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	365
Vegetables	Onion	587
Seeds	Fly trap seed	288
Flowers	Woad leaf	25
Mushrooms	Mort myre fungus	1,231
Meat	Raw bird meat	775
Fish	Raw tuna	356
Insect	Flies	529

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	25	600
Chicken	Small	28	Vegetables, Fruits, Seeds	250	4.17	Fly trap seed	1,200	6,912
Frog	Small	42	Insects	720	12	Flies	6,348	12,696
Chinchompa	Small	54	Variety	2,520	42	Woad leaf	1,050	600
Salamander	Small	102	Seeds, Flowers, Insects	4,800	80	Woad leaf	2,000	600
Sheep	Medium	35	Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers	120	2	Woad leaf	50	600
Spider	Medium	64	Seeds, Meat	1,512	25.2	Fly trap seed	7,257.6	6,912
Jadinko	Medium	74	Seeds	4,080	68	Fly trap seed	19,584	6,912
Zygomite	Medium	81	Mushrooms	5,040	84	Mort myre fungus	103,404	29,544
Varanusaur	Medium	97	Meat	6,600	110	Raw bird meat	85,250	18,600
Cow	Large	49	Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers	360	6	Woad leaf	150	600
Yak	Large	71	Vegetables, Fruits, Flowers	4,032	67.2	Woad leaf	1,680	600
Dragon	Large	92	Meat, Fish	10,080	168	Raw tuna	59,808	8,544
Dinosaur	Large	98-118	Meat	10,506 - 15,906	175.1 - 265.1	Raw bird meat	135,702.5 to 205,452.5	18,600

Full list

Fruit

Item	Price	Buy limit
Watermelon	842	10,000
Strawberry	935	10,000
Redberries	547	1,000
Cadava berries	2,215	100
Dwellberries	4,824	10,000
Jangerberries	767	10,000
White berries	4,611	10,000
Cooking apple	504	1,000
Banana	365	1,000
Orange	1,175	1,000
Pineapple	553	1,000
Papaya fruit	7,313	5,000
Coconut	9,538	5,000
Calquat fruit	381	100

Vegetables

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw potato	697	1,000
Onion	587	1,000
Cabbage	761	1,000
Tomato	896	10,000
Sweetcorn	1,113	10,000
Evil turnip	2,851	5,000
2/3 evil turnip	142	100
1/3 evil turnip	38	100
Potato cactus	860	10,000

Seeds

Item	Price	Buy limit
Potato seed	306	500
Onion seed	371	500
Cabbage seed	305	500
Tomato seed	230	500
Sweetcorn seed	268	500
Strawberry seed	360	500
Watermelon seed	1,062	500
Snape grass seed	1,563	100
Sunchoke seed	299	1,000
Fly trap seed	288	1,000
Marigold seed	531	100
Rosemary seed	480	100
Nasturtium seed	432	1,000
Woad seed	544	100
Limpwurt seed	922	100
Butterfly flower seed	6,076	100
Barley seed	228	100
Hammerstone seed	219	100
Asgarnian seed	277	100
Jute seed	243	100
Yanillian seed	238	100
Krandorian seed	278	100
Wildblood seed	292	100
Reed seed	401	100
Grapevine seed	5,885	100
Guam seed	602	500
Marrentill seed	369	500
Tarromin seed	441	500
Harralander seed	690	500
Gout tuber	3,319,486	100
Ranarr seed	1,331	500
Spirit weed seed	314	500
Toadflax seed	678	500
Irit seed	1,006	500
Wergali seed	1,079	500
Avantoe seed	872	500
Kwuarm seed	520	500
Bloodweed seed	123,742	500
Snapdragon seed	1,531	500
Cadantine seed	507	500
Lantadyme seed	317	500
Dwarf weed seed	2,800	500
Torstol seed	1,137	500
Fellstalk seed	1,934	500
Redberry seed	242	100
Cadavaberry seed	270	100
Dwellberry seed	328	100
Jangerberry seed	184	100
Whiteberry seed	323	100
Poison ivy seed	437	100
Barberry seed	304	1,000
Acorn	249	100
Willow seed	269	100
Maple seed	1,855	100
Yew seed	3,343	100
Magic seed	41,626	100
Elder seed	30,962	100
Apple tree seed	395	100
Banana tree seed	333	100
Orange tree seed	279	100
Curry tree seed	314	100
Pineapple seed	375	100
Papaya tree seed	237	100
Palm tree seed	4,964	100
Calquat tree seed	236	100
Evil turnip seed	372	100
Belladonna seed	803	100
Harmony moss seed	284	50
Bittercap mushroom spore	1,016	100
Morchella mushroom spore	266	100
Red blossom seed	777	1,000
Green blossom seed	891	1,000
Blue blossom seed	1,825	1,000
Cactus seed	908	100
Prickly pear seed	306	1,000
Potato cactus seed	821	100

Flowers

Item	Price	Buy limit
Marigolds	9,984	1,000
Snape grass	340	10,000
Rosemary	8,865	1,000
Nasturtiums	5,312	1,000
Woad leaf	25	100
Flax	113	25,000
Barley	780	1,000
Hammerstone hops	1,332	1,000
Asgarnian hops	1,048	1,000
Yanillian hops	996	1,000
Krandorian hops	4,049	1,000
Wildblood hops	384	1,000
Curry leaf	5,815	5,000

Mushrooms

Item	Price	Buy limit
Bittercap mushroom	10,740	10,000
Morchella mushroom	9,555	10,000
Mort myre fungus	1,231	10,000
Gorajian mushroom	3,323	10,000
Sliced mushrooms	3,046	1,000
Timber fungus	150	10,000
Calcified fungus	197	10,000
Fungal spore	155	10,000
Fungal algae	721	10,000
Enriched timber fungus	56	5,000
Enriched calcified fungus	57	5,000
Enriched fungal spore	66	5,000
Enriched fungal algae	660	5,000
Tombshroom	1,884	10,000

Meat

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw chicken	1,292	1,000
Raw rat meat	792	1,000
Raw wolf meat	1,859	1,000
Raw ugthanki meat	4,121	1,000
Raw bear meat	2,135	1,000
Raw beef	795	1,000
Raw bird meat	775	10,000
Raw oomlie	1,589	1,000
Raw chompy	6,310	10,000
Raw rabbit	822	5,000
Raw pawya meat	1,411	5,000
Raw yak meat	2,566	1,000

Fish

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw anchovies	750	20,000
Raw bass	2,995	20,000
Raw cave eel	926	1,000
Raw cod	1,187	20,000
Raw crayfish	396	20,000
Raw great white shark	1,527	20,000
Raw herring	809	20,000
Raw lobster	406	20,000
Raw mackerel	561	20,000
Raw manta ray	1,799	20,000
Raw monkfish	2,364	20,000
Raw pike	666	20,000
Raw salmon	504	20,000
Raw sardine	624	20,000
Raw sea turtle	1,345	20,000
Raw shark	1,365	20,000
Raw shrimps	741	20,000
Raw swordfish	402	20,000
Raw trout	459	20,000
Raw tuna	356	20,000
Raw sailfish	5,450	20,000
Raw green blubber jellyfish	520	20,000
Raw blue blubber jellyfish	5,780	20,000
Raw desert sole	379	20,000
Raw catfish	389	20,000
Raw beltfish	995	20,000
Leaping trout	374	5,000
Leaping salmon	383	5,000
Leaping sturgeon	362	5,000

Insect

Item	Price	Buy limit
Beetle bits	1,182	1,000
Flies	529	1,000
Stinkfly	660	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.