How to Get Ostriches in Stardew Valley

Stardew Valley is a game where players can farm, explore, craft, and so much more. It is a pixelated world filled with quaint-looking creatures and cute designs. Being heavily influenced by games like Harvest Moon, the open-ended game has been enjoyed by several players ever since its initial release in 2016.

Having recently received a major update, the 1.5 version of the game has added several new elements to the game like a new region and a plethora of new items. One of these new additions is the ostrich, which is an exotic new animal that is capable of laying enormous ostrich eggs once a month.

How to Get Ostriches in Stardew Valley

In simple terms, all players need to do to get an ostrich is to find an ostrich egg and place it inside an ostrich incubator. But this is easier said than done, as these items are not exactly lying around on the ground waiting to be found. The ostrich eggs can be found in one of three ways:

• As random chest loot in the Volcano Dungeon
• Solving journal scrap #10 on Ginger Island
• Or laid by other fully-grown Ostriches

Since the player will most likely not have any access to an adult ostrich, players are recommended to go with one of the first two options. The next step to obtaining an ostrich will be to find an ostrich incubator.

The crafting recipe for the ostrich incubator can only be obtained from Professor Snail by completing a certain quest at the Island Field Office, which is located on the northern side of Ginger Island. For players who are new to the 1.5 update, they will first have to rescue the professor from a nearby cave before the office itself becomes operational. But once it is up and running, players can turn in various fossils and bones for a reward. Several of these rewards include golden walnuts, which were introduced in this update. These fossils can be found through a variety of methods like breaking bone nodes, finding artifact pots, and killing monsters. But to get the recipe for the ostrich incubator, the player must complete Professor Snail’s museum by collecting a large variety of fossils and artifacts that can be found on the island.

Once the recipe has been obtained, players just need to collect the listed material and craft the actual ostrich incubator. When the player crafts the ostrich incubator, they may be automatically tempted to place it inside a coop since that is where players place most of their birds. Don’t. As the item description says, the ostrich incubator should be placed inside a barn.

Provided that the player has an ostrich egg on hand, all players will have to do after that is: place the incubator in the barn, place an ostrich egg inside of it, and wait. The incubation time for an ostrich egg is around 17,280 minutes or 12 in-game days.  Once the time has elapsed then the player should see a baby ostrich roaming around. The ostrich incubator does have a few limitations though. Namely, it will not be able to hatch any ostriches if the barn is already full. Another is that they can only hatch one ostrich egg at a time. So if the player is incubating several ostrich eggs at once then they will need to exit and re-enter the barn to have both eggs hatch.

Stardew Valley is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, iOS, and Android.

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