Artisan goods: what use are they?

[Magpie]

Make, make, make...then just sell? Am I missing some usefulness of artisan goods? As gifts, are their value appreciated by the recipient beyond any plain crop? I guess saving them for fair entries would be useful. Is there any overarching usefulness of these items, or just poof, into the bin?

[snake0250]

Yes, thats what they are for, mostly. For presents, all villagers have their own preferences for presents, it depends on what item in particular(not necessarily artisan items though) you give to a specific villager.

Other than what you named, there's also the community center, which requires some specific artisan items.

[Chief_Pilos_Lipsknecte]

Also as of this latest update, villagers recognize item quality.

[Rorik21]

Originally posted by Adeptus Arbites:

Also as of this latest update, villagers recognize item quality.

I haven't seen any evidence of this. As far as I can tell, villagers still recognize gifts as "loved," "liked," etc.

Originally posted by snake0250:

For presents, all villagers have their own preferences for presents

Mayo and cheese aren't the best artisan items to sell, but they are a good staple when it comes to giving gifts. Almost everyone likes getting one or the other, and either one is pretty easy to get on a daily basis.

[TurdPiles]

just buy the catalogue and give them the wallpaper equivalent to prismatic shards. everyone loves it except haley.

you can also use that wallpaper to get galaxy sword.

this is the wallpaper
http://stardewvalleywiki.com/File:Wallpaper_075_Icon.png

[YetiChow]

Artisan goods are, for the most part, a refinement of raw products to increase their value; at a cost of extra processing time.

Yes, there are some other accomplishments which require particular artisan goods; and they are quite valuable so most townfolk appreciate them as gifts. However, there are only a few cases where an artisan product is a loved item; and the Community Center is the only thing I can think of which absolutely requires artisan goods to be completed.

If you do the other Community Center bundles, you'll get things like kegs and cheese presses as rewards; so if you're not interested in investing extra time or resources into the artisan goods you can still easily produce the few required for the Community Center, and maybe an occasional gift.

Adding a couple of very valuable artisan products to your Grange Festival display is a great way to boost your score there; in fact if you're growing, say, melons to get a gold-starred one for the display then you can use one of the less valuable ones from the same harvest to make wine/jelly and thus get two great entry items at the same time.

I must say though, there's something extremely satisfying about keeping an entire harvest of fairly a valuable fruit crop (melons, ancient fruit, starfruit or so on), turning them all to wine, and saving up a full stack or even more to sell all at once -- seeing seven or eight figures come up on your daily sales total is quite the feeling, LOL!

[Zero Angel (Ocelot)]

Villagers rarely care much about artisan items, their specific loves are usually gems or specific foods with a few outliers here and there (Clint likes gold bars and omni-geodes, Evelyn likes things that smell nice, haley loves sunflowers), and everyone usually takes kindly to amythyst/topaz and most flowers (except poppy which everyone except Penny hates for some reason)

That said: Duck mayo and pale ale (hops in a keg) have been giving me a lot of money to buy buildings and i've almost all the artisan items needed to get the greenhouse, so in my opinion artisan items are SUPER useful for making money.

[Tumalu]

Artisan goods (other than pine tar and oak resin) are a Universal Liked gift so most residents enjoy most of them. It's not a LOVED gift (Well, apart from one or two people per item), but the cheaper ones are pretty good to mass-gift around like Wild Honey or Mayonnaise. Tree fruits, most veggies, most baked goods, and gems are also universal liked gifts.

Apart from being good gifts, yes, turning an item into an artisan good is generally a good value boost. With the new iridium star quality, though, in some cases you're better off selling the base item... I'm not sure how rare it is though.

[Mountain King]

Originally posted by Tumalu:

Artisan goods (other than pine tar and oak resin) are a Universal Liked gift so most residents enjoy most of them. It's not a LOVED gift (Well, apart from one or two people per item), but the cheaper ones are pretty good to mass-gift around like Wild Honey or Mayonnaise. Tree fruits, most veggies, most baked goods, and gems are also universal liked gifts.

Apart from being good gifts, yes, turning an item into an artisan good is generally a good value boost. With the new iridium star quality, though, in some cases you're better off selling the base item... I'm not sure how rare it is though.

I think in most cases you are better off selling those which have any star quality, unless its a crop that you don't have very much of. You can usually produce far more raw product than you can process to artisan goods, and since stars don't effect the artisan goods they are "wasted" in the process, even though the final product may be worth more than a silver star crop.

[I Kinda Fail]

Artisan goods are the end product, made to be sold. You can gift them, though. A lot of people like beer, with Shane and Pam loving it. Leah and Harvey love wine. Harvey loves pickles.

It's just a way to turn your item worth 100 into an item worth 250. It's making the best of what you've got.

[Klingenmeister]

Originally posted by Rorik21:

Originally posted by Adeptus Arbites:

Also as of this latest update, villagers recognize item quality.

I haven't seen any evidence of this. As far as I can tell, villagers still recognize gifts as "loved," "liked," etc.

Quality items will give up to 50% more hearts. I looked at the stats and a low quality item that is loved still gives more than a iridium quality item that is liked. A iridium quality item that is loved can give up to 4 full hearts at a birthday.

[Jager]

My first spring I have a gold star parsnip to Pam for her birthday. 3 heart right off the bat. Not sure what it would have been reagular quality but was more then I expected. Revived a recipe in the letter box the next morning.