Beginner players of Cozy Grove start to want a reliable income during their first few weeks. Though Mr. Kit’s first shop upgrade is only 10,000 old coins, the second upgrade is 200,000. Knowing what valuables you should keep for future quests and what you should sell for good money becomes important as soon as your first week at the Grove ends.

What you choose to sell and not to sell is up to you, generally speaking. Everyone has different priorities. Maybe you want to focus on completing quests more than upgrading your tent, maybe your tent needs more upgrades than Mr. Kit’s shop does. It’s all up to what you want to achieve first, but it’s always helpful to have a good understanding of what is worth selling and what is worth keeping.

Raw And Cooked Food Items

Any raw obtainable crafting item is barely worth anything when sold as-is. It doesn’t matter if it’s Mushrooms, fruit, or root vegetables.

  • You should always burn these items using Flamey to get more value out of them.

Later down the line, you’ll probably want to start saving the raw materials for quests, imps, and recipes. Imps usually ask for uncooked mushrooms and roots in exchange for a spirit essence. However, in the beginning, burning these food items will be one of your only sources of income.

Fish And Seashells

Fishing is a calming pastime in many life simulation games. You can usually sell these fish for a lot, but in Cozy Grove, fish are worth nothing unless burnt or crafted into something else. You can burn fish using Flamey to convert them into charred fish bones.

  • Fish bones sell for more old coins than raw fish does.

When you’re comfortable with your money or have another means to gain some, you’ll want to store rare fish in your storage for quests in the future.

The next step would be to use those bones to craft cheap furniture at Maker Bear’s workshop, if you have that recipe. Recipes are randomized and some players have found furniture recipes that require only four charred fish bones and sell for a lot. Farming fish and then crafting and selling furniture is a good way to make money.

Seashells also sell for barely anything but there’s nothing else you can do with them. The best thing to do with seashells is to donate any new ones, save rare ones, and sell the rest.

Furniture Items

You can always sell unwanted furniture for some cash. Some furniture items sell for a lot of coins, you just have to find out which one of your recipes is the most valuable by checking in with Mr. Kit.

You may not get the four charred fish bone recipe that others have, but you can still sell some other items. As you progress through the game you’ll find better decorations that better suit your campgrounds, or maybe you already have a cheap recipe for something you hate.

Spirit Birds

You’ll get a spirit bird pet early on as a quest reward. Once you get a little farm going, having bought multiple other birds, you’ll probably have a fair amount of spirit bird essences. Even if you only keep one bird, if it’s happy it will produce three spirit bird essences every harvest. With a safe amount of essences stored, you’re probably safe to sell a bird or two.

  • Selling spirit birds, or even spirit deer, will grant you relic ash.

Relic ash is valuable not to sell but to acquire. It’s hard to come across a lot of it early on and you’ll need it in the future to upgrade tools and craft very rare furniture items. These spirit pets only sell for relic ash, so when the day comes that you really need some, you should sell a bird.

Flowers And Tins Of Pigment

By harvesting your potted flowers or flowering bushes, you’ll get a lot of flower petals in return. These can be converted into a tin of flower pigment by recycling the petals at Francesca. Tins of pigment are most useful for unique furniture items that ask for a lot of pigment.

  • Selling flower petals as is gets you more money than selling tins of pigment.

If you don’t have these recipes, or do but don’t like the furniture item anyway, it’s best to not recycle all your flowers and just sell the petals as is instead. You can also donate one petal each, of every color, for 500 old coins to Captain Snout. If you don’t need tins of pigment, sell them. If you do, recycle them first.