The autumn season is touted as the most special season in your favorite farm life simulation game, “Stardew Valley.” Being the most lucrative of all four seasons, you must take advantage of this to grow the best crops. But what about the crops to avoid? Unless you want to ruin your “Stardew” experience. Here’s the list.
PVP Live Recap: Best Crops For Fall
Before discussing which crops are the worst during fall in this game, let’s recap from our previous story. Which are the best crops?
The best crops to grow during fall are:
- Sweet Gem Berry (best of the best) – Offers the highest selling price among all crops, making it the most lucrative option for autumn. It is ideal for maximizing profits during this season.
- Pumpkin – Yields sizable profit margins, especially with the Tiller profession bonus. Essential for various community bundles, adding strategic value.
- Cranberry – Produces several berries per harvest and quickly regrows, ensuring steady income throughout the season.
- Fairy Rose – High-value flower, perfect as gifts and for Honey production, significantly boosting Honey’s selling price.
- Grapes – Proliferate quickly and continue to produce fruit every three days after the initial harvest, offering steady income.
- Artichoke – Provides a solid return on investment, has a moderate growth period, and has a high selling price.
- Eggplant – Fast-growing and produces many harvests, making it an efficient crop for early and consistent profits.
Broccoli is another crop to grow during fall that was not included on our previous list. Now, let’s get to the list of the worst crops.
Worst Crops To Grow During Fall In ‘Stardew Valley’
Bok Choy
“Mediocre” is the best adjective for Bok Choy. So, just learning about that, you’d set this crop aside for now. But if you wish to know why it is the worst, read on.
First, it is not the most expensive seed. So, even if you can save money with it, it won’t give you lasting results, such as not providing the longest growth time. That said, it also generates too minuscule a profit. Furthermore, the Bok Choy cannot be used in bundles, and the quests you access when you have this crop are limited.
It may be the preferred gift for some villagers, but it is just used for one recipe, the Super Meal. While Bok Choy isn’t at all terrible, it is bland, so you better let go of it.
Amaranth
Cool, despite its beautifully sounding name, the Amaranth is somewhat forgettable as a fall season crop. It is not at all terrible, but it isn’t great, believe us. Please don’t get hurt when we tell you it’s not super helpful, though it’s not useless throughout. Sure, you can earn profits if you grow it, but it will never lay the foundation for your “Stardew Valley” empire.
How about recipes you can make using Amaranth? Sure, you can cook Salmon Dinner, but this dish doesn’t offer the level of skill buffs that other dishes do. Meanwhile, for Marnie, you need to grow at least one piece of Amaranth. This villager requests it as part of a quest.
Amaranth is also not the best choice for profit. It is not the “worst” in every way, but there are better crops than it, not to mention Elliott hates it a lot.
Corn
Not to be corny here, but Corn is better set aside during fall. While you can use it as a multi-harvest and multi-season plant (a valuable asset, indeed), this crop won’t make huge profits during fall. In the real world, corns are harvested in summer.
Sure, you can use Corn to complete two standard bundles in the Community Center and a remixed crop, but it still has no valuable use. As for recipes, you can make some Tortillas or Cooking Oil from them, as in the real world, but you will still need other ingredients before arriving at those recipes.
As a gift? Well, lacking. Five villagers don’t like it, together with Pierre who despises it. In other words, it’s best not to grow Corn during fall and to refocus your energy on other better crops.
Sunflower
In the real world, Sunflowers are a summer season beauty. But, in “Stardew Valley,” don’t laugh when you hear this is one of the worst crops regardless of the season. Let’s start with the pros.
Regardless of the season you grow your Sunflower, it can turn in significant profits. Also, you’ll need it to complete a bundle in the “Stardew Valley” story, and it can be given as a gift. Haley loves to receive Corn as a gift.
However, there are cons. You cannot use it in any requests for cooking and even if you can use it to make Cooking Oil, you’ll save bucks if you purchase premade oil instead.
So, maybe say “Pass” for this plant for now, as it will just drain your fields and profits. However, they’re beautiful, and those who are after aesthetics can have them.
Coffee Beans
Tempting but deadly, Coffee Beans are not the most optimal crop because of their low base selling price and because they need you to wait for a lengthy processing before you can generate profits from it.
Sure, they can produce multiple harvests, but the effort you must exert to convert the Beans into Coffee for higher profits is not worth it compared with those for other crops, especially for those looking for quicker and higher returns from their farming efforts.
Conclusion
Immersing yourself in “Stardew Valley,” you will realize that Bok Choy, Amaranth, Corn, Sunflower, and Coffee Beans. This is because of their low profit margins and growth cycles that will keep you waiting. They also take up a massive portion of your farmland without giving significant and substantial returns, making them inefficient compared to other options. In other words, prioritize the more lucrative crops to optimize the productivity and profitability of your farm.
