Easy Way to Get Hardwood in Stardew Valley

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• Tree Stumps In the Secret Woods

• Planting Mahogany Trees

• Level Ten Foraging Skill

• What To Do With Hardwood

While playing Stardew Valley, you will come across two different types of wood. Normal wood will be available from the start of the game and can be found almost everywhere in the valley. The second wood type you will encounter is hardwood. Hardwood is less common but is an important material for crafting various recipes.

In this guide, we are going to go over how to farm hardwood, as well as what you can do with it. There are many ways to obtain hardwood, but we are going to look at the most efficient ways to obtain this resource.

Tree Stumps In the Secret Woods

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The Secret Woods is an area in the upper lefthand corner of the Cindersap Forest. At the start of the game, this area will be blocked off by a giant log and you will not be able to enter.

To enter, you will need to have a steel axe, which allows you to chop down the log and proceed into the area.

Inside the Secret Woods, you will find six large stumps that will respawn each day. If you visit the Secret Woods each day, you can collect 12 hardwood. This isn't the most amount of material, but over time you can build up your hardwood collection.

Stumps may also appear around your farm depending on the map you choose, but in general, they will not respawn daily. The only exception to this is the forest farm layout, which has eight respawning stumps that provide 16 hardwood daily.

Planting Mahogany Trees

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While you chop down large stumps in the Secret Woods or around the farm, you may notice mahogany seeds dropping. Mahogany seeds can be planted to grow mahogany trees, which provide ten hardwood each when cut down. If you need a lot of hardwood, try planting a lot in a dedicated section of the valley, like in the image above. Trees do not have to be planted on your farm, so you can convert the quarry into a hardwood farm, leaving room on your own farmland for crops and animals.

Mahogany trees vary in growth time, which can make the growing process a bit frustrating. There are five growth stages for a mahogany tree, with stage five being fully grown. Each night, the tree will have a 15 percent chance to grow into the next stage.

If you use tree fertilizer, then this chance will go up to 60 percent. If you plan on growing mahogany trees, be sure to use tree fertilizer on them. Tree fertilizer is a craftable material that can be obtained if your foraging skill is at level seven. To make this item, you will need the following materials.

• 5 Fiber
• 5 Stone

The ingredients for this fertilizer are pretty simple, so remember to make plenty and sprinkle it on your mahogany trees.

Mahogany trees will not appear naturally in the valley, but they will be present on Ginger Island when you first visit. This is also a great way to build up your stock of hardwood.

Level Ten Foraging Skill

Once your foraging skill becomes level ten, you will have a choice to pick either the lumberjack or tapper profession. These options will only be available if you have previously picked the Forester profession at level five.

If you want more hardwood, then you should pick the lumberjack profession. With this, all trees will have a chance to drop hardwood. This is a great way to passively collect hardwood as you chop down normal trees.

What To Do With Hardwood

Now that you have your hardwood, let's look at what to do with it. Hardwood is needed for a few quests, which can be found below.

Quest Name	Requirements	Reward
Robin's Request Received by mail on Winter 21	Deliver 10 hardwood to Robin	500g
Robin's Project Special Order	Collect 80 hardwood	2,000g Friendship Deluxe Red Double Bed available for purchase
Repair Willy's Boat Received by mail after completing the Community Center	Collect: 200 Hardwood 5 Battery Pack 5 Iridium Bars	Access to Ginger Island

In addition to the quests above, you will also need ten hardwood to complete the construction bundle in the Crafts Room of the Community Center.

Lastly, let's go over the crafting recipes and buildings that require hardwood.

Recipes

Item	Materials Required
Cheese Press	10 Hardwood 45 Wood 45 Stone 1 Copper Bar
Oil Maker	20 Hardwood 50 Slime 1 Gold Bar
Hardwood Fence	1 Hardwood
Cork Bobber	5 Hardwood 10 Wood 10 Slime
Worm Bin	25 Hardwood 1 Gold Bar 1 Iron Bar 50 Fiber
Warp Totem: Beach	1 Hardwood 2 Coral 10 Fiber
Warp Totem: Farm	1 Hardwood 1 Honey 20 Fiber
Warp Totem: Mountains	1 Hardwood 1 Iron Bar 25 Stone
Warp Totem: Desert	2 Hardwood 1 Coconut 4 Iridium Ore
Warp Totem: Island	5 Hardwood 1 Dragon Tooth 1 Ginger
Rain Totem	1 Hardwood 1 Truffle Oil 5 Pine Tar
Stump Brazier	5 Hardwood 1 Coal
Carved Brazier	10 Hardwood 1 Coal
Cask	1 Hardwood 20 Wood
Ostrich Incubator	50 Hardwood 50 Bone Fragment 20 Cinter Shard
Heavy Tapper	30 Hardwood 1 Radioactive Bar
Mini-Obelisk	30 Hardwood 20 Solar Essence 3 Gold Bar
Hopper	10 Hardwood 1 Iridium Bar 1 Radioactive Bar

Buildings

Building	Materials Required
Farmhouse Upgrade 2	50,000g 150 Hardwood
Stable	10,000g 100 Hardwood 5 Iron Bar

As you can see, hardwood is used in a lot of different ways. It's important to get a head start on collecting hardwood, so you can repair Willy's boat and travel to Ginger Island later in the game.

Next: Stardew Valley: Complete Guide And Walkthrough

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