Unlocking new machines and discovering all the cool things that you can craft and create is part of the fun in Stardew Valley. There's a staggering amount of little quality of life improvements that are introduced thanks to objects and machines, but it's not always easy to figure out how they work.
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From artisan machines to refining equipment, these are all the machines that you can get your hands on in Stardew Valley, and how they need to be used exactly. Some can be unlocked by leveling skills, while others will require you to complete special order quests for certain villagers.
Furnace
The furnace is one of the earliest machines you'll get blueprints for. As soon as you collect a few copper ores, Clint will show up at your doorstep the next day and hand you over the blueprints. Furnaces are used to smelt raw ore into ingots. The more precious the ore, the longer it will take.
Preserves Jar
Once you reach level four in Farming skill, you'll unlock the Preserves Jar crafting recipe. This is one of the best ways to make use of your extra produce before you get your hands on kegs. Preserves Jars can be used to turn vegetables into pickles, fruits into jelly, and roe into aged roe or caviar if it's sturgeon roe.
Cheese Press
Unlocked at level six of Farming, the Cheese Press lets you turn all of your milk into cheese. You should first have at least a starter barn with a few cows and a goat so you can start gathering milk and then placing it into the press to turn it into cheese.
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Mayonnaise Machine
At level two of Farming, the Mayonnaise Machine becomes available for you to craft. If you have a coop by now with a few chickens, you can start turning their eggs into mayonnaise. Duck eggs will produce duck mayonnaise, and Dinosaur eggs will produce Dinosaur Mayonnaise. Void Eggs will give you Void Mayonnaise.
Bee House
Once you reach level three in Farming skills you can craft a Bee House. Leave the Bee House for a few days and it will produce wild honey after three to four days. However, if you want to spice things up, you can plant flowers around your Bee House to make flower honey, which sells for a better price. The flowers need to be fully grown and placed in a five tile radius of the Bee House.
Cask
Casks are fantastic for turning your artisan goods into even more expensive, aged goods. After purchasing the last farmhouse upgrade from Robin's shop, which adds the basement and a few casks inside, the crafting recipe for Casks is also unlocked. Place any cheese or alcoholic beverage inside a Cask and leave it for several weeks to age up to Iridium quality.
Charcoal Kiln
At Foraging level four, the Charcoal Kiln crafting recipe will be unlocked. Charcoal Kilns allow you to turn wood into coal when you're in a pinch. The conversion rate isn't the greatest, but it's a good emergency method regardless. The Charcoal Kiln requires ten pieces of wood to produce one piece of coal.
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Keg
Unlocked at Farming level eight, Kegs are the best way to make money fast in Stardew Valley. They can turn vegetables into juices, fruits into wine, and some select crops into beer, pale, coffee, green tea, and even mead. Wine is without a doubt the most profitable choice.
Recycling Machine
If you're tired of all the trash you get from fishing, the Recycling Machine unlocked at Fishing level four will save you inventory space. Place any piece of trash inside it and after a while, it will produce a random valuable resource, from stone, coal, iron, and wood to torches, cloth, and even refined quartz.
Worm Bin
At Fishing level eight you'll unlock the Worm Bin. It's a great time save for fishing enthusiasts who don't have the time to gather bug meat and turn it into bait every day. The Worm Bin produces up to five pieces of bait per day on its own.
Seed Maker
Once you reach level nine in Farming, the Seed Maker is unlocked. It's one of the best ways to ensure you'll never run out of your more precious crops. Place any crop (aside from foraged items) into the machine and it will give you up to three seed packets of that crop. It's particularly useful when you need to make more Ancient Seeds.
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Crystalarium
Gems are a great way to make money in Stardew Valley, but not everyone has time to go mining every day. That's where the Crystalarium comes in. Put any gem inside of it and within a few days (depending on the gem), it will produce another one for you, and yet another one, infinitely — until you remove the gem inside and put a different one in. It's basically infinite diamonds, or whatever other gem you choose to put in. Unlock it at level nine of Mining or by donating 50 mineral samples to Gunther's museum.
Oil Maker
The Oil Maker is a machine that can be unlocked at Farming level eight and is most useful when you have pigs at your farm. Truffles can be placed inside the machine to make Truffle Oil, which wells for the particularly good price of 1,065 gold per bottle. The Oil Maker can also turn corn and sunflower seeds and sunflowers into regular cooking oil for your cooking purposes.
Slime Incubator
Slimes are actually one type of animal that you can farm, and the Slime Incubator itself allows you to hatch Slime Eggs outside of the Slime Hutch you can purchase from Robin's shop. In order to unlock this, you first need to reach level eight in Combat.
Slime Egg-Press
To make Slime Eggs in the first place, you need a Slime Egg-Press, which is unlocked at level six of Combat. Place 100 Slime inside the machine and eventually, it will produce one color of Slime Egg, green being the most common one.
Bone Mill
Thanks to the Bone Mill, all of those bone artifacts and bone fragments can now be turned into something legitimately useful. After completing Gunther's special order quest, you'll receive the crafting recipe for the Bone Mill. Place five bone fragments or one bone artifact inside the machine, and it will give you a random fertilizer from these four options: Tree Fertilizer, Deluxe Speed-Gro, Quality Fertilizer, or Speed-Gro.
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Geode Crusher
If you're tired of bothering Clint with your geodes, there's an alternative. The Geode Crusher takes one hour to open a geode, provided you also put in one piece of coal. To get your hands on this machine, you'll first need to complete Clint's special order quest.
Ostrich Incubator
Once you've finished Professor Snail's fossil collection on Ginger Island, he'll gift you the recipe for an Ostrich Incubator. This allows you to hatch your own ostrich eggs and actually have ostriches on your farm. Make sure to place the incubator inside a barn.
Farm Computer
The bigger your farm is, the more stuff there is to monitor. Luckily, the Farm Computer saves you time by showing you all the data you need about your farm, without the need to walk around and check every machine and crop individually. Complete Demetrius' special order quest, and he'll give you the recipe for it.
Sewing Machine
With enough cloth and a few additional ingredients, you can make your own clothing by using Emily's sewing machine. That said, it's also possible to get your own sewing machine if you complete Emily's special order quest. There's no way to craft it, and it's a unique item that functions just like Emily's.
Mini-Jukebox
Stardew Valley's music is simply iconic. If you want to listen to a specific track in the game's soundtrack, you actually can with the help of the Mini-Jukebox. Gus will gift you one, as well as a crafting recipe for one following his five-heart event.
Solar Panel
Battery Packs are among the rarest items in the game. Since you have to rely on rainy days to get one, it can take quite a while before you can get a bunch of them. That's why the Solar Panel is a great piece of equipment because it instead takes advantage of sunny days. You can get its crafting recipe from Caroline after completing her special order quest. After seven days of sun, it will produce a Battery Pack.
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Lightning Rod
The traditional way of getting a Battery Pack is time-consuming, but at least it's reliable. Once you reach level six in Foraging, you unlock the Lightning Rod crafting recipe. After a day of thunderstorms, a charged Lightning Rod will produce a Battery Pack for you.
Wood Chipper
This unique machine can only be bought, not crafted, from Robin's shop. The Wood Chipper accepts hardwood and driftwood only, which it can then turn into other resources, like regular wood, maple syrup, oak resin, or pine tar.
Deconstructor
If you've ever wanted to get back an important crafting ingredient from an item, you now can, thanks to the Deconstructor. This machine can only be bought from Mr. Qi's Walnut Room with 20 Qi Gems. Every craftable item can be placed inside of it, and in return, the machine will give you the most valuable crafting ingredient used in its making.
Coffee Maker
Coffee is not just a nice drink to have in the morning, it also gives you +1 Speed, which can be useful to get more stuff done in your day. Rather than waiting for a Keg to give you coffee from beans, the Coffee Maker will produce one cup of coffee for you each day. It can't be crafted, but Evelyn will gift it to you after completing her special order quest.
Hopper
Automation is still a huge issue in Stardew Valley. Most machines need to be interacted with manually, but the Hopper solves this issue to a degree. It can be purchased for ten Qi Gems from Mr. Qi's Walnut Room, and its recipe is sold for 50 Qi Gems. Place the Hopper next to any machine, and load it with items that the machine accepts. That way, the machine will be automatically fed items from the Hopper and you won't need to do anything yourself.
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