Wild Items
Each day, you can find free items on the ground on your Farm, the Waterfall, Zephyr Town, and Hotel areas. You can find flowers, herbs, and edible-items that can be processed by the windmills or sold as-is at your bazaar. The items can even be given as gifts!
The ground isn't the only place where you can find free items. If you have plenty of stamina, jump into the rivers around the town. If you come out of the water, there's a chance that you'll find something stuck to your clothing.
Foraging for Ground Items
As you walk around in the game, you'll find items sitting on the ground for you to pick up. These free items will change per season and they have an associated star quality. This means the items will decay if you try to store them for a long period of time.
The star quality of the wild items will increase as your progress through the years. At the beginning of the game, you'll find items between .5 and 1.5 stars. The star quality will quickly increase until you reach year 5, where you will find items worth 4 stars. You won't see 5 star ranks until year 10 though.
Many of these items can be processed in the windmills to make better selling items; Honeycomb can be turned into Honey at the Grinding Windmill, flowers and herb can be turned into perfume, and branches/stones can be broken up into ingredients needed for tool upgrades.
Besides flowers and herbs, you can also find coins hidden in the ground. To find a coin, just look for a sparkling point on the ground, then go there and press B. Most of the time you'll find the common Small Coin, which can be sold at the bazaar, given as gifts, or turned into better coins at the Manufacturing Windmill. Coins do not have star quality ranks and cannot rot.
During bad weather such as Stormy, Hurricane, or Snow Storm, the chance that you'll find a better coin increases. The sparkles on the ground will be more noticeable, and the darkened sky makes it easier for you to find them. You can find Bronze Coins, Silver Coins, and Gold Coins.
The Bronze, Silver, and Gold Coins are used at the Super Lucky Lotto at the bazaar once you have expanded the bazaar to 75%. The Super Lucky Lotto will exchange coins for a chance to win prizes. One lotto pull is going to cost you 5 Bronze Coins, 3 Silver Coins, or 1 Gold Coin. The grand prize for the lotto is a bottle of Magic Water, which when eaten, will increase your maximum stamina level by 20 points. There are only 5 bottles of Magic Water available in the game.
| Item | Season | Location | Profit .5 stars | Profit 2.5 stars | Profit 5 stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moondrop Flower | Spring | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 50 G | 90 G | 130 G |
| Toy Flower | Spring | Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 50 G | 90 G | 130 G |
| Pink Cat Flower | Summer | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 50 G | 90 G | 130 G |
| Magic Blue Flower | Spring Fall | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 50 G | 90 G | 130 G |
| Magic Red Flower | Fall | Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 100 G | 170 G | 260 G |
| Weed | Spring Summer Fall | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 10 G | 20 G | 40 G |
| Branch | All year | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 30 G | 60 G | 80 G |
| Stone | All year | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 30 G | 60 G | 80 G |
| Chamomile | Spring Summer | Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 50 G | 90 G | 130 G |
| Mint | All year | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 50 G | 90 G | 130 G |
| Lavender | Fall Winter | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 50 G | 90 G | 130 G |
| Shitake | Spring | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town | 160 G | 290 G | 440 G |
| Poison Mushroom | Summer | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 40 G | 70 G | 110 G |
| Shimeji | Fall | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 120 G | 220 G | 330 G |
| Walnut | Spring Summer Winter | Your Farm Waterfall Hotel | 80 G | 140 G | 220 G |
| Honeycomb | Spring Fall Winter | Your Farm Waterfall Hotel | 120 G | 220 G | 330 G |
| Chestnut | Fall | Your Farm Waterfall Hotel | 120 G | 220 G | 330 G |
| Small Coin | All year | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 80 G | ||
| Bronze Coin | All year | Your Farm (Wi only) Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 240 G | ||
| Silver Coin | All year | Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 480 G | ||
| Gold Coin | All year | Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 720 G | ||
| Snowball | Winter | Your Farm Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 8 G | ||
| Ore Stone | Winter | Waterfall Zephyr Town Hotel | 8 G | ||
The Snowballs and Ore Stones aren't meant to be sold for profit:
- If you pick up a Snowball and throw it onto the ground, it will break apart and possibly reveal an item inside of it. You can find flowers, Weed, Branch, Stone or Ore Stone, Curry Dumpling, and sometimes even another Snowball!
- Ore Stones can be broken apart with your Hammer. Inside of the rock you may find a special gem but most of the time you'll just fine Scrap Metal. You also can find Copper, Silver, Gold, Amethyst, Emerald, Flourite, Moon Stone, or Sand Rose inside of an Ore Stone if you're lucky.
Foraging for Water Items
If you've got nothing else to do for the rest of the day, then you may want to try looking for items in the waters around town. Each time you jump into the water you'll loose 8 stamina points, so it's a good way to use up stamina before you go to bed for the day to recharge your stamina.
After you jump into the water and emerge, you have a 10% chance of finding something attached to your clothing. All of the waters in the town have a chance of finding the same items, and the same items are available all year long.
When coming out the water, you can find Small Coin, Empty Can, Branch, Ore Stone, Sea Urchin, Gold, or Straight Tea (Can).