In Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, items are ranked by star quality.
This system measures an item’s overall quality, ranging from 0.5 ★ at the lowest to 7 ★ at the highest, and increasing in 0.5 ★ increments. Items with higher star quality sell for more money at the bazaar, and higher-quality items are sometimes required to fulfill villager requests.
Understanding how star quality works, and how to increase it, is essential for maximizing your earnings throughout the game.
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How Quality is Displayed
Star quality is displayed at the top of an item’s icon, shown as a ★ followed by the numerical value of that item’s quality.
When hovering over an item in your bag or storage, the detail pane on the right-hand side also displays that item’s quality using a series of filled ★ icons that reflect the item’s current level.
Note: Some items do not have a star quality and therefore show no stars at all. Items with no quality value include pet food, treats, fodder, and basic cooking ingredients like oil.
What Star Quality Affects
Star quality influences several core mechanics throughout the game:
| Affected Stat | How It’s Impacted |
|---|---|
| Item Selling Price | Higher quality items sell for more at the bazaar. As an item’s star quality increases, its selling price rises accordingly. |
| Villager Requests Requirements | Many villager requests require items of a specific star quality or higher. To complete these requests, you may need to raise the quality of certain items before turning them in. |
| Crop & Animal Show Advantages | Improving the star quality of crops or animal products gives you a better chance of winning Crop Shows and Animal Shows. These contests reward permanent boosts, making high quality entries important. |
| Profit from Cooked Items | Cooked dishes inherit the star quality of the ingredients used. Using higher quality items in recipes results in meals with better quality and higher selling prices, allowing you to earn more profit than you would by selling the base ingredients on their own. |
| Processed Items (Windmill Products) | Items processed in the windmills inherit the star quality of the items used. Using higher quality materials will produce processed goods with higher quality, which sell for more. |
Raising Quality by Item Type
Crops
- Fertilizer gradually increases a crop’s star quality as it grows.
- Soil Upgrades raise the base star quality for all crops grown in your fields.
- Winning Crop Shows grants a permanent quality boost for that specific crop type.
- High quality seeds produce crops with higher star quality.
- Consistent watering (1x-2x daily) help ensure crops reach their maximum quality potential.
Animal Products
- Animal friendship is the main factor that raises the quality of milk, eggs, and wool.
- Winning the Animal Show permanently increases the star quality for the winning animal’s product type.
- Keeping animals well-fed, happy, and stress free by feeding, brushing, milking, shearing, and petting your animals daily.
Forageables, Mushrooms, Honey, Fish, & Bugs
- Star quality increases for these items by donating related items to the five Nature Sprites.
- Raising the Nature Sprites’ Friendship gives permanent boosts to the quality of the items they oversee.
- Each sprite improves a different item category.
Cooked Items
- Cooked dishes inherit the combined star quality of the ingredients you use when cooking.
- Using higher quality items produces meals with higher star quality.
- You can adapt recipes with added ingredients to improve the quality of the final dish.
- Cooked meals usually sell for more than the base ingredients, making cooking a strong profit method.
Processed Windmill Items
- Windmill products inherit the combined star quality of the items used to make them.
- Using higher quality items results in higher quality final products.
- Processed Items typically sell for more money than the raw materials.
Permanent Star Quality Upgrades
There are a few ways to permanently increase the star quality of certain items in the game. These are detailed below:
| Method | Item Quality Increase |
|---|---|
| Crops Shows | Winning at any of the yearly Crops Shows will raise the star quality of that crop type permanently. |
| Animal Shows | Winning at any of the yearly Animal Shows will raise the quality of that animal’s product type permanently. (example: winning with a cow will increase the Milk quality for all of your cows). |
| Nature Sprite Friendship | Donating items increases Sprite friendship, which permanently improves the star quality of their corresponding item category |
| Soil Upgrades | Upgrading your field’s soil from Garon’s Construction increases the star quality of your field crops. |
Tips for Raising Star Quality Efficiently
- Focus on one Nature Sprite at a time when donating items, so you unlock quality boosts faster.
- Use fertilizer consistently to raise crop quality early in game.
- Prioritize Crops/Animal Show entries based on long term usefulness (crops you grow often, animals that give you daily products).
- Use high quality items for cooking and windmill processing to produce high quality goods.
- Prioritize storage expansions early on to store high quality items for future needs.
- Purchase soil upgrades early on to enhance the base star quality of crops you grow.
- Take care of your animals daily.
- Place bazaar decorations that provide a quality up bonus to enhance the star quality of items sold.
- Activate Cheer Time with Ivy recruited to get a quality up bonus on items sold.
