Mystic Tree Seed

Mystic Tree Seed

Type	Seed
Grows	Mystic Tree
Produces	Mystic Tree Seed (1)
Season	All
Growth Time	Variable
Sell Price	100g

The Mystic Tree Seed is the one tree seed that has to be made rather than found. Its recipe arrives with Foraging Mastery, which means every skill has already reached its ceiling before the first seed exists. Each seed swallows twenty wild tree seeds, five apiece from the Mahogany Seed, the Pine Cone, the Maple Seed and the Acorn, and returns a single planting. What grows is the most valuable tapped tree on the farm, because a Tapper on a Mystic Tree fills with Mystic Syrup. A grown Mystic Tree hands nothing back towards the next one, so a grove only ever spreads as fast as the crafting bench, and Mahogany is always the ingredient that runs out first.

Growing

The seed is dropped onto plain untilled ground and left alone. It needs no water and no fertiliser to survive, and like the other forest seeds it wants a clear tile between itself and the next planting, since a seedling touching a grown tree simply stops climbing.

Growth is slow even by tree standards. Each night in Spring, Summer and Fall a planted seed has a modest chance of moving up one of its five stages, and the arithmetic works out at roughly a month of waiting for an average seed. Some sit for far longer than that, which is a painful way to spend twenty wild seeds.

Tree Fertilizer doubles the nightly chance and makes Winter count as a growing season, which cuts the typical wait to about a fortnight. Given what each seed costs to make, fertilising every single planting is not optional. The recipe is cheap, it unlocks well before Mastery ever comes into view, and a stack of it in the chest turns a month of uncertainty into a predictable two weeks.

A fully grown Mystic Tree gives nothing back towards the next one. Shaking it drops no seed and chopping it drops no seed, and the tree never scatters one onto the ground beside it. Every Mystic Tree on a farm is therefore a separate act of crafting, which is the reverse of how an oak or a maple grove behaves.

Buying

The route to the recipe starts in the Mastery Cave, tucked into the south of Cindersap Forest. The cave stays shut until all five of the farm skills sit at level ten, combat and fishing included. Experience earned beyond that point fills a mastery bar instead, with the first level asking for ten thousand points and every later one asking for more. Claiming the Foraging pillar is what puts this recipe in the crafting menu, together with the Treasure Totem.

The ingredients are the real cost. Acorns, Maple Seeds and Pine Cones fall freely from the trees already standing in the forest, and shaking a mature tree or felling one supplies them in quantity. The Garbage Cans in town turn them up as well, and a Woodskip Fish Pond produces them in batches once its population is high enough.

Mahogany Seeds are the bottleneck. They come from the Mahogany Trees and hardwood stumps in the Secret Woods, and from the slimes that live there, which makes gathering twenty of them a chore rather than a stroll. The quiet answer lives at the Giant Stump, where the Raccoon's wife swaps a Mahogany Seed for twenty Coal once the fourth raccoon request has been filled. Coal comes out of the Mines and the Charcoal Kiln endlessly, so that trade converts a dull surplus into the scarce half of the recipe.

Stocking the ingredients before claiming Foraging Mastery is the efficient order of operations. Twenty wild seeds of each kind sitting in a chest means the first grove goes in the ground on the same day the recipe appears.

Uses

Everything the seed is for happens after it becomes a tree. A Tapper on a mature Mystic Tree yields Mystic Syrup once a week, and a Heavy Tapper brings that down to every third day, which is worth more per day than any other tapped product in the game by a wide margin. The Tapper profession adds a quarter on top of the syrup's value.

The syrup is also a crafting ingredient twice over. Hardwood and Moss added to a single bottle make a Treasure Totem, which fills the ground around the farmer with artifact spots. The Blue Grass Starter, whose recipe is sold in Qi's Walnut Room, takes a bottle with Fiber and Moss, and Blue Grass doubles the friendship farm animals gain from eating. Later still, the Raccoon's wife swaps Fairy Dust for a bottle of syrup once six of the family's requests are done.

Chopping a grown Mystic Tree returns Hardwood and little else. Against a bottle of syrup every week, that is a poor trade, so a Mystic Tree is almost always worth leaving standing.

Nobody in the valley wants a mystic seed as a present. The whole village dislikes it, so a spare belongs on bare ground.

Notes

Trade Coal for Mahogany Seeds whenever the raccoon shop allows it. That one trade removes the only ingredient that cannot be gathered on a casual walk.

Fertilise on the night of planting. A seed worth twenty wild seeds should not be left to a one in seven chance each night.

Plant the grove where a Tapper round is short. Mystic Trees are visited weekly for years, so a tidy block near the farmhouse beats a scattering at the map edge.

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