Main reason I don't do most of this is because I want to play a relaxing, casual game, not grind away to pointless levels of money before Grandpa even has rated my farm.
During the Egg Festival I really wanted the straw hat you get after winning the egg hunt, but I was terrible at collecting eggs so I had to reset the day over and over again just to get it. It felt like the movie Groundhog Day, having the same conversation with villagers and doing the egg hunt again and again, but it was worth it! That hat is basically my entire identity and I’m glad I didn’t have to wait an entire year to get it again.
It took me literal years to figure out how to win the egg hunt (thanks UnsurpassableZ for teaching me!) so I didn't even know about that hat for ages! I was so proud of it!
I'm the type of player that likes to enjoy all of the game. I plant every crop. I build every machine. I make every item. I raise every animal. I like to have a supply of everything i might need. Although i will put priority in bigger numbers for the money making things, however i still will diversify.
Same. I really enjoy the immersion aspect in games like this. I'm just not interested in a ton of min-maxing. I feel like having a farm filled to the absolute brim with ancient fruit and a billion casks might be *profitable* but it just doesn't seem... fun? To me, at least. Everyone plays games differently and that's okay :)
I’m trying to stop myself from becoming wine overlord and getting burnt out so I’m diversifying with lots of animals, beehives and fish ponds. But the gold clock grind is insane, I think it should be cheaper tbh
Iridium springlers can be bought. Every Friday in The Seweres Krobus sells one. So if you open the Sewers as fast as possible, you can save your materials but still get them
If the glitch still exists... you COULD buy1, leave the sewers, then come back immediately, and he'll have another sprinkler for sale; rinse and repeat until you have all the sprinklers you need.
I guess in the grand scheme of things sprinklers have a 7% difference, with quality sprinklers utilizing ~89% of tile space and Iridium utilizing 96% but iridium sprinklers are still 300% better than quality ones with 8/1 and 24/1 tiles per sprinkler respectively.
I didn’t know what she meant by 7% better, but she is right that the amount of space a single sprinkler doesn’t really matter. I could make enough quality sprinklers to cover the entire farm twice. I currently also have like 3 iridium bars, so there’s no comparison.
I like to break my farm into plots which are each covered with a scarecrow and a Junimo hut. With a basic farm, this breaks into 9 plots of 192 usable tiles - either by using 24 QS on a 216 plot or by using 8 IS on a 200 tile plot. The IS only become more valuable if you're picking all of your crops by hand.
Make Crystal Fruit Wine in winter. It's more profitable than selling the winter foraging items which are probably the only thing you're going to be growing outside in that season unless you use certain mods.
@@voiceofdistortedreason5998 Make more Ancient Seeds and fill the tillable part with Ancient Fruit, then put strawberries in garden pots, either where they'll be reached by your sprinklers or Deluxe Retaining Soil. More profitable that way, especially if you make Ancient Fruit Wine. You can also put trees in there.
I always enjoy growing foragables on my farm though. Idk why after I rush foraging for the first summer, but I usually end up with 200 or so iridium crystal fruit that I just use for food through the year. I use crystal fruit as my nonbuff food and keep a couple hundred crocus to give to people as I run through town for funsies. Always get the greenhouse though and have ancient fruit and pineapple in there 🤷🏼♂️
Up to a point, I think crafting and selling tea bushes is more profitable than even crystal fruit wine (4 forage -> 10 seeds -> 5 bushes = 2500g). It does use up some of your other resources, though, so it depends how hard you feel like grinding those. Also you probably want to save some winter seeds to jumpstart the next winter.
@@emurphy42 Grow enough and make seeds out of some of what grows each harvest and forage off the farm, you can repeat and gradually grow ever more. This is not restricted to winter. I keep a bank of 150 for each season, could make more seeds, but winter, unless you're using mods, is the only season you're going to want to have fields full of the foraging seeds. Furthermore, a big shed full of kegs and one outside to keep track of when they're done comes out to 138 x 630 base with artisan, a single shed full of normal quality Crystal Fruit Wine goes for 86,940, and the more you put back before starting to make Crystal Fruit Wine, the more often you'll get that profit before having to wait for the next winter. Like, I'm about to start year 5 in my vanilla game on PS4 and have not started making Crystal Fruit Wine yet because of how long it takes to get the materials to make that many kegs, but have since the first winter been putting back crystal fruit with full intent to make wine as often as possible once I do have the materials for so many kegs. I always take gatherer and botanist to get a chance at double harvest and to have iridium quality forage items and improve their sell price. And why sell them directly rather than make tea saplings? Because with enough growing outside, even with not selling crystal fruit, you can still potentially get upwards of 50k once a week just from winter foraging items, and that's after making 150 seeds for next winter and seeds to grow more and more after every harvest until the end of the season. Remember also that blue slimes in the ice levels of the mine and secret woods in winter have a chance to drop winter root, which you can put in the seed maker to get more winter seeds, so if you really want to use winter seeds, I do not, to make tea saplings, you can put aside any winter root you get from foraging and that drop from blue slimes in seed makers and get seeds directly without having to grow them. Of course, you could do that and not even worry about making seeds from what you've grown and have that many more crystal fruit to later make into wine, provided you get your target number of seeds for the next winter.
Grandpa: "Whenever you feel like the burden of life and the real life is too much after money, get on my farm and relax" 'Pro' Stardew Valley player: "Money go brrrrrr"
'Pro Player': "Make sure you hoe in this particular pattern to get a piece of clay every time you hoe for maximum money per energy, make sure to use the animation cancel macro to reduce animation speeds to save in game time, make sure to go out of bounds to enter the mines early, make sure to count your steps and go to sleep when you have exactly 'x' steps to guarantee rain the day after tomorrow so you don't have to water your crops"
So I discovered your channel because my wife got me back into the game when we got it on steam. I had played it on switch when it came out in 2018 and hadn't played it in like 3 years. It's like a completely different game and you've helped me learn to navigate the game again. Thank you and keep up the good work
I only duplicate Ruby in my crystalarium and exchange it for spicy eel. A tip for me : Don't buy sheep. Wool doesn't have a lot of use in SDV just focus on getting Rabbits.
@@myrakwulf686 i find its way more useful to save diamonds for the fairy dust cuz you can buy coffee from gus for espresso and also make it really easily
@@toms-zr9mq as far as I know fairy dust only makes profit when aging gold ancient/starfruit to iridium wine. I wouldn't waste them on kegs, and if you have enough kegs, lets say at least 600 you will be swimming in money anyways.
As a min-max player, the 7% difference between quality and iridium sprinklers makes a huge difference especially with more crop spaces. For me, it’s a 45k gold per day difference with 2,300 crop spaces. Plus getting the whole farm rigged with 30-50 iridium sprinklers by year 1 fall sets up for insane early game scaling. The crystallariums can wait especially if you do at least 10 skull caverns runs per season starting Spring day 17. You’ll have way too much spicy eel and triple shot espressos on hand. Crystallariums just won’t beat the huge early game gold scaling of iridium sprinklers. But that’s just me.
@@jadenrich117 she wasn't going based on how much each sprinkler waters, she was going on how many total spaces are devoted to crops vs sprinklers in the same amount of area. So the math wasn't wrong, but it does mean you need to craft more quality sprinklers than you would iridium, so she did kinda ignore/gloss over having to get additional metal bars for it all. I support iridium sprinklers myself, especially in greenhouse where you have limited space and grow your ancient fruit year round.
the biggest pro for using iridium sprinklers is that you waste less space in bigger areas also brewing coffee from a few bushes coffee beans is a really cheap way of getting coffee dinos need less hay to make an egg if you fall asleep in the mines you only lose a bit of money, no items
@@JutlandAngel Not quite. If you're still filling your entire day, it takes 3 triple-shot espressos to keep the speed boost up all day, which are 15 beans each, so you need 45 per day. So to get at least 90 every two days, you need 23 plants. Even if you're only using two per day, you still need 15. But yes, definitely save some space in your greenhouse to make the caffeine flow.
You can get giant crops with iridium sprinklers, but it's impossible with quality sprinklers. That 7% makes a big difference. I guess giant crops aren't that big of a deal either - turning 9 crops into 18-21 - but getting them is a game for me.
Large crop always feels like a lucky event for me, it only had 1% of spawn rate everyday. If the crop matured in day 12, it basically means that you're playing a gacha game where you got 16 pull to get an ssr character and the chance is 1%only. The possibility of putting 9 melon / pumpkin there whole season and it didn't turn into large crop is too huge and risky for me so I always harvest those crop whenever it's ready. Buttttt if i got lots of money in year 2 or 3 ill try to get few of them as we got larger farm area and more money to buy seeds to increase the chance of getting those large crop
When you're growing hundreds of plants, a few of them being doubled doesn't make much of a difference, but I eventually move the iridium sprinklers anyway just because they're faster and easier to replant.
Here's one thing I do that I don't hear a lot yet (or at least just in my immediate circle): I just normally play the game w/o any Speed boosts, until I have enough money to buy a big stack of Crab Cakes, which are unlimited for 3 days at Gus' shop after Willy's 6-heart event, just now in my 5th farm I spent like 480k on Crab Cakes (which is around 900 of them), and by doing the math, if theoretically I only eat 1 Crab Cake per day for Speed purposes, this stack lasts for 8 in-game years. Sure, I'm pretty much beyond True Perfection after like 3-4 years, but it's just a neater alternative imo compared to using Rubies in Crystalariums and having to trade for Spicy Eels every time (which only lasts 5 minutes, compared to the Crab Cakes' 16 minutes when it comes to the buffs)
@@andrewlauring4468 why would you use Lucky Lunch for foraging or farming tho, if anything Farmer's Lunch is infinitely better when farming, and do you really need food buffs at a point where you have Gatherer and Botanist? Furthermore, you don't have to stick with the Crab Cake for the entire day, you can use something else esp. in the Skull Cavern like Magic Rock Candy, the point is to just keep the speed you get from food at all times of the day.
@@andrewlauring4468 same thing, if u wanna use Lucky Lunch or MRC, then go for it, like I said the idea is to keep having good Speed at all times. MRC does that as well, so it's up to you if you want a more reliable Luck boost with Lucky Lunch or just want most stats buffed, including Speed, with MRC.
Iridium sprinklers are so easy to get I strongly disagree with maining quality ones for everything. I do use quality sprinklers, but only to get a wide manageable pattern of bee hives with flowers around said sprinklers. You could probably do the same with basic sprinklers but I enjoy the aesthetic of a full ring of flowers around my quality sprinklers. My pro tip though is none of this as I admit it's just personal preference. Instead, my tip, is bees. They are versatile and fun to play with. The first harvest of normal honey can be made into mead or farm totems completely trivializing the fancy rod that costs a fortune. You can use said mead for a nice $ boost and even gift them to pam for easy hearts.
When you start over, fish sideways! You'll throw a tiny bit further thus get higher quality. You can validate this by fishing until you get silver without a perfect catch and then try fishing vertically.
Thing that aazes me in those video is why everyone so obsessed with :gaining friendship fast" - WHY? Putting aside recipes and occasional gifts friendship isnt give you much, Yes, nice for roleplaying, but spamming NPC with best ever gifts kinda defeats roleplaying purpose. Whwn i play i dont pay much attention to it, running across NPC - say hi, if have something to spare - gift. Even if gift isnt good you can fix it by trying something else next time.
You can light up all four candles at grandpa's shrine in year 3 and get the statue of perfection I know everyone knows this, but i have recently discovered an exploit via the wiki that will change the way you get iridium! Place down that statue and fill up your inventory. Mine the shrine (it shouldn't be in your inventory) and return to the shrine and you can get another one. Infinite iridium!! Ezlilyy probably knows this, but i bet you don't and if you actually don't, i hope this helps!
Oh yh I did that two days ago after reading about it and now I have 68 and get approx 350 iridium every day which sometimes I sell once I have two +stacks (so every 3 days rlly) cos its easy money aswell!
for people that played this game too much and you are bored of all the op ancient fruits, starfruits, fairy rose honey and pig truffles, try the combo of these mods ,I'm pretty sure it makes you say oh boy this is how vanilla stardew was supposed to be ! 1-walk of life 2-stardew balance overhaul 3-Main Questline Redux (PMC CCJ) 4-SVE I promise you stardew gonna be on whole another level ,way better than before assuming it's not your first play though !
Friendly reminder that Penny hates rabbit feet because apparently she is the only villager who is not ok with the mutliation of those fluffy bois and gurls. Also: Spending iridium on crystalaria to get more iridium is not a necessary loop for most people. You can almost completely skip the skull cavern. You only need 298 iridium ore even for perfection (yes, perfection!). You will get there at the end of summer in year 2 from Granpa's Statue alone. Also, perfection requires you to slay enough monsters, so you get that random iridium anyway. In short, if you accept that iridium sprinklers are a waste (and you can buy those on fridays from Krobus), then there's nothing really useful to get from them. So if you like diving into the skull cavern, go for it. But if you hate that place and it's snakes, remember that iridium is overrated. You only need enough jade to perhaps complete the dangerous mines once and perhaps go to level 100 of the skull mines once - but that's still optional, even for perfection.
I agree. Getting 4 candles in Grandpa's Evaluation is better because you get free iridium every day and will end up with more than enough iridium really quickly. I only go to the skull caverns when I feel like dropping down to level 100 using stairs (from Jade) and blowing up a lot of stuff on a good luck day.
true, I mostly just buy the Iridium Sprinklers I need on Krobus' shop even if I like doing SC runs, it's mostly because of the Blacksmith profession tbh, you get so much iridium ore that u might as well sell them (1.5k each iirc with the profession) This also applies to Radioactive Ore, they don't have a lot of uses, and even the bars don't have much good uses too apart from Heavy Tappers, so it's also nice to sell them (even on endgame, I stockpile Qi Gems every month to spend it all on buying Hoppers for 10 Qi Gems, then Deconstruct them for a free 4.5k gold per bar)
@@lnlonelyness2801 18 radioactive ore needed for perfection, since you brought it up. Although personally, I'd argue that you get more money via "regular" means in comparison to iri bars. In the end it's about which parts of the game you enjoy the most and since plenty of players really hate the skull cavern I like to reinforce that it's not necessary to grind them.
Grandpas evaluation happens overnight between years 2 and 3, so the soonest you can get it is year 3 spring 1. So it won't be giving you any ore in year two. So if you want to complete perfection as soon as you can (aka year 3 spring 1), you can't wait for grandpas statue.
@@waffles3629 But if you actually do hurry, you also have less time for crystalaria to reach amortization. And I did mention "most people" - and most people don't go for perfection at all, much less at spring 1 year 3. Thanks for pointing out that typo (or brain fart, can't remember which it was) about the statue coming too late for a perfection speedrun. Still, if you don't waste your iri on crystalaria, you need very little of it for perfection and you can easily collect that much while ticking off the monster slayer boxes.
I just started playing stardew valley this week so I wanted to see what the gameplay community was like. It’s a little surprising how much of the community is centered on maximizing and being anything but leisurely 😅 then again, I can see wanting to move faster and aim bigger if I’m playing multiple saves for hours a day (especially for an audience!)
Yea this is for people looking at getting as early of perfection as possible. The way the video ended was very much not a good way to go. It’s like, no, play how you want to, none of the game is time gated, because if you miss something one year, just get it next year
Rabbit's Feet, as some have likely pointed out already, are a Hated gift for Penny, so don't give them to her. Thankfully, Penny's likely one of the easiest to befriend, anyway, since she's often at the museum, so I run into her a lot dropping off artifacts, etc, and just talk to her.
Bombs are actually a very inefficent way of mining when you think about it. It seems like that on the surface, but it costs copper/iron/gold, the very things you're mining for in the first place. It's really only worth it when you are rich, and can afford to buy the copper/iron/gold ores from clint directly, in order to find some Iriduim late game.
Spending thousands of G every time you go into the mines when the pick only costs 42,000G in total is crazy to me. And coal is way too precious - especially in the early game - to only get 1 bomb or 5 shots of ammo, not to mention explosive ammo also requiring you to smelt the iron first. I just can't comprehend ever using bombs unless I had reached perfection and just had a ton of resources to blow for the hell of it.
The only time iridium sprinklers are ALOT better than quality sprinkler is when you equip it with nozzles which saves you alot of space. Tho I'd still go for the cheaper one🤣
The only reason I upgrade my pickaxe is because I usually don't have enough resources or the artifacts for the dwarven translation book for bombs, I do usually start replacing the pickaxe with bombs most of the time by the time I reach year 3-4.
When you're talking about sprinklers, you say that Iridium Sprinklers are only 7% more effective than Quality Sprinklers. Where do you get the math for this? A Quality Sprinkler waters 8 tiles, and an Iridium Sprinkler waters 24, by my math that's a 200% increase.
The quality sprinkler covers a 3x3 area but takes up one space, so it covers 8/9 of the farm land. While iridium sprinklers cover a 5x5 area, but also takes up one space, so it covers 24/25 of the farm land. So in percentages, a quality sprinker covers 88.8% while a iridium sprinkler covers 96%. She was talking how much space the sprinklers would take up in a farm, not how much area it covers.
I always prefer going hammer once i can get the iridium one and able to enchant it with attack speed. While daggers have one hit kill wonders, it can't really farm as fast as a hammer when you using monster musk. I always found it unfortunate that swords have the most useless special, guard helps but situational and its so rarely used if at all later that you kinda forget it existed.
Controversial opinion time! Although the math is correct about sprinklers, there's a different reason why you do want to upgrade your quality sprinklers into iridium and possibly nozzled. So yes 1/9 - 1/25 =~ 0.07 really is only a 7% increase. But saying ONLY 7% is kinda misleading, farming in stardew is a countable thing, those few extra crops really do add up. Also and the BIG reason is that a field of quality sprinklers can't make mega crops. with quality sprinklers your spaces for mega crops is 0. with 2 iridium there are already 6 possible spaces for mega crops, if they have nozzles, even a single sprinkler has 16 possible spaces for mega crops, with WAY more if you use them side by side. I only grow ancient fruit in my greenhouse because it goes forever I just go in once a week to grab ancient fruit and all my fruit trees. But outside you need to replace the stock seasonally anyway. (except for ginger island)
I only grow ancient fruit in the greenhouse to cos it seems like a waste for it do die every winter - I still need money lol 😂 also there's this thing you can do to get a tin of iridium... Yknow the statue of perfection? You can get more than one by not having the statue in you inventory and having it dropped on the floor and going back to grandpas shrine It's also helpful for money making cos I found out about the thing 2 days ago and now have 68 of them which gets me approx 350 iridium each day which is good to sell aswell Hope this made sense lol 😂
@@johnlennon2333 honestly, even just cranking luck and farming iridium in the cavern isn't that hard. There's no shortage of it. So that's just another reason I say upgrade to iridium ASAP on sprinklers. Also if you do get giant crops, the seasons most expensive crop is actually better than the other crops, it's even close to starfruit in summer cause you get so many more of them
@@briantroy7376 I mean Im on Yr 8 and have only just done the qi get to 100 in the skull cavern quest 💀 and that's cos I used stairs for all of it lol 😂 and do you mean stuff like tomatoes and cranberries? Cos that's what I use (and I don't plant anything in spring til I've got strawberry seeds)
@@johnlennon2333 oof bro. I get to 100 skull cavern no stairs before end of year two no matter what lol, usually in winter year one haha. All about that explosive slingshot baby! But no man, you gotta always have crops down, otherwise all your crop spaces are just wasted potential moneys
I really can't wrap my head around people not understanding why we like 100 percenting and completing all of the game. You can still go relax and play slowly, we just happen to like playing THIS way instead. Just let people enjoy things.
Regarding tool upgrades, you don't unlock bombs until a high mining level, which is difficult to get to without a good picaxe. Plus, they are expensive to craft and purchase, making the picaxe the best choice pre-skull caverns. I would say upgrade your tools in this order: pic, pic, pic, axe, axe, axe/hoe, axe/hoe, axe/hoe, watering can, watering can, ... You can avoid getting the iridium watering can until you have plenty of spare iridium, since by this point you should have plenty of sprinklers (unless you are on beach farm, in which case ignore upgrading your picaxe and focus on the watering can as soon as possible). Regarding the sprinklers, I also agree that you shouldn't craft iridium ones, however purchasing them from Krobus on fridays when you have enough money can still be a great way to water extra crops. And in the end game when you have access to Qi quests, the pressure nosels are really useful. This is also a good tip for more casual players, although I would warn that these sprinklers can make it harder to decorate and make your farm look good. Regarding coffee, I highly recommend getting a seed as soon as possible rather than spending your money. Always check the traveling cart, and rush to get to the ice floors in the mines. They are the best crop to make money off of year 1 in spring, and if you make your coffee empire early, you can sell the excess as coffee (150 per cup, 120 in game minutes per cup). For me, I tend to overdo the coffee, which is why I can afford to sell the excess. For making friends, the easiest thing I do is gift neutral likes unless I happen to obtain a loved/liked gift, and then I grow a ton of sunflowers in autumn. They are great since they can only take a maximum of 3 slots (1 for each quality, only 1 color). But if you are trying to do the cc in 1 year, rabbits would be the easiest option. You should also focus on chickens if you want profits. They are statistically the best money making animals (normal chickens, not void) apart from pigs and ostritches. I tend to get ducks cause they are just tooo cute. (for both extreme and casual players), I recommend saving all fossils/bones aside for the first ones you donate, since Gunther gives you an easy way to turn them into fertilizers for free. Additionally, instead of growing normal trees for wood, grow exclusively mahogany as soon as you can, since wood chippers are great to get stacks of wood quickly. You can also save your driftwood for this as well instead of recycling. Plus, they can give tree saps, so if you need pine tar for whatever reason but logically did not tap a pine tree, you can get it this way. Another tip is to not be afraid to use the charcoal kiln. Without the mahogany tree farm and wood chipper, this is a really bad idea, but as you get stacks and stacks of wood, you can save some money on coal from Clint's and just use these kilns. And most importantly, have fun! For me, I try to play at my own pace, but I also like to diet min/max. I just compromise between the pro tips and the casual plays. I don't rush for crystalariums, and I don't really do pigs. Try to go slower and faster than what you are comfortable with just to explore and keep things fresh, but also remember to stop if you arent having fun and try another facate of the game. It has so much to offer, and so much to keep players interested, even without mods!
IDK, but I think your math does work out with the sprinklers. The number you can use strongly depends on your field, but they literally water 24 fields instead of 8... Thats 3x more and literally 6x the amount of a normal sprinkler.
I have a sad story i got my first ancient seed gave it to clint he gave me one i could plant, so i planted it and it was almost full grown then a crow ate it i had a scarecrow idk what happend😭
Once you get to the desert you can trade quartz for bombs and if you're doing things right, with 1 or 2 crystalriums for quartz you won't need to use it for anything else
Thing is, tips are not for casual players really. You dont really need to be efficient or rush anything. Just do your thing, set your own goals and so on. Find what you want to find, do what you want to do, play on the pace you want to play. If your thing is speed running like getting the community center in the least amount of time possible, sure, otherwise, do it slowly, it will be best.
I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE DWARF SCROLLS dangit I always grind so hard for those fighting monsters I had no idea you could hoe the cave dirt I only got all 4 scrolls winter my second year this time around
I can't help but feel that by the time you have a fully functioning Ancient fruit farm, you're so deep into the game that money shouldn't be an issue any more...
Yes, bombs are a lot faster, but it still takes resources to craft them. 1 Cherry Bomb = 4 copper ore + 1 coal 1 Bomb = 4 iron ore + 1 coal 1 Mega Bomb = 4 gold ore + 1 Solar Essence + 1 Void Essence. 1 Explosive Ammo = 1 iron BAR + 2 coal Cherry bomb is pretty darn cheap, yes, but it has such a small blast radius that, if you're not careful, you could easily lose more ore than you would gain back by making them. And the Mega Bombs are almost too expensive requiring all those solar and void essences. Explosive Ammo is only as good as your skill with the sling, and my skill with the sling is garbage. The regular bomb is arguably the best taking into account the supply to make it vs what you can get back, but there's still better ways to spend your iron. Transmuting it to gold, or all those quality sprinklers, for example. Then again, I might just be really cheap about my ores >XD (iridium sprinklers from Krobus = best)
Honestly most of this I do not do. After completing my first farm I literally did not upgrade anything but my axe 😂 and I personally am not in a huge rush to get anything done except marrying Harvey.
For me every animal is important except the sheep it gives you wool that could make lots of things but i prefer rabbits more i know they give wool more rarely but for me the only thing i need on wool is cloth and you can get it in the skull caverns(But WhaT If We HavEnT UnLOck ThE BuS?)what would you do with the cloth in the start? Make clothes well it does make sense but i dont care my looks from year1-2 because i focus on completing the community center(year1) catching everyfish and shipping every item(i do all this at year2) and im really excited because the mobile update is coming i can finaly do something on ny year31 farm
The tip about the sprinklers is a tad misleading. You show them being 2 tiles apart when default and 4 tiles apart when used with a pressure nozzle. They can be 4 tiles apart without the nozzle, meaning they cover double the distance that a quality sprinkler does. Using quality sprinklers on a large plot of land is a huge waste of space, is tedious to set up, harder to navigate when harvesting and just looks plain ugly. Anyone who's reading, USE IRIDIUM SPRINKLERS. Bonus fun fact: You can put torches on top of them too, to light up your farm more efficiently.
The tip at 7:12 skip literally anything my friend and I used that to get 2500g on the first Friday of year one to get a coffee bean. We got very happy when we got the coffee bean
In stardew valley my farm is year seven I have Grandpa's shrine complete I also have the community center completed and I also have the movie theater unlocked I do not have mr. Kisa's Walnut room but I can get 360 ancient fruit wine ever Friday artisan profession and year 6 winter is the first time I start organizing my farm and making actually look decent starting to look good thank you for making your videos on stardew valley and made me want to play it and I love playing it
I don't understand the not upgrading pickaxe by using bombs as alternatives. In early game we don't have that kind of money to just buy 20 50 bombs to rush. And even if the rush is successful, it's not profitable.
Great video! But guess what! I started a brand new playthrough, and it was only about the 11th of Summer, when I got a PRISMATIC SHARD from an omni geode! Today my 1st task was to complete the last money bundle, and the next day, I'll go to get my galaxy sword :)
@@briantroy7376 I'm considering doing that but using both cos I spent 120 qi gems on 3 galaxy souls - although it's easy to grind the skull cavern quests cos I just buy 100 stairs lol 😂
Dont upgrade pickaxe? Uh, you could make that argument for the watering or trash can since you already push the idea of FAST mine progression due to the FURNACE tip......... Dont need to use a watering can if you have ALL quality sprinklers before the end of spring, trash is only effective at gold level or higher if you care about time vs money. Bombs are expensive. otherwise good for newbies. You forgot to include the 5 floor elevator reset trick to ensure you get the ore or gems you need.
How can i get the funace early in the game? I did like you did, buying 1 copper ore from clint so that the next day i get the furnace recipe, but it doesnt work. I tried resetting the game many times but still doesnt work, i even try to edit the save file and it doesnt work either. Please i need answer please i did everything i can
I never really liked top-down/side scrolling games, but ever since I played Terraria many years ago I started to love them. Then I found Stardew last year… immediately 10/10. LOVED IT. The thing is I still don’t like top-down/side scrollers, but there’s just something about pixel art styled games that is just so cool and makes me wanna play. I’m still waiting for StarBound to come to consoles I wanna play so bad I know I’d definitely enjoy that. Space + Terraria = AWESOMENESS. Anyway imma shut up now hope you enjoyed this stranga and have a good day and night. 💜💫
As someone who’s played and loved all three, I can concur with your Starbound statement! It’s different from, and shorter than Terraria, but has some really interesting mechanics that help set it apart. Lots and lots of fun
@@DarkStarGames. na, as far as I’m aware, it’s at max length story-wise. Unlike Terraria it actually has a “campaign” with a narrative to tell, rather than just achieving milestones and beating harder bosses. Given that fact, the story sets the length. However, the building, exploring, and upgrading aspect keeps you going after the narrative ends, much like Terraria does after the Moon Lord.
@@DarkStarGames. I adored Starbound tbh! I played Terraria first and Starbound was so much fun. I played with friends tho so idk how much that will affect your own playthrough, but seriously had a great time with it
Once I have a greenhouse I plant my ancient fruit and star fruit, and Sweet Gem fruit in the green house and grow them year around. Iridium takes too long for sprinklers, so I use the middle sprinklers from the metals that I have more of, speading less time having to water. Dump the pots that have to be watered unless it's for cactus.
I actually just upgrade my tools so they're all the same color. So it really bothers me that I can't upgrade the scythe. I NEED them in the same color.
So maybe I just never found it but I have never been able to make staircases out of Jade I've always needed stone... Like I've checked my recipe thing in my bag and on the crafting table after I got it and I still never saw the way to make staircases out of Jade
Oh my god. There's an unreal level of knowledge required to play this game, apparently. This is probably one of the only few tips videos I'm going to watch, though. I'd rather just make some mistakes when getting to know the game. Thanks for this.
I've seen multiple videos now that claim quality sprinklers are only a few % less effective than iridium ones. No, the math on that absolutely does NOT check out. Quality sprinklers cover a 3x3 grid. since you obviously cannot plant a crop on the same tile as the sprinkler, that means one quality sprinkler will cover 8 crops. An iridium sprinkler covers a 5x5 grid, and thus covers 24 crops. That makes iridium sprinklers flat out 3 times more effective than quality sprinklers. Don't get me wrong, you should absolutely be using quality sprinklers until you have sufficient materials to craft or buy enough iridium sprinklers (or get enough from skull caverns treasure rooms), but to suggest that iridium sprinklers aren't that much better is woefully inaccurate. For a more practical example, I'm at the end game for one of my farms. I've set aside an area for crops with 11 iridium sprinklers specifically for crops for certain Qi quests so I don't need to tear up my greenhouse or ginger island crops (working on filling them with ancient fruit with deluxe retaining soil to make sprinklers obsolete there, but that's less reliable on the main farm because ancient fruit won't grow in winter there). I intend to upgrade them once I have the Qi gems for it, but for now let's just compare non-upgraded ones. 11 iridium sprinklers will water 264 crops. In order to cover that many crops with quality sprinklers, not only would I need 33 of them, but every sprinkler actually used is a space that could be used for an extra crop instead, if only that sprinkler's crops were already taken care of, like by a more powerful sprinkler with a wider range. The range/spacing of iridium sprinklers also means you can rely on them if you want to grow giant crops, but this cannot be done with quality sprinklers. TL;DR: There is absolutely no scenario in which quality sprinklers are "only a little less effective" than iridium ones. The math is clear.
buying a piece of copper on the first day is one of the most stupid things i have heard, literally just break like five rocks on the farm and you’ll get one
imagine penny's reaction once she learns that you have a barn filled with rabbits which only task is to mass-produce rabbit's feet lol
Marry her while having a farm filled with them to assert dominance
Married to Penny with a farm which basically only produces wine and rabbits' feet 😅
You monster 😂
My house is full of kegs for beer/wine mass production + storage room while being married to her
"Penny, I'm so sorry, but look at the profits!" (Still incredibly guilty)
Main reason I don't do most of this is because I want to play a relaxing, casual game, not grind away to pointless levels of money before Grandpa even has rated my farm.
Exactly
Grandpa rates your farm whenever you ask though doesn’t he after the third year?
Instant gratification generation
Same here. I love the design and aesthetics more then grinding money. The money is only for buying the decor
Saaaame
During the Egg Festival I really wanted the straw hat you get after winning the egg hunt, but I was terrible at collecting eggs so I had to reset the day over and over again just to get it. It felt like the movie Groundhog Day, having the same conversation with villagers and doing the egg hunt again and again, but it was worth it! That hat is basically my entire identity and I’m glad I didn’t have to wait an entire year to get it again.
It took me literal years to figure out how to win the egg hunt (thanks UnsurpassableZ for teaching me!) so I didn't even know about that hat for ages! I was so proud of it!
I started the game and got the hat and haven’t taken it off since, I am on year 4 almost 5 and am playing as a type this
The mouse can sell it.
@@VitalHonet98 what achievement is linked to it?
That sounds like so much fun, you are doing it right
I'm the type of player that likes to enjoy all of the game.
I plant every crop.
I build every machine.
I make every item.
I raise every animal.
I like to have a supply of everything i might need. Although i will put priority in bigger numbers for the money making things, however i still will diversify.
I mean, you have to do a lot of this if you want to achieve *PERFECTION*.
Same. I really enjoy the immersion aspect in games like this. I'm just not interested in a ton of min-maxing. I feel like having a farm filled to the absolute brim with ancient fruit and a billion casks might be *profitable* but it just doesn't seem... fun? To me, at least. Everyone plays games differently and that's okay :)
In my farm, i only build ponds, tap wild trees only, farm (non diamond) gems and a coop with only void chicken.
I’m trying to stop myself from becoming wine overlord and getting burnt out so I’m diversifying with lots of animals, beehives and fish ponds. But the gold clock grind is insane, I think it should be cheaper tbh
"Explosions are just better than hard work."
Words to live by.
"Art is an explosion" - Deidara (only Naruto fans can understand what I meant to say :p)
Art is explosion
Amen
Her next gig is going to be with a remake of Mythbusters. 😁
Oh so committing genocide with bombs are better then with military forces (it’s a joke RUclips)
Iridium springlers can be bought. Every Friday in The Seweres Krobus sells one. So if you open the Sewers as fast as possible, you can save your materials but still get them
And krobus is the cutest npc in the game so its a win win
If the glitch still exists... you COULD buy1, leave the sewers, then come back immediately, and he'll have another sprinkler for sale; rinse and repeat until you have all the sprinklers you need.
@@andrewdesalvatore7262 only work in 1.4, Tho if you have the not-updated version of the stardew valley in handphone you could do it.
I only buy them from Krobus
@@FoxGameCZ I also did. I never bought I from anyone therefore I bought all my sprinker from Krobus.
I guess in the grand scheme of things sprinklers have a 7% difference, with quality sprinklers utilizing ~89% of tile space and Iridium utilizing 96% but iridium sprinklers are still 300% better than quality ones with 8/1 and 24/1 tiles per sprinkler respectively.
exactly! even though quality ones are easier to make you'll have to make SO many more and i cant help but feel like thats a waste of resources
You can also buy one every Friday from krobus, no materials necessary
I didn’t know what she meant by 7% better, but she is right that the amount of space a single sprinkler doesn’t really matter. I could make enough quality sprinklers to cover the entire farm twice. I currently also have like 3 iridium bars, so there’s no comparison.
Also you get giant crops with iridium sprinkler
I like to break my farm into plots which are each covered with a scarecrow and a Junimo hut. With a basic farm, this breaks into 9 plots of 192 usable tiles - either by using 24 QS on a 216 plot or by using 8 IS on a 200 tile plot. The IS only become more valuable if you're picking all of your crops by hand.
Make Crystal Fruit Wine in winter. It's more profitable than selling the winter foraging items which are probably the only thing you're going to be growing outside in that season unless you use certain mods.
I filled half my greenhouse with strawberries and half with ancient fruit. I make a lot of money in the winter. 🤣
@@voiceofdistortedreason5998 Make more Ancient Seeds and fill the tillable part with Ancient Fruit, then put strawberries in garden pots, either where they'll be reached by your sprinklers or Deluxe Retaining Soil. More profitable that way, especially if you make Ancient Fruit Wine. You can also put trees in there.
I always enjoy growing foragables on my farm though. Idk why after I rush foraging for the first summer, but I usually end up with 200 or so iridium crystal fruit that I just use for food through the year. I use crystal fruit as my nonbuff food and keep a couple hundred crocus to give to people as I run through town for funsies.
Always get the greenhouse though and have ancient fruit and pineapple in there 🤷🏼♂️
Up to a point, I think crafting and selling tea bushes is more profitable than even crystal fruit wine (4 forage -> 10 seeds -> 5 bushes = 2500g). It does use up some of your other resources, though, so it depends how hard you feel like grinding those. Also you probably want to save some winter seeds to jumpstart the next winter.
@@emurphy42 Grow enough and make seeds out of some of what grows each harvest and forage off the farm, you can repeat and gradually grow ever more. This is not restricted to winter. I keep a bank of 150 for each season, could make more seeds, but winter, unless you're using mods, is the only season you're going to want to have fields full of the foraging seeds.
Furthermore, a big shed full of kegs and one outside to keep track of when they're done comes out to 138 x 630 base with artisan, a single shed full of normal quality Crystal Fruit Wine goes for 86,940, and the more you put back before starting to make Crystal Fruit Wine, the more often you'll get that profit before having to wait for the next winter. Like, I'm about to start year 5 in my vanilla game on PS4 and have not started making Crystal Fruit Wine yet because of how long it takes to get the materials to make that many kegs, but have since the first winter been putting back crystal fruit with full intent to make wine as often as possible once I do have the materials for so many kegs. I always take gatherer and botanist to get a chance at double harvest and to have iridium quality forage items and improve their sell price. And why sell them directly rather than make tea saplings? Because with enough growing outside, even with not selling crystal fruit, you can still potentially get upwards of 50k once a week just from winter foraging items, and that's after making 150 seeds for next winter and seeds to grow more and more after every harvest until the end of the season.
Remember also that blue slimes in the ice levels of the mine and secret woods in winter have a chance to drop winter root, which you can put in the seed maker to get more winter seeds, so if you really want to use winter seeds, I do not, to make tea saplings, you can put aside any winter root you get from foraging and that drop from blue slimes in seed makers and get seeds directly without having to grow them. Of course, you could do that and not even worry about making seeds from what you've grown and have that many more crystal fruit to later make into wine, provided you get your target number of seeds for the next winter.
All the villagers upon receiving the rabbit foot in the video: Hey, this is great, I love this!
Abigail: Hey, get out of my face and leave me alone :]
She was hoping for an Amethyst to snack on.
I relate to Abby, i love rabbits too much to eat them, and i also have the urge to eat gemstones sometimes
she was probably an ex xD they get salty
@@blueghost4769 no she was an ex she does love rabbits foot. Who doesn’t is penny she hates it.
Grandpa: "Whenever you feel like the burden of life and the real life is too much after money, get on my farm and relax"
'Pro' Stardew Valley player: "Money go brrrrrr"
Lmao!
'Pro Player': "Make sure you hoe in this particular pattern to get a piece of clay every time you hoe for maximum money per energy, make sure to use the animation cancel macro to reduce animation speeds to save in game time, make sure to go out of bounds to enter the mines early, make sure to count your steps and go to sleep when you have exactly 'x' steps to guarantee rain the day after tomorrow so you don't have to water your crops"
So I discovered your channel because my wife got me back into the game when we got it on steam. I had played it on switch when it came out in 2018 and hadn't played it in like 3 years. It's like a completely different game and you've helped me learn to navigate the game again. Thank you and keep up the good work
I only duplicate Ruby in my crystalarium and exchange it for spicy eel.
A tip for me : Don't buy sheep. Wool doesn't have a lot of use in SDV just focus on getting Rabbits.
I make cloth
I duplicate 3 things: rubies for spicy eel, jade for staircases and diamonds for triple shot espresso :D
@@myrakwulf686 i find its way more useful to save diamonds for the fairy dust cuz you can buy coffee from gus for espresso and also make it really easily
Personally I find my rabbits drop plenty of wool, though admittedly I don't use much to begin with
@@toms-zr9mq as far as I know fairy dust only makes profit when aging gold ancient/starfruit to iridium wine. I wouldn't waste them on kegs, and if you have enough kegs, lets say at least 600 you will be swimming in money anyways.
As a min-max player, the 7% difference between quality and iridium sprinklers makes a huge difference especially with more crop spaces. For me, it’s a 45k gold per day difference with 2,300 crop spaces. Plus getting the whole farm rigged with 30-50 iridium sprinklers by year 1 fall sets up for insane early game scaling. The crystallariums can wait especially if you do at least 10 skull caverns runs per season starting Spring day 17. You’ll have way too much spicy eel and triple shot espressos on hand. Crystallariums just won’t beat the huge early game gold scaling of iridium sprinklers. But that’s just me.
i find iridium sprinklers much easier to make and its not difficult to make crystalariums either but they arnt a necessity in early game by far
And they're over 100% better her math is way off. They literally water more than twice as many crops as the sprinkler before.
@@jadenrich117 she wasn't going based on how much each sprinkler waters, she was going on how many total spaces are devoted to crops vs sprinklers in the same amount of area. So the math wasn't wrong, but it does mean you need to craft more quality sprinklers than you would iridium, so she did kinda ignore/gloss over having to get additional metal bars for it all. I support iridium sprinklers myself, especially in greenhouse where you have limited space and grow your ancient fruit year round.
You can also buy a iridium sprinkler every Friday from krobus. I have only crafted one iridium sprinkler and that was for the crafting achievement
I get that everyone funs different. But you're having fun wrong!!! Stop MATH
These videos dragged me back into Stardew Valley. I don't regret anything, I finally had my happy t4t gay marriage with Harvey.
Mazel tov lol
Gay marriage with harvey>everyone else
@@trulers8713 YOU GET IT
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the biggest pro for using iridium sprinklers is that you waste less space in bigger areas
also brewing coffee from a few bushes coffee beans is a really cheap way of getting coffee
dinos need less hay to make an egg
if you fall asleep in the mines you only lose a bit of money, no items
Yeah plant like 10 coffee beans in the greenhouse and you got your daily coffee filled all year.
@@JutlandAngel Not quite. If you're still filling your entire day, it takes 3 triple-shot espressos to keep the speed boost up all day, which are 15 beans each, so you need 45 per day. So to get at least 90 every two days, you need 23 plants. Even if you're only using two per day, you still need 15. But yes, definitely save some space in your greenhouse to make the caffeine flow.
didn't know about tilling and untilling the soil in the caverns... been playing this game for over 6 years and i'm still learning stuff
take your like! would leave more if i could
@@manuelmantilla1485 what
Same
You can get giant crops with iridium sprinklers, but it's impossible with quality sprinklers. That 7% makes a big difference. I guess giant crops aren't that big of a deal either - turning 9 crops into 18-21 - but getting them is a game for me.
Large crop always feels like a lucky event for me, it only had 1% of spawn rate everyday. If the crop matured in day 12, it basically means that you're playing a gacha game where you got 16 pull to get an ssr character and the chance is 1%only. The possibility of putting 9 melon / pumpkin there whole season and it didn't turn into large crop is too huge and risky for me so I always harvest those crop whenever it's ready. Buttttt if i got lots of money in year 2 or 3 ill try to get few of them as we got larger farm area and more money to buy seeds to increase the chance of getting those large crop
I have large crop on my farm with regular second level sprinklers. All 3 crops now.
When you're growing hundreds of plants, a few of them being doubled doesn't make much of a difference, but I eventually move the iridium sprinklers anyway just because they're faster and easier to replant.
Here's one thing I do that I don't hear a lot yet (or at least just in my immediate circle): I just normally play the game w/o any Speed boosts, until I have enough money to buy a big stack of Crab Cakes, which are unlimited for 3 days at Gus' shop after Willy's 6-heart event, just now in my 5th farm I spent like 480k on Crab Cakes (which is around 900 of them), and by doing the math, if theoretically I only eat 1 Crab Cake per day for Speed purposes, this stack lasts for 8 in-game years. Sure, I'm pretty much beyond True Perfection after like 3-4 years, but it's just a neater alternative imo compared to using Rubies in Crystalariums and having to trade for Spicy Eels every time (which only lasts 5 minutes, compared to the Crab Cakes' 16 minutes when it comes to the buffs)
Then you wouldn't be able to eat anything else with any other buffs on it, like a lucky lunch if needed, or foraging or farming.
@@andrewlauring4468 why would you use Lucky Lunch for foraging or farming tho, if anything Farmer's Lunch is infinitely better when farming, and do you really need food buffs at a point where you have Gatherer and Botanist?
Furthermore, you don't have to stick with the Crab Cake for the entire day, you can use something else esp. in the Skull Cavern like Magic Rock Candy, the point is to just keep the speed you get from food at all times of the day.
@@lnlonelyness2801 I meant for the mines ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
@@andrewlauring4468 same thing, if u wanna use Lucky Lunch or MRC, then go for it, like I said the idea is to keep having good Speed at all times. MRC does that as well, so it's up to you if you want a more reliable Luck boost with Lucky Lunch or just want most stats buffed, including Speed, with MRC.
Maybe add in a couple of oranges so you don't get scurvy 🤔
Iridium sprinklers are so easy to get I strongly disagree with maining quality ones for everything. I do use quality sprinklers, but only to get a wide manageable pattern of bee hives with flowers around said sprinklers. You could probably do the same with basic sprinklers but I enjoy the aesthetic of a full ring of flowers around my quality sprinklers. My pro tip though is none of this as I admit it's just personal preference. Instead, my tip, is bees. They are versatile and fun to play with. The first harvest of normal honey can be made into mead or farm totems completely trivializing the fancy rod that costs a fortune. You can use said mead for a nice $ boost and even gift them to pam for easy hearts.
When you start over, fish sideways! You'll throw a tiny bit further thus get higher quality. You can validate this by fishing until you get silver without a perfect catch and then try fishing vertically.
Just recently caught an iridium sunfish on my first cast with this technique, so it definitely makes a difference.
Thing that aazes me in those video is why everyone so obsessed with :gaining friendship fast" - WHY? Putting aside recipes and occasional gifts friendship isnt give you much, Yes, nice for roleplaying, but spamming NPC with best ever gifts kinda defeats roleplaying purpose.
Whwn i play i dont pay much attention to it, running across NPC - say hi, if have something to spare - gift. Even if gift isnt good you can fix it by trying something else next time.
You can light up all four candles at grandpa's shrine in year 3 and get the statue of perfection
I know everyone knows this, but i have recently discovered an exploit via the wiki that will change the way you get iridium! Place down that statue and fill up your inventory. Mine the shrine (it shouldn't be in your inventory) and return to the shrine and you can get another one. Infinite iridium!!
Ezlilyy probably knows this, but i bet you don't and if you actually don't, i hope this helps!
I didn’t know this.. and I’m in year 5 🤦🏻♀️😂😂
How many statues can you get?
@@landonperkins260 you can get an infinite amount of statues using this method. I decided to simply get 5
Oh yh I did that two days ago after reading about it and now I have 68 and get approx 350 iridium every day which sometimes I sell once I have two +stacks (so every 3 days rlly) cos its easy money aswell!
for people that played this game too much and you are bored of all the op ancient fruits, starfruits, fairy rose honey and pig truffles, try the combo of these mods ,I'm pretty sure it makes you say oh boy this is how vanilla stardew was supposed to be !
1-walk of life
2-stardew balance overhaul
3-Main Questline Redux (PMC CCJ)
4-SVE
I promise you stardew gonna be on whole another level ,way better than before assuming it's not your first play though !
Tip: only put jade in your duplicater if you want staircses!
Friendly reminder that Penny hates rabbit feet because apparently she is the only villager who is not ok with the mutliation of those fluffy bois and gurls.
Also: Spending iridium on crystalaria to get more iridium is not a necessary loop for most people. You can almost completely skip the skull cavern. You only need 298 iridium ore even for perfection (yes, perfection!). You will get there at the end of summer in year 2 from Granpa's Statue alone. Also, perfection requires you to slay enough monsters, so you get that random iridium anyway. In short, if you accept that iridium sprinklers are a waste (and you can buy those on fridays from Krobus), then there's nothing really useful to get from them. So if you like diving into the skull cavern, go for it. But if you hate that place and it's snakes, remember that iridium is overrated. You only need enough jade to perhaps complete the dangerous mines once and perhaps go to level 100 of the skull mines once - but that's still optional, even for perfection.
I agree. Getting 4 candles in Grandpa's Evaluation is better because you get free iridium every day and will end up with more than enough iridium really quickly. I only go to the skull caverns when I feel like dropping down to level 100 using stairs (from Jade) and blowing up a lot of stuff on a good luck day.
true, I mostly just buy the Iridium Sprinklers I need on Krobus' shop even if I like doing SC runs, it's mostly because of the Blacksmith profession tbh, you get so much iridium ore that u might as well sell them (1.5k each iirc with the profession)
This also applies to Radioactive Ore, they don't have a lot of uses, and even the bars don't have much good uses too apart from Heavy Tappers, so it's also nice to sell them (even on endgame, I stockpile Qi Gems every month to spend it all on buying Hoppers for 10 Qi Gems, then Deconstruct them for a free 4.5k gold per bar)
@@lnlonelyness2801 18 radioactive ore needed for perfection, since you brought it up.
Although personally, I'd argue that you get more money via "regular" means in comparison to iri bars. In the end it's about which parts of the game you enjoy the most and since plenty of players really hate the skull cavern I like to reinforce that it's not necessary to grind them.
Grandpas evaluation happens overnight between years 2 and 3, so the soonest you can get it is year 3 spring 1. So it won't be giving you any ore in year two. So if you want to complete perfection as soon as you can (aka year 3 spring 1), you can't wait for grandpas statue.
@@waffles3629 But if you actually do hurry, you also have less time for crystalaria to reach amortization. And I did mention "most people" - and most people don't go for perfection at all, much less at spring 1 year 3. Thanks for pointing out that typo (or brain fart, can't remember which it was) about the statue coming too late for a perfection speedrun.
Still, if you don't waste your iri on crystalaria, you need very little of it for perfection and you can easily collect that much while ticking off the monster slayer boxes.
I just started playing stardew valley this week so I wanted to see what the gameplay community was like. It’s a little surprising how much of the community is centered on maximizing and being anything but leisurely 😅 then again, I can see wanting to move faster and aim bigger if I’m playing multiple saves for hours a day (especially for an audience!)
Most of my friends who play SV prefer a relaxed playthrough, but there's no content to be made about this kind of gameplay.
Yea this is for people looking at getting as early of perfection as possible. The way the video ended was very much not a good way to go. It’s like, no, play how you want to, none of the game is time gated, because if you miss something one year, just get it next year
Rabbit's Feet, as some have likely pointed out already, are a Hated gift for Penny, so don't give them to her. Thankfully, Penny's likely one of the easiest to befriend, anyway, since she's often at the museum, so I run into her a lot dropping off artifacts, etc, and just talk to her.
"explosions are just better than hard work"
This is so funny out of context
"Look I made a bridge!"
Bombs are actually a very inefficent way of mining when you think about it. It seems like that on the surface, but it costs copper/iron/gold, the very things you're mining for in the first place. It's really only worth it when you are rich, and can afford to buy the copper/iron/gold ores from clint directly, in order to find some Iriduim late game.
I only get bombs from drops that monsters in the mines have. Like the rock crabs!
That's assuming you make the bombs, which as far as I know, bomb users don't do. They buy them in mass from the Dwarf.
Or you just buy the bombs like a sane person
Spending thousands of G every time you go into the mines when the pick only costs 42,000G in total is crazy to me. And coal is way too precious - especially in the early game - to only get 1 bomb or 5 shots of ammo, not to mention explosive ammo also requiring you to smelt the iron first. I just can't comprehend ever using bombs unless I had reached perfection and just had a ton of resources to blow for the hell of it.
The only time iridium sprinklers are ALOT better than quality sprinkler is when you equip it with nozzles which saves you alot of space. Tho I'd still go for the cheaper one🤣
I’m on year 18 and I haven’t upgraded my trash can once
The only reason I upgrade my pickaxe is because I usually don't have enough resources or the artifacts for the dwarven translation book for bombs, I do usually start replacing the pickaxe with bombs most of the time by the time I reach year 3-4.
When you're talking about sprinklers, you say that Iridium Sprinklers are only 7% more effective than Quality Sprinklers. Where do you get the math for this? A Quality Sprinkler waters 8 tiles, and an Iridium Sprinkler waters 24, by my math that's a 200% increase.
The quality sprinkler covers a 3x3 area but takes up one space, so it covers 8/9 of the farm land. While iridium sprinklers cover a 5x5 area, but also takes up one space, so it covers 24/25 of the farm land. So in percentages, a quality sprinker covers 88.8% while a iridium sprinkler covers 96%. She was talking how much space the sprinklers would take up in a farm, not how much area it covers.
"Don't be slow.
Be fast."
-ezlilyy 2022
06:14 Love the fact, that Abi didn't want to have your present 😅
She has not forgiven me for divorcing her...
@@ezlilyy ya, I know this struggle, I made it with the whole town 🤭🤭🤭🤫
@@ezlilyy I don't know if I should divorce her or not lol 😂 I want Harvey or Shane now but I can't have both 😭
I always prefer going hammer once i can get the iridium one and able to enchant it with attack speed. While daggers have one hit kill wonders, it can't really farm as fast as a hammer when you using monster musk. I always found it unfortunate that swords have the most useless special, guard helps but situational and its so rarely used if at all later that you kinda forget it existed.
Controversial opinion time! Although the math is correct about sprinklers, there's a different reason why you do want to upgrade your quality sprinklers into iridium and possibly nozzled. So yes 1/9 - 1/25 =~ 0.07 really is only a 7% increase. But saying ONLY 7% is kinda misleading, farming in stardew is a countable thing, those few extra crops really do add up. Also and the BIG reason is that a field of quality sprinklers can't make mega crops. with quality sprinklers your spaces for mega crops is 0. with 2 iridium there are already 6 possible spaces for mega crops, if they have nozzles, even a single sprinkler has 16 possible spaces for mega crops, with WAY more if you use them side by side. I only grow ancient fruit in my greenhouse because it goes forever I just go in once a week to grab ancient fruit and all my fruit trees. But outside you need to replace the stock seasonally anyway. (except for ginger island)
Valid concern!
Iridium sprinklers do have one other benefit.
They are more visually appealing as there is less clutter
I only grow ancient fruit in the greenhouse to cos it seems like a waste for it do die every winter - I still need money lol 😂 also there's this thing you can do to get a tin of iridium...
Yknow the statue of perfection?
You can get more than one by not having the statue in you inventory and having it dropped on the floor and going back to grandpas shrine
It's also helpful for money making cos I found out about the thing 2 days ago and now have 68 of them which gets me approx 350 iridium each day which is good to sell aswell
Hope this made sense lol 😂
@@johnlennon2333 honestly, even just cranking luck and farming iridium in the cavern isn't that hard. There's no shortage of it. So that's just another reason I say upgrade to iridium ASAP on sprinklers. Also if you do get giant crops, the seasons most expensive crop is actually better than the other crops, it's even close to starfruit in summer cause you get so many more of them
@@briantroy7376 I mean Im on Yr 8 and have only just done the qi get to 100 in the skull cavern quest 💀 and that's cos I used stairs for all of it lol 😂 and do you mean stuff like tomatoes and cranberries? Cos that's what I use (and I don't plant anything in spring til I've got strawberry seeds)
@@johnlennon2333 oof bro. I get to 100 skull cavern no stairs before end of year two no matter what lol, usually in winter year one haha. All about that explosive slingshot baby! But no man, you gotta always have crops down, otherwise all your crop spaces are just wasted potential moneys
"An appropriate speed"
*Runs at lightning speed*
I really can't wrap my head around people not understanding why we like 100 percenting and completing all of the game. You can still go relax and play slowly, we just happen to like playing THIS way instead. Just let people enjoy things.
Regarding tool upgrades, you don't unlock bombs until a high mining level, which is difficult to get to without a good picaxe. Plus, they are expensive to craft and purchase, making the picaxe the best choice pre-skull caverns. I would say upgrade your tools in this order: pic, pic, pic, axe, axe, axe/hoe, axe/hoe, axe/hoe, watering can, watering can, ... You can avoid getting the iridium watering can until you have plenty of spare iridium, since by this point you should have plenty of sprinklers (unless you are on beach farm, in which case ignore upgrading your picaxe and focus on the watering can as soon as possible).
Regarding the sprinklers, I also agree that you shouldn't craft iridium ones, however purchasing them from Krobus on fridays when you have enough money can still be a great way to water extra crops. And in the end game when you have access to Qi quests, the pressure nosels are really useful. This is also a good tip for more casual players, although I would warn that these sprinklers can make it harder to decorate and make your farm look good.
Regarding coffee, I highly recommend getting a seed as soon as possible rather than spending your money. Always check the traveling cart, and rush to get to the ice floors in the mines. They are the best crop to make money off of year 1 in spring, and if you make your coffee empire early, you can sell the excess as coffee (150 per cup, 120 in game minutes per cup). For me, I tend to overdo the coffee, which is why I can afford to sell the excess.
For making friends, the easiest thing I do is gift neutral likes unless I happen to obtain a loved/liked gift, and then I grow a ton of sunflowers in autumn. They are great since they can only take a maximum of 3 slots (1 for each quality, only 1 color). But if you are trying to do the cc in 1 year, rabbits would be the easiest option.
You should also focus on chickens if you want profits. They are statistically the best money making animals (normal chickens, not void) apart from pigs and ostritches. I tend to get ducks cause they are just tooo cute.
(for both extreme and casual players), I recommend saving all fossils/bones aside for the first ones you donate, since Gunther gives you an easy way to turn them into fertilizers for free. Additionally, instead of growing normal trees for wood, grow exclusively mahogany as soon as you can, since wood chippers are great to get stacks of wood quickly. You can also save your driftwood for this as well instead of recycling. Plus, they can give tree saps, so if you need pine tar for whatever reason but logically did not tap a pine tree, you can get it this way. Another tip is to not be afraid to use the charcoal kiln. Without the mahogany tree farm and wood chipper, this is a really bad idea, but as you get stacks and stacks of wood, you can save some money on coal from Clint's and just use these kilns.
And most importantly, have fun! For me, I try to play at my own pace, but I also like to diet min/max. I just compromise between the pro tips and the casual plays. I don't rush for crystalariums, and I don't really do pigs. Try to go slower and faster than what you are comfortable with just to explore and keep things fresh, but also remember to stop if you arent having fun and try another facate of the game. It has so much to offer, and so much to keep players interested, even without mods!
IDK, but I think your math does work out with the sprinklers. The number you can use strongly depends on your field, but they literally water 24 fields instead of 8... Thats 3x more and literally 6x the amount of a normal sprinkler.
Me and my friend got the ancient seed on day 17 with your tip. Thanks for that. Shame she destroyed it when decorating.
I have a sad story i got my first ancient seed gave it to clint he gave me one i could plant, so i planted it and it was almost full grown then a crow ate it i had a scarecrow idk what happend😭
Bombs are nice but at 4 iron ore and 1 coal its expensive to grind out. 4 gold 1 void essence and 1 solar essence
Once you get to the desert you can trade quartz for bombs and if you're doing things right, with 1 or 2 crystalriums for quartz you won't need to use it for anything else
I only use my crystalariums for diamonds. Diamonds + fairy rose= fairy dust...which helps your casks significantly
You sound like rose park trying to not sound like rose park and I love it
No way am I upgrading any tool over my pickaxe. Bombs are expensive early on
Lol abigail saying she didnt want your rabbits foot. 😆
this video was so good, i know a lot of the ins and outs of this game but some of these things are really helpful
My god she’s a prodigy. I love your videos cuz then I get to teach my girlfriend and act like I found it out on my own.
I've played a lot of stardew and these are some nice tips think I'll use a few to add into my game
Thing is, tips are not for casual players really. You dont really need to be efficient or rush anything. Just do your thing, set your own goals and so on. Find what you want to find, do what you want to do, play on the pace you want to play. If your thing is speed running like getting the community center in the least amount of time possible, sure, otherwise, do it slowly, it will be best.
These tips are so helpful. Lily, you are such a sweet supportive and amazing person, and you have a beautiful voice. Thanks so much for these tips!
I DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THE DWARF SCROLLS dangit I always grind so hard for those fighting monsters I had no idea you could hoe the cave dirt I only got all 4 scrolls winter my second year this time around
Um, the rabbits in spite of all logic, shed their own feet and regrow them in some eldritch shit.
I can't help but feel that by the time you have a fully functioning Ancient fruit farm, you're so deep into the game that money shouldn't be an issue any more...
Yes, bombs are a lot faster, but it still takes resources to craft them.
1 Cherry Bomb = 4 copper ore + 1 coal
1 Bomb = 4 iron ore + 1 coal
1 Mega Bomb = 4 gold ore + 1 Solar Essence + 1 Void Essence.
1 Explosive Ammo = 1 iron BAR + 2 coal
Cherry bomb is pretty darn cheap, yes, but it has such a small blast radius that, if you're not careful, you could easily lose more ore than you would gain back by making them. And the Mega Bombs are almost too expensive requiring all those solar and void essences. Explosive Ammo is only as good as your skill with the sling, and my skill with the sling is garbage. The regular bomb is arguably the best taking into account the supply to make it vs what you can get back, but there's still better ways to spend your iron. Transmuting it to gold, or all those quality sprinklers, for example.
Then again, I might just be really cheap about my ores >XD
(iridium sprinklers from Krobus = best)
The thing about iridium sprinklers: you can get them for 10k from krobus every friday, which is really cheap.
About th sprinklers
You can buy a single iridium sprinkler every friday from krobus and that much easier and better than craft one
Honestly most of this I do not do. After completing my first farm I literally did not upgrade anything but my axe 😂 and I personally am not in a huge rush to get anything done except marrying Harvey.
For me every animal is important except the sheep it gives you wool that could make lots of things but i prefer rabbits more i know they give wool more rarely but for me the only thing i need on wool is cloth and you can get it in the skull caverns(But WhaT If We HavEnT UnLOck ThE BuS?)what would you do with the cloth in the start? Make clothes well it does make sense but i dont care my looks from year1-2 because i focus on completing the community center(year1) catching everyfish and shipping every item(i do all this at year2) and im really excited because the mobile update is coming i can finaly do something on ny year31 farm
I love the amount of detail you give us honestly..
Thank you for the kind words 💜
“Don’t be slow, be fast. Channel your inner speed demon.” I want this stitched on a couch pillow plz
One thing you mentioned but didn’t exactly include is placing items such as chests and furnaces outside of the farm.
Counterpoint to iridium sprinklers: iridum sprinklers are cool
Also I tend to buy them from krobus once I have a lot of money
Krobus does sell one Iridium Sprinkler each week.
The tip about the sprinklers is a tad misleading. You show them being 2 tiles apart when default and 4 tiles apart when used with a pressure nozzle. They can be 4 tiles apart without the nozzle, meaning they cover double the distance that a quality sprinkler does. Using quality sprinklers on a large plot of land is a huge waste of space, is tedious to set up, harder to navigate when harvesting and just looks plain ugly. Anyone who's reading, USE IRIDIUM SPRINKLERS. Bonus fun fact: You can put torches on top of them too, to light up your farm more efficiently.
But if you want Giant crops quality sprinklers wont work sadly
Iridium sprinklers are better in the greenhouse. You need fewer of them to cover the area, which means more space to grow food.
There is an autopetter???? Omg. I learn so much from your videos. lol
There's certainly a lot of pro advice there. But I'd just hope people can still enjoy their stardew runs however it happens to go.
About the pickaxe one. Meteorite... dwarf... big rock... easy and quick...
The tip at 7:12 skip literally anything my friend and I used that to get 2500g on the first Friday of year one to get a coffee bean. We got very happy when we got the coffee bean
In stardew valley my farm is year seven I have Grandpa's shrine complete I also have the community center completed and I also have the movie theater unlocked I do not have mr. Kisa's Walnut room but I can get 360 ancient fruit wine ever Friday artisan profession and year 6 winter is the first time I start organizing my farm and making actually look decent starting to look good thank you for making your videos on stardew valley and made me want to play it and I love playing it
I don't understand the not upgrading pickaxe by using bombs as alternatives. In early game we don't have that kind of money to just buy 20 50 bombs to rush. And even if the rush is successful, it's not profitable.
I don't know why but your character showing off the ancient seed and then turning to beat the flys is making me laugh so hard
Geez that “Abuse this simpleton” in the thumbnail is brutal. Poor Clint. No wonder he doesn’t have the confidence to give Emily an amethyst.
I don't get the hate for Clint - he's just too shy lol 😂
The mountain farm makes mining way easier on the forst day! And you get more ep
Any Clint abuse is okey in my book.
Great video! But guess what! I started a brand new playthrough, and it was only about the 11th of Summer, when I got a PRISMATIC SHARD from an omni geode! Today my 1st task was to complete the last money bundle, and the next day, I'll go to get my galaxy sword :)
thats awesome, but as soon as the galaxy sword touches your hand, you can and arguably should, just go buy the galaxy hammer anyway lol
@@briantroy7376 I'm considering doing that but using both cos I spent 120 qi gems on 3 galaxy souls - although it's easy to grind the skull cavern quests cos I just buy 100 stairs lol 😂
Yeah I got a prismatic shard in spring Year 2 and used it for the galaxy sword lol
Half way through summer I had 50 quality sprinklers, It’s a goated strat. Also herbalist with hundreds of winter seeds is very good.
😂😂 when you said hack off their feet I was like “WHAT?! 😮” 😂😂 that’s a great tip though!
Dont upgrade pickaxe? Uh, you could make that argument for the watering or trash can since you already push the idea of FAST mine progression due to the FURNACE tip......... Dont need to use a watering can if you have ALL quality sprinklers before the end of spring, trash is only effective at gold level or higher if you care about time vs money. Bombs are expensive. otherwise good for newbies. You forgot to include the 5 floor elevator reset trick to ensure you get the ore or gems you need.
Comparing iridium and quality sprinklers like that….I can’t lose more braincells
I just realised, I got a single ancient seed in the mines but thinking it was useless I donated it
@Jelly I didnt get one later
Further, you can buy an iridium sprinkler from Krobus every Friday for 10K, so that's a huge value.
About the hammer thing, on console you cannot do any animation canceling so having answord and hammer on you is pretty nice
When she says 'Nice' My heart feels at ease. Nice
How can i get the funace early in the game? I did like you did, buying 1 copper ore from clint so that the next day i get the furnace recipe, but it doesnt work. I tried resetting the game many times but still doesnt work, i even try to edit the save file and it doesnt work either. Please i need answer please i did everything i can
I never really liked top-down/side scrolling games, but ever since I played Terraria many years ago I started to love them. Then I found Stardew last year… immediately 10/10. LOVED IT.
The thing is I still don’t like top-down/side scrollers, but there’s just something about pixel art styled games that is just so cool and makes me wanna play.
I’m still waiting for StarBound to come to consoles I wanna play so bad I know I’d definitely enjoy that. Space + Terraria = AWESOMENESS.
Anyway imma shut up now hope you enjoyed this stranga and have a good day and night. 💜💫
As someone who’s played and loved all three, I can concur with your Starbound statement!
It’s different from, and shorter than Terraria, but has some really interesting mechanics that help set it apart. Lots and lots of fun
@@dylan9124 Aw man that sucks! Do you know if they are still updating it and bringing content? Its such a cool idea.
@@DarkStarGames. na, as far as I’m aware, it’s at max length story-wise. Unlike Terraria it actually has a “campaign” with a narrative to tell, rather than just achieving milestones and beating harder bosses.
Given that fact, the story sets the length. However, the building, exploring, and upgrading aspect keeps you going after the narrative ends, much like Terraria does after the Moon Lord.
@@DarkStarGames. I adored Starbound tbh! I played Terraria first and Starbound was so much fun. I played with friends tho so idk how much that will affect your own playthrough, but seriously had a great time with it
I spent ages looking for those scrolls in the mines until I watched this 😭🤣
Once I have a greenhouse I plant my ancient fruit and star fruit, and Sweet Gem fruit in the green house and grow them year around. Iridium takes too long for sprinklers, so I use the middle sprinklers from the metals that I have more of, speading less time having to water. Dump the pots that have to be watered unless it's for cactus.
I actually just upgrade my tools so they're all the same color. So it really bothers me that I can't upgrade the scythe. I NEED them in the same color.
So maybe I just never found it but I have never been able to make staircases out of Jade I've always needed stone... Like I've checked my recipe thing in my bag and on the crafting table after I got it and I still never saw the way to make staircases out of Jade
Jade is for trading to get staircases
There is a trader in the desert and every Sunday he offers you 1 staircase for 1 jade - hope this made sense!
Banger thumbnail tbh.
I love stardew valley but it's so grind it takes forever to unlock,every thing
Oh my god. There's an unreal level of knowledge required to play this game, apparently. This is probably one of the only few tips videos I'm going to watch, though. I'd rather just make some mistakes when getting to know the game. Thanks for this.
I've seen multiple videos now that claim quality sprinklers are only a few % less effective than iridium ones. No, the math on that absolutely does NOT check out. Quality sprinklers cover a 3x3 grid. since you obviously cannot plant a crop on the same tile as the sprinkler, that means one quality sprinkler will cover 8 crops. An iridium sprinkler covers a 5x5 grid, and thus covers 24 crops. That makes iridium sprinklers flat out 3 times more effective than quality sprinklers. Don't get me wrong, you should absolutely be using quality sprinklers until you have sufficient materials to craft or buy enough iridium sprinklers (or get enough from skull caverns treasure rooms), but to suggest that iridium sprinklers aren't that much better is woefully inaccurate.
For a more practical example, I'm at the end game for one of my farms. I've set aside an area for crops with 11 iridium sprinklers specifically for crops for certain Qi quests so I don't need to tear up my greenhouse or ginger island crops (working on filling them with ancient fruit with deluxe retaining soil to make sprinklers obsolete there, but that's less reliable on the main farm because ancient fruit won't grow in winter there). I intend to upgrade them once I have the Qi gems for it, but for now let's just compare non-upgraded ones. 11 iridium sprinklers will water 264 crops. In order to cover that many crops with quality sprinklers, not only would I need 33 of them, but every sprinkler actually used is a space that could be used for an extra crop instead, if only that sprinkler's crops were already taken care of, like by a more powerful sprinkler with a wider range. The range/spacing of iridium sprinklers also means you can rely on them if you want to grow giant crops, but this cannot be done with quality sprinklers.
TL;DR: There is absolutely no scenario in which quality sprinklers are "only a little less effective" than iridium ones. The math is clear.
i'm my opinion, i belobe you should upgrade your axe because as a switch player using the slingshot is quite challenging
buying a piece of copper on the first day is one of the most stupid things i have heard, literally just break like five rocks on the farm and you’ll get one