The wine business is booming. You should check it out.

[Ansalem1]

Picture of my full farm right now[i.imgur.com]

This is what it will look like when it's finished[stardew.info].

Reddit post I made to explain how I am laying it all out.

Update: The winery has been completed, hurray!

I specialize in wine making and I highly recommend it. Fruit trees are amazing. With the crop and artisan perks each cherry tree worth of wine is 11k during its season off the top of my head. If you buy a fruit tree, never use it for anything other than making wine, it's a waste of profits otherwise.

I only grow fruit because wine is so so good. I'm working on building a big section of fruit trees and a good sized farm area for berries and the greenhouse is going to either be ancient fruit or the rare seeds, but probably star fruit.

Don't get discouraged by how long it takes wine to process. It's worth it as long as you have the right number of kegs. You just have to wait during the initial period and then it's a regular pay day for life.

Just so you know, it takes 6 days for wine to process. Each fruit tree produces one fruit per day during its season. So if you have 3 trees, one for each of spring summer and fall, those three trees will keep 6 kegs running full time for the first 3 seasons. Plan to buy trees in groups of three for that reason, and get 6 kegs per 3 trees.

As for the farm plot. Always sell off your gold quality fruit and stash the normal quality fruit. You're going to want them for winter. For silver quality it's up to you whether to sell it or make it into wine. I haven't quite determined exactly which fruits to go with each season, but right now I worked out buying enough strawberry seeds during the festival to save for next year's spring, with a little extra in case I accidentally ruin some. Summer is blueberries for now but I'm growing some melons to see if it can be made into wine. It'll be starfruit once I get around to the desert, though. And fall is definitely cranberries unless one of the rare fruits turns out to be better. I still need to do more testing on crops. I also have a smaller section for the trellis alcohol plants, hops and grapes. Unfortunately spring has nothing good on trellises for the wine business, so I actually just leave the plot empty, but you could easily plant some extra strawberries.

Wine is worth 3x whatever the fruit price is at normal quality. It's 4.5x with the level 10 artisan perk. I believe it does take the level 5 perk into account, but I need to check to be sure. The quality of the fruit doesn't matter, it's always 3 or 4.5x normal price. Fruit trees always produce normal quality fruit, never silver or gold as far as I've seen. But this is why you sell the gold crops and save the normal quality crops and silver could go either way per preference.

Wine is basically turning a normal quality crop into two gold quality crops in price, is the best way to think about it. With the level 10 perk, it's equivalent to 3 gold quality crops.

If anyone has useful tips of their own, please let me know. =)

[Seren]

Ansalem1 の投稿を引用：

Seren の投稿を引用：

Could we get a screenshot of your trees and kegs? I need inspiration please :)

I would love to but right now my farm is a mess and half of it is in the process of converting away from the community center stuff still.

I'll give you an idea of how to lay it out, though. How you want to build yours of course will probably be different, but I'm building basically in 3 ring sections. Three rows of equally spaced trees along the bottom left and right borders of the farm, one row per season, make sure you have the same number for each season besides winter. The next ring inward is where the kegs will go. In the center is the farm area for berries. In front of the house is a small section for vine crops and a couple barrels for ale.

But right now my trees are just placed randomly, I'm going to have to cut them down but I placed them where I could since I'm still waiting on the damn animals that are taking up all of my tree space to give me my last couple community center stuff. lol It's taking forever, I really want to demolish the buildings already. =\

Thank you for the description! This is a goal of mine but I placed my barn and coop badly and I will most likely rebuild and rearrange.

[L.A.]

I like potatos. Made 80k in the end of spring when I had 5k in start.

[Ansalem1]

Lucas Augusto の投稿を引用：

I like potatos. Made 80k in the end of spring when I had 5k in start.

Those potatoes only made you 80k that year, though. One single cherry tree's wine is already 10k per year. With almost no work involved.

[L.A.]

Ansalem1 の投稿を引用：

Lucas Augusto の投稿を引用：

I like potatos. Made 80k in the end of spring when I had 5k in start.

Those potatoes only made you 80k that year, though. One single cherry tree's wine is already 10k per year. With almost no work involved.

I know, I was joking xD

But is true, potatos are good and made a lot of money for me. I really like you tip and I'll explore it.

[lidstroem]

GrandTickler の投稿を引用：

lidstroem の投稿を引用：

Any ideas how i can reach Farming Level 8 fast?
Im in the summer now and still level 4 of farming. And i water and hoe alot... :(

54 hops plants got me to farming level 8 or 9 at the start of fall, put them in lines of 3 so u can charge spray them with a copper water bucket. just dont make the mistake i made like here: http://i.imgur.com/7TlRdIH.jpg the middle ones cant be harvested lol cause i cant reach them. ill replace that tile with quality sprinklers soon (and before you ask, yes thats tommy chong on dank kush farm growing some sweet ass weed)

Thanks man! That helped me alot! <3

[Weizen1988]

Im glad to hear by plans are actually working, Ive been planning to set up a brewery once I could afford it/unlock kegs. Right now im showing everyone my fancy new melons, getting some decent cash back from that.

[Bjorn]

i always buy starfruitseeds in the desert, plant them in my greenhouse, i produde starfruitwine all year and i get 2.4k each wine

i only got fruit trees cuz im lazy :D

[Ansalem1]

Bumping because I finally cleaned up my farm enough to show off the layout and take some pictures. Links are at the top of the OP now. Still a work in progress, but you can see where everything goes. The farmland will be much larger when I get enough iridium.

[kalietha109]

Pretty much all fruit can be made wine. Melon wine sells FAR better than the wine from the tree fruits, which tend to have fairly pitiful sale price imho because brewing is a multiplier - the higher the initial sell price of the fruit (not counting quality) the higher the sell price of the wine form. blue berries are good, melons are wonderful, star fruit is insane...you get the idea.

[Ansalem1]

If you look at the picture, those trees (once they're all planted) will be worth 1.1m per year. For no effort.

But that's not even the point of them. You can't farm the entire land, there's not enough time in the day. The trees are good for making the land work for you while you do other work.

Also, melons are not great for wine. They grow during summer. Starfruit grows during summer. Starfruit is the second best wine producing fruit.

By the way, the greenhouse has ancient fruit in it and it is worth about 4.5m per year.

[CoLS Firestar]

What skill gets kegs? I have one as a quest reward but I really want more.

[Ansalem1]

CoLS Firestar の投稿を引用：

What skill gets kegs? I have one as a quest reward but I really want more.

Farming level 8. =)

[Zourin]

That's the interesting thing about the game, you don't need massive farmland if you focus on the artisan goods.

The catch is that it takes a lot of resources to build enough infrastructure to process the produce into goods.

[Ansalem1]

Zourin の投稿を引用：

That's the interesting thing about the game, you don't need massive farmland if you focus on the artisan goods.

The catch is that it takes a lot of resources to build enough infrastructure to process the produce into goods.

Yeah, tell me about it. lol

Going to end up with 220 kegs at least, possibly more. I have 68 so far. =\

[Zourin]

IMO, that might be a bit overkill. While the kegs and preserve jars and such don't require energy, they do require time and managing 200 of them would be pretty time consuming.

The game works well around simplicity. Having a little bit of everything looks good and offers a bit of diversity. Coming out of Factorio, it's much more relaxing to enjoy an effective 'small' build rather than focusing on macro-scale economy.