Building Your First Stardew Valley Barn
Building your very first Stardew Valley barn can be an exciting time, although at 6,000g and requiring 350 wood and 150 stone, you’ll likely want to start by building a basic coop first. Once you are ready to do so, though, building a barn opens up plenty of opportunities. When building a barn, you’ll start out with a basic barn, which can house up to four animals and allows either cows or ostriches to be reared. Given that ostriches are locked to Ginger Island, if this is the first time you’re building a barn, you’ll likely be limited just to cows.
Both brown and white cows can live in the basic barn, and you can feed these using the provided hay hopper and feeding bench.
All barns in Stardew Valley measure in at 7x4 tiles, although the amount of usable space—and the capacity of the barn accordingly—increases with subsequent upgrades. As such, it’s well worth looking at whether an upgrade might be right for your farm as soon as you can afford to do so.
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Getting a Barn Upgrade in Stardew Valley
Once you’ve built your basic barn, you’ll likely want to begin looking at the possibility of getting a barn upgrade. Barn upgrades open up several new possibilities, making them highly valuable options to consider. Notably, upgrading your barn allows you to keep a lot more animals and even opens up new species and features, so this is worth considering if you can afford to do so.
Big Barn
The first barn upgrade you can make is to upgrade your barn to a big barn. Big barns increase the capacity of the space to 8 animals and allow you to also keep goats, which can be purchased directly from Marnie’s Ranch. Additionally, the big barn upgrade also enables pregnancy for mammals within the barn, which can allow you to raise animals from birth.
Upgrading your basic barn to a big barn costs 12,000g, and this requires 450 wood and 200 stone. You cannot simply purchase an upgraded barn outright, meaning that the only way to get one is to manually upgrade a basic barn.
Deluxe Barn
The second upgrade—and the most upgraded form of barn in Stardew Valley—is the deluxe barn, which also unlocks sheep and pigs. The deluxe barn also provides an auto feeding system, helping to reduce the amount of time needed to feed your animals and keep them healthy and well. The deluxe barn costs 25,000g to build and requires 550 wood and 300 stone, increasing the capacity of the barn to a whopping twelve animals.
FAQs
Is it worth upgrading my barn in Stardew Valley?
While it can be expensive to do, upgrading your barn in Stardew Valley is often incredibly worthwhile! However, if you have to buy the materials from Robin, this can make an upgrade far less practical and feasible, which is well worth keeping in mind if you’ve been struggling to decide whether or not to complete the upgrade. Luckily, wood and stone are both easy resources to get.
How can I enable pregnancy in my barn in Stardew Valley?
In order to enable pregnancy for your animals in Stardew Valley, you will first need to have built a big barn (or a deluxe barn). Mammals within a big or deluxe barn then have the opportunity to get pregnant, provided that you have manually approved pregnancy as an option from that animal’s status. Keep in mind that pregnancies can only happen if there is room for a new animal to be born.
How much does it cost to build a barn in Stardew Valley?
Building a basic barn in Stardew Valley costs 6,000g. Upgrading your barn to a big barn then costs 12,000g, and the second upgrade (to create a deluxe barn) costs 25,000g. As such, the total cost to build a deluxe barn from scratch—excluding the cost of materials—is 43,000g.
How big is a barn in Stardew Valley?
Barns in Stardew Valley measure 7x4 tiles in footprint. This is the same for all barn upgrades, even though the capacity of the barn increases as you upgrade it.