Seed Maker
| Seed Maker | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Farming (Level 9) |
The Seed Maker turns a harvested crop back into seeds. Dropping a vegetable or a flower into it gives a small handful of seeds for that same crop a few minutes later. That makes it the main way to grow crops that no shop sells, such as Ancient Fruit, without waiting on luck. It also turns a few winter forage finds into seeds that grow in the snow. The recipe comes late in the Farming skill, but one free Seed Maker is the reward for the Dye Bundle in the Community Center. Every so often it also coughs up Mixed Seeds or a rare packet of Ancient Seeds.
Recipe
The recipe unlocks at Farming level 9, near the top of the skill. Before then, the Dye Bundle on the Bulletin Board in the Community Center gives one Seed Maker as its reward. That bundle asks for a set of brightly coloured items, among them a Red Mushroom, a Sea Urchin, a Sunflower, a Duck Feather, an Aquamarine and a Red Cabbage. The crafted version needs Wood, Coal and a Gold Bar. Smelting Gold Ore with Coal in a Furnace makes the Gold Bar.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
25 |
| Gold Bar | 
|
1 |
| Coal | 
|
10 |
Use
Holding a crop and using it on the Seed Maker loads it. The machine works quickly, and the seeds are ready after about twenty minutes of game time. One crop goes in per batch.
Most of the time, the result is between one and three seeds of the crop that went in, about two on average. A small share of batches gives Mixed Seeds instead. A very small share gives a packet of Ancient Seeds, whatever crop was used. On average, roughly half of every harvest has to go back into the machine just to replant the same field. A Seed Maker therefore saves money on cheap seeds only slowly, and it shines with crops whose seeds are rare or expensive.
Ancient Fruit is the best known example. Its seeds are hard to find in the wild, but feeding the fruit into a Seed Maker returns Ancient Seeds. Over a few harvests, a single plant can grow into a whole field this way.
Four foraged items also work: Wild Horseradish, Spice Berry, Common Mushroom and Winter Root. Each one turns into wild seeds for its own season. Winter Root is the useful one here. It becomes Winter Seeds, which can be planted outdoors during Winter when most farmland lies empty.
Some crops give nothing at all. Fruit from fruit trees never works, as the machine's own description warns. Bush and forage crops such as Blackberries, Salmonberries, Coffee Beans, Tea Leaves, Crystal Fruit and Fiddlehead Ferns are refused too, along with Crocus and Sweet Pea.
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