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While you’ll be plenty busy at the farm, theStory of Seasons: A Wonderful LifeDig Site offers plenty of bonus work to do if you need to step away from farm work and step back in time. Carter and Flora head up the archeology team digging in Forgotten Valley, and they need your help.
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Our Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life Dig Site guide features everything you’ll need to know to get started mining in Forgotten Valley. We’ve priced out the archeological finds, found all the tablets, and are here to help you dig up a piece of history.
Updated on Jun 16, 2025:Now that we’ve had more time to go digging at the Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life Dig Site, we’ve come back to update our Story of Seasons A Wonderful Life Dig Site guide with even more archeological finds, as well as helpful links to make sure you get the most out of mining in Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life.
The Dig Site, Explained
What Is The Dig Site?
In Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, you’ll find anarcheological dig siteright beside thewaterfallin the northernmost part of Forgotten Valley. It’s the space with thescaffolding, which supports ablue tarpover the dig site itself.
Here, you’ll meetCarter, the archaeologist in charge of the dig site, andFlora, his assistant for the project. They live together inthe tent next to the dig site, and can be found there when they’re not excavating.
Together, they run thedig site, which can be accessed byentering the hole under the blue tarpright by the waterfall.
Down here is the digging area itself, an area ofmarked squaresfor you to mine, sift through, and see if you can find sometreasureor something ofarcheological importance.
What Are The Stone Tablets?
The main purpose of Carter and Flora’s excavation is tounearth tablets that offer a glimpse into Forgotten Valley’s history.
In Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life, mining at the dig site, your farmer will find something particularly noteworthy - atablet with strange characterson it.
This will happenrandomly during one of your digs, but you willonly find one tablet each year.
When you find the stone tablet for that year,Carter takes the stone tablets, but he’ll alsotell you what he and Flora learnedfrom the last one you gave him, if this isn’t the first one.
There isno prizefor finding the tablets each year, but between the peek at the game’s history and theslew of treasure you take away each time, the dig site is more than worth your time.
Plenty of the people that live in Forgotten Valley enjoy receivingartifacts from the dig site as gifts, even if they’re particular aboutwhich ones they’ll acceptor change their preferences throughout the years.
You’ll have the most luck offering the people of Forgotten Valley the coins and gemstones you’ve found at the dig site, but some of the odd ducks in town like your fossils and statues, too.
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How To Use The Dig Site
When you’re ready to put on your Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life mining cap, godown into the dig sitebetween the hours of10:00 AM through 5:00 PMonany day that Vanisn’t in town.
Down in the hole,speak to Carterand tell him you’re ready to start digging. He’ll hand you atroweland set you off to start digging.
Todig at the dig sitein A Wonderful Life, simplyhighlight a patch of dirtfrom the center of the dig site area (anything with crackswithin this area is likely to be a dig spot) anddig.
You may not see anything right away, butdigging a few times on the same spotmay turn something up that was well-buried.
It takes your farmer a few in-game moments to clear each dig space, but they may uncoversigns of treasureburied within. These are oftenodd shapesin the dirt of varying colors, which denote thatsomething is buried there.
It’ll likely take a couple digs to unearth, butkeep digging that spotuntil your farmer has anexclamation markabove their head, followed by aglow from the holethey were digging.
Just be cognizant of where Carter and Flora are, asyou can’t dig on a spot someone is standing on or looking at.
They’ll stand or look for several times - we got stuck on our last treasure of the day waiting for Flora to move for almost two entire in-game hours - so it may help tostart on spots you know Carter and Flora stand on.
Outsidethe time limit of the operation hours, there isno limit to how much you can dig each day.You can alsocome and goas you please - to finish early, eitherspeak to Carter again, or simplyexit the dig site.
After you’re done diggingfor the day, Carter comes up to the surface with you andevaluates your finds.
Anything thatisn’t significant to their dig, Carter lets youtake home your leftover treasures, which you can eithersellfor cashat your storeor to Van, or give to the townsfolk as gifts.
For the most part,you’ll keep almost everything you findwhile digging - Carter will only keep the stone tablets you find.
The Dig Site Grows Each Year
While the Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life dig sitestarts off pretty smallin Year One, returning each year reveals that Carter and Flora haveexpanded the dig siteby an immediately noticeable amount.
Foreach year that you find a tablet, thedig site expands the year after thatdue to the quality of the research being performed there! These changes are immediately reflected onSpring Oneof the new year, and you’ll also begin tofind new itemsas the site grows.
This means you’ll need toalter your digging strategy as time passes, though, as what worked in Year One won’t be efficient anymore come Year Four.
You’llstart the day with squares that already show treasure there, so it’s best to hit those first, as youknowthere’s loot at the end of your efforts.
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All Dig Site Finds
Below, you’ll findevery item you can findat the dig site in A Wonderful Life, as well aswhat it sells for.
You cannot sell artifacts in the Shipping Bin - they must be sold either to Van, or at your store.
40g
50g
60g
100g
1,000g
80g
200g
1,500g
120g
400g
2,000g
2,500g
300g
800g
3,000g
N/A
Our Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life coverage is awork in progress- as we continue to unearth all the treasures in the Dig Site, we’ll update our guide to reflect our new findings.
