Stardew Valley Bundles Guide part 2: Pantry

Welcome to part two of the Stardew Valley guide to the Community Centre. Last time, I wrote about everything you need to know to deliver Junimo gifts for the Crafts Room. This time, we’ll be moving onto the next room that farmers are likely to investigate; be sure to check out part one first if you haven’t already!

Pantry (run-down)

Pantry bundles will become available after you complete any of the Crafts Room bundles. The items required to fill out these bundles are mostly found by doing work on your farm. Unless otherwise noted, crop seeds can be bought at either Pierre’s or JojaMart over in Pelican Town during the relevant season.

1) Spring Crops Bundle

Classic and Remixed — 4/4 items needed

This bundle is always the same, over all games.

• Parsnip: Grows in four days. You get 15 seeds for free right at the start of the game to help get your started.
• Green Bean: Grows in 10 days, and regrows every three days if it stays watered.
• Cauliflower: Grows in 12 days. If you’re lucky, any fully-grown and watered 3x3 patch of cauliflowers may mutate into a massive one!
• Potato: Grows in six days, and may provide a second potato on harvest. Boil it, mash it, stick it in a stew!

2) Summer Crops Bundle

Classic and Remixed — 4/4 items needed

This bundle is always the same, over all games.

• Tomato: Grows in 11 days, and regrows every four days if it stays watered.
• Hot Pepper: Grows in five days, and regrows every three days if it stays watered.
• Blueberry: Grows in 13 days, provides at least three blueberries per harvest, and regrows every four days if it stays watered.
• Melon: Grows in 12 days. Similarly to cauliflowers, melons also have the ability to mutate into a bumper crop!

3) Fall Crops Bundle

Classic and Remixed — 4/4 items needed

This bundle is always the same, over all games.

• Corn: Grows in 14 days, and regrows every four days if it stays watered. You can also buy seeds and grow this crop during Summer!
• Eggplant: Grows in five days, and regrows every five days if it stays watered.
• Pumpkin: Grows in 13 days. As with cauliflowers and melons, this is the Fall version of the Large Crop!
• Yam: Grows in 10 days. This also rarely drops from Duggies in the Mines (those mole-type enemies that pop up from the dirt on the Rock floors).

4a) Quality Crops Bundle

Classic and Remixed — 3/4 items needed

If you're playing with Remixed bundles, one option from each grouping below will be chosen at random. No matter what options you get, they will need to be Gold quality, which means you won’t be able to find them at the Travelling Cart!

Farmers playing with Remixed bundles may have the Rare Crops bundle below instead of this one.

• 5 Parsnips OR 5 Green Beans OR 5 Potatoes OR 5 Cauliflowers: These are all Spring crops. If you’re playing with Classic bundles, this option will always be 5 Parsnips.
• 5 Melons OR 5 Blueberries OR 5 Hot Peppers: These are all Summer crops. If you’re playing with Classic bundles, this option will always be 5 Melons.
• 5 Pumpkins OR 5 Yams OR 5 Eggplants: These are all Fall crops. If you’re playing with Classic bundles, this option will always be 5 Pumpkins.
• 5 Corn: This option is always present, and can be grown in both Summer and Fall.

I'd recommend going for the Spring and Summer options along with Corn, simply because that's the earliest you can finish this bundle! If you don't manage to grow enough of the Spring crop in time, then use the Fall one instead.

4b) Rare Crops Bundle

Remixed only — 1/2 items needed

There is a very high chance you won’t be able to complete this one for a significant portion of the game, but don’t fret as it is always possible so long as you pay attention to your money and the date! Neither option for this bundle can be bought directly from the Travelling Cart.

• Ancient Fruit: There are two ways to get Ancient Fruit seeds. The first is by finding and donating an Ancient Seed artifact to the Museum; they’re pretty rare, but you may find one by digging up artifact spots in either the Forest or the Mountain, as a drop from any bug-type enemy in the Mines, or from a treasure chest gained by fishing anywhere. This will reward you with a single, solitary seed. The second way is to use a Seed Maker (recipe is learned at level nine Farming), with whatever you put in having a 2.5% chance to spit out an Ancient Fruit seed. Regardless of how you get a seed, it will take a massive 28 days to grow (that’s right, an entire season!), and will regrow every seven days if you keep it watered. However, as with most crops it will die when Winter arrives, so don’t wait too long!
• Sweet Gem Berry: This elusive fruit only grows in Fall, and takes 24 days to do so, so you better make sure you plant it early! The seeds can only be initially obtained from the Travelling Cart; it is guaranteed to sell at least one every single time it shows up for the entirety of Spring and Summer. Seeds cost a hefty 1000 gold though, so make sure you haven’t splurged it all!

5a) Animal Bundle

Classic and Remixed — 5/6 items needed

If present, this bundle is always the same. If playing with Remixed bundles, this one may be replaced by either the Fish Farmer’s Bundle or the Garden Bundle, both below. A Barn and a Coop will both be required to get everything you need for this bundle!

• Large Milk: This can be obtained from either colour of cow if their friendship and happiness levels are high enough.
• Large Goat Milk: This can be obtained from goats if their friendship and happiness levels are high enough.
• Large Egg: This can be obtained from white and blue (if unlocked) chickens if their friendship and happiness levels are high enough.
• Large Egg: Same name, different colour; this can be obtained from brown chickens if their friendship and happiness levels are high enough.
• Duck Egg: Ducks will lay these every two days, unless they produce a duck feather instead.
• Wool: Sheep and Rabbits are the go-to for this item. Rabbits will drop wool every four days, unless they produce a rabbit’s foot instead. Sheep will grow their coats in every three days, or every two days if at a very high friendship level.

I would recommend skipping over the large goat milk, and getting your wool from a rabbit instead of a sheep. The reason for this is that both ducks and rabbits have alternate and useful products, and you’ll often end up needing those other items for later bundles! Aside from those, both cows and chickens are cheaper than goats.

5b) Fish Farmer’s Bundle

Remixed only — 2/3 items needed

If you have this bundle, you’ll be wanting to get at least one Fish Pond from Robin as soon as you can, as getting the required items can take a while!

• 15 Roe: Almost any fish will produce roe when put into a Fish Pond; the two types of squid are the only fish that cannot.
• 15 Aged Roe: Once you have any kind of roe, shove it into a Preserves Jar and wait for a few days, and voila! Note that this doesn’t work with sturgeon roe.
• Squid Ink: A Fish Pond with squid or midnight squid in it will produce this stuff instead of roe. However, you can also sometimes get one as a drop from Squid Kids in the Mines, on the hot floors; they are pink balls with faces that shoot fire at you.

I would recommend using carp or herring for this bundle. They are easy to get a high pond capacity for, and will produce roe on most days. Alongside the 15 Roe option, you’ll want the 15 Aged Roe if you have a good amount of Preserves Jars (three or more would be my suggestion) or can get the pond very early. If you’re likely to be going into Winter before you complete this, then the single Squid Ink is much easier to get than an entire 15 aged roe!

5c) Garden Bundle

Remixed only — 4/5 items needed

Ah, fragrance. This is all about flowers! If you get this bundle offered and you want to save a few coins, then note that Sunflower seeds are always cheaper at JojaMart than at Pierre’s for some mysterious reason!

• Tulip: Grows in Spring, in six days.
• Blue Jazz: Grows in Spring, in seven days.
• Summer Spangle: Grows in Summer (shockingly), in eight days.
• Sunflower: Grows in Summer and Fall, in eight days.
• Fairy Rose: Grows in Fall, in 12 days.

Fairy Rose is both the most expensive seed as well as the one you have to wait longest to grow; therefore, I would recommend aiming for the other four flowers to complete this bundle.

6a) Artisan Bundle

Classic and Remixed — 6/12 items needed

When it shows up, this bundle is always the same, and represents high-value goods refined from other stuff you can grow on the farm. And also fruit trees for some reason. If you’re playing with Remixed bundles, this option may be replaced by the Brewer’s Bundle instead.

• Truffle Oil: Truffles are dug up by pigs. When you get one, shove it into an Oil Maker for about six in-game hours.
• Cloth: Get some wool from either rabbits or sheep and attach it to a Loom. Higher-quality wool has a chance of producing multiple bolts at once!
• Goat Cheese: Milk a goat, and put the resulting goat milk into a Cheese Press.
• Cheese: Milk any cow, and put the resulting milk into a Cheese Press.
• Honey: Get yourself a Bee House by some means — either crafted, or use the one from the Fall Crops Bundle — and just put it anywhere on the Farm! Honey will then be produced every 4 days. If the Bee House is near a fully grown flower, the honey will be worth more, but that doesn’t make a difference for this bundle.
• Jelly: Take absolutely anything that the game has classified as Fruit and throw it into a Preserves Jar. A few days later, matching jelly will be made! It doesn’t matter what type of jelly you use here.
• Apricot and Cherry: These two trees bear fruit in Spring. It won’t be possible to harvest such a tree until Year 2, however, since all fruit trees take 28 days to grow. You can also get both of these fruits if you choose the fruit bat option for the farm cave.
• Orange and Peach: These two trees bear fruit in Summer. You can also get both of these fruits if you choose the fruit bat option for the farm cave.
• Apple and Pomegranate: These two trees bear fruit in Fall. You can also get both of these fruits if you choose the fruit bat option for the farm cave.

My recommendations for this bundle are always Honey, Apple, and Pomegranate. The other three options depend entirely on what else your farm is set up to produce, so here’s a list from best to worst, with any relevant conditions: any three of the remaining four fruit tree fruit (only if you have the fruit bat cave), Jelly (if you have a Preserves Jar), Cloth (if you have a rabbit or sheep), Cheese (if you have a Barn), Goat Cheese (if you have a goat), and finally Truffle Oil (if you have a pig).

The reason for this recommended order is that honey is always easy to get, and you’ll probably want to have an apple tree and a pomegranate tree anyway for other bundles (make sure to plant them early enough!). After that, it’s a combination of time/gold value, and what you are most likely to already have based on other bundles!

6b) Brewer’s Bundle

Remixed only — 4/5 items needed

The last bundle on the list is about making beverages from other items you can get on the farm. You’ll need a Keg to make any of these, so you better get to work; the recipe comes at level eight Farming!

• Pale Ale: This is made from hops. Make sure to plant one during Summer!
• Green Tea: This is made from tea leaves. Tea bushes produce leaves on days 22–28 of each season, except Winter.
• Juice: This is made from anything classified as a Vegetable, with the exceptions of hops, wheat, and tea leaves. It doesn’t matter what kind of vegetable juice you use for the bundle.
• Wine: This is made from anything classified as a Fruit (note that Stardew Valley classifies tomatoes as Vegetables, not Fruit). As with juice, any kind of wine will work!
• Mead: This is made from honey. Bee Houses will produce honey every 4 days, except in Winter.

Unless you’ve been making friends with Caroline, I’d recommend going for the four items that aren’t green tea, since tea saplings take a good while to grow AND are gated behind Caroline’s two-heart event. However, if you have a tea sapling planted early on then all options are equally doable!

Pantry (repaired)

Phew! With all of the bundles completed, you’ll get a scene where the sentient apples — sorry, Junimos — come to your farm and bounce around the broken greenhouse. When you wake up, you’ll find it repaired, complete with a sweet 12x10 patch of soil inside where you can grow anything, regardless of season! Being indoors, the patch is also safe from pesky crows.

That wraps things up for the Pantry section. You’d think that it would take less consideration, since everything comes more-or-less from the farm itself! Be sure to check out the rest of the guide sections should you need them, and let me know whether this one was of use to you!