How good is the keg and bee house?

[Brady]

What i mean by 'good' is how much does honey and beverages usually make?

[esturias]

You can check all the prices at the wiki, it'll also tell you which item to put into a keg and which one to put in preservation jars.
It's worth it.

Honey isn't that useful, it's just one of those "Why not?!" things.
Making mead isn't profitable at all.

[Brady]

alright. Also, this is a random question but how do you pronounce joja? i like saying it like you say jojo

[ChrillBill]

I say it like "yo-ya" if that makes any sense. But ehm, if you like saying it like Jojo then keep on doing that. I don't think it matters much. Well, maybe a little if you meet some sort of obsessed Joja worshipper outside of the game, but I think those chances are very slim o.o

[Avilyn]

Originally posted by esturias:

You can check all the prices at the wiki, it'll also tell you which item to put into a keg and which one to put in preservation jars.
It's worth it.

Honey isn't that useful, it's just one of those "Why not?!" things.
Making mead isn't profitable at all.

Honey is an excellent money maker depending on the conditions; in Summer, Poppy honey is worth over 500gp every 4 days if you took Artisan for Farming Level 10; Fall is Fairy Rose honey at over 900gp each. And once you unlock Ginger Island, you can grow Fairy Rose year round.

Even early on, regular honey isn't a waste, because you can use it to make farm warp totems.

As for Kegs, it depends on what you put into it - Starfruit is best; Ancient Fruit is pretty good; both take 7 days to make. Hops and Wheat turn into Pale Ale & Beer a lot faster, but they aren't worth as much as the wine, although if you don't have a supply of starfruit/ancient fruit, they're not a bad choice, especially early on.

[M.Red]

i dont tryed but if i put honey in the kegs for mead did this is good for some profit?

[Lightning]

Honey is a decent passive income early game, if you put flowers near bee houses.

As for kegs, they have effects for different types of material you put in. x3 base price for fruits with 7 days process time, x2.25 base price for vegs with 4 days process time, and so on.

Generally, you would want to put the highest base price fruits into them, like Ancient Fruit or Star Fruit. For early game, hops are a good option since they take about 2 days to process and sell for 300g for a no-star grade and they regrow everyday, though you need a sufficient amount of kegs to process them since unprocessed hops worth only 25g.

Honey can be put into kegs to turn them into a mead which sells at fixed price at 200g. You'll actually lose money doing that unless it's wild honey or tulip honey.

[ChrillBill]

Originally posted by M.Red:

i dont tryed but if i put honey in the kegs for mead did this is good for some profit?

It's a nice extra income depending on the quality of the mead. An iridium quality mead can be sold for 400 plus 40% more if you have the Artisan profession. I usually do this with lots of wild honey. But I wouldn't do it with let's say fairy rose honey.

[esturias]

If I remember correctly, only using wild honesy yields a profit, because you'll always get plain mead, regardless of what you put in. There are no special "tastes" like with other artisan items.

[ChrillBill]

Originally posted by esturias:

If I remember correctly, only using wild honesy yields a profit, because you'll always get plain mead, regardless of what you put in. There are no special "tastes" like with other artisan items.

That's true. Even if you put in fairy rose honey, you will get regular mead. Therefore it is more profitable to sell the fairy rose honey rather than using it to produce mead. It is worth quite a lot. Wild honey however, is worth more if turned into mead!

[M.Red]

thx for the input

[Amanandhisdog]

coffee never fails to turn a quick profit. cheese and mayo makers are also very well suited to turn eggs and milk into money i use all of them casks kegs mayo cheese loom all constantly percolating with something yummy. roe makes excellent profits as does truffle oil... you do need the barna nd co op set up to hold cows pigs ducks and chickens with soem sheep for wool. but it all comes around when you finally sell the artisian stuff ... once i got those machines rolling thru the winted using all spring and summer crops i saved...i dont have a money issue again, just materials to expand the house lol cant keep up witht he stoen and wood needs without lettign time go by. rainy days cant come quick enough lol

[Dex]

I make a permanent honey set up with a sprinker in the middle, 8 flowers around that and then 2 circles of honey around that. Something like 20k a week for no work other than collecting it. Just make sure to use the proper flower for each season. Summer - Poppies, Spring - blue jazz, Fall - fairy rose if you can, sunflower if you can't.

Good, easy money and it looks nice too if you place stone walkways between the honey rows

[red255]

bee houses cost a hell of alot of coal. if you have a hell of alot of coal theres generally better uses for it. they aren't bad money wise, its just to make a significant amount of them, you'd need 8 coal per.

kegs are great, kinda want to store then in a deluxe shed so they don''t take up too much space on your farm, but they'll triple the value of your fruit.\

if you treat 10 wood = 1 coal and 1 iron bar as 1 coal, then its 13 coal per bee house. its just jesus christ alot of coal.

[Cobretti]

As someone who prefers caving and not doing the repetitive farming stuff, I mainly do kegs. Pale Ale year 1, ancient wine after that. It's good profit but importantly for me it's low maintenance so I can do anything else I want for 6 days a week.

I don't like crafting anything that uses coal early game because it is too valuable at that point of the game as my sole focus end of Spring 1 is on building as many 2nd level sprinklers as possible and then I switch to tree taps ready for kegs. Once your mass kegs are online it doesn't matter what you do with coal as you can buy all your ores, coal, stone and wood from the vendors so you can build whatever you like. I've never farmed those materials after Summer Yr 1

[I Kinda Fail]

Originally posted by red255:

bee houses cost a hell of alot of coal. if you have a hell of alot of coal theres generally better uses for it. they aren't bad money wise, its just to make a significant amount of them, you'd need 8 coal per.

kegs are great, kinda want to store then in a deluxe shed so they don''t take up too much space on your farm, but they'll triple the value of your fruit.\

if you treat 10 wood = 1 coal and 1 iron bar as 1 coal, then its 13 coal per bee house. its just jesus christ alot of coal.

I would say 8 coal is fair... if you just pick 1 of the 2 things. Preserves jars boost low value crops like blueberries, and are all but essential for someone who enjoys fish ponds. Bees are more passive income, and can help fill "dead space" outside, but also can't be placed in storage sheds, so you can typically have less of them.

Trying to do bees AND kegs then, will likely result in you needing to either buy coal, or take the Forester (Lumberjack?) perk for 25% more wood and regularly load up charcoal kilns.