The Cave
After you accumulate 25,000g in total earnings, Demetrius will visit the Farm in the morning and inform you that he would like to use the cave to set up research specimens. He'll give you the option to choose between fruit bats (which leave fruit in the cave) or mushrooms. This choice is permanent and cannot be reversed.
Fruit bats
Fruit bats leave various fruit in the Cave on your farm overnight. This is a great option for making Artisan Goods as it gives you a slow but steady supply of fruit even out of season. It also helps complete the Artisan Bundle in the Pantry in the first year or two, before you have enough money to buy all the necessary Fruit Trees.
Fruit Tree fruits make excellent gifts for villagers because they are universal likes, readily accessible early in the game, and do not require a kitchen. Gifting may be the best late-game use for fruit, other than making Artisan Goods, Shipping them, finishing the Bundles, or eating them for extra energy (even though they don't replenish very much health).
Fruit found in the cave can be of any quality (normal, silver, or gold). If the Botanist Profession is chosen, the fruit will be iridium quality. Each fruit picked up from the floor of the Cave will give the player 7 Foraging experience points.
Fruit bats will not leave fruit on craftable flooring.
Image | Name | Description | Also Found | Sell Price | Restores | Used In | Chance [1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cherry | It's popular, and ripens sooner than most other fruits. | Cherry Tree (Spring) |
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Wine Jelly | 3.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pomegranate | Within the fruit are clusters of juicy seeds. | Pomegranate Tree (Fall) |
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Wine Jelly Elliott (Loved gift) |
3.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Peach | It's almost fuzzy to the touch. | Peach Tree (Summer) |
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Wine Jelly Robin (Loved gift) |
3.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apple | A crisp fruit used for juice and cider. | Apple Tree (Fall) |
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Wine Jelly Cranberry Candy | 2% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Orange | Juicy, tangy, and bursting with sweet summer aroma. | Orange Tree (Summer) |
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Wine Jelly Gus (Loved gift) |
3.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spice Berry | It fills the air with a pungent aroma. | Foraging (Summer) |
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Summer Seeds Wine Jelly | 20% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Apricot | A tender little fruit with a rock-hard pit. | Apricot Tree (Spring) |
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Fruit Salad Wine Jelly | 3.6% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Wild Plum | Tart and juicy with a pungent aroma. | Foraging (Fall) |
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Fall Seeds Plum Pudding Wine Jelly | 20% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Blackberry | An early-fall treat. | Foraging (Fall) |
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Fall Seeds Blackberry Cobbler Wine Jelly | 20% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Salmonberry | A spring-time berry with the flavor of the forest. | Foraging (Spring) |
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Wine Jelly | 20% |
Mushrooms
Six boxes will be added to the cave where certain types of mushrooms will randomly grow. Five different types will appear, including all four that are required to craft the Life Elixir. Even though Common Mushrooms, Morels, and Chanterelles are the ones that most commonly appear, this is still the best way to craft the elixir as often as possible. This makes the Mushroom option a great one for those who love to go into The Mines, especially since most mushrooms can be hard to find otherwise. This is also a good choice for players that have grown, or plan to grow, fruit trees and do not need the extra fruit provided by the fruit bats.
Cave mushroom production takes one to two days. Unlike other processing, the time when mushrooms are ready for harvest depends upon the time when the player goes to sleep: processing is faster if the player goes to sleep later.[2] The earliest mushrooms can be ready is 12:40pm, if the player goes to sleep at 2am. If the player goes to sleep at or before 6pm, mushrooms will not be ready until two days later, resulting in a missed day of production. These processing times apply both to newly-placed mushroom boxes and to existing ones that were just harvested.
Mushrooms grown in the cave are always of normal quality, even if the Botanist Profession is chosen. Harvesting mushrooms from the Cave does not award the player with any Foraging experience points, and the Gatherer Profession does not award double mushrooms.
Image | Name | Description | Also Found | Sell Price | Restores | Used In | Chance [3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Common Mushroom | Slightly nutty, with good texture. |
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Fried Mushroom Tom Kha Soup Stir Fry Fall Seeds | 69.8% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Red Mushroom | A spotted mushroom sometimes found in caves. |
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Life Elixir | 12.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Purple Mushroom | A rare mushroom found deep in caves. |
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Life Elixir Wizard (Loved gift) |
2.5% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chanterelle | A tasty mushroom with a fruity smell and slightly peppery flavor. | Secret Woods (Fall) |
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Life Elixir | 7.3% | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Morel | Sought after for its unique nutty flavor. | Secret Woods (Spring) |
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Fried Mushroom Life Elixir | 8.1% |
References
- ↑ See FarmCave::DayUpdate in the game code.
- ↑ The mushroom processing times are controlled by the game code in Object::DayUpdate case 128. For any empty mushroom box, the processing time is set to 3000 - Game1.timeOfDay minutes. Because this code is triggered when the player goes to sleep, Game1.timeOfDay ends up being the time when the player goes to sleep (e.g., going to sleep at 1:30 am (2530) means processing takes 3000-2530=470 minutes). However, no processing happens during the first night (the code handles all overnight-processing updates before calling Object::DayUpdate), meaning the processing start time is 6am the next morning.
- ↑ See Object::DayUpdate in the game code.
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