Seed Season Indicator

Seed Season Indicator

A mod that overlays markers on seed and seed packet icons in your inventory to indicate the current month's sowing season status. Lets you tell at a glance whether each seed is ready to plant right now.

In vanilla, checking the sowing season requires opening the Info → Discovered Recipes and Media → Agriculture tab. This mod overlays the indicator directly on seed icons in the inventory, so you can tell whether a seed is plantable right now without opening any other window.

Update (2026-09-21, v1.4.2): Added an option to list each crop's bad months (the months it dies in) in the tooltip. Off by default.

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Marker Types

• Green ★ — Best month (bestMonth): peak yield period
• Green ● — In season (sowMonth, excluding best/risk): safe to plant
• Yellow ● — Risk month (riskMonth): plantable, but with a risk of reduced yield
• Red ● — Out of season (outside sowMonth): cannot plant now

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Display Condition (Vanilla-Compliant)

Markers appear only on seeds and seed packets for which you have read the seed packet and learned the corresponding sowing season recipe.

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Season Info in the "Category" Column

The "Category" column in inventory detail view also shows the season status, and can be sorted by it.

• Display examples: Gardening (Best) / Gardening (In Season) / Gardening (Risk) / Gardening (Out of Season)
• Edible seeds categorized as "Food" — such as "Sunflower Seeds" and "Pumpkin Seeds" — also get the season status, shown as Food (Best) and so on
• Clicking the "Category" column header sorts by Best → In Season → Risk → Out of Season → Unread → Gardening (others). Seeds in the "Food" category group together in season order right after the other food items
• Useful for bringing "seeds ready to plant right now" to the top of the list

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Season Info in the Tooltip (v1.3)

Hovering over a seed or seed packet appends season info to the end of its tooltip.

• This month (July): Out of Season — the current month's status, color-coded the same as the markers
• Min Water / Average time of grow (v1.3.7) — the same values as the Agriculture tab; grow time reflects the sandbox farming speed setting
• Planting Season / Best Month / Poor Month — the list of plantable months, using the same wording as the farming menu
• bad month (v1.4.2, optional, off by default) — the crop's bad months, in red, in calendar order (see below)
• An image of the fully grown crop is shown on the right
• Display conditions are the same as the markers (only seeds whose packet you have read; empty seed packets show nothing)

About bad months: every crop has a list of "bad months" that the game does not show in its UI. When a bad month begins, a crop growing outdoors quickly loses health and dies. "Planting Season" and "Best Month" only judge the day you sow; they do not check whether the crop can finish growing before its first bad month. Turn on the Show bad months in tooltip option to list these months. "bad month" is the game's internal name, shown untranslated in every language.

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Options

Configure from Options → Mods → Seed Season Indicator.

• Enable Indicator (default: ON): toggles marker rendering and category column extension
• Show season info in tooltip (default: ON): toggles the tooltip season info
• Green star for crops with no Best Month (default: OFF): crops with no Best Month defined (e.g. Leek, Rosemary) show the green star whenever they are in season, making it obvious at a glance that there is no better month to wait for
• Show bad months in tooltip (default: OFF): adds the bad month row to the tooltip

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Markers not showing?

This mod follows the sandbox setting PlantGrowingSeasons. If it is disabled, your world has no growing seasons, so all markers are intentionally hidden (there is no "in/out of season" to show).

In particular, the "Outbreak" difficulty preset has this PlantGrowingSeasons setting disabled.

Also note that markers only appear on seeds whose seed packet you have already read (see "Display Condition" above).

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Compatibility

• Supports: Build 42
• Multiplayer: works. The mod has to be in the server's mod list, not just subscribed by each player.
• Languages: English / Japanese / Chinese (Simplified) / Chinese (Traditional) / Czech / Danish / German / Spanish / Finnish / French / Hungarian / Italian / Korean / Dutch / Norwegian / Polish / Portuguese / Brazilian Portuguese / Russian / Turkish / Ukrainian (Russian translation provided by HoloBucket, French translation provided by Seijun, Korean translation provided by Hagaren, Spanish translation provided by Salve Sithis, Brazilian Portuguese translation provided by Yhan113)
• For the languages with no contributor listed, the translation was prepared by me. If anything reads unnaturally, please let me know in the comments.
• Standalone — works with vanilla, no additional mods required
• When used together with mods that draw "read" markers on seed packets, the markers from both mods may appear side by side on the seed packet icon (no functional impact)
• When Show Sowing Season In Seed Tooltip is active, this mod's tooltip section is automatically disabled to avoid duplicate info (markers and the "Category" column keep working)
• Works together with CleanUI (v1.3.8; markers, tooltip and the category column all function; CleanUI must load first)
• Other inventory UI overhaul mods that redefine the ISInventoryPane class may not work with this mod