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Pine Tar

Pine Tar
Pine Tar
Type Artisan Good
Machine Tapper; Heavy Tapper
Ingredients Pine Tree
Time 5 or 2 days
Sell Price 100g

Pine Tar is the dark sap that collects in a Tapper fixed to a Pine Tree. Per bottle it is the cheapest of the classic tree saps, but it refills faster than Maple Syrup or Oak Resin. Its real worth lies in crafting rather than selling. Pine Tar goes into the Loom, Speed-Gro and the Rain Totem, and it can fill a slot in the Exotic Foraging Bundle. The game files it under artisan goods, yet the Tapper profession raises its price and the Artisan profession does not.

The in-game description reads: A pungent substance derived from pine sap.


Making

A Tapper on a Pine Tree fills with Pine Tar every five nights. The Heavy Tapper works twice as fast and fills in two nights. Tapped trees keep producing through Winter, so a single pine gives a steady trickle all year.

Pine Trees grow wild in Cindersap Forest, along the Railroad and around the Carpenter's Shop. Planting a Pine Cone on the farm grows a new tree, which keeps the Tappers close to home.

The Tapper is a Foraging recipe that uses Wood and Copper Bars. Mr. Qi sells the Heavy Tapper recipe for Qi Gems in his Walnut Room on Ginger Island. One swing of an Axe lifts a Tapper off its tree so it can move to another.

The Wood Chipper offers a second, rarer route. Feeding it Hardwood almost always returns plain Wood, but now and then a bottle of Pine Tar drops out instead.

These are the ingredients one batch needs.

Name Image Amount
Pine Tree Pine Tree 1

Prices

Pine Tar earns less per bottle than the other two saps, but its short cycle gives the most bottles over a season. Selling it is rarely the point, because each bottle saves gold once it goes into crafting.

The Tapper profession at Foraging level 10 adds a quarter to the price of Pine Tar. The Artisan profession leaves it untouched, even though the item is labelled as an artisan good.

Sell prices by quality, with the bonus from each profession.

Quality Price Tapper (+25%)
Normal 100g 125g

Uses

Crafting takes most of the Pine Tar a farm collects. Building a Loom needs one bottle along with Wood and Fiber. The Loom then turns Wool into Cloth, so that single bottle opens up a new line of artisan goods.

Speed-Gro takes one bottle at a time. Crafting it combines one Pine Tar with five Moss, and the recipe comes with Farming level 3. Mixed into tilled soil, Speed-Gro makes crops grow faster. Pierre's General Store also sells it, so crafting it from Pine Tar mainly saves gold.

The Rain Totem is the hungriest recipe. Each Totem takes five Pine Tar, a Truffle Oil and a piece of Hardwood. Using one makes rain very likely on the following day, which waters the whole farm at once.

Pine Tar is one of the choices for the Exotic Foraging Bundle in the Crafts Room of the Community Center.

A Woodskip pond can ask for one Pine Tar as its quest. Delivering it lets the pond grow from five fish to seven.

At the Sewing Machine, putting Pine Tar in the spool makes the Floppy Beanie. Pine Tar counts as an orange dye in the dye pots at 2 Willow Lane, and as a brown dye at the Sewing Machine.

Crafting Pine Tar with the other materials below makes these items.

Item Image Ingredients
Loom Loom Wood (60), Fiber (30), Pine Tar (1)
Rain Totem Rain Totem Hardwood (1), Truffle Oil (1), Pine Tar (5)
Speed-Gro Speed-Gro Pine Tar (1), Moss (5)

The Community Center asks for Pine Tar in these bundles.

Bundle Room Amount
Exotic Foraging Bundle Crafts Room 1

Notes

Maru likes Pine Tar. Every other villager dislikes it, so it is a poor gift for anyone else.

Tapping two or three pines early covers the Loom and the first batches of Speed-Gro. A store of bottles also stands ready for a Rain Totem or a Woodskip pond request later on.

All Artisan Goods

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Machine Time
Aged Roe Aged Roe Preserves Jar 4000m (3-4 days)
Beer Beer Keg 1750m (≈29h)
Cask Productivity - - -
Caviar Caviar Preserves Jar 6000m (4 days)
Cheese Cheese Cheese Press 200min (3.3h)
Cloth Cloth Loom 240m (≈4h)
Coffee Coffee Keg 120m (2h)
Dinosaur Mayonnaise Dinosaur Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Dried Fruit Dried Fruit Dehydrator 1750m (≈1d)
Dried Mushrooms Dried Mushrooms Dehydrator 1750m (≈1d)
Duck Mayonnaise Duck Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Goat Cheese Goat Cheese Cheese Press 200m (≈3h)
Green Tea Green Tea Keg 180m (3h)
Honey Honey Bee House 6100m (≈4d)
Jellies and Pickles - - -
Juice Juice Keg 6000m (≈4d)
Keg Productivity - - -
Maple Syrup Maple Syrup Tapper; Heavy Tapper 9 or 4 days
Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Mead Mead Keg 10h
Mystic Syrup Mystic Syrup Tapper; Heavy Tapper 7 or 3 days
Oak Resin Oak Resin Tapper; Heavy Tapper 7 or 3 days
Oil Oil Oil Maker Varies by ingredient
Pale Ale Pale Ale Keg 2250m (37.5h)
Pine Tar Pine Tar Tapper; Heavy Tapper 5 or 2 days
Preserves Jar Productivity - - -
Raisins Raisins Dehydrator 1750m (≈29h)
Smoked Fish Smoked Fish Fish Smoker 50m
Truffle Oil Truffle Oil Oil Maker 360m (6h)
Void Mayonnaise Void Mayonnaise Mayonnaise Machine 3h
Wine Wine Keg 10,000m (≈7d)