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Qi Bean

Qi Bean
Qi Bean
Type Seed
Grows Qi Fruit
Season All
Growth Time 4 days
Sell Price 1g

The Qi Bean exists for one job. Taking the "Qi's Crop" order from the Special Orders Board in Qi's Walnut Room scatters the beans across the whole valley, and from that morning they fall out of almost anything a farmer breaks, chops, digs or kills. Each bean grows a Qi Fruit in four days in any season, and the order asks for five hundred of those fruit inside four weeks. No counter in the valley stocks the bean, so a field is built only by multiplying what the world gives up. Mr. Qi settles up in Qi Gems, not in gold, and every bean and fruit left over vanishes the day the order closes.


Growing

Four days in the ground is the quickest turnaround any crop offers, and the bean ignores the calendar completely. The home farm, the Greenhouse and the Ginger Island farm can therefore all carry beans at once, which is the only way five hundred fruit ever comes together.

Nothing grows back on a cut tile, so every fruit costs a bean. That is what makes the early arithmetic so tight. The first few harvests have to be split between the Shipping Bin and a row of Seed Makers, and that split decides whether the field ends up large enough to finish the order in time.

Island soil keeps its fertiliser when a tile is replanted on the same day, which suits a four Day Cycle exactly. Deluxe Speed-Gro from Pierre's shortens the wait again, and the Agriculturist profession trims both the growing and the gathering. The Statue of Uncertainty in the Sewers will swap a farming profession for a payment, so a farm can take Agriculturist on before the order is accepted rather than wish for it afterwards.

Qi Fruit also joins the short list of crops that fuse into a Giant Crop. Nine ripe, watered fruit in a three by three square take a daily chance of merging into one giant plant, and an Axe opens it for a large pile of fruit. A giant plant made this way stays standing on the farm after the order ends, long after every ordinary bean and fruit has gone.

Buying

Every bean comes out of the world itself. While the order runs, broken rocks, chopped trees, large stumps and logs, cut weeds, rummaged garbage cans, slain monsters, cracked geodes, Artifact Troves, Golden Coconuts, dug artifact spots, Volcano Dungeon chests and smashed crates in the Mines and the Skull Cavern can all turn one up. A pet cat at full friendship sometimes hands one over as well.

Two routes beat the rest comfortably. Fishing is the steadiest, because a Treasure Chest pulled up during the order usually holds a small stack, and Magnet bait with a Treasure Hunter tackle and the Pirate profession makes those chests common. Treasure Totems are the fastest, since each one covers a patch of ground with artifact spots and a good share of those spots give several beans at once, so one totem is worth a long morning of swinging a pickaxe.

The Seed Maker is the real supply line. A Qi Fruit put into the machine comes back out as beans, so a pile of twenty or thirty beans gathered by hand becomes a full field inside a week. Gathering that pile before the first planting, rather than sowing each bean as it appears, is what keeps the propagation ahead of the clock.

Uses

A bean is worth next to nothing at the Shipping Bin, and nearly every villager dislikes being handed one. Its whole value lies in the field it builds and the fruit that field ships.

Notes

Ship nothing until the field is as large as it is going to get. In the first fortnight a row of Seed Makers earns far more towards the total than the Shipping Bin does.

Clear and fertilise the ground before the order is accepted. The clock starts the morning it is taken, and a field that still needs hoeing wastes days that cannot be bought back.

Hand in every fruit on the last day. Beans and fruit disappear from the soil, from chests, from inventories and from machines once the order is settled, so anything held back is simply lost.

The order comes round on the board again, and a second run is much easier with the Seed Maker row already standing.

All Seeds

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name Image Grows Season Pierre
Acorn Acorn Oak Tree All -
Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Seeds Amaranth Fall 70g
Ancient Seeds Ancient Seeds Ancient Fruit Spring; Summer; Fall -
Apple Sapling Apple Sapling Apple Fall 4,000g
Apricot Sapling Apricot Sapling Apricot Spring 2,000g
Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Seeds Artichoke Fall 30g (Year 2+)
Banana Sapling Banana Sapling Banana All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Bean Starter Bean Starter Green Bean Spring 60g
Beet Seeds Beet Seeds Beet Fall -
Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Starter Blue Grass Spring; Summer; Fall -
Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Seeds Blueberry Summer 80g
Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Seeds Bok Choy Fall 50g
Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Seeds Broccoli Fall -
Cactus Seeds Cactus Seeds Cactus Fruit All -
Carrot Seeds Carrot Seeds Carrot Spring -
Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Seeds Cauliflower Spring 80g
Cherry Sapling Cherry Sapling Cherry Spring 3,400g
Coffee Bean Coffee Bean - Spring; Summer -
Corn Seeds Corn Seeds Corn Summer; Fall 150g
Cranberry Seeds Cranberry Seeds Cranberries Fall 240g
Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Seeds Eggplant Fall 20g
Fairy Seeds Fairy Seeds Fairy Rose Fall 200g
Fall Seeds Fall Seeds Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum Fall -
Fiber Seeds Fiber Seeds Fiber All -
Garlic Seeds Garlic Seeds Garlic Spring 40g (Year 2+)
Grape Starter Grape Starter Grape Fall 60g
Grass Starter Grass Starter Grass Spring; Summer; Fall 100g
Hops Starter Hops Starter Hops Summer 60g
Jazz Seeds Jazz Seeds Blue Jazz Spring 30g
Kale Seeds Kale Seeds Kale Spring 70g
Mahogany Seed Mahogany Seed Mahogany Tree All -
Mango Sapling Mango Sapling Mango All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Maple Seed Maple Seed Maple Tree All -
Melon Seeds Melon Seeds Melon Summer 80g
Mixed Flower Seeds Mixed Flower Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mixed Seeds Mixed Seeds Varies Spring Summer Fall -
Mossy Seed Mossy Seed Green Rain Tree All -
Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree Seed Mushroom Tree All -
Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree Seed Mystic Tree All -
Orange Sapling Orange Sapling Orange Summer 4,000g
Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Seeds Parsnip Spring 20g
Peach Sapling Peach Sapling Peach Summer 6,000g
Pepper Seeds Pepper Seeds Hot Pepper Summer 40g
Pine Cone Pine Cone Pine Tree All -
Pineapple Seeds Pineapple Seeds Pineapple All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Sapling Pomegranate Fall 6,000g
Poppy Seeds Poppy Seeds Poppy Summer 100g
Potato Seeds Potato Seeds Potato Spring 50g
Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Seeds Powdermelon Winter -
Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Seeds Pumpkin Fall 100g
Qi Bean Qi Bean Qi Fruit All -
Radish Seeds Radish Seeds Radish Summer 40g
Rare Seed Rare Seed Sweet Gem Berry Fall -
Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Seeds Red Cabbage Summer 100g (Year 2+)
Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Seeds Rhubarb Spring -
Rice Shoot Rice Shoot Unmilled Rice Spring 40g
Spangle Seeds Spangle Seeds Summer Spangle Summer 50g
Spring Seeds Spring Seeds Wild Horseradish, Daffodil,; Leek, or Dandelion Spring -
Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Seeds Starfruit Summer -
Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Seeds Strawberry Spring -
Summer Seeds Summer Seeds Grape, Spice Berry,; or Sweet Pea Summer -
Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Seeds Summer Squash Summer -
Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Seeds Sunflower Summer; Fall 200g
Taro Tuber Taro Tuber Taro Root All on Ginger Island; Summer in Stardew Valley -
Tea Sapling Tea Sapling Tea Leaves All -
Tomato Seeds Tomato Seeds Tomato Summer 50g
Tulip Bulb Tulip Bulb Tulip Spring 20g
Wheat Seeds Wheat Seeds Wheat Summer; Fall 10g
Winter Seeds Winter Seeds Crocus, Crystal Fruit,; Snow Yam, or Winter Root Winter -
Yam Seeds Yam Seeds Yam Fall 60g