Winter Root
| Winter Root | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Forage |
| Location | Tilling; Winter Seeds; Blue Slimes |
| Season | Winter |
| Sell Price | 70g |
| Energy | 25 |
| Health | 11 |
Winter Root is a starchy tuber that grows under the snow in Winter. It is dug up with a Hoe, mostly from Artifact Spots, and Blue Slimes sometimes drop it in fights. One Winter Root is needed for the Winter Foraging Bundle and another for crafting Winter Seeds. It is also the only winter forage that goes straight into a Seed Maker, which makes it the cheapest route to Winter Seeds. Cooking it with a Cave Carrot gives Roots Platter, a dish that raises attack.
The in-game description reads: A starchy tuber.
Location
A Hoe is the only tool that finds a Winter Root. Bombs and other tools leave it buried.
Artifact Spots give the best chance. They turn up far more often in Winter, and many of them hold a Winter Root or a Snow Yam. Digging every Artifact Spot seen in Winter is the surest way to collect both.
Tilling plain soil outside the farm also gives a small chance of one. On the farm, only Artifact Spots can hold a Winter Root.
Blue Slimes can drop Winter Roots as well. They live on the middle floors of The Mines and in the Secret Woods, so a mining trip can bring home a root or two without any digging.
The Traveling Cart sometimes carries Winter Roots. Winter Seeds can grow them on the farm, though each seed picks one of four winter forage items at random.
Prices
Winter Root sells for a little less than Snow Yam. Better quality raises the price.
A Keg turns a Winter Root into Juice, and a Preserves Jar turns it into Pickles. Both roughly double its value.
For most players, a Winter Root is worth more as seeds than as coins. A Seed Maker turns one root into a few Winter Seeds, and those seeds grow a mix of all four winter forage items.
Uses
A Winter Root fills one slot of the Winter Foraging Bundle in the Crafts Room, beside a Crystal Fruit, a Snow Yam and a Crocus. Finishing it gives 30 Winter Seeds. With Remixed Bundles, the bundle picks four of five winter items, so the Winter Root may or may not be needed.
Reaching Foraging Level 7 unlocks the Wild Seeds (Wi) recipe. Crafting a Winter Root with a Crocus, a Crystal Fruit and a Snow Yam makes ten Winter Seeds.
Putting a single Winter Root in a Seed Maker gives one to three Winter Seeds. No other winter forage item works in the Seed Maker, so Winter Root is the key to a steady Winter Seed supply.
Cooking a Winter Root with a Cave Carrot makes Roots Platter. The recipe comes from reaching Combat Level 3. The dish adds three points of attack for a while, which helps on a hard day in the Mines.
At the Sewing Machine, a Winter Root with Cloth makes the Orange Bow Shirt. A Winter Root also serves the orange dye pot in Emily and Haley's house.
The Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store sometimes asks for a Winter Root in Winter. A delivered Winter Root earns three times its price and 150 friendship points with the villager who wanted it.
Cooking Winter Root with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.
| Dish | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Roots Platter | 
|
Cave Carrot (1), Winter Root (1) |
The Community Center asks for Winter Root in these bundles.
| Bundle | Room | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Winter Foraging Bundle | Crafts Room | 1 |
Gifts
Harvey, Leah and Linus like Winter Root.
Abigail, Alex, Clint, Demetrius, Emily, Evelyn, George, Gus, Kent, Lewis, Marnie, Maru, Pam, Penny, Robin and Sandy feel neutral about it.
Winter Root is a poor gift for the Dwarf, Krobus and the Wizard. The older residents Caroline and Jodi dislike it too. The children Jas, Leo and Vincent dislike it as well. So do the shopkeepers Pierre and Willy. The bachelors and bachelorettes Elliott, Haley, Sam, Sebastian and Shane also dislike it.
Notes
Keep a few Winter Roots for the Seed Maker. Winter Seeds are one of the few crops that grow outdoors in Winter, and Winter Root feeds them better than any other forage item.
Roots Platter needs only two cheap foraged ingredients. It is a good dish to cook in bulk before a run through the lower Mines.
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 |