Stardew Valley Crops Tier List
Stardew rewards planning more than reflexes, so a crop list is really a list of how much of your day each plant costs. Twelve crops, no prefilled ranks — decide whether you are optimising gold, chores, or the community centre bundle. Every entry starts in Unranked — drag or tap a tile to fill S through F, rename any row, then export the finished board as a PNG.
Ancient Fruit
Starfruit
Blueberry
Cranberry
Pumpkin
Melon
Cauliflower
Coffee Bean
Hops
Sweet Gem Berry
Parsnip
Red Cabbage0 of 12 items ranked.
Board saved automatically in this browser. Original.
How this board is built: the 12 tiles are an editorial starting set, not an official roster and not a published ranking — every entry waits in Unranked until you place it. Item tiles are original pictograms or two-letter emblems drawn for this site rather than character artwork, film stills or club logos, so nothing here is licensed material reused from a rights holder. Tiers you set are your own judgement.
What's included in this Stardew Valley Crops board
The board arrives with all 12 entries present as tiles and none of them assigned to a tier. That is deliberate: a template that opens with a finished ranking only invites you to agree or disagree with whoever made it, whereas an empty ladder makes you commit to an ordering of your own. Drag a tile onto a row, or on a phone tap the tile and then the tier you want. You can add rows for extra categories, rename the standard ones, and remove any entry you do not recognise — a list you can defend is more useful than a long one you cannot.
How to rank this Stardew Valley Crops board
Start with profit per season rather than per harvest, because a crop that pays twice a week beats one that pays once if you water it the same number of times. Then price the labour: every crop you plant is a tile you water, and a high-yield field can eat the whole morning you meant to spend in the mines. Third, weigh overlap with recipes and bundles — a crop that satisfies a quest while paying rent is worth more than its raw gold suggests. Finally, account for processing. Crops that turn into wine, juice or preserves scale differently once you have kegs, and a list that ignores the keg shed will misrank half the roster.
Using the board without over-thinking it
Most people finish a board like this in a couple of minutes and then reorder the middle rows for another ten. That middle is where the honest disagreement lives, so do not rush it: place the obvious top three and the obvious bottom three first, then work inward. If two entries still feel identical, that is a real observation — say so in a row note or a text tile rather than inventing a difference. When the ordering settles, export the PNG so the arrangement is saved somewhere permanent, and copy the share link if you want someone else to argue with it.
Ranking criteria used here
- profit per season
- how much daily work it adds
- recipe and quest overlap
Before you share it
Put your criterion in the board title, so a reader knows whether they are looking at a favourites list or an analytical one. If the subject changes with patches, seasons or releases, add the date. And remember the share link carries tier names, colours and the tile order — uploaded photos stay on your device, so export a PNG when those matter.
All 12 items in this template
Back to the boardAncient FruitStarfruitBlueberryCranberryPumpkinMelonCauliflowerCoffee BeanHopsSweet Gem BerryParsnipRed CabbageStardew Valley Crops tier list FAQ
Should I rank by gold per day or total profit?
Gold per day is usually the fairer measure, since it accounts for how long the tile is occupied. Total profit flatters slow, expensive crops.
Where do greenhouse-only crops go?
Rank them as if you have the greenhouse, and say so in the title. Ancient Fruit is a different proposition in spring of year one.
