Tea Bush
| Tea Bush | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Tree |
| Seed | Tea Sapling |
| Growth Time | 20 days |
The Tea Bush is a small, permanent bush that grows from a Tea Sapling. Caroline introduces it, and the sapling recipe arrives after her two-heart event. Once grown, the bush gives one Tea Leaves each day during the last week of every season. A Keg turns the leaves into Green Tea, a drink with a useful energy and speed boost. The bushes also make sturdy hedges that never need repair. Planted indoors, they keep producing through Winter.
Growing
The first step is becoming friends with Caroline. At two hearts, a visit to the sunroom off her kitchen on a dry day starts a short scene. The morning after, a letter arrives with the Tea Sapling recipe. The sunroom stays open from then on, and the Tea Bush inside it can be picked like any other.
The recipe needs two Wild Seeds of any season, five Fiber and five Wood. All of these are cheap, so saplings can be crafted in large numbers. The Traveling Cart sometimes sells Tea Saplings, though its stock changes from visit to visit. Caroline also sells them from her stall at the Desert Festival in exchange for Calico Eggs.
A Tea Sapling goes into the ground on the farm. It needs no watering and grows in any season, Winter included. A Garden Pot works just as well as open ground. In the Greenhouse or a pot indoors, the bush keeps producing in Winter.
The sapling takes twenty days to mature. Leaves grow only in the last week of each season, from the twenty-second to the twenty-eighth. A sapling planted on the first of a month is therefore ready for that month's tea week. Planting later in the month means waiting for the next season's harvest.
During that last week, each mature bush offers one Tea Leaves every morning. Outdoors, the bushes rest through Winter and start again in Spring.
From the moment it is planted, a Tea Bush blocks movement. Neither the farmer nor farm animals can walk through it. That makes a row of Tea Bushes a living fence. Unlike a Wood Fence, it never breaks down or needs repair.
Products
Tea Leaves sell for a small price on their own. Their real value comes from processing.
A Keg turns one Tea Leaves into Green Tea in just a few hours. Green Tea sells for twice the price of the raw leaves, and the Artisan profession adds to that. Drinking it restores a little energy and health. It also raises maximum energy and walking speed for a few minutes. That boost is handy in the Mines and the Skull Cavern.
A Preserves Jar turns Tea Leaves into Pickled Tea Leaves over a couple of days. They sell for three times the raw leaves, more than Green Tea. The pickles are slower to make, but they suit farmers who only want profit.
Green Tea is a good gift. Caroline and Lewis both love it. Most other villagers like it, but Jas and Vincent hate it.
Both tea items have a use at the Sewing Machine. With Cloth, Tea Leaves make a dyeable Shirt And Belt. Green Tea makes the Tea Shirt instead.
Notes
Reach two hearts with Caroline early. Her sunroom bush gives free leaves every tea week even before any saplings are planted.
Use Tea Bushes to fence in pastures. Animals stay inside, and the hedge gives Tea Leaves at the same time.
Grow a few bushes in Garden Pots indoors. They keep giving leaves in Winter, when outdoor bushes rest.
A handful of bushes earns little. Tea is more useful for its buff than as a money maker.
All Trees
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Seed | Tapper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Green Rain Trees | - | - | - |
| Large Log | 
|
- | - |
| Large Stump | 
|
- | - |
| Mahogany Tree | 
|
Mahogany Seed | Sap |
| Maple Tree | 
|
Maple Seed | Maple Syrup |
| Mushroom Tree | 
|
Mushroom Tree Seed | Common Mushroom; Red Mushroom; Purple Mushroom |
| Mystic Tree | 
|
Mystic Tree Seed | Mystic Syrup |
| Oak Tree | 
|
Acorn | Oak Resin |
| Palm Tree | 
|
- | - |
| Pine Tree | 
|
Pine Cone | Pine Tar |
| Tea Bush | 
|
Tea Sapling | - |