Sea Urchin
| Sea Urchin | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Forage |
| Location | Foraging; Fish Pond; Turtle |
| Season | All |
| Sell Price | 160g |
The Sea Urchin is a spiny creature found in the tide pools on the far side of the Beach. Of the items that wash up there all year, it is the most valuable. It sells for a good price, fills a slot in the Dye Bundle and goes into the Bait Maker. As a gift it is a poor choice: nearly every villager hates it. A Sea Urchin can also live in a Fish Pond, where it slowly breeds and produces roe.
Location
Sea Urchins appear in the tide pools at the east end of the Beach, past the broken wooden bridge. Repairing the bridge costs 300 pieces of Wood and opens the area for good. After that, Sea Urchins wash up there in every season.
Only a few appear at a time, so they are a slow find on most days. Three days in mid-Summer change that. The sea shifts colour, and large amounts of beach forage wash ashore. Sea Urchins can then spawn anywhere on the Beach, not just in the tide pools.
Emily sometimes mails a Sea Urchin as a gift.
Fish Ponds offer another steady source. Ponds stocked with saltwater Crab Pot creatures, such as Crabs, Lobsters, Oysters or Shrimp, can produce a Sea Urchin once enough of them live in the pond.
Prices
A raw Sea Urchin sells for a good price, and the highest quality doubles it. The Botanist profession picks every Sea Urchin at that quality, which makes the tide pools worth a daily visit for a Botanist.
A Sea Urchin can also go into a Fish Pond of its own. It breeds slowly, and the only thing the pond produces is roe. A fuller pond produces roe more often.
Uses
The Dye Bundle on the Bulletin Board in the Community Center needs a Sea Urchin. The Red Mushroom is another item in that bundle.
Crafting three Iron Bars, three Coral and one Sea Urchin makes a Bait Maker. The recipe unlocks at Fishing level 6. Putting a fish into the Bait Maker turns it into a batch of bait aimed at that species. Both of its beach ingredients come from the same tide pools.
In tailoring, a Sea Urchin in the Sewing Machine makes the dyeable Strapped Top. A Sea Urchin is also a purple dye for the pots in Emily and Haley's house.
Crafting Sea Urchin with the other materials below makes these items.
| Item | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Bait Maker | 
|
Iron Bar (3), Coral (3), Sea Urchin (1) |
Gifts
Evelyn and Leo like Sea Urchins.
Elliott is neutral about them.
Abigail, Alex, Caroline, Clint, Demetrius, the Dwarf, Emily, George, Gus, Haley, Harvey, Jas, Jodi, Kent, Krobus, Leah, Lewis, Linus, Marnie, Maru, Pam, Penny, Pierre, Robin, Sam, Sandy, Sebastian, Shane, Vincent, Willy and the Wizard hate them.
Emily hates the Sea Urchin even though she mails them out herself. Keep them for Evelyn and Leo, or sell them.
Save one Sea Urchin for the Dye Bundle and one for the Bait Maker before selling the rest. Both are easy to forget until a later trip to the Beach.
All Foraging
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Season | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackberry | 
|
Fall | - |
| Cave Carrot | 
|
All | 25g |
| Chanterelle | 
|
Fall | 160g |
| Coconut | 
|
All | 100g |
| Common Mushroom | 
|
Spring (Secret Woods); Summer (Forest Farm); Fall (Stardew Valley; Secret Woods; Forest Farm); All (Dangerous Mines; Ginger Island mushroom cave) | 40g |
| Coral | 
|
All | 80g |
| Crocus | 
|
Winter | - |
| Crystal Fruit | 
|
Winter | 150g |
| Daffodil | 
|
Spring | 30g |
| Dandelion | 
|
Spring | 40g |
| Fiddlehead Fern | 
|
Summer; All on Ginger Island Jungle, Skull Cavern and Dangerous Mines | - |
| Ginger | 
|
All | 60g |
| Grass | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | - |
| Hazelnut | 
|
Fall | 90g |
| Holly | 
|
Winter | 80g |
| Leek | 
|
Spring | 60g |
| Magma Cap | 
|
- | 400g |
| Morel | 
|
Spring | 150g |
| Nautilus Shell | 
|
All (Beach Farm; Dangerous Mines); Winter (The Beach) | 120g |
| Purple Mushroom | 
|
All | 250g |
| Rainbow Shell | 
|
All (Beach Farm; Dangerous Mines); Summer (The Beach) | 300g |
| Red Mushroom | 
|
Summer (Secret Woods); Fall (Secret Woods; Forest Farm); All (other) | 75g |
| Salmonberry | 
|
15-18 Spring (bushes); All (the Farm Cave) | - |
| Sap | 
|
- | 2g |
| Sea Urchin | 
|
All | 160g |
| Seaweed | 
|
All | 20g |
| Snow Yam | 
|
Winter | 100g |
| Spice Berry | 
|
Summer; All (The Farm Cave) | 80g |
| Spring Onion | 
|
Spring | - |
| Sweet Pea | 
|
Summer | - |
| Truffle | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | 625g |
| Weeds | 
|
Spring; Summer; Fall | - |
| Wild Horseradish | 
|
Spring | 50g |
| Wild Plum | 
|
Fall | 80g |
| Winter Root | 
|
Winter | 70g |