Stardew Valley Crop Profit Calculator

A high sell price means little when the crop cannot mature before the window closes. Start with the number of calendar days available, including planting day. The calculator counts only complete harvests and shows the first and last harvest day so you can see whether the plan fits.

For non-regrowing crops, it assumes you replant on each harvest day only when another complete cycle fits. Regrowing crops use one planting and continue at their fixed regrowth interval after the first harvest.

The current calculator uses the crops contained in its embedded dataset labelled “Stardew Valley 1.6 crop reference, July 2026”. The table below is generated from that same data, so the page and calculator do not silently use different values.

Stardew describes a Parsnip as taking four days to mature, but a seed planted and watered on Spring 1 is harvested on Spring 5. Spring 1 is the planting day; the four growth days happen after it.

This distinction prevents a common profit-calculator error. Twenty-eight calendar days fit six complete four-day Parsnip cycles, with harvests on days 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, and 25. Simply dividing 28 by 4 incorrectly produces seven.

The calculator assumes immediate watering after planting or replanting and no missed watering days. A dry day delays the crop and can remove a later harvest from the plan.

Processing is not one universal multiplier. Preserves jars turn fruit into jelly and vegetables into pickles using twice the crop’s base price plus 50g. Kegs turn fruit into wine at three times base price, while vegetable juice uses 2.25 times base price.

Crop quality does not increase the base value of jelly, pickles, wine, or juice. A gold-quality crop therefore produces the same standard processed item value as a normal-quality crop of the same type. Artisan then increases the processed item’s value by 40%.

The calculator applies the selected processing method to every expected item immediately. That is useful for comparing value, but it is not a machine-throughput forecast. A field can produce more crops than your jars or kegs can process before the end of the season.

Tiller increases raw crop sale prices by 10%. Agriculturist and Artisan are separate Level 10 choices reached through Tiller: Agriculturist shortens initial crop growth, while Artisan increases artisan-goods sale prices.

The calculator therefore uses one profession selector instead of independent checkboxes. Selecting Agriculturist or Artisan automatically includes the underlying Tiller profession where it applies.

Players can pay to change professions and may grow crops under Agriculturist before later selling stored artisan goods under Artisan. That can be a valid strategy, but it involves timing and profession switching that this single-plan calculation does not simulate.

Potatoes, Cranberries, and Strawberries can produce random extra items. Instead of pretending that every tile produces the same fixed result, the calculator uses an expected average yield across many plants and harvests.

That is why the displayed item total can contain a decimal. You will never pick up a fraction of a crop in-game; the decimal represents the long-run average used for planning. A small field or a single harvest can differ noticeably because of random rolls and Daily Luck.

For multi-item crops, fertiliser quality does not apply equally to every extra item. The current interface therefore keeps the raw crop calculation at normal quality rather than applying one quality multiplier to an entire Blueberry, Cranberry, or Potato harvest.

Net profit is gross crop or artisan-good value minus the modelled seed purchases. For non-regrowing crops, the calculator buys another seed for every complete planting cycle. For a regrowing crop, it buys one initial seed per tile.

The optional seed-cost field matters for crops whose acquisition cost varies. Strawberry Seeds can come from festival purchases or other sources, while Ancient Seeds and Pineapple Seeds do not have one universal shop price that represents every save. Enter the cost that matches your plan.

The result does not deduct fertiliser, machines, coal, farm buildings, sprinklers, tool upgrades, energy, storage, processing time, or opportunity cost. It answers a focused question: what is the modeled crop value after seeds under the assumptions selected?

This is not yet a complete all-crop optimizer. It compares one of the embedded crops under one field size, one calendar window, one profession state, and one sale method.

It does not rank every Stardew crop, import a save, allocate a limited collection of machines, calculate mixed-quality harvests, build a greenhouse layout, or determine the best use of each jar and keg over time.

Those omissions are stated openly because a smaller transparent calculation is more useful than an apparently precise recommendation built on hidden assumptions.