Midnight Offering Guide
Village in the Shade Fox Shrine Offerings Guide
During Midnight exploration, follow the glowing fox to the Fox Shrine and offer the requested seasonal items. The shrine uses a four-round progression: each completed round adds another item category, and the sequence can continue into later seasons if you start late.
Completing shrine offerings rewards Fox Fried Tofu, 狐の油揚げ, which increases maximum Stamina.
English item and system names currently follow the site's Japanese-release terminology and may be updated after the official English localization can be verified on October 27, 2026.
Fox Shrine — Short Answer
Where?
Midnight · glowing fox
Rounds
4
Round 1
Foraged plants
Round 4
Forage + vegetables + flowers + fish
Must everything be submitted in one night? No. Progress persists across visits. Main reward: Fox Fried Tofu → maximum Stamina. Achievement: complete all Fox Shrine offerings.
Offering Round Matters More Than Season
The shrine does not permanently assign “Spring = first offering” and “Winter = fourth offering.” Required categories expand based on how many shrine offerings you have already completed. If your first offering happens in Summer, Summer is Round 1, Autumn is Round 2, Winter is Round 3 and the following Spring is Round 4.
Round 1
Foraged plants
Round 2
Foraged plants + vegetables
Round 3
Foraged plants + vegetables + flowers
Round 4
Foraged plants + vegetables + flowers + fish
Find the shrine
How to reach the Fox Shrine
This is a Midnight event, not an ordinary Night activity.
01
Enter Midnight exploration
You need access to the game's Midnight exploration period. No exact calendar day or Rule gate is asserted here.
02
Follow the glowing fox
During Midnight exploration, follow the glowing fox rather than relying on a permanent map coordinate.
03
Find 狐の社
At the Fox Shrine, submit the requested items for your current offering round.
Four-round structure
What changes each round?
The category set grows by round number. It is not a season calculator.
Example sequence
Offering list if you start in Spring
This is the standard Spring → Summer → Autumn → Winter example, not the only possible season order.
Spring example
Round 1
Foraged plants
- Fuki Sprout (ふきのとう) ×5
- ミツバ ×5
- Warabi (ワラビ) ×5
Summer example
Round 2
Foraged plants
- ヤマモモ ×5
- Lily (ユリ) ×5
- Loquat (ビワ) ×5
Vegetables
- Corn (トウモロコシ) ×3
- Cucumber (キュウリ) ×3
- Ginger (ショウガ) ×3
Autumn example
Round 3
Foraged plants
- アケビ ×5
- Ginkgo Nut (ギンナン) ×5
- 山椒 ×5
Vegetables
- Shimeji (シメジ) ×3
- Taro (サトイモ) ×3
- Sweet Potato (サツマイモ) ×3
Flowers
- Cosmos (コスモス) ×3
- Chrysanthemum (キク) ×3
- Dahlia (ダリア) ×3
Winter example
Round 4
Foraged plants
- クコの実 ×5
- フユイチゴ ×5
Vegetables
- Napa Cabbage (ハクサイ) ×3
- Daikon (ダイコン) ×3
- Spinach (ホウレンソウ) ×3
Flowers
- Narcissus (スイセン) ×3
- Pansy (パンジー) ×3
- Rosemary (ローズマリー) ×3
Fish
- Funa (フナ) ×1
- Carp (コイ) ×1
- Salmon (サケ) ×1
The item IDs are stable configuration references; display names remain Japanese-release labels where the project has not verified a final English localization. Lily / ユリ and Shimeji / シメジ remain in the source-defined categories shown here.
Shifted sequence proof
Spring can be Round 4
This verified example is why season and round must not be hard-coded together.
Spring example
Round 4
Verified shifted-sequence example when Spring is your fourth offering.
Foraged plants
- Fuki Sprout (ふきのとう) ×5
- ミツバ ×5
- Warabi (ワラビ) ×5
Vegetables
- Turnip (カブ) ×3
- Onion (タマネギ) ×3
- Potato (ジャガイモ) ×3
Flowers
- Chamomile (カモミール) ×3
- なでしこ ×3
- Tulip (チューリップ) ×3
Fish
- Yamame (ヤマメ) ×1
- Aburahaya (アブラハヤ) ×1
- Oikawa (オイカワ) ×1
If you start later in the year, the remaining rounds continue into later seasons rather than forcing a permanent failure. Current research does not provide all 16 season × round combinations, so this guide does not build a universal calculator.
Offering Progress Is Saved
Current guide data supports progress persisting across Midnight visits. You can submit part of the requested list, leave, and continue on a later visit. You do not need to finish every item in one night.
What to save before a season
Keep the exact seasonal items for your current round instead of selling every copy. The categories change by round, so check whether you are gathering forage, vegetables, flowers or fish before preparing a list.
Rewards
Fox Fried Tofu and maximum Stamina
The reward is a stamina upgrade, not a health upgrade.
狐の油揚げ
Fox Fried Tofu
Use Fox Fried Tofu to increase maximum Stamina by one gauge segment. Current research supports the reward effect, but this page does not assert an unverified total number of Tofu rewards.
Stamina is not HP
Fox Fried Tofu increases maximum Stamina / 元気. Nushi's Scale from Okami-buchi increases maximum HP / 体力. These are separate progression systems.
Other rewards and completion
Scarecrows, ornament and achievement boundaries
Only the reward details supported by current evidence are stated as facts.
Seasonal Scarecrows
Current research supports seasonal Scarecrow rewards associated with completing offering categories, but the exact category-by-category reward timing is not published here as a fixed table.
狛狐の置物
A final Komainu Fox Ornament claim remains an open research question; it is not presented as a guaranteed final reward in this version.
All four rounds
Complete all four offering rounds to complete the Fox Shrine event and unlock Divinely Blessed (御利益). This is not the 80-node Shrine Skills tree.
Track it in the 52-achievement guide →Troubleshooting
Why can't I finish the offering?
If your list does not match the common Spring → Summer → Autumn → Winter example, check which offering round you are actually on. The event is recoverable across later seasons and is not currently treated as permanently missable. See Missables for the broader evidence boundary.
System boundaries
Keep the Fox Shrine separate
These three systems use related language but are not interchangeable.
Fox Shrine offerings
狐の社, Midnight seasonal offerings, Fox Fried Tofu and maximum Stamina.
Shrine Skills
The separate 80-node skill tree. See Shrine Skills.
Magatama
A separate resource/currency system. Fox Shrine offerings do not claim to consume Magatama.
FAQ
Fox Shrine questions
Where is the Fox Shrine?
During Midnight exploration, follow the glowing fox to reach the shrine.
How many Fox Shrine offering rounds are there?
There are four offering rounds.
Is Spring always the first offering?
No. The shrine progresses by offering-round number, not by a permanently fixed season order.
What does each offering round require?
Round 1 requires foraged plants; Round 2 adds vegetables; Round 3 adds flowers; Round 4 adds fish.
Do I have to offer everything in one night?
No. Current guide data confirms that offering progress persists across Midnight visits.
What does Fox Fried Tofu do?
狐の油揚げ increases maximum Stamina by one gauge segment.
Does Fox Fried Tofu increase HP?
No. It increases maximum Stamina. Nushi's Scale from Okami-buchi is the separate maximum-HP progression item.
Is this the same as unlocking all Shrine Skills?
No. Fox Shrine offerings are a separate Midnight event from the 80-node Shrine Skills tree.
Can I finish the shrine if I start in Summer?
Yes. The sequence shifts into later seasons; a Summer first offering can make the following Spring your fourth offering.
Written by: Village in the Shade Guide Editorial Team
Last updated: August 27, 2026
Sources: Official publisher and storefront pages, released-game research and linked source notes.