Summary
In Stardew Valley, players may focus on growing crops, producing wine, or even making some animal products to earn their money in-game. Others might even rely on the materials they find in the mines to help pad out their profits while they wait for more fruits and vegetables to grow.
Another way to passively make some gold is to craft and set up Bee Houses. These hives will produceHoneyevery four days. The crucial thing that a lot of players may not know, however, is that the type of honey produced depends on whether you have a flower growing near the hive, and what kind of flower it is. With seven different possible flavors of honey, then, you’ll surely want to know which ones are the most valuable inthis beloved farming title.
This list ranks the different types of honey based on how profitable each one is to produce and sell.
7Wild Honey
Available All Year Round, But Won’t Make You Rich
When you don’t have any flowers planted nearby, or if you place your Bee Houses around Pelican Town instead of on your farm, you will harvest Wild Honey from them. Wild Honey is the only type that can be produced in every season in-game, but it also gives you the least amount of profit.
Depending on which professions you’ve selected during the course of your playthrough, the selling price of your honey will be impacted. At its base price, Wild Honey sells for 100g. But if you have the Artisan Profession, which you can pick at Farming Level Ten, you’ll instead make 140g for each jar of Wild Honey you sell.
Since Wild Honey doesn’t make you that much money, you can save it and throw any jars you have into Kegs. This will produce Mead which will make 200g, unless you have the Artisan Profession, which then brings the price up to 280g.
6Tulip Honey
Spring Produce That’s Worth A Little Bit More
Tulip seeds can be purchased in the Spring from Pierre’s General Store, like the majority of seeds in the game. They only take six days to grow, assuming you aren’t using any type of Speed-Gro as fertilizer. Along with coming in a variety of colors, if you plant even just one of these near some Bee Houses, you’ll get Tulip Honey.
Without having the Artisan Profession, you’re looking to gain 160g every time you sell a single jar of this type. That price goes up to 224g if you have chosen the aforementioned profession. Nothing changes stylistically about the honey itself, but you’re able to only imagine the difference in taste.
5Blue Jazz Honey
The Spring’s Most Valuable Honey Crop
The flower Blue Jazz takes seven days to grow, only one day longer than the Tulip. That makes it a pretty easy choice if you aren’t sure what type of honey you’d like to produce.
How much will it make you? That’s a cool 200g without Artisan and 280g with it picked. Now, Stardew Valley is a game that you can play at your own pace; there’s never any pressure to push yourself to make the most profits. If you do want to stretch your gold as far as it will go in Spring, however, you’ll want to have some Blue Jazz seeds in the ground once you’veunlocked the Bee House crafting recipe.
The Bee House recipe is unlocked once you hit Level Three of the Farming Skill. In your first in-game year of playing, then, you probably won’t get a full season of Tulip Honey or Blue Jazz Honey.
4Sunflower Honey
A Crop That’s More Versatile Yet Ultimately Less Valuable Than The Top Options
Sunflowers are unique in Stardew Valley, as they can be grown in both Summer and Fall. However, the downside of this is that they are the least profitable of both seasons. The Sunflower Honey brings in 260g at its base selling price and 364g when Artisan is factored in.
Even if it doesn’t bring in as much money as the other Summer options, though, you may still want to consider Sunflower Honey. Sunflowers are also the only flowers that have a chance to drop their own seeds. While you have to buy every seed you want to plant with the other flowers, then, you may end up with many more sunflower seeds than you purchased. You can then either plant them right away or save them until the start of the next Summer or Fall. For this reason, sunflowers can be an excellent secondary crop.
3Summer Spangle Honey
Brighten Up Your Farm For Slightly More Profit Than Sunflower Honey
The Summer Spangle comes in a variety of bright colors and is a great way to welcome the Summer season. The honey it produces makes you more money than the Spring options: 280g at its base price and 392g with Artisan. This means that, as time passes in the Valley, your profits only improve.
It takes the Summer Spangle eight days to fully grow, without the aid of any fertilizers. As with all the flowers, then, you’ll get at least a batch of Wild Honey while you wait. Luckily, the Bees continue producing honey without any pause as the seasons change. Except for during the Winter, of course, when honey production is unavailable.
2Poppy Honey
Summer’s Most Valuable Honey Crop
Depending on whether you remixedyour Community Centerbundles or not, chances are you will already need to grow a Poppy for Gus' Bulletin Board request. Unless you’re hoping to find one in the Traveling Cart.
If you have to grow one already, why not make it work for you? Poppy Honey brings in 360g on its own and 532g if you have the Artisan Profession. This makes it the most profitable of the Summer honey flavors. If you don’t plan to buy many Poppy seeds, you can just wait and harvest the one you need for the Community Center on the last day of Summer.
1Fairy Rose Honey
The Priciest Honey Of All
Hands down, Fairy Rose Honey is the best money-making variety of all, selling for the highest amount at 680g per jar without Artisan and 952g with it. Plus, it sounds magically delicious.
Fairy Roses can generally only be grown in the Fall, limiting the amount of time that you can take advantage of this chance. There’s a very convenient way around this limitation, though: You can grow them year-round on Ginger Island if you want to have honey become one of your passive income streams. It does take them 12 days to grow, soif you did want to use fertilizer on a flower instead of one of your crops, this would be the flower to save it for.
