I'm also interested in getting another employee. I plan to buy some more land this summer to grow fruit trees and the one employee I use for daily chores just isn't enough to water all the crops on sunny days. The other two employees are already busy baking and making butter in the dairy and my own character is in the meat workshop all day so one extra person would really make a difference. According to Zeps on the forums, it's costs $15,000 to build a second house. Surprisingly, that's cheaper than the last upgrade for the first house.
I also noticed last year that you really do need to diversify your farm at veteran level because baking sourdough bread forever won't get you anywhere. The cows I started raising last year will be 7* in a couple turns so I'll finally be able to start making 7* cakes. I tried crunching the numbers on a bunch of cake recipes and so far the most profitable one I've found is Oatmeal Cake. Here are the profit values I've calculated:
83 Oatmeal Cake = $7109.78
166 Vienna Bread = $4953.44
166 Sourdough Bread = $1731.38
It takes twice as much butter to make cake than vienna bread, so if you only have one employee for your dairy then you can only make 83 cakes per day. I've made 5* oatmeal cake and even though it takes up more endurance to make the butter, it sells for more than double what sourdough bread makes. If you're afraid of raising cows because you don't want to grow all the ingredients for optimum feed, you can try using productivity feed instead. It will keep your cows at 5* but at least you'll be making cake instead of bread.
I've also decided that a winery isn't enough. I used to make citrus wine to drink for the extra endurance but the brewery has better alcohols that give much more. So I've decided to build one after harvesting my cool cereals. The only workshop I'm not going to build is the kitchen since none of the cooked recipes are profitable. I've tried doing the calculations, but even with homegrown ingredients, cooking just isn't very profitable.
How is everyone else doing? Do any of the newer members need help?
I also changed the template of our blog to make it bright and sunny. I couldn't find a nice 'woods' picture from the available options but at least this background is green and leafy.
ReplyDelete2 cow milk and 2 butters are required to make an oatmeal cake. So, you can only make 25 oatmeal cakes from 100 cow milk, which can be sold for $2750 only. While, more profitable (and use more endurance) is use 100 cow milk to make 100 éclair, which can be sold for $4200. Anyway, it is only good for farm with advanced dairy workshop or dairy worker, like mine :)
ReplyDeleteKitchen is a very good workshop for me. Almost everything (include bread, sausage, wine) can be turned into extremely high valued food, which can give you more than 172 (apple brandy) extra endurance each. Some recipes are very profitable (compare to sourdough bread) too such as Avocado Tortilla Soup, Cabbage Garlic Soup etc, as long as you use the correct quality from the market/your farm. You can also cook jam in kitchen and bake bun in bakery, the profit is more than éclair. You will have many choices as long as you have 7* cow milk or butter.
I should able to complete 5 veteran accomplishments in this year. But, I don’t plan to level up because I am enjoying in experienced challenges and tournaments now.
Well, I had stopped baking the sourdough bread since one game year ago. But, recently, I resumed the 7* sourdough bread business because of my transaction problem had been solved. I assign one farmer for crops care and baking bread, the second one for making butter and wine making, the third one for livestock care and cook jam/food; the last one (myself) for baking bun and baking bread/ milling/making feed. I had fully upgraded equipment of almost all workshops and barn; eat food to have ~2000 extra endurance daily. Every turn, I can make 108 buns, 200+ sourdough breads and 100+ wine, which give me ~$6400 net profit.
In the winter, I will build a meat workshop because I will have a lot of 7* chicken meat from my 2 fully upgraded (on heat system) chicken coop.
The problem with eclairs is that it only requires a few ingredients so it doesn't count towards the veteran baking accomplishment. But you're right, they are a good source of revenue per butter used.
ReplyDeleteYou're lucky you started doing dairy very early. My employee still only has level 15 dairy... Even with full dairy upgrades I still have to make him eat a lot. I always make sure one employee doesn't eat at all because two times I missed watering one crop but we had all eaten and had no endurance left. My crops had over 100% drought resistance at the time so I didn't have any loss but that one crop had slower growth than the others for that day.
I am also not planning for semi-pro as the mission are harder to do.
ReplyDeleteI like to new colors. : )
Love the new background!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the offer of help Tami (I'm definitely one of the newbies) - all that 7 star OFE is a great help and I'm sure my farm is progressing much faster because of it. I'm still baking with all that wheat you gave me too