One of the crucial beloved options of Stardew Valley is the flexibility to undertake pets to reside in your farm, construct up friendships with and now even costume up in hats. With replace 1.6, we gained extra cat and canine varieties, and even some turtles, to convey residence with us from Marnie’s. 

Nonetheless, there’s a specific sort of pet that’s eluding the playerbase – purple cats and canines. 

In case you observe Stardew Valley in any capability, you’d be hard-pressed to keep away from the dialogue of those purple pets on YouTube, TikTok, Reddit and Twitter. Discuss of those mauve moggies and plum pooches is seemingly in every single place, however each video or remark ends in the identical approach – how are we imagined to get them?

There are numerous clickbait movies claiming to know the way to get purple pets, however they all the time finish the identical approach—you possibly can mod these cuties into your recreation, however they don’t know the precise methodology. The worst half is that they don’t share the mod, however I’ve discovered this one which comes fairly shut. 

There may be one purple pet that may be bought from Marnie – the iridium turtle. This little man prices a whopping 500,000 Gold, and once more, no person is actually positive why, however I’m satisfied it’s someway pivotal in getting the purple cat and canine. Possibly.

Learn how to get purple pets in Stardew Valley

To date, nobody has figured it out, and belief me, we’ve been attempting. I can’t inform you the way to get the Purple Pets, as a lot as I might love to have the ability to. What I can do is provide you with an inventory of issues I’ve achieved (or seen achieved) to try to get them, so you possibly can be taught from our errors.

Under is an inventory of issues that I’ve achieved or witnessed, none of which have resulted in a purple cat or canine:

• Utilizing Butterfly Powder on the iridium turtle
• Getting the iridium turtle to full hearts
• Utilizing Butterfly Powder on a cat or canine with full hearts
• Getting each different pet and rising their hearts to most
• Reaching Perfection
• Feeding iridium to an current pet
• Placing Mayor Lewis’ Fortunate Purple Shorts on a pet as you’ll a hat
• Finishing Mr. Qi’s problem “Qi’s Crop”
• Obtain most hearts with each villager
• Altering a pet’s look on the Shrine of Illusions
• Feeding them Raisins
• Treating it like a shiny Pokémon and adopting numerous different pets
• Assuming it’s a random occasion just like the Witch bringing a Void Egg

My concept, which I’m somewhat too assured about, is that this has one thing to do with the newly added methodology to stand up to 99 pairs of Mayor Lewis’ Fortunate Purple Shorts. As a result of, effectively, they’re purple. 

Once you go to offer these shorts to Lewis (or some other villager), you get a notification saying “incorrect particular person,” however displaying them to Marnie elicits an embarrassed response. She appears to be the one villager who reacts to those shorts in any approach, so my concept is that we extort these purple mates out of her utilizing the Shorts. 

I do know it’s a unfastened concept, but it surely’s all I’ve acquired. Sorry. 

For now, this looks like an instance of issues being within the recreation recordsdata however not truly accessible throughout the recreation. It’s not the primary time this has occurred. Partner Weapons have been added throughout replace 1.1 in 2016 however took eight years to develop into obtainable. As of the 1.6 replace, they’ll now be bought on the Desert Competition (for those who’re fortunate).