Foraging

Spawn rules

Ordinary forage can appear overnight on an outside map. Each map holds at most six of those standard items per week. The count resets on Sunday. Picking them up does not lower the count, so clearing a map on Monday does not refill it before Sunday.

Uncollected forage is cleared overnight before Sunday morning and before the first day of a season. Salmonberry bushes (Spring 15–18) and blackberry bushes (Fall 8–11) are separate from that cap, and so are Snow Yams and Winter Roots, which are hoed out of the soil rather than spawned on top of it.

Without Botanist, gold quality is checked first at foraging level divided by 30. If that fails, silver is checked at foraging level divided by 15. Botanist makes iridium quality on forage labeled Forage, except Sap, Cave Carrot, and buried items. Hoe-dug Snow Yams and Winter Roots, and Seaweed, stay outside that iridium rule. Gatherer, the level 5 profession, can double a ground forage pickup.

Prices below are the normal-quality sell price. Silver, gold, and iridium pay more. Ginger Island has its own short list.

Spring

Summer

Fall

Winter

Beach, desert, and mines

Rainbow Shell is the summer beach find worth stopping for, at 300g normal. Nautilus Shell is winter only, at 120g.

• Ginger Island forage
• Foraged minerals
• Rare finds