Edit: I made a
big calculation mistake (lol as usual!), significantly updated below:
For me it's all about low effort for g. If you have the space for Grass or better, Blue Grass (Standard Farm, not Riverlands LOL!), many barns full of Sheep is very low-effort as they feed themselves and you'll only need to scythe on occasion to fill your Silos. You can sell the Wool directly for reasonable g but processing it with Looms will get you more g.
Edit: Sheep produce Wool every third day
Put an Autograbber in each Barn with a line of
6 Looms and collect and process to Cloth in one visit per barn every 2-3 days. So skipping a day to visit your winged friends in Skull Cavern for a dash of Tea and light Farmer-knee nibbling, or fireball tennis with the Lava Lurks in the Volcano incurs no penalty.
But setup is expensive as that's 164,000g per barn:
43,000g Deluxe Barn
96,000g 12 Sheep
25,000g Autograbber
Plus
6 Looms per barn:
300 Wood
180 Fiber (slow to farm)
6 Pine Tar
The Pine Tar is renewable but
6 Tappers to get reliable production is:
240 Wood
12 Copper Bars
At only 658g per Cloth (with Artisan) you might think it'll take forever to recover that g and it takes a while but each Barn full of Sheep pays itself off in
9 weeks. Remember that's with adding no additional g from any other pursuits and this one takes very little of your time.
Edit: After that build a second Deluxe Barn full of Sheep in another 2+ seasons of Cloth production and then the 3rd and 4th in another 2+ seasons from the 2 Barns you have. With 4 Sheep Barns, you'll be making
10,500 g/day on Sheep alone by processing Wool to Cloth every 2-3 days and scything to thin out your Grass for Hay (Rainy days and Winter) maybe once a week. That's a lot of g for very little time spent, leaving your days free for other pursuits.
For completeness sake, you will also need 6 Silos for 4 Barns to feed throughout the Winter, which is:
600g
600 Stone
60 Clay
30 Copper Bars
You could do this with fewer Silos and just buy extra Hay from Marnie but that seems like false efficiency and remember you're building these as you go, not all at once.
