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 (≈98% chance, average of 2 seeds), 1-4 Mixed Seeds (=1.49% chance), or 1 packet of Ancient Seeds (=0.49...% chance).

To avoid buying new seeds, approximately 51% of harvests would need to be sacrificed (≈ 1 / (0.98 * 2)) to obtain new seeds for the next growing cycle.

The type and number of seeds produced is determined by a pseudo-random generator; initialized with several factors: an identifier unique to each game, the number of in-game days played in that game, the time of day, and location of the Seed Maker. This means that while it is impossible to predict or influence the type and number of seeds produced at any given time, it will always be the same type/amount for a given day, time, and seed maker at that specific location.

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.
• 1.6: Changed game randomization, which removed Seed Maker output exploits.