Summary
- Common loot items like Bat Wings and Slime have valuable crafting purposes in Stardew Valley.
- Bug Meat is useful for crafting bait and Bug Steaks for energy, while Solar Essence and Void Essence are integral for crafting Mega Bombs.
- Earth Crystals are essential for crafting the Mayonnaise Machine, and finding Prismatic Shards can lead to powerful rewards like the Galaxy Sword.
Mining is one of Stardew Valley's most addictive skills, with better rewards the deeper players venture. While some loot items are very valuable outside the mine, there are also many which can be used immediately to improve luck, health, energy, and speed. Not only that, items looted from the mine can craft lucrative and helpful items like the Mayonnaise Machine or the Galaxy Sword.
5 Best Farming Sims To Play If You Want To Do Nothing
Farming sims can sometimes be complex, but there's certainly no pressure when it comes to the following games.
This article details some of the most useful drops available from monsters, which monsters drop them, and how best they can be used by players in Stardew Valley.
9 Bat Wing
A Useful Crafting Item
- 15g sale price
This common drop is not the most useful of all, but it does have one great crafting purpose: it can be used to make Lightning Rods, an invaluable tool that turns lightning into Battery Packs. The Lightning Rod is helpful for completing the Mr. Qi challenges further into the game.
Bat wings unsurprisingly emerge after the player kills any kind of bat. They can also be purchased from Krobus in the sewers on Sundays. Sadly, you shouldn't gift this item, as all villagers hate it.
8 Slime
Surprisingly Versatile Uses
- 5g sale price
Although a relatively rudimentary bit of monster loot, slime is not to be sneered at. It features in great crafting recipes, like the Slime Incubator, the Oil Maker, the Cork Bobber, and Wild Bait. All of these are useful for developing other skills in Stardew, like fishing, farming, and producing artisan goods. Slimes are also an ingredient in Slime Eggs, which can be used to develop a Slime farm.
Stardew Valley Creator Gives Encouraging Update on 1.6 Console Release
Stardew Valley creator Eric 'ConcernedApe' Barone offers another exciting update on the status of the 1.6 console and mobile release.
Slime is dropped by all types of Slimes in Stardew Valley, and it can also be purchased from Krobus on Mondays down in the sewers.
7 Bug Meat
Useful For Mining And Fishing
- 8g sale price
Bug Meat doesn't sound great. It's super helpful though, so store it away and use it for crafting different types of bait and the questionable-sounding Bug Steak — the carry-along snack of desperate miners. In the game, purchasing meals can be expensive, especially at the Stardrop Saloon, while crafting Bug Steaks means a cheap and replenishing food source that can keep mining sessions going a lot longer. What's more, players can craft Bug Steaks on the go, from their freshly looted Bug Meat stash.
Bug Meat can be looted from all insects, including Bugs and Grubs.
6 Solar Essence
A Gift For The Wizard
- 40g sale price
Solar Essence is dropped by all sorts of mine monsters, from Ghosts and Metal Heads to Squid Kids and Mummies. They have some great crafting uses, including the Glowstone Ring and Mega Bombs. The latter is great for getting out of sticky situations on tricky floors of the mine — just get out the way of it first!
Stardew Valley: 28 Ways To Maximize Winter
It's difficult to farm during winter in Stardew Valley, but there's still plenty to do - here are some tips for getting the most out of wintertime.
Solar Essence also makes an excellent gift for the Wizard Rasmodius.
5 Void Essence
An Ingredient In Mega Bombs
- 50g sale price
This mysterious loot item comes from a few different mine sources: Shadow Brutes, Shadow Shamans and Haunted Skulls. In the Skull Cavern, they can be found after defeating Serpents too.
Krobus also sells 10 of these a day for 100g each. Void Essence is another integral ingredient in Mega Bombs, and like Solar Essence, they also make a good gift for the Wizard (if players wish to befriend him).
4 Earth Crystal
For Crafting The Mayonnaise Machine
- 50g sale price
This useful mineral is dropped by only two monsters: Duggies and Haunted Skulls. Duggies are the creatures lurking in the soil sections of the mine, and the Earth Crystal isn't the only great loot they drop.
Stardew Valley: The Most Profitable Artisan Goods
Artisan goods are among the most profitable items in Stardew Valley, but focusing on these particular ones will make the player especially rich.
An Earth Crystal is necessary for crafting the Mayonnaise Machine, a lucrative bit of farming machinery that lots of players use in bulk. For each Mayonnaise Machine players wish to craft, they'll need 1 Earth Crystal, alongside some other more common goods (wood, stone, and a copper bar).
3 Strange Bun
A Rare & Helpful Snack On The Go
- 225g sale price
This relatively rare drop is made by Shadow Brutes and Spiders, and it's another really useful item to find in the depths of the mines. A single bun offers +100 energy and +45 health — pretty good for free loot. It's also worth quite a lot more than other loot items, pricing in at 225g.
Alternatively, the recipe for a Strange Bun can be given to the player by Shane, when +7 friendship has been achieved.
2 Spicy Eel
A Meal Full Of Perks
- 175g sale price
Spicy Eel is an intriguing dish dropped by Serpents in the Skull Cavern. While the Serpent is a formidable opponent and the cause of much stress when venturing into the Skull Cavern, this is one of their many great drops, and a fairly common one.
Stardew Valley Player Learns Painful Lesson After Mining Mishap
A Stardew Valley player is defeated while exploring the mines, and ends up learning a valuable but painful lesson in the process.
Spicy Eel offers +115 energy and +51 health, plus luck and speed buffs for the player. This is another drop that's great for consumption while in the mine, improving a player's chances of survival — and of discovering great loot. Players can also gift this item to Abigail to gain +80 friendship points, and if they befriend grumpy villager George, he'll provide the recipe too.
1 Prismatic Shard
Super Rare & Super Useful
- 2,000g sale price
One of the rarest items in Stardew Valley, the Prismatic Shard has loads of brilliant uses that benefit the player enormously. There are quite a few ways a player might find Prismatic Shards, including monster drops. They can be dropped by Serpents and Mummies (0.1%) and by Shadow Brutes and Shadow Shaman (0.05%).
What to do with the Prismatic Shard? Players should first use it in the desert to obtain the Galaxy Sword, one of the best weapons in the game, which makes defense in the mine a lot easier.
Stardew Valley
- Released
- February 26, 2016
WHERE TO PLAY
- Developer(s)
- ConcernedApe
- Publisher(s)
- ConcernedApe
- Genre(s)
- RPG, Simulation
- OpenCritic Rating
- Mighty
