Farm layout

What to place first

The map is locked at character creation. Standard has 3,427 tillable tiles. Beach has more open ground, but sprinklers only work on the non-sand soil: one 202-tile patch plus 28 scattered tiles. Meadowlands starts with a coop, two chickens, and blue grass.

Leave crop tiles for the sprinkler that will water them. A Sprinkler covers 4 adjacent tiles, a Quality Sprinkler covers 8, and an Iridium Sprinkler covers 24. A Pressure Nozzle changes those to a 3 by 3, a 5 by 5, and a 7 by 7. The sprinkler's own tile is not a crop.

A scarecrow's circle is 249 tiles, eight tiles out in each straight direction and six on the diagonals. The deluxe circle is 888 tiles at a radius of 16. The scarecrow tile itself is inside that count. The greenhouse and Ginger Island do not need one.

A Junimo Hut harvests a 17 by 17 square centered on its door, and the building is 3 by 2. They stop for rain and for all of winter. Raisins add a 20% chance of a double harvest.

• Sprinkler recipes and nozzles
• Scarecrow range
• Junimo Huts
• Farm maps

Building footprints

These are the outside tiles each building occupies in Stardew Valley 1.6.x. Barn and coop upgrades do not change the footprint. A silo is the cheap first build if animals are coming: 100g and 240 hay.

The greenhouse soil is 120 tiles. Six iridium sprinklers leave 116 of them for crops. Five iridium sprinklers with Pressure Nozzles leave 119.

Carpenter's Shop farm buildings, read 2026-11-04

• Farm buildings
• Farming

Hut square and the iridium grid

An iridium sprinkler is a 5 by 5. A Junimo hut harvests a 17 by 17 square centered on the door, and the building is 3 by 2 inside that square. Seventeen does not divide by five, so a line of iridium sprinklers that do not overlap cannot fill the harvest square. Some watered tiles fall outside it, or some tiles inside it stay dry.

A Pressure Nozzle turns that sprinkler into a 7 by 7. That is the widening that covers a strip the 5 by 5 leaves over. A quality sprinkler is a 3 by 3, and 17 does not divide by three either.

Keep the door clear. The six tiles under the hut are not crop tiles. Junimos walk through trellis crops. A farmer does not, so green beans, grapes, and hops can sit in a solid block inside the square.

A normal scarecrow reaches 8 tiles in a straight line and 6 on a diagonal, so the corners of a 17 by 17 already sit outside its circle. The harvest square is centered on the door. A scarecrow on the door blocks the Junimos, and one placed on the hut is off that center, so the far edge of the square can sit outside the circle. A deluxe scarecrow reaches 16 tiles in a straight line, twice the normal one, and that is the scarecrow to put on the hut. The normal circle is the one that leaves corners of the harvest square open.

• Sprinkler shapes
• Junimo Huts
• Scarecrow range

Grabbers, petters, and hoppers

An auto-grabber works only inside the barn or coop where you place it. One is enough for that building. Marnie sells it for 25,000g once Farming is level 10. The letter the next morning is not required. In a barn it milks cows and goats, shears sheep, and takes ostrich eggs. In a coop it takes the coop products, including rabbit wool. The box holds 36. You gain no Farming experience and no mastery experience from what it collects. Milking or shearing by hand is 5 friendship, and the grabber does not give that 5, so a barn animal that is not yet at 5 hearts takes longer to get there. An empty grabber does not open. It cannot be sold. A tool strike picks it up. Repeated clicks and holding the button do not. Truffles stay on the ground outside. The grabber's list does not include them.

An animal that is not petted, milked, or sheared loses 5 to 10 friendship even when it ate and went outside. An auto-petter stops the loss that comes from not being petted. It does nothing unless it is inside a barn or coop. The mood gain is about the same as a hand pet, and a hand pet on the same day adds more mood on top. Friendship from the machine alone is 8 points. A hand pet is 15, and petting by hand while the machine also ran is still 15. Coopmaster and Shepherd do not change the machine's mood gain. JojaMart sells one for 50,000g after the development form is finished. A Skull Cavern treasure chest has a 3.6 percent chance to hold one. A golden mystery box has a 0.5 percent chance, since 1.6.4. Monsters in the Mines can also drop one during Danger In The Deep, or after the Shrine of Challenge. It cannot be sold. A tool strike or repeated clicks picks it up.

A hopper loads what is inside it into the machine directly in front, when that machine can take the item and is not already running. The finished good stays in the machine until you take it out. The hopper does not start another item until that good is gone. It can hold several inputs at once, including two kinds: coal and ore in front of a furnace are smelted from left to right. Qi's Walnut Room sells the hopper for 10 qi gems and the recipe for 50. The recipe is 10 hardwood, 1 iridium bar, and 1 radioactive bar. A hopper cannot be sold.

• Animals
• JojaMart
• Barn