Dehydrator

[JupiterTears]

is it worth it money wise to use the Dehydrator?

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Absolutely, while it may seem a tad weak on the surface as its base good only raises the value of a base good to roughly that of gold, its strength really emerges when paired with artisan, more than doubling base value of crops and making it worth it to use on any quality of crop (including iridium but not by much, not that you're intentionally getting iridium crops with the intent to process them).

It's primary use case is with crops you get in bulk like blueberries and cranberries due to the volume you obtain them in overwhelming other machines, but because it processes so quickly (each dehydrator can process ~35x what a keg can), and is super cheap to set up large-scale processing, you'll basically be dumping absolutely everything into it until you start building out kegs/jars for higher per crop profit.

What people also don't really realize though is the extent of its viability. Often framed as something only for the early game, it's honestly strong enough to just be your sole processing throughout the entire game, as even perfection doesn't really require that much money compared to how much you make with kegs/jars, and dehydrators are much cheaper/easier than either of those options. (If you think about it, even with just the island and greenhouse of crops, so long as you don't complete perfection in a single year, just dehydrating is enough to make the money for perfection and a good chunk more).

 

[JupiterTears]

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Absolutely, while it may seem a tad weak on the surface as its base good only raises the value of a base good to roughly that of gold, its strength really emerges when paired with artisan, more than doubling base value of crops and making it worth it to use on any quality of crop (including iridium but not by much, not that you're intentionally getting iridium crops with the intent to process them).

It's primary use case is with crops you get in bulk like blueberries and cranberries due to the volume you obtain them in overwhelming other machines, but because it processes so quickly (each dehydrator can process ~35x what a keg can), and is super cheap to set up large-scale processing, you'll basically be dumping absolutely everything into it until you start building out kegs/jars for higher per crop profit.

What people also don't really realize though is the extent of its viability. Often framed as something only for the early game, it's honestly strong enough to just be your sole processing throughout the entire game, as even perfection doesn't really require that much money compared to how much you make with kegs/jars, and dehydrators are much cheaper/easier than either of those options. (If you think about it, even with just the island and greenhouse of crops, so long as you don't complete perfection in a single year, just dehydrating is enough to make the money for perfection and a good chunk more).

I was curious because i was writing a cheat sheet for myself (because I enjoy writing useful information for myself) and I was curious but now that you mention this does seem worth more money then casking the wine so i can focus my cask on starfruit wine for maximum money earning.

 

[Eminy]

I have 20 dehydrators in my cave placed next to walls a quick 10 seconds visit every morning is enough. I do only cranberries one seasons worth of berries should last you untill the next same season I had around 1000 cranberry bushes (I have way too many, more than 15 stacks), I use 100 a day but it is a steady stream of money gets me go by 4100 a day (I am playing on 25% profits) which is not great but adds up quickly I could make 100s of more dehydrators but I don't want to waste a shed or space for them and I would run out of everything in no time. Don't discard dehydrators on regard of other machines and vice versa use them all but in a finely tuned amount if you make/invest on one too much you will lose profits

I found best works with melons if you can farm good amount of them and cranberries. 2 melon harvests during summer will last enough till fall then cranberries can take over, don't bother with blueberries imo you only get 4 harvests comparing to cranberries which is 5 also worth alot more.

 

[JupiterTears]

I have 20 dehydrators in my cave place next to walls a quick 10 seconds visit every morning is enough. I do only cranberries one seasons worth of berries should last you untill the next same season I had around 1000 cranberry bushes (I have way too many, more than 15 stacks), I use 100 a day but it is a steady stream of money gets me go by 4100 a day (I am playing on 25% profits) which is not great but adds up quickly I could make 100s of more dehydrators but I don't want to waste a shed or space for them and I would run out of everything in no time. Don't discard dehydrators on regard of other machines and vice versa use them all but in a finely toned amount if you make/invest on one too much you will lose profits

I found best works with melons if you can farm good amount of them and cranberries. 2 melon harvests during summer will last enough till fall then cranberries can take over, don't bother with blueberries imo you only get 4 harvests comparing to cranberries which is 5 also worth alot more.

I'll plant some melons in my green house it has hour Iridium Sprinklers the middles of them have: Hops,Strawberries,Blueberries and Tomatoes. But once the outside's mixed flowers are done i'll plant more melons. Thanks Oh and the two other rows are Tea Saplings so i can get those lol.

 

[Eminy]

I'll plant some melons in my green house it has hour Iridium Sprinklers the middles of them have: Hops,Strawberries,Blueberries and Tomatoes. But once the outside's mixed flowers are done i'll plant more melons. Thanks Oh and the two other rows are Tea Saplings so i can get those lol.

I wouldn’t waste greenhouse space with melons only to use them for dehydrators if I were you they wouldn’t cover the cost of even occupuying a space in greenhouse mind that 1 dehydrator takes 5 pieces of fruits so you would need 100 piece of melons each day for 20 dehyrators my set up is done for mass amounts

dehyrators are only viable if you have good amount of crops otherwise with limited minimal amount of crops you will have more success with kegs and jars

I had 1k melons for each harvests so 2k melons in a single summer which is more thanany amount of kegs and jars can handle but for dehydrators it’s good amount

 

[FilthyGorilla]

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I was curious because i was writing a cheat sheet for myself (because I enjoy writing useful information for myself) and I was curious but now that you mention this does seem worth more money then casking the wine so i can focus my cask on starfruit wine for maximum money earning.

Yeah absolutely, something I didn't direction mention previously but which you basically brought up is that dehydrators are an excellent transition or supplementary machine, allowing one to build up their main processing while still making a load of easy money from the dehydrators, or using the dehydrators as a secondary machine, processing excess that the kegs/jars are unable to handle.

This allows you to still make the most of some higher value crops such as starfruit in casks (which requires kegging), but can make you money as you build up those kegs, or allow you to just keep a few kegs and minimize how much work you have to do each week

 

[Antsy]

I mostly use it for mushrooms like morels and chanterelles, and for fruit crops I have lying around that aren't good enough to take up valuable keg or preserve jars space. In the first year, cranberries; then bananas, peaches, pomegranates, sometimes crystal fruit, and rhubarb. I don't usually put blueberries in it because I sell them direct for the monoculture achievement, and I don't really use it much before I hit Artisan anyway.

 

[MogBeoulve]

Apparently, I need to step up my mushroom log game in order to make full use of my dehydrators. (Fruit has been going toward the prismatic grange quest, since I keep getting it instead of the quest I want.)

 

[imnvs]

It really depends on your vision on how you process things. In the long run you're losing money by using the dehydrator, but the other options are more costly in materials and take longer to process. I personally would rather keg/jar my produce, but the dehydrator is absolutely a quicker means to profit.

 

[Lew Zealand]

It's all about time and motivation for me.

The Dehydrator is fine and delivers reasonable return for your inputs (plus it accepts Mushrooms!) but for raw g generation it's a big NO for me as you need to load it every day to generate that g. I simply don't want to feel tied to a machine I need to unload and reload every day as I have a dozen other wayyy more fun things to do than that drugdery. Mostly plundery pirate-themed things. You know, the stuff that makes life worth living!

As an example I hide my Mayo and Cheez Machines in the Barn and Coop so I only check them whenever I feel like, maybe once a week if I remember I own livestock. I don't need those bouncing icons guilting me each and every day while I'm heading to the Sewing Shop to make more skirts. I can do that on my own, thank you very much!

• Preserves Jars are at my effort limit at about twice a week
• Kegs are perfect at once a week
• Reharvesting Ancient Fruit and Pineapples once a week with the Iridium scythe is perfect
• Planting and Harvesting

every week and a half (with Deluxe Speed-Gro) is also at my effort limit (if I keep the tilled tiles below 100)
• Iridium Scything a huge field of Blueberries every 3 days only works because of the sound. I need motivation and pop-pop-poppoppopopop does it!