After finishing the Stardew Valley Community Center and its many bundles, the player will probably be proud of themselves — and they should be! Helping to restore this abandoned building is no easy feat. However, it seems there is one lonely Junimo that got separated from the pack, meaning all of the bundles are not yet complete.
This poor little Junimo offers one final bundle challenge to players: the Missing Bundle. By completing this hefty undertaking, Stardew Valley will become home to a cool new Movie Theater. The player can watch these movies alone or invite a villager, raising their affinity together. Here's where to find all the items that the Missing Bundle requires.
Note: The Missing Bundle asks for six potential items, but only has five slots. This means that the player has the option of which five they want to submit. This is great for when one of the items proves extremely difficult to obtain.
Caviar
Caviar is a luxury good in real life, so it stands to reason that it'll be quite the desired item in Stardew Valley as well. It's not the hardest thing to find, but producing it does require a bit of a time investment.
Producing Caviar requires a few things:
- A Fish Pond
- A Sturgeon
- A Preserves Jar
A Fish Pond can be built by visiting Robin's Carpenter Shop and paying the required materials and gold: five Green Algae, five Seaweed, 200 Stone, and 5,000g.
A Sturgeon can be caught at the mountain lake in the Summer or Winter between 6am and 7pm. The best conditions are at the lake on rainy summer days, when Sturgeon are most easily found.
Finally, a Preserves Jar can be crafted using 50 Wood, 40 Stone, and eight Coal. The recipe is unlocked at Farming Level 4.
After all of these are acquired, here's what to do:
- Place a Sturgeon in the Fish Pond
- Wait until the Sturgeon produces Sturgeon Roe
- Collect the Roe from the Fish Pond and place it inside a Preserves Jar
- Wait four in-game days for the Preserves Jar to finish turning the Roe into Caviar
- Collect the process Caviar when it's ready!
Prismatic Shard
Prismatic Shards are extremely rare, and finding them is often the bane of a playthrough for many players. This valuable gem has quite a few uses, including serving as one of the potential Missing Bundle donations.
Some of the best ways to find a Prismatic Shard include mining and fishing, but there are other options as well.
Here are some of the methods to finding this rainbow rock:
- Crack open Mystic Stones, which are found at level 100 or higher in the Mines, in the Quarry, or in Skull Cavern
- Crack open Iridium Nodes in the Quarry, Skull Cavern, and the Volcano Dungeon
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Go fishing and open fishing treasure chests that appear (only possible at Fishing Level 6 and higher)
- The Treasure Hunter lure, Magnet, and Pirate profession all increase the chance of finding treasure while fishing
- Open Omni Geodes, which have a small chance of containing a Prismatic Shard
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Cultivate Rainbow Trout in a Fish Pond
- A population of nine fish in the Pond can lead to the production of a Prismatic Shard (it's very rare, but possible)
- Open chests in the treasure rooms of Skull Cavern
- Open the chest on top of the Volcano Dungeon (guaranteed once, on the first time visiting)
- Slay monsters after reaching the bottom of the Mines. After descending to Floor 120, any monster has a small chance to drop a Prismatic Shard
- Slay Serpents, Shadow Brutes, and Shadow Shamans, all of which have a higher chance of dropping Prismatic Shards than other monsters (and can do so before reaching Level 120)
- Spoiler: Reach 100% Perfection, which unlocks the Statue of True Perfection. This statue produces a Prismatic Shard once a day
Gold Ancient Fruit x5
Ancient Fruit are some of the most valuable crops in Stardew Valley, especially when processed into Artisan Goods. However, it's wise to set aside some gold quality Ancient Fruit instead of processing or selling it. This is because it's one of the options for the Missing Bundle, and arguably one of the easier ones to obtain.
Finding the seeds to grow Ancient Fruit can be a bit of a headache, but once the player has some, growing the crop itself is easy.
The initial Ancient Seed found is (typically) an artifact, and donating it to Gunther at the Museum will reward the player with growable Ancient Seeds. If they're super, super lucky, the Traveling Cart may sell one of these useable seeds as well. After growing an Ancient Fruit, it's best to put it through a Seed Maker to produce more Ancient Seeds, instead of selling it.
Ancient Fruit takes all season to grow (28 days), but they'll grow in Spring, Summer, and Fall, producing repeatedly until Winter or their removal. In the Greenhouse, they'll grow continuously forever until cut down.
To increase the quality of any crop, including Ancient Fruit, there are two methods:
- Add Fertilizer to the soil before planting
- Level up the Farming skill
Any Ancient Fruit of gold or iridium quality will count for the slot in the Missing Bundle! It's important to note that the bundle asks for five Ancient Fruit of gold quality or higher, not just one.
Gold Void Salmon
This is, depending on the player's skill and patience, probably one of the harder options for the Missing Bundle. Fishing in Stardew Valley is already pretty difficult, and this particular fish adds to that headache even more, both because of its rarity and the fact that it needs to be gold quality.
Void Salmon can be caught in the Witch's Swamp once it's unlocked by the player. It's a fairly uncommon spawn, but it can, fortunately, be found any time of year regardless of weather, time, or season. Once the player hooks a Void Salmon, the fish will put up quite a challenge. Attaching the right fishing tackle can be key to victory.
Fish quality is determined by a few things, including how much the fish leaves the green bar in the mini-game, the size of the fish, and a bit of randomness. Equipping a Quality Bobber can really help here, as it raises the quality level of the fish by one when caught. A perfect catch (reeling in the fish without it leaving the green bar a single time) will also raise the quality level by one.
Silver Wine
Back to another (fairly) easy one. Producing silver quality Wine is extremely simple, it just takes a bit of patience. Making Wine requires only two things:
- Any fruit
- A Keg
Place the piece of fruit into the Keg, then wait seven days.
The next part requires a basement. This is the final major house upgrade, and costs 100,000g. Once built, the player can use Casks to age some Artisan Goods, including Wine.
Place the Wine in a Cask in the cellar. After 14 days, it will age to silver quality. At this point, it can be donated to the Missing Bundle. If it's left to age further, it'll become gold quality and eventually iridium quality. Any of these levels are fine to donate — they'll all count.
Dinosaur Mayonnaise
The final item here is one that can be either very difficult or very easy to obtain. If the player already has Dinosaurs, turning their eggs into Mayonnaise is incredibly simple. However, finding a Dinosaur Egg to hatch into a Dinosaur can be very, very annoying.
A Dino Egg can be found in the following ways:
- Slay Pepper Rexes (they have a decent drop rate of 10%)
- Forage them from the Prehistoric Floors of Skull Cavern
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Go fishing and open the fishing treasure chests that can be found
- Increase your chances of finding a treasure chest with the Treasure Hunter lure, Magnet, and Pirate profession
- Dig up artifact spots on the mountain (including the Quarry)
After finding a Dino Egg, don't turn it into Mayonnaise or donate it to the Museum. By placing it in an incubator instead, the player can hatch a Dinosaur, which will produce new eggs every once a week, so long as they're fed and happy. By turning it into Mayo or donating it, the player will then need to find another one next time.
Once the new Dino produces another egg, it can be turned into Mayo by placing it inside a Mayonnaise Machine, which can be crafted from 15 Wood, 15 Stone, an Earth Crystal, and a Copper Bar. The recipe is learned at Farming Level 2.
After donating five of the six items to the Missing Bundle, the Movie Theater will be built! The player can visit the theater once a week, and they can bring another villager if they choose to.
Stardew Valley is available on PS4, PS Vita, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, Android, and iOS.