Seeds

[Lemsip]

Does anyone have any tricks to collecting seeds? I'm trying to grow a pumpkin and seem to need lots of the random seeds. Wondering if there's anything you need to do with the birds to get seeds

[SonicDen220]

When it's raining, birds land much more often, which means you can get seeds faster.

[Cheggf]

Feather hat is something in your control to get more seeds. Rain is something mostly out of your control to get more seeds but if you really want them super hard a p staff can make it rain.

Nothing special you do with the birds. I believe whether or not they will drop a seed when they leave is determined when they spawn, so whether you scare them or leave them alone they'll drop it the same if they have it.

[Ohan]

Pumpkins are an autumn/winter crop so you’ll have the highest chance to get pumpkins from random seeds in those two seasons. They’re not extremely rare to pop up in-season in my experience. 

[kuroite]

Generate world with Hallowed night, you'll get free pumpkin at Pig King or yeah ... just rely on rng ...

[SinancoTheBest]

The only table that should really concern you is seed chance chart from the wiki. Seeds themselves are very common in all seasons but winter on the surface. 

[GenomeSquirrel]

You can trade twigs to catcoons for random junk, and typed seeds have a high chance of being produced.

[astroapyr]

Plant normal seeds until you get pumpkin plants, then take care of it (watering them, fertilizing them with growth formula fertilizers, talk to them) until it gives crops, the more you take care of it the more pumpkin seeds it gives when you harvest the pumpkin.

Plant the pumpkin seeds again, give a caged bird the pumpkin for an extra seed, take care of it and repeat the process until you get enough seeds. Your goal is to get at least 9 seeds to grow them into giant crops, those give a lot of seeds and pumpkins.

[NightfallsCurse]

Wait for rain, then birds spawn more often, meaning seeds can be collected way faster in the rain

I would also mention that it isn't recommended that seeds are collected in winter, birds land less often, which makes seeds harder to gather in the harsh winters

You could also plant a normal seed to get a chance for a pumpkin. If you can take well care of your plant (which is talking to them, fertilizing them, watering them, etc), it will give you two seeds of that specific crop when harvested. If you have a bird in a cage, feed the pumpkin to the bird to get an extra pumpkin seed, repeat this cycle as many times as you'd like to mass-produce pumpkin seeds

[Fill-Lips]

You can also trade fish to king of the merms for a chance at getting pumpkin seeds!