In the 1.5 update forStardew Valley,two new types of fruit were added to the game:MangosandBananas. The latter is necessary for quite a few things, including retrieving aGolden Walnutand building an important building.
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While venturingaround Ginger Island, it’ll become clear that some Bananas are needed for a few things. Here’s how to grow them and everything they can be used for.
How To Get Bananas
There are two different ways to obtain Bananas:grow a Banana Tree, or raiseBlue Discus in a Fish Pond.
How To Find Banana Trees
The easiest way to grow Bananas is to plant a Banana Tree. That sounds simple enough, but actually obtaining a sapling for the tree is easier said than done, and the tree takes a while to reach maturity and start producing fruit.
Banana Trees can be obtained in a couple of ways.
> Island Trader
To start trading with the Island Trader, their booth needs to be built. After the parrots build the Island Farmhouse, they’ll hang around just north of the entrance beach. Paying them 10 Golden Walnuts will unlock the Island Trader. This vendor will trade five Dragon Teeth for a Banana Sapling.
Once the player obtains the five Dragon Teeth, the Island Trader will swap them for a Banana Sapling.
> Golden Coconuts
The second method for finding Banana Trees is cracking openGolden Coconuts.These fruit work basically the same way as Geodes. Once the player finds them, they can bring them to Clint and he’ll crack them open for 25g. Unfortunately, the Geode Crusher can’t be used for Golden Coconuts. Each one isn’t guaranteed to drop a Banana Sapling, but the chance isn’t incredibly low.
Here’s every way to find a Golden Coconut:
After obtaining a Banana Sapling, plant it and wait for it to grow, which takes28 days. They only produce fruit in the Greenhouse,on the Island Farm, or on the standard farm in Summer.
Blue Discus Ponds
The other way to obtain Bananas is by raisingBlue Discus in a Fish Pond. What is it with Ginger Island’s fish and these dang Bananas?
Build a Fish Pond by visiting Robin’s Carpenter Shop and paying the materials and gold (5,000 gold, 200 Stone, 5 Seaweed, 5 Green Algae), or empty a currently built Fish Pond if necessary.
A Blue Discuscan be caughtonGinger Island North (where the Volcano is) and Ginger Island West (where the Farm is) in any freshwater body, like rivers.
After placing the Blue Discus in the Fish Pond, wait for its population to grow toat least four fish(they’ll ask for three Taro Roots at population three before the population can increase anymore). At this point, the fish have about a1% chanceto produce a Banana each day. As the population grows, the chance of them producing a Banana does as well.At population nine or ten, they have about a 15% chanceto produce a Banana.
What Bananas Are Used For
Surely, all that work finding a Banana is worth it, right? Never fear, because it’s worth the effort. Bananas have a few uses, some of which are pretty great. The two most important are building the Island Obelisk and earning three Golden Walnuts.
> The Island Obelisk
By visiting the Wizard’s Tower, the player can access his magic book and build special buildings. Some of them are obelisks that teleport the player to various places. Building theIsland Obelisk, which warps the user to Ginger Island, requires a few items:
Building this obelisk will save a ton of time, since the player can warp to the island whenever they want and don’t have to wait for Willy to take them.
> The Banana Shrine
Finding enough Golden Walnuts to complete everything on Ginger Island is tough, since there are only 120 of them. There’s a pretty easy to way to grab three of them, though, so long as the player has started growing Bananas.
Next to Leo’s house on Ginger Island is a strange shrine. By offering a Banana to the shrine, a gorilla will appear and grant the playerthree Golden Walnuts.
> Other Uses
There are a few other uses for Bananas that aren’t as vital as the obelisk and Golden Walnuts.
Stardew Valleyis available on PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, Android, and iOS.
