Pumpkin Meals

[rugged pulsar]

I have broken down each meal you can make with pumpkins to show which one is the most profitable.

Pumpkins
Buy: 275
Sell: 664
Profit (Per Pumpkin): 389

Veggie Platter, 3 Pumpkins Used
Buy: at 275 per seed, the buy cost comes to 825 per platter
Sell: 2787
Profit: 1962
Profit Per Pumpkin: 654

Veggie Platter, 5 Pumpkins Used
Buy: 1375 to buy 5 seeds
Sell: 4115
Profit: 2740
Profit Per Pumpkin: 548

Pumpkin Puffs
Ingredients: 1 Pumpkin, 1 Egg, 1 Cheese
Buy: 275 + 220 + 180 = 675 total
Sell: 1489
Profit (Per Pumpkin): 814

But what if I add extra pumpkins to the puffs?
Each additional pumpkin added to the puffs only gives an extra 664 coins per puff added, so it is more profitable to turn those extra pumpkins into a separate puff.

Pumpkin Soup
Ingredients: 1 Pumpkin, 1 Ginger, 1 Milk, 1 Veg (Any)
For this part, we will use lettuce, as it is the cheapest seed to buy
Buy: 275 + 0 + 230 + 3 = 508 total
Sell: 1503
Profit (Per Pumpkin): 995

But what if I use a different vegetable for the "any" veg?
In the table attached I have broken down which "any" veg is the most profitable.

In the end, the most profitable meal is the pumpkin soup, but you are limited in how many you can make by how much ginger you have. All of the ingredients for puffs can be bought. With those two things factored in, pumpkin puffs are the better meal to make.

[grave patio]

Thank you

[heavy dome]

Idk why I'm here but yeah

[grave patio]

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[heavy dome]

[wild hedge]

so im gonna make pumpkin soup instead of puffs from now on huh

[crisp cedar]

If you use a potato for the vegetable in the pumpkin soup, you get a better profit. Carrots too, but potato is highest profit i believe

[rugged pulsar]

Eggplant is the highest profit, as shown in the table

[crisp cedar]

thanks for letting me know, sorry i dont know how i didnt see that😅

[chrome coyote]

I had typed this in different spots in my phone and hadn’t had a chance to put it all together in 1 spot. Beautifully done. Thank you!

[small thistle]

This helped me so much!!!!

[flat delta]

Thank youuu🥂💜

[copper pecan]

Saving this chart soooo quick!

[sweet horizon]

with pumpkin soup, using a chili pepper as a veggie upped my resell price

[vast wind]

Awesome!! Thank you ☺️

[rugged pulsar]

After work today I’ll be going through to make sure all the prices weren’t changed in the recent update

[cold storm]

💖🧡 thank you 🧡💖

[lofty ridge]

nothing changed right?

[rugged pulsar]

I didn’t see any changes

[snow dome]

Pumpkins tho

[austere tulip]

Does the “buy price” account for veggies that harvest at 3:1 for their seeds, like the Okra?

[elder shore]

Doesn't seem to. Each okra is 45 coins. Total cost 550, total profit 1112 I think. I have difficulty with maths so might not be correct.

[night verge]

I don't understand how 5 pumpkins platter is less than the 3 pumpkins platter when you make alot more profit

[lone veldt]

Its more profit to me at least, to use 4 pumpkins!

[rugged pulsar]

Puffs and soup still earn more profit

[lone veldt]

It didnt for me, I made far less money. Your spending more on ingredients then what you get back

[rugged pulsar]

No??? 3 pumpkin platters sells for 2787. Each additional pumpkin only adds 664 to the sell price. As show above the profit per pumpkin for the platters is 3=652 4=588 5=548

For puffs you spend 675 on ingredients and make 814 in profit
The ingredients for soup is 508 (varies depending on which any vegetable you use). The LOWEST profit you can get from pumpkin soup (depending on the veg used) is 853 which is still 200 more than the highest platter profit

There’s a difference between sell price and how much of it is actually profit

[austere tulip]

And if you use 2 pumpkins in the soup it’s more profit, yes?

[rugged pulsar]

No. Two pumpkins in the soup gets you the lowest profit out of any of the vegetables

The table in the post shows the profit depending on which veg you use

[austere tulip]

Also, I’ve started making the large seafood platters using all lobster 🦞🦞🦞🦞🍋 because those sell for SO MUCH.

[lone veldt]

I look at both, factor in the cost of ingredients. I had 700 pumpkins, I would 700 need eggs and cheese. In total that would be 483,500 for everything. Then craft pumpkin puffs and factor in how much the pumpkin puff sell price then you would get a little over a million. But once you subtract the price ingredients you actually get profit of 558,800

[rugged pulsar]

That’s still more profit than you would make if you turned those pumpkins into platters

[austere tulip]

Thank you!

[lone veldt]

It cost me less to buy pumpkins seeds then it would to buy all those ingredients. I made more back on actual profit. I made 650k roughly. Im also including the golden harvest when collecting pumpkins that adds extra meals to make. In the end I had a little over 700 pumpkins made into platters. I should say I didnt buy 700 seeds, i bought 400. I already had 300 pumpkins from the other day.

[rugged pulsar]

700 Pumpkins

Puffs
total cost for seeds, eggs, and cheese: 472,000
total sell price: 1,042,300
total PROFIT: 570,300

Soup
we will use the double pumpkin example, doing that will get you 350 soups
total cost for seeds and milk: 273,000
total sell price: 870,450
total PROFIT: 597,450

3 pumpkin platter
3 pumpkins per platter gets you a total of 233 platters, with 1 pumpkin left over
total cost for seeds: 192,500
total sell price: 649,371
total PROFIT: 456,871

4 pumpkin platter
4 pumpkins per platter gets a total of 175 platters
total cost for seeds: 192,500
total sell price: 603,925
total PROFIT: 411,425

5 pumpkin platter
5 pumpkins per platter gets a total of 140 platters
total cost for seeds: 192,000
total sell price: 576,100
total PROFIT: 383,600

400 seeds purchased, 700 pumpkins ended up with

The total profit for each meal increases by 275x300, which comes out to 82,500. That still makes the soup and puff profits higher than all three of the platter profits

[gloomy kite]

You still need to factor in the cost of the pumpkins you had from the other day. Emma has done the math many times, that’s why she’s our pumpkin mod

[lone veldt]

She should include the actual profit with the meals. So it doesnt seem like your making more or less than what you paid for. But got it 👍🏽

[gloomy kite]

She does

[lone veldt]

Not total profit

[rugged pulsar]

i literally did. the profit is listed

[gloomy kite]

It says the total sell price and the total profit

[lone veldt]

Thats the profit of the meal not what your actually making after spending on ingredients. But its fine, its not that serious 😂 I will take her explanation for what it is

[gloomy kite]

no, she includes the cost of the ingredients

[rugged pulsar]

it literally factors in the cost of ingredients. profit is what you make after you factor in the cost

sell price is how much it sells for. profit is what youre actually making when you factor in the cost of the ingredients

[lone veldt]

Its missing for the pumpkin puffs

[rugged pulsar]

no?????

[lone veldt]

I saw profit per pumpkin

[rugged pulsar]

thats the same as the total profit

theres only one pumpkin in the puffs

[lone veldt]

Ahh i was adding in extra originally

[rugged pulsar]

adding in extra pumpkins to the puff gets you only 664 additional coins to the sell price (389 in profit) so you are better off turning those extra pumpkins into puffs

[lone veldt]

Got it 👍🏽

[gloomy kite]

This is too much math for me on the weekend. Brain tired now

[pulsar robin]

Thank you for the guide. I’ll make pumpkin puffs, It will takes me an eternity to use my 1200 😭

[warm mortar]

Thanks so much for this guide @rugged pulsar! At least we have unlimited coal to buy now and it's only 5 coins each so still a great profit without going crazy mining. I'm making as much soup as I have ginger than doing puffs for the rest.

[warm mortar]

So trying to make 200 pumpkin soup and autofill wants to use everything except my 200 eggplants. 😑 Had to empty all of this out of my storage to get it to pick eggplant. It seems to have a set order of the veggies it picks. It went like this if it helps anyone else...
Lettuce
Corn
Seaweed (I know, right?)
Tomato
Mushroom
Bell pepper
Spinach
Carrot
Zucchini
Chile pepper
Okra
Potato
Asparagus
Cucumber
Onion
Eggplant (Finally!)
Leek
Pumpkin

[rugged pulsar]

This is amazing thank you

[warm mortar]

No problem! Happy to help! It was getting so frustrating having to back out lettuce all the time 😅

[warm mortar]

Edited the list to include after eggplant.

I'm gonna check other ingredients as well, but not sure where to put those since they're not part of pumpkin meals

[echo shuttle]

Maybe try #1020419403088662659 ☺️

[warm mortar]

Perfect! Thanks! I didn't even see that one when I scrolled thru, so much info here 😅

[night verge]

Sorry I think I asked before but making the puffs will make you the most money right?

[plain turret]

pumpkin soup is the most profit per pumpkin, but you have to use ginger which can only be harvested and is therefore a limiting factor. pumpkin puffs with one pumpkin is the next most profit per pumpkin and all non-pumpkin ingredients can be purchased (the profit takes that cost into account) so it's the next best thing & a lot of people will make soup until they run out of ginger and then switch to puffs for the rest of the harvest/batch

[night verge]

Thanks I really appreciate it

[vale briar]

I believe it’s leek or eggplant is the 2nd highest

[rugged pulsar]

the table in the original post shows the profits for eat vegetable

[brave arch]

Wow this is beyond helpful, thank you so much

[brave arch]

@rugged pulsar i was peeking at the ingredient chart for pumpkin soup and i noticed mushrooms weren't on it - is that because they don't work in the recipe?

[rugged pulsar]

I didn’t check them

[brave arch]

ahhh got it - im staring at my inventory and have an over abundance of mushrooms which is why im asking LOL

[frank dagger]

bump

[plain turret]

@cunning lance check the pins here, the bottom-most pin is the key part. cliffs: make pumpkin soup until you run out of ginger, then switch to pumpkin puffs.

[cunning lance]

Thank you!

[plain turret]

wishing your new game a speedy profit

[velvet copper]

@rugged pulsar did you do a new pumpkin graphic?

sometimes i get really annoywed with discord 😄 sorry emma

[rugged pulsar]

making it right now!

[lost tapir]

Wait. So is it pumpkins or eggplants for best profits? I’m trying to get monies so I can max my house out. Why is that so expensive to do! 😫

[frank dagger]

It's never been eggplant. Here is a list of the most profitable by biome, but the direct answer is pumpkins. ALWAYS pumpkins.

[rugged pulsar]

Pumpkins for best profit

If you are turning those pumpkins into meals, then your best profit is pumpkin soup made with eggplant as the “any” vegetable. That’s where the eggplant comes in

[lost tapir]

Thank you! On my farming journey to get those coins and max out my house so I can change its facade

[covert fox]

I really appreciate you reposting that older post... Thank you!

[digital shell]

I’m looking at you graphic right now, and for some reason the “highest Profit” with Eggplant as the “any vegetable” ingredient has a lower sell price and profit compared to using Pumpkin as the “Any Ingredient”. So is the Pumpkin as the “Any ingredient” better?

I’ve been using eggplants this entire time. 😵‍💫

[rugged pulsar]

The sell price is higher for pumpkins, but the profit is higher for eggplants

[digital shell]

Is it because it takes double the pumpkin for one, but 1 pumpkin when using Eggplant for the other? So you get double the number of Soups for the same number of Pumpkins used when you use eggplants?

Was the cost of both seed types considered too? 😅

[rugged pulsar]

Yes the seed price is accounted for

When using two pumpkins in one soup, it sells for 2487 coins. After taking out the purchase price, you are making 1707 coins in profit. Then you need to account for how many pumpkins are being used, so divide that profit number by 2 and you get 853.3 coins in profit per pumpkin

Soup with eggplant uses just one pumpkin, so the 1353 profit is the profit per pumpkin for that one

[digital shell]

Oooooh. 😅 thank you so much for the explanation. 😇

[rotund musk]

Using 2 eggplants in the soup instead of one pops the soup sale up to 2261 which is 1566 profit but i still can't decide if it's a waste to do it just to get an extra 100 or so coins for an extra eggplant

[unborn crane]

Thank you for putting this information together 🎈

[wild hedge]

i only have like 300k left out of the millions i made from making puffs. time to grind again!

[strange merlin]

I don’t see veggie platter in the meals category in DLV

[frank dagger]

Grilled veggies platter is an appetizer

[supple coral]

Ty 🙂

[supple coral]

This makes it much clearer!!

[wet junco]

I found a way to profit 3546 making fish soup using a pumpkin, milk and a certain fish - I don't want to put it down for risk of spoilers - but it is a rare fish for those who have advanced in the game and can only be caught during certain hours each day.

[rugged pulsar]

Comparing Pumpkins to the money maker of the DLC

[fallow silo]

Since with soup you are limited by the amount of ginger you have I suppose if you have twice as much eggplant as you do ginger it’s probably worth it add the xtra eggplant as it will maximize your profit per ginger as once you run out of ginger you would switch to pumpkin puffs and any remaining eggplants become irrelevant till you have more ginger

[rotund musk]

so i countered this by whenever i play i take a gathering buddy and harvest the ginger hourly or so. you dont want to make pumpkin soup ALL the time. so, just stock up on ginger and make 100 here or there.

you can get as much as 20-25 with a level 10 buddy.

[fallow silo]

Ya it would sorta just depend on each individuals situation if you only have a small amount of ginger and really want to make the most money with each ginger adding an xtra eggplant or any veg really would squeeze a few more coins out of each soup and since ginger is the limiting factor any 5th ingredient you add is almost a freebie since you already had it anyway. But if you r stock piling ginger b4 making soup it’s less necessary to get every last coin out of the soup and may be better off saving the xtra veggies for times when u specifically need them

[warm mortar]

Yams and celery are in there before eggplant now too if you have the dlc. Not sure if any of the other new stuff comes before eggplant as well, I haven't had time to test, but will update if I get around to it.

[sturdy moth]

what is the best dish to make star coins from

[frank dagger]

Scroll up, you'll see the pumpkin math. It's also in the pins

[sturdy moth]

do i need to use ginger for pumpkin soup because when i use cabbage and eggplant with using ginger it makes veggie platter

[frank dagger]

Soup is pumpkin, milk, ginger and any veggie - suggested is Eggplant

If you are instead putting in only two veggies (cabbage and eggplant) then yes, it makes veggie platter. You have no pumpkin, no milk added. Make sure you're using the right recipe!

[sturdy moth]

i'm putting pumpkin milk eggplant and cabbage but i didn't know that i needed ginger

[frank dagger]

#1039167491131310212 message

[torpid apex]

i using ign google website when cooking/making new pumpking meals

[teal pasture]

after reviewing this thread does price per pumpkin really matter after having like a tremendous amount of pumpkins 3,575 is how much i plant and with that said shouldn't it shift from price per pumpkin to the sell price? it would take a tremendous amount of grinding to get the proper amount of ginger to make pumpkin soups and who has the patience to want to make that? wouldn't 5 pumpkin veggie platters seem like the best way to go about it?