Fruit

Fruit is a category of food in Vintage Story. Fruit-bearing plants can be found in the form of berry bushes , crops , fruit trees , and forageables . Fruits have different nutritional values and growing requirements.

Obtaining

For information on cultivating fruit-bearing plants, see Berry bush , Fruit tree , and Pineapple .

Fruits are one of the first foods encountered by the player, easily spotted by their bright appearance.

• Berry bushes , fruit trees , and saguaro cacti can be harvested using on the block containing ripe fruit.

• Pineapples can be harvested by breaking them using . To prepare them into pineapple slices for consumption, place the pineapple in the crafting grid with a knife .

All fruit-bearing plants (excluding saguaro cacti) can be propagated by collecting a cutting or seed and planting it. They cannot be purchased from traders or found in cracked vessels , with the exception of the agricultural trader selling berries and saguaro fruits.

Usage

Food

Fruits can be eaten raw or used as a cooking ingredient in meals such as porridge , meat stew , jam , and pie . Their satiety increases by 50% in the final product.

Alcohol

Fruits can be squeezed in a fruitpress to make juice, which can be fermented into wine and further distilled into brandy. Fruit mash is produced as a byproduct and can be used as animal feed in small and large troughs .

Composting

Fruits have less satiety than vegetables or meat , and receive a smaller satiety bonus from cooking than grains . However, their unique availability in large quantities makes them suitable as material for rot , which is used for composting in the mid- to late-game. Obtaining the fruitpress unlocks an even more efficient method to create rot.

Dyes

Blueberries and blackcurrents can be turned into purple dye . Cranberries can be turned into pink dye.

Healing

Saguaro fruit is the only food that immediately restores health when eaten. This property is lost when the fruit is processed through cooking or juicing.

List of fruits

Fruit Trees

Icon	Name	Satiety	Fresh time	Transition time	Transition ratio
	Red apple	80	40 days	2 days	0.25
	Pink apple	80	40 days	2 days	0.25
	Yellow apple	80	40 days	2 days	0.25
	Peach	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Pear	80	40 days	2 days	0.25
	Cherry	40	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Orange	80	15 days	2 days	0.25
	Mango	80	15 days	2 days	0.25
	Breadfruit	200	40 days	2 days	0.25
	Lychee	40	15 days	2 days	0.25
	Pomegranate	80	15 days	2 days	0.25

Berries

Icon	Name	Satiety	Fresh time	Transition time	Transition ratio
	Beautyberry	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Blueberry	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Cloudberry	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Cranberry	60	4 days	12 hours	0.25
	Blackberry	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Blackcurrant	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Raspberry	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Redcurrant	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Whitecurrant	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Strawberry	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25

Crops

Icon	Name	Satiety	Fresh time	Transition time	Transition ratio
	Pineapple	NA	6.5 days	2 days	2
	Pineapple slice	80	2 days	12 hours	0.25

Foragable

Icon	Name	Satiety	Fresh time	Transition time	Transition ratio
	Saguaro fruit	60, 1 HP	2 days	12 hours	0.25
	Honeycomb	300	Indefinite	N/A	N/A

Preservation

Fruit is fresh for only 2 days, which can be extended by storing it in a storage vessel and cellar .

Fruit can be processed in several ways to extend its fresh time:

• Fruit can be used as a meal ingredient. If all ingredients are fresh, the meal will last up to 4-7 days depending on the meal type (45 days for jam ). It can then be stored in a crock to receive a x0.1-0.85 perish speed multiplier.

• Fruit juice can be fermented into wine that lasts up to 1.3 years.

In the above methods, the final product’s freshness is proportional to the ingredients’ freshness. If any ingredient is spoiled, the final product will be partially spoiled too. These are best utilized for freshly-picked fruit.

The following methods disregard the ingredients’ freshness, and are best utilized for spoiling fruits:

• Fruit can be added to a pie that lasts 8 days (12 days if charred).

• Fruit can squeezed with a fruitpress into juice that lasts 7 days.

• Wine can be distilled into brandy that lasts indefinitely.