Summary
There are many ways you’re able to find and collect Books Of Power inStardew Valley. From fighting and slaying monsters in the Mines to them dropping out of trees directly into your lap. Or hands. But, once you’ve found duplicates of the Books, you may not be sure what you want to do with them.
Your best bet is to hold onto some of these Books. When the Bookseller comes to town, he’ll have items that you can obtain by trading them in. But which books are worth taking up space in your chests or backpack? This list will make that clear.
10Jewels Of The Sea
Cave, River, Or Sea Jelly
When you’re fishing, you’re likely to come across a copy of Jewels Of The Sea sooner rather than later. This book grants you the power to find fish roe in fishing treasure chests.
It’s also aBook Of Poweryou’ll come across often. Save them and trade for one of the three fishing jellies. These jellies can help you with crafting and, if you don’t like fishing often, you’ll be in a jelly bind and trading these books in will help.
When a book has multiple items you may get from trading, only one of the options will be available each time the Bookseller visits Pelican Town.
9Woodcutter’s Weekly
100 Wood
Wood can be hard to come by at times. Between chopping down nearly every tree or not having the money to spend at Robin’s, there may be times you’re running low on this all important resource.
If you come across any copies ofWoodcutter’s Weeklythat you don’t need, trade them to the Bookseller for 100 pieces of wood. This is never a bad move, because so many things require wood for crafting and progression.
8Two Monster Compendiums
Slime Egg-Press Or Slime Incubator
Slaying monsters can award you with, you guessed it, Monster Compendiums. They drop these like loot, and you can keep them to trade in to the Bookseller.
If you trade two of these Books, you can get aSlime Egg-PressorSlime Incubator, depending on the Bookseller’s inventory that day. This will save you a lot of resources to make either of these items on your own.
7Mining Monthly
20 Coal
Grinding for coal can be a hassle. Killing so many dust sprites that don’t always appear in the Mines. And it’s so expensive to buy coal fromClint, especially after he raises his prices.
So being able to trade in aMining Monthlyfor 20 coal can make or break your furnace operations or your crafting goals. Just like wood, it’s an important material that you can run out of really quickly.
6Woody’s Secret
20 Hardwood
Different verse, same as the first. Hardwood is another resource that is so key to progression of the game and your farm, but after you clear out your farm, the most hardwood you’ll usually be getting is from the Secret Woods.
So trading one book in for 20Hardwoodcan really help get you to the amount you need, no matter what you’re planning on using it for.
5Bait And Bobber
30 Deluxe Bait
Deluxe bait can make fishing easier if it’s something you struggle with. And if you’re a large mouth bass pro, it doesn’t hurt using this brand of bait, especially if you’re trying to catch some legendary fish.
You can buyDeluxe BaitfromWilly, but it will cost you 100g each. Ouch. You can also craft it using bait and moss. But getting 30 for the price of one Book? Priceless. Well, actually, it’s worth 3,000g, but still.
4Combat Quarterly
Monster Musk
Remember the bit about dust sprites never appearing as often as you need them to? Monster Musk fixes that by filling the different combat areas with more monsters.
And that’s what you could get for trading in Combat Quarterly. There’s no reason not to as this item can help you so much in either gathering resources from monsters, or completing theMonster Eradication Goals.
3Treasure Appraisal Guide
Three Spicy Eel Or Three Artifact Troves
TheTreasure Appraisal Guideis a powerful Book Of Power that will make it so that when you sell artifacts, they sell for three times their original price.
So saving these books to turn them into the Bookseller can either give you three spicy eel, which you may use in the Skull Cavern, or you can get artifact troves, which you can break open for the artifacts and then sell for three times their price. It’s like it was perfectly planned that way. Hm.
2Book Of Mysteries
Seven Mystery Boxes
Are you feeling lucky? Even if you aren’t,mystery boxescontain an amazing amount of items that range from helpful to high-priced goods you can sell to make a nice chunk of change.
Not only is it fun to see what you get, but these items can be so useful, like ores, rings, and hardwood. Or, they could net you profit, like finding a treasure chest tucked inside. They can even contain other Books.
1Book Of Stars
Eight Fairy Dust
Fairy Dustis an expensive item to craft. It requires a diamond and a fairy rose. It can also be a while before you can unlock the crafting recipe, since you have to completeThe Pirate’s Wife quest.
So not just getting one, or two, but eight fairy dust all in one go? That’s an incredible deal! It’s a rare book, so it might take a while to find extras, but when you do, run to your nearest Bookseller to trade it in.
