Need farming tips for mobile

[Coki]

Can someone tell me which seed i should choose for each season? I've been doing good so far but i want to know if there's anyway i could get more money other than planting potatoes and stuff. Please help me.

 

[Lew Zealand]

First off, everyone has their favorite way of doing this. Here's mine:

Generally planting and especially watering use up a lot of Energy in early game before you get Sprinklers (I prefer to start with Quality Sprinklers), so if you're looking to make g with your crops, the more expensive ones make the most per watered tile. In early game it's:

Spring: Cauliflower
Summer: Melon (or Starfruit if you've unlocked that option), and Blueberries are also great and pull ahead if you have the capacity/option to Preserve or Keg them
Fall: Pumpkin, and Cranberries are similar to Blueberries if you Preserve/Keg them.

Some people like to plant and don't mind replanting so stick with the single-harvest crops (Cauli, Melon, Starfruit, Pumpkin) but others love to plant once using re-harvestable crops (Blueberries, Cranberries), and mega-process all of those in Kegs/Preserve Jars. I usually don't have enough K/PJs to make all those Blueberries and Cranberries worth it so I stick to the others.

In Year 2, you can replace:

Spring: Cauliflower with Strawberry, but remember to stockpile these seeds from the previous Year, but that incurs it's own cost penalty. I usually put a few Strawberries in the Greenhouse and call it good, leaving the Caulis outside.
Summer: Melon with Red Cabbage, unless you get that Red Cabbage seed earlier in-game. But Starfruit still wins.

All 3 seasons: Everything with Ancient Fruit? I don't do this, instead just filling all but one row in the Greenhouse with Ancient Fruit. That other row gets one or two of each of the infinite harvest crops (Strawberry, Cranberry, Blueberry, Eggplant, Corn, Hops, Coffee, Red Pepper).

 

[imnvs]

Wow... okay, that seems like a simple question, but it is really a lot more complex than it seems, imho. In a lot of ways, early game you are rewarded for diversifying rather than doing only one thing. Eventually you will likely want to craft and cook all the things, which means having all the ingredients which means growing all the crops.

When it comes to making money, though? Starfruit, ancient fruit, pineapple, melon... in that order even, but the only problem is that they're all growing during summer.

Late game, when I'm only planting for money, though, 1/2 my grow space is dedicated to plants that I don't have to replant. Things like strawberries, blueberries, corn, hot peppers, tomatoes, cranberries, eggplant... and mostly for processing in jars. The other 1/2 of my grow space each season is devoted to a couple rounds of the most expensive crop for that season (cauli, melon, pumpkin) and then when I don't have time for another round I plant quicker-growing plants.

 

[Coki]

First off, everyone has their favorite way of doing this. Here's mine:

Generally planting and especially watering use up a lot of Energy in early game before you get Sprinklers (I prefer to start with Quality Sprinklers), so if you're looking to make g with your crops, the more expensive ones make the most per watered tile. In early game it's:

Spring: Cauliflower
Summer: Melon (or Starfruit if you've unlocked that option), and Blueberries are also great and pull ahead if you have the capacity/option to Preserve or Keg them
Fall: Pumpkin, and Cranberries are similar to Blueberries if you Preserve/Keg them.

Some people like to plant and don't mind replanting so stick with the single-harvest crops (Cauli, Melon, Starfruit, Pumpkin) but others love to plant once using re-harvestable crops (Blueberries, Cranberries), and mega-process all of those in Kegs/Preserve Jars. I usually don't have enough K/PJs to make all those Blueberries and Cranberries worth it so I stick to the others.

In Year 2, you can replace:

Spring: Cauliflower with Strawberry, but remember to stockpile these seeds from the previous Year, but that incurs it's own cost penalty. I usually put a few Strawberries in the Greenhouse and call it good, leaving the Caulis outside.
Summer: Melon with Red Cabbage, unless you get that Red Cabbage seed earlier in-game. But Starfruit still wins.

All 3 seasons: Everything with Ancient Fruit? I don't do this, instead just filling all but one row in the Greenhouse with Ancient Fruit. That other row gets one or two of each of the infinite harvest crops (Strawberry, Cranberry, Blueberry, Eggplant, Corn, Hops, Coffee, Red Pepper).

Ahhh... i'll try doing this in my gameplay. Welp, wish me luck lol.

 

[Coki]

Wow... okay, that seems like a simple question, but it is really a lot more complex than it seems, imho. In a lot of ways, early game you are rewarded for diversifying rather than doing only one thing. Eventually you will likely want to craft and cook all the things, which means having all the ingredients which means growing all the crops.

When it comes to making money, though? Starfruit, ancient fruit, pineapple, melon... in that order even, but the only problem is that they're all growing during summer.

Late game, when I'm only planting for money, though, 1/2 my grow space is dedicated to plants that I don't have to replant. Things like strawberries, blueberries, corn, hot peppers, tomatoes, cranberries, eggplant... and mostly for processing in jars. The other 1/2 of my grow space each season is devoted to a couple rounds of the most expensive crop for that season (cauli, melon, pumpkin) and then when I don't have time for another round I plant quicker-growing plants.

Well i had been watching this one youtuber saying that tea sapplings is the easiest way to get rich fast but for me it has been a hassle to scavange all the stuff that i need for the wild seeds🥲🥲 well i'll try any tips you guys would give me. Btw thank you for helping

 

[Lew Zealand]

Well i had been watching this one youtuber saying that tea sapplings is the easiest way to get rich fast but for me it has been a hassle to scavange all the stuff that i need for the wild seeds🥲🥲 well i'll try any tips you guys would give me. Btw thank you for helping

Actually I used this Tea Sapling strategy during my more recent playthrough and Wickedy's YouTube video was of course the inspiration.

You don't need to Scavenge for Wild Seeds too much, instead grow a big patch of them at the beginning of a Season after Foraging for one to three of each for the Seed recipe. In fact the Community Center Foraging Bundle rewards during each Season of Year 1 are the perfect source for these. Yes, you'll have to give up some of your regular Crop space for this but the g return when selling those Tea Saplings is totally worth it in early game! This was the first playthrough that I didn't find myself particularly short (of g! I'm totally super tall in-game, like well over 5'2") once I started this strategy.

BTW Summer is the best season for generating the most of these Wild Seeds as it only takes 3 instead of 4 items to craft. And after they grow, you only get 3 different Forage for the output. The other Seasons dilute that output by an additional 33% with that annoying extra fourth Forage.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

First off, everyone has their favorite way of doing this. Here's mine:

Generally planting and especially watering use up a lot of Energy in early game before you get Sprinklers (I prefer to start with Quality Sprinklers), so if you're looking to make g with your crops, the more expensive ones make the most per watered tile. In early game it's:

Spring: Cauliflower
Summer: Melon (or Starfruit if you've unlocked that option), and Blueberries are also great and pull ahead if you have the capacity/option to Preserve or Keg them
Fall: Pumpkin, and Cranberries are similar to Blueberries if you Preserve/Keg them.

Some people like to plant and don't mind replanting so stick with the single-harvest crops (Cauli, Melon, Starfruit, Pumpkin) but others love to plant once using re-harvestable crops (Blueberries, Cranberries), and mega-process all of those in Kegs/Preserve Jars. I usually don't have enough K/PJs to make all those Blueberries and Cranberries worth it so I stick to the others.

In Year 2, you can replace:

Spring: Cauliflower with Strawberry, but remember to stockpile these seeds from the previous Year, but that incurs it's own cost penalty. I usually put a few Strawberries in the Greenhouse and call it good, leaving the Caulis outside.
Summer: Melon with Red Cabbage, unless you get that Red Cabbage seed earlier in-game. But Starfruit still wins.

All 3 seasons: Everything with Ancient Fruit? I don't do this, instead just filling all but one row in the Greenhouse with Ancient Fruit. That other row gets one or two of each of the infinite harvest crops (Strawberry, Cranberry, Blueberry, Eggplant, Corn, Hops, Coffee, Red Pepper).

Just wanted to say that blueberries make more per tile profit than melons if not kegged or jarred but the melons pull ahead once you have proccessing machines.
Also If you are relatively good at the game you can have all your fields with ancient fruit by year two.
Another tip that people never seem to get is to NOT stockpile strawberry seeds. You can very easily use that profit for the moment which in turn will roll into more profit. I see many people buy less than 100 strawberries in their first year for the second and using up all their money in the meantime. The profit gain on those strawberries will become inconsequential by the second year, on my first pc save file I had near 1500 sprinkler watered crops by year two and had abotu 600 ancient fruit producing on ginger island and greenhouse with profits of 1.4 million. 2-3 Extra strawberry harvests of only a measly 100 strawberries is doing nothing to me, especially when I could have doubled my price with them if I had planted in the first year and used those profits for more money in the long run as I did.
Good luck.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Just wanted to say that blueberries make more per tile profit than melons if not kegged or jarred but the melons pull ahead once you have proccessing machines.

Thanks for this info, I'll use it on my next playthrough.

Also If you are relatively good at the game you can have all your fields with ancient fruit by year two.
Another tip that people never seem to get is to NOT stockpile strawberry seeds. You can very easily use that profit for the moment which in turn will roll into more profit. I see many people buy less than 100 strawberries in their first year for the second and using up all their money in the meantime. The profit gain on those strawberries will become inconsequential by the second year...

I very much suspected this as I never see the value in Strawberries. You have all that g tied up in Seeds sitting until at least the Greenhouse is fixed or worse, until the next Spring. When instead you could be using that g for anything else in the game. I never do this and just keep one seed to eventually put in the Greenhouse, and that's only if I don't want to monoculture Ancient Fruit.

...on my first pc save file I had near 1500 sprinkler watered crops by year two and had abotu 600 ancient fruit producing on ginger island and greenhouse with profits of 1.4 million. 2-3 Extra strawberry harvests of only a measly 100 strawberries is doing nothing to me, especially when I could have doubled my price with them if I had planted in the first year and used those profits for more money in the long run as I did.
Good luck.

Agreed, and good Luck to you too!

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Thanks for this info, I'll use it on my next playthrough.



I very much suspected this as I never see the value in Strawberries. You have all that g tied up in Seeds sitting until at least the Greenhouse is fixed or worse, until the next Spring. When instead you could be using that g for anything else in the game. I never do this and just keep one seed to eventually put in the Greenhouse, and that's only if I don't want to monoculture Ancient Fruit.



Agreed, and good Luck to you too!

Yeah, keeping one is a good idea, I usually get about 100 strawberries in the first year because that is about as much as you can water and just keep a few to gift or use for quests.
Keeping many though is useless unless you are really good at min/maxing and have SC unlocked by then but then strawberries aren't evven going to be used as most min/max runs for money are 1 year.

 

[StardewKat111]

A good rule of thumb is to collect a few of each type of seed in every season so that once you get the greenhouse, you're set. Aside from that, fishing is always a big thing. Don't forgot to milk the "closing cart menu refreshes it endlessly" bug, because the wandering cart can have great stuff. I also have a custom format fro the community center in my notes app, so that at any time I can pause the game and check off what I have (even before putting it in the community center). Another thing is that once you put bait into a fishing rod, you can't take it out, so if you want extra bait for a crab-pot then you need to divide your bait before putting it in the fishing rod.

 

[imnvs]

Another thing is that once you put bait into a fishing rod, you can't take it out, so if you want extra bait for a crab-pot then you need to divide your bait before putting it in the fishing rod.

If this is true on mobile, it's the only system it is true on. Every other platform, the bait can be removed. I use my rod as bait storage for my crab pots.

 

[PoppyForPenny]

Like others have said, the most profitable crops are each season's berries and the biggies: cauliflower, melon, and pumpkin. Wild seeds and mixed seeds are great too because there is no initial investment. Especially in the winter, wild seeds, because that's all you can grow outside. But really, for crops, just keep planting stuff! Keep growing as many plants as you can manage, as you can fit in the time of each season, whatever you want just keep something growing!

 

[Ereo]

If this is true on mobile, it's the only system it is true on. Every other platform, the bait can be removed. I use my rod as bait storage for my crab pots.

It is true for mobile. I can't find it right now, but there's a tweet from CA where he was surprised it's the case, and promised to look into it, so I don't think it was planned that way.

There's a workaround, you can replace bait with other bait. So it's a good idea to keep a magnet or a piece of wild bait around to remove the 200 bait from your rod when you buy a better one ;)

 

[StardewKat111]

If this is true on mobile, it's the only system it is true on. Every other platform, the bait can be removed. I use my rod as bait storage for my crab pots.

it is and it sucks.

 

[Boo1972]

Hey, I didn’t have time to read all the replies, so my apologies if I repeat information.

Since you are playing on mobile my advice is tailored specifically to mobile and not PC. I play differently on both devices. The biggest advantage mobile has is it picks your tools for you. So I would clear a large portion of my of everything but weeds and let the weeds take over to craft tea saplings. This is basically what @Lew Zealand told you. The mines are also an excellent source of fiber and mixed seeds for your tea empire.

As far as crops go, obviously grow your wild seeds if you are planning on selling tea saplings. Other than that, hops and berries. I actually prefer other crops on PC, but planting and harvesting are more of a pain on mobile. The regrowing crops will free up more in game time for other things.

Except pumpkins. I love them and pumpkin pickles provide a nice chunk of change. Also, consider turning wheat into beer. Scythe harvesting makes wheat one of the easier crops to grow and wheat turns into beer quickly. This means you will rapidly build some cash reserves.

Good luck!

Edit: I forgot to mention this as well. You can plant large wheat fields on the first of summer and not bother watering them or using sprinklers. You’ll get 4 rainy days between the start of summer and the end of fall- plenty of water for your wheat fields. Now, this will delay your profits but it’s is very little work for you.