Cask

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Cask
Cask.png
Use in the cellar to age products like wine and cheese.
Information
Source Crafting
Sell Price Cannot be sold
Crafting
Recipe Source Final Farmhouse upgrade
Ingredients Wood.png Wood (20)Hardwood.png Hardwood (1)
For a detailed analysis of profit using the Cask, see Cask Productivity.

The Cask is a type of Artisan Equipment used to age Artisan Goods. It takes Beer, Cheese, Goat Cheese, Mead, Pale Ale, and Wine, and ages them to increase their quality and value.

Normal, silver, and gold quality items can be prematurely removed from a cask at any time by striking the cask with an Axe, Hoe, or Pickaxe. A star will appear on the front of the cask denoting the quality of the item inside.

Casks are able to produce items with "iridium star" quality. Iridium star is the highest level of quality, which doubles the value of an item. Different types of items take longer or slower to age. Wine takes the longest, at 2 seasons of aging to go from basic wine to iridium quality wine.

Casks can be placed anywhere; however, they will only accept goods to refine if they are actually in the cellar.

Placement Strategy

The cellar comes with 33 casks. It is possible to fill the cellar with 125 casks (on PC) and still leave paths to reach all of them without displacing any of them.

It's also possible to completely fill the cellar with Casks. This requires 189 casks, made of 156 Hardwood and 3120 Wood. In order to use all 189 casks, the player must fill the casks all at once, placing additional casks while moving towards the exit. In order to harvest the finished product, the player must reverse the process, removing empty casks while carving a path to the furthest ones. This can be time-consuming, so it may be a desirable option for only the most valuable products (e.g., Starfruit or Ancient Fruit wine).

On mobile devices, casks in corners cannot be reached, so 118 is the maximum reachable number of casks. With a controller, it's possible that casks in diagonal corners may not be reachable.

PC and mobile layouts described here are shown in the Gallery below.

Aged Values

Image Name Ingredient Base Quality Silver Star
(x 1.25)
Gold Star
(x 1.5)
Iridium Star
(x 2)
Wine.png Wine Any fruit (1) data-sort-value="0"
Wine.png
3 x Base
Fruit Price
data-sort-value="0"
Wine.png
Silver Quality Icon.png
(3 x Base) x 1.25

Aged: 14 Days

data-sort-value="0"
Wine.png
Gold Quality Icon.png
(3 x Base) x 1.5

Aged: 14 Days
Total: 28 Days

data-sort-value="0"
Wine.png
Iridium Quality Icon.png
(3 x Base) x 2

Aged: 28 Days
Total: 56 Days

Pale Ale.png Pale Ale Hops.png Hops (1) data-sort-value="300"
Pale Ale.png
300g
data-sort-value="300"
Pale Ale.png
Silver Quality Icon.png
375g

Aged: 9 Days

data-sort-value="300"
Pale Ale.png
Gold Quality Icon.png
450g

Aged: 8 Days
Total: 17 Days

data-sort-value="300"
Pale Ale.png
Iridium Quality Icon.png
600g

Aged: 17 Days
Total: 34 Days

Beer.png Beer Wheat.png Wheat (1) data-sort-value="200"
Beer.png
200g
data-sort-value="200"
Beer.png
Silver Quality Icon.png
250g

Aged: 7 Days

data-sort-value="200"
Beer.png
Gold Quality Icon.png
300g

Aged: 7 Days
Total: 14 Days

data-sort-value="200"
Beer.png
Iridium Quality Icon.png
400g

Aged: 14 Days
Total: 28 Days

Mead.png Mead Honey.png Honey (1) data-sort-value="300"
Mead.png
300g
data-sort-value="300"
Mead.png
Silver Quality Icon.png
375g

Aged: 7 Days

data-sort-value="300"
Mead.png
Gold Quality Icon.png
450g

Aged: 7 Days
Total: 14 Days

data-sort-value="300"
Mead.png
Iridium Quality Icon.png
600g

Aged: 14 Days
Total: 28 Days

Cheese.png Cheese Milk.png Milk (1) orLarge Milk.png Large Milk (1) data-sort-value="230"
Cheese.png
230g
data-sort-value="230"
Cheese.png
Silver Quality Icon.png
287g

Aged: 3 Days

data-sort-value="230"
Cheese.png
Gold Quality Icon.png
345g

Aged: 4 Days
Total: 7 Days

data-sort-value="230"
Cheese.png
Iridium Quality Icon.png
460g

Aged: 7 Days
Total: 14 Days

Goat Cheese.png Goat Cheese Goat Milk.png Goat Milk (1) orLarge Goat Milk.png Large Goat Milk (1) data-sort-value="400"
Goat Cheese.png
400g
data-sort-value="400"
Goat Cheese.png
Silver Quality Icon.png
500g

Aged: 3 Days

data-sort-value="400"
Goat Cheese.png
Gold Quality Icon.png
600g

Aged: 4 Days
Total: 7 Days

data-sort-value="400"
Goat Cheese.png
Iridium Quality Icon.png
800g

Aged: 7 Days
Total: 14 Days

Gallery

History

  • 1.1: Introduced.
  • 1.3.27: Removed bug that crashed the game when striking a ready-to-harvest cask with a tool.
  • 1.4: Iridium quality items can no longer be put into casks. Casks can now be stacked in a player's inventory and in chests.