Except for the last day of fall, I never harvest all of the grass in an area. I always leave some to grow back so I can keep harvesting the same places without replanting.
I do the same thing, though I uave 2 patches of grass. One HUUUUGE one in front of my coops and barns, and another one thats a tad smaller that I let grow so if it rains, I still have grass to harvest to make up for the hay used, without taking from the animals
@@Qu33nOfN3rds why not just do what i do an place grass inside the barns for when there is rainy days?? :D plus it looks much more comfy then sleeping on hard floor 😂
You can also move buildings once you've unlocked the catalogue at the wizards tower. It's lifechanging since the tower opens late and doesn't need to be manned like Robin's shop.
This is just a bit of my new habit I developed. When you get a driftwood, you can put it inside wood chipper. Robin explaining that wood chipper can turn hardwood into regular wood but it also work on driftwood. Driftwood putting into wood chipper give more regular wood return more than putting in recycle machine.
But on the other hand in recycling machine there’s a chance it’ll give coal instead which is more valuable (to me at least, I have wood forests set up both in desert and train station, but always run out of coal lol)
@@SosiCreatesArt It's sad fate to everyone playing stardew to not having enough resource. If you do crafting preserve jar, bee house or explosive ammo, there would always ran out of coals when crafting a bunch
@@nattapakniranittikul @SosiCreatesArt just go to floor 40 in the mines kill the dust sprites and leave, if there are none leave right away. if you repeat this for a day with burglar rings, monster musk and a speed buff you get 300-400+ coal.
@@paulinaaaaaaaa nothing, woodchippers dont need fuel, only hardwood or driftwood and are pretty damn fast to the point where you can burn through a ton of both making regular wood and end up with multiple stacks in a day with a few woodchippers. I filled a shed with them on my game and honestly it's been a godsend for both wood and coal, the things I run out of most often
The annoying thing about the grill at the fall festival is that it provides buffs that you basically have NO TIME TO USE! No matter what you leave the festival at 10pm. It would be nicer if we had the option to save the burger in our inventory, even just one.
@@BeyondHydro They are but they disappear when you go to bed or pass out no matter how much time you have left. If you stay awake till passing out, you have only 4 in-game hours after the event to do anything before you lose out on the buff.
I'm in late game and I can say that coal is the thing I'm always running out of and constantly need. If you want to fill big barns with preserves jars or kegs that's gonna be a lot of coal, getting ingots need coal. I would never even think of using the geode crusher. Clint only asks for 25G to open one, but one coal costs 250G.
@@channyvan4159 I find it easier to use that monster perfume and the ring that gives you extra monster drops and farm in the mines from lv 40-69. If you find a room that's invested by monsters and run through it multiple times you easily get 120+ coal a day without having to waste all the wood you need for the preserve jars and kegs
@@twinklelea That works too! My fiance and I have so much wood to spare from constantly collecting our tree farm as we can get about a stack a day reliably from it, but I can see if you're low on wood how that would be better!
I always just grind through frozen floors of the cave to hunt dust sprites (the little fuzzy black things) to get tons of coal, much like Lea said. I don't bother with Monster perfume though, but that's still an option.
The grass tip is amazing and one I did not know! Also if the grass starter has something like a fence post on it after you plant it will keep producing it and the animals won't eat the grass under the fence!❤
I'm new to Stardew Valley, so I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but I found a way to get unlimited hay with just 1 silo. All you need is a silo and a chicken coop. 1st, harvest grass untill your silo is full of hay. Then, go to the chicken coop and as long as there is an empty spot at the feeding table, you can keep withdrawing hay. Keep withdrawing hay till your silo is empty, then go back outside and harvest grass again till your silo fills back up. Keep repeating this throughout the year and come winter, you'll have more hay than you know what to do with.
This is great early game but when you get a delux coop or barn the animals get fed automatically so you can't take out any more hay. I took out about 250 hay pieces my first year and managed to save my animals winter 2 because I hadn't used it yet and didn't have enough silos for a whole winter :P
If you harvested all the grass on the first step how can you harvest more grass after withdrawing from coop..? And if the hay is coming from harvesting grass what's the use
Yeah I don't really care for the level ten upgrades, they are... mediocre at best, even the hardwood one! Hardwood isn't all that hard to get when you get that far into the game, and if you play on the Forest Farm it's just stupid how much Hardwood you will have!
@John Willis to be fair, hardwood used to be a lot harder to get. Before the mahogany trees there was pretty much only the secret woods. It's took a while to save up to get a horse.
Early in the game, the 25% wood bonus for Forester is way too valuable to give up for a few extra forageables. I change it later on in the sewers after I have completed most of the buildings I want, have planted a forest of reserve trees, and have a large energy bar and a fully upgraded axe to make woodcutting easy. Later on in the game, I agree that saving the inventory space alone is worth having the iridium forageable perk, and it's nice to have the possibility of getting two truffles instead of one (although I turn them all into oil anyway so the increased value doesn't matter much).
I use the shrine in the sewers to switch to lumberjack for major wood gathering, then switch back to botanist when I'm done. It makes getting hardwood easier (no mahogany seeds for me yet)
I disagree with the foraging tip. I know the extra wood seems lackluster but when you're trying to make a million kegs every little helps. By the late stage of the game I stopped picking up forigables because they aren't worth enough to be worth it.
I knew about the burgers at the top from my first ever playthrough. Not knowing anything about the game, I spoke to everyone at every event. At the fair, Harvey tells you that gus is cooking up there, so I went to investigate and sure enough lol. Bonus fact! The burger gives you same benefits as survival burger, so when you're almost finished at the fair, go up there, eat burgers until your energy has been filled up, and when you go home do a bit of foraging like tree cutting before you sleep. Free extra foraging, why not?
The fact that you've been playing for 4 years and still find fun things to do in the game and show us new ways to play or hidden secrets speaks to how much depth there is to this game. I love trying out each farm type and seeing how to make each one work. I haven't been playing but a year so I haven't done each one but I'm glad I'll have lots of things to do for years to come. 🎊
As someone that's plays the game alot, I dont agree with picking the forgetting one at 1st, I pick more wood since you need wood for just about everything then after you start to get alot of pigs you can switch to pick the good truffles but that's just me thinking
I think concerned ape made it so on the last day of winter its a huge impact because of all the snow melting at the same time forcing the grass to grow really quickly second note:if your animals have pig pens then I suggest putting starters in the out-door pens so they can eat it because it gives mroe happiness than hay
That makes a lot of sense. I live in SW Ohio and I've actually noticed that the more snow we have over the course of the Winter, the more the plants flourish come Spring. Plus the snow melt becomes groundwater reserves that, coupled with a good amount of rain in early-to-mid Spring, helps the deeper rooted plants like trees weather the almost yearly mid-to-late Summer droughts. (Yes, we get fairly regular Summer droughts. Thankfully they're not bad enough for us to have water shortages, but they can damage the trees if there isn't enough groundwater. This is why I water my trees in Stardew even though I don't have to.)
Don't forget that when harvesting wheat you have a chance for hay also (reg = 50%, golden = 75%). Wheat = beer (I.quality w/art = 560g) & Flour (if you have a mill) = cooking ingredient or sell for 50g (which =I,quality but is a profit on all others). If you have a silo any harvested from anywhere ( including grassy areas in both reg mines & Skull Cavern) go straight to the silo. Gus' BBQ didn't know about until 3Yr on my 2nd save file.
My personal notations to add on! - crafting staircases isn't so bad, but I ONLY do it when I am swimming in stone. I usually try not to go above 3 full stacks of stone. When I do, I make the extras into staircases. But I do get the majority of my staircases from jades. - next to my bed, I keep my calendar and my farm computer. I keep my statue of perfection and my statue of endless fortune next to my front door to grab on my way outside. bonus tips: - Use coffee/expresso sparingly. At least until you've built up a large backstock. I like to keep hundreds of coffees in my fridge so that when I get Qi's Cuisine quest, I can just craft up all the coffees that are already in my fridge. Of course, if I'm running low on coffee for the mines, I make more. But I don't use them around my farm as much so that I can easily have plenty for Qi's Quest. For getting your farming done faster, I recommend pepper poppers. On top of the speed buff, you also get +2 farming.
Never knew about the minerals for Junimo huts, that's soooooo cute. Never knew that the ducks could swim on your farm (haven't played beach yet), that's soooooo cute. Never knew about the grass starter trick, that's soooooo useful. This is why I follow your videos, you're soooooo informative!
Another tip for grass/feeding animals is that you can plop fences on grass and they won't get eaten. I dunno if this is only a pc thing or whatever though.
Re: grass also - have one silo, and then hay chests. Keeping the silo mostly empty during grass harvesting by emptying it into a chest (which holds way more) lets you stockpile loads of hay
Another alternative to buying a calendar, if you just go to your social tab and click the character it will tell you what day their birthday is. Also, any gifts you've discovered that they like/dislike from giving them the gift or from talking to other people who tell you about things they like and don't like will be shown as well.
A little late, but there is a really cheap way to get tons of hardwood late-game if you have too much time on your hands. You can play at the casino to rack up a lot of coins and turn them in for hardwood fence. You deconstruct the fences into hardwood, then woodchipper the hardwood into wood, then burn it into a charcoal kiln for coal. It will be time consuming and there are probably better ways, but it is very cheap compared to putting cork bobbers in a deconstructor. It is probably just better to go to the secret wood each day, or have a desert tree farm, but I have the automate mod so I just set it and forget it.
These tips are on point once again. The Jade to Staircase to Stone exchange is amazing 🤩. I often run out of stone late game, but have plenty of staircases available
Imy new to playing Stardew Valley for the Switch and your advice is helping me amazingly well so far! I've had trouble making money and leveling up at the beginning but you've opened my eyes to whole new possibilities and alternatives with your advice! Thank you so much for all the awesome tips! 🖤
There used to be a glitch in the top part of the stardew valley fair where you could just walk through part of the barrier on the left side and explore the rest of town. If I remember correctly you could get burgers from clicking the cliff on the left of town
With the hay as well, you can remove it from the silo by taking it out of the feeders in your coop/barn, and store it in chests, letting you fill up the solo again with your scythe
I started playing the game seriously after coming back after a couple years. It's changed a lot, honestly. These videos are really really helpful. I didn't realize ConcernedApe changed gift giving so quality effects it, that's super useful info.
For the foraging skill, getting the foragables is nice, but I've had plenty of games were I am just in need of wood, meaning I'm having to buy some from Robin, which ends up costing more than I make when I sell the foragables. But getting the forester perk, I've never ran out of wood. Always have more than I need. It really makes a difference when you're needing to build a lot of kegs, or any farm buildings. But, it is up to the person which they want and for what reasons. There aren't that many foragables that make it worth getting that perk, in my opinion. Unless you're planning on having 100 pigs for the truffles.
On the first tip tho, coal costs like 250 if you buy it from Clint, or a ton on dust sprite farming to open just a couple of geodes and the waiting time for them to finish, compared to like an hour of walking to Clint's and 25 gold - plus you can crack in bulk. As a regular Skull caverns diver, I often amass Omni geodes and I could say cracking 3 stacks with geode crushers isn't as worth as a trip to Clint's.
Honestly staircases help for when I wanna do a quick lvl 100 in the skull cavern but get unlucky and enter "dangerous" levels (ex. area is overrun by monsters), so it's helpful to have like 5 or 10 ready, though too much hurts my stone resources so I just keep a dozen at most and only lay them down when I get unlucky
5:17 The statue of uncertainty is super underrated here I always swap between lumberjack and botanist (most of the time just botanist until I decide that tomorrow is the time to destroy the forrest)
I just found out about the upper part of the festival like 2 days ago. I haven't played Stardew in a long time and was feeling nostalgic. In my other playthroughs I never knew that BBQ area was there. The reason I looked around is because someone, Linus(I think), said Gus was BBQing. "huh, where the heck is Gus..? and hey where are all the other peeps?" This lead me to look around. I guess I never really talked to the villagers during that event before. >< Anyhow nice vid.. subscribed. Have a nice evening and I'm going to watch your other SDV content now. ;) Thanks!
You’ve helped me out so much in this game I just started I’m on year two winter and I’ve made over 2m and I’m 2 spring fish away from the community centre (my bad planning) thank you so much!
I picked the forester cuz i usually chop trees but when I saw this vid I quickly go to the sewer to change my professions and it was life changing Im a bit new to stardew valley and this vid helped me
I personally wouldn't suggest the botanists profession early-game, since wood's invaluable at that point in the game, and you can change professions once you don't need as much wood anymore
My fav tip is put chests around town in areas where you will need itmes ot need a clear inventory. Like by clints to hold copper bars, by the mines to hold your stuff so if you die they dont take much or to hold your bombs and so on ya know
One of the best tips of the video was at the end where you put bones into the machines to make fertilizer. I literally only ever put fragments in and sell the others haha. Also, I didn't realize you could marry half of Pelican Town
What's kind of hilarious is the one thing I didn't know in this video was RIGHT at the end in your outro... I didn't know you could also process full bone pieces in your bone mill!!! I keep throwing away my extras lmao...
My latest play through I used my first 99 stone to make a staircase to make into Lewis’ shorts. I thought it was funny to wear them before they even go missing.
6:58 there's a glitch where during the fair if you go put of bounds you can find tons of burger places just by clicking on certain places on the mountain and I can't remember if that one in bounds is part of the glitch or is the cause of it
I actually did know about the second area at the fair! I love talking to the villagers and there was no way I was leaving the festival without talking in particular to best boy Elliott who is in that area
I love to use forester in year 1/winter. I have no pigs by that time and I need a crap ton of wood. When winter/year 1 ends I just change it back. I use so much woods to craft and build so I think the extra wood is amazing and underrated, but not a all time use (cause pigs)
If you use foraged items to make seasonal seed (fall seeds, winter seeds, etc) and you have botanist, harvesting those planted crops will be iridium too.
I had no idea about the junimo hut thing! Thats such a cute little detail. I'm gonna do that. I have 2 shards right now. Though I'm saving them for the forge.
You can always leave them at the hut and then remove them when you need to use some. It doesn't get consumed so it's a good place to keep your prismatic shards
@@KarmaCifer Yes thats true! It was more so it wont be a permanent thing until I grind for them in skull cavern later ^^ buy ill enjoy the rainbows for a while! yay!
i just got done watching ur vid on 'Best Stardew Rings' and, at the end, u say, _"...and if u hated it, u should subscribe anyway because tomorrow there will be another video for u to hate."_ and laughed my ass off for a least 2min. u totally earned this new sub. nice work. 😏👍 (and for the record, i love ur vids. very insightful 😄)
Don't use the golden scythe. The regular scythe leaves patches of grass behind, which will then spread back out. The golden scythe cuts everything, meaning you have to replant with grass starter. Just shove it in your junk chest until the last day of fall.
The golden scythe are way efficient in getting grass, it just depends on how you do it... Beside that, the root are always a guarantee grass so make sure you leave some grass behind... I usually have a field of grass to feed my animal and everytime I cut them I always leave a patch of grass at the 4 corner and 1 at the center.....
My gold always leaves a patch on the corners of the area. But either way i have grass randomly spawning all the time! So it doesnt bother me nor does crafting some cuz there's so much fiber.
I have no clue why but once I got the deluxe coup and barn with the automatic feeders my hay never goes down it's actually stuck at 30 pieces of hay above the max of the silo .
The geode crusher is extremely meh in early to mid-game, but it can be useful when you need to process your geodes fast and Clint isn't available. Which, TBH, is not very often; one exception is Mr. Qi's 500 Qi crops quest since every day matters there and you can get quite a lot of Qi beans from geodes.
I think the bug with grass on Spring 1st is code that makes debris grow larger for a starting save? It was most likely there since when you first open a new save file everything is overgrown. I do not know if this is true or not but it is my personal theory
I think going the wood route for foraging the skill is a solid route, as the wood can be used to make coal, kegs, preserve jars etc. Tho the other options for foraging skill is profitable, at one point in the game you start generating so much profit you don't need to rely on foraging for gold. Just my take tho love the video!!! Just adding my thoughts
Grass is set to spawn on the first day of Spring as is. The reason the grass spread seems so dramatic on that first day of spring is because any existing grass spreads on the first day of new seasons. The fact you can plant grass starter and it spread in addition to the new grass growth of spring makes it seem so much more dramatic. To me the only "glitch" about the whole winter to spring grass thing is that you can plant grass starter on the last day of winter, it not die, and it spread so much for that first day of spring. The rest it just normal mechanics of the game in my eyes.
Great video none the less! I enjoy hearing your enthusiasm of the things you have newly discovered. I knew about the survival burgers at the fair already, but only because I was exploring every detail since time is not a thing at festivals haha
Hey! I think the glitch is specifically with placing grass starters in winter. The grass starter glitch in winter is like this, you can place grass starters in winter but they will not spread, the grass from the grass starter will stay there until you quit the game, so as long as you just sleep through winter they will remain on your farm during winter. Apparently ConcernedApe did not intend for us to use grass starters at all during winter
Planning forageables where the generals cannot harvest them allows you to collect them up at iridium quality make more seeds and plant them again you can get three four maybe even five harvest in one season
Step 1: plant some grass starter. Step 2: build a small / narrow iron fence around the grass starter. Result: the fence will protect some grass from being eaten by your animals and continuously spread making more grass outside the fence that they can eat.
This all advices are great only faaar avay ahead of my current fam. Still only have few crops and only planing on building coops, I did go on foraging seemed better. But i literally watched video just after I saved current play seesion of Stardew valley that I ended on first year one day after annual fair....
Considering it takes 200 hardwood to repair the boat to ginger island & idk how much for the horse stable, the forester perk is incredibly helpful up until you have built & unlocked everything in the game. switch over to the botanist profession in late game to save on inventory space & in harvesting truffles. If you made the mistake of getting the wilderness farm & that being the furthest progress you've made in the game, you have a limited amount of space to work with. You really can't just create a patch of mahogany trees to consistently get hardwood like you would in bigger farms, especially when you factor in the size all the obelisks & the golden clock takes up.
You don't need to plant your trees on your farm only. Typically, I have a small tree farm at the train station, but other places are also possible - the beach, the quarry, some areas in town etc. etc.
@@violax3735 oh that's a good idea :0, I probably should utilize the quarry for mahogany trees since my iridium supply comes from my statue rather than the quarry spawning anything
Except for the last day of fall, I never harvest all of the grass in an area. I always leave some to grow back so I can keep harvesting the same places without replanting.
True!!
All grass will disappear at the first of winter.
I do the same thing, though I uave 2 patches of grass. One HUUUUGE one in front of my coops and barns, and another one thats a tad smaller that I let grow so if it rains, I still have grass to harvest to make up for the hay used, without taking from the animals
@@Qu33nOfN3rds why not just do what i do an place grass inside the barns for when there is rainy days?? :D plus it looks much more comfy then sleeping on hard floor 😂
@@jordynkilbury2033 i didnt know you could lol now I will
Me too! I leave tiny patches lol
You can also move buildings once you've unlocked the catalogue at the wizards tower. It's lifechanging since the tower opens late and doesn't need to be manned like Robin's shop.
Sneek in thru the ex wife's tunnel to gain access to tower xD
@@dorkydragon5055 what’s the ex wife’s tunnel?
@@shayleaschuler1353 The wizards ex wife is a witch you can get to the wizards tower after a quest from him
@@dorkydragon5055 I hadn’t tried this yet but had an inkling that I could! This is good info thank you.
This is just a bit of my new habit I developed. When you get a driftwood, you can put it inside wood chipper. Robin explaining that wood chipper can turn hardwood into regular wood but it also work on driftwood. Driftwood putting into wood chipper give more regular wood return more than putting in recycle machine.
how much does it cost to put it in chipper?
But on the other hand in recycling machine there’s a chance it’ll give coal instead which is more valuable (to me at least, I have wood forests set up both in desert and train station, but always run out of coal lol)
@@SosiCreatesArt It's sad fate to everyone playing stardew to not having enough resource. If you do crafting preserve jar, bee house or explosive ammo, there would always ran out of coals when crafting a bunch
@@nattapakniranittikul @SosiCreatesArt just go to floor 40 in the mines kill the dust sprites and leave, if there are none leave right away. if you repeat this for a day with burglar rings, monster musk and a speed buff you get 300-400+ coal.
@@paulinaaaaaaaa nothing, woodchippers dont need fuel, only hardwood or driftwood and are pretty damn fast to the point where you can burn through a ton of both making regular wood and end up with multiple stacks in a day with a few woodchippers. I filled a shed with them on my game and honestly it's been a godsend for both wood and coal, the things I run out of most often
Do go to the wizards tower if you want to rearrange your farm. Once you have unlocked the Junimo hut etc. he’s a lot more reliable than robin!
Hey, that is actually a really good tip.
I never thought of that
Plus you can use the witch's hut to get into his house even if you don't have the key to the town yet!
The annoying thing about the grill at the fall festival is that it provides buffs that you basically have NO TIME TO USE! No matter what you leave the festival at 10pm. It would be nicer if we had the option to save the burger in our inventory, even just one.
yeah:((
But fresh burger good burger 😂🍔
I dont really think the buff is the point
I thought bufs were linked to irl time not in game time
@@BeyondHydro They are but they disappear when you go to bed or pass out no matter how much time you have left. If you stay awake till passing out, you have only 4 in-game hours after the event to do anything before you lose out on the buff.
The jade->staircase->stones tip is amazing
I like to think the junimos have a tiny scythe for harvesting things like kale :)
that's adorable to think about
I'm in late game and I can say that coal is the thing I'm always running out of and constantly need. If you want to fill big barns with preserves jars or kegs that's gonna be a lot of coal, getting ingots need coal.
I would never even think of using the geode crusher. Clint only asks for 25G to open one, but one coal costs 250G.
Make a massive tree farm and use kilns to convert wood to coal. That's been our go to!
@@channyvan4159 I find it easier to use that monster perfume and the ring that gives you extra monster drops and farm in the mines from lv 40-69. If you find a room that's invested by monsters and run through it multiple times you easily get 120+ coal a day without having to waste all the wood you need for the preserve jars and kegs
@@twinklelea That works too! My fiance and I have so much wood to spare from constantly collecting our tree farm as we can get about a stack a day reliably from it, but I can see if you're low on wood how that would be better!
@@twinklelea I do the same method! ;)
I always just grind through frozen floors of the cave to hunt dust sprites (the little fuzzy black things) to get tons of coal, much like Lea said. I don't bother with Monster perfume though, but that's still an option.
I was today years old when I learned I can move the greenhouse. And that grass tip is EXTREMELY useful!
The grass tip is amazing and one I did not know! Also if the grass starter has something like a fence post on it after you plant it will keep producing it and the animals won't eat the grass under the fence!❤
I'm new to Stardew Valley, so I don't know if this is common knowledge or not, but I found a way to get unlimited hay with just 1 silo. All you need is a silo and a chicken coop. 1st, harvest grass untill your silo is full of hay. Then, go to the chicken coop and as long as there is an empty spot at the feeding table, you can keep withdrawing hay. Keep withdrawing hay till your silo is empty, then go back outside and harvest grass again till your silo fills back up. Keep repeating this throughout the year and come winter, you'll have more hay than you know what to do with.
...this is genius. I've been playing way too long to not know this 😭😭😭
This is great early game but when you get a delux coop or barn the animals get fed automatically so you can't take out any more hay. I took out about 250 hay pieces my first year and managed to save my animals winter 2 because I hadn't used it yet and didn't have enough silos for a whole winter :P
@@DetLutar use a small bomb near the feeder. it will clean small spot and you'll be able to take out hay 😊
You are a genious
If you harvested all the grass on the first step how can you harvest more grass after withdrawing from coop..? And if the hay is coming from harvesting grass what's the use
I really wish the paint buildings option could do pastel colors :(
You can switch the darkness/light and the color, so you can get some pastel-like colors like light pink, green or cyan
And white! From memory I don't think there's a white option, or if there is it doesn't actually look white :(
i actually prefer jewel tones, myself. oh excuse me! i was mumbling about fashion again, wasn't i?
@@frangipanisandgirl There still isn't white. That's why the pastels don't work properly either.
Do get Forester
By time you reach lvl 10 you can afford 10k to switch, but early on that extra wood is to good
I can see how early in the game, the forester profession can be pretty useful
Yeah I don't really care for the level ten upgrades, they are... mediocre at best, even the hardwood one! Hardwood isn't all that hard to get when you get that far into the game, and if you play on the Forest Farm it's just stupid how much Hardwood you will have!
@@JacksonOwex it's good on space to have all forage one quality I found that's why I go the other route
@John Willis to be fair, hardwood used to be a lot harder to get. Before the mahogany trees there was pretty much only the secret woods. It's took a while to save up to get a horse.
Early in the game, the 25% wood bonus for Forester is way too valuable to give up for a few extra forageables. I change it later on in the sewers after I have completed most of the buildings I want, have planted a forest of reserve trees, and have a large energy bar and a fully upgraded axe to make woodcutting easy. Later on in the game, I agree that saving the inventory space alone is worth having the iridium forageable perk, and it's nice to have the possibility of getting two truffles instead of one (although I turn them all into oil anyway so the increased value doesn't matter much).
I use the shrine in the sewers to switch to lumberjack for major wood gathering, then switch back to botanist when I'm done. It makes getting hardwood easier (no mahogany seeds for me yet)
I haven't seen seeds either but my husband got them a few times an i been playing longer then him. He gets them from secret forest.
@@jordynkilbury2033 sadly I will never find mahogany seeds (patiently waiting for the mobile update lol)
Wait, I didn’t know mahogany seeds were rare?! I have like 20 sitting in a chest and I sold some of them too 😅
Putting tappers on mahogany trees will produce sap. Very handy if you're looking to make lots of fertilizer.
@@lornamulqueen4742 yeah im on console and i find those seeds all the time. Granted all the other seeds are more common but still.
I disagree with the foraging tip. I know the extra wood seems lackluster but when you're trying to make a million kegs every little helps. By the late stage of the game I stopped picking up forigables because they aren't worth enough to be worth it.
@puckay and @tadhgerman 1 truffle iridium quality sells for 1250 gold, you can buy 25 pieces of wood for 1250 gold.
@@susanpalmer5310 thats not alot of wood for that much money. 😂😂 but what do i know i just started my 2nd yr
its useful if you have pigs. Apart from that I agree with you
@@susanpalmer5310 that's like 1 tree for a Truffle though 😅
Honestly worth it for the inventory space lol
I knew about the burgers at the top from my first ever playthrough. Not knowing anything about the game, I spoke to everyone at every event. At the fair, Harvey tells you that gus is cooking up there, so I went to investigate and sure enough lol.
Bonus fact! The burger gives you same benefits as survival burger, so when you're almost finished at the fair, go up there, eat burgers until your energy has been filled up, and when you go home do a bit of foraging like tree cutting before you sleep. Free extra foraging, why not?
That grass tip is so useful! Sometimes I spend a bit too much time at ginger island so when I get back the animals are not happy with me.😅
i'm a veteran player of like 5 years and im still watching this
the staircase one is actually super useful and ive been playing this game for years, thanks
The fact that you've been playing for 4 years and still find fun things to do in the game and show us new ways to play or hidden secrets speaks to how much depth there is to this game.
I love trying out each farm type and seeing how to make each one work. I haven't been playing but a year so I haven't done each one but I'm glad I'll have lots of things to do for years to come. 🎊
It's crazy how I have made 184 videos on stardew valley, but I keep finding new things to talk about!
Thanks ConcernedApe
As someone that's plays the game alot, I dont agree with picking the forgetting one at 1st, I pick more wood since you need wood for just about everything then after you start to get alot of pigs you can switch to pick the good truffles but that's just me thinking
Thats what i did in my co op playthrough because i only really wanted iridium for the truffles and magma caps which is late game
I just got into the game a short time ago and this helped out. Never thought I’d end up addicted to a farming game.
I have a thousand hours logged on sdv on steam and I am learning that you can move the greenhouse THROUGH THIS VIDEO!!
I think concerned ape made it so on the last day of winter its a huge impact because of all the snow melting at the same time forcing the grass to grow really quickly
second note:if your animals have pig pens then I suggest putting starters in the out-door pens so they can eat it because it gives mroe happiness than hay
That makes a lot of sense. I live in SW Ohio and I've actually noticed that the more snow we have over the course of the Winter, the more the plants flourish come Spring. Plus the snow melt becomes groundwater reserves that, coupled with a good amount of rain in early-to-mid Spring, helps the deeper rooted plants like trees weather the almost yearly mid-to-late Summer droughts. (Yes, we get fairly regular Summer droughts. Thankfully they're not bad enough for us to have water shortages, but they can damage the trees if there isn't enough groundwater. This is why I water my trees in Stardew even though I don't have to.)
I knew most of these, but damn. That jade growing for the staircase trade and deconstruction into tons of stone is so incredibly useful! Thank you ^-^
Also the geode crusher matching the last geode cracked by Clint. That's awesome!
Don't forget that when harvesting wheat you have a chance for hay also (reg = 50%, golden = 75%). Wheat = beer (I.quality w/art = 560g) & Flour (if you have a mill) = cooking ingredient or sell for 50g (which =I,quality but is a profit on all others). If you have a silo any harvested from anywhere ( including grassy areas in both reg mines & Skull Cavern) go straight to the silo. Gus' BBQ didn't know about until 3Yr on my 2nd save file.
My personal notations to add on!
- crafting staircases isn't so bad, but I ONLY do it when I am swimming in stone. I usually try not to go above 3 full stacks of stone. When I do, I make the extras into staircases. But I do get the majority of my staircases from jades.
- next to my bed, I keep my calendar and my farm computer. I keep my statue of perfection and my statue of endless fortune next to my front door to grab on my way outside.
bonus tips:
- Use coffee/expresso sparingly. At least until you've built up a large backstock. I like to keep hundreds of coffees in my fridge so that when I get Qi's Cuisine quest, I can just craft up all the coffees that are already in my fridge. Of course, if I'm running low on coffee for the mines, I make more. But I don't use them around my farm as much so that I can easily have plenty for Qi's Quest. For getting your farming done faster, I recommend pepper poppers. On top of the speed buff, you also get +2 farming.
I'm on the last day of winter so that last tip will come in super useful, thanks for that and all the other great pointers!
Never knew about the minerals for Junimo huts, that's soooooo cute. Never knew that the ducks could swim on your farm (haven't played beach yet), that's soooooo cute. Never knew about the grass starter trick, that's soooooo useful. This is why I follow your videos, you're soooooo informative!
Another tip for grass/feeding animals is that you can plop fences on grass and they won't get eaten. I dunno if this is only a pc thing or whatever though.
Re: grass also - have one silo, and then hay chests. Keeping the silo mostly empty during grass harvesting by emptying it into a chest (which holds way more) lets you stockpile loads of hay
I gotta say, I’ve binged several of these videos while playing and your voice is just so aesthetically pleasing to listen to, and this is months old 🤓
Another alternative to buying a calendar, if you just go to your social tab and click the character it will tell you what day their birthday is. Also, any gifts you've discovered that they like/dislike from giving them the gift or from talking to other people who tell you about things they like and don't like will be shown as well.
A little late, but there is a really cheap way to get tons of hardwood late-game if you have too much time on your hands. You can play at the casino to rack up a lot of coins and turn them in for hardwood fence. You deconstruct the fences into hardwood, then woodchipper the hardwood into wood, then burn it into a charcoal kiln for coal. It will be time consuming and there are probably better ways, but it is very cheap compared to putting cork bobbers in a deconstructor.
It is probably just better to go to the secret wood each day, or have a desert tree farm, but I have the automate mod so I just set it and forget it.
you sound like a grown up BMO(adventure time) and i love it ! also thank for the moving building i was wondering how to do it !!
Lmao she does xD
These tips are on point once again. The Jade to Staircase to Stone exchange is amazing 🤩. I often run out of stone late game, but have plenty of staircases available
i just buy from Robin as money is easier to obtain late game
Another tip is to get a deconstructor from qis walnut room and break down each staircase for 99 stone
A very small thing I discovered, adding a iridium level truffle to the soup during the community potluck gets you a lot of hearts with people
Cause truffles expensive af irl and most people loooove it
Imy new to playing Stardew Valley for the Switch and your advice is helping me amazingly well so far! I've had trouble making money and leveling up at the beginning but you've opened my eyes to whole new possibilities and alternatives with your advice! Thank you so much for all the awesome tips! 🖤
First!!! I love you so much! Your amazing. And I hope you keep up the amazing gameplay and series with stardew 💕
There used to be a glitch in the top part of the stardew valley fair where you could just walk through part of the barrier on the left side and explore the rest of town. If I remember correctly you could get burgers from clicking the cliff on the left of town
With the hay as well, you can remove it from the silo by taking it out of the feeders in your coop/barn, and store it in chests, letting you fill up the solo again with your scythe
I started playing the game seriously after coming back after a couple years. It's changed a lot, honestly. These videos are really really helpful.
I didn't realize ConcernedApe changed gift giving so quality effects it, that's super useful info.
I may have known some of these tips but I’m definitely subscribing I love you content and you personality (and voices!) thanks for the tips!!!
For the foraging skill, getting the foragables is nice, but I've had plenty of games were I am just in need of wood, meaning I'm having to buy some from Robin, which ends up costing more than I make when I sell the foragables. But getting the forester perk, I've never ran out of wood. Always have more than I need. It really makes a difference when you're needing to build a lot of kegs, or any farm buildings. But, it is up to the person which they want and for what reasons. There aren't that many foragables that make it worth getting that perk, in my opinion. Unless you're planning on having 100 pigs for the truffles.
Her voice while giving tips makes it so easy and calming
about the stardew valley fair one, i actually knew that one when i first started playing since the game was new and i explored basically everything
I have one argument for forester. Early game it gets you a lot more wood, then once you unlock the sewer change to botanist at 10.
Your videos are amazing, they bring so much joy while watching!
On the first tip tho, coal costs like 250 if you buy it from Clint, or a ton on dust sprite farming to open just a couple of geodes and the waiting time for them to finish, compared to like an hour of walking to Clint's and 25 gold - plus you can crack in bulk. As a regular Skull caverns diver, I often amass Omni geodes and I could say cracking 3 stacks with geode crushers isn't as worth as a trip to Clint's.
I mean, you can use the minecart tho rigth? Loo
Choosing Botanist is a great idea if only to prevent the endlesss stacks! Many thanks for this, you have really helped here!
Honestly staircases help for when I wanna do a quick lvl 100 in the skull cavern but get unlucky and enter "dangerous" levels (ex. area is overrun by monsters), so it's helpful to have like 5 or 10 ready, though too much hurts my stone resources so I just keep a dozen at most and only lay them down when I get unlucky
geode crusher is really good in multiplayer lol, i hated spending all day to open geodes at clint
Junimo squeaks are so cute
I knew there is an extra section on the top during the Stardew Valley Fair, but I never know that you can get a free burger…………
Really helpful video!
There is a glitch (I made a video about it on my channel) basically you can get 1 more geode for every 2 geodes. It saves a lot of time farming.
5:17 The statue of uncertainty is super underrated here
I always swap between lumberjack and botanist (most of the time just botanist until I decide that tomorrow is the time to destroy the forrest)
I just found out about the upper part of the festival like 2 days ago. I haven't played Stardew in a long time and was feeling nostalgic. In my other playthroughs I never knew that BBQ area was there. The reason I looked around is because someone, Linus(I think), said Gus was BBQing. "huh, where the heck is Gus..? and hey where are all the other peeps?" This lead me to look around. I guess I never really talked to the villagers during that event before. >< Anyhow nice vid.. subscribed. Have a nice evening and I'm going to watch your other SDV content now. ;) Thanks!
You’ve helped me out so much in this game I just started I’m on year two winter and I’ve made over 2m and I’m 2 spring fish away from the community centre (my bad planning) thank you so much!
Good luck! Get those fish, complete the community center and unlock so many more things to do!
I picked the forester cuz i usually chop trees but when I saw this vid I quickly go to the sewer to change my professions and it was life changing Im a bit new to stardew valley and this vid helped me
I personally wouldn't suggest the botanists profession early-game, since wood's invaluable at that point in the game, and you can change professions once you don't need as much wood anymore
I have forager and botanist, when the salmon berries and black berries come out I spend all day picking and make a ton of money
My fav tip is put chests around town in areas where you will need itmes ot need a clear inventory. Like by clints to hold copper bars, by the mines to hold your stuff so if you die they dont take much or to hold your bombs and so on ya know
One of the best tips of the video was at the end where you put bones into the machines to make fertilizer. I literally only ever put fragments in and sell the others haha. Also, I didn't realize you could marry half of Pelican Town
What's kind of hilarious is the one thing I didn't know in this video was RIGHT at the end in your outro... I didn't know you could also process full bone pieces in your bone mill!!! I keep throwing away my extras lmao...
My latest play through I used my first 99 stone to make a staircase to make into Lewis’ shorts. I thought it was funny to wear them before they even go missing.
the jade for staircases tip just blew my mind
6:58 there's a glitch where during the fair if you go put of bounds you can find tons of burger places just by clicking on certain places on the mountain and I can't remember if that one in bounds is part of the glitch or is the cause of it
More likely it's the original in town one causing the glitched ones
I actually did know about the free burgers. I accidently found it the second year. I love your videos. Thanks!
I actually did know about the second area at the fair! I love talking to the villagers and there was no way I was leaving the festival without talking in particular to best boy Elliott who is in that area
I love to use forester in year 1/winter. I have no pigs by that time and I need a crap ton of wood. When winter/year 1 ends I just change it back. I use so much woods to craft and build so I think the extra wood is amazing and underrated, but not a all time use (cause pigs)
you literally earned my sub after this vid and that’s something i don’t do often
OMG!! Thanks for this! I had no idea about some of these!
If you use foraged items to make seasonal seed (fall seeds, winter seeds, etc) and you have botanist, harvesting those planted crops will be iridium too.
"staircases are expensive" said someone with 30mil gold in the bank lol
I had no idea about the junimo hut thing! Thats such a cute little detail. I'm gonna do that. I have 2 shards right now. Though I'm saving them for the forge.
You can always leave them at the hut and then remove them when you need to use some. It doesn't get consumed so it's a good place to keep your prismatic shards
@@KarmaCifer Yes thats true! It was more so it wont be a permanent thing until I grind for them in skull cavern later ^^ buy ill enjoy the rainbows for a while! yay!
i just got done watching ur vid on 'Best Stardew Rings' and, at the end, u say, _"...and if u hated it, u should subscribe anyway because tomorrow there will be another video for u to hate."_ and laughed my ass off for a least 2min.
u totally earned this new sub.
nice work. 😏👍
(and for the record, i love ur vids. very insightful 😄)
I completely forgot I did that 😅
That was back in the day when I uploaded everyday...
Thank you for this video ! 😊🌺
All they need to make the geocrusher useful normally is to make it free to use after crafting
My quality of life in stardew valley skyrocketed thanks to this video, thank you :)
The burger tip was one of the only ones I knew, but I'll subscribe anyway
Don't use the golden scythe.
The regular scythe leaves patches of grass behind, which will then spread back out.
The golden scythe cuts everything, meaning you have to replant with grass starter.
Just shove it in your junk chest until the last day of fall.
The golden scythe are way efficient in getting grass, it just depends on how you do it... Beside that, the root are always a guarantee grass so make sure you leave some grass behind... I usually have a field of grass to feed my animal and everytime I cut them I always leave a patch of grass at the 4 corner and 1 at the center.....
I never really thought of it like that, That is actually a good tip
My gold always leaves a patch on the corners of the area. But either way i have grass randomly spawning all the time! So it doesnt bother me nor does crafting some cuz there's so much fiber.
The golden scythe does cut a much bigger swathe, but you can still leave some grass to regrow, and it gives you far more hay for each swipe.
I have no clue why but once I got the deluxe coup and barn with the automatic feeders my hay never goes down it's actually stuck at 30 pieces of hay above the max of the silo .
The geode crusher is extremely meh in early to mid-game, but it can be useful when you need to process your geodes fast and Clint isn't available. Which, TBH, is not very often; one exception is Mr. Qi's 500 Qi crops quest since every day matters there and you can get quite a lot of Qi beans from geodes.
I think the bug with grass on Spring 1st is code that makes debris grow larger for a starting save? It was most likely there since when you first open a new save file everything is overgrown. I do not know if this is true or not but it is my personal theory
I think going the wood route for foraging the skill is a solid route, as the wood can be used to make coal, kegs, preserve jars etc. Tho the other options for foraging skill is profitable, at one point in the game you start generating so much profit you don't need to rely on foraging for gold. Just my take tho love the video!!! Just adding my thoughts
does the botanist and gather thing also work on crops? like strawberries, ancient fruit, and all that?
you're the ibxtoycat of stardew valley (it's a compliment)
Tip: put a lightning rod on a grass starter so the animals will not eat the grass starter
The jade tip is so helpful thank you so much
Grass is set to spawn on the first day of Spring as is. The reason the grass spread seems so dramatic on that first day of spring is because any existing grass spreads on the first day of new seasons. The fact you can plant grass starter and it spread in addition to the new grass growth of spring makes it seem so much more dramatic. To me the only "glitch" about the whole winter to spring grass thing is that you can plant grass starter on the last day of winter, it not die, and it spread so much for that first day of spring. The rest it just normal mechanics of the game in my eyes.
Great video none the less! I enjoy hearing your enthusiasm of the things you have newly discovered. I knew about the survival burgers at the fair already, but only because I was exploring every detail since time is not a thing at festivals haha
Hey!
I think the glitch is specifically with placing grass starters in winter.
The grass starter glitch in winter is like this, you can place grass starters in winter but they will not spread,
the grass from the grass starter will stay there until you quit the game, so as long as you just sleep through winter they will remain on your farm during winter. Apparently ConcernedApe did not intend for us to use grass starters at all during winter
I didn’t have to plant any grass on the last day of winter but my farm was still covered in grass the first day of spring
Early hi I love your vids they are amazing and I love stardew valley
Planning forageables where the generals cannot harvest them allows you to collect them up at iridium quality make more seeds and plant them again you can get three four maybe even five harvest in one season
Step 1: plant some grass starter.
Step 2: build a small / narrow iron fence around the grass starter.
Result: the fence will protect some grass from being eaten by your animals and continuously spread making more grass outside the fence that they can eat.
I knew this with the burger at the stardew valley fair I was there a few days ago and just clicked on it a few times haha
Ok... you got your subscription. I did not know about that burger
This all advices are great only faaar avay ahead of my current fam. Still only have few crops and only planing on building coops, I did go on foraging seemed better. But i literally watched video just after I saved current play seesion of Stardew valley that I ended on first year one day after annual fair....
1:39
yeah that hurt before knowing about the jade duplication to get the stairs
Considering it takes 200 hardwood to repair the boat to ginger island & idk how much for the horse stable, the forester perk is incredibly helpful up until you have built & unlocked everything in the game. switch over to the botanist profession in late game to save on inventory space & in harvesting truffles. If you made the mistake of getting the wilderness farm & that being the furthest progress you've made in the game, you have a limited amount of space to work with. You really can't just create a patch of mahogany trees to consistently get hardwood like you would in bigger farms, especially when you factor in the size all the obelisks & the golden clock takes up.
You don't need to plant your trees on your farm only. Typically, I have a small tree farm at the train station, but other places are also possible - the beach, the quarry, some areas in town etc. etc.
@@violax3735 oh that's a good idea :0, I probably should utilize the quarry for mahogany trees since my iridium supply comes from my statue rather than the quarry spawning anything
Thanks for this! :D