In Stardew Valley you can do more than just plant and grow crops. There are many activities that are also very fun and rewarding. One of the things that many players avoid is animal breeding.
Although animals can be very expensive, most will provide you with resources every day and are also a very nice addition to your farm. Still, you probably don't care much about the aesthetics of animals. You care more about the money they can make you.
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Well, there are quite a few animal choices in Stardew Valley, but some are simply better than others.
The best animals to raise in Stardew Valley are pigs, golden chickens and cows. The first two options are the cream of the crop because they make an insane amount of money, while the cow is the easiest animal to care for and make money from.
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- The best animals to breed in Stardew Valley – the most profitable
The best animals to breed in Stardew Valley – the most profitable
The only way we can determine which animals are best to breed in Stardew Valley is to calculate how much money they make you every day.
There are two things players can keep in mind if they only care about money: profit per day and profit per chip.
Most barnyard animals take up a lot of space, which tends to make them relatively poor choices for someone obsessed with getting the most out of their land. However, the daily profits from some of these farm animals can be insane.
If you don't care about money and profit, any animal you like can be the best for you. There are no animals that are "bad", only unprofitable.
For example, the dinosaur is the worst-gaining animal in Stardew Valley, but do you really not want to get it just because it doesn't make you a G?
To make sure you make an informed decision when it comes to which animals to have on your farm and which ones are the best in Stardew Valley, we're going to go through them all, from the least profitable to the most profitable in the game :
10. Dinosaurs
While the dinosaur is probably the coolest animal in Stardew Valley, it is the least profitable per game. day. A happy dinosaur produces a dinosaur egg every seven days.
Using the craft, you can turn that egg into dinosaur mayonnaise, worth 1,120 grams.
That's the best possible price you can get from Dinosaur Eggs.1,120 grams per 7 days means you earn 160 grams every day from a single dinosaur.
While this isn't an incredible number, it's still better than some crops, and dinosaurs are awesome. So don't let these terrible profit figures stop you from buying one.
9. Rabbits
Although rabbits are very cute, they are a terrible animal for profit.
If you increase your friendship with them to the maximum level, they will have the chance to produce a rabbit's foot instead of wool. However, the chance is small.
Rabbits produce resources every four days, which means you can average about 200 grams per day as it can produce both rabbit feet and wool.
Due to the low production rate and the fact that there is no way to guarantee that you will get the rabbit food, you should only buy rabbits from your farm if you want lots of well-loved gifts.
The rabbit's foot is a universally loved gift (exceptCent), which makes it easy for you to make friends with anyone.
You can even use it to quickly complete the Qi's Kindness mission, which requires you to give 50 gifts of love in 7 days. So if you just want to easily make friends with everyone in Pelican Town, buy some bunnies and collect their paws every now and then.
8. Ducks
Ducks are a strange animal in Stardew Valley, as they are relatively cheap (1200 grams) and are actually better if you don't befriend them.
Yes, if you max out a duck you can get duck feathers, but they can be even worse than duck mayonnaise.
You can sell duck feathers for 500 grams in Iridium quality. Duck mayonnaise from the traditional trade yields 525 g.So ducks with 0 friendship can give you 262 grams per day, as long as you have the craftsman class.
Considering the initial purchase price, Ducks can be a great way to make money if you have Big Coop on your farm. Still, chickens can generally be a better choice if you're just concerned about money.
7. Chickens (normal, blue and invalid)
Chickens are the best and most profitable Coop animal in Stardew Valley.
Not only do they produce eggs every day, but they can also give you large eggs if you keep them happy and have a good friendship.
Large eggs can be turned into Gold Grade Mayonnaise, which sells for 399g if you have the Craftsman skill.This means that chickens, white, brown and blue, will give you a profit of 399 grams per day if you care for them properly.
This makes chickens the best house animal, but still worse than most farm animals. Yet, given the space that chickens and coops take up, chickens are the highest-yielding animals per unit. tile in Stardew Valley.
There are also two different types of chickens you can get in Stardew Valley:
- Invalid chicks
- Golden chickens
You can make a lot of money with Golden Chickens, so we'll talk about it later. Empty chickens are actually worse than normal chickens because they cannot produce large eggs.
They can give you 385 grams a day without really caring about their mood and heart. So if you don't like cuddling your animals every day, Void Chickens is the best Coop animal for you.
6. Goats
Goats are an interesting animal in Stardew Valley because they are relatively expensive to obtain (4000 grams), but are only slightly better than chickens and worse than cows.
The way you make money with goats is that you get their milk every two days and then make goat cheese from it. This item sells for 840g gold content, which is the most common you will get.
So goats give you 420 grams of profit per day, since you always get at least gold quality goat cheese and you have the trade of a craftsman.
This isn't incredible since chickens yield about 400 grams, but it could work if you like to feed Leah and Robin goat cheese all the time.
5. Sheep
Sheep are an interesting animal in Stardew Valley, as they have the potential to become the third most profitable animal in the game.
The only problem is that you have to gain their special profession, Shepherd, and lose Artisan.
Let's first see what profit the sheep will bring you from the profession of a craftsman. Sheep with many friendship points produce wool every day.
If they produce quality wool, there is also a good chance that you will get two garments when you spin the wool on the loom.
Cloth sells for 658 grams at the craftsman profession, which means you can get about 480 grams per day if you have a high enough friendship with the sheep.
This number is the reason we place sheep here, as most of them will enter the profession of artisan.But here is the amount you can earn from the Shepherd profession: approximately 950 grams.
The profession of a shepherd ensures that sheep give you wool every day, which greatly increases the daily profit. But even with this specialized profession that only helps you with sheep, it is still not the best animal to raise profitably in Stardew Valley.
4. Queues
Although cows rank fourth in terms of profit, many players, including us, consider them to be the best animals to breed in Stardew Valley. Cows are very easy to breed, the whole process of making money is very simple.
To make money from cows, you have to collect their milk every day and make cheese from it, which takes about 3 hours. If you are really good friends with your cows and they are happy too, you can get Big Milk from them.
Large Milk guarantees gold quality cheese, which means that with traditional craftsmanship you can make at least 483 grams of a simple cow every day.
Considering that a cow costs 1500 grams at Marnie's Ranch and you can get them with a level 1 stable, this animal is the best because you can use it from the start of a playthrough.
If you don't want to think about animals too much and just want a decent daily profit, then the cows and chickens are the best animals you can raise in Stardew Valley.
Since milk and eggs are used in many recipes, they become even more useful in the long run.
3. Ostrich
The Ostrich is one of the most difficult farm animals to obtain in Stardew Valley. ThatGinger Islandthe quests you have to go through to obtain one ostrich egg are endless.
Since you can't buy this animal anywhere, you'll also have to constantly use its eggs to get new ones, losing profits along the way.
Yet the ostrich is still the third most profitable animal in Stardew Valley. The ostrich produces an ostrich egg every 7 days, and that egg can be used to make 10 Mayonnaise with the Mayonnaise Machine.
Unlike other eggs, the quality of the mayonnaise will actually be the same as that of the ostrich egg. This makes these eggs much more valuable than any other.This means that if you are a craftsman and manage to obtain iridium-quality ostrich eggs, an ostrich can earn you 760 grams each. day.
This is a great number considering you don't have to compromise on crafting to obtain this. The only problem is that you can only use thismoney machinein the late/end game.
2. Golden chickens
The Golden Chickens are the best gainer per tile animal in Stardew Valley.
Even if they somehow didn't manage to get first place, they'll produce more than enough money to keep your farm going for years to come.Golden Chickens give you 1197 grams per day.
Unfortunately, the only way you can get golden chicks is if you succeedPerfection finish.
Since you have to be a multi-millionaire by the time you get that ending, Golden Chickens become relatively useless.
Although Golden Chickens rank second on this profitability list, they should not be considered among the best animals to raise in Stardew Valley.
1. Celebrate
Pigs are the kings of Stardew Valley when it comes to making money.
They will make you millions in days if you have enough of them. Pig productionTrufflesevery time they leave the barn and walk around the farm.
Truffles can then be turned into truffle oil, which is 1,491 g worth. Pigs produce an average of 3 truffles per day, as long as they are allowed outside.
Because they cannot go outside in winter and on rainy days, you would think that there is a major disadvantage to keeping pigs.
On average, the pigs are allowed outside 70 of the 112 days of the year and produce truffles. Winter only lasts 28 days and it rains about 14 days a year in Stardew Valley.
This means that one pig will produce an average of about 2795 grams per day.It's an incredible win that even the mighty Golden Chickens can't come close to. And the girls aren't available until after the play-offs!
However, pigs cost 16,000 grams to obtain from Marnie's Ranch. So make sure you plant itbest possible cropsand make sure Pigs become the rising star of Pelican Town as quickly as possible.
That's everything you need to know about the best animals to breed in Stardew Valley!
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