Ancient Fruit

Ancient Fruit

Ancient Fruit is a fruit. It takes 28 days from Ancient Seeds, then a new fruit every 7 days. Outdoors it grows in Spring, Summer, and Fall. One Spring planting is figured as a three-season crop: the comparison on the crop table uses a free seed and eight harvests.

The base sell price is 550g. It was 750g before version 1.1. The fruit is inedible. Five gold-quality fruits are an option for the Missing Bundle, and the fruit is an option in the remixed Rare Crops bundle.

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Getting a seed

Ancient Seeds are not sold at Pierre's, JojaMart, or the Traveling Cart. Donate an Ancient Seed artifact to the museum. Gunther then gives one packet, and the craft recipe that turns another artifact into a packet.

A Seed Maker turns Ancient Fruit into more Ancient Seeds. Any other crop put through a Seed Maker has a 0.5% chance to return one packet of Ancient Seeds instead of that crop's own seeds. The machine's ordinary result is 1 to 3 seeds of the crop you inserted, 97.51% of the time.

Ancient Seeds can be planted in the greenhouse. They cannot be planted in a garden pot.

Wine, jelly, and the greenhouse

A keg takes one fruit and 10,000 minutes, listed as 6.25 days, and makes wine worth 3 times the fruit's base price. Ancient Fruit wine is 1,650g before the Artisan profession. Artisan makes artisan goods worth 40% more, so that bottle is 2,310g.

A preserves jar takes 4,000 minutes, about 2 to 3 days, and makes jelly worth twice the base fruit price plus 50g. That is 1,150g before Artisan. Ingredient quality does not change the wine or the jelly.

Tiller adds 10% to the fruit itself, because the bonus covers vegetables, flowers, and fruit that was grown rather than foraged. It does not change the wine math above, which uses the base fruit price. Deluxe Fertilizer is what makes an iridium fruit possible. The greenhouse and Ginger Island ignore the season, so a mature plant keeps fruiting every 7 days through Winter. Giant crops do not grow in either place.

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• Ginger Island
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