Oh. Hoho. You don't know. You REALLY don't know.



Let's start with a simple question. What do you do with your starter crops? That's right, you sell them. What do you do with the money? Buy seeds for more crops. So there is a loop where you dump money into crops to grow your assets as quickly as possible.



How do Coffee beans work? You plant them, and you get 4 more beans. What do you do with those beans? Plant them, of course! Every 2 days. Until those seeds ripen. Then you plant the 16 seeds from the 4 plants. then the 64 seeds from the 16 plants. Then the 256 seeds from the 64 plants.



Do you see it yet? I was playing with a few spreadsheets. If you get your first coffee seed on the 4th (thurs) and buy 21 speed gro for the first 2 generations(2100G), you will have 277 coffee in the field by the end of summer 2. That's about the limit of manual watering without upgrades. Stop there and you will end summer with nearly 9000 Coffee beans, banking 144K gold. If you continue to be a complete madman and keep planting coffee, by summer 14 you will have enough Coffee to plant every single tile on your farm. Buying a second coffee bean on the 7th only pushes the schedule up 3 days, letting you max out on the 11th for an extra harvest or so.



I didn't say reload. I said RESET. As in starting all over from day 1. It's only 4 days, and the odds of a day 4 coffee bean are pretty good at 25%. If you're feeling lazy there's another 25% chance on day 7.



That is actually AMAZING. Look at the alternatives.

Parsnips make <4G/day. Potatoes 5G/day. Cauliflower makes 8G/day. Coffee averages out to about 21G/day over both seasons, just barely squeaking ahead of blueberries. But for the cost of 31 blueberry seeds, you can instead have ~300 coffee plants kicking around at that time.



Keep in mind that the gold/day is the same thing as the gold/watering effort. Everything needs to be watered daily, and rain isn't reliable. In a water triage the crop with the most profit per day is the crop worth watering.



There are certainly plenty of reasons to grow other plants of course. You need energy, bundle materials and gifts for the town. Kegged hops kill everything hands down, averaging ~130 gold/day over the summer and getting more insane with artisan. There is no reason to ever skip hops day. Kegs will only double the value of coffee, leaving it far behind with 42G/day. It's still not as far behind as the other typical options.



Coffee may not make you that million gold by the end of summer (the impossible maxed+watered farm makes over 600k) but is still big money. The schedule leaves plenty of fishing/caving time before summer 2 to get as many sprinklers as possible before the coffeepocalypse reaches full steam.

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