@@moonskater15They can! It’s rarer for them to jump into the smaller pond on the standard farm, I can’t remember who exactly but I think JunimoB had a short on it Edit: Not JunimoB but here’s the video I don’t think they’re on the River farm correct me if im wrong ruclips.net/user/shortssoFwH-e2ns8?si=hOerp5O_O3qYnAWa
Here is my opinion: if you're going for the Community Center, choose the Forest Farm and fruit bat cave, as you'll get a bunch of mushrooms already from the forest farm, and fruit from the fruit bat will give you stuff you'd normally need a tree for (sometimes), mainly tree fruit like a pomegranate and 3 apples
Yep! Even if you don't wanna deal with the Forest Farm's smaller field, Fruit Bats makes the Artisan Bundle vastly easier. I'm running Forest Farm with Fruit Bats in my current Perfection attempt specifically to make the community center as easy as possible.
It would be cool if the Wilderness Farm gave you a "creepy" manor with alot more space inside! Maybe even a mystery/special quest and an extra heart from Sebastion
me too haha! But you cant remove all of them though, like those ones under the trees on the far left side. I'm trying to put my greenhouse in that space under the trees but there's like 2 bushes there making the shape awkward and you cant chop those down haha. :(@@jaynadoesart
Hilltop being the least popular hurts my soul, it's my favorite farm because of how pretty it is, geologically, and the work to get to that point with decorations and such has a nice payoff. Helps me prioritize what tools I wanna upgrade first to get around more easily too!
I love the hilltop farm! Its beautiful when all done up. I like doing orchards of fruit trees and fields of flowers for honey. Still my favourite save to this day.
I want to like it but it doesn't work well. If you could like build extra Bridges and teracesses and maybe buildings dug halfway into the mountainside it would be awesome.
The thing with the Riverland Farm is that it's not the Fishing people go for (imo) it's the more segmented layout. With the other farms being massive in area it can be overwhelming for people who aren't too good at filling up space, so having individual islands to keep things orderly is a plus. I had my Barn on the main Central Island, Beehives to the East, Fish Ponds to the West, and an Orchard to the Southwest. Additionally, islands act more or less like automatically fenced off areas for livestock, so you just need to place a gate in front of the bridges to keep them from wandering too far.
This is why I went with the four corners farm most recently. Farm in one corner, animals in another, fish pounds in another, and honey and dinosaurs in another where mushroom trees decided to grow too! Segmentation is so nice
Exactly right. I’ve never used any other farm except riverland for that very reason. It just makes planning so much easier. Also the water is pretty nice to look at.
Thats exactly why I chose it! I love the layout, its easy to decorate and fill. Plus I dont care much about having large farming fields, so the small spaces dont bother me at all
Thank you! Like, a big open space that you can design however you like is nice and all, but as for myself personally, I just stare at the big area and am lost at what to do. Having segmented islands, like you said, keeps things more manageable and I can visualize what I want much easier. Sometimes more options is too overwhelming and I need something more limiting.
For my Perfection file, I'm using the Four Corners farm. I like raising animals a whole lot more than farming crops, and the extra cliffs let me keep animals without using too much fenching
I've had the game for ages and only just started a four corners the other day. I wish I discovered it sooner! I'm still early game, but so far I'm absolutely loving it.
@@mosespray4510I like it for single player since it has a little bit of everything. If you want to maximize crop fields, you may feel a little limited.
id like to point out something cool: shortcuts! On the forest farm, there's a shortcut that not everyone knows about, between the two grassy areas to the left. Fumble around a bit and you'll find it :) there's also one on the four corners farm! so, between each section, there's a cliff, and a gap in each cliff can be accessed once you have the right tools. however, some people don't know that between the two bottom sections, there's also a shortcut. in the small gap between the fences and then the hedges just below them, you can walk. i believe this is sometimes blocked off at first by a hardwood stump or something, but if you start on the cliff and try it, you'll find it. hope this helps someone!
@@jessicajoiner3386 so, it's more of an invisible path between the two grassy areas. if you start at grandpas shrine, you can go through the foliage to get slightly further down, and then through the bit of foliage below that to get to the grassy area below, which is the shortcut im talking about. I'm not sure if this is clear enough, im sure if you search up sv shortcut forest farm on youtube, you'll get a video :)
I like having monsters on the farm until I can unlock the shrine to turn them off. They're not really giving me any advantages, but I feel like it adds to the farmer's story.
Yeah, now that you can turn on monsters for any farm from the get go, wilderness farm is just a standard farm with less land. It needs a lot of love. Hopefully 1.6 gives it some.
@@emalee8366 Hello from future! with 1.6 update now Wilderness Farm have unique Iridum Golem that not spawn any other farms. When this golem is killed, it drops iridium ore with a 20% chance.
Still no regrets on picking Wilderness farm (I'm on Summer 2 right now). The enemies are a fun challenge, but I will always panic when something spawns on my way home from the Skull Caverns (or Harvey's cus I died in the Skull Caverns)
i actually ADORE the beach farm, it's definitely my favorite layout by far. i remember it got a lot of hate back when 1.5 dropped because of the sprinkler mechanics and i used to be a hater too, but i somewhat-accidentally ended up starting (and finishing) the process of reaching perfection on my 1.5 beach farm file, and i fell in love with the layout in the process. my only problem is that i now have trouble going back to the other layouts, because they feel so very small now that i'm used to the amount of space that the beach farm provided.
What I appreciate is that every farm encompasses a skill that our characters need to work on. Standard is best for upgrading your farming, Forest for foraging, Beach and Riverland for fishing, Hilltop for mining, and Monsters for combat, and four corners for a well rounded balance. You're basically choosing which skill you want to focus on first and become the epicenter of your characters traits.
I really like using the four corners map. It makes it easier for me to organize my farm, because I can just go “okay, animals here, buildings here” etc. I just started a new game and chose standard, which I haven’t since my first play throughs, and it’s alright but I miss the fun lil gimmicks. Sometimes having fun outweighs any potential negatives.
Your last sentence there is the most important thing I’ve seen in the comments so far. Having fun does and should outweigh anything else in a game we play to have fun. That being said, some people have fun by really min maxing, so for them it makes sense to carefully choose what farm they can optimize the most. But for most players if anything grabs you about a given farm layout that you think is cool, or you see one farm and immediately have a cool idea for it, go for it! You will have more fun with that one even if you can’t finish the community center as soon because you didn’t get a specific item you could have gotten on another farm. That’s fine
I enjoy maximizing in games, like figuring out how to max out roi on every item, i hoard items like a mf, i play for maximum efficiency and whatever but all that being said 4 corners has my heart because i can SORT like you said. And i don’t care about lost space because efficiency makes up for that in the long run and I’m so happy and that’s fun for me. Idk I’m weird I do this in every game lol.
Hilariously my very first save in stardew, when I knew exactly nothing about it- I chose the beach farm b/c I love the ocean. I read the 'not intended for beginners' much after the fact. I think the reason it has that tag is simply because the lack of usable sprinkler space- but there is SO much space for animals and that's kinda what I like about it.
As a fisher main, one thing overlooked on the riverland farm is the bubbles on rainy days! It has one of the greatest if not the greatest spawn chance for reachable bubbles in the game! First year that is golden ❤
I personally love the 4 corners farm not because it's a multi-player map, but because of the 4 corners, it makes it easy for me to organize things. 😂 Coops and Barns here, plants there, and sheds over there
My main file is a 4 corners farm. I like how separated each piece is. All my crops were in one corner, animals in another, taps and bees in another. I like how easy it is to compartmentalize everything
About Hilltop: The area immediately below the house neatly fits 1 barn and 1 coop and keeps the animals penned in a small area without the need of fences if you fence off the stairs above and below (the small hill below it is nice for fruit trees!). Also, the mining area, you can usually sneak by a stump or a boulder as the entrance to it is 3 tiles wide IIRC, and stumps/boulders are only two tiles wide. I've done perhaps 5 playthroughs on a Hilltop Farm and I've never once seen one where it was not accessible Day 1. Also, for the Beach Farm, it's mainly for ranchers as the beach has a HUGE area to grow grass in, and place barns/coops. Also, try to remember that 1.6 is going to add yet another farm, so right now might not be the best time to start a new playthrough if you're wanting a farm to stick with for awhile.
I very much enjoyed the riverlands farm. More than anything, I appreciated being able to dedicate each island to a different purpose and I never had to worry about fences. It just felt very organized
The kicker to the beach farm, and why it’s my favorite, is that if you are pushing for efficiency, you aren’t using farm land for farming anyway. Sure you can’t use sprinklers, but you can just build a shed, fill it with pots, and use retaining soil. The biggest downside is not that big of a deal early on, and completely negated by the end.
i love the wilderness farm, it gives me a good sense of time when the monsters start to spawn. i also like being able to get monster drops while on the farm
Forest and Four Corners are the absolute best for an efficient gameplay in my experience. The river lands and hilltop are nice for challenges or aesthetics.
Something I'd like to point out is that for the wilderness farm it doesn't spawn monsters at 8:00, I played on it for a while on one of my saves and found out that each season has a different night-time, winter being the shortest at (I believe) 7:00 so monsters would spawn then, unlike spring or summer at around 8:00
Great video as always! As a fan of the hilltop farm, I just wanted to say, as many times as I've played it, the quarry has never been blocked off for me. I love this farm for mining runs.
i actually like the hilltop farm because of the sectioning, it makes decorating and setting areas for animals and crops a bit easier. i get very overwhelmed on other farms as idk how to break them up
I'm a Wilderness Farm gal. At the time I really wanted a role-playing element to my farm; like, an extra element of danger at night, She Kills Monsters vibe. I picked Forest Farm for my second file because I wanted to lean in more to the romanticized Lady of the Forest vibe.
I’m a huge four corners farm enthusiast, I love the way it makes splitting the farm up into useful areas so easy, I love dedicating one cube to a hugs farming area, one to farm animals, and so on, and I love how it has my favorite benefit of the forest farm, the special weeds, while also having plenty of farmable land, I haven’t played a multiplayer game of stardew in my life and four corners is still my favorite because of well it balances both early game and late game utility while farms like the standard or forest farm heavily lean into one or the other, and being more visually interesting than the standard farm (the beach is gorgeous i really wish i had a mod or something that reskinned the standard farm to look like the beach farm without the annoying sand thing)
First time I played Hilltop I worked so hard for that first pig, and then the truffle goes and spawns between those two little bushes next to the quarry. I never recovered. 😂
I've noticed several inaccessible bushes on that farm grow salmonberries/blackberries. Very frustrating. No, I don't NEED those berries. But don't SHOW them to me if I can't HAVE them!
I really do think you can find success and enjoyment on any of these. Sure the Riverland, Hilltop, and Beach farms aren't super optimal for getting the most out of everything, but you can still have fun and do perfectly fine with them. I picked Riverland Farm as my first farm, and while it doesn't have nearly as much farming space, I'm loving the aethsthetic and still making bank.
I love Four Corners because I like being able to divide the land without fencing. I typically have one area for crops, one for animals, and one for whatever else I want. (Typically fish ponds.)
I love the beachfarm! By the time I get to quality sprinklers (I never bother with the standard ones) I usualy have the sprinkable area decently cleared, and the rest of the farm I use for fishponds, treetappers, slimehutche and the standard animal stuff. 😊
Wilderness Farm definitely gives me nighttime Minecraft vibes. Casually working on your crops while constantly checking over your shoulder to see if something is creeping up on you. It'a a really niche way of looking at it, I'm sure, but it's honestly pretty fun. If I hadn't been so spoiled by the Hilltop Farm (I love the mining in the game) and by extension the Four Corners Farm (aka the LoZ: Four Swords Adventures Farm), Wilderness would probably be my main.
Whenever my girlfriend and I play together, we ALWAYS pick the beach farm. She loves fishing in Stardew and I like the extra challenge of playing on the map (plus aesthetically speaking, I think the beach farm is the most beautiful pick). It’s got a soft spot in my heart for a reason
i find that the hilltop farm has a huge benefit in that you dont need to stress over coming up with a layout for your farm yourself, if you happen to find that difficult (i do...) i find having an enormous amount of uninterrupted free space really daunting personally and get decision paralysis haha
The Wilderness farm is my favorite. I just like the layout a lot, with Forest coming in second. They give me lots of room to plan out farms without being quite as boring as standard
My first ever playthrough was, of course, on the standard farm. But I always wanted to try the hilltop, because I think it's layout beautiful, so now for my second save I'm playing on it. It's been a challenge to arrange all the buildings, but the result it's awesome. All the layouts have their perks and after this video I'm tempted to try all of them at some point
My favorite is the wilderness farm. I just enjoy the layout. You can keep it from spawning monsters. There is a setting you can uncheck on the advanced game options menu when you are starting your farm.
I did the hilltop farm as my first ever farm and it definitely made me appreciate the farms with bigger farming spaces more That being said, it still holds a special place in my heart since it was the first farm I also ever got Perfection on
My all time fav is the Forest Farm for sure. Also I've personally never encountered something blocking the quarry on the Hilltop Farm. The bridges always have at least one or two blocked sadly xD
I'm always a hilltop teuther, i feel like the geography is just way more interesting than most by having raised areas and it makes you have to only really build gates to pin in animals in certain places which cuts down on fence annoyance a lot. The ores also really help, even lategame as sometimes I'm just like "damn i need 1 more gold ore" and the boom its there on my farm. I really appreciate it.
i was watching this video right before i headed to bed and you ending the video with “and good night!” caught me so off guard LOL. you really know when ppl watch these sorta informative videos!
I quite like the forest farm. The little bump-outs with the hardwood stumps were really convenient for keeping the coop and barn out of the way of the tillable land
I said this on the community post too but man, crab pots on the riverland farm are so underrated, the sashimi made from them gives you so much added profit
For anyone still watching this, a few things I didn't realise when picking the forest farm: You can not plant (fruit) trees on the grassy parts. This means they will take up space on the farm plots or have to be kept in the greenhouse. You also lose a LOT of building space where those tree stumps are, and having a lot of hardwood isn't that advantageous. By year 3 I had a ton of hardwood I couldn't use for much, and always was low on regular wood (I know woodchippers exist but they're terrible). It is very nice for the community center and easthethically
I only started playing the game like a month ago - I really liked the idea of having a bit of everything available to me so I chose 4 corners, and I love it! The unique features of each area helped me get used to all the different tasks and as a newb made it easier to make decisions for decorating and organising my farm. I'm thinking of challenging myself and trying the forest farm for my next one, I like the aesthetic but it seemed a bit daunting first time around 😅 this is actually a very reassuring video for me!
More Pros for Riverland Farm: While fishing is your main bonus for this farm, there are other things that I think a lot of people don't think about. 1. Not having to build/upkeep as many fences. The islands work super well for animal enclosures, just pop a gate in front of the bridges and you're good to go. The only exception being ducks who can swim on the river, but all other animals (even slimes) will stay on the island you put them on, as long as there is something blocking the bridge ^_^ 2. Not as much choice paralysis. While other farms offer a lot more customization, they can also be overwhelming with the amount of choices you have to make. Where do you put your crops? Where do you put your buildings? Where do you put fences, walkways, and chests? And how do you make it not look like a hot mess when your done??? If this is a problem for you Riverland farm might be a good choice. You can still customize your farm but Riverlands limits you just the right amount to make things more chill. Where do you put you crops? Well there are three main areas good for farming, pick one of those three places. Where do you put your animals? Well there are five locations good for animal buildings/enclosures, pick one of these five. Choice but not overwhelming choice ^_^ 3. You don't have to make it a Farm. While yes, you do have to farm some crops to start off, you don't have to grow a tone of crops your full playthrough. People default to farming because it's a "farming game" but you can also build a Ranch, a Fish Hatchery, or a Vinyard (which I highly recommend since Ancient Fruit and Starfruit Wine are one of the most profitable goods in the game, and you're probably going to end up doing that anyway even if trying to be a "farm").
The stumps on the forest farm are a great way to level foraging quickly, once you upgrade your axe. Also good for the "resource rush" bulletin board quest if it's hardwood, because between the forest farm and secret woods, you can get enough hardwood without having any of the trees planted ahead of time, cutting non-renewable sources, or needing tree fertilizer. Four corners I used for a self-imposed challenge where I restricted leaving the farm, because it has access to fishing (and the treasure that comes with it), mining, and extra mixed seeds, covering every skill but combat (monsters on the farm don't give XP, but you can at least get bat wings for lightning rods if you use that advanced option). The single respawning stump is of minimal value, you just need one seed to grow your own. For the beach farm, I grew a lot of rice, since in game it doesn't care that it's ocean water that you're planting it by, so there's a lot of area to grow where it doesn't need to be watered. The rest of the sand can be used for buildings, grass for animals, or trees.
I chose the beach farm as my first farm. It was fine. Midgame I was making most of my money from ranching and being an artisan, so being able to sprinkler large areas wasn't a huge issue. Grass still grows just fine in sand. My second farm was the river farm, and I went all in on fishing. It was great at the start! I am definitely hurting for space at this point though, just for the various buildings I want. I think if I ever start a third it'll be the Wilderness farm thanks to this video. I'll just go ahead and make my life even harder.
Hilltop is fun to play with imho, a decent source of stone, ores, and geodes. I love grinding out geodes for big luck days. Also heehoo cliffs fun to build around.
The wilderness farm was my first farm and I still like it's layout. I find myself picking it a lot. Then probably the forest farm. I'll have to do a beach farm eventually because I do like it's aesthetics.
Hilltop is extremely underrated, choose it as my first farm and it's the most beautiful (forest farm is second) and has a lot of unique ways to decorate and design it, 0 regret.
I always play in the Standard Farm, but after your pool I remember the 4 Corners and how I like having everything sorted and create a new file to play it! Great video!
This is actually a much needed video for people finally giving this game a try like myself. I had 0 knowledge going in and I wanted to be informed before I commit to a farm type. Thank you very much ^_^
My favourite is the forest farm. Infinite hardwood is incredible useful and it looks way more prettier. You build in the grass tiles to save space and I just love it
Ive played my first save on the standart farm, which i think that due to the space, its really good to see what there is to do in the game and explore what you prefer. Now on my second save, where Im going for perfection (2 months into it and im already at 79%!), i chose the hilltop farm, because i didn't see anyone talking about it so i gave it a try. And i don't regret it. The way the space is separated and how its a little more limited has been making it pretty interesting to work with it, and you can really take the most of it with some fumbling. Like how since i dont really need the small quarry anymore, it became my fish pond area and i began using other places of the map for stuff like tree farming, tapping trees, having a bunch of kegs, etc. I get to sprawl things outside of the farm which makes stuff more interesting And i am already planning a third save for when i go to the joja route, for completion's sake, and im thinking of using the beach farm for a fun challenge, to not rely as much on farming for the money
My favorite is the beach farm. The goodies showing up on the beach in boxes 📦 were too enticing to pass up. Getting free sugar or wheat flour was wonderful. Plus so much space! Just upgrade your watering can for crops! Perfect for fishing squid late at night in winter. Definitely worth it!
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video!!! I am a new player and I really wanted to start with the beach farm, but I thought I was screwing myself over and I started a second save file. I had no idea about the second farm thing! Thank you so much for saving my preferred file! :D
For me the Choice is super Easy: The Standard Farm A big clean space without interruptions to let your dreams come true. Massive Barns and Grassland - you got it A Keg Empore with massive fields? no problem. I have 7 Junimo Huts, 7 Sheds with Kegs, 6 Maximum-Barns and a little bit grass on my farm + Still a little space for decorations. (Also around 15 Hey Silos to never check hey again😂)
After spending time on the beach farm I found other farms surprisingly congested and small. There just so much space available on the beach farm. The sand is great for growing grass to graze animals. You can turn areas into huge groves of sap trees or fruit trees. You can put a ton of fish ponds down. Between the soil plot and the greenhouse, I don’t really feel bad about the crop space either. Theres a lot of other ways to make money. It’s also really nice having decent fishing available right outside your house. I often close out the last few hours of the night fishing right behind the farmhouse.
Four Corners is my favorite because it has so much decoration potential! I keep my crops in one section, my animals (slime hutch, coops, barns, and fish) in another, and my processing sheds/tree farm, etc in a third. The corner with my house is dedicated to all the purely decor items. All 4 sections are decorated to the fullest, and the natural divide of the Four Corners farm really brings it all together. Four Corners Farm supremacy
for me the four corners is the choice, its just a bit of everything. you get the mining area, a regrowing hardwood log and a small fishing area & crab pots. another big reason I play it is because of the layout, 4 separate areas that meet in the middle at the greenhouse and have shortcuts between them, in my main farm stuff such as animals (bottom right), crops(top right), trees(top left) and just general stuff in the bottom left and behind the farmhouse, its just more organized and easy to use. its like the standard farm but with a bit of the other farms in an organized layout. you don't need to worry about missing out on a bunch of stuff from the other farms. and its just fun to play ig. edit: didn't mention that it has a lot of space in each corner allowing for a very useable farm + its easy to decorate. another thing i forgot to mention is that "unlocking" the shortcuts fells like a fun unlock and not something (logs and rocks) you need to get rid off to have fun (ahem cliffside).
Rewatching this as background noise and I have to say, as stardew player who focuses on animals, fishing, and mining, I love the hilltop and the wilderness farms. They offer enough space for cool layouts with the coops, barns, silos, sheds, multiple fish ponds, a slime hutch, and a mill as well as trees and harvest maple syrup, oak resin and pine tar. They are worth it if you’re patient enough for progress in the long term
My favorite is Riverlands because I always gravitate toward fishing over other skills. There's something really satisfying about trying to put a crab pot on every possible space.
Like a few others have mentioned, I like using the Riverland farm because of the segmentation. It's easier on my brain to figure out a farm plan/layout imo. Also excited for 1.6 with the release of a new farm type!
The river land farm is my fav for its aesthetics and its sheer amount of shoreline. Crab pots are seriously busted on that map, doubly so if using the automate mod
i just finished my personal challenge to get perfection on all the farm types. It was really fun. Took me about a year (real time). The first one i finished was Riverland, the last one was Hilltop. They were all fun in their own ways. : ) Fun info as always! Riverland was my favorite -- like a puzzle. And i really prefer the Wilderness to the Standard Farm! (monsters turned off!)
my personal fav is definitely four corners, i love how i can organise it by sections and even though im only using the corner with my house so far because ive been too lazy to remove the stuff in the other corners, its just easy too navigate. tho i also wanna start saves with the beach farm
I started on the hilltop farm, and wondered why you couldn't do any terraforming. The bottom row of terrain makes for a great place for passive buildings, like slime hutches!
The Forest Farm was my first farm and ever since I started playing in longer sessions I grew in love with what it gave me and just its vibe in general is so much nicer to me personally. Never played any other farm bc of that either.
River land and beach farm are the two I use on switch. I consider them equally my main farms, but I also use stardew valley for fanfiction creation with my partner, so we don’t actually use the same farms. My characters have: • river • beach • mountain • forest His characters have: • standard • monster/wilderness(?) Since I make more ocs than him I ended up using all the other types of farms provided for different purposes. Four corners I decided to make a smaller neighboring “town” and have decorations to make fake stores and what not kind of like mirroring pelican town. (This may be scrapped in our story though), and I also used the newest meadow farm from 1.6.
I understand why people might like the Standard Farm but i would never call it the best farm lol. Maybe 2nd or 3rd Tho I just think its boring in appearance which is why i personally wouldnt place it at 1st. So much dirt ;_;
I think the beach farm is also great for buildings, in mine I have an entire deluxe shed filled with as many pineapple garden pots with deluxe retaining soil so I never need to water them and a second deluxe shed with an equal amount of kegs for pineapple wine making, because you won't be planting huge crop fields you can use all that space for fish ponds, barns, coops, a slime hutch, fruit trees and sheds
i used the riverland farm for my first game, which is a little crazy but really fun! then forest farm for the second one, & finally standard farm for my third. out of the three, riverland is my fave overall
I’m a new player only in mid fall yr 1 and I’ve been already thinking of Riverland with Luremaster profession. I’d want to experiment with early game fish ponds for XP (carp gives 25 XP for giving 2 green algae on the 1st population request and their roe harvests for 11XP with a near daily chance of collection) but I’m worried collecting forage to eventually use tea saplings as early game money to build early fish ponds would be difficult on Riverlands since I’d be cutting trees in Cindersap till I get a mushroom tree and movement difficult on Riverlands. I’d probably have to put a cabin near Cindersap exit to make the most of Cindersap.
Even in single player, i love the 4 corners farm. A little of everything with perks from the other maps, easy compartmentalization for your activities, and it is the most conveniently placed starting location of the greenhouse out of any map layout. The farmhouse quadrant is usually used as my farming plot going all the way down to the greenhouse, wilderness is used for animal care (including slime hutch and fishponds depending on how many i make), with the bottom 2 quadrants being used mostly for debris. An often forgotten perk about 4 corners when segmented off like this is that it is much easier to maintain a pasture for animals. 3 gates and 4 fence posts of any type perfectly lock off the quadrant to prevent animals wandering too far if utilizing the 3 choke points into the quadrant. Grass is relatively easy to maintain as long as you have enough starter to get the grass spreading at the start of the year after winter ends. The only major downside i have to mention is that farm entrances themselves are choke points, so it is the map that it is most necessary to manage the spread of debris so as not to block an entrance, which extends to the rare possibility of a meteorite blocking one exit until you get a gold or better pickax. All that said, i do have a certain soft spot for the hillside farm, as despite the difficulty of navigation, it was my first farm. It might not be that easy to maintain or manage animals, but there is enough space to put one of every housing structure next to the farmhouse, and the choke points at the river serve a similar purpose to the segmented nature of 4 corners in terms of managing how far animals can wander. The single biggest downside is a higher difficulty getting the maximum advantage out of sprinklers, but that also comes with the perspective change to consider tier 1 sprinklers in more situations within the final layout.
I wish I had seen this earlier, a while ago I decided to start a new farm, picked beach because I liked how it looked, and it took me like two in game years to realize that I couldn’t use sprinklers. Then there was an issue with saving, so I had to make a new one anyway. (This time I picked the standard farm)
My first farm was the forest farm, but my first perfection farm was the hilltop farm! I have my greenhouse and barn at the quarry and my coop bellow by the lil pond (for the ducks ofc). It was pain in the beginning before I upgraded my tools, learning which ways were blocked or not. But late game I really love that farm! The elevated terrain mixed with the river just makes it diffirent and interesting. Especially since I was previously used to the forest farm. Great vid Sal! Very useful to hear about all the diffirent farms, and fun to read how people play themselves c-:
I recently started Stardew with a wilderness farm. I really like the look of the forest farm I wish I had done a bit of research before choosing semi randomly
Another pro about the beach farm. The little pond you fish out trash? The crab pots give you freshwater fish, instead of saltwater like the rest of the farm.
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Another pro about the Riverland farm: if you have ducks they will jump in the river and swim around :3
they can swim in any body of water that they have access to
@@kkhook3 are you sure? cuz in my standard farm save i placed them next to both the big and small pond and they refused to swim in those ones.
Same for beach farm! :3
@@moonskater15They can! It’s rarer for them to jump into the smaller pond on the standard farm, I can’t remember who exactly but I think JunimoB had a short on it
Edit: Not JunimoB but here’s the video I don’t think they’re on the River farm correct me if im wrong ruclips.net/user/shortssoFwH-e2ns8?si=hOerp5O_O3qYnAWa
@@moonskater15 take away all the food from silo, chop off all the grass, they will be forced to eat from the water
Here is my opinion: if you're going for the Community Center, choose the Forest Farm and fruit bat cave, as you'll get a bunch of mushrooms already from the forest farm, and fruit from the fruit bat will give you stuff you'd normally need a tree for (sometimes), mainly tree fruit like a pomegranate and 3 apples
Agreed
Yep! I accidentally did that on my first play through and it’s really the way to go
Yep! Even if you don't wanna deal with the Forest Farm's smaller field, Fruit Bats makes the Artisan Bundle vastly easier. I'm running Forest Farm with Fruit Bats in my current Perfection attempt specifically to make the community center as easy as possible.
Yup
Good point
If the wilderness farm actually gave you a goth house i'd appreciate it more.
I think it would be more interesting if you get the cabin instead.
misread as goth horse
Whether you want a goth house or a goth horse, there are mods for that. But I agree they should come automatically. 😂🤣
It would be cool if the Wilderness Farm gave you a "creepy" manor with alot more space inside! Maybe even a mystery/special quest and an extra heart from Sebastion
@@maxfraxx3349or Abigail.
It does kinda defeat the purpose of developing the house though and buying the upgrades.
One important tip for the forest farm: you can remove bushes with the axe, which helps with building placement a lot.
You do need an upgraded axe though (it's either copper or steel)
I'M IN YEAR 4 ON THE FOREST FARM AND I'M JUST NOW DISCOVERING I COULD REMOVE THE BUSHES????
me too haha! But you cant remove all of them though, like those ones under the trees on the far left side. I'm trying to put my greenhouse in that space under the trees but there's like 2 bushes there making the shape awkward and you cant chop those down haha. :(@@jaynadoesart
Huge tip
but those bushes provide salmon/black berries. @@jaynadoesart
Hilltop being the least popular hurts my soul, it's my favorite farm because of how pretty it is, geologically, and the work to get to that point with decorations and such has a nice payoff. Helps me prioritize what tools I wanna upgrade first to get around more easily too!
I love the hilltop farm! Its beautiful when all done up. I like doing orchards of fruit trees and fields of flowers for honey. Still my favourite save to this day.
yes! my hilltop farm is my favorite save file
I want to like it but it doesn't work well. If you could like build extra Bridges and teracesses and maybe buildings dug halfway into the mountainside it would be awesome.
Hilltop is also my favorite, I'm right there with ya!
Hilltop farm made it to my fave spot. It's my perfection farm!!
The thing with the Riverland Farm is that it's not the Fishing people go for (imo) it's the more segmented layout.
With the other farms being massive in area it can be overwhelming for people who aren't too good at filling up space, so having individual islands to keep things orderly is a plus.
I had my Barn on the main Central Island, Beehives to the East, Fish Ponds to the West, and an Orchard to the Southwest.
Additionally, islands act more or less like automatically fenced off areas for livestock, so you just need to place a gate in front of the bridges to keep them from wandering too far.
This is why I went with the four corners farm most recently. Farm in one corner, animals in another, fish pounds in another, and honey and dinosaurs in another where mushroom trees decided to grow too! Segmentation is so nice
Exactly right. I’ve never used any other farm except riverland for that very reason. It just makes planning so much easier.
Also the water is pretty nice to look at.
Thats exactly why I chose it! I love the layout, its easy to decorate and fill. Plus I dont care much about having large farming fields, so the small spaces dont bother me at all
that's a great tip right there.
i love the smaller layout and and it is nice to do night fishing behind the house.
Thank you! Like, a big open space that you can design however you like is nice and all, but as for myself personally, I just stare at the big area and am lost at what to do. Having segmented islands, like you said, keeps things more manageable and I can visualize what I want much easier. Sometimes more options is too overwhelming and I need something more limiting.
For my Perfection file, I'm using the Four Corners farm. I like raising animals a whole lot more than farming crops, and the extra cliffs let me keep animals without using too much fenching
Agreed
I've had the game for ages and only just started a four corners the other day. I wish I discovered it sooner! I'm still early game, but so far I'm absolutely loving it.
So, is it workable for single player?
@@mosespray4510I like it for single player since it has a little bit of everything. If you want to maximize crop fields, you may feel a little limited.
Thanks!
id like to point out something cool: shortcuts!
On the forest farm, there's a shortcut that not everyone knows about, between the two grassy areas to the left. Fumble around a bit and you'll find it :)
there's also one on the four corners farm! so, between each section, there's a cliff, and a gap in each cliff can be accessed once you have the right tools. however, some people don't know that between the two bottom sections, there's also a shortcut. in the small gap between the fences and then the hedges just below them, you can walk. i believe this is sometimes blocked off at first by a hardwood stump or something, but if you start on the cliff and try it, you'll find it.
hope this helps someone!
I have hundreds of hours on my main, which is the four corners and I didn’t know about the shortcut between the hedges!
Where does the shortcut on the forest farm take you?
@@jessicajoiner3386 so, it's more of an invisible path between the two grassy areas. if you start at grandpas shrine, you can go through the foliage to get slightly further down, and then through the bit of foliage below that to get to the grassy area below, which is the shortcut im talking about. I'm not sure if this is clear enough, im sure if you search up sv shortcut forest farm on youtube, you'll get a video :)
@@jigglypuff_foryoutube1700 lol! happy to help haha
@@lilysmith1673 God bless😁
I like the Wilderness Farm. The light annoyance of having monsters if I'm working late breaks up some of the grind for me.
I like having monsters on the farm until I can unlock the shrine to turn them off. They're not really giving me any advantages, but I feel like it adds to the farmer's story.
Yeah, now that you can turn on monsters for any farm from the get go, wilderness farm is just a standard farm with less land. It needs a lot of love. Hopefully 1.6 gives it some.
i like the monsters aspect
@@emalee8366 Hello from future! with 1.6 update now Wilderness Farm have unique Iridum Golem that not spawn any other farms. When this golem is killed, it drops iridium ore with a 20% chance.
Still no regrets on picking Wilderness farm (I'm on Summer 2 right now). The enemies are a fun challenge, but I will always panic when something spawns on my way home from the Skull Caverns (or Harvey's cus I died in the Skull Caverns)
i actually ADORE the beach farm, it's definitely my favorite layout by far. i remember it got a lot of hate back when 1.5 dropped because of the sprinkler mechanics and i used to be a hater too, but i somewhat-accidentally ended up starting (and finishing) the process of reaching perfection on my 1.5 beach farm file, and i fell in love with the layout in the process. my only problem is that i now have trouble going back to the other layouts, because they feel so very small now that i'm used to the amount of space that the beach farm provided.
same
Beach farm has utterly spoiled me for space.
I really like that the ground/sand on the beach farm is not that blah yellow color of the other farms....at least in vanilla.
Im a crop maniac and I can't survive without my quality sprinklers. Four-corners is a little bit small but it is still my favorite
Between the regular spots, the greenhouse and an Iridium or gold watering can, I never miss the sprinklers.
Beach farm is by far my favorite.
What I appreciate is that every farm encompasses a skill that our characters need to work on. Standard is best for upgrading your farming, Forest for foraging, Beach and Riverland for fishing, Hilltop for mining, and Monsters for combat, and four corners for a well rounded balance. You're basically choosing which skill you want to focus on first and become the epicenter of your characters traits.
I really like using the four corners map. It makes it easier for me to organize my farm, because I can just go “okay, animals here, buildings here” etc. I just started a new game and chose standard, which I haven’t since my first play throughs, and it’s alright but I miss the fun lil gimmicks. Sometimes having fun outweighs any potential negatives.
Your last sentence there is the most important thing I’ve seen in the comments so far. Having fun does and should outweigh anything else in a game we play to have fun.
That being said, some people have fun by really min maxing, so for them it makes sense to carefully choose what farm they can optimize the most. But for most players if anything grabs you about a given farm layout that you think is cool, or you see one farm and immediately have a cool idea for it, go for it! You will have more fun with that one even if you can’t finish the community center as soon because you didn’t get a specific item you could have gotten on another farm. That’s fine
I enjoy maximizing in games, like figuring out how to max out roi on every item, i hoard items like a mf, i play for maximum efficiency and whatever but all that being said 4 corners has my heart because i can SORT like you said. And i don’t care about lost space because efficiency makes up for that in the long run and I’m so happy and that’s fun for me. Idk I’m weird I do this in every game lol.
@@toobeeornottoobee EXACTLY. In my opinion, all the minmaxing in the world doesn't matter if it's a hassle to actually DO anything
@@ReginaCordium722 AMEN exactly!!!
Hilariously my very first save in stardew, when I knew exactly nothing about it- I chose the beach farm b/c I love the ocean. I read the 'not intended for beginners' much after the fact. I think the reason it has that tag is simply because the lack of usable sprinkler space- but there is SO much space for animals and that's kinda what I like about it.
me too!! the beach farm was also my first!
i decorated my farm to look all tropical
Yeah I’ve just focused my beach farm on animals and trees.
The first time I played Stardew, I picked River Farm because I like water-themed things. XD
the beach is my first too! but i love it
As a fisher main, one thing overlooked on the riverland farm is the bubbles on rainy days!
It has one of the greatest if not the greatest spawn chance for reachable bubbles in the game! First year that is golden ❤
I personally love the 4 corners farm not because it's a multi-player map, but because of the 4 corners, it makes it easy for me to organize things. 😂
Coops and Barns here, plants there, and sheds over there
My main file is a 4 corners farm. I like how separated each piece is. All my crops were in one corner, animals in another, taps and bees in another. I like how easy it is to compartmentalize everything
Forest and Hilltop are normally my top picks, but I've been using standard and beach more!! Great video Sal!!
I love Hilltop too lol
love hilltop as well
About Hilltop: The area immediately below the house neatly fits 1 barn and 1 coop and keeps the animals penned in a small area without the need of fences if you fence off the stairs above and below (the small hill below it is nice for fruit trees!). Also, the mining area, you can usually sneak by a stump or a boulder as the entrance to it is 3 tiles wide IIRC, and stumps/boulders are only two tiles wide. I've done perhaps 5 playthroughs on a Hilltop Farm and I've never once seen one where it was not accessible Day 1. Also, for the Beach Farm, it's mainly for ranchers as the beach has a HUGE area to grow grass in, and place barns/coops. Also, try to remember that 1.6 is going to add yet another farm, so right now might not be the best time to start a new playthrough if you're wanting a farm to stick with for awhile.
I very much enjoyed the riverlands farm. More than anything, I appreciated being able to dedicate each island to a different purpose and I never had to worry about fences. It just felt very organized
The kicker to the beach farm, and why it’s my favorite, is that if you are pushing for efficiency, you aren’t using farm land for farming anyway. Sure you can’t use sprinklers, but you can just build a shed, fill it with pots, and use retaining soil. The biggest downside is not that big of a deal early on, and completely negated by the end.
i love the wilderness farm, it gives me a good sense of time when the monsters start to spawn. i also like being able to get monster drops while on the farm
Forest and Four Corners are the absolute best for an efficient gameplay in my experience. The river lands and hilltop are nice for challenges or aesthetics.
Something I'd like to point out is that for the wilderness farm it doesn't spawn monsters at 8:00, I played on it for a while on one of my saves and found out that each season has a different night-time, winter being the shortest at (I believe) 7:00 so monsters would spawn then, unlike spring or summer at around 8:00
Great video as always! As a fan of the hilltop farm, I just wanted to say, as many times as I've played it, the quarry has never been blocked off for me. I love this farm for mining runs.
i actually like the hilltop farm because of the sectioning, it makes decorating and setting areas for animals and crops a bit easier. i get very overwhelmed on other farms as idk how to break them up
I'm a Wilderness Farm gal. At the time I really wanted a role-playing element to my farm; like, an extra element of danger at night, She Kills Monsters vibe.
I picked Forest Farm for my second file because I wanted to lean in more to the romanticized Lady of the Forest vibe.
I’m a huge four corners farm enthusiast, I love the way it makes splitting the farm up into useful areas so easy, I love dedicating one cube to a hugs farming area, one to farm animals, and so on, and I love how it has my favorite benefit of the forest farm, the special weeds, while also having plenty of farmable land, I haven’t played a multiplayer game of stardew in my life and four corners is still my favorite because of well it balances both early game and late game utility while farms like the standard or forest farm heavily lean into one or the other, and being more visually interesting than the standard farm (the beach is gorgeous i really wish i had a mod or something that reskinned the standard farm to look like the beach farm without the annoying sand thing)
i love using the four corners as a solo just so i can dedicate different sections to purposes more efficiently
First time I played Hilltop I worked so hard for that first pig, and then the truffle goes and spawns between those two little bushes next to the quarry. I never recovered. 😂
I've noticed several inaccessible bushes on that farm grow salmonberries/blackberries. Very frustrating. No, I don't NEED those berries. But don't SHOW them to me if I can't HAVE them!
My first time playing Stardew, I picked the Wilderness farm. I still enjoy it even if the 1.5 update made it less unique.
I really do think you can find success and enjoyment on any of these. Sure the Riverland, Hilltop, and Beach farms aren't super optimal for getting the most out of everything, but you can still have fun and do perfectly fine with them. I picked Riverland Farm as my first farm, and while it doesn't have nearly as much farming space, I'm loving the aethsthetic and still making bank.
You've helped me realize how pretty the Wilderness Farm is with those big bodies of water.
I love Four Corners because I like being able to divide the land without fencing. I typically have one area for crops, one for animals, and one for whatever else I want. (Typically fish ponds.)
I love the beachfarm! By the time I get to quality sprinklers (I never bother with the standard ones) I usualy have the sprinkable area decently cleared, and the rest of the farm I use for fishponds, treetappers, slimehutche and the standard animal stuff. 😊
Wilderness Farm definitely gives me nighttime Minecraft vibes. Casually working on your crops while constantly checking over your shoulder to see if something is creeping up on you. It'a a really niche way of looking at it, I'm sure, but it's honestly pretty fun. If I hadn't been so spoiled by the Hilltop Farm (I love the mining in the game) and by extension the Four Corners Farm (aka the LoZ: Four Swords Adventures Farm), Wilderness would probably be my main.
Whenever my girlfriend and I play together, we ALWAYS pick the beach farm. She loves fishing in Stardew and I like the extra challenge of playing on the map (plus aesthetically speaking, I think the beach farm is the most beautiful pick). It’s got a soft spot in my heart for a reason
i find that the hilltop farm has a huge benefit in that you dont need to stress over coming up with a layout for your farm yourself, if you happen to find that difficult (i do...) i find having an enormous amount of uninterrupted free space really daunting personally and get decision paralysis haha
The Wilderness farm is my favorite. I just like the layout a lot, with Forest coming in second. They give me lots of room to plan out farms without being quite as boring as standard
My first ever playthrough was, of course, on the standard farm. But I always wanted to try the hilltop, because I think it's layout beautiful, so now for my second save I'm playing on it. It's been a challenge to arrange all the buildings, but the result it's awesome.
All the layouts have their perks and after this video I'm tempted to try all of them at some point
My favorite is the wilderness farm. I just enjoy the layout. You can keep it from spawning monsters. There is a setting you can uncheck on the advanced game options menu when you are starting your farm.
I did the hilltop farm as my first ever farm and it definitely made me appreciate the farms with bigger farming spaces more
That being said, it still holds a special place in my heart since it was the first farm I also ever got Perfection on
My all time fav is the Forest Farm for sure. Also I've personally never encountered something blocking the quarry on the Hilltop Farm. The bridges always have at least one or two blocked sadly xD
I got the riverland farm for my first game and i love it! Im loving my design for it and it was pretty easy for me. And my crops and farm is thriving
I love the beach farm. It has a lot of upsides, not being able to use sprinklers is not as bad as you think.
I'm always a hilltop teuther, i feel like the geography is just way more interesting than most by having raised areas and it makes you have to only really build gates to pin in animals in certain places which cuts down on fence annoyance a lot. The ores also really help, even lategame as sometimes I'm just like "damn i need 1 more gold ore" and the boom its there on my farm. I really appreciate it.
i was watching this video right before i headed to bed and you ending the video with “and good night!” caught me so off guard LOL. you really know when ppl watch these sorta informative videos!
0:10 a year or two… or eight in the case of my first playthrough
I quite like the forest farm. The little bump-outs with the hardwood stumps were really convenient for keeping the coop and barn out of the way of the tillable land
I said this on the community post too but man, crab pots on the riverland farm are so underrated, the sashimi made from them gives you so much added profit
quality fertiliser too!
For anyone still watching this, a few things I didn't realise when picking the forest farm: You can not plant (fruit) trees on the grassy parts. This means they will take up space on the farm plots or have to be kept in the greenhouse. You also lose a LOT of building space where those tree stumps are, and having a lot of hardwood isn't that advantageous. By year 3 I had a ton of hardwood I couldn't use for much, and always was low on regular wood (I know woodchippers exist but they're terrible). It is very nice for the community center and easthethically
I only started playing the game like a month ago - I really liked the idea of having a bit of everything available to me so I chose 4 corners, and I love it! The unique features of each area helped me get used to all the different tasks and as a newb made it easier to make decisions for decorating and organising my farm. I'm thinking of challenging myself and trying the forest farm for my next one, I like the aesthetic but it seemed a bit daunting first time around 😅 this is actually a very reassuring video for me!
More Pros for Riverland Farm: While fishing is your main bonus for this farm, there are other things that I think a lot of people don't think about.
1. Not having to build/upkeep as many fences. The islands work super well for animal enclosures, just pop a gate in front of the bridges and you're good to go. The only exception being ducks who can swim on the river, but all other animals (even slimes) will stay on the island you put them on, as long as there is something blocking the bridge ^_^
2. Not as much choice paralysis. While other farms offer a lot more customization, they can also be overwhelming with the amount of choices you have to make. Where do you put your crops? Where do you put your buildings? Where do you put fences, walkways, and chests? And how do you make it not look like a hot mess when your done??? If this is a problem for you Riverland farm might be a good choice. You can still customize your farm but Riverlands limits you just the right amount to make things more chill. Where do you put you crops? Well there are three main areas good for farming, pick one of those three places. Where do you put your animals? Well there are five locations good for animal buildings/enclosures, pick one of these five. Choice but not overwhelming choice ^_^
3. You don't have to make it a Farm. While yes, you do have to farm some crops to start off, you don't have to grow a tone of crops your full playthrough. People default to farming because it's a "farming game" but you can also build a Ranch, a Fish Hatchery, or a Vinyard (which I highly recommend since Ancient Fruit and Starfruit Wine are one of the most profitable goods in the game, and you're probably going to end up doing that anyway even if trying to be a "farm").
The stumps on the forest farm are a great way to level foraging quickly, once you upgrade your axe. Also good for the "resource rush" bulletin board quest if it's hardwood, because between the forest farm and secret woods, you can get enough hardwood without having any of the trees planted ahead of time, cutting non-renewable sources, or needing tree fertilizer.
Four corners I used for a self-imposed challenge where I restricted leaving the farm, because it has access to fishing (and the treasure that comes with it), mining, and extra mixed seeds, covering every skill but combat (monsters on the farm don't give XP, but you can at least get bat wings for lightning rods if you use that advanced option). The single respawning stump is of minimal value, you just need one seed to grow your own.
For the beach farm, I grew a lot of rice, since in game it doesn't care that it's ocean water that you're planting it by, so there's a lot of area to grow where it doesn't need to be watered. The rest of the sand can be used for buildings, grass for animals, or trees.
I chose the beach farm as my first farm. It was fine. Midgame I was making most of my money from ranching and being an artisan, so being able to sprinkler large areas wasn't a huge issue. Grass still grows just fine in sand.
My second farm was the river farm, and I went all in on fishing. It was great at the start! I am definitely hurting for space at this point though, just for the various buildings I want.
I think if I ever start a third it'll be the Wilderness farm thanks to this video. I'll just go ahead and make my life even harder.
Ranching is more profitable then crops so the beach farm isn’t that as bad as people think
Hilltop is fun to play with imho, a decent source of stone, ores, and geodes. I love grinding out geodes for big luck days.
Also heehoo cliffs fun to build around.
I chose the forest farm first purely because I was new to the game and really liked the aesthetics I had in mind but now I'm even more glad I did :)))
I liked the decor in the wilderness the most. I didn't know the grass golems were exclusive :0
The wilderness farm was my first farm and I still like it's layout. I find myself picking it a lot.
Then probably the forest farm. I'll have to do a beach farm eventually because I do like it's aesthetics.
Hilltop is extremely underrated, choose it as my first farm and it's the most beautiful (forest farm is second) and has a lot of unique ways to decorate and design it, 0 regret.
I tried the beach farm for my current playthrough and it's really fun! Did not know about the secret passage though, will have to try it out.
I always play in the Standard Farm, but after your pool I remember the 4 Corners and how I like having everything sorted and create a new file to play it!
Great video!
This is actually a much needed video for people finally giving this game a try like myself. I had 0 knowledge going in and I wanted to be informed before I commit to a farm type.
Thank you very much ^_^
Same!!
My favourite is the forest farm. Infinite hardwood is incredible useful and it looks way more prettier. You build in the grass tiles to save space and I just love it
Ive played my first save on the standart farm, which i think that due to the space, its really good to see what there is to do in the game and explore what you prefer.
Now on my second save, where Im going for perfection (2 months into it and im already at 79%!), i chose the hilltop farm, because i didn't see anyone talking about it so i gave it a try. And i don't regret it. The way the space is separated and how its a little more limited has been making it pretty interesting to work with it, and you can really take the most of it with some fumbling. Like how since i dont really need the small quarry anymore, it became my fish pond area and i began using other places of the map for stuff like tree farming, tapping trees, having a bunch of kegs, etc. I get to sprawl things outside of the farm which makes stuff more interesting
And i am already planning a third save for when i go to the joja route, for completion's sake, and im thinking of using the beach farm for a fun challenge, to not rely as much on farming for the money
My favorite is the beach farm. The goodies showing up on the beach in boxes 📦 were too enticing to pass up. Getting free sugar or wheat flour was wonderful. Plus so much space! Just upgrade your watering can for crops! Perfect for fishing squid late at night in winter. Definitely worth it!
Thank you SO MUCH for making this video!!! I am a new player and I really wanted to start with the beach farm, but I thought I was screwing myself over and I started a second save file. I had no idea about the second farm thing! Thank you so much for saving my preferred file! :D
For me the Choice is super Easy: The Standard Farm
A big clean space without interruptions to let your dreams come true.
Massive Barns and Grassland - you got it
A Keg Empore with massive fields? no problem.
I have 7 Junimo Huts, 7 Sheds with Kegs, 6 Maximum-Barns and a little bit grass on my farm + Still a little space for decorations.
(Also around 15 Hey Silos to never check hey again😂)
I love the 4 corners farm, mainly bc it being divided up helps me keep things organized and focused
After spending time on the beach farm I found other farms surprisingly congested and small. There just so much space available on the beach farm.
The sand is great for growing grass to graze animals. You can turn areas into huge groves of sap trees or fruit trees. You can put a ton of fish ponds down.
Between the soil plot and the greenhouse, I don’t really feel bad about the crop space either. Theres a lot of other ways to make money.
It’s also really nice having decent fishing available right outside your house. I often close out the last few hours of the night fishing right behind the farmhouse.
i love the four corners farm for organization, but this video made me want to try out the hilltop farm!
Four Corners is my favorite because it has so much decoration potential! I keep my crops in one section, my animals (slime hutch, coops, barns, and fish) in another, and my processing sheds/tree farm, etc in a third. The corner with my house is dedicated to all the purely decor items. All 4 sections are decorated to the fullest, and the natural divide of the Four Corners farm really brings it all together. Four Corners Farm supremacy
for me the four corners is the choice, its just a bit of everything. you get the mining area, a regrowing hardwood log and a small fishing area & crab pots. another big reason I play it is because of the layout, 4 separate areas that meet in the middle at the greenhouse and have shortcuts between them, in my main farm stuff such as animals (bottom right), crops(top right), trees(top left) and just general stuff in the bottom left and behind the farmhouse, its just more organized and easy to use. its like the standard farm but with a bit of the other farms in an organized layout. you don't need to worry about missing out on a bunch of stuff from the other farms. and its just fun to play ig.
edit: didn't mention that it has a lot of space in each corner allowing for a very useable farm + its easy to decorate. another thing i forgot to mention is that "unlocking" the shortcuts fells like a fun unlock and not something (logs and rocks) you need to get rid off to have fun (ahem cliffside).
Rewatching this as background noise and I have to say, as stardew player who focuses on animals, fishing, and mining, I love the hilltop and the wilderness farms. They offer enough space for cool layouts with the coops, barns, silos, sheds, multiple fish ponds, a slime hutch, and a mill as well as trees and harvest maple syrup, oak resin and pine tar. They are worth it if you’re patient enough for progress in the long term
I adore forest and beach farms. Those are my go tos!
My favorite is Riverlands because I always gravitate toward fishing over other skills. There's something really satisfying about trying to put a crab pot on every possible space.
It would be nice to get an update of this with the Meadow Farm.
Like a few others have mentioned, I like using the Riverland farm because of the segmentation. It's easier on my brain to figure out a farm plan/layout imo.
Also excited for 1.6 with the release of a new farm type!
The river land farm is my fav for its aesthetics and its sheer amount of shoreline. Crab pots are seriously busted on that map, doubly so if using the automate mod
i just finished my personal challenge to get perfection on all the farm types. It was really fun. Took me about a year (real time). The first one i finished was Riverland, the last one was Hilltop. They were all fun in their own ways. : ) Fun info as always!
Riverland was my favorite -- like a puzzle. And i really prefer the Wilderness to the Standard Farm! (monsters turned off!)
I started with the wilderness farm because I liked the layout much more than the standard farm, which made for a bit more interesting farm layouts.
my personal fav is definitely four corners, i love how i can organise it by sections and even though im only using the corner with my house so far because ive been too lazy to remove the stuff in the other corners, its just easy too navigate. tho i also wanna start saves with the beach farm
I started on the hilltop farm, and wondered why you couldn't do any terraforming. The bottom row of terrain makes for a great place for passive buildings, like slime hutches!
The Forest Farm was my first farm and ever since I started playing in longer sessions I grew in love with what it gave me and just its vibe in general is so much nicer to me personally. Never played any other farm bc of that either.
Fishing on the bridge while bubbles are in reach kills my soul 😂
Forest farm was always my favorite. It had a nice mountainy log cabin feel to it that I enjoy. ❤
The 5.6% who main the Beach Farm are real Gigachads.
Hey, that's me!
River land and beach farm are the two I use on switch. I consider them equally my main farms, but I also use stardew valley for fanfiction creation with my partner, so we don’t actually use the same farms.
My characters have:
• river
• beach
• mountain
• forest
His characters have:
• standard
• monster/wilderness(?)
Since I make more ocs than him I ended up using all the other types of farms provided for different purposes. Four corners I decided to make a smaller neighboring “town” and have decorations to make fake stores and what not kind of like mirroring pelican town. (This may be scrapped in our story though), and I also used the newest meadow farm from 1.6.
I understand why people might like the Standard Farm but i would never call it the best farm lol. Maybe 2nd or 3rd
Tho I just think its boring in appearance which is why i personally wouldnt place it at 1st. So much dirt ;_;
Standard, four corners, and forest are my favs. Actually, I’m going for perfection on my forest farm and i love it
2:26 you can go on it with a horse actually
I think the beach farm is also great for buildings, in mine I have an entire deluxe shed filled with as many pineapple garden pots with deluxe retaining soil so I never need to water them and a second deluxe shed with an equal amount of kegs for pineapple wine making, because you won't be planting huge crop fields you can use all that space for fish ponds, barns, coops, a slime hutch, fruit trees and sheds
i used the riverland farm for my first game, which is a little crazy but really fun! then forest farm for the second one, & finally standard farm for my third. out of the three, riverland is my fave overall
I’m a new player only in mid fall yr 1 and I’ve been already thinking of Riverland with Luremaster profession. I’d want to experiment with early game fish ponds for XP (carp gives 25 XP for giving 2 green algae on the 1st population request and their roe harvests for 11XP with a near daily chance of collection) but I’m worried collecting forage to eventually use tea saplings as early game money to build early fish ponds would be difficult on Riverlands since I’d be cutting trees in Cindersap till I get a mushroom tree and movement difficult on Riverlands. I’d probably have to put a cabin near Cindersap exit to make the most of Cindersap.
Even in single player, i love the 4 corners farm. A little of everything with perks from the other maps, easy compartmentalization for your activities, and it is the most conveniently placed starting location of the greenhouse out of any map layout. The farmhouse quadrant is usually used as my farming plot going all the way down to the greenhouse, wilderness is used for animal care (including slime hutch and fishponds depending on how many i make), with the bottom 2 quadrants being used mostly for debris. An often forgotten perk about 4 corners when segmented off like this is that it is much easier to maintain a pasture for animals. 3 gates and 4 fence posts of any type perfectly lock off the quadrant to prevent animals wandering too far if utilizing the 3 choke points into the quadrant. Grass is relatively easy to maintain as long as you have enough starter to get the grass spreading at the start of the year after winter ends. The only major downside i have to mention is that farm entrances themselves are choke points, so it is the map that it is most necessary to manage the spread of debris so as not to block an entrance, which extends to the rare possibility of a meteorite blocking one exit until you get a gold or better pickax.
All that said, i do have a certain soft spot for the hillside farm, as despite the difficulty of navigation, it was my first farm. It might not be that easy to maintain or manage animals, but there is enough space to put one of every housing structure next to the farmhouse, and the choke points at the river serve a similar purpose to the segmented nature of 4 corners in terms of managing how far animals can wander. The single biggest downside is a higher difficulty getting the maximum advantage out of sprinklers, but that also comes with the perspective change to consider tier 1 sprinklers in more situations within the final layout.
I wish I had seen this earlier, a while ago I decided to start a new farm, picked beach because I liked how it looked, and it took me like two in game years to realize that I couldn’t use sprinklers. Then there was an issue with saving, so I had to make a new one anyway. (This time I picked the standard farm)
My first farm was the forest farm, but my first perfection farm was the hilltop farm! I have my greenhouse and barn at the quarry and my coop bellow by the lil pond (for the ducks ofc). It was pain in the beginning before I upgraded my tools, learning which ways were blocked or not. But late game I really love that farm! The elevated terrain mixed with the river just makes it diffirent and interesting. Especially since I was previously used to the forest farm.
Great vid Sal! Very useful to hear about all the diffirent farms, and fun to read how people play themselves c-:
I knew there’d be a video about this
Forrest farm is by far the best choice. Most farm land AND hardwood supply right there on the farm.
Standard
I recently started Stardew with a wilderness farm. I really like the look of the forest farm I wish I had done a bit of research before choosing semi randomly
Another pro about the beach farm. The little pond you fish out trash? The crab pots give you freshwater fish, instead of saltwater like the rest of the farm.