Friendship is one of the most important parts of theStardew Valleyexperience. Interacting with the townsfolk, chatting, giving gifts, and running errands for them all gain players friendship points. As those points add up, you may receive benefits like free items in the mail, recipes, and memorable dialogue. Earning hearts with every villager can be difficult, especially when they’re more reclusive characters like the Wizard or when they’re never home when needed, like Marnie. Thankfully, theBulletin Board bundle makes it easy to rack up friendship pointswith these less active residents of Pelican Town.
The Bulletin Board bundles are the most diversecommunity center bundles. Each bundle requires items from every aspect ofStardew Valley, includingfarming, livestock care, mining, fishing, and cooking. Completing this bundle has one of the more unique rewards: itimproves your friendship with every villager(besides the twelve romantic choices) by two full hearts. This reward isgreat for getting more hearts for villagersthat you might not interact with as often, but it also comes at the cost of one of the pricier bundles to complete for the Community Center.
How To Complete The Chef Bundle
Use Ingredients From Across The Valley
As the name implies, the Chef Bundle has more of a focus on cooking than any other bundle. This bundle may take longer to complete than the other Bulletin Board bundles simply due to the Truffle needed to finish it. Truffles canonly be acquired by raising pigs on the farm, so you’ll need at least one Deluxe Barn to get this item. The other item that you might need to wait a while for is the Fiddlehead Fern,which can be found by foraging in the Secret Woods(which requires an upgraded axe) but is more easily found anywhere when there isGreen Rain pouring inStardew Valleyduring the Summer. You’ll also need to upgrade your farmhouse at least once with Robin to unlock a kitchen.
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All the other items in this bundle can be easily acquired throughcooking with simple ingredients or growing flowersduring the Summer. Maple Syrup is especially easy to get, as you need only place aTapperon a maple tree and wait seven days for it to produce. This is also a great passive way to build resources.
Place a Taper on a Maple Tree
Fiddlehead Fern
Forage in Secret Woods (Summer) or from trees in the Green Rain
Cooking (requires any fish, seaweed, and rice)
Cooking (requires one egg of any size)
How To Complete The Dye Bundle
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Like the Chef Bundle, the Dye Bundle includes two items that are much more time-consuming to acquire than anything else. Those two items are the Duck Feather and the Red Cabbage. Duck Feathers are dropped by ducks, which you’ll needa Big Coop to raise on your farm, so it may take some time toupgrade to that coop and purchase ducksfrom Marnie. The other more difficult item is the Red Cabbage, which can only begrown in the Summer of year twosince Pierre won’t sell the seeds until then.
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However, if you’re lucky, they may be able toget the Red Cabbage from the Traveling Cartwhen it visits the forest near Marnie’s house. After those items, all the other Dye Bundle requirements are straightforward to acquire. If you haven’t picked the mushroom cave option from Demetrius, the Red Mushroom can be found either inthe Secret Woods in Summer or Fall or in the Mines from levels 21 to 69.
How To Acquire
Red Mushroom
Cave on Farm, foraging after level 81 in the Mines, Secret Woods (Summer and Fall)
Sea Urchin
Foraging on the right side of the Beach or main Beach from Summer 12 to 14
Grow during Summer and Fall
Mining after level 40
Red Cabbage
Grow during Summer (Year two only) or buy at the Traveling Cart
Aquamarine can also be found in the Mines, below level 40, whileSunflowers are grown in the Summer and Fall. The Sea Urchin is also locked behind a small obstacle, the small broken bridge on the Beach, as it can only forage on that side. Sea urchins can also be found on the normal beach from Summer 12 to 14due to the large number of extra forgeable items washing up.
How To Complete The Field Research Bundle
Support Demetrius’s Scientific Mission
If you haven’t chosen themushroom cave from Demetrius, then theField Research Bundle will require the most time in the Mines. Both the Purple Mushroom and the Frozen Geode can be found through Mining, as Miningroom can befound below level 81,and the Frozen Geode is found betweenfloors 41 and 79.
Cave on Farm or after level 81 in the Mines
Foraging on the Beach in Winter
Fishing in any season, at any time
Frozen Geode
Mining from levels 41 to 79
The Field Research Bundle includesthe only fish on the entire Bulletin Board, and it’s one of the easiest fish inStardew Valley. The Chub can be caught inany season, at any time, in either the Mountain Lake or in the rivers, so you’re able to catch it at your leisure without worrying. Finally, you can simply head down to the Beach duringStardew Valley’s Winter seasonto pick up a Nautilus Shell.
How To Complete The Fodder Bundle
The Simplest Bundle For Helping Animals
Marnie’s animal-themed Fodder Bundle isthe easiest of any bundle to complete, especially if you have picked fruit bats for their cave. Byplanting Wheat in either Summer or Fall, you can harvest the ten required Wheat bundles and the ten Hay after your very first harvest after four days of growing. If you have a fruit bat cave, all you need to dois wait for the bats to give you three apples.
You can buy Hay from Marnie, but it’s easier to simply grow Wheat and get both Wheat and Hay from the harvest.
Grow in Summer and Fall
Harvest from grass or Wheat
Three Apples
Cave on the Farm or from Apple Trees
However, if you chose the mushroom cave instead, you’ll need toplant an apple tree by at least mid-summer. Fruit trees take an entire season to grow andonly produce fruit in a single season. After it’s grown, the apple tree will grow one apple a day in the Fall. It’s best to havean entire season for producing apples, but getting at least three (or four for the Artisan Bundle) is key for finishing this bundle.
How To Complete The Enchanter’s Bundle
Create Friendship With The Wizard
Like the Dye Bundle and Chef Bundle, the Enchanter’s Bundle includes an item requiringan upgraded farm building. This item is the Rabbit’s Foot, which can only be reliably foundby raising rabbits in a Deluxe Coop. In addition to the upgraded Coop, your Cooper needs the fruit bat cave or a Pomegranate Tree toget the single piece of fruit needed for the bundle. Like Apples in the Fodder Bundle, the Pomegranate Tree produces fruit in the Fall, so it must be planted by mid-summer at the latest.
Choosing the Fruit Bats for your cave will make most bundles in the community center much easier to finish.
Placing any fruit in a Keg
Pomegranate
Cave on the Farm or from Pomegranate Trees
Oak Resin, like the Maple Syrup in the Chef Bundle, can be produced byplacing a Tapper on an Oak treeand waiting seven days. Equally simple is Wine, which can be made by placing any fruit in a Keg. This is also one of the best ways to make money inStardew Valley.
