Jam factory

Production Gourmet farm

The jam factory is one of the compulsory processing buildings on the gourmet farm, because every upgraded level really does add a new recipe, so it pays to invest in it gradually as you expand your orchards.

Quick overview

Farm	Gourmet farm
Category	Production
Size	7 × 6
From level	39
Max level	9
Price	500 000 Dollars
Build time	12 h 30 min
Workers	10
Priority	Build from level 39

What it's for

The jam factory is used to produce jam.

Produces

The jam factory is a processing building on the gourmet farm that cooks jam out of fruit and one added ingredient, apple, cherry, peach or pineapple, depending on what I'm harvesting in the fruit orchards at the time. Unlike the orchards you buy it straight from the shop, it takes up 7x6 and from ten workers at level one you climb all the way to 48 at level nine. It's a typical third layer of the cycle, where you turn one product, fruit, into another one, jam, which you can sell or use in contracts at the market hall. It suits anyone who has fruit orchards running on the gourmet farm and doesn't want to sell the fruit raw.

When to build it

The factory unlocks from player level 39 and the first level will set you back 500 thousand dollars, which isn't little on the income you have at that point, but it pays to build it as soon as you have a guaranteed supply of apples, because at level one you can only cook apple jam. One is enough, the table offers no reason to build more of them.

Is it worth upgrading

Upgrading pays off here in a completely different way than at the orchards, at level one the recipe list offers only apple jam, but at higher levels cherry comes along, 90 units in 18 minutes, peach, 240 units but in 8 hours, and pineapple, 110 units in 22 minutes, so every upgraded level really opens up a new recipe for you, not just a cosmetic number. The price climbs steadily from 500 thousand to 4.5 million dollars and the workers from 10 up to 48, which is already a serious load on the farm, so I'd upgrade according to which fruit I have to spare, not blindly all the way to the top level.

Tip from a veteran player Cherry jam cooks in 18 minutes and pineapple in 22, so when I only have a moment between logins I'd rather run these quick batches and save peach jam, 8 hours, for the times when I'll be offline longer.

Most common mistake The most common mistake is building the factory without a regular supply of fruit from the orchards, it then stands empty and the money for the build and the upgrades lies idle, because a recipe only starts when you have enough apples, cherries, peaches or pineapples on hand.

Building levels

Level	Price	Build time	XP	Workers	From level
1	500 000 Dollars	12 h 30 min	5 000	10	39
2	1 000 000 Dollars	15 h 16 min	7 000	14	42
3	1 500 000 Dollars	18 h 3 min	9 000	18	45
4	2 000 000 Dollars	20 h 50 min	11 000	22	48
5	2 500 000 Dollars	23 h 36 min	13 000	26	51
6	3 000 000 Dollars	1 d 2 h 23 min	15 000	30	54
7	3 500 000 Dollars	1 d 5 h 10 min	17 000	34	57
8	4 000 000 Dollars	1 d 7 h 56 min	19 000	40	60
9	4 500 000 Dollars	1 d 10 h 43 min	21 000	48	63

Production at level 1

Output	Ingredients	Time	Cost	XP
Apple jam × 130	Apples × 950 w64344 × 170	2 h	13 000 Dollars	—

Yield by level – Apple jam

Level	Amount	Time
1	130	2 h
2	130	2 h
3	130	2 h
4	130	2 h
5	130	2 h
6	130	2 h
7	130	2 h
8	130	2 h
9	130	2 h

Game data, version 8052 (14. 8. 2026).

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Level	Amount	Time
1	130	2 h
2	130	2 h
3	130	2 h
4	130	2 h
5	130	2 h
6	130	2 h
7	130	2 h
8	130	2 h
9	130	2 h

Level	Amount	Time
1	130	2 h
2	130	2 h
3	130	2 h
4	130	2 h
5	130	2 h
6	130	2 h
7	130	2 h
8	130	2 h
9	130	2 h

Level	Amount	Time
1	130	2 h
2	130	2 h
3	130	2 h
4	130	2 h
5	130	2 h
6	130	2 h
7	130	2 h
8	130	2 h
9	130	2 h