Ranch Simulator

Ranch Simulator

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Easy money farming on cows & beef
By chikaldirick
This guide describes a fast and easy way to earn hundreds of thousands dollars without any save-file manipulations and with not much of efforts
   
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Introduction
There are several options if you want to get a lot of money. One of them is to sell any items, then go back and reload the same save. Though it works it might feel a little bit hacky and inappropriate.

Any other method that I was able to find was giving me up to $10k on a daily basis (like farming pigs and selling their meat or transforming it into salami sausages) but required a lot of time (making sausages) or gave less money (selling raw meat).

Another option that'd introduced within this guide fully relies on the in-game mechanics and does not abuse any glitches or bugs and is also quite time-efficient. Its key parts are: General Store, Cows, Beef and Burger Store. You might already get it...

Explanation
During the gameplay I noticed that cows and bulls that are sold in the General Store are already grown enough to be killed and get relatively large amount of beef. Unlike other animals giving several pieces of meat, even Beef Cow that is sold for $800 gives you 16 pieces of beef, each piece costing at $40, giving a total of $640. Similar thing goes with Beef Bull - it costs $1000 and gives you few more beef pieces.

It might be already enough to increase your all-time earned money but you'll eventually lose them since beef meat costs a bit less than a cow or a bull. To make it profitable, you can use the Burger Store mechanic called "Today's Specials" which gives you extra money for the specific items (updated every day). It might go up to 2x profit comparing to a regular price.

Combining these two things we might not only get dozens of meat without any efforts but also sell it for a great price and receive a profit on top of that!
Action plan
0. Drive to the General Store & buy a lot of Coolers (10+)
1. Purchase 5-6 Beef Cows or Beef Bulls
We're not interested in the Dairy Cows & Bulls because they give less meat.
Buying only 5 or 6 animals at the same time will help you to kill them all with a single magazine of 6 bullets on both revolver (preferable) or a rifle (also fine but takes a little bit more time due to reload after each shot; though it can be used as a backup if you miss a shot with a revolver)
2. Kill them all
It's recommended to use a revolver due to its higher fire rate. If you miss a shot, switch to a rifle so you don't have to waste your time on its reload.
3. Repeat #2-3 several times
It's done just to save some time. Usually I do it 4-6 times to get 20-30 cows peacefully lying nearby.
4. Grab all of the meat into containers
5. Repeat #1-4 several times
I usually collect enough meat so it fills whole floor of my truck. It is a little bit inconvenient to put containers on the 2nd layer so I just end up with having a packed 1st one. Though sometimes I get lazy and fill two layers to reduce driving back and forth.
6. Go to the Burger Store & check "Today's Specials"
If there is any multiplier above x1.5 for "Beef" you might consider selling all of your beef right away. Personally I waited a little bit longer to have x1.8 or more to gain even bigger profit.
Please note that the whole truck might not fit into the loading area of the Burger Store so you might reposition it by moving forward or backward to have all the meat tracked properly in several tries.
7. Sell all the meat whenever you feel it's ok for you



I was able to get several hundreds thousands ($300,000) per day without that much of efforts by filling the truck with meat in advance.
If you initially don't have that much money to prepare meet in advance, you might just visit the Burger Store daily and whenever you see a Beef special, put all your money into that, buy-kill-sell, get even more money and repeat. Personally I did it exactly that way for the first time. Then I purchased a dedicated truck (costs only $2,400) to gradually store beef there. I visited the General Store once a day or two and restocked my truck with more beef. Eventually when Burger Store provides extra money for the beef I sell it all.
Conclusion
Please let me know if you encounter any errors in the guide or find anything unclear. Otherwise have a great game and high profits!