Seed Maker

Seed Maker
Place crops inside to produce a varying amount of seeds. Doesn't work with fruit tree crops.
Information
Source	Crafting
Sell Price	Cannot be sold
Crafting
Recipe Source	Farming (Level 9)
Ingredients	Wood (25) Gold Bar (1) Coal (10)

The Seed Maker is a piece of Refining Equipment that produces seeds from a harvested crop or one of four foraged items: Wild Horseradish, Spice Berry, Common Mushroom, or Winter Root. It takes 20m to process seeds.

A Seed Maker can be crafted after reaching Farming Level 9. One Seed Maker is the reward for completing the Dye Bundle on the Bulletin Board. A Seed Maker may occasionally be found in a treasure room in the Skull Cavern.

Seeds per Crop

The Seed Maker can produce 1-3 seeds of the same variety as the input crop (97.51% chance, average of 2 seeds), 1-4 Mixed Seeds (1.99% chance), or an Ancient Seed (0.5% chance).

This means that on average, 51% of harvests would need to be sacrificed (= 1 / (0.9751 * 2)) to obtain new seeds for the next growing cycle.

The game initializes a pseudo-random number generator with calculated game seed:

(#_days_played) + (unique_game_ID) / 2 + (X_tileLocation of object) + (Y_tileLocation of object) × 77 + (timeOfDay)

This determines the type and number of seeds produced. Luck does not have an effect on this outcome.

Seedless Crops

The Seed Maker does not produce seeds from:

• Blackberry
• Coconut
• Coffee Bean
• Crocus
• Crystal Fruit
• Fiddlehead Fern
• Fruit Tree Fruit
• Salmonberry
• Sweet Pea
• Tea Leaves
• Wild Plum
• Any item listed as "Forage" in-game (other than Wild Horseradish, Common Mushroom, and Winter Root)

History

• 1.3.27: Cactus Fruit (both foraged and farmed) can be placed in the Seed Maker to produce Cactus Seeds.
• 1.4: Can now be stacked in a player's inventory and in chests.