How To Improve Your Luck In Stardew Valley

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Stardew Valley has a pretty significant "luck" aspect. Many quests and upgrades and completions require you to get lucky enough to acquire certain items during your time in-game. One of many examples is the Wizard's quest to look for ectoplasm. Interestingly, the game's developer, ConcernedApe, actually took this into account.

It's an aspect of the game that players might overlook in their first year or so in Stardew Valley unless they knew what they were looking for — "Luck" is actually one of your many stats and will vary from day to day! This guide teaches you how to figure out what level of Luck you have and explains what exactly it will affect while you play. This way, you can plan your daily activities accordingly.

Possible Levels of Luck

Your daily luck in Stardew Valley is on a scale from -0.7 to 0.7 and can be checked by watching the "Fortune Teller" channel on your television.

Image On The TV	Message From The Fortune Teller	Your Luck Score
	"The spirits are very happy today! They will do their best to shower everyone with good fortune."	0.07 or better
	"The spirits are in good humor today. I think you'll have a little extra luck."	between 0.02 and 0.07
	"The spirits feel neutral today. The day is in your hands."	between -0.02 and 0.02
	"This is rare. The spirits feel absolutely neutral today."	exactly 0.0
	"The spirits are somewhat annoyed today. Luck will not be on your side." or "The spirits are somewhat mildly perturbed today. Luck will not be on your side."	between -0.02 and -0.07
	"The spirits are very displeased today. They will do their best to make your life difficult."	worse than -0.07

Activities That Your Luck Will Affect

Mining

How much coal you'll get from rocks
Crate spawn rate
Odds you'll find a treasure room in the Skull Cavern
Odds you'll find ladders from rocks
Geode drop rate (Note: it will not affect the quality of items received when opening geodes)
How much you'll lose if you die in the mines
Odds of finding gem nodes/mystic stones

Foraging and Fishing

How much Wood drops per tree
Odds you'll get treasure when you're fishing
Odds of high-quality items and chance of getting a second item from panning
Odds that garbage cans will yield items, odds that those items won't be trash

On The Farm

Odds that crops that can have extra harvests (e.g. Potato, Blueberry, Tomato, etc.) will
Odds that you'll get Duck Feathers or Rabbit's Foot from your animals
Odds there will be lightning in stormy weather

Other

Odds your spouse will become jealous when you give a gift to another bachelor(ette)
How well you do at the slots at the Casino

Improving Your Luck

Items

There is only one item that can improve your luck — the Lucky Ring. It increases your luck stat by 1, which is a pretty significant upgrade, all things considered.

There are two ways to obtain the Lucky Ring:

destroying crates and barrels in the Skull Cavern or the Quarry Mine (8 percent chance each time)
panning in a river (very rare)

Special Charm

The Special Charm is an item that goes in your Wallet and permanently improves your daily Luck by 0.025.

To get the Special Charm, you first need to find Secret Note #20 (depicted above), and solve the puzzle. For help with that, check out our guide about it!

Recipes

The final way you can improve your luck (temporarily) is by eating certain foods! Here's a detailed list of all the foods that improve your luck:

Food Item	Recipe Source	Ingredients Required	Can This Food Be Obtained Without Cooking?	Health Restored	Energy Restored	Buff(s)	Buff(s) Duration	Item Sell Price
Banana Pudding	Island Trader for 30 Bone Fragments	1 Banana 1 Milk (any kind) 1 Sugar	No	+56	+125	+1 to Mining +1 to Luck +1 to Defense	5 minutes and 1 second	260g
Fried Eel	George via Mail once your Friendship with him has reached three hearts	1 Eel 1 Oil	Yes may appear in Krobus' shop on Saturdays may appear at the Stardrop Saloon (which rotates its stock)	+33	+75	+1 to Luck	7 minutes	120g
Ginger Ale	Dwarf Shop after the fifth level of the Volcano on Ginger Island for 1,000g	3 Ginger 1 Sugar	No	+28	+63	+1 to Luck	5 minutes	200g
Lucky Lunch	The Queen of Sauce (television channel) on 28 Spring, Year 2	1 Sea Cucumber 1 Tortilla 1 Blue Jazz	Yes may appear in Krobus' shop on Saturdays may appear at the Stardrop Saloon (which rotates its stock) may appear in the Traveling Cart (which rotates its stock)	+45	+100	+3 to Luck	11 minutes and 11 seconds	250g
Magic Rock Candy	N/A	N/A	Yes, there is no recipe. rewarded once 90 items have been donated to the museum can be purchased every Thursday from the Desert Trader for 3 Prismatic Shards occasionally dropped by Haunted Skulls	+225	+500	+2 to Mining +5 to Luck +1 to Speed +5 to Defense +5 to Attack	8 minutes and 24 seconds	5,000g
Pumpkin Soup	Robin via Mail once your Friendship with her has reached seven hearts	1 Pumpkin 1 Milk	Yes always available from the Traveling Merchant at the Festival of Ice may appear in Krobus' shop on Saturdays may appear at the Stardrop Saloon (which rotates its stock) may be in a treasure room of the Skull Cavern	+90	+200	+2 to Defense +2 to Luck	7 minutes and 41 seconds	300g
Shrimp Cocktail	The Queen of Sauce (television channel) on 28 Winter, Year 2	1 Tomato 1 Shrimp 1 Wild Horseradish	No	+101	+225	+1 to Fishing +1 to Luck	10 minutes and 2 seconds	160g
Spicy Eel	George via Mail once your Friendship with him has reached seven hearts	1 Eel 1 Hot Pepper	Yes purchase from the Desert Trader on any day for 1 Ruby may appear in Krobus' shop on Saturdays may appear at the Stardrop Saloon (which rotates its stock) occasionally dropped by Serpents may be produced by Eel Fish Ponds when they reach a population of 9	+51	+115	+1 to Luck +1 to Speed	7 minutes	175g