Stardew Valley Name Cheat: Item Codes in Your Name (All Platforms)

The name cheat is Stardew Valley’s only cheat that works on every platform — Switch, PlayStation, Xbox, iOS, Android, PC. It doesn’t need mods or a chat console, just a text field and the right bracketed item IDs.

How does the name cheat work?

Put item IDs in square brackets inside a name field — farmer name or animal name both work. Every time the game displays that name in dialogue, the items spawn into your inventory:

• [74] → Prismatic Shard
• [163] → Legend (the fish)
• [434] → Stardrop
• [74][163][434] → all three, every trigger

The cheat fires once per dialogue display — so triggering it efficiently means putting the named character in front of NPCs who say their name a lot, or spamming dialogue.

What’s the best way to trigger it?

Two standard setups:

1. Farmer name: Name your farmer [74][163][434] at character creation. Any NPC who says your name in dialogue — Gus behind the bar, Lewis in events, Marnie selling animals — triggers the drops.
2. Animal name: Buy an animal at Marnie’s and name it with the ID tags. Naming triggers the cheat once on purchase, so a chicken named [74] gives you a shard immediately.

The Gus Saloon loop is the classic trigger — he addresses you by name when you buy, so standing at the counter spamming purchases prints items.

What should you actually put in the name?

The most useful codes:

Code	Item	Why
[74]	Prismatic Shard	Universal loved gift — see gift guide
[163]	Legend	Skips the legendary-fish fight
[434]	Stardrop	Max-energy upgrade — each one raises max energy permanently
[789]	Lucky Purple Shorts	The infamous quest item
[268]	Starfruit	750g each — see Starfruit

Three tags per name is the practical cap — more than that and names get truncated in dialogue.

Does the name cheat disable achievements?

No — same as the debug commands, Stardew has no anti-cheat. It’s a deliberately-left-in exploit ConcernedApe has acknowledged and kept.

Any caveats?

• Don’t over-stack — filling your inventory mid-dialogue can drop items on the floor
• Multiplayer-safe — works on co-op farms too
• 1.6.9+: the name cheat still works; the newer /debug commands are the PC-only upgrade

Frequently asked questions

Does the name cheat still work in 1.6? Yes — unchanged since the beginning.

Does it work on Switch/PS5? Yes — it’s just text, no console commands needed. Console players use this instead of /debug.

What if an item doesn’t spawn? The code has to be a valid numeric item ID — non-numeric text in brackets does nothing. Check IDs on the item ID list, and make sure your inventory has room.