Are Casks worth it?

[miso]

I finally upgraded my house and got the recipie for casks. Are casks really worth it? I mean seriously, if it takes 7 days to make iridum cheese which is 700g, you can earn more money so much faster during those 7 days my just milking your cows because 1 regular cheese is worth 200g. So during those 7 days, you can earn 1400g (with one cow) rather than getting 700g in seven days. Any help please?

[dino_inc]

You can still milk your cows and get more milk while the casks are maturing, it doesn't stop them from producing. I don't see what the issue is, casks make cheese more valuable, so yes. You don't have to process all your cheese in casks, just enough to fill all the casks in the cellar.

[Mrrshan68]

casks are indeed wtf awful in terms of gold/day. The absolute best you can do with them is starfruit wine for an impressive 56g per day. Thats worse than a crabpot.

Mostly they are just there because the dev wanted another money sink and its fun/thematic to age your wine in a cellar like some kind of sir.
Not everything is a money spinner.

[dino_inc]

Originally posted by Mrrshan68:

casks are indeed wtf awful in terms of gold/day. The absolute best you can do with them is starfruit wine for an impressive 56g per day. Thats worse than a crabpot.

Mostly they are just there because the dev wanted another money sink and its fun/thematic to age your wine in a cellar like some kind of sir.
Not everything is a money spinner.

It's still free money though, you can just wait for it to process everything.

[Mrrshan68]

Originally posted by dino_inc:

It's still free money though, you can just wait for it to process everything.

free my foot. 3rd house upgrade is 100k and all you get for it is casks.

Nobody is using casks to make money, or if they are they are doing it wrong since the time/gold they spent would have seen better returns doing basically anything else.

[SapienChavez]

they are worth it. they take almost no extra work. throw some wine in and come back in two months for a few extra hundred thousand in gold.

if youre strapped for cash, maybe not, but by the time you get them, you shouldnt be "living paycheck to paycheck."

its an investment. think of them like bonds.

[Belharkar]

Since there is a point when there are no other investments competing against the cellar, it's worth it at the latest when there is no more stuff to spend money on.

[I Kinda Fail]

I think their intended use would be like

You have a field full of cranberries
You have 64 starfruit growing in your greenhouse

You put the 64 starfruit wine in the casks
You make cranberry wine in the meantime

or something like that Idk

[Fiuza FH]

"Not everything is a money spinner". Sometimes people just forget that this game isn't, necessarily, a mega-moneymaker game.

[Liquid]

For anyone who comes across this in 2018 (first thing to show when I googled if casks are worth it, with coop release I am looking at things I didn't pursue previously), casks are definitely worth it in cooperative. You will have so many resources with additional farmers you can gather really quickly. Plus with how many crops you will be harvesting, you're gonna have more than enough to tuck some away for the extra cash.

Me and my buddy are working towards the 125 cask/house set ups because our set up will be producing about 3.5k cranberries, we in spring Y2. Things definitely changed (though I am still really enjoying this) with coop. Have fun guys!

[Eneicia]

I really enjoy the casks for cheese, and small amounts of wine. It is, in my opinion worth it with things like mead and pale ale, since they enhance the friendship greatly. Wine...it takes two seasons to age. I use it mostly with tree fruit wine in my main save, since 3/4 of my farm is fruit trees.

[Whirl]

While wine is great from kegs, it is not the best use of your casks due to the length of time required regardless of the fruit used. They're not UNprofitable. But it's much better for specific products like maturing cheese, Mead, Beer and Pale Ale.

Cheese is far and away the best use for casks but of cours requires a lot of milk - your farm should switch from crops to a dairy farm. Goat Cheese is obscenely profitable and spends a mere two weeks in a cask to reach iridium, and less if you take the time to love and care for animals since it will come out higher star just from the press. You may need to buy hay a lot though.

We also now have the auto-harvester, which makes the life of an animal farmer infinitely easier if you can afford one per barn.

Mead is less profitable than cheese but great if you like hives - bee-hives - which require zero maintanance and produce for three seasons out of four. Also they don't need a month to grow up. They'll spend a month in a cask, unlike the two months needed for wine. Once you start setting up hives, it's something of a dedication thanks to all the meple syrup you'll need.

Beer is very like Mead, but less of a permanent thing, with less setup, but more maintanance.

Pale Ale harvests every day for a good price and spends just over a month in the cask, meaning you'll have a surplus to keep you kegging and casking for some time after their season.

So casks are worth it, but not for wine.

[Acevy]

Originally posted by ⎛⎝TheLiquidFox™⎠⎞:

For anyone who comes across this in 2018 (first thing to show when I googled if casks are worth it, with coop release I am looking at things I didn't pursue previously), casks are definitely worth it in cooperative. You will have so many resources with additional farmers you can gather really quickly. Plus with how many crops you will be harvesting, you're gonna have more than enough to tuck some away for the extra cash.

Me and my buddy are working towards the 125 cask/house set ups because our set up will be producing about 3.5k cranberries, we in spring Y2. Things definitely changed (though I am still really enjoying this) with coop. Have fun guys!

Casks have always been worth it though. Its just free money per day as long as you don't need the money right away.

[Jigain]

These are the per-day earnings for one cask aging a thing you can put into it from normal quality to iridium quality.

Pale Ale: 8.8 g/day
Beer: 7.1 g/day
Mead: 7.1 g/day
Cheese: 14.2 g/day
Goat cheese: 26.8 g/day

Wine:
Ancient fruit: 29.5 g/day
Apple: 5.3 g/day
Apricot: 2.7 g/day
Blackberry: 1.1 g/day
Blueberry: 2.7 g/day
Cactus fruit: 4.0 g/day
Cherry: 4.3 g/day
Coconut: 5.4 g/day
Cranberries: 4.0 g/day
Crystal fruit: 8.0 g/day
Grape: 4.3 g/day
Hot pepper: 2.1 g/day
Melon: 13.4 g/day
Orange: 5.4 g/day
Peach: 7.5 g/day
Pomegranate: 7.5 g/day
Rhubarb: 11.8 g/day
Salmonberry: 0.3 g/day
Spice berry: 4.3 g/day
Starfruit: 40.2 g/day
Strawberry: 6.4 g/day
Wild plum: 4.3 g/day

Personally, I don't feel like the low price-per-day is worth it, but for those who are, these are your top five things to use casks for in terms of cost increase per day:

1. Starfruit wine at 40.2 g/day
2. Ancient fruit wine at 29.5 g/day
3. Goat Cheese at 26.8 g/day
4. Cheese at 14.2 g/day
5. Melon wine at 13.4 g/day

All calculations were made with no consideration to artisan profession sell price to make the fairest comparison for everyone. With the artisan profession, everything across the board is multiplied by 1.4, if you want to do the math, but no rankings change.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Jigain:

These are the per-day earnings for one cask aging a thing you can put into it from normal quality to iridium quality.

Pale Ale: 8.8 g/day
Beer: 7.1 g/day
Mead: 7.1 g/day
Cheese: 14.2 g/day
Goat cheese: 26.8 g/day

Wine:
Ancient fruit: 29.5 g/day
Apple: 5.3 g/day
Apricot: 2.7 g/day
Blackberry: 1.1 g/day
Blueberry: 2.7 g/day
Cactus fruit: 4.0 g/day
Cherry: 4.3 g/day
Coconut: 5.4 g/day
Cranberries: 4.0 g/day
Crystal fruit: 8.0 g/day
Grape: 4.3 g/day
Hot pepper: 2.1 g/day
Melon: 13.4 g/day
Orange: 5.4 g/day
Peach: 7.5 g/day
Pomegranate: 7.5 g/day
Rhubarb: 11.8 g/day
Salmonberry: 0.3 g/day
Spice berry: 4.3 g/day
Starfruit: 40.2 g/day
Strawberry: 6.4 g/day
Wild plum: 4.3 g/day

Personally, I don't feel like the low price-per-day is worth it, but for those who are, these are your top five things to use casks for in terms of cost increase per day:

1. Starfruit wine at 40.2 g/day
2. Ancient fruit wine at 29.5 g/day
3. Goat Cheese at 26.8 g/day
4. Cheese at 14.2 g/day
5. Melon wine at 13.4 g/day

All calculations were made with no consideration to artisan profession sell price to make the fairest comparison for everyone. With the artisan profession, everything across the board is multiplied by 1.4, if you want to do the math, but no rankings change.

This overview deserve to be at wiki or somewhere evne though ti is old post (still the top in search)

So with artisan and ancient fruit (most convenient greenhouse plant) the Cellar pays off in roughly 100.000/(29.5*1.4*125) ~ 20 days

if wood for casks is not harvested but paid to Robin (y2+) it is
(100.000 + 92*20*50)/(29.5*1.4*125) ~ 37 days

(even though return and profit is not collected sooner than after 56 days when wine reach irridium quality)

125 is number of casks in full cellar and 92 is 125 without 33 that are given for free.

[Skud]

Originally posted by Jigain:

These are the per-day earnings for one cask aging a thing you can put into it from normal quality to iridium quality.

Pale Ale: 8.8 g/day
Beer: 7.1 g/day
Mead: 7.1 g/day
Cheese: 14.2 g/day
Goat cheese: 26.8 g/day

Wine:
Ancient fruit: 29.5 g/day
Apple: 5.3 g/day
Apricot: 2.7 g/day
Blackberry: 1.1 g/day
Blueberry: 2.7 g/day
Cactus fruit: 4.0 g/day
Cherry: 4.3 g/day
Coconut: 5.4 g/day
Cranberries: 4.0 g/day
Crystal fruit: 8.0 g/day
Grape: 4.3 g/day
Hot pepper: 2.1 g/day
Melon: 13.4 g/day
Orange: 5.4 g/day
Peach: 7.5 g/day
Pomegranate: 7.5 g/day
Rhubarb: 11.8 g/day
Salmonberry: 0.3 g/day
Spice berry: 4.3 g/day
Starfruit: 40.2 g/day
Strawberry: 6.4 g/day
Wild plum: 4.3 g/day

Personally, I don't feel like the low price-per-day is worth it, but for those who are, these are your top five things to use casks for in terms of cost increase per day:

1. Starfruit wine at 40.2 g/day
2. Ancient fruit wine at 29.5 g/day
3. Goat Cheese at 26.8 g/day
4. Cheese at 14.2 g/day
5. Melon wine at 13.4 g/day

All calculations were made with no consideration to artisan profession sell price to make the fairest comparison for everyone. With the artisan profession, everything across the board is multiplied by 1.4, if you want to do the math, but no rankings change.

This is still very helpful in 2024. The only caveat I have is pineapple wine is worth more than melon wine.