Cheapest best Luau item

[Lord Server]

TL;DR: Chantrelle, Mayo, Cheese, in that order, for most people/situations.

By best I mean CHEAPEST, thinking about year 2 and onward. Obviously this isn't really important, but I'd like to have a 'best cheap options' list in the back of my head so maybe you do too. This way I miss out on the minimum profits.

I am the kind of guy who finds spreadsheets fun, so I did a bit of math with the possible Luau items that give you the best response. Here's the highlights: (numbers are without perks, based on sell prices)

Chanterelle Mushrooms are the lowest value valid gold star item at just 240g. Gold mushrooms only go up once processed by your artisan bonus. They are still the cheapest if you only have them in iridium quality!
If you have a shortage of preserve jars, the vegetables come in second with Artichoke, Yam, and Cauliflower at 240 or 262g. But better to pickle them.
Otherwise, gold star Mayonnaise is the most plentiful cheap option 285+perks.
Stingray is next, assuming you have the pirate cove unlocked and are buying coal for 250. If you value coal at Clint's year 1 prices, smoked halibut is even cheaper than mayonnaise, and pike is next.
If you have no basic chickens, gold large milk or gold cheese are next.
If you have no animal products on your farm, go back to artichoke or yam.

The aged Wine/keg products are the WORST, as you have limited casks and that cask could be ageing starfruit wine.

My assumptions are simple: You have the capacity to process your milk into cheese, good fruit into wine, etc. You don't have spare casks sitting unused.

I enjoy the fact that the 'best' answer is also a rare-ish mushroom, since adding a special mushroom really can make a bland stew into something great IRL.

[Calico Witch]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Queen Droxxanna:

i killed a pig and added pork to the luau and everyone LOVED it.
That's what they do at Luau's , they roast a pig over open flames.

This! Exactly!

[red255]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Snowy Sprout:

Diposting pertama kali oleh red255:

Gold star melon is not a year 1 option.

Technically it is, if you get a greenhouse early enough. Which I've done several times with the Joja Route. The seeds are easy to get from the Museum.

"The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural."

if you got the money for joja you got the money for a fish smoker, and just fish up a gold star pike and smoke it. don't kill the younglings to do the luau.

[DaBa]

You can easily get a golden cauliflower first spring of the game, and then every following spring after. It's the easiest one to use and get the maximum friendship bonus.

[IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII]

Diposting pertama kali oleh DaBa:

You can easily get a golden cauliflower first spring of the game, and then every following spring after. It's the easiest one to use and get the maximum friendship bonus.

That's my strategy too. If you're doing a community center run you will want 5 gold cauliflowers anyway. I use sap to make quality fertilizer and then pop out two batches of 30+ cauliflowers, which is usually enough to get at least 7 golden cauliflowers by summer.

[MaxieMores]

I think I just did a gold star melon, 🤔

I'll try and make a post a little later with all the ones I know and how much they're worth.

Thanks for making this thread/discussion.

[DaBa]

Diposting pertama kali oleh MaxieMores:

I think I just did a gold star melon, 🤔

I'll try and make a post a little later with all the ones I know and how much they're worth.

Thanks for making this thread/discussion.

All that information is on the wiki page.

[red255]

Diposting pertama kali oleh DaBa:

You can easily get a golden cauliflower first spring of the game, and then every following spring after. It's the easiest one to use and get the maximum friendship bonus.

yes I would say thats what I would do in previous patches.

I am unsure what I would do in 1.6, I am tempted to do a gold star smoked pike to see how easy it is.

[DaBa]

Diposting pertama kali oleh red255:

Diposting pertama kali oleh DaBa:

You can easily get a golden cauliflower first spring of the game, and then every following spring after. It's the easiest one to use and get the maximum friendship bonus.

yes I would say thats what I would do in previous patches.

I am unsure what I would do in 1.6, I am tempted to do a gold star smoked pike to see how easy it is.

Unless you start on the beach farm, you need to spend 10k gold for that. That's a really big investment this early in the game. It would work if you're already planning on getting it to farm money with fishing, otherwise it's not worth the investment for just one item you're going to give away.