Tub o' Flowers
| Tub o' Flowers | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Crafted Item |
| Recipe | Flower Dance (1,000g) |
The Tub o' Flowers is a wooden barrel planted with flowers, a decoration that brightens porches, paths and gardens. It blooms through Spring and Summer and turns plain once the weather cools. Pierre sells both the finished tub and its recipe at his stall during the Flower Dance, so the festival is the one place to start. The recipe takes Wood and four kinds of flower seeds, which makes it a small seasonal project as well as a decoration.
Recipe
Pierre sells the recipe at the Flower Dance, held in Cindersap Forest late in Spring. The same stall also sells ready-made tubs, so buying a single tub and the recipe in one visit covers both needs.
Each tub needs some Wood plus one each of Tulip Bulb, Jazz Seeds, Poppy Seeds and Spangle Seeds. The seeds do not all come from the same season. Pierre's General Store sells Tulip Bulbs and Jazz Seeds in Spring, while Poppy Seeds and Spangle Seeds are Summer seeds. Buying a few spare Spring bulbs and seeds before the season ends means the tubs can all be crafted once Summer arrives.
The festival sets a tight timetable. It runs on the twenty-fourth day of Spring, from nine in the morning until two in the afternoon, and the way in is the south-western entrance to Cindersap Forest, just below the Wizard's Tower. Every home and shop in the valley is locked for the day, so the stall is the only trade on offer. When the dance ends the farmer is sent straight back to the farm at ten at night, which makes this a whole day given over to one purchase.
The stall carries more than the tub. Daffodils and Dandelions sit there for a few coins each, a Rarecrow costs a good deal more, and the rest of the table is seasonal decoration: wall flowers, potted plants and hanging leaves. The recipe is the part worth the gold, since every later tub then comes out of the crafting menu for the price of seeds and timber.
These are the ingredients one batch needs.
| Name | Image | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Wood | 
|
15 |
| Tulip Bulb | 
|
1 |
| Jazz Seeds | 
|
1 |
| Poppy Seeds | 
|
1 |
| Spangle Seeds | 
|
1 |
Use
The Tub o' Flowers is a piece of furniture, so it is placed and picked up like any other decoration. Outdoors, it shows its flowers in Spring and Summer and stands plain for the rest of the year. Rows of tubs along a path add colour to the farm through the growing seasons.
Because the blooms follow the calendar, a line of tubs reads as part of the farm's own year. They carry their colour through the two warm seasons and sit quietly through Fall and Winter, which suits a path that is busy while the crops are in and empty once they are gone.
Notes
The shopping has to fit around the dance itself. A villager asked to dance usually agrees once friendship has reached four hearts, and an accepted invitation lifts that friendship by a full heart. Anyone without a partner watches from the corner of the clearing. Either way the stall stays open until Mayor Lewis is told to begin, so the tub and its recipe are best bought before anyone is asked.
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