One of the most exciting moments in Stardew Valley is finding your offset Prismatic Shard. This item is extremely important and used for a multifariousness of purposes. The first and probably almost important employ is to retrieve the Galaxy Sword — a powerful weapon that's virtually-necessary to delve into Skull Cave.

These rainbow-colored rocks can also exist used to end the Missing Bundle, make Nuptials Rings in multiplayer, "dismiss" unwanted children, and much more. They are very rare, so many people spend a long time trying to detect i. Here are some tips for finding ane for yourself.

Updated on June 8, 2021 by Michael Christopher: We've updated this list to go on it up to date and arrive a bit more than readable. Enjoy, and good luck finding your start Prismatic Shard!

12 Hunt on a Lucky 24-hour interval

stardew valley Welwick the oracle fortune teller

Each day in Stardew, you'll have a different Luck stat rating. Your Luck stat can determine a wide variety of things about your adventures, including item drops from rocks and monsters. It volition also determine how many treasure chests appear while angling and how likely gem nodes and Mystic Stones are to appear in the various mines. These are all methods for finding a Prismatic Shard, so you'll want to make certain your Luck is loftier.

There are a few unlike ways to increase your Luck stat (some of which nosotros'll cover in this post), simply you too have a daily Luck rating. It can exist determined by watching the Fortune Teller channel on TV, and there's no way to modify it. There are six unlike ratings that your Luck stat can have, outlined in the table below. Welwick's phrasing is an indicator of what your daily Luck stat is for the day.

What Welwick Says Luck Bonus/Detriment
"The spirits are very happy today! They will do their best to shower everyone with good fortune." At least 0.07
"The spirits are in good sense of humour today. I think you'll have a picayune extra luck." Betwixt 0.02 and 0.07
"The spirits feel neutral today. The 24-hour interval is in your easily." Between -0.02 and 0.02, but not exactly 0
"This is rare. The spirits feel absolutely neutral today." Exactly 0
"The spirits are somewhat annoyed today/mildly perturbed today. Luck will not be on your side." Between -0.07 and -0.02
"The spirits are very displeased today. They will practise their all-time to brand your life difficult." Less than -0.02

11 Make Lucky Recipes

stardew valley lucky recipes spicy eel ginger ale lucky lunch

If your Luck is rotten (and even if it isn't), it tin can be increased past cooking and eating meals that have a luck buff on them. Each +1 to luck will make certain luck-based events about 1% more than likely to occur.

The best Luck meal is the Lucky Lunch, which will add +iii to Luck. Withal, in that location are too some other great choices, as outlined below.

Buffs can be added simultaneously if ane comes from food and the other from a drink. Luckily, in the 1.v update, a new recipe was added: Ginger Ale. This drink adds +1 Luck, pregnant it can be paired alongside the bonus from a food dish.

Dish Buffs Elapsing Wellness Restored Free energy Restored
Lucky Lunch
  • +3 Luck
11 minutes, eleven seconds 45 100
Pumpkin Soup
  • +2 Luck
  • +ii Defence force
7 minutes, 41 seconds 90 200
Banana Pudding
  • +one Luck
  • +1 Mining
  • +one Defence force
five minutes, 1 second 56 125
Ginger Ale
  • +1 Luck
five minutes 28 63
Spicy Eel
  • +1 Luck
  • +1 Speed
7 minutes 51 115
Fried Eel
  • +1 Luck
7 minutes 33 75
Shrimp Cocktail
  • +1 Luck
  • +ane Fishing
ten minutes, 2 seconds 101 225

The Magic Stone Candy will add +5 Luck, but can merely be reliably obtained past trading, ironically, a Prismatic Shard to the desert trader. So, fifty-fifty though the game considers it a cooked dish, you tin't actually cook it, unfortunately. However, if you're trying to get more Prismatic Shards, it could assist. You do get one for donating 90 items to the Museum, and they can occasionally drop from slain Haunted Skulls, and so y'all perchance you lot'll get lucky.

Dish Buffs Elapsing Health Restored Energy Restored
Magic Rock Processed • +ii Mining • +5 Luck • +5 Defence force • +5 Assail • +1 Speed eight minutes, 24 seconds 225 500

10 Other Luck Buffs

stardew valley Special Charm and Lucky Ring

There are some other ways to boost your Luck stat, too. Two of the most notable are the Special Charm and the Lucky Ring.

The Special Charm can be found by completing Surreptitious Note #xx. At that place's a whole questline to actuate Secret Notes (read our guide here!), and then after finding Undercover Note #twenty, y'all'll need to solve the puzzle it offers. One time you do, you'll earn this charm, which permanently increases your Luck stat past 0.025.

Lucky Rings are one of the many Rings in Stardew Valley. They add a +1 boost to Luck (each) so long as they're equipped. Lucky Rings are dropped as special items from brittle crates and barrels (about 2.2% of crates and barrels are "special" and they don't look different in whatsoever fashion) in Skull Cavern, or by very rare "special" monsters, which are mostly indistinguishable from their normal counterparts. Slimes are the ane exception, offering a slightly higher chance of dropping a special item (about 1.2% compared to other monsters, at 0.2%), and denoted by a gold star. You can also observe a Lucky Ring when panning, simply information technology's very rare.

9 Treasure Lures

stardew valley Treasure Hunter Lure

One of the nigh mutual means that players find their Prismatic Shard is through a treasure chest while fishing. Randomly, when fishing, a pocket-sized treasure chest will announced on the line-fishing bar. If you can manage to open it and withal catch the fish, it will award you some random items.

This can only occur at Fishing Level half-dozen or higher, but information technology's a bang-up mode to find that elusive gem. Luckily, some lures can help. Willy sells a Treasure Hunter lure (it tin can likewise be crafted), which will increase the chance of finding treasure. You can get the recipe for the Treasure Hunter at Fishing Level vii. It takes two Aureate Bars to make ane, and information technology will increase your chances of finding a treasure chest while fishing by 33%.

viii Pirate Profession

stardew valley level 10 fishing

If you're hoping to really start pulling in those treasures from the sea, the Treasure Hunter lure is helpful, but it often isn't going to be enough. At Fishing Level 10, yous can choose between 2 Professions. The i that volition help you discover a Prismatic Shard is chosen Pirate. This doubles your chance to find treasure chests when fishing.

At Level 5, yous'll take to choose the Fisher Profession to accept the Pirate choice at Level 10. If you want the other Profession, never fear, you can always change Professions in the Sewers at the Statue of Dubiousness.

7 Omni Geodes

stardew valley Omni Geode

Breaking stones, opening fishing treasure chests, tilling clay on the farm, slaying monsters, and many other methods tin provide yous with geodes. These geodes come in iv varieties: Frozen, Magma, regular, and Omni Geodes.

These colorful Omni Geodes are perhaps the best of the 4 types, providing a huge variety of rare minerals and artifacts when cracked open up. One of these precious item drops is, of class, the Prismatic Shard. There'south a very rare chance (about 0.4 percent) to notice a Prismatic Shard this way.

Notation: you lot can merely receive a Prismatic Shard from an Omni Geode afterwards you've cracked 15 geodes. Before this, it's impossible. It'south unlikely that you'll find an Omni Geode before cracking xv of the other varieties, but it'due south worth noting.

half dozen Rainbow Trout Fish Pond

stardew valley Rainbow Trout fish Pond

In one of the major updates for the game, Fish Ponds were introduced. These are pocket-sized subcontract buildings that can house upwards to ten fish of a certain species. Each type of fish volition have dissimilar particular drops once per day, and Rainbow Trout can drib Prismatic Shards if in that location are ten of them in a pond and if y'all're very lucky.

Information technology's a very rare drib, only it'southward definitely possible. Rainbow Trout tin be caught in the River or the Mountain Lake before vii p.chiliad. during the summer, and merely if information technology's sunny.

After stocking a Fish Pond with a Rainbow Trout, you lot'll periodically need to consummate quests for them so they tin can expand their population. They won't produce a Prismatic Shard until the Pond has ten fish, so information technology'll be a little while, but it'south one option!

v Check the Quarry

stardew valley quarry mystic stone

The large area in the northeast of boondocks beyond the cleaved span is the Quarry. This bridge can exist repaired either past finishing the Crafts Room bundles in the Community Center or by purchasing information technology from the Joja Customs Development Grade.

In the Quarry, rocks and precious stone nodes will appear each twenty-four hour period. There'south a small chance that a Mystic Stone or mineral node containing a Prismatic Shard will announced. The chances are very depression, but not zero. Clear the Quarry out regularly so that new stones appear, and y'all'll have a much better chance of finding a Prismatic Shard.

4 Slay Monsters

stardew valley A Mummy in Skull Cavern

At that place are a ton of dissimilar monsters in both the regular Mines and the Skull Cavern. Some of them, if y'all're lucky, will drib a Prismatic Shard. Skull Cave'due south Serpents and Mummies have about a 0.1 percent chance to drop them, while Shadow Shamans and Shadow Brutes in the town's Mines take a 0.05 pct chance to do so.

In that location's a craven-and-egg dilemma where the Milky way Sword is most necessary to defeat the enemies in the Skull Cavern, but the Prismatic Shard is needed to get the Galaxy Sword. But, it'south not impossible to utilize this method to find one.

After completing the Prismatic Jelly Special Order for the Sorcerer, you'll receive the crafting recipe for Monster Musk. This will double the number of monsters on new floors that you enter for ten minutes. If you're desperate for a Prismatic Shard, you tin use this to increment the number of monsters yous run across, therefore increasing the chances of a Prismatic Shard drop. To brand Monster Musk, yous'll need 30 Slime and 30 Bat Wings.

3 Head to Ginger Island

stardew valley ginger island Volcano Chest

In the recent 1.5 update, a huge new area was added to the game, called Ginger Isle. Here, y'all'll find new tasks, a whole 2d subcontract to use, and a new mine chosen the Volcano Dungeon. With a new area filled with new content, there are more than opportunities than e'er to discover a Prismatic Shard.

The Volcano Dungeon is definitely for more than seasoned players, but heading in there tin can be a adept way to find a Prismatic Shard. One time you reach the top of the Volcano, there will be a chest containing a Prismatic Shard. This tin only exist obtained one time, but it'due south something.

Completing 100% of the requirements in Qi'south Walnut Room also provides you with the Statue of True Perfection, which produces a Prismatic Shard every day, though that's more of a very late-game solution.

2 Crack Iridium Nodes

stardew valley Skull Cavern Iridium Node

A Mystic Rock will driblet a Prismatic Shard most 25% of the time, but they're very rare. A much more common rock that can be cracked is an Iridium Node. These mostly drop Iridium, but they also accept a decent hazard (nearly four% to drop a Prismatic Shard.

Iridium Nodes volition appear in increasing quantity as you descend further through Skull Cave. To make it through without a Galaxy Sword, a Lava Katana is a skilful option. It can be purchased at the Adventurer's Guild after reaching the bottom of the Mines.

ane Dive Into Skull Cave

stardew valley Treasure Chest Skull Cavern

It'southward hard to admit, but just going full-on prospector mode in the Skull Cavern might exist the all-time bet for finding a Prismatic Shard. Information technology'south hard to make information technology through without the Galaxy Sword, but non impossible.

These desert mines contain all the best chances for finding a Prismatic Shard, from the enemies with the highest drop run a risk to frequent Iridium Nodes. Fix for the journey with some Defense- and Luck-increasing meals, bring some stone to make Staircases, and craft a bunch of bombs to speed things up. When trying to find a Prismatic Shard, information technology's sometimes all-time to only bite the bullet and swoop deep into Skull Cavern. Good luck!

NEXT: Stardew Valley: Complete Guide And Walkthrough