Talk:Cranberries

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Profit

Deluxe Speed-Gro or Speed-Gro are useless for this crop as you still have only 5 harvests per season.

Quality Fertilizer or Basic Fertilizer, that depend on if you need to pay them. If you need to pay for them Basic Fertilizer is better. If you don't need to pay for them (craft), Quality Fertilizer is better

Estimated profit with Quality Fertilizer:

Cost per crop

- Quality Fertilizer = 150 g

- Cranberry Seeds = 240 g

Money per crop

Growth period = 7 days

21 days for harvest / 5 days between harvests = 4.2 harvests

- You hervest 5 time in fall (1 time after 7 days + 4 times)

- 2 fruits per crop, 1 standard quality the other one have rate of Quality Fertilizer.

- 75g standard quality = 75 g

- ((75g * 10 + 93g * 30 + 112g * 60) / 100) rate quality = ~102.6 g

- SUM = 5 * (75 + 102.6) = 888 g

Profit per crop

- 888 - (150 + 240) = 498 g

Estimated profit with Basic Fertilizer:

Cost per crop

- Basic Fertilizer = 100 g

- Cranberry Seeds = 240 g

Money per crop

Growth period = 7 days

21 days for harvest / 5 days between harvests = 4.2 harvests

- You hervest 5 time in fall (1 time after 7 days + 4 times)

- 2 fruits per crop, 1 standard quality the other one have rate of Basic Fertilizer.

- 75g standard quality = 75 g

- ((75g + 93g + 112g) / 3) rate quality = ~93.333 g

- SUM = 5 * (75 + 93.333) = 841.665 g

Profit per crop

- 841.665 - (100 + 240) = 501.665 g --Alterane (Talk) 18:31, 8 December 2016 (UTC)

I think if you're buying the Basic Fertilizer from Pierre's, it's better, to just go with unfertilized soil. The quality rate for unfertilized soil for level 10 farming is 37% normal, 42% silver, and 21% gold (stats pulled from https://github.com/exnil/crop_planner/blob/66e2d24977aa010013193a4d1505bb5d5dac6996/v1/planner.js#L334-L358; I'm not sure how to find Crops.cs to confirm them). That makes the average value of the picked berry 0.37 * 75g + 0.42 * 93g + 0.21 * 112g = 90.33g.

Compared to that baseline, the Basic Fertilizer is adding ~3g per harvest for a total of 15g. That's better than the sale price for 2xSap if you're crafting, but a lot worse than the buy price of 100g.

Quality Fertilizer adds 12.27g per harvest, for a total of 61.35g – worth crafting with any fish that sells for less than 46.35g, but never worth buying. —Evilstreak (talk) 21:37, 20 May 2017 (BST)

Alternative money making strategy

Putting your cranberry yield into jars or kegs is of course a great way to make money - especially if you have the artisan perk. However, Cranberry yields are huge and the number of kegs/jars you'll need is similarly enormous. there are usually better crops available to put in those, more so if you have a greenhouse up. At he very least you'll probably be able to fill up all your jars and still have masses of Cranberries left over.

A solid alternative is putting your cranberries into a Seed Maker. it only takes 20 in-game minutes to process (compared to a jar's 4000!) and you get on average 2 seed packages from each Cranberry. that means you'll be getting (on average) 2x60=120G instead of the basic value of 75G. Gold quality still sells for more, so sell those directly. You could therefore still consider using fertilizer to eek out a bit more profits.

As a (significant) added benefit, processing a large number of seeds this way also will provide a source of ancient seeds and mixed seeds.

Especially if you happen to use the Automation mod using this strategy will be a piece of cake. Vaendryl‎ (talk) 04:29, 28 January 2019

Let's exactify the yield/harvest!

What is the "small random chance" for more cranberries? This calculation may well affect which crop proves most profitable for long-term cultivation in the greenhouse. Astronautty (talk) 08:24, 7 May 2017 (BST)

The chance is approximately 0.1. —margotbean (talk) 20:44, 7 May 2017 (BST)

Does that mean a 10% chance for one extra berry, or that you get approximately 2.1 berries per square harvested? —CoachMcGuirk (talk) 15:23, 24 December 2019 (PST)

Just did my own research. 2.1 berries per square is correct. ----CoachMcGuirk (talk) 22:36, 27 December 2019 (UTC)