Mixed Seeds

Mixed Seeds

Type	Seed
Grows	Varies
Season	Spring Summer Fall
Growth Time	Varies
Sell Price	0g

Mixed Seeds are the valley's lottery ticket. They turn up as litter rather than stock, falling out of cut weeds, hoed dirt, fishing chests and Mystery Boxes, and the Shipping Bin gives nothing at all for them. That leaves two sensible things to do with a packet: press it into the soil and see what comes up, or save ten and swap them at the Giant Stump for the Raccoon Hat. Planted, the packet picks a crop the moment it enters the ground, and the choice is drawn from the current season's short list. A packet is also the awkward ingredient in the Fiber Seeds recipe, which is the only reason many farms hoard them. Because the seed costs nothing but a swing of the Scythe, even a poor roll is pure profit.

Growing

A packet goes into hoed, watered soil like any vegetable seed, and the crop is settled on planting rather than on collection. Seeds gathered in Fall and kept until Spring therefore roll from the Spring list, so a chest full of them is a flexible asset rather than a seasonal one.

Spring draws Cauliflower Seeds, Parsnip Seeds or Potato Seeds, and on the Farm itself the Parsnip is picked twice as often as either of the others. Summer draws Corn Seeds, Pepper Seeds, Radish Seeds or Wheat Seeds. Fall draws Artichoke Seeds, Corn Seeds, Eggplant Seeds or Pumpkin Seeds. The Artichoke roll is the quiet prize, because a packet can produce it in the first year, well before Pierre's General Store puts Artichoke Seeds on the shelf.

Several of those outcomes are better than a single harvest. Corn and Pepper keep bearing for the rest of the season once they start, so one lucky Summer roll works for weeks. A Pumpkin that lands next to eight more of its kind can form a Giant Crop. Wheat comes up ready for the Scythe instead of the hand. A bed of Mixed Seeds therefore matures into an untidy patch of different plants on different days, which is a nuisance for Sprinkler layouts and a reason to keep them in their own corner.

Winter soil outdoors refuses them. Inside the Greenhouse or in a Garden Pot they plant happily all year, and a Winter planting rolls from every season's list at once. The Ginger Island farm follows its own table entirely, drawing Blueberry Seeds, Melon Seeds, Pineapple Seeds or Rhubarb Seeds whatever the calendar says. That island list is far richer than any mainland one, which makes shipping a stack of packets over the water the single best use for them.

Buying

Krobus keeps a small pile of Mixed Seeds in the Sewers on Thursdays, ten at a time, and that is the only standing counter in town for them.

The cheapest standing supply sits in the forest, since the Raccoon's wife hands over a packet for one Cave Carrot once the fourth request of the raccoon family has been filled. Cave Carrots come out of the Mines by the handful, so the trade turns a throwaway forage item into plantable seed.

Cutting weeds is the real source. A weed that drops no Fiber has a small chance of a packet instead, and reading the Raccoon Journal lifts that chance by nearly half again. The journal itself costs 999 Fiber at the Giant Stump after the second request, so the farm that clears weeds for Fiber is already on the way to the upgrade. Hoeing bare dirt or sand turns packets up too, as do fishing treasure chests and the Supply Crates that wash up on the Beach Farm.

Several other routes arrive in bulk. A Mystery Box holds ten packets, and that result is one of the commonest the box gives. The shop at the Stardew Valley Fair sometimes lists two dozen for 1,000 Star Tokens, which is a poor use of tokens next to the Stardrop but harmless once the better prizes are bought. The Calico Egg Merchant, Evelyn and Jodi all sell them at the Desert Festival. On the Wilderness Farm, Wilderness Golems and Iridium Golems drop them about half the time they fall. A Fish Pond holding Crayfish, Periwinkle or Snail Fish starts producing two or three packets once its population reaches five, which is the laziest supply of all.

Uses

The Fiber Seeds recipe takes one packet with Sap and Clay and returns four Fiber Seeds. Linus sends that recipe in the post after the Community Cleanup order from the Special Orders Board is finished, and Fiber Seeds then grow in any season without watering. One packet becoming four plants is the best return any single Mixed Seed gets.

Ten packets buy the Raccoon Hat from the Raccoon's wife once the third request is done. The hat exists nowhere else, so a small reserve in a chest is worth keeping.

Fish Pond quests ask for three or five packets now and then, and a pond asking for its own output is an easy request to fill.

The Seed Maker occasionally misfires and gives one to four packets instead of the seeds of whatever crop went in. That is the one supply a farm cannot plan around, but it quietly fills a chest over a long save.

Villagers across Pelican Town dislike a handful of jumbled seed, so the packets belong in soil, in a crafting slot or in the raccoon's paws.

Notes

Keep the packets in one labelled chest. Ten of them buy a hat, one of them makes four Fiber Seeds, and the rest are free crops, so a scattered stack is easy to waste.

Plant them on ground that would otherwise sit empty. The odd ripening dates make them a poor fit for a tidy Sprinkler grid, and the corners a grid cannot reach suit them perfectly.

Carry a stack to Ginger Island. The island list includes Pineapple and Melon, both worth many times anything the mainland lists can produce.

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