#may you all be blessed with thriving and healthy digital crops and may your video game harvests be bountiful

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ya’ll KNOW it’s ORANGES ALL THE WAYYYYYY if you’re playing a farming sim!!!

Fruit trees in farming sims usually produce for several months at a time and don’t die, you have to cut them down. They take a while to grow but after that they usually produce fruit every day or every other day. They’re typically end game/later in the story line in terms of when you can get them but they’re the best in terms of stabled and continued profit, and they sell for higher than the earlier in game crops that take less time to grow but sell for much cheaper. Plus you can cook with them and dishes with fruit in them tend to sell for higher, even if the dish isn’t as complex/takes multiple different crop ingredients. They’re useful in multiple different dishes depending on the fruit, oranges are one of the most common ones just behind apples. typically they’re worth a little more than apples. with the combination of dishes and on their own they’re the most solid bet for maximizing your profits. Fruit trees are also the most likely to produce for multiple seasons, but that depends on the game. They don’t disappear or go away unless you cut them down or a fucking storm hits.

Depending on the game, sometimes a potato plant can regrow after harvesting, but they’re usually available earlier on in game and the dishes you make with them don’t sell for as much. They’re used in some more complex recipes but most potato based recipes don’t sell for much.

Flowers in farming sims are okay but you usually can’t get more money out of cooking with them so you have to sell them as is. They don’t usually sell for as much as crops do despite taking around the same amount of time. Flowers vary and which ones are available earlier on or later in game is usually different in every single game. They also never regrow and are single harvest.

Green beans are usually obtained mid game and can regrow after harvesting but there’s rarely any green bean based recipes so usually you plant 1-2 per year and keep the crops in your fridge. You’ll have that same harvest in your fridge for the next 2 years with how often you need them for recipes. After you’ve harvested from them a few times they also disappear so you have to replant them and start over. When that happens is typically at random.

Cabbages are typical crops, single harvest. They’re in a lot more recipes but require several other crops in those recipes like green beans do so they’re mid at best. Usually available mid to late game.

Pumpkins are basically the same as green beans but they do typically sell for a bit higher on their own.

Nuts are basically like fruit but they’re used in maybe 2 specific recipes so after you stock a few you can sell them on their own. However usually at that point dishes sell for more than crops on their own so you usually end up just growing one and then cutting it down after one season.

Time capsules are most likely similar to rare plants/crops that take multiple seasons or even a full year or more to grow. They’re cool and worth a lot of money on their own AND in dishes, but the amount of time they take to produce is what keeps them from being the best option.

Watermelon is just a fruit version of green beans but lacks the longevity of fruit trees, plus they typically only grow in the summer.

Every farming sim also has some kind of random, unpredictable storm that ends up killing your crops at random (which fucking SUCKS when it hits a time capsule/special crop that is ALMOST DONE growing and it makes you fucking START OVER) so they suck. They do sometimes leave behind more building materials or help to keep you from bleeding the soil nutrient level down to nothing but they suck. Plus they’re typically the ONLY thing that destroys a fruit tree.

Plant what you want but I’m here to get RICH so I can build more barns and get a bigger house!! Plus I can use the money to buy or unlock more field space to plant more shit!! Farming is about maximizing profits and weighing the pros and cons of what you plant where and when!