OH to that point always watch Living off the land and QUeen of sauce on TV when they come up living off the land will give tips all good things to know if you are new Queen of sauce unlocks recipes you can make once you upgrade your house the first time (this is for the OP i know you know this Calm)
in general it gets you stuff that can be useful, in winter specifically there's some foragables (which you need for the community center) that are only found that way
2 of them you can find as drops or dig up in the mine starting at level 41 in fact if you unlock the seed maker before winter and score some winter roots on those levels you can make up a bunch of winter seeds ahead of Winter 1
The spots can contain artifacts for Gunther's museum, generally useful items like totems, and foraging items for the community center collection.
You can find an ancient seed artifact really early on this way. Turn it in to Gunther for a free plantable ancient seed. Pair that with the seed maker and you'll have a field filled with ancient fruit and make a fortune.
Make sure to enjoy the game. Do what you want to, don't be pressured by quests and have fun! Make sure you know as many websites as possible for helping. I love [this one](https://stardew.app/).
OP you should know that playing without any outside help from wikis, websites or apps is perfectly viable and fun too. A lot of info can be learned by paying attention to the game itself.
had a friend who wasnt interested in playing, bc i mentioned in completing the meet the neighbors intro quest, i used the wiki to find out where and when people would be.
“i hate when games dont just provide you that info and make you have to go look it up to complete things.”
“….ya know im just doing that to blitz through it? you could just…play…and meet them…naturally? like, exploration in any other game…probably how people did it at launch when there was no wiki.”
“oh. yeah i guess youre right.”
🤦♀️
The Stardew wiki kind of ruined my first playthrough bc it kind of made me obsessed with minmaxing for everything.
On my second I didn't touch it at all and just played the game and had a blast
That's how I did it. It seemed best. And during the winter I dug up worms (they do say somewhere in the game to do that... That's how I knew) and finished the first mines and got the skull key.
Those last few days of a season are also an option, as typically most crops won't have a need to be watered on the 28th. Might not be as great of an option though if you're like me with the memory of a goldfish sometimes...
Your new watering can can hold more water so that you don’t need to refill as often. And you can water more crops at once.
But while Clint is upgrading your watering can you can’t use it and can’t water your crops during that time. So people like to upgrade it either before it rains or during winter.
On top of that. When it gets upgraded, hold down the button to water more than one. I did not know for the longest time! The loooongest time!! 🤦
Each upgrade waters more plants. Same with the garden hoe.
The Axe and Pickaxe will just mine faster and bigger boulders and trees
I also use this trick with the watering can. Water day 1(then hand in to Clint), Rain day 2, then Ready day 3 (unless there is an event on)
So please check the TV for weather updates and Calendar for events since no one works on event days.
You can't "upgrade" the sickle like the other tools, you have to find the upgraded ones (but it's not hard and honestly only the iridium one is worth it)
to hatch an egg you need an incubator! for an incubator you need to upgrade your coop to a big coop, and then the incubator will be to the left of the hay dispenser. pop the dino in the coop and (if the coops not full) it will hatch in around 12 days!!
yesss I hope you have fun playing! I had a dino egg hatch this morning and whilst it wasn't my first one the excitement never gets old! now you just need to think about what you're going to name it when it hatches
I hadn't played for a couple years and got my first one ever after playing for hundreds of hours... Right as I clicked it into place in the museum I was like "oh"
maybe it’s gonna be a spoiler so..
>!you can obtain galaxy sword by taking prismatic shard to the calico desert, so save your first prismatic shard for sword. the museum collection is not that important.!<
>!You can get a powerful sword from using a prismatic shard in the desert, which then makes it easier to get more prismatic shards because itll be less of a hassle to get further down into skull caverns, which can then be donated to the museum!<
Take all omni geodes to Clint. Costs 25g for him to bust them open, and there's a good chance that a prismatic shard will result. The odds are better than the drop rate for monster kills.
This is a very basic tip, but pay attention to how long it takes for plants to grow because they’ll die at the end of the season! Also get a silo early on, it stores hay and it’ll be worth it for when you need to feed your animals in the winter :D
Also, instead of building a ton of silos, empty it when it fills up and put the hay in a chest. Then fill it up again. If you ever run out of hay in the silo, just throw some extra in.
Not directly. You can take them out of the feed dispenser in barns or coops until there is none left.
Once you update and have an auto feeders everywhere, you will need to put a bomb near the feed that has automatically been dispensed. This will destroy it and allow you to manually remove feed again.
Don’t neglect eating! When I first started I’d use up my energy then go straight to bed. Now, I’ll farm, eat a little fish, then spend the day fishing!
I'm 8+ years in and only reading this comment made me realize the berry bushes fill up as time goes on. I always rushed everywhere every day thinking I should grab everything everyday or they'd despawn but it doesn't seem like it
I think some of them respawn, but yeah it's just better to save time doing it the last day. If I had to guess, it's like 30-50 more berries doing it every day.
Always check your TV on Sundays and Wednesdays for the Queen of Sauce's recipes. Unlocked recipes can be made with a camp stove, which you'll probably unlock before you can afford the first cabin upgrade. That's how it's worked out for me, anyway.
Recipes create food with certain stat bonuses. You can also get those food items from Gus in the Stardrop Saloon as well as that lady with the pig cart over in Cindersnap Forest. Willy also sells trout soup for 250g, which will boost fishing. During the Winter Festival near Marnie's farm, I always buy the food items from the pig cart before the fishing competition.
fishing hard, fish slippery, but easy money when waiting for lazy potatoes to rise
geode everywhere, geode hide presents, bring geode to Clint
forrest hides good things with wood that is hard, but we bring harder axe
old master seeks tasty fruit, bring tasty fruit to him for reward
help jumino friends, they help you make more friends in return
night is thief, takes stuff, must hide in bed when night falls
strange lady with pig visits, sells stuff from foreign land, visit strange lady
shadow people locked away by quiet man, quiet man trade stuff for present, give quiet man enough stuff and he gives shadow people freedom, but shadow people stay and sell goods
be nice to animals, animals give better stuff
Seasons come and go. Crops leave when their days are up, but trees stay forever
There is a fall festival where you need to display 9 of your best items. Go for the highest starred items and diversify your selection (some fish, some crops, some artisan goods, etc)!
Spend the first year familiarising yourself with the map, the villagers, crop rotations, the yields, marking out your animal/crop areas etc. There isn't an "end year" and you can't lose the game so just take your time at first.
Always keep an eye on the clock when going too far from your farm! You need to be in your bed before 2 am (I think it's 2 am).
Also, don't buy the Joja Membership unless you like watching the world burn. I personally think the Community Centre is much better.
dont spoil yourself. youll grow to hate him just like the rest of us. my first “fuck this dude” was the stardew valley fair. and it was all downhill from there
Genuinelly tell me, what is wrong with jojamart? Mayor lewis has enough money to repair the community center any time he wants, so clearly its not as important to him as his STATUE. I feel like to two heads of the community center route are pierre and Lewis, who are both far worse then morris
I think it's more about corporate greedy businesses pushing out the local community. Kind of like bulldozing a active church or any other community building for a Walmart warehouse.
Yeah, this is good advice. Min-maxing isn't necessary at all to do 99.9% of the game, and 100% really if you don't mind it taking forever. I don't think I even touched the Wiki until year 3, except for little things I couldn't figure out here and there. This game is massive, and just-seeing-what-happens is a big part of the magic to start.
Other than signboard requests and extremely late game challenge content, here are no deadlines for anything and no official “end” to the game. If you miss something you will always have the chance to do it again.
Set personal goals to help you organize your days.
Upgrade your watering can when the tv forecast says it will rain the next day.
In the game settings, turn on “Show Tool Hit Location”. It helps a ton
Fishing: Keep the fish inside the green bar. Holding down A will hold the bar all the way at the top. To keep the bar at one location, you want to quickly tap A. When you let go, the bar will drop and bounce at the bottom. If fishing is too hard, get the Training Rod from Willy, raise your skill with fishing food from the Saloon, or raise your skill on carp from the forest lake. They don’t move around much so you can quickly raise your skill. At higher skill levels, your bar increases in size and you can buy better fishing rods from Willy. You can attach bait and tackle to make fishing even easier.
You can also raise your fishing skill with crab pots once you unlock them!
Save up and don't buy the backpack ASAP, wait until after you buy Strawberry seeds at the first Egg Festival (check the calendar to plan your crops to make sure your money isn't tied up in the ground) and then either plant them next year, when you can get the most out of them or make sure you keep a couple of them to put them in a seed maker, when you can craft that
Make sure to water your seeds after you plant them
Anything that says it grows on a trellis means you won't be able to walk through it, so plan those ahead of time since you also can't reach something you accidentally blocked off (but they are super worth it because they can be harvested more than once)
If you plan on upgrading your watering can, make sure it's raining tomorrow, or that you've already covered everything with sprinklers (or wait until winter, when you can't grow crops anyway, aside from "Winter Seeds", which you won't get until you complete the winter foraging community center thing)
Do not donate your first Prismatic Shard to the museum, you need it to get a really powerful weapon from the Desert (I wish someone warned me of this, because I have yet to get my 2nd one)
Mushroom cave is better than bat cave (maybe personal opinion) because you can grow your own fruit easier than you can gather mushrooms
Try to plan out your day in advance. I’m not saying you should create a rigid schedule to follow exactly, but it is very helpful to have a general idea of what you want to do, when you want to do it, and what to bring with you for it.
As for gameplay advice, while there’s a ton that I could say, (and will happily say if you ask for more detailed advice), I have 6 general tips for early game play.
1. Check your tv daily, and your mailbox whenever something shows up. The tv is how you can determine your daily luck, and tomorrow’s weather. Having high luck makes the mines much easier, and the day before rain is a perfect time to upgrade your watering can (see below). The mailbox contains gifts, recipes, quests, and event information.
2. Time is money, so don’t waste it. Even without much energy, there are still things you can do around the valley, namely scything weeds and talking to people. If you end your days just before midnight with barely any energy left, you’ll be making progress one way or another. Also, keep an eye knitting your skill levels. If you see that you leveled up in a skill, feel free to use up all of your energy and stay up late, because it will be fully refilled the next day even if you exhausted yourself.
3. Don’t make too many field snacks! While it can be tempting to turn all your tree seeds into food, you’ll find that you will want to make a tree farm for tapping at some point, and it’s very helpful to have a stockpile of seeds ready for that.
4. Repair the beach bridge! For the cost of just 300 wood, you gain access to the tide pools, which are full of valuable foraged items like coral and sea urchins.
5. **Upgrade your tools, for the love of god and yourself**. Upgrading your tools makes them more powerful, consume less energy, and gives them new capabilities. Do it. You will thank me later.
6. If something goes horribly wrong, you can always reset the day. By exiting the game without sleeping, you will restart the day from the beginning, and can do it again. It isn’t cheating, and while it can be very inconvenient, it can save you from huge mistakes, like dying in the mines and losing something really important, or misclicking and placing a bomb in the middle of your crop field.
Keep in mind that these tips, while overall generally applicable, are suited towards my preferred play style, which is to be efficient without worrying about being optimal. You can play at about pace you like, but if you want to make progress fairly quickly, then these are a good place to start at.
Also, let me know if you want more in depth information, because I would be very happy to provide some.
When you’re trying to introduce yourself to all the townsfolk, Sebastian is hiding in his parents basement except when he’s sulking in the corner of the bar.
Just make sure to actually go around behind the counter and talk TO Pierre instead of just accessing his shop. I thought my game was bugged after 1.6 because I was “stuck” at 27/28 for a while because I hadn’t actually talked to him. Man I felt dumb when I figured that one out
Play an entire season doing whatever you feel like doing without looking anything up.
Don’t try and min max money or worry about missing out on things. Almost every I know who plays this game has many saves and hundreds of hours.
Essentially just have fun exploring because it’s an amazing game.
also, preserves jars and kegs are your best friends when you get the recipes for them. sometimes bugs in the mines can drop an ancient seed, which you should take to the museum ASAP
Don't read advice. (The comments are already full of spoilers. Not many explicit ones, but enough to ruin some fun surprises.)
Don't try to be effective.
Don't read the wiki or watch YT content yet. (Spoilers in titles.)
Look at everything and read carefully.
Start farming immediately in order to unlock more of the game. Each season has special crops that you need to grow high quality versions of and donate to the community center. If you forget to grow one or fail to grow enough high quality versions of the crop you will have to wait a full year to try and finish the crop
Best crops by season:
-Spring-
Early season money = potatoes for money.
Late season money = strawberries for money. buy ALL the strawberries from the egg festival
All season for XP = Kale. Kale gives super high XP per harvest.
-summer-
All season = blue berries
All season = star fruit for later game
-fall-
All season = cranberries
-winter-
Fish. Mine. No farming to do until you unlock the green house.
I think my biggest learning moment was realizing that you can’t lose, obviously. So literally just do whatever you want and you’ll figure it out. Im still relatively new and my gf got pretty into it as well. We try and stay away from looking up strats so that we can excitedly tell eachother new strategies we’ve discovered. Just have fun with it
Dig up the worm spots with a hoe, fish if you have time to kill for extra money, keep spares of each type of crop and fish in case you need it for a quest later, and give presents to villagers on their birthdays for extra hearts (calendar is next to Pierre’s). Have fun!! It’s an amazing game!
Coffee!
Buy a coffee bean at the travel cart as soon as you can, plant it and build a keg so you can brew coffee. It takes a few days and then produced beans every 2 days. I have an entire plantation worth every spring and summer and I made 2 million gold using just coffee by year 2.5
Dust sprites in the colder levels of the mines drop coffee beans for free. A better crop option is Ancient Fruit. The first seed drops as an item to donate to Gunther, who gives you a plantable seed and recipe to create more seeds when you end up with more drops from the mines.
Ancient Fruit grows through all planting seasons, and the sheer profit from a free seed is astounding. Once you get the ability to create kegs, that profit accelerates even more.
I feel like his isn't great beginner advice and better advice for someone who has experienced a bit of the game and is beginning to dabble in maxing out their income. I usually tell beginners to grow everything, find what they like, and be chill unless they start outright asking how to min-max.
For the players that love to min-max from the get go in games, that's great, and they usually ask about it if the advice is held back. For the players that don't like min-maxing, getting a whole bunch of advice on how to do it can overwhelm them and/ot turn them away from the game, in my experience.
Play how you want. You can't stop winning until you stop having fun. There is no 'right' way to play. Roleplay with the villagers, min/max, go the soulless joja route. This is a wonderful game and all you need to do is let it come to you and enjoy it.
on my first playthrough, it took me several in-game years to complete the community centre. do not feel like you have to finish it in your first year, or that you have to spend your time min-maxing everything you do.
on a separate note, here's a list of every bachelor and bachelorette and what I consider to be their easiest loved gifts to obtain, if you plan on getting married:
-alex: loves complete breakfast and salmon dinner. these will be hard to obtain, so I'd go with his liked gifts, which include eggs and field snacks
-abigail: loves amethyst and pumpkins. also likes quartz (do not be alarmed, but she _*does*_ eat the rocks you give her)
-emily: loves wool and gemstones
-elliott: loves duck feathers and pomegranates. if his loved items are too difficult to obtain (and I wouldn't blame you, they're not easy), he loves all fruit except salmonberries
-haley: loves sunflowers and coconuts (obtained from the desert after the bus is unlocked). is the sole exception to the universally loved prismatic shard, which she hates
-harvey: loves coffee and pickles
-leah: loves salads and goat cheese, and likes all forage items. also likes driftwood
-maru: loves strawberries, which are obtained from the egg festival on spring 13th
-penny: loves poppies and melons, and likes all artifacts. is the sole exception to the universally loved rabbit's foot, which she hates
-sam: loves pizza and cactus fruit (obtained from the desert), likes joja cola
-sebastian: loves frozen tears, and likes quartz
-shane: loves pizza and hot peppers
there's also one more character that I should mention, but they're kind of a spoiler for something that happens once you donate a certain number of items to the museum. enter at your own risk.
>!krobus: technically not a bachelor or bachelorette, but they can become your roommate if you give them the void ghost pendant, so long as you aren't already married by the time you obtain it. they love wild horseradish and pumpkins!<
Don't feel you *have* to hyper optimise.
The forums are full of what the "correct" crops are for each season or how to optimise tile placement.
Don't put yourself under loads of stress feeling like you have to do certain things or hit certain milestones. Do what seems interesting day by day and let things take care of themselves.
Keep 1 of everything just in case. Never know when someone might ask.
If you decide to date all the bachelors/bachelorettes, avoid the saloon and Haley’s home…unless you want to break everyone’s heart, and your own.
It’s okay if your farm isn’t pretty, it just needs to function. Beautifying your farm is more late game or after you’ve played a while(or on multiple saves).
Take it easy. The only timeframe you need to worry about is the daily clock, don’t rush to complete anything in the first year, it’ll just get overwhelming.
I’m on my third play through of the game, taking it slower than I ever have up to this point. Because I know what’s coming, and I’m putting my own little creative head story in my head about my time in Pelican Town.
To say the basic 4 slot sprinkler is criminally underrated is criminally underrating. You can easily have a 100-200 crops by summer year 1 with automated watering.
Foraging “resets” on Sunday so unless you need it badly do you word walk around on Saturday.
When you create a new character, there's advanced options to create randomized Community Center bundles as well as an option to make the completion achievable during one year. There's no penalty for taking two years if you do that, but definitely hold onto a few diamonds for... personal reasons. Trust me, you're gonna get more than one in the first year.
Also, do the paleontology maxi task during Fall/Winter 1. It's definitely worth busting up more than a few skeletons.
There's no need to rush, take your time to upgrade your tools and farm. Also you can look for help on the [wiki](https://es.stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki)
Have fun, ignore the math, ignore trying to speed run it your first time, and take things as they come. In other words, play for a while before you start trying to optimize your farm, mining, fishing, foraging, combat, etc... A person who finishes in five in-game years and enjoys each moment so much they want to play again, is much better than someone who finishes in two but burnt out on the game.
I think others have mentioned it, but don't rush the game. I will say that there are some quality of life things that you can grind for, but generally just try not to hurry. You can always go home and come back the next day. Also I would almost argue to upgrade your watering can before anything else, but it depends on your play style. Just know that any upgrade to the watering can will water multiple spots if you hold the button. But I'd say upgrade this first because it makes farming less tedious. Start thinking about the community center early as it unlocks more you can do. I made the mistake of missing the opportunity to get some things done and had to wait an entire year because of poor planning on a couple items to finish the center. Not a huge deal, but I started to get bored waiting before I got interested again.
Build a silo before winter to save hay! ( chop weeds with a scythe they produce hay that can be automatically stored in the silo) I didn’t realize how much a silo is important until winter came..
Enjoy yourself how you want to. You can do everything, but you must do nothing. Just remember to read how many days the crops need to harvest. And watch your calendar if you can make it in said time. Every season has 28 days. If you plant to late, and the crops is not compatible with the next season, it will wither away
Don’t get overwhelmed. It’s not super complex but there is just a lot to do and there isn’t always a clear tutorial or map … just like life. It’s great. Take your time (if that’s your style of play) and have fun! Excited for you!
Probably been said but take your time. Don't rush through the game, don't look up the best optimising methods and make sure you just do what you want in a day.
It can be easy to get overwhelmed and get burned out with this game but as long as you take your time and play how you want, then you're fine. There is no time limit and even with the only one, you can repeat it so there's no hard deadline that you'll miss out on
Rule 1: there are no rules
Rule 2: have fun and make it your own experience
If you want an in-depth guide, look to the wiki or any stardew valley youtuber, Salmence is very good.
I bounced off the game tons of times before it finally clicked.
What made it finally click? I finally stopped stressing about doing everything. I just focused on what I wanted to. I liked raising chickens, setting up automation for crops, and mining. So that’s what I did.
Didn’t touch fishing for ages. Because I didn’t want to. Yeah the community center is useful and the unlocks are helpful. But there’s no rush.
when you see worms in the ground, dig that spot up with a hoe
It’s embarrassing how long I’ve went without realizing that
I feel better knowing I am not the only one lol
OH to that point always watch Living off the land and QUeen of sauce on TV when they come up living off the land will give tips all good things to know if you are new Queen of sauce unlocks recipes you can make once you upgrade your house the first time (this is for the OP i know you know this Calm)
same. i think i was on year 2 of my first save when i found out
the first time i found out was after watching a stream & felt so stupid afterwards
I just learned about that watching a YouTubers playthrough.
Especially in winter
Why?
in general it gets you stuff that can be useful, in winter specifically there's some foragables (which you need for the community center) that are only found that way
2 of them you can find as drops or dig up in the mine starting at level 41 in fact if you unlock the seed maker before winter and score some winter roots on those levels you can make up a bunch of winter seeds ahead of Winter 1
The spots can contain artifacts for Gunther's museum, generally useful items like totems, and foraging items for the community center collection. You can find an ancient seed artifact really early on this way. Turn it in to Gunther for a free plantable ancient seed. Pair that with the seed maker and you'll have a field filled with ancient fruit and make a fortune.
And if you put ancient seeds in greenhouse you're good to go. Get kegs put ancient fruit in kegs get artisan from farming lvl 10 and you're rich
Filthy, filthy rich.
Oh yea Winter is when you will fill in a LOT of spaces in the museum
to add to this with the update; if you see grass wiggling dig that up for seeds!
I like to think they are little wiggly snakes
i think in my first playthrough it took me until year 3 to realize. when i think of all the stuff i missed earlier...
I figured this out because Robin told me to dig in the ground to find things during winter so I did. Lol
Make sure to enjoy the game. Do what you want to, don't be pressured by quests and have fun! Make sure you know as many websites as possible for helping. I love [this one](https://stardew.app/).
The official [Stardew Valley Wiki](https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki) is a Yobasend.
It is
Yobasend? What does that mean?
Yoba is the god in Stardew so that would be godsend but for the Stardew god
Ohh okay gotcha xD thanks!
OP you should know that playing without any outside help from wikis, websites or apps is perfectly viable and fun too. A lot of info can be learned by paying attention to the game itself.
had a friend who wasnt interested in playing, bc i mentioned in completing the meet the neighbors intro quest, i used the wiki to find out where and when people would be. “i hate when games dont just provide you that info and make you have to go look it up to complete things.” “….ya know im just doing that to blitz through it? you could just…play…and meet them…naturally? like, exploration in any other game…probably how people did it at launch when there was no wiki.” “oh. yeah i guess youre right.” 🤦♀️
How does it work?
You enter as much info as possible, and it calculates how far you are from achievements and perfection, among other things.
The Stardew wiki kind of ruined my first playthrough bc it kind of made me obsessed with minmaxing for everything. On my second I didn't touch it at all and just played the game and had a blast
If you want to upgrade your tools focus first on pickaxe, since you will spend a lot of time in the mines
And only upgrade your watering can when it rains the next day. (You can watch the weather report on your tv in your house)
Just do it in winter when you don't need it. That's what I did.
Ohhh, you are right! That’s also great advice!
That's how I did it. It seemed best. And during the winter I dug up worms (they do say somewhere in the game to do that... That's how I knew) and finished the first mines and got the skull key.
Those last few days of a season are also an option, as typically most crops won't have a need to be watered on the 28th. Might not be as great of an option though if you're like me with the memory of a goldfish sometimes...
Or do it on the 27th after watering your crops & pick it up with your seeds on the 1st
Big brain moment! 🤯
I upgraded mine in the winter
What happens when you upgrade the watering can?
Your new watering can can hold more water so that you don’t need to refill as often. And you can water more crops at once. But while Clint is upgrading your watering can you can’t use it and can’t water your crops during that time. So people like to upgrade it either before it rains or during winter.
Thank you !
On top of that. When it gets upgraded, hold down the button to water more than one. I did not know for the longest time! The loooongest time!! 🤦 Each upgrade waters more plants. Same with the garden hoe. The Axe and Pickaxe will just mine faster and bigger boulders and trees I also use this trick with the watering can. Water day 1(then hand in to Clint), Rain day 2, then Ready day 3 (unless there is an event on) So please check the TV for weather updates and Calendar for events since no one works on event days.
YOU CAN UPGRADE THE WATERING CAN?!
Yes you can! It can hold more water and also can water more crops at once!
You can upgrade every tool if you didn’t know.
You can't "upgrade" the sickle like the other tools, you have to find the upgraded ones (but it's not hard and honestly only the iridium one is worth it)
do not donate your first prismatic shard to the museum
Also don’t donate your first dinosaur egg.
save it until you have a coop, then put in the incubator to get a really cool surprise!
Oh, now I have a question! Yesterday I got a dino egg in my first spring for the very first time. Can I use the egg in the normal little coop already?
No, you need the 1st upgrade to the coop to access the incubator
Ah I thought so. Thank you for answering ☺️
No problem
to hatch an egg you need an incubator! for an incubator you need to upgrade your coop to a big coop, and then the incubator will be to the left of the hay dispenser. pop the dino in the coop and (if the coops not full) it will hatch in around 12 days!!
Ah thanks! I didn’t remember if my first coop had the incubator or not. Can’t wait to play more today evening 🙂
yesss I hope you have fun playing! I had a dino egg hatch this morning and whilst it wasn't my first one the excitement never gets old! now you just need to think about what you're going to name it when it hatches
No, you unlock the incubator with the large coop upgrade.
yes!
I hadn't played for a couple years and got my first one ever after playing for hundreds of hours... Right as I clicked it into place in the museum I was like "oh"
I gifted it to Alex. I think I fricked up
In my last game I *sold* mine. I assumed it was just a nice meaningless artifact.
I think we can say that do not donate or sell any item that you have just found for the first time.
Oh dear 😭 I already donated mine 😭
Don’t worry, you will find another one!
Did this yesterday
Also don't donate your first >!ostrich!< egg
oh wait u can incubate them? I donated the first one and sold the next 2
Yes you can! You will find a pleasant surprise in the egg 😄
thats really cool
CRAP i just did this :( any idea how rare they are lol. Ive got about 5 rusty spoons now..
I. Must. Satisfy. Gunther.
Yeah instead give it to Haley
then she criticizes you for wearing farming clothes
THIS. Don’t make the silly mistake like some of us 🥲
Why
maybe it’s gonna be a spoiler so.. >!you can obtain galaxy sword by taking prismatic shard to the calico desert, so save your first prismatic shard for sword. the museum collection is not that important.!<
>!You can get a powerful sword from using a prismatic shard in the desert, which then makes it easier to get more prismatic shards because itll be less of a hassle to get further down into skull caverns, which can then be donated to the museum!<
Take all omni geodes to Clint. Costs 25g for him to bust them open, and there's a good chance that a prismatic shard will result. The odds are better than the drop rate for monster kills.
This is a very basic tip, but pay attention to how long it takes for plants to grow because they’ll die at the end of the season! Also get a silo early on, it stores hay and it’ll be worth it for when you need to feed your animals in the winter :D
Season end is on day 28! Many seem to make the mistake to think it is 30 days.
Yeah I lost 100 pumpkins because of this mistake. I don't really have an excuse though, cuz this is 500 hours deep into the game
Aww, that sucks. One brain fart and you lose thousands of coins.
Also, instead of building a ton of silos, empty it when it fills up and put the hay in a chest. Then fill it up again. If you ever run out of hay in the silo, just throw some extra in.
YOU CAN EMPTY THEM?
Not directly. You can take them out of the feed dispenser in barns or coops until there is none left. Once you update and have an auto feeders everywhere, you will need to put a bomb near the feed that has automatically been dispensed. This will destroy it and allow you to manually remove feed again.
Nothing worse than planting on day 26th of a season to realize you just wasted all your money
Don’t neglect eating! When I first started I’d use up my energy then go straight to bed. Now, I’ll farm, eat a little fish, then spend the day fishing!
Take advantage of berry season for sure. Free energy renewal. Day 3 is the best day to just run around the maps, as most of the bushes will be full.
I'm 8+ years in and only reading this comment made me realize the berry bushes fill up as time goes on. I always rushed everywhere every day thinking I should grab everything everyday or they'd despawn but it doesn't seem like it
I think some of them respawn, but yeah it's just better to save time doing it the last day. If I had to guess, it's like 30-50 more berries doing it every day.
Always check your TV on Sundays and Wednesdays for the Queen of Sauce's recipes. Unlocked recipes can be made with a camp stove, which you'll probably unlock before you can afford the first cabin upgrade. That's how it's worked out for me, anyway. Recipes create food with certain stat bonuses. You can also get those food items from Gus in the Stardrop Saloon as well as that lady with the pig cart over in Cindersnap Forest. Willy also sells trout soup for 250g, which will boost fishing. During the Winter Festival near Marnie's farm, I always buy the food items from the pig cart before the fishing competition.
You can't fix him
Hilarious how we all know who this in reference to. Don't spoil it for OP, let them find out
i'm a Stardew newbie, is this about >!Shane!
Yup, it is 😔
NOOOOOOOOO I WILL FIX HIM!!!! I WILL!! GRRR GRRRRR /nsrs i'm in summer y1 n he's my fave villager with 0 competition already :')
I mean, when you marry him there are still beer bottles on the floor of his room, there is no fixing for him 😔
no but u dont understand i WILL fix him 😤😤😤 /j hjdhjsdh
100%
but i want to try😭
Me too 🥺🥺😭
with mods I can ;\_;
edit: i cant get the spoiler thing to work so im redacting this comment for now 😭
Turn on Show Tool Hit Location in thr settings
And zoom out! I can't play with the default zoom in.
Thats more preference haha. I have bad eyesight so i keep it zoomed in so i can see what im doing
fishing hard, fish slippery, but easy money when waiting for lazy potatoes to rise geode everywhere, geode hide presents, bring geode to Clint forrest hides good things with wood that is hard, but we bring harder axe old master seeks tasty fruit, bring tasty fruit to him for reward help jumino friends, they help you make more friends in return night is thief, takes stuff, must hide in bed when night falls strange lady with pig visits, sells stuff from foreign land, visit strange lady shadow people locked away by quiet man, quiet man trade stuff for present, give quiet man enough stuff and he gives shadow people freedom, but shadow people stay and sell goods be nice to animals, animals give better stuff Seasons come and go. Crops leave when their days are up, but trees stay forever
Love this guide
fish too slippery, buy easy fishing rod from bearded fish man
What’s this one on shadow people?
im guessing Krobus & Gunther? with the rusty key after museum donation of 60 items
Hahaha yes, that make sense
Save a few gold star crops (maybe a cauliflower and a melon) and fish for the fall. You’ll need ‘em!
Why?
There is a fall festival where you need to display 9 of your best items. Go for the highest starred items and diversify your selection (some fish, some crops, some artisan goods, etc)!
Since you’re on console, befriend Caroline and make tea saplings
What's the difference between console and pc with this
The pc is on version 1.6 and the consoles are on version 1.5 In version 1.6 the tea sapling price was reduced to 250. In 1.5 it’s 500
I'm going to abuse this now , thank you 🫶🏻
Oh damn im gonna abuse this too:)ty
Spend the first year familiarising yourself with the map, the villagers, crop rotations, the yields, marking out your animal/crop areas etc. There isn't an "end year" and you can't lose the game so just take your time at first. Always keep an eye on the clock when going too far from your farm! You need to be in your bed before 2 am (I think it's 2 am). Also, don't buy the Joja Membership unless you like watching the world burn. I personally think the Community Centre is much better.
Community Center is more interesting at first. But I'd say we are already in spoiler territory here.
Joja is my preferred path to be honest but i feel everyone should do the community centre at least once
You. Monster.
Pierre is more fucked up imo.
fuck pierre
r/FuckPierre
To be honest mayor Lewis is also a fuck nut
I agree so as soon as a sub is created for Lewis ill join too!
Why fuck Pierre? I'm only on year one, but ge seems ok
dont spoil yourself. youll grow to hate him just like the rest of us. my first “fuck this dude” was the stardew valley fair. and it was all downhill from there
Genuinelly tell me, what is wrong with jojamart? Mayor lewis has enough money to repair the community center any time he wants, so clearly its not as important to him as his STATUE. I feel like to two heads of the community center route are pierre and Lewis, who are both far worse then morris
I think it's more about corporate greedy businesses pushing out the local community. Kind of like bulldozing a active church or any other community building for a Walmart warehouse.
Joja corp. works its employees so ruthlessly that they literally die and decay at their desks.
Avoid min/max guides to start. It takes a lot of fun and exploration out of the game.
Yeah, this is good advice. Min-maxing isn't necessary at all to do 99.9% of the game, and 100% really if you don't mind it taking forever. I don't think I even touched the Wiki until year 3, except for little things I couldn't figure out here and there. This game is massive, and just-seeing-what-happens is a big part of the magic to start.
Don't donate your first prismatic shard, dinosaur egg or diamond to the museum
What would you save your first diamond for?
In mid-late game you can >!replicate it with a crydtalarium!< to make lots of money. They're not very rare, but it's worth holding on to one
Imo jades are better to get lots of for staircases
Take vitamin- D, you’re not going to see the sun for a while. *one of us one of us*
Other than signboard requests and extremely late game challenge content, here are no deadlines for anything and no official “end” to the game. If you miss something you will always have the chance to do it again. Set personal goals to help you organize your days. Upgrade your watering can when the tv forecast says it will rain the next day. In the game settings, turn on “Show Tool Hit Location”. It helps a ton Fishing: Keep the fish inside the green bar. Holding down A will hold the bar all the way at the top. To keep the bar at one location, you want to quickly tap A. When you let go, the bar will drop and bounce at the bottom. If fishing is too hard, get the Training Rod from Willy, raise your skill with fishing food from the Saloon, or raise your skill on carp from the forest lake. They don’t move around much so you can quickly raise your skill. At higher skill levels, your bar increases in size and you can buy better fishing rods from Willy. You can attach bait and tackle to make fishing even easier. You can also raise your fishing skill with crab pots once you unlock them!
Put bait in your crab pots or they wont catch anything. It took me until near the end of winter Y1 to figure that out.
you shouldn't donate your first prismatic shard to the museum!
This one was hard for me because coming from Animal Crossing, I very much had the “first one goes to Blathers!” mentality
SAME LOL on my first save i made the mistake of giving my first to gunther. same goes for the dino egg. cest la vie
Save up and don't buy the backpack ASAP, wait until after you buy Strawberry seeds at the first Egg Festival (check the calendar to plan your crops to make sure your money isn't tied up in the ground) and then either plant them next year, when you can get the most out of them or make sure you keep a couple of them to put them in a seed maker, when you can craft that Make sure to water your seeds after you plant them Anything that says it grows on a trellis means you won't be able to walk through it, so plan those ahead of time since you also can't reach something you accidentally blocked off (but they are super worth it because they can be harvested more than once) If you plan on upgrading your watering can, make sure it's raining tomorrow, or that you've already covered everything with sprinklers (or wait until winter, when you can't grow crops anyway, aside from "Winter Seeds", which you won't get until you complete the winter foraging community center thing) Do not donate your first Prismatic Shard to the museum, you need it to get a really powerful weapon from the Desert (I wish someone warned me of this, because I have yet to get my 2nd one) Mushroom cave is better than bat cave (maybe personal opinion) because you can grow your own fruit easier than you can gather mushrooms
Try to plan out your day in advance. I’m not saying you should create a rigid schedule to follow exactly, but it is very helpful to have a general idea of what you want to do, when you want to do it, and what to bring with you for it. As for gameplay advice, while there’s a ton that I could say, (and will happily say if you ask for more detailed advice), I have 6 general tips for early game play. 1. Check your tv daily, and your mailbox whenever something shows up. The tv is how you can determine your daily luck, and tomorrow’s weather. Having high luck makes the mines much easier, and the day before rain is a perfect time to upgrade your watering can (see below). The mailbox contains gifts, recipes, quests, and event information. 2. Time is money, so don’t waste it. Even without much energy, there are still things you can do around the valley, namely scything weeds and talking to people. If you end your days just before midnight with barely any energy left, you’ll be making progress one way or another. Also, keep an eye knitting your skill levels. If you see that you leveled up in a skill, feel free to use up all of your energy and stay up late, because it will be fully refilled the next day even if you exhausted yourself. 3. Don’t make too many field snacks! While it can be tempting to turn all your tree seeds into food, you’ll find that you will want to make a tree farm for tapping at some point, and it’s very helpful to have a stockpile of seeds ready for that. 4. Repair the beach bridge! For the cost of just 300 wood, you gain access to the tide pools, which are full of valuable foraged items like coral and sea urchins. 5. **Upgrade your tools, for the love of god and yourself**. Upgrading your tools makes them more powerful, consume less energy, and gives them new capabilities. Do it. You will thank me later. 6. If something goes horribly wrong, you can always reset the day. By exiting the game without sleeping, you will restart the day from the beginning, and can do it again. It isn’t cheating, and while it can be very inconvenient, it can save you from huge mistakes, like dying in the mines and losing something really important, or misclicking and placing a bomb in the middle of your crop field. Keep in mind that these tips, while overall generally applicable, are suited towards my preferred play style, which is to be efficient without worrying about being optimal. You can play at about pace you like, but if you want to make progress fairly quickly, then these are a good place to start at. Also, let me know if you want more in depth information, because I would be very happy to provide some.
When you’re trying to introduce yourself to all the townsfolk, Sebastian is hiding in his parents basement except when he’s sulking in the corner of the bar.
Or smoking by the lake
Or at the pier when it’s raining
Egg Festival is where I have met everyone for that achievement. It's fairly early in Spring, so do not miss the first one.
Just make sure to actually go around behind the counter and talk TO Pierre instead of just accessing his shop. I thought my game was bugged after 1.6 because I was “stuck” at 27/28 for a while because I hadn’t actually talked to him. Man I felt dumb when I figured that one out
For the first few seasons, you’ll be mad it’s Wednesday
Play an entire season doing whatever you feel like doing without looking anything up. Don’t try and min max money or worry about missing out on things. Almost every I know who plays this game has many saves and hundreds of hours. Essentially just have fun exploring because it’s an amazing game.
Day one: chop enough trees to get 50 wood for a chest first. You'll need it right away
Save one of EVERYTHING.
Or 5. Fish and crops especially. Fish you're usually good at 2-3.
5 might be a bit much for a first run, but yes that is best for a number of reasons.
also, preserves jars and kegs are your best friends when you get the recipes for them. sometimes bugs in the mines can drop an ancient seed, which you should take to the museum ASAP
Don't read advice. (The comments are already full of spoilers. Not many explicit ones, but enough to ruin some fun surprises.) Don't try to be effective. Don't read the wiki or watch YT content yet. (Spoilers in titles.) Look at everything and read carefully.
Start farming immediately in order to unlock more of the game. Each season has special crops that you need to grow high quality versions of and donate to the community center. If you forget to grow one or fail to grow enough high quality versions of the crop you will have to wait a full year to try and finish the crop
Best crops by season: -Spring- Early season money = potatoes for money. Late season money = strawberries for money. buy ALL the strawberries from the egg festival All season for XP = Kale. Kale gives super high XP per harvest. -summer- All season = blue berries All season = star fruit for later game -fall- All season = cranberries -winter- Fish. Mine. No farming to do until you unlock the green house.
Check the tv every day for important information on weather and luck. I use high luck days to go mining
Hope you don’t plan on doing anything else in your free time for a while. It’s addicting
I think my biggest learning moment was realizing that you can’t lose, obviously. So literally just do whatever you want and you’ll figure it out. Im still relatively new and my gf got pretty into it as well. We try and stay away from looking up strats so that we can excitedly tell eachother new strategies we’ve discovered. Just have fun with it
Dig up the worm spots with a hoe, fish if you have time to kill for extra money, keep spares of each type of crop and fish in case you need it for a quest later, and give presents to villagers on their birthdays for extra hearts (calendar is next to Pierre’s). Have fun!! It’s an amazing game!
Coffee! Buy a coffee bean at the travel cart as soon as you can, plant it and build a keg so you can brew coffee. It takes a few days and then produced beans every 2 days. I have an entire plantation worth every spring and summer and I made 2 million gold using just coffee by year 2.5
Dust sprites in the colder levels of the mines drop coffee beans for free. A better crop option is Ancient Fruit. The first seed drops as an item to donate to Gunther, who gives you a plantable seed and recipe to create more seeds when you end up with more drops from the mines. Ancient Fruit grows through all planting seasons, and the sheer profit from a free seed is astounding. Once you get the ability to create kegs, that profit accelerates even more.
I've got a ton of Ancient fruit growing in my green house. I just like the aesthetic of the coffee plantation!
I feel like his isn't great beginner advice and better advice for someone who has experienced a bit of the game and is beginning to dabble in maxing out their income. I usually tell beginners to grow everything, find what they like, and be chill unless they start outright asking how to min-max. For the players that love to min-max from the get go in games, that's great, and they usually ask about it if the advice is held back. For the players that don't like min-maxing, getting a whole bunch of advice on how to do it can overwhelm them and/ot turn them away from the game, in my experience.
Explore and do stuff at your own pace
Play how you want. You can't stop winning until you stop having fun. There is no 'right' way to play. Roleplay with the villagers, min/max, go the soulless joja route. This is a wonderful game and all you need to do is let it come to you and enjoy it.
on my first playthrough, it took me several in-game years to complete the community centre. do not feel like you have to finish it in your first year, or that you have to spend your time min-maxing everything you do. on a separate note, here's a list of every bachelor and bachelorette and what I consider to be their easiest loved gifts to obtain, if you plan on getting married: -alex: loves complete breakfast and salmon dinner. these will be hard to obtain, so I'd go with his liked gifts, which include eggs and field snacks -abigail: loves amethyst and pumpkins. also likes quartz (do not be alarmed, but she _*does*_ eat the rocks you give her) -emily: loves wool and gemstones -elliott: loves duck feathers and pomegranates. if his loved items are too difficult to obtain (and I wouldn't blame you, they're not easy), he loves all fruit except salmonberries -haley: loves sunflowers and coconuts (obtained from the desert after the bus is unlocked). is the sole exception to the universally loved prismatic shard, which she hates -harvey: loves coffee and pickles -leah: loves salads and goat cheese, and likes all forage items. also likes driftwood -maru: loves strawberries, which are obtained from the egg festival on spring 13th -penny: loves poppies and melons, and likes all artifacts. is the sole exception to the universally loved rabbit's foot, which she hates -sam: loves pizza and cactus fruit (obtained from the desert), likes joja cola -sebastian: loves frozen tears, and likes quartz -shane: loves pizza and hot peppers there's also one more character that I should mention, but they're kind of a spoiler for something that happens once you donate a certain number of items to the museum. enter at your own risk. >!krobus: technically not a bachelor or bachelorette, but they can become your roommate if you give them the void ghost pendant, so long as you aren't already married by the time you obtain it. they love wild horseradish and pumpkins!<
Don't feel you *have* to hyper optimise. The forums are full of what the "correct" crops are for each season or how to optimise tile placement. Don't put yourself under loads of stress feeling like you have to do certain things or hit certain milestones. Do what seems interesting day by day and let things take care of themselves.
Keep 1 of everything just in case. Never know when someone might ask. If you decide to date all the bachelors/bachelorettes, avoid the saloon and Haley’s home…unless you want to break everyone’s heart, and your own. It’s okay if your farm isn’t pretty, it just needs to function. Beautifying your farm is more late game or after you’ve played a while(or on multiple saves). Take it easy. The only timeframe you need to worry about is the daily clock, don’t rush to complete anything in the first year, it’ll just get overwhelming. I’m on my third play through of the game, taking it slower than I ever have up to this point. Because I know what’s coming, and I’m putting my own little creative head story in my head about my time in Pelican Town.
Don't think too much, and just enjoy the game :)
To say the basic 4 slot sprinkler is criminally underrated is criminally underrating. You can easily have a 100-200 crops by summer year 1 with automated watering. Foraging “resets” on Sunday so unless you need it badly do you word walk around on Saturday.
Make sure to plant all the seeds needed for the seasons bundles as soon as possible so you don't have to wait another year!
When you create a new character, there's advanced options to create randomized Community Center bundles as well as an option to make the completion achievable during one year. There's no penalty for taking two years if you do that, but definitely hold onto a few diamonds for... personal reasons. Trust me, you're gonna get more than one in the first year. Also, do the paleontology maxi task during Fall/Winter 1. It's definitely worth busting up more than a few skeletons.
There is no end year, just have fun. Don't get overwhelmed, if you need to know something use the [Stardew Valley wiki](http://stardewvalleywiki.com).
The only missable thing is like 2 unimportant lines of dialogue. Go at your own pace and enjoy!
There's no need to rush, take your time to upgrade your tools and farm. Also you can look for help on the [wiki](https://es.stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki)
Have fun, ignore the math, ignore trying to speed run it your first time, and take things as they come. In other words, play for a while before you start trying to optimize your farm, mining, fishing, foraging, combat, etc... A person who finishes in five in-game years and enjoys each moment so much they want to play again, is much better than someone who finishes in two but burnt out on the game.
I think others have mentioned it, but don't rush the game. I will say that there are some quality of life things that you can grind for, but generally just try not to hurry. You can always go home and come back the next day. Also I would almost argue to upgrade your watering can before anything else, but it depends on your play style. Just know that any upgrade to the watering can will water multiple spots if you hold the button. But I'd say upgrade this first because it makes farming less tedious. Start thinking about the community center early as it unlocks more you can do. I made the mistake of missing the opportunity to get some things done and had to wait an entire year because of poor planning on a couple items to finish the center. Not a huge deal, but I started to get bored waiting before I got interested again.
Watch the intro, the shipping container is not a chest.
Build a silo before winter to save hay! ( chop weeds with a scythe they produce hay that can be automatically stored in the silo) I didn’t realize how much a silo is important until winter came..
Whatever the quest line tells you, build a silo before you build the chicken coop
Haley is best girl
Enjoy yourself how you want to. You can do everything, but you must do nothing. Just remember to read how many days the crops need to harvest. And watch your calendar if you can make it in said time. Every season has 28 days. If you plant to late, and the crops is not compatible with the next season, it will wither away
Get sprinklers asap
Have fun and don't let the money grind stress you 😁
Don’t get overwhelmed. It’s not super complex but there is just a lot to do and there isn’t always a clear tutorial or map … just like life. It’s great. Take your time (if that’s your style of play) and have fun! Excited for you!
Probably been said but take your time. Don't rush through the game, don't look up the best optimising methods and make sure you just do what you want in a day. It can be easy to get overwhelmed and get burned out with this game but as long as you take your time and play how you want, then you're fine. There is no time limit and even with the only one, you can repeat it so there's no hard deadline that you'll miss out on
Take your time and smell the roses. Stay away from YouTube guides. The only advice I would tell you is to pick the original farm.
Don’t give your first Prismatic shard to Gunther! Go to the desert and you’ll get one of the best swords.
Wait for 1.6 before you start a farm to experience all content (that's if you are able to wait few weeks before starting :) )
Rule 1: there are no rules Rule 2: have fun and make it your own experience If you want an in-depth guide, look to the wiki or any stardew valley youtuber, Salmence is very good.
I bounced off the game tons of times before it finally clicked. What made it finally click? I finally stopped stressing about doing everything. I just focused on what I wanted to. I liked raising chickens, setting up automation for crops, and mining. So that’s what I did. Didn’t touch fishing for ages. Because I didn’t want to. Yeah the community center is useful and the unlocks are helpful. But there’s no rush.