How to Craft in Stardew Valley | Full Guide 2022

Have you just started playing Stardew Valley and feel lost about the crafting mechanic? Are you wondering what you can do with it and how? Don’t fuss, because here’s a guide you might find helpful! 

Stardew Valley lets you have the freedom to create items that you’ll find efficient with the Crafting feature. From the moment you start the game, you can make something you may use to the end. For example, Hyper-Speed Gro is one crafted item that helps your crops grow much faster.

When Crafting, you must collect resources here and there. Of course, it may take effort and time, but after you make it, you’ll realize it’s worth it. Fortunately, several crafted items take minimal effort but are still helpful.

Nevertheless, if you want to learn about Crafting for more plentiful farming, this article will guide you in exploring the feature. 

What is Crafting?

In Stardew Valley, Crafting is an in-game feature where you create items through recipes. Don’t mistake it for Cooking – a completely different skill to master. With Crafting, you can create things that would make farming and fulfilling every other task a breeze. 

How to Craft?

Before starting, you need recipes first. As you go along, you’ll get recipes by honing your skills, befriending other townspeople, or buying them from different merchants. If you’re a beginner, don’t worry because you’ll have the following upon starting the game: 

• Gate
• Wood Fence
• Wood Path
• Gravel Path
• Cobblestone Path
• Torch
• Camp Fire
• Chest
• Wood Sign
• Stone Sign

Pressing the “E” button on your PC activates the Crafting Menu. Look for the tab with the hammer icon where you’ll see the recipes on top and the Inventory at the bottom. 

Colored recipe icons indicate you’ve already obtained the materials needed. However, it’s faded if you haven’t collected them.

Hover over every item with your cursor to see the ingredients you might be missing for each of them. The component’s text is colored red if it’s not in your backpack. Remember: even if you have the item somewhere, you can’t craft it if it’s not on your Inventory.

Once you’re sure your desired item’s ingredients are ready, you may start clicking its icon. It’ll appear under the cursor when it’s ready. Put it in your Inventory and use it whenever you need it.

Crafting With Workbench – Is It Possible?

In this activity, you may find a Workbench helpful when you find difficulty in managing your Inventory. It’s possible to make anything as long as your ingredients are in Chests adjacent to the Workbench. Because of this approach, you won’t have to spend so much time looking for them in your backpack.

However, don’t expect it to withstand explosives, lightning, and storms, so use it carefully.

What Can You Craft?

There are a lot of items that you can craft in this game. Almost everything you can find helpful in the game is a crafted item. So if you aren’t familiar with this activity, you’d miss out on one of the things that makes the game interesting.

You don’t have to stress about it since it may get overwhelming, especially for beginners. 

Below is a table to help you learn about everything you can craft, their ingredients, and where you can find them. If there’s anything specific that you’re looking for, you’ll find everything here:

Artisan Equipment

These machines make Artisan Goods. Each of them makes one product at a time. So, more production would need extra equipment.

Seeds And Seed Packets

Crafted Seeds function the same way as their purchased counterparts in the game. Although some are mainly crafted, such as Wilds Seeds that yield seasonal foraged fruits, vegetables, or flowers, they’re unavailable anywhere.

Fertilizers

Each Fertilizer either speeds up the growth of plants, increases the chances of yielding high-quality crops or helps with water retention. While you can use some at any time of the plant’s growth cycle, you can use the others before the seeds sprout. 

Sprinkler

Sprinkler automatically waters crops every morning, making it one less daily task. The number of crops it waters depends on your sprinkler and how many tiles it can reach.

Light Sources

Every light source in this list provides light at night.

Fences and Signs

Fences are barriers that keep animals from escaping and grass from spreading to unwanted areas. On the other hand, signs display the image of an item that you can put in the Inventory. It’s possible to place both anywhere. However, setting a Sign on a Fish Pond will copy the fish’s icon.

Floors and Paths

The items below decorate the floors or create paths. They give a +0.1 boost on the Player’s Speed when placed outside the farm. They also prevent grass from growing in areas with a lot of movement, which helps avoid the obstruction of said movement.

Storage and Furniture

Storage items are just as the name suggests, whereas Furniture items are mainly for display or fun. On the other hand, the Wicked Statue isn’t just for show but prevents the Witch from visiting the farm.

Rings

Rings are accessories that provide you with varying benefits when equipped. You can wear two rings at the same time. Combining two different rings at the Forge will stack their effects.

Consumables

Crafted consumable items with special effects that make activities like traveling or even finding monsters much quicker are listed below. It’s a one-time consumable, so you can’t use them again after that.

Miscellaneous

These make tasks more efficient, including moving from one spot to the other, keeping Crows away, and cooking on the go. 

Bombs

Explosives are only for one use. Specific items within their radius will be damaged when they explode. Great for mining ores and stones faster.

Fishing

The items below make Fishing easier, including Tackle and Baits.

Refining Equipment

The following equipment produces other practical objects from your input items. Here’s a complete list:

Edible Items

Edible craftables exist, although only a few are there. They have healing properties that affect Health and Energy. And you might want to create them as well to take advantage of their benefits:

After collecting the desired ingredients for your desired item, you can craft as you’d like. It’s simple and easy. The process usually is heavier on the time, energy, and effort spent on getting the recipe and gathering ingredients.

Achievements

Crafting achievements are a thing. Considering the work you’ll need to get a handful of recipes, you deserve something as a reward. 

You’ll get each of them for working on a specific number of items. In the game, there are a total of 94 things to craft. Here’s the list of those achievements and the number of stuff you need to get them:

• DIY – 15 
• Artisan – 30 
• Craft Master – All of them

Now, you might be wondering how you’re supposed to know how many you’ve crafted. You must go to the Options menu and tick the “Show Advanced Crafting Information” checkbox. This way, you’ll know which ones you’ve already crafted in the game and which you haven’t.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you buy chests in Stardew Valley?

No. You can’t buy Chests in Stardew Valley. Crafting them is the only way you can have them. If you want an instant way to own one, that’s not a problem with chests since one ultimately takes no time to make. You have to collect Wood (50), and that’s it.

What should I craft in Stardew Valley?

Craft the items that would benefit you the most throughout the game. Some of the best craft recipes are attainable early-game. Although some are a little more difficult to obtain, it’ll be worth it in the end.

For starters, you should craft the Furnace. You’ll need this for turning ores into bars, essential for tool upgrades and crafting other items.

For artisan goods, crafting Preserves Jar and Keg will aid you in making the most out of them. As for farming, a Seed Maker will help you with some excess crops and make them into seeds. For this reason, it’s also an essential thing to craft.