Becoming a billionare.

[FilthyGorilla]

I have been playing stardew for quite a while now and am still very interested in my current save file which I am trying to become a bllionare in.
I am still having a lot of fun midway through year 4 and am working on really maximising space for complete efficiency to reach my goal. I recently achieved perfection and shared my journey as of then in another post. Right now I am only really starting with about 90 million made and 20+ million in ancient fruit wine in a chest to be sold at a later date. I love diving in the Skull Cavern but always have too much iridium and end up selling it as bars or turing the raw ore into mega bombs at the desert trader.
I have 11 large sheds so far. 4 with pineapple plants in them as I will be replacing the 1920 ancient fruit on my main farm into sheds of pineapple to fuel my kegs.
Speaking of kegs, right now I have a bit more than 2000 but will have 3000 soon because I want to craft a 1000 of them at once for fun, I don't know If they are even able to be used and if this is a really dumb idea when I have the majority of the map covered with kegs already. I have all of the kegs off of the farm and only about 20 have been destroyed by abigail in two different places.
I plan to have 14+ sheds of pineapple but will probably have more if I am to have more kegs.
I also have 3 sheds filled with crystalariums and another half shed that is also filled with 60 statues of perfection which I did a glitch to get but as I don't support glitches just keep there for fun.
One shed is empty as It is getting upgraded to large and the last two have furnaces and cheese presses in one and the majority of my storage in the other.
I am working towards having about 18 fully upgraded coops filled with golden chickens which I am only done 2 but mostly because the majority of space on my farm is ancient fruit.
My ginger island is filled with 704 ancient fruit and only that much because I like how you can harvest row to row with using quality sprinklers but might transition to better ones as I have the resources and time.
My greenhouse on the other hand is a complete mess from doing the polyculture achievment.
I have 16 statues of endless fortune and plan to get quite a few more but not so many as I plan to have a billion g not hve made a billion g so I'll probably have made somewhere in the ballpark of 1,200,000,000 g to 1,300,000,000 once this is over and done with.
I made this post to share a bit but also to see if anyone else has ever had or made a billion g in a save file and if not what your highest cash in hand/total earnings of a save file.
I will hopefully keep you updated when any major milestones are hit if people want to see it but as of now this is a pretty back-of-mind thing while I am fully optimizing my farm for the money itself first.
Good day and good luck.

 

[One More Day]

If you want to actually have a billion, rather than just reach that in earnings, you're better off not buying statues of endless fortune, as they take almost 14 years just to pay for themselves and break even, never mind to actually turn a profit. Obviously keep going with the ones you have now, but don't buy any more. Good luck

 

[imnvs]

If you want to actually have a billion, rather than just reach that in earnings, you're better off not buying statues of endless fortune, as they take almost 14 years just to pay for themselves and break even, never mind to actually turn a profit. Obviously keep going with the ones you have now, but don't buy any more. Good luck

My plan in my current save is to fill a shed with the statues (I started same in my last save too), and I'm at 37 of the 130-ish that I'm shooting for. I've got 72M total earnings so far, and it'll take another 100M to fill that shed...

...and at that point I won't even be 18% of the way towards having total earnings of 1B, let alone have 1B current. By the time I get to 180M total earnings, I think my statues might actually be able to help me get all the way to 1B.

Hell, in my previous save, my beach farm, I have 90M total earnings and about 20 more statues. Maybe I should go back to that one when shooting for 1B? My beach farm has more ancient fruit out on the island but a few less in the greenhouse because I always have coffee in my greenhouse and my current has 20, but my beach farm has 25 (screwyouimnotanaddictshutupandleavemealone).

 

[Elenna101]

Never tried to make a billion myself, but CorditeTV, on Twitch, has been working on making a billion. He's going for the least real-life time possible, which means he's just planting 700ish ancient fruit on Ginger Island, sleeping a week, harvesting and processing them, rinse and repeat. The reason for only using Ginger Island and not the main farm is that he's going to have to harvest and keg X number of ancient fruit wine no matter what, it's not much slower to do it in batches of 700 versus batches of 3000+, and this way he doesn't have to spend any time replanting. Even with that, he estimates it'll take him around 70 hours, 65+ of which will just be harvesting and kegging. I don't suggest you do this as it seems super boring (especially as you won't have Twitch chat to talk to as you do it), but YMMV.

Some suggestions based on stuff I've seen TheHaboo and Cordite do in min-max runs (although of course you should do whatever you have fun with):

• If you're selling a lot of iridium bars, you almost certainly want the Blacksmith mining perk to increase their price from 1000 to 1500. You're probably already doing this, but it's important for my next comment.
• You're probably better off buying mega bombs from the dwarf rather than trading ore to the desert trader. 5 iridium ore means one bar that can be sold for 1500. Even if you buy the coal that's still a profit of 1250, and the dwarf only charges 1000 for a mega bomb. So you make a profit of 250 over trading the ore directly.
• You can definitely fit 3000 kegs off the farm. I've seen Haboo and Cordite fit 5000+ kegs and 500 oak trees in - some of those were on the farm itself, in winter, but definitely not 2000 of them. The quarry, railroad, tunnel, desert, and southern part of the forest are all good options. If you didn't know, the "Chest" page on the wiki has pictures of where NPCs go.
• Ancient fruit on the farm is slightly more money than pineapples if my math is right, but the extra space allowing you to have golden chickens probably makes the pineapples worth it.
• Like others said, probably don't buy the statues of perfection.

 

[WhiteEagle12]

How ambitious of you! It's not something I would try, as I get bored of games (or save files) after there isn't a whole ton of interesting things to accomplish. In any case, good luck on your endeavor to become a billionaire in Stardew Valley!

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Never tried to make a billion myself, but CorditeTV, on Twitch, has been working on making a billion. He's going for the least real-life time possible, which means he's just planting 700ish ancient fruit on Ginger Island, sleeping a week, harvesting and processing them, rinse and repeat. The reason for only using Ginger Island and not the main farm is that he's going to have to harvest and keg X number of ancient fruit wine no matter what, it's not much slower to do it in batches of 700 versus batches of 3000+, and this way he doesn't have to spend any time replanting. Even with that, he estimates it'll take him around 70 hours, 65+ of which will just be harvesting and kegging. I don't suggest you do this as it seems super boring (especially as you won't have Twitch chat to talk to as you do it), but YMMV.

Some suggestions based on stuff I've seen TheHaboo and Cordite do in min-max runs (although of course you should do whatever you have fun with):

• If you're selling a lot of iridium bars, you almost certainly want the Blacksmith mining perk to increase their price from 1000 to 1500. You're probably already doing this, but it's important for my next comment.
• You're probably better off buying mega bombs from the dwarf rather than trading ore to the desert trader. 5 iridium ore means one bar that can be sold for 1500. Even if you buy the coal that's still a profit of 1250, and the dwarf only charges 1000 for a mega bomb. So you make a profit of 250 over trading the ore directly.
• You can definitely fit 3000 kegs off the farm. I've seen Haboo and Cordite fit 5000+ kegs and 500 oak trees in - some of those were on the farm itself, in winter, but definitely not 2000 of them. The quarry, railroad, tunnel, desert, and southern part of the forest are all good options. If you didn't know, the "Chest" page on the wiki has pictures of where NPCs go.
• Ancient fruit on the farm is slightly more money than pineapples if my math is right, but the extra space allowing you to have golden chickens probably makes the pineapples worth it.
• Like others said, probably don't buy the statues of perfection.

The pineapples are not "on" the farm they are in large sheds in pots.
This makes each tile including the path in front of the shed worth ~820g a day for the whole year where ancient fruit even with the max 10 harvests you can have is only about 170-180g a day, massive decrease.
You can also have starfruit in the sheds but if you are keeping a regular schedule of a defined harvest day then kegging day then they are only a bit more profitable and not worth it time and efficiency wise.

If you want to actually have a billion, rather than just reach that in earnings, you're better off not buying statues of endless fortune, as they take almost 14 years just to pay for themselves and break even, never mind to actually turn a profit. Obviously keep going with the ones you have now, but don't buy any more. Good luck

I know they do not pay themselves off It is just handy to have some and I will evetually just sleep days off and only harvest and keg if I really decide to go through with this project and have done everything else fun.
This will also slowly become more and more of a back-burner project as I make new farms. I don't play mobile but do want to port a really good file I had there to my PC and I also have another multiplayer file but don't play it nearly as often and that one is really layed back stardew playing.

 

[Elenna101]

The pineapples are not "on" the farm they are in large sheds in pots.
This makes each tile including the path in front of the shed worth ~820g a day for the whole year where ancient fruit even with the max 10 harvests you can have is only about 170-180g a day, massive decrease.
You can also have starfruit in the sheds but if you are keeping a regular schedule of a defined harvest day then kegging day then they are only a bit more profitable and not worth it time and efficiency wise.

True, but I assumed you were going to have 3000 crops (or however many kegs you have) either way. In which case (ignoring the golden chickens for a second) it doesn't matter how much space they take up because you'd be limited by number of kegs.

But yeah, having the golden chickens in the leftover space means you're probably better off saving space and using sheds.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

True, but I assumed you were going to have 3000 crops (or however many kegs you have) either way. In which case (ignoring the golden chickens for a second) it doesn't matter how much space they take up because you'd be limited by number of kegs.

But yeah, having the golden chickens in the leftover space means you're probably better off saving space and using sheds.

It does matter because of space efficiency, I can have 3000 tiles of crops or have about 610 tiles worth of sheds (including paths in front) leaving way more space for other money making methods. Tile for tile, pineapples in sheds are almost three times more space efficient than ancient fruit, and that's BEFORE you factor in the inability to harvest in winter and most of spring.
Also kegs are not the limit, moreso time to place stuff in them though I can start to use the latter part of my harvest day to put stuff into kegs as most of the day is taken up anyway.
The desert is also a spot I currently only have oak trees in so that is the next space for kegs.

 

[Elenna101]

It does matter because of space efficiency, I can have 3000 tiles of crops or have about 610 tiles worth of sheds (including paths in front) leaving way more space for other money making methods. Tile for tile, pineapples in sheds are almost three times more space efficient than ancient fruit, and that's BEFORE you factor in the inability to harvest in winter and most of spring.
Also kegs are not the limit, moreso time to place stuff in them though I can start to use the latter part of my harvest day to put stuff into kegs as most of the day is taken up anyway.
The desert is also a spot I currently only have oak trees in so that is the next space for kegs.

Yep, that's what I was saying - if you weren't doing any other money making methods, you wouldn't need the space efficiency, in which case the ancient fruit would be slightly better. But because you do need the space efficiency, pineapples win.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Yep, that's what I was saying - if you weren't doing any other money making methods, you wouldn't need the space efficiency, in which case the ancient fruit would be slightly better. But because you do need the space efficiency, pineapples win.

It honestly still wouldn't as I there is a closer hard stop to increase in growth.
And if by better you mean much cheaper and easy to harvest (junimo slavery) than yeah, otherwise not really.
I understand your point though.
Have a good day.

 

[Giant Octopodes]

For minimum real life time spent, I don't think you'll beat Golden Chickens and a LOT of sleeping. Let's say you get 20 Deluxe Coops filled with Golden Chickens, and 40 silos, so you only have to fill the silos once a month (with the nearly 7000 hay needed for that month). Each Golden Chicken profits you on average 1030 (assuming you're using Coopmaster, which would only be logical for this). That's 6,921,600 per month off of one day played. That means you'd "only" have to play out 144 days, while sleeping through another roughly 4000. Assuming you're spending 5 minutes per day played (just running to the Silo and shoving Hay in for 3 of the 4 days played per year, and buying a casual 30,000 Hay on the 4th at Marnie's, rinse and repeat), and 30 seconds per day skipped over, you'd spend 12 hours of gameplay on this, and another 32 hours skipping over days, for 44 total hours spent.

This is all of course assuming you already have Perfection, which is where you have the advantage over the strategy Elenna detailed TheHaboo doing. After all you've already sunk in I'd presume well over 100 hours getting to that point. Doing it with Kegs or any other method is certainly possible of course, but from a "Real Life time spent" perspective, it'd be a substantially longer investment. If you have a good PC and can skip through days at 15 seconds each, suddenly it's only 28 hours. Still a lot of time, but I can't see it getting much lower.

Best of luck!

 

[FilthyGorilla]

For minimum real life time spent, I don't think you'll beat Golden Chickens and a LOT of sleeping. Let's say you get 20 Deluxe Coops filled with Golden Chickens, and 40 silos, so you only have to fill the silos once a month (with the nearly 7000 hay needed for that month). Each Golden Chicken profits you on average 1030 (assuming you're using Coopmaster, which would only be logical for this). That's 6,921,600 per month off of one day played. That means you'd "only" have to play out 144 days, while sleeping through another roughly 4000. Assuming you're spending 5 minutes per day played (just running to the Silo and shoving Hay in for 3 of the 4 days played per year, and buying a casual 30,000 Hay on the 4th at Marnie's, rinse and repeat), and 30 seconds per day skipped over, you'd spend 12 hours of gameplay on this, and another 32 hours skipping over days, for 44 total hours spent.

This is all of course assuming you already have Perfection, which is where you have the advantage over the strategy Elenna detailed TheHaboo doing. After all you've already sunk in I'd presume well over 100 hours getting to that point. Doing it with Kegs or any other method is certainly possible of course, but from a "Real Life time spent" perspective, it'd be a substantially longer investment. If you have a good PC and can skip through days at 15 seconds each, suddenly it's only 28 hours. Still a lot of time, but I can't see it getting much lower.

Best of luck!

You could have closer to 50 coops.
I am planning for about 37 which will net me a bit over 50,000,000g a year but will have far fewer silos and will fill once every 3-4 days (6-8 silos) because as I stated before, this will be a back burner thing and If I relly want to finish it I will try to get 70-80 coops which will fill the entire farm for most regards, fill the rest of the available space with silos and make near 150 million a year.
But yeah, It is a slow prospect.
With making all of the coops and things and filling while also leveling up friendship with the chickens I expect this to take along the lines of 12-15 in game years many of which will be skipped though.
Probably looking at 150+ more hours which is actually what I so far have on this save which I have had since mid november perhaps. Might even finish by north hemisphere summer if I don't get clinical boredom.
I'm a relatively grindy person though, at least in stardew, so this will be fun for me I hope.
Cordite is doing a run similar but in which he only uses kegs and ancient fruit on ginger island farm and sleeps the rest of the days away.
This will be substancially faster as I will be making about 100-110 million at least a year and not spending much of it at all.
I want to get a sale in which I profit more than 400/500 million and see how stupid the selling screen will look.
This is going to be one hell of a ride, but eh, Beauty in brutal effiency.
Good day.


(Note. I play on a laptop from 2017 but it was and still is quite good and each time I go to bed only takes about 8-9 seconds including walking into the bed if there is nothing to sell.)

 

[Giant Octopodes]

You could have closer to 50 coops.
I am planning for about 37 which will net me a bit over 50,000,000g a year but will have far fewer silos and will fill once every 3-4 days (6-8 silos) because as I stated before, this will be a back burner thing and If I relly want to finish it I will try to get 70-80 coops which will fill the entire farm for most regards, fill the rest of the available space with silos and make near 150 million a year.
But yeah, It is a slow prospect.
With making all of the coops and things and filling while also leveling up friendship with the chickens I expect this to take along the lines of 12-15 in game years many of which will be skipped though.
Probably looking at 150+ more hours which is actually what I so far have on this save which I have had since mid november perhaps. Might even finish by north hemisphere summer if I don't get clinical boredom.
I'm a relatively grindy person though, at least in stardew, so this will be fun for me I hope.
Cordite is doing a run similar but in which he only uses kegs and ancient fruit on ginger island farm and sleeps the rest of the days away.
This will be substancially faster as I will be making about 100-110 million at least a year and not spending much of it at all.
I want to get a sale in which I profit more than 400/500 million and see how stupid the selling screen will look.
This is going to be one hell of a ride, but eh, Beauty in brutal effiency.
Good day.


(Note. I play on a laptop from 2017 but it was and still is quite good and each time I go to bed only takes about 8-9 seconds including walking into the bed if there is nothing to sell.)

Very true, though keep in mind more coops doesn't offer as much of a reduction in time as you might think. It'll help substantially in terms of In-Game time of course, but from a Real-Life time spent perspective, the biggest time sink associated with this method is heading to Marnie's every time you need 30k Hay (or for a marginal time save, having multiple chests you fill up with hay, but either way, it's the walking back and forth to Marnie's). As such since more chickens increase the rate of hay consumption as well as the income, you may end up spending More time with 37 coops than it would take with 20, due to more days where you have to fill the silos. Obviously minimum real life time spent isn't the primary concern here from what you're indicating, I'm just pointing it out.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Very true, though keep in mind more coops doesn't offer as much of a reduction in time as you might think. It'll help substantially in terms of In-Game time of course, but from a Real-Life time spent perspective, the biggest time sink associated with this method is heading to Marnie's every time you need 30k Hay (or for a marginal time save, having multiple chests you fill up with hay, but either way, it's the walking back and forth to Marnie's). As such since more chickens increase the rate of hay consumption as well as the income, you may end up spending More time with 37 coops than it would take with 20, due to more days where you have to fill the silos. Obviously minimum real life time spent isn't the primary concern here from what you're indicating, I'm just pointing it out.

I'll be playing most of the days otherwise too though so maybe I do decide to start sleeping a lot I will massively scale up silo amount which will decrease the overall irl time sink and make it a bit faster.
And yeah, I have pretty much all the time I may need as even though there is a limit on how much I can play an irl day, there really isnt a limit of how many irl days I can play with my schedule and life right now unless I need to finish up more classes and coursework in the closing of the school year.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

I guess I did this, funny looking at these old threads lol

 

[MissDandy]

Now you just have to become a billionaire in real life.

 

[ArtifactSpot]

This thread makes me nauseous and my head ache just looking at it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally proud and quite envious (lol) of your dedication and accomplishments, but I could never ever go there. Perfection made me crazy enough and not going there again either unless by accident cause I play my files many years sometimes. But purposely trying for it ruined the fun and relaxing effects of the game for me. To each their own I guess. Best of luck to you and hope you reach your billionaire dreams.

 

[ArtifactSpot]

Now you just have to become a billionaire in real life.

lol! So true. Let me know if anyone figures out how. Living paycheck to paycheck I’d settle for a millionaire in a heartbeat!

 

[MissDandy]

lol! So true. Let me know if anyone figures out how. Living paycheck to paycheck I’d settle for a millionaire in a heartbeat!

you and me both bro!!

 

[DragonGwen]

If you do this again, have, like, 25% profit margin! It would be very, very, very, very, very, very, hard