What is the best money make?

[Takabanaa]

I need 50,000 to upgrade house. What is the best money maker. I have been using XiaoXiao as it only 2 ings and the returns is not bad.

[worstcase11]

Honey - by a great margin.

Set up 10 Beehive boxes, plant a ton of flowers around them and start selling.

Once the flowers are blooming you don't have to water them anymore and they wont wither. So basically it is a nonstop income.
Each box gives 3x honey/nectar. If you make the flowerfield big - ideally a hivebox all 3 tiles, then you can harvest daily.

[Takabanaa]

The beehives have not been triggered for me yet. spooky lady still dont like me

[worstcase11]

That might be connected to Xie not waking up yet in your game.

[worstcase11]

Originally posted by worstcase11:

That might be connected to Xie not waking up yet in your game.

If you got some trouble recruiting take a look into this guide:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2855330245

[Fuzen]

Honey is great because it comes at no cost, so it’s a reliable income - 3-4k per day. Ideally, you want to use green/blue rarity seeds for your flowers, so they are of a higher quality and thus produce better quality honey on average. (At least, I think it works that way.)

For the setup, I recommend this one : https://i.imgur.com/pQseAwF.jpeg

It’s a very compact setup, and it’s also easy to gather. All 10 beehives have a 200/day production, so one full cycle each morning. Note the two columns without hives on each end – they are required to have a 200/day value at the edge too.

As for the flowers… If I remember correctly, Roses are the most valuable and Sunflower are the least valuable. Wild Honey (multiple flowers) is even less valuable. If you use four different flowers in relatively equal proportions (such as in my setup) you’ll produce Mixed Honey. It has other uses such as in Flower Honey Wine. (That’s the reason for the Fermenting Jars below the setup. They only cost one honey + sticky rice each and sell for more than twice the value.)

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The other option that works well is Soulgrass (buy from the Travelling Merchant whenever you can) and Winter Melon. Both can grow in any season and are the money crops of the game. Tianlin Root is also an option, but it’s not quite as good as the other two.

[worstcase11]

Originally posted by Fuzen:

Honey is great because it comes at no cost, so it’s a reliable income - 3-4k per day. Ideally, you want to use green/blue rarity seeds for your flowers, so they are of a higher quality and thus produce better quality honey on average. (At least, I think it works that way.)

For the setup, I recommend this one : https://i.imgur.com/pQseAwF.jpeg

It’s a very compact setup, and it’s also easy to gather. All 10 beehives have a 200/day production, so one full cycle each morning. Note the two columns without hives on each end – they are required to have a 200/day value at the edge too.

As for the flowers… If I remember correctly, Roses are the most valuable and Sunflower are the least valuable. Wild Honey (multiple flowers) is even less valuable. If you use four different flowers in relatively equal proportions (such as in my setup) you’ll produce Mixed Honey. It has other uses such as in Flower Honey Wine. (That’s the reason for the Fermenting Jars below the setup. They only cost one honey + sticky rice each and sell for more than twice the value.)

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The other option that works well is Soulgrass (buy from the Travelling Merchant whenever you can) and Winter Melon. Both can grow in any season and are the money crops of the game. Tianlin Root is also an option, but it’s not quite as good as the other two.

I gotta say I prefer a wider spread for my flowers and beehives - mostly because

1) I can't automate watering all of my field areas anyway, so growing flowers which don't need extra water is no problem and it looks great.

2) I like to produce all kinds of nectar at the same time, in case I'll need that stuff for future quests or recipes.

So that is the layout I am using:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2904882652

[Takabanaa]

I have not activate the bees as yet. Need brother Xie to wake up first. Dont know how much more treament he needs after the Ginseng.

[worstcase11]

Depends on at which Ginseng fruit you are in his treatment ^^'

Before he wakes up he needs a total of 4 of them. And several other items as well.

[Takabanaa]

Oh my goodness, this guy better marry my farm when he wakes up. It is hard enough getting 1 of those things. Do you happen to have a list of the things needed for him so I can prepare in advance.

[worstcase11]

Sure (though you can find it in the guide as well).

Questline: Relapse

(I)

25x Jujube Fruit
25x Anima Fruit

(II)

15x Ginger
1x Ginseng Fruit

(III)

5x Anima Herb
5x Honeysuckle Flower


Questline: Dietic Invigoration

(I)

1x Veggie Congee
1x Crucian Carp Soup

(II)

1x Steamed Egg
2x Ginseng Fruit

(III)

1x Wood Ear (super quality – blue)
6x Jujube Fruit (super quality – blue)

(IV)

5x Crayfish


Quest: Wake Brother Xie

3,000x Spirit Stone Shards
1x Ginseng Fruit
5x Anima Herb
5x Honeysuckle Flower.

After that you need to recruit both Song Yantong and Mu Xia before Xie gets better.

[Fuzen]

Originally posted by worstcase11:

I gotta say I prefer a wider spread for my flowers and beehives - mostly because

1) I can't automate watering all of my field areas anyway, so growing flowers which don't need extra water is no problem and it looks great.

2) I like to produce all kinds of nectar at the same time, in case I'll need that stuff for future quests or recipes.

So that is the layout I am using:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2904882652

I can certainly see your point. It’s likely that we’ll need other nectars in the future too but currently, there is little incentive to produce anything else than Rose and Mixed.

Because of this, if income is your sole concern and you care about footprint, this kind of condensed setup is optimal. However, if you are at a point where these aren’t an issue, your setup is a great way to do it – and as you say, it looks great.

(Personally, almost all my main farm area is used, with 4 manual irrigation wells for times when I want to grow a lot of stuff fast. Doesn’t take long to activate them each morning after all.)

[worstcase11]

@Fuzen: In case you haven't found it yet - There is a way of upgrading the irriwells to automated. You need 3 hearts in friendship level with Wei Hong and he'll give you a new blueprint for the modified version. (It is not the friendsship gift but an extra.)

[Takabanaa]

Nice, thank you. Once I get all the gingseng everything else is already in the warehouse. I already recruit Mu Xia, so it will only be Song now.

[Takabanaa]

Wei Hong is another one that will eat you out of house and farm. He never pays me back, always swindling his way out of repaying money.

[worstcase11]

Originally posted by Takabanaa:

Wei Hong is another one that will eat you out of house and farm. He never pays me back, always swindling his way out of repaying money.

Yeah I am kinda convinced he is secretly a spirit-cat posing as a human.
But his automated wells are really useful.
Easiest to aquire gift for him are the ghost mushrooms one can find in the cave.