Stardew Valley Dehydrator vs Keg Prices and Timing

For ordinary Blueberry and Starfruit in these examples, Kegs earn more from each fruit once every wine is finished. A Dehydrator requires five fruit of the same type and quality for a batch, ready the next morning. Choose using the stock already in your backpack, the machines available and the date you need to collect the output. Dehydrator and Keg recipes.

Keep high-value fruit for wine when the queue is manageable. Drying a large berry surplus can free storage and produce saleable goods sooner. The comparison changes when high-quality fruit is valuable enough to sell raw. Dried Fruit pricing.

These examples use five normal-quality fruit, already harvested, with no professions. Each row spends that same stock on one alternative. Growing, seed and machine construction costs are excluded from these finished sale values. Blueberry and Starfruit base prices.

Recipe references for the table are Dried Fruit and Wine.

Dried Fruit uses 7.5 × the fruit's base price + 25g for the whole five-fruit batch. Wine uses 3 × base price for each fruit. With Artisan, the Blueberry outputs become 560g dried or 1,050g wine, and the Starfruit outputs become 7,910g dried or 15,750g wine. Artisan Goods reference.

For an actual Artisan farmer, Tiller is retained. The normal raw alternatives for these five-fruit stocks are therefore 275g for Blueberries or 4,125g for Starfruit. The table above uses its stated no-profession baseline, while the Artisan figures compare finished-good sale prices.

One Dehydrator handles all five fruit together. Five Kegs can each make one wine simultaneously, while one Keg needs five batches. Wine takes 10,000 machine-minutes. Our morning-refill planner reserves seven full days for each wine collection slot. Dehydrator and Keg timing.

For 23 normal Blueberries, four complete drying batches use 20 berries and leave three. Collecting all four batches gives 4 × 400g = 1,600g. Selling the remaining berries adds 150g, for 1,750g total sales. The sell-all-raw baseline is 23 × 50g = 1,150g. One Dehydrator needs four next-morning collections to finish those batches. Batch recipe and timing.

Count the batches that finish by your deadline. Use the five-item arithmetic above for a Dehydrator queue, and compare your existing Kegs and Jars with the stock-and-deadline planner.

• Dried products have normal quality. Five iridium Starfruit sell raw for 7,500g without professions, compared with 5,650g dried.
• Five Grapes make Raisins with a fixed base price of 600g. Apply that recipe when comparing Grapes.
• Eligible mushrooms make Dried Mushrooms. Red Mushrooms and Truffles cannot enter the Dehydrator.
• Reserve fruit needed for quests, gifts or bundles before assigning the sale stock. Charge for extra machines when deciding whether to expand production.

Check the recipe and timing on the Dehydrator reference, the batch-price formula on Dried Fruit and wine processing on the Keg reference.

Change the assumptions before applying a result to your save. The crop calculator ranks per-tile growing scenarios; the inventory processing planner checks existing stock and machine deadlines. Read the methods, source scope and known limits or send a correction with your version and inputs.

• Keg and Jar stock-and-deadline planner
• Ancient Fruit and Starfruit wine decisions
• Year 1 seed budgets and harvest dates