Artisan or Agriculturist?

[Solaria]

So Artisan - goods are worth 50% more. Agriculturist is 10% faster crop speed.

Which would you pick and why?

I'm at this step and Idk what to do!!

[Luminous]

given money ceases to be an issue pretty quickly, i think of it like an aesthetic choice. i prefer full grown plants and flowers in my garden each season to a farm filled with kegs.

[Wordsmith]

The Artisan skill works on ALL artisan goods, not just stuff rom the keg/jar. All processed goods from your animals, as well as honey and tree sap get the bonus, too.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by Luminous:

given money ceases to be an issue pretty quickly, i think of it like an aesthetic choice. i prefer full grown plants and flowers in my garden each season to a farm filled with kegs.

I have all of my kegs/preserves jars in the house, and am thinking of building a barn just to hold more. ... much more appealing then having them all outside, I agree.

[Hextravert]

There's another reason to pick Artisan over Agriculturist.

You'll never feel like you're wasting your perk(s).

Even if you were to dedicate your entire farm to animals instead of crops later on.

Originally posted by Solaria:

So Artisan - goods are worth 50% more. Agriculturist is 10% faster crop speed.

Which would you pick and why?

I'm at this step and Idk what to do!!

[Dr. Grue]

I nearly went broke my second spring while I was switching over to producing wine and preserves. For the first half of the month I was stock piling all my artisan goods until I could get the Artisan spec, then I sold them all at a 50% mark up. Now I am rolling in cash.

[Vroomi]

I took Agriculturist, the Artisan profession just seems really cheap and I'd prefer to not make it too easy to make gold, and I personally prefer crops and animals instead of having kegs and that stuff.

[Exiled Alchemist]

I look at it in a different way for these perks. Artisan Profession is for those that want to make money faster. Agriculturist is for people that want to do cooking faster.

Personally I went with Agriculturist because it stacks with quality speed gro allowing crops a 35% growth boost. This means I can have what I need for cooking allowing me to complete the achievements that uses cooking easier.

I like my hats and change it each game day so I want to collect them all. >.>

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by ExiledAlchemist:

I look at it in a different way for these perks. Artisan Profession is for those that want to make money faster. Agriculturist is for people that want to do cooking faster.

Personally I went with Agriculturist because it stacks with quality speed gro allowing crops a 35% growth boost. This means I can have what I need for cooking allowing me to complete the achievements that uses cooking easier.

I don't see how the growth speed would affect cooking achievements. There is time in every season to grow the appropriate crops -- if you need more quantity, just plant a few more.

Besides, you don't actually NEED very much of each item to cook 1 of every dish for the final achievement. (Trust me, I've made a spreadsheet cataloging the exact figures -- check my guide if you wish).

Artisan is still a FAR better choice.

[Exiled Alchemist]

Originally posted by KatherineOfSky:

I don't see how the growth speed would affect cooking achievements. There is time in every season to grow the appropriate crops -- if you need more quantity, just plant a few more.

Besides, you don't actually NEED very much of each item to cook 1 of every dish for the final achievement. (Trust me, I've made a spreadsheet cataloging the exact figures -- check my guide if you wish).

Artisan is still a FAR better choice.

Depends on what you actually want to artisan in the first place. If you want to grow Ancient Fruit in the greenhouse you have to wait a long time. 28 days for the crop to grow and another 7 days just to get the fruit to make seeds out of. If you are going with the most value and best layout you will need 116 seeds just to plant on every dirt tile that doesn't have a sprinkler. Then you have to wait another 28 day for the 116 crops to grow so you can harvest all of them on the same day.

Now with the Agriculturist + Quality Speed Gro I've seen them grow in about 14-18 days that is far less time to wait. Sure you get less money out of it but you get to the same layout in a shorter time span.

[KatherineOfSky]

Originally posted by ExiledAlchemist:

Depends on what you actually want to artisan in the first place. If you want to grow Ancient Fruit in the greenhouse you have to wait a long time. 28 days for the crop to grow and another 7 days just to get the fruit to make seeds out of. If you are going with the most value and best layout you will need 116 seeds just to plant on every dirt tile that doesn't have a sprinkler. Then you have to wait another 28 day for the 116 crops to grow so you can harvest all of them on the same day.

Now with the Agriculturist + Quality Speed Gro I've seen them grow in about 14-18 days that is far less time to wait. Sure you get less money out of it but you get to the same layout in a shorter time span.

Well, it's really not an issue when you play for multiple years. Both of my characters already have a greenhouse filled with Ancient Fruit. Speed Gro does not affect ever-bearing plants, so that leaves you with a static bonus of 25% grow speed... I would say that 50% price increase still beats that by TWICE. (if it even affects multiple-harvest plants...)

Besides, one doesn't wait until one has 116 seeds... you plant them as you go.... and as you continue to harvest fruit, Artisan pays and pays and pays. Do the math. There is no comparison.

[SilentCaay]

Artisan. 10% reduction in grow speed is pointless. It may as well read "-1 days to grow for any crop that normally takes more than 10 days to grow." since you can't split days in this game. It's either ready at the start of a day or it's not. Also, considering the cash crops are repeat harvest crops which only have an long initial grow time, the speed reduction matters even less with those.

[Naruto]

Originally posted by Karffebon:

Take the crops, you will regret it later if you take the other option like me. Crops are the best way to make money by a very very very big margin, it's very unbalanced. Other things like selling ducks, honey, whines and cheese are good extras but the main thing is crops, so go for the main profit. You just need to know what to grow, if you plant two hundred blueberries in the summer you can make almost a million or more in one season, the other sources of profit can't reach 5% of that. Taking note that blueberries are the best crop available in pierre's.

This is quiet old but no, no it wont XD

[Ilucie]

Why do people always resurrect the dead? I mean come one. 1 year?

[SlicedAndDiced]

^^^Good question
I haven't got a notification about this then it popped up on my Feed...

[LordBob]

There's a type of fertilizer that does the exact same thing as the agriculturalist upgrade, but better. go with artisan, because iridium quality ancient fruit wine, as long as it takes, makes you a total of 4620 gold per bottle. If you have at least 20 casks aging the stuff, you get almost 100k in the time it takes.