Stardew Valley Artisan Profession ROI Guide | Prices & Break-Even

Artisan unlocks at Farming level 10 on the Tiller path. Eligible goods sell for 40% more while the profession applies to the sale. This changes revenue per sold item. Seed, construction and material spending still belong in your profit calculation.

Wine, Jelly, Pickles, Cheese, Mead, Pale Ale, Honey and Truffle Oil receive the bonus. Coffee and regular cooking Oil are exceptions. Raw crop sales use the separate Tiller bonus.

Source Artisan Goods and profession exceptions.

Choose using your planned sales. A cheese-processing farm can benefit from Artisan even though its inputs come from animals. A raw-crop deadline may make an earlier harvest valuable.

Source Farming professions.

Prices below assume normal-quality output, with no Cask aging. The bonus column compares the same completed item sold with and without Artisan.

Wine uses three times the fruit's base price. Jelly uses twice the fruit's base price plus 50g. Ancient Fruit's base price is 550g, giving 1,650g Wine or 1,150g Jelly before Artisan. Each input crop produces one of these items.

Wine takes 10,000 machine minutes. A morning-only collection plan reserves seven full days per Wine batch. Jelly takes 4,000 machine minutes, for which the same conservative plan reserves three full days. The game's overnight processing rules and collection time affect the exact ready hour.

Sources Wine, Jellies and Pickles, Ancient Fruit, Mead, Truffle Oil and Honey.

Quality and Cask aging

Crop quality does not transfer to Wine or Jelly. Kegs produce normal Wine. A Cask can later age Wine to silver, gold or iridium quality. Gold Starfruit Wine is 3,375g, or 4,725g with Artisan. Iridium Ancient Fruit Wine is 3,300g, or 4,620g with Artisan. Cask capacity and aging time require a separate investment decision.

Source Cask aging values and duration.

Start with a fixed planting date and end date. For Artisan, multiply each completed eligible sale by its extra profession value. For Agriculturist, build the accelerated crop calendar and count additional harvests, then subtract their additional seeds and other costs. Processing capacity can limit how much of an extra harvest you can sell before the deadline.

Agriculturist adds to Speed-Gro bonuses. Deluxe Speed-Gro plus Agriculturist gives 35% total initial-growth acceleration. Regrow intervals stay unchanged. See the Speed-Gro harvest-calendar example.

If changing professions, include the Statue of Uncertainty's 10,000g skill-reset fee and the timing of the nighttime selection. Existing bonuses disappear immediately when you choose a skill to change. Goods put in the Shipping Bin that day receive no old profession price bonus. Plan Artisan sales after the new profession takes effect.

Source Statue of Uncertainty.

These examples count goods already produced and ready for sale. Revenue excludes input, machine, feed and switching costs. To estimate a season or year, first establish how many complete batches your actual inputs and collection schedule support.

A 10,000g profession switch is covered by 12 normal Starfruit Wine bonuses because 12 × 900 = 10,800g. With Ancient Fruit Wine, 16 bottles add 10,560g. This calculation assumes the goods would be sold either way and counts only the incremental profession revenue.

Harvesting crops and caring for animals earn Farming experience. Hoeing and watering alone do not grant Farming XP. Extra produce from a multi-yield harvest does not multiply the crop's harvest XP. Your planted area, crop choices and animal-care schedule determine when level 10 arrives.

Continue funding seeds and watering coverage while building your processing operation. Keep enough Oak Resin and other materials for the machines you plan to use. The machine ROI guide and Keg versus Jar system cover the next investment choices.

Source Farming experience.

Ancient Fruit has an unboosted 28-day first growth and seven-day regrowth. Starfruit can grow in any season inside the Greenhouse and needs a new seed after each harvest. The Greenhouse has 120 soil tiles. The common six-Iridium-Sprinkler layout leaves 116 crop tiles.

For a completed 48-bottle Ancient Fruit Wine batch, Artisan adds 48 × 660 = 31,680g. Match the crop harvest volume to your machine slots before projecting repeated batches.

Keep Bee Houses outdoors. They do not produce inside the Greenhouse. Valley Fairy Rose Honey needs an unpicked mature flower in Fall, while Ginger Island supports year-round flower growing and outdoor honey. Thirty collected Fairy Rose Honey sell for 28,560g with Artisan, before costs.

Sources Greenhouse and Bee House. Read the honey and Mead comparison for the flower-price tradeoff.