No matter what you’re doing inStardew Valley,you’re earning experience that will eventually go towards increasing your level in a variety of skills. It’s a fairly straightforward system, but it’s filled with intricacies that are useful to know if you want to make the most of your leveling experience.
There are five different skills inStardew Valley:
Not only does leveling each skill provide you with new perks, recipes, and items, but you’ll also gain higher proficiency per level you gain in a skill. This higher proficiency means that tasks require less energy, so you can do more with each day.
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Experience breakdown in Stardew Valley
Each skill inStardew Valleyrequires a total of 15,000 experience to reach level 10, broken down into the following individual amounts of experience per level:
The ways in which you’ll gain experience inStardew Valleyvary depending on which skill you’re gaining experience for, with specific tasks providing experience towards a particular skill.
How to gain easy experience in all skills in Stardew Valley
If you’re trying to get experience inStardew Valley, then the Book of Stars is something that you should always keep an eye out for. When used from within your inventory, it provides a boost of250 experience for every skill, helping to speed up the process.
The Book of Stars can be obtained in the following ways:
Each skill has aspecific bookthat can also be used to boost experience:
Each book can be obtained from the Bookseller for between 5,000 and 10,000 Gold. When used from within your inventory, each book will provide a250 experience boostto the corresponding skill.
How to get Farming experience in Stardew Valley
Increasing your Farming skill level will result in increased proficiency when using a Hoe or a Watering Can. As you might expect, gaining experience in the Farming skill is done by completing tasks around the farm.
Each of the following tasks rewardsfive experience pointsper action:
Although using a Hoe and Watering Can is very much an integral part of the Farming experience, these actions sadly do not reward experience points alone.
For a temporary level boost in Farming, you can try the following meals:
For each Farming level you gain, you’ll unlock some rewards. Here’s what you can get for reaching each level:
How to get Mining experience in Stardew Valley
While there is a bigger variety of ways to gain experience points for Farming, you’ll only gain experience in Mining by breaking rocks and each increase in level will reduce the energy spent when using a Pickaxe.
Different rocks give a different number of experience points:
If you’re too impatient to level up the long way and want a temporary level boost in Mining for any reason, the following meals will increase your level for a short period of time:
As you progress through the Mining levels, you’ll unlock the following rewards:
How to get Foraging experience in Stardew Valley
Foraging includes anything that involves gathering materials from the ground or chopping down trees. Increasing your Foraging level will decrease the energy drained when using an Axe.
As with Mining, the experience you gain from each action varies depending on the action itself:
Certain foods can also be eaten to increase your Foraging level, although this effect is temporary. Here are all of the meals you’re able to consume to provide a temporary boost:
Reaching a new level in Foraging will unlock a new reward, granting items that are helpful when it comes to Foraging:
How to get Fishing experience in Stardew Valley
Fishing is probably the easiest of all skills to level inStardew Valley, with experience being gained in all of the following ways:
Increasing your level not only increases your proficiency when using a Rod, but each level will also provide the following perks:
If you want to temporarily boost your Fishing level, for instance, to help capture the Legendary Fish, then you can eat the following meals:
Of all the skills, Fishing has the most rewards available for leveling. Here’s everything on offer for increasing your Fishing level:
How to get Combat experience in Stardew Valley
Combat is the final skill inStardew Valley, and experience is gained through defeating monsters in the Mines, Skull Cavern, or the Volcano Dungeon. As with Mining and Foraging, the amount of experience you’ll gain will depend on what kind of monster you kill.
Here’s how much experience you can get for killing each monster:
