Blackberry
| Blackberry | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Forage |
| Location | Foraging; Fall Seeds |
| Season | Fall |
| Sell Price | 20g |
| Energy | 25 |
| Health | 11 |
The Blackberry is a small Fall fruit gathered from the ground and from wild bushes all over the valley. One berry is worth very little, but a few days in Fall fill every bush in town at once. That event, called Blackberry Season, turns a short walk into dozens of free berries. They feed the farmer through long Fall days, fill the Fall Foraging Bundle and go into Blackberry Cobbler. A special power from the bear in the Secret Woods triples their sale price, which turns a cheap snack into a real source of money.
Location
Early in Fall, Blackberries appear on the ground like any other forage. Pelican Town, Cindersap Forest and the Railroad are the usual places to find them.
The bigger harvest comes from bushes. For four days in the second week of Fall, the large green bushes around town grow ripe berries. Walk up to a bush and interact with it to shake the fruit loose. Picked bushes can grow new berries overnight while the season lasts. A daily round of the bushes gives far more berries than one trip on the last day.
The Foraging skill decides how many berries each bush gives. At level 4, a bush drops two berries instead of one. At level 8, it drops three. Food that raises Foraging high enough can push the yield to four per bush. Each berry picked from a bush also gives a small amount of Foraging experience.
The Forest Farm has more berry bushes than the other farm maps, so it gives the biggest harvest. The Secret Woods also holds a cluster of bushes.
Blackberries can be grown too. Wild Seeds (Fa) are crafted from one Blackberry, one Common Mushroom, one Hazelnut and one Wild Plum. The recipe unlocks at Foraging level 6. Each plant grows one of those four Fall forage items at random.
Prices
A raw Blackberry sells for very little. Its main value is as free food during the busy Fall harvest.
Bear's Knowledge changes that. Secret Note #23 asks the farmer to bring Maple Syrup to the Secret Woods. A bear takes the syrup and teaches a lasting power in return. From then on, every Blackberry and Salmonberry sells for three times its normal price.
A Preserves Jar turns a Blackberry into Blackberry Jelly. Jelly is worth twice the fruit plus a fixed bonus, so it pays well on a cheap berry like this one. A Keg makes wine worth three times the fruit, which is less than the jelly here. For Blackberries, the jar is the better machine.
Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.
| Quality | Price | Bear's Knowledge (×3) |
|---|---|---|
| Normal | 20g | 60g |
 Silver
|
25g | 75g |
 Gold
|
30g | 90g |
 Iridium
|
40g | 120g |
Uses
Placing one Blackberry in the Fall Foraging Bundle helps to finish the Crafts Room in the Community Center. Common Mushroom, Hazelnut and Wild Plum share that bundle.
Two Blackberries cooked with Sugar and Wheat Flour make Blackberry Cobbler. The Queen of Sauce teaches the recipe on television. The finished dish restores far more energy and health than the berries alone.
Blackberries also go into Wild Seeds (Fa), as described above.
In tailoring, a Blackberry in the Sewing Machine makes a shirt. For the blue dye pot at Emily and Haley's house, a Blackberry is one of the accepted items.
Cooking Blackberry with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.
| Dish | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Blackberry Cobbler | 
|
Blackberry (2), Sugar (1), Wheat Flour (1) |
Gifts
Demetrius, Elliott, Harvey, Jodi, Kent, Leah, Linus, Pam, Robin, Sandy and Shane like Blackberries.
Abigail, Haley, Jas, Maru and Vincent dislike them.
During Blackberry Season the berries cost nothing to collect. That makes them an easy way to keep up friendship with the villagers who like them.
Notes
Never put a Blackberry in the soup at the Luau. The Governor dislikes it, and every villager loses some friendship with the farmer.
Save a stack from Blackberry Season before eating or selling them all. The bundle and the cobbler recipe both need berries, and the bushes stay bare until next Fall.
All Foraging
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Season | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackberry | 
|
Fall | - |
| Cave Carrot | 
|
All | 25g |
| Chanterelle | 
|
Fall | 160g |
| Coconut | 
|
All | 100g |
| Common Mushroom | 
|
Spring (Secret Woods); Summer (Forest Farm); Fall (Stardew Valley; Secret Woods; Forest Farm); All (Dangerous Mines; Ginger Island mushroom cave) | 40g |
| Coral | 
|
All | 80g |
| Crocus | 
|
Winter | - |
| Crystal Fruit | 
|
Winter | 150g |
| Daffodil | 
|
Spring | 30g |
| Dandelion | 
|
Spring | 40g |
| Fiddlehead Fern | 
|
Summer; All on Ginger Island Jungle, Skull Cavern and Dangerous Mines | - |
| Ginger | 
|
All | 60g |
| Grass | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | - |
| Hazelnut | 
|
Fall | 90g |
| Holly | 
|
Winter | 80g |
| Leek | 
|
Spring | 60g |
| Magma Cap | 
|
- | 400g |
| Morel | 
|
Spring | 150g |
| Nautilus Shell | 
|
All (Beach Farm; Dangerous Mines); Winter (The Beach) | 120g |
| Purple Mushroom | 
|
All | 250g |
| Rainbow Shell | 
|
All (Beach Farm; Dangerous Mines); Summer (The Beach) | 300g |
| Red Mushroom | 
|
Summer (Secret Woods); Fall (Secret Woods; Forest Farm); All (other) | 75g |
| Salmonberry | 
|
15-18 Spring (bushes); All (the Farm Cave) | - |
| Sap | 
|
- | 2g |
| Sea Urchin | 
|
All | 160g |
| Seaweed | 
|
All | 20g |
| Snow Yam | 
|
Winter | 100g |
| Spice Berry | 
|
Summer; All (The Farm Cave) | 80g |
| Spring Onion | 
|
Spring | - |
| Sweet Pea | 
|
Summer | - |
| Truffle | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | 625g |
| Weeds | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | - |
| Wild Horseradish | 
|
Spring | 50g |
| Wild Plum | 
|
Fall | 80g |
| Winter Root | 
|
Winter | 70g |