Recommendations: No Buying Seeds

This page is a collection of mods useful for a "no buying seeds" challenge run! The aim of this challenge is to never buy seeds and to instead use mixed seeds and the seed maker to get crops and tree fruits. Using a lot of mod-added crops makes the challenge harder but also more fun from not knowing what crops you might get!

Core Mods

Better Mixed Seeds

The core of the challenge run, Better Mixed Seeds allows every seed to be found in mixed seeds with built-in custom crop compatibility and configurable probability weighting.

Seed Shortage

Seed Shortage removes both vanilla and mod-added crops from a configurable list of sellers, with the option to keep them at certain shops at increased prices. It also includes an optional Better Mixed Seeds config file. You can also add exceptions for particular crops you'd like to remain available. Use either this or Fine I Will Go Make My Own Seeds, not both!

Fine I Will Go Make My Own Seeds

[https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/13944 Fine I Will Go Make My Own Seeds changes crop seeds to astronomical prices so that you are forced to rely on mixed seeds and other sources of seeds. It also has a config option to make the seed maker much harder to craft. Use either this or Seed Shortage, not both!

Alternate Sources of Crops & Fruits

Farmer's Collective

[https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/10739 Farmer's Collective gives you a starter kit with a scarecrow, seed makers, mixed seeds, and several crops. You'll also receive seed packets at the start of summer and fall in your first year and as you improve your farming skill, you'll receive saplings as a reward.

Customizable Cart Redux

[https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/1402 Customizable Cart Redux allows you to customise various things about the travelling merchant, such as the amount of items available and the days when the merchant arrives, as well as allowing the merchant to stock mod-added items. Useful for having an alternate place to buy crops for converting to seeds.

Khadija's Recipe Shop

Like Customizable Cart Redux, Khadija's Recipe Shop adds an alternate place to buy crops, via two new merchants who open a shop near the museum.

Garden Village Shops for CP

Garden Village Shops adds a small set of shops that sell vanilla and mod-added items, to help declutter vanilla shops. You might like this as another location for buying crops to convert, or if your aim is to not buy from Pierre specifically rather than not buy seeds at all.

DeepWoods

DeepWoods adds a randomly-generated explorable forest in which random fruit trees can sometimes be found.

Wild Food - Forage for Crops Add On

With Wild Food - Forage for Crops Add On, you can find the vanilla crops and fruits as foragable items in various places.

Farm Cave Spawns More Fruit

As the name suggests, Farm Cave Spawns More Fruit makes the fruit bat farm cave configurable so it can spawn more fruit and spawn mod-added fruits. (If you don't want to give up your mushrooms, try Craftable Mushroom Boxes and/or Bats and Mushrooms Farm Cave!)

Seed Starter Package

Seed Starter Package changes the starting 15 parsnip seed package to instead give 5 of every spring seed. It can be edited easily if it's overpowered. Use this or Sapling Starter Package, not both.

Sapling Starter Package

Seed Starter Package changes the starting 15 parsnip seed package to instead give an orange sapling and an apple sapling. Use this or Sapling Starter Package, not both.

Mixed Seed Kiln

Mixed Seed Kiln adds a new machine that can convert stone, wood, sap, and fiber into mixed seeds.

Seed Maker Mods

Sapling GET

Sapling GET makes it possible to use the seed maker to get saplings from vanilla and mod-added tree fruits in the seed maker.

Produce to Sapling

Like Sapling GET, Produce to Sapling makes it possible to use the seed maker to get saplings from tree fruits. Most of the mod packs are covered by Sapling GET, but Produce to Sapling also covers Mae's Trees, Guava Tree, and Farmer to Florist.

Seed Maker - Better Quality More Seeds

Seed Maker - Better Quality More Seeds increases the amount of seeds you get from the seed maker depending on the quality of the crop or fruit used. Compatible with most mod-added seeds.

Early Seedmaker

Early Seedmaker changes the seedmaker unlock conditions and recipe so that it unlocks at Farming level 1 and costs 25 wood and 25 stone to craft.

Artisan Equipment for Sale

Artisan Equipment for Sale adds various artisan equipment to the shops once you've got high enough friendship with the shopkeeper. In particular, Pierre sells seed makers once you've reached 5 hearts.

Buy More Materials

Buy More Materials makes nearly every item available to buy across all the shops. Pierre sells seed makers from the start of the game.

Stores Stock More Goods

Stores Stock More Goods expands the stocks of various stores, including adding seed makers to JojaMart and Pierre's.

Seed Maker Tweaks

Seed Maker Tweaks lets you configure the number of seeds produced by seed makers, including the chance of getting mixed seeds.

Fish-2-Seed Processor

Fish-2-Seed Processor makes it possible to convert fish and crustaceans into various crop seeds in the seed maker, matching the season when the fish is found.

Mining-2-Seed Processor

From the same author as Fish-2-Seed Processor, Fish-2-Seed Processor makes it possible to convert minerals, ore & monster loot into various crop seeds in the seed maker.

Optional Limited Buying Mods

If you'd rather limit the number of seeds available in shops rather than removing them entirely or making them ridiculously expensive (for example, if you'd like to keep the option available for completing quests), you might prefer one of the following mods instead:

Seed Shop Progression Mod

Seed Shop Progression Mod changes Pierre's stock so that he starts with only a small number of seeds available and gains more over time and as you increase your friendship with him.

Pierre's Roulette Shop

Pierre's Roulette Shop changes Pierre's stock so that a configurable number of random seeds and/or saplings are available each day. It's also compatible with mod-added crops and you can also optionally apply the changes to JojaMart as well.

Pierre Plans Ahead / Joja Plans Ahead

Pierre Plans Ahead and Joja Plans Ahead changes Pierre's and/or JojaMart so that they sell the next season's seeds 1, 3, or 7 days in advance. These mods aren't compatible with Seed Shortage, but are compatible with Pierre's Roulette Shop.