Grow a Garden Crafting Cost Calculator
Estimate total smithing cost, coal spend, batch time, and baseline ROI before you commit materials.
Calculator Inputs
Adjust your coal assumptions to match your current market or farming situation.
Material Unit Prices
Smithing Dog
Pet Workbench
Category: Pet
Rarity: Rare
Craft time: 45m
A pet that digs coal every 4.59 minutes. Essential first craft for self-sustaining coal supply.
Material Breakdown
Total Craft Cost
4,525,000 Sheckles
4,525,000 per craft including fee + materials
Material Spend
1,525,000 Sheckles
1,525,000 per craft at your current coal values
Batch Time
45m
45m per craft before batching
Cost Per Minute
100,556 Sheckles
Useful for choosing the cheapest path when station time is your bottleneck
Baseline Economics
This compares your crafting cost against a known in-database reference price when one exists.
Reference Check
How to Use This Calculator
1. Set your coal assumptions
Enter what each coal tier is worth to you. Farmers who self-supply coal often use much lower values than traders buying everything from the market.
2. Compare batch efficiency
Batch size changes total time and capital lock-up. This is especially useful when one station is your bottleneck during Smithing-heavy updates.
3. Check the opportunity cost
If the reference delta is strongly negative, your coal may be better spent on a different recipe or held for future event crafts.
FAQ – Crafting Cost Calculator
It estimates the fully loaded cost of a recipe by combining the direct crafting fee with your own coal or material assumptions. That gives you a more realistic baseline than looking at the recipe fee alone.
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