Abandoned House
The Abandoned House (also called the “Ruined House” on the in-game map) is a house located in the south of Cindersap Forest. A mouse takes over the building and opens a shop there selling hats to the player as soon as the first achievement is earned. All hats cost 
1,000g.
Open Hours: All Day
Closed: Never
Address: Cindersap Forest
Occupants: 
Hat Mouse
Letter
A letter is sent in the mail the day after the first achievement is earned, which notifies the player that the hat shop is open. The hat shop can be visited without reading the letter, however.
Hi.
Me sell hats. Okay, poke?
Come to old old old haus, poke. Bring coines.
-hat mouse”
Adventurer’s Guild
The Adventurer’s Guild is located east of the mines entrance and is the home of Marlon and Gil. There the player can purchase Weapons, Boots, and Rings. Marlon will also buy weapons, boots, and rings, as well as Monster Loot from the player.
To access the Adventurer’s Guild, the player must first complete the story quest “Initiation”. Once initiated, hours are daily 2pm to 10pm.
Interior Layout
Blacksmith
The Blacksmith serves as a location for purchasing coal and ores (copper, iron, & gold), upgrading tools, and breaking open geodes. It also is the home of blacksmith Clint.
Open Hours: 9:00am to 4:00pm
Closed: Friday, after Community Center restored and at 10:30 AM Winter 16
Address: Across the town’s river, to the bottom right
Occupants: 
Clint
Selling
Similar to how it is possible to sell crops directly to Pierre, it is also possible to sell gems, minerals, ore, and bars directly to Clint. Note that Clint will not buy any kind of geodes.
Upgrade Tools
Clint can upgrade your tools incrementally. The Pickaxe, Axe, Hoe, Trash Can in the inventory menu, and Watering Can can all be upgraded 4 times. It takes 2 days to upgrade a tool. While Clint is upgrading a tool, Blacksmith services are unavailable.
The Blacksmith is closed on festival days, except for the Dance of the Moonlight Jellies in the Summer, and the Spirit’s Eve festival in the Fall. If you drop a tool off the day before a festival it will be ready the day after the festival.
A notification will pop up on the left side of the screen on the morning a tool upgrade is ready.
All axe and pickaxe upgrades reduce the number of hits necessary to remove trees and rocks. In addition:
- The copper axe allows you to break the large stumps on your farm. It reduces the hits needed to chop down trees.
- The steel axe allows you to break the logs on your farm.
- The steel pickaxe allows you to break the large rocks on your farm.
- The gold pickaxe allows you to break any meteorites that land on your farm.
- Upgraded versions of the watering can and hoe allow the player to water and till multiple squares of land in a single use (using click-and-hold).
- Copper Tool: Image:
Ingredient:
Copper Bar (5); Cost:
2,000g. - Steel Tool: Image:
Ingredient:
Iron Bar (5); Cost:
5,000g. - Gold Tool: Image:
Ingredient:
Gold Bar (5); Cost:
10,000g. - Iridium Tool: Image:
Ingredient:
Iridium Bar (5); Cost:
25,000g. - Copper Trash Can: Image:
Ingredient:
Copper Bar (5); Cost:
1,000g. - Steel Trash Can: Image:
Ingredient:
Iron Bar (5); Cost:
2,500g. - Gold Trash Can: Image:
Ingredient:
Gold Bar (5); Cost:
5,000g. - Iridium Trash Can: Image:
Ingredient:
Iridium Bar (5); Cost:
12,500g.
Process Geodes
You can pay Clint to break open geodes for you. You’ll find Gems and Minerals within, as well as common resources like Stone, Clay, and Coal.
If the sell price of the item inside the geode is
75g or less, you will hear a “clink” sound when it is broken open. Otherwise, you will hear a short melody, and the item will sparkle.
Artifact Troves can be purchased from the Desert Trader for 5 Omni Geodes. Clint will break these open like a geode, but instead of minerals you’ll find artifacts or treasures inside.
Tips
- During year 1, it’s cheaper to buy wood from the Carpenter’s Shop and use a Charcoal Kiln to make your own coal than it is to buy coal from the Blacksmith’s. Starting in year 2, the price of wood increases from
10g to
50g, so it is cheaper to purchase coal. - In order to avoid missing a day of watering, water your crops then start the upgrade to your Watering Can when the weather report indicates rain the next day. Your plants will be watered that day by yourself, the following day by the rain, and you can pick up the can the day after that. You can also upgrade your watering can near the end of a season, if you know you have nothing in the ground that will bear fruit.
- At Mining Skill 7, it is cheaper to purchase Iron Ore, smelt Iron Bars, and use the Transmute (Au) recipe to create Gold Bars than it is to purchase Gold Ore and smelt it into Gold Bars. This also cuts the smelting time from 5h to 2h per Furnace. This saves you
350g per Gold Bar in the first year and
1,000g per Gold Bar in year 2+.
Carpenter’s Shop
The Carpenter’s Shop is located in the Mountain area north of Pelican Town. Robin is the town carpenter and runs the shop, which is inside her home where she lives with Demetrius, Maru, and Sebastian. The shop is open most days from 9:00am to 5:00pm.
Robin sells furniture, and she can upgrade the Farmhouse and construct new farm buildings. She also buys and sells wood and stone (and buys clay). She will begin construction the day after buildings are purchased, but she does not work on festival days. Most construction projects are finished in 2 days (by the start of the second day after you place an order).
Open Hours: 9:00am to 5:00pm
Closed: Tuesday, and at 4:00pm Friday
Address: 24 Mountain Road
Occupants: 
Robin; 
Demetrius; 
Sebastian; 
Maru.
Shop Closure
The house is accessible from 9:00am to 8:00pm every day, even when the shop is closed.
The shop is closed on Tuesdays (except when it rains), as Robin goes to Pierre’s General Store to exercise with Caroline, Jodi, Emily, and Marnie. However, she walks past the sales counter at 9:40am on her way. If you enter before then and use the counter just as she passes, you can still shop at that time. Similarly, Robin returns home at 7:50pm, and you can also use the counter as she enters her home and passes the sales counter.
The shop closes at 4:00pm on Fridays, when Robin and Demetrius go to The Stardrop Saloon. If you enter the house before 4:00pm but miss her during open hours, you can still shop if you catch her as she passes the sales counter on the way out, just as on Tuesday mornings.
The shop is always closed on Thursday, Summer 18, when Robin goes to Harvey’s Clinic. She leaves the Clinic at 4pm to walk home, and passes the sales counter at approximately 5:50pm, when you can shop as she passes.
The shop is also closed on all festival days. If she was still working on a job for you on the day before, then these closures will delay the job completion by one day. However, Robin does work on regular Tuesdays when she already has a job lined up, so there is no delay in that case.
The shop is closed all day any day that she is working on a job at your farm.
Casino
The Casino is located in the Calico Desert accessed through the back door of the Oasis. Access is initially blocked by the Bouncer until “The Mysterious Qi” quest is completed.
Open Hours: 9:00am to 11:50pm
Closed: Never
Address: The Desert
Occupants: 
Mr. Qi
Mr.Qi is constantly present in the room. To his right is a machine to exchange gold for Qi coins, at a rate of
1,000g per 
100, or 10g:1q value. Qi coins are used for both gambling and purchasing items inside the Casino, and aren’t able to be converted back to gold.
To the top-left of the room is a terminal that lists multiple statistics for the player.
There are two forms of gambling available, slot machines and a variant of BlackJack, CalicoJack. There are two tables for CalicoJack, low stakes (
100) to the left and high stakes (
1,000) to the right.
A shady individual in the top-right of the room, near the machine, offers to sell a Statue of Endless Fortune for
1,000,000g.
Desert Trader
The Desert Trader is a merchant located in the Calico Desert. She sells a variety of goods, in exchange for other items. She can also be seen giving away free coffee during the Night Market.
Open Hours: Always
Closed: Closed during Night Market (15-17 Winter)
Address: Calico Desert
Occupants: 
Desert Trader
Fish Shop
Fish Shop is the home of Willy. It’s located on the docks of the Beach, south of Pelican Town. If the player has not read the mail from Willy sent on Spring 2, then this shop cannot be entered. Although the door will unlock on Saturdays, the shop will be closed unless it is raining.
Willy offers a variety of fishing supplies inside, including rods, bait, tackle and crab pots, and more goods become available as the player increases their fishing skill. These items can be bought from the shop as soon as the appropriate skill level is achieved, without needing to wait until the next day. Willy will also buy fish or shells when he’s behind the counter.
Open Hours: 9am to 5pm
Closed: Non-rainy Saturdays (Building Open, no sales)
Occupants: 
Willy
Player-Derived Stock
If the player chooses to sell items to Willy, there is a chance they will appear in the list of items for sale, especially if sold to Willy in large quantity. Any of these items will be available for purchase in limited quantities. Additional villager dialogues may appear indicating they’ve seen or purchased the items.
Trivia
Interacting with the ladder at the back of the shop results in a message that suggests Willy lives upstairs.
Harvey’s Clinic
Harvey’s Clinic is located in the center of Pelican Town, next to Pierre’s General Store. Harvey lives and works at the clinic. Maru works there on Tuesday and Thursday. Both of them often complain about the lack of patients.
Most villagers will visit the clinic for their annual checkup. George and Evelyn visit the clinic once per season.
Although you can enter the Clinic most days between 9am and 3pm, you cannot purchase medical supplies unless Maru or Harvey is behind the supplies counter.
Open Hours: 9:00am to 3:00pm
Occupants: 
Harvey
Tailoring
Energy Tonic is used in the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the Letterman Jacket. 
Muscle Remedy is used in the spool of the Sewing Machine
to create the dyeable Fake Muscles Shirt. 
Glitches
If you pass out from low health while on your horse, both you and the horse will be transported to Harvey’s Clinic. Your horse will be stuck inside the Clinic until the morning when it is transported to its stable.
Ice Cream Stand
The Ice Cream Stand is located directly to the east of the bridge leading towards the blacksmith shop and the museum. It is only open in the Summer, from Thursday to Tuesday when the weather is clear and when Alex is behind the counter, which is from 1pm to 5pm. When it is open, Ice Cream can be purchased, and Haley can often be found next to the stand, making it a good place to look for her during the summer.
If your character marries Alex he will no longer work there and you will no longer be able to get Ice Cream. Haley will still go to the shop if you marry Alex.
Open Hours: 1pm to 5pm
Closed: Wednesday • 
Rainy days
Address: Next to the museum
Occupants: 
Alex
Bug
If you park your horse behind the ice cream stand when nobody is there it will allow you to buy ice cream.
JojaMart
JojaMart is a store owned by the player’s previous employer, “Joja Corporation”. Morris manages the store and handles customer service. He can be found inside the kiosk at the bottom right of the store, where he will offer the player a JojaMart Membership for
5,000g. Membership is available once the Community Center is unlocked.
Purchasing a Joja Membership from Morris causes the Community Center to be destroyed and replaced with a Joja Warehouse. The player can then purchase community development projects through the Joja Community Development Form, rather than through completing bundles in the Community Center.
Open Hours: 9:00am to 11:00pm
Closed: After the player completes the Community Center
Address: North of Blacksmith
Occupants: 
Morris
Prices
The cost of seeds, Grass Starter, Sugar, Wheat Flour, and Rice at JojaMart are higher than at Pierre’s General Store, with one exception: Sunflower Seeds are
125g at JojaMart, and
200g at Pierre’s. After the player purchases a Joja membership, prices are the same as at Pierre’s (with the exception of Sunflower Seeds, which sell for
200g at Pierre’s. After the player purchases a Joja membership, prices are the same as at Pierre’s (with the exception of Sunflower Seeds, which sell for
100g at Joja).
The prices of Joja Cola, the J. Cola Light, Wallpaper (including Joja wallpaper) and Flooring do not change after purchasing a Joja membership.
Trivia
- On Fridays (before the Community Center is complete) Jodi may say, “The food at JojaMart might not be the healthiest for my family, but with such low prices you’d be crazy to shop anywhere else!” even though most items are more expensive at JojaMart than at Pierre’s.
- The Steam achievement “Joja Co. Member Of The Year” requires purchasing all of the Joja Community Development Form projects, which takes at least six days; one day to build the Joja Warehouse after purchasing a Joja membership, and one day each for the five projects.
- The ‘Joja’ logo has a striking similarity to WatchMojo’s, a popular corporate youtube channel.
Bugs
If the player purchases a JojaMart membership after completing the Community Center, but before triggering the Community Center completion ceremony cutscene, the cutscene may become glitched, with the player stuck in boxes that were not previously there.
Marnie’s Ranch
Marnie’s Ranch is located in the northeast area of Cindersap Forest, near the southwest entrance to Pelican Town. The Ranch is occupied by Marnie, along with her niece Jas, and nephew Shane.
Marnie runs her shop from 9:00am to 4:00pm each day, except Mondays, Tuesdays, Fall 18, and Winter 18.
The Ranch house is accessible from 9:00am to 6:00pm every day, even when the shop is closed.
Open Hours: 9:00am to 4:00pm (Building open 9am to 6pm)
Closed: Monday, Tuesday (building remains accessible)
Occupants: 
Marnie; 
Jas; 
Shane
Notes
- Marnie won’t sell animals if the building associated is under construction or during an upgrade.
- It is possible to see what color animal you will receive before paying for it. When asked to select which building your animal will stay in, the note at the top of the screen will reveal which color the animal it is. Canceling the purchase at that point will return you to the purchase menu.
Night Market
The Night Market is a festival that occurs between the 15th and 17th of Winter. Various boats and merchants will appear at the docks on The Beach, and offer to sell goods or take the player for a boat ride. The Night Market is open between 5pm and 2am, but the Submarine Ride closes at 11pm, and the Mermaid Boat closes at 12:30am.
Unlike other festivals, shops and homes throughout Stardew Valley (including the beach) are not closed on the days of the Night Market, and time continues to pass during the festival. Animals also need to be fed during the Night Market event; the game will not automatically consider them to be fed as with other Festivals.
Attractions
Desert Trader
The Desert Trader will give the player a free cup of coffee each night.
Decoration Boat
The blue boat between the docks sells a variety of purely aesthetic decorations, some of which change with the seasons. Players can purchase an unlimited number of each decoration. Decorations can be placed indoors or outdoors.
The Decoration Boat is the only place where the candy cane decorations can be purchased. Seasonal Decor and the Seasonal Plants can be purchased at other festivals/shops.
Famous Painter Lupini
Famous Painter Lupini sells a different painting each day of the Night Market for
1,200g. The paintings rotate over a 3-year schedule, for a total of 9 paintings.
Fishing Submarine
The Submarine houses a Captain who offers to take the player on a deep-sea fishing tour for
1,000g. Upon accepting, the submarine will descend for a while then open a trapdoor to allow the player to fish. The descent and ascent take approximately 30 minutes in-game time. When you are ready to go back up, simply talk to the Captain again. Alternatively you can use a Warp Totem to leave, maximizing fishing time.
Three fish can only be caught here: the Midnight Squid, Spook Fish, and Blobfish. Seaweed, Sea Cucumber, Octopus, and Super Cucumber can also be caught in the submarine ride. There is also a rare chance to catch a Pearl while fishing here.
Magic Shop Boat
The magic shop boat is located to the right of Famous Painter Lupini. It sells decorative items, seeds, a unique hat, and a unique fireplace, with different stock each night. Each item may be purchased in unlimited quantities. Seed sell prices are the same as at Pierre’s General Store.
Note that Garlic Seeds, Red Cabbage Seeds, and Artichoke Seeds are not available until game year 2. Note also that the price of the Cone Hat changes over the 3 days of the Night Market, with the lowest price occurring on Day 2. The Grave Stone sold on Day 1 costs
50g less at the Night Market than it does at the Spirit’s Eve Festival. The Log Section sold on Day 3 costs
150g less at the Night Market than it does at the Carpenter’s Shop.
Rarecrows #7 and #8 can be purchased only after earning the first ones by donating items to the Museum.
Mermaid Boat
The Mermaid Boat is open from 5pm to 12:30am. Upon entering, a mermaid will appear and begin singing to the player, accompanied by a cutscene. Her performance lasts 1 hour and 40 mins, but the player may leave at any time.
After the show, clam shells inside the boat can be clicked to play musical notes. Playing the correct notes in the correct sequence will award the player a special item.
The correct sequence of musical notes can be found in Secret Note #15, although finding the secret note is not required to complete the sequence. The tune played during the mermaid show also indicates the solution. Click below to see the solution and information about the special item awarded.
Solution
When played in the order 1-5-4-2-3 (left to right), the player will be awarded with a Pearl. Only one Pearl can be obtained in the Mermaid Boat by each player per each saved game, but the Mermaid Show can be viewed repeatedly by exiting and re-entering the boat at any time. There are also other ways of obtaining Pearls which are unaffected by obtaining this Pearl.
Shrouded Figure
The Shrouded Figure offers to teleport the player back to their farm for
250g.
Traveling Cart
The Traveling Cart makes an appearance at the docks with her cart on a raft. She sells a selection of her usual items, including the Wedding Ring recipe.
“Starting tomorrow, a traveling merchant fleet will dock at Pelican Town for the yearly night market.
The market starts at 5pm, and will be in port for the next three days.
Please visit the beach after 5pm to join the festivities. There’s free coffee!”
Notes
- Since the game uses a unique beach map during festival days, items a player has placed on the beach (crab pots, chests, etc.) may disappear during the Night Market. These items should return on Winter 18.
- Similarly, Crab Pots and other items placed on the beach during the Night Market will disappear on Winter 18. (They may or may not return the following year.)
- Additionally, items that can usually be foraged above-ground on the Beach will be unavailable due to the event. Tilling sand will still yield the usual clay, snow yams, and winter roots.
- Shimmering lights may appear in the water, and the Copper Pan can be used on them to obtain ores, gems, etc.
Trivia
- Fishing while the merchant fleet is present can cause obstruction to fishing, but there are a couple spots where you can still fish. However, fishing while the merchant fleet is docked will only yield Trash.
- The ‘Red Eagle’ painting from Famous Painter Lupini is in the art style of the Native American tribe Hopi.
- Occasionally, a mermaid may be seen swimming up past the window behind the submarine captain.
Oasis
The Oasis is a store located in The Desert and run by Sandy. It sells unique seeds as well as items purchasable from other shops, sometimes at a reduced price.
The path in the back leads to the Casino, run by Mr. Qi, which is accessible after completion of “The Mysterious Qi” quest.
Open Hours: 9:00am to 11:50pm
Closed: Most festival days
Address: The Desert
Occupants: 
Sandy
Pierre’s General Store
Pierre’s General Store is where you can buy various seeds, saplings, fertilizer, and other useful items. After you have 8 hearts of friendship with a marriage candidate, a bouquet of flowers will also be available for purchase. Some products in stock will vary from season to season and others are in-stock year-round.
You can sell Pierre foraged items, crops, artisan goods, cooked dishes, and animal products if you need instant gold and don’t want to wait overnight for shipping.
Tip: You can buy a large amount of an item quickly if you hold Shift and click the Right Mouse Button or trackpad continuously.
At first, Pierre’s General Store is closed on Wednesday. However, if you finish all of the Community Center bundles, Pierre’s General Store will be open 7 days a week.
You can enter the building until 9pm, but Pierre leaves the sales counter at 5pm every day, so you cannot purchase or sell goods after 5pm.
Open Hours: Shop: 9am to 5pm; Building: 9am to 9pm
Closed: Wednesday
Address: North of Town Square
Occupants: 
Pierre; 
Caroline; 
Abigail
The Stardrop Saloon
The Stardrop Saloon is owned by Gus, and is located in the center of Pelican Town. It’s a meeting place for many villagers, and hosts a variety of entertainment, including fully playable arcade machines, a jukebox, and a Joja Cola soda machine.
Open Hours: 12:00pm to 12:00am
Occupants: 
Gus
Temporary Stock
The Saloon will sell an unlimited number of 
Crab Cakes for
550g each for approximately 4 days after viewing Willy’s 6-heart cutscene.
Rotating Stock
Gus offers a random cooked dish every day (sometimes referred to as the “Dish of the Day”). He will have a random number between 1 and 14 of the cooked dish in stock to sell. Shown below is an Expandable table of the dishes that may be offered, and the price that Gus charges for them.
Jukebox
The player can interact with the Jukebox to change the current song. It’s possible for the Jukebox to play any music track in the game, as long as the player has heard them. Many of them are soundtracks of seasons, as well as soundtracks from Heart Events, or soundtracks from Festivals.
Arcade
Each of the arcade machines inside the saloon are playable. Though, to play Junimo Kart you need a key.
[h]Journey of the Prairie King[/h]
Journey of the Prairie King is an Arcade Shooter with 3 worlds. Beat them all for a special reward.
Junimo Kart
Junimo Kart is an arcade game which is unlocked with the Skull Key. Complete “Progress Mode” for a special reward.
Joja Vending Machine
Next to the Arcade Machines in the Saloon, there is a Joja Vending Machine that dispenses Joja Cola for
75g.
Secret
If Duck Mayonnaise is placed in the partially-hidden metal box in the back room, the player will receive the secret 
??Pinky Lemon?? statue.
Traveling Cart
The Traveling Cart is a shop that appears south of The Farm, in Cindersap Forest, on Fridays and Sundays. It also appears each day of the Night Market (Winter 15-17).
The cart is pulled by a pig wearing a fez and spectacles. If you interact with the pig, it oinks at you. If you hold the right mouse button the pig oinks a melody. During the Night Market, the pig floats behind the cart in an inner tube.
The merchant sells a selection of random items in limited quantities (1 or 5 of each). Items are sometimes found for sale outside their normal seasons, which can be helpful for completing bundles.
Traveling Cart prices may vary from visit to visit. Prices are usually quite inflated, but you may find an item sold for less than its normal price.
The Merchant’s stock consists of 10 items plus one piece of furniture. There may be an additional “special stock” item for sale as well. Stock changes each day the Traveling Merchant appears.
Open Hours: 6:00am to 8:00pm Friday and Sunday; 5:00pm to 2:00am during Night Market
Closed: Monday – Thursday, Saturday
Address: Cindersap Forest
Occupants: 
Traveling Merchant
External Links
Players with access to their saved game files may find the “Stardew Predictor” utility helpful for predicting which items the Traveling Cart will offer each week, and during the Night Market.
Wizard’s Tower
The Wizard’s Tower is the home of the Wizard. It is located at the western edge of Cindersap Forest and open from 6am-11pm.
The door to the Wizard’s Tower is locked until you have access to the Community Center and have read the golden scroll in the Crafts Room.
If you have delayed in unlocking your Community Center until the day before a holiday prompting the game to then give you the letter from the Wizard on a holiday, the door to his tower will be locked, and you will have to come back the next day to unlock your ability to read the Junimo language.
Open Hours: 6:00am to 11:00pm
Occupants: 
Wizard
Basement Room
After reaching four hearts with the Wizard, players will gain access to a basement where they can change the appearance they set at character creation. Players can also change the style of cat or dog they’ve adopted. Players cannot change from cat to dog or vice-versa. The Shrine of Illusions requires an offering of
500g each time it is used.
In late game, after players complete the quest Goblin Problem to gain passage to the Witch’s Hut a teleportation rune will activate in the basement, allowing free passage between the basement room and the Witch’s Hut anytime.
Buildings
After retrieving the Wizard’s Magic Ink, he’ll make some unique buildings available for sale. These buildings require no build time, but are very expensive.
To summon buildings, interact with the magic book inside the tower. The construction menu opened by the book functions the same as that in the Carpenter’s Shop, allowing the player to move or demolish any farm building.
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