Spending Easter finding Stardew Valley’s best Easter eggs
From locked boxes to mayoral disasters, this game is hiding wild stuff everywhere...
Well, the Egg Festival is here, and it feels like the perfect excuse to go hunting for a different kind of Easter egg in Stardew Valley. Somehow, even after ten years, there are still secrets hiding.
In the first Stardew Valley Cup live event, ConcernedApe mentioned there’s one secret he doesn’t think anyone has ever found:
“I guess you might say a message or something… the thing is the message is not even really relevant anymore… But I don’t think anyone has found it, and I don’t know if anyone ever will. Because it’s extremely obscure to find it.”
Which makes me want to hunt even harder.
So, in the spirit of the Egg Festival, I’ve grabbed my Easter basket and gone hunting for some of my favourite Easter eggs to share with you.
1. Elliott’s Piano
When Elliott is working at his desk, playing the first eight notes of the Stardew Valley Overture on the piano will make Elliott turn towards you and give you a heart emote ❤️
If you label the piano keys 1 - 4 from left to right, the tune can be played with these notes at any speed: 2432 3421.
2. The Junimo Plush
On the last day of the month at exactly 12 pm, interacting with a seemingly normal bush behind the playground gives you a Junimo plush!
3. The Locked Boxes
The first letters in the Museum‘s incomprehensible Lost Book form these words:
SUPER CUCUMBER TOWN
DUCK MAYO SALOON
STRANGE BUN TOY BOX
Three secret statues can be found by placing items in locked boxes around the valley:
??HMTGF??
Place a Super Cucumber in the brown box in the fenced area north of the Clint’s.
??Pinky Lemon??
Place a Duck Mayonnaise in the metal box in the back room of the Stardrop Saloon.
??Foroguemon??
Place a Strange Bun in the chest in Vincent‘s room at Jodi and Kent’s house.
4. Meowmere
Throw an Ancient Doll into the lava pool on floor 100 of the Mines, or in the lava next to the chest at the Forge on Ginger Island, and a bone serpent from Terraria will rise from the pool and give you the Far Away Stone.
Placing it on the plant pedestal found in the basement of Wizard’s Tower will open up a portal, where a cat steps in and gives you the Meowmere sword!
Extra tip: Use the forge to combine the Meowmere with the Galaxy Sword, and you can have the look of the cat sword with the stats of the galaxy.
5. Marnie’s Lovesick Dialogue
When choosing “Supplies Shop” in Marnie’s Ranch, the text under Marnie‘s portrait normally reads “Animal supplies for sale!”
But there is a 0.01% chance for Marnie to say:
“*sigh*... When the door opened, I thought it might be Lewis.”
When entering Robin‘s or Marnie‘s shop, there is also a chance for a dialogue bubble to pop up with them saying
“Lew...? Oh...”
6. The Mayor’s Lucky Purple Shorts
These start as a simple side quest and then absolutely spiral. Once you’ve got the shorts, there’s a surprising amount you can do with them:
Put them in the Luau soup.
Display them at the Fair. You’ll be disqualified, but Lewis will hand over 750 Star Tokens to keep you quiet.
Tailor them with a gold bar. This creates Trimmed Lucky Purple Shorts, which you can actually wear (and yes, people will comment!)
Place a staircase in Lewis’ bedroom that leads to a hidden maze where you can find more purple shorts… with a bit of a twist when you try to pick them up
Equip them as fishing tackle. They change your bobber to a unique purple shorts design (and can even stop tackle durability loss in certain rods)
Put them in a fish tank. Because that’s a valid decoration choice and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
7. The Beach Creature
Very occasionally, if you’re down by the docks at the beach, a green creature appears in the water.
The chances of it showing up are ridiculously low, and even then, everything has to line up just right for it to appear at all.
And if it looks vaguely familiar, you’re not imagining it - a version of the same creature shows up during Krobus’s 14-heart event, where it carries him through the water.
8. Dancing in the Gift Log
Once you’ve built up a bit of friendship with someone (four hearts or more), you can click on their little portrait in the gift log. Each character has their own animation and sound.
I love this one because it feels like a reward for paying attention to a part of the game most of us only use out of habit - checking what gifts people like, then immediately closing it again.
9. The Lonely Stone
The lonely stone is not an area you can visit, but it has a location on the Stardew Valley map, and you can see it from the docks. When you click the lonely stone on the map, a rock sound effect will play.
The lonely stone isn’t mentioned by any villagers, nor is there any lore about it mentioned by ConcernedApe or hidden in the game’s files… Weird.
10. Your Favourite Thing
When you create your character, you’re asked to choose your “favourite thing”. But when you eat a Stardrop, your favourite thing comes back!
If you enter “ConcernedApe”, you’ll get a unique little message:
If your answer includes “Stardew”, you’ll see:
If you’ve played for years, what’s the one thing you stumbled across that made you stop and question what you just saw?
I love this so much. I have almost 700 hours in SV and I haven't done all of these (granted, some things weren't even in the game when I clocked most of mine in!)
Why is it no matter how many times I play, when the egg festival hits I run around still trying to be the winner of the egg hunt!?!