Best items to buy from the Traveling Cart in Stardew Valley

If there’s anything that you’re looking for in Stardew Valley, there’s a high likelihood that you’ll find it at the Traveling Cart. The vendor here sells almost everꦆything you could imagine from bꦑasic resources to furniture and clothing items. 

The Traveling Cart comes to Stardew Valley every Friday and Sunday, and can be found in the northern corner of the Cindersap Forest, close to the entrance to the Secret Woods and is open between 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. 

The Traveling Cart also shows up at both the Night Market (Winter 15-17) between 5 p.m. and 2 a.m. and the Desert Festival (Spring 15-17) between 12 p.m. and 2 a.m. The stock availa♋ble at either festival is the same. 

Stock rotates, so different things will be availa🐠ble to purchase every 🍎time you visit. Prices are often high, but there are some items that can’t be purchased anywhere else, so it’s always worth checking what’s in stock whenever the Traveling Cart is around. 

Of course, some items are more 🤡worthy of your Gold than others, but what are the best items to purchase from the Traveling Cart? After years of visiting the vendor to check her stock, I’ve learned a thing or two, so I can give some tips about what to look out for. 

Special Stock at the Traveling Cart

There are a select few items that are only available to purchase from the Traveling Cart or are otherwise difficult to get, so if they’re ꦯon the stock list during any visit, it’s worth buying them to avoid missing out on having them. 

Unlike other items purchased through the Traveling Cart, prices of Speﷺcial Stock items are fixed, so you’ll always pay the same for them, regardless of when they come up:

Spouse Portraits at the Traveling Cart

Spouse Portraits were added in the 1.6 update and will become available at the Traveling Cart after you get married, or Krobus becomes your roommate. You can only purchase the Portrait of your spouse (or Krobus) as long as you have 14 hearts with them, but you get to🧸 keep it even if you part ways. Each portrait costs 30,000 Gold. 

Specific items worth buying at the Traveling Cart

The Traveling Cart has a truly huge number of items that rotate for purchase, so there’s always a chance that you’ll find something you need. However, there are certain items that are more w💮orthwhile than others, so here are a few that stand out from the long list of available items:

Red Cabbage Seeds

If you’re looking t🤪o speed-run the Community Center Bundles, you’ll need to keep an eye out for Red Cabbage Seeds at the Traveling Cart during your first year. While they’re available from other sources from the beginning of year two, there’s a chance that they can appear at the Traveling Cart before that point. 

You cܫan help with this and guarantee that they show up at least once in the first year by sel𝄹ecting “Guarantee Year 1 Completable” in advanced options when starting a new game. 

Quality Sprinkler

Usually, making Quality Sprinklers calls for 1 Iron Bar, 1 Gold Bar, and 1 Refined Quartz. Although this isn’t too much of a tall order, collecting the necessary resources can p💛rove problematic or tiresome. Quality Sprinklers sometimes come up for purchase at the Traveling Cart, and they’re always worth purchasing if you have crops that need watering. 

Meals with additional buffs

There are a couple of mea𒁏ls that could possibly show up at the Traveling Cart, both of which ꦛhave unique perks when consumed. 

Triple Shot Espresso will increase your movement speed for four minutes and 12 seconds, and also💙 applies to your horse if you have one. Although you can buy the recipe from the Stardrop Saloon for 5,000 Gold and then make it using 3 Coffee, Triple Shot Espresso is something that’s always worth hoarding if you see it for sale.

Seafoam Pudding is incredibly useful, especially if you’re planning on going after any Legendary Fish or wanting to reel in the Irid🐟ium Krobus Statue in the Cindersap Forest, as it increases your fishing level by 4, even if you’re already level 10. Although you do get the recipe for Seafoam Pudding when you reach level 9🐠 Fishing, the ingredients can be difficult to get.