Production Chain Information Breakdown (+ Platinum & Premium)

This guide is meant to provide data and analysis of the many production chains that are present in Farming Simulator. This data is also available as a spreadsheet. Now with data from the Premium Edition, as well as the Platinum Edition!

Guide introduction

Welcome to what is now my second guide in the Farming Simulator franchise. Yay.
This will be going in-depth into the newest mechanic of FS: production chains.
All of the data for the production chains is organized in a spreadsheet, and color coded for your convenience. You can access the spreadsheet here.[docs.google.com]
Not everything in this guide will be accurate, as there are some aspects of production chains that I do not know how they work. These are pointed out wherever my knowledge lacks.
All comments, criticisms and suggestions are welcome, as this is the best way that this guide will improve.

So, what is a production chain?

If you ever played Farming Simulator 19 and got into the mods, there were many factory-like mods that you could use, such as seed production, automatic TMR station, and so on, all using the base mod Global Company.
This is basically that, but made more user-friendly and properly incorporated into the game.
Production chains allow you to process your simple grains, wool, milk, etc. into more profitable goods that you can sell at any point in the chain.
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(Note: the image above refers to "planks" as boards, and "planks long" as planks. This guide will use "planks" and "planks long" as these are the terms used in game.)
Production chains exist as factories, which are either placed in by the map author or placed by the player themselves through the construction menu, though not all factories can be placed by the player.
Additionally, all production chains use "recipes," which are what the production chain will make with the specified inputs. These will be discussed in length in the next sections.
The "chain" part of production chains refers to how the output of one factory can be used in the output of another, like how flower from the grain mill can be used to make bread in the bakery.

Why should I use the production chain?

Production chains add value to a product the same way real-life products gain value: raw material plus labor and change to product equals more expensive product. With production chains, this is simplified to:
Raw Product + Time + a little bit of money = More Expensive Good

Pros and Cons:

For a user to determine if a production chain is right for their operation, they must consider many of the pros and cons of production chains before purchasing and operating factory, as listed below:
Pros:

• Transforms normal products into more expensive products, adding more money to your harvest or operation.
  
• Wide variety of goods that can be made from a wide variety of products.

Cons:

• Somewhat high startup cost (often greater than $50,000).
  
• Some goods take more time to produce than others, often resulting in a long wait until you can sell finished goods from when you first input them.
  
• Need to wait until a certain amount of goods are made until you can sell them.

If the user thinks that the pros outweigh the cons, then owning a production chain should be in their best interest.

How do I use the production chains?

First, you need to own the factory you want to use. To do so, either purchase it yourself through the build menu (Tip: use Left Shift + P to get to the build menu), or through purchasing the existing factory on the map.
To purchase a map-placed one, simply walk up to the wrench icon an interact with it (Default: R). You will be prompted on whether or not you want to buy it.
Once bought, your factory can be used. First, go to the factory's menu by interacting with the wrench icon, or through the game menu. From there, you will need to activate a recipe.
Below is an example of a factory menu for the dairy:
From here, we can see:

• Its status
  
• Cycles per hour
  
• Cost per hour
  
• Current Recipe
  
• Input (incoming) materials
  
• Output (outgoing) products

Now, let's break down what this all means.

• The status reports what your factory is doing. Inactive means that the selected recipe was not activated, and needs to be manually activated by the player (Default: Enter) before the factory can work. Active, along with other status messages, should be self explanatory.
  
• Cycles per hour is how many times the recipe will use ingredients in an hour. This is simply how much of the ingredients will be consumed every hour, hence larger numbers will result in more ingredients being consumed to produce more product. This and Cost per hour scale with how many days there are in a month. To figure out how many cycles there are in a month, multiply this number by 24÷x, where x is how many days there are in a month.
  
• Cost per hour is pretty self explanatory. You are billed every midnight. Note that this is per active hour, hence you won't get charged this if the factory isn't running.
  
• Recipes are the set of input items needed to produce a certain amount of a (chosen) output item, done in a ratio. In the game code, recipes specify what it is making, what inputs, how much of those inputs, what outputs, how much of that output, the cycles per hour, and cost per hour, along with other data. If there are multiple recipes, many can be activated at one time, and if the recipes share an input, the inputs will be distributed among the outputs.
  
• Incoming and outgoing materials is pretty self explanatory. Input materials are gained by dumping the product into the area designated with a dumping trailer. Note that there are also options on what to do with the outgoing products, which there are three options:
  
  • Storing: this will store the goods until a set amount is reached, then it will spawn a pallet containing the outgoing products. The area the pallets spawn are usually marked with zone markers.
    
  • Distributing: this will send your products to other production chains. The products will only be sent if there is enough to spawn a pallet.
    
  • Selling: pretty self explanatory, the product is sold directly from the factory.
    The profit you get from this is less than if you were to let the pallet get created and transport it to a sell point. The price is also affected by the seasonal fluctuation of that item.

What information is available in this guide?

Most of this information was obtained straight from the game code (via reading the XML files used by the placeables system). Otherwise, it can be found by playing the game as well. This data was stored into a spreadsheet for easy reading, the link for which is found above. Each factory will have its own section, and will show:

• Purchase price
  
• Placeable (that is, if it can be placed by the player from the building menu)
  
• Map coordinates (for map-placed buildings)
  
• Its recipe:
  
  • Input amount and type
    
  • Output amount and type
    
  • Output ratio ([sum of] output divided by [sum of] input; use this for calculating the output amount by multiplying a given input by this number)
    
  • Cost per active hour
    
  • Cycles per hour
    
  • Monetary gain as a percentage (how much more you will make selling off the finished product as compared to selling off the ingredient)
• How much product the factory can hold
  
• Base price (as defined in game files) or average price, used to calculate monetary gain
  
  • The base price will be multiplied based on the economic difficulty setting, 1 for hard, 1.8 for medium, and 3 for easy.
• And any other notes.

Bakery

• Price: $50,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 1658, 1132
    
  • Haut-Beyleron: 1132, 997
    
  • Zielonka (Premium DLC): 586, 677
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles Per Hour	Monetary Gain
  Bread	2 Flour	1 Bread	0.5	90	33.33%
  Cake	2 Flour, 2 Sugar, 2 Milk, 2 Egg, 2 Butter, 2 Strawberry	5 Cake	0.42	8	104.21%

  Note: the Bakery in Haut-Beyleron uses an unoptimized ratio for the bread recipe (90 Flour, 45 Bread, 2 Cycles per Hour), but is otherwise the same.
  
• Cost per Hour: $2.50
  
• Styles: 2
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Flour	65,000	Input	$570
  Sugar	7,000	Input	$500
  Milk	7,000	Input	$700
  Eggs	7,000	Input	$1,120
  Butter	7,000	Input	$900
  Strawberry	7,000	Input	$250
  Bread	7,000	Output	$1,520
  Cake	7,000	Output	$3,300

EU variant:
US variant:

Biogas Plant, 99kW

• Price: $435,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Recipe: Biogas
  

  Input	Output Electric Charge*	Output Ratio	Output Digestate	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain
  840 Silage	756	0.9	252	0.3	84.21%
  200 Liquid Manure	180	0.9	60	0.3	854.55%
  200 Manure	180	0.9	60	0.3	854.55%
  100 Cut Sugarbeets	90	0.9	20	0.3	83.14%

• Cycles per Hour: 1
  
• Cost per Hour: $2.50
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Silage	30,000	Input	$170
  Manure	7,200	Input	$33
  Cut Sugarbeets	3,600	Input	$172
  Liquid Manure	30,000	Input	$33
  Digestate	1,900,000	Output	$33
  Electric Charge	N/A	Output	$350

Note: for all recipes, produces 1L of methane*.
* Sold instantly.

Biogas Plant, 250kW

• Price: $875,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Recipe: Biogas
  

  Input	Output Electric Charge*	Output Ratio	Output Digestate	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain
  2120 Silage	1909	0.9	636	0.3	84.31%
  505 Liquid Manure	455	0.9	152	0.3	855.60%
  505 Manure	455	0.9	152	0.3	855.60%
  253 Cut Sugarbeets	227	0.9	76	0.3	82.58%

• Cycles per Hour: 1
  
• Cost per Hour: $6.30
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price
  Silage	76,000	Input	$171
  Manure	18,000	Input	$33
  Cut Sugarbeets	9,000	Input	$172
  Liquid Manure	76,000	Input	$33
  Digestate	3,900,000	Output	$33
  Electric Charge	N/A	Output	$350

Note: for all recipes, produces 1L of Methane*.
* Sold instantly.

Biogas Plant, 500kW

• Price: $1,180,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Recipe: Biogas
  

  Input	Output Electric Charge*	Output Ratio	Output Digestate	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain
  4243 Silage	3819	0.9	1273	0.3	84.22%
  1010 Liquid Manure	909	0.9	303	0.3	854.55%
  1010 Manure	909	0.9	303	0.3	854.55%
  505 Cut Sugarbeets	456	0.9	152	0.3	83.74%

• Cycles per Hour: 1
  
• Cost per Hour: $12.60
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Silage	152,750	Input	$171
  Manure	36,370	Input	$33
  Cut Sugarbeets	18,180	Input	$172
  Liquid Manure	152,750	Input	$33
  Digestate	5,600,000	Output	$33
  Electric Charge	N/A	Output	$350

Note: for all recipes, produces 5L of Methane*.
* Sold instantly.

Biogas Plant, 1MW

• Price: $1,500,000
  
• Placeable: No
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 2006, 891
    
  • Haut-Beyleron: 631, 1684
    
  • Erlengrat: 1953, 832
• Recipe: Biogas
  

  Input	Output Methane*	Output Ratio	Output Digestate	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain
  8484 Silage	5884	0.69	2545	0.3	82.51%
  2020 Liquid Manure	1452	0.72	606	0.3	880.20%
  2020 Manure	1452	0.72	606	0.3	880.20%
  1010 Cut Sugarbeets	721	0.71	303	0.3	86.77%

• Cycles per Hour: 1
  
• Cost per Hour: $25.25
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Silage	305,425	Input	$171
  Manure	72,720	Input	$33
  Cut Sugarbeets	36,360	Input	$172
  Liquid Manure	305,425	Input	$33
  Digestate	6,400,000	Output	$33
  Methane	N/A	Output	$450

Note: for all recipes, produces 1 unit of Electric Charge*.
* Sold instantly.

Carpentry

• Price: $60,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 1529, 1810
    
  • Haut-Beyleron: 1374, 229
    
  • Zielonka (Premium DLC): 599, 282
• Recipe: Furniture
  

  Input	Output Furniture	Output Ratio*	Output Wood Chips	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
  4 Wood	5	1.25	0.15	9	150.00%
  5 Planks	7	1.4	0.1	10	115.38%

• Cost per Hour: $3.00
  
• Styles: 2
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Wood	30,000	Input	$1,000
  Planks	18,000	Input	$1,300
  Furniture	4,000	Output	$2,000
  Wood Chips	5,000	Output	$320

* Wood Chips ignored for ratio and monetary gain.
EU Variant:
US Variant:

Cereal Factory

• Price: $110,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 424, 1421
• Recipe: Cereal
  

  Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain
  1 Honey, 1 Raisins, 2 Oats, 2 Corn	2 Cereal	0.33	11.27%

• Cycles per Hour: 90
  
• Cost per Hour: $5.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Honey	30,000	Input	$1,000
  Raisins	30,000	Input	$1,400
  Oats	60,000	Input	$532
  Corn	60,000	Input	$380
  Cereal	7,000	Output	$2,350

Dairy, Cheese Dairy, Chocolate Factory

The Recipes for the Dairy, Cheese Dairy, and Chocolate Factory are the same across all building types. The main difference between these building is what recipes they are restricted to.

Recipes:

Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
Butter	15 Milk	13 Butter	0.87	20	11.43%
Cheese	3 Milk	2 Cheese	0.65	50	71.43%
Chocolate	1 Milk, 1 Sugar	1 Chocolate	0.5	100	66.67%

Cost per Hour: $1.00

Buildings

Factory	Price	Placeable	Coordinates (ElmCreek)	Coodrinates (Haut-Beyleron)	Coordinates (Erlengrat)
Dairy (Two Styles)	$70,000	Yes	480, 1377
Cheese Dairy (Käserei Erlengrat)	$50,000	No		1340, 1197	1160, 1011
Chocolate Factory (Liechti Chocolatier)	$50,000	No			1061, 851

Capacity:

Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
Milk	100,000	Input	$700
Butter	10,000	Output	$900
Cheese	5,000	Output	$1,800
Sugar	36,000	Input	$1,120
Chocolate	5,000	Output	$2,000

US Dairy:
EU Dairy:
Chocolate Factory (Liechti Chocolatier):
Cheese Factory (Käserei Erlengrat):

Grain Mill

There are two different types of Grain Mills: map-placed and placeable. The only difference between these are the recipes.

Placeable Recipes:

Recipe: Flour

Input	Output Flour	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
5 Wheat	4	0.8	150	35.31%
30 Barley	23	0.77	25	39.62%
15 Oat	19	1.27	50	35.71%
15 Sorghum	16	1.07	50	41.40%

Map-Placed Recipes:

Recipe: Flour

Input	Output Flour	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
150 Wheat	120	0.8	5	35.31%
150 Barley	113	0.75	5	37.19%
150 Oat	188	1.25	5	34.29%
150 Sorghum	158	1.05	5	39.63%

All Buildings:

• Price: $96,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 933, 78
    
  • Haut-Beyleron: 863, 1090
    
  • Erlengrat: 674, 1041
• Cost per Hour: $1.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price
  Wheat	270,000	Input	$337
  Barley	270,000	Input	$313
  Oat	270,000	Input	$532
  Sorghum	270,000	Input	$430
  Flour	30,000	Ouput	$570

Placeable:

Grape Processing Unit

• Price: $80,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 2002, 1429
    
  • Haut-Beyleron: 358, 451
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
  Grape Juice	5 Grapes	4 Grape Juice	0.8	54	112.27%
  Raisins	1 Grapes	1 Raisins	1	270	132.17%

• Cost per Hour: $2.50
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Grapes	90,000	Input	$603
  Raisins	12,000	Output	$1,400
  Grape Juice	10,000	Output	$1,600

Greenhouses

Greenhouses recipes for all variants are the same. Greenhouses are also the cheapest production chain building, as well as the easiest to add inputs to (considering all you need is a source of water and a mobile water tank), so I recommend this if you want to gain some experience with production chains.

All Greenhouses

• Placeable: Yes
  
• Cost per Hour: $0.10
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour (small, medium, large)	Monetary Gain
  Tomato	1 Water	1 Tomato	1	16, 28, 64	400.00%
  Lettuce	2 Water	1 Lettuce	0.5	8, 14, 32	395.00%
  Strawberry	1 Water	2 Strawberry	2	16, 28, 64	400.00%

Base Prices ($/1000L)

• Water: $100
  
• Lettuce: $990
  
• Tomato: $500
  
• ]Strawberry: $250

Small Greenhouse

• Price: $3,000
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type
  Water	5,000	Input
  Lettuce	3,000	Output
  Tomato	2,000	Output
  Strawberry	6,000	Output

Medium Greenhouse

• Price: $5,000
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type
  Water	10,000	Input
  Lettuce	6,000	Output
  Tomato	4,000	Output
  Strawberry	12,000	Output

Large Greenhouse

• Price: $10,000
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type
  Water	20,000	Input
  Lettuce	12,000	Output
  Tomato	8,000	Output
  Strawberry	24,000	Output

Small Greenhouse:
Medium Greenhouse:
Large Greenhouse:

Oil Mill

• Price: $80,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 2004, 1198
• Recipe:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
  Sunflower Oil	2 Sunflower	1 Sunflower Oil	0.5	200	32.24%
  Canola Oil	2 Canola	1 Canola Oil	0.5	200	35.99%
  Olive Oil	2 Olives	1 Olive Oil	0.5	100	102.32%

• Cost per Hour: $2.50
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Sunflower	144,000	Input	$673
  Canola	144,000	Input	$603
  Olives	72,000	Input	$603
  Sunflower Oil	10,000	Output	$1,780
  Canola Oil	10,000	Output	$1,640
  Olive Oil	5,000	Output	$2,440

Sawmill

• Price: $100,000
  
• Placeable: No
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 179, 578
    
  • Haut-Beyleron: 1398, 183
    
  • Erlengrat: 1186, 731
• Recipe: Planks
  

  Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio*	Monetary Gain*
  3 Wood	4 Planks, 0.15 Wood Chip	1.33	73.33%

• Cycles per Hour: 100
  
• Cost per Hour: $2.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Wood	110,000	Input	$1,000
  Planks	15,000	Output	$1,300
  Woodchips	50,000	Output	$320

* Wood Chips excluded from ratio.

Spinnery

• Price: $60,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Coordinates:
  
  • ElmCreek: 1094, 643
    
  • Haut-Beyleron: 1643, 809
• Recipe: Fabric
  

  Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
  2 Wool	1 Fabric	0.5	60	59.57%
  5 Cotton	3 Fabric	0.6	24	43.77%

• Cost per Hour: $5.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Wool	45,000	Input	$940
  Cotton	45,000	Input	$1,252
  Fabric	5,000	Output	$3,000

Sugar Mill

• Price: $80,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Recipe: Sugar
  

  Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cost per Hour	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain
  2 Sugar Beets	1 Sugar	0.5	$5.00	500	104.92%
  5 Cut Sugarbeets	3 Sugar	0.6	$3.00	200	74.42%
  2 Sugarcane	1 Sugar	0.5	$5.00	500	110.08%

• Cycles per Hour: 2
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Sugar Beets	360,000	Input	$122
  Cut Sugar Beets	360,000	Input	$172
  Sugarcane	360,000	Input	$119
  Sugar	36,000	Output	$500

Tailor Shop

• Price: $100,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Recipe: Clothes
  

  Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain
  2 Fabric	1 Clothes	0.5	33.33%

• Cycles per Hour: 45
  
• Cost per Hour: $10.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/100L)
  Fabric	32,000	Input	$3,000
  Clothes	3,000	Output	$8,000

(Platinum) Art Accessories Factory

• Price: $50,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1746, 1813
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Input	Output	Output Ratio	Cycles Per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Picture Frame	84 Planks Long	210 Picture Frames	2.5	1.1	47.57%
  Easel	64 Planks Long	200 Easel	3.13	1.2	58.10%

• Cost Per Hour: $2.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Planks Long	10,000	Input	$1,946
  Easel	10,000	Output	$984
  Picture Frame	10,000	Output	$1,149

(Platinum) Barrel Factory

• Price: $120,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1803, 1864
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Input	Output	Output Ratio	Cycles Per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Barrel	50 Planks Long, 25 Metal	340 Barrel	4.53	1	118.48
  Bucket	25 Planks Long, 25 Metal	170 Bucket	3.4	1	76.75%
  Bathtub	30 Planks Long, 10 Metal	85 Bathtub	2.13	2.5	86.73%

• Cost Per Hour: $2.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Planks Long	15,000	Input	$1,946
  Metal	5,000	Input	$3,002
  Barrel	10,000	Output	$1,108
  Bucket	10,000	Output	$1,286
  Bathtub	10,000	Output	$1,942

(Platinum) Flooring Factory

• Price: $110,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1682, 1610
  
• Recipe: Floor Tiles
  

  Input	Output	Output Ratio	Cycles Per Hour	Cost Per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  90 Planks Long	180 Floor Tiles	2	1.2	$1.79	94.49%
  140 Planks	180 Floor Tiles	1.29	1.3	$3.50	87.14%

• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Planks Long	10,000	Input	$1,946
  Planks	10,000	Input	$1,300
  Flooring Tiles	10,000	Output	$1,892

(Platinum) Furniture Factory

• Price: $110,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1901, 1760
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Input	Output	Output Ratio	Cycles Per Hour	Cost Per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Armoire	50 Planks Long, 25 Metal	166 Armoire	2.21	1	$2.00	114.95%
  Armoire	75 Planks, 25 Metal	166 Armoire	1.66	1	$2.00	114.69%
  Chair	50 Planks Long	125 Chiar	2.5	1.9	$2.00	98.61%
  Chair	75 Planks	125 Chair	1.67	2	$3.00	98.18%
  Table	80 Planks Long	100 Table	1.25	2.2	$2.00	57.53%
  Table	120 Planks	100 Table	0.83	2.4	$3.00	57.19%

• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Planks Long	18,000	Input	$1,946
  Planks	18,000	Input	$1,300
  Metal	5,000	Input	$3,002
  Armoire	10,000	Output	$2,232
  Chair	10,000	Output	$1,546
  Table	10,000	Output	$2,452

(Platinum) Iron Furnace

• Price: $180,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Recipe: Metal
  

  Input	Output	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  416 Iron Ore	380 Metal	0.91	174.62%

• Cost Per Hour: $5.00
  
• Cycles Per Hour: 1
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Iron Ore	60,000	Input	$999
  Metal	20,000	Output	$3,002

(Platinum) Old Sawmill

• Price: $250,000
  
• Placeable: No
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1345, 518
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio*	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Planks	416 Wood	560 Planks, 120 Wood chips	1.35	75.00%
  Planks Long	416 Wood	376 Planks Long, 120 Wood chips	0.9	75.87%
  Wood Beam	416 Wood	250 Wood Beams, 150 Wood chips	0.6	74.08%
  Prefab Wall	416 Wood	130 Prefab Wall	0.31	56.09%

• Cost Per Hour: $2.00
  
• Cycles Per Hour: 1
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Wood	120,000	Input	$1,000
  Woodchips	25,000	Output	$320
  Planks	15,000	Output	$1,300
  Planks Long	15,000	Output	$1,946
  Wood Beam	15,000	Output	$2,897
  Prefab Wall	15,000	Output	$4,995

* Wood chips excluded from ratio.

(Platinum) Paper Factory

• Price: $130,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 902, 1103
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Input-Output Ratio	Input Ratio	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Carton Roll	400 Wood	215 Carton Roll	0.54	55.53%
  Paper Roll	525 Wood	230 Paper Roll	0.44	41.12%

• Cost Per Hour: $2.00
  
• Cycles Per Hour: 1
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Wood	30,000	Input	$1,000
  Carton Roll	10,000	Output	$2,894
  Paper Roll	10,000	Output	$3,221

(Platinum) Pet Accessories Factory

• Price: $80,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1669, 1674
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles Per Hour	Cost Per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Bird House	150 Planks Long	200 Bird House	1.33	1.2	$3.00	3.70% (Price fluxuations may make this bigger, but only slightly)
  Cat Tree	90 Planks Long, 100 Wool	215 Cat Tree	1.13	1.1	$3.50	155.98%
  Dog House	90 Planks Long	95 Dog House	1.13	2.2	$2.00	32.02%

• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Planks Long	20,000	Input	$1,946
  Wool	20,000	Input	$940
  Bird House	10,000	Output	$1,513
  Cat Tree	10,000	Output	$3,204
  Dog House	10,000	Output	$2,434

(Platinum) Sawmill (Wood-Mizer LT15)

• Price: $56,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio*	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Planks	208 Wood	280 Planks, 60 Wood chips	1.35	75.00%
  Planks Long	208 Wood	188 Planks Long, 60 Wood chips	0.9	75.87%
  Wood Beam	208 Wood	125 Wood Beams, 75 Wood chips	0.6	74.08%
  Prefab Wall	208 Wood	75 Prefab Wall	0.36	83.89%

• Cost Per Hour: $2.00
  
• Cycles Per Hour: 1
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Wood	75,000	Input	$1,000
  Woodchips	20,000	Output	$320
  Planks	12,000	Output	$1,300
  Planks Long	12,000	Output	$1,946
  Wood Beams	12,000	Output	$2,897
  Prefab wall	12,000	Output	$4,995

* Wood chips excluded from ratio.

(Platinum) Shingle Factory

• Price: $70,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1753, 1782
  
• Recipe: Single
  

  Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  84 Planks Long	210 Shingle	2.5	66.88%

• Cost Per Hour: $2.00
  
• Cycles Per Hour: 1.1
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Planks Long	10,000	Input	$1,946
  Shingle	10,000	Output	$1,299

(Platinum) Wood Turner

• Price: $80,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Silverrun Coordinates: 1934, 1765
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles Per Hour	Cost Per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Staircase Railing	100 Wood	220 Staircase Railing	2.2	1	$5.00	139.31%
  Staircase Railing	70 Planks Long	220 Staircase Railing	3.14	1	$2.00	75.69%
  Pepper Grinder	50 Wood	100 Pepper Grinder	2	2.2	$5.00	128.83%
  Pepper Grinder	50 Planks Long	150 Pepper Grinder	3	1.5	$2.00	76.40%
  Bowl	150 Wood	150 Bowl	1	1.4	$5.00	64.17%
  Bowl	150 Planks Long	210 Bowl	1.4	1	$2.00	18.12%

• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Wood	30,000	Input	$1,000
  Planks Long	30,000	Input	$1,946
  Staircase Railing	4,000	Output	$1,088
  Pepper Grinder	4,000	Output	$1,144
  Bowl	4,000	Output	$1,642

(Premium) Preserved Food Factory

• Price: $110,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Zielonka Coordinates: 700, 376
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Preserved Food Carrots	100 Carrots	60 Preserved Food Carrots	0.6	277.22%
  Preserved Food Parsnip	100 Parsnips	60 Preserved Food Parsnip	0.6	270.62%
  Preserved Food Beetroot	100 Red beet	60 Preserved Food Beetroot	0.6	315.51%

• Cost Per Hour: 10
  
• Cycles Per Hour: $4.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Carrots	240,000	Input	$132
  Parsnip	240,000	Input	$130
  Red Beets	240,000	Input	$119
  Preserved Food Carrots	45,000	Output	$828
  Preserved Food Parsnip	45,000	Output	$805
  Preserved Food Beetroot	45,000	Output	$823

(Premium) Soup Factory

• Price: $135,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Zielonka Coordinates: 453, 1434
  
• Recipes:
  

  Recipe	Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cycles per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  Triple Soup	100 Carrots, 100 Parsnips, 100 Red Beets	100 Triple Soup	0.33	5	228.81%
  Carrot Soup	300 Carrots	100 Carrot Soup	0.33	6	172.35%
  Parsnip Soup	300 Parsnips	100 Parsnip Soup	0.33	6	175.05.71%
  Red Beet Soup	300 Red Beets	100 Red Beet Soup	0.33	6	187.90%
  Potato Soup	300 Potatoes	100 Potato Soup	0.33	6	128.53%

• Cost Per Hour: $5.00
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Approximate Average Price ($/1000L)
  Carrots	450,000	Input	$132
  Parsnip	450,000	Input	$130
  Red Beet	450,000	Input	$119
  Potatoes	450,000	Input	$172
  Triple Soup	45,000	Output	$1,252
  Carrot Soup	45,000	Output	$1,087
  Parsnip Soup	45,000	Output	$1,086
  Red Beet Soup	45,000	Output	$1,037
  Potato Soup	45,000	Output	$1,191

(Premium) Potato Processing Plant

• Price: $120,000
  
• Placeable: Yes
  
• Zielonka Coordinates: 1269, 1479
  
• Recipe: Potato Chips
  

  Inputs	Outputs	Output Ratio	Cost Per Hour	Monetary Gain (approximate)
  100 Potatoes, 5 Sunflower Oil	30 Potato Chips	0.29	$5.00	79.73%
  100 Potatoes, 5 Canola Oil	30 Potato Chips	0.29	$6.00	84.68%
  100 Potatoes, 4 Olive Oil	30 Potato Chips	0.29	$2.00	73.99%

• Cycles Per Hour: 20
  
• Capacity:
  

  Item	Capacity (L)	Type	Base Price ($/1000L)
  Potatoes	480,000	Input	$172
  Canola Oil	24,000	Input	$1,640
  Sunflower Oil	24,000	Input	$1,780
  Olive Oil	19,200	Input	$2,440
  Potato Chips	45,000	Output	~$1,564

Conclusion, Credits and Change log

Production Chains allow you multiple avenues of increasing the value of your yield. Productions Chains work via inputs and outputs, and selecting what building you use depends on what you produce.
Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated!
Thanks to Grimloc for info on how the selling settings works, and grolbu on how cycles per hour works.
Thanks for viewing this guide.

Changelog

November 14, 2023

• Removed the input-output ratio (1:1)
  
• Replaced input ratio with output ratio

March 3, 2024

• Changed a lot of percentages and base prices for both DLC's.

[Runamucker]

Thanks for this amazing info!

Just installed FF22 and it has cycles / month and production costs / month , not per hour. For instance, my spinnery recipe for fabric cotton has 576 cycles/month and costs $120/month.

Also, at the Oil Mill, I believe olive oil is an output product, not an input product.

[rcaerweber]

wow. very helpful. thanks for doing at that work.

[Nina]

@phelix fill up the production and then turn around and sell the rest of the crop. making 1.3x on smaller items and 2.5x on some of the bigger ones can be a HUGE benefit. even just the greenhouse makes me about the same as a field harvest if I store it to sell at the same time. if I took the strawberries to the bakery and made cakes it would be an even bigger sale.. also the greenhouses seem to let you run all three recipes at the same time.

[grolbu]

Nice guide, lots of info that should have been in a manual (LOL)

(1) unless I've missed something, production is slow. My spinnery is full of cotton, storing fabric. Every hour it runs 2 cycles of 36 = 72 fabric per hour. In theory I get 1 pallet to take away and sell every 14 hours but it seems to scale with game speed, at 5x I actually get one pallet every 2-3 days.

(2) the input limit for a production building you own also applies to buildings you don't own. After one particularly enthusiastic harvest I had 4 bales of cotton to sell to the spinnery which I didn't own at the time. Nope, the spinnery only hold 3 bales worth of cotton. The 4th bale has been sitting on the sell point for around a year now slowly getting used up. I won't be harvesting cotton this year ...

It might make economic sense to add value and ultimately get paid more for things, but it's so slow that in practise you're better just taking the smaller money up front.

[Phelix]

I dont know man, I dont really get why I should use those Production Chains. Most of the time I would make more money by selling the grains instead of selling the flour for example

[Grimloc]

The selling setting on a factory sells at what price the product is going for that month. You don't receive an income notification in green for the money when its added to your account like most other immediate income sources, and the factory sells it as soon as a pallet quantity(etc) is available(every hour). The Income is however noted in the finances screen. Tested with the Oil Mill. It seems for maximum profit you have to store, load, and transport the goods yourself while waiting for best price/month. Good read, and nice guide. Thanks!!!

[Professor Funpancake]

Very nice thank you :) was wondering what the heck I needed to do with my olive oil plant