Production Pen Costs

A while back, I started a thread on this, but it's been archived, so I didn't see a way to add this newer info. So many new pens, and the prices are always changing! Here's the original link:
https://board-en.farmerama.com/inde...enefit-of-production-pens-vs-workshops.23113/

I started a new format for the listing, and am personally keeping a google doc to keep up with it, but I'll post the latest here and update it occasionally, unless it gets archived again. I plan to look at market trends and see how stable these prices are. We all know there'll be upticks if new quests start, etc., but I'm hoping to see an overall trend.

Note that this is based on current prices in my market 17 (dated 2/20). I'd be curious if other markets follow the same trends, such as newer/valuable production pens roughly bringing in triple the cost of the animals needed. Anyhow, I hope this helps others as much as it's helped me decide which pens to put out. Note that I've sorted alphabetically based on how many animals are needed for the product. Generally speaking, if it requires more than 2 animals to produce 1 product, it's probably not worth it, but there's even 1-animal products that I wouldn't recommend (what the heck with the raccoons??).

	2/20	ws	2/20	animals needed	food-market	food
bat	4000	guano	6981	1	1400	1 apple, plum
bear	4400	hammock	12300	1	1300	2 apple, plum
beaver	3200	timber	11000	1	1400	2 hazel, 1 walnut
bees	1700	honey	975	1	1080	4 tulip, 3 straw
chameleon	3224	bioglue	10000	1	2000	2cran, 1lych
cow	910	cow milk	1000	1	800	3 corn,hay, wheat
dog	3500	fire hydrant	13200	1	990	3 soy, 2 potato
eagle	3900	quill	14140	1	650	2 rowan
fish	2000	koi	8071	1	913	3 cornfl, 1 orange
frog	5900	ladder	11000	1	6800	3 soy, 2 egg
moose	6000	hit single	7000	1	2380	2 chestnut, hay
ostrich	3500	ost. egg	11000	1	2000	2 cornf, 1 date, 3 oat
panda	3700	chopstick	5600	1	3900	5 bamboo
pig	900	truffle	5147	1	800	1 app, 2 potato
raccoon	6900	raccoon mask	6025	1	2900	4 peach
squirrel	7000	picnic blanket	5000	1	1150	2 walnut
camel	3800	flying carpet	5100	2	6000	5 meadow
cat	6100	cardboard box	15900	2	4400	5oat,3 elder
crow	5000	jewel	7960	2	930	2 cuc, 1 apple
donkey	3300	cooking pot	7000	2	700	2oat,date
duck	1000	down	7000	2	1300	3 wheat, corn
elephant	4000	pb	6000	2	3820	2 fennel,celery, apple
goat	830	goat milk	1140	2	420	2 hay, lett, sunf
horse	1000	riding	6000	2	272	1 apple, 3 carrot
mole	7300	party sail	4820	2	500	1 carrot, 2 potato
monkey	2000	bikini	6200	2	1080	3 banana
parrot	2100	parrot feather	1270	2	1000	3 grape, 2 apple
platypus	5000	snorkel	5250	2	4200	4 basil, 3 mulberry, 1 pine
rabbit	1500	angora	4000	2	320	3 hay, 2 carr
sheep	1000	sheep wool	4909	2	800	1 oat, corn, plum
skunk	7686	scented	14000	2	1500	2 apple, carrot, corn
turkey	940	paint	11400	2	275	1 walnut
butterfly	5600	shimmery	7000	3	1599	4 tulip, 2 sunf
chicken	983	egg	2100	3	100	2 wheat
goose	1992	luggage	6035	3	999	2 blackberry, 4 sorg
mouse	3140	cheese	9000	3	809	2corn
tortoise	7400	skateboard		3	3081	6 lett, 2 red poppy
toucan	4500	tiki	10555	3	4100	1 macadamia/physalis
cuckoo	3000	fake moustache	10700	8	1610	2 angel, 5 crop cir

 

Making it this simple may actually push me a bit towards being clever and sensible about production vs procurement. Thank you

 

Thank you definitely useful information! I tend to just look at the feed mill to see what animals need, but the workshop information is harder to find and its definitely nice to have them all together!

 

Very useful chart sdhoneybear