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What is the best way to prioritize time in Stardew Valley if my primary goal is to become a renowned artisan and sell high-value crafts?
How to prioritize time?
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Lew Zealand
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What I do is find what Artisan goods I like to sell which take a minimum of time to squeeze that g out of.
Which is Crops!
I like high value Crops that take a long time to grow which I can then Jar and Keg into Artisanal Goods and sell. I prefer this over processing Animal goods as the effort is all done once or twice a week instead of every day. In early game however I do buy Animals mostly for tradition, a Barn full of Sheep with a Cow and a Pig, and a Coop full of Dinosaurs with a Duck and a Chicken.
But I need value for time in early to mid game so I prefer to expand to 120-200 tiles of Crops watered by Deluxe Sprinklers and fertilized with Deluxe Speed-Gro to get 3 crops per season. The crops are:
Spring-
Cauliflower, then
Rhubarb
Summer-
Melon, then
Starfruit
Fall-
Pumpkin
Each take 9 days to grow and you Harvest and replant on the 10th, 19th, 28th. All other days are yours for fun!
I process all Starfruit in Kegs to Wine and 240 of that is Casked in the Cellar. 120 of them go in the Cellar at once and they finish a half year later and the other 120 go in then. Just be patient, don't put them in at different times and instead do it aaallll at once, this is key to time-saving!
The higher-value leftovers go into Kegs when the Starfruit is done and the lower-value ones go into Preserves Jars. I keep these machines in one Big Shed, split half 'n half to 68 internal spaces, plus one indicator Keg and Jar sitting outside so I can see when everything is done. Again, everything is placed in the Kegs at the same time and everything in the Jars at the same time so it all finishes at the same time as that indicator Jar/Keg.
Outside and inside the Big Shed:
I'll start with only 5 or 6 of each machine and slowly fill the small Shed, and when that fills I upgrade to the Big Shed! Processing in Kegs takes 1 week, so only 1 work day a week for those. Processing in Jars takes 1/2 week so only 2 work days a week for those.
So my total work time for these things each season (3x/year planting, 4x/year Keg and Jar):
4* mornings planting and harvesting
4 short mornings (2-3 hours) emptying and re-Kegging
8 short mornings (2-3 hours) emptying and re-Jarring
And I get a LOT of g each season for this (relatively) minimal effort. 1 cool thing about this schedule is it doesn't seem to conflict with any Festivals. Like I never seem to need to skip something to work on this. The Jars happen twice a week but it's only a couple of in-game hours so most Festivals haven't even started yet!
This gets supplemented with a Greenhouse mostly full of Ancient Fruit and Ginger filled with random stuff. I generally ignore it and put my extra Fruit Trees and Mixed Seeds there.
____________________
*Psst... Hey. Wanna hear a secret?
Bombs.
No, I'm not Kent but here's the secret: On the 28th when you Harvest your final crop of the season, you're left with wonderful perfectly tilled, fertilized farmland which will revert to useless untilled the next day with the new season, wasting all that expensive Deluxe Speed-Gro, and more importantly your tremendous effort of Tilling and Watering everything.
Well, unless...
You plant a Crop that lives into the next season. I prefer to plant
Fiber Seeds as they work for every season. Fill your farmland with these and the next day, all your Farmland is still in perfect shape. But you need to remove the growing Fiber (eww, yuk
) to plant your sweet, sweet Pumpkins! What to doooooo......
BOOM!
Grab your Sprinklers, Bomb that Fiber into little bitty pieces, notice
that all your farmland is still perfectly tilled, watered, and fertilized. Replace your Sprinklers and plant those Pumpkins! Super quick and easy, saves so much time and g. But you need to get the Fiber Seed recipe from Linus and hoard Mixed Seeds and Clay to you can craft enough.
And practice your Bombing, you may want to place anything important far away and play test a morning's Bombing to see how to best cover your Farm. I usually bomb out to the edge of the Bomb's area but that leaves the far corners of the farm with some Fiber still growing. So I remove those manually but if you wanted to use Cherry Bombs for more precision in those corners, that means even more BOOOOMS! So do it and have fun!
Which is Crops!
I like high value Crops that take a long time to grow which I can then Jar and Keg into Artisanal Goods and sell. I prefer this over processing Animal goods as the effort is all done once or twice a week instead of every day. In early game however I do buy Animals mostly for tradition, a Barn full of Sheep with a Cow and a Pig, and a Coop full of Dinosaurs with a Duck and a Chicken.
But I need value for time in early to mid game so I prefer to expand to 120-200 tiles of Crops watered by Deluxe Sprinklers and fertilized with Deluxe Speed-Gro to get 3 crops per season. The crops are:
Spring-
Summer-
Fall-
Each take 9 days to grow and you Harvest and replant on the 10th, 19th, 28th. All other days are yours for fun!
I process all Starfruit in Kegs to Wine and 240 of that is Casked in the Cellar. 120 of them go in the Cellar at once and they finish a half year later and the other 120 go in then. Just be patient, don't put them in at different times and instead do it aaallll at once, this is key to time-saving!
The higher-value leftovers go into Kegs when the Starfruit is done and the lower-value ones go into Preserves Jars. I keep these machines in one Big Shed, split half 'n half to 68 internal spaces, plus one indicator Keg and Jar sitting outside so I can see when everything is done. Again, everything is placed in the Kegs at the same time and everything in the Jars at the same time so it all finishes at the same time as that indicator Jar/Keg.
Outside and inside the Big Shed:
I'll start with only 5 or 6 of each machine and slowly fill the small Shed, and when that fills I upgrade to the Big Shed! Processing in Kegs takes 1 week, so only 1 work day a week for those. Processing in Jars takes 1/2 week so only 2 work days a week for those.
So my total work time for these things each season (3x/year planting, 4x/year Keg and Jar):
4* mornings planting and harvesting
4 short mornings (2-3 hours) emptying and re-Kegging
8 short mornings (2-3 hours) emptying and re-Jarring
And I get a LOT of g each season for this (relatively) minimal effort. 1 cool thing about this schedule is it doesn't seem to conflict with any Festivals. Like I never seem to need to skip something to work on this. The Jars happen twice a week but it's only a couple of in-game hours so most Festivals haven't even started yet!
This gets supplemented with a Greenhouse mostly full of Ancient Fruit and Ginger filled with random stuff. I generally ignore it and put my extra Fruit Trees and Mixed Seeds there.
____________________
*Psst... Hey. Wanna hear a secret?
No, I'm not Kent but here's the secret: On the 28th when you Harvest your final crop of the season, you're left with wonderful perfectly tilled, fertilized farmland which will revert to useless untilled the next day with the new season, wasting all that expensive Deluxe Speed-Gro, and more importantly your tremendous effort of Tilling and Watering everything.
Well, unless...
You plant a Crop that lives into the next season. I prefer to plant
BOOM!
Grab your Sprinklers, Bomb that Fiber into little bitty pieces, notice
that all your farmland is still perfectly tilled, watered, and fertilized. Replace your Sprinklers and plant those Pumpkins! Super quick and easy, saves so much time and g. But you need to get the Fiber Seed recipe from Linus and hoard Mixed Seeds and Clay to you can craft enough.And practice your Bombing, you may want to place anything important far away and play test a morning's Bombing to see how to best cover your Farm. I usually bomb out to the edge of the Bomb's area but that leaves the far corners of the farm with some Fiber still growing. So I remove those manually but if you wanted to use Cherry Bombs for more precision in those corners, that means even more BOOOOMS! So do it and have fun!
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Lew Zealand
Helper
Some other Artisan ideas:
Place Mayo Makers in the Coop and pop the Eggs straight in there as you gather them from the AutoGrabber. Get the AutoGrabber from Marnie.
Place Cheese Makers and Looms in the Barn for the same reason. And an AutoGrabber in there, too.
Process all Animal goods where you gather them and when you're at the point where you have the Mini-Shipping Bin, place one in the Coop and/or Barn, too.
Truffles and Truffle Oil are high-priced products but require a lot of time and effort to gather. Ignore them. With recent v1.6 Buffs, Cloth from Sheep (especially with an Animal Cracker) offer very good g for minimal effort.
I defer to other people about the Fish Smoker and Dehydrator as I don't use them. Not because they aren't good but because the more different products I make, the more time I spend and that kills time efficiency for me and I can't concentrate on too many things at once. Like 2 things is already straining my meager mental resources. 5 things is right out!
Place Mayo Makers in the Coop and pop the Eggs straight in there as you gather them from the AutoGrabber. Get the AutoGrabber from Marnie.
Place Cheese Makers and Looms in the Barn for the same reason. And an AutoGrabber in there, too.
Process all Animal goods where you gather them and when you're at the point where you have the Mini-Shipping Bin, place one in the Coop and/or Barn, too.
Truffles and Truffle Oil are high-priced products but require a lot of time and effort to gather. Ignore them. With recent v1.6 Buffs, Cloth from Sheep (especially with an Animal Cracker) offer very good g for minimal effort.
I defer to other people about the Fish Smoker and Dehydrator as I don't use them. Not because they aren't good but because the more different products I make, the more time I spend and that kills time efficiency for me and I can't concentrate on too many things at once. Like 2 things is already straining my meager mental resources. 5 things is right out!
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