The other bonus of the Botanist profession that can't be overstated is it's effect on inventory management: foragables will always stack in a single inventory slot.
I think the enricher would be a game-changer if it worked on seeds too. I can imagine how quickly the people with junimo huts would jump on these, fill the enricher with seeds, and never have to worry about gathering OR replanting... Until the season changes, of course, only to come back, change the seeds, take the crops from the huts and the cycle repeats.
I'd be ok with junimos replanting crops as they picked them. Balance it out so that they only replant if they pick the crop (meaning they don't do anything if you manually pick something), so it'd still take most of the day to replant a field.
Salmonberries are nice lazy gifts for Linus, eventually he will love you without you needing to go out of your way at all. You get so many that even though they are season limited you just won't run out.
I've found that, if you have the Botanist profession, salmonberries become a surprisingly effective healing food. Running low on health in the Skull Cavern? Just pop a few iridium-quality salmonberries and you're ready to take on another few dozen floors. Even better, as long as you're not taking damage recklessly, a full four-day salmonberry harvest is likely to last you the entire year with a considerable amount left over, meaning you'll almost never find yourself running out.
The thing about berries is, yes they don't sell for much, but you get so many of them so easily that it's just free money. It doesn't cost you any energy, and your farmbis probably all automated anyway, so going out to catch them is not bad.
I only really go out of my way to grab them in early game too. In late game, if I happen to pass a bush that has some berries on it, I mostly click it for fun, sometimes seeing how fast I can do it as I go by. I can go by so fast that the magnetism effects on my rings aren't able to pick them up. Or they chase me down the street on my horse haha. Free money and free entertainment.
Using Fairy Dust in bulks does not make sense, but it is really great when you need an item processed really fast. For the missing bundle I needed a silver quality wine but did not have one, so I simply used one Fairy Dust and saved myself about two weeks ;)
It's AWESOME for time sensitive tasks, such as being on the last day of a 'help wanted' quest. Or for major quests like the missing bundle that you just want to get that one last item you need to finish it. I wouldn't be playing Stardew Valley if I couldn't be a little bit patient here and there.
Exactly! I'll guarantee that Fairy Dust wasn't added to the game for us to mix into our standard gameplay, but instead to exist as an emergency "crap I need this NOW" option.
Wait, I didn't realize that bear was supposed to be Old Master Cannoli? I think you got the sweet gem berry and maple syrup quests mixed up. The bear is just a bear, I'm pretty sure
I plant wheat at the end of summer, and harvest at the start of fall, carrying the fertilizer over a season. It won't vanish if there are seeds or crops in the space.
That's what I do, too. Also I recently discovered that you can plant fiber seeds going into winter, so now I don't have to hoe and re-fertilize my fields in spring lol. That's actually a huge time saver and I also end up with a ton of fiber that I craft grass starters with for all my animals to eat!
@@yuliam2086 I've done that too once it was added. I save up all the fiber than plant in end of fall so I can harvest Spring 1 and plant without hoeing and hold over the fertilizer. Just let the plant sit.
The thing is, Fairy roses can grow in garden plots that only need to be watered once with the retaining soil - so you can place them in places like the tunnel and other indoor area's not involved with your farm, grow them all year, and then in the out door area's have crystalariums. Then you have access to as much fairy dust as you like all year long to skip entire seasons worth of casks without even using any farm space from either farms :)
I actually do find rice useful. Rice shoots are usually free from the mines, you can grow it next to a pond so it doesn’t need watering, put it through the windmill, then you can sell it for profit or cook with it!
7:09 Tracker is EXTRA useless considering you could just use Stardew's built in screenshot feature to get a wide view of the whole area you are standing in and immediately see where all the foragables are
That seems like a weird oversight on CA's end. Like it never occurred to me how much stuff in the game is dependent on being able to distinguish certain colors. Makes me wonder if someone's made a mod to fix these sorts of issues.
The worm bin really shines when used in conjunction with the Automate mod. Just link a bin up to four or five crab pots through a chest, maybe throw a recycling machine in on the other side, and you've got a self-sustaining system that only needs to be checked once a week or so.
Once a week or so? As long as it’s somewhere nobody goes, You can leave it years! I once downloaded the mod and did this on 50 crab pots. I waited for 10 years with the time skip mod and I had so many materials and fish it was great.
Tracker has been nice to me on this playthrough. Since I havent really been foraging all that much + turning my truffles into oil, I never needed the iridium quality. Finding digging spots is the major bonus to Tracker though.
I always hate having multiple stacks of forgables... When they're all iridium quality, it helps keep things easier to handle by putting everything in a single stack.
I swapped to the tracker profession for a while as it also shows panning spots. I used it to get my lucky rings! Very helpful in that case but I did change it back immediately after I found one
Quick tip, if you find a lucky ring and have some time to waste then stay around the place you found it for a while. If another panning spot appears where the first did (which I've found to be pretty likely) it'll give the exact same loot, and you can get another lucky ring!
@@cononsberg6919 Ah, that would explain why I got three in one day panning for the fossilized tail on Ginger Island. I was puzzled, since I thought they were rare.
As far as helping you get money, the tracker profession isn't really all that good, but I like it simply because I like collecting things. The only downside to this is when there's a forgeable that I can't get to - the summit has forgeable items and until you unlock it, every time you go up to the train station, it'll have little arrows pointing to items you can't get.
I caught Glacierfish with the barbed hook once. I wasn't actually after him and I just stuck the tackle in my rod to use it up after getting it from a reward. But given the way it amplifies movement and the way Glacierfish zips around so that you are always chasing him, I was able to leverage the weird behavior of the tackle to keep up with his crazy movements. I wouldn't recommend it by any means though.
I mean if you go fishing to the ocean during fall I've found it can pretty much become free fishing just because the fish aren't that fast until like 4, so I usually use one until it breaks (around that time), then swap to the cork for the rest of the day
@@jeremiahlampkey3137 I have more battery packs from lightning rods than I know what to do with, why would I need more? Unless you're filling the entire Pelican Village with lamp-posts there's only a limited number of batteries you need through the entire game.
Enricher saved me a lot of time on the first of the season. I didn't need to run around placing deluxe fertiliser, so I could hoe, water and plant 5 more iridium sprinklers worth of crops every season.
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When I firstly saw enreachers I was so excited, I thought they allowed you to fertilize after you already planted your crops and they started to grow. Nope. Imagine my dissapointment.
it is used for those farms that needs new fertilizers every season...aka NOT ginger island or the greenhouse. MIn max everything for maximum money gets dull FAST and conveniance and ease of use is what wins the day for me....aka no coffe+eal+horse spamm for me. I either use horse with horsewissle or totems for speed and if I isn't in a hurry then I don't bother at all. Same thing with worm bins and those kind of items, ease of use fishtackle you DON't have to go out of your way for.
@@Solus749 well it's useless for me because of the way I want it to work. When in summer you plant starfruit, you need to water it on the 1st day (same with blueberries and ancient fruit and othercrops) or otherwise you can't get two harvests (if you don't have tiller profession). So you need to hoe, plant, water and fertilize everything on the first day. In this occasion enreachers can be potentially you saviour. But. They will fertilize your crop only on the 2nd day (because you missed working sprinklers on first day). But on the 2nd day your crops are already growing so they don't get fertilized. My point is that if you need to water your seeds and fertilize them on the same day - enreachers are useless. And if I don't need to water, then I can just fertilize it myself, it doesn't take that much time.
If you sell (or seed maker on a very good luck day, if needed) fairy roses from silver quality onward, and have some crystalariums dedicated to diamonds, it isn't so bad to use fairy dust for gold quality casks. Of course, I do a very casual stockpiling of supplies for the stuff, rather than trying to rely heavily on it.
The tracker profession also leads you to time/location based heart events. This is really useful for first time players trying to max their friendship levels with the towns people.
Redeemable free subscription had me laughing. GJ working that in haha. Also I completely disagree on Blackberries. Eat something to boost foraging. Get 4 (or 5 berries I think is even possible with Qi seasoning to get skill to 15) per bush. Sell them all after the 3 days or w/e you get 40,000+ easily. That's not bad for free forage tbh...
The Tracker profession is very useful as a temporary profession for getting artifacts in Winter. Temporary and Winter are the key words. Since Winter has more artifact spots and doesn’t hurt your Truffle foraging. Simply change it back in Spring.
Tracker Profession is actually very useful! If you have mainly pig farm, these guys leave truffels everywhere, and its pain to think that so many of them are left in grass till disappearing the next season. And since truffels dont have to be highest quality to make oil, if pigs are your main moneymaker, thats the best profession. I found so many truffels in such weird places.
For the cost of 1000g fairy dust to skip the 28 days of aging from gold to iridium wine is definitely worth! It just takes sooo long & the number of casks in the cellar is limited😖
Yes the berries are worth selling, not worth much on their own but when you collect 100 of them it all adds up, and you can soon collect that many by just wondering around, very profitable.
I would argue that for those that don't want to think about growing enough crops to make their energy providing recipes to last them the entire year, salmon berries and blackberries are worth the time to pick up.
Enricher nozzles and worm bin are almost essential to me in my farm. For Ginger Island pressure nozzles do sound better but for the main farm, where you usually have junimo huts too, having enricher not only saves time, it also just makes it possible to put seeds AND fertliser in big areas when otherwise you wouldn't have the time to, even in end game. And if you grow giant crops, walking around them another time for fertiliser and making sure every spot is done is exhausting. Worm bins are just very convenient to have even if bait is cheap, you always know you'll have some basic bait around for crab pots, especially if you're too lazy to go to the beach or aren't grinding for bug meat.
The way that you reuse tips is really helpful to my brain. Hearing it over and over makes it sink in. That's why you are the only stardew-tuber who's advice I can actually follow 😆 thank you
I disagree completely on the enricher. It's value increased with the size of your field, and how you want to manage your time. Prior to having them, I didn't even use fertilizers at all because hoeing, watering and planting everything took so long, and I got one less strawberry and starfruit harvest per year without them. Now I get 6 strawberry harvests and 3 starfruit harvests because I don't have to worry about manually putting fertilizers down and only need to check the enrichers every summer (to switch for what I use for cranberries, although that is changing soon to be pumpkins instead.) or every winter. The pressure nozzle has it's uses, but I feel like the QoL offered by the enricher is superior.
I think that the real comparison between the enricher and the pressure nozzle is in money gained. With the pressure nozzle, you need to use fewer sprinklers, which means slightly more ground space is available for planting. With the enricher, less time is required to both plant and fertilize crops. For someone who has converted the entire farm for plants, this is going to mean more higher-quality crops. So higher-quality crops vs. slightly more crops. That's the tradeoff.
High quality crops only seem to matter early game. Mid to late game most people will mostly covert their crops into wine/jelly making the quality of the original crop useless.
@@rhysk3921 I see people saying the enricher is really good and better than pressure nozzle, but placing tons of fertiliser takes barely any time anyway! It only takes like, a minute at most to fertilise all land on a ginger island farm. Fertilising crops ain’t some arduous task.
The tracker profession made me find a lucky ring in the forest from a panning spot, I’ve gotten a bunch of diamonds, iridium ore and other valuables like that too from spots I wouldn’t have walked past otherwise
Fairy dust is 100% worth it, I use it for star fruit wine, when they hit gold or silver I use them. It’s easy by replicating the diamonds and planting fairy roses on ginger island.
This is actually a horrible strategy because there are far more profitable plants to put on Ginger. You should grow fairy rose during fall, since fall crops are the least valuable and you can easily dedicate your entire farm to them and have more than enough for the rest of the year.
@@omegahaxors9-11 I do get the majority of my fairy rose during fall since I have a lot of farm area, and only use part of my island for it, my island is mostly sweet gem berries, starfruit, and pineapples. But I’m trying to reach a billion and at this point I still have stacks of starfruit wine to age plus ancient fruit wine and starfruit wine to make. I do a lot of planting on my farm so the fruit I have now will last me over a year or probably two to process so it’s a good strategy for me and has worked well as I try to get 1 billion gold. It all depends on where you are in game. Currently I’m just trying to get through all my current stacks which should get me to 1 billion. But also you don’t have to plant on ginger island if aren’t rich enough to use that space yet. I get enough fairy rose to last me the year from fall already. It all depends on how I want to use my diamonds since I get a stack a week.
@@omegahaxors9-11 don't think on products as money only value at all, think about how they make your life EASIER. It is the same with machines and profession choices. Tracker for example is mAJOR on the forrest farm that spawn alot of forageables. Also coffe+horse+eal is something I find over the top for speed. A horse and horse wissle or the totems is far easier late game and I don't have to bother with coffe at all. Personally I find her focus on how much much money can this make me without considering personal ease of use uninspired.
At the beggining those fish barbers helped me a lot, since I had a lot of difficulty fishing lol but once you get the hang of it, they really do get very disposable.
I did the math, and it's only worth using Fairy Dust on the last stage of Starfruit wine, as you said. It makes up for the loss in profit by allowing you to bring in four batches of Iridium quality wine a year instead of two. However, the cost of the Fairy Dust makes this only worth the effort to produce the diamonds and grow the Fairy Rose if you are producing Starfruit wine. So, thumbs up on your analysis of Fairy Dust! 👍
Fairy dust is interesting if you use it on solar panels, but then I also prefer the option of chaining lighting storms the entirely of spring/summer/fall with a lot of rain totems with having 25 lightning rods. Fairy dust on casks going from gold to iridium is the most profitable and then it only gains about 400g, ignoring lost potential money from planting better money crops than fairy rose per growing tile so it really isn't great money wise
@@porkeyminch8044 just wait for next storm day(but eg summer you can have day 2-10 storm, then you get another on 13th naturally can chain through to 27th
With a mod for storage and carrying capacity, there's a craftable Bag of Holding that you can put anything in and save space in your inventory to still pick up stuff, like all your crops. The Bag of Holding's components includes 50 Fairy Dust which, if you're a packrat like me and can't bring yourself to not have things you know you'll use a lot or need soon, is a small price to pay, especially if you devote the time and space on Ginger Island to grow the Fairy Roses needed and put diamonds in enough Crystalariums.
Another trick that you can use with salmonberries (or any fruit that sells for less than 50 gold) is if you have a lot of preserving jars, turning them into jam is a lot more profitable, salmonberry jam is about 60g without the bear knowledge
Salmonberries are good to turn into jam. Then gift it to the villagers. Free hearts, just at the cost of grabbing them as you walk about. Also, they are a good source of free early game energy, Same with the black berries in fall.
@@Kaftan I don't think Iridium Cactus Fruit is THAT profitable, but it's insanely good food. Slap a few deluxe fertilized cactuses on Ginger and you're set for food.
I actually like the hopper, if only because it gives me a place to dump all my unwanted items that are queued up for the deconstructor. I put that setup in a high traffic area, and every time I walk by I just grab whatever item is ready for me. It takes forever, yes, but I'm not really in a hurry to get the individual stones I get back from extra gravel paths anyway. The fact that you have to pick up the output before a new input goes in does greatly diminish its usefulness for other applications, since when you grab the output you could just feed in a new input manually. Because of this, the best use is for when you have a bunch of items that don't stack that need to be fed into a single machine you probably don't have tons of, like the deconstructor. I could also see it being useful for forging, since it can hold the coal you'd need, too. Third-tier uses would include recycling, geode crushing, and maybe mayo production if you have a variety of egg-laying animals, since eggs can very easily overwhelm your inventory.
Actually I think the late game use of Blackberries and Salmonberries is for Mr. Qis Prismatic Challenge :D And yes, I have to agree with you, as I never saw much use in the Enricher and Fairy Dust ^^; Also agree with you on the other points :D
I would love to see you start to “decorate” the ENTIRE map. Maybe in expanded? Every tile perhaps? & thanx again for all the content on like, the best game ever. How many hours you got on stardew?
The most overlooked part of the botanist profession is that it makes all forageables the same quality which feels so much better on my tiny little backpack
Enricher is actually very good item for normal farm area, it's a time saver and a very useful item when used wisely. The fact that its use in Ginger Island is unreasonable does not mean that it should not be used in normal farm. If you wanna use Pressure Nozzle with Junimo Hut, you can't combine properly. That's why you can't use Pressure Nozzle for your normal farm. But it's great item for Ginger Island, I have no words for it.
@@canisqmajoris 1.1 addition of "free" farm labor a la junimos, available after completing the CC/doing the joja tasks and a couple wizard quests. they harvest crops for you in like, a 17x17(? I think?) square around the hut
I’ve been really enjoying your videos! I was wondering if you also have a video on some of your end game farms and giving a tour? I’d love to see them!!
I suppose you could use the tracker profession to find the artifact spots and then reset your professions when you have done the museum stuff. I mean it's 2000g to reset a profession.
I keep berries in my bag even in end game for when I'm chopping the last few trees before bed, and oops, out of energy or even in the local mines, and I whacked one too many times, but mainly I use the berries to get me through the mines to 120.
While I agree the tracker profession shouldn't be a class you stick with long term, the fact it can be very useful for finding panning spots and artifact spots means it's probably a bit too useful for this list. If you had to hard commit to it I'd agree, but since it's only 20k to switch to it and back there's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Just a note: You're confusing the bear knowledge with Mr. Cannoli's quest. The statue (Cannoli) and its request for "the sweetest taste" refers to the sweet gem berry, grown from a rare seed. If you bring it to Cannoli, you will get a star drop. This is completely unrelated to the maple syrup quest and its resulting bear's knowledge.
i like the worm bin. i have 5 surrounding a chest near the small pool of water south of my farm, with crab pots in the water. there's also a recycling machine with a chest near there. i put the trash in that chest, the fish in the chest near the worm bins, and i turn those low-value, inedible fish into deluxe fertilizer/sashimi when i need it. i realize bait isn't that expensive, but i have hundreds of it (since i get more bait per day than crab pots), never have to worry about getting low on bait, they don't cost anything to maintain, and if i'm too busy i can ignore the worm bin/crab pots for a day - or leave them alone until i return home and have nothing else to do, before bed.
I'd use fairy dust one time only, to age a single starfruit wine to purple, just so you can keep it for the yearly grange display. Everything else I completely agree with. some professions are objectively lacking, some fishing gear is training wheels and useless to an experienced fisher and the fertilizers for the sprinklers just don't compare to DOUBLING the area of an iridium sprinkler.
The lead bobber isn't so much about the way it stops your bar from bouncing. It makes it easier to /recover/ from hitting the bottom of the bar, which then makes it easier to chase after fast darters. Made catching lava eels for my ponds easy as hell. And Botanist only gives you a little extra on most of your forageables, it's really only useful for truffles otherwise. That iridium quality doesn't transfer to any goods you decide to make with your forageables, too. Meanwhile, I get iridium ore and omni geodes pretty regularly and diamonds every so often from panning, and I rely on Tracker to find those panning spots without issue. Also a more reliable way to get coal than farming dust sprites, too.
Your channel is the absolute best when comes to stardew valley. Especially for newbies like me. I appreciate that you explain things in a way that people who aren't familiar with stardew valley to an expert level can understand. There's a lot of little things that aren't common knowledge for people like me. 🥳
Wood chipper. Tried it exactly once, one piece of hardwood turned into 6 regular wood after 30minutes or so (felt like an iron bar in furnace amount of time). I could just chop down a tree in that amount of time, why waste the hardwood? 1->6 isn't even enough of a conversion rate to make it worth ot either- I'd say 15-20 would make it worth it if I can only put in one at a time. This is just something that I don't need -and thankfully so because there is a lot wrong with the wood chipper.
Enricher should allow the ability to mix fertilizer. Like, Plants with Quality/Delux Fertilizer can grow faster with an Enricher Nozzle loaded with speed grow. That will def buff its usage.
Enricher needs a much larger radius. Or maybe not be a Qi item, but a craftable. Maybe player earns the recipe after making it to floor 100 of the mines and drinking the iridium milk. Fairy Dust is worth it for the best wines like Starfruit and Ancient Fruit, or with battery production from Solar Panels. It'd be better if the recipe crafted multiple Fairy Dust or if you could purchase some from Qi, Wizard, or Desert Trader.
Also, maybe the Fairy Dust should be able to work on Crops. It would still be a grind to get them but skipping the initial growth on multiharvest crops would be huge and entirely worth it. Perhaps if that were doable with the Enricher?
Salmonberries are just free early game energy, but dont ignore blackberries! at foraging level 12+, they drop 4 berries. Combined with Botanist profession, running around the map and harvesting them all can net you ~30k a day. Admittedly, this is only easy by y2 fall, where an advanced player is probably already getting more money. But its nice if you arent a minmaxxer, and can be acomplished in y1 fall if you use the forage seeds. Works at level 9 foraging too with the survival burger which you can easily make by then, albeit with only silver and gold quality blackberries.
The tracker profession is very helpful in lategame as seasonal foragables are much profitable when converted into seeds. Except the ones in winter and also the tracker points out the way to easily find the lucky ring in pan spots. As for truffles...they are better are truffle oils as their prices rises with the artisan profession.
I would say that using the enricher placed that morning on planting day and filling in the gaps between the spots the enricher misses would be the best use of it, then replacing it with the pressure nozzle for the rest of the season. The salmonberry and black berries, while yes low money are good to save back for processing (kegs or preserves jars) on the main farm during the winter after unlocking Ginger island so that the main farm is at least making some money (saving enough kegs to process the weekly ancient fruit from the greenhouse of course) since by that point in the game most players have mostly pigs in their barns and only really get some income from a coop (main farm only) if they have one. Though during the winter after ginger island is unlocked, most money making activities will take place there anyways. The fairy dust is honestly best used if you are processing extremely large batches (a full farm's worth) of high-value starfruit wine in the kegs, but using that on casks is a bit of a waste of resources. Though if you are using seed makers to produce the seeds needed to replant the fairy roses the material costs of the dust go down sigificantly, and in my personal choice of going with increased geode finding chance over more profit from gems, makes the material cost for using the normal quaility fairy rose (using higher quaility ones make no sense) and the non perk-boosted diamond makes the fairy dust cost 1040 gold worth of materials instead of 1265 gold. *This product only makes sense to use if you can easily produce all the materials to make it without losing out on normal money making. I personally don't use the botanist or tracker perfession as I usually go with the perk that drops both more wood per tree and then the follow up hardwood from all trees perk, but I also don't usually get a full barn of pigs early on so changing the profession later makes more sense with my playstyle which is unlock as fast as possible/framework what I want to do first, fill in later. My favored tackle is the trap bobber, however that is also because of the fact I usually don't spend too much time fishing after the community center.
Salmonberries you always should be turning it into wine or jelly. The base price of the berries is 5 (15 with the bear upgrade) x 3 if turned into wine making it 45 per berry . You can easily get a 100 in a day once your foraging is up that's 4,500 decent amount of profit for nothing but time invested .
Not really they're only 500g an- wait... Iridium Sprinklers, that's pretty nic- Oh no... Oh noo! Crystaliarium. Okay nevermind this is actually really good. The second-best G/Day/Tile can now be mass-produced, this is pretty huge.
@@robertsyrett1992 I guess it's only fair that I share my knowledge since you just rocketed me to the endgame. Notice how I said "second-best G/Day/Tile"? Well there's actually one thing that's better, and that's the Statue of Endless Fortune. If you got a shed just full of those things your daily profit is going to be through the roof. It takes forever to bootstrap them, but they also demolish the profit of every other method in the game even when accounting for junk drops. It's also the fastest way to get diamonds for Fairy Dust.
@@omegahaxors9-11 I am up to 12 SoEF on my current farm. The "junk" drops are all loved items, BTW. So if you are going for perfection they really speed up the progress with getting every NPC to max hearts. Even Omnigeodes can be converted to artifact troves, which have some very lucrative drops. So yeah, I won't disagree!
@@robertsyrett1992 I just assumed a value of 0 for omnis because they're so hard to sell that it's not even worth considering since your time is better spent doing pretty much anything else. Not to say they're worthless but once you have over 9000 of the things spitting out geodes per few days... yeah. Just skip that harvest.
I agree with everything except the lead bobber, that thing made the difference for me to catch some the legendary fish. I always lose fish when they suddenly drop to the very bottom and the bounce always gets me. Also trying to slow down before hitting bottom always made me lose fish as well so being able to drop without worrying about slowing down or bouncing made a huge difference for me. Course I also suppose it depends on skill level of not just the character but the player as well on which bobbers work best
I think, the Lead Bobber is a pretty great item actually. Sure, you will never use one late game or if you are experienced with Stardew in general, but it was actually the way I learned to get better at fishing. If you are already experienced, it's easy to forget this things, but fishing is incredibly overwhelming for beginners in my opinion. There are just so many things to keep in mind while fishing. The Lead Bobber removes one concern completely and lets you focus on the other aspects of fishing. Though I have to say, you get it frustratingly late. I used practically only the training rod up until I could use Tackle.
Lead Bobbers and Barbed Hooks are fantastic pieces of tackle when you are learning how to fish! Using them reduces the players skill needed to catch most of the fish in the game. Think of them like training wheels for your iridium rod! : )
Fairy dust is great, if you put the time into building up the production. You can get free seeds from the seed maker, after growing a ton of flowers. (Initial investment). Then take all the diamonds you’ve accumulated and clone them in the crystalarium. It takes time and patience to turn a profit, but once you have it down, it’s the ultimate money maker in my experience. On top of that place bee hives near the flowers for close to 1,000$ honey
Ginger island should be your dedicated flower garden, then fill sheds with crystalariums. Finally grow star fruit on ginger island and in your green house.
Personally I think fairy dust lead bobbers are very useful as if you use the crystalarium for the diamonds there pretty much free and if you use the seeder for fairy roses it won't cost as much as if you bought the seeds
I know this is an old video but the only reason to use Fairy Dust is to hurry a machine so you can get a gift for someone quickly. That seems like the best use for it.
Starfruit Vine sells at about 6000 gold, so, actually, by using 3 x 1000g worth of fairy dust, I am still making a good profit. Especially, when you consider that you can just massproduce kristalls in the kristallarium and have a huge Flower Farm on Ingwer Island...
Even with a lot of practice, I still struggle with the bar bouncing off the bottom, so I do like the concept of the Lead Bobber. My problem with it is that I need this bobber earlier in the game, and you don't get fishing tackle as an option until Level 7, when the Iridium Rod becomes available. By that point, it's just easier for me to use the Trap Bobber instead. If it were a tackle that could be attached to an earlier level rod, I would absolutely use it more often.
Yeah. But After Seeing the Slow Losing Progess, My Mind quite change. I actually hate when fish go down and is practically impossible for me to catch up and don't have enough time to get up. Im pretty sure Lead Bobber is my way to get 10 Cucumber.
@@brandohalstead7654 - I try this but it’s difficult to control. Probably just delayed reaction time from sight to brain, but still a challenge for me.
Put the enricher then plant then remove it to add the pressure nozzle i like the enricher bcoz i have hypergro on some and deluxe on some. So i dont have to carry both
The other bonus of the Botanist profession that can't be overstated is it's effect on inventory management: foragables will always stack in a single inventory slot.
Exactly! Forget the extra value, the SPACE SAVED IS IRIDIUM QUALITY.
Agreed
true that. i process most foragables that i can, but that is amazing for space management
@@gryph3714 iridium trash can go brrrrrrrrrrrrr
I really like worm bins! I put them next to my crab pots so I don't have to carry bait with me to fill them
This. Worm bins + crab pots + recycling machines are a good combination for getting coal, refined quartz, fish and some other stuff as well.
Freshwater crab pot fish are also good for turning into mass amounts of sashimi
@@orngjce223 and quality fertilizer.
ok?
same
I think the enricher would be a game-changer if it worked on seeds too. I can imagine how quickly the people with junimo huts would jump on these, fill the enricher with seeds, and never have to worry about gathering OR replanting... Until the season changes, of course, only to come back, change the seeds, take the crops from the huts and the cycle repeats.
That would actually be sick
Check out the mod called "Better Junimos". It does all this for you and more.
That is genius!
yeah, a less game breaking way to change it is to allow us to attach it WITH the pressure nozzle... wouldn't make a big difference but why not?
I'd be ok with junimos replanting crops as they picked them. Balance it out so that they only replant if they pick the crop (meaning they don't do anything if you manually pick something), so it'd still take most of the day to replant a field.
Salmonberries are nice lazy gifts for Linus, eventually he will love you without you needing to go out of your way at all. You get so many that even though they are season limited you just won't run out.
yup I give leah drift wood for the same reason I allways get them early on while fishing.
we know
I've found that, if you have the Botanist profession, salmonberries become a surprisingly effective healing food. Running low on health in the Skull Cavern? Just pop a few iridium-quality salmonberries and you're ready to take on another few dozen floors. Even better, as long as you're not taking damage recklessly, a full four-day salmonberry harvest is likely to last you the entire year with a considerable amount left over, meaning you'll almost never find yourself running out.
Demetrius, Shane, Leah, Jodi, Kent, Pam and Sandy all like salmonberries as well. It makes a nice lazy gift for them too.
I use it to heal myself tbh, i finished them all lol
The thing about berries is, yes they don't sell for much, but you get so many of them so easily that it's just free money. It doesn't cost you any energy, and your farmbis probably all automated anyway, so going out to catch them is not bad.
yeah, you can make about 50000g in the four days even if you dont dedicate any time to search for them, especially if you have the botanist profession
I only really go out of my way to grab them in early game too. In late game, if I happen to pass a bush that has some berries on it, I mostly click it for fun, sometimes seeing how fast I can do it as I go by. I can go by so fast that the magnetism effects on my rings aren't able to pick them up. Or they chase me down the street on my horse haha.
Free money and free entertainment.
Welp... Until You got to produce quality cheese.
Using Fairy Dust in bulks does not make sense, but it is really great when you need an item processed really fast. For the missing bundle I needed a silver quality wine but did not have one, so I simply used one Fairy Dust and saved myself about two weeks ;)
It's AWESOME for time sensitive tasks, such as being on the last day of a 'help wanted' quest. Or for major quests like the missing bundle that you just want to get that one last item you need to finish it.
I wouldn't be playing Stardew Valley if I couldn't be a little bit patient here and there.
Exactly! I'll guarantee that Fairy Dust wasn't added to the game for us to mix into our standard gameplay, but instead to exist as an emergency "crap I need this NOW" option.
Wait, I didn't realize that bear was supposed to be Old Master Cannoli? I think you got the sweet gem berry and maple syrup quests mixed up. The bear is just a bear, I'm pretty sure
She did..Old Master Cannoli is a different quest.
I plant wheat at the end of summer, and harvest at the start of fall, carrying the fertilizer over a season. It won't vanish if there are seeds or crops in the space.
That's what I do, too.
Also I recently discovered that you can plant fiber seeds going into winter, so now I don't have to hoe and re-fertilize my fields in spring lol. That's actually a huge time saver and I also end up with a ton of fiber that I craft grass starters with for all my animals to eat!
@@yuliam2086 I've done that too once it was added. I save up all the fiber than plant in end of fall so I can harvest Spring 1 and plant without hoeing and hold over the fertilizer. Just let the plant sit.
The thing is, Fairy roses can grow in garden plots that only need to be watered once with the retaining soil - so you can place them in places like the tunnel and other indoor area's not involved with your farm, grow them all year, and then in the out door area's have crystalariums. Then you have access to as much fairy dust as you like all year long to skip entire seasons worth of casks without even using any farm space from either farms :)
yeah yeah you really just wrote a whole paragraph
@@FungusUnited Shut up. You're being a jerk on all these comments. Annoying.
That's a good idea
fairy dust is pretty useful when you have quests to fulfill and don't want to wait/don't have machines available within the time limit like pam's mead
I actually do find rice useful. Rice shoots are usually free from the mines, you can grow it next to a pond so it doesn’t need watering, put it through the windmill, then you can sell it for profit or cook with it!
you can pickle unmilled rice in a preservation jar and make more money than you could from the mill.
7:09 Tracker is EXTRA useless considering you could just use Stardew's built in screenshot feature to get a wide view of the whole area you are standing in and immediately see where all the foragables are
I'm colorblind so tracker profession sucks even more for me since green and yellow are basically same color for me sadge
That seems like a weird oversight on CA's end. Like it never occurred to me how much stuff in the game is dependent on being able to distinguish certain colors. Makes me wonder if someone's made a mod to fix these sorts of issues.
The worm bin really shines when used in conjunction with the Automate mod. Just link a bin up to four or five crab pots through a chest, maybe throw a recycling machine in on the other side, and you've got a self-sustaining system that only needs to be checked once a week or so.
Once a week or so? As long as it’s somewhere nobody goes, You can leave it years! I once downloaded the mod and did this on 50 crab pots. I waited for 10 years with the time skip mod and I had so many materials and fish it was great.
Tracker has been nice to me on this playthrough. Since I havent really been foraging all that much + turning my truffles into oil, I never needed the iridium quality. Finding digging spots is the major bonus to Tracker though.
I always hate having multiple stacks of forgables... When they're all iridium quality, it helps keep things easier to handle by putting everything in a single stack.
@@Donniecaison that was the biggest draw for me be able to have all my forgables in ONE chest is great
I swapped to the tracker profession for a while as it also shows panning spots. I used it to get my lucky rings! Very helpful in that case but I did change it back immediately after I found one
Quick tip, if you find a lucky ring and have some time to waste then stay around the place you found it for a while. If another panning spot appears where the first did (which I've found to be pretty likely) it'll give the exact same loot, and you can get another lucky ring!
@@cononsberg6919 Ah, that would explain why I got three in one day panning for the fossilized tail on Ginger Island. I was puzzled, since I thought they were rare.
Another quick tip: you can wear your pan as a helmet so you always have it with you and it doesn't take up an inventory slot!
As far as helping you get money, the tracker profession isn't really all that good, but I like it simply because I like collecting things. The only downside to this is when there's a forgeable that I can't get to - the summit has forgeable items and until you unlock it, every time you go up to the train station, it'll have little arrows pointing to items you can't get.
I caught Glacierfish with the barbed hook once. I wasn't actually after him and I just stuck the tackle in my rod to use it up after getting it from a reward. But given the way it amplifies movement and the way Glacierfish zips around so that you are always chasing him, I was able to leverage the weird behavior of the tackle to keep up with his crazy movements.
I wouldn't recommend it by any means though.
agree, the hook makes your fishing bar go crazy, then unpridictedly decides the stop working. i just can't work with it.
I mean if you go fishing to the ocean during fall I've found it can pretty much become free fishing just because the fish aren't that fast until like 4, so I usually use one until it breaks (around that time), then swap to the cork for the rest of the day
Fairy Dusts value comes out in time saved, otherwise is completely useless.
It has a few min-max uses but overall it's for convenience
Yup, as stated.
Use it on solar panels for fast battery packs
@@jeremiahlampkey3137 I have more battery packs from lightning rods than I know what to do with, why would I need more? Unless you're filling the entire Pelican Village with lamp-posts there's only a limited number of batteries you need through the entire game.
@@Eleyvie that's true for literally every item in the game. If you don't happen to have battery packs and you do have fairy dust, then it's useful.
Enricher saved me a lot of time on the first of the season. I didn't need to run around placing deluxe fertiliser, so I could hoe, water and plant 5 more iridium sprinklers worth of crops every season.
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When I firstly saw enreachers I was so excited, I thought they allowed you to fertilize after you already planted your crops and they started to grow. Nope. Imagine my dissapointment.
it is used for those farms that needs new fertilizers every season...aka NOT ginger island or the greenhouse. MIn max everything for maximum money gets dull FAST and conveniance and ease of use is what wins the day for me....aka no coffe+eal+horse spamm for me. I either use horse with horsewissle or totems for speed and if I isn't in a hurry then I don't bother at all. Same thing with worm bins and those kind of items, ease of use fishtackle you DON't have to go out of your way for.
@@Solus749 well it's useless for me because of the way I want it to work. When in summer you plant starfruit, you need to water it on the 1st day (same with blueberries and ancient fruit and othercrops) or otherwise you can't get two harvests (if you don't have tiller profession). So you need to hoe, plant, water and fertilize everything on the first day. In this occasion enreachers can be potentially you saviour. But. They will fertilize your crop only on the 2nd day (because you missed working sprinklers on first day). But on the 2nd day your crops are already growing so they don't get fertilized.
My point is that if you need to water your seeds and fertilize them on the same day - enreachers are useless. And if I don't need to water, then I can just fertilize it myself, it doesn't take that much time.
If you sell (or seed maker on a very good luck day, if needed) fairy roses from silver quality onward, and have some crystalariums dedicated to diamonds, it isn't so bad to use fairy dust for gold quality casks. Of course, I do a very casual stockpiling of supplies for the stuff, rather than trying to rely heavily on it.
You can sell the diamond + fairy rose for more then the price gain on ya gold casks.
The wiki says luck is irrelevant for seed makers and it doesn't mention quality either.
Actually you can make blackberries into blackberry cobbler, which you could eat or gift or sell for a better price.
The tracker profession also leads you to time/location based heart events. This is really useful for first time players trying to max their friendship levels with the towns people.
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The tracker profession also helps you find digspots and those can be a lot harder to spot
Yes. She mentioned that.
Redeemable free subscription had me laughing. GJ working that in haha. Also I completely disagree on Blackberries. Eat something to boost foraging. Get 4 (or 5 berries I think is even possible with Qi seasoning to get skill to 15) per bush. Sell them all after the 3 days or w/e you get 40,000+ easily. That's not bad for free forage tbh...
The Tracker profession is very useful as a temporary profession for getting artifacts in Winter.
Temporary and Winter are the key words. Since Winter has more artifact spots and doesn’t hurt your Truffle foraging. Simply change it back in Spring.
Tracker Profession is actually very useful! If you have mainly pig farm, these guys leave truffels everywhere, and its pain to think that so many of them are left in grass till disappearing the next season. And since truffels dont have to be highest quality to make oil, if pigs are your main moneymaker, thats the best profession. I found so many truffels in such weird places.
Uh, fences?
@@masbaiy4858 Fences make it easier to see truffles in grass?
I guess tracker could be extremely useful for entering ginger island and finding panning spots for bone parts.
For the cost of 1000g fairy dust to skip the 28 days of aging from gold to iridium wine is definitely worth! It just takes sooo long & the number of casks in the cellar is limited😖
I think it depends heavily on how much you are willing to craft fairy dust
Yes the berries are worth selling, not worth much on their own but when you collect 100 of them it all adds up, and you can soon collect that many by just wondering around, very profitable.
The bear note is absolutely great if you have 10 foraging. It makes everything iridium quality including berries it's a healthy profit
Still better used as snacks.
@@honey-hunterslimefanno.3257 A- your user tag is clutch. B- you still can. You will have plenty after all.
@@Zippyser I have like, never heard someone describe a username as ‘clutch’, wym?
@@honey-hunterslimefanno.3257 Similar use cases to fire, great, awesome, really nailed it, etc.
@@Zippyser Oh. Thanks.
I would argue that for those that don't want to think about growing enough crops to make their energy providing recipes to last them the entire year, salmon berries and blackberries are worth the time to pick up.
Enricher nozzles and worm bin are almost essential to me in my farm. For Ginger Island pressure nozzles do sound better but for the main farm, where you usually have junimo huts too, having enricher not only saves time, it also just makes it possible to put seeds AND fertliser in big areas when otherwise you wouldn't have the time to, even in end game. And if you grow giant crops, walking around them another time for fertiliser and making sure every spot is done is exhausting. Worm bins are just very convenient to have even if bait is cheap, you always know you'll have some basic bait around for crab pots, especially if you're too lazy to go to the beach or aren't grinding for bug meat.
The way that you reuse tips is really helpful to my brain.
Hearing it over and over makes it sink in. That's why you are the only stardew-tuber who's advice I can actually follow 😆 thank you
I disagree completely on the enricher. It's value increased with the size of your field, and how you want to manage your time. Prior to having them, I didn't even use fertilizers at all because hoeing, watering and planting everything took so long, and I got one less strawberry and starfruit harvest per year without them. Now I get 6 strawberry harvests and 3 starfruit harvests because I don't have to worry about manually putting fertilizers down and only need to check the enrichers every summer (to switch for what I use for cranberries, although that is changing soon to be pumpkins instead.) or every winter. The pressure nozzle has it's uses, but I feel like the QoL offered by the enricher is superior.
Worm bin? Dunno.. I guess it relates
It's pretty useful for me personally
I think that the real comparison between the enricher and the pressure nozzle is in money gained. With the pressure nozzle, you need to use fewer sprinklers, which means slightly more ground space is available for planting. With the enricher, less time is required to both plant and fertilize crops. For someone who has converted the entire farm for plants, this is going to mean more higher-quality crops. So higher-quality crops vs. slightly more crops. That's the tradeoff.
High quality crops only seem to matter early game. Mid to late game most people will mostly covert their crops into wine/jelly making the quality of the original crop useless.
@@rhysk3921 I see people saying the enricher is really good and better than pressure nozzle, but placing tons of fertiliser takes barely any time anyway! It only takes like, a minute at most to fertilise all land on a ginger island farm. Fertilising crops ain’t some arduous task.
The tracker profession made me find a lucky ring in the forest from a panning spot, I’ve gotten a bunch of diamonds, iridium ore and other valuables like that too from spots I wouldn’t have walked past otherwise
If I recall correctly, Qi's disassemblers allow for cheap gold and iron bars from lead bobbers and barbed hooks, so not a total waste
Fairy dust is 100% worth it, I use it for star fruit wine, when they hit gold or silver I use them. It’s easy by replicating the diamonds and planting fairy roses on ginger island.
This is actually a horrible strategy because there are far more profitable plants to put on Ginger. You should grow fairy rose during fall, since fall crops are the least valuable and you can easily dedicate your entire farm to them and have more than enough for the rest of the year.
@@omegahaxors9-11 I do get the majority of my fairy rose during fall since I have a lot of farm area, and only use part of my island for it, my island is mostly sweet gem berries, starfruit, and pineapples. But I’m trying to reach a billion and at this point I still have stacks of starfruit wine to age plus ancient fruit wine and starfruit wine to make. I do a lot of planting on my farm so the fruit I have now will last me over a year or probably two to process so it’s a good strategy for me and has worked well as I try to get 1 billion gold. It all depends on where you are in game. Currently I’m just trying to get through all my current stacks which should get me to 1 billion. But also you don’t have to plant on ginger island if aren’t rich enough to use that space yet. I get enough fairy rose to last me the year from fall already. It all depends on how I want to use my diamonds since I get a stack a week.
@@zd030998 Damn you must be living like Larry if you're going through that much rose.
@@omegahaxors9-11 don't think on products as money only value at all, think about how they make your life EASIER. It is the same with machines and profession choices. Tracker for example is mAJOR on the forrest farm that spawn alot of forageables. Also coffe+horse+eal is something I find over the top for speed. A horse and horse wissle or the totems is far easier late game and I don't have to bother with coffe at all.
Personally I find her focus on how much much money can this make me without considering personal ease of use uninspired.
You... actually lose money. compared to just selling the Silver or Gold Wine and the Diamond/Rose.
the 'tracker' profession was only useful when I did my 'everything year one' challenge, so I could find artifact places swiftly and not waste time.
im not making money picking up truffles or foragables, i always pick up the tracker profession to help with the museum or getting the lucky ring
At the beggining those fish barbers helped me a lot, since I had a lot of difficulty fishing lol but once you get the hang of it, they really do get very disposable.
I did the math, and it's only worth using Fairy Dust on the last stage of Starfruit wine, as you said. It makes up for the loss in profit by allowing you to bring in four batches of Iridium quality wine a year instead of two. However, the cost of the Fairy Dust makes this only worth the effort to produce the diamonds and grow the Fairy Rose if you are producing Starfruit wine. So, thumbs up on your analysis of Fairy Dust!
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Fairy dust is interesting if you use it on solar panels, but then I also prefer the option of chaining lighting storms the entirely of spring/summer/fall with a lot of rain totems with having 25 lightning rods.
Fairy dust on casks going from gold to iridium is the most profitable and then it only gains about 400g, ignoring lost potential money from planting better money crops than fairy rose per growing tile so it really isn't great money wise
Doesn't the storm chain end once you reach a festival?
@@porkeyminch8044 just wait for next storm day(but eg summer you can have day 2-10 storm, then you get another on 13th naturally can chain through to 27th
With a mod for storage and carrying capacity, there's a craftable Bag of Holding that you can put anything in and save space in your inventory to still pick up stuff, like all your crops. The Bag of Holding's components includes 50 Fairy Dust which, if you're a packrat like me and can't bring yourself to not have things you know you'll use a lot or need soon, is a small price to pay, especially if you devote the time and space on Ginger Island to grow the Fairy Roses needed and put diamonds in enough Crystalariums.
Another trick that you can use with salmonberries (or any fruit that sells for less than 50 gold) is if you have a lot of preserving jars, turning them into jam is a lot more profitable, salmonberry jam is about 60g without the bear knowledge
I would love to see a part 2 for this to see some of those honorable mentions
Salmonberries are good to turn into jam. Then gift it to the villagers. Free hearts, just at the cost of grabbing them as you walk about.
Also, they are a good source of free early game energy, Same with the black berries in fall.
Me: actually chose the tracker when I had the choice
Iridium Salmonberries are my go-to snack, even in endgame.
Everything else is just too profitable when sold or processed.
@@Kaftan I don't think Iridium Cactus Fruit is THAT profitable, but it's insanely good food.
Slap a few deluxe fertilized cactuses on Ginger and you're set for food.
I use common mushrooms and cactus fruit. Salmonberries would work good too considering they don't sell for much.
@@Zach-ju5vi Oh yeah, if you pick the mushroom cave you're going to be buried in common mushrooms.
@@Kaftan Sashimi is also on my "eat rather than sell" list. Just don't ask if its fresh, or what's in it.
I actually like the hopper, if only because it gives me a place to dump all my unwanted items that are queued up for the deconstructor. I put that setup in a high traffic area, and every time I walk by I just grab whatever item is ready for me. It takes forever, yes, but I'm not really in a hurry to get the individual stones I get back from extra gravel paths anyway. The fact that you have to pick up the output before a new input goes in does greatly diminish its usefulness for other applications, since when you grab the output you could just feed in a new input manually. Because of this, the best use is for when you have a bunch of items that don't stack that need to be fed into a single machine you probably don't have tons of, like the deconstructor. I could also see it being useful for forging, since it can hold the coal you'd need, too. Third-tier uses would include recycling, geode crushing, and maybe mayo production if you have a variety of egg-laying animals, since eggs can very easily overwhelm your inventory.
Actually I think the late game use of Blackberries and Salmonberries is for Mr. Qis Prismatic Challenge :D
And yes, I have to agree with you, as I never saw much use in the Enricher and Fairy Dust ^^;
Also agree with you on the other points :D
The barbed hook is useful when you are doing something in RL and just want to multitask with playing SV
Nice. Keep cranking out those stardew videos, see how far you can push it & thanx.
Going to have to get very creative soon 😅
I would love to see you start to “decorate” the ENTIRE map. Maybe in expanded? Every tile perhaps? & thanx again for all the content on like, the best game ever. How many hours you got on stardew?
Wait what? Did you just imply that Old Master Cannoli is the Bear? That's a take I've never heard before
I didn't know the tracker profession pinged panning and artifact spots.. It surely had limited uses, but that's still handy to know.
The worm bin is great, I use it with some crab pots!
The most overlooked part of the botanist profession is that it makes all forageables the same quality which feels so much better on my tiny little backpack
Enricher is actually very good item for normal farm area, it's a time saver and a very useful item when used wisely. The fact that its use in Ginger Island is unreasonable does not mean that it should not be used in normal farm. If you wanna use Pressure Nozzle with Junimo Hut, you can't combine properly. That's why you can't use Pressure Nozzle for your normal farm. But it's great item for Ginger Island, I have no words for it.
What the fuck is a Junimo Hut
@@canisqmajoris 1.1 addition of "free" farm labor a la junimos, available after completing the CC/doing the joja tasks and a couple wizard quests. they harvest crops for you in like, a 17x17(? I think?) square around the hut
I’ve been really enjoying your videos! I was wondering if you also have a video on some of your end game farms and giving a tour? I’d love to see them!!
I can do a farm tour on my main playthrough 😊
I suppose you could use the tracker profession to find the artifact spots and then reset your professions when you have done the museum stuff. I mean it's 2000g to reset a profession.
I keep berries in my bag even in end game for when I'm chopping the last few trees before bed, and oops, out of energy or even in the local mines, and I whacked one too many times, but mainly I use the berries to get me through the mines to 120.
Tracker super helpful for finding dig spots behind trees ect. When doing museum
While I agree the tracker profession shouldn't be a class you stick with long term, the fact it can be very useful for finding panning spots and artifact spots means it's probably a bit too useful for this list. If you had to hard commit to it I'd agree, but since it's only 20k to switch to it and back there's no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Just a note: You're confusing the bear knowledge with Mr. Cannoli's quest. The statue (Cannoli) and its request for "the sweetest taste" refers to the sweet gem berry, grown from a rare seed. If you bring it to Cannoli, you will get a star drop. This is completely unrelated to the maple syrup quest and its resulting bear's knowledge.
i like the worm bin. i have 5 surrounding a chest near the small pool of water south of my farm, with crab pots in the water. there's also a recycling machine with a chest near there. i put the trash in that chest, the fish in the chest near the worm bins, and i turn those low-value, inedible fish into deluxe fertilizer/sashimi when i need it.
i realize bait isn't that expensive, but i have hundreds of it (since i get more bait per day than crab pots), never have to worry about getting low on bait, they don't cost anything to maintain, and if i'm too busy i can ignore the worm bin/crab pots for a day - or leave them alone until i return home and have nothing else to do, before bed.
I'd use fairy dust one time only, to age a single starfruit wine to purple, just so you can keep it for the yearly grange display. Everything else I completely agree with. some professions are objectively lacking, some fishing gear is training wheels and useless to an experienced fisher and the fertilizers for the sprinklers just don't compare to DOUBLING the area of an iridium sprinkler.
The lead bobber isn't so much about the way it stops your bar from bouncing. It makes it easier to /recover/ from hitting the bottom of the bar, which then makes it easier to chase after fast darters. Made catching lava eels for my ponds easy as hell.
And Botanist only gives you a little extra on most of your forageables, it's really only useful for truffles otherwise. That iridium quality doesn't transfer to any goods you decide to make with your forageables, too.
Meanwhile, I get iridium ore and omni geodes pretty regularly and diamonds every so often from panning, and I rely on Tracker to find those panning spots without issue. Also a more reliable way to get coal than farming dust sprites, too.
Your channel is the absolute best when comes to stardew valley. Especially for newbies like me. I appreciate that you explain things in a way that people who aren't familiar with stardew valley to an expert level can understand. There's a lot of little things that aren't common knowledge for people like me. 🥳
Wood chipper. Tried it exactly once, one piece of hardwood turned into 6 regular wood after 30minutes or so (felt like an iron bar in furnace amount of time). I could just chop down a tree in that amount of time, why waste the hardwood? 1->6 isn't even enough of a conversion rate to make it worth ot either- I'd say 15-20 would make it worth it if I can only put in one at a time. This is just something that I don't need -and thankfully so because there is a lot wrong with the wood chipper.
You can get on average of around 80 wood per mahogany tree if you use woodchippers, which is much better than chopping regular trees.
Enricher should allow the ability to mix fertilizer. Like, Plants with Quality/Delux Fertilizer can grow faster with an Enricher Nozzle loaded with speed grow. That will def buff its usage.
Enricher needs a much larger radius. Or maybe not be a Qi item, but a craftable. Maybe player earns the recipe after making it to floor 100 of the mines and drinking the iridium milk.
Fairy Dust is worth it for the best wines like Starfruit and Ancient Fruit, or with battery production from Solar Panels. It'd be better if the recipe crafted multiple Fairy Dust or if you could purchase some from Qi, Wizard, or Desert Trader.
Also, maybe the Fairy Dust should be able to work on Crops. It would still be a grind to get them but skipping the initial growth on multiharvest crops would be huge and entirely worth it.
Perhaps if that were doable with the Enricher?
lol, imagine seeing the bear and thinking "Yep, that definitely looks like the Old Master Cannoli statue!"
Salmonberries are just free early game energy, but dont ignore blackberries! at foraging level 12+, they drop 4 berries. Combined with Botanist profession, running around the map and harvesting them all can net you ~30k a day.
Admittedly, this is only easy by y2 fall, where an advanced player is probably already getting more money. But its nice if you arent a minmaxxer, and can be acomplished in y1 fall if you use the forage seeds. Works at level 9 foraging too with the survival burger which you can easily make by then, albeit with only silver and gold quality blackberries.
The tracker profession is very helpful in lategame as seasonal foragables are much profitable when converted into seeds. Except the ones in winter and also the tracker points out the way to easily find the lucky ring in pan spots.
As for truffles...they are better are truffle oils as their prices rises with the artisan profession.
I would say that using the enricher placed that morning on planting day and filling in the gaps between the spots the enricher misses would be the best use of it, then replacing it with the pressure nozzle for the rest of the season.
The salmonberry and black berries, while yes low money are good to save back for processing (kegs or preserves jars) on the main farm during the winter after unlocking Ginger island so that the main farm is at least making some money (saving enough kegs to process the weekly ancient fruit from the greenhouse of course) since by that point in the game most players have mostly pigs in their barns and only really get some income from a coop (main farm only) if they have one. Though during the winter after ginger island is unlocked, most money making activities will take place there anyways.
The fairy dust is honestly best used if you are processing extremely large batches (a full farm's worth) of high-value starfruit wine in the kegs, but using that on casks is a bit of a waste of resources. Though if you are using seed makers to produce the seeds needed to replant the fairy roses the material costs of the dust go down sigificantly, and in my personal choice of going with increased geode finding chance over more profit from gems, makes the material cost for using the normal quaility fairy rose (using higher quaility ones make no sense) and the non perk-boosted diamond makes the fairy dust cost 1040 gold worth of materials instead of 1265 gold. *This product only makes sense to use if you can easily produce all the materials to make it without losing out on normal money making.
I personally don't use the botanist or tracker perfession as I usually go with the perk that drops both more wood per tree and then the follow up hardwood from all trees perk, but I also don't usually get a full barn of pigs early on so changing the profession later makes more sense with my playstyle which is unlock as fast as possible/framework what I want to do first, fill in later.
My favored tackle is the trap bobber, however that is also because of the fact I usually don't spend too much time fishing after the community center.
Alternatively you could have crystalariums where you were growing your fairy roses and have 1500-1950g from selling all your diamonds.
Salmonberries you always should be turning it into wine or jelly. The base price of the berries is 5 (15 with the bear upgrade) x 3 if turned into wine making it 45 per berry . You can easily get a 100 in a day once your foraging is up that's 4,500 decent amount of profit for nothing but time invested .
Fairy Dust on Solar Panels is pretty good.
Not really they're only 500g an- wait... Iridium Sprinklers, that's pretty nic-
Oh no... Oh noo! Crystaliarium. Okay nevermind this is actually really good.
The second-best G/Day/Tile can now be mass-produced, this is pretty huge.
@@omegahaxors9-11 you understand :)
@@robertsyrett1992 I guess it's only fair that I share my knowledge since you just rocketed me to the endgame. Notice how I said "second-best G/Day/Tile"? Well there's actually one thing that's better, and that's the Statue of Endless Fortune. If you got a shed just full of those things your daily profit is going to be through the roof. It takes forever to bootstrap them, but they also demolish the profit of every other method in the game even when accounting for junk drops.
It's also the fastest way to get diamonds for Fairy Dust.
@@omegahaxors9-11 I am up to 12 SoEF on my current farm. The "junk" drops are all loved items, BTW. So if you are going for perfection they really speed up the progress with getting every NPC to max hearts. Even Omnigeodes can be converted to artifact troves, which have some very lucrative drops. So yeah, I won't disagree!
@@robertsyrett1992 I just assumed a value of 0 for omnis because they're so hard to sell that it's not even worth considering since your time is better spent doing pretty much anything else. Not to say they're worthless but once you have over 9000 of the things spitting out geodes per few days... yeah. Just skip that harvest.
I agree with everything except the lead bobber, that thing made the difference for me to catch some the legendary fish. I always lose fish when they suddenly drop to the very bottom and the bounce always gets me. Also trying to slow down before hitting bottom always made me lose fish as well so being able to drop without worrying about slowing down or bouncing made a huge difference for me. Course I also suppose it depends on skill level of not just the character but the player as well on which bobbers work best
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I found the tracker really useful when i was trying to get the Lucky ring. with Tracker on, panning spots show up as green arrows.
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They are my red and purple for the qi quest
I think, the Lead Bobber is a pretty great item actually. Sure, you will never use one late game or if you are experienced with Stardew in general, but it was actually the way I learned to get better at fishing. If you are already experienced, it's easy to forget this things, but fishing is incredibly overwhelming for beginners in my opinion. There are just so many things to keep in mind while fishing. The Lead Bobber removes one concern completely and lets you focus on the other aspects of fishing.
Though I have to say, you get it frustratingly late. I used practically only the training rod up until I could use Tackle.
Lead Bobbers and Barbed Hooks are fantastic pieces of tackle when you are learning how to fish! Using them reduces the players skill needed to catch most of the fish in the game. Think of them like training wheels for your iridium rod! : )
I usually use tracker to find truffles mypigs leave
i definitely use fairy dust the most for quests, don't really bother with it other than that, more to get me out of a bind when I run out of time.
Fairy dust is great, if you put the time into building up the production. You can get free seeds from the seed maker, after growing a ton of flowers. (Initial investment). Then take all the diamonds you’ve accumulated and clone them in the crystalarium. It takes time and patience to turn a profit, but once you have it down, it’s the ultimate money maker in my experience. On top of that place bee hives near the flowers for close to 1,000$ honey
Ginger island should be your dedicated flower garden, then fill sheds with crystalariums. Finally grow star fruit on ginger island and in your green house.
The lead bobber is my favorite, the bouncing is really difficult for me.
Same
Personally I think fairy dust lead bobbers are very useful as if you use the crystalarium for the diamonds there pretty much free and if you use the seeder for fairy roses it won't cost as much as if you bought the seeds
Oh I've just learned casks and kegs are different things and that casks age your wine. I need to do that final upgrade of the house I guess.
I know this is an old video but the only reason to use Fairy Dust is to hurry a machine so you can get a gift for someone quickly. That seems like the best use for it.
tracker makes it easier to get lucky rings bc it helps you find panning spots :)
Starfruit Vine sells at about 6000 gold, so, actually, by using 3 x 1000g worth of fairy dust, I am still making a good profit. Especially, when you consider that you can just massproduce kristalls in the kristallarium and have a huge Flower Farm on Ingwer Island...
Even with a lot of practice, I still struggle with the bar bouncing off the bottom, so I do like the concept of the Lead Bobber. My problem with it is that I need this bobber earlier in the game, and you don't get fishing tackle as an option until Level 7, when the Iridium Rod becomes available. By that point, it's just easier for me to use the Trap Bobber instead. If it were a tackle that could be attached to an earlier level rod, I would absolutely use it more often.
Yeah. But After Seeing the Slow Losing Progess, My Mind quite change. I actually hate when fish go down and is practically impossible for me to catch up and don't have enough time to get up. Im pretty sure Lead Bobber is my way to get 10 Cucumber.
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you have to tap the button right before your fishing bar lands, it'll prevent your fishing bar from bouncing.
@@brandohalstead7654 - I try this but it’s difficult to control. Probably just delayed reaction time from sight to brain, but still a challenge for me.
Put the enricher then plant then remove it to add the pressure nozzle i like the enricher bcoz i have hypergro on some and deluxe on some. So i dont have to carry both
I use the Salmon and Blackberries in jelly cans especially in the later game. Process them and they are worth more.