Ranking Every Crop in Stardew Valley - Update 1.6
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- Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024
- Stardew Valley has tons of crops to choose from, including new crops from update 1.6. I'll rank the crops from every growing season based on overall profits and utility.
0:39 Ranking Criteria
2:09 Spring Crops
9:32 Summer Crops
18:09 Fall Crops
24:54 Winter Crops
25:32 Special Crops
29:02 Final Thoughts
What's the hate on scythe harvesting? When I learned an iridium scythe could harvest every crop I was soooooo happy. No more stupidly clicking every crop
mostly minmaxers hate it, it doesnt pause time during harvests like hand picking does so when your not playing casually its mostly just a time waste
Its especially amazing in multiplayer, in my opinion. Since crops usually pause time when harvested by hand, that however not being a thing in multiplayer, having the scythe is a literaly lifesaver and big timesaver in multiplayer
"Stupidly clicking every crop"
Why would you do that? I just hold down the A button.
@@brinta2868You have to on mobile. I know that the majority are on PC, but that's one reason you would click
@@hulkingowl
Okay then!
I started playing Stardew on iPad a long time ago but all I can remember is that fishing seemed impossible. And there was a lot of frustration with accidentally destroying things.
I've since played hundreds of hours on Switch, hence the mention of the A button.
One big upside of the 1.6 crops, especially the summer squash, is that they’re high energy. Salads had been a good benchmark for energy/gold, but squash beat them out. Available at a time when having a kitchen is questionable, they can be a lifesaver.
THIS, but for me it’s mainly carrots. You energy drains sooo fast early game, and since 1.6 carrots have been my go-to mining food, since they’re FREE, common, and low-maintenance (only 3 day growth time). Empathis on FREE since money is also a scarce resource eary game.
@@imok-x8t Carrots and Squash are both nice and actually have similar advantages but also some differences, both can be gotten free.
Summer Squash continues to give you more for a single planting since they are a multi-harvest crop, and after the initial growth period being double I believe the regrowth time is the same period of time. Which means you need to find less of them to keep yourself stocked up. It's slightly lower energy and health gained but actually higher sell value.
I'd argue that since it's low investment cost and fairly decent sell cost that Summer Squash is actually one of the better money providers beaten mostly by the things like the berries which give you multiples per harvest and are multi-harvest as well. Specially if you can get a decent supply.
I'd argue that for those that desire such things, the Carrot's all day buff to your horse speed is it's positive trade off, along with the fact that you first get it in Spring of Year one when your money is the tightest.
Is also nice that they were added to the remix bundles! A nice little refresher for older players 🥰
And the broccoli is the most expensive continuous vegetable! This is great because when you inevitably shift to kegs instead of preserves, you can still make use of your old preserves by planting some broccoli in your greenhouse to make pickles
It's an upside, but it's not that big. Mid-summer is when I typically stop worrying about energy, and I almost never run out of salmonberries by that point. It's definitely a bigger upside on slower runs and for newer players.
Justice for tulips!🌷We’ve all grown them in year 1 spring as gifts. You get a tulip, YOU get a tulip. EVERYONE gets a tulip!
I did grow a lot of them in my flowers and bees only game 😅
This sounds amazing! Do you do any other crops for the community center, or do you just go straight to flowers?
@@Kitadollx We definitely grow other crops for money and the community center. It’s just the last few days of spring when we’re like “ehh I COULD plant more parsnips, but tulips seeds are cheap too.”
4 days later…
Omg they’re so pretty with different colors… OMG 😱, it’s taking up 2 rows of inventory. I don’t have space for this and tomorrow is summer🤣
@@Kitadollx I went joja so straight to flowers. I did allow myself to grow other stuff in the greenhouse since bees weren’t an option there
I’m about to start year 3 on my first farm and I still haven’t gifted any flowers other than daffodils….i swear I don’t have a hoarding problem
None of this takes into account how important some of these crops are for gifting and for cooking, and sometimes for energy. Other than that, pretty reasonable ratings.
I agree. That’s a pretty big part of the game for me since I go for perfection. Alex is especially annoying since his only loved gifts are two dishes that are kinda hard to make. I grow lots of kale and amaranth just for the salmon dinner
Okay, something is REALLY off.
I was watching this at nigh 2 AM as one does, barely awake and this witch starts talking about me falling asleep and the timing simply CAN NOT be a coincidence.
As someone who uses list videos to fall asleep, I’m just really stoked to hear that I made it into “voice to fall asleep to” territory 💕
Check inside your walls.
I give coffee S-tier for the speed once you turn them into coffee. Also, if you get a bunch, it makes the Qi quest of selling 100,000g worth of food easy as you can just craft them into espresso.
Another thing that hops have going for them is that they are pretty decent for energy and health, especially considering how many you get with them having a daily harvest!
For gold per minute in the keg, coffee really can't be beat. I wish I didn't have to be around to put new coffee beans in every two hours though.
That's good idea to save up coffee for the Qi quest. Thanks for watching!
@@Kitadollx True, it's very labor intensive... if you don't have the automate mod 😆
@@Kitadollx What I did on a run or two was staggered the coffee plant harvests so I could get through all the coffee beans of the day in a single cycle. At the end of one two year run, I had the whole greenhouse full of them and had over half a million in Triple Shots (that I couldn't sell because my rules didn't allow it, heh)
I also had one run where I made millions with hops and pale ales. Took a lot of making kegs, but I eventually made enough of them to handle all my hops plants.
Automate mod for just this is also a great option if you can get past the feeling of not doing enough work for your earnings. Hehe
Easily S-Tier, simply due to the yield of the seeds that can be replanted. After two years of havesting only these in spring, build the keg shed, spending Winter making coffees, still have left over for four years later of daily caffeine use. By far, the easiest scalable crop production. The only reason I stop planting it, is because I am tired of harvesting thousands of beans.
Leah gives me coffee at least once a week
With the speed of scythe harvesting, I consider that a bonus. I'd also consider how many recipes the crop is used in for cooking.
Agreed! Especially if it's a good recipe. To me personally pumpkins would be S tier because my go-to mining bufs come from the pumpkin soup
It’s worth mentioning that rice, wheat, and beets can be milled into rice, flour, and sugar, if you have a mill, and that corn can be made into oil. I’m not sure how profitable these are, but at least you don’t have to buy them from Pierre!
Lol never knew beets could be turned into sugar. I just assumed sigar was the only thing you couldn't make yourself
I have no arguments with your rankings. The only additions I have is that I have pumpkin, corn, and beets for various dishes that I use regularly. I have just become a real fan of hops, I had no idea they regrow daily, for pre Ginger Island that is a huge bonus!
Many thanks for all this hard work. Im subscribing.
Best beginner guide to this game i have seen yet
I use parsnips in spring as universally liked gifts because green beans are annoying to me. But if we account for all seasons, eggplants is an insanely cheap gift that is universally liked. If you don't have any fruit tree going on, planting eggplants and not selling them all is a must!
First playthrough I went in completely blind to figure everything out myself. Once garlic was available, I filled up a massive portion of my field with them thinking "garlic is probably going to be an ingredient for almost every recipe, right? Right?!"
Another wheat apologist here! One thing I like doing with wheat is to plant a full scarecrow's coverage worth (I think it's about 260+ plants) on or before the first rainy day in summer. Then I just ignore them and wait until enough rainy days happen and then harvest. Really makes the trip to the chest to retrieve the scythe worthwhile at that scale, and gives my kegs something quick to process to make some decent short-term money. Can repeat through fall and use that same area for carrots or garlic in spring. Helpful in the first few years when you've got way more land than can be effectively utilized (especially on the beach farm with no sprinklers).
Interesting idea. I guess I've got some things to try with wheat. I have a hard time leaving things un-watered if it's sitting there, but maybe I can let it go knowing it's specifically the rain's job :)
Thanks for watching, and thanks for sharing the tip!
@@Kitadollx It can be very hard as the end of the season approaches and I have had to water them all by hand at least once before, haha. Btw, I absolutely love your content! Been great to hear a new voice in the Stardew RUclips world and your videos are very thoughtful and engaging. Keep up the great work we are here for it!
that's a very clever idea! I'm about to start a new farm, I think I'll try this; it feels like an excellent early-game project. You get the farming XP on land you otherwise wouldn't yet have the resources to exploit, without having to water, a slight boost in income with a cheap buy-in cost, and you build up a stock of hay before you've built your first silo so that when you get your first livestock you have a bit of feed laid by already.
This is also an argument for parsnips. Currently playing on the beach farms, planting 400 of them seems the easiest way to get farming XP in the first spring.
@@Storm-li1re What's your method for getting the ~$8000 needed ASAP before missing the rainy days? I'm always low on money in my first spring
Golden content. Love how this was made.
havesting with scythe >>>> without is so much faster and satisfying
Shouldn't you're arrows be going the other way than? The arrow usually points at the lesser value lol just saying
@@vsty7zthank u lmao
@@vsty7zI think they missed a comma: "Harvesting with scythe >> without, it's so much faster"
I love growing kale in spring so I can harvest it with the scythe
@@CrisChemical but picking by hand is faster
Ace list _exactly_ what I was looking for as a new-old player. One thing about sunflowers/seeds and corn - it’s pretty handy to have a small stock on hand during winter when it’s too cold for the pigs to find truffles outside for the oil maker. Prob not enough to push them out of c-tier as the cooking oil doesn’t even approach truffle oil re: gold and you’re prob better off just shipping the raw crops but I just like having the oil-makers active during those winter days so they are churning out something (anything!).
Thanks again for the list!
the oil thing is v valuable to me, esp if you do any cooking, truffles just seem like a waste of money to put into cooking, but sunflowers are the thing I gravitate towards in cooking oil
its nice for cooking too. who wants to pay pierre for oil!
@@Alison2436 agreed, so glad we can turn rice into vinegar now too.
Wheat got done dirty. One of my favorite crops, quick return, quick processing into beer which sells well and is a loved gift by many a town drunk, and I can plant massive fields of it at the end of summer that weren't used for blueberries to save myself having to hoe and water for fall. Plus all that extra hay you gather can be used for emergency stocking of your silos in winter, its a solid crop.
one of the best voices. it soothes the soul. it's the perfect, "stardew valley" vibe voice.
Tysm! You are too kind. Thank you for watching
I love how detailed you were with this! Really helped me as a new player
This was a fantastic video. You explained everything super well and it was relaxing and informative. Your voice is super calming 😅 I subscribed!
Aww 😊
I'm so glad you liked it! Thanks for watching and subscribing! 💕
One particular reason I would rank hot peppers and parsnips slightly higher-
Hot Peppers- as soon as you get a barn and a couple cows, hot peppers can become pepper poppers assuming you've gotten to 3+ hearts with Shane (Which by the way, hot peppers are a loved gift for the lad so it's trivial to get him to 3+ hearts assuming you grow even like 20 hot pepper plants) The +1 farming skill will more than pay for the profit loss of using the cheese in the early game before you have the throughput needed to process everything, and it's one of the few easy ways to get a +1 speed buff in the relative early game before you can crystalarium spam to get rubies for spicy eels from the desert trader.
Parsnips- You need both a coop and a barn for chickens and cows, but once again, having a decent number of parsnips on hand for when you want some Farmer's Lunches (+3 farming), which will net you a ton of extra cash for the same reason the pepper poppers help, just way more on harvest days. And it's not even like you need to make a ton of Farmer's Lunches, just for harvest days.
Obviously, both of these case points fall off in the late game, bonus farming level doesn't help you once you have enough processing throughput to handle your crop output, and you'll generally prefer spicy eel over pepper poppers for the +1 luck rather than the +1 farming, but in the early - mid game, they're pretty great imo.
Note- I don't think that it'd be enough to take Hot Peppers into A tier, but it'd be on the higher end of B tier imo, but imo, parsnips should escape D tier with their utility in making Farmer's Lunches.
In defense of Parsnips:
They fit in perfectly to a year 1 Parsnip > Potato > Strawberry crop rotation
They're a cheap easy crop to stockpile for gifts so you don't have to fumble through storage looking for specifically loved gifts in everyday situations
Their short growth time lets you fit them into the end of Spring 2 easily. When you harvest other crops late in the season you can often just fit in a Parsnip harvest before Summer starts.
I would give them a B
Everyone seems to forget that profit per day doesn't exist in a vacuum. With a 4 day cycle you get to reinvest that money sooner so the total crop count increases quicker as well. In that sense, if you run the numbers they're basically on par with potatoes in terms of profit. The real downside is having to tend to more crops, but imo that's negligible early game where you need money for SO MANY different things. You aren't saving up for one big purchase, you need a coop, you need a backpack, you need to expand your farm, you want to start cracking geodes, upgrade tools, etc. So having that quicker reimbursement is actually really valuable year one
The gave a good use in year 1 once? Wow amazing
@@saigesmart4167 Bingo. Later, flat profit/day is the most important stat, but when you’re still expanding your farm, it’s more important to look at the percentage profit/day.
@@itsgonnabeanaurfrommeassuming you're being sarcastic here but literally every single summer crop in the game is objectively outclassed by starfruit meaning by the logic of "who cares if it's only useful in year 1?" Every summer crop would be low tier. But year 1 is when money matters most so a really good year 1 crop is a good crop regardless of it's utility in future years.
Sunflowers are also the only flower that can be processed. Into sunflower oil. uping the sell value of normal and silver quality flowers. It processes in just 1 ingame hour meaning 24 per day, per machine. And since you HAVE to make an oilpress for truffle oil anyway you can just make it early and use it for sunflowers until you are ready for truffles. They deserve an easy B for that IMO.
I love sunflowers and I really tried to justify moving them up. You're right about being able to make oil. I just wish the process was easier. Running the sunflowers through the seed maker and then running them through the oil maker can be really time consuming. They are both fast processing methods, but also just slow enough that you kind of end up having to babysit them to keep them running. If it was an automated process, I'd definitely bump them up. Thanks for the great comment!
Well actually, silver quality sunflowers sell for 100g each, and so does sunflower oil, so it’s better to just sell silver quality without processing it, AND if you have tiller silver quality sunflowers are worth 110g each, meaning you’ll lose money if you convert them into oil and the oil does not (for some reason) get the artisan boost. So it’s only worth turning normal quality sunflowers into oil. (Unless you get lucky and get the sunflower to drop seeds and/or put the sunflower into the seed maker and get 2-3 seeds which you can then make into oil)
You regard them a B because you can stand around processing 24 in a day and sell them for a sad amount?
You don't have to run the Flowers through the Seed Maker first, you can just process the Flower in the Oil Press. You will be giving up the chance at multiple Seeds though. I actually forgot that there was a possibility of multiple seeds.
Gold star hops has been my sustenance before i unlock a good supply of cheese. Paired with their profitability, it really is amazing
Dude, I love your thorough approach and your calm/clear delivery.
On a personal list, I would bump up coffee beans because of the in-house source of Triple Shot Espresso
Love your work!
I love growing a lot of Sweet Gem Berries! Then I get a lot of money for very little work. I only sell the gold star ones and make seeds of the rest. I get a bit annoyed if I have to spend to much time harvesting and plantingn every day.
Tulips and Blue Jazz make cute skirts and are decent food for the mines, surprisingly.
Edited to add, all flowers make skirts when tailored. And Sunflowers go into the oil maker to make oil for cooking.
I like to tailor, cook and have variety. I grow all the crops. I like the giant crops for decorating too. I love the pineapples they are great mines food and free on Ginger Island, they dehydrate, jar and keg well too. I filled the completed community center with garden pots full of pineapples in one of my 1.5 files. I also love hops and wanted to point out that they are also good food for mines. Thank you for your video.
Thank you so much for this video!! It looks like you spent a lot of time making it and it turned out really good!!
I’m surprised by the ranking of wheat. It synergizes well with speed gro, and with just deluxe and kegging it’s about comparable to pumpkins for profit. If you’re profession switching or using the radioactive speed gro it’s actually the most profitable fall crop. I don’t usually go for it because of how labor intensive it is, but it’s perfectly viable and even ends up giving you a good bit of hay too.
I may have been a bit harsh on wheat. Good points and thanks for bringing them up!
Super quality video, underrated channel!
i slept at the middle of the video because i watched it at midnight and actually your voice is so sooothing and calm that makes me enjoy and fall asleep. but after i wake up i finished the video and surprised that you mention about sleep hahahah. great video
I absolutely love ur visions ur voice….especially ur voice❤ It sorta puts me in a calming trance🥰
You're too kind! Tysm for watching
I put a row of tea plants (camellias) as foundation shrubs. Then I put a row of flowers in front of that, and station a few beehives nearby. It's both decorative and profitable.
Wow i never knew hops were so good. Something new to try on my next playthrough. Thanks!
Kayle requiring a scythe is a bonus imo because of how fast you can harvest
Great video. I was surprised how little Subs and Views you have. You have a great Voice and Explaining-Speed. Keep it up!
I like your analysis and from a profitability perspective I agree with most of your list, however I feel like some of these rankings are a little cost-agnostic. SDV has three primary Costs: Available Gold, Energy and Time. Ranking a crop with a higher gold ROI over a potential Energy or Time savings may not be more valuable to the player depending on their current context. Even the initial "free" parsnip seeds are a potential pitfall to the first 5 days in game.
I think the most extreme example of this is in your ranking of Wheat. Wheat from a profit standpoint is a D tier crop for sure, but what it lacks in profit it more than makes up for in Time and Energy specifically in the context of the transition of Summer to Fall year 1. If you are farming at scale at all large portions of your field will need to be cleared, re-tilled and watered before being planted Fall 1. Additionally all of the Deluxe speed grow you purchased for your Summer Crop harvests will be gone. However, with some planning wheat can be planted on the 26th and harvested via scythe (energy free) Fall 1; not only saving time and energy in labor but also preserving your 80g per tile investment at the cost of 10g. Its use-case is a bit niche for sure, but I cant personally call it low-tier crop.
I think you're right. On it's own it's not very good, but I may have under-valued some of the utility. These are some good points. I will have to try out some other uses for wheat in my next playthrough! Thanks for watching and thanks for the well thought out comment!
@@Kitadollx A lot of these considerations are more grouped into "Speedrunner strats" so an average SDV enjoyer may never even use them. If you haven't tried any yet I suggest trying a run where you script out your first Spring at least. its a totally different way to play the game and offers many new challenges over a more traditional run.
Thank you for putting these videos together. Quality content on SDV has been pretty sparse since 1.5 dropped and so your videos are quite refreshing.
Fertilizer no longer lasts through seasons I think
Coffee is underrated. They grow fast, when you get the keg you can brew coffee and sell it, plus drink it for speed buff. Even better, get the triple espresso recipe from Gus and brew & sell that. The turn-over is very fast compared to other crops and you’ll be rolling in gold in no time. I give them a solid A. 😂
Great video! thanks for making this is gonna help alot in my new playthru 1.6!
Thanks for watching and best of luck in 1.6!
The Fairy Rose being craftable into fairy dust is endlessly useful - being able to instantly finish machines is worth the money for the rose and the diamond combined
Especially when dealing with expensive artisan goods (like aged roes and wines)
I use mine to get iridium quality wine in 28 days instead of 56! I mostly get it by trading mystic syrup with the raccoons, but I do get some with fairy roses as well
I feel a lil flabbergasted by scythe-harvestong being considered a downside (don't we love the Iridium Scythe???? It's the same principle, isn't it???) but otherwise hell yeah to all of this. I do think Kale should be a B considering how it's just Very Good for rapidly building up EXP and money before the Strawberry apocalypse, that's all.
The real useful part of this video is that it absolutely affirms multi-harvest "berries" as amazing in general, which I already knew but I'm HAPPY TO BE RIGHT. I'm admittedly pretty surprised that green bean, tomato, and hot pepper being relatively good (not that I'd ever take them when the better choice is right there, but they're not trash like I thought they were (green bean maybe in my next playthrough though?? But I like strawberries...)). And. God. Next fresh playthrough, I need to form a Hops empire, don't I (Pam will get none of it)
Ha. Yeah, the scythe harvesting issue is a little exaggerated. Before getting all the backpack upgrades, the scythe is one of those tools that sometimes gets stored away to make room in the inventory. If you always carry it around, then it’s not a big deal (and you probably will once you get the iridium scythe). Don’t worry, it didn’t make or break any of the rankings ;)
Thanks for watching, and good luck with your hops empire!
@@Kitadollx Yayaya understandable. I do always, always, always get the backpack upgrade almost immediately specifically so I can lug around every tool simultaneously, and so, as they say, my experiences are a lil messed up. I GUESS MY THING IS JUST THAT I LOVE KALE AND POTATOES A LOT Y'KNOW...... Beautiful vegetables. It's sad that they're relatively meh, but spring is spring I guess, pff.
I forgot to mention that actually another very useful thing here is wait Cauliflower isn't just good?? I always assumed it was just good, but I'm glad to know that's wrong since I do never plant it because potatoes and kale are much easier to spam leading up to strawberry day
That's totally fair. I like corn way more than I should, and I plant it when there are better options out there, so I get it. Sometimes it's better to just enjoy the game and not worry about the money so much anyway :)
Bro, i swear right as I was dozing off you called me out. I declare you a witch and I hope you enjoy whatever you're eating right now.
The video is very informative and delivers pretty well. If there is an aspect that a person is looking for. You certainly guided them with your list. There are lots of qualities amongst each crop and their worth in which why someone would go for one over the other. Overall i can't really complain with your tier list. 10/10
Personally enjoyed for a long time making coffee from coffee beans. Simply me wanting to start my own coffee empire to rival starbucks.
Your voice is so soothing
I know it's very unpopular opinion but...I give a Kale B-rate. It's my farming kickstart on Spring Year 1. You just...sell starting parsnip, so you have 650 gold. You buy 9x Kale for 630. When you gather it, you have 150xp+ = farming level up to 1 (Scarecrow!) and about a 1000 gold of profit. And you buy more Kale seeds. With focusing mainly on Kale, you should have Farming level 3 on 1st Summer Year one. That's why I give a Kale a little credit.
lmao just watch this yesterday midnight and i literally slept, thanks for the goodnight! as i rewatch this today, goodnight to u
Pumpkin juice (med in the keg) is amazing for energy/health when one is in the mines.
or you can sell it and buy salad
@@nguyenquocanh9961 Or make Pumpkin Soup which only requires milk and you get huge boosts ;)
I love that you definied criterias for your tierlist first. Every tierlist that doenst do that is kinda worthless in my eyes. Great job!
Needing a scythe to collect is not a problem - you collect everything with scythe once you have mastery skills unlocked on farming
Weird how the game considers Pumpkin a vegetable. In real life it’s a fruit
Great video! Pumpkins are personally A tier for me since they are an easy loved gift for multiple villagers (Willy, Abigail & Krobus). Also just the fun factor of possibly getting a giant crop & being able to use them for crafting jack o lanterns, lol.
Flowers are awesome! I can't imagine my game without them, they make the farm look so cute and I also like to have them in pots indoors for decor. I don't usually play for profit and I'm never in a rush so I enjoy the littler things more.
That's awesome. I've wanted to do a flower-focused run for a while. I hope I get time for it eventually. Thanks for watching!
@Kitadollx What a great idea, I would love to watch something like that!
I personally love wheat for a few reasons
-It also gives hay when harvested. So I keep a large field of it growing during summer and fall to harvest to make small profit while also being able to keep my animals fed in the winter
-One of the easier Mr. Qi quests is to ship 100k of food. With all the wheat I have on hand I make it into flour and then sell the bread!
Lmao I literally fell asleep listening to this, very soothing xD but then I played it again for the good info, great multi-purpose video
You forgot hay is used in the community center! Otherwise, loved the video. Will def be using this guide on my next playthrough :3
Coffee is very complicated to calculate properly because of the fact that they give 5 seeds which can be replanted, so the profit/loss table will look very weird, making coffee unable to compare to any other crops around. However, in my opinion it is undoubtedly an S tier all around.
I once got a coffee bean from spring 11th in the mine and decided to make a coffee only run. By mid summer I managed to fill up 2/3 of my farm with just coffee and sprinklers. I spent fall and winter just making a ton of kegs and made a ton of coffee to drink and to sell. I made 2x more than my 'standard' farming playthroughs where I just went with the flow and did everything.
Now whenever I see a coffee bean for sale, I just buy it. 2500 for 1 seed sounds expensive, but you have to factor in the snowballing effect once the first plant matures, since you get 5 seeds every 2 days and you can immediately plant them all. Now I always keep 1 full stack of coffee beans to regrow every year.
I plant at least 8 iridium sprinklers' span of blueberries in the first summer, and sometimes more depending on how fast I get the quality sprinkler processing off the ground. It really, really sets the tone for funding the expansion into animals, building a kitchen, and snowballing into a full field of fall seeds, and then I roll that farmland into cranberries to finish upgrading everything and fund all the tool upgrades I do through winter. To me, there are no better crops to plant in bulk to sell without processing.
To be fair to the other crops, I will grow at least 8 of each. I like having a few on hand for various recipes and for the shipment collection tab.
How aesthetic they look on the farm ~ flowers make everything look pretty 🌷🌻🌹🌸
Thank you for giving fairy roses the recognition they deserve
I think sunflowers 🌻deserve commendation for being useful in making oil & not hogging inventory space as they are just a single color vs the multicolor flowers
What about recipes? Parsnip goes into farmers lunch which boosts gold gain from other crops etc.
Yeah, I missed that one. It's available pretty early and easy to make, so there's definitely an argument for saving your parsnips for that, and maybe bumping parsnips up the ranking a bit. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
extra points to crops that create cute outfits when used with cloth in the sewing machine!
Oh, yeah! I didn't take that into account, but maybe I should have. Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching
Great list, but I'd give parsnips a bit more credit! They are a liked gift by most of the villagers and some even love it, so it's good for building friendship with villagers who have expensive items as their favourites!
Befriending Pam early with them means getting batteries in the mail, for instance.
I just got to Ginger island so I may set up a fairy rose honey zone. Thank you for the list!
The amaranth is the most underated crop in the game. The max potential is worth of A tier or S. And carrots are good as an A tier crop not B. And pineapples despite being unlock late game they are still worthy of S Tier because you can also use it as food just because of how fast they regrow. I can explain why but stardew wiki explains that better than me
Still, please explain the amaranth bit.
I already agree with the other 2, but never found anything special about amaranth...
@@kunichuck if you use all the speed grow posible in late game in addition to the lvl 10 for an additional 10% speed from tiller profession . You will have 9 harvests compared to only 3 you will normally get. This means that you will get more things to process in kegs and more money overall than pumpkin or even starfruit. Since those require more time to grow meaning that you can't get more than 2 harvest with pumpkin even with speed grow
Cool video. I'm a total newb to stardew but some of my friends are starting a multiplayer farm soon so I'm eager to learn more about the game. Plus I get to have my headphones in at work so it's multitasking lol
Raisin fed junimo hut fully (nearly small path to the hut) planted with hops is broken
Especaily if you use speed grow
Got multiple stacks in one session. And the gold quality arent terrible for energy or health regain
Even taking into account them not harvesting it when it rains its insainly good
I like wheat honestly. I feel it’s one of the best cheapest crops for shipping 100 of the same, scythe harvesting is a plus for me because it allows me to harvest multiple at a time. If helps you stock hay for feed and if you have mill, you can turn it into flour which is both used for a community bundle and in cooking.
I have to argue for strawberries being S tier.
This is specifically for the first year.
Strawberries make it possible to spend a couple of weeks focusing hard on mining and fishing, but still come into summer with good seed buying cash and enough farming skill to make quality sprinklers with the proceeds of your first weeks of labor.
Strawberries are also a really good crop to start the greenhouse with.
Sure, you will replace them with ancient fruit over time, but until then they are good cash sold directly and they make good wine too.
Great, detailed and relaxing video! :)
Winter Seeds are a great option during winter. Crystal Fruits even make great wine. Best part is you can farm Winter Roots with a hoe to process the seeds.
Normally I keg the Crystal Fruits, Seed the Roots, and sell the rest.
It's actually very profitable for winter.
Hot Peppers are also a loved gift for 2 characters and used in an easy +3 Farming food. Highly recommended
very useful video, I'm glad to see my favorites (the berries) on the top haha
Pretty good video overall, just two quick quibbles. First, parsnips are not bad for making money at all, at least year one. They grow quickly and can be harvested quickly, allowing for very good return on investment so long as you are willing to put in the effort to continue planting more and more crops. This is the difference between return on investment and gold per day.
Let's compare parsnip vs cauliflower. I'm going to say we dedicate 320g to each because it makes the math only come up with whole numbers of seeds. That's sixteen parsnips and four cauliflower. After four days, the parsnips are harvested, sold for 560g and reinvested into 28 more parsnip seeds. After four days, these are harvested, sold for 980g and reinvested into 29 more parsnip seeds, which after four days sell for 1715g. At the same time, the cauliflower can finally be harvested and sell for a total of 700g, which is less than half what the parsnips got you. You've also gained 744 farming exp from the parsnips and 92 from the cauliflower. Granted, cauliflower is not a great crop, but if you only look at gold produced per day you are missing out. It IS more work that you may not be willing to do, but until you reach a critical point where you'd just rather not take care of more crops every day, ROI is a better metric for profit than pure gold per day. So for your first spring I think they can be one of your best options. Later seasons and years not so much.
The secret to carrots is using fertilizer. Thanks to how speed gro mechanics work, using any will cut the growth time from three days to two, which is a 50% increase in profitability. If you do something like agriculturist or use really fancy speed gro you can grow and harvest it every single day, making TRIPLE the price without fertilizer.
...Strawberries are overrated.
Pineapple S tier they are a very cool crop, you can grow them in a barn by planting them in garden pots. You are placing garden pots with a Dluxe Retaining Soil and that's it, they grow all year round, yield a harvest once a week and I immediately made wine from them, passive income once a week. Wheat underrated too, 4 days growth or less with fertilizer, beer making and huge income
To add another point in favor of wheat, you can turn it into flour and then bread en masse in almost no time and no extra cost (other than the initial investment of mill and kitchen) which sells for 60g or you can make a large stack of it and never worry about health/energy again.
There’s a few crops that turn into mega crops like pumpkins and cauliflower. It’s worth noting that if you plant them in a 3x3 square it has potential to almost double the yield.
With an eel pond, the hot pepper is a solid crop to make a lot of spicy eels, one of my staples for Skull cavern. There are definitely many recipes that use low ranking crops, probably to encourage you to grow them
Definitely try to upgrade into a lava eel pond, they will produce spicy eels for you without pepper
tulips are great for just early energy, usually just like 5 of them at the start for mining
Garlic is made to be turned into Oil of Garlic which sells for 1000, which works itself out with Sunflowers bc they are to be turned into oil and it constantly remakes itself, also a gift to Haley or many others excluding Seb, George, or Clint, and farming exp is nerfed when at mastery, making small numbers slightly smaller while big numbers get higher nerfs.
i would move Bok Choy down to D bc in mid game, fall is where most money makers shine, this one sells for a little and takes up some plots, it has underwhelming sell, energy, and synergy with everything, its only upside is that it can grow in 4(3 with speed grow) days, usable when you dont got anything else to grow, just like parsnip or radish
Grape in A tear? That is overrated IMO. Sure they can boost the junimos but that is all they are good for. The wine isn't even worth processing in kegs since there are many fruits and juices that make more money. a B tear at best.
Yeah before raisins in 1.6 they felt more like a cosplay crop. And still do. "Lookitme! I'm a vineyard farmer making classic wine!" And Sophia the cosplay nerd from Expanded mod grows them. Isn't that proof?
In this video there is a lot of important facts about the crops that are not being mentioned, so I'll do it:
Carrot is an easy S. With all the growth speed boosts, you can literally grow carrots EVERY DAY. Mix with a seed maker and make a big area and you'll be swimming in gold.
Parsnips are amazing gifts early game, liked by a lot of people and loved by some. They are low cost/attention needed, from the 4 days grow type of crop they are not the worst. They deserve a solid C or B.
Also, potatos are in year 1 or year 2 if you don't have the bus the best gold per day spring crop if you don't get strawberries. They deserve at least a B.
Rice is incredibly good for cooking, being used in multiple recipes. Just get a mill, not the best for profit but unless you want to dump money in Pierre's, they are the best bet to get bags of rice.
Sunflower can be used to make oil in a oil maker, boosting it's potential. It it meant to be a convenient multi purpose crop: Good because you can produce oil which is widely used in cooking or you can sell (not the best profit, even less if you use the seeds instead of the sunflower itself), can be used but is not the best in beehives, can be used to keep the fertilizer in the ground between summer and fall. Like, literally is has a lot of uses. Also is a loved gift by Haley.
Again, wheat is literally very cool. If you do not have a lot of money or do not care at all about crops, wheat is the thing. It gives feed for animals, removing the need of buying it because when selling the flour you can get by processing the wheat in a mill or the beer, it pays for itself. And don't pretend you can just "cut grass", in a advanced farm with most of the space taken most likely you won't have any grass besides the pieces here and there to improve you animal's mood. And did I mention you can process it into flour? A widely used cookin material, saving you a lot of money? Yeah, this crop is very nice specially if you only care about animals.
Beet can be processed into sugar for more profit (still not the best) and for multiple cooking recipes, sugar is widely used.
Love strawberries, I bought a hundred and planted them in my greenhouse. Constant income source
i feel Potato lean more to B than C since they have a chance to do a double drop
then when you do it on a large scale and you roll well on the R&G you basically will have potato in your blood
But that's my own take on it
P.S love the video
For trellis crops, I usually stick 8 of them around an Iridium sprinkler and then plant whatever else around them. I've never used the Junimo huts because you don't get XP for the crops they harvest and I'm on a Riverland farm where space is limited. 😅
There are lots of niche use cases that make seemingly underwhelming crops good. Wheat has 2 great perks: 1 you mentioned preserving fertilizer but more importantly the hoed and sprinklered space. This is huge for building a pumpkin or cranberry boom Fall year 1. Second: harvesting wheat gives hay, which some animal obsessed players like me are always low on, until bonemeal late-game.
Yeah, I may have underestimated wheat initially. It probably deserves to be bumped up a bit 😊
Thanks for the comment and thanks for watching!
Yam is definitely S-Tier since its a perfect gift for linus. And we all love Linus! Right? Riiiiight???
Bok Choy is great for getting golden walnuts quickly for farming. After you get all the walnuts you can plant multi harvest crops on ginger island.
If rice shoots were available to purchase in year one I honestly think it'd be at least an A-tier crop tied with Strawberries.
The shoots are cheap at 20g, milled rice sells for 100g, and you don't need to spend energy watering them. The only issue would be getting the four cloth for a mill, but that's easy enough with a recycling machine.
Only thing I think was missed slightly was the chance for big cauliflower, melons, and pumpkins that makes growing them give 12 pumpkins instead of 9 in the 3x3 space they occupy. Great overall though
omg I've been looking for a video like this
Me, watching you put hops in S Tier: FINALLY, someone who gets it.
Me, when pumpkins were C tier: I have never known a betrayal this profound.
Hey, wait a sec! I said pumpkin was high B tier! I would never put it all the way down in C 🤣
Thanks for watching. Sorry if I've disappointed you 😜
For the first year I like to grow all of the crops and when I am playing with new players growing everything is a safe way to go. However, when I get into the later years I like to grow blueberry's, strawberries, grapes, and hops. In the green house I grow Ancient Fruit I set up a room in my house for coffee beans and I have a shed for starfruit. I do this because I like to make wine and jam mostly and the muti harvest crops make me feel like I am saving money. My mom loves cactus fruit but I don't know why yet.
I gotta advocate for coffee bean being in at least A tier for one simple reason: coffee bean becomes coffee drink! Seriously though, it's a fairly easy and cheap recipe that gives you boosted speed, and in a game based on time management, the less time you spend runnin the more time you spend farmin!
Thank you this is very useful!
Lucky Lunches are the absolute best in the skull mines if you also have triple shots. Blue Jazz is at least a B, I'd make it an A personally.
I dislike giving Pierre any extra money for things like Oil, Vinegar (that we can now make ourselves!), Sugar and Rice. Vinegar can also be used on Trees that one doesn't want to turn 'Mossy' if one has a decorating style that Wild Trees don't fit into. Rice can be grown on Ginger Island with the Tarot Roots (that can be used to buy things from the Blue Bird).
I like growing my own food as well, before getting stockpiles of extra from Mob Drops.
There are Achievements for selling 15 of a bunch of (specific) Crops, and one for selling 300 of one (of a list of crops) Crop as well as the 'Sell 1 of Everything' Achievement and the Cooking Achievements.
Gifts are also a good use of Crops (but doesn't save Tulips!) when one needs to give Loved Gifts for a Qi Quest.
[Spring]
Cauliflower> best (gold) chance for success in luau yr. 1, giant crop (decoration), required (day 1) for 20 strawberry (extra harvest opportunity) by completing a bundle in c.c. and quest
Garlic> used for dungeon crawl runs (opposite of monster musk), quest
Parsnip> easy liked for many villagers, quest/c.c.
Rice> needed for c.c., no watering when growing, free from dungeon drops
[Summer]
Melon> giant crop (decoration), quest/c.c.
Starfruit> Ginger Island (best crop)
Sunflower> buy joja market not in town, oil for dungeon crawl runs, quest/c.c.
Wheat> free hay, beer, quest/c.c.
Corn> oil for dungeon crawl runs, quest/c.c.
[Fall]
Beet> sugar -> Ginger ale (luck)
Fairy rose> best flower, makes things mature quickly, $$$/efficient only with time/not fiscally (dust)
Pumpkin> giant crop (decoration), quest/c.c.
Sweet gemberry> $$$, quest forest, c.c. (make 2 only, ancient is better).
[Winter]
Powder melon> giant crop (decoration), quest/c.c.
[Special]
Ancient fruit> best greenhouse crop (1 sprinkler), free in dungeon, regrow, takes time to get going. Efficiency.
Pineapple> wine, good option instead of starfruit (if not needing money anymore) on Ginger Island.
Nice video!😊
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No way, you caught me slacking and trying to sleep from your voice😂
I really love trellis crops and don't find the trellises to be a problem; I'lI just co-plant a row of something else that can be walked through. I like doing double rows of hops with single rows of corn or sunflowers between, then swap hops out for grapes in fall. Sure, this isn't the most efficient way to time out harvests, but for anyone who's playing "normally" (ie not doing a challenge run), this is an easy way to keep everything accessible, and it looks really pretty to boot. I also really love the height and visual texture trellises add to my fields; same goes for irrigated crops, and I'll typically make an effort to get giant pumpkins for the same reason even though it ties up arable land while you wait for the magic to happen. Makes the farming feel like less of a slog if I have beautiful patchwork fields rather than a massive monoculture blanket, but if you're in a hurry to make money, large-scale monoculture is definitely more efficient.
thanks for another great video! I always love when you upload :)
Yeah, I'm totally with you there! It's not too hard to make a lot of money in Stardew, so I'm all for sacrificing a little of that to add some personality and aesthetics to the farm. It's always so cool to see beautiful farms that people really put thought into designing, rather than endless fields of the same crop :)
Thanks for watching
Hot take, Wheat should be at least A tier. Keeps my animals fed for a lot cheaper, grows fast, and I can turn the wheat into bread if my kegs are full and sell 300 bread for almost $30,000. I keep at least 2 full stacks of wheat seeds in my chests at all times.