Stardew Valley: Everything You Need To Know About Preserves Jars

This Stardew Valley guide delves into the profitable world of Preserves Jars, a crucial crafting item for maximizing your farm's output. While Kegs and other methods exist for creating artisan goods, Preserves Jars offer a unique and often superior approach, especially in the early game.

Preserves Jar

Obtaining Preserves Jars:

Unlock the Preserves Jar recipe at Farming Level 4. You'll need:

50 Wood
40 Stone
8 Coal

These materials are readily available early on. Wood comes from chopping trees, stone from mining rocks, and coal is efficiently farmed by defeating dust sprites in the mines. Alternatively, you can receive a Preserves Jar as a reward for completing the Quality Crops Bundle (or Rare Crops Bundle in remixed games) in the Community Center, or find one randomly in the Prize Machine.

Utilizing Preserves Jars:

Preserves Jars transform various ingredients into valuable artisan goods. The Artisan profession (Farming Level 10) provides a 40% boost to the selling price of these goods.

Pickles

Item Category	Product	Sell Price Formula	Health/Energy	Processing Time
Fruit	Jelly	2x (base fruit value) + 50	Varies (see below)	2-3 days
Vegetable, Mushroom, Forage	Pickles	2x (base item value) + 50	Varies (see below)	2-3 days
Sturgeon Roe	Caviar	500g	175 Energy, 78 Health	4 days
Other Fish Roe	Aged Roe	60 + (base fish price)	100 Energy, 45 Health	2-3 days

Jelly Health/Energy: Edible fruits yield 2x base energy and health; inedible fruits (like coconuts) provide 0.5x base value health and 0.225x base value energy.

Pickles Health/Energy: Edible vegetables, mushrooms, and foraged items yield 1.75x base energy and health; inedible items (like pumpkins) provide 0.625x base value energy and 0.28125x base value health.

Only foraged items with positive energy values can be pickled. Poisonous items are excluded. Note that quality doesn't affect the final selling price.

Jelly Wine

Preserves Jars vs. Kegs:

Preserves Jars are faster than Kegs. They're most profitable for fruits under 50g and vegetables/forage under 160g base value. High-yield, low-value crops like eggplants, wild berries, corn, and tomatoes are ideal. Preserves Jars are essential for processing fish roe and mushrooms, which cannot be used in Kegs.

Caviar

This comprehensive guide ensures you can effectively utilize Preserves Jars to boost your profits and streamline your artisan goods production in Stardew Valley. Remember the 1.6 update expanded the range of forageables you can pickle!