Googling this led me down a rabbit hole. What's everyone's plan for selling wine vs aging it and vs it being starfruit or ancient fruit. I'm clearly sitting on an amount of each wine that I'm guessing I should sell because I'll never be able to age wine fast enough but should I just focus on one fruit vs. the other? Semi relaxed causal player btw.
by MillerTime7910
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Age what you can put into casks. Sell the rest. Just look at the ones you can put into casks as a future investment.
I usually age 1 of 9 types for my grange and then I just focus on ancient fruit, pineapple, and strawberry wines for aging and at the end of each season I sell the excess wines that didn’t get to age.
Been a while since I dug into this but from what I recall, technically star fruit is more profitable and I think silver star aged is the most cost effective?
But the real life answer is ancient fruit is the easiest and still makes you bank. You don’t have to replant it, you can sync your 7 day grow cycle with the 7 day cask cycle so you just handle your wine plantation once per week. And you make plenty of $ without aging, I just age some for fun!
So with artisan iridium quality starfruit wine is worth $6,300 and iridium quality ancient fruit wine is worth 4,620. it takes a long time to scale an ancient fruit plantation but once you do it’s free and it doesn’t take as long to grow has starfruit. Ancient fruit is also less labor intensive.
Since each packet of starfruit seeds cost $400 ancient fruit is the better money maker if you’re just selling without putting them in a preserved jar or keg. Even at the highest quality you still break even on both fruits. So really make whichever one you prefer to. I’ve been making starfruit wine for the longest time because I have a couple thousand of them still in chests. But I’ll probably transition to more ancient fruit as time goes by. Because I never have to buy seeds and plant them.
Starfruit gives more money per keg/cask, while ancient fruit gives more money per tillable tile. Use either one depending on what your farm’s limiting factor is.
Keep enough wine to ensure that your casks are always working at full efficiency and sell everything left over. Stockpiling wine to put into casks (or fruit to put into kegs) generally isn’t worthwhile, because by the time your current machines are available, you’ll probably have a new round of fruit/wine to put in them. You sometimes need to stockpile some fruit to keep your kegs running, but keep your stockpiles as low as possible.
At this point i think is more a matter of wich one you like more. I like starfruit better, i love to plant a ton of them in the summer, so thats that.
Aging to iridium takes 2 seasons. It’s very time intensive and doubles the value. It’s generally worth it to make sure your best wine is there especially if you are saving. That would be starfruit if you make any.
If you are going all in on ancient fruit, that’s fine. Balance your time though.
Realistically you’ll be growing both and kegging starfruit. Ancient in the greenhouse and then if you want to expand more ancient on the island since there’s no winter to kill them. You’ll be growing seasonal crops on the main farm and you can grow enough starfruit to make wine for a year(250ish with full walkable cellar). And if you can’t quite reach that you can fill the rest with ancient.
Every time I put Star fruit in a seed maker I only get one seed
I grow both. Star fruit on ginger Island with deluxe speed grow. This gives be plenty of basic quality star fruit to keep my kegs full. I grow ancient fruit in my greenhouse so it’s just easy to harvest once a week i usually just sell silver and gold quality fruit because i have enough basic quality fruit to make into wine. Because star fruit wine is more valuable, i only age it, and always sell the ancient fruit wine right away.
As far as seeds for my star fruit farm on ginger Island, i just buy stacks of seeds so i don’t have to spend time with seed makers. It’s definitely valid to replenish seed stock with basic fruit but i only have like 10 seed makers and don’t want to make 50 more.
Star fruit is better priced but ancient fruit doesn’t needs to be planted again so it’s kinda hassle free personally I prefer ancient fruit but because I am lazy to replant starfruit. I would say if you are doing it just plant star fruit in greenhouse
Aging is always better just make sure to have enough for aging next harvest and sell the rest
i do both. i make as many starfruit wines to go in casks. with the rest of the land, i grow ancient fruits that i turn into wine and sell without aging. if i have more ancient fruit than what i can put in kegs, i dehydrate them.
I use Ginger Island for my Ancient Fruit farm and the grassy area behind the farm for my casks. I like that it all syncs up. And then I just turn my entire main farm into Starfruit in the summer time – as long as I’ve finished the community center.
My current farm is set up to be a winery and jelly producer. As far as wine, I grow ancient fruit on Ginger Island and Starfruit on the main farm in sheds. I have 10 sheds full of kegs that I keep going with ancient fruit. Every few weeks I switch to Starfruit. I age what I can and sell the rest.
My farm:
10 sheds with 123 kegs each for 1230 bottles of wine
6 sheds with pots and deluxe retaining soil. About 120 per, so that’s about 720 starfruit every two weeks.
4 cellars with 189 casks for 756 aged wines twice a year. My limited edition wine as I call it.
So I produce more starfruit wine than I can age, so I sell off the excess.
I mean it costs time to build a huge supply of ancient fruit to turn into wine, it takes time and money to do the same for Starfruit.
While starfruit does give more per bottle than ancient fruit. You get more ancient fruit per season than you do star fruit.
Also star fruit is a single season crop and ancient fruit will grow spring summer and fall.
I tend to fill my cellar first then have an extra batch ready to fill it in a chest. Any extra wine I make during that time, I sell.
As for Starfruit vs Ancient, I prefer ancient myself simply because I prefer using my time elsewhere than spending it re-planting seeds every 13 or so days for starfruit.
Starfruit if you want Perfection by Year 2.
Ancient fruit if you want Perfection by Year 3 and beyond.
I prefer ancient fruit just because I don’t need to replant it
Star Fruit is worth more per fruit when processed, but Ancient Fruit is more efficient. Aging wine is no longer cost effective after the Silver stage unless you’ve got a _MASSIVE_ Fairy Dust farm set up, and even then it’s not much more profitable than just selling the diamonds.
Star fruit in the dehydrator!
I like hot pepper wine because its funny and its pleasant red
I like starfruit over ancient fruit, and I like to do it in preserving jars more than kegs in the early game. I find preserving jars are easier to make than kegs, and if I have the artisan profession then starfruit in the preserving jars can make me 538 gold per day as opposed to starfruit in a keg that can make me 373 gold per day (these numbers come from the Preserve Jar and Keg Productivity on the wiki). Early game I usually only have the greenhouse and summer growing season on my farm to grow starfruit so am restricted on how much I can produce before I get my Ginger Island farm up and running.
By end game I like the starfruit because it gives me something to do when I’ve sort of got the rest of my farm automated and running really smoothly. By this stage I would have half and half kegs vs preserve jars as I’m working towards getting the golden clock and I’m not restricted by how much I can grow, and once I reach perfection I can cut back on how much I’m growing and processing.
Starfruit gives the highest profit, and is easily purchased. Ancient fruit is slightly less profitable, and you have to manually propagate it, but it persists forever. I think ancient fruit is the better deal because it saves time.
I always keep my basement full of aging wine, but sell the excess. The aged wine ends up being just a bonus.