Unlike many of the games that inspired it,Stardew Valleydoesn’t shy away frommore adult topics like combat PTSD and alcoholism. In fact, you can make several types of alcohol on your farm by throwing a variety of ingredients into a keg and then either selling them, aging them, or gifting them to villagers.
One such alcohol isMead. While wine is easy enough to make (just add any kind of fruit to a keg), it’s harder to know how to make mead unless you know what its main ingredient is. ThisStardew Valleyguide will explain what that ingredient is, which variety is best to use, and what to do with mead once you have some.
How to Get Mead
Just like in real life, the main ingredient of mead is honey. To get honey, you need tounlock and build a bee house. The bee house unlocks at Farming 3, and each one costs 40 wood, 8 coal, 1 iron bar, and 1 maple syrup.
Every four days, a bee house will produce honey. In most cases, this honey is “wild honey” and sells for 100g. If the bee house is close to a set of fully grown flowers, the honey will be a special flower honey that sells for extra. In particular, poppy honey sells for 380g, and fairy rose honey sells for 680g. All these prices go up by 40 percent if you have the Artisan profession.
To make mead,all you have to do is add honey to a keg. Mead is easily the fastest alcohol you can produce: unlike beer, pale ale, and wine, honey only needs 10 in-game hours to become mead.
Mead sells for 200g. This is twice the price of wild honey, butthis value doesn’t change when you use flower honey. In other words, you’re usually better off selling special honey instead of turning it into mead. The only flower honey that sells for less is tulip honey. On the other hand, you may age mead in a cask for up to a month to double its price to 400g. Only fairy rose honey is worth more than that.
