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How to make Maple Syrup | Silver & Gold Star

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The Maple Syrup Quest appears in Bellflower Meadow after you finish the Quest to build and cross the bridge.

Make Sap Taps and Sap Buckets

Go to Engineering on your Farm.

  • First, research the Sap Taps and Sap Buckets. You can wait for the research, or skip the wait using RC.
Left: Research and wait or skip. | Right: Sap Tap ingredients.
  • To make Sap Taps and Buckets, you will need Steel Pipe, Steel Bar, Steel Sheet (make these in the Smelter) and an Oxy Propane Tank.
  • Each Sap Tap and each Sap Bucket uses 10/100 of an Oxy Propane Tank. One tank is enough for 5 of each.
  • Important: Make 5 Sap Taps + 5 Sap Buckets. Each Towering Maple needs one of each.

Load the finished Sap Taps and Buckets to Tyrone’s Truck, then go to Bellflower Meadow and unload the Truck to complete the Quest task.

Install Sap Taps and Buckets

  • Move the Sap Taps and Buckets from the Old Shack to Joe’s Backpack.
  • You can install Sap Taps only on Towering Maple Trees with more than 20 hours of Sap remaining. If you don’t have Maple Trees, use Samaras (their seeds) to plant more.
  • Click Use on a Sap Tap → click a Towering Maple (costs 5 Energy).
Hover over the Maple Tree to see how long its Sap will keep flowing.
  • Then click Use on a Sap Bucket → click the same tree.
Hover over the Maple Tree to see how much longer until the Bucket is full.

Sap timing

  • Each Bucket fills in 20 hours.
  • Each Maple Tree produces Sap for 75 hours total → you can collect 3 Maple Sap Buckets per Tree (60 hours) with 15 hours to spare.
  • If the Bucket is full, Sap overflows until the 75 hours end. To stop the flow you must uninstall the Sap Tap (costs 1 Energy). Reinstalling remembers the remaining Sap time.

After the tree dries up you can cut it for wood and plant a new one.

Make Maple Syrup

  • Buy the Evaporator from the Gear tab in the Bellflower Meadow Shop (not the main farm shop).
  • Place it on free ground. The center base piece must show green like the image below.
We place the Evaporator in the Northern Area, near the trail.
  • To make Maple Syrup, add these to the Evaporator:
    • 10 Beech Logs
    • 10 Elm Logs
    • 10 Fir Logs
    • 9 Maple Sap — pour and empty the buckets; the Sap Buckets return to Joe’s Backpack.

Auto Mode vs Artisan Mode | Silver Star & Gold Star

After adding the resources you choose:

  • Auto Mode → produces regular Maple Syrup.
  • Artisan Mode → mini-game that can produce Silver or Gold Star Maple Syrup.

Artisan Mode mini-game

  • Lasts about 3 minutes and needs ~30 clicks.
  • Click as soon as the white text Pour! or Transfer! appears.
When “Transfer!” or “Pour!” appears, click to transfer. Here, we got two Gold Stars.
  • Scoring per click:
    • Perfect timing = shows Gold Star (2 points)
    • Good timing = shows Silver Star (1 point)
    • Too early or too late = 0 points

Final result

  • 0–24 points → Regular Maple Syrup
  • 25–50 points → Silver Star Maple Syrup
  • 50–60 points → Gold Star Maple Syrup

Jerome asks for Silver and Gold Star syrup of different grades, so you sometimes need to click a bit slower on purpose to get the exact quality he wants. Grades are random (based on when the sap was collected).

After the process finishes:

  1. Taste and grade the syrup.
  2. Pour it into the maple-leaf bottle.
  3. Collect the finished bottle.

Each new grade you discover is added to the grading kit. Collecting all 4 grades lets you sell the kit for a good profit.