My favorite tip is to keep at least one of everything. You never know when an NPC might request/ post a help wanted for a certain item, so it can just make quests go by quicker
I like doing two--then if there's a request, then an out of season request, i don't have to give up because i can't get it before the request expires. also, laziness.
I always keep a couple of everything unless I'm in a pinch and need that item at the moment 🤷♀️🤷♀️ it's good to know that I have what I need when I need it
yesss i always tell myself this and the ONE TIME i didn't i really regretted it lol i sold all my rainbow shells and now i'm doing the mysterious mr. qi quest and i have to wait till summer to get one
A tip for people that want a lot of early money, without really having to do a lot is to get Caroline to 2 hearts asap and then make tea saplings and sell them, they sell for 500 each and don’t require stuff that’s too hard to get a lot of besides Fiber
And even then Fiber isnt usually an issue early game like it is in the late game. When your exploring the regular mines and cleaning your farm all you have to do is remember not to trash it.
EDIT: Nope, I'm stupid. Memory problems got the best of me; it's my first save file on the Switch, so I decided to shake things up by changing the profit margin. I forgot I did that until literally today, two days after I posted this. Either way, the tip here still stands: make spring seeds asap, plant them, use the grown crops to make more! Repeat ad nauseum as many times as you'd like, and start over with each season's own forageables. An extra tip: if you're struggling with fiber, you can go to the mines and farm levels 15 and 25 back and forth. I usually come away with enough fiber to make ~10 saplings at the lowest. And once you unlock the recipe for fiber seeds, it's a good way to farm mixed seeds for that as well if you do it while your luck is high. Pan for lucky rings if you need an extra boost.
I actually just did this. I just planted 50 tea saplings on my farm at the end of summer year 1. I know it’ll only yield me a week of profit at the end of fall at first but at least I got it started LOL
If you plant a cauliflower day 1, and a green bean day 1 or 2, as well as the usual parsnips and potatoes, you can complete the spring crops bundle the night after the egg festival and get 20 speed grow. Put that on 20 of the strawberries you just got, and those will get 1 extra harvest. You might get cauliflower from your day 1 mixed seeds, but you must buy the bean if you want to do this.
This is true, but personally, I think you get a better use out of speed grow on ancient seeds or rare seeds. They take SO long to mature without it. you get a full green house of ancient seeds pretty fast if you speedgrow the first few
@@adropintheocean6282 yup, but tbh, that could be because I never make any other speed grow lmao. If you make or buy more, I can see how that may seem silly. But it's not that long a wait, you can get ancient seeds my killing bugs in early cave floors they're not actually all that uncommon
Keep a chest outside Clint's house for your blacksmith and museum items. You can drop off any time and pop in to do a big cracking or big dono when they're open. Also, have a chest and furnaces at the mines!
Everytime I watch a "Do this X thing in stardew valley" people put so much stuff on screen I get overwhelmed easy, so I decided to play the game as inefficient and slow as possible It was the best decision I made, because it made me learn the game slowly while not feeling I was pressured to do those things Truly an awesome game
I played the game so slowly on my first play through, and about two years later I'm still playing that first ever save file along with my second save file that I started not long ago, and I've still not completed the game or unlocked everything there is. There are so many secrets I'm still discovering, cut scenes I haven't seen yet and wonderful surprises presenting themselves to me. I've loved learning the game slowly and still love learning and playing it slowly. It means all the magic isn't discovered and gone at once, it makes the game last longer and in my opinion you bond with the game and the characters better. Much more fun and fulfilling way to play I think 🥰
Yeah the game has a massive min/max community, so much so that they incidentally convince casual players to do certain things when in reality it just does not matter. Tillable soil on farms is one thing, it does not matter unless there's truly a pathetic amount. You won't be needing millions of gold from the world's largest ancient fruit vineyard, so tillable soil just does not matter. Year 1 community center completion ruined the game for me personally. So many people promote doing it that I just quit saves whenever I felt like I wasn't getting enough done.
Really like that last tip! Watching all these speedrunners complete the community center in spring of year one somehow always makes me think "I could do that" but then I remember that I don't want to. I want to take my time and enjoy the game. This goes for any game really, especially with elitists that clown on anyone who plays on easy mode. Games are for fun, and are pretty crap if you aren't having fun.
I love playing games on super hard modes and just playing slow like Fallout 4 Survival or Stardew on 25% mode Edit: The one reason is because I have one resource that most don't, I have almost infinite time to do what ever I want.
_"see you're laughing"_ oh nono, i just learned that today. 2:42 i didn't know that *Tab* swapped my inventory bar. Thank you. I am part of that _one_ person who has benefited from that tip. 🙏
Same, just finished year 1 without knowing this until now. I was wondering why Mobile was able to access their entire inventory inventory bar without opening the menu, but the PC version couldn't... It turns out it can do that, they just don't tell you how.
my favorite tip that you didn't cover is to never ignore birthdays for NPCs you're interested in befriending or dating. i spent my first couple playthroughs not really thinking about it, but hoooooo boy, it can make a difference. even a gift they like instead of love or a universal neutral is better than nothing, and can still get you some nice friendship points. i also feel like this is doubly true if you're playing with mods that add more NPCs like SDVE or ridgeside, because of how massive the maps can get, you obviously won't be making a trip around the map daily, so boosts from birthday gifts can really help make it easier.
I never really realized how much birthdays made a difference in my first playthrough because I was only really interested in Sam and Linus, I didn't know you could literally just buy pizzas so I gave Sam a neutral birthday gift and then I was at 10 hearts with Linus before his birthday, but in my current playthrough I'm making sure to not miss birthdays and the difference is huge. I had gotten Marnie to 2 hearts already for the purple shorts, but on the week of her birthday gave her two liked gifts then a loved gift on her birthday and she went from 2 to 6 hearts, just like that.
One trick I discovered that I haven't seen people mention online is that you can store an infinite number of items in dressers _and then pick them up._ So if you have a bunch of rings or clothes you like to swap between (or just want to transport them), you can keep them all in your inventory and switch them out whenever you like. The only drawback is that you can't place dressers everywhere, but you can place them in the mines entrance and I think inside other buildings, so it's only a small inconvenience.
Best tip here for me was one you did not give. 12:02, you can plant fruit trees *outside* the tillable area in the greenhouse. I had literally no idea.
Once you get rabbits, always try and carry a rabbit's foot or two with you. Almost all villagers (apart from Penny) love them, so you can easily stack up on friendship if you see a villager you're struggling with.
You can put path tiles around trees once they've grown to keep clutter from spawning around them so you don't constantly have to clear the around them. It won't prevent them from generating crops. They only need the cleared space to grow, once grown the clear space is no longer required.
Tappers stop them from dropping seeds and cluttering the area too, but this is definitely useful if you plant your trees before you have the copper to make the tappers. I did it backwards in my latest playthrough, but a bunch of paths down before the trees and then I was sitting there like "freaking grow already man!"
That little tree icon that flashes when you hover over an item in your inventory that you need for a community center bundle? You can click on that icon to pull up a list of what you need for the bundles without having to visit the community center. Took me a while to realize this! Another time-saver is the phone you can purchase from Robin: it lets you call all of the shops in town and check on inventory, prices, and/or building costs without having to physically visit them. It's great to be able to double-check what building materials you need for something before you trot all the way over to Robin's store. Also, if the shop is closed for the day, it can save you a disappointing trip. The chest at the mines is a great help--so is putting one down next to your favorite fishing spot. Having trouble with fishing? Willy sells a training rod with a sizable bar to help you catch some of the basic fish, it will help you get your fishing skill up. And, keep in mind, crab pot catches count towards your fishing skill as well. Also, talk to each villager at the festivals--even if you can't gift them, it's an easy way to earn friendship points. It adds up.
I’ve never used this myself, but you could have a bee farm with the seasons flower as your main income, without needing scarecrows. Since something a lot of people don’t know is that crows don’t spawn if you have less than 15 seeds, they also can’t eat seasonal seeds (forage seeds)
One thing I like to do is to plant fiber seeds on all of my crop spaces in winter and letting them stay there until Spring 1 so that when springs comes, I don't have to spend the entire day cleaning up, tilling, and watering the soil! I have 504 crops currently, so it takes me ALL day to get all that space ready for crops if I don't use this trick. (SPOILER WARNING AHEAD) - To unlock fiber seeds, you need to do the community cleanup quest for Linus. Fiber seeds will grow in any season and they don't have to be watered. BUT, if you set up a sprinkler for them, the sprinklers will still water them. Which is even more useful come Spring 1, because that means that all of the tilled spots will be watered already. So all you have to do is harvest your fiber and then put seeds down. AND of course if you put fertilizer down before you plant the fiber seeds, it'll save that fertilizer for your spring crops! AND AND, the fiber plants are only harvested with a scythe, so there's no risk of walking through your fiber plants and accidently harvesting one (unless of course you're walking with your scythe out) AND AND AND it's obviously a great way to save up on fiber for crafting! Just try to save up as many mixed seeds as you're going to need for all of your crop spaces. It takes 1 mixed seed to make 4 fiber seeds ( +5 sap and 1 clay), so divide all of your crop spaces by 4 to know how many you'll need. You can either plant them all as soon as winter comes, or you can take a look at the wiki to see when exactly you'll need to plant them in order to be able to harvest them on Spring 1! I hope all of this made sense LOL
someone else's tip involved making tea saplings which use fiber, so personally I find this brilliant! and and and, i can plant fiber just as something for the end of the month when it's too late to plant so much as a parsnip
You have just changed my Stardew Valley life. I have 392 spots and I have been re-tilling, re-watering, and re-fertilizing every season for 8 years. Thank you for sharing this tip!!!!!
The play how you want tip is great. My first time playing Stardew I got burnt out after a day of trying to min max when I should've just been relaxed and learned the game as I played. I just picked up Stardew again not too long ago and decided to just play how I wanted to play, I'm still learning things and it's been a joy finding out new stuff to learn.
I always keep a "quest items" chest in my farm so I can keep items that I know will be required for a quest later in the game like largemouth bass for the Jodi dinner event, or cave carrots for Marnie's goats or even community center items
Great video! Another tip, plant mahogany trees as they drop hardwood instead of regular wood (you can get seeds as drops from stumps). Plus they look pretty in fall.
I like to have a little area set aside early with at least 1 stump of every tree type, since you can use your hoe or pickaxe to grab the seeds spread by stumps off the ground. That way if you ever need some emergency energy you can just hoe up a few seeds for field snacks, or you can just grab them every now and again for when you are ready to make a tree tappers.
I would say a big tip is to go fishing early game, I found a lot of times i had time and energy to kill at the end of days near the ends of seasons, and even just fishing for 3 hours of in game time can net you a good amount of cash early game, this also helps a lot if you go the fisher - angler route
It's by far the best source of money early. I've made over 7k from a full day of fishing up catfish/treasure, and 4-5k from the ocean (fishing near the big rock off the pier) I generally like to go for the Pirate perk early though. The extra sell price on fish is really nice, but treasure chests can get you dino eggs, ancient seeds, gems, bait, and extra ore for sprinklers early, so imo it's more useful just more random. Makes each playthrough feel a bit more unique because if you fish enough you've got a really good chance of getting at least one of the rarer chest items. So one run you might get an ancient seed, another run you might get Neptune's Glaive and make up to lvl 80 in the mines ezpz as far as combat goes.
1 good tip I can say is to buy a calendar from Robin. This way you can check for villager birthdays before you start your day and don't have to travel all the way to Pierre's shop. I personally have it right next to my bed to either check 1st thing when my character starts a day and then again before going to bed in case I forget due to in game events.
I love your last tip. I decided to play a farm where I only sold on the last day of the season. The only way to make money throughout the season was to complete posts from the community boards or to fulfill the main game quests. It was a great way to work on my friendships with the townsfolk which I usually neglect. It's my favorite farm. It's almost 5 years old, and I just did the last house upgrade. Throttling back on how often I get a big cash influx forced me to slow down and play the game based more on interactions with the town than focusing on getting to the next money goal. Which is what Grandpa wanted all along. :)
One idea I haven't ever seen mentioned on any of these videos is having different tools in different hotbars. He touched on this, but I like to have my axe, hoe, and scythe in one row, my weapon and pickaxe in the next, and my fishing rod and pan in the next. This makes it so I have a lot more room to organize my items while giving me access to the kinds of tools I might need for a specific task.
I kept seeing challenge content creators swapping hotbars somehow and was so confused. Then my cat walked across my keyboard and swapped mine and I didn't know what button she pressed. Now I can finally press tab
Tip: If you ever need some spice in your game, it’s never a bad idea to ply with mods that DONT change the game drastically. Im personally not a fan of stuff like the tractor mod but I love aesthetic mods like Character Facelift or Starblue Valley. Just play around, see what you like. It helps a ton.
I just installed the skull cavern elevator as my only mod since I knew I would never get to the bottom on my own. Now I can farm omni geodes to finish up the museum without feeling as stressed about the skull cavern overall. It’s made me actually excited to go to the skull caverns now
I've spent at least 300 hours playing Stardew, other good hundred on the wiki... yet I enjoy watching this type of useful information. Great video! :D Edit: Best tip is tryhard getting the trashcan hat
i got the trashcan hat on year 1 and didn't know what to do with it so i just trashed it, later on at the end of like year 3 i saw someone on youtube mention how rare it is, so i went to the wiki, and i look, it's a 0.2%, instant regret at that moment
About tip 11: Take into account that you not only need 3 Hearts with Linus, but also to have the first house upgrade to cook. Selling 10 Sunfish/Anchovies may only be 300g right now as opposed to 750g when sold as Sashimi. But those 300g can help you a heck of a lot more right now on Spring 10, than the 750g will help you on Summer 15, because by then the gold would have been invested and reinvested to the point where it's become more than 750g worth of profit.
@@jessewodell There's no cooking fire in the game. And up until last month with the 1.6 update, the cookout kit was locked behind level 9 foraging (aka, long after the house is upgraded anyway)
The last tip means a lot. This is a nice little farming game about escaping your old sucky job. Use this as your escape from real world issues, have fun. If that means trying to do everything perfect great! If it means taking your time doing small random things also great! Just have fun
I just recently started replaying and my first season I just fished so I could save up lots of money to get strawberries and blueberries. I found that worked really well at making money and was a nice little challenge. By the end of the first season I think I had maxed my fishing skill and I was making so much money from getting around 30 ish fish a day. I also decided to have a no animal farm which made getting a truffle a challenge, but was a big victory when I finally saw it in the travelling cart. When choosing my farm layout I went for the one that splits into four to make it a lot easier to diversify. Each part earns money in a different way.
I never comment on a youtube video, but I want you to know that this video, and specifically tip 4, is still helping people today. Ive only been playing a couple months really, and was just playing your guides playlist in the background of doing homework cause your voice is oddly relaxing, and i had to back up the video to make sure i caught that correctly. Thank you for your service, love the videos!
The last tip 😭 As a beginner stardew player I strived to min max my farm but I got burnt out after a week, spending 80% in wiki and 20% in actual gameplay. Play the game however you like, it doesn’t matter whether you have 2 pigs and earn only 2k a day after 3 years ingame, or whatever. Have fun and go with the flow.
A huge tip I have is: if you find something frustratung and hurting your enjoyment of the game, look for a mod. Whether aesthetic, quality of life, or changing mechanics you dobt enjoy, its you game so do what makes it more fun to you
Consoles don't have many of the exploits so it is important to have an idea of what you want to accomplish each season. On another note, Kent arrives in year 2 so finishing the community center with the friendship bundle in year 2 will start you with 2 hearts with Kent.
The final tip is the cherry on the top. I absolutely love taking my time, hand watering my crops, etc. I May spend half a day each sunny day watering crops but I don’t care because it’s so much fun for me. I’m in late summer year 2 on my first save and I’ve truly just been enjoying farming foraging and friends. I literally just unlocked the desert and the skull cavern and stuff but it’s genuinely not that important to me because I’m just running my own little farm and that’s something I wanna do irl at some point and doing it in game is so worth it just because I’m realizing how much fun I’d have actually doing it. I love gardening irl and the farming aspect of sdv I’ve fallen in love with and it’s all just my little fantasy 😂
Tappers can be placed on trees outside the farm. I put some on the ones at the bus stop since I pass by there a lot and it reminds me they need collecting (I always forget about the ones on my farm)
One of my favorite examples of a (genuinely helpful!) tip that I purposefully ignore is any way to save tilled spaces for the next season; I find one of my favorite things in Stardew is the absolutely hectic fervor of buying seeds, tilling, watering, fertilizing, and planting everything you need in day 1 of a new season. It's just.. a lot of fun and excitement for me, so I purposefully just let my fields empty naturally as I run out of plants that will mature in time and have fun going to town on day 1 making it all work in time
There's a lot of emphasis on min-maxing on stardew youtube, and don't get me wrong, that is definitely the type of content I enjoy. I love watching insane challenges where you need to be a near-perfect player and make lists and guides to do everything you have to to complete the challenge. But that really ruined my experience of the game for a while. I put in 100 hours on my first farm ever then noticed I hadn't played in a month despite really enjoying the game and having plenty of time to. I even would find other things to do than play. And I realized that I put too much pressure on myself and the farm. I got to ginger island in fall (ginger island spoilers ahead obviously) I was very frustrated trying to get all the golden walnuts I needed. And like I said, i arrived in fall. And one of the things to get walnuts, the first step to was growing a melon, which is a summer crop. I was very frustrated and a friend told me that melon seeds were sold at the night market. So I was just pretty much waiting on the night market and working on crops. I went to and from the island almost daily to make sure everything was going well on both farms and had to remember each night where I wanted to be in the morning because of an event or birthday and I think two days before the night market I put up stardew for the night and never picked it up again because I didn't want to remember all the sstuff I "had to do". I started a new farm. it's going really well. I'm pretty broke, but man I am having a lot more fun.
p.s. the seedmaker could be useful in this case! and i definitely agree about the stress of having all those things on my to-do list bc the days are so short!!
@@stefunnylim thanks, but I only had one chest to each farm on that save. I didn't save a single thing! I didn't even have a community center chest, I ran each item there as I got it lol
I try really hard to chill in Stardew. I am a new played and youtube videos have given me lots of information, but I am just not interested in habing the most efficient layout, or finishing everything quickly. I am in the first winter and realized I "missed" many things in the other seasons for the community center. but honestly, I am fine with completing it in Fall 2
I definitely get what you’re saying for a long time I was very focused on min/maxing every time and would have roughly 700 starfruits and deluxe speed grow fully set up with sprinklers day one of summer year 1 but I absolutely despised the game, because fishing is so frequent in min max runs for the first half of spring I found myself changing from when I was a casual player where fishing was my favorite part of the game to hating it in its entirety but lately I finally said fuck it and made a beach farm and bought a coop with my first bit of gold
The Botanist perk also applies to the Bat Cave - but no perk can improve the shrooms =( - although, adding worm bins to the mushroom cave can be a nice bonus.
One tip to increase your fishing skill early game is to buy the basic fishing rod for 25g. Because it's easier to use, you can get more perfect catches which increases your fishing skill quicker.
One tip that I got that I think is helpful is through Spring-Fall, if you place grass or have grass around any of you animal pens, the animals won't need hay and will eat the grass. When it's raining, I recommend having hay to place in the coops and barns so they don't get mad the next day because they didn't have food. Stock up on hay for the winter since grass doesn't grow in winter! I think this is a good tip when playing especially in early game!
You think thats good wait till you get used to the "add to existing stacks" button. Every chest is its own filter that way. IMAGINE that button in minecraft!
If you're really bored with the game, try changing your play style up! If you always finish the CC during the first year, try going to for Joja. If you mine a lot, try fishing instead. And if that doesn't help, either, take a little break. The game isn't going to disappear, and you'll definitely appreciate it more if you're playing because you want to, not because you have to
I've enjoyed the fact that dressers stopped being useless, merely decorative, furniture items as of 1.4. And now the player can go whole hog in storing hats, rings, shoes, and clothes in them. This saves so much chest space after buying one, for all the hats and rings you get.
last tip is definitely the best. ive played the game SO slowly and it’s been so fun. didn’t look anything up ab stardew for the first two in game years. just found out ginger island is a thing?? idek what it looks like, i’m letting it stay a surprise. i just dick around all day. im on year three and maybe unlocked 50% of the game. i ignored the community center for almost a year. im having a blast
I agree, I play like this, too. Sometimes I stay a whole week inside the farm just decorating and designing. I don't try to befriend every villager, and I am still only on level 40 of the mines after one year because I just don't like mining so much. I don't know why anyone would want to finish the community center asap.
A tip id recommend is getting the mushroom cave for mushrooms. These can be converted to fall seeds and furthermore converted to expensive tea saplings which can either be sold or actually grown to produce tea which itself sells for a good amount
I have to write that, because you think that would be just silly, but the tip regarding using tab to swap between the inventory slots is incredible. Not kidding, thank you! thank you! and thank you!
Thank you for this, I just subscribed. This was in your comment section, there is a mod to slow time. The game is faster than I'm comfortable, I would love for the days to be longer. Something I just learned to use is the button on the right side, it says add to existing stacks. Oh my what a time saver. I also like how it then organizes what's in there. I spent so much time trying to see what went into the open chest. Hit the button and it does it for you. Maybe almost everyone already knows this. This is for the one who doesn't.
A quick tip for Honey; If you plant a poppy and a sunflower in the same range of the beehouse, it will take to the flower grown first, in this case the poppy. The sunflower can be helpful because it grows in fall as well, meaning you're still getting more expensive honey while waiting for your fairy rose to grow.
I like to keep chests outside of Robin’s, Marnie’s,and Clint’s and keep it full of all the materials I might need for their services. And also one by the beach for trout soup and bait
I actually didn't know about the hidden pathway in the hidden forest! That's going to pair perfectly with the zoom out option I also didn't know about. Thanks!
I don't know if anybody mentioned this, but early in the game, when you may be resource limited, you can pickaxe your tappers off of trees and reset them on another. I've found that this can be really useful for time management and getting a jump on the community center bundles.
Dude that tab to switch storage rows is gonna save me so much hassle, I used to play on PlayStation but I switched over to PC and I could not figure out how to switch it thank you!!!
I end up making so much Salmonberry and Blackberry jelly/wine. Good for gifting because it's cheap and generally liked (except Sebastian), and it keeps my production items busy when I run out of other stuff to process in the winter.
Blueberries are op especially early game they are like Strawberries but you can get them straight away in summer. I always save up money for a bunch of them and I make the money back and more super fast. Also make sure to save some strawberries for next spring.
Always get bored and restart before I reach perfection, but one of my best tips is to play multi-player. Even if you can't play online, co-op exists on console and having an extra pair of hands really helps. Second, NEVER choose the mountain/quarry farm. Or the beach farm. Yes the quarry is nice, but becomes irrelevant late game. Plus the 4 - corner farm has the same thing. Having no space on the farm is way worse than it sounds. Same with no sprinklers on the beach farm. Finally, to people who don't know, USE THE QUICK SORT BUTTON IN CHESTS. It makes it way easier to sort items.
One of the reasons I always just buy parsnips on day 1 is because until you get your first parsnip harvest, you won’t have a scarecrow. If you dont know, crows can come and completely wreck a crop, making it basically useless, and you can’t stop the crows without a scarecrow. So I usually don’t bother with expensive or valuable crops before a scarecrow because If they get crowed it’s a complete Net Loss.
my personal favorite small bonus of botanist is having it for year 2 salmonberry season, as since they are so plentiful then, and sell for so little, they serve as an amazing energy booster, granting 65, meaning you basically never need to worry about running out of energy until next spring, where you can again
A tip I wish you included because of clay farming being in the middle of the video!!! You can give yourself higher value on day 1 by saving your gold for day 2. Clear out the area of land on your farm (standard) right by the house. plant parsnips at the end of the day. clay farm the cleared area. You should get roughly 2k gold if you know how to do it. Then plant and water, and for day 2, you'll have 2500 gold for potatoes which will be ready on the 12th, right before the egg festival and your year 2 strawberries. remember to save your seeds, as they'll get more bang for buck if planted on spring 1 of year 2 instead of on spring 13 of year 1.
I think most of the folks who do clay farming are gonna use it for a faster start in the mines or for a faster fisher pole + bait though. It's definitely not a bad tip of you wanna hyper focus on farming early, but fishing just gets you so much more money for your time the first season, esp if you have an upgraded fishing pole + bait by day 2/3. Like, 4-5k + gold/day from the ocean and 7k+ from the river if you are good at catching catfish early. I always found that planting too much the first season really cuts into my ability to do basically anything else, because it takes a lot of time and energy to water everything with the basic can. So I generally tend to plant exactly 39 crops before I can upgrade my water can, and slightly over 100 once I upgrade my can, so that I only have to deal with refilling the water can once. I'll then use the rest of my time to bum rush the mines until I can bounce between floors 20, 40, and 80 to hunt for ore nodes for tree tappers and quality sprinklers (if you plant mostly Kale you'll easily get to farming level 6-7 to make the sprinklers before the end of the season, even if you don't have a ton planted) Doing all this I was able to make almost 50 sprinklers by day 3-4 of summer (whichever is the last day you can plant blueberries to get their max amount of harvests without speed grow) Also you should totally still plant at least some strawberries year 1! You make money back off them just from selling one harvest, you can keep a few gold quality strawberries for very very easy loved gifts for Demetrius and Maru, and then use the rest in a seed maker to get more strawberries seeds for next season. If you don't end up with as many seeds as you want, if you manage to complete the greenhouse before year 1 you could always plant a strawberry or two in the greenhouse just to make some more seeds, since you probably won't have it filled with ancient fruit that early anyways.
I love how Stardew Valley does have optional paths, but no need to absolutely complete them, and no deadlines either. The main reason I'm still playing on one of my very first save files is *because* i can move at my own pace. I'm on year 3 and still haven't finished the community center, but I'm in no rush. I just focus on something for a while, then move onto the next. :) Update: About 2 weeks ago, I finished the community center! I'm also almost done with willy's boat, and even got some community upgrades up!
if you cant get into the secret woods yet, pick up your chair, go to the log and then place the chair. you can phase through the log when you sit on the chair and to get out just do it again
Hi, not only am I the one viewer who didn't know the toolbar scrolling tip, the rest of this video was just great and you have gained one more subscriber.
Dont know if its been mentioned since i just started watching the video but save your mixed seeds and plant them on ginger island to get blueberries, pineapples and melons which sell for a lot of money and they're really cool
Unfortunately I have never been able to re-capture the magic of my first playthrough, it is refreshing however to see someone else thoroughly enjoying it.
Two things I like to do for money is instead of selling crops, sell the jellies/pickles of the crops instead and make and sell tea samplings for quick cash. Also I didn’t know about the honey thing! I’ve just been shoving honey in a keg this whole time!
Hands down one of the best youtube videos ive watched for a while. It took me so long to start playing and get into Stardew Valley and now i consider it one of the best games ever. Its what a "game" should be. It doesnt hold your hand but its not crazy hard, there are objectives but they arent cemented down as necessary. Im not far enough yet but i just heard about Ginger Farm and frankly thats what i think im most excited for. I just want to grow all my favorite things at the same time in one place lol (so many peppers and berries 🤣) think im gonna start setting up a honey and tree farm today because thats something else i love in real life (bees gardening and making mead/wine/hotsauce. That would be awesome if they let you do stuff like fermenting veggies and making pickles or hotsauce)
Just thought of this and confirmed through the wiki. You can use a rain totem on ginger island on an odd number night to get the pirates to show up on the even number night for those sweet golden walnut from darts
Have a full inventory , a chest, and pretty much 1 of any item. Open the chest with the one item in it. Click on the item so you are holding it in the chest. While holding it, click the organise button as much as you want. Ecit the chest and put all the duplicated items in the shipping bin. When you sleep, it will not show that you earned money from what you sold, but when you wake up, you can have well over a million gold in one night. You can do this at any stage of the game and I recommend that you put the chest next to the shipping bin on your farm.
If you want really easy friendship in the early game grow things like parsnips and corn because almost everybody likes them. I did this on my second play through and by the end of year one I had 7 to 8 hearts with everyone
I'm a big fan of using coffee for that purpose. Coffee is liked by everyone except Jas and Vincent, and it's super easy to get multiple stacks of coffee beans by the end of your first summer if you can get even 1 bean midway through spring from either the travelling merchant or the mines. If you're having a hard time finding one from the mines, it's usually a lot faster to just continually enter/exit floor 40 looking for ore nodes and sprites than it is to actually try and explore multiple floors. I generally like to hop between floors 20, 40, and 80 looking for ore and mobs as they are all fairly small floors, but you can still find 1-8ish nodes (depending on luck) and multiple enemies each time you enter the floor. On my latest playthrough I'm currently near the end of fall with at least 5-6 hearts with everyone, but I didn't really give anyone but Caroline and Linus gifts my first spring. I only really started giving out gifts around midsummer once I started making kegs, but it's really convenient to just have one stack of 200+ coffees on me that everyone likes and I use them myself for the speed buffs until I can make triple shot expressos. I had 4 stacks of regular coffee beans, a half a stack of silver beans, and around 150 gold beans by the end of my first summer (but I also had like 40 quality sprinklers made by the first week of summer because I was able to get to floor 80 of the mines in late spring, had a lot of trash to recycle from fishing, and bought some extra coal from Clint in the first few days of summer)
Oh, I actually have a really useful fishing tip. It sounds a bit strange, but the rock in the sea to the left of the pier is actually OP early game. Not sure why, but it always gives you higher quality fish! If you fish near it all day, I usually level up quite quickly and get 1800-2000g a day - very useful for early game!
A tip for people who like to change their characters, be friends with the wizard. Once you get to 4 hearts you can get into his basement, and use the shrine of illusions to change your appearance
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My favorite tip is to keep at least one of everything. You never know when an NPC might request/ post a help wanted for a certain item, so it can just make quests go by quicker
I like doing two--then if there's a request, then an out of season request, i don't have to give up because i can't get it before the request expires. also, laziness.
Yes!
this is super important, but remember that most special orders require you to gather the items during the quest time so be careful!
I always keep a couple of everything unless I'm in a pinch and need that item at the moment 🤷♀️🤷♀️ it's good to know that I have what I need when I need it
yesss i always tell myself this and the ONE TIME i didn't i really regretted it lol i sold all my rainbow shells and now i'm doing the mysterious mr. qi quest and i have to wait till summer to get one
A tip for people that want a lot of early money, without really having to do a lot is to get Caroline to 2 hearts asap and then make tea saplings and sell them, they sell for 500 each and don’t require stuff that’s too hard to get a lot of besides Fiber
And even then Fiber isnt usually an issue early game like it is in the late game. When your exploring the regular mines and cleaning your farm all you have to do is remember not to trash it.
EDIT: Nope, I'm stupid. Memory problems got the best of me; it's my first save file on the Switch, so I decided to shake things up by changing the profit margin. I forgot I did that until literally today, two days after I posted this.
Either way, the tip here still stands: make spring seeds asap, plant them, use the grown crops to make more! Repeat ad nauseum as many times as you'd like, and start over with each season's own forageables.
An extra tip: if you're struggling with fiber, you can go to the mines and farm levels 15 and 25 back and forth. I usually come away with enough fiber to make ~10 saplings at the lowest. And once you unlock the recipe for fiber seeds, it's a good way to farm mixed seeds for that as well if you do it while your luck is high.
Pan for lucky rings if you need an extra boost.
I actually just did this. I just planted 50 tea saplings on my farm at the end of summer year 1. I know it’ll only yield me a week of profit at the end of fall at first but at least I got it started LOL
@@harleymariemorgan2759 you’re not supposed to plant them LMAO
@@harleymariemorgan2759 You're supposed to sell the saplings. Not the tea. The tea leaves are only 50g apiece.
If you plant a cauliflower day 1, and a green bean day 1 or 2, as well as the usual parsnips and potatoes, you can complete the spring crops bundle the night after the egg festival and get 20 speed grow. Put that on 20 of the strawberries you just got, and those will get 1 extra harvest. You might get cauliflower from your day 1 mixed seeds, but you must buy the bean if you want to do this.
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This is true, but personally, I think you get a better use out of speed grow on ancient seeds or rare seeds. They take SO long to mature without it. you get a full green house of ancient seeds pretty fast if you speedgrow the first few
@@adropintheocean6282 yup, but tbh, that could be because I never make any other speed grow lmao. If you make or buy more, I can see how that may seem silly. But it's not that long a wait, you can get ancient seeds my killing bugs in early cave floors they're not actually all that uncommon
@@briantroy7376 buy deluxe speed grow from Sandy on thursdays
Keep a chest outside Clint's house for your blacksmith and museum items. You can drop off any time and pop in to do a big cracking or big dono when they're open. Also, have a chest and furnaces at the mines!
Actually genius. I've walked by so many times and missed them not being open.
Everytime I watch a "Do this X thing in stardew valley" people put so much stuff on screen I get overwhelmed easy, so I decided to play the game as inefficient and slow as possible
It was the best decision I made, because it made me learn the game slowly while not feeling I was pressured to do those things
Truly an awesome game
I had to be honest. I prefer to be overwhelmed than getting underwhelmed. Getting tips for this game could lead to both in my opinion.
You will never get across the skull cavern with that attitude
I played the game so slowly on my first play through, and about two years later I'm still playing that first ever save file along with my second save file that I started not long ago, and I've still not completed the game or unlocked everything there is.
There are so many secrets I'm still discovering, cut scenes I haven't seen yet and wonderful surprises presenting themselves to me. I've loved learning the game slowly and still love learning and playing it slowly. It means all the magic isn't discovered and gone at once, it makes the game last longer and in my opinion you bond with the game and the characters better. Much more fun and fulfilling way to play I think 🥰
Yeah the game has a massive min/max community, so much so that they incidentally convince casual players to do certain things when in reality it just does not matter. Tillable soil on farms is one thing, it does not matter unless there's truly a pathetic amount. You won't be needing millions of gold from the world's largest ancient fruit vineyard, so tillable soil just does not matter.
Year 1 community center completion ruined the game for me personally. So many people promote doing it that I just quit saves whenever I felt like I wasn't getting enough done.
The final tip perfectly sums this up - play the game the way you want to and simply enjoy it
Really like that last tip! Watching all these speedrunners complete the community center in spring of year one somehow always makes me think "I could do that" but then I remember that I don't want to. I want to take my time and enjoy the game. This goes for any game really, especially with elitists that clown on anyone who plays on easy mode. Games are for fun, and are pretty crap if you aren't having fun.
I love playing games on super hard modes and just playing slow like Fallout 4 Survival or Stardew on 25% mode
Edit: The one reason is because I have one resource that most don't, I have almost infinite time to do what ever I want.
_"see you're laughing"_ oh nono, i just learned that today.
2:42 i didn't know that *Tab* swapped my inventory bar. Thank you. I am part of that _one_ person who has benefited from that tip. 🙏
Same. The hours I’ve spent moving different quality eggs to fill my top inventory bar for mayo…my god
ive learnt this when i finished a year on stardew valley and i honestly cant believe the game does not show you this tip
@@crispyfries0 omg i just found out and ive been into soooo many hours of game too hahaha
Same!!! Just finished year one without knowing this trick 😭
Same, just finished year 1 without knowing this until now. I was wondering why Mobile was able to access their entire inventory inventory bar without opening the menu, but the PC version couldn't... It turns out it can do that, they just don't tell you how.
my favorite tip that you didn't cover is to never ignore birthdays for NPCs you're interested in befriending or dating. i spent my first couple playthroughs not really thinking about it, but hoooooo boy, it can make a difference. even a gift they like instead of love or a universal neutral is better than nothing, and can still get you some nice friendship points.
i also feel like this is doubly true if you're playing with mods that add more NPCs like SDVE or ridgeside, because of how massive the maps can get, you obviously won't be making a trip around the map daily, so boosts from birthday gifts can really help make it easier.
I never really realized how much birthdays made a difference in my first playthrough because I was only really interested in Sam and Linus, I didn't know you could literally just buy pizzas so I gave Sam a neutral birthday gift and then I was at 10 hearts with Linus before his birthday, but in my current playthrough I'm making sure to not miss birthdays and the difference is huge. I had gotten Marnie to 2 hearts already for the purple shorts, but on the week of her birthday gave her two liked gifts then a loved gift on her birthday and she went from 2 to 6 hearts, just like that.
Absolutely true. I gave Victor a gold quality butterfish and went from 2 hearts to 5. I don’t even like the guy.
That's not a tip. It's part of the game mechanics. What's next? "You need wood? Chop a tree!"
@@itsgonnabeanaurfromme this entire video is mostly about mechanics, chill
Hates and dislikes are also boosted, so be careful not to accidentally give someone mud or a rock or something on their birthday
One trick I discovered that I haven't seen people mention online is that you can store an infinite number of items in dressers _and then pick them up._ So if you have a bunch of rings or clothes you like to swap between (or just want to transport them), you can keep them all in your inventory and switch them out whenever you like.
The only drawback is that you can't place dressers everywhere, but you can place them in the mines entrance and I think inside other buildings, so it's only a small inconvenience.
wait dressers aren't just for decoration?! :D Ohh boi!
Best tip here for me was one you did not give. 12:02, you can plant fruit trees *outside* the tillable area in the greenhouse. I had literally no idea.
The fuck?!? I've been wasting tillable space on 6 trees for no reason.
@Doggy the Anarchist yup. I have them along the walls and actually have 8 of them them in there.
It kind break my immersion tho, like how are they growing on metal lol
@@windflier1684 it is kinda weird, but when you plant them it does create a little hole with exposed dirt where the roots go in!
@@windflier1684just say you cut a hole for them when you played them
Once you get rabbits, always try and carry a rabbit's foot or two with you. Almost all villagers (apart from Penny) love them, so you can easily stack up on friendship if you see a villager you're struggling with.
You can put path tiles around trees once they've grown to keep clutter from spawning around them so you don't constantly have to clear the around them. It won't prevent them from generating crops. They only need the cleared space to grow, once grown the clear space is no longer required.
Tappers stop them from dropping seeds and cluttering the area too, but this is definitely useful if you plant your trees before you have the copper to make the tappers.
I did it backwards in my latest playthrough, but a bunch of paths down before the trees and then I was sitting there like "freaking grow already man!"
Litterly doing this right now
That little tree icon that flashes when you hover over an item in your inventory that you need for a community center bundle? You can click on that icon to pull up a list of what you need for the bundles without having to visit the community center. Took me a while to realize this!
Another time-saver is the phone you can purchase from Robin: it lets you call all of the shops in town and check on inventory, prices, and/or building costs without having to physically visit them. It's great to be able to double-check what building materials you need for something before you trot all the way over to Robin's store. Also, if the shop is closed for the day, it can save you a disappointing trip.
The chest at the mines is a great help--so is putting one down next to your favorite fishing spot.
Having trouble with fishing? Willy sells a training rod with a sizable bar to help you catch some of the basic fish, it will help you get your fishing skill up. And, keep in mind, crab pot catches count towards your fishing skill as well.
Also, talk to each villager at the festivals--even if you can't gift them, it's an easy way to earn friendship points. It adds up.
A phone?! I have almost bought that so many times, but thought what a dumb idea if you couldn't call anybody. Thx for that tip.
@@cattycorner8 You're welcome! ^_^
....that's literally the point of those things. The community center button and the phone.
I’ve never used this myself, but you could have a bee farm with the seasons flower as your main income, without needing scarecrows.
Since something a lot of people don’t know is that crows don’t spawn if you have less than 15 seeds, they also can’t eat seasonal seeds (forage seeds)
One thing I like to do is to plant fiber seeds on all of my crop spaces in winter and letting them stay there until Spring 1 so that when springs comes, I don't have to spend the entire day cleaning up, tilling, and watering the soil! I have 504 crops currently, so it takes me ALL day to get all that space ready for crops if I don't use this trick. (SPOILER WARNING AHEAD)
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To unlock fiber seeds, you need to do the community cleanup quest for Linus. Fiber seeds will grow in any season and they don't have to be watered. BUT, if you set up a sprinkler for them, the sprinklers will still water them. Which is even more useful come Spring 1, because that means that all of the tilled spots will be watered already. So all you have to do is harvest your fiber and then put seeds down.
AND of course if you put fertilizer down before you plant the fiber seeds, it'll save that fertilizer for your spring crops! AND AND, the fiber plants are only harvested with a scythe, so there's no risk of walking through your fiber plants and accidently harvesting one (unless of course you're walking with your scythe out) AND AND AND it's obviously a great way to save up on fiber for crafting!
Just try to save up as many mixed seeds as you're going to need for all of your crop spaces. It takes 1 mixed seed to make 4 fiber seeds ( +5 sap and 1 clay), so divide all of your crop spaces by 4 to know how many you'll need. You can either plant them all as soon as winter comes, or you can take a look at the wiki to see when exactly you'll need to plant them in order to be able to harvest them on Spring 1! I hope all of this made sense LOL
someone else's tip involved making tea saplings which use fiber, so personally I find this brilliant! and and and, i can plant fiber just as something for the end of the month when it's too late to plant so much as a parsnip
This is brilliant thank you. I have 500+ plots that takes me 2 days to complete each season
You have just changed my Stardew Valley life. I have 392 spots and I have been re-tilling, re-watering, and re-fertilizing every season for 8 years. Thank you for sharing this tip!!!!!
Have 180+ hours in the game and......did not know about the shift-tab inventory trick. You really did just help me out a ton, there.
The play how you want tip is great. My first time playing Stardew I got burnt out after a day of trying to min max when I should've just been relaxed and learned the game as I played. I just picked up Stardew again not too long ago and decided to just play how I wanted to play, I'm still learning things and it's been a joy finding out new stuff to learn.
I always keep a "quest items" chest in my farm so I can keep items that I know will be required for a quest later in the game like largemouth bass for the Jodi dinner event, or cave carrots for Marnie's goats or even community center items
RIP tip 16 in the 1.6 update. Closing the barn/coop door increases friendship with animals now.
Great video! Another tip, plant mahogany trees as they drop hardwood instead of regular wood (you can get seeds as drops from stumps). Plus they look pretty in fall.
I like to have a little area set aside early with at least 1 stump of every tree type, since you can use your hoe or pickaxe to grab the seeds spread by stumps off the ground.
That way if you ever need some emergency energy you can just hoe up a few seeds for field snacks, or you can just grab them every now and again for when you are ready to make a tree tappers.
I would say a big tip is to go fishing early game, I found a lot of times i had time and energy to kill at the end of days near the ends of seasons, and even just fishing for 3 hours of in game time can net you a good amount of cash early game, this also helps a lot if you go the fisher - angler route
It's by far the best source of money early. I've made over 7k from a full day of fishing up catfish/treasure, and 4-5k from the ocean (fishing near the big rock off the pier)
I generally like to go for the Pirate perk early though. The extra sell price on fish is really nice, but treasure chests can get you dino eggs, ancient seeds, gems, bait, and extra ore for sprinklers early, so imo it's more useful just more random. Makes each playthrough feel a bit more unique because if you fish enough you've got a really good chance of getting at least one of the rarer chest items.
So one run you might get an ancient seed, another run you might get Neptune's Glaive and make up to lvl 80 in the mines ezpz as far as combat goes.
in the new 1.6 update, shuting farm animal doors after 7 increases friendship levels with the animals
1 good tip I can say is to buy a calendar from Robin. This way you can check for villager birthdays before you start your day and don't have to travel all the way to Pierre's shop. I personally have it right next to my bed to either check 1st thing when my character starts a day and then again before going to bed in case I forget due to in game events.
I love your last tip. I decided to play a farm where I only sold on the last day of the season. The only way to make money throughout the season was to complete posts from the community boards or to fulfill the main game quests. It was a great way to work on my friendships with the townsfolk which I usually neglect. It's my favorite farm. It's almost 5 years old, and I just did the last house upgrade. Throttling back on how often I get a big cash influx forced me to slow down and play the game based more on interactions with the town than focusing on getting to the next money goal. Which is what Grandpa wanted all along. :)
My bestie did the same thing! End of every season she made BANK lol
One idea I haven't ever seen mentioned on any of these videos is having different tools in different hotbars. He touched on this, but I like to have my axe, hoe, and scythe in one row, my weapon and pickaxe in the next, and my fishing rod and pan in the next. This makes it so I have a lot more room to organize my items while giving me access to the kinds of tools I might need for a specific task.
THANK YOU! NO ONE ever mentions TAB! I stumbled across that one by total accident and it's the best dang hotkey.
I kept seeing challenge content creators swapping hotbars somehow and was so confused. Then my cat walked across my keyboard and swapped mine and I didn't know what button she pressed. Now I can finally press tab
Tip: If you ever need some spice in your game, it’s never a bad idea to ply with mods that DONT change the game drastically. Im personally not a fan of stuff like the tractor mod but I love aesthetic mods like Character Facelift or Starblue Valley. Just play around, see what you like. It helps a ton.
I played over 300 hrs, got bored, then installed Ridgeside Village mod in my fourth (newest) file, and it actually made me want to play Stardew again!
I just installed the skull cavern elevator as my only mod since I knew I would never get to the bottom on my own. Now I can farm omni geodes to finish up the museum without feeling as stressed about the skull cavern overall. It’s made me actually excited to go to the skull caverns now
I made everything foxes. and added the one QOL thing i just couldn't live without in my main farm. anything to make it feel like i'm at home.
@@corshinoda No idea, but I suggest looking it up. That usually helps me
I've spent at least 300 hours playing Stardew, other good hundred on the wiki... yet I enjoy watching this type of useful information. Great video! :D
Edit: Best tip is tryhard getting the trashcan hat
i got the trashcan hat on year 1 and didn't know what to do with it so i just trashed it, later on at the end of like year 3 i saw someone on youtube mention how rare it is, so i went to the wiki, and i look, it's a 0.2%, instant regret at that moment
I have one in my chest. I figured it was just trash as well. Good to know!
I got it spring year 1 (i'm sorry!!!) on my first farm. I wear it a ton, i think it's the best hat in the game
@@alphag4mer909 its a 0.2 percent...............? i ran out of space and just trashed it 😭😭
About tip 11: Take into account that you not only need 3 Hearts with Linus, but also to have the first house upgrade to cook. Selling 10 Sunfish/Anchovies may only be 300g right now as opposed to 750g when sold as Sashimi. But those 300g can help you a heck of a lot more right now on Spring 10, than the 750g will help you on Summer 15, because by then the gold would have been invested and reinvested to the point where it's become more than 750g worth of profit.
Can you not using a cooking fire to make sashimi? That’s a much earlier build.
@@jessewodell There's no cooking fire in the game. And up until last month with the 1.6 update, the cookout kit was locked behind level 9 foraging (aka, long after the house is upgraded anyway)
The last tip means a lot.
This is a nice little farming game about escaping your old sucky job. Use this as your escape from real world issues, have fun. If that means trying to do everything perfect great! If it means taking your time doing small random things also great! Just have fun
I just recently started replaying and my first season I just fished so I could save up lots of money to get strawberries and blueberries. I found that worked really well at making money and was a nice little challenge.
By the end of the first season I think I had maxed my fishing skill and I was making so much money from getting around 30 ish fish a day.
I also decided to have a no animal farm which made getting a truffle a challenge, but was a big victory when I finally saw it in the travelling cart.
When choosing my farm layout I went for the one that splits into four to make it a lot easier to diversify. Each part earns money in a different way.
I never comment on a youtube video, but I want you to know that this video, and specifically tip 4, is still helping people today. Ive only been playing a couple months really, and was just playing your guides playlist in the background of doing homework cause your voice is oddly relaxing, and i had to back up the video to make sure i caught that correctly. Thank you for your service, love the videos!
The last tip 😭 As a beginner stardew player I strived to min max my farm but I got burnt out after a week, spending 80% in wiki and 20% in actual gameplay. Play the game however you like, it doesn’t matter whether you have 2 pigs and earn only 2k a day after 3 years ingame, or whatever. Have fun and go with the flow.
A huge tip I have is: if you find something frustratung and hurting your enjoyment of the game, look for a mod.
Whether aesthetic, quality of life, or changing mechanics you dobt enjoy, its you game so do what makes it more fun to you
Consoles don't have many of the exploits so it is important to have an idea of what you want to accomplish each season. On another note, Kent arrives in year 2 so finishing the community center with the friendship bundle in year 2 will start you with 2 hearts with Kent.
The final tip is the cherry on the top. I absolutely love taking my time, hand watering my crops, etc. I May spend half a day each sunny day watering crops but I don’t care because it’s so much fun for me. I’m in late summer year 2 on my first save and I’ve truly just been enjoying farming foraging and friends. I literally just unlocked the desert and the skull cavern and stuff but it’s genuinely not that important to me because I’m just running my own little farm and that’s something I wanna do irl at some point and doing it in game is so worth it just because I’m realizing how much fun I’d have actually doing it. I love gardening irl and the farming aspect of sdv I’ve fallen in love with and it’s all just my little fantasy 😂
Tappers can be placed on trees outside the farm. I put some on the ones at the bus stop since I pass by there a lot and it reminds me they need collecting (I always forget about the ones on my farm)
One of my favorite examples of a (genuinely helpful!) tip that I purposefully ignore is any way to save tilled spaces for the next season; I find one of my favorite things in Stardew is the absolutely hectic fervor of buying seeds, tilling, watering, fertilizing, and planting everything you need in day 1 of a new season. It's just.. a lot of fun and excitement for me, so I purposefully just let my fields empty naturally as I run out of plants that will mature in time and have fun going to town on day 1 making it all work in time
There's a lot of emphasis on min-maxing on stardew youtube, and don't get me wrong, that is definitely the type of content I enjoy. I love watching insane challenges where you need to be a near-perfect player and make lists and guides to do everything you have to to complete the challenge. But that really ruined my experience of the game for a while. I put in 100 hours on my first farm ever then noticed I hadn't played in a month despite really enjoying the game and having plenty of time to. I even would find other things to do than play. And I realized that I put too much pressure on myself and the farm.
I got to ginger island in fall (ginger island spoilers ahead obviously)
I was very frustrated trying to get all the golden walnuts I needed. And like I said, i arrived in fall. And one of the things to get walnuts, the first step to was growing a melon, which is a summer crop. I was very frustrated and a friend told me that melon seeds were sold at the night market. So I was just pretty much waiting on the night market and working on crops. I went to and from the island almost daily to make sure everything was going well on both farms and had to remember each night where I wanted to be in the morning because of an event or birthday and I think two days before the night market I put up stardew for the night and never picked it up again because I didn't want to remember all the sstuff I "had to do".
I started a new farm. it's going really well. I'm pretty broke, but man I am having a lot more fun.
p.s. the seedmaker could be useful in this case! and i definitely agree about the stress of having all those things on my to-do list bc the days are so short!!
@@stefunnylim thanks, but I only had one chest to each farm on that save. I didn't save a single thing! I didn't even have a community center chest, I ran each item there as I got it lol
I try really hard to chill in Stardew. I am a new played and youtube videos have given me lots of information, but I am just not interested in habing the most efficient layout, or finishing everything quickly. I am in the first winter and realized I "missed" many things in the other seasons for the community center. but honestly, I am fine with completing it in Fall 2
I definitely get what you’re saying for a long time I was very focused on min/maxing every time and would have roughly 700 starfruits and deluxe speed grow fully set up with sprinklers day one of summer year 1 but I absolutely despised the game, because fishing is so frequent in min max runs for the first half of spring I found myself changing from when I was a casual player where fishing was my favorite part of the game to hating it in its entirety but lately I finally said fuck it and made a beach farm and bought a coop with my first bit of gold
The Botanist perk also applies to the Bat Cave - but no perk can improve the shrooms =( - although, adding worm bins to the mushroom cave can be a nice bonus.
One tip to increase your fishing skill early game is to buy the basic fishing rod for 25g. Because it's easier to use, you can get more perfect catches which increases your fishing skill quicker.
That clay farming tip was literally the tip I've been neeeeding for my farm. Thank you!!!!!
that tip about switching inventory w tab is about to change my life
in the beginning of the game, always check the traveling merchant. Sometimes she will have community center items.
That flower honey tip is so cool !!!
4:55, I thought that paving my entire farm with brick flooring was going to be very complicated, but this video helped me a lot
One tip that I got that I think is helpful is through Spring-Fall, if you place grass or have grass around any of you animal pens, the animals won't need hay and will eat the grass. When it's raining, I recommend having hay to place in the coops and barns so they don't get mad the next day because they didn't have food. Stock up on hay for the winter since grass doesn't grow in winter! I think this is a good tip when playing especially in early game!
The flower+bee house tip is amazing, thank youuu🥺
Coming from Minecraft into a blind playthrough of Stardew... the use of "tab" to move through the inventory is *life changing*
Thank you
You think thats good wait till you get used to the "add to existing stacks" button. Every chest is its own filter that way. IMAGINE that button in minecraft!
If you're really bored with the game, try changing your play style up! If you always finish the CC during the first year, try going to for Joja. If you mine a lot, try fishing instead.
And if that doesn't help, either, take a little break. The game isn't going to disappear, and you'll definitely appreciate it more if you're playing because you want to, not because you have to
I've enjoyed the fact that dressers stopped being useless, merely decorative, furniture items as of 1.4. And now the player can go whole hog in storing hats, rings, shoes, and clothes in them. This saves so much chest space after buying one, for all the hats and rings you get.
For real? Thanks, it's such a lifechanger and I never would've guessed!
@@goopi_eh Yuppers. And glad my knowledge helped you.
OMGosh! That is so great to know. I need all the storage I can get! lol
The tip to use tab to switch inventory rows is so helpful I’ve been playing and I never realized this thank you!
last tip is definitely the best. ive played the game SO slowly and it’s been so fun. didn’t look anything up ab stardew for the first two in game years. just found out ginger island is a thing?? idek what it looks like, i’m letting it stay a surprise. i just dick around all day. im on year three and maybe unlocked 50% of the game. i ignored the community center for almost a year. im having a blast
I agree, I play like this, too. Sometimes I stay a whole week inside the farm just decorating and designing. I don't try to befriend every villager, and I am still only on level 40 of the mines after one year because I just don't like mining so much. I don't know why anyone would want to finish the community center asap.
I have a tip on your farm there is this curly fern that every single time you break it, it will give you mixed seeds and it’s only on your farm
A tip id recommend is getting the mushroom cave for mushrooms. These can be converted to fall seeds and furthermore converted to expensive tea saplings which can either be sold or actually grown to produce tea which itself sells for a good amount
I have to write that, because you think that would be just silly, but the tip regarding using tab to swap between the inventory slots is incredible. Not kidding, thank you! thank you! and thank you!
It did help!! Never knew I could go through my inventory like that! Thanks! :D
Thank you for this, I just subscribed. This was in your comment section, there is a mod to slow time. The game is faster than I'm comfortable, I would love for the days to be longer. Something I just learned to use is the button on the right side, it says add to existing stacks. Oh my what a time saver. I also like how it then organizes what's in there. I spent so much time trying to see what went into the open chest. Hit the button and it does it for you. Maybe almost everyone already knows this. This is for the one who doesn't.
A quick tip for Honey; If you plant a poppy and a sunflower in the same range of the beehouse, it will take to the flower grown first, in this case the poppy. The sunflower can be helpful because it grows in fall as well, meaning you're still getting more expensive honey while waiting for your fairy rose to grow.
Oh true the planting sunflower while waiting for the fairy rose to grow is so smart i didnt even think of that :0
I like to keep chests outside of Robin’s, Marnie’s,and Clint’s and keep it full of all the materials I might need for their services. And also one by the beach for trout soup and bait
I actually didn't know about the hidden pathway in the hidden forest! That's going to pair perfectly with the zoom out option I also didn't know about. Thanks!
Tip 4 had me crying! I didn't even know you could shift inventory with tab😭 You helped one person over here❤😭
omg thanks for the tab, I was always struggling to fit all I wanted to quickly use on one line and thought the others were just for storage
I don't know if anybody mentioned this, but early in the game, when you may be resource limited, you can pickaxe your tappers off of trees and reset them on another. I've found that this can be really useful for time management and getting a jump on the community center bundles.
I never knew about the Tab to swap through my inventory, thanks lol
I feel so vindicated, thank goodness I wasn’t the only one that didn’t know!
There are actually 2 paths to the 2 stumps in the secret woods.
Yeah when he went thru the 1st path my mind was blown, been playing for a while and I didn’t even know it was there, I always used the far left path
@@tacotheartist0644 I use the car left to go down, then the right to go back out.
A chest outside of the mines is BRILLIANT
Dude that tab to switch storage rows is gonna save me so much hassle, I used to play on PlayStation but I switched over to PC and I could not figure out how to switch it thank you!!!
Silly little customization tip- you can place the Mini Jukebox inside buildings. Want a dinosaur coop that plays the secret woods song? Go for it!
I end up making so much Salmonberry and Blackberry jelly/wine. Good for gifting because it's cheap and generally liked (except Sebastian), and it keeps my production items busy when I run out of other stuff to process in the winter.
Blueberries are op especially early game they are like Strawberries but you can get them straight away in summer. I always save up money for a bunch of them and I make the money back and more super fast. Also make sure to save some strawberries for next spring.
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It's been a wild since I played and I just got it pulled up again with my mods so the Tab for inventory is MIND BLOWING to me!
Always get bored and restart before I reach perfection, but one of my best tips is to play multi-player. Even if you can't play online, co-op exists on console and having an extra pair of hands really helps.
Second, NEVER choose the mountain/quarry farm. Or the beach farm. Yes the quarry is nice, but becomes irrelevant late game. Plus the 4 - corner farm has the same thing. Having no space on the farm is way worse than it sounds. Same with no sprinklers on the beach farm.
Finally, to people who don't know, USE THE QUICK SORT BUTTON IN CHESTS. It makes it way easier to sort items.
Beach farm *was* put in by ConcernedApe as a challenge for older players who want a spin, so, yeah, it is bad on purpose.
One of the reasons I always just buy parsnips on day 1 is because until you get your first parsnip harvest, you won’t have a scarecrow. If you dont know, crows can come and completely wreck a crop, making it basically useless, and you can’t stop the crows without a scarecrow. So I usually don’t bother with expensive or valuable crops before a scarecrow because If they get crowed it’s a complete Net Loss.
TAB?!? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I played on console originally and when I switched to PC I was so frustrated at having to rearrange constantly
i literally just got to spring 1, year 2 & never knew i could use tab… THANK YOU LOL
... I never knew you could use tab to swap bars...
Thank you!!! ❤
my personal favorite small bonus of botanist is having it for year 2 salmonberry season, as since they are so plentiful then, and sell for so little, they serve as an amazing energy booster, granting 65, meaning you basically never need to worry about running out of energy until next spring, where you can again
A tip I wish you included because of clay farming being in the middle of the video!!! You can give yourself higher value on day 1 by saving your gold for day 2. Clear out the area of land on your farm (standard) right by the house. plant parsnips at the end of the day. clay farm the cleared area. You should get roughly 2k gold if you know how to do it. Then plant and water, and for day 2, you'll have 2500 gold for potatoes which will be ready on the 12th, right before the egg festival and your year 2 strawberries. remember to save your seeds, as they'll get more bang for buck if planted on spring 1 of year 2 instead of on spring 13 of year 1.
I think most of the folks who do clay farming are gonna use it for a faster start in the mines or for a faster fisher pole + bait though.
It's definitely not a bad tip of you wanna hyper focus on farming early, but fishing just gets you so much more money for your time the first season, esp if you have an upgraded fishing pole + bait by day 2/3. Like, 4-5k + gold/day from the ocean and 7k+ from the river if you are good at catching catfish early.
I always found that planting too much the first season really cuts into my ability to do basically anything else, because it takes a lot of time and energy to water everything with the basic can.
So I generally tend to plant exactly 39 crops before I can upgrade my water can, and slightly over 100 once I upgrade my can, so that I only have to deal with refilling the water can once. I'll then use the rest of my time to bum rush the mines until I can bounce between floors 20, 40, and 80 to hunt for ore nodes for tree tappers and quality sprinklers (if you plant mostly Kale you'll easily get to farming level 6-7 to make the sprinklers before the end of the season, even if you don't have a ton planted)
Doing all this I was able to make almost 50 sprinklers by day 3-4 of summer (whichever is the last day you can plant blueberries to get their max amount of harvests without speed grow)
Also you should totally still plant at least some strawberries year 1! You make money back off them just from selling one harvest, you can keep a few gold quality strawberries for very very easy loved gifts for Demetrius and Maru, and then use the rest in a seed maker to get more strawberries seeds for next season.
If you don't end up with as many seeds as you want, if you manage to complete the greenhouse before year 1 you could always plant a strawberry or two in the greenhouse just to make some more seeds, since you probably won't have it filled with ancient fruit that early anyways.
I love how Stardew Valley does have optional paths, but no need to absolutely complete them, and no deadlines either. The main reason I'm still playing on one of my very first save files is *because* i can move at my own pace.
I'm on year 3 and still haven't finished the community center, but I'm in no rush. I just focus on something for a while, then move onto the next. :)
Update: About 2 weeks ago, I finished the community center! I'm also almost done with willy's boat, and even got some community upgrades up!
if you cant get into the secret woods yet, pick up your chair, go to the log and then place the chair. you can phase through the log when you sit on the chair and to get out just do it again
Hi, not only am I the one viewer who didn't know the toolbar scrolling tip, the rest of this video was just great and you have gained one more subscriber.
Dont know if its been mentioned since i just started watching the video but save your mixed seeds and plant them on ginger island to get blueberries, pineapples and melons which sell for a lot of money and they're really cool
Unfortunately I have never been able to re-capture the magic of my first playthrough, it is refreshing however to see someone else thoroughly enjoying it.
You're such a pleasant person! Thank you for this!
Doing one chest per two letters of the alphabet (A-B, C-D, etc) has helped me a lot. It’s much easier to know just how much of each item I have.
Two things I like to do for money is instead of selling crops, sell the jellies/pickles of the crops instead and make and sell tea samplings for quick cash.
Also I didn’t know about the honey thing! I’ve just been shoving honey in a keg this whole time!
Oh my god so it was the TAB key! Finally I know the magic behind this one. Thank you!
"fuck me do what you want buy a salad" has probably been the easiest way a channel got me to subscribe to them, loved that lol
Hands down one of the best youtube videos ive watched for a while. It took me so long to start playing and get into Stardew Valley and now i consider it one of the best games ever. Its what a "game" should be. It doesnt hold your hand but its not crazy hard, there are objectives but they arent cemented down as necessary. Im not far enough yet but i just heard about Ginger Farm and frankly thats what i think im most excited for. I just want to grow all my favorite things at the same time in one place lol (so many peppers and berries 🤣) think im gonna start setting up a honey and tree farm today because thats something else i love in real life (bees gardening and making mead/wine/hotsauce. That would be awesome if they let you do stuff like fermenting veggies and making pickles or hotsauce)
They do that. You can make pickles and whatnot. Enjoy 😉
The Tab system for inventory! I didn't know! Thanks 😊
I have over 825 hours in this game and TAB DOES WHAT??? Mind blown.
You have no idea how you helped me with the bag tricks thank you so much
Just thought of this and confirmed through the wiki. You can use a rain totem on ginger island on an odd number night to get the pirates to show up on the even number night for those sweet golden walnut from darts
Have a full inventory , a chest, and pretty much 1 of any item. Open the chest with the one item in it. Click on the item so you are holding it in the chest. While holding it, click the organise button as much as you want. Ecit the chest and put all the duplicated items in the shipping bin. When you sleep, it will not show that you earned money from what you sold, but when you wake up, you can have well over a million gold in one night. You can do this at any stage of the game and I recommend that you put the chest next to the shipping bin on your farm.
If you want really easy friendship in the early game grow things like parsnips and corn because almost everybody likes them. I did this on my second play through and by the end of year one I had 7 to 8 hearts with everyone
I'm a big fan of using coffee for that purpose. Coffee is liked by everyone except Jas and Vincent, and it's super easy to get multiple stacks of coffee beans by the end of your first summer if you can get even 1 bean midway through spring from either the travelling merchant or the mines.
If you're having a hard time finding one from the mines, it's usually a lot faster to just continually enter/exit floor 40 looking for ore nodes and sprites than it is to actually try and explore multiple floors.
I generally like to hop between floors 20, 40, and 80 looking for ore and mobs as they are all fairly small floors, but you can still find 1-8ish nodes (depending on luck) and multiple enemies each time you enter the floor.
On my latest playthrough I'm currently near the end of fall with at least 5-6 hearts with everyone, but I didn't really give anyone but Caroline and Linus gifts my first spring. I only really started giving out gifts around midsummer once I started making kegs, but it's really convenient to just have one stack of 200+ coffees on me that everyone likes and I use them myself for the speed buffs until I can make triple shot expressos. I had 4 stacks of regular coffee beans, a half a stack of silver beans, and around 150 gold beans by the end of my first summer (but I also had like 40 quality sprinklers made by the first week of summer because I was able to get to floor 80 of the mines in late spring, had a lot of trash to recycle from fishing, and bought some extra coal from Clint in the first few days of summer)
i really love that i’ve been playing this game for over five years and still don’t know things!!
Bro this is a year old video and I just learned that tab thing for scrolling to the next backpack line. Mind blown. Thx man haha
Oh, I actually have a really useful fishing tip. It sounds a bit strange, but the rock in the sea to the left of the pier is actually OP early game. Not sure why, but it always gives you higher quality fish! If you fish near it all day, I usually level up quite quickly and get 1800-2000g a day - very useful for early game!
A tip for people who like to change their characters, be friends with the wizard. Once you get to 4 hearts you can get into his basement, and use the shrine of illusions to change your appearance