Is farming hardwood fences this way worth it?

[Cal Thang]

Here is what i did:
- Choose a lucky day, go to Casino.
- Exchange some Qi coins (about 200 coins is enough).
- Try to win "Calico Spin" for at least 10000 coins.
- Try to win "High Stakes CalicoJack" as much as i can.
- Buy ton of hardwood fences using those coins i won.
- Optional: sell those fences for money.

Is this worth?

[Buffmania]

If hardwood fences sell for 10g and assuming you've spent 2,000g to get the initial Qi coins, you'll break even after you sell 200 fence pieces. In other words, you'd have to sell 200 units to even make your money back.

[-Na Shagul-]

Just... go grind down some stumps in the secret forest every day. That's like 8-10 posts worth of hardwood right there and its 100% free and takes like two minutes.

[Cal Thang]

Originally posted by Buffmania:

If hardwood fences sell for 10g and assuming you've spent 2,000g to get the initial Qi coins, you'll break even after you sell 200 fence pieces. In other words, you'd have to sell 200 units to even make your money back.

I'm not too worried about it because right now i'm having about 400k coins from winning and that'd be wasted if i don't buy something or get my money back :))

[Cal Thang]

Originally posted by -Na Shagul-:

Just... go grind down some stumps in the secret forest every day. That's like 8-10 posts worth of hardwood right there and its 100% free and takes like two minutes.

I can use those hardwoods to craft something that isn't sold anywhere like casks.

[-Na Shagul-]

Originally posted by Calvin Thang:

Originally posted by -Na Shagul-:

Just... go grind down some stumps in the secret forest every day. That's like 8-10 posts worth of hardwood right there and its 100% free and takes like two minutes.

I can use those hardwoods to craft something that isn't sold anywhere like casks.

Right but how many fences are you planning on making/using? About a season's worth of hardwood harvesting will make you enough fences to cover most of your farm that will last 4.5 years minimum. There's literally no reason to waste money on these things.

[Buffmania]

The hardwood fences are the best way to cash out of the casino if you only care about gold. Warp totems and magnets would only be good options if you find them useful as the coin to gold output is horrible.

It's important to take opportunity costs into consideration with limited resources like hardwood.

Casks can top out at 56 gold per day for a single piece of hardwood.
Worm bins generate up to 25 gold worth of bait a day for 25 pieces of hardwood
Oil makers can generate* up to 2598 gold per day of artisan truffle oil for 20 hardwood
Cheese presses can generate* up to 3510 gold per day of artisan goat cheese for 10 hardwood
Hardwood can be sold directly for 15 gold
Fences don't generate any value and wear out after ~560 days

*Gold generation per day based on the increase in value from raw good sale price to finished good sale price (including artisan perk) times the number of units able to be produced on one machine in one day.

Between the player favored odds and daily luck expoits there's no effective cap on how far someone can stretch the initial casino coin buy-in. Therefore, only the time investment should be considered as the more important factor in the opportunity cost. It may be possible to spend two minutes harvesting 10 fences worth of hardwood, but the same or greater value can be gained through gambling in that same time period, even taking losses into account.

[Stardustfire]

why using hardwood fences at all is the real question after we got teabushes, what make a unbreakable fence and give some harvest at the same time....