Fall Seeds

Fall Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum
Produces	10 Fall Seeds per craft
Season	Fall
Growth Time	7 days
Cart	135 to 1,000g
Sell Price	45g

Fall Seeds are not bought but earned. The recipe arrives with the sixth level of the Foraging skill, and one craft turns a Hazelnut, a Wild Plum, a Blackberry and a Common Mushroom into a stack of ten seeds. What comes up from them is forage rather than farm produce, and that quietly rewrites the rules: quality is decided by the Foraging skill instead of Farming, the Botanist profession lifts every harvest to iridium, and crows pass the bed over entirely. The craft is also one of the better trades going, because ten seeds are worth considerably more than the four forage items spent to make them. The trap is a visual one, since the half-grown sprouts look very much like dead crops.

Growing

The seeds go into tilled soil like any other, come up in two stages across a week, and each plant yields one of the four Fall forage items at random. There is no steering which one appears.

A week of growing leaves room to spare in the season. A bed put in on the opening day of Fall is cleared on the eighth and can be turned over three times more, and the twenty-first is the last day a sowing finishes before Winter. Since every plant is cut once and resown, Speed-Gro works on every round rather than just the first.

The middle stage is what catches people out. Wild seeds at that point look like withered stalks, close enough to dead crops that a tidy farmer clears the bed by mistake. The fix is to leave the bed alone until the plants are plainly ripe.

Quality is where the bed gets interesting. On an ordinary crop the Farming skill decides how often gold or iridium appears; on a bed of Fall Seeds the Foraging skill does that job instead. A forager who took Gatherer at the halfway mark and Botanist at the top of the skill pulls iridium forage out of every tile, which turns a crafted seed into one of the stronger returns per tile in the season.

Crows ignore the patch, so a bed of these can sit well outside the reach of any Scarecrow without risk, and the protected ground can go to the crops that need it. On Ginger Island the plants sometimes leave untilled earth behind them after harvest and take any fertiliser down with it, so the island is better kept for ordinary crops.

Buying

Every route to Fall Seeds runs around the shops rather than through them.

Crafting is the main one, and the four ingredients are an afternoon's walk. All four appear as forage across the valley through the season, and Blackberry Season, a short window early in Fall, covers one of them in bulk.

The Seed Maker cuts that list down to a single item. A Common Mushroom put into the machine comes back as one to three Fall Seeds, so a bed already growing renews itself from its own harvest without anyone hunting down a Hazelnut and a Wild Plum again.

Handing in the Crafts Room's Fall Foraging Bundle pays out a block of thirty seeds, which is a proper bed in one go. The four items that bundle asks for are the same four the recipe wants, so gathering a double set covers the donation and the first craft together.

The Desert Trader deals in wild seeds on Saturdays and will swap Fall Seeds for twice as many Winter Seeds. Because Winter Seeds come out of forage dug from the beach sand in the cold months, a Winter spent with a hoe becomes a Fall spent planting.

The treasure rooms far down in the Skull Cavern give these seeds out by the stack. The Traveling Cart lists them occasionally too, at a price far above what the ingredients are worth.

Uses

The craft pays even when the seeds never reach the soil. Ten Fall Seeds sell for appreciably more than the set of four forage items spent on them, so a forager with a glut of mushrooms is better off crafting first and shipping afterwards. With Botanist in hand that margin closes, because iridium forage is worth more than the seed it would have become.

Two packets of wild seeds from any season go into the Tea Sapling recipe alongside Fiber and Wood. Caroline is the one who passes that recipe on, and a single craft of ten covers five saplings.

The harvested forage counts towards the Fall Foraging Bundle just as wild-picked items do, which makes a planted bed a reliable way to finish the Crafts Room when a walk through the woods has turned up nothing.

Seed packets go down poorly as presents right across the village, so a spare stack is for planting or for shipping.

Notes

Hold the four ingredients in a chest until the recipe lands. Foraging climbs quickly in Fall, and a saved set becomes ten seeds the morning the sixth level arrives.

Sow one last bed on the twenty-first. It ripens on the twenty-eighth, which is the final harvest of the year before the fields go quiet.

Choose Gatherer at the halfway point of Foraging if these beds are part of the plan. Botanist sits behind that choice, and it is what turns an unremarkable crop into an iridium one.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Grows	Season	Pierre
Acorn	Oak Tree	All	-
Amaranth Seeds	Amaranth	Fall	70g
Ancient Seeds	Ancient Fruit	Spring; Summer; Fall	-
Apple Sapling	Apple	Fall	4,000g
Apricot Sapling	Apricot	Spring	2,000g
Artichoke Seeds	Artichoke	Fall	30g (Year 2+)
Banana Sapling	Banana	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Bean Starter	Green Bean	Spring	60g
Beet Seeds	Beet	Fall	-
Blue Grass Starter	Blue Grass	Spring; Summer; Fall	-
Blueberry Seeds	Blueberry	Summer	80g
Bok Choy Seeds	Bok Choy	Fall	50g
Broccoli Seeds	Broccoli	Fall	-
Cactus Seeds	Cactus Fruit	All	-
Carrot Seeds	Carrot	Spring	-
Cauliflower Seeds	Cauliflower	Spring	80g
Cherry Sapling	Cherry	Spring	3,400g
Coffee Bean	-	Spring; Summer	-
Corn Seeds	Corn	Summer; Fall	150g
Cranberry Seeds	Cranberries	Fall	240g
Eggplant Seeds	Eggplant	Fall	20g
Fairy Seeds	Fairy Rose	Fall	200g
Fall Seeds	Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum	Fall	-
Fiber Seeds	Fiber	All	-
Garlic Seeds	Garlic	Spring	40g (Year 2+)
Grape Starter	Grape	Fall	60g
Grass Starter	Grass	Spring; Summer; Fall	100g
Hops Starter	Hops	Summer	60g
Jazz Seeds	Blue Jazz	Spring	30g
Kale Seeds	Kale	Spring	70g
Mahogany Seed	Mahogany Tree	All	-
Mango Sapling	Mango	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Maple Seed	Maple Tree	All	-
Melon Seeds	Melon	Summer	80g
Mixed Flower Seeds	Varies	Spring Summer Fall	-
Mixed Seeds	Varies	Spring Summer Fall	-
Mossy Seed	Green Rain Tree	All	-
Mushroom Tree Seed	Mushroom Tree	All	-
Mystic Tree Seed	Mystic Tree	All	-
Orange Sapling	Orange	Summer	4,000g
Parsnip Seeds	Parsnip	Spring	20g
Peach Sapling	Peach	Summer	6,000g
Pepper Seeds	Hot Pepper	Summer	40g
Pine Cone	Pine Tree	All	-
Pineapple Seeds	Pineapple	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Pomegranate Sapling	Pomegranate	Fall	6,000g
Poppy Seeds	Poppy	Summer	100g
Potato Seeds	Potato	Spring	50g
Powdermelon Seeds	Powdermelon	Winter	-
Pumpkin Seeds	Pumpkin	Fall	100g
Qi Bean	Qi Fruit	All	-
Radish Seeds	Radish	Summer	40g
Rare Seed	Sweet Gem Berry	Fall	-
Red Cabbage Seeds	Red Cabbage	Summer	100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds	Rhubarb	Spring	-
Rice Shoot	Unmilled Rice	Spring	40g
Spangle Seeds	Summer Spangle	Summer	50g
Spring Seeds	Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion	Spring	-
Starfruit Seeds	Starfruit	Summer	-
Strawberry Seeds	Strawberry	Spring	-
Summer Seeds	Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea	Summer	-
Summer Squash Seeds	Summer Squash	Summer	-
Sunflower Seeds	Sunflower	Summer; Fall	200g
Taro Tuber	Taro Root	All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley	-
Tea Sapling	Tea Leaves	All	-
Tomato Seeds	Tomato	Summer	50g
Tulip Bulb	Tulip	Spring	20g
Wheat Seeds	Wheat	Summer; Fall	10g
Winter Seeds	Crocus, Crystal Fruit,; Snow Yam, or Winter Root	Winter	-
Yam Seeds	Yam	Fall	60g