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

Common Coal × 5625,000
Rare Coal × 2900,000

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.

Crafting fee3,000,000 Sheckles
Coal/material value1,525,000 Sheckles
Fully loaded cost4,525,000 Sheckles

Reference Check

No direct in-database reference value exists for this crafted item. Use the total cost and time metrics above as your decision baseline.

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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