10 Useful Tips You Should Know About Honey & Mushrooms in STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar

Summary

This video explains how to maximize honey and mushroom production in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar. It covers unlocking beehives and mushroom lugs at bazaar ranks, where to buy upgrades, and how beehives produce honey from planted or wild flowers. The guide details honey varieties (regular, invigorating, mellow, and royal), the importance of flower type and star quality, and tips like catching bees and using windscreens. For mushrooms it explains spores, log mechanics, rare spores from Ronaldo and Rich’s lottery, creating your own spores, and the value of monarch mushrooms — plus when to cook or sell for best profit.

Takeaways

• 🍯 You can unlock beehives and mushroom logs after reaching Bazaar Rank 3 and completing Arata’s request for one grilled fish and one egg over rice.
• 🌼 Beehives produce honeycombs when flowers are placed in front of them, and each flower generates one honeycomb every four days.
• ⚠️ Honeycombs do not accumulate in the hive—if not collected after four days, you lose that batch, so harvest as soon as the beehives sparkle.
• 🔄 Honeycombs can be converted into more valuable honey using the blue windmill; raw honeycombs have little use.
• 🌻 Different flowers create different honey types: wild herbs give regular honey, Miguel’s farm flowers give invigorating honey, and Ronaldo’s seasonal flowers produce mellow honey.
• 👑 Royal honey is a rare bonus honey obtained more frequently with higher-star-quality flowers, offering the highest profit.
• 🌦️ Flowers wilt at season’s end or during storms; you can protect them with windscreens or temporarily remove and replant them, though doing so resets honey progress.
• 🌿 Mint is a low-maintenance, all-year-round alternative for producing regular honey, though it yields less profit than other flowers.
• 🐝 The more flowers near your hives, the more bees appear daily, which you can catch to level up the Bugs nature sprite faster.
• 🍄 Mushroom logs work by applying spores, waiting three days, and harvesting six mushrooms; higher-value spores yield better results.
• 🎰 The rarest spore, for the Matsutake mushroom, can only be won through Rich’s lottery at Bazaar Rank 5 using upgraded bronze, silver, or gold medals.
• 👑 Monarch mushrooms are bonus, high-value mushrooms that appear more often when using higher-quality spores.
• 🧙‍♂️ The quality and value of honey depend on the Honey nature sprite’s level, while mushroom quality depends on the Webby sprite—feeding them your produce increases future profits.
• 🍳 Cooking mushrooms increases their value; simple recipes like Happy Mushroom Fry are efficient for consolidating stacks and boosting profits.
• 💰 Both honey and mushrooms are mostly passive sources of income, making them ideal to start early for steady earnings in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar.

Q & A

How do you unlock beehives and mushroom logs in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar?

You need to reach bazar rank three and complete a request for Arata, where he asks for one grilled fish and one egg over rice. After that, he will sell beehives and mushroom logs at his stall every Saturday.

What is the importance of flowers in honey production?

Flowers placed in front of beehives generate honeycombs after four days. The type of flower determines the variety of honey produced, with more valuable types of honey coming from specific flowers like sunflowers and chrysanthemums.

How can you increase the value of honey?

To increase honey's value, transform honeycombs into honey using the blue windmill. The type of flower used and the star quality of the flowers also affect the quality of the honey produced.

What is the best flower to use for honey production?

Sunflowers, chrysanthemums, and scenaras are the best flowers for producing the highest quality honey (mellow and royal honey) during their respective seasons.

What is royal honey and how is it obtained?

Royal honey is a bonus honey type that can be obtained randomly, depending on the star quality of your flowers. The higher the star quality, the more likely you are to get royal honey, which is the most valuable type.

What should you do with wilting flowers or flowers damaged by a storm?

If flowers are damaged by a storm or go out of season, you can harvest and reuse them for dyes, fragrances, gifts, or sell them. If you want to protect your flowers during a storm, use windshields, but this might reset your beehive's progress.

How can you make the honey production process easier?

If you prefer a low-maintenance option, consider using wild herbs like mint, which stay in season year-round and do not require replanting. However, this will mostly produce regular honey, which is less profitable.

Does the type of honey affect cooking recipes in Story of Seasons?

For most cooking recipes, the type of honey doesn't matter. It may be more efficient to use regular honey for cooking and save more valuable types for selling or other uses.

How can I maximize my profits from honey production?

To maximize profits, focus on planting high-star-quality flowers like sunflowers or chrysanthemums, which produce royal and mellow honey. Additionally, consider giving honey to the honey nature sprite to further increase its value.

What is the process for mushroom farming in the game?

Mushrooms are grown by using a bag of spores on mushroom logs, then waiting three days to harvest the mushrooms. After each harvest, you plant more spores. Different types of spores result in different types of mushrooms, with valuable ones like Matstake mushrooms being harder to obtain.

How do you obtain Matstake mushroom spores?

Matstake mushroom spores can be obtained from Rich's lottery stall once you reach bazar rank five. You'll need medals to enter the lottery, and you can upgrade them with ores to increase your chances.

What is the role of Webby in mushroom farming?

Webby is a nature sprite that affects the quality of mushrooms you harvest. To improve mushroom quality and increase your chances of obtaining monarch mushrooms, it's important to give your mushrooms to Webby.

How can you increase your chances of getting monarch mushrooms?

The higher the star quality of your mushroom spores, the higher the chance you'll get monarch mushrooms, which are much more valuable than regular mushrooms.

What can you do with mushrooms besides selling them?

Mushrooms can be cooked to increase their value, or used in specific dishes like the Happy Mushroom Fry, which consolidates mushrooms into a single stack. Certain types of mushrooms, like Matstake mushrooms, can be used in recipes like Matstake Rice.