How to Make Your Horse Faster in Stardew Valley

How to Make Your Horse Faster in Stardew Valley

As a seasoned Stardew Valley farmer with countless hours tending to my crops and taking care of my livestock, I can attest that nothing beats the thrill of a speedy steed to explore the vast valley at your fingertips. From the moment I first hopped on my horse’s back, I knew it was game-changing – quite literally!


Stardew Valley offers an authentic farm experience for those seeking it. Here, you can cultivate various crops and tend to numerous types of livestock such as chickens, cows, and even horses. A unique feature is that you can saddle up your horse and traverse the valley effortlessly, making exploration easier and more enjoyable.

In Stardew Valley, traveling by horse instead of walking on foot significantly speeds up your pace, allowing you to traverse larger areas in less time. Moreover, with an effective strategy, it’s possible to boost both your horse’s speed and efficiency.

How To Give Your Horse A Speed Boost in Stardew Valley

In Stardew Valley, you don’t have an immediate method to permanently elevate your horse’s natural speed, but there are several strategies available to give it a temporary speed boost instead.

Feed Your Horse Carrots

How to Make Your Horse Faster in Stardew Valley

Giving your horse one carrot daily provides a +0.4 speed enhancement for the entire day. You can offer it anytime during the day, but eating a carrot initially in the morning offers the most significant boost to your horse’s speed for the remainder of the day.

In the game ‘Stardew Valley’, you can cultivate carrots starting from carrot seeds during the spring season. It takes just three days for these carrots to reach maturity and be ready for harvesting. You can find carrot seeds by digging up speed spots, opening mystery boxes, or smashing crates and barrels in the mines between winter 21st and spring 23rd.

Read The Horse Book

1.6 update in Stardew Valley brings power books, which grant unique abilities and knowledge to farmers. Reading a specific book titled “Horse: The Book” enhances your horse’s speed permanently by +0.5. You can buy this Horse: The Book from the Bookseller for 25,000 gold pieces.

Drink Coffee

Whenever you match pace with your horse, you can temporarily enhance your speed by consuming items like coffee or a triple shot espresso. These beverages offer a short-term speed boost for both you and your equine companion. You can purchase coffee from Gus at the Saloon, or craft it yourself by combining five Coffee Beans in a Keg to brew it.

Unlike carrots, which provide a day-long boost, the speed boost from drinking coffee is temporary. Make sure to keep some coffee in your bag for on-the-go speed boosts for your horse.

Eat Speed-Boosting Foods

As a gamer, I’ve found that not only does my morning brew give me a speed boost, but certain snacks do as well! These quick energy shots stack, allowing me to amp up my gaming pace even more by combining them. So, whether it’s coffee or a power-packed snack, I’m good to go, ready for some high-speed adventures!

You can cook and eat the following meals to increase your horse’s speed:

Meal Buffs
Crab Cakes +1 Speed, +1 Defense
Pepper Poppers +1 Speed, +2 Farming
Spicy Eel +1 Speed, +1 Luck
Super Meal +1 Speed, +40 Max Energy

Consuming two power-enhancing meals simultaneously won’t make their effects combine or multiply. Instead, the benefits from the second meal will override those from the first one you consumed.

Activate The Statue Of Blessings

How to Make Your Horse Faster in Stardew Valley

To wrap up, triggering the Statue of Blessings bestows a distinct favor on the farmer each day. For instance, it may be the ‘Speed Blessing’, which boosts your speed by 0.5 for the entire day.

After achieving Farming Mastery, you will be able to construct the Statue of Blessings. To create this statue, you’ll need 999 pieces each of Sap, Fiber, and Stone, as well as 333 pieces of Moss.

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2024-08-17 20:05