easy money?

[You takin notes]

It's almost the end of summer, and I still have very little money. I'm ♥♥♥♥ at getting money in this. Tips please?

[AvatarMan]

Make large farms using the better paying seeds, wheat for example is only worth 40g while Cauliflower is worth 288g. It's all about knowing what sells for what and how to optimize the time in the month so nothing goes to waste.

[Weizen1988]

Originally posted by Confused Potato:

It's almost the end of summer, and I still have very little money. I'm ♥♥♥♥ at getting money in this. Tips please?

spring, cauliflower,
summer, blueberries,
fall, cranberries,
winter, forage mine and fish,
plus, greenhouse ancient fruit when available.

[Saint Landwalker]

Originally posted by Sir Ruffington:

Make large farms using the better paying seeds, wheat for example is only worth 40g while Cauliflower is worth 288g. It's all about knowing what sells for what and how to optimize the time in the month so nothing goes to waste.

That depends on what your goal is.

If your goal is "Grow your capital and increase your farm capacity," Wheat is actually the best crop you can plant[community.playstarbound.com].

However, if we assume that the size of the farm is going to stay the same, then yeah, Wheat (and IRR-thinking in general) generally isn't a great way to go.

Now then, OP. You're at the end of summer, so you'll need to look at what to plant in the Fall. There are basically two options:

1) Maximum gross profit per farming tile. If this is your objective, then fill as much space as you can reasonably maintain each day with Cranberries.

2) Maximum return on investment. That is, the highest profit relative to your investment cost. This may not be (and often isn't) the highest profit in absolute terms. If this your goal, then your Fall crop of choice is going to be Eggplants.

(Edit to Add: If you have the resources, also consider building some Preserves Jars. These cost only crafting materials to put together, and they let you increase the value of whatever crops you put into them. For high-volume, lower-base-value crops like Cranberries or Eggplants, Preserves Jars are the better refining method (while Kegs are better for lower-volume, high-value crops, or for Hops and Wheat). Even if you only have the means to build ten preserves jars right now, that's ten more than you would have had otherwise, and you feed them a steady diet of cranberries and/or eggplants to increase your profits. Just remember to prioritize "no-star" crops for inputs, and prioritize silver or gold crops for direct sales.)

[vernicom]

Invest all ur money on cranberries, for the fall. Cranberries are multi harvest crop (only need to be watered).
Use sprinklers, the second tier.

[Saint Landwalker]

Originally posted by vernicom:

Invest all ur money on cranberries, for the fall. Cranberries are multi harvest crop (only need to be watered).

Cranberries are very expensive to plant en masse, however, at 240g per seed packet. Eggplants are 20g per packet. So how viable cranberries are going to be is very dependent on the OP's current cash situation (and also what level their tools are, since that'll impact how many crops they can maintain).

If the OP is already cash-poor (we're talking a couple thousand gold, here), then I would recommend focusing on Eggplants for the Fall. They're cheap, they're regrowable crops, and they have by a truly enormous margin the highest ROI of all the fall crops.

(Edit: Also worth pointing out that Eggplants also have, by a narrow margin over Beets, the highest IRR among all Fall crops. However, Beets can only be acquired in Calico Desert, so that's probably off the table for this discussion, and they aren't regrowable crops, so they're more inconvenient to manage in any case.)

[vernicom]

Originally posted by Landwalker04:

Originally posted by vernicom:

Invest all ur money on cranberries, for the fall. Cranberries are multi harvest crop (only need to be watered).

Cranberries are very expensive to plant en masse, however, at 240g per seed packet. Eggplants are 20g per packet. So how viable cranberries are going to be is very dependent on the OP's current cash situation (and also what level their tools are, since that'll impact how many crops they can maintain).

If the OP is already cash-poor (we're talking a couple thousand gold, here), then I would recommend focusing on Eggplants for the Fall. They're cheap, they're regrowable crops, and they have by a truly enormous margin the highest ROI of all the fall crops.

Yes, is true, is the first summer, i was thinkin in my farm, upps. Egg plants are the source then. And the corn from the summer, if have some planted.

[Weizen1988]

So OP, what are your cash reserves right now? That would decide whether to go cranberry or eggplant it sounds like.

[EvilBudgie]

If you are really low on money there are also wild seeds (you get 30 from completing the foraging bundle and you can also craft some). That's sort of last resource though, imo.

[Maynard]

Spend all your remaining money on seeds (your choice) then go fishing for the rest of the day. I usually get around 1k or 2k plus per day from fishing.