Thinking about only Foraging playthrough for making money.

[Entropy]

Wanted to try new mushroom logs with dehydrator and mystic tree stuff. I will not be using kegs/preserve jars or animals (only for community center). I will be using tappers and fruit trees also for money making. Will use only good exp giving crops. What do you think? Will i be making good money? (Ginger island will be full of fruit trees).

[Clovis Sangrail]

Hell, give it a try. And remember -- Wild Seeds are based on Foraging, not Farming, so you can craft the seasonal wild seeds from foraged materials, then grow them for Foraging experience.

Be sure to put back enough seed each season to get your started the following year.

[lozchik]

I say go for it. I'm doing a run where I focus mainly on fishing and I'm surprised at how much I can make with the smoker and roe being more readily available. Granted, I still have preserves jars and such since it wasn't a fishing ONLY run, but yeah. Give it a go. Dehydrators can make fairly good money and make salmonberry/blackberry season relevant. The dried fruit doesn't sell for much, but they make good snacks. Think dried salmon/black berries are as good as algae soup or sashimi now.

[Snowy Sprout]

For sure this is a fun run to try! I did it years ago and loved it, but it would be such a different experience now with the new seeds and items.

FWIW I believe farm-grown forage crops now give a small amount of farming xp as well as forage xp. I think I read that in the wiki. So that should be interesting to watch.

[Queen Droxxanna]

well most fruits can also be put in the dehydrator as well, so you can still make better profit from them, but I found the mushroom logs are slow to produce. There is a new mod that lets you have more kinds of tappers and grow mushrooms on trees - like they do in real forests. You can also put bee hives on trees with that mod, so it would all be considered forging.
Go for it. But I would find the desire to make jams very tempting.

[ULTRA]

It will be terrible for money, haha. The recent equipment additions were basically a patch to make it not so bad. It might actually be the worst skill for money making in the long run, even if you fill up your whole farm with wild seed plants (which will be an annoying proposition since it will take forever to get good gear for it).

[Snowy Sprout]

IDK what your standards are about "terrible for money", but when I did this run I made a million in a year, same as most of my other runs. Long term it isn't as scaleable as some other money sources, but you can still put many products into kegs or preserve jars.

I think he's gonna do fine.

Edit: oh yeah, he said no kegs or preserve jars. Kinda too bad, but I still think he'll do fine. It's about the journey not just about minmaxing money. Forage isn't a bad way to make money.

(just be sure to do the math on whether to sell the forage raw, vs. making it into seed packets first!)

[kingjames488]

yes, dehydrated purple mushrooms are worth a lot.

the biggest problem IMO will be that dehydrators need to be managed every day, so when you get a lot of them you won't have a lot of extra time :P

[Demethrite]

Yeah, forage crops aren't big money but it's easy and enough to begin with then you migrate to something else like dried mushrooms and fruits.

Late it's probably going to be mystic trees with tappers. Mystic syrup is 1000g base (+25% with syrup mastery) and with heavy tapper you get one every ~3days. So you can get 1250g per tree every 3 days and no processing time.

Definitely viable money.

[ULTRA]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

IDK what your standards are about "terrible for money", but when I did this run I made a million in a year, same as most of my other runs. Long term it isn't as scaleable as some other money sources, but you can still put many products into kegs or preserve jars.

So only 12 years (336 hours or so) to buy the golden clock and return scepter if you saved every single coin

[DaBa]

Foraging becomes much better if you play with SVE and Ridgeside Village mods. They both add new forage and, more importantly, way more places where you can forage things. Once you unlock all the areas, you could be spending the entire day just running around and foraging things every single day, bringing in tens of thousands of gold every single day, depending on how lucky you got with the extra forage and the spawns.

[Psycho]

it sounds interesting. and i would go wish the fruit bat cave over the mushroom one because 1 - the fruits give foraging experience and the mushrooms don't, and 2 - you can get iridium quality fruit but not iridium quality mushrooms

[JunK]

im pretty much doing this already with some differences
i don't use dehydrators, but i use preserve jars. but i'll be a pure mushroom/tree farm. mushrooms you can pickle now by putting them in preserve jars, and its much better than the dehydrator. you can also take advantage of good seasonal crops per season if you have enough kegs (melons, starfruit, pumpkins)

it takes awhile to get the mushroom farm going. its pretty difficult to get enough moss. but i've figured out a moss farm, which also acts as a tree seed farm (for mystic trees in the future) but its still pretty slow going. mushroom logs though are incredible. towards the end of year 1 (after i got my green rain event and made my mushroom logs with all the moss) every 4 days i was getting 50k+ with boosts from seasonal crops like pumpkins (almost 1k per pickled pumpkin) and starfruit in greenhouse.

basically my main farm is mostly full of trees right now, with a mossy tree planted in the midst to help generate moss. these trees are strictly not for cutting down, but shaking and gathering the random tree seeds that drop (they only drop when on your farm) plus for moss.
desert/train yard is used for trees for cutting for all my wood/coal needs. the quarry is where i have my mushroom farm right now and i don't quite have it filled yet. once i do i'll make the train yard another mushroom farm, then it'll bleed into my main farm land.

once i get access to ginger island it'll probably be another moss/seed farm for awhile. eventually everything being turned into a mushroom farm would be crazy good. with enough land on the main farm for kegs in upgraded sheds to process anything i get.

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by ULTRA:

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

IDK what your standards are about "terrible for money"

So only 12 years (336 hours or so) to buy the golden clock and return scepter if you saved every single coin

Ah, I see the problem now! Normally I don't give a thought to such extreme late-game things, or 'Perfection'. Those are grindy goals that have never interested me, so none of my playthroughs ever go that far. I just play until I've done all the basic story stuff and achieved a level of income that would eventually earn me those goals if I wanted to, but then since I do not want to it means I am actually done by that point.

But if you are a completionist, and that makes you happy, then you do you. I'm not here to tell anyone else how to have fun.

[kingjames488]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

Originally posted by ULTRA:

So only 12 years (336 hours or so) to buy the golden clock and return scepter if you saved every single coin

Ah, I see the problem now! Normally I don't give a thought to such extreme late-game things, or 'Perfection'. Those are grindy goals that have never interested me, so none of my playthroughs ever go that far. I just play until I've done all the basic story stuff and achieved a level of income that would eventually earn me those goals if I wanted to, but then since I do not want to it means I am actually done by that point.

But if you are a completionist, and that makes you happy, then you do you. I'm not here to tell anyone else how to have fun.

I hear ya... once you get everything set up to make the money it just becomes a repetitive waiting game until you can afford the golden clock which serves no real practical purpose unless you want to play dress-up with your farm :P