Looking for professions advice :)

[Holtazar]

Hello there! Today I decided to go and try out the new Meadowlands farm layout and ~oh boy, am I in love. I really like the aesthetics and design of it and I'm seeing as there is not much of farming space, I'm not sure for which farming professions should I go.

Tiller is an obvious choice as always, but for a layout designed mostly for animals, I'm wondering if I should go for the Rancher professions. Therefore, I would lose 'Artisan', which would also be a bonus to my animal oriented farm.
I'm on a crossroad between the Tiller (only because of Artisan goods, after I get more animals) and Rancher.

I mostly want to make a balanced farm between animals and crops, but then again, which professions shall I go for? :/
(Keep in mind, I've never played the game in much depth and never completed year 1, because of many farm resets, but because of that and youtube, I think I got a basic knowledge of some stuff. Feel free to correct me!!!)

 

[FilthyGorilla]

If you're trying out meadowland for the first time and haven't done a ranching focus run before I'd totally say go for it, it's pretty fun and meadowland is the ranching farm...

You also don't have to lose out on artisan entirely, you could go for 60 artifacts asap and then be able to switch for 10k (not honestly that much), or use pigs with the botanist profession and largely ignore artisan because they sell for so much as is

I would personally go rancher into shepherd and try getting some sheep which get very good if you tend them well and give them an animal cracker later on

 

[HaleyRocks]

Tiller fortifies normal crops selling price, which is badly needed. It also leads to Artisan, where the big bucks had always been. Animal products sell well on their own accord anyway, plus their final form is what matters (artisanal procession).

I run the Meadowlands farm with Artisan and i do not even grow crops on the field, other than Greenhouse and Ginger Island farm. It is an animals, fish, wild trees and heavy machinery farm.

 

[Yvi]

I generally prefer tiller because I do a lot of farming, but meadowlands early animals makes rancher more viable. I kinda wish I had done rancher early in my meadowlands save and switched to tiller later. The nice things about professions is it's not hard to switch if you decide you'd rather do something else. I'd say, give rancher a try, and if you decide you don't like it you can switch later.

 

[ArthurManenti]

I'm an artisan addict
I simply cannot seem to choose another option

But them again, you can change later on without much hassle

 

[ThePerfectGarden]

I also have the Meadowlands Farm for the first time, and just like you, I thought I should choose Rancher as my profession because I will be raising more animals than crops.

But then I realised that wasn't the best idea and changed my profession back to Tiller/Artisan. The fact is that artisan goods bring in the most money, and that includes animal products (various mayos, esp. dino mayo, iridium quality cheese, cloth, truffle oil etc.). If you want Rancher to be profitable, you have to sell the raw animal products, i.e. eggs, milk, wool and truffles, but they don't bring in nearly as much money as the processed ones. Or sell animals on a regular basis.

 

[MogBeoulve]

I've always felt that the artisan profession is so powerful that it makes no monetary sense to choose anything else - so I resent it, as I see it as evidence of poor game balance. Pretty much any time there is discussion about professions, it's a given that one "should" pick artisan. I don't like that. I stubbornly stick with rancher and coopmaster. I have no desire to min-max anything except a horde of fluffy bunnies.

Ultimately, I encourage you to pick whichever you think you'll have the most FUN playing with. If you are enjoying raising chickens, build more coops! Fill one with each color of chicken! Create a mayo empire. It's not all about how much money you can make in the shortest amount of time.