Around late spring in Stardew Valley, a terror from the skies known as crows will begin to eat and destroy your cultivated plants. To fight off these serial crop killers, you'll need to craft Scarecrows; here's everything you need to know and more.
How to Get a Scarecrow in Stardew Valley
To craft a scarecrow in Stardew Valley, you will first need to level your farming skill to level one, which will unlock the crafting recipe for crafting basic scarecrows. Once you reach level one in farming, you can craft a scarecrow with the following materials listed below.
- 50 Wood: You can get wood by chopping trees and logs on and off your farm with an axe.
- A coal: you can get coal by scrapping, mining rocks, treasure chests and using coal furnace etc.
- 20 Fiber: You can get fiber by destroying grass with a scythe on and off your farm.
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How to Use a Scarecrow in Stardew Valley & Scarecrow Range
To use a Scarecrow in Stardew Valley, you'll simply have to place one on the ground near your crops; the radius of the scarecrow is about 248 titles, so if you were to place it in the middle of your plowed field, you would cover the entire area where you placed your crops. See the image below to get an idea of where you should place your scarecrow.
Scarecrow range via range selection
As a side note, we're using a mod called Range Highlight to make the scarecrow ray appear in our image above. We also strongly suggest you get this mod as it will make placing the items listed below less annoying. But before installing it, you will need to have the latest version of SMAPI installed.
Here are the items that will appear with this mod:
- Cabins J Junimo (press J to display the beach)
- H Bee Houses (press H to display the range)
- R Sprinklers (press R to display the range)
- O Scarecrows (press O to show scope)
For more on Stardew Valley, we at PGG have a growing list of guides like how to get strawberry seeds and how to get iron bars in Stardew Valley. We also have plenty of guides to other games that you can find on the homepage hub.
