Cask

Cask
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 (20) Hardwood (1)

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.

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 (× 1.25)	Gold Star (× 1.5)	Iridium Star (× 2)
	Wine	Any fruit (1)	data-sort-value="0" 3 × Base Fruit Price	data-sort-value="0" (3 × Base) × 1.25 Aged: 14 Days	data-sort-value="0" (3 × Base) × 1.5 Aged: 14 Days Total: 28 Days	data-sort-value="0" (3 × Base) × 2 Aged: 28 Days Total: 56 Days
	Pale Ale	Hops (1)	data-sort-value="300" 300g	data-sort-value="300" 375g Aged: 9 Days	data-sort-value="300" 450g Aged: 8 Days Total: 17 Days	data-sort-value="300" 600g Aged: 17 Days Total: 34 Days
	Beer	Wheat (1)	data-sort-value="200" 200g	data-sort-value="200" 250g Aged: 7 Days	data-sort-value="200" 300g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days	data-sort-value="200" 400g Aged: 14 Days Total: 28 Days
	Mead	Honey (1)	data-sort-value="200" 200g	data-sort-value="200" 250g Aged: 7 Days	data-sort-value="200" 300g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days	data-sort-value="200" 400g Aged: 14 Days Total: 28 Days
	Cheese	Milk (1) or Large Milk (1)	data-sort-value="230" 230g	data-sort-value="230" 287g Aged: 3 Days	data-sort-value="230" 345g Aged: 4 Days Total: 7 Days	data-sort-value="230" 460g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days
	Goat Cheese	Goat Milk (1) or Large Goat Milk (1)	data-sort-value="400" 400g	data-sort-value="400" 500g Aged: 3 Days	data-sort-value="400" 600g Aged: 4 Days Total: 7 Days	data-sort-value="400" 800g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days

With the exception of the two highest-value wines, cheeses give the best value compared to the processing time required to age them to iridium quality. The best value wines are included in the table below along with all unique cask products.

Name	Processing Time (Iridium)	Value Increase (Reg. to Iridium)	Gold/Day	Value Increase (Reg. to Iridium) (Artisan Prof.)	Gold/Day (Artisan Prof.)
Starfruit Wine	56 Days	2250g	40.2	3150g	56.3
Ancient Fruit Wine	56 Days	1650g	29.5	2310g	41.3
Goat Cheese	14 Days	400g	28.6	560g	40.0
Cheese	14 Days	230g	16.4	322g	23.0
Pineapple Wine	56 Days	900g	16.1	1260g	22.5
Melon Wine	56 Days	750g	13.4	1050g	18.8
Rhubarb Wine	56 Days	660g	11.8	924g	16.5
Pale Ale	34 Days	300g	8.8	420g	12.4
Banana or Crystal Fruit Wine	56 Days	450g	8.0	630g	11.3
Peach or Pomegranate Wine	56 Days	420g	7.5	588g	10.5
Beer or Mead	28 Days	200g	7.1	280g	10.0
Mango Wine	56 Days	390g	7.0	546g	9.8
Strawberry Wine	56 Days	360g	6.4	504g	9.0
Followed by all other wines in descending order of fruit/wine price.

Note that although the large milks make gold quality cheeses directly, the final aging step is both 50% of the total value increase and 50% of the required time, so the g/day remains the same. The prices above assume no relevant skills. Choosing Artisan raises the base prices of all cask-aged products by the same percentage, so while the overall values will increase, the relative order of g/day stays the same. Choosing Rancher, however, will only increase the price of the cheeses, raising Cheese to ~19.7 g/day and Goat Cheese to ~34.3 g/day, making it better than Ancient Fruit Wine in this case.

Gallery

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  The cellar Farmhouse upgrade with 33 starting casks

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  Optimal layout for mouse/keyboard: 125 accessible casks

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  Optimal layout for mobile: 118 accessible casks

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  Cellar filled with the maximum 189 casks, all in use.

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.