Stardew Valley: Forage Items to Save for Recipes, Gifts, Community Center Bundles

Editor’s note: This article contains gameplay information up-to-date with Stardew Valley 1.6 on PC. This article contains spoilers. 

I’m not sure how everyone else plays Stardew Valley, but I’m someone who wants to keep useful items on hand for quests, knocking out Community Center bundles, crafting and hitting Perfection.

It can be a frustrating (read: infuriating) moment when you realize that a key item you need is out of season and you don’t have a spare or you’re having bad Traveling Cart luck.

Forage 

Recipes 

Moss

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room (remixed)
    • Forest Bundle
• Cooking
  • Moss soup
• Crafting
  • Speed-Gro
  • Mushroom Log
  • Statue of Blessings
  • Deluxe Worm Bun
  • Deluxe Bait
  • Challenge Bait
  • Treasure Totem
  • Blue Starter Grass

Horseradish 

• Krobus loves
• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Spring Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Shrimp cocktail
• Crafting
  • Wild Seeds (spring)

Cave carrot

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Exotic Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Miner’s treat,
  • Roots platter,
  • Stir fry
  • Survival burger

Leek

• George loves
• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Spring Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Salad
• Crafting
  • Wild Seeds (spring)
• Gifts for George Quest to get coffee machine requires collecting x12 leek

Dandelion

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Spring Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Salad
• Crafting
  • Wild Seeds (spring)

Daffodil

• Sandy loves
• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Spring Foraging Bundle
• Crafting
  • Wild Seeds (spring)

Morel

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Exotic Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Fried mushroom
• Crafting
  • Life Elixir

Common mushroom

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Fall Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Fried mushroom (attack)
  • Stirfry
  • Tom Kha soup (energy and farming)

Grape 

• Vincent loves
• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Summer Foraging Bundle
• Crafting
  • dehydrate for raisins for Junimo huts
  • Wild Seeds (summer)

Sweet pea

• Sandy loves
• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Summer Foraging Bundle
• Crafting
  • Wild Seeds (Summer)

Red Mushroom

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Exotic Foraging Bundle
  • Bulletin Board
    • Dye Bundle
• Crafting
  • Life Elixir

Fiddlehead fern

• Bundles
  • Bulletin Board
    • Chef’s Bundle
  • Crafts Room (remixed)
    • Wild Medicine Bundle
• Cooking
  • Fiddlehead risotto

Wild plum 

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Fall Foraging Bundle
  • Bulletin Board (remixed)
    • Foragers Bundle, requires x15
• Cooking
  • Plum pudding
    
• Crafting
  • • Wild Seeds (fall)

Hazelnut

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Fall Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Roasted hazelnuts
  • Stuffing

Blackberry 

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Fall Foraging Bundle
  • Bulletin Board (remixed)
    • Forager’s Bundle
• Cooking
  • Blackberry cobbler
• Crafting
  • Wild Seeds (fall)

Chanterelle

• Crafting
  • Life elixir
• Great to dehydrate, sells for 1,225g/1,715g

Purple mushroom 

• Wizard Loves
• Bundles
  • Craft Room
    • Exotic Foraging Bundle
    • Wild Medicine Bundle (remixed)
    • Bulletin Board
      • Field Research Bundle
• Crafting
  • Life elixir
• Great to dehydrate, sells for 1,900g/2,660g

Winter root

• Bundles
  • Craft Room
    • Winter Foraging Bundle
• Cooking
  • Roots platter (attack boost)
• Crafting
  • Winter seeds

Crystal fruit

• Bundles
  • Craft Room
    • Winter Foraging Bundle
• Crafting
  • Winter Seeds
• Jelly/wine/dehydrate an option also

Crocus

• Sandy loves
• Bundles
  • Craft Room
    • Winter Foraging Bundle

Nautilus shell

• Bundles
  • Bulletin Board
    • Field Research

Coral

• Crafting
  • Beach warp totem
  • Deluxe speed-gro fertilizer 
  • Water Obelisk x10

Sea urchin

• Bundles 
  • Bulletin Board
    • Dye Bundle
• Crafting
  • Bait Machine
• Can put hats on them in aquariums 

Rainbow Shell

• Qi quest item (x1) 

Clam

• Bundle
  • Fish Tank
    • Crab Pot Bundle
• Cooking
  • Chowder
• Crafting
  • Water Obelisk x10
  • Speed-gro fertilizer

Cockle

• Bundle
  • Fish Tank
    • Crab Pot Bundle
• Can be used as fish in recipes using (any)

Mussel

• Bundle
  • Fish Tank
    • Crab Pot Bundle
• Cooking
  • Fish stew

Oyster 

• Bundle
  • Fish Tank
    • Crab Pot Bundle
• Can be used as fish in recipes using (any)

Seaweed 

• Cooking
  • Maki Roll
• Building
  • Fish pond construction (x5) 

Cactus Fruit 

• Linus, Pam, Sam love
• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Exotic Foraging Bundle
  • Bulletin Board (remixed)
    • Dye Bundle
• jelly/wine/dehydrate an option also 

Coconut 

• Haley and Linus love
• Recipes
  • Tom Kha Soup, 
  • Tropical Curry,
  • Mango Sticky Rice,
  • Crafting
    • Desert warp totem
    • Desert obelisk (x10)
    • x10 to Island Trader for Golden Coconuts

Ginger

• Cooking
  • Ginger ale, cures nauseated debuff
• Crafting
  • Island warp totem 

Magma cap 

• Great to dehydrate
• Trade to Island Trader for x1 pineapple seed 

Spring onion 

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room (remixed)
    • Spring Foraging Bundle

Holly 

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room (remixed)
    • Winter Foraging Bundle
  • Bulletin Board (remixed)
    • Winter Star Bundle

Salmon berry 

• Jelly 60g/84g
• Wine base 15g/21g to iridium 30g/42g 
• Base sell before Bear’s Knowledge 
  • Base 5g/5g to iridium 10g/11g
• Base after Bear’s Knowlege
  • 15g/16g to iridium 30g/33g

Spice berry

• Bundles
  • Crafts Room
    • Summer Foraging Bundle
• Crafting
  • summer seeds
• Jelly 210g/294g
• Wine base 240g/336g to iridium 480g/672g
• Base sell 80g to iridium 160g