Animal Products Profitability
| Animal Products Profitability | |
|---|---|
| Type | Animal Product |
Animal Products Profitability compares what a coop or barn product fetches raw against what it fetches once the right machine has had it. Nearly every line pays, and several pay three or four times over, but the page exists because a few do not. Two rules cause most of the trouble: the machines ignore the quality of what goes in, and the two farming professions pull in opposite directions. Mayonnaise made from an Ostrich Egg and Cloth woven from Wool are the only artisan goods in the game that carry their input's quality through to the output, which is why they behave unlike everything else here. With Artisan taken at Farming level ten, almost every line becomes worth processing whatever star it carries.
Production
The animal machines are the quickest on the farm. A Mayonnaise Machine and a Cheese Press each finish in about three hours, and a Loom in about four, so a morning's milking and egg round can be processed, collected and shipped before the day is out. One machine of each kind keeps up with a surprising number of animals, which is why the gold a day arguments that dog the Keg and the Preserves Jar hardly arise here. The question is never how fast the machine runs, only whether the product should go into it.
Supply sets the pace instead. A grown cow gives Milk every morning, a goat gives it every other day, and a sheep grows a new coat over several days, faster for a well-loved flock. Chickens, ducks, rabbits and the rest keep their own schedules. A machine can sit idle for half the morning at no cost, so the animals can set the pace.
Quality is where the page earns its name. A jug of ordinary Milk makes a plain wheel of Cheese and a Large Milk makes a gold one, and the stars printed on the jug count for nothing in either case. Goat Milk works the same way with Goat Cheese. Eggs follow the same pattern: an ordinary Egg makes a plain jar and a Large Egg a gold one, while Duck, Void and Dinosaur eggs always make a plain jar however fine the egg was. Size matters and stars do not.
Two products break that rule, and both are worth knowing. One Ostrich Egg fills ten jars at a time, and every jar takes the egg's own quality, so a star on an Ostrich Egg is worth ten times what a star is worth anywhere else on the page. Wool is the other. Each fleece goes into the Loom. A better fleece makes a second bolt likelier: an even chance at gold quality and a certainty at iridium.
Prices
The percentages in the table are the processed price divided by the raw price, so they fall steadily as quality rises. A plain Egg nearly quadruples in the machine. An iridium Egg already sells for double a plain one on its own, so the same jar of Mayonnaise represents a far smaller step up. The pattern repeats all the way down the page: the plainest unit of any product is the best one to process, and the starred units are better shipped as they are.
A handful of lines cross below the line altogether, and they are the iridium ones. An iridium jug of Milk or Goat Milk, an iridium Truffle and an iridium Golden Egg each fetch more in the shipping bin than the machine will hand back. Wool is the exception to the exception. A gold fleece is the one that can lose, because a single bolt of Cloth is worth less than the fleece itself, and only the second bolt rescues it. Across a flock it rescues it comfortably, since gold fleeces average half an extra bolt each and iridium fleeces never fail to give one, so the sensible rule is to weave every fleece and ignore the single bad outcome.
The professions decide most of the remaining cases. Rancher adds a fifth to animal products, and it reaches the processed goods as well as the raw ones. Both sides of every comparison move by the same fifth, so the ratios barely shift and the same lines still lose. Artisan works on the processed side alone. Two fifths added to the Mayonnaise, the Cheese and the Cloth, with the raw product left where it stands, turns every qualified entry in the quick reference into a plain yes. For a farm that processes what its animals give, Artisan beats the profession named after livestock, and it beats it by more the higher the quality of the herd.
Whether processing the product pays, by profession.
| Product | Image | None | Rancher | Artisan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Egg | 
|
Always | Always | Always |
| Large Egg | 
|
Always | Always | Always |
| Duck Egg | 
|
Always | Always | Always |
| Void Egg | 
|
Always | Always | Always |
| Dinosaur Egg | 
|
Always | Always | Always |
| Dinosaur Egg with Treasure Appraisal Guide | - | Never | Never | Regular |
| Ostrich Egg | 
|
Always | Always | Always |
| Golden Egg | 
|
Regular, Silver, and Gold | Regular, Silver, and Gold | Always |
| Wool | 
|
Regular, Silver, and Iridium | Regular, Silver, and Iridium | Always |
| Milk | 
|
Regular, Silver, and Gold | Regular, Silver, and Gold | Always |
| Large Milk | 
|
Regular, Silver, and Gold | Regular, Silver, and Gold | Always |
| Goat Milk | 
|
Regular, Silver, and Gold | Regular, Silver, and Gold | Always |
| Large Goat Milk | 
|
Regular, Silver, and Gold | Regular, Silver, and Gold | Always |
| Truffle | 
|
Regular, Silver, and Gold | Regular, Silver, and Gold | Always |
Notes
A Dinosaur Egg is the one line a book can ruin. The egg counts as an artifact, so the Treasure Appraisal Guide triples what it sells for, and that single change turns the best entry in the egg section into the worst. The tripled egg outsells its Mayonnaise at every quality, and only a plain egg in the hands of an Artisan farmer still gains anything at all. A coop of dinosaurs kept for its eggs is therefore a shipping operation rather than a processing one, and the book is worth having anyway for everything else it lifts.
Cheese and Goat Cheese have a second stage that nothing else on the page can use. Ageing either of them in a cellar barrel adds value on top of whatever the press earned, and it adds it reliably enough that a barn farm with a cellar presses even the milk the quick reference would send to the bin. The wheel comes out of the barrel with stars the press could never give it.
Raw products have calls on them that gold alone cannot settle. The Animal Bundle in the Pantry asks for several raw barn and coop goods, the large jugs and eggs among them, so the first of each belongs in the Community Center. Cooking wants raw Milk and Eggs for a long list of dishes, from Omelet and Pancakes to Pink Cake. Item delivery requests on the Help Wanted board ask for the raw article as well. The honest reading of the whole page is that processing is the default and the exceptions are few, but the exceptions cluster exactly where a farm is proudest of itself, among the iridium jugs and the prize-winning fleeces.
All Animal Products
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Animal | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Animal Products Profitability | - | - | - |
| Dinosaur Egg |
|
Dinosaur; Artifact Spot in The Mountains / Quarry (0.6%); Fishing Treasure Chests (0.7-0.8%); Pepper Rex drop (10%); Prehistoric Floors in the Skull Cavern; Crane Game in Movie Theater | 350g |
| Duck Egg |
|
Ducks | 95g |
| Duck Feather | 
|
Duck; Cat | 250g |
| Egg |
|
Chicken | 50g |
| Goat Milk |
|
Goat | 225g |
| Golden Egg |
|
Golden Chicken; Marnie's Ranch; Qi's Walnut Room; The Witch; Fishing Treasure Chest (0.12%) | 500g |
| Large Egg |
|
Chicken | 95g |
| Large Goat Milk |
|
Goat | 345g |
| Large Milk |
|
Cow | 190g |
| Milk |
|
Cow | 125g |
| Ostrich Egg |
|
Ostrich | 600g |
| Rabbit's Foot | 
|
Rabbit; Traveling Cart; Serpent drop (0.8%); Cat | 565g |
| Roe | 
|
Fish Pond; Fishing Treasure Chests | - |
| Slime | 
|
Slimes; Krobus; Slime Ball; Traveling Cart; Fish Pond | - |
| Slime Ball | 
|
Slime Hutch | - |
| Void Egg |
|
Void Chicken; Witch; Krobus; Void Salmon Fish Ponds | 65g |
| Wool |
|
Rabbit; Sheep | 340g |