Stardew Valley Crafting Guide

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If you’re starting your first farm in Stardew Valley, it might be helpful to have a crafting guide to help you keep track of the many recipes and items you can make from those recipes.

While this indie game is focused on farming, its crafting system is simple to understand but it has massive creative potential with over 100 items you can make. Crafting items from scratch keeps you from having to spend valuable gold on everyday products like fertilizer.

These craftable items run the gamut from farming to mining to simply decorative. In this guide, we’ll take a look at all of the items you can craft in Stardew Valley, how to obtain their recipes, and the other items you’ll need to make them. There’s a lot to cover, so let’s get started.

Bottom Line Up Front

• Crafting is a core activity in the 2016 indie farming game Stardew Valley.
• There are 17 types of crafting items and 130 total crafting items.
• The most common method of obtaining crafting recipes is levelling up skills (Farming, Mining, Foraging, Fishing, and Combat).

Stardew Valley Crafting Overview

Crafting in Stardew Valley is the process of making a new item from a predetermined recipe. These recipes are gathered throughout the game as rewards from townsfolk, purchasable items from characters like Krobus and Mr. Qi, quest rewards, and by leveling up your various skills in the game. There are 17 types of crafting items in Stardew Valley:

• Artisan Equipment (8 items)
• Bombs (3 items)
• Consumables (8 items)
• Decor (13 items)
• Edibles (4 items)
• Fishing (12 items)
• Fences (5 items)
• Fertilizer (10 items)
• Furniture (4 items)
• Lighting (13 items)
• Miscellaneous (12 items)
• Refining Equipment (15 items)
• Rings (7 items)
• Seeds (8 items)
• Signs (3 signs)
• Sprinklers (3 items)
• Storage (2 items)

Each crafting category has numerous recipes to learn how to craft these items from. You begin the game with 10 crafting recipes: Gate, Wood Fence, Wood Path, Gravel Path, Cobblestone Path, Torch, Campfire, Chest, Wood Sign, and Stone Sign.

How to Craft an Item

The process of crafting an item is straightforward. Simply pause the game to open the menu (circle button on Playstation, B button on Xbox and Switch, and either ESC or E on PC), and select the hammer icon tab.

This is the crafting menu and from here you can select an item to craft if it is fully colored in. If you don’t have the recipe for an item, that item will be greyed out. Additionally, if you don’t see the item you want to craft, make sure to scroll through the complete list because as you gather more recipes, more pages will be added to the crafting menu.

Going over an item with your cursor will show the items required to make it. Items you don’t have that are necessary for the recipe will be displayed in red. If you have all of the required items, simply confirm to craft the new item.

Types of Crafting Items

Refer to the tables below whenever you need a quick reference for a crafting item. These tables included the item name, the required ingredients to make it, what it does, and how you get the recipe for it.

Artisan Equipment

Artisan Equipment allows you to turn ordinary food items, like milk, eggs, and hops, into Artisan Goods like cheese, mayonnaise, and pale ale. You can only use Artisan Equipment with one item at a time. If you want to produce Artisan Goods in bulk, you’ll have to make multiple pieces of Artisan Equipment.

Bombs

Bombs cause explosions that are extremely useful for clearing rocks and enemies in the mines and other dungeons throughout Stardew Valley. They are one-time use items and the size of the explosion depends on the type of bomb.

Consumables

Consumable items are exactly that: consumed after only one use. The majority of these are totem poles that allow you to warp to different areas in Stardew Valley.

Decor

Decor crafting items consist of flooring that can be used to decorate your home or create paths on your farm. If used outside on your farm, these items slightly boost your movement speed and prevent grass and trees from growing on that tile.

Edibles

These items, like other food in Stardew Valley, can be used to restore health and energy.

Fishing

Crafting fishing items makes hooking and catching fish much easier. Using a combination of hooks and bait will increase your bite rate and give you special effects, like preventing fish from escaping while gathering treasure.

Fences

Fences are useful for containing animals to a designated area and preventing the growth of grass. Don’t forget to build a gate so you can pass through your fence.

Fences decay over time and have to be replaced. Different fences have different decay rates:

• Wood Fence – lasts 54 to 58 days
• Stone Fence – lasts 118 to 122 days
• Iron Fence – lasts 248 to 252 days
• Hardwood Fence – lasts 558 to 562 days
• Gate – lasts 400 days

There are two ways to repair a broken fence. The first is to hit the broken portion of the fence and then use a new fence on the same tile. The other method is to simply equip a fence and use it like you would a tool.

Fertilizer

Fertilizer makes farming a breeze in Stardew Valley. Different fertilizers have different effects on your crops, like raising their quality or retaining water in the soil so you don’t have to water them every day (though this becomes less useful after you can make sprinklers).

Other than tree fertilizer, which you put directly on a tree, you’ll put all fertilizers in some tilled ground before you plant any seeds.

Furniture

Most furniture is purchased from Robin’s shop, but there are a few things you can craft yourself to spice up your farmhouse.

Lighting

Lighting plays two roles in Stardew Valley: helping you see in the dimly lit caves of the mines and other dungeons and also allowing you to decorate your farm with lights that help you see at night.

Refining Equipment

Refining equipment is necessary for turning basic items into better items. For example, the furnace allows you to smelt bars from ore gathered in the mines and other dungeons.

Rings

Most rings give you some kind of buff that helps out when fighting in the mines and other dungeons.

Seeds

These are unique seeds that don’t produce regular crops. The season-specific seeds make it easier to gather items that are normally foraged while planting grass starters can give you a food source for your livestock.

Signs

Signs will display an image of any item used on them. This doesn’t consume the item.

Sprinklers

Sprinklers make farming a cinch because they water your crops for you every morning. They also fill the water troughs in a slime hutch.

Storage

These chests can be used to store your excess tools and items.

Miscellaneous

These are crafting items that don’t fit into any particular category but are useful nonetheless.

Crafting Achievements

Stardew Valley features 3 in-game achievements related to crafting. These are:

• D.I.Y. – Craft 15 different items
• Artisan – Craft 30 different items
• Craft Master – Craft every item

FAQs

Conclusion

There you have it – the complete Stardew Valley crafting guide. With such a massive list, it will take multiple in-game years to collect all of the recipes and craft all of the available items. However, it’s well worth learning as many recipes as you can as it will make your experience as a farmer much easier.