Aged Roe

Aged Roe

Type	Artisan Good
Machine	Preserves Jar
Ingredients	Roe (1)
Time	4000m (3-4 days)

Aged Roe is the cured form of the fish eggs that a Fish Pond collects. Putting a Roe into a Preserves Jar turns it into Aged Roe, and the jar doubles its value. Almost every fish in a pond can feed this chain, so a farm with several ponds has a steady trickle of jars to fill. The colour of each jar follows the fish that laid the eggs. Sturgeon is the one exception: its eggs become Caviar instead. Aged Roe also counts for a remixed Community Center bundle, a tailored shirt and an orange dye.

Making

The process starts at the Fish Pond. Robin builds the pond at the Carpenter's Shop for gold, Stone, Seaweed and Green Algae. Once fish live in it, the pond sometimes leaves Roe in its basket, and the eggs take the colour of the fish inside.

Placing one Roe into a Preserves Jar starts the curing. The jar needs two to three days before the Aged Roe is ready. The Preserves Jar recipe arrives at Farming level 4, so this chain opens early. Sturgeon Roe goes down a separate path: the same jar turns it into Caviar, which takes about four days.

Eating Aged Roe gives the same energy and health no matter which fish it came from. A jar from a cheap pond fish heals just as well as one from a rare fish, so low-value jars make handy snacks.

These are the ingredients one batch needs.

Name	Image	Amount
Roe		1

Prices

The rule is simple: Aged Roe sells for twice the price of the Roe that went in. The Roe itself is worth a flat 30g plus half the base price of its fish. Expensive fish therefore give the most valuable jars. A Lava Eel pond, for example, turns out Aged Roe worth around 760g a jar.

Cheap pond fish still gain from the jar, but the gain is small in plain gold. Doubling a modest Roe adds only a few dozen coins, while the jar sits busy for days. Ponds stocked with rare fish make the jar time far more worthwhile.

The Artisan profession adds two fifths to the price of Aged Roe. It sits at Farming level 10 and turns an already doubled Roe into close to triple the raw value.

Uses

The remixed Community Center can ask for 15 Aged Roe as one option in the Fish Farmer's Bundle in the Pantry. Saving jars from any pond works, since the bundle accepts every kind.

At the Sewing Machine, Aged Roe in the spool makes the dyeable Globby Shirt. It also counts as an orange dye in the dye pots at Emily's and Haley's house, 2 Willow Lane.

Gifts

Most of the valley likes Aged Roe as a gift, from Abigail and Clint to Leo, Krobus and the Wizard. Jas, Sebastian and Vincent hate it, so a jar for any of them costs friendship.

Notes

A pond that keeps producing Roe gives a choice each day. Selling the Roe raw is quick, while curing it doubles the price for the cost of jar time. The jar wins most clearly on ponds of rare fish, where each doubling is worth hundreds of coins.

All Artisan Goods

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Image	Machine	Time
Aged Roe		Preserves Jar	4000m (3-4 days)
Beer		Keg	1750m (≈29h)
Cask Productivity	-	-	-
Caviar		Preserves Jar	6000m (4 days)
Cheese		Cheese Press	200min (3.3h)
Cloth		Loom	240m (≈4h)
Coffee		Keg	120m (2h)
Dinosaur Mayonnaise		Mayonnaise Machine	3h
Dried Fruit		Dehydrator	1750m (≈1d)
Dried Mushrooms		Dehydrator	1750m (≈1d)
Duck Mayonnaise		Mayonnaise Machine	3h
Goat Cheese		Cheese Press	200m (≈3h)
Green Tea		Keg	180m (3h)
Honey		Bee House	6100m (≈4d)
Jellies and Pickles	-	-	-
Juice		Keg	6000m (≈4d)
Keg Productivity	-	-	-
Maple Syrup		Tapper; Heavy Tapper	9 or 4 days
Mayonnaise		Mayonnaise Machine	3h
Mead		Keg	10h
Mystic Syrup		Tapper; Heavy Tapper	7 or 3 days
Oak Resin		Tapper; Heavy Tapper	7 or 3 days
Oil		Oil Maker	Varies by ingredient
Pale Ale		Keg	2250m (37.5h)
Pine Tar		Tapper; Heavy Tapper	5 or 2 days
Preserves Jar Productivity	-	-	-
Raisins		Dehydrator	1750m (≈29h)
Smoked Fish		Fish Smoker	50m
Truffle Oil		Oil Maker	360m (6h)
Void Mayonnaise		Mayonnaise Machine	3h
Wine		Keg	10,000m (≈7d)