Kegs and Preserves Jars Values

What to put in your kegs and your preserves jars

Keg Crops

All of this information is taken from the wiki[stardewvalleywiki.com]

Kegs follow the pricing formula of 3 x Base Value for Fruits and 2.25 x Base Value for Vegetables

For the kegs, you will mostly want to go for fruits with higher base prices. I will only list ones with base values that are 200+ with one exception being coffee. Coffee has the shortest keg time of 2 in-game hours which allows it to compete with the rest of the listed crops.

Crop Type - Keg Time (in-game)
Fruit - 10,000 minutes / 7 days
Vegetable - 6,000 minutes / 4 days
Hops - 2,250 minutes / 1-2 days
Wheat - 1,750 minutes / 1-2 days
Coffee Beans - 120 minutes / 2 hours

Crop - Base Price
Starfruit - 750g
Ancient Fruit - 550g
Pumpkin - 320g
Hops* - 300g
Red Cabbage - 260g
Melon - 250g
Rhubarb - 220g
Wheat* - 200g
Coffee Beans* - 150g

* - does not follow the formula, has a set price

Preserves Jar Crops

All of this information is taken from the wiki[stardewvalleywiki.com]

Preserves Jars follow the pricing formula of 2 x Base Value + 50 for Everything

For the preserves jars, you will mostly be going for vegetables with lower base values. The +50 in the formula makes their values jump above their Keg counterpart.

Both vegetables and the fruits have the same processing time of 4,000 minutes / 2-3 days (in-game).

Crop - Base Value
Cauliflower - 175g
Artichoke - 160g
Yam - 160g
Amaranth - 150g
Kale - 110g
Beet - 100g
Radish - 90g
Potato - 80g
Bok Choy - 80g
Tomato - 60g
Eggplant - 60g
Garlic - 60g
Apricot - 50g
Corn - 50g
Hot Pepper - 40g
Green Bean - 40g
Parsnip - 35g
Blackberry - 20g
Salmonberry - 5g

Extras

Unlisted Crops

I can hear you ask: "Jimothy, what about the crops you haven't listed here?"

Well that's an excellent question Dylan, and here's the answer:

The rest of the crops I haven't listed are actually on the side of Team Jar. I have omitted them as the ones I have listed are simply leagues better in terms of time vs. money.

You can, however, still choose to put them in kegs if you have a ridiculous amount of kegs or maybe if you don't have access to the better keg crops. I simply choose to ship them right away for some quick and easy income.

Keg vs. Preserves Jar

I can also hear you ask: "Jimothy, if the kegs give you stupid amounts of money, why should I ever use the preserves jars?"

Which is also a very valid question Oliver, and the answer to that question would be:

You don't really have to actually.

Preserves Jar is a cheap way to add a little more value to your otherwise almost worthless crops.
You only need Wood, Stone and Coal to make it.

Keg is the thing that takes the already good crop you have and cranks it to 11 but it is the more expensive option with the need for Iron, Copper and Oak Resin. Obviously it is a lot cheaper to make compared to something like an Iridium Sprinkler but you're a smart kid, you get the idea.

The main point is: You need to be at the later stages of the game to fully utilize the kegs.

[Jimothy]

After you complete the Artisan Bundle from the Community Center @jodi.jones

[jodi.jones]

when can you build a keg?

[kstormgemini]

@Jimothy ah, i hadn't thought of the harvest times when i pondered the tea's pluses/minuses. that is a very good point. so, realistically, we're planting the tea merely for the evergreen longevity of it as it has very little usefulness outside that. currently, anyway. who knows if it has more properties in the future. after all, we didn't have the recipe for the coffee when we first got it either. so i guess we'll wait and see on that. ^_^

you're welcome.
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[Jimothy]

@kstormgemini As I've mentioned in the extras, I feel like Tea Leaves should fall under the Preserves Jar category since it's base value is quite low with 50g each. This is further supported by the fact that (with Artisan), Green Tea only sells for 140g whereas the Pickled Tea Leaves sell for 210g.

Although, I would simply not recommend even bothering with Tea since you can only harvest it at the last week of each season. Giving you only 210g x 7 (harvests) = 1470g per crop per month with the pickling compared to something like Coffee which gives you 14 (harvests) x 4 (min beans) / 5 (beans per coffee) x 150g = 1680g minimum per crop per month while also being super useful to your farmer as well.

Thank you for your kind words by the way.

[kstormgemini]

i have a question about where, if at all, tea might fit on here. it's a newer item and is on a similar vein as coffee as far as keg times go. but unlike coffee, it can also be put into the preserving jars. But, at this moment, there are no added recipes for tea... so that is a minus for it comparatively speaking to coffee.
as far as the pricing goes or whether it's worth adding to this list, what do you think? if coffee is useful given its short keg time (+has the added benefit of being made into a recipe) then where would tea stand? i'm genuinely curious. i think this is a useful guide for people looking to play straight up for the profit. kudos on that, by the way.
i look forward to seeing your thoughts as far as the tea and other possible products as they're added to the game in the future.
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[TTV.Terratr0n (Bomb-Lance Kevin)]

*tips hat*