Is buying fertilizer worth?

[Ego]

I'm not asking if Fertilizer is worth, I know it is, but if Buying it gives you your money back.

[Pixel Peeper]

I highly doubt it. Even Basic Fertilizer costs 100g, the odds that it'll increase crop quality is relatively low, and the quality bonus to crop value isn't likely to be anywhere near close to the money you would have spent on it.

Then again no one would ever buy any anyway considering that it's virtually free to craft.

[Včelí medvídek]

https://thorinair.github.io/Stardew-Profits/

in the options you can add type of fertilizer and if pay for it for calcualtion.

[Ego]

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

https://thorinair.github.io/Stardew-Profits/

in the options you can add type of fertilizer and if pay for it for calcualtion.

This seems Incredibly usefull, Thanks :D

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Malkovich:

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

https://thorinair.github.io/Stardew-Profits/

in the options you can add type of fertilizer and if pay for it for calcualtion.

This seems Incredibly usefull, Thanks :D

I am not 100% sure if everything is up to date however as I play game few years over versions I do not think prices changes over time so it should be still valid and correct.

[SGT. D]

It depends on what you are planting. It's worth it for more valuable crops, not so much for lower value crops. You can get a return on any crop, but it takes all season to maximize the additional profit potential of the fertilizer.

Some examples:
All seeds and fertilizer purchased at Pierre's.

Parsnips, 4 overnights to grow, starting day 1, harvest day 5 and if you plant 9 more every time you harvest you can do this 6 times. You only have to buy fertilizer once for a tile each season, so you only need to buy 9 just once.

54 Parsnips - $1080
9 basic fert - $900
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total - $1980

By season end, this gives you 54 snips of varying quality. Going middle of the road, with a farming skill of 5, basic fert gives you the following chances for better quality crops and how many of our snips that comes to from our 54:

regular - 69% - 37 snips - $1295
silver - 20% - 11 snips - $473
gold - 11% - 6 snips - $312

Your total for the season would be $2080, profit from initial expense is $100.
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For Cauliflower, which takes 12 days to grow so we only get 2 cycles, plant day 1, harvest and replant day 13, harvest day 25.

18 Cauliflower - $1440
9 basic fert - $900
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total - $2340

Same stats as the snips, farming level 5 with basic fert:

regular - 69% - 12 cauli - $2100
silver - 20% - 4 cauli - $872
gold - 11% - 2 cauli - $524

Total for the season is $3496, profit of $1156.
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Hot tip - On summer day 25, any tiles you want to remain tilled and fertilized going into fall, plant wheat. The wheat carries over into fall, and will be ready to harvest on day 1, so you can plant new summer crops on day 1 without having to till any blocks or buy more fertilizer.

[Mize]

for 2 sap, its extremely worth it

from pierre? no

[Ego]

I have to ask, what about quality fertelizer? the awnser is really straight foward when it comes to regular quality fertelizer but the good quality one asks for a fish, is it worth the hassle to craft it, or is it better just to buy it?

[brian_va]

crab pots will get you fish for the price of bait, which can be free with the worm machine. Just takes some time every day to collect. Faster than fishing. Will cut into the sashimi supply tho

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Malkovich:

I have to ask, what about quality fertelizer? the awnser is really straight foward when it comes to regular quality fertelizer but the good quality one asks for a fish, is it worth the hassle to craft it, or is it better just to buy it?

Do you even need quality crop? In most games I tend to process everything in kegs and jars and quality does not matter with that.

Only reason I see for gold quality are events and gifts - but this can be solved by pure amount too.

Otherwise you can use the tool above - from it it dont seem on average benefit ftom quality is worthy its price if it should be bought. Crafting has much more variables - eg. you may have plenty of cheap fishes stocked and than it can be worthy over sell the fishes directly.

Overall it is just detail, like you swim in money in (short) time no matter what yoiu do so why care so much if you get (or lose) 50 extra there and there...

[Ego]

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

Originally posted by Malkovich:

I have to ask, what about quality fertelizer? the awnser is really straight foward when it comes to regular quality fertelizer but the good quality one asks for a fish, is it worth the hassle to craft it, or is it better just to buy it?

Do you even need quality crop? In most games I tend to process everything in kegs and jars and quality does not matter with that.

Only reason I see for gold quality are events and gifts - but this can be solved by pure amount too.

Otherwise you can use the tool above - from it it dont seem on average benefit ftom quality is worthy its price if it should be bought. Crafting has much more variables - eg. you may have plenty of cheap fishes stocked and than it can be worthy over sell the fishes directly.

Overall it is just detail, like you swim in money in (short) time no matter what yoiu do so why care so much if you get (or lose) 50 extra there and there...

In that regard you are right, Im Just asking because In early game I dont rely on kegs or any kind of processing and just sell everything as is.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Malkovich:

In that regard you are right, Im Just asking because In early game I dont rely on kegs or any kind of processing and just sell everything as is.

Yeah but early you usually dont have extra money to spend either..

From what I see and my knwoledge I would say the (quality) fertilizer is (shoudl be) used only for quality crop you plan to directly use (gifts, Luau, Fair...) It is not for profit. (only there is no reason to not use basic as it is free and abundant).

other fertilizer are situational - like they allow you seed one more starfruit per seaosn or limit chore from watering... things like that. Sometime it is about profit, sometime jsut better time utilize (that usually lead indirectly to bigger profit too)

[I Kinda Fail]

I'd say crafting it is arguably worth it, but buying it? No.

In 1.5 you can set up mahogany trees to farm tree sap, crab pots to farm fish, fish ponds and faster tree tappers for certain types of fertilizer like speed grow. Like, if I can get oak resin twice as fast, and grow coral in a fish pond, then I'll be able to get a ton of speed grow fertilizer easily.

Typically what I do on my farm is have my biggest crop field by replantable stuff like potatoes or starfruit, and use fertilizer on those, and then a smaller field of replantables like melons or rhubarb get fertilizer as well. I don't bother fertilizing crap crops like garlic or peppers, and stuff like blueberries get processed anyways. Come Spring Y3, I'll be using the speed grow stuff to turn my biggest crop field into ancient fruit, and get an extra harvest or two.

[Secretary of Balloon Doggies]

Originally posted by red255:

pierres is not.

Sandy sells deluxe speed grow for 80 which is worthwhile because it gives you an extra harvest of starfruit.

Pretty much this ^
First playthrough it's very tempting to buy some here and there (I did), but as soon as you can unlock Sandy, buy it exclusively through her (or make it yourself). Yes, you will earn your money back, especially if you're savvy and use dual season crops like wheat / sunflower on the last days of the season.