New 1.6 Money Makers in Stardew Valley

With both additions and balance changes in the 1.6 update, many new ways of making money are now viable, even many that compete with making wine! It seems like the mastery rewards made sure to make almost every profession a little profitable, so no matter what you enjoy doing, you should be able to make some money!

Sections:
0:00 - Intro
0:52 - Fish Smokers
2:03 - Dehydrators and Mushroom Logs
4:36 - Tapping Mystic Trees
5:43 - Hunting for Butterflies
6:39 - Sheep with Animal Crackers
8:02 - Tea Saplings
9:13 - Fish Ponds
9:48 - Selling Bars with Mastery Bonuses
11:06 - Raisins
11:56 - Can you still clay farm?

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Here's the lofi Stardew Valley music I use a lot:

[jrk]

I like the dehydrator because I can make dry blackberries and salmonberries that regen more health per use compared to the fruit. More convenient than spamming in the mines or skull cave

[otheraccount]

I started up a new 1.6 playthrough and used all my wild seeds from the community center to make tea saplings. I also put some snow yams into a seed maker to get a whole bunch more winter seeds. I turned them all into tea saplings, and then replaced every wood fence on my farm with a tea sapling. It's an aesthetic replacement for fences that doesn't decay, and it nets me an easy 6k or so each harvest. My fences work for me now.

[padoin]

2:44 you can actually pickle mushrooms now, only pointing this out cause a lot of people seem to have missed that
it can be made into pickles or dehydrated

[MsAlliwannadoisdance]

One thing rarely mentioned in discussing profitability is "the laziness factor" - for example, crops might make more money than sheep, but sheep are less maintenance, meaning you can devote more time to other tasks (mining, fishing, hanging with the villagers).

[Jam_]

Fun fact, if you have finished the cc you will get a junimo with 5 stars around it and if you press the junimo multiple times it will grow then give it a new background with leaves

[williampecot]

You forgot a new major one, the Parrot trinket. I did a few tests with a level 4 parrot in the challenge mines and monster musk. Just running floors 40-50 constantly for a day. I made around 80k per day between the parrot and trashing things that didn't fit in my inventory, plus many free Qi gems, iridium sprinkler attachments from star headed slimes, tons of hardwood and coal, and a few galaxy souls. If my health ever got below half I would swap to a level 5 fairy for a little bit to heal up and then back to the fairy.

[edgex]

Bait maker with catfishes in spring year one is insanely good; I made 20k a day on every rainy day bar the first

[wolsig]

"you can't have shepherd and artisan profession"
local multiplayer: hold my beer

[Arrowdodger]

Small correction: the dehydrator is not the only way to turn mushrooms into an artisan good, as you can make pickled mushrooms, too, in the preservation jar now. The dehydrator is the superior method still, in my opinion, but just wanted to point out this minor thing.

[explodingpineapple]

Just want to make a correction to your mushroom logs, at 3:55 you say chanterelles are guaranteed however its actually a 4/7 chance. If you want an in depth understanding of mushroom chance I actually wrote the wiki page on mushroom logs myself so can recommend you check that out!! In any case this means mushroom logs actually have a gold/day quite a bit lower than what you stated. Also rain makes them produce faster (average rainy days a year ~= 16) so the money per year can actually vary quite a bit. In fact if you want to get really fancy you can keep a few pigs and put tappers on said pine trees to be able to make rain totems all the time giving you practically double the gold/day meaning it can actually reach around 700!! without rain totem shenanigans though, a pine tree setup with 25 mushroom logs will give pretty much exactly 1 mill a year! Great video though!

[NathanielWasTaken]

Be honest who thought he was gonna mention the mushroom cave when talking about the dehydrater

Edit: omg the riot i have caused 😭😭😭

[andrecruz]

One of my greatest achievements was actually fishing an iridium quality legend. I'd NEVER smoke it.

[senerio]

Tea saplings got another indirect buff, if you craft tea using the leaves you get a speed boost from drinking it now. Faster movement = less time spent walking around = more time making money. Not sure how valuable that speed boost is compared to selling the leaves, but movement speed is always nice anyway

[TitomaticoVlogsOficial]

I personally like the smoker a lot because it made me enjoy fishing again. The fact that the first time I used it I got to sell a sardine for 280% its price (280g from 100g) kept me fishing for a whole ingame week

[ThatFerretWithTheSkittles]

As a poor farmer who needs money at the beginning of a farm, mushrooms are now gods, to the Cantrell we pray.

[kelliling]

rip Seanie Dew and his clay farming era

[jenkinsrhys]

Parrot Egg is worth a mention! On a good luck day + burglars ring, you can farm dust sprites for 20, 000 gold per day, often more with luck buffs! :)

I’ve been having fun with this as opposed to autopilot starfruit into kegs

[Ravenjim]

regarding Sheep, there is a way to have both artisan and the faster wool production at once.
Through coop, Perks that change prices, like artisan and angler work for both players, so one player goes for wool production, the other artisan.

[Deathall]

6:20 one big thing to mention, while the butterfly spawn is limited to the valley (backwoods, mountain, forest, secret woods, beach, town) it isn’t limited to places within the player’s movement.

The first time I got it, I found it on the far east side of the beach. The FAR east side, it was sitting above the ocean. Luckily, it moves around and it eventually wandered over to the docks where I could reach it (or maybe it automatically moves to the player when we get close enough?).

[kunichuck]

7:25 Just get shepherd, stack your cloth for a year, go to the sewer statue and change to artisan, sell everything to Pierre the next day (Along with whatever wine you produced in your greenhouse) and go straight back to the statue to change back to Shepherd.

Boom: Iridium wool every day, and Artisan bonus on top, you just have to be patient and pay 20K gold once a year.