Grand Feast Guide: Overbloom, Kernels and Money

The Grand Feast is a pretty simple farming event, and this guide covers all of it, plus a trick for extra Overbloom. It's an important event: Asxent thinks it's the only reason the farming nerfs were justified at all.

The Grand Feast is a mayor perk exclusive to Finnegan. To understand it, start with the event it builds on: the Harvest Feast.

The Harvest Feast

The Harvest Feast happens every SkyBlock year and lasts 3 months. During it, 4 random crops are "in season", and they have a chance to drop rare crops and seasoning.

• Seasoning isn't a physical item. It just shows up in chat and gets donated into a communal stew pot, which you can see in the Hub.
• Seasoning milestones: get enough seasoning drops and you reach milestones, which reward Feast Flasks. These make the Celestial Mason Jar, a mixin for God Potions.

How the Grand Feast is different

Think of the Harvest Feast, but way better:

• Instead of 3 months per SkyBlock year, it lasts the entire election, and the in-season crops cycle about every 10 hours.
• Along with rare crops and seasoning, there's a new reward: kernels. You get 1 kernel for every seasoning, plus more from the seasoning milestones.

Spending kernels at Scott

Kernels buy very useful items from Scott that are exclusive to the Grand Feast:

• Feast books, which you apply to a tool for more Overbloom.
• An accessory line that gives more Overbloom, doubled during a feast.
• Two contacts:
  • Scott's gives you a discount at Scott's shop.
  • Chef Teddy's tells you which crop has a 10% higher chance of dropping seasoning. You can't just ask a friend which one it is: like SkyMall, you need the contact yourself.

The Deep Fried reforge

The Deep Fried tool reforge gives 25% extra seasoning chance. Asxent recommends using it.

Overbloom

Besides that, the only thing that affects the drop rates is Overbloom. If you're farming during a feast, focus hard on it. Work out which of these sources you can get, then follow the money advice below.

Pets

• Run Poignant Lucky Clover on most of your pets, except the one you use to spawn pests.
• The Mosquito is particularly important: it strengthens your vinyl, so you get more of the pest you want.

Other Overbloom sources

To get the most from Thorny, put Thorns IV on all your armor pieces.

Making the most money

• Don't waste anything. Sell everything.
• Skip the accessory line. From what Asxent has seen, the contacts make the most.
• Don't hold on to drops. Prices generally drop after a few Grand Feasts, so don't keep anything unless you're on Ironman.

Extra Overbloom with island time

When you're going for Fireflies, use Skyblocker's shortcuts (/skyblocker shortcuts) to bind something to /islandtime, and set it to day once the pests spawn. The video shows a short demonstration.

Lock in: Asxent made around 1.5 billion coins from the last Grand Feast.