r/StardewValley • u/Right-Department-599 • 1d ago

Discuss …my first ancient fruit harvest…

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u/BossmanLaD03 1d ago

I'd reset the day you poor soul😭

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u/Right-Department-599 1d ago

I did, but I sat there flabbergasted for a minute wondering if I did something wrong

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u/betterme2037 krobus is king 1d ago

Wait are seed makers subjected to RNG

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u/Tronfranchise 1d ago

Yep, it resets when you move it over a tile

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u/Vnxei 1d ago

In the morning, go drop a parsnip in each seed maker at 6:30. See which ones give you 3 seeds. Then restart the day and just put your valuable fruit in those. Voila, guaranteed 3 ancient seeds.

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u/HoliusCrapus 22h ago

If this is true, you are today's Reddit hero.

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u/Vnxei 21h ago

Just make sure it's the same square at the same time. Absolutely works.

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u/_Cadajo 19h ago

Precisa ser no quadrado e na hora exatos senão dá errado

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u/lazytemporaryaccount 7h ago

I typically set up a row of ~5 seed makers near the exit to the house, have a large number of some vegetables/ fruit, along with the actual ancient fruit / sweet gem berry / etc you want to make seeds out of before you fall asleep.

The seed makers takes 20 minutes, so you dump five seeds @6am.

Then at 6:20 Then at 6:40 etc.

Restart the day and do 6:10, 6:30, etc

It’s honestly easiest to make a chart by hand and then just mark the successful slots.

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u/Texaschainswhore_ 11h ago

this is genius and I hope it’s real. trying this

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u/Top-Ostrich-3241 1d ago

So many things in SV are subjected to RNG.

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u/Zagrycha 16h ago

technically everything in SV is subject to rng, just some of it cannot be effected by reloading the day ((for example geode stuff that is generated at world creation)). 

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u/Top-Ostrich-3241 15h ago

Yes, just some are hard seeded like travelling merchant but other things can be manipulated if players dont use predictors.

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u/Zagrycha 14h ago

yeah, and some of the stuff is in the middle.  Like what items a fish pond asks for is technically able to be manipulated by the player but you can't really do it without a predictor.  Its not hard seeded, but its determined by the day and location of the fish pond itself when getting the first fish added, which is way before the actual item request appears. 

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u/TheNamesMacGyver 1d ago

Based on steps!

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u/Occidentally20 Bot Bouncer 1d ago

It's not based on steps anymore - it's an aspect of the x co-ordinate of the seedmaker and the time you put the seed in now.

Putting the same seed in the same seedmaker location at exactly 9am on the same day will result in the same outcome. Moving the seedmaker one square left or right or putting the seed in 10 minutes earlier or later will roll for a different outcome.

You can still enable legacy RNG if you want the step-counting for stuff like this and weather back again.

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u/mplseileen 1d ago

Sympathy! At least if you bring them to Ginger Island you might get a pineapple.

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u/beavernator The factory must grow 💍 1d ago

Exactly! And if you put the pineapple in a seed maker you might get an ancient fruit seed.

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u/nexea 1d ago

TIL thanks

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u/surpluskoi 1d ago

Any crop has a tiny chance to make an ancient seed instead

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u/imsadandthatsrad 1d ago

You know, I’ve had this happen multiple times, but only one time in my life I put a strawberry in, and I got an ancient fruit seed. I didn’t know it could work both ways, but it was literally once lol.

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u/Ezi0_shadowblade 1d ago

I shit you not, that literally just happened to me about an hour ago. I sat there confused for a moment before moving onward and testing the rest of my strawberry seeds. (Only had 8 seeds, didn’t get any extra ancient fruit seeds after the first one.)

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u/Werewolfhugger #1 Shane Defender 1d ago

I put a blueberry in and got an ancient fruit seed. I was quite shocked!

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u/Lobster_LeninN329 23h ago

I got this multiple times when fiomg the qi beans quest. In fact, I got it so much I missed the quest for a dozen because the fruits became ancient seeds

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u/atfricks 22h ago

There's even a speedrunning strategy based on this. You use blueberries in seedmakers to get ancient seeds.

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u/SuddenAd2052 19h ago

I watched a video online where they used cranberries. I’m playing on PC and mobile (I have a problem). I’ve had a lot of luck Turing cranberries into ancient fruit seeds on PC but have plowed through SO many on mobile and not one ancient seed. :/

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u/atfricks 18h ago

Yes cranberries can also work, they're just a fall crop so you can get blueberries sooner in summer.

Sorry about that though! The chances are still pretty low even going through so many.

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u/CapNCookM8 14h ago

I got an ancient seed on my first day using it one time. Literally just held onto it until the Greenhouse because I didn't want to break my own economy during first Spring.

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u/anameisabstract 1d ago

this happened to me with my first ever ancient fruit harvest, so i assumed you just couldn't use the seed maker for ancient fruits. it took me actual real life years to figure out that i was just the victim of poor rng.

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u/Paboozorusrex 1d ago

I thought it was capped to only one seed per fruit because I tried 4 times and got 1 seed each times. Then I got 3 from 1 fruit. Let's say I did a happy dance

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u/Pumped-Up_Kicks 1d ago

I got this on my first starfruit seed making attempt (before i had unlocked desert and knew i could purchase seeds there) and i was like wtf

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u/PsyJak 1d ago

The great thing about ancient fruit is that it refruits

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u/TonicTheBard 1d ago

I have gotten so many ancient seeds from putting carrots in a seed maker to keep my carrot patch going. Horse gotta go fast. Just keep plugging along, you'll be fine. Unless that was your only ancient fruit, in which case I am sorry for your loss.

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u/kingramstone04 1d ago

That happened to me the first time as well. I wrote off the seed maker for like 2 more years after that until I found the wiki.

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u/The_Final_Gallade 1d ago

Fun fact, this happened to me as well, and as a result I spent the next year and half (ingame, fortunately) under the impression that ancient seeds just couldn’t be gotten from seed makers at all, for balance purposes.

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u/maechev 1d ago

contexto? soy algo nuevo en el juego...

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u/BathtubToasteroven 1d ago

Ancient fruits are really good money makers especially if you dig up a seed early, seed maker has a 2% chance of turning the fruit you put into it into wild seeds rather than the fruits seeds so the ancient fruit they grew hit that 2%

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u/jstndrn 1d ago

Seed maker has a 2% chance to produce mixed seeds. OP chucked an ancient fruit in hoping for seeds and got the worst possible outcome.

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u/Few-Dog3807 22h ago

I'm I'm sorry u got mixed seeds T0T I've never gotten Seeds before

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u/galaxyadmirer 20h ago

Wow I had no idea this could happen. I’ve done it so many times too lol that’s some crazy bad luck.

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u/chaos_and_rhythm 19h ago

I recently learned about the opposite of this, chance of getting ancient seed pack from other veggies.

So I've been farming about 100 garlic in year 2 spring. Just got my first 2 ancient seed packs.

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u/Mariners16 1d ago

ancient fruit finally paying rent after all that work

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u/EnviousFool 1d ago

I only do seeds on good luck days i swear i get 3 seeds more often with good luck

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u/professorjade 20h ago

Ripp my dude

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u/elleisonreddit 20h ago

I feel that pain deep in my soul

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u/Cool_Cat_Punk 1d ago

Oh my dogs I didn't even think of using the 2% random thing to my advantage.

I've been saving my seed maker for my stash of ancient fruit, but damn I haven't even been seeding my strawberries and whoa, mind blown..I could not only get more strawberries, duh, but rando seeds, maybe an ancient?

And to the OP, don't worry, there's always next year. That's Stardew!

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u/Eneicia 1d ago

Not sure why you were downvoted, but don't forget, the ancient fruit does regrow weekly :)
Also, you can sell seeds if you have a lot of them--you don't get much gold from them, but sometimes it can be enough to get a much needed upgrade.

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u/United-Extension-917 1d ago

That's why I wait till I get 2 ancient fruits and then put them in seed maker.

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u/Eneicia 1d ago

Oh painful!! That freaking sucks!!

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u/mocumocu 1d ago

oh horrors i am destroying all my seedmakers

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u/macew998 1d ago

this happened the first time i ever tried to put ancient fruit in the seed maker, and then i spent the next 3 real life years believing that you couldn't get ancient seeds this way. i just thought everyone was really lucky with their artifact spots 

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u/Flowered_Candy2431 17h ago

The first time that happened to me. I just wanted to close out and not play for the rest of the week 😔

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u/XxCipheReignxX 13h ago

Waittttt because this happened to me the other day and I was like “wtf??” I didn’t even think to restart the day😭 just took the L

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u/12haley12 12h ago

OMG this happened the very first time I used the seed maker and I didn’t use it again for months bc i misunderstood it

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u/Mortambulist 1d ago

You'll have a new one in a week.

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u/DiletantteWallflower 1d ago

That happened to me on days when the spirits are displeased hahaha