50 Rare Secrets Hidden in Stardew Valley

You've gotten tips, now enjoy 50 secrets! For this list, I defined a secret as anything hidden within the game that provided no significant gameplay benefit, everything here is either for aesthetics, or information about the world! Keep that in mind while watching through the video, thank you!

Sections:

0:00 - Intro
0:13 - Hidden Statues
1:21 - Bullying Lewis
2:14 - Hidden Fishing Items
4:06 - Rare Nightly Events
6:14 - Helping around Town
6:54 - Secrets About Monsters
7:58 - Spooky Secrets
8:54 - The Religion of Stardew Valley
10:11 - Friends and Fashion

Social Media:

[lesbiangregorsamsa]

A while back I put the gold Lewis statue in the Saloon, behind the counter. Apparently, Lewis won't confiscate the statue if it's inside a town building, so it's still on display! The whole town gets to see it every Friday. :)

[kitschyglitch]

I propose that the fruit from which the world grew in the Book of Yoba is actually the melon.

1.) It's one of only THREE crops that can grow into a giant crop (which would be an especially fitting honor for a crop so important to the in-universe lore/religion)

2.) Unlike the tomato, it actually has a tough skin (assuming the in-game melon resembles real-life melons like cantaloupe and honeydew). Like the tomato, a (real-life) melon's skin can be peeled open by hand (even though it's tougher) and a (real-life) melon grows on vines (although this isn't terribly apparent of the in-game melon, since it's not trellised and is instead allowed to grow on the ground-- which is a viable option, as the heavy fruit would require very sturdy trellising and support slings which might not be available or practical, but having the fruits on the ground might leave them more vulnerable to pests and disease)

3.) While it DOES have a growth time of 12 days instead of 11, it's my understanding that the first day of the counter is the day while it's still a seed-- and that passage from the book of Yoba said that the seed sprouted AND THEN 11 days passed AFTERWARDS before it bore fruit

It's the crop shown growing on the title screen (where you choose to start a new game or load a save file), which, again, would be an especially fitting honor for a crop so important to the in-universe lore/religion (also-- new game is represented by the sprout/vine, load save is represented by the fruit itself, and, get this, multiplayer mode... is represented by THE EARTH... which always felt kind of out-of-place with the other option's thumbnails until I considered this interpretation)

(insert obligatory "thanks for coming to my TEDtalk" here)

[Prof_Pangloss]

I started a new four corners farm this week and not only did I get a meteorite on night one, but it landed in the exact 2x2 spot to completely block off my south entrance until I get a gold pickaxe. I'm still reeling at the astronomical misfortune.

[NeenWiRd]

I don’t know how much of a secret it is but whenever you take your horse to the bus stop and go to the desert, when you come back a message pops up saying something like “your loyal horse patiently awaits your return” and I just think it’s so cute

[nikoccx]

Actually there is a chance for Marnie to "steal" the lewis statue, if you leave it somewhere in town. It will be in her room for some reason xD

[bethgodley]

My favourite Easter egg that I dont see mentioned much is that Willy congratulates you and gives you a pearl if you have a fish pond with 10 crabs on your farm. I was about to get rid of them because they had only been giving me trash, when I accidentally triggered this on the way to ginger Island. So naturally my useless trash crustaceans have a free pass now.

[Kiwidergonkat]

I actually had the crop fairy on my very first night on a new game and I got so excited that it grew all my parsnips and potatoes that I called my mom XD

[suraimu]

Man i got the owl statue on my first night after i bought stardew valley and had no clue how rare it was, i thought everyone got it

[gferrol]

6:29 clearly the rock is lonely since there's no more pioneers to ride it for miles

[marceloscarvalho]

9:52 Actually, this carving is a coded message, just like the ones in the skull caverns! It says “Our ancestors came from the sky but made a new home beneath stone”, which confirms a theory made by M. Jasper (a mysterious character mentioned throughout the game) in a lost book, where he theorized dwarves are actually aliens that crashed down on earth and decided to stay in caverns due to it’s similarities to their home planet’s atmosphere, only to be ridiculed by his fellow researchers. Turns out he was right all along!

[YourPalRal]

The spookiest thing is being attacked by the ghost of your children. If they cannot be beaten then it just adds to the karma.

[Ray-kdni]

Wow I actually didn't know that you could change the appearance of your boots! Finally I can wear the dark boots without sacrificing the stats of a better boot 👍

[dogwithheadphones]

You forgot to mention that the grave that Abigail builds for the monster that she kills to protect you in her 14 heart event is also marked with the symbol of yoba

[MewSage]

I like the fact that Marnie can take the gold Lewis statue. I kept stealing it from Lewis and putting it out until Marnie took it.

[YourIngrownToenail]

it's not really a secret but you can actually make more of Mayor Lewis's purple shorts by taking off your pants and put staircase in the slot instead. it'll glitch and create the purple short instead. so, you can complete the task but still able to have more. i have like 999 of them in my inventory lol.

[max]

When I first played this game 4 years ago I refrained to Google or watch to much tips videos like this one. Finding the junimo plush in the hidden notes or figuring the 3 statues out was so much fun! Of course by now I have completed the game multiple times. But the first playthrough was so magical. So much hidden in this game that first just seems to be a small farming game. But especially with 1.5 it got sooo much secrets and content.

[FeatherFall]

Everyone mentions Abby's room having a Chrono trigger poster, but noone mentions Sebastian having a poster of Big Earl from Toejam and Earl in his room, and that makes me sad :(

[gaosaman]

There's actually one very rare nightly event, which is the animal attack. Straight from the wiki, it says this: "After the player goes to sleep, any events that will happen during the night (such as Bundle events) are calculated as normal. If no events are due to occur, there will be a 50% chance that the game will attempt to start a wild animal attack event. If this event proceeds, the game will go through all buildings to find a barn or coop that has their doors closed and has animals left outside. For each building, the game takes a random number between 0 and 1 and compares it to 1/(the number of total farm buildings). If the random number is larger, the building is ignored. In other words, the more buildings the player has, the less likely that one will be attacked. For example, if the player has two farm buildings, each building has a 50% chance of being attacked, three buildings would give 33%, four would give 25% chance of being attacked, etc. Once a building has been chosen, the event takes the first animal stuck outside from that building to be the target of the attack. The animal will be removed from the game and in the morning, all other animals will have a mood message saying "<animal name> looks stressed and paranoid today. It seems like something bad happened last night." Besides this message, the other animals are unaffected." Here's a video when how the animal attack happens alongside with a very creepy sounds that still makes me getting goosebumps..

[hifreindso]

Fun Fact: Back around 2011, CA was making the Wumbus comics. There are multiple references to these comics in the game. Including the '???' dolls, the movie, and the floating sun head, Yoba.

[missusanonymous]

To be completely fair, the Book of Yoba also describes him “peeling off the tough skin”. Tomatoes are pretty gooey and peeling off the skin would lead to a mess, and idk if their skin can be described as tough. It’s more likely that it’s a type of fruit that doesn’t exist in the game yet, or in fact a completely fictional one.