The best ways to level every skill in Stardew Valley

No matter what you’re doing in Stardew Valley, you’re earnin𝓡g experience that will eventually go towards increasing yꦗour level in a variety of skills. It’s a fairly straightforward system, but it’s filled with intricacies that are useful to know if you want to make the most of your leveling experience. 

There are five different skills in Stardew Valley:

• Farming
• Mining
• Foraging
• Fishing
• Combat

Not only does leveling each skill provide you with new perks, recipes, and items, but you’ll also gain higher p💦roficiency per level you gain in a skill. This higher prof❀iciency means that tasks require less energy, so you can do more with each day. 

Experience breakdown in Stardew Valley

Each skill in Stardew Valley requires a total of 15🐻,000 experience to reach level 10, broken down into the followin𓂃g individual amounts of experience per level:

The ways in which you’ll gain experience in Stardew Valley vꦉary depending on which skill you’re gaining experience for, with specific tasks providing experience towards a particular skill. 

How to gain easy experience in all skills in Stardew Valley

If you’re trying to get experience in Stardew Valley, then the Book of Stars is something that you should always keep an eye out for. When used from within your inventory, it provides a boost of 250 experience for every skill, helping to speed up the process.

The Book of Stars can b🅰e obtained in the following ways:

• Purchased from the Bookseller for 15,000 Gold
• Possible reward from the Raccoon after completing the fifth request
• Can be found in Mystery Boxes or Golden Mystery Boxes

Each skill has a specific book that can also be used to boost experience:

• Stardew Valley Almanac (Farming)
• Mining Monthly (Mining)
• Woodcutter’s Weekly (Foraging)
• Bait and Bobber (Fishing)
• Combat Quarterly (Combat)

Each book can be obtained from the Bookseller for between 5,000 and 10,000 Gold. When used from within your inventory, each book will provide a 250 experience boost to the corresponding skill. 

How to get Farming experience in Stardew Valley

Increasing your Farming skill level will result in increased proficiency wh꧋en using a Hoe or a Watering Can. As you might expect, gaining experience in the Farming skill is done by completing tasks around the farm. 

Each of the following tasks rewards five experience points per action:

• Harvesting crops
• Petting animals
• Milking or shearing animals
• Picking up animal products

Although using a Hoe and Watering Can is very much an integral part of 𝔉the Farming🔯 experience, these actions sadly do not reward experience points alone. 

For a t🅘emporary level boost in Farming, you can try the followin෴g meals:

For each Farming level you gain, you’ll unlock some rewards. Here’s what you can get for reaching each levelꦿ:

How to get Mining experience in Stardew Valley

While t꧙here is a bigger variety of ways to gain experience points for Farming, you’ll only gain experience in Mining by breaking rocks and each increase in level will reduce the energy spent when using a Pickaxe. 

Different rocks give a different number of experience poi❀𒉰nts:

If you’re too impatient to level up the long way and want a temporary level boost in Mining for any reason, the🐎 following meals will increase your level for a short period of time:

As🐟 you progress through the Mining levels, you’ll unlock the following rewards:

How to get Foraging experience in Stardew Valley

Foraging includes anything that involves gathering materials from the ground or chopping down trees. Increasing your Foraging level 🤪will decrease the energy drained when using an Axe.

As with Mining, the expeꦑrience you gain from each action varies depending on the action itself:

Certain foods can also be eaten to incre😼ase your Foraging level, although this effect is temporary.🦩 Here are all of the meals you can consume to provide a temporary boost:

Reaching a new level in💧 Foraging will unlock a new reward, granting items that are helpful 🐽when it comes to Foraging:

How to get Fishing experience in Stardew Valley

Fishing is probably the easiest of all skills to level in Stardew Valley, with exp✅erien🐠ce being gained in all of the following ways:

• Catching Fish (experience depends on the quality and difficulty of each Fish)
• Catching Trash, Algae, or Jelly (3 experience each)
• Harvesting Crab Pots (5 experience each)
• Collecting items from Fish Ponds (10 experience each)

Increasing your level not only increases your proficiency when usin▨g a Rod, but each level will also provide the following perks:

• Increased minimum fish size
• Increased Bobber bar height
• Decreased maximum bite time (reduced by 0.25 seconds per level)
• Increased casting distance at certain levels (see table below)

If you want🌊 to temporarily boost your Fishing level, for instance, to help capture the Legendary Fish, then you can eat the following meals:

Of all the skills, Fishing has the most rewards available for leveling. Here’s ev🎃erything on offer for increasing yourܫ Fishing level:

How to get Combat experience in Stardew Valley

Combat is the final skill in Stardew Valley, and experience is gained through defeating monsters in the Mines, Skull Cavern, or the Volcano Dungeon. As with Mining and Foraging🌸, the amount of experience you’ll gain will depend on what kind of monster you kill. 

Here’s how much experience yꦓou can get for kiꦚlling each monster:

For increasin🦋g your Combat level, you’ll unlock the following rewards: