Woodcutter's Weekly
| Woodcutter's Weekly | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Book |
| Location | Bookseller; Traveling Cart; Desert Festival; Fishing Treasure Chests; Mayor's Manor; Mystery Boxes; Golden Mystery Boxes; Monsters; Crates and Barrels; Trees; Artifact Spots |
| Sell Price | 500g |
Woodcutter's Weekly covers foraging, the skill that creeps up slowly because nobody sets out to level it. Reading one drops a block of experience into foraging, which is the skill behind wild produce, tree syrup and the price of wood, and it has the widest set of hiding places of any skill book. The trees themselves sometimes give it up, which is the neatest thing about it: an afternoon of clearing the back of the farm can hand over the book about clearing the back of the farm. It is also the only skill book the Calico Egg Merchant stocks during the Desert Festival, so a good run of races in Spring can buy one without any gold changing hands. The Bookseller will take a copy back in exchange for a hundred Wood, which is a reasonable deal for a farmer who is mid build.
The in-game description reads: Read this to gain some foraging experience.
Overview
Foraging rewards tidiness more than effort. Clearing weeds, sticks and stones out of the wild corners of the map leaves room for more wild produce to come up, and the levels that follow change what that produce is worth. Level five splits between a chance of doubling a forage pick-up and a flat lift to the price of wood, and level ten turns that into either perfect quality on every forage item, arrows pointing at the ones off screen, Hardwood from ordinary trees or a better price on syrup. Those are quality-of-life choices as much as money ones, and a few of these books read early bring them within reach in a first year rather than a second.
The sources run from the ordinary to the obscure. Shaking a tree that has seeds on it can turn one up, and so can simply chopping a tree down, which makes it the only skill book a farmer can earn without leaving their own land. Artifact spots dug with a hoe, crates and barrels broken in the Mines, Skull Cavern and the Volcano Dungeon, Mystery Boxes opened at the Blacksmith's and treasure chests hooked while fishing all hold it occasionally. Monsters drop it rarely, and Iridium Golems much less rarely. The Prize Machine in the Mayor's Manor offers it among the later prizes, and the Traveling Cart turns up with one from time to time.
The Desert Festival route is the distinctive one. During the three days of the festival in Spring, the merchant who deals in Calico Eggs will part with this book for a hundred of them, and Calico Eggs come from betting on the critter races, from Willy's fishing challenges and from the Adventurer's Guild tasks in the Skull Caverns. They also vanish when the festival ends, so a farmer sitting on a pile of eggs on the final afternoon has every reason to spend them here.
Reading is unlimited, which is the point of a skill book. Each copy pours its experience into foraging alone, and copies can be stockpiled and read in a row. Once every skill has been taken to its ceiling and the Mastery Cave has opened, the same reading pays out in Mastery points, so the cheap end of the Bookseller's table stays useful to the end of a save.
Notes
Robin, who works in wood for a living and will not stop asking for Hardwood, likes being handed this one. Penny loves it, Elliott is glad of it, and Alex is not.
For dyeing, the book counts as green in the pots at Emily and Haley's house on 2 Willow Lane, and green again through the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable garment in the feed.
All Books
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Catalogue | 
|
2000g |
| Bait And Bobber | 
|
500g |
| Book Of Stars | 
|
2500g |
| Book of Mysteries | 
|
3000g |
| Combat Quarterly | 
|
500g |
| Dwarvish Safety Manual | 
|
1000g |
| Friendship 101 | 
|
3000g |
| Horse: The Book | 
|
1000g |
| Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick | 
|
500g |
| Jewels Of The Sea | 
|
800g |
| Mapping Cave Systems | 
|
4000g |
| Mining Monthly | 
|
500g |
| Monster Compendium | 
|
2000g |
| Ol' Slitherlegs | 
|
1000g |
| Price Catalogue | 
|
1000g |
| Queen Of Sauce Cookbook | 
|
10000g |
| Raccoon Journal | 
|
1000g |
| Stardew Valley Almanac | 
|
500g |
| The Alleyway Buffet | 
|
3000g |
| The Art O' Crabbing | 
|
1000g |
| The Diamond Hunter | 
|
1000g |
| Treasure Appraisal Guide | 
|
500g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 1 | 
|
5000g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 2 | 
|
10000g |
| Woodcutter's Weekly | 
|
500g |
| Woody's Secret | 
|
500g |