Ancient Fruit

Ancient Fruit

Type	Crop
Season	Spring, Summer, Fall
Seed	Ancient Seeds
Growth Time	28 days
Regrowth	Every 7 days
Sell Price	550g

Ancient Fruit is a rare fruit crop that grows from Ancient Seeds, an old plant revived from an artifact. It is one of the most famous money makers on the farm. The plant takes a long time to mature, but it then bears fruit every week for as long as it stays alive. Outdoors it lasts through Spring, Summer and Fall, and in the Greenhouse it never stops. Ancient Fruit Wine is the classic late-game product, and many farms fill their Greenhouse with nothing else. The fruit also completes an option in the Missing Bundle that leads to the Movie Theater.

Growing

Ancient Fruit grows through five stages before its first harvest. After that, the same plant gives a new fruit every seven days. It never needs replanting while it stays in a season it can grow in.

A seed planted on the first day of a season gives its first fruit on the first day of the next season. Planted on the first of Spring, it starts bearing on the first of Summer. It then keeps producing weekly until the end of Fall, for eight harvests before winter. Outdoor plants die when Winter arrives, so the long first growth is only worth it with an early start.

Speed-Gro and the Agriculturist profession only shorten that first growth. The weekly regrowth stays the same once the plant matures.

The Greenhouse is where Ancient Fruit shines. It ignores the seasons there, so one planting keeps producing every week for the rest of the game. The farm on Ginger Island also ignores the seasons, which makes it a second home for the crop.

Deluxe Fertilizer lets the fruit reach iridium quality. Quality fruit is worth more when sold raw, though it makes no difference inside a Keg.

The first Ancient Seed usually comes from an artifact. Digging up artifact spots can turn up the Ancient Seed artifact. Donating it to Gunther at the Museum rewards a packet of Ancient Seeds and the crafting recipe for more.

The Traveling Cart sometimes sells Ancient Seeds as well. The easiest way to expand the crop is the Seed Maker. Placing one Ancient Fruit inside returns several Ancient Seeds, so a small patch can grow into a full field within a season or two.

Prices

Ancient Fruit is valuable even when sold straight from the field. Its real worth comes from the Keg. Turning the fruit into Ancient Fruit Wine is the most common way to use the crop. The wine sells for three times the fruit's base price.

Wine takes a full week in a Keg. That matches the weekly harvest, so one Keg per plant keeps the cycle running smoothly. With the Artisan profession, the wine gains another forty percent.

Wine can also age in a Cask in the Cellar. Iridium-quality Ancient Fruit Wine with the Artisan profession sells for 4,620g a bottle.

The Preserves Jar makes Ancient Fruit Jelly, which is worth far less than wine. Jelly suits a farm that has more fruit than Kegs. The Dehydrator turns five fruit into one pack of Dried Ancient Fruit.

Ancient Fruit is often compared with Starfruit. Starfruit wine is worth more per bottle, but Starfruit must be replanted after every harvest. Ancient Fruit regrows for free and needs no seed purchases. Over a long game the two land close together, and Ancient Fruit wins on convenience.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality	Price	Tiller (+10%)
Normal	550g	605g
Silver	687g	755g
Gold	825g	907g
Iridium	1,100g	1,210g

Uses

Five gold-quality Ancient Fruit are one option for the Missing Bundle in the abandoned JojaMart. Completing that bundle leads to the Movie Theater. Deluxe Fertilizer or good farming luck helps reach the gold quality the bundle asks for.

With the Remixed Bundles, Ancient Fruit is one of the options for the Rare Crops Bundle in the Pantry.

In tailoring, Ancient Fruit in the Sewing Machine makes the dyeable Genie Pants.

Gifts

Demetrius, Elliott, Harvey, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Linus, Pam, Robin, Sandy and Shane like Ancient Fruit.

Abigail, Haley, Jas and Vincent dislike it.

The marriage candidates Alex, Emily, Maru, Penny, Sam and Sebastian all feel neutral about Ancient Fruit. Clint, Gus, Marnie, Pierre and Willy feel neutral about it too. So do the Dwarf, Krobus and the Wizard. Caroline, Evelyn, George and Lewis also feel neutral about it. Leo feels neutral about it as well.

Notes

Plant Ancient Seeds as early in Spring as possible outdoors. A late planting spends most of the year growing and gives few harvests before winter.

Keep a few fruits back for the Seed Maker before turning a harvest into wine. Every extra plant adds another fruit each week for the rest of the game.

All Crops

Every crop, with its season, growth time and normal-quality sell price.

Crop	Season	Growth	Price
Blue Jazz	Spring	7 days	50g
Carrot	Spring	3 days	35g
Cauliflower	Spring	12 days	175g
Garlic	Spring	4 days	60g
Green Bean	Spring	10 days	40g
Kale	Spring	6 days	110g
Parsnip	Spring	4 days	35g
Potato	Spring	6 days	80g
Rhubarb	Spring	13 days	220g
Strawberry	Spring	8 days	120g
Tulip	Spring	6 days	30g
Unmilled Rice	Spring	-	-
Ancient Fruit	Spring, Summer, Fall	28 days	550g
Tea Leaves	Spring, Summer, Fall	20 days	-
Blueberry	Summer	13 days	50g
Hops	Summer	11 days	25g
Hot Pepper	Summer	5 days	40g
Melon	Summer	12 days	250g
Poppy	Summer	7 days	140g
Radish	Summer	6 days	90g
Red Cabbage	Summer	9 days	260g
Starfruit	Summer	13 days	750g
Summer Spangle	Summer	8 days	90g
Summer Squash	Summer	6 days	-
Tomato	Summer	11 days	60g
Corn	Summer, Fall	14 days	50g
Sunflower	Summer, Fall	8 days	80g
Wheat	Summer, Fall	4 days	25g
Amaranth	Fall	7 days	150g
Artichoke	Fall	8 days	160g
Beet	Fall	6 days	100g
Bok Choy	Fall	4 days	80g
Cranberries	Fall	7 days	-
Eggplant	Fall	5 days	60g
Fairy Rose	Fall	12 days	-
Pumpkin	Fall	13 days	320g
Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	24 days	-
Yam	Fall	10 days	160g
Powdermelon	Winter	-	60g
Broccoli	-	-	-
Cactus Fruit	-	-	75g
Grape	-	-	80g
Pineapple	-	-	-
Qi Fruit	-	-	-
Taro Root	-	10 days	100g