Are you ready to reap a bountiful harvest in Stardew Valley this fall? As the leaves turn golden and the air grows crisp, it’s time to plan your autumn crops for maximum profit.
But with so many options, from pumpkins to grapes to artichokes, which fall crops will fill your pockets with gold faster than you can say “cranberry sauce”?
Fear not, fellow farmer! We’ve scoured the valley far and wide to bring you the definitive guide to the best (and worst) fall crops in Stardew Valley.
Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out on your agricultural adventure, our expert tips and rankings will help you make the most of the season.
So grab your watering can, put on your straw hat, and let’s dive into the wonderful world of fall farming in Stardew Valley!
Key Takeaways:
- Cranberries are the most profitable fall crop overall, especially with the Artisan perk
- Pumpkins are a close second and great for completing bundles and recipes
- Grapes, artichokes, and beets round out the top 5 best fall crops
- Avoid corn, eggplant, and bok choy for low profit margins
- Yams are the worst fall crop, taking too long to grow for little return
- Prioritize crops with multiple harvests per plant like cranberries
- Use fertilizers and sprinklers to maximize crop quality and automate watering
- Plan ahead and have your fields ready right when fall begins on the 1st
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All Fall Plants In Stardew Valley (Highest And Lowest Value)
The fall season of Stardew Valley is famous for its harvest season. The game is a season of foraging, festivals, and good growth of crops.
So, if it is your first fall season in the game, I suggest you focus specifically on growing your crops because it is an important time for upgrading your farm and making some money.
One of the reasons why fall is so important for the growth of your character and farm is the crops that grow in this season.
Fall has a wide variety of plants that you can grow in a series or single for harvest. Almost all fall crops provide great benefit to your character in terms of money you can use to buy and upgrade whatever you like.
So, without further ado, let us learn something about Stardew Valley’s best fall crops, from the highest to the lowest value.
Cranberry:
Cranberries can be grown from cranberry seeds and are easily sold for 753 gold coins. Cranberries are the star of this game.
They have a great growth rate with a great profit margin. These berries can earn you a lot of gold, but apart from earning from them, they are also a great addition to the cooking recipes and for gifting to other members.
You can buy cranberry seeds at Pierre’s general store and use them for cooking: super meal, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and cranberry candies.
Pumpkin:
Pumpkin is sold for 646 gold pieces per crop and grown from pumpkin seeds. Pumpkin seeds are more expensive than other crop seeds, and they also take a little longer to grow than other crops. But being expensive and blooming late doesn’t mean that you won’t profit from it once it grows.
Pumpkin is also an amazing option to fulfill the standard Community Center bundles. They are included in the category of quality crops and remixed quality crops.
Apart from that, they are also usable in many recipes like Pumpkin soup. Not only food recipes, but they are also used in crafting recipes which makes them a useful utility. Players can also use it for gifts.
Grape:
Grapes are sold for 484 gold pieces and are grown from a grape starter. Grape plants grow new crops every 3-4 days. A perfectly ripe crop of grapes will sell for more than the seeds cost.
But, to earn profit from them fully, you will have to harvest the grapes more than once. They can also be donated to the Summer Foraging bundles because they are forged as food crops.
However, they are forged in summer, but they can grow in both seasons. So, by selling grapes, you can have steady growth for your farm.
Artichoke:
Artichokes grow every 8th day of planting the seed. The seeds are available in Pierre’s General store. They can be sold for 484 gold coins.
This is a perfect fall crop to prepare artichoke dip and gift it to people because most villagers like it, apart from Abigail, Haley, Jas, Vincent, and Sam. No bundles use artichokes, but they are used in super meal recipes.
Sweet Gem Berry:
Sweet Gem Berry is one of the most time taking crops of Stardew Valley because it takes 24 days to mature and get ready for harvesting.
The seeds of sweet gem berry are the most expensive seeds of the game, and one harvest takes the whole season to grow. But, the benefit of sowing this crop is the amazing profit it gives you. You can sell sweet gem berry for 6,000 gold coins.
This crop is not used in any Community Center bundles, quests, and recipes, but it is required to achieve a stardrop, a rare fruit. Stardrop adds more health to your energy bar.
Players might think it is not an important crop, but that is not true. It provides you with great profit and is also a fantastic gifting option because all villagers like it, especially the old master Cannoli.
Fairy Rose:
The seeds of fairy rose range from 200-250g, and the crop can be sold for 585 gold coins. However, the crop is not a great option if you look to profit from your crops.
In most games, flowers don’t have great resale value. Similarly, the fairy rose is not a part of Stardew Valley fall crops best in this game.
However, this crop has other uses, like changing the flavor of honey (if you grow it near a beehive, the honey becomes fairy rose honey), which is very profitable. It can also be used to produce fairy dust. And lastly, you can also gift it to villagers.
Bok Choy:
Bok choy harvest can be sold for 484 gold coins and can be grown from bok choy seeds. However, Bok choy is a mediocre crop whose seed is not expensive, and neither has it given too much profit. Therefore, it is not used in any bundles.
But, it is used in recipes like super meals and for ‘help wanted’ requests. Bok choy doesn’t have much to do in the game, but if you have space left after sowing other crops, you can also sow it.
Amaranth:
Amaranth is just like bok choy in Stardew Valley. It is just a part of the game, but it doesn’t have much use. You can grow it and earn a little bit of profit from this crop, but it doesn’t mean that it is useless. You can use amaranth in Salmon dinner recipes and dye bundles in the Community Center. It can be sold for 454 gold coins.
Marnie has one quest that requires you to grow amaranth, but that is pretty much it. However, you can gift it to villagers except for Elliott.
Beet:
Beets are unlocked after you have completed the vault bundle at the Community Center. You can buy beets or beet seeds from Oasis. It takes beet six days to grow, and it can be used for making sugar by using a mill.
A single beet crop can make three sugar once they go into the mill. Apart from making sugar, beets can be used for making a salad, and it also earns you 404 gold coins on trade.
Yam:
This crop provides you with a 323 gold coin profit per yield. It can be used for: Autumn’s bounty, remixed quality crops bundle, glazed yams, gifting to Linus, and fall crop bundles. In addition, Yam seeds are available for buying at Pierre’s General Store.
Apart from being a part of food recipes and bundles, yam can also be used in the spool of a sewing machine and create a button shirt that can be dyed. It is also used in creating orange dyes.
Eggplant:
Eggplant crops can be sold for 303 gold coins and are grown from corn seeds. After sowing the seed, you will get an eggplant every five days. You can use eggplants in fall crop bundles and as an option in remixed quality crops.
Players can use eggplant in cooking eggplant parmesan and the survival burger. Apart from this, it is used in the ‘Help Wanted’ quest and is also used in the spool of a sewing machine.
Sunflower:
Sunflowers provide you with 242 gold coins per crop. You can use it to make sunflower oil dye bundles and gift them to Haley.
Unfortunately, it is not a very useful crop of these games because apart from 1 quest, it is not used in any cooking for quests except for making cooking oil. But, the only great thing about this crop is that it lasts for almost two seasons, making the farm look pretty.
Corn:
Corn seeds are available at Pierre’s General Store and provide 201 gold coins as profits. Corn is like sunflower because it lasts for two seasons and is pretty much as useless as the sunflowers. It is used in only two bundles in the Community Center and a remixed one.
You can turn corn into tortillas or oil for cutting, but more ingredients are needed before you can use corn for any cooking purpose. The usual five villagers don’t like when you gift them corn, but with this crop, Pierre joins them. I suggest that you don’t waste too much space growing corn unless necessary.
Wheat:
Wheat can give you 151 gold coins profit per crop and grows after every four days. This crop is harvested using a scythe or golden scythe, which makes the chances higher of providing hay.
In addition, wheat can make beer, wheat flour (in the mill), and fodder bundles. Once a wheat crop is put into the mill for creating flour, it creates one wheat flour every day.
It is one of the most widely cultivated crops and is also used to spool sewing machines and to create dyes.
Best Fall Crops Stardew Valley
Now that we have discussed almost every best crop in Stardew Valley, we can discuss the best ones. When fall arrives on Stardew Valley, you must collect and buy as many fall crop seeds as possible because it is one of the most rewarding months.
It has such rewarding crops like sweet gem berries, cranberries, and pumpkins, which are ideal for earning a profit and making delicious dishes and completing quests. But, what makes pumpkin, sweet gem berries, and cranberries better than other best fall crops in Stardew Valley? Let’s take a look.
Pumpkins:
Pumpkins are one of the three best fall crops in Stardew Valley. This is because they are greatly profitable to your little avatar and sell for at least 320 gold even when they are of medium quality and sell for 640 iridium.
But, pumpkins take a lot of time to grow, 13 days to be precise, without using ‘speed-gro.’ This means that there will be only two harvests of pumpkins in the whole fall season.
Apart from being used in recipes, Pumpkins are also used in many other things like bundles and as gift items.
The amazing thing about pumpkins is that they can become giants in the game. Huge pumpkins are harvested with axes and give you 20-15 units per crop.
Sweet Gem Berry:
This crop is an ideal profit-making crop in Stardew Valley. It grows from a rare seed, but it takes 24 days to grow. This means that you can only grow this crop once every fall. This crop sells for at least 4,500 gold coins when it is medium quality but can sell for more.
It is used in quests, recipes (super meal), and to achieve a stardrop which increases your energy greatly. Sweet gem berry’s profit margin is what makes it one of the best fall crops of Stardew Valley.
Cranberries:
Cranberries have the best time and selling ratio. Their seeds are available for 240 gold per plant, and they sell for at least 75 gold coins per crop. They can be grown 4-5 times per season, and each cranberry fruit has two produces. They return your investment by the end of the season.
They are not required to complete any quest or bundles, which means it depends on whether or not you want to grow them. But, they are a great gifting option and are also used in four cooking recipes.
General Crop Farming Tips
Farming is the biggest activity in Stardew Valley. Because it provides chances of the most profit, earlier in the game, you have to work hard on the farm with your crops, but later on, you can also do other activities like fishing and foraging.
But, farming requires hard work. Because hard work unlocks levels, and each level provides farming experience and rewards.
That is why I have decided to provide you with some of Stardew Valley’s farming tips.
- Use the farm to its full potential
- Grow crops that reproduce more
- Plant useful plants in places other than the farm
- Try to automatize the farm as soon as possible
- Maximize the usage of your buildings
- Consider the place carefully before placing machines
- Choose your professions carefully
- Master all other places
- Invest in good quality fertilizers
- Learn to sell at the right time
Following these tips can help make the game more fruitful and fun for you.
Final Verdict:
Stardew Valley is a remarkable game with many things to try your hands on. I suggest that you visit every place you can, talk to everyone and complete everything you can because all these things make the experience of this game amazingly fun.
my blog was about the crops of the most important time of the year; fall. The crops you grow in this season will help you in terms of profit and by-products in the next winter season.
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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
What is the most profitable fall crop in Stardew Valley?
The sweet gem berry is the most profitable crop of Stardew Valley, and it grows during fall. Unfortunately, the crop takes almost 24 days to grow, so there is only one harvest of sweet gem berries in the season.
What crops grow in the fall Stardew Valley?
As I’ve discussed above, the fall crops of Stardew Valley are: “Wheat”, “Sunflower”, “Amaranth”, “Corn”, “Beet”, “Fairy Rose”, “Bok Choy”, “Eggplant”, “Cranberries”, “Yam”, “Grapes”, “Artichoke”, “Pumpkin”, “Sweet Gem Berries”.
Are cranberries good Stardew?
Yes, cranberries are one of the top fall crops in Stardew Valley. They provide good profit, can be used for different recipes, and are also ideal for gifting to villagers.
What is the highest-selling item in Stardew Valley?
The highest selling item in the game is the Legendary Fish, which sells 15,000 gold. It is a rare fish and is found through fishing.
