Stardew Valley is packed with every crop and tree that you can think of. Out of these differents types of plants, there is a peculiarly unique addition that tin can exist added to your farm — the tea sapling.

This little sapling will grow into a tea bush, which volition yield tea leaves that can then be turned into light-green tea. In this guide, we are going to get over everything you demand to know about tea leaves. First, let'due south take a look at how to unlock the saplings.

How To Unlock Tea Leaves

player interacted with caroline in her sunroom for her two heart event

To unlock tea saplings, you will need the recipe. Fortunately, it'south fairly simple to get the recipe; to exercise so, you will need to experience the two-eye friendship event with Caroline.

One time you are at two friendship hearts with Caroline, caput through the sunroom door in her kitchen between nine am and five pm on any non-rainy day. Doing so will trigger the event, where Caroline tells you all about her sunroom.

Afterward the issue is done, you will be able to enter the sunroom whenever you want. Inside, there will be ane tea bush that can be harvested. Additionally, Caroline will send you the tea sapling recipe in the mail.

To craft the tea sapling, you lot will need the following materials.

  • 2 Wild Seeds
  • 5 Cobweb
  • 5 Forest

Tea Saplings From The Traveling Merchant

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In addition to crafting the tea sapling recipe, you will also exist able to purchase them from the traveling merchant. This is a vendor that appears on the north edge of the Cindersap Woods on Fridays and Sundays.

The traveling merchant has a lot of items in her rotating stock, then information technology may take a while until tea saplings appear in her inventory. When tea saplings are bachelor, they will cost anywhere between one,500g and 2,500g.

For more information, be sure to check out this guide on the traveling merchant.

Growing Tea Leaves

player standing in large shed filled with tea leaves
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Once you have your tea sapling, plant it! You can found the sapling anywhere on your farm, including inside the greenhouse or in a garden pot. In the epitome above, you lot tin can see tea bushes growing out of garden pots within of a shed.

Tea bushes take a long time to grow, but they practice not need to exist watered. Kickoff, find a place that you desire to establish the sapling. With the sapling in manus, plant it on the ground.

The sapling will accept twenty days to abound into a tea bush. After the bush is fully grown, it volition produce tea leaves every day of the final week of the flavour. This means that from day 22 to 28 of the season, yous tin harvest tea leaves every 24-hour interval. With several bushes, y'all tin harvest a lot of tea leaves to exist candy and sold for money. Prior to existence processed, tea leaves volition only sell for 50g.

Tea bushes will produce leaves every season except for Winter when planted outside. If you take tea bushes planted in indoor garden pots, then you can go on to collect their tea leaves in the wintertime.

Lastly, tea bushes act as 'walls' for both you and any animals that are on your farm. It'due south possible to create a natural wall for your farm with these bushes. Unlike normal fences, tea bushes will never deteriorate or demand repairs.

What To Do With Tea Leaves

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Now that yous have tea leaves, let's go over what y'all can exercise with them. Tea leaves can be placed in a keg and a preserves jar, which you can acquire more most beneath.

Dark-green Tea

Placing tea leaves in a keg will produce green tea. Kegs take around three in-game hours to produce green tea. Green tea tin can be sold for 100g (140g with Artisan profession), or yous can drink it for an energy vitrify that lasts around four minutes.

This drink is loved by Caroline and Mayor Lewis. Every other villager likes greenish tea, except Jas and Vincent who hate it. Overall, information technology makes a pretty good gift.

Pickled Tea Leaves

Instead of placing tea leaves in a keg, you can add them to a preserves jar. Doing then will produce pickled tea leaves. Information technology volition have a preserves jar 2 to three in-game days to produce the pickled tea leaves, which can be sold for 150g (210g with Artisan profession).

Unlike green tea, pickled tea leaves don't brand the best gift. Caroline likes the product, but every other villager is neutral when receiving a jar of pickled tea leaves.

That'southward all there is to know about tea leaves. Be certain to go a few saplings so you can harvest the leaves at the end of every flavor! Tea leaves, light-green tea, and pickled tea leaves do not sell very much, so it will be difficult to make money from these products.

Overall, tea leaves are not the most profitable, but by gifting green tea, you can build up your friendship with the villagers of Pelican Boondocks.

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