Scarecrows in Stardew Valley
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How to use Scarecrows in Stardew Valley

Keep the birds away

Once you’ve started planting crops in Stardew Valley, you’re going to need to protect them from the birds, lest you lose your crops to thei🎉r beaks. Thankfully, Scarecrows exist for just this purpose. 

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There are, technically, three kinds of Scarecrows in Stardew Valley

  • Scarecrows
  • Rarecrows
  • Deluxe Scarecrows

This guide will take you through how much land each type will cover, and how to get the recipes to make them. To place a Scarecro🌞w, just select it from your inventory and place it down in your chosen spot.

How to get and use Scarecrows in Stardew Valley

Scarecrows have an 8 square radius in Stardew Valley
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Basic Scarecrows cover a circle which stretches out eight squares from where you place them, protecting a total of 249 spaces. Th♋ese are the first type of Scarecrow you’ll be able to unlock,🐼 and you get the crafting recipe once you hit Farming level 1. 

The recipe for regular scarecrows is as follows:

  • 50 Wood
  • 1 Coal
  • 20 Fiber

Rarecrows work in exactly the same way as normal Scarecrows, but they cannot be crafted. There are a 🦩total of eight R♌arecrows with a corresponding number for each, and they can be purchased or earned in various ways:

#AppearanceHow to get
1Like the Scarecrow in Howl’s Moving CastlePurchased at the Stardew Valley Fair for 800 Star Tokens
2WitchPurchased at the Spirit’s Eve festival for 5,000 Gold
3AlienPurchased at the Casino for 10,000 Qi Coins
4SnowmanAppears at the Traveling Cart for 4,000 Gold in Fall or Winter
OR
Purchased at the Festival of Ice for 5,000 Gold
5Female scarecrowPurchased at the Flower Dance for 2,500 Gold
6DwarfPurchased from the Dwarf for 2,500 Gold
7RaccoonEarned by donating 40 Artifacts to the Museum
8Tribal maskEarned by donating 40 overall items to the Museum

How to get and use Deluxe Scarecrows in Stardew Valley

Deluxe Scarecrow has a radius of 16 in Stardew Valley
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Deluxe Scarecrows have double the radius of regular Scarecrows, covering an are🦋a that stretches 16 squares from where you put it, protecting a total of 888 Tiles. 

You’ll unlock the recipe for Delu🃏xe Scarecrows once you’ve collected all eight Rarecrows. After doing that, you’ll receive a letter at some point in the mail with the recipe attached. There is a 90.5% chance of the letter appearing on any night following𓃲 the day in which you completed the collection. 

The recipe for a Deluxe Scarecrow is as follows:

  • 50 Wood
  • 1 Iridium Ore
  • 40 Fiber

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