Statue of Blessings in Stardew Valley: Recipe, Location and Every Blessing Explained

The Mastery system added in Stardew Valley 1.6 gave veteran farmers something fresh to grind for. Among its rewards, finishing the Farming Mastery unlocks the recipe for one of the most useful late-game items in the game: the Statue of Blessings. This guide covers how to obtain the recipe, the materials it eats up, and what each blessing actually does.

Unlocking the Recipe

The recipe is tied to the Farming Mastery, which you claim at the Mastery Cave once your Farming skill climbs past level 10 and you have enough Mastery experience saved up. There is no shortcut. You earn Mastery points by working any skill that is already maxed, so the path to the recipe is basically the same routine that got you to the late game in the first place.

Crafting Materials

Once the recipe is in your hands, the Statue of Blessings asks for a fairly intimidating shopping list:

• 999x Sap
• 999x Fiber
• 999x Stone
• 333x Moss

If you are deep into the game, Sap, Fiber and Stone are probably already overflowing in your chests. Moss is the awkward one. To harvest it, hit any Oak, Maple or Pine tree that has reached growth stage 14 and has been soaked by recent rain. The best window to stockpile it is during Green Rain, when those trees grow heavy patches of moss around their trunks. A single Green Rain day can easily cover the 333 quota if you bring an axe and stay patient.

How the Statue Works

Place the finished statue anywhere on your farm and interact with it once per in-game day. You receive one random blessing, and most of them last the entire day. The Blessing of the Butterfly and the Blessing of Waters are the exceptions, ending either at a fixed time or after a set number of fish caught.

Building several statues does not stack the rewards. The game locks you to one blessing per day no matter how many copies you place, so save the extra materials for something else.

Every Blessing in the Pool

There are seven possible outcomes when you talk to the statue:

• Blessing of the Butterfly: A Prismatic Butterfly spawns somewhere in the valley until 5 PM. Catching it pays out gold equal to 0.5% of your total earnings, with a small chance to drop a Prismatic Shard.
• Blessing of Waters: Lowers Legendary Fish difficulty by 25%, non-Legendary fish by 50% (Carp excluded), and slows the fishing progress bar by 50%. Lasts for three successful catches.
• Blessing of Energy: Unlimited energy for the rest of the day.
• Blessing of Fangs: +10% critical hit chance.
• Blessing of Friendship: Boosts the Friendship points earned when talking to NPCs around town.
• Blessing of Speed: Stackable +0.5 movement speed buff.
• Blessing of Luck: Stackable +1 to your daily luck.

Most of these look minor on paper, but they compound nicely when you start chaining good rolls across a season.