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Trophy guide
A PS4 route through the Community Center, a separate Joja farm, the current collections and arcade trophies, followed by the optional 1.6 Update and Summit goals.
PS4
Community Center and Joja development need separate farms. Seasons repeat without an ending deadline. Current recipe collections include island and mastery unlocks. Preserve deathless arcade checkpoints by sleeping only after a successful stage.
Begin a new single-player farm with normal bundles and standard profit margins. I recommend keeping that first farm on the Community Center route and using a separate farm for Joja. Buying membership permanently replaces the Center, so read Local Legend before making that choice.
Follow Roadmap for the order of work and the opportunities coming up each season. Its seven sections are route stages, not game chapters. Trophies contains the exact collection lists, unlock steps and recovery advice. Open a linked solution before its named task, then return to the route.
| Scope | Plan |
|---|---|
| Base platinum | 41 base trophies, about 120–180 hours, around 6/10 |
| All 50 trophies | About 160–240 hours total, including the island's Summit route |
These are planning ranges. Arcade practice, random drops and the number of seasonal waits can change the time considerably. The nine 1.6 Update trophies do not belong to the platinum, but later cooking and crafting recipes still affect the base collection trophies on the current PS4 version. This route is for the updated PS4 game, including when played on PS5, rather than the older Vita release.
Start by planting crops, learning fishing and descending the Mines. Keep bundle donations and spare seasonal ingredients, watch the TV cooking show and build friendships from the first spring. Restore the Community Center, open Willy's boat and continue the main farm through the island, collection, family and money goals.
The farm has no ending deadline. Missed crops, fish and festivals return in later years. The lasting branch choice is between the Community Center and Joja, so we keep those on different saves rather than relying on an old same-farm trick.
Play the Saloon arcade during the hunt. Fector's Challenge is the main skill check, and its stage-by-stage overnight save method avoids repeating the whole run after every failure. Junimo Kart is not needed for the platinum.
Once the main farm's base goals and the arcade are finished, earn Joja Co. Member Of The Year on the second farm. Return to the main farm for the optional update group and Perfection.
Keep each collection on the same farmer rather than splitting catches, recipes or earnings between farms. Use Collections for shipped items, fish and cooked dishes, and enable Show Advanced Crafting Information in Options for crafted counts. Discovered museum items still need to be donated.
The game normally saves when we sleep. A single-player day can be replayed by quitting to the title screen and loading before the next overnight save. Keep the console connected to PlayStation Network and check important trophy unlocks when their condition is met. Console trophy resending has had problems, so do not sleep through an unnoticed failed unlock and assume it will repair itself automatically.
Start a single-player farm with normal bundles and normal profit margins. I recommend the Standard Farm for open crop space. Keep this as the main Community Center save and leave Joja membership alone.
Clear a small patch, plant and water the starter Parsnips, then build a Chest for materials and future donations. Select tools with or , use them with , and interact with people or containers using . opens the player menu and opens Crafting. These are the default PlayStation controls.
Visit Willy for the fishing rod after his letter. From Spring 5, begin the Mines and trigger the Community Center introduction. Read Local Legend before spending money on a membership.
Set up routines early. Watch The Queen of Sauce on Sundays and Wednesday reruns, check Help Wanted outside Pierre's, talk to villagers and give two useful gifts per week. Save at least some of every new crop, fish and forage item instead of shipping the whole stack. Turn on Show Advanced Crafting Information so crafted items have visible counts.
Sleep at home before 2am. The normal single-player save happens overnight. Quitting to the title screen and loading the farm replays the unsaved day, so it is a recovery option when an important morning goes wrong. It is not a second manual save slot.
bronze · grind
Earn 15,000g
Reach 15,000g in total earnings on one farm. This is lifetime income, so spending money on seeds, tools and buildings does not erase progress. Check the total on the Inventory screen.
Grow and sell crops while expanding into processing machines. Keep bundle donations, recipe ingredients and a seed supply before shipping the surplus. Continue the same farm towards Legend.
bronze · grind
Earn 50,000g
Reach 50,000g in total earnings on one farm. This is lifetime income, so spending money on seeds, tools and buildings does not erase progress. Check the total on the Inventory screen.
Grow and sell crops while expanding into processing machines. Keep bundle donations, recipe ingredients and a seed supply before shipping the surplus. Continue the same farm towards Legend.
bronze · grind
Earn 250,000g
Reach 250,000g in total earnings on one farm. This is lifetime income, so spending money on seeds, tools and buildings does not erase progress. Check the total on the Inventory screen.
Grow and sell crops while expanding into processing machines. Keep bundle donations, recipe ingredients and a seed supply before shipping the surplus. Continue the same farm towards Legend.
bronze · grind
Earn 1,000,000g
Reach 1,000,000g in total earnings on one farm. This is lifetime income, so spending money on seeds, tools and buildings does not erase progress. Check the total on the Inventory screen.
Grow and sell crops while expanding into processing machines. Keep bundle donations, recipe ingredients and a seed supply before shipping the surplus. Continue the same farm towards Legend.
bronze
Reach a 5-heart friend level with someone.
Raise one villager to five hearts, shown on the Social tab. Talk to them daily and give a liked or loved gift twice each week. Birthdays give a much larger gift bonus, so check the calendar outside Pierre's.
Select the gift in your toolbar and interact with the villager using . A selected item may be handed over, so switch to a tool when you only want to talk. For a convenient first friendship, Linus accepts ordinary foraged fruit and vegetables he likes and lives in the tent north of Robin's.
Keep building friendships using Popular and The Beloved Farmer.
bronze
Craft 15 different items.
Craft 15 different items yourself. Press to open Crafting and select recipes whose materials you have gathered.
Repeatedly crafting Chests only counts as one kind. Make a range of useful starter items, such as a Chest, Torch, Campfire, Wood Sign, Stone Sign, paths, fences and processing equipment as their recipes unlock. Turn on Show Advanced Crafting Information in Options to see each recipe's crafted count.
Keep going towards Craft Master.
bronze
Catch 10 different fish.
Catch ten different entries yourself with a rod or Crab Pots. Bought fish and fish raised in a Fish Pond do not count as your own catches.
Visit Willy after his opening letter for a rod. Cast with , then use short presses and releases to keep the green bar over a hooked fish until the catch meter fills. The Training Rod is useful while learning, but its restricted catch pool cannot complete the collection.
See Master Angler for the fishing plan and special waters.
bronze
Complete 10 'Help Wanted' requests.
Complete ten requests. Check the small Help Wanted board on the front of Pierre's shop for a yellow exclamation mark, accept a job and finish its instructions before its deadline.
An ordinary delivery gives the current day and the next day. Hold the requested item, interact with the named villager and claim any Journal reward. The larger Special Orders board and Qi's orders also count, but accepting a request without finishing it does not.
Continue this routine for A Big Help.
Work through the first seasonal cycle using Local Legend. Keep seasonal bundle donations and ship spare crops towards Polyculture. Use the collection totals to avoid guessing what has already shipped.
Buy Strawberry Seeds on Spring 13 and the Tub o' Flowers recipe on Spring 24. Save gold Cauliflower for An Unforgettable Soup on Summer 11. Keep quality display items for Blue Ribbon on Fall 16, buy Jack-O-Lantern's recipe on Fall 27 and use the Night Market submarine on Winter 15–17.
These annual opportunities return if missed. A delayed crop, recipe or fish means another season or year, not a ruined farm. There is no trophy deadline at Grandpa's Year 3 evaluation.
Descend the Mines in five-floor elevator increments, order the first two farmhouse upgrades, and keep friendship growing alongside farm work. Start the Special Orders board below Lewis's house from Fall 2 and prioritise the recipe rewards listed in Craft Master.
Finish the Center's bundles and attend its ceremony. Do not try to buy Joja afterwards on this same farm. We use a separate save for that branch.
bronze
Reach a 10-heart friend level with someone.
Reach ten hearts with one villager. Check the Social tab rather than judging from dialogue or an event.
Choose a non-datable villager such as Linus and keep talking and gifting after five hearts. Datable villagers stop at eight hearts until given a Bouquet from Pierre, so they take an additional step.
The wider plan and eight suitable long-term friendships are in The Beloved Farmer.
bronze
Reach a 5-heart friend level with 4 people.
Reach five hearts with four villagers on the same farm. Talk and gift along the routine in Popular. Four half-finished relationships are not enough, so use the Social tab to check that each chosen person has at least five filled hearts.
Friendship can fall while neglected. Keep greeting unfinished friends while the farm's other goals progress.
bronze
Reach a 5-heart friend level with 10 people.
Reach five hearts with ten villagers on the same farm. Work on the eight long-term friends in The Beloved Farmer, then include two more people you pass regularly.
Use the Social tab to check each person's hearts and gift allowance. Spreading gifts across ten people is more useful here than giving extra gifts to someone already at the cap.
bronze
Cook 10 different recipes.
Cook ten different dishes yourself. Buy Robin's first farmhouse upgrade for a kitchen, or craft a Cookout Kit once it unlocks through Foraging.
Select a known recipe at the kitchen with its ingredients in your inventory or fridge. Bought meals and dishes mailed by villagers do not count as cooking. Follow Gourmet Chef for recipe sources and the full collection method.
bronze
Upgrade your house.
Visit Robin's Carpenter's Shop in the mountains with 10,000g and 450 Wood, then order the first farmhouse upgrade. Let the three-day construction finish.
The added kitchen and larger bed confirm the upgrade. It also lets us cook and marry. Robin must be at her shop counter to take the order, so return another day if she is away or already building something.
silver
Craft 30 different items.
Craft 30 distinct recipes yourself. Bought items, reward machines and items found in the world do not count as having crafted their recipe.
Enable Show Advanced Crafting Information in Options. Move the cursor over each recipe and make one when its crafted count is zero. Follow Craft Master for the recipes that do not come from normal skill levels.
bronze
Catch 24 different fish.
Catch 24 different entries on the same farmer. Use rivers, the mountain lake and ocean in different seasons rather than fishing at one spot indefinitely.
Crab Pots add a separate group of catches. Place baited pots in both freshwater and the ocean, then collect and rebait them daily. Follow Master Angler for the complete catch route.
bronze
Catch 100 fish.
Catch 100 fish in total on one farmer. Repeated species count, so this comes naturally while completing Master Angler.
Fish at a convenient lake or river if only the quantity remains. Land the catches rather than buying fish or taking them out of a Fish Pond. Trash does not advance the fishing achievements.
bronze
Donate 40 different items to the museum.
Donate 40 different artifacts or minerals to Gunther at the museum, southeast of town. Speak to him at the counter with new finds in your inventory and place them on the displays.
Opening geodes at Clint's and digging artifact spots gives a steady supply. The museum's donation rewards show progress. Continue to all 95 donations using A Complete Collection.
bronze · collectible
Ship 15 of each crop.
Ship at least 15 of each of the following 28 crops through the farm Shipping Bin. Selling directly to Pierre does not advance this shipping record.
| Season | Required crops |
|---|---|
| Spring | Cauliflower, Coffee Bean, Garlic, Green Bean, Kale, Parsnip, Potato, Rhubarb, Strawberry |
| Summer | Blueberry, Corn, Hops, Hot Pepper, Melon, Radish, Red Cabbage, Starfruit, Tomato, Wheat |
| Fall | Amaranth, Artichoke, Beet, Bok Choy, Cranberries, Eggplant, Grape, Pumpkin, Yam |
The grouping is a growing plan, not a requirement to ship within that season. Coffee and Corn cross seasons. Garlic, Red Cabbage and Artichoke become normal Pierre stock in Year 2. Sandy sells Rhubarb, Starfruit and Beet seeds after bus repair. Buy Strawberry Seeds at the Spring 13 Egg Festival. Coffee Beans can come from the Traveling Cart or Dust Sprites.
Check each crop's shipped quantity in Collections and bring it to 15 or more. Regrowing crops need fewer plants, but count harvested items rather than seeds planted. Current additions such as Carrot and Broccoli belong to the wider shipment collection, not this fixed 28-crop requirement.
bronze · grind
Ship 300 of one crop.
Ship 300 of one eligible crop through the farm Shipping Bin. Blueberries are a straightforward summer choice because a harvest produces several berries and the plants regrow.
Buy and plant a substantial patch early in summer, water it daily or use sprinklers, and ship the harvests until Collections shows 300 Blueberries shipped. More than one year is allowed. Preserve enough money for replacement seeds and other farm work.
Any one of the 28 crops listed under Polyculture works. Ancient Fruit and the ordinary Tulip, Blue Jazz, Summer Spangle and Fairy Rose crops are also eligible.
bronze
Reach the lowest level of the mines.
Reach floor 120 of the normal Mines in the northeast mountains. The landslide clears on Spring 5, Year 1. Marlon gives the initial sword when we enter.
Bring a Pickaxe, weapon and healing food. Break rocks and defeat monsters to reveal a ladder, then descend. Every fifth floor adds an elevator checkpoint, so aim for five or ten new floors per visit and use the elevator to resume later.
Upgrade the Pickaxe at Clint's to make deeper rock less tiring. Keep enough health to survive the next hit and leave before the day ends. Floor 100 contains a Stardrop. Floor 120 holds the Skull Key and completes this trophy.
The random floors do not require clearing every rock. If a floor is crowded or time is running out, a crafted Staircase can take us down. Skull Cavern's endless depth and Ginger Island's Volcano are different dungeons.
bronze · missable
Restore the Pelican Town Community Center.
Restore the Community Center on a farm where you have not bought Joja membership. The Community Center and Joja development trophies require different farms on the current version. Buying membership permanently replaces the Center, and finishing the Center closes Joja.
From Spring 5 onward, enter town from the Bus Stop on a dry day between 8am and 1pm for Lewis's introduction. Enter the building north of Pierre's, read the golden scroll in its lower-left room, then read the Wizard's next-day invitation. Visit his tower at the western side of Cindersap Forest to learn the scrolls' language.
Return and donate each room's requested bundles. Use the bundle icon from the Inventory menu to check outstanding items while away from the building. Normal bundles are recommended for this route.
| Work | What to reserve |
|---|---|
| Spring | One of each spring forage and crop, five gold Parsnips if using that quality-crop option, and rain-only fish |
| Summer | Melon, Tomato, Hot Pepper, Blueberry, Poppy, Fiddlehead Fern, Red Cabbage and summer fish |
| Fall | Pumpkin, Corn, Eggplant, Yam, Sunflower, three Apples and a Pomegranate |
| Winter | Winter forage and a Nautilus Shell from the beach |
| Animals | Appropriate large milk or eggs, Duck Egg, Wool, Truffle, Duck Feather and Rabbit's Foot as the bundles require |
| Trees and processing | Maple Syrup, Oak Resin, Wine and the artisan goods chosen for the Pantry |
This is preparation, not a replacement for the exact slots on each scroll. Some bundles accept a selection, while others require every item. Keep the stated quantity and quality before shipping the surplus.
Visit the Traveling Cart in western Cindersap Forest on Fridays and Sundays for hard-to-find donations. Red Cabbage is normal Pierre stock from Year 2, so we do not need a lucky first-year cart to finish. Plant Apple and Pomegranate saplings early enough for their 28-day growth before fall, or use the Greenhouse and other valid sources later.
The six rooms unlock through earlier bundle progress. The Vault requires four payments totalling 42,500g. Restoring the Pantry opens the Greenhouse and helps our later income and collection work.
Finish every bundle, sleep and enter town on a sunny nonfestival day for the reopening ceremony. Watch it and check the trophy before treating the route as finished. There is no deadline at the end of Year 1 or Year 2.
bronze
Reach level 10 in a skill.
Reach natural level 10 in any one of Farming, Mining, Foraging, Fishing or Combat. Temporary food buffs do not replace earned skill levels.
Farming advances through harvesting crops and tending animals. Fishing advances through successful catches and collected Crab Pot catches. Choose work that already supports the collections, then sleep to receive the level-up rewards.
The complete five-skill route is in Master Of The Five Ways.
bronze · 1.6 Update · optional
Get 1st place in the Stardew Valley Fair competition.
Win first place in the grange display at the Stardew Valley Fair on Fall 16. Enter Pelican Town between 9am and 3pm with nine display items, place them in the empty stand and tell Lewis we are ready for judging.
A winning display needs at least 90 points. Fill all nine slots and cover at least six of the eight scoring categories. Quality and base value matter, so keep valuable gold or iridium examples in advance.
| Category | Useful examples to save |
|---|---|
| Animal products | Large Milk, Large Goat Milk, Duck Egg or Rabbit's Foot |
| Artisan goods | Cheese, Goat Cheese, Truffle Oil or Wine |
| Cooking | A valuable cooked dish such as Pink Cake |
| Fish | Gold or iridium high-value fish |
| Forage, flowers and tree products | Purple Mushroom or a good-quality flower |
| Fruit | Melon or Ancient Fruit |
| Minerals | Diamond |
| Vegetables | Pumpkin or Cauliflower |
Choose six or more categories, then fill spare slots with more valuable goods. A dependable later-farm option is nine iridium items worth at least 200g each, which supplies enough quality/value points even without category variety. Choose the varied display if that stock is not available.
Read the judging result and take the first-place reward. Recover all nine display items before leaving. A loss can be retried by reloading that morning before sleeping, or at the next year's fair. Ordinary first place is required, not Lewis's shorts blackmail result.
bronze · 1.6 Update · optional
Delight the Governor.
Bring a gold-quality Cauliflower to the Luau on Summer 11. Save one from spring before selling the crop. Gold-quality Large Milk is another straightforward best-response ingredient.
Enter the beach between 9am and 2pm with the ingredient, interact with the soup pot to add it, then speak to Lewis to begin the tasting. The Governor must give the best response, not merely call it good.
Quality matters. Normal Cauliflower does not substitute for the gold version in this route. Do not add a cooked meal or Lewis's shorts. In multiplayer, every player must add an eligible best-response ingredient, as a missing or bad contribution can spoil the result.
If the response is wrong, reload the morning before sleeping or return next year with the correct item.
Bus repair opens Calico Desert, Sandy's seeds and Skull Cavern. Take the Skull Key from floor 120 of the normal Mines before entering the cavern.
After restoring the Community Center, follow A Distant Shore to repair Willy's boat. Even if we are only chasing the base platinum, the current all-recipe requirements need Ginger Island.
Restore the island farmhouse, open the trader and resort, visit the Volcano merchant and reach its Forge. Use the Golden Joja Parrot's paid Walnut route if preferred. Keep working on Professor Snail's fossils separately, as bought Walnuts do not grant the crafting recipe from his collection.
Reach level 10 in all five skills, then continue earning XP for all five mastery rewards. Start the Giant Stump's raccoon requests after the Greenhouse and windstorm event. Its weekly waits can run alongside the other collections.
Maintain the main farm's crops and relationships between island trips. This is also a good point to marry and begin the child wait in Full House.
silver
Cook 25 different recipes.
Cook 25 different recipes yourself. Repeating a single cheap dish does not advance the variety requirement.
Use the Cooking page in Collections to find dishes not yet cooked, and learn more from the TV, friendships, shops and skill levels. Gourmet Chef gives the full route and the island recipes that old lists omit.
bronze
Upgrade your house to the maximum size.
Order the second farmhouse upgrade from Robin after finishing the first. On version 1.6 it costs 65,000g and 100 Hardwood. Wait for construction to finish.
This adds the nursery and is enough for this trophy. The later 100,000g cellar and optional room renovations are not required for this trophy. The cellar is still needed to learn Cask for Craft Master. Keep the crib if you are still working on Full House.
Upgrade the Axe to Steel and remove the large log at the northwestern corner of Cindersap Forest to enter the Secret Woods. Its six large stumps regrow daily and provide Hardwood for the order.
bronze · 1.6 Update · optional
Reach Ginger Island.
Finish the Community Center or all five Joja development projects, then read Willy's letter inviting us to the back room of his Fish Shop. Enter the door behind his counter and inspect the broken boat.
Bring 200 Hardwood, five Iridium Bars and five Battery Packs. Interact with the hull, anchor and ticket machine to deliver the matching repairs. Sleep for Willy and Robin's restoration scene, then return to the back room and pay 1,000g for a ticket.
Ride the boat and arrive on Ginger Island. A different scheduled overnight scene can delay the repair scene, so sleep another night if necessary. The boat ticket includes the return journey.
For the Hardwood, use the Steel Axe in the Secret Woods. Lightning Rods left outside during storms supply Battery Packs. Smelt Iridium Ore from Skull Cavern or use a developed farm's existing supply for the bars.
Bring a Watering Can, Pickaxe, weapon and healing food on exploration trips. Follow Leo east from the dock into the jungle. Take the Walnut from the bush beside the stairs to Leo's hut, climb to his hut and give its parrot one Walnut to open the northern route.
Walk north to the Volcano. The Golden Joja Parrot west of the Volcano can collect remaining Walnuts for 10,000g per missing Walnut. It is available on a Community Center farm too. This is my direct alternative if we would rather fund the unlocks than follow 130 hidden pickups. Sleep after paying to receive them.
Use Walnuts to open the west farm for ten, restore its farmhouse for 20, then unlock the Island Trader for ten and the beach resort for 20. The farmhouse lets us sleep on the island. The resort opens the southeast beach and Pirate Cove.
Enter the Volcano with the Watering Can and pour water onto lava to make a crossing. Find each floor's exit and stand on the pressure switches when a gate is locked. Floor 5 has the Dwarf merchant. Reach floor 10 for the Forge, then open its shortcut back to the entrance.
These areas support the current cooking, crafting, fish and monster collections as well as the update trophies.
Use Master Angler for all 72 catch entries, Gourmet Chef for the current 81 dishes and Craft Master for the 149 required crafted items. Their counts apply to this version, so a fully checked old launch-era list can still be incomplete.
Order the 100,000g cellar upgrade to learn Cask, then craft one even though the room comes with free Casks. Keep Emily and Shane in the cooking friendships, as their mailed recipes are required too.
Donate all 95 museum items, claim its reward and find all seven Stardrops. Check the Guild wall and finish each of its 12 monster targets. Bring a developed loadout and food to the Volcano and Skull Cavern grinds.
Grow and process enough high-value crops for ten million lifetime earnings. Keep spending on useful upgrades, as the earnings trophies do not need that much cash held at once.
Finish eight ten-heart friendships and 20 five-heart friendships, 40 requests and both children. Track these on the same main farm. Use the collection and crafted-count screens to identify the actual gaps instead of repeating completed work.
gold · grind
Earn 10,000,000g
Earn 10,000,000g in total on a single farm. The total earned value on the Inventory screen matters, not the amount currently in your wallet. Separate farms do not combine their earnings.
Build a repeatable income loop. Grow Ancient Fruit or Starfruit under sprinklers in the Greenhouse and later on the island, then process the fruit in Kegs. Farming level 8 unlocks Kegs. Choose Tiller at Farming 5 and Artisan at Farming 10 for the artisan-goods price bonus. Keep Oak trees tapped for the Oak Resin needed to expand the Keg supply.
The first Ancient Seed artifact can be donated to Gunther for a plantable seed and its recipe. Grow that plant somewhere it survives the season change, then use a Seed Maker to expand it. Starfruit Seeds are sold by Sandy after repairing the bus and grow in summer outdoors, or year-round in the Greenhouse and on Ginger Island.
Harvest, refill machines and ship each batch. Wine does not need to be aged to make this work. A cellar is an optional slower bonus, not a requirement to sell profitable wine. Continue checking the lifetime total while spending on the other trophies.
silver · collectible · grind
Complete the museum collection.
Donate all 95 museum items to Gunther, then collect the Stardrop reward at his counter. The museum is in southeastern Pelican Town, below Clint's Blacksmith. Its collection is 42 artifacts and 53 minerals.
Carry new finds to Gunther before selling them. An undonated object's description tells you that Gunther can explain it. The Artifacts and Minerals pages in Collections record discoveries, not proof of donation, so compare the displays as well.
Use these routes to fill the gaps:
| Missing group | Where to work |
|---|---|
| Common minerals | Break gem nodes and open Geodes, Frozen Geodes and Magma Geodes at Clint's |
| Remaining geode minerals | Open Omni Geodes, keeping duplicates for later trades |
| Most artifacts | Hoe the wriggling artifact spots around the valley and open fishing treasure chests |
| Rare artifact gaps | Trade five Omni Geodes for an Artifact Trove at the Desert Trader, then open the trove at Clint's |
| Dwarf Scrolls | Fight monsters and hoe dirt in the Mines, with the fourth scroll also found in deeper mine soil |
| Dinosaur Egg | Search fishing chests, mountain artifact spots and Pepper Rex drops in Skull Cavern |
| Prismatic Shard | Search deep Skull Cavern ore, Mystic Stones and monster drops after reaching the Mines' bottom |
Keep the first useful Prismatic Shard for a Galaxy Sword if combat is holding you back. Incubate a first Dinosaur Egg in an upgraded Coop if you want renewable eggs, then donate a later one.
There are more display spaces than donations, so a few empty tiles are normal. The Stardrop reward is the reliable completion check and also advances Mystery Of The Stardrops.
silver · grind
Reach a 10-heart friend level with 8 people.
Have eight people at ten hearts on the same farm. I recommend eight non-datable villagers so we can reach ten without buying Bouquets or managing several dating relationships.
Use these as a practical group. Their homes give us a repeatable visiting route, while the gifts can come from farming, cooking and fishing:
| Villager | Where to start looking | Useful gift |
|---|---|---|
| Linus | Tent north of Robin's | Coconut or Cactus Fruit |
| Robin | Carpenter's Shop in the mountains | Spaghetti from Gus |
| Demetrius | Robin's house and nearby lake | Strawberry |
| Pam | Trailer, then the bus stop after repair | Parsnip |
| Lewis | Mayor's Manor, south of Pierre's | Hot Pepper |
| Evelyn | House east of Pierre's | Tulip |
| George | Evelyn's house | Leek |
| Gus | Stardrop Saloon | Orange |
These are liked or loved gifts, not a claim that every item gives the same points. Speak daily, give two gifts each week and prioritise a loved birthday gift. The Social tab shows both hearts and this week's gift marks. Visit the Saloon in the evening to catch several people together.
Do not replace these relationships with dating candidates at eight hearts. Eight is their normal cap, but this trophy needs ten. Keep the eight finished friendships while working on Popular.
bronze · grind
Reach a 5-heart friend level with 20 people.
Reach five hearts with 20 people on the same farm. Make this a weekly routine rather than leaving all the gifts until the end.
Talk whenever you pass someone, keep a stack of liked gifts and use the birthday calendar. Universal likes such as most vegetables and fruit-tree fruit are useful, but have exceptions. Check the person's gift history in Social after gifting instead of assuming every villager likes the same item. A bad reaction means we should change gifts.
Keep the eight ten-heart friends from The Beloved Farmer, then add 12 others. Datable villagers can count at five hearts without a Bouquet. Kent arrives in Year 2, Sandy becomes available after bus repair, and island progress adds Leo, so later progress gives more choices.
For Dwarf friendship, first donate all four Dwarf Scrolls and claim the translation guide at the museum. Krobus becomes reachable after Gunther awards the Rusty Key for 60 donations. Marlon, Gil, Gunther and Morris are not ordinary giftable friendship targets.
Check that 20 people actually show five hearts or more together. Keep talking to unfinished villagers so decay does not quietly undo part of the list.
silver · collectible · grind
Cook every recipe.
Learn and cook all 81 dishes on the current PS4 version. Buying or receiving a finished meal does not count. Use a kitchen after the first farmhouse upgrade. Keep ingredients in the fridge or your inventory, select each recipe and cook at least one.
A Distant Shore is part of the cooking route even though the island arrival trophy belongs to the update group. The Volcano Dwarf is on floor 5 and requires the Dwarvish Translation Guide. The resort costs 20 Golden Walnuts after the island farmhouse is restored. Gus is not there every day, so return when he visits.
The Cooking page in Collections records dishes actually cooked. At the stove, an unknown recipe shows a silhouette and ???, while a known recipe lists its ingredients. Learn missing recipes first, then gather what their tooltips request.
Keep seasonal crops, foraged mushrooms, tree fruit, eggs, milk and several of each fish rather than selling everything. Put valuable fish somewhere other than the fridge before cooking recipes that accept any fish. Grow island fruit and Taro Root once the island farm is open.
Cook one of every remaining dish. If the list stalls, check Leo's mail, Gus's island recipe, the TV cookbook and Moss Soup before repeating meals you already made.
gold · collectible · grind
Craft every item.
Learn and personally craft all 149 required recipes on the current PS4 version. The Wedding Ring is excluded, including in multiplayer. Do not use an old 1.0 checklist.
Turn on Options → Show Advanced Crafting Information. Open Crafting with , highlight a recipe and check its crafted count. Make at least one of each. A machine obtained as a reward still needs to be crafted separately.
After the first two farmhouse upgrades, order Robin's third upgrade for 100,000g and let the cellar finish. It teaches Cask. The 33 Casks supplied with the cellar do not count as crafting, so make one yourself from 20 Wood and one Hardwood. The nursery alone is enough for Living Large, but not for this all-recipe requirement.
Reach level 10 in all five skills and claim all five mastery rewards in the Cindersap Forest cave. Continue gaining XP after level 10 to fill the mastery bar. The mastery rewards add recipes such as the Heavy Furnace, Mystic Tree Seed, Treasure Totem, Challenge Bait, Anvil and Mini-Forge.
Buy every recipe offered by these merchants:
| Seller | What to check |
|---|---|
| Robin | All paths, floors, braziers, lamp-posts, Big Chest and the remaining recipe stock. Reopen the shop after buying a brazier because later ones appear in sequence |
| Pierre | Grass Starter and Dehydrator |
| Willy | Fish Smoker |
| Dwarf in the Mines | Weathered Floor and Big Stone Chest |
| Krobus in the Sewers | Crystal Floor and Wicked Statue |
| Desert Trader | Warp Totem: Desert recipe for ten Iridium Bars |
| Volcano Dwarf, floor 5 | Warp Totem: Island recipe for 10,000g |
| Island Trader | Deluxe Retaining Soil recipe for 50 Cinder Shards |
| Qi's Walnut Room | Deluxe Fertilizer, Hyper Speed-Gro, Magic Bait, Heavy Tapper, Hopper and Blue Grass Starter recipes |
The Dwarves require all four museum scroll donations and the claimed translation guide. The Mines Dwarf is behind the rock at the right of the entrance floor. Break that rock with a Steel Pickaxe or a bomb. Krobus requires the Rusty Key from 60 donations. Follow A Distant Shore for the island and Perfection for Walnut Room access and Qi Gems. Buy the recipe, not just a finished item.
From Fall 2, Year 1, check the Special Orders board below Lewis's house every Monday. Finish these orders and read the reward mail:
| Order | Recipe |
|---|---|
| A Curious Substance, Wizard | Mini-Obelisk |
| Prismatic Jelly, Wizard | Monster Musk |
| Cave Patrol, Clint | Geode Crusher |
| Aquatic Overpopulation or Biome Balance, Demetrius | Farm Computer |
| Fragments of the Past, Gunther | Bone Mill |
| Community Cleanup, Linus | Fiber Seeds |
| Robin's Resource Rush | Stone Chest |
| Juicy Bugs Wanted!, Willy | Quality Bobber |
| Island Ingredients, Caroline | Solar Panel |
Accept an order before gathering items it says must be fresh. Use its Journal objectives for the quantity and delivery box. Failed orders return in the pool, so wait for another posting.
Buy Tub o' Flowers recipe at the Flower Dance on Spring 24 and Jack-O-Lantern recipe at Spirit's Eve on Fall 27. Missing a festival means waiting until the next year, not restarting the farm.
Collect all eight Rarecrows for the Deluxe Scarecrow recipe. Their sources are the Fair token shop, Spirit's Eve, Casino, Traveling Cart in fall or winter, Flower Dance, Dwarf, 20 museum artifacts and 40 total museum donations. Keep them until the recipe arrives in the mail. The winter Festival of Ice also sells the Traveling Cart's Rarecrow.
For the Casino Rarecrow, first complete The Mysterious Qi. Put a Battery Pack in the wall box inside the tunnel west of the Bus Stop, then follow the notes by putting a Rainbow Shell in the Railroad station box, ten Beets in Lewis's fridge and a Solar Essence in the desert sand dragon's mouth. Inspect the woodpile beside the farmhouse for the Club Card. Enter through the back of Sandy's shop and buy the Rarecrow for 10,000 Qi Coins. The exchange machine can supply those coins for 100,000g if you do not want to gamble. Save a Rainbow Shell from the beach in summer for the train-platform step. It is a different item from the winter Nautilus Shell.
On Ginger Island, complete Birdie's item exchange for Fairy Dust and Professor Snail's fossil collection and surveys for Ostrich Incubator. Their local steps are below.
Speak to Birdie at the far west of the island farm. Pass her War Memento to Kent, then carry each resulting item through Gus → Sandy → George → Wizard → Willy → Birdie. The last delivery gives Fairy Dust's recipe.
Pay ten Walnuts to repair the Dig Site bridge north of the island farm. Bomb the blocked cave there to free Professor Snail, then visit his tent. Donate the fossil pieces and answer the surveys, 22 purple flowers and 18 purple starfish.
| Fossil | Method |
|---|---|
| Two legs and ribs | Break Dig Site bone nodes |
| Skull | Open Golden Coconuts at Clint's |
| Spine | Fish in the Dig Site river |
| Tail | Pan the Dig Site river's sparkling spots |
| Snake skull | Dig western island artifact spots or fish in the west |
| Two snake vertebrae | Dig western island artifact spots. Keep soil there accessible |
| Mummified Frog | Cut jungle weeds east of the dock |
| Mummified Bat | Break rocks in the Volcano Dungeon |
Shake island palm trees with visible coconuts and dig island artifact spots for Golden Coconuts, then have Clint process them. After opening the first one, the Island Trader also exchanges ten ordinary Coconuts for another. Keep opening them until the fossilized skull appears.
Bring a Pan for the fossilized tail. After the Community Center's Fish Tank removes the Glittering Boulder, enter the mountain area for Willy's panning scene and Copper Pan. A replacement is sold at his Fish Shop. Equip it and use beside a sparkling water patch in the Dig Site river.
Claim the final office reward to learn Ostrich Incubator. Buying Walnuts does not complete these fossil donations for us.
Known recipes alone are not enough. Work through every Crafting page and make each zero-count recipe. Save uncommon materials such as Marble, a Dwarf Gadget, Dragon Teeth and Radioactive Ore. The dangerous Mines unlock the radioactive materials through Danger in the Deep.
If every visible recipe has a count, revisit the acquisition list. Unknown crafting recipes do not all appear as obvious empty slots. The Deluxe Scarecrow, festival decorations, island quest rewards and mastery recipes are common final gaps.
silver · collectible · grind
Catch every fish.
Catch all 72 entries in the current Fishing collection on one farmer. This includes the five original legendary fish, Crab Pot catches, algae, Seaweed and the three jellies. Qi's Extended Family fish are excluded.
Bought fish, forage picked up on the beach and Fish Pond harvests do not replace catching an entry yourself. Use Collections → Fish as the checklist. A newly caught entry becomes coloured.
Get Willy's rod after his opening letter. Cast with , then tap or hold and release that button to keep the green fishing bar over the fish until the catch meter fills. Short taps are easier to control than long holds.
Raise Fishing to 10 and buy the Iridium Rod from Willy once it is available at Fishing 6. Add bait and a Trap Bobber for hard catches. Fishing food raises the bar's size. A Seafoam Pudding can help with the legendaries. Avoid the Training Rod for the complete list, as many required catches cannot appear with it.
The table gives one practical route per entry, not every possible alternative. Unstated weather means any weather. Time windows use the game's clock, and a season can be revisited in later years.
| Catch | Where and when |
|---|---|
| Anchovy | Ocean, spring or fall, any time |
| Sardine | Ocean, spring, fall or winter, 6am–7pm |
| Herring | Ocean, spring or winter, any time |
| Eel | Ocean, spring or fall rain, 4pm–2am |
| Flounder | Ocean, spring or summer, 6am–8pm |
| Halibut | Ocean, spring, summer or winter, 6am–11am or 7pm–2am |
| Pufferfish | Ocean, sunny summer, noon–4pm |
| Tuna | Ocean, summer or winter, 6am–7pm |
| Red Mullet | Ocean, summer or winter, 6am–7pm |
| Red Snapper | Ocean, summer or fall rain, 6am–7pm |
| Octopus | Ocean, summer, 6am–1pm |
| Tilapia | Ocean, summer or fall, 6am–2pm |
| Super Cucumber | Ocean, summer or fall, 6pm–2am |
| Sea Cucumber | Ocean, fall or winter, 6am–7pm |
| Albacore | Ocean, fall or winter, 6am–11am or 6pm–2am |
| Squid | Ocean, winter, 6pm–2am |
| Sunfish | Town or forest river, sunny spring or summer, 6am–7pm |
| Smallmouth Bass | Town river or forest pond, spring or fall, any time |
| Catfish | Town or forest river, spring or fall rain, 6am–midnight |
| Shad | Town or forest river, spring, summer or fall rain, 9am–2am |
| Rainbow Trout | River or mountain lake, sunny summer, 6am–7pm |
| Dorado | Forest river, summer, 6am–7pm |
| Pike | Town or forest river or forest pond, summer or winter, any time |
| Salmon | Town or forest river, fall, 6am–7pm |
| Tiger Trout | Town or forest river, fall or winter, 6am–7pm |
| Walleye | River, forest pond or mountain lake, fall rain, noon–2am |
| Perch | River, forest pond or mountain lake, winter, any time |
| Lingcod | Town or forest river or mountain lake, winter, any time |
| Bream | Town or forest river, all seasons, 6pm–2am |
| Largemouth Bass | Mountain lake, all seasons, 6am–7pm |
| Bullhead | Mountain lake, all seasons, any time |
| Carp | Mountain lake, spring, summer or fall, any time |
| Chub | Mountain lake or forest river, all seasons, any time |
| Sturgeon | Mountain lake, summer or winter, 6am–7pm |
| Midnight Carp | Mountain lake or forest pond, fall or winter, 10pm–2am |
| Goby | Lower waterfall pool east of the Hat Mouse's house in southern Cindersap Forest, any season or time |
| Woodskip | Secret Woods pond, any season or time. Steel Axe removes its entrance log |
| Ghostfish | Mines floor 20 or 60 pond, any time |
| Stonefish | Mines floor 20 pond, any time |
| Ice Pip | Mines floor 60 pond, any time |
| Lava Eel | Mines floor 100 lava pool, any time |
| Sandfish | Calico Desert pond by Sandy's shop, 6am–8pm |
| Scorpion Carp | Same desert pond, 6am–8pm, Fishing level 4 |
| Slimejack | Mutant Bug Lair in the Sewers, any time |
| Void Salmon | Witch's Swamp reached from the Railroad cave, any time |
| Lionfish | Ginger Island ocean, any season or time |
| Blue Discus | Ginger Island freshwater, any season or time |
| Stingray | Pirate Cove pool, any season or time |
| Midnight Squid, Spook Fish, Blobfish | Night Market submarine, Winter 15–17. Enter 5pm–11pm and pay 1,000g |
| Crimsonfish | Summer, Fishing 5. Repair the beach bridge with 300 Wood and cast well out from the eastern pier |
| Angler | Fall, Fishing 3. Stand on the small wooden bridge north of JojaMart and fish into the river |
| Legend | Rainy spring, Fishing 10. Cast into mountain-lake water at least four tiles from every shore, near the submerged log |
| Glacierfish | Winter, Fishing 6. Stand on the southernmost tip of Arrowhead Island in Cindersap Forest and cast south at least three tiles from land |
| Mutant Carp | Sewers, any season or time. Donate 60 museum items and receive the Rusty Key |
| Lobster, Crab, Cockle, Mussel, Shrimp, Oyster, Clam | Collect from baited ocean Crab Pots |
| Crayfish, Snail, Periwinkle | Collect from baited freshwater Crab Pots |
| Seaweed, Sea Jelly | Catch with a rod in the ocean |
| Green Algae, River Jelly | Catch with a rod in freshwater |
| White Algae, Cave Jelly | Catch with a rod in the Mines. Floor 100 also works for Cave Jelly |
After completing the Community Center or Joja projects, enter the Railroad area for the Wizard's Dark Talisman introduction. Speak to Krobus in the Sewers so he opens the Mutant Bug Lair at the northwest side. Fish there for Slimejack and take the talisman from its chest.
Return to the Railroad cave, remove its blockage and use the portal to the Witch's Swamp for Void Salmon. We do not need to enter the Witch's Hut just to fish in the swamp.
For Stingray, follow A Distant Shore. On Ginger Island, restore the island farmhouse, then pay 20 Golden Walnuts for the beach resort. The opened southeast beach leads east into Pirate Cove. Stingray can be caught inside without waiting for a pirate party.
Crab Pots need bait and a daily collection. Keep pots in both saltwater and freshwater until all ten entries register. Physically collect the catches yourself.
Check the collection after each trip, especially the three jellies and the less obvious Crab Pot shellfish. Catch algae with a rod rather than relying on monster drops.
The four seasonal legendary fish also have minimum Fishing levels. Food buffs can meet those thresholds, but they do not remove location requirements. Use a long cast for Crimsonfish, Legend and Glacierfish. The Angler has no deep-water requirement.
If a weather or seasonal window has passed, wait for its next occurrence. Later, Magic Bait from Qi's Walnut Room bypasses time, weather and season restrictions while preserving the relevant water and other access requirements. Willy mails a Stardrop after the complete catch collection.
silver
Complete 40 'Help Wanted' requests.
Complete 40 requests on the same farmer. Use Pierre's Help Wanted board for short deliveries and the Special Orders board below Lewis's house for the crafting-recipe work.
Read the accepted Journal entry. Some jobs require fresh catches or newly gathered materials, while deliveries may require placing items in a box rather than handing them to a person. Claim the reward when the job is complete.
There is no limit on the number of days we can take overall. If a request expires, accept a replacement. Check each Monday for a useful Special Order while finishing Craft Master.
gold · collectible · grind
Ship every item.
Ship at least one of every entry in Collections → Items Shipped using the farm Shipping Bin or a Mini-Shipping Bin. Direct shop sales do not count. The current 1.6 collection includes island and mastery-related products, so the old mainland list is insufficient.
Open the collection and inspect missing silhouettes. Once an item has been shipped, its name and quantity provide the running checklist. This trophy does not mean selling every fish, cooked dish, mineral or tool in the game.
Build the sources of the uncommon entries:
| Missing type | What to set up |
|---|---|
| Eggs, milk and later animal products | Upgrade Coops and Barns. Keep both chicken egg colours, ducks, rabbits, goats and pigs, then process their products as needed |
| Dinosaur Mayonnaise | Incubate a Dinosaur Egg in a Big or Deluxe Coop, then process a produced egg in a Mayonnaise Machine |
| Caviar and Aged Roe | Put a Sturgeon in a Fish Pond and age its Roe in a Preserves Jar. Use another fish's Roe for ordinary Aged Roe |
| Void products | Buy a Void Egg from Krobus and incubate it, then process an egg |
| Ostrich Egg | Finish Professor Snail's collection for the incubator, then hatch the egg found by following Journal Scrap 10 |
| Island produce | Grow Pineapple, Taro Root, Banana and Mango, gather Ginger and Magma Caps |
| Radioactive Ore and Bar | Enter the dangerous Mines, mine the green nodes and smelt five ore with Coal |
| Mystic Syrup | Claim Foraging Mastery, plant a Mystic Tree Seed, let it mature and attach a Tapper |
| Raisins and other dried products | Put five Grapes, five other fruit or five edible mushrooms into a Dehydrator |
| Smoked Fish | Process a fish with Coal in a Fish Smoker |
| New seasonal crops | Find and grow Carrot, Summer Squash, Broccoli and Powdermelon seeds in their seasons |
Not every animal product needs every quality level. Match the actual collection entries rather than producing all possible variations of Wine or Jelly.
Ship a spare of each first-time material and product before selling its whole stock. Save seasonal forage and rare crops, then check the remaining silhouettes after the overnight shipping summary. Follow Craft Master for the quest and mastery prerequisites.
For the first Ostrich Egg, collect and read island Journal Scraps through Scrap 10. Dig in the sand by the curved palm southwest of the Volcano entrance, just inside the palm's loop. Put the egg into an Ostrich Incubator placed inside a Barn, not the Coop's incubator. Ship a later egg once the bird is producing. Keep the first egg out of the kitchen fridge so it cannot be consumed by an ordinary egg recipe.
gold · collectible
Find every stardrop.
Consume all seven Stardrops on one farmer. They are permanent energy upgrades, not the Starfruit crop. The normal maximum energy rises from 270 to 508 when all seven are collected.
| Stardrop | How to obtain it |
|---|---|
| Mines | Open the floor 100 chest on the normal Mines route |
| Fair | Buy it for 2,000 Star Tokens at the Fall 16 fair |
| Relationship | Reach 12.5 hearts with a spouse or Krobus as roommate |
| Krobus's shop | Pay 20,000g in the Sewers after receiving the Rusty Key for 60 museum donations |
| Old Master Cannoli | Give the statue in the Secret Woods a Sweet Gem Berry |
| Fishing | Read Willy's mail after Master Angler |
| Museum | Claim Gunther's reward after A Complete Collection |
For Cannoli, buy a Rare Seed from the Traveling Cart in spring or summer. Plant it early in fall, water it through its 24-day growth, and bring the Sweet Gem Berry to the statue at the northwest of the Secret Woods. A Steel Axe clears the entrance log. Speak to the statue again after the offering to receive its reward.
For the Fair purchase, earn tokens from the grange contest and repeatable fishing minigame. Blue Ribbon supplies a winning display plan.
Keep speaking to and gifting the spouse after marriage until the relationship Stardrop is given. Only one relationship Stardrop counts, so divorce and remarriage do not create extra ones. If a gap remains, check energy on the Skills tab and retrace the seven sources rather than hunting random drops.
bronze · grind
Get married and have two kids
Marry a villager and have two children on the same farm. Same-gender marriages can adopt children and satisfy the trophy. Krobus as roommate does not provide the marriage-and-two-children route.
Raise a datable villager to eight hearts, give a Bouquet bought from Pierre for 200g, then reach ten hearts. Complete Robin's first farmhouse upgrade. Repair the bridge at the beach with 300 Wood so the eastern tidal pools are accessible.
On a rainy day, buy a Mermaid's Pendant for 5,000g from the Old Mariner at the eastern beach. Give it to the intended partner and attend the wedding. Winter normally needs a Rain Totem for the Mariner to appear.
Order the second farmhouse upgrade for the nursery, as explained in Living Large. Keep the crib and enough beds for both children.
Maintain at least ten hearts with the spouse. After at least seven married days, there is a chance of the child question when going to sleep. Answer yes. The birth or adoption follows 14 days later.
The first child must reach the toddler stage, 56 days after arrival, before another child can be requested. Keep the relationship healthy, sleep normally, accept the second request and wait another 14 days for the second child.
The questions are random, so there is no fixed completion night. If they never appear, check the nursery, crib, spouse's hearts and the first child's age. Do not remove the crib or divorce while waiting.
silver · grind
Reach level 10 in every skill.
Reach natural level 10 in all five original skills on one farmer. Check the Skills tab. Food bonuses and mastery levels are separate.
| Skill | Repeatable work |
|---|---|
| Farming | Harvest crops and care for farm animals |
| Mining | Break rocks and ore nodes yourself |
| Foraging | Pick up forage and cut trees and stumps |
| Fishing | Catch fish and collect baited Crab Pots |
| Combat | Kill monsters in the Mines, Skull Cavern and Volcano |
The collection route supplies most of this naturally. Combat and Foraging often need extra work. Use the Secret Woods stumps for daily Hardwood and Foraging XP, and work towards Protector Of The Valley while raising Combat.
Once all five show level 10, enter the Mastery Cave behind the door in southern Cindersap Forest. Further XP fills mastery progress. Claim those rewards for the later crafting requirements, but mastery itself is not an extra skill needed for this trophy.
silver · grind
Complete all of the Adventure Guild Monster Slayer goals.
Finish all 12 Monster Eradication Goals on the wall to the right of Marlon's counter in the Adventurer's Guild, east of the Mines. Complete Marlon's early slay-Slimes introduction to enter. Check the wall and speak to Gil for earned rewards.
| Target | Needed | Practical hunting area |
|---|---|---|
| Slimes | 1,000 | Mines and Skull Cavern. Slime Hutch and Big Slimes do not count |
| Void Spirits | 150 | Mines floors 81–119 |
| Bats | 200 | Mines, including the frozen floors |
| Skeletons | 50 | Mines floors 71–79 |
| Cave Insects | 80 | Early Mines and Mutant Bug Lair |
| Duggies | 30 | Dirt patches on Mines floors 6–29 |
| Dust Sprites | 500 | Mines floors 41–79 |
| Rock Crabs | 60 | Crab enemies disguised as rocks in Mines and Skull Cavern |
| Mummies | 100 | Skull Cavern |
| Pepper Rex | 50 | Skull Cavern prehistoric floors |
| Serpents | 250 | Skull Cavern |
| Magma Sprites | 150 | Volcano Dungeon, including Magma Sparkers |
Use the elevator to revisit productive mine bands, leave through the entrance and re-enter for fresh floors. Monster Musk from the Wizard's Prismatic Jelly order increases monster spawns and helps the larger counts.
Mummies must be knocked down with a weapon and then destroyed by an explosion before they revive. A Crusader-enchanted weapon can kill them directly. For Pepper Rex, stay out of its fire breath, strike from the side and search for more prehistoric floors. Do not staircase past every dinosaur floor while farming the other Skull Cavern materials.
Take healing food and a strong weapon, and check the wall again before grinding an enemy already finished. The last required kill completes the trophy.
Play Journey of the Prairie King at the Saloon. A normal clear earns Prairie King and sends a home cabinet the following morning.
Practise movement, coin collection and buying bullet upgrades. Then begin a new run for Fector's Challenge. Read its save sequence before attempting the harder screens.
Clear a screen without dying, enter the next screen, leave the arcade and sleep to preserve the good checkpoint. After a death, quit to the title screen and reload the farm without sleeping. Choose Continue to replay from the morning's preserved checkpoint.
Do arcade attempts before valuable daily farm work, since a reload discards the rest of that unsaved day. There is no need to clear Hard Mode.
bronze
Beat 'Journey Of The Prairie King'.
Beat the normal Journey of the Prairie King game on the arcade cabinet in the Stardrop Saloon. Enter after the Saloon opens at noon and interact with the cabinet. This trophy allows deaths. Hard Mode is unnecessary.
Move with the left stick and fire with the right stick. Clear the timed enemy waves, defeat the two cowboy encounters, then defeat Fector in the graveyard world. Keep shooting while moving, leave space to retreat and collect coins when the route to them is safe.
Spend coins on bullet damage and fire rate at the travelling merchant. The first bullet upgrade costs 15 and the first fire-rate upgrade costs 10. Damage upgrades make a large difference against later enemies. Use power-ups to escape a surround rather than losing every life while saving an item.
Current versions save arcade progress when entering the next screen. Exit after a successful level, sleep in the farmhouse to save the day, then return and choose Continue. The detailed checkpoint method and boss advice are in Fector's Challenge.
Winning sends a home arcade cabinet in the next day's mail. Place it indoors to practise without waiting for the Saloon.
silver · difficulty
Beat 'Journey Of The Prairie King' without dying.
Complete one normal Journey of the Prairie King run with zero deaths recorded in that run. Practise first using Prairie King. A won practice run also gives a home cabinet, which makes retries more convenient.
The arcade checkpoint and the farm's overnight save are different. Use single-player for this method so we can reload the farm cleanly.
Reloading discards everything done since that morning, so do the arcade attempt before valuable farm work. Do not sleep after a death and overwrite the good checkpoint. If the death was already saved, start a new arcade run for this trophy.
Collect coins without walking into a surround. Buy the first bullet-damage upgrade for 15 coins and first fire-rate upgrade for 10 during the prairie world. Aim for the second bullet upgrade, costing 30, during the forest world. A saved screen with very poor coin drops can be retried by reloading the farm before sleeping.
Keep moving and firing through open lanes. The third world's flying enemies cross obstacles, so kill nearby flyers before concentrating on the slower ground crowd. Farm luck and luck food do not improve this arcade's drops.
At each cowboy boss, use the cover near the top. Step out to provoke a volley, retreat, then shoot diagonally when the boss pauses outside cover. Stay out of the bullets rather than chasing every damage window.
For Fector, keep a rapid-fire or Sheriff Badge power-up if possible. Begin firing down towards him, move slightly off his opening vertical shot line and continue dealing damage while avoiding the later radial volleys. When he summons enemies, clear anything cutting off the retreat. The Tombstone does not protect against boss bullets.
Entering the boss screen gives a checkpoint too. Preserve it with the same overnight method so failed boss attempts do not require replaying the preceding waves. Defeat Fector from a deathless checkpoint. No Hard Mode clear is required.
Create a second farm and leave the main farm available in Load. Build an income, then follow Joja Co. Member Of The Year to purchase membership and all five developments.
Sleep after each project and attend the final Joja ceremony. This shorter branch farm does not need the main save's collections, relationships or island progress.
Check the base-game trophy group for any missing requirement. Once all other 40 base trophies are earned, Iridium Seal unlocks. The nine trophies under 1.6 Update can remain unfinished without blocking it.
platinum
This priceless treasure is the mark of a truly great farmer! Grandpa lives inside...
Earn the other 40 base-game trophies. The nine trophies in the 1.6 Update group are separate from the platinum.
I recommend keeping one main farm for the Community Center, collections, family and money goals. Use a second farm for the opposing Joja development trophy. The current PS4 version includes later cooking and crafting recipes, so even the base platinum takes us to Ginger Island and through the mastery unlocks.
The arcade game's deathless clear is the main skill check. Read Fector's Challenge before starting a serious attempt, as its daily save method makes failed stages recoverable.
bronze · missable
Become a Joja Co. member and purchase all the community development perks.
Use a separate farm from Local Legend. Do not replace a main Community Center farm just to earn this trophy.
Begin the new farm with ordinary settings and earn money through crops, fishing and later processed goods. Keep reinvesting in seeds and useful equipment until the farm can fund 140,000g in total. This total is 5,000g for membership and 135,000g in projects, paid over time.
After the Community Center has been introduced, speak to Morris at the JojaMart counter in eastern town and buy membership for 5,000g. The Center becomes the warehouse. Return the next day to access the Community Development Form.
| Project | Cost |
|---|---|
| Minecarts | 15,000g |
| Panning boulder | 20,000g |
| Quarry bridge | 25,000g |
| Greenhouse | 35,000g |
| Desert bus | 40,000g |
Only one project can be purchased per day. Sleep after each purchase so the work completes. I would buy the Greenhouse early if this farm needs a reliable year-round crop income. Projects already restored by completed Community Center rooms remain restored, but partial bundle work gives no discount.
After all five developments are finished, enter town on a sunny nonfestival day for Joja's completion ceremony. Check the trophy, then return to the main farm. The later 500,000g Movie Theater purchase is not one of the required five projects.
Return to the main farm for the 1.6 Update group. Finish the theater, Fair and Luau checks, read all 19 power books and complete the raccoon family's nine requests.
Use Qi's Walnut Room for Danger in the Deep and the gems needed for Infinite Power. Open the dangerous normal Mines, not just Skull Cavern's invasion.
For Perfection, inspect the tracker and close each remaining category. The standard route adds all maximum friendships, all Walnuts, four obelisks and the Gold Clock to the collection work already done. Its solution also explains the optional paid services and what they do not award.
Sleep after reaching 100%, then travel north of the Railroad to the Summit. This visit finishes the final update trophy. The farm stays playable afterwards.
silver · 1.6 Update · optional
Read every book.
Read all 19 power books. XP-only books and the Queen Of Sauce Cookbook do not count. Reading a book gives its power on the Special Items & Powers tab, and read copies show a thumbs-up mark.
The Bookseller visits twice per season on dates marked with a balloon on the calendar. Follow the path uphill behind JojaMart or the Movie Theater. Check the morning announcement and bring money.
| Required books | Reliable route |
|---|---|
| Price Catalogue | Bookseller, 3,000g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 1 | Bookseller, 15,000g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 2 | Bookseller, 35,000g after reading part 1 |
| Horse: The Book | Bookseller, 25,000g |
| Ol' Slitherlegs | Bookseller, 25,000g |
| Animal Catalogue | Marnie, 5,000g from Year 2 |
| The Diamond Hunter | Volcano Dwarf, ten Diamonds |
| Book of Mysteries | Have Clint open Mystery Boxes until it appears |
| The remaining 11 listed below | Original activities, or the Bookseller's rotating 20,000g stock from Year 3 |
The other 11 are The Alleyway Buffet, The Art O' Crabbing, Dwarvish Safety Manual, Jewels Of The Sea, Raccoon Journal, Woody's Secret, Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick, Friendship 101, Monster Compendium, Mapping Cave Systems and Treasure Appraisal Guide.
The Year 3 stock is a fallback, not all 11 books at every visit. Keep checking until every power is present. Many arrive naturally through monster kills, fishing treasure, chopping trees, artifact spots and the raccoon requests.
Mystery Boxes become available after Mr. Qi's plane appears in an overnight event, which can occur from Summer 22, Year 1, or after collecting the second Prize Ticket. Carry them to Clint and choose his geode-processing service to open them. Keep doing normal farm and exploration work for more boxes if the book does not drop.
The Diamond Hunter requires reaching floor 5 of the Volcano and understanding Dwarvish. Use Craft Master for the translation prerequisite. Buying a book is not the final step, so select and read every new one.
bronze · 1.6 Update · optional
See a movie.
Watch a film in the Movie Theater. I recommend building it on the main Community Center farm.
After the Center is finished, a rainy-night event opens the abandoned JojaMart. Enter and complete the Missing Bundle, which accepts five of these six offerings:
| Offering | Preparation |
|---|---|
| Silver-or-better Wine | Age ordinary Wine in a cellar Cask |
| Dinosaur Mayonnaise | Put a Dinosaur Egg in a Mayonnaise Machine |
| Prismatic Shard | Keep a spare from mining or combat |
| Five gold Ancient Fruit | Grow with quality fertilizer and save suitable harvests |
| Gold-or-better Void Salmon | Fish in the Witch's Swamp |
| Caviar | Put Sturgeon Roe into a Preserves Jar |
The theater is built overnight after the bundle. Buy a Movie Ticket for 1,000g at the booth, enter and walk to the screening area to watch the film. A guest is optional.
The easiest fixed five depend on your farm. Caviar, Wine and Dinosaur Mayonnaise can be produced repeatedly once their setup exists, so we do not have to sacrifice the only Prismatic Shard. Full Shipment covers their farm production and Master Angler opens the swamp.
On a Joja farm, Morris instead sells the theater for 500,000g after all five development projects. This is an alternative route, not an extra purchase needed on the Community Center farm.
bronze · 1.6 Update · optional · grind
Help your forest neighbors grow their family.
Finish nine item requests for the raccoon family at the Giant Stump west of Marnie's Ranch, then revisit Cindersap Forest on a sunny day for the family scene.
First restore the Greenhouse. An overnight strong-wind event can then fell the tree in northern Cindersap Forest. Inspect the resulting stump and bring 100 Hardwood to repair it. A raccoon moves in the next day.
Interact with him to see the two requested offerings. Deliver the exact items and quantities, then wait seven days for the next request. Keep visiting and completing requests until the family has eight children. The first request brings the wife, so simply counting visible family members is not the same as finishing nine requests.
The requests use current seasonal goods and processing machines. Prepare a Fish Smoker, Preserves Jar and Dehydrator. A smoked fish needs the named fish and Coal. Dried fruit or mushrooms normally use five matching ingredients per batch. Follow the icons for the requested type instead of handing over the raw version.
The tree event is random and requests are spaced apart, so start this while other collections are in progress. Missing a season does not destroy the questline. Check the displayed request again and grow or obtain its items when possible.
silver · 1.6 Update · optional · difficulty
Reach the bottom of the 'dangerous' mines.
Reach floor 120 of the dangerous version of the normal Mines. Skull Cavern's invasion is a different challenge.
Follow A Distant Shore, open the western island farm and collect enough Golden Walnuts to enter Qi's Walnut Room at the far northwest. The door requires 100 found Walnuts, not 100 held in the wallet. If it remains shut at that counter, collect one more, as the first introductory Walnut can be excluded from the gate's count.
Check Qi's board on Mondays until Danger In The Deep appears. Accept it. The normal Mines' elevator resets for the challenge, and we must descend to 120 within the remaining week. Accepting late in the week leaves fewer days.
Prepare a Galaxy weapon, healing food, bombs and a stock of Staircases. Staircases can be crafted from 99 Stone at Mining 2, or traded for Jade at the Desert Trader on Sundays. Around 120 gives a direct descent without relying on ladder drops. Reached five-floor elevator stops can still divide the work across days during the quest.
Go to the mountain Mines, not the desert. Descend until floor 120 and check the trophy and completed order. Do not waste the week fighting every enemy if the deadline is close.
Completing the order unlocks the Shrine of Challenge at floor 120. It lets the Mines stay dangerous after an overnight toggle. If the trophy needs a repeat trigger, activate the shrine, sleep, then return to floor 120 while the dangerous mode is active. Green nodes in this version provide Radioactive Ore for the remaining recipes.
silver · 1.6 Update · optional
Obtain the most powerful weapon.
Create an Infinity Blade, Infinity Dagger or Infinity Gavel. One is enough. I recommend the Infinity Blade because it begins with the Galaxy Sword.
Each soul costs 20 Cinder Shards to apply. The first two applications do not yet create the final weapon. After the third, its name and appearance change to Infinity Blade and the trophy unlocks.
Mine Cinder Shard nodes and fight Volcano enemies for the shards. Ordinary gem forging or a random enchantment alone does not count as an Infinity upgrade.
silver · 1.6 Update · optional · collectible · grind
Reach the summit.
Reach 100% on Qi's Perfection Tracker, sleep, then visit the Summit north of the Railroad. The nine update trophies are separate from the platinum, and this is the longest update goal.
Open Ginger Island through A Distant Shore, then reach Qi's Walnut Room at the northwest of Island West after finding 100 Golden Walnuts. The introductory Walnut may not count for its gate, so obtain one more if access remains blocked. Inspect the tracker statue inside.
| Category | What to finish |
|---|---|
| Produce and forage | Every entry in Full Shipment |
| Four obelisks | Earth, Water, Desert and Island Obelisks built on the main farm |
| Gold Clock | Build it on the main farm |
| Monster goals | All 12 goals in Protector Of The Valley |
| Great friends | Maximum friendship with all 34 eligible villagers, including Kent, Sandy, Dwarf, Krobus and Leo |
| Farmer level | All five skills at 10 |
| Stardrops | All seven in Mystery Of The Stardrops |
| Cooking | All 81 dishes in Gourmet Chef |
| Crafting | All 149 required items in Craft Master |
| Fishing | All 72 entries in Master Angler |
| Walnuts | All 130 Golden Walnuts |
For Great Friends, undated marriage candidates count as complete at eight hearts. Non-datable villagers need ten. Check every eligible Social entry. The children are excluded. Reading the power books and the deathless arcade clear are not themselves Perfection Tracker requirements.
The Golden Joja Parrot west of the Volcano can obtain the remaining Walnuts for 10,000g each, even on the Community Center route. Pay its quoted total and sleep. This is a complete paid alternative for the Walnut category, not a requirement to solve every island puzzle.
After Community Center or Joja completion, enter the Railroad to start Dark Talisman. Speak to Krobus in the Sewers, enter the newly opened Mutant Bug Lair at its northwest, and take the talisman from the far chest. Use it to open the Railroad cave and reach the swamp.
Give the blocking goblin a Void Mayonnaise, made from a Void Egg in a Mayonnaise Machine. Krobus sells Void Eggs. Enter the Witch's Hut, take the Magic Ink and return it to the Wizard. His tower's book then offers the magical buildings.
| Building | Gold and materials |
|---|---|
| Earth Obelisk | 500,000g, ten Iridium Bars, ten Earth Crystals |
| Water Obelisk | 500,000g, five Iridium Bars, ten Clams, ten Coral |
| Desert Obelisk | 1,000,000g, 20 Iridium Bars, ten Coconuts, ten Cactus Fruit |
| Island Obelisk | 1,000,000g, ten Iridium Bars, ten Dragon Teeth, ten Bananas |
| Gold Clock | 10,000,000g |
Build all five on the same main farm. The money loop in Legend can keep funding them after that trophy has unlocked.
Inspect each incomplete line on the tracker and finish it on the main save. If cooking or crafting looks complete but its percentage is low, unknown recipes can still be missing. Use those linked solutions' acquisition steps.
There is also an optional paid route. After inspecting the tracker, read Fizz's invitation and meet him in the mushroom cave at the Dig Site where Professor Snail was trapped. Each 500,000g Perfection Waiver adds one percentage point. Waivers can close remaining tracker percentage, but they do not award separate cooking, crafting, fishing or other trophies whose actions we skipped.
When the tracker reaches 100%, sleep. The next morning's rumbling message signals that the boulder beyond the Railroad has moved. Travel north through the Railroad to the Summit and view its scene. Merely reaching Grandpa's evaluation or earning the platinum does not replace this final visit.