Carp

Carp
A common pond fish.
Information
Location	Mountain Lake • Secret Woods • The Sewers • Mutant Bug Lair
Time	Any
Season	Spring •  Summer •  Fall in The Mountain Lake  All in Secret Woods, The Sewers, or Mutant Bug Lair
Weather	Any
Difficulty	15
Behavior	Mixed
Size (inches)	15–51
Fishing XP	8    11    14    20
Energy / Health	13 5 18 8 23 10 33 14
Sell Prices Base Fisher (+25%) Angler (+50%) 30g 37g 45g 60g 37g 46g 56g 75g 45g 55g 67g 90g
Artisan Sell Prices Roe Aged Roe Aged Roe (+40%) 45g 90g 126g

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|keywords=Stardew Valley Wiki, Stardew Valley, Carp, gift |site_name=Stardew Valley Wiki |type=article |title=Carp - Stardew Valley Wiki }} Carp is a fish that can be caught in the mountain lake or Wilderness Farm during Spring, Summer, or Fall. It can also be caught in the Secret Woods, The Sewers, or the Mutant Bug Lair during any season. It can also be gifted by a pet cat with max friendship. It can also randomly be found in Garbage Cans during Spring, Summer and Fall, or at the Traveling Cart for data-sort-value="30"100–1,000g.

Carp is always most abundant in the Secret Woods, comprising between 41% and 53% of all items caught there when it isn't raining.

Map

The Carp can be found in the mountain lake, Secret Woods, Sewers, and Mutant Bug Lair.

Bundles

Carp is used in the Lake Fish Bundle in the Fish Tank.

Recipes

Image	Name	Description	Ingredients	Energy / Health	Recipe Source(s)	Sell Price
	Carp Surprise	It's bland and oily.	Carp (4)	90 40	The Queen of Sauce 7 Summer, Year 2	data-sort-value="150">150g
	Maki Roll	Fish and rice wrapped in seaweed.	Any Fish (1) Seaweed (1) Rice (1)	100 45	The Queen of Sauce 21 Summer, Year 1 Stardrop Saloon for data-sort-value="300">300g	data-sort-value="220">220g
	Quality Fertilizer	Improves soil quality, increasing your chance to grow quality crops. Mix into tilled soil.	Sap (4) Any Fish (1)	N/A	Farming Level 9	data-sort-value="10">10g
	Sashimi	Raw fish sliced into thin pieces.	Any Fish (1)	75 33	Linus (Mail - 3+ )	data-sort-value="75">75g

Tailoring

Carp can be used in the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the Fishing Vest. It can be used in dyeing, serving as a yellow dye in the dye pots, located at Emily's and Haley's house 2 Willow Lane.

Fish Pond

Carp can be placed in a Fish Pond, where they will reproduce every day. The initial pond capacity is 3 fish, but the capacity can be increased to 10 by completing two quests. The only possible output is yellow Carp Roe.

Quests

Pond Capacity		Quest Item	Fishing XP Granted
Before Quest	After Quest
3	5	2 Green Algae	25
5	10	2 Cave Carrots	25

Produce

Item(s) Produced	Fishing XP Granted	Population	% of Items	Overall Daily Chance
Roe (1)	11	1-10	100%	23-95%
Nothing		1-10	0%	77-5%

Quests

• Item Delivery: One Carp may be randomly requested during Spring, Summer, or Fall at the "Help Wanted" board outside Pierre's General Store for a reward of data-sort-value="90">90g and 150 Friendship points.
• Fishing: Demetrius or Willy may randomly request 1-5 Carp to be caught during Spring, Summer, or Fall at the "Help Wanted" board outside Pierre's General Store for a reward of data-sort-value="30">30g per fish. (You get to keep the fish).
• Two Carp may be requested by Dorado, Lingcod, or Pike in a Fish Pond quest to increase the capacity of the pond from 3 to 5.

Note

• Carp are one of the easiest fish to catch, rarely moving past the 3rd bar on the fishing meter in the fishing mini-game, making it easy to get "Perfect" on its catches.

History

• 1.4: Added iridium quality. Can now be used in Tailoring. Can be requested in Fish Pond quests.
• 1.6: Linus is now neutral toward Carp. Can now be gifted by a pet cat with max friendship.