Don't Starve Together Guides and Walkthroughs

Stone Fruit is a vegetable, funnily enough, that you can harvest from a Stone Fruit Bush. You can find Stone Fruit Bushes on the Lunar Island, it's a large island with multiple biomes that you can only reach by sailing around the ocean. The Stone Fruit Bush spawns in the Lunar Baths biome and is quite plentiful.

Much like with Berry Bushes all you need to do is use a Shovel and dig up a Stone Fruit Bush to bring it back to your base. When you replant a Stone Fruit Bush you'll have to fertilize it otherwise you won't get any harvests from it. After fertilizing it you'll only be able to get 3 harvests out of the bush before you're required to fertilize it again. If you plant a Sprouting Stone Fruit instead then you're not required to fertilize it at all. I'll talk more about this later.

Each Stone Fruit bush has 4 different stages of growth, if you want Stone Fruits from your bush then you need to pick it at Stage 3 of growth otherwise the fruits on the bush will crumble to dust. You can tell what stage of growth the bush is at by looking at it very closely or by using a mod like Insight to tell you when you mouse over it.

Below you'll find a screenshot of a Stone Fruit Bush that is currently Stage 4 growth. If you look closely at the bush you'll notice that each of the Stone Fruits on it are cracked - these cracks are the only way you can tell Stage 3 and Stage 4 growth apart.

Cracked Stone Fruit Bush

When you mine open a Stone Fruit there is a very rare chance that you'll get a Sprouting Stone Fruit from it. You only have a 1% chance to see this item drop from a mined Stone Fruit but you'll most likely be mining so many of them open that you're bound to get a few of these. As aforementioned you don't need to fertilize a Sprouting Stone Fruit bush once it has been planted.

A Sprouting Stone Fruit when planted will act like a normal bush that's spawned by world generation. Meaning you can harvest it unlimited times without fertilizing it - if you choose to dig the bush up, however, then it will act like a normal Stone Fruit Bush once it's been replanted.

Typically what I like to do is make a temporary farm of Stone Fruit Bushes that I get from Lunar Island until I get enough Sprouting Stone Fruit. Once I have collected 2 or 3 dozen Sprouting Stone Fruit I will create a second farm exclusively with them so that I never have to fertilize it again. I rarely mix these bushes into the same farm because (in my opinion) it becomes tedious with fertilizer.

You can setup your Stone Fruit farm however you'd like, if you want some ideas for layout I recommend you check out my screenshots on this page at the top and the one below this paragraph. The best layout for this farm is one that looks best to you personally - there is no optimal layout.

Stone Fruit are an interesting and controversial food in DST for a few reasons. The first big drawback is they will rot in 3 days after you mine them - this means you gotta use them really quick if you plan to use them in a Crock Pot recipe. As for the second drawback, they're not used in any unique recipes. You can use Stone Fruit as Vegetable filler but that's about it.

For this reason I normally eat my Stone Fruit raw. Typically what I do is bring Stone Fruit with me on long expeditions into the Ruins or while exploring. I can mine them open whenever I need food and scarf them down immediately. Alternatively, if I want to keep my Stone Fruit for a long period of time I make them into Ratatouille by using 4 Stone Fruit in the Crock Pot. By doing this though you'll get significantly less hunger restored than if you just ate 4 Stone Fruit plain. The only upside to making Ratatouille is that you get a little Sanity restored too when you eat it and it lasts for 20 days instead of 3.

It's for the reasons I list that many people avoid doing a Stone Fruit Farm.

Other Tips & Tricks

- Stone Fruit is best for long adventures down into the Ruins or sailing across the ocean. The decay timer doesn't start ticking until you mine it so it's kind of like bundling wrapped food - just without the bundling wrap!