As the lucky person who inherits a large piece of farmland, you are tasked with bringing your grandfather’s old business back to life inStardew Valley. You have a lot of space to plant various crops and to put up buildings for raising animals.

One building you’re able to put up is the Stable, and this will allow you to own a horse. The horse you obtain after making the stable is mature enough to ride on right away, and it’s a much speedier option to get around town compared to going on foot. That being said, there are plenty of ways to boost your horsepower.

How To Give Your Horse A Speed Buff

Riding on your horse is a faster way to get to places because of the+30% movement speed it grantscompared to running. It’s also a great way to travel across your farm since youwon’t get slowed down by crops.

If you’re looking for evenmore speed, there are ways to get your horse zooming from one point to another even faster.

Feeding Your Horse Carrots

One easy way to give your horse a boost is tofeed it aCarrot.Carrot Seedscan be obtained by digging up seed spots, opening chests and mystery boxes, and breaking containersfrom Winter 21 to Spring 23.

You canplant carrots during the entire spring season, and it only takes three days for them to be ready for harvest.

When you have your carrots, you canfeed one to your horse once a day. This will grant it a+0.4 speed bonusfor one whole day.

Thequality of the carrot won’t have any effectwhen fed to your horse.

Feed your horse a carrot first thing in the morningin order to maximize the speed boost for as long as possible.

Reading A Speed-Granting Book

You can also make your horse faster byreadingHorse: The Book. This is a book that you canpurchase from the bookseller for 25,000 gold.

After reading the book, you’ll be granteda permanent +0.5 speed bonuswhile riding your horse.

The bookseller sets up shop in Pelican Towntwice a month. You can check out the dates of his visit using a calendar. The days he’ll be in town are marked with an image of a hot air balloon.

How To Use Dishes To Make Your Horse Faster

Your horse’s speed isn’t only affected by its own stats.Your own speed stacks with the horse’s, which makes speed-granting dishes important if you want the fastest possible speed when riding your horse.

Drinking Coffee

One easy way to get your movement speed up is toget caffeinated.

DrinkingCoffeeor aTriple Shot Espressowill not only grant you a +1 boost to your running speed. It will also grant thatsame boost to your horse.

You can get Coffee byputting fiveCoffee Beansin aKeg. If you don’t have any beans, you can alsobuy Coffee fromGusat the Saloon.

Unlike a Carrot, the speed granted by Coffee doesn’t last the entire day. You’ll need to have a couple in your bag in order tore-apply the buff throughout the day.

Eat Fast Food

Apart from drinks, there are food items that will grant increased speed when eaten.This can be stacked with the boost granted by Coffeein order to really give you the quickest feet in town.

You cannot eat different speed-granting cooked dishes to stack the buffs they grant.Eating a second dish will replace the effectsof any previous dish eaten.

How To Use Crafted Items To Make Your Horse Faster

Apart from consumables,there are also items that you can craftthat will give riding on horseback an added boost.

Lay Down Paths

Compared to bare ground, moving across flooring grants you anincreased speed of +0.1.

If you consider all the ground you have to cover,taking a path covered with flooring will cut your travel time downby a significant amount.

Lay down paths on your usual routein order to ensure you’re getting to your destinations with the shortest travel time possible.

Use The Statue Of Blessings

When youunlock Farming Mastery in the Mastery Cave, you’ll be granted the ability tocraft theStatue Of Blessings.

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Once you have your Statue Of Blessings, you can lay it down on your farm in order andreceive a random buff each day.

One of the buffs you’re able to get is theBlessing Of Speed, which grants you a+0.5 increase in speedfor an entire day.