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	353
Vegetables	Onion	526
Seeds	Prickly pear seed	90
Flowers	Woad leaf	25
Mushrooms	Mort myre fungus	2,723
Meat	Raw bird meat	461
Fish	Raw tuna	302
Insect	Flies	593

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	Prickly pear seed	375	2,160
Frog	Small	42	Insects	720	12	Flies	7,116	14,232
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	Prickly pear seed	2,268	2,160
Jadinko	Medium	74	Seeds	4,080	68	Prickly pear seed	6,120	2,160
Zygomite	Medium	81	Mushrooms	5,040	84	Mort myre fungus	228,732	65,352
Varanusaur	Medium	81	Meat	6,600	110	Raw bird meat	50,710	11,064
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	50,736	7,248
Dinosaur	Large	98-118	Meat	10,506 - 15,906	175.1 - 265.1	Raw bird meat	80,721.1 to 122,211.1	11,064

Full list

Fruit

Item	Price	Buy limit
Watermelon	561	10,000
Strawberry	667	10,000
Redberries	917	1,000
Cadava berries	1,921	100
Dwellberries	3,596	10,000
Jangerberries	1,353	10,000
White berries	2,803	10,000
Cooking apple	445	1,000
Banana	353	1,000
Orange	2,200	1,000
Pineapple	502	1,000
Papaya fruit	8,010	5,000
Coconut	7,826	5,000
Calquat fruit	380	100

Vegetables

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw potato	563	1,000
Onion	526	1,000
Cabbage	594	1,000
Tomato	598	10,000
Sweetcorn	848	10,000
Evil turnip	2,783	5,000
2/3 evil turnip	126	100
1/3 evil turnip	31	100
Potato cactus	5,620	10,000

Seeds

Item	Price	Buy limit
Potato seed	270	500
Onion seed	153	500
Cabbage seed	210	500
Tomato seed	181	500
Sweetcorn seed	226	500
Strawberry seed	402	500
Watermelon seed	1,784	500
Snape grass seed	1,058	100
Sunchoke seed	95	1,000
Fly trap seed	99	1,000
Marigold seed	300	100
Rosemary seed	304	100
Nasturtium seed	301	1,000
Woad seed	496	100
Limpwurt seed	4,644	100
Butterfly flower seed	2,850	100
Barley seed	108	100
Hammerstone seed	102	100
Asgarnian seed	104	100
Jute seed	107	100
Yanillian seed	105	100
Krandorian seed	145	100
Wildblood seed	199	100
Reed seed	4,862	100
Grapevine seed	36,033	100
Guam seed	218	100
Marrentill seed	176	100
Tarromin seed	188	100
Harralander seed	164	100
Gout tuber	346,191	100
Ranarr seed	976	100
Spirit weed seed	79,069	100
Toadflax seed	4,732	100
Irit seed	1,365	100
Wergali seed	1,782	100
Avantoe seed	550	100
Kwuarm seed	10,810	100
Bloodweed seed	73,751	100
Snapdragon seed	438	100
Cadantine seed	1,169	100
Lantadyme seed	800	100
Dwarf weed seed	1,294	100
Torstol seed	688	100
Fellstalk seed	773	100
Redberry seed	72	100
Cadavaberry seed	118	100
Dwellberry seed	117	100
Jangerberry seed	120	100
Whiteberry seed	162	100
Poison ivy seed	223	100
Barberry seed	98	1,000
Acorn	248	100
Willow seed	338	100
Maple seed	3,474	100
Yew seed	10,344	100
Magic seed	44,423	100
Elder seed	170,378	100
Apple tree seed	162	100
Banana tree seed	239	100
Orange tree seed	161	100
Curry tree seed	235	100
Pineapple seed	418	100
Papaya tree seed	1,883	100
Palm tree seed	32,028	100
Calquat tree seed	396	100
Evil turnip seed	111	100
Belladonna seed	774	100
Harmony moss seed	255	50
Bittercap mushroom spore	2,005	100
Morchella mushroom spore	150	100
Red blossom seed	239	1,000
Green blossom seed	298	1,000
Blue blossom seed	591	1,000
Cactus seed	996	100
Prickly pear seed	90	1,000
Potato cactus seed	440	100

Flowers

Item	Price	Buy limit
Marigolds	4,646	1,000
Snape grass	176	10,000
Rosemary	1,335	1,000
Nasturtiums	1,822	1,000
Woad leaf	25	100
Flax	92	25,000
Barley	416	1,000
Hammerstone hops	1,119	1,000
Asgarnian hops	748	1,000
Yanillian hops	627	1,000
Krandorian hops	2,665	1,000
Wildblood hops	293	1,000
Curry leaf	3,110	5,000

Mushrooms

Item	Price	Buy limit
Bittercap mushroom	8,584	10,000
Morchella mushroom	6,084	10,000
Mort myre fungus	2,723	10,000
Gorajian mushroom	3,725	10,000
Sliced mushrooms	1,697	1,000
Tombshroom	2,764	10,000

Meat

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw chicken	810	1,000
Raw rat meat	1,755	1,000
Raw wolf meat	1,768	1,000
Raw ugthanki meat	1,949	1,000
Raw bear meat	2,653	1,000
Raw beef	492	1,000
Raw bird meat	461	10,000
Raw oomlie	1,061	1,000
Raw chompy	6,379	10,000
Raw rabbit	493	5,000
Raw pawya meat	1,587	5,000
Raw yak meat	1,970	1,000

Fish

Item	Price	Buy limit
Raw anchovies	516	20,000
Raw bass	1,315	20,000
Raw cave eel	501	1,000
Raw cod	943	20,000
Raw crayfish	516	20,000
Raw great white shark	2,680	20,000
Raw herring	675	20,000
Raw lobster	380	20,000
Raw mackerel	560	20,000
Raw manta ray	3,045	20,000
Raw monkfish	1,768	20,000
Raw pike	577	20,000
Raw salmon	608	20,000
Raw sardine	568	20,000
Raw sea turtle	1,642	20,000
Raw shark	2,359	20,000
Raw shrimps	731	20,000
Raw swordfish	318	20,000
Raw trout	555	20,000
Raw tuna	302	20,000
Raw sailfish	6,723	20,000
Raw green blubber jellyfish	793	20,000
Raw blue blubber jellyfish	6,894	20,000
Raw desert sole	384	20,000
Raw catfish	865	20,000
Raw beltfish	1,248	20,000
Leaping trout	184	5,000
Leaping salmon	184	5,000
Leaping sturgeon	337	5,000

Insect

Item	Price	Buy limit
Beetle bits	666	100
Flies	593	100
Stinkfly	1,027	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.