Mossy Seed

Mossy Seed

Type	Seed
Grows	Green Rain Tree
Season	All
Growth Time	Variable
Sell Price	100g

A Mossy Seed is the only way to keep a Green Rain Tree on the farm once the strange weather has passed. Green Rain falls on one Summer day, covers the valley in odd mossy trees, and takes almost all of them away again the next morning. Shaking and felling those visitors drops the occasional seed, and a seed planted in untilled ground grows a tree that stays for good. What grows is worth the trouble: the leafy kinds regrow Moss on their trunks through three seasons, and Moss feeds Speed-Gro, the Mushroom Log, the Treasure Totem and the Blue Grass Starter. The fern-like kind takes a Tapper instead and keeps Fiddlehead Ferns coming long after the Secret Woods has stopped producing them. Growth is a nightly roll of the dice, so Tree Fertilizer is what turns a planted seed into a tree on a schedule.

Growing

The seed wants plain ground that has never been hoed. It never needs water, and it is dropped onto the tile rather than pushed into soil, exactly like the common forest seeds.

Each night outside Winter a planted seed has roughly a one in five chance of moving up a stage, and there are five stages to climb. Half of all seeds finish in a little under three weeks, and nine in ten are standing trees within about a month of growing days. The spread is wide enough that a neat row planted on one evening finishes raggedly, with some trees mature while their neighbours are still knee high.

Tree Fertilizer makes the whole thing predictable. Sprinkled on a planted seed it moves the tree up one stage every night without fail, Winter included, so the seed becomes a tree inside a working week. The recipe comes with Foraging level 7 and asks for nothing but Fiber and Stone, which makes it absurdly cheap next to three weeks of waiting. A seed planted in Winter without it simply sits until Spring arrives.

Crowding stalls a planting. A young tree touching a fully grown one, diagonals included, holds its stage indefinitely, so a tight cluster becomes a cluster of permanent shrubs. One clear tile between plantings keeps every tree moving and leaves a path to walk with an Axe.

Green Rain Trees come in more than one shape, and the grown tree decides which. The leafy ones grow Moss on the trunk in Spring, Summer and Fall, and any tool knocks it loose without harming the tree. The fern-like one looks like a great vine and accepts a Tapper, which is the only Green Rain Tree that does. Planting a block of several seeds rather than one gives a fair chance of both kinds in the same corner.

Buying

Green Rain day is the one morning of the year to gather these seeds in quantity. The televised forecast the evening before mentions an anomalous reading, which is the warning to clear the schedule. On the day, shaking a Green Rain Tree drops a seed about one time in twenty, and felling one gives the same slim chance along with the wood.

The large weeds that spring up during Green Rain are worth cutting as well, since each has a similar chance of dropping a seed, and they give Fiber and Moss at the same time.

Seeds also come without any weather at all. Oak and Maple Trees take on the mossy look during Fall and Winter, and those temporary Green Rain Trees drop seeds when shaken or chopped just as the Summer ones do. Loose seeds lie half buried in the ground across the farm in any season, recognisable in Winter by the two horns poking out of the dirt, and a Hoe, Axe or Pickaxe lifts them. Leaving one unkempt corner of the farm full of wild trees makes those finds far more frequent.

Once a grove is standing, it supplies itself. Felling a mature leafy tree returns the occasional seed, so a grove of a dozen replaces its own losses as fast as an Axe can take them down.

Uses

Moss is the real product, and it has become one of the most widely demanded materials on the farm. Moss with Pine Tar makes Speed-Gro, which shortens every crop cycle in the field. Moss with Hardwood makes the Mushroom Log. Moss joins Mystic Syrup and Hardwood in the Treasure Totem, and Mystic Syrup and Fiber in the Blue Grass Starter. A grove of leafy trees keeps all four recipes supplied without a single purchase.

A Tapper on the fern-like tree produces a Fiddlehead Fern every couple of days, and a Heavy Tapper doubles that rate. The fern is otherwise a Summer forage item found only in the Secret Woods, so a tapped tree makes the Chef's Bundle and Fiddlehead Risotto reachable in any season. The fern counts as a vegetable, so Juice from a Keg and Pickles from a Preserves Jar are both open to it.

A spare seed is better planted than given away. Villagers across the valley dislike being handed one, so the Shipping Bin or an empty corner is the better home for a surplus.

Notes

Spend Green Rain day on the farm with an Axe and a Scythe in hand. The trees and the large weeds both vanish overnight, and nothing brings that density of seeds back for another year.

Craft a stack of Tree Fertilizer before planting anything. A fertilised seed is a grown tree in under a week, which is the difference between a grove this season and a grove next season.

Plant more seeds than the Moss recipes seem to need. Moss is consumed steadily by Speed-Gro and the Mushroom Log, and a grove of leafy trees is the only supply that keeps up on its own.

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