Fiber Seeds

Fiber Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Fiber
Produces	4 Fiber Seeds per craft
Season	All
Growth Time	7 days
Sell Price	5g

Fiber Seeds break nearly every rule the rest of the farm runs on. They go into the ground in any season, Winter included, they never want watering, and a Scythe brings them in where a crop would be picked by hand. Each plant gives a generous handful of Fiber and sometimes a packet of Mixed Seeds on top of it. They arrive by recipe rather than by purchase, posted by Linus the morning after his Community Cleanup request is finished. For a farm that needs Fiber in bulk, for Scarecrows, for Grass Starter or for a Junimo Hut, a standing bed of these is far steadier than swinging at weeds. The cleverest use is a sowing in the last week of Fall, because the patch holds tilled and fertilised soil through the turn of the season.

Growing

A seed takes a week in hoed ground and then stands ready. Watering changes nothing about that, so the bed can sit in a corner no sprinkler reaches and no watering can ever visits.

The Scythe is the only way to gather it. Walking the rows clears several tiles a swing, which brings a large bed in far quicker than a field of hand-picked crops, and the soil underneath stays tilled and ready for the next sowing.

Winter is where the seed earns its keep. Every other bed on the farm is bare, these keep growing, and a dead month turns into a Fiber harvest. The plants still need hoed ground to go into, so the hoe comes out before the frost rather than after it.

The season change is the part worth planning around. Tilled soil and any fertiliser worked into it are swept away when Fall becomes Winter, unless something is growing in the tile. A bed of Fiber Seeds sown in the last week of Fall holds both, which means a prepared field survives into the new year instead of being hoed and fertilised twice.

Crows do go after planted seed here, so a Scarecrow within reach of the bed is worth the Fiber it costs to build. The plants are not counted as crops by the game, and yet Junimos from a Junimo Hut will still gather them when the bed falls inside the hut's range, which makes a Fiber patch one of the easiest things on the farm to leave running unattended.

Buying

The recipe is the whole gate, and it comes from one place. Linus pins the Community Cleanup request to the board of Special Orders beside the Mayor's Manor, and the job is to pull twenty pieces of rubbish out of the valley's water and drop them into the bin on the train platform. Driftwood, Broken CDs, Soggy Newspapers, Broken Glasses and Trash all count towards it, and fishing in shallow water is the quickest way to turn them up. Finishing it brings gold, friendship with Linus and the recipe in the next morning's post. The board draws its requests at random, so the job cannot be chased down: it has to be taken when it appears.

After that the running cost is trivial. One craft wants a packet of Mixed Seeds, a little Sap and a lump of Clay, and gives back four seeds. Weeds drop Mixed Seeds when cut, chopping trees gives Sap, and Clay turns up in tilled ground under the hoe, so each craft costs little more than a walk.

The other ways of getting Fiber are worth knowing for comparison. Cutting weeds yields some about half the time, and the Mines are thick with weeds around the floors in the twenties, where leaving and re-entering reshuffles the level. The Desert Trader swaps Fiber for Stone on Tuesdays, which suits a farm already breaking rock. Neither route is as quiet as a bed that grows while the farmer is underground.

Uses

Everything about this seed points at Fiber, and Fiber is a steady bottleneck on a building farm. A Scarecrow takes a stack of it, each Grass Starter takes ten, and a Junimo Hut asks for a hundred, so a bed planted before the construction projects start saves a great deal of weed-whacking later.

Every harvested plant has a small chance of returning a packet of Mixed Seeds, which happens to be the item the craft consumes. A wide bed therefore pays part of its own recipe cost back each time it is cut.

Selling the seed over a counter returns almost nothing, so spares are better left in the chest than shipped.

Offering a packet to a villager is not well received. Seed of any kind goes down badly in town, so this one stays on the farm.

Notes

Sow the last bed of Fall in the field that matters most. The soil and fertiliser under those plants carry through to Spring, which is worth more than the Fiber standing on top of them.

Keep a bed running all Winter. It costs nothing to water, the Scythe does the work in a single pass, and it quietly fills the chest that every later crafting project draws on.

Put a Scarecrow beside the patch. Fiber is cheap once a bed is established, and losing seed to crows while the farmer is off in the Mines is an avoidable waste.

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