In this guide, we are going to look at casks.

These simple wooden barrels will allow you to transform an average-priced item into an expensive artisan good.

To upgrade your house, talk to Robin.

Stardew Valley Casks In The Basement

Unlike other upgrades, this will not cost any materials.

However, in this area, the casks will not work.

To craft a cask, you will need the following materials.

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What Can You Place In Casks?

Casks can hold a variety of items and will give you high-priced artisan goods in return.

Let’s take a look at all the items you’ve got the option to place in casks.

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This is a craftable itemused for brewing different beverages.To craft a keg, you will need the following materials.

How Long Does It Take To Age In A Cask?

For example, if you place gold-quality Cheese in a cask, then a gold star will appear.

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As the item ages, the quality will increase; this will be displayed on the front.

Items age and improve in stages - from base quality to silver, then gold, and finally iridium.

You cannot put an iridium-quality product into a cask, so don’t worry about wasting your casks.

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If you want to take an item out of a cask early, justdestroy it.

The cask and the item will both appear in your inventory.

If the item increases in quality, then it will appear in your inventory with higher quality.

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Below, let’s go over how long it will take for all items to reach iridium quality.

These times arebased on the lowest quality of each product.

First, let’s take a look at the prices for the other artisan goods.

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Silver and gold qualitywines will only improve in profitability by 1.25x and 1.5x times respectively.

Grape wine with a base price of 240g will sell for 480g at iridium quality.

Overall, this isn’t very profitable.

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Overall,wines that are more expensivemake for better-selling aged products.

Two of these options will improve the amount of money you get from your aged items.

Alternatively, you’re able to alsofill every spot in the entire cellar with casks.

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Let’s turn the Mayor’s, ahem, shorts into your new fishing accessory.

Hey, who are we to judge?

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Stardew Valley Wine Aging In Casks

ancient fruit wine and starfruit wine selling for a lot of money

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