Refined Quartz in Stardew Valley

How to get Refined Quartz in Stardew Valley

It's good to be refined.

Some resources in Stardew Valley are harder to find than others, and Refined Quartz is perhaps one of the 🌌most difficult to source in the wilds of Pelican Town. How𝐆ever, there are some shortcuts to getting your hands on this precious item. 

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If you want to get Refined Quartz, you’ll need to first go mining. Although you’re unlikely to find any Refined Quartz in the Mines, the resources🍷 you need to create it can be found there.

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There🤡 are a few different ways to get Refined Quartz:

Furnace

The first reliable method i🦹s through the use of a Furnace, and there are two recipes that will give Refined Quartz:

  • 1 Quartz + 1 Coal = 1 Refined Quartz
  • 1 Fire Quartz + 1 Coal = 3 Refined Quartz

Either combination takes 1.5 in-game hours to produce the result, but with Fire Quartz giving three Refined Quartz every 1.5 hours, it’s a much more lucrative option. Quartz can be found on any floor of the Mines, and Fire Quartz can be f🌼ound on any floor of the Mines lower than 80. 

Recycling Machine

Creating Refined Quartz with a Recycling Mach♉ine is arguably easier than creating it in a Furnace. There are two trash items that can be found in Garbage Cans or fished uꦐp from any water that can then be used to create Refined Quartz:

  • Broken CD
  • Broken Glasses

Other ways to get Refined Quartz

Outside of✅ these two main ways, there are a few other ways to get Refined Quartz, although these are much less guaranteed:

  • Can very rarely be found in the Mines when breaking large crystals
  • Occasionally found in Garbage Cans after receiving the Furnace blueprints from Clint
  • Can be produced by Ghostfish Fish Ponds when the population reaches 9
  • A rare drop from the following Monsters in the Mines:
    • Ghosts
    • Carbon Ghosts

How to use Refined Quartz in Stardew Valley

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Bundles and quests

Refined Quartz is a necessary donation for the Engineer’s Bundle in the Boiler Room (Remixed) inside the Community Center.&nbsꦯp;

In terms of quests, Refined Quartz can be requested at the 🦂Help Wanted board after you get the Furnace blueprint. The reward for completing this quest is 150 Gold and 150 Friendship points with the villager who requested the help. 

Crafting

Refined Quartz is used to build the Slime Hutch, which can be purchased for 10,000 Gold at the Carpenter’s 🍒Shop and needs the f๊ollowing resources to make:

  • 500 Stone
  • 10 Refined Quartz
  • 1 Iridium Bar

It’s also used in the following crafting recipes:

ItemRecipeRecipe unlock
Crystal Floor (x5)1 Refined QuartzPurchased from Krobus for 500 Gold
Crystal Path (x5)1 Refined QuartzPurchased from the Carpenter’s Shop for 500 Gold
Farm Computer1 Refined Quartz
1 Dwarf Gadget
1 Battery Pack
Unlocked after completing Demetrius’ ‘Aquatic Overpopulation’ Special Order
Garden Pot1 Refined Quartz
1 Clay
10 Stone
Evalyn provides this recipe once you’ve repaired the Greenhouse
Lightning Rod1 Refined Quartz
5 Bat Wing
1 Iron Bar
Foraging level 6
Quality Sprinkler1 Refined Quartz
1 Gold Bar
1 Iron Bar
Farming level 6
Sonar Bobber1 Iron Bar
2 Refined Quartz
Fishing level 6
Solar Panel10 Refined Quartz
5 Iron Bar
5 Gold Bar
Unlocked after completing Caroline’s ‘Island Ingredients’ Special Order

Tailoring

Refined Quartz can be used in the spool of a Sewing Machine to create a dyeable Necklace Shirt. It can🧸 also be used in the dye pots at Emily and Haley’s house and it counts as a purple dye.


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