Every Stardew Valley Crop From Best To Worst

[@thetragedyofcommons]

#1: the real life grass outside begging to be touched

[@nise6148]

No

[@thebigboyyay]

nintendo switch

[@fishfrfr]

it costs 100g from pierres im not routing it into my speedrun

[@5racing]

What grass, I got concrete

[@miss-laea]

Meh, it’s only useful for hay and I wouldn’t consider it a crop

[@MythicalLemon]

there is a setting for when you start the world to guarantee red cabbage seeds being obtainable in the travelling cart in year one

[@takumidoutou4412]

Unfortunately if it’s out too late you won’t be able to plant them unless you have the greenhouse

[@Wyatt_James]

Doesn't really solve the problem unless you use the seed finder. You're going to have to check every day again, so more RNG. However, some combination of remixed bundles and year 1 guarantee just flat-out remove the red cabbage from the requirement, which is nice.

[@miss-laea]

@@takumidoutou4412 i mean… if you’re completing the community center in year one then you should have the greenhouse before the end of fall anyways

[@mahbeans]

@@tableforw0n but you need to fix the greenhouse in order to get the garden pot and recipe, no?

[@tuthuihfthjgfyh1922]

@@mahbeans yeah... so what

[@Arrowdodger]

The red cabbage thing bothers me less because I deliberately do not finish the community center in year 1 because I would prefer the free friendship boost to include Kent.

[@Svoorhout85]

Don't forget Sandra, Krobus and the dwarf.

[@aubreyh1930]

@@Svoorhout85I think you mean sandy, and you can easily meet them all year one. POSSIBLY not dwarf if you’re unlucky with finding scrolls but I’ve never had that happen

[@bloddrinkeraka]

@@aubreyh1930 Scrolls ez if you farm floor 95

[@ihatehandleupdate]

@@aubreyh1930 I'm very unlucky then. I'm in year 3's winter and I only have a single scroll

[@MJMdr8]

​@@ihatehandleupdate till soil in the mines

[@Bb-rv8ei]

The fairyrose is actually quite useful when it comes to honey. If you plant a fairyrose in front of a beehive the honey will sell for 900 :]

[@sendwings8474]

i think that only applies if you have a certain profession. the base sell price of fairy rose honey is 680g. still absolutely bonkers though, i love planting fairy roses near my beehives :3

[@Bb-rv8ei]

@@sendwings8474 yeah I have artisan as my profession so I guess I forgot that Increases the price a bit😅

[@Svoorhout85]

Fairy roses also fetch a decent price on their own. More than some crops. So you could plant a field of them, place beehives beside it and fetch a decent harvest at the end of the season.

[@Bb-rv8ei]

@@Svoorhout85 i do that every fall! I use my greenhouse for ancient fruit then my fields get fairyroses

[@GGJiaJia]

I plant them for aesthetics and put beehives nearby for rp 😂. It's not the most efficient for money, but I mass grow stardfruit and ancient fruit and make a lot of wine. Fairy roses are the prettiest flowers imo! I also collect them in a chest haha

[@luckylucas7957]

The fairy rose lets you get fairy rose honey which is kinda nutty especially in that part of ginger island next to the farm where not much else can be done

[@Ixy_Phoenix_Office]

True

[@Awecelot13451]

W pfp

[@AerthManolo]

Yes! Arrived right on time for a new video! Can't wait to see my favourite crop, the red cabbage, on top of the list.

[@jairdinh7563]

Golden

[@Skribbly1]

Same I'm on 0:07 rn I'm so excited for red cabbage

[@Marialla.]

As a challenge player, I can say a lot of the crops that are useless to regular play become super useful once you have challenge restrictions on. Which is one of the reasons I love challenges! Because it helps you re-evaluate previous ideas of useful and worthless. Name me a crop and I'll tell you the time it was the PERFECT thing for me to grow!

[@carysk4083]

kale, I almost never use it

[@Marialla.]

@@carysk4083 Okay, you got me there, kale sucks. But I did plant it once because I was focused on raising my xp in a no-watering-can run where I also had very limited space to plant. If I had not had both of those restrictions I would have chosen something else.

[@LittleLondonCottages]

@@carysk4083 kale and amaranth are pretty good in their respective seasons for quick cash. Much better than potato’s or corn (I legit only do cranberries in the fall, so substitute corn for whatever you don’t like in fall) That’s the only reason I ever plant them.

[@Somedude...]

@@Marialla. Sunflower 🙃

[@Marialla.]

@@Somedude... Sunflower is probably the fastest way to make Haley love you! (If you're the kind of person who actually wants that.)

[@Svoorhout85]

For me, having an aesthetically pleasing but efficient farm with a wide variety of crops is more important than a massive ancient fruit wine factory. So I plant all available crops but favor the seasons heavy hitters like cauli, melons and pumpkins. Ancient fruit and sweet gem berries are limited to the greenhouse, wich is full of those as well as strawberries. And I havent unlocked ginger island yet but I will only grow the local tropical crops there. I also grow a lot of wheat because of the free hay, and like Waligug said, its satisfying to harvest a whole field of it with a scythe.

[@bloddrinkeraka]

Ancient fruit very convenient (like u said strawberries too)

[@larbot3433]

This. I feel like this list is maybe focused on profit only. I like having a variety of crops for cooking, I like milling my own stuff rather than buying it, and I like the way a variety of crops looks

[@MononokeLynn]

I buy almost every item every season too

[@hydratedobama8450]

disco elysium pfp

[@identocidal]

i love parsnips, all of our farms wouldn't have barely went anywhere if it wasn't for those 15 parsnips.

[@schaffs2]

I've seen some ppl sell the seeds to afford more potato seeds, but yeah most ppl plant the parsnips

[@Khaizen10]

Eh, not really. Around 95% of my early game income is from fishing alone.

[@meowgiodehearty2356]

That mill is pretty I think people only hate when they want a shining stained glass French Palace of a farm that doesn't look like nature in any way, shape or form

[@dilbert719]

I'm surprised sunflowers were so low, mainly because they're IIRC the easiest to acquire loved gift for Haley, and it saves you from using other stuff that can be better used elsewhere. Similarly, I like hot peppers in the game, because either the peppers or pepper poppers are liked/loved by a bunch of villagers, and they're easy to get.

[@HutchIsOnYT]

I just load up on coconuts in the desert for Haley

[@meh8982]

I like the stupid machine that mills rice, converts beets into sugar, and wheat into flour. It's not really cost effective, but I like the independence. Now if we could only brew vinegar on the farm... Also, kale is a good crop to put into preserve jars before you hit level 10 and it becomes worthwhile to put more valuable stuff in. If rhubarb was classed as a vegetable, which it obviously is, it would be a great crop to put in preserve jars. Since it's a "fruit" and makes less valuable wine than other crops available around the same time, it's pretty useless except for completion of all the recipes. Too bad.

[@Marialla.]

Rhubarb is good to put into preserves jars. It makes rhubarb jelly, which sells for a little bit more than cauliflower pickles. Compared to potatoes, kale doesn't make quite as much money. It's close, if you're pickling them. But the cost of the kale seeds knocks it down a bit. I like the mill too, though, just for the aesthetics. IDK why Gug would call it ugly!

[@benjadryl_7393]

the ppja mod suite lets you make vinegar casks if you play on PC, if you didn't know

[@TheSpecialJ11]

Yeah. It's not crazy expensive and pays for itself pretty quick between a large rice crop and then a large wheat crop to preserve your watering and tilling and fertilizer between summer and fall. Wheat seeds are 10g and then bread sells for 60g each. Labor intensive, but the fertilizer preservation alone quickly pays for itself. And grow just enough beets to never need to buy sugar, without ever intending to sell them.

[@klaudia2141]

I thought if you put vegetable juice in a cask it will make vinegar????

[@madeleineruusu]

unmilled rice in a keg(i think) makes vinegar!

[@meh8982]

Taro root makes poi, which is a good recipe as part of the Mr Qi Fresh Food quest. I always grow lots of taro roots to get golden walnuts and for either Caroline's or Mr. Qi's quest.

[@alannadena]

The sweet gem berry can also be used in a remixed bundle and it is more likely you will have access to a rare seed before you get enough ancient fruit to afford to give up 1 to the community center.

[@ABAb-yf5tx]

i would give fairyrose a Higher Spot because of fairyrose honey making good Money on the Ginger Island Farm legt Side

[@Craxin01]

I've got almost 400 bee houses around 15 fairy roses, that's about 1.6 million gold a month!

[@Nightfighter82]

Tomato's are awesome because you can use them to make Spaghetti and Eggplant Parm. Both have good health restores for the skull caverns. Eggplant Parm also gives you a buff. Garlic with oil makes Garlic Oil which gives you eliqusor that gives you 200 health regin. Use Sunflowers to make the oil then use the garlic and oil to make em. So it's really not just about what they sell for but what can you make with them? Cuz you can also sell the food you make with em to make more.

[@Svoorhout85]

It takes an absurb amount of time to turn sunflower seeds into oil. Its much easier to use that oil maker to make truffel oil a lot faster and use that money to buy oil from pierre for 200 g each.

[@MajiggerRose]

To be fair, red cabbage is actually a pretty decent crop in year two if you're like me and enjoy having some variety on the farm without resorting to ones that have pretty much no value. Personally, I think it's worth planting a single flower and surrounding it with your beehives, especially fairy roses. They're all for the honey and it's just some variety. Also, rhubarb is a pretty damned good crop in Spring year two as well, way more than red cabbage in summer. Not a lot of good spring crops, but rhubarb is a pretty solid option.

[@Craxin01]

While starfruit wine sells for more, you get less per plot than ancient fruit, plus you have to buy more cutting into your profits even more. Plant them on Ginger Island and never need to replant, use the quarry as a keg farm, and massive profits. Hell, couple Ginger Island as a forever ancient fruit farm with 15 off the main farm plantable spots to put fairy rose and deluxe retaining soil and REALLY massive profits. I'm getting nearly 1.6 million a month from almost 400 fair rose honey every 4 days.

[@schaffs2]

I like how the video goes from personal reasons to hate crops to actually ranking crops by value like Red Cabbage probably isn’t the actual worst from a money view

[@julianthefoolian]

With the artisan profession, beer sells for 280. Take into account the 4 days to grow and 1 day in the keg, then the initial 10g spent. That's ~50g profit per day and scythe crops are so much easier than handpicked.

[@cryptid-immortality]

I would put rhubarb higher bc the wine returns are better than the cauliflower pickle return.

[@FlareFritz]

Right? My year 2 spring always starts with a huge rhubarb crop and makes me bank to bring to summer

[@zaineoakley5555]

Yeah and so dose pickled garlic pickled potatoes pickled kale and if you don’t use DSG pickled green beans Cauliflower is actually a pretty bad crop

[@titusmaddern8712]

I agree. It’s hard to have enough money to buy lots of strawberry seeds for next spring when you’ve only had 13 in game days, so my year 2 spring crop of choice is Rhubarb.

[@birb_404]

as a grape enjoyer my dissapointment is unmeasurable and my day is ruined, but i still respect your opinion

[@FlamendeFlyvefisk]

I actually wanna defend Bok Choy and Artichoke a tiny bit. They are pretty bad for earning money, but if you are interested in making Food items for speedboosts, then they can be mass grown alongside Cranberries to mass-produce Super Meals. Very late game I know - but still some use in that sense, if you want to sprint around on your horse with coffee running through your veins and a healthy diet xD

[@tea9047]

love that every player has different opinions on stardew crops, most players have such conflicting opinions on their favorite and least favorite crops it’s always so interesting

[@danemr6808]

Honestly, the thing I love more than anything else in stardew valley is seeing a chest with a stack of 999 of every crop, so there's no crop, except for the damn multi-coloured flowers, that I don't plant and harvest in large quantities.

[@rachelk4805]

Rice is my favorite spring crop. I like the river farm because I don't have to use a lot of resources to keep my animals penned up. You can plant a ton of rice and do nothing else with it until you are ready to harvest.

[@queen_nat4586]

Haley is my favorite NPC and Sunflowers are a loved gift, and they grow in two seasons. Therefore Sunflowers are one of my favorite crops

[@alejandrobarrera367]

Same

[@jessicascottpops4184]

Nice video. I always plant all the crops lol. I guess I like to have stuff on hand for cooking

[@CharlesRedd]

Yams should definitely be much higher on the list, they are one of the best foods and I use them as soon as I get a kitchen and basically for the rest of my playthrough. Yams + sugar makes glazed yams which give 200 energy and 90 hp. I constantly keep a patch of them growing in the greenhouse at all times to keep my food reserves high. They are an excellent, and super cheap food!

[@alexandersergal]

My family grows green beans irl. We just have about 2 rows of ten. Commonly we get harvests of about one five gallon bucket of green beans. Then we can them. We plant them in spring and usually tear them up before the first frost of fall Edit: 2 rows, ten plants per row.

[@yasssg8897]

I LOL'D when he said " I never planted tomatoes in game" but yes you have. It's a community center item for summer.

[@wllwsdvyl]

bro's thumbnail got a timestamp

[@Ylurple]

every crop: "this crop is something i've never planted except when i have"

[@MawdyDev]

3:40 ok now you're just outright wrong. Kale gives the most gold per day of growth, and is arguably the best early-game crop, second only to strawberries, which you can't get until day 13 anyway.

[@polarwolar4411]

You forgot cactus fruit :( it may not be good but it’s trying it’s best

[@yaya.cor.1218]

“Rank every Stardew crop BEST to WORST” *does worst to best*

[@chibigirl8545]

After I get iridium sprinklers and nozzles, I surround the sprinkler with trellis crops. It pretty much keeps them out of the way and makes it worth my time since they are continual harvest plants.

[@kittynanno1991]

IM SUCH A STARFRUIT FAN IT’S MY NUMBER ONE LIKE, THE WINE IS JUST BANGER

[@crystalcereal273]

kale is great first year to get that last bit of profit before strawberries

[@yumii434]

i was so confused on the hate of red cabbage, because in my game it just popped up at the travelling cart in like year 1 and i bought it without even realising i needed it lmao

[@lojas426]

I totally agree with you on the corn, it’s just so annoying because when you want to plant other things that are better than corn, you just can’t because it stays during fall so you can’t plant pumpkins or sum because you have all this ugly corn everywhere

[@Zoe-yq4ng]

I really enjoy planting all various of crops in this game. Kind of make me feels like real farmer when I walk to my crop fields in Stardew Valley

[@Prodmullefc]

wth do you mean you never planted tomatoes? they're in a crop bundle

[@manuelgarcia7553]

For money if you do the math after 1.5 starfruit are objectively better, if you minmax with the wine you ended up gaining aprox 1 million more per year in brute gaining and with the expenses in mind

[@MKatCatMom]

Corn is my go to crop. Plant once and you're good for 2 seasons to go do whatever

[@Asdsfdsf]

I know this is probably a long shot but whats the room at 0:27? Is that Marlon there?

[@magmamusic2348]

It's a mod lol, I forgot what it's called but it's an infinite mines with bosses and Marlon has a shop for you every few floors

[@Torosiken]

I actually agree with this list cept for corn. Not having to replant it for 2 seasons is pretty good in my book for year 1

[@TheSpecialJ11]

And you can use it to make oil, which is a nice bonus.

[@zaineoakley5555]

If you use seed makers to sell corn seeds they actually rival and beat raw blueberries and cranberries in profit

[@dillonthompson8231]

What I took from this list is 'i haven't actually played half of the game'

[@matthiashickman5321]

Cauliflower: >”Makes some good wine and jam” I’m sorry??? 😂 Juice and pickles, I am so offended /j

[@maxximumrockatansky7186]

Finally someone else that loves tomatoes irl too

[@therealbahamut]

Grow exactly one sweet gem berry, take it to the statue and forget it exists. Grow one fairy rose in the center of your 20+ beehives with a basic sprinkler behind it and never pluck it.

[@beez1717]

I'm a huge fan of corn because it lasts two seasons so they are a good constant income source. I also like the cranberries because you get so many at once that you can make jam out of them and make a bunch of money!

[@diamondoge]

Well joja is open on wensdays so if you really need something that day then joja

[@anna-flora999]

I mean, you can set during world creation that the red cabbage is guaranteed to appear in the traveling kart in the first year, right?

[@saiykuza]

Red cabbage wasn’t a problem for me because it took me until YEAR 3 TO FINISH THE COMMUNITY CENTER. I was so terrible that by the time I needed them they were already readily accessible ☹️👎

[@janeflame7308]

Same, the biggest problem for me was the fish cause I SUCK at fishing 😭

[@totakkeagiraffe]

me too, i only just found the game this month and have been playing soo much i make myself feel better about it by telling myself im new 😭

[@navyblue32]

Just today I planted around 150 yams for the quest and got nearly 20k from them, plus an extra 9k for the quest. Yams don’t seem like much but considering I was broke the day before it was hilarious just sleeping and hearing nothing but that number ticking up and up

[@Folded_Soup]

With the ancient seed being annoying to find, I swear on my life, my last 2 games I've gotten ancient seed before day 15 Got them from fishing, also got a treasure chest on one of those same runs on like day 8 lol, best start I've ever had

[@penguinpenguinpenguin]

I got 1 day 7

[@quinnlee-miller9792]

I think the Mill is kind of a cool building, what farm doesn’t have a windmill It’s just a really pretty prop imo

[@Svoorhout85]

Same with the well. Despite the fact that your farmhouse has a functioning kitchen i.e. plumbing.

[@OpalBLeigh]

I do make my own flour, rice and sugar out of my lower quality crops with it! (So I don’t have to buy them from Pierre at his insane prices) I also make my own oil out of corn and sunflowers:) if only the game let me make vinegar, I would be completely self sufficient 😈 But yeah, you use it every now and then a TON and then never again for in-game months 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@JayAreAitch]

​@@Svoorhout85 Why are those two related? I feel silly not getting it

[@AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHs]

@@JayAreAitchpeople don’t get the well cus the farm has that tiny water spot anyways

[@bastblast9918]

I have ancient fruit in my greenhouse and on ginger island, so when the greenhouse is ready, I know the island crops are ready as well 👍

[@americanskylines2789]

The fact that trainwreckstv is in the video for less than a second is just perfect

[@TheWonkster]

Kale is the second most efficient 1st year spring crop if you don't get double potatoes from all of your plantings. It's also great for pickling

[@agoosecalledxaro6679]

'From best to worst' proceeded to rank them from worst to best.

[@zygol26]

Bro peppers need to be way higher because it's incredibly easy to make pepper poppers and then you have a speed boost for basically the whole day

[@Nnif_Boots47]

That's from worst to best. If it was from best to worst you would start with best.

[@puwpk1n]

While I agree with some of your points, half of them make me feel like you only enjoy min maxing. Especially since you can't even remember planting them. A lot of the crops you listed as low tier are used in great recipes (for energy, gifts, buffs). Also they look really pretty on your farm. The flowers are good for honey and beehives which wasn't really mentioned at all and while it's not the fastest money maker I feel like a lot of people enjoy making bee farms because they're pretty/fun. I don't personally but I've seen others do it a lot. Funny video I guess but for a while there I thought you were just complaining.

[@the_aidenverse]

Guys! The mod he’s playing is called rogue like Stardew if you want to play!

[@JudeBro64]

CORN MAKES GOOD MONEY. CORN GOT MOST OF MY YEAR 1 MONEY IN MY FIRST PLAY THROUGH.

[@emurphy42]

Salmonberries > hops for energy. Save the hops till you get kegs. Remixed bundles may ask for 100 flour, in which case the mill saves you several thousand g if you're willing to grind for the cloth.

[@MissAkechi]

where are you at 0:25? I have never seen that place before?

[@CEOofTired]

Guys....Ik im a year late but. Gunther gifts you red cabbage seeds after you donate a certain amount to his museum....(It took me until i was today years old to disciver i had red cabbage seeds in storage from year one in my current save file.....)

[@felicialightfoot2380]

For the same reason as the coffee bean, the hot pepper needs to be higher on the list. Pepper poppers are the easiest food speed buff for early game. I keep making them for...like .. EVER! Plus 2 speed all the time. (Of course, I also have coffee. Triple Shot Espresso as soon as I can afford it).

[@atticus-lincoln6653]

waligug really just forgot how much money you make back from flowers with bee hives. got me dead. anywasy, bye.

[@ethanbacho1406]

i might disagree with corn because it needs the recipe for tortilla to cook lucky lunch

[@bubbles2215]

Rhubarbs are actually pretty good. They are worth a lot of gold, more than the cauliflower, and they take about the same amount of time to grow.

[@jacquelinescott2200]

Growing Coffee becomes irrelvent if you have a hot java ring on always and go to the dungeons regularly

[@ESPHMacD]

I like kale early game cuz it gives more XP than potatoes does, so if I can swing the gold I get more bang for my buck choosing those. Also, did you know if you buy a regular quality flower from the traveling cart that all your regular flowers will stack on it regardless of their color? I found that extremely helpful for my chest organization to have only one square of each flower once I get out of the need to keep gold star ones for gifting.

[@jojough8283]

o.o easy flower stacks

[@sweetolbrew]

first two weeks into spring fishes gets 2 ancient seeds instantly plants basically beat the game in the first year

[@CandiceGoddard]

Why would you replant any crop when you can simply plant the vine crops in the greenhouse and put in sprinklers to get them to regrow forever? I have never finished the Stardew Valley Game (because I play on mobile and it got too hard, maybe I can't remember), but I know that once I had the greenhouse, I had trees in there and regrowable vines going continually regardless of season. That's what the greenhouse is for.

[@MoonCheesy]

Fr Ancient fruit in the greenhouse paired with a shack full of kegs brings 200,000 every 7 days

[@Elaydzha]

Imagine thinking the games hard when clubs exist

[@Pantomime0709]

Hops are actually the most profitable crops in the game if you turn them to Pale Ale. It's more work than Ancient Fruit, which is why I never plant too many of them, but they're still my favorite crop to put in the greenhouse.

[@Waligug]

I prefer for year 1 energy

[@commentbot9510]

The red cabbage is the reason I didn't complete the community center in year 2. I thought it was a fall crop and then day 1 of fall I was met with much disappointment.

[@fishcutter395]

I didn't realize that the abilitt to grow grapes was so unknown. I always get a plant or two and turn em jnto jam or give em to Vincent, who loves them.

[@bellasice1926]

I gave you a thumbs up purely because of your sense of humor

[@sansenemi]

Corn is so aesthetically pleasing to look at.

[@LorBell]

I think you actually went from worst to best

[@ItsYaBoiV]

I always somehow end up with a stupid amount of ancient seeds

[@madiwrites299]

The tulips are the only flower I really grow more than enough for my bee hives and that’s just to give them to Evelyn

[@PenelopeE36]

I really love your channel Gug! Thanks for the video!

[@CandiceGoddard]

Gug?

[@PenelopeE36]

@@CandiceGoddard short for waligug

[@Suddsy11037]

that hurt my soul 13:21

[@QotED]

Yam is killing me right now. I need glazed yam to upgrade a fish pond. While in spring.

[@Craxin01]

Go to level 6 - 29 in the mines. Duggys have there have a chance of dropping yams, that's the enemy that comes up through the dirt patches. Eat something luck boosting on a lucky day and lucky rings and you should find one in no time.

[@jojough8283]

You could also take out one fish and then put it back, and I _think_ that resets what the fish want after a few days, but it could just as easily give you the same quest I guess.

[@sovietbot6708]

Rhubarb is used in rhubarb pie which pretty much refills your energy

[@grziizsatbash]

"Every Stardew Valley crop from best to worst based on bias and not on logic"

[@abedabdesselem9491]

Rhubarb is a good crop to plant in spring, it sells for 220 base quality. And you can process it into jelly to double that value

[@shortyylu]

The blue flower is definitely worth it because of lucky lunches!

[@airistasty2754]

Finally someone else who uses hops for energy

[@Wildkittycatt]

the sweet gem berry is pretty good and easier to get than ancient fruit though it does not regrow,(normal quality 3000 g iridium quality 6000 g) but if you just want to be able to not care about your crops do ancient fruit

[@robertharris6092]

Bruh tea saplings look awsome.

[@Coocoocrazy3]

6:00 nah potato fans rise up

[@devotedcatholic3884]

I was right and expected you to pronounce taro like that 😂

[@HaleyLuvsChicken]

I love rice shoots! I think the mill is cute since I see them on farms in my area. I am the one rice shoot buyer from Pierre, apparently 😅

[@Alan_2001igaming]

0:40 u can also get red cabbage from the general store that how I got mine

[@togekiss09]

He only sells them on *year 2*

[@Alan_2001igaming]

@@togekiss09 oh