Spice Berry
| Spice Berry | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Forage |
| Location | Foraging; Summer Seeds; The Farm Cave |
| Season | Summer; All (The Farm Cave) |
| Sell Price | 80g |
| Energy | 25 |
| Health | 11 |
Spice Berry is a Summer forage fruit and one of the better-paying wild finds of the season. Because the game counts it as fruit, a Keg turns it into wine and a Preserves Jar turns it into jelly. It is needed for the Summer Foraging Bundle and for crafting Summer Seeds. It is also the only summer forage item that goes straight into a Seed Maker. Choosing the fruit bats for the Farm Cave brings Spice Berries in every season.
The in-game description reads: It fills the air with a pungent aroma.
Location
Spice Berries grow wild across the valley in Summer. Cindersap Forest, the Backwoods, the Mountain, the Bus Stop and the Railroad all grow them. The Forest Farm map has them too.
The Farm Cave is the other steady place to find them. Demetrius offers a choice between mushrooms and fruit bats for the cave. With the fruit bats, Spice Berries are among the fruits that appear on the cave floor, and they show up in every season.
Summer Seeds can grow them on the farm. Each seed grows into a Spice Berry, a Grape or a Sweet Pea, picked at random.
At the Desert Festival, Demetrius sells a few Spice Berries for Calico Eggs.
Prices
Raw, a Spice Berry sells for a fair amount for a forage item. Quality raises the price, and the Botanist profession makes every wild one iridium.
Wine is the best way to sell it. A Keg makes Spice Berry Wine, which is worth three times the raw berry. The Artisan profession adds another forty percent on top. A Preserves Jar makes Spice Berry Jelly instead, which suits a farm with more jars than kegs.
A Seed Maker gives another option. One berry becomes one to three Summer Seeds, and each seed grows a new forage item.
Uses
The Summer Foraging Bundle in the Crafts Room asks for a Grape, a Spice Berry and a Sweet Pea. Finishing it gives 30 Summer Seeds. The bundle has the same three items with Remixed Bundles too.
Reaching Foraging Level 4 unlocks the Wild Seeds (Su) recipe. Crafting a Spice Berry with a Grape and a Sweet Pea makes ten Summer Seeds.
Putting a Spice Berry in a Seed Maker gives one to three Summer Seeds. It is the only summer forage item that works this way.
At the Sewing Machine, a Spice Berry with Cloth makes the dyeable Green Buttoned Vest. The orange pot among the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house takes a Spice Berry.
The Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store sometimes asks for a Spice Berry in Summer. The villager who posted it pays three times the berry's price and gains 150 friendship points with the farmer.
The Community Center asks for Spice Berry in these bundles.
| Bundle | Room | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Summer Foraging Bundle | Crafts Room | 1 |
Gifts
Demetrius, Elliott, Kent, Leah, Leo, Linus, Pam, Robin, Sandy and Shane like Spice Berry.
Alex, Caroline, Clint, the Dwarf, Emily, George, Gus, Krobus, Lewis, Marnie, Maru, Penny, Pierre, Sam, Sebastian, Willy and the Wizard feel neutral about it.
Abigail, Haley, Jas and Vincent dislike it.
Evelyn, Harvey and Jodi hate it. Harvey is the one to watch, since he likes most other forage.
Notes
The fruit bat cave makes Spice Berries a year-round item. That helps with the Summer Foraging Bundle when Summer has already passed.
Keep at least one Spice Berry for the bundle, and send the rest to a Keg or a Seed Maker. Both pay better than the shipping bin.
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 |