Late-Game Money Guide - Stardew Valley Guide

While I've been working towards my Perfection rating, I've realized how boring it can be to continue farming hundreds of Starfruit to make money. To save you from that misery, I have a list of ways to make money outside of Farming, and to my surprise a few of them end up being more efficient than starfruit!
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Sections:
0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Farming
2:30 - Bee Houses
3:55 - Crystalariums
4:56 - The Slime Hutch
7:46 - Pigs
9:47 - Fish Ponds
12:34 - Fishing
14:16 - Mining
16:21 - Outro
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[@TizonaAmanthia]

NOTHING beats the handwatered parsnips!

[@re_pete]

Amen

[@zaineoakley5555]

As a basic sprinkler as soon as I can person fully agree

[@AnUnnaturalNaturalDisaster]

I didn't realize that slime breeding was profitable. I just do it bc I think they're cute and Sebastian said he wanted to do it. :3

[@victory8928]

I agree it is cool and too many people go ‘its bad cause it takes up a ton of space and is nothing compared to the best money making in the game’ ignoring that it requires a lot less work, works on the farm all year long and you just need a few (even one) to make it worthwhile. Plus its fun diversifying.

[@CalSuperman]

I also bought a slime hutch when I married Seb because he said it would be cool lol.

[@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700]

I know I just love the adorable slimes😂 besides I find focusing solely on max profit to be boring. I’m glad others enjoy it though!

[@kaptainwashrag5851]

NGL Sebastian is....saucless, also I farmed slimes cuz the slime balls are damn good for crafting, especialy wild bait

[@bgtvfrtgb6959]

i would slime farm if the hutch itself wasn't so fuckin ugly 😢

[@Codraroll]

The biggest takeaway here is the relative inefficiency of relying on wine. At 3m gold and "nothing else to do" in the endgame except doing the slow climb to 10m, I was envisioning a slow, grueling grind of planting seeds, making kegs, sleeping through the week, and getting immense profit only every Saturday in a long series of near-identical and monotonous weeks, but the guide shows that other approaches may be even more lucrative. I will definitely check out a mix of these. It definitely seems like the game has a lot more opportunity for variation than I had thought at first.

[@mattlitton8066]

I only have 380kegs and every Sunday I make 1.2 million if I can fill them all. Sometimes I can't and it is less. But if you frontload a ton of kegs I don't feel like loading kegs once a week is very monotonous. I mean it leaves you 5 days to do whatever you want (I say 5 accounting for if you plant and do kegs on seperate days, I do mine all in one day)

[@UltimaTiger]

You can also start some of these things really early, like catch a fire eel in the mines in the first spring and get a pond going just to populate them, then you can fish up the new eels for m pond one to seed new ponds.

[@UltimaTiger]

I should also mention that some of the other fish are less profitable but have some really interesting rare drops, like spookfish drop treasure chests worth 5k and the less expensive fish have easier or less quests to get the population up to 10, plus most of the rewards are for 9+ fish in the ponds so you can also fish off the 10th fish every 5 days to sell or seed new ponds.

[@lowbudgetracc]

I am at exactly 3 million right now climbing to the gold clock while also going for perfection haha. already have a fair few pigs but there's a bland spot on my farm that i think i'll reserve for a full pig barn soon

[@peeblekitty5780]

Same exact position here! time to get a whole load of pigs going hehehe

[@briantroy7376]

No joke, one of the best money makers is tea saplings. Go mush cave, stockpile your normal shrooms. When you have seed makers they become 1-3 fall seeds, then with some wood and fiber those become tea samplings that sell for 500g each. That isn't a huge number, but you can legit make thousands of them. It's actually kinda busted. And since we can farm fiber and buy wood, it's pretty easy to mass produce them. Even with year 2 wood cost, it's still worth it to bring your seasonal seeds and fibre to robins and buy as much wood as needed to make all the saplings. Also, add in all the forageables from each season, craft them in too, you can make so much money it's stupid lol

[@PrettyKawaii]

Oh, man, thank you! Just finishing year 1, have the mushroom cavern, unlocked fiber seeds and tea sapling. It's time to buy a lot of wood and make money. $_$

[@briantroy7376]

@@PrettyKawaii yeah it's actually silly. Especially if you're willing to allocate some sprinklers to seasonal seeds, you can actually get to a point where you're making hundreds of saplings per season. I also sometimes use tea saplings instead of fences lol.

[@AbbyMarcotte65]

You can also put winter roots in the seed maker, I dig everything all winter for clay for fiber seeds and then you have more then enough roots for some winter seeds

[@MrSmokinDragon]

also, this is an excellent spring year 1 moneymaker - prioritize getting the sapling recipe from Caroline, and you can easily get anywhere from 50k to 100k before summer

[@rhaining]

I find I'm always constrained on fiber for this. So far, the fastest way I can get fiber is diving in the mines on deep floors, esp. repeatedly looking at specific floors. But it's very labor-intensive. I there a way to actually farm fiber or otherwise produce it automatically?

[@Allesef]

Something I found useful for the late game if you're running low on stone and don't want to spend your days mining for it: 1. use the jade crystalarium and desert trader to get tons of stairs. 2. place all the stairs into a hopper that feeds into a deconstructor. each staircase will give you 99 stone, which is the same as you need for a crystalarium.

[@akiraigarashi2874]

Or just buy from Robin

[@klutterkicker]

I love that you show the Beach Farm because it forces you to diversify more especially at the beginning, and it's great for animals, fish and bees (and other things like trees). It's actually my first farm (against all the advise out there) and I'm glad I chose it.

[@slwrabbits]

It took me a while to try out the beach farm, due to always relying heavily on sprinklers in Harvest Moon. However, I have just acquired a total of sixty rabbits, and I need all that land to grow grass for them to eat!

[@Weedocto]

yea i wnjoy manually watering my crops, so i save on sprinklers

[@akiraigarashi2874]

Isn't it only good for fish compared to the standard farm? And you can fish elsewhere anyways

[@klutterkicker]

@@akiraigarashi2874 I believe it's the only farm with Ocean fishing, but also in the sand I was placing fish ponds. Competitive players may not use them but I like them in casual play because they're not costly and you can multiply rare and out of season fish, and get some unique drops.

[@electricerger]

Thank you for the guidelines. I think we tend to forget about the time value of money (TVM) in the meta calculations. Money that's tied up in a longer investment is unable to pay certain dividends. For example in the time it takes to cultivate a batch of cauliflower, you can get 3 batches of parnsips. If we compound the profits of the parsnips (that is, invest 100% of the profits back into parsnips), then we can effectively double the yield each cycle. That means that after 3 cycles we'd get x^3 crops using the same amount of seed (pun unintended) capital. I hate economics.

[@cr0nes611]

I don't think you do.

[@akiraigarashi2874]

You'd get bound by the max number of tillable spots so infinite growth is impossible (not to mention having to plant that many seeds every few days which means there's a maximum number of seeds you can plant every day due to the time limit)

[@YourPalRal]

Gotta appreciate the work that goes into these videos.

[@salmence100]

How dare ConcernedApe make me use math

[@alanrox1825]

@@salmence100 lol

[@nifegun]

This is more an early game strategy, but it's so strong it's worth keeping up if you have the time. Pick the mushroom cave, stock up on the common mushrooms, seed maker the mushrooms, you generally get about 10 fall seeds a day and you can just keep a chest as a few seed makers in the cave, so it's no extra time running around, then when you feel like it, craft all the fall seeds into tea saplings and sell them. It works out to about 2500g a day, so it's not as good as real late game stuff, but that's pretty strong considering how early you can have everything you need.

[@LuxyHugs]

I like to use the mushrooms more for energy as they're consistently great

[@eloyaerden263]

I made a farm with pigs, ancient fruit (ginger island), fairy rose honey and crystalariums. All that makes a total of at least 2.5 million gold a week, 3 M in a good one. Pigs make the more amount of money but also are the more time consuming, with 6 upgraded farms and a shed of oil makers it makes 1.2 M a week. Crazy

[@owlrecluse2234]

If you have the foraging perk, I dont think you even need to make them into oil to make the same amount of money.

[@pitsa5491]

@@owlrecluse2234 the oil is more expensiven than an iridium truffle but the difference is very small so i dont think is worth to make it into oil

[@Seifersythe]

@@pitsa5491 It's worth it to not have to fool with processing.

[@jasonrobbins4227]

Pigs are cool. Don't exclude the cow. They still pay in winter. Toss that gold cheese in the caskets 7 days get iridium sells over 1k. Like I said cows produce daily. So by time you complete first week you will have the second ready to go.

[@victory8928]

It is better to just sell normal truffle oil unless you have the quality oil mod then you get iridium truffle oil which is worth a whole lot more than iridium truffles

[@fredjones167]

Late to this party, but glad I’m not the only one who sees how awesome honey is. Set up 500 on ginger farm with fairy rose, with artisan it comes out to slightly over 3 mil a season. Meanwhile, I can still use my main farm however I please… Honestly, money becomes kind of redundant in late game.

[@rs5922]

I realize I'm commenting on an older video, but your method of calculating wine profit is, I believe, incorrect. You calculated (sell price - unit cost) / (time to grow + time to process). Unfortunately, that's only true if you, for example, don't plant the next Starfruit until you take the wine out of the kegs. Realistically, you're going to replant as soon as you harvest, then process as you wait for the next harvest. Assuming you have enough kegs, you'll be selling a batch of Starfruit wine every 8 days and a batch of Ancient Fruit wine every 7 days. This increases the per-day profit to 343.75 for Starfruit and 330 for Ancient Fruit.

[@Intrafacial86]

When I finished my first perfection, I had done a little bit of everything here: slime hutch, ancient fruit on ginger island, truffles, lava eel roe, and crystalariums loaded with diamonds. I eventually changed my lava eel ponds to octopus ponds because I needed more Omni Geodes. On my current run I’m experimenting with abusing tea saplings from summer wild seeds.

[@JGComments]

When you turn your StarDew spreadsheet addiction into your side hustle, lol. Thanks for the video!

[@Lankpants]

I'm not convinced that the gold/day calculations here really make sense. Mostly just because these things happen in parallel. You can have your starfruit growing, being converted into wine and aging all at the same time. Sure, it takes wine a long time to age, but you're still growing and creating wine at the same time.

[@aminaaziz9019]

that is the best way to make money with wine

[@anomanderrake440]

lol

[@ralcogaming7674]

The issue with that for me is you'll usually have more harvests of wine in between aging. So what I do (ancient fruit) is while aging I sell 2 batches of wine while the first batch ages. This is still about 250k/week just on wine. I'm working on getting around to slime farms and am currently debating about dropping animals all together to focus on fish ponds. Ginger Island farm is being set up for fairy honey and starfruit wine currently. But I'm sitting on plenty of money I just wish there was a more consistent way of obtaining battery packs. I find I'm in short supply of them most often.

[@janeenschultz8502]

@@ralcogaming7674 Aren't solar panels best used in the desert? Just be aware of Emily's pathing.

[@ralcogaming7674]

@@janeenschultz8502 didn't even know that was a thing. If it's level 10 foraging I haven't gotten it yet everything else is 10 foraging is being a pain

[@moonlightdragonrider]

There was another youtuber that pointed out that iridium quality goat cheese sells for 800g (1120 with artisan profession). If your goats are already at full friendship and give gold quality cheese, it only takes 7 days to age to iridium quality instead of the usual 14 (unlike wine that always starts at lowest quality regardless of the quality of the fruit). That's a 80g per day profit, compared to ancient fruit wine, which is 41.3 g per day, or starfruit wine, which is 56.3 g per day.

[@Kidneyjoe42]

Also, while cows make more money than goats, goats can narrow the gap by making better use of casks. If using casks for nothing but cheese, a full cellar can handle the cheese from 3 full barns worth of goats with only 1 extra per week that would need to be sold unaged at gold quality. The same number of cows will result in slightly over half the cheese needing to be sold at gold quality. As a result, the 3 barns of goats will make 99.3% as much money as the 3 barns of cows over the same period of time with half the milking and either half the cheesemakers or half the trips to fill them. For reference, goats make 87% as much money as cows if not aging the cheese.

[@MrErizid]

Way too much micromanaging.@@Kidneyjoe42

[@pairot01]

The gold/day calculations are off, it's actually much more for the wines. You can have the plants growing and the kegs fermenting at the same time, they are parallel processes, so you should only count the longer of the two times, not add them together. So the profit per day is almost double what he said.

[@peeblekitty5780]

This is the perfect video! I've done everything for perfection except that clock. I've been putting off playing because even as I had a solid plan ahead and had almost all the kegs ready, the wine grind just sounded so monotonous. Looking forward to setting up a small pig army!

[@galaxy_brain]

Awesome guides! Last I played was pre-1.3 so your guides have been great to get back into it!

[@RobertHartleyGM]

Man, the amount of work you put into this! Admirable. Good job.

[@SweeeetLovex3]

thank you for this detailed overview! maybe I’ll go for a slime hutch on my current farm (want to reach perfection there someday). they sounds fun. I like the fact that with wine I only need to dedicate once a week to rekeg them, allowing me to have more time for other stuff.

[@peacefulsoysouce2869]

I usually go for ancient fruit for farming because I have replanting starfruids

[@viciousfrockery]

would you ever consider making a mid-game or Year 2 priority list? I feel like I always end up in year 2 not as progressed as I'd like, and I struggle to prioritize what things are commonly missed that I should be aiming for and how to strategize for them!

[@dinoxjay]

i’m late, but what im currently doing it getting ready for Grandpa’s evaluation on Year 3 of spring :) i’m also trying to catch each legendary fish for each season. i feel like year 2 can be up to you, there’s endless things to do :)

[@stuffzeez8764]

during winter, the best was to make use of unused farmland is tea saplings. fill your fields with winter seeds and fiber seeds and turn them into tea saplings.

[@haileymarie6430]

I had a save where I had 6 coops and by year 3 I was making 30-50k a day just in mayo.

[@rhaining]

Love this video! I'm glad you factor out startup costs for late game -- they're irrelevant late game. But it would be great to somehow factor in player time as well as game time. E.g. crystalariums have fairly low player time required to harvest -- certainly less than fishing lava eels -- but you do have to go around and click on every device. Starfruit wine may sell for more, but requires replanting which is double (?) the player time of just harvesting. But definitely good to know that casks aren't very helpful (I'm still exploring and so far I haven't been impressed with casks).

[@janeenschultz8502]

I mostly use casks for cheese.

[@emperoricy3598]

I enjoy using the hyper retaining soil with garden pots in a shed, and growing crops inside, while its similar to farming, its a bit different

[@chinchilla724]

do you use pineapples in them? they're the best regrowable crop to put in garden pots :)

[@MrErizid]

@@chinchilla724 Nope, Hops with 1.5 kegs to pots ratio.

[@Roozyj]

With the slime hutch, you also kinda need the slime charmer ring to not die when you enter xD Then again, this late in the game, you'll probably have that anyway, I never made it so far into late game :P

[@jamesdinius7769]

Still, it's pricey. I'd have included the ring in the startup cost.

[@slwrabbits]

You can fence off the slimes; they don't spawn slime balls on flooring.

[@thermophile1695]

People trash on casks for being slow, but every cask with starfruit wine is making 56g a day, and having your basement crammed so full you have to break casks to get at them, you make over 10,000g a day, and you literally only have to interact with it once every two seasons. Also, the payout feels really good since its over a million all at once.

[@aminaaziz9019]

and it is even better if you continue to make normal wine during that period

[@Codraroll]

After first watching this guide a month ago, I've had some time to think and consider something crucial that wasn't explained very well in this guide: Scalability. The numbers work out something like this: * Starfruit: 43.75 g/day per fruit. * Starfruit Wine: 193 g/day per bottle. * Ancient Fruit: 78 g/day per fruit. * Ancient Fruit Wine: 174 g/day per bottle. * Fairy Rose Honey: 238 g/day per Bee House. * Diamond Crystalariums: 150 g/day per Crystalarium. * Slime Hutch: 986 g/day per Hutch. * Truffles: 4500 g/day per Pig. * Lava Eel Fish Ponds: 1053 g/day per Pond. * Fishing: Difficult to determine, but thousands of g/day. * Mining: Likewise. At a glance, it appears that farming comes out quite badly here, but that's before you consider how many instances of each strategy you can run in parallel. And that's where farming absolutely trounces every alternative. Starting at the bottom of the list and working (mostly) upwards: maximizing your earnings through fishing or mining would of course require you to spend all day fishing and mining, with your rewards proportional to the haul you'd find that day. The "moneymaking ceiling" is directly dependent on the effort (and luck) you put into it. As for the Fish Ponds, filling them is a bit of a chore, but a bigger limitation is the number of them you can fit on your farm. This method requires a very large commitment of space, harvesting time, and of course, levelling up the Ponds. In practice, you'd have to compromise a lot to be able to run more than a couple dozen Fish Ponds on your farm. Say those 1053 g/day can be multiplied with 24 or so, for a daily maximum income from this strategy around 25,000. Likewise, the Slime Hutch appears to be a good money maker, but it scales very badly. Setting up (and harvesting from) multiple Slime Hutches takes a lot of time, and each Hutch will only gain you about a thousand g/day. If you can run more than four on a farm without devoting all your time and space to it, I'd be impressed. Let's say this method will net you 4000 g/day at most. Truffles may possibly be the most easily scalable non-farming option, but your farm can still only fit a limited number of Barns with a limited number of Pigs per barn, and if you want to pet them, that's a huge daily time investment too. Not to mention that they will remain unproductive for approximately a third of the year (Winter + rainy days really add up). So, say, two dozen pigs at 4500 g/day, multiplied by 2/3 = 72,000 g/day on average. Bee Houses and Crystalariums are more easily scalable and require no maintenance, but it takes a lot to fill the farm with either of them. Bee Houses need to be near flowers, and unless you want to pick them up and set them down for every harvest, you have to plant them in patterns so they become accessible. Say you're able to put down 100 of them at your farm (or more realistically, Ginger Island - your farm wouldn't be able to sustain the production for more than a couple of weeks every year), that's 24,000 or so g/day. Crystalariums, you might fill a couple of Sheds with them. Let's say 400 Crystalariums in total, which requires a hefty investment (three full sheds, to start). That's 60,000 g/day. Farming, however, reigns supreme with the sheer number of plants you can have growing in parallel. You can easily have a couple hundred crops growing at the same time, plus an equal number of Kegs producing Wine, meaning those meagre 174/193 g/day can be multiplied by 3-400 with no problems. 110 Starfruit in the Greenhouse and 110 Kegs in a shed, that's 42,460 g/day year-round. And all you have to do is to fill and empty Kegs/the field every week or so. But you can easily have 300 more Starfruit growing on Ginger Island, and more sheds of Kegs, netting you profits well north of 100,000 g/day on average with maintenance only every 11 days. You can spend the remaining ten days fishing or mining. In conclusion, the Slime Hutch is not a good moneymaker. Fishing and mining can be, if you have the whole day to set aside for it. Fish Ponds require too much space and upkeep for the money you get in return. Truffles gets you good money, but with much upkeep. Crystalariums (Crystalaria?) require a high initial setup cost, but give free, low-upkeep money after that. Farming and wine, however, will net you ludicrous sums and very much spare time, and remain the uncontested champion of ways to make money in this game.

[@adrs1380]

I make lots of wine. But also consider this. Have a fish pond with normal cucumbers, and plant some blue jazz and corn. In the greenhouse corn never dies. These are the ingredients for a lucky lunch. Eat one for +3 luck every time you go to the mines (it might also be good for fishing). Your mining expeditions will be much more rewarding.

[@liktorbehemoth2860]

what a lot of people always forget is to consider is the money you can make in a year by crops... As example... Just a simple calc: I Planted 1440 Crops (Starfruits and Ancients fruits) Had 189 Casks in my basement and 254 kegs. The endresult after one full year by just using this Crops and no island just the normal farm would be 11.113.200 Gold for Starfruits and 14.424.510 for Ancient fruits simply for the fact that I can Plant Ancientfruits in spring and starfruit earliest in Summer (Without the Greenhouse and the Island) The second thing is I does not need to speed their groth up they are harvestable 8 times in a year while starfruits need to get this amount of money in a year if you can not use speedgroth you make with this method just get 8.464.500 gold per year... Sure the Starfruit has the overall higher worth per day in the month they are growing and if you use them later on to make wine out of them but if you simply want to amke the most money in 1 year... use Ancient fruits... I made one of those year were I planted 1440 Ancient fruits and got 11.520 Fruits out of it... If I would have sold it all in that year my income would have been 14.424.510 Gold right now this one year has already over 30 Million gold just for making wine... I got the clock btw easy with this methode included my cute little 24 Pigs that are making truffles for me... Btw I do not know how often it rains in your game but my pigs make much more money... Btw your calc for the pigs I do not understand... My 24 Pigs making 40-45 Truffles a day... For your starfruit calc please calculate the cost for the vertilizer too+the money for the crops...btw is your calc with 42460g/day for starfruits not correct cause of your misscalc for the Crops...

[@Kidneyjoe42]

While you are right to consider scalability, your estimations of how almost all of these would be used en masse are way off and you're seemingly deliberately portraying all of them in the worst possible light while ignoring any downsides to crops. What truffle farm only has two barns worth of pigs? Slime hutches are garbage, but how in the world is someone taking all day to pick up slime from just 4 hutches? And why is shed space and machine numbers a limiting factor for crystalariums but not the kegs that make crops worthwhile? Especially when in reality people can and do store both crystalariums and kegs off the farm in absurd numbers. Why is the set up like fish pond quests and crystalarium materials a problem when apparently building up ancient seed numbers and kegs isn't? Why are you assuming pigs have to be pet and that autopetters don't exist but then ignoring that any crop on the main farm necessitates tilling at least once a year (or growing fiber, but then that means manually cutting down ancient fruit or growing something less profitable in spring and fall), while the only other method that requires anything similar once set up is honey on the main farm and at a much smaller scale. You're also acting like scalability is the only thing that matters. Would more than a few fish ponds be a pain in the ass to harvest from and take up an excessive amount of space? Absolutely. But one lava eel pond is essentially zero effort to deal with and can be placed on untillable tiles. Honeymaxxing on the main farm would be dumb considering it only makes especially good money in one season. But a ginger island apiary isn't competing with junimo harvestable crops in terms of convenience and can be set up more efficiently since there's no need for flower access. And while the flowers have to be on tillable tiles, the bee houses themselves do not. Crops are the best moneymaker in the game, particularly when it comes to the balance of money, real time player effort, and scalability. But dishonest, one-sided comparisons aren't how you prove that. They also don't "absolutely trounce every alternative", even in terms of scalability. A crystalarium empire involves essentially the same amount of upkeep as filling kegs, is season agnostic even on the main farm, and has no need for tillable farm tiles. It is quite a bit slower to get going but even then, the materials needed synergize well with mining in the off time between harvests, which is itself quite profitable. And, most importantly, this video and the comparisons are not about doing any one thing in isolation and to the exclusion of planting crops. It's about the other things that make good money after a person has hit the limit of how many crops they want to deal with.

[@rubyscorpion5213]

Its good to note that the farming method is incredibly cheap on the time front. You can easily do pigs, farming, crystalariums, fishponds, and the slimes at the same time. (Mining and fishing for your resources requires more time commitment out of the day) Harvesting all of those goods and selling them/putting them in their refinement tech isn't particularly time-consuming,and you could use your excess time to go fishing, or complete anything you have left to do.

[@Trewq79]

I have found a HUGE factor to take into account end game is how much effort is needed for each method. I used to farm truffles and make a great profit every day, but after a year I got so sick and tired of collecting daily. So instead, I'm shifting to more set-and-forget methods like sheep, and just going to the auto-collector whenever I want to make my profits. Sure it's a loss in profit, but the convenience to me is well worth the price difference.

[@adrs1380]

Nice video. Thanks for the info, didn't know about the flower honey. However, there is one thing that puzzles me: why the need to make so much money, so fast? The main character lands in the farm to escape the rat race. But by focusing on the money making side of the game, you bring the rat race right back in. Like, in the commentaries people complain how much time it takes to go around greeting the pigs. Personally I love "talking" to my animals, everyday, even if they already are at 5 hearts. I have lots of "unused" space in my farm, just for the pleasure of "living" in a place filled with trees (every season I need to chop down some just to be able to walk around). Seriously, I love the videos and tutorials about the game, but I don't understand the rush to make money.

[@XhaditaX]

There's probably a lot of people who play like you, you just won't find them on a endgame guide XD personally I want the Perfection achievement; it specifically requires a LOT of money, and I wanna do more than just wait for my crops to grow and check my barns every day.

[@shorewall]

I did a lot of research, just to find out what I like to do. And what I like is milking cows to make aged cheeses, growing berry crops to make jams, and having a maple syrup farm. :D

[@kenmas._.bongwater3167]

if you don’t mind using exploits, the statue of perfection duplicating method is a great way to get a passive income. a full large shed of the SOP will give between 600 and 650 iridium ore and when smelted into bars, give between 30 and 40 bars a day

[@arioctober]

I'm currently doing a run where I'm not allowed to sell produce (but I can sell forageables and products made from them) and I'm not allowed to get seeds from Pierre or Joja except on festivals... This guide is exactly what I needed 😂

[@TheMultiderp]

Good production quality on your vid ❤️

[@thermophile1695]

Love to see a 1.6 version of this video

[@goatsplitter]

I like growing hops and putting that in a keg for ale. It's not the highest amount, sure, but i enjoy it because it's fast on all accounts so I feel like I'm doing something in the game instead of staring at casks or kegs making wine. Like watching paint dry.

[@my_myyy_maya]

My favorite way to make money in the later game stage is to fill up the land on my Ginger Island farm with pineapple plants. They never wilt or get eaten by crows, you get the seeds for free through various drops/golden coconuts, you never have to replant anything, and they sell for a fair amount of money. Dig a giant field, fill it with pineapples and iridium sprinklers, and you have a great passive source of money.

[@silentdrew7636]

Sure, but you can do that with ancient fruit too

[@theimaginatrix7625]

Truffle oil with the Artisan profession sells for more than an iridium truffle! So I oil all my truffles and then sell that! It takes time to process the oil, granted, but with enough oil-makers...

[@georgewashingmachine3957]

Quite late to this video, but one of my favourite way to make some extra money (though I'm not how lucrative it is) in the game is farming monster loot in the skull cavern. Use monster musk to get extra monster spawn, get a hundred staircase or so, some bombs, get some luck buff like spicy eel or lucky lunch, and must wear three rings: burglar, slime charmer, iridium band, and the fourth ring can be any among: one more iridium band, napalm, vampire, or hot java. Your weapon should have the crusader enchant. Then enter skull cavern, there will be tons of monster for you to kill and their loot drop will be crazy. Once I spent a whole day in skull cavern like that killing mostly mummies and serpents, and ended up with 20 cloths, 3 rabbit's foot, not to mention many other knick knacks and lots of ores. Each cloth sell for 658 G so that's at least 13,000 G for one run.

[@deltius]

the wine calculations are technically off because you can grow and turn stuff into wine simultaneously, so it doesn't take 14 days for the wine, it takes 8 since every 8 days you get a new batch of starfruit and harvest the old batch of wine in your kegs.

[@MrErizid]

He is also wrong about casks reducing your profit per day. It doesn't reduce it, it increases it but over a longer period of time.

[@houndofculann1793]

@@MrErizid it does significantly reduce the profit per day but only for that single batch of wine. It doesn't really matter because you'd be producing more at the same time, but the statement is still correct

[@didgeridooo]

It took me until mid winter of my first year to realize crop farming was actually really important, i just had a 3×3×3 grid of whatever crop i could get the easiest until then

[@aaronsmith8699]

I keep 10 lava eel pits it's nice to be able to have fried spicy eel and triple shot espresso all the time

[@rainacase5698]

For fish ponds I like to use super cucumbers and spook fish for the chance of iridium and treasure chests even though the chance to get them is low I get fairly lucky.

[@BorrasitoTakaTaka]

I use the ugly blobfish instead of lava eels. Easier to catch than lava eels on winter event and the roe selling price is very close to them. Also pearls are awesome highroll.

[@erinday7763]

I’m at that same point just trying to get the 10 million gold. The best way I’m finding (for myself at least) is variety. If it’s not a good luck day I won’t bother with the mines and I’ll do something else. I also really like pineapples on my ginger island farm. I got a lot of free seeds when doing the volcano dungeon and opening golden coconuts so now every few days I have a ton of pineapples and since they don’t require replanting it’s easy. Less money than ancient fruit but an easier setup for me.

[@belseygell9258]

one of my favorite ways to make a bit more money is aging cheeses, especially goat cheese. it's maybe also the best utilization of the casks, because popping gold-star cheeses into a cask will produce iridium-quality cheese in just seven days. though tossing in regular-quality cheese still only takes 14 days. a much shorter aging time than wine/pale ale/mead/beer. (and then the artisan profession bumps the profit up considerably too.) i haven't mathed the math, so it's PROBABLY (definitely) not as profitable as some of these other means in your video. but it's still profitable. and i enjoy petting and milking my cows and goats every day, letting the cheese stack up so i can run down to the cellar and replace all the iridium cheeses with new cheeses ready for aging.

[@sebisek]

great video! thanks for it!❤

[@jeffreyblack666]

Due to the staggered nature of it, I wouldn't count the days for wine and plants together to calculate gold per day. While you are turning one fruit into wine, the next can be growing. This is especially true due to the kegs being able to be inside or off the farm.

[@kauan8113]

Underrated work

[@TheBerial69]

Awesome Video mate

[@alicjak700]

There is actually a way to make pigs even more profitable - sell all of your pigs on the 1st of Winter and buy new ones. By the time Spring rolls in the new Pigs will already be adults and with decent Friendship ❤

[@carlosadrianzen3346]

Not necessarily, I haven't done the math. But higher friendship pigs can find 2-3 truffles a day

[@alexrecuenco]

@@carlosadrianzen3346but during all of winter your pigs are frozen assets, literally. They don’t produce. You get 4k/pig when you sell them and rebuy them

[@BorrasitoTakaTaka]

But you are wasting your money of selling pigs and then buying new ones, also you will need to grind friendship with pigs again which takes a while.

[@alicjak700]

@@BorrasitoTakaTaka well not really. Full-friendship pigs sell for 20,800G, while a buying price is only 16,000G - meaning that you make 4,800G on each pig. As for friendship building - well, it does take time but not as long either. You get 15 points per day for petting the animal and aditional 7,5 points if you have an auto-petter present. Sadly, since you don't milk or shear the pigs, you don't get any bonus for that and in Winter they won't get to eat grass outside, so that won't be counted either. But still - at the end of the Winter you will end up with Pigs that have over 6 hearts (630 F points to be precise). With grass already present in Spring for the animals to eat you will have 10 heart Pigs by 11 Spring. Whether or not you want to do it, it's a different matter, but depending on luck with aditional Truffle generation mechanic, it very much can be profitable 🤷‍♀

[@alicjak700]

@@carlosadrianzen3346 a full Friendship Pig has about 66% chance to produce aditional truffles (the check is run for each next truffle and stops once it fails), a Pig that was bought at the begining of Winter and was raised with love can reach 630 points of Friendship by Spring 1 - giving it about 42% chance for extra Truffles. It is a lot less, true but the Friendship will grow faster once the Pigs are able to eat grass outside and they can reach max Friendship by 11 Spring. On the swap, you earn 4,800G - which translates to about 4 Truffles. Now, whether old Pigs would find 4+ Truffles more than the new ones during those first 11 days of Spring is totally RNG based (you should include the possiblity of rain during those days when you don't earn anything from Pigs!), so in my book - it definatelly can be worth it 🤷‍♀

[@lucasduncan6724]

Love the video! Only thing I want to mention is I think your farming + artisan break down is a bit flawed. Since growing crops is not limited by them being turned into wine via kegs, you can layer your production (grow more ancient fruit every day while the previous round is in your kegs processing). This being said, the assessment needs to be done on the 7 day mark since over time that is your real turn around. Like I said, this is still a great video with a lot of fun ways to make money and single player games should be played for the individual players enjoyment. Just wanted to add my thoughts.

[@hidebehind3565]

Enjoyable video! Just a little nitpick - I disagree with the addition of days into the money calculation at the start of the video. You can produce wine while an ancient fruit or starfruit is growing using the previous batch's fruits. Therefore, you should have divided the starfruit income by only 8 and ancient fruit by only 7. This also applies to the casks but you're correct to say that they lower the gold/day calculation.

[@AleenaKnight]

Finally someone else that calculates like I do. 😭 Thanks for showing those! Keep up the good work. 😊

[@evanprince3875]

Trick for getting the lava eel on floor 100, accept the Linus quest for trash, feels a bit better when you make progress towards something else... it took me that whole week even though I finished the trash quest in a day.

[@douglasthequilava]

when it comes to getting multiple Ancient Fruits, i already planned to set up my farm to have a greenhouse prioritizing growth of Ancient Fruit.

[@mack9175]

I'm not yet at endgame (working on getting enough iridium to unlock ginger island) but this was all super interesting to me!! I'm curious on whether iridium truffles are worth turning into truffle oil or not.

[@jeffreyblack666]

Yes, radioactive ore is very dependent upon luck (and to not be on a floor divisible by 5). If you have neutral daily luck (0), no special charm and no luck buff, then the chance to find radioactive ore on floor 1 is 0.101%, increasing to 0.219% on floor 119. With the best daily luck (0.1) and the special charm, that chance is increased to 1.06% on floor 1 and 1.18% on floor 119. And with a +11 luck buff (I think the best obtainable), that will increase to 1.23% on floor 1 and 1.35% on floor 119. And if you don't have luck buffs, and the daily luck drops to less than -0.01313 (the lowest is -0.1 or -0.075 with the special charm), then your chance to find it on floor 1 is 0.

[@robincormier9935]

You might be surprised at how much money you can make by using a Monster Musk and then farming levels 51-69 of the "Dangerous" Mines. (Where all the spiders and little mush mush's are.) Those enemies get REALLY dense with a musk and going down there with an Infinity Hammer (Artful) and a Burglar's Ring + Napalm and of course Mermaid's Shoes + Immunity band for status immune (The green ghosts are there so otherwise you need Ginger Ales) you can monster mash you're way to A LOT of really good loot... including Qi Gems and Galaxy Souls, not to mention a decent amount of straight up metal bars and tons of Coal. Most times I go after 1 good day of slaughtering I come out with like 20-30k G just from selling the void essences alone.

[@slwrabbits]

I take my haymaker to those levels to make a killing off the weeds! Loads of fun and I have more qi gems than I need now.

[@RealNinja522]

Is there a reason you didn't mention Gemologist when talking about the Crystalarium? It takes diamonds up from 750 to 975 and thus the gold per day up to 195, not as good as some of the other methods still but it seems like an odd choice to leave out.

[@farrowhumes8210]

Hey love your videos and I have a tiny suggestion, growing sweet gem berry's on ginger Island half of It with hyper speed grow the other with the top quality enhancer you can get at the time, and add in the level ten farming skill for 10% faster crop growth and you can make hundreds of thousands with it in a single month. Automate it with sprinklers and visit twice a month or so to replant the faster growing ones (to build seeds to sell the other half for pure profit) and that's it, it's even more passive than a slimehuch and makes quite alot

[@junietwoknees]

can you put rare seeds in the seedmakers?

[@farrowhumes8210]

Yes you can I was shocked when I found out. It's just like any other seed. So it can be infuriating when you get mixed seeds or an ancient seed but you get about double what you put in

[@yanniematos212]

Just make three gold star mayo and you’ll easily make 1000 a day. Guaranteed gold star mayo if you use a large egg. All of my chickens started laying large eggs after 3 friendships hearts. It’s what kept me afloat during the winter + I only had one mayo machine too. Idk I just thought it would be easier than the rows one

[@UltimaTiger]

It's so funny that eel eggs are the most valuable fish product, because in real life, we still dont know how eels breed, so all real life eel farmers buy baby "glass eels" from river fishermen around the world.

[@konrad3]

I currently enjoy animals with: -Auto-Feeding -Auto-Petter in every barn -Auto Collector All I need to do (after the huge startup investment) is grow lots of grass and collect the products from time to time. Sometimes I make Mayo and Cheese, but jou don't have to because the iridium Value (full hearts) is already pretty good. I still make more money with crops, but I'm excited to see how it goes.

[@Owen-zk4yr]

auto petter? is it mod?

[@zacherybutter7349]

@@Owen-zk4yrNo, it’s an item in the game that you usually get from going the Joja Mart route.

[@rdnaidra7280]

2:10 you got a little miscalculated here, for the ancient fruit (also for starfruit) after all the setup was done, when you harvest it, the time for 7-day regrow starts. so when you put it on the keg for the wine,.7 days (6.25 days) later, the keg is done, and it is also the time for the next ancient fruit to be ready to harvest again. so the actual profit is 2310/7 days. my point is. you missing when the keg is still going. you can replant the starfruit and the ancient fruit is in the regrow phase.

[@TowMater603]

Having the 'Skip the fishing minigame' mod installed and having the Auto-catch ticked off in the mod , you can make really good money just simply fishing. It's as simple as click , wait , catch. You can do this as soon as day 2 on a new profile and using this , you can earn a lot to buy Strawberry seeds and just stock pile the strawberrys until you have the preserve barrels. Fishing is the best way to make money early game....IF you have that mod installed.

[@DexTag]

I assume you'll talk about that later, but so far (at 5:00) you only looked at gold per day values, without really considering realism, efficiency or effectiveness. Not saying it's not interesting, but what I mean is that there is a comparison happening and just gold per day is bad. If something earns the most but has to be done 10 times a day per tile, and you cover your entire farm in it, then that's a horrible thing to do. Like the amount of effort going into that is crazy. And especially talking about Crystalariums here, they used to be by far the best money method after Pigs with an optimal setup. The reason is that Sheds can be bought and filled up with Diamonds. The "perfect" way would be to entirely fill them and then break what you need to get to all of them, but again talking about realism no one wants to do that. So it would have gaps to walk through and access all. But that means you can place an insane amount of them on your farm and even outside of your farm, though let's stay within the farm because time will eventually become a problem and if we consider outside of the farm, then we could always add them on top of any other method that beats the on-farm Crystalarium. And they are also quite comfortable since all you have to do is run by once a day and collect them, I liked to have the Sheds work in different time windows, so 1/5 was done on Day 1, 1/5 was done on Day 2 and so on. The best thing is that there is nothing that can go wrong, you don't have to plant anything, you don't have to consider seasons and there are no limitations space wise, you can pretty much just fill everything up until the last space is used. With 137 spaces (with walkways), the Big Shed can produce 133k every 5 days. That's just a single Shed. I don't quite remember how many you could put down, but if we go with "just" 15 (I'm pretty sure it was more), then you would earn 2 million every 5 days. The investment into it is huge, but you earn so much money you quickly forget about it. Setting up the first one will cost quite a lot, but the more you get the more the past ones will give profits and lead to you being able to afford the future ones without any amount of additional work. While 2 million every 5 days is an insane amount, the real question would be if anyone needs that much. As in, I think it would sound daunting for anyone to build, upgrade and fill 15 Sheds and they are definitely not needed given you can just sleep to skip time. And once the major purhcases are made, the money flow pretty much means it's near impossible to run out of money.

[@braderbell6814]

you can make a TON of money from fishing for Legend II during the extended family quest! (at least in theory, before you spend the whole damn day and have it bite a single time) on a good day, if they feel like biting, and you catch 10 of them, that's 115'000 gold in a day. I originally thought that the quality bobber was best because then they sell for 15000 each, but then they can just outplay you with some top-bottom-top-bottom skillz, and then you just lost the single Legend that bites at all that day

[@jayster5665]

I'm playing with Half Cash, so I hope these methods help me out

[@xXDrSnugglesXx]

For me, the way to make the most money per day in Stardew Valley is do what you want to do, that way you wont get tired of it as doing the same thing over and over again can get quite boring, so find the thing that you enjoy doing and stick with it and your money will start to flow ^^

[@dr_online_]

gold/day seems nice but we also need to count the space it takes to give us gold like pigs give 4500g/day but it takes around 49 spaces to use it efficiently so ancient fruit gives 8.575g/day in 49 spaces (if we assume we dont put kegs in farm)

[@sinmenon4347]

Another good one for the fishing ponds is the Spooky Fish, it gives the treasure chest, but it requires a population of 9 fishes and have 0.3% chance. Still the aged roe is 280g (392g with the bonus). If it doesn't gives you roe, it will give you a treasure chest. idk if it can be useful or not but there's that.

[@javierl.2377]

Wait, no, you cannot age caviar in vanilla, i forgot.

[@limerimer5547]

0.3 is so small you might as well just do rainbow trout for the chance to get a prismatic shard for 0.1%

[@wetbread8928]

In my slime hutch I try to keep white slimes, it's not effective but I enjoy the idea of maybe getting a few diamonds from them but I usually use them for slime balls

[@shadow_force]

Turn the truffles in to oil for more money, and use a artisan build. Also you can glitch Pierre for infinite money, sell buy back and resell after changing your skills

[@tomatoniongaming6773]

Nah it's patched since the 1.6

[@jordanstark5924]

Obviously I'm insanely late and there's probably another comment that I missed that mentions it anyway, but I guess Sal just forgot about the gemologist profession for the diamond calculation? If you have the profession it actually comes out to almost 195g/day. Kinda crazy actually Edit: Now that I think about it, is it really valuable to compare to selling a single bottle of wine? Like that's just multiplied by however many you're willing to maintain. Like with 116 tiles in the greenhouse (and accounting for growing during kegging) your profit from starfruit wine suddenly jumps to 45k a day

[@user-yp8gg7gw2n]

I went ham with fish ponds. I have around 45 of them. All lava eel. You fish out the 10th as it comes up and have 3 sheds devoted to preserve jars. Takes FOREVER to get the seaweed and green algae but it was so worth it. Unlimited spicy eel and gold ore is also useful as well as thr sheer terror you will see in clints eyes as you arrive at his shop with a stack of magma geodes. And once 1.6 comes to the switch i have 2 stacks of lava eel ready to be smoked

[@shadow_force]

Blobfish is more money

[@RyyFoo]

I got a slime egg from a slimejack fish pond

[@IanSachdeva]

I would use sturgeon in fishponds for caviar if you age them these sell for 700 G this is 60 G less than lava eels but waayy easier to set up with the quests

[@jackiesharp018]

Honestly I consider ancient fruit way better than Starfruit only because it's so predictable and requires less work. Just fill your greenhouse once with ancient fruit, let it all grow and then harvest it all, every week you will have another batch, you convert it to wine and have as much as you can in the basement. This isn't really a fast way to make money but it is a minimum cost way to start making money. I haven't seen a full on comparison of starfruit vs ancient fruit myself but i prefer ancient fruit for the schedule it falls on.

[@victory8928]

Yeah it is very consistent and easy to make a routine. Starfruit is more work for more profits but why bother when you have ancient fruit

[@edmis90]

Did other people get the same misunderstanding as me? Please tell me I'm not the only one. After watching this video, I was left with the impression that slime hutch is much better than for example starfruit wine - not realizing that it's comparing a singular starfruit to a building with 20 slimes. By a fairer comparison, instead of the slime hutch you could have a large shed with 80 starfruits and 40 kegs (80 40 because wine finishes twice as fast as the fruits grow). Same story with pigs. A better comparison would be 12 pigs to 80 starfruit and 40 kegs - except here you also have to account for the labor difference (with deluxe retaining soil you've to work only once every week). Beehives' comparison are objective and not deceptive though 👍

[@Octopathmatteler]

I know it probably isn't as strong as Star fruit or ancient fruit but I've found that sweet gem berries can make over a million gold using the ginger island farm but it takes a long time to set up with seed makers.

[@JohannesMatteoSteinbauer]

They don’t regrow and u can buy 1 every few days

[@Octopathmatteler]

@@JohannesMatteoSteinbauer Seed makers for the lower quality ones.

[@lillyflower7834]

because you can have your ancient fruit in kegs as it grows you make the wine money weekly and starfruit every 8 days so doing my own math I came up with Starfruit Wine: 393.75g per day Ancient Fruit Wine: 330g per day Pigs: ~1258g per day (for the amount of tiles the barn takes up assuming it is full and accounting for winter/rain) Fair Rose Honey: 238g per day

[@Omniwrath]

I know this is an old video, so I'm surprised to see nobody calling out your claim that aging wine lowers the gold per day. You will always earn more money per day when aging wine in casks. Feel free to double check my math, but I'm fairly sure aging ancient fruit wine to iridium comes out to 234.75 g/day. Starfruit is only more money if you are kegging every fruit produced. Otherwise deluxe fertilizer on the ancient fruit is going to make your extras sell for 1,100g which quickly tips the scales.

[@salmence100]

Iridium Ancient fruit wine sells for 4,620g, divided by 69.25 days to harvest, keg, and cask the wine, is 66.7 g/day. While there's no reason to not have casks going if you have them, it absolutely plummets the g/day

[@samuelkalen2971]

@@salmence100yeah i think people misinterpret your g/day estimation when talking about aging. Of course you don’t loose money aging. The only way you could loose money aging is if you plan on investing it to make more money. What I think most people do is just letting it pile up until they can buy all the expensive stuff like obelisks and golden clock. In that case just cask all the wine you can and sell the rest, the casks will increase the sell price but give it to you later.

[@apia46]

i dont think you add the 6.25 days for turning it to wine as you can put kegs basically everywhere similarily you dont add the days for the cellar things but you have a limited amount of those so its just a constant increase

[@PoliteCat142]

I don't know if you know about this, but if you buy furniture cataloge from robin and craft some looms. You can put yellow couches in looms and create cloth. For now I have 17 looms and with artisan profesion I get 44k a day

[@user-uq2gk5js1h]

Sometimes I get a full deluxe coop and fill it with chickens and turn the eggs into mayonnaise and then I repeat until the end of the month and then I sell them

[@rydrakeesperanza5370]

9:33 -i just realized I lost about 200 gold per truffle by selling truffle oil without the artisan profession every once in a while...

[@naxamarviceroy3979]

Put on the hot java ring and do dangerous mines spider levels on a bad luck day with a monster musk on. You can legit fill a 999 stack of coffee without issue, good chunk of triple shot too.

[@zapren]

I know I'm late, but preserve jar is much better than keg (gold/day) if you are using ancient fruit or starfruit

[@rafaboyseduction]

After perfection you can just produce many many golden chickens, also go for joja route so you can buy autopetter

[@quincylovell7108]

fishing by the big shark fin looking rock with a iridium fishing rod and level 10 fishing in any season is an easy way to make over 9000g in the middle spring year1 and in late game it makes even more

[@mantarlos]

Please re-do this but with the 1.6 updates!!!

[@lemolea9571]

On my current save I went to catch some lava eels on floor 100 for my fish pond and caught 4 IN A ROW. Idk what the chance of that is but I almost had a heart attack 😂

[@eliandervalderen5849]

Never heard of a white slime farm but I figure that you're going to want purple slimes and have it in your farm also is it possible to get a tiger slime farm for the sake of getting tiger slime eggs I hear they're very expensive

[@mrbobandmrbird]

First Thing I do every new Game is setup A Maple Tree Farm laying out The plans For where will plant Them laying do paths to keep They From dropping seeds and so on and Then Get level 2 Foraging as Fast as possible and Get 50 maple seeds once They are Grown it is 10000 Gold every 9 days They Tend to all be Grown “and Tapped” by The start of Fall so late year 1 it is an amazing Income

[@Fuhrer176]

I highly recommend using bee boxes on ginger island, plant fairy roses in those little spots west and north of the farm house and surround them with bee boxes. It produces the most profitable honey and it doesnt take away any farming place. Depending how much you place them, you can get +100 honeys every few days, its great passive income.

[@otheraccount5193]

i only do ancient fruit wine because i can schedule it so fruit and wine production is always on a monday and i like having routine

[@the_vine_queen]

I've found a lot of success with tea saplings, even mid-late game. Just by randomly picking up forgeables every season and crafting them I can make ~100 tea saplings per season with decent foraging luck. This amounts to 5000g/season (178g/day). What I like about this is that this isn't even grinding to get more forageables. This is just picking them up while I'm out doing errands. Fruit trees are another great passive income method. You can fit 18 fruit trees in the greenhouse, and bananas are the most profitable. Each tree gives you one banana per day and can "store" up to 3. Selling them raw gives you a whopping 2970g/day with the Tiller profession. Pomegranates are not far behind with 2772g/day if you don't have Ginger Island yet.

[@gameoking5669]

They nerfed tea saplings in 1.6 😢

[@jedbex7070]

I didn’t know Lava eels were so rare, I ended up catching 2 while doing Linus’s trash quest and thinking “Oh neat, didn’t know these were here” and sold one and kept the other. Plus pigs are goated I just realized how much they made me as I ended up with 3 accidentally and I make about 16k per day with selling just the truffles.

[@gameoking5669]

The same thing happened with me, but I was able to catch only one, I missed two.