Stardew Valley Ancient Seeds Planting & Growth Guide

How to Unlock Stardew Valley Ancient Seeds and Grow Hidden Gems

Are you concerned about how to get ancient seeds and grow them? Ancient seeds produce ancient fruit, which is one of the best crops to make money in the game. You’ll need to find an ancient seed artifact and donate it to the museum. After you donate the artifact, you’ll get a packet of ancient seeds to plant.

Additionally, you can craft more ancient seeds by using a seed-maker machine. After growing ancient seeds, you can make artisan goods (like jelly and wine) and sell them for a high profit. They can be grown all year in the Greenhouse.

Stardew Valley Ancient Seeds

In this guide, you will learn how to grow Stardew Valley ancient seeds in all seasons using the Greenhouse. I will explain how much money you can make from them. Ancient seeds are a great long-term investment for your farm.

What are Ancient Seeds in Stardew Valley?

Ancient seeds are artifacts, and there are two types of Stardew Valley ancient seeds: the artifact and the fruit seed. They can be found by digging up artifact spots in the Cindersap Forest or the mountains, including the quarry. You can convert them into ancient fruit.

To obtain fruit seeds, you must find special seeds. After planting them, they will give you ancient fruit. You can make other products and sell them for a high profit. You can sell the ancient seed artifact for five gold, but the plantable fruit seed can be sold for 30 gold.

Fiber Seeds in Stardew Valley

How to Get Fiber Seeds in Stardew Valley

Fiber Seeds are another type of crafted seed in Stardew Valley. They do not need daily watering, take 7 days to grow, and can grow in winter. Unlike Ancient Seeds, fiber seeds don’t produce fruit but are useful for crafting and farming resources. These seeds can grow in any season, making them helpful for gathering fiber year-round.

How to Get Fiber Seeds

  • Craft them after unlocking the recipe, which is obtained after completing Linus’s special order, “Community Cleanup.”
  • To craft a pack of Fiber Seeds, you will need 5 Sap, 1 Mixed Seed, and 1 Clay.

Stardew Valley Ancient Seeds Vs Fiber Seeds

Fiber Seeds are less profitable than Ancient Seeds. They are mainly used to gather fiber, which is important for crafting. In contrast, Ancient Seeds are rare and produce Ancient Fruit, which is one of the most profitable crops in Stardew Valley.

How to Get Stardew Valley Ancient Seeds

In Stardew Valley, these seeds are rare and more profitable than other crops. Ancient fruit grows after planting an ancient seed. There are various ways to obtain ancient seeds. You can get them from the traveling merchant, the seed maker machine, and by donating an ancient seed artifact to the museum. You cannot purchase them from the traveling cart, JojaMart, or the general store.

Traveling Merchant

Traveling Merchant

You can purchase ancient seeds by talking with the traveling merchant. The merchant sells you a blue seed packet for 100 to 1,000 gold. Due to having different items in her shop, there is a low 1.25% chance of finding it there. She comes every Friday and Sunday, and her shop is open from 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM. She can also be found at the Night Market from Winter 15 to 17.

Seed Maker

You can grow plantable ancient seeds on your farm before finding the artifact because only the artifact version can be donated to the museum. A seed maker is a machine that makes seeds from crops, and you can make one after reaching level 9 in farming. You will need 10 Coal, 25 Wood, and 1 Gold Bar. Using a seed maker, you can get ancient seeds, but there is a lower 0.5% chance of getting a packet of ancient seeds. This process takes 20 minutes in-game. You can also obtain plantable ancient fruit seeds from a seed maker.

How to Get Ancient Seed Artifacts

There are many ways to find an ancient seed artifact. You can find the ancient seed artifact by digging up artifact spots, searching artifact troves, fishing treasure chests, or receiving monster drops. It can also be found by cutting foliage in the mines, Skull Cavern, or Volcano Dungeon.

  • Artifact Spots: 0.7% chance of finding it in Cindersap Forest and the Mountains.
  • Artifact Troves: 3.7% chance of finding a good way to rare items
  • Fishing Treasure Chest: 0.7% or 0.8% chance after reaching fishing level 2, and you can find it by fishing at different locations.
  • Monster Drops: There is a 0.5% chance that it will drop from monsters such as Mutant Flies, Cave Flies, Grubs, Bugs, and Mutant Grubs.
  • Prehistoric Floors in Skull Cavern: You can find ancient seeds in the Skull Cavern on the Prehistoric Floors.

Uses and Crafting of Ancient Seeds in Stardew Valley

Uses and Crafting of Ancient Seeds in Stardew Valley

Donate the Artifact to the Museum

The first ancient seed artifact should be donated to the museum in Pelican Town, which will add to your total Museum donations. Gunther rewards you with a packet of Stardew Valley ancient seeds and a recipe to craft ancient seeds from the artifact.

Craft Stardew Valley Ancient Seeds

After donating the first ancient seed, use the “Ancient Seeds” recipe to turn it into plantable seeds. This recipe requires one ancient seed artifact and gives you one plantable ancient seed. You can craft additional plantable seeds from any ancient seed artifacts you find in the future.

If you have a Deconstructor, you can also add plantable ancient seeds to the machine to turn them back into an ancient seed artifact. You can use the Sewing Machine to create the Brown Suit.

Planting & Growth Guide

Stardew Valley Ancient Seeds Planting & Growth Guide

There are five stages of ancient seed growth, which are discussed in the table below:

Stage Description Growth Time (Days)
Stage 1 Seed Planted in the Ground 2 Days
Stage 2 Tiny Sprout 7 Days
Stage 3 Small Seedling with Leaves 7 Days
Stage 4 Medium-sized Sprout 7 Days
Stage 5 Fully Grown Plant 5 Days

After this, the plant is ready for harvesting. It takes 28 days to grow. After harvesting, ancient fruit plants regrow every 7 days. You should plant ancient seeds during spring, summer, and fall. They can be planted in the Greenhouse but not in a garden pot because their roots grow very deep.

Grow Ancient Seeds in the Greenhouse

You can grow Stardew Valley ancient seeds all year in the Greenhouse. And don’t worry about ancient seeds growing in winter because, in the Greenhouse, plants grow all year. You can upgrade the Greenhouse by buying it for 35,000 gold. You can fix it by completing the pantry bundles in the Community Center. However, you cannot plant them in a garden pot because if you try, it will show a message saying, “Her roots grow very deep… She wouldn’t be happy there.”

Making Money from Ancient Seeds

After growing ancient seeds, you can sell Stardew Valley Ancient Fruit at different prices. Normal quality sells for 550 gold, and iridium quality sells for 1,100 gold.

You can earn a big profit by turning ancient fruit into wine using a keg or into jelly using a preserves jar. You can make a high profit if you turn them into jelly, which sells for 1,150 gold at normal quality and 4,150 gold at iridium quality. You can profit more if you sell them with artisan and tiller skills.

Conclusion

Ancient seeds are a hidden gem in Stardew Valley that can bring high profits to your farm. Now that you know how to get and grow them, remember to use your greenhouse to grow them year-round. The best way is to turn ancient fruit into artisan goods for maximum profit. With ancient seeds, your farm’s future will be brighter than ever.

FAQs

The Ancient Seed is the best for making money early on. Once you grow Ancient Fruit, you can make a lot of money, especially by turning it into wine or jelly.

Plant Ancient Seeds in spring, summer, or fall. They take 28 days to grow. You can also grow them year-round in the Greenhouse.

You can get Ancient Seeds by donating the Ancient Seed artifact to the museum. You can also find the artifact while digging, fishing, or from certain monsters. Additionally, a Seed Maker can craft seeds, though it’s a rare chance.

Yes, you need to give the first Ancient Seed artifact to the museum to unlock the seeds and start growing Ancient Fruit.

Yes, Ancient Seeds can grow in the Greenhouse all year long.

Yes, you can grow Ancient Fruit on Ginger Island once it’s unlocked.

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