I used to garden a lot a few expansions back, mainly onions and jute to make gil. But I’m curious about how gardening is now in FF14. Is it still good for making passive gil? What are the most valuable and sought-after items you can grow now, aside from onions?
Jute isn’t worth much anymore. Thav onions are still decent because they fill a niche. G3 than soil is cheap. Besides growing elemental shards for crafting, which saves you from gathering in ARR, there’s not much to gardening these days.
@Eli
That’s really disappointing. I love gardening, and it’s sad to see it kind of neglected.
Onions crashed in price and haven’t come back. They sell for about 128k on my data center.
Ari said:
Onions crashed in price and haven’t come back. They sell for about 128k on my data center.
What were the prices like before the crash? I know onions (I started a few months before Endwalker) were around 80k on Shiva.
@Charlie
It’s been a long time since I leveled my chocobo, but they used to go for a million each, if I remember correctly. A quick check here on Leviathan shows they’re about 123k now. Prices dropped once most of us who started early maxed out our chocobos and didn’t need them anymore.
@Luca
I get that. More housing plots probably affected the prices too.
@Charlie
They were going for 300-400k on Cerverus until this past year. Now they’re around 130k.
If you don’t want to gather, you can grow a lot of elemental shards each day. They’re always in demand for crafters.
It doesn’t feel worth my time.
Weston said:
It doesn’t feel worth my time.
It takes about a minute to plant crops and just 30 seconds a day to water them. I think that’s a small time investment for the gil you get back. You won’t get rich overnight, but it’s almost free gil if you own a house and play daily.
@Davin
The downside is playing every day. A lot of players log on just for a couple of hours to get their weekly tomes/scripts and maybe do some gold saucer stuff. If you really want to garden, it might be better to hoard chocobo coloring food and onions for the new player rush.
@Hari
Gardening isn’t worth it if you don’t play daily. I wouldn’t buy a house just to try farming gil either. But if you have a home and play every day, it’s decent income for almost nothing. I’ve had my place for a few months, and the crops have already covered the land purchase. A tip for homeowners who take breaks: storing your garden plot stops the current plants from growing. If you want to take a break from the game, store the garden, and you can pull it back out later.
Our FC is growing Thav onions for our members now, but chocobo color-changing crops might also bring in some passive gil. Doman plums are part of our onion plan and they’re definitely the most valuable raw crop we get besides the onions. They might be priced well because you need allied seals for their seeds.
It’s still a way to make decent gil with little effort, but you won’t get a ton of gil from it. Once you learn how, you can get Thavnairian Onions (with some randomness) and sell those. Farming and crafting can bring in more gil, but it requires a lot more effort. Onions should go up in price in Dawntrail, so it’s smart to stock up until then.
Seeds seem to be worth a lot these days. Players want to grow their own crops, whether Thav seeds or Curiel for favorite foods. Chocobo color foods still seem to be popular.
Onions aren’t worth it. They take about 1.5 weeks to grow if you do everything yourself and only make a little over 100k each. Not worth the hassle.