Dinkum: Best Crops, Ranked

Summary

Rice: Easy to grow without daily watering, making it a low-maintenance option for players.
Corn: Efficient animal feed source, with a high return on investment for players.
Onions: Versatile crop suitable for multiple seasons, providing solid profit margins.

Set on an Australian outback-inspired island, James Bendon's indie gem, Dinkum, combines elements of Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley to create one of the best cozy titles on Steam. Charged with building an idyllic city from the ground up, players will complete a number of tasks to entice residents to stay at their island getaway or earn dinks, the in-game currency, to construct new buildings.

One of the avenues players can take for the latter is farming. Like many cozy titles before it, Dinkum comes with a fleshed-out farming system, allowing players to live out their tractor-hauling dreams. Alternatively, farming can just be a source of ingredients for players to use when cooking recipes that will give them buffs throughout the day. Either way, it's a core part of Dinkum, so players will want to get familiar with the best crops they can make use of.

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6 Rice

Easy Maintenance

Rice see and rice bowl over a Dinkum farm

Crop	Seed Source	Cost Per Seed
Rice	Rayne's Greenhouse	120 dinks

Though rice is not as profitable as other crops on this list, it's still a viable option for players' plots. Since it can be planted in a body of water, rice, unlike other crops, doesn't need to be watered every day. This comes in especially handy during the early game, as players, without access to sprinklers, will have to water each plant individually.

This isn't the worst thing in the world, considering the game also allows players to upgrade their watering cans to cover wider areas, but when planting large fields, tending to crops without the aid of sprinklers becomes a tedious and time-consuming job. With rice, players can leave their crops to grow on their own, using that saved time to pursue other goals.

5 Corn

Endless Animal Feed

The Ginger Empire YouTube screenshot - player harvesting corn with a tractor

Crop	Seed Source	Cost Per Seed
Corn	Rayne's Greenhouse	1,100 dinks

Corn, similar to rice, is not as profitable as other crops on this list (especially when considering the cost of each seed), yet it comes with other benefits that make up for its sale value. Dinkum allows players to purchase and raise their own animals, but, as one would expect, those animals need feeding. Though players can acquire animal food from Irwin's shop or by placing grass seeds in a grain mill, using corn is the most efficient method.

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Where five grass seeds will get the player one animal food, corn will give them ten. Meaning, after a player's first corn harvest, they're likely to have enpugh animal food for quite some time. Additionally, corn can be harvested multiple times, allowing players some flexibility with how they want to use their harvest.

4 Onions

The All-Rounder

StoriesWithAzyh YouTube video screenshot - player harvesting onions

Crop	Seed Source	Cost Per Seed
Onions	Rayne's Greenhouse	540 dinks

For players looking to keep their farming simple by selling their harvested crops straight to one of the game's vendors, onions are a solid option. With a seed cost of 540 dinks and a minimum yield of three, players are looking at an 810 dink profit per planted onion. Though there are other crops in the game with better profit margins, onions take the lead by being plantable in multiple seasons (Summer and Spring) as well as being included in a number of the game's cooking recipes.

3 Wheat/Sugarcane Combo

Fairy Bread Production

Crop	Seed Source	Cost Per Seed
Wheat	Rayne's Greenhouse	360 dinks
Sugarcane	Rayne's Greenhouse	400 dinks

Wheat and sugarcane are, on their own, still essential crops for players to keep on their farms. Able to be turned into flour and sugar, respectively, both crops are required for a lot of the game's cooking recipes, the most important being Fairy Bread.

With wheat and sugarcane being fairly inexpensive and farmed all year round, they are easily accessible and capable of being mass-produced, which in turn means Fairy Bread is too. Though the process of making the bread can feel tedious, with ingredients having to first go through a grain mill, a profit of 1208 dinks per batch baked makes the ordeal worth it.

2 Prime Roast Bundle

Expensive Dishes

Crop	Seed Source	Cost Per Seed
Potato	Rayne's Greenhouse	640 dinks
Carrot	Rayne's Greenhouse	570 dinks
Kale	Rayne's Greenhouse	760 dinks
Green Bean	Rayne's Greenhouse	1,360 dinks
Pumpkin	Rayne's Greenhouse	780 dinks

Though the crops bundled into this entry are each profitable on their own, when combined, they produce a more high-value dish: the Prime Roast. A recipe consisting of potato, carrot, kale, green bean, pumpkin and a bit of alpha meat, the Prime Roast is a dish that takes quite a lot of work to be made effective.

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A year-long investment, each crop comes with its own seasonal restrictions, meaning players will have to plan when to plant their seeds and take into account the number of days they take to grow. While veterans of games like Stardew Valley will already be familiar with this level of preparation, it could be a bit overwhelming for new players to get their heads around. The effort is worth it, however, as, by the end of an in-game year, players will be able to sell each plate of food for 12,994 dinks. Like other recipes in the game, players can choose to keep the Prime Roast to eat and gain buffs. Alternatively, once players get her on their islands, they can sell the dish to Sheila for 2.5 times its original value.

1 Mighty Spread

Rarer Than Gold

Mighty Spread crop and player running through mines

Crop	Seed Source	Cost Per Seed
Mighty Spread	Found in the wooden chests inside the treasure rooms of the Deep Mine and Undergrove. It can also be found in buried chests within the Island Reef.	N/A

Vegemite in all but name, Mighty Spread is a jar-shaped crop that players can sell for 120,000 dinks! But, as one might expect, with a sale value like that, finding mighty seeds can be quite tricky.

Neither found on the main island nor sold by any vendor, mighty seeds are acquirable after players have unlocked access to the Deep Mines and the Undergrove. In the subterranean areas, players will have to seek out treasure rooms and their chests, which have a chance of containing mighty seeds. Other than that, players can also find them in buried chests throughout the Island Reef, a biome that can only be accessed through the Airport building.

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