Preserves Jar
| Preserves Jar | |
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| Turns vegetables into pickles and fruit into jam. | |
| Information | |
| Source | Crafting |
| Sell Price | Cannot be sold |
| Crafting | |
| Recipe Source |  Farming (Level 4) |
| Ingredients |  Wood (50) Stone (40) Coal (8) |
- For a detailed analysis of profit using the Preserves Jar, see Preserves Jar Productivity.
The Preserves Jar is a type of Artisan Equipment used to make Artisan Goods. Fruit makes Jelly, Vegetables make Pickles, Sturgeon Roe makes Caviar, and other fish Roe make their respective Aged Roe.
A Preserves Jar is the reward for completing the 
Quality Crops Bundle in the Pantry.
Products
Quality of ingredients makes no difference to the finished product. The value of the finished product is determined using the base value (i.e., with no silver or gold star) of the item. However, the preserved version is always more profitable than even gold star produce, although the profit margin is lower compared to normal produce.
| Image | Name | Description | Ingredients | Processing Time | Sell Price | Restores |
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Pickles | A jar of your home-made pickles. | Any vegetable (1) |  4000m (2-3 days)
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 2 × Base Vegetable Price + 50
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Inedible |
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Jelly | Gooey. | Any fruit (1) | 4000m (2-3 days)
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 2 × Base Fruit Price + 50
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Inedible |
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Caviar | The cured roe of a sturgeon fish. Considered to be a luxurious delicacy! |  Sturgeon Roe (1)
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6000m (4 days)
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 500g
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 175 78
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Aged Roe | Fish eggs aged in salt to bring out the flavor. |  Roe (1)
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4000m (2-3 days)
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2 × base Roe sell price | 10045
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If Caviar processing is started at 6:00 AM it will finish at 2:00 AM three days later, making it impossible to collect that day. It will be ready four days later at 6:00 AM if processing begins before 12:40 PM. Items that have a 4000m processing time starting at 6:00 AM are done at 7:20 PM two days later. Items starting between 12:40 PM and 7:20 PM are done at 6:00 AM three days later.
Preserves Jar vs. Keg
- See also: Preserves Jar Productivity, Keg Productivity
The Preserves Jar increases the profit of a crop using the following equation: (2 × Base Crop Value + 50); while the Keg multiplies the base value of Fruits by 3, and Vegetables by 2.25. Because of this, low-value, high-yield crops like Corn or Tomatoes are more valuable in the preserves jar. The keg, on the other hand, favors crops with a much higher base value, such as Ancient Fruit or Melons.
Below is a list of crops that are more beneficial to be put in the preserves jar, along with their raw base sell price.
| Vegetables | Fruits |
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*Wine and jelly each sell for 150g, but jelly processes faster than wine.
It should be noted that these calculations only involve the value gained in terms of max profit; if looking at profit per day based on the time required, the preserves jar beats the the keg every time, regardless of the base value of the item (in every case except for Hops and Wheat) thanks to the preserves jar's much faster processing time.
Storage Options
While Preserves Jars can be stored anywhere on the farm, it is more space efficient to store them inside farm buildings or outside the farm altogether.
Trivia
- The description of the Preserves Jar states that it makes Jam, but it actually produces Jelly.
- The description of the Preserves Jar was not updated to include fish roe or caviar in version 1.4.
Notes
- Each day has 1600 minutes of processing time. From 2:00 AM to 6:00 AM, kegs process at 100 minutes per hour. For the rest of the day, kegs process at 60 minutes per hour, so (4 × 100) + (20 × 60) = 1600 minutes of processing time per day.
History
- 1.4: Added ability to make Caviar and Aged Roe. Adjusted processing time so that machines process 100 minutes from 2am to 6am, not every hour the player is asleep. Preserves Jars can now be stacked in a player's inventory and in chests.