Stardew Valley: A Spiritual 'Successor' to Harvest Moon

bekkilyn wrote:
Tyops wrote:
polypusher wrote:

Im in my first Winter. Last night I spent the whole night and 4 or 5 game-days trying to find a stupid Dwarf Scroll II. It's the only one I have left. I tried following the Wiki's notion of where to get it but had no luck. I DID get SIX (6!!) Dwarf Scroll III though.

Are these important? I did find II and III but I never saw the first one.

I found a few of the first one when I went back through levels 20 to 24 in order to find an earth crystal for another mayo machine. I don't know if they have any other importance, but you can donate them to Gunther for the museum.

There is indeed a story line which will include the scrolls. I'm trying to save one of each for when I need them.

The four dwarf scrolls are for...

Spoiler:

Letting you talk to the Dwarf in the mine. You can't understand him unless you have (or maybe have donated?) all 4 scrolls.

Yonder wrote:

Penny works as the unofficial town school teacher, and Maru has a job working for Harvey. I don't think that Sebastian, Haley, or Abigail are employed in any way.

I think Abigail helps out at Pierre's.

Not sure where Haley spends her day because I've been looking all over trying to deliver a sea slug she wants and can't find her!

Found out that Sam works at Joja Mart with Shane though.

bekkilyn wrote:

Not sure where Haley spends her day because I've been looking all over trying to deliver a sea slug she wants and can't find her!

During the day she can be either in the park by the community centre, at the beach, or taking pictures by the river out West.

polypusher wrote:

The four dwarf scrolls are for...

Spoiler:

Letting you talk to the Dwarf in the mine. You can't understand him unless you have (or maybe have donated?) all 4 scrolls.

Spoiler:

This confuses me. I have one of the scrolls, and a dwarven helmet. Neither of them say to donate them to Gunther in their description, and I'm reasonably sure that I tried anyway, and I couldn't select them to donate.

Jonman wrote:
polypusher wrote:

The four dwarf scrolls are for...

Spoiler:

Letting you talk to the Dwarf in the mine. You can't understand him unless you have (or maybe have donated?) all 4 scrolls.

Spoiler:

This confuses me. I have one of the scrolls, and a dwarven helmet. Neither of them say to donate them to Gunther in their description, and I'm reasonably sure that I tried anyway, and I couldn't select them to donate.

That makes it sound like those are already in the musuen. You don't get a description until you do.

Jonman wrote:
Spoiler:

This confuses me. I have one of the scrolls, and a dwarven helmet. Neither of them say to donate them to Gunther in their description, and I'm reasonably sure that I tried anyway, and I couldn't select them to donate.

Spoiler:

Not sure about the helmet, but the scrolls are 100% able to be donated. You probably just donated the same one already. There are multiple of each scroll, like minerals.

Tyops wrote:
bekkilyn wrote:

Not sure where Haley spends her day because I've been looking all over trying to deliver a sea slug she wants and can't find her!

During the day she can be either in the park by the community centre, at the beach, or taking pictures by the river out West.

She was probably out west by the river when I was looking for her. I did finally find her by camping her front doorstep.

Just started year 3!

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Today was a good day.

:O

_Free_ wrote:

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Today was a good day.

I'm a couple weeks behind you, but I am ready for my cauliflowers to POP, man. BAM!

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Don't make the same mistake I did and hoe a 20x15 grid the day before Spring.

It was all gone in the morning.

I also did all the hoeing on the last day of winter. Sad day.

Y'all are a bunch of bad hoers. I'm delighted that I was able to use this totally legitimate English word in a sentence.

Somewhat on-topic: My game is saved just before Summer 1, Year 2. I'm a bit overwhelmed thinking about how much stuff I will need to do in a very short amount of time in order to get my farm up to peak operating condition.

Spoiler:

So much hoeing.

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Upgrades man, they help a lot.

Speaking of recent mistakes. Remember when lightning nuked my apple tree? Well to prevent that from happening again I replanted it and put a lightning rod beside it. Well saplings only grow if the 8 tiles around them are clear (even if you can put stuff there later) and I only realized it wasn't growing on the 26th of summer and moved the lightning rod.

So the apple tree is going to finish growing on the 26th of fall and net me exactly 2 apples. 1 short of what I need to complete the community goal. Meaning I won't be able to complete the goal until next YEAR. Goddammit.

Check the traveling wagon every Friday and Sunday; you might get lucky and find an apple for sale.

I don't think the lightning rods have to be next to anything to protect it, but you have to have enough lightning rods somewhere on the property to account for any lightning that might hit your farm anywhere. Plus, once a lightning rod is "full", it isn't protecting anything, so you would need another lightning rod to account for the next strike.

You could probably put a bunch of them in one big cluster somewhere and still be fine as long as there was an empty lightning rod available for every potential strike.

Crud. All my crops died at the switch to summer. Did not plan for that and wasted thousands of dollars.

Please God. I have to stop playing this game. I have a family and girlfriend who love me. I've not seen them, or the outside, in a week.

Must keep mining...

BTW, huge tip for anyone in Year 2:

Spoiler:

focusing on three things can net you tons of constant money.

1st, make sure to unlock the Greenhouse by completing the Pantry bundle.

2nd, buy 120 strawberry seeds at the Egg Festival.

3rd, make either 120 Delux Speedgro or 120 Quality Fertilizer or a mix of the two.

Put all 120 strawberry seeds in the greenhouse with the fertilizer. It will grow year round and you never need to plant again. Just water (or use sprinklers) and collect your crazy cash. This will net you more money than anything else in the game except Ancient Fruit. I'm in the process of using Seed Makers to slowly move my Greenhouse to be 100% Ancient Fruit. Gonna take a long time.

Best part is that this is 100% incremental! You can still do all the other things you were doing.

The greenhouse is definitely a good moneymaker. Once you fully kit it out with sprinklers it provides a nice steady income. That said I'm already at the point where I'm floating 100k in the bank and I have way more money than I know what to do with. I'm starting to transition from a "working" farm to a sort of artistic farm which is more about looks and style than simple moneymaking. That's one of the strengths of this game I think, the lack of time pressure.

Yeah... I got the sense early on that money would be trivial at some point and picked different/non-money realted perks when I could.

Right now I'm using about half the greenhouse to grow crops that I can use as gifts for people in town and the rest for money making.

I'm in year 3 and I still haven't gotten the greenhouse! But I'm still doing fine

Haven't really been focused at all on money-making as I want to hold off being flooded with it for as long as possible. I always seem to have enough for whatever I want to do at the time though.

My next goal is a horse. Should be soon as I finally found the source for hardwood. (Had been looking in the wrong spot the entire time thinking it was a blocked entrance.)

Feeling bad because my cow was mad at me for forgetting to put out hay the day before when it rained.

The dance is tomorrow. Maybe *this* year someone will agree to dance with me!

Tyops wrote:

Right now I'm using about half the greenhouse to grow crops that I can use as gifts for people in town and the rest for money making.

Currently I use quality sprinklers in square groups of 4. I have 9 of these squares and another 6 are currently under construction, pending materials. Each square plot of 4 supports 32 plants. So I currently plant 3 different sets of 96 plants, depending on the season. I also have a larger unbroken plot of 135 tiles that I water by hand. My greenhouse is also fully kitted with sprinklers for total of 116 tiles.

Once I have all of this up and running I'm going to retire the hand-watered area and turn it into a winery. All told I will have an essentially automated farm from that point on and I will be free to do whatever.

I hate fishing.

tboon wrote:

I hate fishing.

NO! It's a fantastically designed mini-game. It was hard for me at first, but after I worked at it, it totally ended up making sense. Also, as a real-life fisherman, it actually mimics well some of the catch/lose feelings you get when you fish in real life.

You can always throw on that easy-fishing mod, but I recommend working at it a bit. It's actually not that hard and makes sense once you get some practice. There will always be that crazy fish that gets away, but you'll get most of them.

tuffalobuffalo wrote:

You can always throw on that easy-fishing mod, but I recommend working at it a bit. It's actually not that hard and makes sense once you get some practice. There will always bet that crazy fish that gets away, but you'll get most of them.

It's honestly not that hard, you can get different fishing tackle later that will make your job a lot easier. My favourite is the cork bobber because it makes the bar slightly bigger.

The only times I hate fishing is with certain high level fish like sturgeon. They like to zip up and down in a split second, I hate this because given the inertia of the fishing bar it is simply impossible to catch them regardless of your equipment or minigame skill. Smug bastards.

I was horrible at fishing starting out and barely caught anything at all, but I believe even the attempts help you to level because otherwise I would have never gotten to level 2! Keep fishing and failing for a few levels and it will get a whole lot easier, and every level makes that green bar just a bit wider too. Fishing is one of my most favorite things to do in this game.

And Robin is now building my horse stable! Yay!

I'm another convert to the fishing mini-game. It is indeed frustrating when you're low level and have the starter rod, but increasing your skill, your gear, and your tackle makes it much more fun.

I'm another convert to the fishing mini-game. It is indeed frustrating when you're low level and have the starter rod, but increasing your skill, your gear, and your tackle makes it much more fun.