Highlights
- Stardew Valley offers many lucrative items like Magic Rock Candy, Ancient Fruit Wine, and Legendary Fish for farmers to sell for big bucks.
- From animal products like Dino Mayo and Rabbit's Foot to rare gems such as Diamonds and Prismatic Shards, there are multiple ways to make a profit.
- Cooking recipes, fishing for Lava Eels and Starfruit farming are some other ways to boost your income in Stardew Valley early on.
Making money in Stardew Valley can be tough in the early years. Selling every foraged flower you find and fishing until the day is over is a grind, and you'll have to subsist however possible until you can start pulling in the big bucks.
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These quick and easy ways to make money will help you build up your farm quickly in Stardew Valley.Early-game farmers will dream of the days they can start selling items like wine, diamonds, and other high-priced items. But, what are the best items to sell? Of course, profit, buying price, and availability come into play, but what are the items that simply sell for the highest sheer price?
Updated on March 16, 2024, by William Quick: It's been years since Stardew Valley came out, and we're still waiting for Concerned Ape's next possible game or that Stardew Valley cookbook that he's supposedly working on. Still, he keeps tending to the game and providing new updates, which usually introduce new items, new areas, new events, and just new things to do. With each update, the economy can change, and that's why you need to keep track of pricing for everything. Here are some very valuable assets that you can sell for a nice chunk of cash.
22 Magic Rock Candy
Base Price: 5,000g
While you're exploring the various dangerous underground areas that Stardew Valley seems to be ripe with, you never know what you're going to find. That's why you'll be surprised when you're fighting a Haunted Skull, and it happens to drop a delicious sweet treat, which is Magic Rock Candy.
This is a pretty powerful snack, buffing Speed, Defense, Attack, Mining, and Luck for over eight whole minutes! However, if you're lucky to get one from a Haunted Skull, trade Prismatic Shards to the Desert Trader, or give a ton of items to the Museum, you can flip this sweetie for over 5,000 gold.
21 Iridium Bar
Base Price: 1,000g
Once you start getting access to some premium tools, structures, and such, you'll have to spend a lot of time spelunking so that you can find the throwing-star-looking Iridium. It has a surprising number of uses and can be turned into a decently valuable Iridium Bar by throwing it into a Furnace.
Still, Iridium can be tricky to find, and making Iridium Bars can take quite a while to smelt, which is why there are farming options. Though the drop rates are low, you can get them off Shadow Brutes, Shadow Shamans, Purple Slimes, and Iridium Bats. You can also get it from the Statue Of Endless Fortune and pick the Blacksmith profession for a price boost to 1,500 gold.
20 Farm Animals
Base Price Range: 1,040-20,800g
The next big step after you've got a handle on your crop farming operation is to introduce animals into your work. The ones you can buy and raise range from pretty normal, like Chickens and Cows, to pretty weird, like Ostriches and Dinosaurs. You also need to make sure you spend quality time with your animals and that they're provided with the best conditions.
By doing this, not only are they more likely to produce higher quality products, but their Heart Level will also increase. If you manage to max out an animal's Heart Level, and you'd like anywhere between a decent to a huge surge in money, you can sell them for quite a pretty penny. Despite this, tearful goodbyes may be inevitable.
19 Fairy Rose Honey
Base Price: 680g
Regular honey (called Wild Honey in the game) is an easy-to-produce item that will appear in bee houses after they're placed around your farm every few days. However, they'll produce flavored honey if different flowers are planted nearby, within a certain number of tiles.
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18 Ostrich Eggs And Golden Eggs
Base Price Range: 500-600g
With the 1.5 update, you can obtain two new types of eggs. Both will also fetch you a pretty penny. The first is the Ostrich Egg, which can be obtained by solving Secret Note #10 or from chests in the Volcano Dungeon. You'll need to help Professor Snail finish the fossil sets at the Island Field Office to hatch an Ostrich Egg, though.
However, the eggs themselves sell for quite a nice bit of gold, 600g at their base price, and up to 1,440g for iridium-quality ones with the Rancher profession. However, throw them into a Mayonnaise Machine, and they'll produce ten batches of Mayo of the same quality.
Golden Eggs are obtained after reaching True Perfection (100 percent completion). They'll hatch into Golden Chickens, which lay a Golden Egg every day. These eggs only sell for 500g, which isn't much, but they'll produce three gold-quality Mayo when placed in a Mayonnaise Machine, which is definitely nice.
17 Dino Mayo
Base Price: 800g
Speaking of the Artisan profession: many of the items on this list will require it. Some, like Dinosaur Mayo, do sell for a hefty profit at their base price. But, if you're looking to make the most profit, the Artisan profession is incredibly helpful.
Without it, Dino Mayo sells for a very respectable 800g. However, if you pick the Artisan profession, that green condiment will sell for a beautiful 1,120g. One jar is also required for the Missing Bundle. You thought regular Mayonnaise was a nice way to earn some money? Throw some Dino Eggs in that Mayonnaise Maker and retire in comfort.
16 Cooking Recipes
Price Range: 450-750g
Most dishes aren't worth your trouble if you're looking to make a buck. But there are two that, despite being easy to make, also sell for a decent amount. Triple Shot Espressos are made using three cups of Coffee, which require five Coffee Beans in a Keg. Buy the recipe for 5,000g from Gus as an initial investment. If you add Qi's Seasoning, each cup sells for 675g.
Tropical Curry requires Coconuts, Peppers, and Pineapple, all of which are easy to grow in abundance on Ginger Island. You'll need to unlock the Island Resort to buy the recipe in the first place for 2,000g. But, if you need something to spend your Qi Gems on, Seasoned Tropical Curry sells for a reasonable 750g.
15 Starfruit
Base Price: 750g
If you can get your hands on Starfruit seeds early in the game, you should take full advantage of them. This fruit is considered one of the best ones in the entire game, and if the greenhouse is unlocked early on in the game, it can be grown all year and turned into wine and preserves for extra money.
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14 Rabbit's Foot
Base Price: 565g
Continuing with animal products, many of which are worth hefty profits, you'll find some gold in selling off the produce of your rabbits as well. If the rabbits in your coops like you a lot, are very happy and fed, and you get a bit lucky, they may drop a Rabbit's Foot.
With the Rancher profession, these lucky charms will sell for a nice 1,356g at Iridium quality. As a bonus, they're loved by almost every villager when given as a gift.
13 Truffle Oil
Base Price: 1,065g
Dino Mayo and Rabbit's Feet are great, but the real profit from the world of animal products comes in the form of Truffle Oil. This artisan product, which is made by an Oil Maker from Truffles that your pigs find, is probably the most expensive animal product in the game.
With the Artisan profession, Truffle Oil will sell for 1,491g. Without it, it still sells for a high of 1,065g. Even the Truffles themselves are nice, with Iridium-quality ones selling for 1,250g without even being turned into Oil first.
12 Lava Eel/Ice Pip/Blobfish
Base Price Range: 500-700g
An easy way to make a bit of money on the side while waiting for other productions to finish is to go fishing. Not only is this side hustle relaxing, but it can also be economically lucrative, especially if you hunt for the right fish.
Lava Eels, Ice Pips, and Blobfish are the most profitable outside the Legendary Fish. By picking the Angler profession, an Ice Pip or Blobfish sells for 1,500g at top quality. Lava Eels sell for a crazy 2,100g at top quality. Good luck reeling them in, though.
11 Diamonds
Base Price: 750g
Diamonds should be everyone's best friend in Stardew, as not only are they loved or liked by everyone, but they can easily become a passive form of income. It is found in the mines in Diamond and Gem Nodes, or even while fishing or panning, and some fish will produce them when you level up their Pond.
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10 Pearls
Base Price: 2,500g
Much less common than Diamonds, but selling for a lot more, are Pearls. The most consistent way to farm them is to fill Fish Ponds with Blobfish and keep them super happy with a 1.9 percent chance every day. Artifact Troves have much better rates at 3.7 percent, but these are hard to get your hands on.
Willy will gift you one for filling a Fish Pond with ten Crabs, and if you activate the Shrine of Challenge, it's possible to find them in the Mines.
9 Slime Eggs
Base Price Range: 1,000-8,000g
You'll start to find Slime Eggs once you've built a Slime Hutch on your farm. When placed inside a Slime Egg Incubator, they'll hatch into a new Slime. It's often the case that you shouldn't sell them, because you can hatch them into new Slimes. However, if your Slime Hutch is full, new Slime Eggs can fetch a good price when sold.
Different colors of Slime Eggs sell for different amounts of gold. However, they're all profitable. Green is the lowest, selling for 1,000g. Blue ones sell for 1,750g, red for 2,500g, and purple for 5,000g. In the 1.5 update, Tiger Slimes were added. Their Eggs sell for a whopping 8,000g.
8 Ancient Fruit Wine
Base Price: 1,650g
Ancient Fruits are a rare type of crop that can be made from Ancient Seeds. Although this fruit takes a full 28 days to form, it will produce one Ancient Fruit every seven days.
At a minimum, this wine still sells for an amazing 1,650g. You can place Ancient Fruit Wine in a cask to age it, increasing the price even more. An Iridium quality wine by the Artisan profession will sell for an impressive 4,620g.
7 Prismatic Shard
Base Price: 2,000g
These rainbow-colored gems are very rare and used for a wide variety of purposes. So it's unlikely you'll have a ton of them sitting around that you can sell. But, if you are very lucky and do have a few extra, they're worth a hefty profit.
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6 Golden Pumpkin
Base Price: 2,500g
The Golden Pumpkin is a fairly rare item that can only be obtained in two ways. The easiest way to get this shiny gourd is to complete the maze during the Spirit's Eve Festival.
You will also have around a three percent chance to get a Golden Pumpkin when opening Artifact Troves. Overall, the Pumpkin is rare, but it can either be sold for a nice amount of gold or given to a villager, as it's a universally loved gift.
5 Radioactive Bars
Base Price: 3,000g
Radioactive Bars are made by smelting radioactive ore. This ore can be difficult to obtain at first, but once you have it, you can make glowing-green bars.
Radioactive Bars have an impressive price of 3,000g, but this will go up to 4,500g with the Blacksmith profession. Radioactive Bars are hard to come by, but if you happen to have a few extra lying around, then selling them is a great way to make money.
4 Sweet Gem Berry
Base Price: 3,000g
Hands down the most profitable crop before being turned into an artisan good — the Sweet Gem Berry is produced from a Rare Seed, which can be purchased at the traveling cart. At the base price, these berries sell for 3,000g. If they're gold quality, that number soars to 4,500g per berry.
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3 Stardrop
Base Price: 7,777g
Stardrops are the little purple fruit that boosts your energy. Typically, you will obtain a Stardrop and then eat it, but this isn't required. If you decide that you don't want the extra energy, you can also sell it.
At 7,777g, this fruit sells for quite a lucky price. There are only seven Stardrops available in the game as well, making them pretty rare. Interestingly, you can buy a Stardrop from Krobus for 20,000g.