oops i did more stardew math and now its 3am
@wallhackio @Satsuma true but ancient fruit also lasts 3 seasons. so if you plant outside in the spring you're already full grown by the time you can plant a starfruit
@wallhackio @cam feel like the inevitable solution is going to be “a hybrid solution is most profitable”
@Satsuma @wallhackio the optimal solution is to plant star fruit or the most profitable crop for that season while waiting for your ancient fruit to proliferate
@Satsuma I wanted to expand my ancient vs star fruit analysis to larger farms
My analysis was comparing the profit of a single plant vs a single plant
In reality you would make many plants. There is an seed maker tool in the game that can create seeds for a fruit so you can turn one ancient fruit plant into an entire farm. But it would take an extremely long time to turn the fruit into a reasonably sized farm (the greenhouse, which is a common place to make an ancient fruit farm, can house 116 plants if you use iridium sprinklers optimally) because there is a long period of time where all fruit being harvested are being used to create more seeds
With star fruit you can just buy the seeds you need on any given day given you have unlocked the desert and have the money. So star fruit will make profits immediately while ancient fruit lag behind while you increase the number of ancient fruit plants on your farm