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Seaweed — Stardew Valley Fishing Guide

Spawn ID, locations, seasons, and difficulty for Seaweed.
Seaweed

It can be used in cooking.

Category
Objects
Subcategory
Fish
Sell Price
20g

The item ID for Seaweed in Stardew Valley is: 152

Seaweed
[152]

Seaweed Information

Seaweed is an item that can be caught using a Fishing Pole in the ocean during all seasons, including a 41% chance to catch Seaweed while fishing in the deep-sea submarine ride at the Night Market. It is never caught in Crab Pots.

It can also be foraged from a narrow strip of shore by the Tide Pools, i.e. to the east of the wooden footbridge. but it spawns relatively infrequently (3% chance per night). The saltwater crab pot fish (Cockle, Crab, Lobster, Mussel, Oyster, and Shrimp) may produce 1-3 Seaweed in a Fish Pond when the population of the pond is at least 1.

Catching Seaweed with a Fishing Pole always produces standard-quality seaweed and gives 3 Fishing XP. Picking up Seaweed from the beach gives 7 Foraging XP, with quality controlled by foraging skill and bonuses (including possibly iridium quality).

Seaweed is displayed in the Fish section of the collection tab, and counts towards the four fishing Achievements. However, it is otherwise not considered to be a fish, and therefore cannot be sold to Willy at the Fish Shop, does not benefit from fish price bonuses, and cannot be used in fish recipes.

It's also possible to find Seaweed in the "Dangerous Mines" on floors 1-39 when the Shrine of Challenge is turned on. This seaweed will always be normal quality.

Catching Seaweed

Catch Seaweed from 6 AM–2 AM, any weather.
Seasons
SpringSummerFallWinter
Locations
  • Beach
    100% chance.
  • Night Market Submarine
    100% chance.
  • Beach Farm(Ocean)
    15% chance.
Difficulty5 (out of 110)
BehaviorFloater
Size (in)5–30

See all Stardew Valley fish →

Seaweed Effects

Eating Seaweed restores 12 energy and 5 health.

Fish Ponds That Produce Seaweed

Fish Ponds with these fish can produce Seaweed.

  • Clampond, population any · 9% per day
  • Lobsterpond, population any · 9% per day
  • Crabpond, population any · 9% per day
  • Cocklepond, population any · 9% per day
  • Musselpond, population any · 9% per day
  • Shrimppond, population any · 9% per day
  • Oysterpond, population any · 9% per day

Seaweed Tailoring

Use Seaweed as the spool item (with Cloth in the left slot) to tailor:

Recipes That Use Seaweed

Seaweed is used as an ingredient in 1 recipe.

Buildings That Use Seaweed

Seaweed is a construction material — bring it along with the gold cost and the building goes up in the listed time.

Fish Pond5×5,000g · 2 days

Seaweed Villager Gift Reactions

Give Seaweed as a gift to build friendship. Each villager reacts differently — pick someone who loves it for the biggest friendship boost. Gifts given on a villager's birthday count 8× — a loved gift jumps from +80 to +640 friendship.

  • NeutralDemetrius🎂 Summer 19Elliott🎂 Fall 5Leo🎂 Summer 26Linus🎂 Winter 3Pam🎂 Spring 18Sebastian🎂 Winter 10Willy🎂 Summer 24
  • DislikesHarvey🎂 Winter 14Leah🎂 Winter 23Marnie🎂 Fall 18Maru🎂 Summer 10Penny🎂 Fall 2Sam🎂 Summer 17Sandy🎂 Fall 15Shane🎂 Spring 20
  • HatesAbigail🎂 Fall 13Alex🎂 Summer 13Caroline🎂 Winter 7Clint🎂 Winter 26Dwarf🎂 Summer 22Emily🎂 Spring 27Evelyn🎂 Winter 20George🎂 Fall 24Gus🎂 Summer 8Haley🎂 Spring 14Jas🎂 Summer 4Jodi🎂 Fall 11Kent🎂 Spring 4Krobus🎂 Winter 1Lewis🎂 Spring 7Pierre🎂 Spring 26Robin🎂 Fall 21Vincent🎂 Spring 10Wizard🎂 Winter 17
See the full Seaweed gift guide →

Similar Items

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Seaweed Cheat Help

Item spawning in Stardew Valley isn't accomplished through typical commands. Instead, it involves a cheat method where you name your character, or an animal, with the item code of the desired item, enclosed in square brackets [ and ]. Include the brackets when naming.

Spawn Using Animal Name

To spawn this item, buy an animal (we recommend a chicken because it is the cheapest) from Marnie's Ranch, name it [152]. You will then receive the Seaweed item.

Spawn Using Character Name

Since you can only set your character's name once at the game's inception, we advise using the animal naming method.

However, if you opt for this method, name your character [152] while creating your save file. When you converse with any villager who mentions your name in their dialogue, like Gus at the Stardrop Saloon, you'll receive the Seaweed item.