Why is No One Talking About the Absolute BEST Passive Income In Stardew Valley

This isn’t a post about profits.

It’s an end game post about income that requires as little maintenance as possible. The least actually.

Truly Passive Income.

For 99% of the income sources in game you will have to harvest or plant/restock multiple times per year.

If you are after pure profit and not worried about the time it takes, then there are plenty of ways to make more money then what I’m about to mention…

What I’m about to mention is a novel idea, but I don’t see it brought up very often.

Barns.

Fully upgraded barns with auto grabbers and sheep to be exact.

When you fully upgrade a barn or coop it comes with an auto feeder, meaning you never have to feed your animals.

When you add an auto grabber for $25000 from Marnie, you don’t have to harvest from your animals daily. Meaning all animal products will stockpile for you until you decide to empty the auto grabber.

You could do it once per day, once per month, or once per year.

No other income source will accumulate forever in a chest. This is the absolute BEST passive income in vanilla.

Now since the goal is to check the barn and sell goods once per year, you will need at least 6 silos per barn/coop. This is enough to ensure all 12 animals are fed for all 4 seasons without you having to worry. Otherwise it’s easy to go with 1 silo and fill it once it’s low.

I’m running a setup like this on my first year farm and it’s going well with only a few days left in Winter.

I’ve made $500,000.

I have 1 full barn and a 2nd one I’m starting to fill. I have my greenhouse full, and I’m usually on my way to skull cavern right at 10am.

My profits range from 5000-15000 per day which includes a small 27 keg setup that I make pale ale with.

My money is all taken care of and the only other things I worry about are resources like honey, fiber, coral, and a few others.

From here I will fill my farm up with everything but crops. Only gonna need the greenhouse and my barns for money.

Once you have a passive money maker like this you only have to focus on non purchasable resources for crafting.

Time is yours now do what you want with it.