
I strongly believe in not even trying with the greenhouse if I can't afford the sprinklers to keep it running on it's own. Then it becomes a check-in only. Like when my coop/barns are set up with auto-feeders. I just step inside to collect the things.
But even so. There's still plenty of room in this game to get so optimized you're just spending your entire day harvesting and kegging or preserving all your harvest.
I'll echo the sentiments of others by saying not to let your desire for maximum efficiency keep you from playing the game. There are a lot of wonderful people to meet and experiences to be had away from the farm in Stardew Valley. You left Joja Corp to escape the grind. Don't find a new one. Live!
The greenhouse is great for planting things out of season? As anything will grow year-round.
I use my greenhouse to plant strawberries, blueberries and cranberries. Gives me a nice steady stream of gifts and jam/wine ingredients all year round.
I'm saving up material to get some brewing sheds going but they are actually quite expensive per building.
Just bought this today for XB1 as I need something more calming for my current tribulations.
It's a lot of fun and I'm only 14 days in.
I have Coffee, Star Fruit, Sweet Gem Berry, and Ancient Fruit growing in mine. I then turn them into wine and age them in my cellar.
Just bought this today for XB1 as I need something more calming for my current tribulations.
It's a lot of fun
and I'm only 14 days in.
Just bought a week or so ago for ps4, been playing more often than not on the Vita via remote play, while the Mrs watches something on TV. Only up to day 20ish myself, but it is pretty calming isn't it, enjoying
Progress towards the Trichy Winery/Pig Farm/Fruit Orchard continues. I completed the community center, and now am focusing on transforming this little patch of land into the biggest vineyard in the entire whatever coast of whatever country I'm in. I was a little disturbed this morning when I came into my hutch to find two rabbit's feet. The game's graphics aren't high enough resolution to figure out if one of my rabbits is now dragging himself along on two legs while his newly severed stumps twitch against the floorboards, or if both my rabbits entered into a mutual pact to become pirates, and the "thump" as their little peglegs smack against the ground will slowly drive me insane.
Also, I placed three slime incubators in the town square and have steadily been feeding them slime eggs. As such, the territory outside Pierre's is now infested with slimes, which swarm towards me every time I need to buy some eggplant seeds. I feel good about this. It's important to leave your hometown with something to remember you by in case the worst happens, like a uncontrollable infestation of gelatinous slavering beasts.
Spring year 4 has just started. I have all that I could desire. Maru is mere days away from marrying me, my bank account is blowing up like Justin Timberlake's latest bon mot, and the mayor keeps sending me farming subsidies for some unknown reason (thanks, Obama). But I swom to Jon that if Abigail wins that &#%&$ egg hunt again, I'll move those slime incubators into her bedroom and reduce that blue-haired egg hoover into a pile of greasy bones.
Also, I placed three slime incubators in the town square
I had no idea the game would let you place buildings outside of your own farm's screen!
I'm a little surprised and impressed that the game can handle that; I'd have thought the placement of a building would interfere with the townsfolk's routines of walking around.
I tried planting grass patches outside my farm (due to lack of available space on my farm), and the game would let me do it, but they would never grow/spread.
Also: I've started playing Stardew Valley.
At least watering the cat is harmless. With me, I'll go to bed after mining, forget I have the pickaxe equipped, go to harvest a crop in the morning and pickaxe it.
Especially tragic if it happens to be an ancient fruit plant.
Especially tragic if it happens to be an ancient fruit plant.
Modding the dialogue in this game looks really easy... I shouldn't have looked, but this is the first game I've ever been interested in modding.
A year in Stardew Valley: life, labour and love
Really really good piece, where the author compares his real life and a year in SDV.
You can get this game in the Humble Freedom Bundle right now. It's a $30 entry fee, but you get a ton of great games at an unbelievable price, plus help out ACLU by keeping their coffers full for their upcoming legal battles over the next four years.
You can get this game in the Humble Freedom Bundle right now. It's a $30 entry fee, but you get a ton of great games at an unbelievable price, plus help out ACLU by keeping their coffers full for their upcoming legal battles over the next four years.
Why didn't anyone tell me this game is basically digital crack?! "One more day, one more day, one more day. CRAP it's 12.30am!"
But Shadowdale Farm is slowly coming along. Grew my first parsnips. Not a lot of cash to buy seeds. So I don't really know what to do to fix this. Going to be hard times for a bit. But I do have a sword. Also, not quite sure what the "loop" in this game is, if there is one.
Cash is definitely tight that first Spring season. After a couple of rounds of planting vegetables, harvesting and selling them, and plowing the nice profit they do generate into more seeds, though, you'll be doing fine!
Yeah, I'm trying to do that. It just seems like I'd spend more on seeds than I would make back in profit, which concerns me as that's a downward trend. I guess I could fish and sell the fish or something. Are there town corn subsidies I could apply for?
CRAP it's 12.30am!"
This happens both in and out of the game, in my experience.
As for the seeds, where are you buying them from? Pierre is cheaper than Jojamart. Also, doing some of the sidequesty things around town can get you additional seeds for free, which can give you a nice leg up.
Yeah, I'm trying to do that. It just seems like I'd spend more on seeds than I would make back in profit, which concerns me as that's a downward trend. I guess I could fish and sell the fish or something. Are there town corn subsidies I could apply for?
Beans - you plant them once and they continually produce crops all season. I plant 5 or so initially and they add a nice bumper to the bottom line, then I'll add one more set of 5 at the 10 day mark, just to have something consistent.
Foraging and fishing is also an excellent source of income early on,
There are two large areas on map (you can look and figure it out yourself) where picking stuff off the ground (foraging) helps with cash flow early on.
So, I currently have planted 15 parnips, which I already harvested. I guess those have to be replaced with new seeds. I also planted one cauliflower and on stick of green beans. So I guess I'll harvest the cauliflower soon and then the beans will keep coming. I'm going to try foraging and fishing to make some money.
I did buy the cauliflower and bean seeds from Pierre, but they are still pretty expensive. I haven't tried any side quests, I guess I should look into that.
Keep in mind that plants will die at the end of each season (except for things like corn) so late in the season it's usually best to stop replanting and go fishing or something instead.
When it gets to summer and fall, plant blueberries and cranberries respectively, if you want the best moneymakers.
Fishing can be a pretty decent source of money early on if you can get the hang of it, but to get a little extra cash in your first spring I highly recommend doing some foraging. Just gather up everything in the woods and on the beach and sell it, and that should get you a nice little nest egg that you can use for summer seeds.
In the late summer the bushes will become full of salmonberries. You'll get dozens of them, that you can either sell for a little money or save as a cheap source of extra energy/health. I recommend saving them for mining excursions.
And yeah, do sidequests and the daily quests that pop up on the bulletin board next to Pierre's for a little money (and a little direction as well, if you can't decide how to spend your time).
So, I currently have planted 15 parnips, which I already harvested. I guess those have to be replaced with new seeds. I also planted one cauliflower and on stick of green beans. So I guess I'll harvest the cauliflower soon and then the beans will keep coming. I'm going to try foraging and fishing to make some money.
I did buy the cauliflower and bean seeds from Pierre, but they are still pretty expensive. I haven't tried any side quests, I guess I should look into that.
Cauliflower is actually one of the more profitable spring crops that you can get in year one, only downside is the initial investment and growth time.
In the late summer the bushes will become full of salmonberries. You'll get dozens of them, that you can either sell for a little money or save as a cheap source of extra energy/health. I recommend saving them for mining excursions.
This is a good tip. Salmonberries don't sell for much, but it's not hard to accumulate a stack of 100+ of them. Bring that mining with you, and you've got a near-unlimited source of HP and stamina for that expedition -- just eat a berry whenever you get low.
This is really helpful! Thank you!
Foraging by the sea is one of the easiest way to get a few hundred coins every few days early on. You just have to rebuild the bridge down there for I think like 300 wood.
Foraging by the sea is one of the easiest way to get a few hundred coins every few days early on. You just have to rebuild the bridge down there for I think like 300 wood.
Easiest way to build up a lot of wood early on: every time it's late in the day so you go back to your farm but you have a lot of energy left, take a little bit of time to chop down a tree or two.
Crab pots can provide some early easy cash too. Very helpful during the winter season if you don't have much in the way of animals.
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