Is crafting Wild Seeds and harvesting them the best way to level up Foraging?

[AmazingChocobo]

The last two levels of any skill requires 1000 and 1500 exp respectively.
I dont know if those numbers a cumulative or individual. As in acquiring 500exp more to get level 10 after reaching level 9 OR acquiring another 1500 exp from level 9 to get to level 10.

In the case of foraging, chopping a tree only nets 12exp and picking up forage items 7exp.
So to get 500exp, you need to either chop down 42 trees or pick up 72 forage items. And triple those numbers if you actually need to gain 1500exp from level 9 to 10.

Thats a lot of work.

If the winter seed forage crops counts as actual foraging, then i would be able to level up very very fast. Or is the mushroom level farming the better method?

Can someone please confirm?

[rad rat ray]

I believe forage items that grow on your farm give less experience than forage items found randomly, so I think your best bet is to go around chopping down trees and picking up forage items you find

[I Kinda Fail]

Growing forage is great XP, but also requires you spend a lot of either time watering, or "waste" space and sprinklers on forage. I got 3 foraging levels in a day once because I had so many forage crops to harvest.

The best "passive" way to train Foraging is to just go on a foraging run once a week. Chop down every tree in the forest, chop all the hardwood stumps, and harvest anything you find. The mushroom farming is also very good XP in terms of money made along the way, but gathering wood is also useful.

So: the best way to "powerlevel" is by growing TONS of forage crops, but the "best" way in terms of usefulness is to chop trees and harvest stuff as you find it.

[NotThatHarkness]

Did you read the wiki?
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Foraging#Experience_Points

Wiki says wild seeds grown on the farm give the same exp points. I've never tried min-maxing the skill. I reach level 10 whenever it happens organically. That being said, I usually replant wild trees on my farm each winter, and plant wild trees in the railroad area by the baths. You have till the soil first (unlike planting trees on the farm). Supposedly this also works in the quarry but I've never tried it. Hopefully they don't change this with the latest update. Anyways, with amount of trees I typically chop and taking the profession to double foraged items I don't find it takes all that long to reach level 10.

[TJgalon]

Odd, I swear it use to be forage item grown was less, beacuse you can turn 4 forage item into 10 seeds, but maybe that was a misunderstanding, or an update change at some point.

[rad rat ray]

Originally posted by TreyNutz:

Did you read the wiki?
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Foraging#Experience_Points

Wiki says wild seeds grown on the farm give the same exp points. I've never tried min-maxing the skill. I reach level 10 whenever it happens organically. That being said, I usually replant wild trees on my farm each winter, and plant wild trees in the railroad area by the baths. You have till the soil first (unlike planting trees on the farm). Supposedly this also works in the quarry but I've never tried it. Hopefully they don't change this with the latest update. Anyways, with amount of trees I typically chop and taking the profession to double foraged items I don't find it takes all that long to reach level 10.

the wiki used to say that forage items grown on the farm gave less experience, but they've changed a lot of things on the wiki since then

[AmazingChocobo]

Maybe someone can look at the exp numbers in their save file. Then go havest one forage crop and see how the value changes?

I would do it myself but im at work.