prizes

The prizes mechanic belongs to the Summer Harvest Event, introduced in Update 1.11.0, which overhauled the Seed Shop with summer-themed plants and added an hourly submission loop. The flow this entry describes is the heart of that loop: place Summer Fruits in the cart, wait, then claim your prizes. Submitting summer crops on the hourly cadence earns Harvest Points, and those points unlock a rotating prize pool that famously includes past event items, seeds, gear, and eggs you may have missed the first time around.

The profit angle is all about throughput and timing. Because submissions tick on an hourly schedule, the optimal play is to always have a fresh batch of summer fruit ready to cart the instant the window opens, never letting an hour pass empty. Plant heavily into the summer-themed seeds the event pushes, since those are what the cart accepts.

Prioritize claiming returning event exclusives first, as those are the rewards you cannot farm any other way once Summer Harvest ends. Routine seeds and gear can wait. Treat the event as a points farm with a deadline, and convert before the shop rotates out for good.