Drug production - Joint vs yayo vs flake

I was wondering (like most out there XD) what's the most profitable drug to produce and I came across some numbers that analyze profit per plant. Almost always the question is smoke vs flake, which is more profitable.

such as:
https://www.reddit.com/r/RimWorld/comments/dt416x/why_its_more_profitable_to_make_smokeleaf_joints/

the conclusion there is smoke is more prfitable $108.87(smoke) vs $102.69 (flake) per growing space per year. That's not a huge margin, but ok. (yayo is not even mentioned)

"But, space is not the most scarce resource, it's time" I said. So, I made an experiment. How much profit can I make, IN THE SAME AMOUNT OF TIME, producing the three drugs.

Raw Data (You can find on the wiki)

Plants data

Skill required:

• Smokeleaf Plant: Plants lvl 4
  
• Psycoid Plant: Plants lvl 6

Growth time (real time)

• Hydroponics
  Smokeleaf Plant: 4.5 days
  Psycoid Plant: 5 days
  
  
• Normal soil
  Smokeleaf Plant: 13.64 days
  Psycoid Plant: 16.36 days

Leaves per plant

• Smokeleaf Plant: 9 leaves
  
• Psycoid Plant: 8 leaves

Value and production

Value

• Smokeleaf Joint $11
  
• Flake $14
  
• Yayo $21

Production

• Smokeleaf Joint - 4 leaves => $24.75 per plant harvested
  
• Flake - 4 leaves => $28 per plant harvested
  
• Yayo 9 leaves => $21 per plant harvested

Sun Lamp Hydroponics revenue

Smokeleaf Joint

• 24 hydroponics basins
  
• 4 plants per basin
  
• 864 leaves per batch
  
• 216 Joints per batch
  
• $2376 per batch
  
• $528 per day
  
• Revenue in the same space on normal soil (no lamp) per day $174.2

Flake

• 24 hydroponics basins
  
• 4 plants per basin
  
• 864 leaves per batch
  
• 192 Flake per batch
  
• $2688 per batch
  
• $537.6 per day
  
• Revenue in the same space on normal soil (no lamp) per day $164.3

Yayo

• 24 hydroponics basins
  
• 4 plants per basin
  
• 864 leaves per batch
  
• 96 Yayo per batch
  
• $2016 per batch
  
• $403 per day
  
• Revenue in the same space on normal soil (no lamp) per day $123.2

Experiment

***EDIT: So, I made the whole guide again. Thanks to @BallinStalin who pointed that flake and yayo used intellectual for crafting instead of cooking***



So, Using this setup, I made them produce the three drugs for 20 days.

Three identical colonists (Joint, Flake and Yayo), all with planting lvl 10 and cooking lvl 10 or intellectual lvl 8.


Using dev mode I made sure they were working ALL the time (when one finished crafting I would insta grow another batch of plants.

Results

Producing joints

• After 10 days
  552 joints * $11 = $6072

• After 20 days
  1100 joints * $11 = $12100

Producing Flake

• After 10 days
  768 units * $14 = $10752

• After 20 days
  1556 units * $14 = $21784

Producing Yayo

• After 10 days
  480 joints * $21 = $10080

• After 20 days
  956 joints * $21 = $20076

*Note that the values at day 20 are pretty close to double those at day 10 making the experiment quite consistent.

Final thoughts

So, in conclusion, joints are WAY below the other two in terms of profit. The two possible scenarios are personal use or if you don't have a plant lvl 6 pawn yet (which can happen only in the very beggining, mostly)

Of the other two flake is on top by a VERY SMALL (in my opinion) margin, considering how dengerous flake is:
"It is a cheaper and less powerful version of yayo but has a significantly higher addiction rate which makes using this drug somewhat impractical." - from the wiki.

I hope you find this useful and let me know if u find any flaws in my logic or if you have any questions!

What would you rather grow and why?

Cheers!

[geniusthemaster]

and banned

[eloy2030]

@freakyman done, ty!

[Always Neutral]

I pretty much knew flake was the way to go. Silver all the way baby!

[Lhirstev]

I pretend the drugs I sell have long term effects on the colonies I sell them too, So I imagine selling flake would lead the "allied" factions suffer internal struggles as a result of drug addictions. It further expands into the idea, that maybe "wild people" are just past drug addicts that got kicked out of their colonies, or something.

[geniusthemaster]

well they both result in mankind dying on planet earth instead of the stars. so niether are profitable

[Kittenpox]

Unsurprising, really. :-) Smokeleaf Joints require 8 work to make, Yayo requires 6, Flake requires 5. Even with a bigger profit margin, Smokeleaf takes more time to produce at the Drug Lab than Flake does.

[Cat Kraken]

i use them all and sell the random junk i get from raiding

[Freakyman]

I think you meant to use the other values instead of * $11 on flake and yayo

[Freakyman]

Flake and Yayo Results are incorrect, i only glanced and i noticed the math seemed weird.
Flake: 768 units * $11 = $8448, 1556 units * $11 = $17116
Yayo: 480 joints * $11 = $5280, 956 joints * $11 = $10516

[Damien Darkside]

I smoke the leaf, sell the Yayo