Where do I find all the artifacts?

I'm trying to collect all the artifacts in Stardew Valley, but I'm missing a number of them. I seem to have exhausted the supply of new artifacts from worms (the ones you dig up with a hoe), as I keep getting ones I've already seen. Where else do I find artifacts? I've gotten a few from treasure chests while fishing; is that a source I'm missing? Where else can they be found?

I occasionally find them in geodes, but I've broken a ton of geodes open and haven't had much luck there (I get minerals more than I get artifacts).

2 Answers

You're right, you're missing other ways to get new artifacts. According to Stardew Valley Wiki, artifacts can be acquired in the following ways:

• Using the Hoe on worm tiles. Different parts of the map will drop different artifacts. These locations are much more common in winter.
• Using a Hoe on dirt located within The Mines and Skull Cavern.
• Killing Monsters.
• Fishing for treasure chests.

In case you want a list with the artifacts and their locations, see below or refer to this page:

Dwarf Scroll I

Mines level 1-105 (maybe every level, not confirmed)
Green Slime (Secret Woods)

Dwarf Scroll II

Mines level 40-65
Blue Slime (Secret Woods)

Dwarf Scroll III

Mines level 40+
Lava Bat (Mines Level 81+)
Blue Slime (Secret Woods)
Skull Cavern

Dwarf Scroll IV

Any Monster (Mines)
Using hoe on dirt (Mines level 81+)

Chipped Amphora

Town (4%)

Arrowhead

Mountain (2%)
Forest (2%)
Bus Stop (2%)

Ancient Doll

Mountain (4%)
Forest (3%)
Bus Stop (3%)
Town (1%)
Fishing Chest (Ocean/Secret Woods)

Elvish Jewelry

Forest (1%)
Fishing Chest (?%)

Chewing Stick

Mountain (2%)
Forest (2%)
Town (1%)
Fishing Chest (?%)

Ornamental Fan

Beach (2%)
Forest (1%)
Town (0.8%)
Fishing Chest (River)

Dinosaur Egg

Mine (1%)
Mountain (0.8%)
Fishing chest (Ocean/River)

Rare Disc

Underground Mine (1%)
Fishing Chest (Ocean/River)

Ancient Sword

Forest (1%)
Mountain (0.8%)
Fishing Chest (Ocean/River)

Rusty Spoon

Town (5%)
Fishing Chest (River ?%)

Rusty Spur

Farm (10%)
Fishing Chest (River ?%)

Rusty Cog

Mountain (5%)
Mine ~14 in dirt
Fishing Chest (Ocean/River)

Chicken Statue

Farm (10%)
Fishing Chest (?%)

Ancient Seed

Forest (1%)
Mountain (1%)
Fishing Chest (River)

Prehistoric Tool

Bus Stop (4%)
Mountain (3%)
Forest (3%)
Fishing Chest (?%)

Dried Starfish

Beach (10%)
Fishing Chest (River ?%)

Anchor

Beach (5%)
Fishing Chest (?%)

Glass Shards

Beach (10%)
Fishing Chest (Ocean)

Bone Flute

Underground Mine (2%)
Mountain (1%)
Forest (1%)
Town (0.5%)
Fishing Chest (River)

Prehistoric Handaxe

Mountain (5%)
Forest (5%)
Bus Stop (5%)

Dwarvish Helm

Underground Mine (1%)

Dwarf Gadget

Underground Mine (0.1%)

Ancient Drum

Underground Mine (2%)
Bus Stop (1%)
Forest (1%)
Town (0.5%)

Golden Mask

Desert (4%)

Golden Relic

Desert (8%)

Strange Doll 1

Everywhere (0.1%)
Fishing Chest (?%)

Strange Doll 2

Everywhere (0.1%)
Fishing Chest (?%)

Prehistoric Scapula

Town (1%)
Forest (?%)

Prehistoric Tibia

Forest (1%)
Railroad (?%)

Prehistoric Skull

Mountain (1%)

Skeletal Hand

Beach (1%)

Prehistoric Rib

Town (1%)

Prehistoric Vertebra

Bus Stop (1%)

Skeletal Tail

Underground Mine (1%)
Fishing Chest

Nautilus Fossil

Beach (3%)
Fishing Chest (Ocean/River)

Amphibian Fossil

Forest (1%)
Mountain (1%)
Fishing Chest (Ocean)

Palm Fossil

Forest (1%)
Beach (1%)
Desert (1%)

Trilobite

Forest (3%)
Beach (3%)
Mountain (3%)

There's more on worm tiles

• a worm tile's drop is the same drop per day every time you reload the game
• some worm tiles don't despawn the next day

With these two elements, all you have to do is

• wake up
• look for these worm tiles and dig them
• if you haven't found anything interesting, just reload the game and redo your day as normal
• the next day, wake up and repeat the first steps

The problem is that some artifacts are very rare and this method will work hardly on seasons other than winter. The solution (yes it's cheating) is to change your save game file to put more worm tiles in a zone!

• BACKUP YOUR SAVE GAME FILE (%appdata%/stardewvalley) This is very important because when you close the game it might upload a corrupted filegame in the steam cloud!
• go to the beach and look for an artifact spot, it must be surrounded by sand (no rocks, shells,...)

• open your save file and search for "beach", it must be in a <gamelocation> xml tag

  <GameLocation xsi:type="Beach">

• slowly search further for "Artifact spot", once you have one, copy somewhere else all the text including the <item> tags

  <item> <key> <Vector2> <X>38</X><Y>10</Y> </Vector2> </key> <value> <Object> <specialVariable>0</specialVariable> <category>0</category> <specialItem>false</specialItem> <hasBeenInInventory>false</hasBeenInInventory> <Name>Artifact Spot</Name> <Stack>1</Stack> <tileLocation> <X>38</X><Y>10</Y> </tileLocation> <parentSheetIndex>590</parentSheetIndex> <owner>0</owner> <name>Artifact Spot</name> <type>asdf</type> <canBeSetDown>true</canBeSetDown> <canBeGrabbed>true</canBeGrabbed> <isHoedirt>false</isHoedirt> <isSpawnedObject>false</isSpawnedObject> <questItem>false</questItem> <isOn>true</isOn> <fragility>0</fragility> <price>0</price> <edibility>-300</edibility> <stack>1</stack> <quality>0</quality> <bigCraftable>false</bigCraftable> <setOutdoors>false</setOutdoors> <setIndoors>false</setIndoors> <readyForHarvest>false</readyForHarvest> <showNextIndex>false</showNextIndex> <flipped>true</flipped> <hasBeenPickedUpByFarmer>false</hasBeenPickedUpByFarmer> <isRecipe>false</isRecipe> <isLamp>false</isLamp> <minutesUntilReady>0</minutesUntilReady> <boundingBox> <X>2432</X><Y>640</Y> <Width>64</Width> <Height>64</Height> <Location> <X>2432</X><Y>640</Y> </Location> </boundingBox> <scale> <X>0</X><Y>0</Y> </scale> </Object> </value>
  </item>

• you can now duplicate this item block by changing the X Y coordinates near the initial worm tile. For the values of the bounding box you must do a simple division (in my case, 640 / 10 => 64) to find this number and adapt it to new coordinates

• put the new item blocks next to the one you found in the save game (that you have backuped of course)
• load the game
• dig
• ????
• ARTIFACTS!!