Stardew Valley: How To Finish The Bulletin Board Bundle

Friendship is one of the most important parts of the Stardew Valley experience. Interacting with the townsfolk, chatting, giving gifts, and running errands for them all gain players friendship points. As those points add up, you can receive benefits like free items in the mail, recipes, and memorable dialogue. Earning hearts with every villager can be difficult, especially when they’re more reclusive characters like the Wizard or when they’re never home when needed, like Marnie. Thankfully, the Bulletin Board bundle makes it easy to rack up friendship points with these less active residents of Pelican Town.

The Bulletin Board bundles are the most diverse community center bundles. Each bundle requires items from every aspect of Stardew Valley, including farming, livestock care, mining, fishing, and cooking. Completing this bundle has one of the more unique rewards: it improves your friendship with every villager (besides the twelve romantic choices) by two full hearts. This reward is great for getting more hearts for villagers that you might not interact with as often, but it also comes at the cost of one of the pricier bundles to complete for the Community Center.

How To Complete The Chef Bundle

Use Ingredients From Across The Valley

As the name implies, the Chef Bundle has more of a focus on cooking than any other bundle. This bundle may take longer to complete than the other Bulletin Board bundles simply due to the Truffle needed to finish it. Truffles can only be acquired by raising pigs on the farm, so you’ll need at least one Deluxe Barn to get this item. The other item that you might need to wait a while for is the Fiddlehead Fern, which can be found by foraging in the Secret Woods (which requires an upgraded axe) but is more easily found anywhere when there is Green Rain pouring in Stardew Valley during the Summer. You’ll also need to upgrade your farmhouse at least once with Robin to unlock a kitchen.

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All the other items in this bundle can be easily acquired through cooking with simple ingredients or growing flowers during the Summer. Maple Syrup is especially easy to get, as you need only place a Tapper on a maple tree and wait seven days for it to produce. This is also a great passive way to build resources.

Item	How To Acquire
Maple Syrup	Place a Taper on a Maple Tree
Fiddlehead Fern	Forage in Secret Woods (Summer) or from trees in the Green Rain
Truffle	Raising Pigs with a Deluxe Barn
Poppy	Grow during Summer
Maki Roll	Cooking (requires any fish, seaweed, and rice)
Fried Egg	Cooking (requires one egg of any size)

How To Complete The Dye Bundle

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Like the Chef Bundle, the Dye Bundle includes two items that are much more time-consuming to acquire than anything else. Those two items are the Duck Feather and the Red Cabbage. Duck Feathers are dropped by ducks, which you’ll need a Big Coop to raise on your farm, so it may take some time to upgrade to that coop and purchase ducks from Marnie. The other more difficult item is the Red Cabbage, which can only be grown in the Summer of year two since Pierre won’t sell the seeds until then.

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However, if you’re lucky, they may be able to get the Red Cabbage from the Traveling Cart when it visits the forest near Marnie’s house. After those items, all the other Dye Bundle requirements are straightforward to acquire. If you haven’t picked the mushroom cave option from Demetrius, the Red Mushroom can be found either in the Secret Woods in Summer or Fall or in the Mines from levels 21 to 69.

Item	How To Acquire
Red Mushroom	Cave on Farm, foraging after level 81 in the Mines, Secret Woods (Summer and Fall)
Sea Urchin	Foraging on the right side of the Beach or main Beach from Summer 12 to 14
Sunflower	Grow during Summer and Fall
Duck Feather	Raising Ducks in a Big Coop
Aquamarine	Mining after level 40
Red Cabbage	Grow during Summer (Year two only) or buy at the Traveling Cart

Aquamarine can also be found in the Mines, below level 40, while Sunflowers are grown in the Summer and Fall. The Sea Urchin is also locked behind a small obstacle, the small broken bridge on the Beach, as it can only forage on that side. Sea urchins can also be found on the normal beach from Summer 12 to 14 due to the large number of extra forgeable items washing up.

How To Complete The Field Research Bundle

Support Demetrius’s Scientific Mission

If you haven’t chosen the mushroom cave from Demetrius, then the Field Research Bundle will require the most time in the Mines. Both the Purple Mushroom and the Frozen Geode can be found through Mining, as Miningroom can be found below level 81, and the Frozen Geode is found between floors 41 and 79.

The Field Research Bundle includes the only fish on the entire Bulletin Board, and it’s one of the easiest fish in Stardew Valley. The Chub can be caught in any season, at any time, in either the Mountain Lake or in the rivers, so you can catch it at your leisure without worrying. Finally, you can simply head down to the Beach during Stardew Valley‘s Winter season to pick up a Nautilus Shell.

How To Complete The Fodder Bundle

The Simplest Bundle For Helping Animals

Marnie’s animal-themed Fodder Bundle is the easiest of any bundle to complete, especially if you have picked fruit bats for their cave. By planting Wheat in either Summer or Fall, you can harvest the ten required Wheat bundles and the ten Hay after your very first harvest after four days of growing. If you have a fruit bat cave, all you need to do is wait for the bats to give you three apples.

You can buy Hay from Marnie, but it’s easier to simply grow Wheat and get both Wheat and Hay from the harvest.

Item	How To Acquire
10 Wheat	Grow in Summer and Fall
10 Hay	Harvest from grass or Wheat
Three Apples	Cave on the Farm or from Apple Trees

However, if you chose the mushroom cave instead, you’ll need to plant an apple tree by at least mid-summer. Fruit trees take an entire season to grow and only produce fruit in a single season. After it’s grown, the apple tree will grow one apple a day in the Fall. It’s best to have an entire season for producing apples, but getting at least three (or four for the Artisan Bundle) is key for finishing this bundle.

How To Complete The Enchanter’s Bundle

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Like the Dye Bundle and Chef Bundle, the Enchanter’s Bundle includes an item requiring an upgraded farm building. This item is the Rabbit’s Foot, which can only be reliably found by raising rabbits in a Deluxe Coop. In addition to the upgraded Coop, your Cooper needs the fruit bat cave or a Pomegranate Tree to get the single piece of fruit needed for the bundle. Like Apples in the Fodder Bundle, the Pomegranate Tree produces fruit in the Fall, so it must be planted by mid-summer at the latest.

Choosing the Fruit Bats for your cave will make most bundles in the community center much easier to finish.

Item	How To Acquire
Oak Resin	Place a Tapper on an Oak Tree
Wine	Placing any fruit in a Keg
Rabbit’s Foot	Raising Rabbits in a Deluxe Coop
Pomegranate	Cave on the Farm or from Pomegranate Trees

Oak Resin, like the Maple Syrup in the Chef Bundle, can be produced by placing a Tapper on an Oak tree and waiting seven days. Equally simple is Wine, which can be made by placing any fruit in a Keg. This is also one of the best ways to make money in Stardew Valley.