Crystal Fruit

Crystal Fruit

Type	Forage
Location	Foraging; Winter Seeds; Dust Sprites
Season	Winter
Sell Price	150g
Energy	63
Health	28

The Crystal Fruit is a pale, icy fruit that appears in the snow during Winter. It is the most valuable of the regular Winter forage items, and it makes Winter foraging worth the walk. In a Keg it becomes Crystal Fruit Wine, one of the better wines a farmer can make from forage. It also fills the Winter Foraging Bundle and goes into Wild Seeds (Wi). Dust Sprites in The Mines drop it too, so a few can turn up outside Winter.

The in-game description reads: A delicate fruit that pops up from the snow.

Location

Crystal Fruit spawns as Winter forage around the valley. The Bus Stop and Cindersap Forest give it most often. The Railroad, the Mountain, the Backwoods and Pelican Town can also produce it.

Dust Sprites carry Crystal Fruit as a rare drop. These monsters live on the icy floors of The Mines, roughly from floor 40 to floor 80. The drop chance is low, so fighting them is a poor way to collect fruit on purpose. A fruit found this way is a pleasant bonus during a mining trip.

Crystal Fruit can also be grown from Winter Seeds. Crafting Wild Seeds (Wi) unlocks at Foraging level 7. The recipe takes one Crocus, one Crystal Fruit, one Snow Yam and one Winter Root and makes a pack of ten seeds. Each plant grows one of those four items at random, so about one plant in four becomes a Crystal Fruit.

Prices

Raw, a Crystal Fruit sells well for forage, and the price climbs with quality. The Botanist profession makes every wild fruit the highest quality.

A Keg turns it into Crystal Fruit Wine worth three times the raw price. The Artisan profession raises that by another forty percent. Better fruit makes better wine, and each quality step sells for more. A Preserves Jar makes Crystal Fruit Jelly instead, but the jelly is worth noticeably less than the wine. For profit, the Keg is the clear choice.

Uses

Placing a Crystal Fruit in the Winter Foraging Bundle helps to finish the Crafts Room. Crocus, Snow Yam and Winter Root share that bundle. Keep one back for it, since the fruit will not return until the next Winter.

Crystal Fruit also goes into Wild Seeds (Wi), as described above.

The Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store sometimes asks for one in Winter. An Ice Pip Fish Pond may also ask for a Crystal Fruit before it grows larger.

In tailoring, a Crystal Fruit in the Sewing Machine makes a shirt. It also counts as a blue dye in the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house.

Eaten raw, a Crystal Fruit restores a good amount of energy and health. That makes spare fruit a decent snack during Winter mining.

The Community Center asks for Crystal Fruit in these bundles.

Bundle	Room	Amount
Winter Foraging Bundle	Crafts Room	1

Gifts

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

Abigail, Haley, Jas, Maru and Vincent dislike it.

Its price makes it an expensive present. Cheaper Winter forage such as the Crocus pleases more villagers for less.

Notes

Winter has few crops, so Crystal Fruit is one of the main sources of income for a farmer who forages. Turning a winter's worth of fruit into wine gives a strong start to the next Spring.

All Foraging

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	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