Stardew Valley is a game in which the player controls a character that recently inherited a farm from their grandfather. The character chooses to leave behind the big city and their former life in favor of moving to the farm and taking care of it. The player grows crops, tends to animals, and develops relationships with the people living in nearby Pelican Town. The game goes through seasons that each have 28 days and each have different events, crops, and other seasonal variations.
Anyone familiar with Stardew Valley will know the fact that during the wintertime there’s not really too much to do. Crops don’t grow during the winter, so you can’t step outside and farm, and so it’s a season that a lot of players tend to struggle with as far as maximizing what they can do during this season. But, there are a lot of things that you can do during the winter that will set your farm up for a profitable and smooth spring after the snow melts.
Updated November 21st, 2020 by Hayley Mullen: Plenty of people are still pouring hours into their Stardew Valley farms, not to mention the new players picking up the game all the time. We’ve provided some more great tips and suggestions for how to fill the winter days in the game with profit and entertainment until springtime comes around again.
15 Upgrade Your Hoe And Can
Since you can’t really do any farming during the winter time in Stardew Valley, it’s the perfect time to take a trip to Clint, Pelican Town’s resident blacksmith, in order to get some upgrades done. Using your hoe and watering can is important during the more crop-focused seasons, but during the winter you’re safe to upgrade them.
One tip is that you should definitely save upgrading your hoe until after you’ve finished the Winter Foraging bundle as one item for that bundle is often found underground.
14 Go Mining
Mining is the best way to get ore and other resources like gems, items to donate to the museum, and stone to use in upgrading and constructing buildings. During the other seasons, finding time to go to the mines can be hard. It seems like there’s always something else to do – planting, watering, and harvesting crops takes a lot of time and energy!
But, without crops to grow and care for in the winter, you might find that you’ve got a lot of free time. This is the perfect time to head to the mines in order to get the precious ore you’ve been trying to collect so you can craft machines and upgrade tools.
13 Head To Skull Cavern
If you’ve reached the bottom of the mines already and you’ve unlocked Skull Cavern, hit Pam up for a ride to the desert and get going! These mines can be dangerous, but they can also be home to the most incredible resources and riches in the game, so you’re definitely going to want to spend some time there.
Make sure you stop by the hospital the day before you go in order to get some energy and health tonics from Harvey. If you catch Pam on her way to the bus stop and stand directly in her path, you can speed her walk up and get to the desert around 10 to 20 minutes faster, giving you a little more time underground.
12 Go Fishing
You’ve likely already been fishing throughout the other seasons since there are some fish that are only available in certain seasons that you need for bundles or for quests. But, if you haven’t been, then make sure that you spend the winter gathering a few of the fish that you can only find during this season.
Plus, going fishing will definitely help you to practice this skill and raise your fishing skill before the Festival of Ice comes around. Along with going in the fishing bundles and being great for different recipes, the fish that you catch can net you some major money during the winter.
11 Finish The Craft Room
If you chose the Community Center route over letting Joja buy out Pelican Town, then you’ve got some winter-exclusive items that you’re going to need to gather in order to finish the Craft Room. While you’re walking around Pelican Town and the nearby woods, make sure to keep your eyes peeled for the Winter Foraging Bundle items.
If you chose to join Joja, you can still complete the Joja Community Development Form by selling goods to make money. This is definitely something that you’re going to struggle with in the winter since you can’t sell crops if you haven’t paid for the greenhouse, so you’ll likely want to skip this and focus on other items on the list.
10 Work On Artisan Goods
If you’re able to craft preserves jars and kegs, you’re going to want to set aside your crops as they come in during the other seasons to turn into jam, wine, and pickles. These artisan goods are worth significantly more than their fruit and vegetable counterparts and make really good gifts for the townspeople!
If you have a massive stockpile of fruits and vegetables from the past seasons, you should spend the winter making sure your preserves jars and kegs are always running. It takes several days for some of them to finish, but keep an eye on them to make sure that you pull the finished artisan goods out and either sell them or put them away so you can refill them.
9 Expand Your House
Expanding your house is smart during any season, but during the winter it’s a particularly good idea. Without crops to water and take care of, you have extra time to go chop down trees and collect wood that you can take to Robin to expand your house.
One of the best expansions to get during or before the winter is the basement. It adds a whole room of casks where you can put wine and cheese in order to age it, drastically increasing the quality and therefor the selling price. Save some of the iridium-quality wine and cheese that you age to take to the Stardew Valley Fair next fall and you’re sure to nab a first place prize!
8 Raise Slimes
If you’ve been able to get the necessary materials to build a slime hutch, you’ll be able to hatch and raise up to 20 slimes in the hutch no matter the season. When there are enough slimes provided water, they will create slime balls that can be harvested for slime and petrified slime, great for recipes and extra income.
If you’ve unlocked the slime egg press recipe, you’ll be able to convert 100 slime pieces into a slime egg, which can sometimes be a rare color such as red or purple. The stronger the slime egg, the more gold they sell for, but make sure to hatch up to 20 to get the maximum amount of slime per day!
7 Save Up For Special Structures
Late game players will find that the tedious nature of traveling can become a deterrent to playing, especially in winter when there are no crops to farm. For those who have the income, investing in the Wizard’s Obelisk structures is absolutely worth it. There are three obelisks: Mountain, Ocean, and Desert, and they each warp you to that location just with a press of a button.
If you’re spending a lot more time in the mines or fishing because of winter, you’ll definitely find all three Obelisks helpful for their instant transportation powers. The Desert Obelisk is perhaps the most useful, as you won’t have to rely on the bus’ schedule to get there.
6 Raise More Animals
If you’re still in your first year of the game, then you may find yourself relying on animal products for income, as they are quite dependent and reliable. Besides pigs, animal products will continue to be made during the winter, which helps lessen the dent left by an absence of outdoor crops.
Turning sheep’s wool into cloth is a great source of income, as well as fueling a whole new wardrobe of handmade clothes using Emily’s sewing machine. Cheese and milk are also great for income and recipes, so having as many cows as possible is a good plan.
5 Slay Monsters
Since many players choose to spend time in the mines during the winter, completing as many Monster Eradication goals as possible is a great way to earn rare battle items and fashion accessories from the Adventurer Guild’s Gil. Defeating 1000 wild Slimes will earn you a Slime Charmer Ring, which prevents all damage from Slimes. This is extremely useful in the mines and in the Slime Hutch.
Other great items include the Arcane Hat (identical to the Wizard’s) and the Napalm Ring, which makes defeated enemies explode. At any rate, the monster drops alone are worth completing the goals.
4 Grow Trees With Fertilizer
Normally, trees don’t grow at all during winter, which makes collecting wood very difficult. After all, many of the major recipes and structures require wood to build, and buying it from Robin’s Carpenter Shop can be rather pricey, especially since the price goes up from 10 gold to 50 gold per piece after Year 2.
Luckily, there’s Tree Fertilizer, a recipe that can be obtained by reaching Foraging level 7. Tree Fertilizer will not only make trees grow during the winter, but it will speed up the growth of a tree significantly, making it grow one stage every night until the final stage, which takes two nights. Not only is this great for harvesting wood, but tapping the trees will provide a steady source of pine tar, oak resin, and maple syrup.
3 Build Relationships
Even though much of Stardew Valley is focused on running your farm and making money, there’s also a heavy focus on building relationships with the people in town. You can even get married to one of the single NPCs if you build a really good relationship with them and you’re rewarded with special cut scenes for different milestones that you reach with them.
During the winter, you’ll have plenty of time on your hands. This means that you’ll have extra time to track down the villagers you haven’t been trying to marry to give them gifts and get to know them a little better. See how fast you can get the maximum number of hearts with everyone!
2 Keep Farming (After Getting The Greenhouse)
This may not be possible during your first winter since the bundle that unlocks your greenhouse is full of more difficult items, you can still farm in there after you unlock it! The coolest thing about the greenhouse is that any fruit and trees will grow in the greenhouse during any season.
All of the crops and fruit trees in Stardew Valley are seasonal, meaning that they’ll each only grow during one or two specific seasons. But, if you plant them in the greenhouse, they’ll grow no matter what season it is.
1 Keep Collecting Supplies
Anyone familiar with Stardew Valley will know that you can seriously never have enough supplies. Wood, stone, and ore seem to constantly be running low for many of us that play this game and during other seasons, you’re always so busy that it’s hard to get out and collect more!
But, without crops to tend to in the winter, you’re free to go out into the forest or to the mine to collect more supplies. If you find that you’ve exhausted this entire list and still have time and energy, head out to gather more supplies. You’ll thank yourself later.
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