhouse, I filled all other places in it with starfruit. Starfruit will not continue producing after maturity, but it's the best crop in terms of money. If you make wine with it and then age it in casks, it will give you a lot!

I would also include some hops, melon, and pumpkins, depending on how much processing capacity you’ve built up. Coffee beans also let you replant and turn one bean into a bunch. (Junimo huts recommended for coffee and hops harvesting.)

Looks about right for just raw produce! Sweet Gem Berries are also good in fall, though obviously it's hard to get enough of them.

Spring: Cauliflower, Rhubarb, Strawberry (the only exclusive spring crop you don't have to replant after harvest).

Summer: Melon, Starfruit, Red Cabbage, Blueberry

Fall: Pumpkin, Cranberries

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.

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.

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

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.

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