Calculator:Player-owned farm food costs

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This page will help you find what animals eat on the player-owned farm and the most cost-effective way to feed them with tradeable sources of food.

Best foods

The following table lists the best option for feeding an animal. Chinchompas can eat any food from this list.

Note that there may be cheaper alternatives which were excluded due to a low volume or being untradable. Click here for all choices.

Mush	Cheapest source	Price per
Fruit	Banana	347
Vegetables	Raw potato	773
Seeds	Prickly pear seed	364
Flowers	Woad leaf	24
Mushrooms	Mort myre fungus	2,953
Meat	Raw beef	699
Fish	Raw desert sole	344
Insect	Flies	280

Animals

All animals eat 1 food per hour.

Animal	Pen size	Level required	Food eaten	Time to Elder (Minutes)	# Food to Elder	Best Food Choice	Cost to Elder	Cost per Day
Rabbit	Small	17	Vegetables, Fruits, Seeds, Flowers	60	1	Woad leaf	24	576
Chicken	Small	28	Vegetables, Fruits, Seeds	250	4.17	Banana	1,445.83	8,328
Frog	Small	42	Insects	720	12	Flies	3,360	6,720
Chinchompa	Small	54	Variety	2,520	42	Woad leaf	1,008	576
Salamander	Small	102	Seeds, Flowers, Insects	4,800	80	Woad leaf	1,920	576
Sheep	Medium	35	Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers	120	2	Woad leaf	48	576
Spider	Medium	64	Seeds, Meat	1,512	25.2	Prickly pear seed	9,172.8	8,736
Jadinko	Medium	74	Seeds	4,080	68	Prickly pear seed	24,752	8,736
Zygomite	Medium	81	Mushrooms	5,040	84	Mort myre fungus	248,052	70,872
Varanusaur	Medium	97	Meat	6,600	110	Raw beef	76,890	16,776
Cow	Large	49	Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers	360	6	Woad leaf	144	576
Yak	Large	71	Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers	4,032	67.2	Woad leaf	1,612.8	576
Dragon	Large	92	Meat, Fish	10,080	168	Raw desert sole	57,792	8,256
Dinosaur	Large	98-118	Meat	10,506 - 15,906	175.1 - 265.1	Raw beef	122,394.9 to 185,304.9	16,776

Full list

Fruit

Item	Price	Buy limit
Watermelon	818	10,000
Strawberry	857	10,000
Redberries	849	1,000
Cadava berries	1,530	100
Dwellberries	3,985	10,000
Jangerberries	1,192	10,000
White berries	2,292	10,000
Cooking apple	589	1,000
Banana	347	1,000
Orange	2,005	1,000
Pineapple	641	1,000
Papaya fruit	7,659	5,000
Coconut	9,457	5,000
Calquat fruit	402	100

Vegetables

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw potato	773	1,000
Onion	870	1,000
Cabbage	919	1,000
Tomato	913	10,000
Sweetcorn	1,078	10,000
Evil turnip	2,705	5,000
2/3 evil turnip	131	100
1/3 evil turnip	34	100
Potato cactus	1,699	10,000

Seeds

Item	Price	Buy limit
Potato seed	394	500
Onion seed	374	500
Cabbage seed	366	500
Tomato seed	379	500
Sweetcorn seed	428	500
Strawberry seed	704	500
Watermelon seed	3,454	500
Snape grass seed	1,474	100
Sunchoke seed	557	1,000
Fly trap seed	445	1,000
Marigold seed	801	100
Rosemary seed	470	100
Nasturtium seed	543	1,000
Woad seed	1,016	100
Limpwurt seed	5,425	100
Butterfly flower seed	4,453	100
Barley seed	293	100
Hammerstone seed	250	100
Asgarnian seed	281	100
Jute seed	281	100
Yanillian seed	277	100
Krandorian seed	281	100
Wildblood seed	297	100
Reed seed	11,017	100
Grapevine seed	63,562	100
Guam seed	355	100
Marrentill seed	535	100
Tarromin seed	451	100
Harralander seed	416	100
Gout tuber	1,075,245	100
Ranarr seed	1,518	100
Spirit weed seed	41,745	100
Toadflax seed	2,089	100
Irit seed	815	100
Wergali seed	1,935	100
Avantoe seed	583	100
Kwuarm seed	12,342	100
Bloodweed seed	82,831	100
Snapdragon seed	665	100
Cadantine seed	1,775	100
Lantadyme seed	339	100
Dwarf weed seed	7,656	100
Torstol seed	723	100
Fellstalk seed	1,130	100
Redberry seed	250	100
Cadavaberry seed	245	100
Dwellberry seed	212	100
Jangerberry seed	333	100
Whiteberry seed	364	100
Poison ivy seed	352	100
Barberry seed	379	1,000
Acorn	392	100
Willow seed	367	100
Maple seed	6,152	100
Yew seed	5,290	100
Magic seed	22,524	100
Elder seed	84,182	100
Apple tree seed	533	100
Banana tree seed	586	100
Orange tree seed	344	100
Curry tree seed	429	100
Pineapple seed	879	100
Papaya tree seed	847	100
Palm tree seed	23,432	100
Calquat tree seed	419	100
Evil turnip seed	325	100
Belladonna seed	1,035	100
Harmony moss seed	311	50
Bittercap mushroom spore	1,350	100
Morchella mushroom spore	318	100
Red blossom seed	455	1,000
Green blossom seed	662	1,000
Blue blossom seed	1,114	1,000
Cactus seed	772	100
Prickly pear seed	364	1,000
Potato cactus seed	555	100

Flowers

Item	Price	Buy limit
Marigolds	12,107	1,000
Snape grass	253	10,000
Rosemary	4,409	1,000
Nasturtiums	3,162	1,000
Woad leaf	24	100
Flax	183	25,000
Barley	608	1,000
Hammerstone hops	1,122	1,000
Asgarnian hops	755	1,000
Yanillian hops	774	1,000
Krandorian hops	3,509	1,000
Wildblood hops	312	1,000
Curry leaf	2,715	5,000

Mushrooms

Item	Price	Buy limit
Bittercap mushroom	10,245	10,000
Morchella mushroom	8,266	10,000
Mort myre fungus	2,953	10,000
Gorajian mushroom	3,702	10,000
Sliced mushrooms	2,720	1,000
Tombshroom	3,119	10,000

Meat

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw chicken	733	1,000
Raw rat meat	1,519	1,000
Raw wolf meat	1,737	1,000
Raw ugthanki meat	3,337	1,000
Raw bear meat	1,907	1,000
Raw beef	699	1,000
Raw bird meat	715	10,000
Raw oomlie	1,281	1,000
Raw chompy	6,199	10,000
Raw rabbit	700	5,000
Raw pawya meat	1,433	5,000
Raw yak meat	2,559	1,000

Fish

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw anchovies	687	20,000
Raw bass	1,638	20,000
Raw cave eel	467	1,000
Raw cod	876	20,000
Raw crayfish	401	20,000
Raw great white shark	2,275	20,000
Raw herring	732	20,000
Raw lobster	349	20,000
Raw mackerel	635	20,000
Raw manta ray	2,833	20,000
Raw monkfish	1,275	20,000
Raw pike	727	20,000
Raw salmon	585	20,000
Raw sardine	540	20,000
Raw sea turtle	1,644	20,000
Raw shark	1,993	20,000
Raw shrimps	397	20,000
Raw swordfish	501	20,000
Raw trout	415	20,000
Raw tuna	366	20,000
Raw sailfish	5,740	20,000
Raw green blubber jellyfish	960	20,000
Raw blue blubber jellyfish	7,077	20,000
Raw desert sole	344	20,000
Raw catfish	336	20,000
Raw beltfish	979	20,000
Leaping trout	350	5,000
Leaping salmon	341	5,000
Leaping sturgeon	381	5,000

Insect

Item	Price	Buy limit
Beetle bits	1,022	100
Flies	280	100
Stinkfly	1,014	10,000

Variety mush

Adding food to a pen containing chinchompas will automatically create variety mush. You can use any of the items from the above lists.