Beginner’s Guide to Dwarven Scrolls in Stardew Valley

Hello, fellow gamers! In this tutorial, we will discuss Dwarven Scrolls and the Dwarven language in Stardew Valley.

Dwarven Scrolls and the Dwarven Language

There are four Dwarven Scrolls, numbered 1 to 4 and colored red, green, blue, and yellow. Their primary purpose is to be donated to the museum. Once all four scrolls are donated, Gunther will reward you with the Dwarven Translation Guide, a wallet item that allows you to communicate with Dwarves and build up their affection levels.

In the game, there are two Dwarves:

Dwarf at the Mine Entrance

The first Dwarf can be found to the right of the mine entrance, blocked by a large stone. To access him, use a steel pickaxe or higher or a bomb to break the stone. This Dwarf serves as both a shop and an NPC with affection levels. His primary purpose is to sell bombs.

Dwarf at the Volcano’s Fifth Level

The second Dwarf is located on the fifth level of the volcano. He is only a shop and does not have affection levels.

Extra Dwarven Scrolls don’t have many uses, but giving them to the Dwarf and Penny will make them happy. You can also use them to craft Gold-Trimmed T-Shirts in the sewing machine, and sometimes they are required to upgrade Lava Eel and Ghostfish fish ponds.

Obtaining Dwarven Scrolls

Dwarven Scroll 1 (Red)

Monsters on floors 1 to 40 of the mine have a 0.5% chance of dropping Dwarven Scroll 1. Some of these monsters include common bugs, flies, grubs, green slimes, Duggy, and rock crabs.

Dwarven Scroll 2 (Green)

Dwarven Scroll 2 can be dropped by blue slimes, dust sprites, frost bats, and ghosts. It is relatively easy to find while farming iron on floor 41, where you can also farm coal sprites, blue slimes, and bats.

Dwarven Scroll 3 (Blue)

Blue/Frost Slimes have a 1.5% Scroll III drop chance and live in the frozen section of the Mines, floors 41–79. Floor 81 is already in the lava section, so it is not a Blue Slime farming floor. Other monster-specific Scroll III sources include Lava Bats, Lava Crabs, Squid Kids, Shadow Brutes, Shadow Shamans, Metal Heads, Spiders, and Blue Squids. Repeating frozen floors for Blue Slimes is the simplest targeted route; later mine floors provide the other eligible enemies.

Dwarven Scroll 4 (Yellow)

Many regular monsters have a separate 0.1% chance to drop Dwarven Scroll IV, with some monster types excluded. Tilling suitable soil on Mines floor 80 or deeper is usually a more focused method. After you have reached floor 120, eligible monster kills also receive the game’s general 0.05% (0.0005) Prismatic Shard roll—not 0.5%. That shard roll is independent of Scroll IV and should not be used as the reason a monster is a good Yellow Scroll target; individual monsters can also have their own distinct drop tables.

If you’re still missing Dwarven Scrolls, use bombs to blast sandy areas in the mine. For Scrolls 1 and 2, visit floors 11 to 13. For Scroll 4, visit floors 91 to 93. If you’re missing Scroll 3, you will have to kill monsters, but the drop rate improves as you progress further in the game.