Do carts, barrels, and other random finds re-spawn?

[Fairy]

The stuff you come across about your adventures? I would assume that they re-spawn with a new season?

[Morri]

Yes, they respawn. Not sure about chests, but barrels, sacks, carts and bandit camps (abandoned or not) respawn for sure. It's not always after 1 season. It seems to take two sometimes, so it could be random.

In my current playthrough I refuse to buy anything from vendors (except presents for the wife); so for starting seeds and saplings i completely depend on scavenging the map every season and hoping I find something good.

[subwaybananas]

yes and no. All this kind of spots are random spawns. Every season a few spots spawn all over the map. And after a few (2-6) seasons they despawn. In this time they don´t respawn the loot.
But they can spawn again at a random time, sometimes direct in the next season, so it seems to a seasonal respawn. There are many different spots, it can be that you see some spots only once or never and some a few times.

[Trim]

Chests, shovels and money purses respawn at random as well.

Like Morri, in my current game I am not buying anything, nor, as yet, am I selling anything to villagers (although with the tax bill I will probably have to start selling soon - but I was hoping to unlock the market stall before I ran out of coins). It has meant a slow start. I didn't find any carrot seeds till year 3, and then just 4 of them I planted them in year 4 and got 8 with the crop, and I had hoped to get 16 the following year, but in the end only got 12. However, I happened to find another 3 seeds that summer so I had the 15 needed for the chapter quest. Autumn of year 5 is a long time to go with just 10 buildings.

[Morri]

Originally posted by Trim:

I didn't find any carrot seeds till year 3, and then just 4 of them I planted them in year 4 and got 8 with the crop, and I had hoped to get 16 the following year, but in the end only got 12. However, I happened to find another 3 seeds that summer so I had the 15 needed for the chapter quest. Autumn of year 5 is a long time to go with just 10 buildings.

Ah, that feeling of intense hope when you spot a barrel in the distance... Only to be followed by the sheer disappointment when it's an empty one... again...

And omg, 5 years? For me it were cabbage seeds that I couldn't find. Carrot seeds I had so many of...
I kept planting and harvesting from the 3 seeds I had finally found after some seasons and together with a lucky find in year 3, I finally managed to get enough of them in autumn year 3. I commend you for lasting 5 years! The building limit of 10 was completely driving me crazy already by year 2.

[CellNav]

Originally posted by Morri:

... (except presents for the wife)...

Those camps might have a rare exotic good. I found a bottle of "Malvasia" hidden under the tent. Expensive wine but I don't think it suits my wife. Almost 5 years of marriage and I only needed to buy 1 gift, she doesn't seem to be the spoiled type (more like the hard worker type). Certainly not a party girl, that's for sure.

[Morri]

Y, i found a few rare exotic goods in carts as well. The ones pelted with arrows usually have more expensive stuff in them. Still, I rather get her a well suited gift than something I know she won't like as much. I rather not get yelled at and banned to sleep outside again XD