Here's how to rotate furniture when placing it in Stardew Valley so you can decorate to your liking.
First Published April 10, 2023, 22:45
As you progress in Stardew Valley, you'll earn more furniture that you can place in your house to make it look more like your dream home. As you decorate, though, you might run into a few obstacles; while it's easy to find your furniture in your inventory, it isn't quite so easy to figure out how to place or rotate it, since the game doesn't explain this feature to you. In fact, there are many accounts of players online saying that they didn't even realize that they could rotate furniture until they had spent hundreds of hours in the game!
If you want to learn how to rotate furniture in Stardew Valley, here's your guide. Whether you're a beginner who joined after the recent update or a veteran who is just now learning about this feature, we'll go over how to do this and the controls on all consoles including PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox, and PlayStation.
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How To Rotate Furniture In Stardew Valley
The first step to placing furniture in Stardew Valley is to pick the piece of furniture you want from your inventory. This step is the same across all platforms. From there, you should be able to see the piece of furniture visualized in your room.
Next, you can place the furniture and rotate it according to your preferences. It's a pretty simple process, but what controls you'll use depends on your console.
Here are the controls for placing and rotating items in Stardew Valley on all platforms:
Console | Move | Place | Rotate |
|---|---|---|---|
Nintendo Switch | Right Joystick | Y | A |
Xbox | Right Joystick | X | A |
PlayStation | Right Joystick | Square | X |
PC | Move Cursor | Left Mouse Button | Right Mouse Button |
What Furniture Can You Rotate?
Wondering why you can't rotate a certain piece of furniture in Stardew Valley? It's likely because you're trying to rotate a piece of furniture that cannot be rotated. Not all furniture items can be rotated.
You can rotate items like rugs, paintings, fireplaces, couches, chairs, tables, planters, and more. You can't rotate scarecrows, furnaces, or your TV. The general rule is that if an item needs to face the front to function, you can't rotate it.
That's about it for how to place and rotate items in Stardew Valley to decorate your home and farm. You can rotate most items, allowing you to customize your home a little bit more and add your personal touch. Now you can decorate your farm to your heart's content!
Written by Cole Podany
Cole is a Staff Writer at GINX Esports TV based in the United States. He's a lover of all things horror and particularly loves old horror games like Silent Hill and Resident Evil. You can also find him writing about Dead by Daylight and a slew of other games. Outside of writing for GINX, Cole loves cooking and his two cats. You can contact Cole for pitches at [email protected].
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