I'd personally place Forest Farm in my personal S tier, because the specialized forage of that map makes it very reliable for a quick and easy Community Center completion. You need 2 Purple Mushrooms for the base bundles, and I've found that personally the way that most reliably gets it in year one while requiring the least amount of work is to pick the Forest Farm and wait until Fall. I could get it quicker by rushing level 80+ in the mines or picking the mushroom cave, but both of those require a lot more work and/or upkeep, and going with the bat cave instead also allows me to get off-season fruit for those bundles if I don't get saplings planted in time.
I use different farm maps for different play styles. Forest, riverlands and standard for challenges. Beach farm for a beachy themed perfection farm with loads of blobfish fish ponds. Four corners for being a sheperd. Meadowlands for just marrying a npc, often a modded one. Hilltop farm for playing with Ridgeside village mod. And Wilderness for just fooling around.
Wow, since I've started playing with the Riverlands farm it's actually become my favourite, and I tend to play on it unless I want more farming space. By the time you need more farming space, you have ginger island, plus I use the desert and spa areas for tree farming. The bonus fish smoker is so helpful, from the very beginning. Love your videos, congrats on the 2000 subs.
The fish smoker and the fact that the fishing is decent and bubbles spawn frequently on the farm are huge benefits. If you are going for a year one Legend or Master Fisherman it's a must.
Since I first started playing, I've always been a fan of Hilltop farm. I know it's not good for space, but the cliffs and stairs are cool to me. Meadowlands has replaced Forest challenge runs since you can now eat mayo for energy. I do disagree about 4 Corners though, it's so good for organization for scatterbrains like me.
as a bit of a perfectionist I'd rank 4C as "S". each quadrant can be devoted to a different industry which makes the compartmentalizing part of my brain happy. Otherwise I'm in total agreement with your list. I think CA and team should really consider a glow-up for the Riverlands, Hilltop, and Wilderness farm. In a lot of ways Riverlands gets supplanted by Beach, and Wilderness by Meadowlands, but having an in-base mining site is a really neat concept that i think is under-explored. What I think would be really cool is if the farm map got ported right out of a mines map, maybe have rock wall all the way around, with just a small ring of tillable Green in the middle with a pool at the center. Then everything outside of the green would spawn mines rocks each day, maybe with a higher chance of gems. +1 if you could get a ladder to spawn to take you to the mines, or a Hole to take you to SK direct from your farm, that way it keeps the advantage at endgame.
I think adding the fish smokers to the riverland farm was an attempt to make it stronger since the fishing perk wasn’t really unique anymore after the beach farm came along
I *just* started a new 1.6 farm and ofc I had to pick Meadowlands. It's such a game changer for a casual player. I usually get my first animals in Summer and this time I was able to get a barn instead of a coop first, which feels like I skipped ahead so much. I don't think the water source is as much a problem as I've been hearing; because my routine is to water my crops then go check on my chickens anyway and the pond is right beside them. I definitely agree it's an S tier!
For how excited you sounded about the Beach farm, I was expecting it to be your first S-tier. As I was considering this comment, your love for mushroom logs made its B rating all the more surprising.
One thing not mentioned in the video is that grass doesn't spread on the non-tillable tiles. The big grassy land, which is half of the Meadowland map, can't be used for animals to roam and eat grass. It's not really an issue for people with
Riverland with the fish smoker is solid income boost early on and in summer the middle island is enough to do quality sprinklers + blueberries and buy all upgrades from joja. Forest farm with respawnable hardwood stumps is a good source of foraging exp when trying to get to mastery cave ASAP and hardwood that later can be converted to wood as well. Buildings like coops and barns could be placed vertically one below another with shared open space for grass making it very space efficient. Beach farm leans more into mass-buildings or big forest/green tea farms... can hold a lot of animals. 4-corners is nice for organization and for never-leave-farm challenge. Meadowlands - as coops and barns can't be rotated it makes bit annoying to place building optimally assuming you want > 10-20 coops/barns. I made two custom maps too - small permafrost farm (permanent winter) and smallest map possible with all "features" turned on... self-promotion :P
Ohhh you made the permafrost map? It looks so cute! I just really want that ruined building on the left to do something, maybe it upgrades when the house is maxed out and becomes a shed or something? I don’t mod, no idea how hard that would be haha
Love your content and glad you’re doing well 😊 I have to say I’d reverse Meadowlands and River-whatsit for my personal play style, though - meadowlands was cool, but I could t make it through the first spring before restarting due to the distance to water, while the free smoker means I can get to the desert festival in year 1, making the fishing farm overtake the forest farm as my personal favourite 😆
Tysm! That's an interesting point about the smoker. I haven't even tried to get to the desert festival year 1, but my playthroughs since 1.6 have mostly been different challenges. I may have to try that out and see how it goes. Thanks for watching!
great vid! started playing as soon as 1.6 came out. reached perfection in 1 month real time bc i was obsessed haha. i did the joja route on the forest farm (for the achievement idk why i picked farm i did) to get it outta the way. am now doing the riverlands farm and it was hell until i got the greenhouse lol. the fish smoker exploit is fun bc each house you can buy and destruct at robins for only 100 dollars lol 😆 anyway subscribed! gonna try the beach farm next i think
Beach farm is my personal favorite. I don't like to use any sprinklers besides Iridium, as I think even Quality Sprinklers are a waste of resources. If you have gold bars, then the watering can does 3x3, and you can do a reasonable number of crops quickly. 1.6 added another option for the Beach, too. Tree + Mushroom Log production.
I haven't played Stardew in a really long time - Sun Haven pretty much became my go-to pixel-art farming game - but I didn't realize how many more maps had come out since last I played. Maybe I ought to give it another shot at some point, though. Meadowlands looks so pretty!
I have some tier list ideas you can do: Tier list of all mastery rewards Tier list of all items/recipes you can buy from the walnut room Tier list of all the books
Good suggestions! I'll consider all of them for sure, but one of those three is already in the works! Coming...eventually. I wish I had more time to work on these 😊
I would love a video on how to prioritise the walnut room purchases. I always go horse flute then stocklist and key to the town first but those are mostly to make up for my lack of planning and definitely wouldn’t be optimal 😂
i’ve played on most of these and as my knowledge of the game has developed I find different ways to use each one. With the introduction of Ginger island I find myself using fewer one off crops early game such as melons and more repeat crops such as hops and later, ancient fruit. The best early game is tea saplings though I believe Eric has cut the profit from these in half in 1.6. I like fishing so enjoy the fishing farm and have become disenchanted with the time it takes to care for them at least until you have autofeeders and autocollectors. I currently have two hens and two cows and don’t intend to spend time and money upgrading my coop and barn until much later. As I tried the Joja route this time it worked well for me. A useful evaluation of the farm styles, many thanks.
I only play on iPad and I have the Riverlands farm. When I started the game, I didn't know what I was picking and that was the first suggestion. I am waiting to see what the update will bring and how it will change what I can do there. The limits of it are a puzzle and a challenge to me and fun to try to solve. When I get to the point after the update of wanting a new farm, perhaps the Forest or Meadowlands. Thanks for the video - this is the type of comparison I needed to find.
The 4 corners map is really, REALLY good for me and my OCD, I tend to struggle with placing things and love them to be ordered and structured, i have my industrial corner (smelting shed which has crystalariums, pickle jars etc, a keg shed and my tree farm) another is my farming area, another is my animal area and the last corner is my fish pond/smoker area. So if like me you struggle to organise things, give Four Corners a shot.
Beautiful pets. The dog seems like a senior with his greybeard unless I'm horribly mistaken lol. Senior dogs are lovely in their way though with their "idgaf" attitude and chill vibes
It's interesting to see how differently everyone ranks the various farms. The one thing that seems pretty consistent is that the forest farm and the standard farm seem to rank highly for most people which is funny since I am not particularly fond of either. I actually like the riverland farm now that it has a fish smoker which seems to be a pretty unpopular option. I do however completely agree that those plank bridges need to go. Yuck.
I'd personally place Forest Farm in my personal S tier, because the specialized forage of that map makes it very reliable for a quick and easy Community Center completion. You need 2 Purple Mushrooms for the base bundles, and I've found that personally the way that most reliably gets it in year one while requiring the least amount of work is to pick the Forest Farm and wait until Fall. I could get it quicker by rushing level 80+ in the mines or picking the mushroom cave, but both of those require a lot more work and/or upkeep, and going with the bat cave instead also allows me to get off-season fruit for those bundles if I don't get saplings planted in time.
I use different farm maps for different play styles. Forest, riverlands and standard for challenges. Beach farm for a beachy themed perfection farm with loads of blobfish fish ponds. Four corners for being a sheperd. Meadowlands for just marrying a npc, often a modded one. Hilltop farm for playing with Ridgeside village mod. And Wilderness for just fooling around.
Wow, since I've started playing with the Riverlands farm it's actually become my favourite, and I tend to play on it unless I want more farming space. By the time you need more farming space, you have ginger island, plus I use the desert and spa areas for tree farming. The bonus fish smoker is so helpful, from the very beginning. Love your videos, congrats on the 2000 subs.
The fish smoker and the fact that the fishing is decent and bubbles spawn frequently on the farm are huge benefits. If you are going for a year one Legend or Master Fisherman it's a must.
"You found a Stardrop, its taste reminds you of *demonitization* "
Since I first started playing, I've always been a fan of Hilltop farm. I know it's not good for space, but the cliffs and stairs are cool to me. Meadowlands has replaced Forest challenge runs since you can now eat mayo for energy. I do disagree about 4 Corners though, it's so good for organization for scatterbrains like me.
as a bit of a perfectionist I'd rank 4C as "S". each quadrant can be devoted to a different industry which makes the compartmentalizing part of my brain happy. Otherwise I'm in total agreement with your list.
I think CA and team should really consider a glow-up for the Riverlands, Hilltop, and Wilderness farm. In a lot of ways Riverlands gets supplanted by Beach, and Wilderness by Meadowlands, but having an in-base mining site is a really neat concept that i think is under-explored. What I think would be really cool is if the farm map got ported right out of a mines map, maybe have rock wall all the way around, with just a small ring of tillable Green in the middle with a pool at the center. Then everything outside of the green would spawn mines rocks each day, maybe with a higher chance of gems. +1 if you could get a ladder to spawn to take you to the mines, or a Hole to take you to SK direct from your farm, that way it keeps the advantage at endgame.
I think adding the fish smokers to the riverland farm was an attempt to make it stronger since the fishing perk wasn’t really unique anymore after the beach farm came along
The fish smoker is a BIG advantage for the Riverland farm. You can get 30k+ fishing days spring year one using the Riverside farm.
I *just* started a new 1.6 farm and ofc I had to pick Meadowlands. It's such a game changer for a casual player. I usually get my first animals in Summer and this time I was able to get a barn instead of a coop first, which feels like I skipped ahead so much. I don't think the water source is as much a problem as I've been hearing; because my routine is to water my crops then go check on my chickens anyway and the pond is right beside them. I definitely agree it's an S tier!
For how excited you sounded about the Beach farm, I was expecting it to be your first S-tier. As I was considering this comment, your love for mushroom logs made its B rating all the more surprising.
One thing not mentioned in the video is that grass doesn't spread on the non-tillable tiles.
The big grassy land, which is half of the Meadowland map, can't be used for animals to roam and eat grass.
It's not really an issue for people with
I think your videos are great :) I love SV content and yours is so chill!
congrats on 2k!! your pets are so cute and i always enjoy watching your videos💚
I'm so glad you're enjoying them! It really means a lot. Thank you so much for watching 💕
Riverland with the fish smoker is solid income boost early on and in summer the middle island is enough to do quality sprinklers + blueberries and buy all upgrades from joja.
Forest farm with respawnable hardwood stumps is a good source of foraging exp when trying to get to mastery cave ASAP and hardwood that later can be converted to wood as well. Buildings like coops and barns could be placed vertically one below another with shared open space for grass making it very space efficient.
Beach farm leans more into mass-buildings or big forest/green tea farms... can hold a lot of animals.
4-corners is nice for organization and for never-leave-farm challenge.
Meadowlands - as coops and barns can't be rotated it makes bit annoying to place building optimally assuming you want > 10-20 coops/barns.
I made two custom maps too - small permafrost farm (permanent winter) and smallest map possible with all "features" turned on... self-promotion :P
Ohhh you made the permafrost map? It looks so cute! I just really want that ruined building on the left to do something, maybe it upgrades when the house is maxed out and becomes a shed or something? I don’t mod, no idea how hard that would be haha
@@rneumann7229 probably doable although tricky...
@@riklaunim yeah haha, absolutely amazing concept and execution as it is ❤️
Love your content and glad you’re doing well 😊
I have to say I’d reverse Meadowlands and River-whatsit for my personal play style, though - meadowlands was cool, but I could t make it through the first spring before restarting due to the distance to water, while the free smoker means I can get to the desert festival in year 1, making the fishing farm overtake the forest farm as my personal favourite 😆
Tysm!
That's an interesting point about the smoker. I haven't even tried to get to the desert festival year 1, but my playthroughs since 1.6 have mostly been different challenges. I may have to try that out and see how it goes. Thanks for watching!
great vid! started playing as soon as 1.6 came out. reached perfection in 1 month real time bc i was obsessed haha. i did the joja route on the forest farm (for the achievement idk why i picked farm i did) to get it outta the way. am now doing the riverlands farm and it was hell until i got the greenhouse lol. the fish smoker exploit is fun bc each house you can buy and destruct at robins for only 100 dollars lol 😆 anyway subscribed! gonna try the beach farm next i think
Woo! Nice work.
The beach will feel so spacious after riverland 🤣
Tysm for watching and enjoy your next playthrough!
proud of you!!! ❤🎉
Beach farm is my personal favorite. I don't like to use any sprinklers besides Iridium, as I think even Quality Sprinklers are a waste of resources. If you have gold bars, then the watering can does 3x3, and you can do a reasonable number of crops quickly. 1.6 added another option for the Beach, too. Tree + Mushroom Log production.
Omg face reveal and pet reveal omg! You’re so pretty! Thanks for all the work you do and thank you to all the scientists! ❤
I haven't played Stardew in a really long time - Sun Haven pretty much became my go-to pixel-art farming game - but I didn't realize how many more maps had come out since last I played. Maybe I ought to give it another shot at some point, though. Meadowlands looks so pretty!
My ranking
S
None
A
Standard, Forest, Four corners
B
Beach, Meadowlands
C
Riverland, Hill-top, Wilderness
I have some tier list ideas you can do:
Tier list of all mastery rewards
Tier list of all items/recipes you can buy from the walnut room
Tier list of all the books
Good suggestions! I'll consider all of them for sure, but one of those three is already in the works! Coming...eventually. I wish I had more time to work on these 😊
I would love a video on how to prioritise the walnut room purchases. I always go horse flute then stocklist and key to the town first but those are mostly to make up for my lack of planning and definitely wouldn’t be optimal 😂
i’ve played on most of these and as my knowledge of the game has developed I find different ways to use each one. With the introduction of Ginger island I find myself using fewer one off crops early game such as melons and more repeat crops such as hops and later, ancient fruit. The best early game is tea saplings though I believe Eric has cut the profit from these in half in 1.6. I like fishing so enjoy the fishing farm and have become disenchanted with the time it takes to care for them at least until you have autofeeders and autocollectors. I currently have two hens and two cows and don’t intend to spend time and money upgrading my coop and barn until much later. As I tried the Joja route this time it worked well for me. A useful evaluation of the farm styles, many thanks.
I only play on iPad and I have the Riverlands farm. When I started the game, I didn't know what I was picking and that was the first suggestion. I am waiting to see what the update will bring and how it will change what I can do there. The limits of it are a puzzle and a challenge to me and fun to try to solve. When I get to the point after the update of wanting a new farm, perhaps the Forest or Meadowlands. Thanks for the video - this is the type of comparison I needed to find.
The 4 corners map is really, REALLY good for me and my OCD, I tend to struggle with placing things and love them to be ordered and structured, i have my industrial corner (smelting shed which has crystalariums, pickle jars etc, a keg shed and my tree farm) another is my farming area, another is my animal area and the last corner is my fish pond/smoker area.
So if like me you struggle to organise things, give Four Corners a shot.
Forest farm is way too OP, 8 stumps per day is INSANE, extra +200 exp per day for foraging. To me it is S tier.
Congrats on 2k!!🎉🎉🎉
I love fishing and a challenging farm is fun.
Riverland S tier for me.
I love the new meadow lands farm,I really enjoyed the beach farm. I've used them all and probably the standard is my least favorite.
Beautiful pets. The dog seems like a senior with his greybeard unless I'm horribly mistaken lol. Senior dogs are lovely in their way though with their "idgaf" attitude and chill vibes
You're right! That handsome little man is Kevin. He's 17 and perfect!
@@Kitadollx He's a beatiful and handsome man with hopefully years of joy left with his family :D
I hope one day we get an Orchard map. Let us start with 1 or 2 fruit trees (full grown spring, or 1 spring 1 summer sapling maybe)
Favorite thing?... "Buttstuff"
Don't ever change 🤭
It's interesting to see how differently everyone ranks the various farms. The one thing that seems pretty consistent is that the forest farm and the standard farm seem to rank highly for most people which is funny since I am not particularly fond of either. I actually like the riverland farm now that it has a fish smoker which seems to be a pretty unpopular option.
I do however completely agree that those plank bridges need to go. Yuck.
Meadowlands farm over four corners farm is wild
Does meadowlands start with a silo?
nope, but youd wanna let them eat the blue grass anyway
can you do a review of the big overhaul mods?:3 idk if youve played them but id love some modded content:)
I'll have to look into it some more. I haven't played any yet, but SVE looks pretty interesting. Thanks for watching!
Favorite thing: Buttstuff ;)
Another great video! :)
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I am RIDICULOUSLY early 😭
Or maybe you're right on time!