Stardew Valley is a cozy game about a small community learning to reject big businesses to keep in touch with their community and connection to nature. Much of that story comes through the main quest of fixing up the town’s rundown community center. Players collect a variety of items throughout the game to appease the friendly Junimos in exchange for some reno work.
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Cute apple-looking spirits aside, some of these items are easier to find than others. Players need to get good at all the activities Stardew Valley has to offer to earn some rare rewards. Other items have a multi-step process to refine them from raw materials. Here are some of the bundle items that players will likely take the longest time on.
8 25,000 G
Who’s Got That Kind Of Money?
On the surface, the vault bundles are pretty straightforward. There’s no need to hunt for rare items. Players just need to set aside some of their profits, which they can earn doing whatever they want in the game. In fact, most of these cash deposits can easily be done in the first few seasons.
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However, the last one is a whopping 25,000 G. There’s no way to pay it off in installments — it’s all or nothing. And since the early game is all about building up the farm, players will have many other financial investments taking up their attention.
7 Five Golden Pumpkins
And Thankfully No Partridges In Pear Trees
For the most part, crops and foraging items are also easy bundle items to obtain. Since players will be farming and picking up random flowers and roots around town anyway, all they need to do is set some aside for the community center.
The gold-star crops are a little trickier. Players will really need to invest in lots of seeds and quality fertilizer to ensure they harvest enough gold-star crops by the end of the season. Pumpkins are the trickiest of the lot since they take almost half the season to grow.
6 Truffle Oil
Mayor Lewis Is Just Going To Have To Wait
Farmers need to put in a lot of work to produce even a single bottle of truffle oil. First, they need to upgrade a barn enough to unlock pigs from Marnie’s shop. Then, they need to buy a pig, which is no small purchase.
Then, they need to wait for the pig to grow up before it can become a professional truffle-snuffler. Only then will it forage up truffles that players can shove in their oil maker (which they also need to build). At least the selling price is worth it.
5 Woodskip
From An Easy Woods To Skip Over
Fishing in Stardew Valley takes time. Players can easily spend their entire in-game afternoon waiting to catch the rare fish they’ve been after, only for it to slip away. Most fish are only available during certain seasons, times of day, or weather patterns, too.
Fortunately, the Woodskip shows up pretty regularly in the Secret Woods, regardless of the time or weather. Unfortunately, getting to the Secret Woods involves upgrading the Axe to the Gold Axe to clear the way. Even then, good luck getting that slippery fish to actually stay on the line!
4 Green Tea
Relaxing to Drink, Not To Obtain
When Caroline needs to unwind from the stress of daily life, she slips away to her greenhouse to tend to her plants. This private sanctuary is only unlocked to the player after they reach a certain friendship level with Caroline, triggering the cutscene. After that, she’ll share her recipe for growing tea starters on the farm.
Unfortunately, these shrubs take forever to grow, and they only bear leaves during the last week of each season (except Winter). Players will likely be waiting a while before they can sip some tea for themselves, let alone share it with the Junimos.
3 Rabbit’s Foot
A Good Luck Charm That’s Lucky To Find
This is another livestock-related item that’s a multi-step process. This time around, players need to upgrade their coop in order for Marnie to start selling some rabbits. But rabbits tend to produce more fur than feet, so waiting around for them to grow up isn’t enough.
Players will need a combination of factors to get a rabbit’s foot. For starters, a healthy relationship with their floppy-eared friend. Second, a heaping portion of luck. The day players check their coop for eggs and find a rabbit’s foot is a lucky day indeed.
2 Ancient Fruit
Time And Luck
Ancient Fruit is one of the rarest crops in the entire game. Players unlock them when they discover a dried-up seed in the ground. However, before they can actually plant it, they need to donate it to Gunther’s museum to unlock the crafting recipe.
That means players need to find not one but two Ancient Seeds before they can even start planting. Even then, it takes forever for them to bear fruit. Thankfully, this item only appears in the Remixed Bundle, which new players are less likely to go for.
1 Aged Roe (x15)
Takes Ages To Collect
With how hard it is to produce aged roe of any kind in Stardew Valley, is it any wonder why caviar is so expensive? For this remixed bundle item, players need to build a fish pond or two and plop a fish in there to start producing roe.
From there, they need to age the jar of gooey fish eggs in a preserves jar. Do this fifteen times without selling any of them, and voila! Those jars also better be the same quality, too. The Junimos only accept their gifts one item stack at a time.
Stardew Valley
- Released
- February 26, 2016
