Cask
| Cask | |
|---|---|
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| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Final Farmhouse upgrade |
The Cask is a wooden barrel that ages artisan drinks and cheeses, raising their quality and their price. Over time, a bottle of Wine or a wheel of Cheese climbs from plain quality to silver, then gold, and finally iridium. That last step doubles its base value. The recipe arrives with the final farmhouse upgrade, which adds the cellar, and casks only work down there. Aging is slow, so the Cask suits patient farms with a steady flow of Wine and Cheese. Filled with Starfruit Wine, Ancient Fruit Wine or Goat Cheese, a full cellar becomes a quiet late-game money maker.
Recipe
The Cask recipe comes from the third and last farmhouse upgrade at Robin's Carpenter's Shop. That upgrade adds a cellar under the house. It is the last of the house upgrades and costs a very large sum, so casks are firmly a late-game tool.
The finished cellar already holds a full set of casks, three long rows of them. More can be crafted from Wood and a single piece of Hardwood each. Large Stumps and the Secret Woods supply the Hardwood, so a big batch of casks mostly comes down to chopping enough Wood.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
20 |
| Hardwood | 
|
1 |
Use
A Cask can be placed anywhere, but it only accepts goods inside the cellar. Placing a jar of Wine, Beer, Pale Ale or Mead, or a Cheese or Goat Cheese, into an empty cask starts the aging. Fruit wine and cheese are the usual choices. A star on the front of the cask shows the quality the item has reached so far.
Each type of good ages at its own speed. Cheese and Goat Cheese are the quickest, reaching iridium quality in about two weeks. Beer, Pale Ale and Mead sit in the middle. Wine takes the longest of all, about two full seasons from plain to iridium.
Waiting for the top quality is optional. Hitting a cask with an Axe, Hoe or Pickaxe pops the item out early at whatever star it has reached. That makes it easy to pull a gold-star wine for a gift, a bundle or a quick sale.
Notes
Profit per cask is modest, so the choice of input matters. Players who compare the numbers usually rank Starfruit Wine first, Ancient Fruit Wine second and Goat Cheese third. Goat Cheese is a strong pick because it reaches iridium so quickly, and milking carries on while the last batch ages. Cheaper wines earn very little per day in a cask.
Casks also make the most sense for farms with more product than processing. With only a few dozen Kegs, aging their output adds real value. On a farm with hundreds of Kegs, the slow pace of a cask matters far less. Aging also ties up goods for weeks, so it suits a farm that does not need the gold right away.
The cellar can hold many more casks than it starts with. With careful rows and walking paths, around a hundred and twenty-five can still be reached. Building the extras costs a large pile of Wood and Hardwood, but a full cellar of high-value wine pays it back.
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