I don't see a reason to replace casks in the basement when all the other machines can be used anywhere else, whereas the casks only work in the cellar. Having a form of slow money maker that doesn't require much maintenance, be that aged wine or cheese, is great when so many other machines needs to be refilled daily or even multiple times each day.
I personally enjoy using a variety of machines when I’m processing my crops. After harvesting a bunch of starfruit for example my first stop is my kegs so I can then make wine to put into my casks later on. Then with my left over fruit (because I don’t have a ton of casks, I’m a few shy of filling my stage 1 shed) I take my left over starfruit and put them into my dehydrators, any fruit I have left over from that is put into my preserve jars. Its a processing flow that works for me since I’m not the type of farmer to grind for resources and so I have to take a more “make the machine when I can” kind of approach, takes longer but I don’t mind. That said I’ll definitely add hops to my crops next season (I’m winter year 4 rn), I really enjoy growing a variety of crops in the different plots around my farm so maybe I’ll drop them into one of my smaller plots since they regrow so often. Thanks for sharing all this info ❤️
I really enjoy having the cellar used for cellar things (aging), it's very satisfying to end up with highest quality goods, even if it's not as efficient as other methods. I'm also a big fan of doing the goat cheese in the casks, because it's such a comparatively quick turn-around.
I don't pay too much attention to casks, so I prefer using wine I make on Ginger Island and ignore it for a few seasons. I did try goat cheese on my Meadowlands farm, still wish Rancher and Coop Master professions got some upgrades to compete with artisan. Don't forget the strategy of having someone join and upgrade the cabin so you can have a whole house for machines and an extra cellar.
I've been begging all my friends to help me do this, no taker so far - on switch so I can't do it by myself. Not quite crazy enough to buy a second console just to exploit this. Yet.
I think it's nice to have an additional way to earn money towards the big end-game purchases without adding more of the same kind of monotony of watering/planting/harvesting crops and filling kegs/jars. And it doesn't add much extra labor. There's also not really a need to use the space for planters on most farm types, sheds are pretty efficient space wise and can be used for this set-up as well. Or maybe I play the game differently from other people? I usually fill at most two big sheds with jars and kegs (one for each), one barn and one coop and maybe a few fish ponds. Growing hops on a big scale and harvesting every day for just a little bit higher profit is masochistic haha, I have never actually seen someone do that.
I love that! I kind of want to try a meadowlands farm run with an animal-only focus. The community center will haunt me if I don't grow some crops though :'(
I think casks make more sense if you make use of fairy dust, which is a lot easier to do in 1.6. I also use casks because I can just put any of this other stuff elsewhere, anyway, so this is a good "set it and forget it" option for me, versus how I like to make sheds full of pineapples.
But fairy dust cost 1 mystic syrup, it takes from 7 or 3 days, depends if you have a normal tapper or a heavy tapper, let's say you have a normal tapper, it takes 7 days 142 g per day, you would need 3, with 3 it would be 426 gold per day if you sold it if you age it will give you assuming you have starfruit wine, it gives you 157 g per day without aging, with ageing it will give you 315, that would be less that selling the starfruit wine and the mystic syrup, if you sold the starfruit wine and the m syrup it would be 583 gold per day
But lemme crank the numbers with the heavy tapper, with the heavy tapper it would be even better for the cask less route because in both we take in consideration that you plant and tap at the same time.
@@kapsup. yes but that fairy dust can save you a lot time so you wait until gold star to use it on your cask to make it iridium and in a long run you may be right it makes gold diff but time earn to make new batch is huge.
As a gold per day addict I think it's better to wait to be able to builf a lot of kegs, because casks are less g/d, and there is better things like lava eel fish ponds, and also because dehydrators use 5 fruit it will unly be fair to compare it to 5 wine of that same fruit, their best use its for mushroom logs because they, well, mushrooms are kinda ass in g per day
if u just read cask number it's pretty obvious that it's terrible: 2 months wait time for just 2x price increase. if u had a keg there instead of cask, u could make 8x profit in 2 months. *2x vs 8x* is like night and day. casks don't even come close. it's better if u just decorate the place. and for fairy dust, u will make more gold/day if u sell the diamond+fairyrose or mystic syrup by itself. cask is a SCAM
