Personal style is very important in Stardew Valley. Though almost no one will ever talk to you about your fashion sense in Pelican Town, many players like to show their incredible choice of clothing when posting pictures of their farm online.
One very important part of looking your best in Stardew Valley is to choose which colors you want your clothes to have. If you just get basic clothes with their default colors, you are nothing more than the boring city person who just moved to Pelican Town.
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However, if you know how to dye your clothes and even make new ones, you will fit right in with the eccentric community of Pelican Town NPCs and Stardew Valley fans around the world.
To dye your clothes in Stardew Valley, you will either need to use the Dye Pots or the Sewing Machine, which are both available in Emily’s house after getting your first piece of Cloth.
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How to Dye Clothes in Stardew Valley
To dye clothes in Stardew Valley, you will need to use one of two items:
- Dye Pots
- Sewing Machine
Both of them are available to use inside Emily and Haley’s house, the one with a little sun over the door, in the southwestern part of Pelican Town once you pick up your first ever Cloth.
Emily will come over the next day and tell you about the machines waiting inside her house.
If you go inside their house, you will see a room in the southern part of the house that has a Sewing Machine to the left and Dye Pots to the right.
How to Use the Dye Pots
If you interact with the Dye Pots, you will open a menu where you will see six differently colored pots and your inventory.
To dye clothes in Stardew Valley using the Dye Pots, you will need at least one item to put inside all of the colored pots.
Once you put an item in all of the pots, you can instantly change the color of any piece of clothing that you are wearing at the moment of the interaction.
You can only use items with the same color as the pots to fill them. For example, the red pot could use an Apple, and the yellow pot could use a Dandelion.
This means that you need 6 different items, which represent the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple.
To make your task easier, here is a table with all the items that you can use with the Dye Pots, along with the color they represent.
Make sure to bring one for each color when you want to use the Dye Pots to dye clothes in Stardew Valley:
| Red | Orange | Yellow | Green | Blue | Purple |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | Acorn | Angler | Algae Soup | Aerinite | Amaranth |
| Bait | Aged Roe | Baked Fish | Artichoke | Albacore | Amethyst |
| Baryte | Apricot | Banana | Bean Hotpot | Anchovy | Amethyst Ring |
| Bouquet | Autumn’s Bounty | Banana Pudding | Bok Choy | Ancient Doll | Ancient Drum |
| Bruschetta | Basic Fertilizer | Beer | Burglar’s Ring | Ancient Fruit | Beet |
| Bug Steak | Basic Retaining Soil | Blobfish | Cactus Fruit | Aquamarine | Bug Meat |
| Cherry | Bread | Bone Flute | Coleslaw | Aquamarine Ring | Crocus |
| Cherry Bomb | Bullhead | Bone Fragment | Dinosaur Egg | Battery Pack | Eggplant |
| Coral | Carp Surprise | Calcite | Duck Feather | Blackberry | Fairy Stone |
| Crab | Cave Carrot | Carp | Dwarf Scroll II | Blackberry Cobbler | Fire Opal |
| Cranberries | Chanterelle | Cheese | Emerald | Blue Discus | Fluorapatite |
| Cranberry Candy | Chewing Stick | Chicken Statue | Emerald Ring | Blue Jazz | Grape |
| Cranberry Sauce | Chipped Amphora | Complete Breakfast | Esperite | Blue Slime Egg | Immunity Band |
| Crimsonfish | Chocolate Cake | Corn | Fiber | Blueberry | Iridium Band |
| Dolomite | Cinder Shard | Daffodil | Fiddlehead Fern | Blueberry Tart | Iridium Bar |
| Dwarf Scroll I | Clay | Dandelion | Fiddlehead Risotto | Bream | Iridium Ore |
| Eggplant Parmesan | Coconut | Dish O’ The Sea | Ginger Ale | Broken CD | Life Elixir |
| Energy Tonic | Coffee | Dried Starfish | Green Algae | Broken Glasses | Midnight Carp |
| Explosive Ammo | Coffee Bean | Dwarf Scroll IV | Green Bean | Clam | Monster Musk |
| Fairy Rose | Common Mushroom | Elvish Jewelry | Green Slime Egg | Crystal Fruit | Pomegranate |
| Fire Quartz | Cookie | Fish Taco | Green Tea | Dwarf Scroll III | Poppyseed Muffin |
| Helvite | Copper Bar | Fossilized Ribs | Hops | Frozen Geode | Purple Mushroom |
| Holly | Copper Ore | Fossilized Leg | Jade | Frozen Tear | Purple Slime Egg |
| Hot Pepper | Crab Cakes | Fossilized Skull | Jade Ring | Glacierfish | Red Cabbage |
| Jasper | Crab Pot | Fossilized Spine | Jamborite | Glacierfish Jr. | Refined Quartz |
| Jelly | Crabshell Ring | Fossilized Tail | Juice | Glass Shards | Sea Urchin |
| Lava Eel | Crispy Bass | Fried Calamari | Kale | Herring | Super Cucumber |
| Lobster | Deluxe Speed-Gro | Fried Eel | Largemouth Bass | Ice Pip | Sweet Pea |
| Magma Geode | Dorado | Fruit Salad | Legend | Joja Cola | Thunder Egg |
| Mega Bomb | Dragon Tooth | Ginger | Legend II | Kyanite | Void Essence |
| Melon | Driftwood | Glow Ring | Malachite | Midnight Squid | Void Salmon |
| Miner’s Treat | Dwarvish Helm | Glowstone Ring | Mutant Carp | Opal | Wedding Ring |
| Ms. Angler | Earth Crystal | Goat Cheese | Oak Resin | Periwinkle | Wild Plum |
| Mushroom Tree Seed | Eel | Gold Bar | Ocean Stone | Qi Bean | Wine |
| Nekoite | Farmer’s Lunch | Gold Ore | Oil of Garlic | Qi Fruit | |
| Peach | Field Snack | Golden Coconut | Petrified Slime | Sardine | |
| Pink Cake | Flounder | Golden Mask | Pickles | Seafoam Pudding | |
| Pizza | Fried Mushroom | Golden Pumpkin | Radioactive Bar | Spook Fish | |
| Poi | Geode | Golden Relic | Radioactive Carp | Sturdy Ring | |
| Radish | Glazed Yams | Hay | Radioactive Ore | Sturgeon | |
| Radish Salad | Hardwood | Honey | Salad | Tuna | |
| Red Mullet | Hashbrowns | Hot Java Ring | Seaweed | ||
| Red Mushroom | Hazelnut | Jagoite | Shad | ||
| Red Plate | Hematite | Lucky Lunch | Slime Charmer Ring | ||
| Red Slime Egg | Jack-O-Lantern | Lucky Ring | Slimejack | ||
| Red Snapper | Lemon Stone | Mango | Soul Sapper Ring | ||
| Rhubarb | Lingcod | Mango Sticky Rice | Strange Doll (green) | ||
| Rhubarb Pie | Lionfish | Mead | Super Meal | ||
| Ruby | Magma Cap | Mummified Bat | Tea Leaves | ||
| Ruby Ring | Mahogany Seed | Mummified Frog | Vegetable Medley | ||
| Salmon | Maple Bar | Muscle Remedy | |||
| Salmon Dinner | Maple Seed | Oil | |||
| Salmonberry | Maple Syrup | Pale Ale | |||
| Sashimi | Morel | Parsnip | |||
| Shrimp | Mudstone | Parsnip Soup | |||
| Shrimp Cocktail | Napalm Ring | Perch | |||
| Son of Crimsonfish | Nautilus Shell | Phoenix Ring | |||
| Spaghetti | Octopus | Pike | |||
| Spicy Eel | Orange | Pineapple | |||
| Star Shards | Orpiment | Pufferfish | |||
| Strange Bun | Pancakes | Pyrite | |||
| Strawberry | Pepper Poppers | Rabbit’s Foot | |||
| Sweet Gem Berry | Pine Cone | Ring of Yoba | |||
| Tomato | Pine Tar | Sandfish | |||
| Tulip | Plum Pudding | Sandstone | |||
| Vampire Ring | Poppy | Sap | |||
| Void Mayonnaise | Potato | Savage Ring | |||
| Pumpkin | Sea Cucumber | ||||
| Pumpkin Pie | Small Glow Ring | ||||
| Pumpkin Soup | Snail | ||||
| Quality Fertilizer | Snake Skull | ||||
| Quality Retaining Soil | Snake Vertebrae | ||||
| Rain Totem | Solar Essence | ||||
| Rainbow Trout | Starfruit | ||||
| Roasted Hazelnuts | Strange Doll (yellow) | ||||
| Roe | Summer Spangle | ||||
| Roots Platter | Sunflower | ||||
| Rotten Plant | Thorns Ring | ||||
| Rusty Cog | Topaz | ||||
| Rusty Spur | Torch | ||||
| Scorpion Carp | Treasure Chest | ||||
| Smallmouth Bass | Truffle Oil | ||||
| Speed-Gro | Walleye | ||||
| Spice Berry | Warrior Ring | ||||
| Stingray | Wheat | ||||
| Stir Fry | |||||
| Stonefish | |||||
| Stuffing | |||||
| Sunfish | |||||
| Survival Burger | |||||
| Taro Root | |||||
| Tiger Slime Egg | |||||
| Tiger Trout | |||||
| Tigerseye | |||||
| Topaz Ring | |||||
| Tortilla | |||||
| Tree Fertilizer | |||||
| Triple Shot Espresso | |||||
| Tropical Curry | |||||
| Trout Soup | |||||
| Truffle | |||||
| Unmilled Rice | |||||
| Warp Totem: Beach | |||||
| Warp Totem: Desert | |||||
| Warp Totem: Farm | |||||
| Warp Totem: Island | |||||
| Warp Totem: Mountains | |||||
| Wild Horseradish | |||||
| Winter Root | |||||
| Wood | |||||
| Woodskip | |||||
| Yam |
How to Use the Sewing Machine
When you interact with the Sewing Machine in Emily’s house (and also the one you can get later in the game), you will open a menu that shows you a sewing machine and your inventory.
You will have two slots where you can insert items.
One is the feed, which is in the bottom left part of the sewing machine, where you can either insert a piece of Cloth or a piece of clothing you want to dye in Stardew Valley.
In the upper corner, in the spool, you can insert materials you want to use for the process. For dying, you will need to place an item with the color you want in the spool.
Depending on the strength of the material, the clothing will change colors a bit to match the material.
All materials have a strength when it comes to color that ranges from 25 to 100%. If you use a weak material with 25% strength, then your clothing will only change its color a bit to match the color of the material.
If the material is strong, with 100% strength, it will instantly change the color of the item to the color of the material.
You can also use weak materials 4 times if you want to fully dye a piece of clothing to the color of that material.
Though the Sewing Machine can be used to get interesting combinations between the color of the clothing and the material, it is much more inefficient than the Dye Pots.
However, because it only requires one material, it is much easier to use.
That’s everything you need to know about how to dye clothes in Stardew Valley!
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