Cask

[haskav]

Seriously. Are cask really worth it?

[Twinkie]

I would say it is good if you plan on making a lot of wine. Especially if it is Ancient Fruit Wine. Otherwise you are getting like 200-300G for waiting 56 days if you put in an item at base quality.

[loner450]

It is a good investment if you are planning to go the artisan route. Aging cheese and wine to iridium quality can give you good money. Like Twinkie said, Ancient Fruit Wine sells the most. Another alternative would be strawberry wine, promegranate wine or peach wine, which ever comes to you first. Although the wait is long, the payout is worth, at least in my opinion.

[Katalia19]

It's worth it with goat's cheese, as that only takes a week (if you put in gold, it takes two weeks if you put in base quality). Wine takes two seasons, so that's...debatable even for ancient fruit and star fruit wine. However, if you don't care much about having regular harvests, the mid-year major boost in cash could be fun.

[MadamLizzy]

I've gotten pretty rich on wine and using the casks. I've currently added yet another shed for my brew. The only problem I see in the near future is keeping up with growing the fruit that it takes to fill them. I make sure I go out for the four days we can pick berries and get as many as I can.

[Magzie]

It is only good if you are going for goat cheese farm or a passive wine build where you just make enough wine to fill the cask for aging. However the basement is a big room so you can place allot of stuff in it. If you are using the automatiom mod you could turn the basement into a huge Auto precessing plant so to speak. Also cask are way cheap.

[Rasamith]

Goat cheese rotated out of the 33 starter casks every 7 days will turn an additional profit to amount to 100000+ in just over a year of game time. Not too bad for doing a couple clicks every 7 days in addition to all the other stuff you do in a day.. I'm not sure there's any big purchases later in the game to warrant this money maker.. but if you had a reason to play for over a year's time following the purchase of the cellar, it's worth it. Add more casks and ways to fill them and the payoff becomes drastic for how little effort you put in.. ( walk a few tiles and click a bunch to fill/empty casks) it's like a new crop and the seeds are cheese/wine... you could just sell the seeds; but put them in the ground and you get big payoff.. only downside is how late you get the ability to do this.

[Rasamith]

If you can save up the goat cheese, wood, and hardwood to have a fully stocked/goat-fueled cellar for 1 month, just 1 month, the bonus money you'd get on top of the base value of cheese would be 100K + enough to pay for the cellar and put you miles ahead with having casks ready to roll.

To meet this power goal.. save
117 hard wood
2340 wood
465 goat cheese, any quality

Oh yes, and the base value of 465 gold star goat cheese would be 313,875G.

Or just substitute wine/normal cheese. Quantity seems to yield insane paybacks early on if you're ready for it and invest hard.

[Chocice75]

Also, the cellar comes with free casks, but you can still add more or remove some.

[Vimpster]

Starfruit wine, with the artisan specialty, is worth over 3100g. Taking that to iridium quality makes each wine worth over 6200g. You can fit over 100 casks in the cellar. 100x6200g is 620,000g. I would consider that well worth having to wait 56 days.

Apologies. Just realized how old this topic is.

[Pixel Peeper]

Yeah, the accidental necro...

The answer is, it depends.

The "opportunity cost" concept applies. Selling the item right now gives you money instantly, and you could potentially grow that money faster doing other things than aging the item in casks. In that scenario aging the item instead of selling it would actually leave you with comparatively less money.

If you don't really have anything you want to do with that money, however, aging is pretty much 100% profit (technically it takes a little bit of time to cask and pick up everything).

[Chester]

I dont know im just searching for people to play with rn lol

[Cheshire Kate]

It's pretty low effort for high reward, and definitely helps save up for expensive items like the return scepter a lot faster, if you don't have anything more productive to spend the money on in the short term.

[glitzerpaillette]

As the time/profit ratio goes, it nets more money to age your wine solely to gold, not to iridium. And there's absolutely no point to make wine from harvested berries; thrice the money for blackberries? Seriously?

[Diana]

I think cask is worth it if you are doing what I am where your shed is filled with kegs in batches and putting them in casks to age once done for a steady emergency supply of gold but it entirely depends on your playthrough and route.

[Uncoelacanth]

Originally posted by Magzie:

It is only good if you are going for goat cheese farm or a passive wine build where you just make enough wine to fill the cask for aging. However the basement is a big room so you can place allot of stuff in it. If you are using the automatiom mod you could turn the basement into a huge Auto precessing plant so to speak. Also cask are way cheap.

If you're using Automate, you aren't limited to just putting casks in the basement, either.