Stardew Valley is a new indie simulation and role-playing game. It combines elements reminiscent of Harvest Moon and Runescape. The game was developed and created in it's entirety by ConcernedApe, including the pixel art, music, programming, and storyline. Honestly, it's one of the best simulation/rpg type games I've played.
So, tell me about your farm! Tell about the single Stardew Valley villager you're wooing, your farm, crops, mining adventures, fishing frustrations and more. This thread is for talking about the game, tips and tricks, exploits, reviews and content updates.
Don't get animals in your first year of gameplay. Animals are sort of a money suck initially, and it's best to establish yourself by farming, upgrading your tools, leveling your skills and amassing money.
During each season try to save a couple of each standard quality crop you grow, fish you catch, and items you forage. Every 2-3 in-game days there will be a delivery quest on the bulletin board in the town center. If you save stuff, you'll be ready to go!
Grow a little of everything. This will make completing the Community Center bundles for the Junimos - or forest spirits, easy as pie.
Store the crops, artisan goods, and animal products you intend to use in your fridge.This allows you to cook without having the ingredients on your hotbar!
Upgrade your backpack as soon as possible. This will help when you're mining and fishing, which tends to fill your inventory pretty fast.
Don't skimp on the seasonal festivals (egg hunt, fall festival, spirit's eve and ice fishing contest, respectively). You can get stardrops, rarecrows, sell-only items and gold from these.
Don't neglect the museum. It's tempting. But don't do it. I was able to get the rusty key for the sewer in the first year of gameplay and I didn't really actively treasure hunt. I imagine it's much faster if that's all you were doing.
Dig in the trash! You can get so much valuable shit from this.
Chests are your friends.
Exploits
Terms:
Unconfirmed - as in the result has not yet been duplicated.
Confirmed - as in the result has been duplicated.
Ice Fishing Exploit
Spoiler
During winter, have one empty hot bar slot during the ice fishing contest. When you're automatically teleported home after the festival, a new bamboo pole will be on your hotbar. When you attempt to deposit it the first time using right click into a chest, it will create 99 beach totems and a tackle. Note: You won't be able to deposit the new bamboo pole via right click, unlike all other items. Left click to deposit it. Also, I cannot be sure if winning matters, because I discovered this in winter Y1 and confirmed in winter Y2. Both times, I won the ice fishing contest. Confirmed. Below are the extra bamboo poles from Y1 and Y2, and the stacks of beach totems and spinners I got from this glitch (I used some, obviously).
Poppyseed Muffin Exploit
Spoiler
When you make poppyseed muffins, the poppy flower isn't consumed like ingredients usually are when you cook. So you can make infinite muffins using one single poppy flower - you'll still need to buy the sugar and wheat flour, for 100g ea respectively. This is a 50g profit per muffin. Or, alternatively, giant stock of mine food for when you're mining. Confirmed. ConcernedApe claimed to have patched this out for 1.0.7b, but it still works.
Money Making Tips
General/Foraging
Spoiler
Check the TV every single day. If 'Queen of Sauce' is on, watch it to learn new recipes.
Then if it isn't raining, water your plants and then forage; maybe if you can fit relationship shit in there too, do that too.
If it is raining, go fish or mine.
Don't get the fruit cave. Seriously. Don't. The mushroom cave is way better for money because you can get 5 of the 6 different mushrooms and you get 6 mushrooms each harvest, instead of like 2 fruits. And most sell pretty well. The mushrooms are harvestable every 2-3 days I believe.
If it is raining, focus on either fishing or mining, not both.
If you're too poor at the beginning of the season, go for 5-10 of the seeds I list below in the seasons advice.
Don't purchase cosmetic items until you're bringing in the dough.
The only really important Community Center room to try to finish is the pantry. Otherwise, don't worry about this yet.
If you're trying to complete bundles, okay, great, but only buy the number of seeds you'll need. For the quality crop bundle, you should go for 10-15 seeds of the items you need (parsnip, melon, pumpkin, with the exception of corn which you should only need 5 seeds; plant the corn in the summer and by end of fall, you'll have definitely have 5 gold quality corns).
Foraging:
If you happen to have time at the end of a day of watering plants but not enough for dedicated fishing/mining, it's a good idea to forage. After you've completed the forage bundles, or even before really, you can sell everything you forage to supplement your income, or use as food for energy. Save the flowers you get if you wanna work on building relationships. But this is really about money, not that.
All seasons?
There are these rare mushroom trees that grow only on your property. I've found one in each season before. They drop a total of 6 mushrooms when you chop them down (you chop down like a regular tree). Sometimes you'll get 5 red and 1 purple shroom. I've seen probably like 10 of these total. My husband has yet to find one. I guess they are random events?
Also, once you have the iron axe you can remove the log blocking the 'Secret Woods' where you can harvest mushrooms and additional foraged items year round.
Spring:
Spend spring 15-18 only watering your plants and harvesting salmonberries. Salmonberries only grow on plants during the 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th. You will see little red bushes. HARVEST THESE. These are excellent to use while fishing or mining in the beginning for energy. Don't bother selling. They aren't worth much.
Get the spring onions, these seem to grow in massive amounts and are good to sell, in the south of the cindersap forest. Obviously get the other stuff too, but it's not worth as much or comes in huge quantities. Here is a map:
Summer
The absolute best source of summer forage money is rainbow shells, which are found on the beach! These sell for like 400g ea. Check the beach every day if you have time.
Everything else you get should be between 80-120g. Spice berries, grapes, etc. Get these only if you have time at the end of the day.
Fall
Mushrooms are especially common during this season.
You'll notice blackberries are found on the ground and bushes. Get these! Make them into jellies or just sell them. They aren't worth a ton but they come in large quantities.
Hazelnuts can be knocked from trees and found randomly on the ground.
Hazelnuts and plums are the most valuable foraged items in fall.
Winter
Winter roots and snow yams are hoed up from the ground.
Holly and crocus are flowers. They are worth more than other flowers 100-120g respectively.
Crystal fruits are the most valuable and I believe you can make those into jellies too.
Spring
Spoiler
Crops:
Parsnips
Potatoes
Those are the best crops in the beginning to plant because of price versus time and value. Potatoes are great because you have a chance at getting more than one. Try to use sprinklers. But if you can't, plant as much as you're able to water in a single day. Do not plant more than you can water in a day. Not worth it. On rainy days, go fish or mine, so you can start prepping to upgrade your tools. Upgrade your watering can first to make watering easier on you.
Tips for increasing crop value:
Use preserve jars or kegs (if you have them) to make juice, wine, pickled veggies, or jellies.
Summer
Spoiler
Crops:
Tomatoes
Blueberries
Hot Peppers
Corn - note, corn will last from summer, till the end of fall.
The reason I've pointed these ones out is because they produce multiple harvests without replanting. Start with those to get lots of crops to sell. Try to use sprinklers. But if you can't, plant as much as you're able to water in a single day. Do not plant more than you can water in a day. Not worth it. On rainy days, go fish or mine, so you can start prepping to upgrade your tools.
Tips for increasing crop value:
Use preserve jars or kegs (if you have them) to make juice, wine, pickled veggies, or jellies.
Fall
Spoiler
Cranberries
Eggplant
Yams
Pumpkins
Cranberries are incredibly valuable. You usually get 3 per harvest per plant. Yams and pumpkins are single harvest items but they are worth a lot pickled, or just sold as is. So, buy more cranberry/eggplant seeds than yam/pumpkin. Try to use sprinklers. But if you can't, plant as much as you're able to water in a single day. Do not plant more than you can water in a day. Not worth it. On rainy days, go fish or mine, so you can start prepping to upgrade your tools.
Tips for increasing crop value:
Use preserve jars or kegs (if you have them) to make juice, wine, pickled veggies, or jellies.
Winter
Spoiler
You can't plant anything but mixed and winter seeds, which gives you winter forage items. So, take this month to forage, fish and mine.
For the love of fucks, upgrade your tools in the winter! You have so much free time. Start with your watering can, then your pickaxe, then axe, then lastly hoe. You cannot upgrade the scythe.
oh my goodness how you have so much monies T^T Also 100% love for this thread <3
I sell at the end of the season versus every day I get stuff, with the exception of juices, wines, pickled veggies, and jellies - which I sell as I make to supplement farm costs, etc.
So for the fall season, I sold all my silver/gold quality crops, half all the honey, cheese and mayo I made, all of the silver/gold flowers I made from each season, all the juices/pickled/jellied stuff I had for the day, plus some minerals and other junk I had laying around. That was my fall earnings. I made 158,167 gold for the fall season. That's my best season so far. Previous seasons, I only made between 40-60k.
So, I just made it to Y2 ice fishing contest and I confirmed the beach totem exploit. @Chappy @Aria
@Coops When I reach the end of the first year I will~ I really need a chicken coop XD Im more worried I'll run out of wood supplies
Is wood an issue for you?
Clearing your land is honestly the best way to go about it. But I was reading about the RNG works in the game and apparently, the luckier you are, like if the fortune teller on the TV says the spirits are happy or whatever, you'll get more wood from trees.
Part of me wants the game, the other part tells me to stop spending money on games...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I haven't spent all that much money on games recently, but I don't want to start that habit again. I have no definite income.
That being said, I have heard so so many great things about this game and it's really tempting me... Except I don't have any money to give into my urges so there's that.
I JUST found the old community center, and I've been to the bar a couple times, and I found a forest and a huge tower out in the forest.
The wiki page I included has all the locations and pictures of what they look like. Hit M to open your map and you should be able to see everything on the map.
The wiki page I included has all the locations and pictures of what they look like. Hit M to open your map and you should be able to see everything on the map.
THERE'S A MAP THIS IS NICE
AND SOMEONE SPIKED THE PUNCH AT THE EGG FESTIVAL LMAO
If anyone wants to make money quickly, in the summer grow a crap ton of blueberries and don't worry about the trees, they drop seeds on their own and grow in about 12 in game days. Just make sure to replant and keep a forested area because you can right click trees and sometimes they will drop seeds.
I have no definite income.
