In Stardew Valley, each season has its opportunities and hardship. For winter, it means the end for traditional farming and the start to a new season of foraging. One of the most profitable items to forage and unique to winter is the Winter Root.
Read the following in order to learn how to gather winter roots and what to use them for, ideally.
Welcome to Winter Roots
It is a commonly found forageable item during the winter season in Stardew Valley: Winter Roots are quite common but valuable.
The player can either gift these for new friendship points, sell them for more money, or use them as ingredients in recipes. Knowing how to collect Winter Roots effectively will only expand your time in the winter months.
Where to Find Winter Roots
Artifact Spot ForagingWinter Roots are most reliably foraged from Artifact Spots. These can be found by looking for worms squiggling in the ground and are located all over town.
Drop rates: 17–24% (varies byHow to Harvest: Use a Hoe and a harrow on these. That which is harrowed, not knowen is unsought untill that which is harrowed be wholly brought up.
Artefact Spots are the most likely to contain Winter Root, so this is a forager's prime spot during Winter.
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Another source of Winter Roots is searching the Mines, particularly on the ice floors.
Drop chance: 8%
- Acquisition: You can drop it from Blue Slime or many other monsters that live on these floors.
- With the drop rate reduced and much slower, even more labour-intensive effort, the Winter Root can still be an abundantly available crop if the occasion finds you elsewhere for other reasons.
Cultivable SoilOn the other, winter roots can be found by hoeing in tillable soil outside the farm.
Drop Rate: 4%
Where to Dig: Any generic dirt or soil anywhere on the map.
This will yield Winter Roots after the other ways have proven themselves not to be effective.
Inactive SeedsMeagre farmers sow Winter Seeds themselves, which grow into Winter Roots.
The Dropped Rate
How to Grow: Combine Winter Seeds with other foragable winter items—Crystal Fruit, Crocus, and Snow Yam—in the crafting menu. Put seeds in the ground and wait seven days for harvest.
Winter Seeds, like Winter Roots, can yield a number of winter forageables.
Human ReceptaclesRifling through the garbage cans of Pelican Town occasionally yields Winter Roots.
- Drop rate: Luck-based, resets daily
- Questions: Scrounging in winter garbage—what can be found described both in respect to what is generally obtained with respect to the winter, and to daily luck.
It involves randomness, which is at times fickle but then pays off every blue moon.
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At times, it has Winter Roots. This is a sure, although quite costly source.
Drop Rate: Whenever possible
Making Winter SeedsWinter Root: A popular winter plant whose leaves grow in a small rosette. The roots make a strong horseradish.
Recipe: 1x Winter Root, 1x Crystal Fruit, 1x Crocus,
Winter Seeds are a really good way for you to capitalise on your wintertime efforts of foraging.
Preparing Food and Making
Winter Roots are excellent in many dishes; they make them versatile in so many ways:
Root Platter Needs 1x Winter Root and 1x Cave Carrot. Loads of Energy.
Foraging: This can be included in the recipe for making Winter Seeds.
Winter Roots can be found by foraging in Artifact Spots, killing Blue Slimes in the Mines (Floors 40-80), digging tillable soil, planting Winter Seeds, checking garbage cans, or purchasing from the Traveling Cart.
Craft Winter Seeds by combining 1x Winter Root, 1x Crystal Fruit, 1x Crocus, and 1x Snow Yam. These seeds can then be planted to grow various winter forageables, including Winter Roots.
Winter Roots can be sold for profit, used in cooking recipes like the Root Platter, and crafted into Winter Seeds. They are also valuable as gifts and for fulfilling Help Wanted requests.
Winter Roots sell for 70g at base quality, with higher prices for better qualities. However, their true value shines when crafted into Winter Seeds or used in cooking, significantly enhancing their profitability.
Conclusion
Winter Roots are really something no player of Stardew Valley can miss out on if they want to get the most out of what their winter foraging and crafting can become.
By knowing the best methods and ways to find and utilise Winter Roots, you can make the best of the Winter season in the game.
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