Summer Foraging and Fall Festival

[Karmageddon]

It's about the 10th day of my first summer and I've heard that you should always start preparing for the Fall fair early. During my summer foraging I've found a Spice Berry and Grape with a gold star rank. I've also found the Sweet Pea flower. And as we all know with those three items I can complete the summer foraging bundle in he Community Center. What I would like to know is if its better to save the gold star ranked items I have for the Fall fair or to just go ahead and complete the bundle? Also, will the star ranks even help with my placement in the Fall fair and if they do is it even worth it seeing as I'm still on my first year?

[Wai]

The Fall Fair is most definately worth the effort in the first year. After that I skip it. There is a valuable item which you can purchase.

In my opinion; You should complete the Summer Forage bundle and plant the forage seeds which you will get as a reward. One week later you will harvest an average of 10 of each plant and about one third will be gold.

With regard to the fair, keep back some high quality produce. It does not matter if it is from crops, forage, mining, fishing or crafting.

Present a broad range of products which are the highest possible quality. Go to the link below if you wand specific information on the Grange Display requirements:

https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Fair

Your produce does not need to be 100% gold. You should be able to gather enough in the first week of Autumn if you have been storing some items rather than selling everything.

[NotThatHarkness]

Of those 3 items you mention the sweet pea is from the foraging/flowers/sap category and the grape and spice berry are from the fruit category (for fair scoring purposes). A gold sweet pea isn't worth that many points, you'll do better with a gold star poppy (which is a summer crop). A gold star spice berry and gold star grape are good (but a gold star melon is better). I'd keep both in a chest and keep foraging. You'll likely find another spice berry or grape eventually. In my current game sweet peas were quite common.

Star ranks absolutely help with the fair competition. See the link above.

[Ekat]

My opinion is save them for the Stardew Valley Fair. It's not like the Summer Foraging Bundle is going to disappear forever in fall, as long as you have those 3 things.

[Wai]

Originally posted by bwhan0902:

My opinion is save them for the Stardew Valley Fair. It's not like the Summer Foraging Bundle is going to disappear forever in fall, as long as you have those 3 things.

Ah, but you are overlooking the value of forage sales, and even more, the benefit of farming forage. It is easily possible to get all iradium quality forage (forage level 10) before winter of year one. This makes forage some of the most valuable "crops" and, if you have a few pigs it becomes far and away the most valuable "crop" at 1,250g per truffle.

The display value of gold summer forage is poor to average at best. Go to the Wiki to check on values for the display.

You need 9 different items and 6 different catagories for the display. This is not difficult even if you exclude the low value summer forage.

[The Mighty Mulletman]

Sell them I'd say. Those 3 plants aren't worth much even with a gold star and you're quite likely to grow another gold star forage item before the end of summer. You want to have as many different types of items as possible as valuable as possible so try to get different expensive items rather than more cheap forage items.(fruits, vegetables, forage, flower, minerals, ets.)