Ranking the Top 11 Best Farm Animals for Making Money in Stardew Valley 1.6
My team of scientists crunched the numbers and we have ranked them in order of maximum revenue.
Chapters:
0:48 Calculation Background
1:45 Number 11
2:45 Number 10
4:20 Number 09
5:39 Number 08
6:47 Number 07
7:43 Number 06
8:20 Number 05
9:17 Number 04
10:15 Number 03
11:14 Number 02
12:20 Number 01
14:17 Final Thoughts
39 Comments
I don't like pigs. Last save I found that I often was away the whole day and only got annoyed by having to forage the truffles. Do like the money but not the maintenance.
i like rabbits because they're cute, rabbits feet are useful, and… i like cloth. sewing stuff is fun. need me as much cloth as possible, and im not as big a fan of sheep
The graph has the colors switched, doesn't it?
Pigs are the reason I like playing on the 4 corners farm. You can dedicate a whole quarter to them roaming around and so long as you keep up on maintenance will have an easy time spotting the truffles.
As soon as i have the CC up, i ditch the coop. effort vs profit just isn't there for me, especially with all the profit-creep (?) that has been introduced since launch.
would you ever do this type of stuff for any mods? Like the cornucopia crops
I like cows with autograbber – lots of gold quality cheese for deep dives in the mines 😊
But yeah, great video (again) 😊😊
Need to argue a point right off the point bout ducks and possibly the rest of the vid😅
I tried a only animals run, and ducks are actually amazing for gold. The problem is everyone seems to neglect the sell feature. Coopmaster makes the hearts LVL fast, and selling a 5 heart duck has a great return on a free egg every other day.
I've also noticed most comparison vids discount how powerful selling happy animals can be when you can cycle them through maxing hearts so fast.🎉
Thank you Kita! 👩🌾 Thank you Scientists! 🧑🏫
I go by whichever animals are the lowest maintenance– coop and barn chores just feel tedious to me so I'm all about the animals that take longer to give up the goods, even if it means cutting into profit. And of course, I always have ducks near water just because theyre so cute… you're definitely right about the golden chickens and ostriches though; sure they're high profit, but by the time you get them so you even need it anymore?
I tend to only get animals for cooking. I primarily run a crop farm. Wheat is a useful crop to grow since you can scythe Hay from wheat 40% of the time on average. so I keep 24 pieces growing in the greenhouse on Hyper Speed Grow which is the 33% one. With that Wheat grows every 2 days. Stick the Wheat into Seed Makers for 20 in game minutes to replenish your supply. You only need Eggs and Milk for cooking purposes. All versions of eggs and Milk can be used aside from Dinosaur eggs so you don't need anything specific. You need 8 Eggs and 12 Milk. Just 1 Chicken and 1 Cow will see you through it all but I like to upgrade. Golden Eggs are used in the end game and I keep a few rabbits also. I keep Cows and a few goats in a barn. Sometimes it's nice having animals that don't need constant daily attention so I can focus on other things like the fish ponds or bee hives or crops or go fishing
Chickens will just leave eggs on the floor to pick up. So I just replenish. Keeping about 1,000 pieces of Hay should see you through a year for Winter and raining days when grass can't be eaten if you have 1 Deluxe Coop and 1 Deluxe Barn or 2 or either since both have 12 spaces. That's just over 4 Silos full. The Auto feeder in Deluxe Barns and Coops automatically keeps the feeding bench full and Auto Grabbers will collect any milk, Eggs or wool for me. An Auto petter will keep all the animals happy for me so all I have to do is run the two doors twice a day. Once to open it and once to close it
Once you get the gear, running an Animal farm can be a highly worthwhile and easy task. It may not make as much money as my 414 Ancient fruit and 8 batches or iridium Ancient fruit Wine a year but it is far less time consuming and a lot easier
To build 4 Silos, 1 Deluxe Barn and 1 Deluxe Coop you will need 77,400 Gold, 2,550 Wood, 1,500 Stone, 40 Clay and 20 Copper Bars as well as 18 days of build time and 48,000 Gold worth of Hay to fill the Silos and then 9,600 Gold for 12 Chickens and 18,000 Gold for 12 Cows. As a fun fact you would need 12 Silos with 11 of them full and the last having 48 pieces of hay to provide 2 Deluxe Barn/Coops with hay for a full year if it rained all 112 days. That's 1,200 Gold, 1,200 Stone, 120 Clay and 60 Copper Bars plus 134,400 gold in Hay at least. Add another 50,000 for 2 Auto grabbers from Marnie and another 100,000 for two Auto petters if you went the Joja Route else you'd have to find them in Skull Cavern
you can turn off animal sounds in the settings if they tend to annoy you!
Such a great voice, you should do a 3h+ video that we can all listen to while falling asleep.
Cows are my favorite, golden chicken are such a waste in this game due to the fact that you don't need gold to do anything else in the game when you unlock them, I think there should be a way to get them early on.
For me, Pigs are for Y2. I buy the handful I will ever get near the end of Winter, then I reap the profits in Y2 and use it to scale up my lower maintenance ventures like Fairy Rose Honey or Ostriches.
By Y3 onwards, I prefer to sell all but 1 pig so I have the rest of the day to myself.
On my current animal-centric Beach farm run, I rushed to 4 coops and enjoyed the Chickens, but the unpredictability of egg sizes made me switch to void chickens as soon as I unlocked Daddy Krobus. Now, I'm noticing a bit of a time sink loading all these eggs into the mayo, so I'll probably transition to Dinosaurs soon.
I also hate the pig sounds but you can turn off animal noises!
I love your videos because you have the most clear voice and effective way of giving information
Thank you and your scientists for this video.
Also, I wonder why ConcernedApe didn't have animal feces in the game and make it a way to get fertilizers but assinged fish to be the fertilizer ingredient instead.
Speaking of fertilizers, would you rank fertilizers, retaining soil and speed-gro?
future me, is it pigs? 😂🐖
So Coops are not good for money is what you're telling me. Dang.
Another banger! Awesome graphs/diagrams as always. That's a creative and clean way to visualize money made from both ways of processing/selling animal goods. Also the custom character dialogue is hilarious. Father Krobus for life!
Everyone has their favs and that’s awesome; I have a penchant for a coop completely filled with dinos! I know it’s not the most efficient, but I love to name them after my favorite fantasy dragon characters and just let them chill with an auto grabber especially since 1.6 gave us the book to sell anything except regular quality dino eggs for awesome profits. Love the video and although I already knew all of the equivalents that your scientists worked so hard to compile, it is always worth it to watch ❤
With sheep benefiting so much from shepherd to make more of something that benefits from artisan, did you account for occasional profession switches or co-op?
lol sheeps op
the funny thing as far as i know, golden chicken are technically better money maker if you want to achieve the absolute maximum gold/day since you can spam coops and coops are also smaller, and if you fill your entire farm with coops and only leave space to reach said coops, pigs will become less efficient and thus the golden chicken will become more profitable, but i think most people who would do such a thing dont care for aestetics and just try to reach really high numbers
For my 5th perfection run, I've done 22 goats for casking until switching to wine. 2 cows for mine food. 10 ducks, they swim, Leo gifts, and 24egg quest repeats. 1 void for Sebation gifts, 1 Rabbit for filler gifts(Mainly Dwarf). Replaced original coup of chickens with ducks and sold the 1 pig once I had some truffles stocked.
Kita…. You have to make another video on fish ponds now…. They now produce more daily income… But by how much…..
Heavy maintenance animals are fine by me. I typically play multiplayer with my brother and he prefers plants while I prefer animals l so it all works out well.
Legendary fish ponds got buffed, you will make a video?
You have to grow, great quality but only 6k subscribes :/
Can you compare these to SVE animals? such as bear or camel. I heard that bear in SVE is superior than pig (in terms of money making, able to use golden cracker, no need to forage, and able to use auto-grabber)
That's would be a lot of help! Thanks!
Not sure how this factors, but there is a slight wrinkle in comparing cow and goat cheese. Cask space in finite, barn space is not. Depending on layout, you can get 109-125 casks in there, so let's say 112 casks for easier math. For max efficiency, you'd need;
16 cows (8 with animal crackers)
32 goats (16 with crackers)
To keep up with converting 112 gold quality milk per 7 days. But regardless of how many animals it takes, there's still the same room for casks. So every 7 days it's either 112 × 644, or 112 × 1,120.
No question, cows can make more money per animal. But maximizing cask use, goats make better use of the cellar.
Love myself a whole barn of cows.
❤ scientists
I always sell all my pigs on Winter 1, and then rebuy them halfway through winter so they're fully grown on Spring 1. You might not get full hearts by Spring, but you make a few thousand per pig and save on feed.
5:59 unhinged dialogue 😀
"If you want to HOG all the money in SV, pigs are the way to go" 😀
Clever pun, on top of a well-researched video, good job!
Do you have any idea what an adequate amount of space for pig roaming is? I’ve never been able to tell whether I’m giving them enough room
Science folks RULE!!
Are you Canadian?