There are plenty of ways to make gold inStardew Valley. While you may be a farmer who inherited a vast piece of land from your late grandfather, your bread and butter need not only be your crops and animal produce. You can also go mining for minerals and ore, forage in the forest, or go fishing.

Fishing is a great way to earn gold, because you can stay in the different fishing spots around the valley, and catch fish of all sorts of value and quality. There is a way to make your fish more valuable, and that’s by smoking them using theFish Smoker.

How To Get A Fish Smoker

The Fish Smoker is a machine that you can place down, and it processes any fish,turning it into smoked fish.

To get this machine, you’ll need to head toWilly’s Fish Shop at the pier. You’re going to need to purchase the crafting recipe for this device, andWilly sells it for 10,000 gold.

Once you have the recipe,you’ll need the crafting materialsin order to make the Fish Smoker:

10x

1

Cave Jelly

This can be fished out of thefishing spots in the mines at levels 20 and 60.

How To Use The Fish Smoker

To use the Fish Smoker, you’ll needone fish and one piece of coal. Have the coal in your inventory while holding up your fish, then interact with the Fish Smoker to put them both in.

What To Do With Smoked Fish

There areplenty of things you can dowith smoked fish.

You canconsume the smoked fishfor energy and health. Theamount restored is multiplied by 1.5xwhen the fish is smoked.

You can also sell the smoked fish through the shipping bin. Smoked fishdoubles the fish’s price.

You can alsogive it as a gift to a villager. The only villagers who dislike smoked fish are Jas, Sebastian, and Vincent.