Cabins vs. Sheds

[Greywander]

Apparently it's possible to use the multiplayer cabins in single player as extra interior space, though it does seem to have some workarounds were you have to use local co-op to purchase upgrades and remove furniture like cribs. A fully upgraded cabin should have more interior space than a shed, but it's not laid out in a neat rectangle. Is it worth bothering with cabins in single player, or should I just settle for sheds?

[RedTyro]

I use sheds. You can get more space than you need by spamming sheds, and their interior shape makes it faster to run around the room filling kegs and such. The rooms in an upgraded cabin are irregular, just like your house, which is a little more awkward for packing with machinery.

The one major advantage of a cabin is that once it's upgraded, it's another basement you can fill with casks for aging wine. If that's important to you and you want more than the 189 you can fit in the main house basement, it would be a good reason to go with cabins. Otherwise, I don't really think they're worth the effort over sheds.

[Maya-Neko]

They're definitely some very cheap buildings early on, though in the long run it is not really necessary. By the time you're able to get 4 cellars you're probably already having so much money that it doesn't really matter anymore, which makes it just more annoying to go through all the buildings and upgrades.

Though, if you still plan to do it, you can upgrade all buildings at the same time by having all characters talk to robin before anyone accepts the upgrades, so that way you can make it a littlebit faster at least (given that you've enough controllers and usb ports)

[Nakos]

Not a big fan of the look of the sheds. I tend to just build an extra barn. Even a basic barn offers a huge amount of internal space. Barns are also cheaper than sheds.

[red255]

A shed costs 15000+20000 Gold and holds 137 machines. with a farm footprint of 7x3
300+550 wood and 300 stone.

A barn costs 6000+12000+25000 gold, and has a farm foot print of 7x4 350+450+550 wood. 150+200+ 300

and can hold I think 125 machines, maybe 135. been a while.

Sheds are 8000 gold cheaper, hold more stuff and take less farm footprint and less trips to robins to build.

....I mean sure if you were just going to go basic barn vs basic shed. but who does that?

[nanami]

well 12 pigs can make you almost half million per season making truffle oils with that 40% from farming 10 so i would make lots of barns just for that unless i just do not need gold any more. and this is without that double pick up from forage which will make it even more

[Nakos]

Originally posted by red255:

A shed costs 15000+20000 Gold and holds 137 machines. with a farm footprint of 7x3
300+550 wood and 300 stone.

A barn costs 6000+12000+25000 gold, and has a farm foot print of 7x4 350+450+550 wood. 150+200+ 300

and can hold I think 125 machines, maybe 135. been a while.

Sheds are 8000 gold cheaper, hold more stuff and take less farm footprint and less trips to robins to build.

....I mean sure if you were just going to go basic barn vs basic shed. but who does that?

You still have to start somewhere. And a basic barn is 6k, that's a lot more approachable in the early game, should you need space.

And for me, the bottom line is that I prefer the appearance of barn on my farm.

[RedTyro]

Originally posted by nanami:

well 12 pigs can make you almost half million per season making truffle oils with that 40% from farming 10 so i would make lots of barns just for that unless i just do not need gold any more. and this is without that double pick up from forage which will make it even more

A single shed full of kegs makes $431,550 every week if you're making starfruit wine, and you can ignore it 6 days of that week. A barn full of pigs needs to be tended to every day and according to your numbers, takes a whole season to make roughly what a shed full of kegs makes in 7 days. Additionally a big shed costs $35,000, 850 wood, and 300 stone to make, while a big barn is $43,000, 1,350 wood, and 650 stone plus another $192,000 to buy 12 pigs.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with pigs and I have some of them on my farm, but there's no argument that a barn full of pigs is objectively better than a shed. It costs more than 5x as much, makes 1/4 the money, and requires daily time and energy, while a keg shed needs to be checked on once a week for lower startup costs and a lot more income.

[FafnirChaos]

Originally posted by RedTyro:

Originally posted by nanami:

well 12 pigs can make you almost half million per season making truffle oils with that 40% from farming 10 so i would make lots of barns just for that unless i just do not need gold any more. and this is without that double pick up from forage which will make it even more

A single shed full of kegs makes $431,550 every week if you're making starfruit wine, and you can ignore it 6 days of that week. A barn full of pigs needs to be tended to every day and according to your numbers, takes a whole season to make roughly what a shed full of kegs makes in 7 days. Additionally a big shed costs $35,000, 850 wood, and 300 stone to make, while a big barn is $43,000, 1,350 wood, and 650 stone plus another $192,000 to buy 12 pigs.

I mean, there's nothing wrong with pigs and I have some of them on my farm, but there's no argument that a barn full of pigs is objectively better than a shed. It costs more than 5x as much, makes 1/4 the money, and requires daily time and energy, while a keg shed needs to be checked on once a week for lower startup costs and a lot more income.

Yeah around mid-game for time management for kegs while your doing other stuff around the map(or just general quit playing - restarting) I like to put a keg outside a shed and while I'm walking around I can see if that shed is ready for harvest or I can just do my Mining/beach map crops/fishing.