The best pet gifts, ranked

Key recommendations

• Players can now adopt multiple pets
  Stardew Valley
  each species offering unique benefits and gifts.
• Certain items given by pets, such as pudding and sea foam cheese, have practical uses in quests, crafting, and as “nice gifts” for villagers.
• Pets give gifts such as the Rainbow Shell and Lobster, which are valuable and hard-to-obtain items.

Stardew ValleyThe 1.6 update introduced a wealth of new features to explore, including additional festivals, expanded villager dialogue, and new pet options. Players can now choose from five different species of cat or dog for their first pet, and can even adopt more once they've reached maximum friendship points with their original pet.

For 40,000g each, players can adopt additional cats or dogs FROM Marn's Ranch, along with two varieties of turtles – one priced at 60,000g and the other at 500,000g. Once players reach maximum friendship with each individual pet, the animals will begin leaving them gifts, with each species providing a unique set of items. This list ranks the best of those gifted items by utility and selling price.

10 Antique doll

An artifact that can be used in a secret event

• from: Dogs
• Chance: 0.28%
• Sale price: 60 g

The Antique doll is an artifact that can be donated to Stardew Valleyhis museum and is usually found in either artifact sites or a Artifact Trove. However, unlike other artifacts, this article unlocks a secret.

If a player throws an ancient doll into the lava pool on the 100th floor of the mines, they will receive a secret Terraria-themed item that can be used to craft a level 4 sword in the wizard's basement. An antique doll can also be given as a beloved gift Jas or as a nice gift for Penny and the Dwarfproving its versatility.

9 Shell Rainbow

A good item for quests and gifts

• from: Turtles
• Chance: 4.35%
• Sale price: 300 g

Given by turtles, the Shell Rainbow has multiple uses and a good selling pricemaking it a great gift to receive. One of its uses is to go through the second step of Mr. QiHis “The Mysterious Qi” quest, which requires players to place a Rainbow Shell in the train platform box to advance the quest and eventually gain access to the Calico Desert Casino.

It is also a nice gift for all the villagers besides Elliott and Harvey and can be used as a blue dye in Emilyhis sewing machine. Additionally, since update 1.6.4, Rainbow Shells can be placed in fish tanks as decoration.

8 Worm

Useful for recipes, gifts and community center packs

• from: The cats
• Chance: 5.7%
• Sale price: 65g or 97g with the Angler profession

The Worm is classified as fish in Stardew Valley since it can be acquired from a Crab Pot in fresh water. Beyond its original use in escargot the recipe can also be used as part of the Crab Pot package in the Community Center.

Furthermore, Snail is one of the Vincenthis beloved gifts and can be used to fulfill both the first and sixth requests Raccoon of Cindersap Forest. There is also a chance that either a Bullhead or Largemouth bass the fish pond may require a snail to increase its population.

7 Lobster

A gift and a beloved quest item

• from: Turtles
• Chance: 2.17%
• Sale price: 120g or 180g with the Angler profession

like the snail Lobster it's part of the Crab Pot pack in the Community Center and can be obtained from crab pots, but only in seawater. Compared to other pet gifts, the lobster has a much more likely to occur.

Can be used in Fall 2nd year as part of GusThe quest “Wanted: Lobster” and is essential to achieving perfection as called for in the Lobster Bisque recipe. In addition, it is one of the Elliotthis beloved gifts.

6 Sea foam pudding

Excellent for catching difficult fish

• from: Turtles
• Chance: 1.09%
• Sale price: 300 g

Recipe for Sea foam pudding it's unlocked at fishing level 9, which means it usually takes a while to get this food item. When consumed, Seafoam Pudding gives players a +4 boost to their fishing stats for 3 minutes and 30 seconds, helping with hard to catch fish such as the Legendary Fish.

The bowl can also be used in a Sewing machine as blue paint when customizing clothing items. With a good selling price and great perks, Seafoam Pudding proves to be a very useful pet gift, helping game progress significantly.

5 Artifact Trove

Earn up to 5,000g

• From: Dogs
• Chance: 0.78%
• Selling price: 0g, but once opened possibly 5,000g

Players can open Artifact Trove TO Clinthis shop for 25g. Each item inside has a 3.6% chance to spawnsome rewards being much more valuable than others. Rewards include a The ancient drum and a Bone fluteboth of which constitute a reward when donated to the Valley museum.

The most useful items in the Artifact Trove include a Ancient seed and the Treasure Appraisal Guide. In terms of profitability, Treasure chest (worth 5,000g) and Pearl (worth 2,500) are the most lucrative rewards.

4 Sturgeon

Place in a fish pond for sturgeon spawn

• from: The cats
• Chance: 34.4% (but classified to all mountain fish)
• Sale price: 200g or 300g with the Angler profession

When placed in a fish pond, Sturgeon can produce Sturgeon roewhich can then be converted to Caviar when placed inside a Canning jar. Caviar is one of the items needed to complete the Missing Package once the Community Center has been repaired. Players who chose the Joja route can greatly benefit from this, as Caviar sells for 500g or 700g with the Artisan job, providing a significant increase in income for community upgrades offered by morris.

In addition, Sturgeon is one of the Willyhis beloved gifts and is part of lake fish package in the Community Center. Like Rainbow Shell and Seafoam Pudding, it can also be used as a blue dye in a Sewing machine.

3 Cheese

Extremely versatile and profitable

• from: The cats
• Chance: 3.4%
• Sale price: 230g or 322g with Aritsan profession

Cheese can be gifted to all villagers except Sebastian, Jas, Vincentand Harvey as a nice gift and can be used as part of the Community Center Artisan package. Recipes for Cauliflower Cheese, Pizzaand Pepper Poppers all require a cheese to be cooked, making it an essential element to perfection.

When aged in the Farmhouse basement for 14 days during the game, Cheese reaches the quality of Iridium, doubling its value from 230g to 460g, or 644g with the Artisan job. However, the most fun use of it is definitely passing through Sewing machine to create a mouse shirt.

2 Dinosaur egg

Hatch for more Dino Eggs

The Dinosaur egg is a rare artifact that can be placed in the incubator inside the Coop Deluxe to hatch a Dinosaur. This is perhaps the most beneficial use initially, as once the dinosaur is mature, it produces a dinosaur egg every 7 in-game days.

Other uses include donating it to the museum, turning it into Dinosaur mayonnaise to contribute to the Missing Package or scroll through a Sewing machine to do a Dinosaur hat. As a gift from pets, the dinosaur egg is one of the best because it is both renewable and very valuable.

A universally loved item

• from: The cats
• Chance: 1.7%
• Sale price: 565g or 678g with the profession of rancher

Rabbit's foot is an item universally loved by all but the villagers Penny. Can be used as part of the wizard pack in the Community Center and to create a rabbit shirt in Sewing machine.

In Secret Note #20, players must give a Rabbit's Foot to the delivery driver Joja to receive a reward of permanently increased luck. But his luck doesn't stop there; if a Rabbit's Foot is in a player's inventory, it prevents the negative effects of the famous 10-Hearts group event, where players face consequences for making all the bachelors or bachelorettes their partner. With its high selling price, multiple uses and significant impact on luck, the Rabbit's Foot tops the list as the best pet gift in Stardew Valley.