Fishing, collecting sea shells, picking up the seasonal forage items are all easy ways to make money starting out! The game does have a really slow start but once you level up some things the money will be rolling in!

Early game i get most of my money from fishing. Also yes. Thats how the game starts.

Foraging and fishing if you can sell it, sell it there will be more

Making your name the number tag of a high value item. Every time someone mentions your name, those items appear in your inventory. You can then sell those and get up to 5000g

Doing requests in the billboard is a good way to make money as well, plus sometimes you get to keep the items and level up your relationships with villagers :)

Farming, and process what you farm in preserve jars and kegs (check wiki for what is most efficient for this). Eventually you'll add casks to that mix. Pick Artisan for your level 10 farming skill. Nothing in the game can compare to the profit you can make with this approach because sprinklers, and later the "auto-harvesting feature" (don't want to spoil too much..), allow this to scale far beyond what other approaches can. So you make more money and most days use hardly any of your time to do it.

Fishing has a terrible profit-per-time-spent scale. Mining and selling ores and gems can make decent money, but it takes your whole day or you make nothing, and you can't really scale it up. So it's pretty solid early but not going to get you a golden clock without a very long grind.

For animals, pig truffles, golden cheese from regular cows, and eventually ostriches, are all pretty good money compared to the effort involved. Takes too much space to scale up, and definitely not worth the effort until you can afford auto-harvesters. But I like to supplement my farming with these.

I do truffles and coffee mainly but I’m not uber rich. I’m like upper middle class. I have a Junimo hut’s worth of seasonals that regrow a la strawberries, etc

Early game is fishing and tea tree saplings, later on is strawberries, blueberries, cranberries. Pigs, ancient fruit and star fruit wine when you can.

Well uhhh, mostly bombs inside skull caverns for iridium, also the mining level (5? Possibly 10) for +1 ore per vein really helps in the long term. Lucky days, plus lucky food, plus lucky ring, burglars ring for monster rerolls for iridium bars from bats, monster musk, crusader on infinity sword to take care of mummies and slime charmers ring so slimes dont do damage.

Edit: forgot about rabbits foot from the journal scrap.

Truffle oil, I make 75k a day on bad days. Even with winter and rainy days counted I make more per day than my ancient fruit wine.

Mostly 128 crystalariums making diamonds

Selling the tea sapling btw, not placing them for the tea, just making sure

Generally a pig will find one truffle a day at no hearts. But with every heart the chance it finds more increases. I generally never settle for fewer than 12 pigs.

Since no one else has said it, I'll mention fairy rose honey on Ginger Island.

Look, hold on a second, I've got a point to make.

Because, no, it's not the most money/space (especially the way I'm doing it), but it is good money. And- this is they key point- if you set it up as long rows, it absolutely curb-stomps everything else- ancient fruit wine included- in money per continual effort. Wine, you have to harvest the fruit (already more time-consuming than the honey), stick it in the keg, and then pick it up from the keg. Click click click, ancient wine.

The honey is one click, and you can do it at a full run.

Plus, it's just fun to run down the rows grabbing honey. It also leaves loads of time for making money in other ways.

Not sure whats the best, but I've made a killing with jam, Wine too. But, I find that wine takes a while, when I can just make far more jam in a shorter amount of time. But, I'm no expert !

Nope, you lose out on the dollars per day efficiency. It takes 56 days to double the value, but you make 1 bottle per week every week with the ancient fruit and keg.

Sure, casks are fun for the big one time payout, but if your interested in dollars per day invested, go straight from keg to bin.

For the main farm, ancient fruits make significantly more. One ancient seed can generate 10 ancient fruits with deluxe speed gro + agriculturist, which is 23,100g in a year. You can get 3 starfruits in summer and make 9,450g. The problem is that the best spring or fall crops make around 3,000g, making around 16,000g in a year, about 7,000g short of ancient fruits.

For the greenhouse/Ginger island, you can get 11-13 starfruits depending on deluxe speed gro and agriculturist, and it can make a bit more (40,950g for 13 harvests) than 16 ancient fruits (36,960g for 16 harvests). I do prefer ancient fruits more, because greenhouse/ginger island can generate ancient seeds for the main farm, and it's more convenient. And, I can grow enough starfruits for kegs with garden pots.

what? you definitely make profit from Starfruit

Ancient fruit + kegs never fails but has a long time building up

What I use (and remember that this is not the most efficient use of space) is as follows.

First, I organize everything so it's all the same thing as you go up and down. So I suppose it would be columns, rather than rows. First is a column of fairy rose flowers- I watered them manually, and you don't need to water them once they're grown, so no sprinklers, though it wouldn't be hard to place some while the flowers grow and place the bee houses after.

Then it's symmetrical, out from the column of flowers- a column of bee houses, an empty column to run down (featuring whatever flooring you like to help with sprouting rather than spreading weeds), then two columns of bee houses, with another empty/flooring column to the outside of that.

Each flower affects bee houses five tiles away. You can make my design a more efficient use of space by doubling up the columns of bee houses next to the flowers and using the row of flowers as a path to gather honey. I don't like to, because I'm clumsy and don't want to pick the flowers accidentally, and also because I like collecting at a full run, but everyone has their own playstyle.

Also, you can make significantly better use of the space than that, but I'm not aware of any options that both use the space more effectively and maintain the "run through like a honey-hungry madman" angle.

Starfruit or ancient fruit wines, both has it's own pros and cons.

But I achieved perfection in 2 years on my last run with the help of mainly starfruit, without going too crazy with the crops and production, so at least I can say it's proven if you want big money fast.

Okay here is how to get the most money from farming.

In spring: get as much cauliflower from the shop as you can,$80 to buy sells for $175 profit is $95 on average. (Use what I said in the spring one to everything else)

Summer: melons buy $80 sell $250 profit $170

Fall: pumpkin buy $100 sell $320 profit $220

Winter there’s nothing, work on mining and fishing. I really hope this helped

Fishing. When you can afford it get the next rod upgrade. First upgrade lets you put on bait for quicker catches.

Willy sells trout soup. On a good luck day eating that and fishing will be a little easier and the fish may be higher quality.

Fishing is a good way to get money early game!

Hey, Did the tips work out?

I make early money by foraging and fishing.

After I've stored a couple hundred sap, I'll sell all excess sap from cutting trees, as well as all the acorns etc (only early game, later I'll keep everything for crafting). It's not big money, but it helps early game.

Once you build a coop or barn, build mayo or cheese machines to process those items. Makes a big difference compared to selling raw items (although be aware for the shipping perfection, you need to sell a small milk and a small egg of each colour).

Look our for salmonberry and blueberry season, you can get a lot of berries on those days and make some quick money boosts.

I never sell wood, but I personally end up with a lot more stone than I need in early game. Once I hit a stack of 999 stone, I sell the excess (only early game, later I use a lot of stone for paths). If you aren't collecting stone quickly, then don't do this.

Fairy rose honey is a big money-maker in Autumn.

Keep an eye on the board at Pierre's. A lot of the time there are easy requests that will bring in cash. There isn't a penalty for not doing the quest, so I'll generally accept all the quests and see if I can get to it.

Fishing.

A fish might sell for 50g or something but you can do it while waiting for crops to grow and it practically does not limited to time. Time of the day only decide the fish you got.

Best way to make money would be Truffle Oil + Wine but it is for late game. No need to worry about it now.

The best way to make money early? Fish and probably tea sapplings 😅 i personally love chickens wich can be setup easy and are a permanent solution (while not the greatest - still decent) investmentwise a half pig y👍

Midgame i tend to go for wine

And post late game I go for post late game chickens 😉

Fishing, I always get the backpack by the fourth, I can get 2k a day in the early games from fishing.

Build a coop and make mayo, grow hops and make pale ale.

Make friends with Caroline and learn how to make tea saplings. Plant a couple, sell the rest. You make $500/sapling so it stacks fast in early game. You can get the recipe in the first in-game week if you focus on talking to her and giving her two gifts that she likes or loves

i mean the easy solution is just to plant more crops. build kegs and put those crops into the kegs. get animals, and make the eggs & milk into mayo and cheese. animals (specifically goats) are great early game money imo

I recommend doing a little bit of everything when you are starting out.

Tap trees, make honey; fish, mine, forage; Animals, Plants; Refine your goods before selling. Fish ponds.

Jars to make your crops into jams and pickles! I have enough to where I don’t even sell crops anymore just the products

Ancient fruit farming and making wine from it

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For the best sources of money in the game, there is a triangle of sorts: duration, complexity, and profit. The top 3 crops are Hops (turned into Pale Ale), Starfruit and Ancient Fruit (both turned into wine).

Hops make the most money, and are fairly easy to get going, but are very time-consuming and require a lot of machines to get the most from them. Starfruit are the most complex, but make a good profit for a moderate amount of time investment. Ancient Fruit make the least amount, but they are very low maintenance (both in time and care) once the engine is fully set up.

If you want a cheaters way to make heaps of money, make your name [857][857][857]. Every time someone says your name you get 3 tiger slime eggs. They sell for 8000g each. 

If you want to really take advantage of this, at the desert festival go and talk to a few characters. Find one that says your name (most likely lewis, sam or robin) and keep spamming the dialogue, because they will continuously repeat your name. 

You'll have millions in no time.

Otherwise, take the honest road and make ancient fruit wine

Farming high tier fruits and berries- throw them in kegs are preserver things, and sell! Smoking fish can also add up fast

I’ve been having a blast with mystic trees and mushroom logs in my latest 1.6 file. Fun, low maintenance, and it led to a surprisingly effective first year for me! Pickled purple mushrooms sell for a tonnnn

I imagine it could get nutty later on if you cover your whole farm in mystic trees(with heavy tappers!) and have your mushroom logs constantly pumping out purple mushrooms, but that has a pretty high cost of needing to craft mystic seeds.

Ancient fruit into wine

The more the better ( takes time to set up )

Collect as much foraging as you can. Become freinds with caroline. Craft tea saplings. Sell them all. At 500gold a peice you can make quite a bit. Hell turn some foraging into plants for even MORE tea saplings

Pickles, jelly, wine, pigs, mayo, aged cheese. I'm waiting for my first stash of iridium wine to come out now, that's gonna be killer.

Depends on how far along in the game you are

Early game I have a fairly small amount of crops, more about getting bundles done than money. I try and repair the beach "bridge" asap for extra forage cash and spend most of the time fishing. I'm saving up for strawberry seeds.

Progressing I switch to focus on farming as soon as I get quality sprinklers (iridium eventually, of course). Basically spending all my cash on seeds, saving for backpack.

With the bigger backpack I hit the mines while my crops are (mostly) automated.

"End game" being keg/jam sheds with ancient fruit from the greenhouse.

I know a lot of people max pigs for the truffle fortune, I just don't like dealing with em.

wine

Fishing is a big money maker for me; I’ve just reached winter of Year 1 and I have a whopping 213,880g total earnings and I’m sitting on 75,224g in my wallet. All of that is from fishing and multi harvest crops.

Early game, fishing is the moneymaker. Midgame, artisan goods are the moneymaker. Late game, ancient fruit wine is the moneymaker.

Fishing early is the way. Spend strategically. Process all of your animal product and crops (jars, kegs, mayo, and cheese). But, fishing year one is the best income for us regular gamers.

Fishing is ridiculous money early game

forage hardcore on day 1 for mixed seeds and sell whatever forage you dont need to pierre and get as many potato seeds as you can. day 2-5 fish until 2am each day and store all the fish in a chest at the dock, once you get the fishing perk for higher sell prices get a fiberglass rod and fish even more keeping chubs and selling everything else and use all the extra money from fishing for strawberry seeds and process all your strawberries back into seeds for day 1 of next spring. go to the mines on day 5 and try to get down by 10 levels each day ending at level 80 and hoard iron gold and quartz for when your farming level is high enough to make sprinklers then as soon as you can make them lay out like 20-30 sprinklers and expand those as far as you can and get started on making tappers after that to put on all your oak trees for mass producing kegs later. Get a shed and upgrade it and stuff every available space with kegs which fits about 173 per big shed and just keep building more keg sheds until you make wine as fast as you grow the crops to make into the wine and when you get a shit ton of cash just buy the ore and coal for more sprinklers, kegs and tappers and later on crab pots to line every body of water with them then process all the garbage through a recycling machine shed

My farm layout for 4 corners was both right corners as sprinklers, top left was a big row of sheds and bottom left was an oak orchard