Cask - Stardew Valley Wiki (2024)

Cask
Use in the cellar to age products like wine and cheese.
Information
Source	Crafting
Sell Price	Cannot be sold
Crafting
Recipe Source	Final Farmhouse upgrade
Ingredients	Wood(20) Hardwood(1)

For a detailed analysis of profit using the Cask, see Cask Productivity.

The Cask is a type of Artisan Equipment used to age Artisan Goods. It takes Beer, Cheese, Goat Cheese, Mead, Pale Ale, and Wine, and ages them to increase their quality and value.

Normal, silver, and gold quality items can be prematurely removed from a cask at any time by striking the cask with an Axe, Hoe, or Pickaxe. A star will appear on the front of the cask denoting the quality of the item inside.

Casks are able to produce items with "iridium star" quality. Iridium star is the highest level of quality, which doubles the value of an item. Different types of items take longer or slower to age. Wine takes the longest, at 2 seasons of aging to go from basic wine to iridium quality wine.

Casks can be placed anywhere; however, they will only accept goods to refine if they are actually in the cellar.

Placement Strategy

The cellar comes with 33 casks. It is possible to fill the cellar with 125 casks (on PC) and still leave paths to reach all of them without displacing any of them.

It's also possible to completely fill the cellar with Casks. This requires 189 casks, made of 156 Hardwood and 3120 Wood. In order to use all 189 casks, the player must fill the casks all at once, placing additional casks while moving towards the exit. In order to harvest the finished product the player must reverse the process, removing empty casks while carving a path to the furthest ones. This can be time-consuming, so it may be a desirable option for only the most valuable products (e.g., Starfruit or Ancient Fruit wine).

On mobile devices, casks in corners cannot be reached, so 118 is the maximum reachable number of casks. With a controller, it's possible that casks in diagonal corners may not be reachable.

PC and mobile layouts described here are shown in the Gallery below.

Aged Values

Image	Name	Ingredient	Base Quality	Silver Star (x 1.25)	Gold Star (x 1.5)	Iridium Star (x 2)
	Wine	Any fruit (1)	3 x Base Fruit Price	(3 x Base) x 1.25 Aged: 14 Days	(3 x Base) x 1.5 Aged: 14 Days Total: 28 Days	(3 x Base) x 2 Aged: 28 Days Total: 56 Days
	Pale Ale	Hops(1)	300g	375g Aged: 9 Days	450g Aged: 8 Days Total: 17 Days	600g Aged: 17 Days Total: 34 Days
	Beer	Wheat(1)	200g	250g Aged: 7 Days	300g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days	400g Aged: 14 Days Total: 28 Days
	Mead	Honey(1)	300g	375g Aged: 7 Days	450g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days	600g Aged: 14 Days Total: 28 Days
	Cheese	Milk(1) or Large Milk(1)	230g	287g Aged: 3 Days	345g Aged: 4 Days Total: 7 Days	460g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days
	Goat Cheese	Goat Milk(1) or Large Goat Milk(1)	400g	500g Aged: 3 Days	600g Aged: 4 Days Total: 7 Days	800g Aged: 7 Days Total: 14 Days

Gallery

• The cellar Farmhouse upgrade with 33 starting casks

• Optimal layout for mouse/keyboard: 125 accessible casks

• Optimal layout for mobile: 118 accessible casks

• Cellar filled with the maximum 189 casks, all in use.

History

• 1.1: Introduced.
• 1.3.27: Removed bug that crashed the game when striking a ready-to-harvest cask with a tool.
• 1.4: Iridium quality items can no longer be put into casks. Casks can now be stacked in a player's inventory and in chests.