Stardew Valley/Getting rich quick

If you want to get lots of money, you will need to find methods to farm high value items. The best methods allow you to make at least 1 million a month, but give you enough time to do other things as well, like fishing, mining, and trying to reach true perfection (the end of the game). This page helps with that by giving some helpful tips to try.

The pig method

• Money per day: aprox. 3000 gold
• Estimated time to set up: 11 - 30 days, depending on how much money you have

Pigs can give truffles, which give quite a lot of money. If you have the "gatherer" and "botanist" foraging profession, you can get even more truffles, and more money from each truffle!

Truffles are worth lots, and with truffles alone, you could make over a million in a month, except in winter.

This is the least time-consuming method. You feed your pigs in the morning, and come back at evening and pick up your truffles and sell them. Easy.

Tips

• Keep your pigs in a confined area to limit how much you must explore your farm for your truffles.
• Only have pigs, or have few of anything other than pigs, at least for the barn.
• Collect all the truffles by the end of the month (28th day). Any truffles remaining as the season turns will disappear.
• You don't need an oil maker if you have the "botanist" forager profession, unless you also have the "artisan" farmer profession, in which case using an oil maker would give more money, and the next strategy would be much more effective than before, too.

The ancient fruit wine method

• Money per day: Approx. 1900 gold
• Estimated time to set up: 2 - 5 months

Fill the greenhouse with ancient fruit. around the edges of the crop area and walls, place kegs. In 14 days, the fruit will grow. Then, every 7 days, collect the ancient fruit into the kegs.

Next week, when you go to re-harvest your ancient fruit, empty and refill the kegs. You will get between 150 to 20000 gold a week. To maximise the money obtained, use low quality ancient fruit first, then sell the excess once every keg is filled. Do not put gold or iridium quality fruit in the kegs, and don't put iron quality in unless you have the artisan profession.

To check: you should have 85 ancient fruit wine and 32 ancient fruit left over, assuming you fill every keg.

The diamond method

• Money per day: Approx. 130 - 1000 +
• Estimated time to set up: up to 5 years if you plan to make millions with this method

For this, you need lots of crystalariums (recipe unlocked on mining level 9). In each one, place a diamond.

Every 3 days a diamond is duplicated in each crystalarium, meaning an endless supply, for either gifting (loved by all except Haley) or selling.

The crop method

• Money per day: Approx. 500 2000 gold
• Estimated time to set up: 1 - 3 days of planning the layout, 1 day to harvest and replant

For this, it helps to have iridium sprinklers and an iridium hoe. Make a massive square of crops and wait for them to grow. It should be around 650 or more crops. Try using cauliflowers, melons or pumpkins as they sell for a fortune.

It may also help to know that fruit tree crops quality increases over time, so it reaches iridium (maximum) quality in 2 years, then every fruit they produce are iridium quality. The only fruit tree worth having many of however, are banana and mango trees. Plant these on ginger island or inside your greenhouse so they give fruit all year around.