There’s an excellent likelihood the primary much less widespread useful resource you’ll end up needing in Stardew Valley is hardwood. It’s used to create various crafting instruments, and is required for the primary improve to your home. You want it in abundance.

The most typical and dependable place to get hardwood is from massive stumps. Relying on the farm format you select, you could have a couple of of those stumps proper in your area. In any other case, you’ll find them within the secret forest positioned within the Northwest nook of Cindersap Forest (the world south of the farm). Nonetheless, to get there, you might want to clear a log with a metal axe.

And that’s the essential half: with a purpose to break the stumps you want a copper axe (upgraded on the blacksmith for five copper bars) and to get to probably the most dependable provide within the secret forest, you want a metal axe (upgraded on the blacksmith for five iron bars.) 

To get a variety of hardwood, I’d advocate specializing in upgrading your axe. Nonetheless, there are different methods to get it, you simply is perhaps inflicting your self an even bigger headache within the course of.

Develop mahogany bushes in your farm

Mahogany bushes are a much less widespread tree sort that you could develop on the Stardew Valley farm utilizing mahogany seeds. An important function about them is that chopping them down ends in hardwood. You will get these in various locations, however most reliably from reducing massive stumps or killing slimes within the secret forest (once more, requiring improved axes.)

In case you’re fortunate sufficient to search out them right here or by means of different means (reminiscent of in a golden coconut), then you can begin your mahogany farm by planting it as you’d another tree. As soon as it’s grown, you may chop it down with a traditional axe, or go away it as is and shake it often to get extra mahogany seeds to develop extra bushes.

There’s one drawback with this course of: mahogany bushes have a variable progress time. Every night time, they’ve an opportunity to advance to the following stage of progress, nevertheless it isn’t assured. In case you fertilize the tree, it had a better likelihood, nevertheless it’s nonetheless not 100%. It’s a 15% likelihood it’ll hit the following stage if it’s unfertilized and 60% whether it is fertilized. Meaning you may need a totally grown tree in a couple of days, or it will probably take a lot, for much longer.

Nonetheless, after you have an excellent grove rising in your farm, it’s simpler to keep up an excellent inhabitants and lower them down as you see match, retaining you equipped with a relentless supply of hardwood.

Lower mahogany bushes on Ginger Island

In Stardew Valley, Ginger Island has mahogany bushes simply rising within the wild. This implies you may merely go to the island and harvest a major provide of each hardwood and mahogany seeds.

Clearly, it is a helpful supply of the fabric, however sadly, it gained’t make it faster to get a stockpile. That’s as a result of you might want to repair the boat with a purpose to get to Ginger Island. To repair the boat, you want a bunch of supplies, together with 200 hardwood.

It’s one thing to bear in mind, however at this level within the recreation, you’d in all probability have already got a provide of hardwood.

The Lumberjack ability

One other first rate supply of hardwood is by getting the Lumberjack ability by leveling up your Foraging. Foraging could be leveled just by chopping down bushes or accumulating wild vegetation from the setting.

You first want to choose the Forester ability whenever you attain degree 5 in foraging. The Lumberjack ability is then an possibility when you get your foraging to degree 10. With it, each tree that you just chop down has an opportunity to drop hardwood. Whereas this nonetheless makes it tough to collect a gradual provide of the useful resource, it does imply that you just’ll regularly achieve a passive provide, simply from going about your day.

However, to reiterate, the perfect supply of hardwood in Stardew Valley is the respawning massive stumps within the secret forest. This requires you to improve your axe earlier than you may entry it them.