- For trees that are chopped down for wood, see Trees.
Fruit Trees require 28 days to mature, after which they produce one fruit per day when in season. Fruit can be allowed to accumulate up to three days before harvesting. Fruit trees do not need to be watered, and will not die in the winter. Fruit saplings will grow during any season, allowing players to plant and prepare for upcoming season to bear fruit.
Each Fruit tree must be planted in the center of a clear 3x3 ground area in order to grow, though they may be placed next to a permanent structure (i.e., house or greenhouse). The 3x3 area must remain clear of objects, flooring, and terrain features (including grass); otherwise the tree will not grow. If overnight debris spawns that prevents Fruit Tree growth, the game will pop up a message in the morning saying the fruit tree could not grow that night. The 3x3 area also cannot overlap the area for another fruit tree; the game will not let you plant in this situation. Thus, the nearest you can plant saplings next to each other is with two tiles between them in every direction. Fruit trees cannot be moved, and once planted the expensive saplings cannot be retrieved.
A Fruit Tree is planted directly into untilled ground. Fruit trees can grow in the Greenhouse, in the center soil or around the border. Fruit trees planted in the greenhouse or on Ginger Island will bear fruit every day after maturity, and will not change color according to the season.
Fruit trees can be chopped down, and yield normal wood. Fruit trees can be struck by lightning, causing them to become burnt for 4 days. During this time, they will not produce fruit, but will instead produce coal. After the 4 days are up, they will return to normal.
A complete set of all six fruit tree saplings costs a total of data-sort-value="25400">25,400g if purchased from Pierre's General Store.
Fruit Quality & Price
A tree's fruit increases in quality by one star per year of tree age after reaching maturity. Fruit trees will produce silver star fruit after one year, gold after two years, and iridium after three. Once the tree is fully grown, the surrounding area does not need to be kept clear for the tree's fruit to increase in quality.
Fruit Tree fruit receives the Tiller Profession price bonus when sold, and jelly or wine made from fruit tree fruit receives the Artisan Profession price bonus when sold.
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Warning: Spoilers
This page or section contains unmarked spoilers from update 1.6 of Stardew Valley. Players may want to avoid or be cautious toward reading this article/section.
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Banana and Mango Trees will grow and produce fruit year-round on Ginger Island. In the valley, they produce fruit only in Summer.
Note that Bananas and Mangos are not considered "Fruit Tree Fruit" for gifting purposes, but instead follow the villager's preferences for "non-Fruit Tree Fruit".
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Planting around the Greenhouse
If you intend to plant fruit trees to the east of the Greenhouse on the Standard Farm map, take extra care to plan your layout. In particular, the tile which is four tiles east of the Greenhouse[1]
and three tiles south of the rock face[2]
does not allow planting a fruit tree, despite that spot obeying the normal spacing rules, and despite that spot allowing non-fruit trees to be planted. The southern and eastern adjacent tiles do allow planting a fruit tree.
Gallery
Shown below are fruit trees after being struck by lightning.
Bugs
The game will allow you to plant a common tree seed one tile away from a Fruit Tree sapling, but will not allow you to plant a Fruit Tree sapling either one or two tiles away from a common tree seed or sapling. (For planting purposes, the common tree is treated as though it were another fruit tree.) Common tree seeds (i.e., Acorns, Maple Seeds, and Pine Cones) do not hinder Fruit Tree growth if planted outside of the 3x3 grid around the sapling.
History
- 1.0: Introduced.
- 1.1: Fruit trees can now produce iridium quality fruit. Trees increase quality by 1 star per year of age after reaching maturity.
- 1.4: Removed prior requirement that fruit trees will not age if their 3x3 grid is not kept clear of objects, flooring, and terrain features (including grass).
- 1.5: Added Banana Sapling and Mango Sapling.
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In order to count this out, consider that there are two columns of untillable grass east of the Greenhouse, whereas the third and fourth are tillable farmland.
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To count this out, consider that the north edge of the greenhouse sits on the third row south of the rock face, after one untillable row and one tillable row.