Summary
After your first year or two inStardew Valley, you might start to think you’ve seen everything the game has to offer. Your farm will be filled to the brim with barns and sheds. You might even think there’s nothing left for you to spend your money on. You couldn’t be more wrong.
Stardew Valley keeps expanding, and some of the games best items won’t be available until you’ve mastered your farm. You will need a large fortune to afford some of these items, but all of them will permanently change how you play the game.
Updated on Jun 13, 2025, by Marissa Fiore: Since its launch, Stardew Valley has continued to grow, both in popularity and thanks to updates to the game. As such, this article is being updated to include new items as well as additional, helpful items you won’t want to miss out on.
16Sprinklers
Sprinklerswill be obtainable early on in your career, and you’ll be thankful. Watering your crops every day isn’t hard work per se, but we still don’t want to do it. The sprinklers will give you that luxury at farming level two for the low-low price of one cobber bar and one iron bar.
The original sprinkler is alright, but it only waters the four closest adjacent tiles. The Quality Sprinkler will be unlocked at farming level six and will reach all eight spots it touches, but the Iridium Sprinkler at level nine will water 24 squares every morning. This is when the lazy farmer in you will really come out.
15Workbench
Have you ever wanted to craft things and you have to keep going in and out of multiple chests to grab resources you need? You can eliminate that with theWorkbench.
This is an item that can be purchased from Robin. It will pull resources from any chests that are placed around it, so long as they are touching the bench itself. you’re able to also place it indoors or anywhere outside.
14Fully Upgraded Coops And Barns
When you first get a barn or coop, they come with a lot of upkeep. You will have to lay out hay for them every morning and collect the animal products. This is simply too much work. We want our animals to be a passing afterthought that slowly earns us money.
To make this happen, you’re going to need to fully upgrade your animals' houses. Once fully upgraded, and assuming you have a silo, hay will automatically be funneled into your animals' troughs as long the silos have hay to dispense. Finally, outfit your buildings with Auto-Grabbers to automatically collect any materials for the day. After that, you’ll only be good for giving out pets.
13Geode Crusher
TheGeode Crusheris obtained via the Special Order board in Fall of year one. Clint wants you to slay 50 of a given monster, and in return gives you the schematics to make them whenever you want. Initially, this might seem like a waste. The crusher demands coal for every geode, and our main man Clint only asks for 25 gold.
The Geode Crusher does have one very, very particular use though. It involves a bit of a glitch, so this may not be for everyone, but the Geode Crusher is ‘one geode behind’ Clint. This means that if you have multiple of the same geode, and Clint opens something great like a Prismatic Shard, taking the same type of geode to a crusher will result in another of what Clint opened, so long as it’s the very next geode you open.
12Explosive Ammo
Explosive Ammowon’t be available until combat level eight, but once you reach that, you’ve obtained the fasted mining resource in the game. Explosive ammo is loaded into the slingshot and can be purchased for 300 gold at the Adventurers Guild, or crafted in stacks of five for one iron bar and two coal.
Explosive ammo can drastically improve your spelunking capabilities. Speedrunners use explosive ammo to blast through the mines to find staircases, and as a bonus, they also do a great deal of damage. Just be careful. You do put yourself at risk by playing with this ammo.
11Big Chest
Storage space always seems to be a problem in Stardew Valley. There are so many things to collect, resources to gather, fish and animal products you wish to hold onto. Well, that problem is made a bit easier with theBig Chest.
This has almost double the amount of space in it than a regular, degular chest. This makes it so much easier for setting up a workbench space, keeping crops, and holding onto the important resources you know you’re going to need. And that they can be placed inside or outdoors helps you keep things organized and where you need them most.
10The Dehydrator And Fish Smoker
When it comes to crafting artisan goods, it is usually all aboutPreserves Jars and Kegs. But that’s not all you may use. TheDehydratoris a way to make dried fruits and mushrooms while theFish Smokerturns all of those fish you’ve caught into delicious, smoked fish.
Using either of these machines turns the products into artisan goods, which benefits from the Artisan profession, increasing their sale prices. You can purchase the recipes for these items from Pierre (dehydrator) and Willy (fish smoker).
If you play on the Riverland Farm, you will get a fish smoker for free. And, if you choose to have a mushroom cave from Demetrius, you will get a free dehydrator.
9Galaxy Hammer
Galaxy weapons will be a goal for any player, but there’s a debate over what’s best between the sword, dagger, and hammer. Let’s put that entire argument to bed; theGalaxy Hammeris thebest weapon in the game, and we won’t be accepting any comments, questions, or concerns.
Why is it so good though? Well, this one is also technically a bug, but when you use your power attack to slam the ground, you can spam the normal attack button and register multiple slams at once. This will obliterate your enemies as entire life bars are demolished in the span of a second, and suddenly the only thing that can take you out is yourself.
8Lightning Rods And Solar Panels
Batteries will open up a host of crafting options from decorative lighting on your farm, to Iridium Sprinklers and Crystalariums. The latter of which can be used to replicate any gem other than prismatic shards. This might entice you to farm as manyBattery Packsas possible.
To do such a thing, you’ll want to harness the power of lightning itself — nothing farmers aren’t known for.Lightning Rodswill provide you will batteries during rainstorms, and, once you’ve completed the Special Order Island Ingredients, you’re able to harness the power of the sun throughSolar Panelsfor more passive generation.
7Trinkets
Trinkets are late-game itemsthat you can unlock once you choose the Combat Mastery. Once you select that, you’ll begin to find trinkets in the Skull Cavern treasure rooms or being dropped by monsters. You can also buy one from Alex atthe Desert Festivalwhen he sets up shop there.
Depending on the trinket, you’ll get a buff or even have a companion with you as you journey through these combat areas. These are all the trinkets in Stardew Valley:
