Mystic Tree
| Mystic Tree | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Tree |
| Seed | Mystic Tree Seed |
| Growth Time | Variable |
| Tapper Product | Mystic Syrup |
The Mystic Tree is an end-game tree grown from a crafted Mystic Tree Seed. Its seed recipe is a reward for Foraging Mastery, so it appears only on farms that have mastered every skill. A Tapper on a grown Mystic Tree fills with Mystic Syrup, by far the most valuable tree product. Mystic Syrup goes into the Treasure Totem and the Blue Grass Starter, and it also sells for a high price. The tree grows slowly, even with fertiliser. Beside a Mushroom Log, it pushes the harvest towards Purple Mushrooms.
Growing
The road to a Mystic Tree starts in the Mastery Cave in Cindersap Forest. The cave opens once every skill has reached level 10. Experience earned after that fills the mastery bar. Spending mastery on the Foraging pillar unlocks the Mystic Tree Seed recipe, along with the Treasure Totem.
The recipe takes five Acorns, five Maple Seeds, five Pine Cones and five Mahogany Seeds. Each set crafts one Mystic Tree Seed. The first three seeds fall freely from common trees. Mahogany Seeds are slower to collect, so a stock of them helps.
The seed is planted like other wild tree seeds. It needs untilled ground, no watering and a clear tile on each side to reach full size. Leaving one empty tile between Mystic Trees keeps them all growing.
Growth is a matter of chance. In Spring, Summer and Fall, a Mystic Tree has a low chance each night of growing one stage. Most unfertilised trees take close to a month, and some sit at one stage for far longer. Tree Fertilizer doubles the nightly chance and lets the tree grow through Winter. Even fertilised, a Mystic Tree usually needs about two weeks.
Every Mystic Tree on a farm comes from a crafted seed. Grown trees keep their seeds to themselves, so a grove grows only as fast as the crafting. More trees therefore mean more Mahogany Seeds.
Products
A Tapper on a mature Mystic Tree makes one Mystic Syrup every seven days. A Heavy Tapper cuts that to three days. Each bottle sells for a thousand gold. That works out to over a hundred gold a day from a normal Tapper, and more than three hundred with a Heavy Tapper. Maple Syrup, Oak Resin and Pine Tar each earn around twenty gold a day by comparison. The Tapper profession adds another quarter to the syrup's price.
Mystic Syrup is also a crafting ingredient. One bottle, with Hardwood and Moss, makes a Treasure Totem. Using the totem on open ground fills the area around the farmer with artifact spots to dig up. The Blue Grass Starter, bought as a recipe in Qi's Walnut Room, also needs Mystic Syrup with Fiber and Moss. Blue Grass feeds farm animals and doubles the friendship they gain.
Later, the Raccoon's wife at the Giant Stump trades Fairy Dust for Mystic Syrup. That trade opens after the Raccoon has had six of his requests filled.
Drinking Mystic Syrup restores a huge amount of energy and health. It is far stronger than Maple Syrup, though a bottle is usually worth more sold or crafted.
Chopping a Mystic Tree down gives several pieces of Hardwood, and its stump gives one more. That is a poor trade for a tree that took weeks to grow and produces syrup every week. Keeping the tree standing with a Tapper is almost always better.
A Mystic Tree also changes the output of a Mushroom Log. Each mature Mystic Tree nearby adds a Purple Mushroom to the log's possible harvest. A log ringed with Mystic Trees gives Purple Mushrooms in most harvests.
Notes
Fertilise every Mystic Tree Seed. Without it, the wait can stretch past a whole season.
Collect Mahogany Seeds before claiming Foraging Mastery. They are usually the last ingredient missing for the seed recipe.
Put a Heavy Tapper on each Mystic Tree. The syrup is worth more than any other tree product, so the faster cycle quickly earns back the tapper's cost.
All Trees
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Seed | Tapper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Rain Trees | - | - | - |
| Large Log | 
|
- | - |
| Large Stump | 
|
- | - |
| Mahogany Tree | 
|
Mahogany Seed | Sap |
| Maple Tree | 
|
Maple Seed | Maple Syrup |
| Mushroom Tree | 
|
Mushroom Tree Seed | Common Mushroom; Red Mushroom; Purple Mushroom |
| Mystic Tree | 
|
Mystic Tree Seed | Mystic Syrup |
| Oak Tree | 
|
Acorn | Oak Resin |
| Palm Tree | 
|
- | - |
| Pine Tree | 
|
Pine Cone | Pine Tar |
| Tea Bush | 
|
Tea Sapling | - |