Bait Values

Some one requested a post about the values of items in trade for Bait.  This is by no means exhaustive, but I will make it a work in progress.

Generally speaking, ideal bait consists of items that cannot be used in other ways.  In other words, basic dishes like Condensed Milk or Soft Dough, even though they have good values are too useful to waste that way.

Bait values usually depend on one of three things: the intrinsic value of a single item used to make the item traded, the method by which it is processed or the number of items used to make the item traded and their values.  For single ingredient items, therefore, Venison is good and Caramel is good.  For multiple items, Peach Cobbler may be the highest.  It is a labour-intensive recipe, however and the value reflects this.

Player favourites include Cooking Wine, Caramel and Venison.  These are easy and have excellent values.

The order in which items appear in the Bait Menu follows some peculiar logic of which I have no knowledge.  I suspect it is taken from another language because, in English it follows neither rhyme nor reason.  It is not in order of value, by product or by process.

Basically, you will find only the following categories of items in the Bait Menu:  Animal Products,  Machine Products and Kitchen Dishes.  All items are from the original Seaside Farm.  At present, no Island Items are included even if you have transported them to the Seaside Farm.  Nor are items processed in the Seafood House or Beauty Shop included.  As far as raw materials are concerned, neither Crops nor Tree Fruits, apart from the odd inclusion of Spooky Eye Fruit, can be found in the Menu.

Note that the items that appear in your Baits Menu will be whatever items you have in stock and will not include items from your Gift Box.  Make certain that you transfer all Bait Bags that you receive out of your Gift Box in order to be able to use them.  Ironically, the Bait Bags themselves are listed LAST in the Menu.

Generally speaking, raw ingredients are worth less than the same item when it has been processed, whether for sale purposes or for use as Bait.  A couple of examples will show this clearly.

Milk is worth only 3 Bait, but if you take 2 Milks and make them into Butter in the Kitchen, you have an item that can be traded for 12 Bait.  Not valuable either particularly but certainly more valuable than the sum total of the raw ingredients used to make it. Although a machine is used to make them, all Fruit Juices tend to be of low value when traded, but Jams are much higher.  It therefore makes sense to take the same Fruit with 1 Honey and make it into Jam instead of Juice.  Honey by itself is worth only 1 Bait.  With any Fruit, processed into Jam, it is worth a little more. If you take the same Fruit and add Sugar to process it in the Candy Machine, you will have an item that you can trade for a nice amount of Bait.  Orange Juice is worth 8, Orange Jam is worth 10, but Orange Candy is worth 77.  The Candy tends to have good value because of the value of Sugar.

All Candy types make good bait.  All Cakes tend to have decent values as Bait.

Low Value Items
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Nectar: 1 Bait
Honey: 1
Provence Honey: 1
Apple Juice: 2
Spooky Eye Fruit: 2
Milk: 3
Beef: 3
Apple Jam: 4
Seasoned Salmon: 4
Beef Salami: 5
Cheddar Cheese: 5
Old Boot: 5
Maple Sugar: 6
Goat Milk: 6
Sakura Tea: 7
Buffalo Milk: 8
Orange Juice: 8
Cherry Juice: 8
Ostrich Feathers: 8
Goose Feather: 8
Goat Cheese: 8
Mango Juice: 9
Orange Jam: 10
Daisy Bouquet: 12
Butter: 12
Smoked Yellow Croaker: 12
Oat Flour: 13
Ketchup: 13
Buffalo Milk Cheese: 13
Wheat Flour: 14
Apple Cider: 14
Wheat Flour: 14
Cooked Rice: 14
Maple Salmon: 14
Wool: 14
Bloody Eyes: 14
Smoked Hairtail: 15
Egg: 15
Stock: 15
Smoked Tilapia: 16
Cabbage Kimchi: 16
Lavender Bouquet: 16
Daisy Perfume: 16
Angora Hair: 16
Wine: 18
Grape Juice: 18
Lavender Perfume: 18
Champagne: 19
White Rose Bouquet: 19
Horse Hair: 19
Grape Jam 19
Rye Flour: 20
White Wine: 20
Cheese Salad: 20
Mayonnaise: 23
Cherry Cider: 23
Turkey: 24
Carrot Kimchi: 24
Red Teddy Bear: 25
Dark Beer: 25
White Grape Cider: 28
Red Rose Perfume: 29

Medium Value Items
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Pitaya Jam: 31
Sugar: 33
Honey Syrup: 34
Alpaca Hair: 34
Udon: 34
Blue Teddy Bear: 35
Apple Jelly: 40
Oat Bread: 43
Blue Rose Perfume: 43
Tulip Perfume: 43
Condensed Milk: 46
Pork Sausage: 48
Peanut Sauce: 49


Medium High Value Items
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Pineapple Jam: 50
Steamed Egg Custard: 50
Pink Rose Bouquet: 52
Strawberry Jam: 52
Smoked Butterfish: 53
Mocha Coffee: 54
Kulfi : 54
Smoked Menhaden: 55
Steamed Egg with Shrimp: 57
Apple Candy: 59
Batter: 61
Halloween Pumpkin Soup: 61
Chili Sauce: 63
Fruit Butter 65
Orange Smoothie: 65
Tomato Relish: 66
Rice Wine: 69
Watermelon Jam: 69

High Value Items
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Cheese Apple: 70
Black Forest Cake: 71
Venison: 76
Orange Candy: 77
Grilled Flank Steak: 77
Herring Salad: 78
Lily Perfume: 79
Cheese Burger: 79
Almond Cake: 80
Steak Burger: 80
Grape Candy: 81
Cake Flour: 82
Marshmallow: 84
Buttered Snail: 84
Peach Candy: 85
Orange Crumble: 87
Blueberry Candy: 88
Pecan Bread: 91
Caramel: 93
Coconut Cake: 93
Lemon Cake: 95
Spicy Flank Steak: 95
Banana Cake 96
Veggie Burger: 98
Allspice Crumble: 102
Soup: 103
Gorgonzola Baked Apple: 109
Caramel Sauce: 115
Whole Oat Fruit Bread: 127
Egg Sushi: 129
Grape Cornbread: 131
Sukiyaki: 136
Spicy Steak Burger: 140
Lemon Cocktail: 143
Tropical Fruit Muffin: 144
Turkey Burger: 144
Sunrise Porridge: 147
Soft Dough: 154
Monster Snack: 158
Elderberry Pancake: 166
Fried Crab Stick: 169
Lemon-banana Daiquiri: 172
Blueberry Krispy Bar: 177
Cherry Flan: 182
Lychee Scone: 182
Creamed Crab Cakes: 195
Kimchi Pancake: 200
Chocolate Dream Bar: 207
Smoked Mackerel: 217
Sakura Cake: 274
Summer Toast: 274
Cooking Wine: 328
Mushroom and Snail: 349
Crab Meat Yi Mein: 507
Peach Cobbler: 953