Don't buy fertilizer

[Aquashaden]

This might have already been posted on here, but I can't find it, so here's my info:

Based on the wiki pages for crop quality on normal soil, soil with basic fertilizer and soil with high quality fertilizer, you'll never profit from buying fertilizer when at level 10 farming with tiller profession (not sure of other levels or professions). Without fertilizer, a field of 100 of any crop will make 119.75 times the value of the base crop in money, before taking away the cost of the seeds. With basic fertilizer, 131.5 times, and with quality fertilizer, 137.75 times. This means that you get 18 x the crop's base value for using quality fertilizer on a field of 100 crops - which costs 15000 to buy. there's no crop that sells for enough that 18x its base value is worth >15K. It's the same deal with basic fertilizer. Fell free to correct me if I'm wrong, but otherwise, you should never buy fertilizer unless it's to make a crop a better gift for a villager.

Speed grow may be a different story, and fertilizer at different farming levels might too, and maybe giant crops will have an effect too, I don't know. This is just what I know. Again, if you have other info, feel free to comment.

[Strifeboy]

Intresting to know, though i can't say ive ever bought fertilizer to test it, always gotta make your own.

[quarre]

Fertilizer cost 2 Sap, Quality Fertilizer cost 2 Sap + 1 any fish.
If you purchasing it instead of crafting... well, its your money, duh.

P.S. Selling unprocessed crops is bad for you. Preserves Jar makes base crops price x2 + 50g. Mean if beans sells for 40 gold/ea, you can put those in Jar for 2 days and sell those for 40*2+50= 130g. I know, there's no difference between 40 and 130 gold, but still...
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Vegetables

[Aquashaden]

Originally posted by lonenaco:

Fertilizer cost 2 Sap, Quality Fertilizer cost 2 Sap + 1 any fish.
If you purchasing it instead of crafting... well, its your money, duh.

P.S. Selling unprocessed crops is bad for you. Preserves Jar makes base crops price x2 + 50g. Mean if beans sells for 40 gold/ea, you can put those in Jar for 2 days and sell those for 40*2+50= 130g. I know, there's no difference between 40 and 130 gold, but still...
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Vegetables

I craft it whenever I can, of course, just for when you have massive fields and you can't get enough sap, I wanted to point out that it isn't worth it. Also for massive fields, it can be difficult to put it all in preserve jars or kegs because it takes heaps of resources and time. Much easier just to sell it.

[quarre]

Again, its your money. Btw, you can hold RMB instead of clicking. For jars and kegs too.

[Aquashaden]

Holding right click is much slower because it doesn't start to pick the next crop until the animation is finished. But yeah, it's an option.

[-Na Shagul-]

It's also very time consuming when your farm reaches >250 tilled tiles to put fertilizer into each one. I wish this game had like a seed/fertilizer dispenser for larger fields because doing it one at a time is such a hassle and just gobbles up valuable time. Still, I've never done the math on it before~ I'll have to keep this in mind

[quarre]

Then use mods like Automate [www.nexusmods.com], Harvest with scythe [www.nexusmods.com], Tractor [www.nexusmods.com] or whatever.

[madzai]

Yeah, aside from rare cases like gold star crops for Bundle and, maybe, a couple of rare gold-quality crops for Fall Fair there is almost no reason to use fertilizer. Because turning crops into artisan goods is much more profitable.
It feels like they could be good for stuff like different berries or multi-harvest crops that are too cheap to be turned into goods, but, according to wiki, fertilizer affect first harvest only.

[carl8000]

Originally posted by Aquashaden:

Holding right click is much slower because it doesn't start to pick the next crop until the animation is finished. But yeah, it's an option.

This is definitely false. If I stand in the middle of a 3x3 of blueberries it takes me about a second to harvest them all (I don't run any mods though).