Stardew Valley: 15 Best Items To Sell & Make Money

When you first move into your grandfather’s old farm in Stardew Valley, one of the biggest priorities is establishing a steady cash flow by producing and selling the best items. Despite the game’s wholesome small-town atmosphere, you still need money to spend on dozens of different things. It can be tough to decide what to buy first, from new farm buildings, livestock, tool upgrades, or plain ordinary crop seeds.

The best items to produce for profit will often change as time goes by, even as you gain higher-quality items each harvest year. After settling down, it can be difficult to tell what to grow as the best crops for each season in Stardew Valley. You need to consider a variety of factors when producing items to sell, including availability, seasonal changes, starting costs, processing time, and luck.

15 Coffee Products

Tap Into The Revenue From Caffeine

Although the simple Coffee Bean may not seem like a valuable item to grow at first, you shouldn’t underestimate how much money it can make. Coffee sells for 150g, which isn’t much, but Beans for this product are far more time-efficient and easy to produce, making them a great way to earn money fast in Stardew Valley. It takes five Coffee Beans to make one Coffee, an incredibly simple process that only takes two in-game hours.

Mature coffee plants grow in both the Spring and Summer seasons and produce four or more Coffee Beans every two days. This gives you a much wider window to expand your coffee plantations and grow Beans even more rapidly. Each Coffee Bean can also be planted to grow a new coffee plant, giving you a chance to naturally recycle the resource frequently as you farm.

Another way to gain Coffee Beans is from killing Dust Sprite enemies in the Mines or from getting lucky at the Traveling Cart.

With the right fertilizer and diligent watering, you can easily produce hundreds of Coffee Beans daily to refine into a product worth consistent and decent money. Most Artisan Goods similar to Coffee can take up to a week to process, making the refinement of a Coffee Bean seem like no time at all in comparison. Once the Keg is unlocked, you can start processing Beans into Coffee easily in a time-efficient way.

Lucky In More Than One Way

The Rabbit’s Foot is a great item to sell as it is not really used in any recipes and you only need one for the Enchanter’s Bundle. You can use it as a yellow dye, but you can get one from a Rabbit with the sufficient amount of skill fairly easily. There are a number of other ways players can get it as well, which makes it likely that you will have extras.

Selling it can net you from around 565g to 1356g depending on what kind of Rabbit’s Foot it is and whether or not you are a Rancher. It is simple and easy to obtain and sell, which is ideal if you want something that you don’t have to worry about needing later.

13 Hops and Pale Ale

Available in the Summer, Hops Starters take 11 days to grow and produce the Hops item every single day afterward. By placing a single bushel of Hops into a Keg, players can process it into Pale Ale, an Artisan Good. According to the Stardew Valley Wiki, Pale Ale has the highest return on investment of any item in the game. A single Hops Starter will set players back 30g, but an ordinary-quality Pale Ale will sell for 300g.

Pale Ale can also have its quality raised, improving how much it sells for little to no effort on your part. Those who age a Pale Ale in a Cask will see their product ferment and become better, eventually turning into an Iridium-quality Pale Ale. Improved Pale Ale sells for 600g, almost 20 times as much as the initial cost of the Hops Starter used to grow the first Hops product from your farm.

With the Farming Skill at Level 10, you can pick the Artisan Profession, which adds 40% to the selling price of any Artisan Goods. Iridium-quality Pale Ale will therefore sell for an impressive
840g
each.

Hops Starters are also relatively cheap, so you can grow and harvest Hops to process during the Fall and Winter seasons in addition to the Summer. Pale Ale is also a popular gift for raising friendships with villagers, although some of Stardew Valley’s marriage candidates, such as Penny, dislike it.

12 Books

Light Reading In Return For Gold

Players can find books throughout the game that can boost your skills or give you XP. However, once you have gotten it once, the returns are diminished. For instance, the Book Of Stars will give you 250 XP in every class. If you have already reached max skill levels, you will earn Mastery Points instead. Multiple instances of this one are a little harder to find, but if you find one and you would rather have the gold, it will earn you 2500g.

However, the Monster Compendium is another story. You can start finding them as soon as you have killed 10 monsters, and you can then continue to have a 0.05% chance to find it every time you kill a monster. The first time you read it, you gain the power to give all monsters a 3% chance to drop double loot, which will increase the chances of you finding it again.

Every time you find and read it again, it will give you 100 Combat XP. However, it can be sold for 2000g, which might be worth far more to you depending on what point in the game you are at. This can go a long way, and you are likely to find more throughout your playthrough. You can see how to get it for the first time in YouTuber gameCMD‘s video.

11 Caviar

Delicacies Sell For High Prices

Considered a luxury delicacy in real life, Caviar is also quite a luxury item in Stardew Valley. To make it, you need to catch a Sturgeon, a fish that only appears in the Mountain Lake during the Summer and Winter seasons. It might be worth taking advantage of a Stardew Valley mod that makes fish visible to get a good view of what you’re trying to catch as you cast into different bodies of water.

Placing any caught Sturgeon into a Fish Pond will cause the creature to breed and reproduce, creating an item called Sturgeon Roe. This item can be processed inot Caviar using a Preserves Jar, which you can see all the steps for in the above video by YouTube creator Wickedy. Fish Ponds are usually cheap to make and Sturgeon are fairly easy fish to catch even at early stages of Stardew Valley during your first year.

The simple steps you take to set up Caviar production allow you to easily sell this item in high quantities for 500g each, with the amount becoming 700g if you have the Artisan Profession. Those with expert fishing skills can choose to put Lava Eels, Blobfish, or Ice Pips into their ponds to make Aged Roe, which sells for more than Caviar. However, these fish are much harder to find and catch than the common Sturgeon.

10 Fairy Rose Honey

Use Bees To Make Expensive Product

Honey is a basic resource that can be produced when you place a Bee House next to flowers you’ve already planted. The quality and selling price of Honey is constantly changing and depends on the type of flowers you place near your collection of Bees. The Fairy Rose, a flower that only grows in the Fall season, is the best option here since it creates Fairy Rose Honey, the most valuable kind of Honey you can get.

Fairy Rose Honey sells for 680g each, rising to 952g when you have the Artisan Profession. Although you can process this Honey further into Mead using a Keg, the selling price of the refined Honey is far less than the Honey itself. Even a single Fairy Rose flower can help create a profit, as long as you strategically place Bee Houses in the right spots on your farm around the important plant.

Only one Fairy Rose flower can affect multiple Bee Houses surrounding the plant, so you don’t have to dedicate a ton of space on your farm in Stardew Valley to harvest Honey often. You can harvest Honey every four days, which is a relatively fast pace compared to most Artisan Goods that sometimes take an entire season to reach their best quality.

9 Truffle Oil

Gold From Pigs

Truffle Oil is one of the most valuable items produced by animals in the game. It takes around 6 hours to produce, but it is not that hard to get. You make it by putting a single Truffle in the Oil Maker. While you can use it in the Rain Totem recipe and to dye certain items, there are not many other uses for it.

Truffles are dropped by pigs when they are
outside of the Barn
, which does not happen in Winter.

This makes it an easy item to sell if you have Truffles laying around, as it will net you at least 1065g. It will sell for even more if you have the Artisan Profession, as that will boost it up to 1491g. If you just make sure to put a Truffle in the Oil Maker when you take one out, you can churn out quite the profit over time.

8 Dinosaur Mayo

Harvest Eggs From Ancient Creatures

Dinosaur Mayonnaise can only be created when you process Dinosaur Eggs in a Mayonnaise Machine on your farm. Dinosaur Eggs in Stardew Valley are notoriously hard to find given the rare nature of Dinosaur animals you can raise. You have to have at least one Egg from killing a Pepper Rex enemy, but as you can see in the above video by YouTube creator Mossy, you only have a 10% chance to get the item.

Once you have a Dinosaur Egg, it can spawn a baby Dinosaur you can raise so that it can also produce more Eggs when it grows older. Similar to Coffee, you can quickly grow and expand this production as more Dinosaurs hatch and eventually lay Eggs themselves. With enough patience, you can fill your Coops with Dinosaurs and start producing Dinosaur Mayonnaise faster than you may expect.

Dinosaur Mayonnaise takes three in-game hours to make and sells for 800g, a relatively low price for something created by a prehistoric animal. This value can increase to 960g if you have the Rancher Profession, improving your profits more. However, those with both the Rancher and Artisan Professions can sell Dinosaur Mayonnaise for a whopping 1,120g each in Stardew Valley.

7 Goat Cheese

Raise And Harvest Resources From Normal Farm Animals

Goat Cheese is refined through a Cheese Press when you place Goat Milk into the machine to improve the dairy product. Similar to Pale Ale, the Iridium quality variant of Goat Cheese sells for a higher price of 800g, but having the Artisan Profession raises the price further to 1,120g. All you need to do to age Goat Cheese into its best form is to put it in a Cask in the same way you would Wine or other Artisan Goods.

It takes 14 in-game days for ordinary quality Goat Cheese to age up to the Iridium level, but there is a trick to make this process take less time. You can choose to process Large Goat Milk in place of regular Goat Milk to produce Gold quality Goat Cheese, which takes half the time to age. Since the result is still Goat Cheese, it sells for the same price without taking as much time to refine.

You need to take good care of your Goats to get Large Goat Milk by ensuring they are well-fed and petted daily. This increases their Friendship and mood, leading to higher-quality animal products that sell for impressive prices. That being said, you still need to put in a substantial amount of care and effort to make sure your Goat farm animals are getting the best quality care you can provide.

You can also raise Rabbits, which are often considered the
best animal in
Stardew Valley

as they produce both Wool and the rare Rabbit’s Foot item. A high-quality Rabbit’s Foot can sell for up to
1,356g
, but it tends to be quite a rare drop.

6 Ancient Fruit Wine

Rare Spirits For High Sale Prices

As you can see in the video by YouTube creator ezlilyy, Wines are often considered items you can sell to make the most absurd amount of money. Unlike many other products, Wine requires a lot of commitment since it usually takes entire seasons to refine this resource into its most valuable version. Anyone willing to take the time to make a Cellar full of Ancient Fruit Wine can often receive great rewards.

Any Fruit, including Strawberries, Bananas, and Grapes, can be turned into Wine, but the mysterious Ancient Fruit is one of the best options for winemaking. Growing Ancient Fruit in Stardew Valley involves finding and planting rare Ancient Seeds and waiting a whole 28-day season for them to grow and bear fruit. You can place Ancient Fruit in a Seed Maker to produce more seeds, but it can still take a long time to produce and process Fruit.

It takes seven days to process any fruit into Wine and 56 more days to age Wine to Iridium quality in a Cask. If you’re willing to do the prep work, it takes around three seasons of hard work to finally make top-notch Ancient Fruit Wine. Your efforts will quickly be rewarded though, as the Iridium quality Ancient Fruit Wine sells for 4,620g per bottle when you have the Artisan Profession.

5 Ostrich Egg Mayo

Raise Flightless Birds To See Profits Take Off

To start raising Ostriches in Stardew Valley, you need to obtain an Ostrich Egg by visiting Ginger Island. Ostriches produce Ostrich Eggs, which can be placed in a Mayonnaise Machine in the same way as a Dinosaur Egg. However, a single Ostrich Egg produces ten bottles of Mayonnaise after three in-game hours, which is around the same time it takes to turn a basic Chicken Egg into a single bottle of Mayonnaise.

By processing an Iridium quality Ostrich Egg, you will receive ten bottles of Iridium quality Mayonnaise that sell for 380g each, rising to 532g with the Artisan Profession. This means that a single Ostrich Egg can earn you up to 5,320g when processed into mayo due to the number of bottles made in one refinement step. This unconventional way of making money is only hindered by how difficult it is to raise Ostriches themselves.

The only way you can raise an Ostrich is if you’ve visited the Ginger Island region in Stardew Valley after completing the Community Center (or the Joja Warehouse) area. You also need to have fixed Willy’s boat, making this product close to an endgame item. Thankfully, with plenty of expensive items you may still need toward the later stages of the game, Ostrich Egg Mayo is still worth making.

4 Slime Eggs

Slime Rancher In The Wrong Game

A Slime Egg is a rare drop that happens when a Slimeis killed or by putting 100 Slimes into the Slime Egg-Press. However, you will not likely want to sell many of them, as you will need the Slime Eggs to get more Slimes for yourself. But there is one important thing to consider, which is that the Tiger Slime Egg can be sold for a whopping 8000g. They are not very useful beyond creating more Slimes, but mating them and creating special versions of them is an important component of the game. You can see how to get started on your Slime Hutch in YouTuber UnsurpassableZ‘s video.

Still, it is hard not to take the 8000g when you have the chance. If you happen to have a full Slime Incubator and are in need of quick cash, this is one way to do it where you will not miss out on anything too big. Just make sure you already have a male and female Tiger Slime before selling any of their eggs. To find them, you can hunt down Tiger Slimes in the Volcano Dungeon and on Ginger Island. They can also be produced 1x/day in the Lionfish Fish Pond when there are 9 or more fish inside.

3 Sweet Gem Berry

Plant Rare Seeds And Hope For Good Luck

To start growing Sweet Gem Berry, you must purchase and plant a Rare Seed, which can be bought from the Traveling Cart every Friday and Sunday during the Spring and Summer. You can sell a single Iridium quality Sweet Gem Berry for 6,000g, making it the highest value crop in Stardew Valley. By maxing out your Farming skills, you can maximize your chances of obtaining Iridium quality crops during a harvest.

Another way to increase the chances of Iridium quality crops appearing is to use Basic and Quality fertilizers on tilled soil before you plant Rare Seeds in your farm.

Unfortunately, Rare Seeds only grow in the Fall season and take 24 days to bear fruit, so you may want to consider using them for the Greenhouse. It’s worth noting that, unlike many of the most valuable crops in Stardew Valley, Sweet Gem Berries aren’t categorized as a fruit or vegetable. As a result, you cannot process these Berries to increase their selling value like you could with other products mentioned.

2 Treasure Chest

It’s Money For More Money

Treasure Chests exist for the player to sell them and serve very little purpose other than that. You can find them in a myriad of places, including from Fishing, from Artifact Troves, from Mystery Boxes, and as prizes in certain quests. However, the best chance of getting them more often is to have a Spook Fish Fish Pond with a population of 9 or more so that you can fish in it more consistently and know you have a chance at getting one.

Treasure Chests are only used for one other thing besides gifting to villagers, which is to create the Pirate Hat with the Sewing Machine using the Treasure Chest. Once you have that, every other Treasure Chest can be sold or gifted without worry. When you do, it will sell for a grand total of 5000g. You can get a good sense of how to farm these items in YouTuber mGaud‘s video.

1 Starfruit Wine

Harvest And Refine An Already Valuable Crop

Starfruit is the second most valuable crop in Stardew Valley, right behind Sweet Gem Berries. Unlike Sweet Gem Berries, Starfruit can be processed into Artisan Goods such as Starfruit Jelly and Starfruit Wine. In the same way as Ancient Fruit Wine, you need to dedicate a lot of time, effort, and money to the refinement of Starfruit Wine to create one of the most valuable items in the game.

The easiest way to get Starfruit Seeds is to purchase them from Sandy at the Oasis in the Desert for 400g each. Starfruit Seeds take 13 days to grow and bear fruit and only grow during the Summer season. Although this may seem limited at first, this makes Starfruit perfect for the Greenhouse, where you can grow crops from any season regardless of the climate outside.

Using the same process as Ancient Fruit Wine, you can create Iridium quality Starfruit Wine that sells for 4,500g. Those with the Artisan Profession can turn an even greater profit by selling the Wine for 6,300g per bottle. The amount of money you get back from the process it takes to make this Wine is more than worth it, even with all the expenses that went into buying the right equipment for the job.

Plenty of other items in the game have high selling values, including the Legendary Fish, which are hard to find but can be sold for a very large amount of money. Keep in mind that you have the final choice of how you want to shape your farms and exactly how you want and produce certain items. There are plenty of crops and animal product items that can be sold for a ton of money in Stardew Valley without them having to be the best.

Source: Stardew Valley Wiki, Wickedy/YouTube, Mossy/YouTube, ezlilyy/YouTube

Video Credit: gameCMD/YouTube, UnsurpassableZ/YouTube, mGaud/YouTube

Platform(s)

PC , Xbox One , Android , iOS , PS4 , Switch

Released

February 26, 2016

Developer(s)

ConcernedApe

Publisher(s)

ConcernedApe

ESRB

E for Everyone (Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Simulated Gambling, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco)