How to Get Carrots and Carrot Seeds in Stardew Valley

Carrots are one of the new items players can grow starting in Stardew Valley patch 1.6 and beyond. It is strange it took this long to get carrots in the beloved indie farming sim but here we are. As always, you’ll need some carrot seeds if you want to grow some carrots in this game, which is easier said than done.

How to Get Carrots and Carrot Seeds in Stardew Valley

As always, the only way to get carrots is to grow them using some carrot seeds. However, this is where the problem comes about. Getting carrot seeds isn’t easy since you can’t buy them anywhere at all. Instead, you’ll have to find carrot seeds by doing various tasks in-game like doing Raccoon requests and unlocking them as prizes.

Here are all of the different ways to get carrot seeds we have found so far:

• Do Raccoon requests
• Trading at the Raccoon Wife’s Shop
• Use the Seed Maker
• Prize Machine in the Mayor’s Manor
• Mystery Boxes
• Seed Spots
• Golden Fishing Treasure Chests (random chance)
• Iridium Golems drops (random chance)
• Destroying crates and barrels (very low chance)

Worse still, these methods, except for trading and the Seed Maker, only work between the days of Winter 21 and Spring 23. But once you have carrot seeds, they grow into carrots in three days.

What to Use Carrots for

There are a couple of uses for carrots once you get them from carrot seeds in Stardew Valley. The first is to, of course, sell them for pure profit. They sell pretty well at around 35g per carrot at the base price and it only gets better from there with higher rarities and traits like Tiller. But I would argue this is a waste since there are more accessible crops to sell.

The other use for the carrot is to feed it to your horse. Doing so will increase the speed of the horse for the entire in-game day quite significantly. This is my preferred use for carrots since it means you move around the map much faster than usual and can, presumably, get more done this way.

Stardew Valley is available right now for Android, iOS, Nintendo Switch, PS4, Xbox One, and PC.