Stardew Valley Gem Bird Puzzle Guide
The Stardew Valley Gem Bird puzzle is a Golden Walnut challenge players can solve on Ginger Island. This puzzle involves finding four special gem birds, collecting their gems, and then placing them onto four statues in the jungle. If this puzzle is confusing you, you’ve come to the right place! Check out our Gem Bird puzzle guide below to learn how to complete this puzzle.
Where are the Gem Bird Pedestals on Ginger Island
To understand the Gem Bird puzzle you should first visit a special area with a shrine and four pedestals on Ginger Island. This area is found by going deeper into the Jungle by Leo’s hut.
To reach it go to outside Leo’s Hut. Instead of heading inside go east through the gap in the foliage, as shown in the screenshot above, to enter a new area of the Jungle. In this new area located the shrine and pedestals.
Read the shrine to receive the following clue about how to solve the Gem Bird puzzle:
When dark clouds cry, begin your quest. To seek the fabled gem-birds four. Each day, one north, south, east, or west. Arrange their gifts upon my door.
How to Find the Gem Birds on Ginger Island
Every rainy day on Ginger Island, a Gem Bird randomly appears in the north, south, east, or west areas of the island. On these days, the player should visit Ginger Island to find the bird, scare it away by walking towards it, and pick up the gem it drops.
Upon picking up the gem, note what the gem is and where you picked it up. For example, “Ruby Gem – West.” This information will be useful later when turning in the gems.
On the island, there are five possible Gem Birds you can encounter that drop the five different types of gems:
- Red = Ruby
- Green = Emerald
- Blue = Aquamarine
- Yellow = Topaz
- Purple = Amethyst
Once you’ve picked up a gem in an area, that area is complete. You then need to wait for the next rainy day to return and search the other three areas for the next bird. Repeat this process until you have four gems from the island’s four different areas.
You can speed up this process by using a Rain Totem each time you are on Ginger Island to force it to rain the following day. This makes it possible to complete the puzzle in only a few days instead of waiting for rainy weather to occur naturally.
How to Place the Gem Bird Gems on Ginger Island
Once you have all four gems, return to the shrine and pedestals area in the Jungle. Make sure to have your list of gems and their corresponding locations ready.
The four pedestals in the Jungle are arranged like a compass. To solve the puzzle you must place the gems you found on the pedestal corresponding to the part of the island where you found them. Here’s what an example solution would look like:
- Ruby found in north goes on the top pedestal
- Emerald found in west goes on left pedestal
- Aquamarine found in south goes on bottom pedestal
- Amethyst found in east goes on right pedestal
Keep in mind that your puzzle solution will be different as it is randomized for each player. This example just provides some context as to how you place the gems you’ve found.
After solving the Gem Bird puzzle, you will receive 5 Golden Walnuts as a reward. Although Gem Birds will still spawn on rainy days on Ginger Island, the pedestals and shrine will no longer be usable.
Gem Bird Puzzle Video Guide
Understanding the puzzle might seem tricky, which is why I’ve included a video guide we created for our Hold To Reset YouTube channel. This guide demonstrates me completing the puzzle and provides a clearer visual representation of the steps needed to solve it. If you find it useful, please consider liking and subscribing so I can create more guides like this one!
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Can you do it again and get more walnuts?
look at the very last sentence of the article. “Unfortunately you can only complete this puzzle once”
I screwed up and cant remember which gem I got where. Will it still work if I keep swopping gems and try out all the possible scenarios?
I don’t seem to be able to place gems on the pedestals at all. I was able to before and now I can’t. I haven’t solved the puzzle yet, I was missing one more, and when I went back to place it the others were gone and now I can’t place anything. Anyone else have this issue?
same here wtf!?
Same here too idk how to fix this
The gem birds cycle through every day it rains, even after the puzzle is solved. If you accidentally sold the gem, don’t worry! The bird will cycle back through eventually.
Thank you! I completely forgot what bird dropped what where
can you use any gems or only the gems dropped by the birds?
You can use any gem, even ones not dropped by the birds. Amethyst, Aquamarine, Emerald, Ruby, Topaz are the 5 possible gems. You don’t even need to find all the birds, you can randomly place those gems on the pedestals until you solve the puzzle if you wanted to.
Is there anyway to reset it if you messed up as I sold one of the gems and now idk what the bird dropped?
I think the puzzle is randomised, my combination was N: Topaz E: Emerald, S: Amethyst, W: Aquamarine
That is correct. I updated the post to reflect this. Thanks