Coffee beans vs strawberries

[Sento]

Hi I'm currently on my year 1 spring 5 (friday). I'm planning on planting coffee beans, Will it be more profitable vs strawberries?

[Lenneth]

If you are at year 1, you should have more than enough land to plant both right?

Anyway, there are so many factors for this answer, but generally strawberries are more profitable than coffee. Coffee isn't all that high profit crop.

[abstractAPPLE]

I simply grew coffee to have a constant speed boost available, but yeah, it's not the best crop to get money out of.
Simple Stardew rule: If the plant name ends with -berry its profitable.

[Coffee Addict]

never plant strawberries in year 1 you can only buy them at the egg festival which is on the 13th of spring thats half the month gone right there its best to buy strawberry seeds then wait untill year 2 spring to plant them so you get more time for reharvest

[Shadow Birb]

Coffe = Cash

[RagOnAStick]

ice cream

[I Kinda Fail]

Well you can't reliably get either for a few weeks in-game at least, so...

Coffee isn't so much profit, as it is saving money, if you buy coffee from the Saloon. It's a reliable speed boost, so you'll save time when running around foraging or to deliver gifts.

Strawberries are better money if you mean selling, though. Do both though, really, but keep in mind that coffee also grows in summer, I think? (Been awhile since I played) so don't plant it anywhere that you'll want to move it come summer

[Mr_Bones]

Just plant both it helps you then you can have your cake and eat it too

[Magzie]

Coffee is more profitible year one cause they grow through summer. just buy the strawberry seeds for year 2 spring for the extra harvest. Make sure to plant Strawberries day one spring 2.

[Kevin the Inkling]

Okay for profitablility there's two general types of crops. Single harvest and multi Harvest. Single Harvest tend to be more vualable as a product but need to be replanted immedately after harvest.

There are multiple most profitable crops per season and a few crops that overide the norm. For example. Ancient fruits are the single most vauble thing you can grow. And if you have the green house that and fruit trees should be in your greenhouse.

But in terms of Strawberry vs Coffee. Strawberries are more profitable. Profitability is messured in a simple formula of how much money it generates per day. Let's say a no star strawberry takes so long to grow and sells for so much each. The seed cost so much to obtain. You can subtract seed cost on a multiplier, devide the end profit by the amount of days it took to reach harvest to figure out how much it's earning you per day.

Though don't fret. Every crop is profitable. It's a matter of how much though.

Though if ya got the energy why not grow both. Having a variety of crops can help with quests that spring up sometimes. I'd also advice keeping some of your harvest of everything stored for later. So like a profitable quest shows up odds are you can complete it. Can do the same with fish and foraged items too once you got enough storage to handle it.

[Magzie]

Originally posted by Squid Gamer:

Okay for profitablility there's two general types of crops. Single harvest and multi Harvest. Single Harvest tend to be more vualable as a product but need to be replanted immedately after harvest.

There are multiple most profitable crops per season and a few crops that overide the norm. For example. Ancient fruits are the single most vauble thing you can grow. And if you have the green house that and fruit trees should be in your greenhouse.

But in terms of Strawberry vs Coffee. Strawberries are more profitable. Profitability is messured in a simple formula of how much money it generates per day. Let's say a no star strawberry takes so long to grow and sells for so much each. The seed cost so much to obtain. You can subtract seed cost on a multiplier, devide the end profit by the amount of days it took to reach harvest to figure out how much it's earning you per day.

Though don't fret. Every crop is profitable. It's a matter of how much though.

Though if ya got the energy why not grow both. Having a variety of crops can help with quests that spring up sometimes. I'd also advice keeping some of your harvest of everything stored for later. So like a profitable quest shows up odds are you can complete it. Can do the same with fish and foraged items too once you got enough storage to handle it.

Rofl... Ok let's look at growing 100 crops day one in any spring. Let's assume since it is regrow crops you use the speed grow to grab that extra strawberry crops. That strawberries will produce 600 Strawberries for 72,000 (100*6)*120. How ever Coffee will grow through Summer so day one you will get 24 harvest. That is 2400 harvested crops that produce 4 each for 9,600 Coffee. That is 144,000 for coffee. How ever what we are talking about is year 1 you will most like only get 2 harvest in year one where as if you are lucky you can start growing coffee that first sunday or you'll have to farm the dust levels for a few days. by summer you should have a full field of how ever many you want.

[Kevin the Inkling]

Right.. So you talk of speed grow like it's a absolute certainity.

Not to mention you talk about coffee like it's a sure fire thing to obtain en mass Odds are you'll be able to obtain strawberry seeds in mass. And if lucky end up with a Cofee bean or 2.

So you grow a cofee bean to get more seeds.. At some point your going being growing about half your crop to get more seeds.

Not to mention you forget about Strawberry Jelly from the Preserving jars.

And even if you happen to have a ton of kegs. Sure you can make cofee but some big differences. First off you need 5 beans to brew 1 cofee. Which takes 5 days in addition the profit increase isn't that significant. Oh you can put Strawberries in there to make wine too. And unlike Cofee you can age wine.

Also if your priority crop in Summer is Coffee your doing something wrong.

If just making a ton of money in Summer is your goal Starfruit and Blueberries. Also onlike Cofee which requires a stack to brew one drink each blueberry can become 1 wine. Which can also be aged.

[Magzie]

Originally posted by Squid Gamer:

Right.. So you talk of speed grow like it's a absolute certainity.

Not to mention you talk about coffee like it's a sure fire thing to obtain en mass Odds are you'll be able to obtain strawberry seeds in mass. And if lucky end up with a Cofee bean or 2.

So you grow a cofee bean to get more seeds.. At some point your going being growing about half your crop to get more seeds.

Not to mention you forget about Strawberry Jelly from the Preserving jars.

And even if you happen to have a ton of kegs. Sure you can make cofee but some big differences. First off you need 5 beans to brew 1 cofee. Which takes 5 days in addition the profit increase isn't that significant. Oh you can put Strawberries in there to make wine too. And unlike Cofee you can age wine.

Also if your priority crop in Summer is Coffee your doing something wrong.

If just making a ton of money in Summer is your goal Starfruit and Blueberries. Also onlike Cofee which requires a stack to brew one drink each blueberry can become 1 wine. Which can also be aged.

Ok let get these covered for you. you actually only need a 10% increase to speed to get the extra harvest from both crops I just picked speed grow cause most players choose the Art bonus instead.

Coffee has exponential grow. 1 becomes 4 which becomes 16. You see coffee work as it's own seed so you can just replant at no cost and without the seed make. Also if you check my post again you will see I post any spring not first spring. I do post about the first spring in the post but my math was for any spring. Most players save enough seeds to replant the next year. Basically by the mid 1st summer you can have 100 coffee growing. It is always better to save Strawberries for your greenhouse or year 2.

ok Jelly which you can't possible start making in large amounts in the 1st spring ok. 100 strawberries to Jelly instead of selling reg. So it take 2 days assuming you are sleeping right to make jelly. That is 216,000 for jelly. Coffee 9600 turns into 1920 Cups of coffee. That is 288,000. Of corse we could play the infitie game. Assuming whole field that is 3000 crops that is 18,000 strawberries but that is 288,000 beans. That is 5,220,000 for Jelly and 8,640,000 for cups of coffee. Also 1 jelly isn't worth 1 Cup of coffee. it takes 2 days to make jelly but 2 hours for coffee cups. 1 jelly is the same as 20 coffee. Even with the art bonus that is 406 to 3,000.

100 Blueberries during summer to jelly that is 225,000. Also 100 coffee being planted and most people use Sprinklers means I can leave the 100 coffee already planted and grow starfruit or Blueberries. But is wouldn't assuming I was making coffee out of the Beans I would most likely grow Hops. Since I have a Keg Basement anyway. 100 hops is 1,700 Pale Ale for 510,000. Just for Kicks 100 Starfruit is 200 for summer. That is 310,000 assuming jelly. which does beat coffee but coffee is zero cost. Profit from those 200 starfruit would be 230,000.