Fall Seeds

Fall Seeds are a crafted seed type used to grow a random assortment of fall forage crops. Despite the crafting recipe being labeled Wild Seeds (Fa), the crafted item is Fall Seeds. When planted, each seed matures into one of four possible harvests: Blackberry, Common Mushroom, Hazelnut, or Wild Plum. Like the other seasonal wild seeds, they are designed to produce crops normally gathered from foraging rather than standard farm crops.

Fall Seeds can be obtained by crafting, by placing a Common Mushroom in a Seed Maker, from the Traveling Cart, from the Desert Trader on Saturdays in exchange for 2 Winter Seeds, and from treasure rooms in the Skull Cavern. The crafting recipe yields 10 seeds per craft. Their growth takes 7 days total, with 3 days in the first stage and 4 days in the second stage before harvest.

Several game systems interact with Fall Seeds differently from ordinary crops. Farming skill normally improves the chance that crops grow with quality, but for Fall Seeds it is Foraging skill that affects quality instead. Choosing the Botanist profession makes all crops grown from Fall Seeds iridium quality. Since these are wild seeds, crows do not attack them, so Scarecrows are unnecessary.

Fall Seeds are also a profitable craft even without Botanist. Crafting them creates 10 seeds whose combined sale value is higher than the sale value of the ingredients used to make them, making them a useful way to convert spare materials into profit. With Botanist, the output is even better because the harvested forage items always sell at iridium quality.

A few practical notes are worth keeping in mind:

• Each Fall Seed has an equal chance to produce any of its four possible harvests.
• The resulting plants can sometimes look like dead crops during stage 2 of growth.
• On Ginger Island, mature Fall Seeds may destroy tilled soil and fertilizer when harvested, leaving untiled soil behind.
• Because crows ignore them, they are a convenient option for players who want seasonal forage without needing field protection.

Fall Seeds are part of the set of seasonal wild seeds, alongside Spring Seeds, Summer Seeds, and Winter Seeds. They are especially useful early in the fall season or when a player wants forage items, easy crafting income, or a reliable source of skill-boosted quality harvests from Foraging rather than Farming.