Maple Seed

Maple Seed

Type	Seed
Grows	Maple Tree
Season	All
Growth Time	Variable
Cart	100 to 1,000g
Sell Price	5g

A Maple Seed is the first step towards honey. Crafting a Bee House calls for a jar of Maple Syrup, and syrup only comes from a Tapper fixed to a mature Maple Tree, so a few seeds pressed into waste ground are what open beekeeping on a farm with no maples standing near the house. The seed itself costs nothing: every maple in Cindersap Forest drops one when shaken, and the bins around town give them up too. The syrup that follows is wanted by two of the Community Center's bundles, and the Raccoon Wife will swap a single seed for a whole packet of Carrot Seeds. Growth is slow and unpredictable until Tree Fertilizer enters the picture, which makes the fertiliser the only thing worth spending on.

Growing

The seed goes onto ground that has never been worked. A tile turned with a Hoe will not accept it, and the rule holds on the farm and anywhere off it that would take a seed at all.

Five stages stand between the seed and a tappable tree, and the game rolls once each night to see whether the planting climbs one of them. Outside Winter that roll lands about a fifth of the time. A median maple becomes tappable after roughly eighteen growing days, while the slowest tenth drag on past a month, so two seeds pushed in on the same evening can finish weeks apart. An untreated seed does not move at all through Winter.

Tree Fertilizer settles all of it. A treated seed climbs a stage every night and keeps climbing in Winter as well, which takes it from seed to tree in five nights whatever the calendar says.

Crowding stalls a maple outright. A seedling hemmed in by a mature trunk on an adjoining tile stops advancing until the neighbour is cleared, so a row planted tight against itself is a row that never matures. A tile or two of breathing room in each direction is enough.

Buying

No shop in Pelican Town stocks the seed, and none needs to. Shaking a mature Maple Tree drops one once a little foraging experience has been earned, and felling a maple leaves seed on the ground, so one walk through Cindersap Forest with an Axe supplies a plantation.

Rummaging the bins around town turns one up now and then, which is how a farm still carrying its starter Axe gets its first few.

A Woodskip Fish Pond outproduces the forest once its population has climbed to nine, giving up as many as five seeds in a single collection. Anyone already keeping Woodskip for roe gets the seeds thrown in.

The Traveling Cart does list the seed from time to time, at a price no one gathering their own would consider paying.

Uses

The syrup is the point, so a seed is almost always better planted than kept. A Tapper on a mature maple fills a jar every nine nights, and a Heavy Tapper brings that down to four. Maple Syrup is one of the choices in the Exotic Foraging Bundle, a required item in the Chef's Bundle, and the ingredient that makes the Bee House recipe possible in the first place.

The seed has four jobs of its own. Three kinds of tree seed, one of each, cook up into a Field Snack. Foraging level one hands the recipe over, so the dish is available before anything else in the kitchen is. Five of each, with five Mahogany Seeds, craft a Mystic Tree Seed once Foraging Mastery has been unlocked. The Raccoon Wife near the Giant Stump trades a single seed for Carrot Seeds, the cheapest packet of spring seed anywhere in the valley. And in a remixed Crafts Room, ten Maple Seeds can be one of the items the Forest Bundle asks for.

Loaded into the spool of a Sewing Machine the seed sews a Beanie, and Emily and Haley's dye pots treat it as an orange ingredient.

Fish Ponds put in requests for three Maple Seeds now and then. A small stack kept in a chest saves a walk out to the forest on the morning the request appears.

Nobody in the valley thinks much of being handed one.

Crafting Maple Seed with the other materials below makes these items.

Item	Image	Ingredients
Field Snack		Acorn (1), Maple Seed (1), Pine Cone (1)

Notes

Plant maples where the collecting round is short. Syrup comes off one tree at a time, by hand, so a stand beside the farmhouse is worth more in practice than a bigger one along the back fence.

Hold ten seeds back in the first year. The Forest Bundle option and the Mystic Tree Seed recipe both want them in quantity, and shaking the forest for a fresh ten is a slow morning's work.

Trade one seed for Carrot Seeds early. The carrot is a three day crop, and getting the first packet for a piece of forest litter is the best exchange rate the Raccoon Wife offers.

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