Moss
| Moss | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Resource |
| Location | Trees; Weeds |
| Sell Price | 5g |
Moss is a soft green growth that creeps over the bark of mature trees, and it has quietly become a key crafting material. It turns Pine Tar into Speed-Gro, upgrades the Worm Bin, makes Deluxe Bait and pairs with Hardwood in the Mushroom Log. The Statue Of Blessings from Farming Mastery needs a huge pile of it. Moss can also be cooked into Moss Soup, a filling meal for long mining days. Gathering it does not mean felling the tree, so a farm full of trees doubles as a moss garden. It appears most generously during the Green Rain.
Location
Moss grows on the bark of fully grown trees. Each morning in Spring, Summer and Fall, a tree has a chance to grow a fresh coat. Growth is random, so some trees stay bare for a long time while others turn green quickly. Winter is the off season, and no moss can be gathered until Spring.
Collecting it is quick. Hitting a mossy trunk with any tool or weapon knocks loose one or two pieces, and the tree stays standing. Each piece also gives a little Foraging experience. Ordinary wild trees carry it, so the farm's own trees and the woods around Pelican Town both work. A walk past a grove with a scythe in hand often fills a small stack.
The Green Rain is the moss harvest of the year. On that Summer day, the trees that can grow moss are suddenly covered in it. Special weeds also sprout during the storm, and cutting them can drop extra moss. A Green Rain day is the best chance to gather a big pile at once, so it pays to keep that morning free.
Uses
Farming level 3 teaches Speed-Gro, and each batch combines five pieces of Moss with a piece of Pine Tar. A Tapper on a Pine Tree supplies the Pine Tar, so a mossy pine grove can feed the whole recipe.
The Mushroom Log takes ten pieces of Moss and ten of Hardwood. It grows mushrooms over time and works better when wild trees stand nearby, so it suits a corner of the farm left as woodland.
Fishing uses Moss as well. Adding two pieces of Moss to five ordinary Bait makes Deluxe Bait. Fishing level 8 lets a Worm Bin be upgraded into a Deluxe Worm Bin with thirty pieces of Moss, and that machine then produces bait on its own. Fishing Mastery unlocks Challenge Bait, which mixes Moss with Bone Fragments.
Farming Mastery unlocks the Statue Of Blessings, the biggest moss project of all. It needs several hundred pieces of Moss along with enormous stacks of Stone, Fiber and Sap. Gathering that much usually takes many days of tree visits and at least one Green Rain.
Cooking twenty pieces of Moss makes Moss Soup. The bowl restores plenty of energy and some health, and it carries no buffs. It is a fair use for a spare stack before better meals are available.
Cooking Moss with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.
| Dish | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Moss Soup | 
|
Moss (20) |
Crafting Moss with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Deluxe Worm Bin | 
|
Worm Bin (1), Moss (30) |
| Mushroom Log | 
|
Hardwood (10), Moss (10) |
| Speed-Gro | 
|
Pine Tar (1), Moss (5) |
| Statue Of Blessings | 
|
Sap (999), Fiber (999), Stone (999), Moss (333) |
| Treasure Totem | 
|
Hardwood (5), Mystic Syrup (1), Moss (10) |
Notes
Moss sells for very little, so nearly every piece is worth more in a recipe. Keeping a chest of it near the crafting area saves trips when a Speed-Gro batch or a new Mushroom Log is needed.
All Resources
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bat Wing | 
|
15g |
| Battery Pack | 
|
500g |
| Bone Fragment | 
|
12g |
| Broken CD | 
|
0g |
| Broken Glasses | 
|
0g |
| Bug Meat | 
|
8g |
| Cave Jelly | 
|
180g |
| Cinder Shard | 
|
50g |
| Clay | 
|
20g |
| Coal | 
|
15g |
| Copper Bar | 
|
- |
| Copper Ore | 
|
5g |
| Driftwood | 
|
0g |
| Fiber | 
|
1g |
| Gold Bar | 
|
- |
| Gold Ore | 
|
25g |
| Green Algae | 
|
15g |
| Hardwood | 
|
15g |
| Iridium Bar | 
|
- |
| Iridium Ore | 
|
100g |
| Iron Bar | 
|
- |
| Iron Ore | 
|
10g |
| Joja Cola | 
|
25g |
| Monster Loot | - | - |
| Moss | 
|
5g |
| Radioactive Bar | 
|
- |
| Radioactive Ore | 
|
300g |
| Refined Quartz | 
|
50g |
| Rice | 
|
100g |
| River Jelly | 
|
125g |
| Rotten Plant | 
|
0g |
| Sea Jelly | 
|
200g |
| Soggy Newspaper | 
|
0g |
| Solar Essence | 
|
40g |
| Stone | 
|
2g |
| Sugar | 
|
50g |
| Trash | - | - |
| Trash (item) | 
|
0g |
| Treasure Chest | 
|
5000g |
| Vinegar | 
|
100g |
| Void Essence | 
|
50g |
| Wheat Flour | 
|
50g |
| White Algae | 
|
25g |
| Wood | 
|
2g |