Dried Fruit

Dried Fruit
Type	Artisan Good
Machine	Dehydrator
Ingredients	Any Fruit except Grapes (5)
Time	1750m (≈1d)
Sell Price	7.5 × Fruit Base Price + 25

Dried Fruit is the Dehydrator's way of handling a big fruit harvest. Loading five of the same fruit into a Dehydrator gives one bag of Dried Fruit the next morning. Its colour and value follow the fruit that went in, so Dried Starfruit and Dried Salmonberries sit at opposite ends of the price scale. The Dehydrator works through fruit far faster than a Keg or a Preserves Jar, so a few machines go a long way. Per fruit, though, it adds less value than either. The Raccoon at the Giant Stump asks for a bag in his second request.

Making

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Pierre's General Store sells the Dehydrator recipe for a large sum. Building one then takes Wood, Clay and a single Fire Quartz.

Each load needs five fruits of one kind and one quality. Any fruit works except Grapes, which become Raisins instead. The bag is always normal quality, whatever stars the fruit carried.

Drying takes about a day, so a Dehydrator filled in the evening is ready in the morning. With five fruits per load, one machine handles a lot of produce. Ten Dehydrators can clear fifty fruits a day, while ten Kegs need about a week for just ten fruits.

Eating Dried Fruit restores three times the energy and health of one plain fruit. A bag is a compact way to carry food from a fruit harvest.

Prices

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A bag of Dried Fruit sells for seven and a half times the base price of one fruit, plus 25g. Spread over the five fruits that went in, each fruit earns one and a half times its base price plus 5g. The Artisan profession lifts that to just over twice the base price, plus 7g.

Quality works against the Dehydrator. The bag's price uses only the fruit's base value, so silver and gold fruit gain little. Without Artisan, gold fruit earns only about 5g extra per fruit, and iridium fruit usually loses money. The Tiller profession raises the raw fruit's price too, which narrows the gap further.

The comparison with other machines depends on what runs short. Per fruit, Wine pays three times the base price and Jelly pays double plus 50g, so both beat drying. Per machine, the Dehydrator earns more each day, because it finishes five fruits overnight. Drying therefore suits a harvest too large for the Kegs on hand.

Starfruit makes the most valuable bags by far, with Ancient Fruit next. Wild berries such as Salmonberries make only a modest bag.

Uses

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The Raccoon at the Giant Stump requests one Dried Fruit as part of his second request. Later requests, from the sixth onwards, may ask for one again.

At the Sewing Machine, Dried Fruit works as a yellow dye on a dyeable piece of clothing. The yellow pot at Emily's and Haley's house accepts it too.

Most villagers like Dried Fruit, including Abigail, Demetrius, Gus, Leo and the Wizard. Jas, Sebastian and Vincent hate Dried Fruit.

All Artisan Goods

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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)