Worth it to make pickles and jelly?

[Dankquan]

Is it worth it to turn all crops into pickles and jelly?

[Chompman]

It depends on the types as some are better for preserve jars while others are better for kegs:

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Preserves_Jar

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Keg

For the most part most vegetables except a few are better for preserving while it's the opposite for fruits that should be used in kegs except for a few.

If you have the space you should be doing either with your crops for most of them to increase your profits.

[neens]

If you want money flowing, pumpkins and starfruit. If you have the artisan profession, artisan goods will sell for a lot more. The most profitable crop to pickle/juice would be pumpkins, selling for 1,008g pickled and 966g juice. As for wine/jelly, starfruit selling for 6,300g iridium quality wine and 2,170g jelly.

[Sstavix]

Jelly is a universal like, and almost everyone likes pickles, too (Harvey loves them, but the kids and some of the other people hate pickles). However, if you're looking to make money, not friends, you'll find that turning fruit into wine is more profitable. Especially if you're an artisan and have patience.

[PepeMilagro]

Yes. I'm getting 250k twice a week with my pineapple jams
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3219868500

[Včelí medvídek]

Yes, you always get more money for processed crop than even gold quality crop itself.

Just msot fruit and most valuable vegetables is better use kegs for wine and juice.

[happybjorn]

No, because of opportunity cost. At some point you are wasting time and profit trying to pickle every turnip.

[Willow Rivers]

Publicado originalmente por happybjorn:

No, because of opportunity cost. At some point you are wasting time and profit trying to pickle every turnip.

Why would you pickle a low value crop like turnips? lol

[Sue]

I always produce jam and pickles over wine and juice because they take three days to be ready rather than ten (I think juice is a little quicker than wine, but don't quote me - lol). Everything that is produced, whether from kegs or preserve jars is of low quality. To turn a wine into iridium quality takes around two seasons - I'm sure someone here knows exactly how long it takes. Yes, a load of iridium quality wine is worth a bomb but think about the amount of jam and pickles you can make during those seasons.

Other items, cheese, beer, ale and ♥♥♥♥ (which are quicker to produce), can also be raised to iridium quality and take less time than wine. Gold quality cheese is pretty fast and well worthwhile. So I have a mixture in my basement of these products plus wine. For me, the turn around time to iridium quality is a key factor in how my basement is organised.

I've found that once I've got my greenhouse up and running with Ancient fruit and Starfruit, I turn most into jelly, some into wine. Not all of the wine I produce gets turned into iridium quality due to the time it takes. It tends to stack up along with the beer, ale and ♥♥♥♥. Every now and then, I sell the excess. However, even at it's lowest quality, substantial numbers of these products give a decent return.

So, I think it's about balance and how you wish to play the game. The worst thing is to be spending so much time filling and emptying preserve jars and kegs that you have no time for anything else in-game. Too many sheds with too many items to empty and fill can get boring.

[kingjames488]

IIRC preserves are worth 2x the base value of w.e you put in + 50g

so it's never not worth it to put base quality crops in it (though the keg can be better as it's 3x for fruit only IIRC)

Publicado originalmente por Willow Rivers:

Publicado originalmente por happybjorn:

No, because of opportunity cost. At some point you are wasting time and profit trying to pickle every turnip.

Why would you pickle a low value crop like turnips? lol

because whatever you put in is worth a base 50g more... so you put in a salmon berry that's only worth like 5g on it's own the preserve is worth like 60g.

[red255]

yes and no.

its not worth it because preserve jars cost coal to craft. like alot of coal, and you could just make bee hives.

if you want to process your crops I'd go with kegs, unless you really want to figure out how to massively farm coal.

and I would focus on big ticket crops to use in the kegs like Starfruit etc. because the players time is valuable.

you can preserve jars some crops but the amount of preserve jars you would need to cover a substantial portion of your harvest would....make them silly.

so yeah, I'd just make beehives or Kegs.

[xicewindex]

Processed goods are always more profit, More expensif ones in keg, cheaper ones in jars.

Even if you buy all materials to craft the keg/jars it wil be worth it cos the extra value of artisan goods wil earn that invested gold back in a few weeks.

If you want to spend the time filling sheds full with jars and kegs is up to you tough. (Or use the mod automate who dos it for you.)

[Sstavix]

If it helps... the wiki has a very useful page for determining what would be the best fruits to turn into wine, and which ones would get you more money just turning them into jelly. Here's the link:

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Keg_Productivity

I used this chart quite a bit during my first playthrough, and will no doubt use it again as I strive to get the "Perfection" achievement this time around. (Most of the other games I've played I usually abandon and start a new one before I got to the point I unlocked the cellar. There's just so much you can do in this game I get distracted!)

Edit: And here is the productivity for using a cask to age cheese and wine.

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Cask_Productivity