How to make 25,000 Gold fast?

[NotSoSnarky]

I'm in Summer, year 1. I have the 2,500 Vault Bundle, the 5,000 Vault Bundle and the 10,000 Vault Bundle unlocked. I need the 25,000 Gold vault bundle unlocked. I've been deep diving in the mines and selling any gems that I find, I've been fishing, selling artisan goods, but I just don't have enough.

I have eleven Preserve Jars so far. I know that I should make more, but am unsure how many to make.

I do have 1 Keg from completing the Artisan Bundle. I don't have farming level 8 unlocked yet for the keg recipe.

I bought the Coop and Barn (No animals yet, plan on buying them soon). I also bought the Dehydrator Recipe and Fish Smoker Recipe. It's almost Fall in the game

 

[Urann]

Don't feel guilty for spending money, buy as much seeds as you can and you will get back even more money. And preserve jars are gonna be important later in game if you want to get as much money as you can from farming by turning things into artistian goods, You can later place them all into shed when you build it if you will need more space (:

 

[Urann]

And don't end the day in game before you have to, after watering crops and some side quests try to get as much money from fishing, mining, foraging and community quests

 

[maroon]

Focus on making 20-30 Preserve Jars if you can great early-game money. Plant lots of cranberries in Fall and process them. Keep using the Dehydrator and Fish Smoker too for extra profit. You’re getting close to that 25k!

 

[One More Day]

At this early stage, rather than pouring all your coal into preserve jars, it's much better used to smelt metal bars, so you can craft sprinklers and then water lots of crops without you having to use your time or energy. That's something you're clearly not doing enough of if you don't have Farming 8 yet. The preserve jars are basically a trap for now, wait until next year, or at least until the end of Fall when you can put something worthwhile in them, ie pumpkins

The immediate sale of raw crops is the only income stream that scales up quickly at your stage in the game. Making a few more preserve jars won't make any meaningful difference to your income at the moment, but wasting valuable coal on them will cripple your potential short term earnings

As it's nearly fall, stop spending on pretty much everything and save your cash for the new season, then buy lots of pumpkins, as many as your sprinklers can water. Always pick your early game cash crops carefully. While cranberries might seem to be more attractive at first glance, pumpkins will actually make you way more money than cranberries. Every 1,200g you invest will buy you 12 pumpkins or 5 cranberries. Earning approximately 17g per plot per day, the 12 plots of pumpkins will generate 440g profit each for a total profit of 5,280g. Earning approximately 19g per plot per day, the 5 plots of cranberries will generate 510g profit each for a total profit of 2,550g. So the same initial cash investment, which should be your limiting factor here, earns more than twice as much from pumpkins than from cranberries.

Until Fall, focus on getting ore and coal, and get smelting for as many sprinklers as possible.

Alternatively, just go fishing all day every day, and sell the fish. If you focus exclusively on fishing from first thing in the morning up until 1am, you can easily catch 25k worth of fish in about 4 days. Again though, don't waste coal - even if you've managed to craft smokers, smoking the fish you catch isn't really worth the coal it costs to do so each time.

 

[Lew Zealand]

I plan for half my early g to come from

Tea Saplings, so for you that would be ~50 Tea Saplings:

• 2

Daffodils and talk to Caroline to 2 and then visit her Tea Room for the recipe.
• Cut down lotsa Trees but not their Stumps (wastes E) for 250

Wood
• Scythe lotsa Weeds for 250

Fiber. Tip: leave 1-2 Weeds in each location and trim once a week or so as Weeds spread faster than they generate. Also visit Level 21 and/or 81 in the Mines. Scythe all, elevator back to Level 0, and return after a game tick for more Weeds!
• Finish Spring Foraging Bundle and plant all 30

Spring Wild Seeds. That plus regular Foraging should get you the 100 Spring Seeds (10 of each to make the 100 Wild Seeds). Replant them if you need more. In Summer do the same with

Summer Wild Seeds.