Stardew Valleybrims with a diverse array of items, resources, and materials, each with its unique purpose and potential. Among these treasures,Clothshines as a valuable resource crucial for both completing a community center bundle and crafting the essential mill.

Moreover, cloth is the gateway to unleashing your inner fashionista, granting you the power to create your custom clothing with the trusty sewing machine. In this guide, we’re going to get you well-acquainted with that elusive, yet oh-so-useful resource — cloth. Let’s embark on an adventure to find out just how to get your hands on this fabric-y wonder.

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Convert Sheep’s Wool

To obtain cloth in Stardew Valley, raising sheep and collecting their wool isconsidered the most reliable method.

Get A Deluxe Barn

First, you need toconstruct a Deluxe Barnon your farm. This barn serves as shelter for various livestock animals,including the sheep you’ll need to obtain cloth.

The Deluxe Barn is the third and final barn you can unlock fromRobin at her Carpenter’s Shop in the northeast part of Stardew Valley. To build it, you’ll need:

player holding cloth in front of the desert trader in Stardew Valley

Obtain And Raise Sheep

With the Deluxe Barn is in place, it’s time to head over toMarnie’s Ranchin the south part of Stardew Valley andacquire a sheep for 8,000 gold. She is usually present at the shop from 9am to 4pm daily.

You have the flexibility to choose the number of sheep you wish to raise, which can directly impact your cloth production.The more sheep, the more cloth.

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Remember, happy sheep make the most baa-rilliant suppliers of wool for your cloth-making endeavors. So, be sure to pamper them withdaily hay and affection.Additionally, allowing them tograze outdoors during the daytimecontributes to their happiness.

Sheep produce wool every few daysafter they reach adult age, which theyreach in four in-game days. You can collect their wool byusing a pair of shearsobtained from Marnie’s Ranch.

You can alsoemploy an auto-grabber, which conveniently takes care ofshearing every sheep inside your barn automatically.

Once you’ve gathered a sufficient amount of wool, it’s time to process it into cloth.

How To Convert Wool To Cloth

You’ll need a loom to obtain cloth. Crafting a loom becomes available once youreach farming skill level seven. You’ll need the following materials to craft it:

Once obtained,place the wool into the loom, and boom, you’ll have cloth.

Recycle Soggy Newspapers

Another way to get cloth is by recycling soggy newspapers through the recycling machine.

How To Get Soggy Newspaper

Soggy newspaper is a form of trash thatcan be obtained while fishingthroughout all seasonsusing either a fishing pole or a crab pot. Additionally, you can stumble upon soggy newspaper in trash cans.

The most reliable place to get soggy newspaper is byfishing in your farm’s pond.

How To Get And Use The Recycling Machine

Next, you’ll need a recycling machine. To unlock and obtain it, you’ll need toreach farming level four. One unlocked, you can craft it with the following materials:

To work your recycling magic and transform those soggy newspapers into a fabric treasure,simply pop them into the recycling machine. Watch as it processes them, and if luck is on your side, voilà,out pops a piece of cloth.

Purchase Cloth From The Desert Trader

You can strike a deal with theDesert Trader every Wednesday,trading three aquamarinesin exchange for one precious piece of cloth.

To reach the Desert Trader, you’ll first need torepair the busthat takes you to the Calico Desert. Once the bus is up and running,head to the Desert Trader’s shop located to the right in the desert, and there, you can make this fabulous exchange for a cozy, cloth reward.

While this method is effective, aquamarines are relatively scarce in the game, and the effort may not always be worth it. If you opt for this approach however,look for aquamarines on mine floors 40 and below.

Kill Mummies

You can also obtain cloth as a drop from defeated mummies. They havea 20 percent chance of dropping clothwhen slain.

Mummies are a unique enemy typefound deep within the Skull Cavern. They may initially appear to be a bit of a challenge, as after being knocked down, they have a peculiar tendency to get back up after ten seconds. However, a clever farmercan take down a mummy with a well-placed bombwhile it’s downed.

An efficient strategy here isto aim for a group several Mummies together, ideally in an area with dense clusters of rocks, and then deploy a single bomb to deal with them all at once. You’ll be drowning in cloth in no time.