1.6 really helped the Beach farm's viability by introducing Mushroom Logs. You can plant trees which require no maintenance and just pop some Logs between em and dehydrate the mushrooms when they produce. You can also tap each tree for some added revenue. It's completely self-sustaining and the only resources you need are the ones required to set them up. And if you're worried about crops, every save file gets access to Ginger Island, so you can still grow whatever you want there. I'm not saying it's better or worse, but it's an alternative play style.
Or, with so much space you can easily make a Mega Pig farm (Beach Farm is the biggest overall) - it's actually better than the new Meadowlands Farm because of available space for the grass.
@@alicjak700 You can do that, but pigs and building up that many farms is quite expensive, both in terms of gold and resource cost. The Mushroom Log build is significantly cheaper, with the only gold expense being the crafting recipe for the Dehydrator. It also comes online much faster.
@@LAZERAK47V2while the initial cost of the first Pig and building might be daunting, each Pig will pay back for itself in just 2-5 days! And the overall return is also much higher than from a tree/mushroom farm 🤷♀️ But to each their own 😊 It is true that a tree farm is quite beautiful ❤️
One of my favourite prrsonal saves is my beach farm. Iridium sprinklers help, but tbf once iunlocked the greenhousem 200 spots for seasonal crops felt like more than enough. Love the gift bundles and fishing and the ducks swimming in the ocean is just really cute. I am playing on 4 corners for 1.6 😊
I played Forest on my first save since I wanted to complete the CC the easiest. On my second save, I’m enjoying the Beach Farm, focusing on animals. I’m lowkey eyeing the Wilderness Farm for the extra challenge as my 3rd farm in the future.
The Riverland farm got major buffs thanks to the fish smoker and the bait machine, making catfish bait and catching tons of catfish on rainy spring and autumn days then smoking them gives a lot of cash
You can grow tons of crops on the beach farm once you get the recipe for deluxe retaining soil from the trader on Ginger Island. The main downside is that you can’t use other fertilizers, but since you don’t need sprinklers, you can also grow giant crops more easily. I’ve used all the formats (Hilltop is definitely the worst), and beach was the only one where I wasn’t constantly running out of wood. Trees spread across the bottom of the map almost faster than you can cut them. Also, it’s a godsend not to have to travel to the opposite corner of the map to get ocean fish
I'm a bit of a Beach fan, but it's mostly due to how I play. I don't like spending much time in the Mines, so I have more time for farming chores. I also personally find any sprinkler less than Iridium kinda a waste of resources. I find the daily rhythm of watering crops relaxing, especially once I've upgraded to 3x3 or even 5x5.
My preference for the farms have beach farm first (still think it has the best aesthetics), four corners second, and forest is third. Still figuring out how I feel about the medowlands farm though, you don't start with a silo so cutting out all the non blue grass to give the blue grass more room to spread feels like I'm missing out on building up hay, but I'd still rather make it so that the blue grass is the only one there from the get go, but the layout is interesting so I'll see what I can do I will add, on the beach farm, with the fact we can now move our house, I've moved it down to that green patch below the crop area, along with the greenhouse, both on either side of that little pool (you can get rid of the bushes in the way via the axe), the four large Obelisks fit right along the wall above so it's a cozy nook to make the main part of your base
This game REALLY changed in 1.6! You labeled this video 1.6, but if you were actually trying to do a review of each farm based on the updates, you REALLY didnt do your homework! For instance, you fail to mention the slant toward usefulness of the fruit cave for community center use due to the early new mushroom logs. The mushroom logs add utility to ANY place you can plant trees! This fundamentally changes the longterm usefulness of the beach farm... and THAT only really matters if you already failed to notice deluxe retaining soil and how many buildings, fish ponds, fruit trees, unwatered crops (like tea), and areas of grazing grass you can have ALL ON THE SAME FARM. You would ALSO have to totally ignore the game sequence breaks possible with the utility crates as well as the simple fact that you don't even NEED sprinklers until you can actually level up to CRAFT them! After that, you would have to ignore that the beach farm has the 2nd best fishing of all the farms and EXCLUSIVE access to ocean fishing without going to the ocean! (nevermind the exclusive secrets that beach farm has) !.6 changed the utility of tillable spots exponentially with the bluegrass and the mushrroom logs! Do your homework before you persist in the nonsense that there is ANY sort of "hard mode" in stardew vally! (for those that want to farm from sea to sea with sprinklers, there is always the ginger island farm, too!)
My dude, the "hard mode" comment was a joke. You don't need come at me like this. I didn't go in depth into the mushroom logs because they're not part of the map. This is about *farm maps* and what they let you start the game with, not what people choose to do with them after. It says 1.6 because of the fish smoker and you know, the whole new map. I love the enthusiasm, but damn, waking up to weirdly agitated comments like this first thing in the morning ain't great. There are people on the other side of the screen, friend.
@@trashmarble Please don't take the critisism personally. It is not intended that way. My main point was that when 1.6 came out, the entire game and nearly every viable way to play every map changed profoundly.
@fench1234567 You can give valid criticism without the weirdly aggro attitude. Go watch one of the many mushroom-log specific videos if you would like to learn about them, this video is about starting farms and their layouts.
@@trashmarble I watched your video and many many others. My prior statement is as close to an apology as you will get. Not everyone who shows up will agree with you on all fronts. It's part of YT life. ok?
Personally I always go with the foraging farm as that’s the first thing I do as well as giving me a ton of hard wood for building fences
There is no foraging farm
1.6 really helped the Beach farm's viability by introducing Mushroom Logs. You can plant trees which require no maintenance and just pop some Logs between em and dehydrate the mushrooms when they produce. You can also tap each tree for some added revenue. It's completely self-sustaining and the only resources you need are the ones required to set them up.
And if you're worried about crops, every save file gets access to Ginger Island, so you can still grow whatever you want there.
I'm not saying it's better or worse, but it's an alternative play style.
Or, with so much space you can easily make a Mega Pig farm (Beach Farm is the biggest overall) - it's actually better than the new Meadowlands Farm because of available space for the grass.
@@alicjak700 You can do that, but pigs and building up that many farms is quite expensive, both in terms of gold and resource cost.
The Mushroom Log build is significantly cheaper, with the only gold expense being the crafting recipe for the Dehydrator. It also comes online much faster.
@@LAZERAK47V2while the initial cost of the first Pig and building might be daunting, each Pig will pay back for itself in just 2-5 days! And the overall return is also much higher than from a tree/mushroom farm 🤷♀️
But to each their own 😊 It is true that a tree farm is quite beautiful ❤️
One of my favourite prrsonal saves is my beach farm. Iridium sprinklers help, but tbf once iunlocked the greenhousem 200 spots for seasonal crops felt like more than enough. Love the gift bundles and fishing and the ducks swimming in the ocean is just really cute. I am playing on 4 corners for 1.6 😊
I played Forest on my first save since I wanted to complete the CC the easiest.
On my second save, I’m enjoying the Beach Farm, focusing on animals.
I’m lowkey eyeing the Wilderness Farm for the extra challenge as my 3rd farm in the future.
The Riverland farm got major buffs thanks to the fish smoker and the bait machine, making catfish bait and catching tons of catfish on rainy spring and autumn days then smoking them gives a lot of cash
You can grow tons of crops on the beach farm once you get the recipe for deluxe retaining soil from the trader on Ginger Island. The main downside is that you can’t use other fertilizers, but since you don’t need sprinklers, you can also grow giant crops more easily. I’ve used all the formats (Hilltop is definitely the worst), and beach was the only one where I wasn’t constantly running out of wood. Trees spread across the bottom of the map almost faster than you can cut them. Also, it’s a godsend not to have to travel to the opposite corner of the map to get ocean fish
I'm just a freak for symmetry I guess....because I love the 4 corners farm. Good spread of resources and very easy to organize.
20th is generous xD I have restarted many many times. Probably closer to 60-80 if I had to guess because this game is just so replayable
I'm a bit of a Beach fan, but it's mostly due to how I play. I don't like spending much time in the Mines, so I have more time for farming chores. I also personally find any sprinkler less than Iridium kinda a waste of resources. I find the daily rhythm of watering crops relaxing, especially once I've upgraded to 3x3 or even 5x5.
Valid! I much prefer the green of the other maps & being able to have sprinklers until my hearts content, and the beach map just won't let me 🤣
My preference for the farms have beach farm first (still think it has the best aesthetics), four corners second, and forest is third.
Still figuring out how I feel about the medowlands farm though, you don't start with a silo so cutting out all the non blue grass to give the blue grass more room to spread feels like I'm missing out on building up hay, but I'd still rather make it so that the blue grass is the only one there from the get go, but the layout is interesting so I'll see what I can do
I will add, on the beach farm, with the fact we can now move our house, I've moved it down to that green patch below the crop area, along with the greenhouse, both on either side of that little pool (you can get rid of the bushes in the way via the axe), the four large Obelisks fit right along the wall above so it's a cozy nook to make the main part of your base
Ooh, I love the sound of that beach farm layout! I'm so tempted to try a beach farm playthrough now, if only for the aesthetics of it
I had never seen other farms apart from standard, river, 4 corners or meadowlands. Thanks to this video I now think that Mountain is the coolest!!
I’d love to see a video on crazy mods!!
oooh! There's some *wild* mods out there.. I'll see what chaos I can cause 😂
Have to have hay for day 3 since it always rains
SVE got an update so newest playthrough is using its new frontier farm.
I definitely need to try out SVE one day, maybe do an update to this video with the new farms?
the reason for give you food for the animals instead seed is because rainy days :o
You're so right! I didn't think of that! I still think we deserve a few seeds too though 😂😭
100th like pog
Is this ai voice
Ur freaking me out am stined
LMFAO you're the second person to say that to me, I promise I'm a real person 😂
@@trashmarble ok thank u for clarifying
Shush the robot is lying, I can tell I'm a politician
@@Nøddeknækkeren 🤣🤣
Standard Gang💣(no hate to other farms)
My first 5 farms were in the standard map.. just couldn't bring myself to change 🤣
@@trashmarble I'm really eager to try meadowlands when 1.6 drops for mobile, I feel the same, i just have no talent on designing my farm 🫠
This game REALLY changed in 1.6! You labeled this video 1.6, but if you were actually trying to do a review of each farm based on the updates, you REALLY didnt do your homework! For instance, you fail to mention the slant toward usefulness of the fruit cave for community center use due to the early new mushroom logs. The mushroom logs add utility to ANY place you can plant trees! This fundamentally changes the longterm usefulness of the beach farm... and THAT only really matters if you already failed to notice deluxe retaining soil and how many buildings, fish ponds, fruit trees, unwatered crops (like tea), and areas of grazing grass you can have ALL ON THE SAME FARM. You would ALSO have to totally ignore the game sequence breaks possible with the utility crates as well as the simple fact that you don't even NEED sprinklers until you can actually level up to CRAFT them! After that, you would have to ignore that the beach farm has the 2nd best fishing of all the farms and EXCLUSIVE access to ocean fishing without going to the ocean! (nevermind the exclusive secrets that beach farm has) !.6 changed the utility of tillable spots exponentially with the bluegrass and the mushrroom logs! Do your homework before you persist in the nonsense that there is ANY sort of "hard mode" in stardew vally! (for those that want to farm from sea to sea with sprinklers, there is always the ginger island farm, too!)
My dude, the "hard mode" comment was a joke. You don't need come at me like this. I didn't go in depth into the mushroom logs because they're not part of the map. This is about *farm maps* and what they let you start the game with, not what people choose to do with them after. It says 1.6 because of the fish smoker and you know, the whole new map. I love the enthusiasm, but damn, waking up to weirdly agitated comments like this first thing in the morning ain't great. There are people on the other side of the screen, friend.
@@trashmarble Please don't take the critisism personally. It is not intended that way. My main point was that when 1.6 came out, the entire game and nearly every viable way to play every map changed profoundly.
@fench1234567 You can give valid criticism without the weirdly aggro attitude. Go watch one of the many mushroom-log specific videos if you would like to learn about them, this video is about starting farms and their layouts.
@@trashmarble I watched your video and many many others. My prior statement is as close to an apology as you will get. Not everyone who shows up will agree with you on all fronts. It's part of YT life. ok?
Again, I accept criticism when it's not rude. Have the day you deserve 🥰