Apparently you can use bombs in the farm buildings near the hay to break it and use that to get more hay??? I haven't even played stardew yet- I've just been watching vids about it- but it sounds very handy if true! Also, your vids are pretty rad.
Is it inefficient to chop down the stumps and clear out the grass early game? Yes. Am I going to do it anyway cause I can't stand not having a completely clear farm as soon as possible? Also yes.
Depends on your purpose. I always clear my farm. I need the stone and wood. First year I save up and buy the raw material. Year two every raw material has an increase in price. So to get the coop and barn and silo yes I clear it all. Free material. For energy everyday after rain I pick up the onions by the sewer drain. I also pick up all forgables. The best option is a multi-player. You can rest and regen while other is working.
I... kept searching for another way to confirm prompts, because I play with as much keyboard only as possible and having to grab my mouse again is super annoying, and this is the first time I actually found an answer to the question. So thanks. (:
I use lightning rods instead of fences since they don't wear down and you are guaranteed a bunch of batteries when there is a storm. Also, make sure to plant grass under fencing or lightning rods as it cannot be eaten by the animals but it will cause more grass to grow next to it.
I once had a bunch around my dinosaur coop like it was an electrified fence! Iron fence posts interspersed between is a fun way to add the gates without ruining the aesthetic too bad
@@juliasherwood697 yes they do produce more eggs! It takes a very long time to hatch and they don't produce new eggs nearly as often as chickens but it's kind of a fun challenge to have hatched 12 dinosaurs, enough to fill a fully upgraded coop
7:34 That's not a bug or anything, ConcernedApe clearly made it so that if you put your horse behind the counter, your horse will serve you the ice cream.
i always keep 1 or 2 of everything... or 100-1000. My need to collect everything because "you never know" won't let me sell things, even when i'm making something for profit, i need a good amount of buffer of it first. especially good quality stuff. which is why i have a million chests all colour coded for different types of things and there is nothing more frustrating, then needing 10 of something, and i only have 9 and can't get more till next year...
I'd like to add to 9:42 (which only works in multiplayer) that in case you're playing in a singleplayer file and you need energy but don't want to waste the day by going to sleep, you can get easy energy by staying still in the water at the spa. It took a while before i realised this so hopefully it helps.
The three horsemen of perfect pixels. Minecraft Terraria Stardew Valley Each complement eachother. MC Is 3d. Terraria is 2d. SV is also 2d, but compliments 3d with a upper view.
I have a tip about crab cakes, when you get willy’s 6 heart event, gus would sell an unlimited amount of crab cakes for the next 3 days for 550 each, it might sound like much but when you’re in mid-late mid game that would be dirt cheap for an entire day of +1 speed.
Honestly, I only started playing Stardew just a couple days ago, and the only good tip here I'd say is keep 1 of everything. I've been watching all kinds of videos and there is so much information overload and stuff to remember that I'm sure others feel that same way. So simple general tips like that are very very helpful and I'm glad you brought it up.
@@adrian3747_ honestly once you get the gist of the game its mostly self explanatory stuff you just forget and ways to be more efficient. don't stress yourself out obv, but in the future i'd recommend coming back to this video!
For early game, there are a lot of npcs who like salmonberries and blackberries which are really easy to have in bulk, and i tend to have them on me as my food supply regardless. Study up on which npcs like which berry and they’ll like you in no time!
One thing I recently found out is that your daily luck actually influences the slots in the casino! If you want to make friends with the entire village and hate thinking about presents just get a bunch of rabbits and collect rabbit's feet while also duplicating diamonds in the gem machine. Easy and fast way to befriend everyone.
Additional tip for grass before winter: Even if you have a fully upgraded barn/coop, you can use a bomb to blow up the hay in the trough. The auto-hopper wont repopulate them until the next morning. So you can completely empty your silos as many times as needed to cut down all your grass. Then just reload your hay hopper so the silos are filled again and stow the remaining hay in a chest for later.
adding to tip 14, if you grind out the monster hunt achievement for dust sprites in the mines (levels 40-79 I think) you get the burglar's ring which, when equipped DOUBLES all monster drops regardless of luck, but luck also increases drops! Keep ruby-producing crystalariums in the desert and trade for spicy eel from the desert trader for luck and speed (or just get from killing a few flying serpents, again much more likely to drop with the burglar ring)
Just learned this last week in year 10 of my game. I filled my greenhouse full of ancient fruit early on so I would just get infinite harvests worth good money. But fertilizer disappears with the changing of the season so the crops are more average than gold. BUT, I finally cut down my crops and started planting starfruit and learned this. As long as the crop carries over into the next month on a one-plant, one-harvest item, the fertilizer stays. I have been running 4 seasons now on the same fertilizer.
actually what you had was a glitch that was fixed in the recent 1.5 update where fertilizer would disappear at the end of the season in the greenhouse, and besides fertilizer on multiple harvest crops only affects the first harvest.
lifehack that i dont see anyone mentioning EVER: if your coop or barn is at max upgrade you can destroy the hay on the feeding thing with bombs which will let you still take out hay
in case your silos are full and you want to get more hay from the grass on your farm. When you use a scythe on the grass on your farm, the hay automatically goes into silos, unless they are full and then the grass/hay just disappears, it doesn't go into your inventory). It's especially handy if you do have enough grass on your farm and want to gather more hay for the winter
the holding down right click while walking trick for planting seeds also works for harvesting! it picks things up in the row you’re in and the adjacent ones.
You can also use a bomb to take the Hay out of already fed animals. Aka fully upgraded barns. It destroys the hay already out but then you can empty the hopper and go mow the lawn again. I usually do this in the last day of fall and fill up a cheest so I've got stacks of hay in a chest instead of trying to make more silos.
You could buy a calendar. Orrrr…. You could keep the wiki open on a separate monitor. ;) that way I know when birthdays are and what I should give to each townsperson. (I have not memorized best gifts.)
Tip 29 : When setting a chest next to an NPC, you have to be careful. If it is on the path they usually walk, they will DESTROY the chest. You have to make sure to put chest where no NPC's will walk if you want it to remain there.
There is another way to improve your speed besides Horses, Coffee, and food! Place paths where you walk the most! They give you another slight speed boost and they make walking around your farm, or to the bus or thr main square a lot faster over time!
The thumbnail make me remember my first time playing this game. I chopped down every tree and didn't plant any of them back, so when I needed them, there weren't any grown tree left. I ended up have to wait a really long time for them to grow
This is for PC players who are comfortable with mods but the NPC locator(I think) mod shows where any npc is on the map in real time and if they have a quest or birthday you will see an icon next to them to show this. Birthday is a present and quest is the exclamation mark
I have found that once I fill my silo that if I just give my animals unlimited access to outside grassy areas they don’t even eat the hay inside so unless it’s a rainy day I don’t have to feed them from the silo until winter time. It saves me a lot of work of cutting grass for extra silos of hay and it also saves me from having to pay for multiple silos. after realizing this I’ve only ever had one silo except for once when I needed two of them because I went a bit crazy with the amount of animals that I had 😂
I went to check my steam account to see how much Stardew Valley I'd played when you said "I've played a ton" and I realized I have a bit of a problem, as holy moly I've played a lot too. I'm going to pretend it was because of quarantine. While everyone else was their 2020 Animal Crossing faze I was packing in over a thousand hours of Stardew.
I feel that. I’ve wracked up more variety of games because I didn’t want to outright burn myself out on any of them but I think my quality of gameplay has decreased slightly. Definitely didn’t basically play my own kind of Stardew and Animal Crossing in Minecraft, noooooo 😅
I have a lot too, but that's also because I've had the game since it came out and have been playing throughout the years and then playing modded. I have no excuse for the hours on my switch
Another tip I never see anyone mention, goes along with 2 of your tips. 1. Only chopping down the top part of the tree and not the stumps in the early game. 2. Field snacks being good early game energy. My additional tip is: Trees drop seeds randomly on their own but leaving full grown trees everywhere blocks your vision so you can miss them and then another tree grows instead. But the stumps of trees continue to drop seeds even without the full grown tree and don't block your vision much at all, so if you just chop the tops of the trees off you can spend the early morning of each day making a quick trip around your farm collecting the tree seeds that are in the ground and turning them into field snacks. If you left a decent amount of stumps you can usually make like 4 or 5 each morning by only using a little bit of energy to dig them up. Also if you are cutting down trees, rotate which ones you cut down like do one of each instead of just using all your energy cutting down just the pine trees that way you'll get a higher chance of a mix of seeds that you can turn into field snacks to use to continue cutting down trees. If you do this correctly you can clear most of your trees in a single day with the energy you get from the field snacks.
Outstanding insight. I'm finally trying out Stardew Valley and it feels intimidating to learn how everything works. You've done an amazing job explaining so many mechanics that have had me confused. Thank you, sir!!
I really appreciate the time stamps! It makes it easy to actually use your videos to learn something since it's so well structured. I've been here since 20k. much love
Here’s one:fertilizer only does anything for the first harvest of a regrowing crop (unless it’s retaining soil) so you probably don’t want to waste your deluxe fertilizer on it
A better way of doing the first tip is to just use a cherry bomb to blow up the hay this means you dont need a new coop etc and can just use a single cherry bomb
7:25 might actually save my life with Stardew Valley. I have this weird sensory thing where I have to right-click whenever I left-click almost no matter what, and that has sort of made the whole "you have to click to use a weapon/tool" thing a pain because it wastes a lot of energy. Absolute lifesaver, man. Thanks.
Tip 25: not quite right :) You can also get a speed buff from the savage ring. My favorite thing to do: drink espresso, eat spicy eel, two savage rings, kill a slime then jump on your horse. Super speed.
For your tip #27 there is actually one much easier tip than just getting the calendar. If you go to the friend tab in the inventory and click on the villagers portrait you can see their birthday there as well as what they hate/dislike/like/love from either gifts you've already tried giving them OR what you've learned from secret notes or chatting with villagers. It's super useful for when you don't want to keep the wiki up but still want to give the best gift possible for raising friendship.
I already knew all of these, but nice vid. Bonus tip, you can farm the trees off your farm for wood and tapper stuff. They will automatically respawn over time, so it's a great way to do those special quests, like when robin wants you to get 1k wood. Swapping to the perk that increases wood per harvest makes that quest go by fast with just the trees off your farm.
13:19 if you hold right-click anywhere on screen while holding whichever ingredient you want to put in the kegs and then walk past the kegs like usual, it automatically harvests and refills the kegs. much easier than manually hovering over every keg
A good tip about full feeding tray in barns: you can use a cherry bomb to remove some of the hay there, so you can regain access to hay from the hopper.
Sorry if it's been mentioned before, I can't find it anyways. For tip 1: you can use a bomb in a fully upgraded coop or barn to destroy some of the hay there, then you can take hay out of the hopper thing
@Barbara Aww. I really need that. Thank you for your reply. To be honest, I already felt a little frustrated but maybe I'll start again later and take it slow this time. Your reply made me feel better. Thank you.
Just sit back and enjoy it. There is so much to do, no need to rush it. Unless you are doing Sam's heart events, one has to be triggered in the first year but the internet is your friend for that.
So uhh. My mom has 2011 hours in Stardew valley. I've loaded a few mods for her like Stardew valley expanded (after she got bored) and tractor mod (she loves the farming but can't really fish or mine... Also the NPCs are annoying in her opinion lol) I wonder if she can be considered a pro?
There is a fishing overhaul mod that if you cast the rod you catch fish automatically! Maybe that would be easier for her? I also use bombs instead of mining and it makes it go quicker. :)
This is me lol. So many things I'm missing or don't understand. Probably why I'm in Winter 1 and basically broke, and don't really have much to show for it all lol. I really want to make this game work but so much I have no clue about.
Beach farm - first day of summer year one - Clear the beach of grass / debris then buy 600+ wheat seeds and plant on the beach over one or two days. - Never water - because you only need 4 rain days to get a crop, sell for quick profit or make beer for extra gold.
WAIT i have almost 400 hours in the game and i didn’t know wheat made beer. i knew honey made mead but i had no idea about beer. i guess it makes sense though, now i just feel dumb.
@@juliasherwood697 Plants do not die if they are not watered. They only do not grow to the next stage. So you can leave them unwatered as long as you get four TOTAL days of rain for them. Edit: which, since wheat grows both summer and fall, you probably can grow three or four crops of wheat. You might need to water the last crop a few times at the end of fall just to be sure.
C is an alternate way to get fish too, I liked it better then mouse, you can also regain energy in the bath springs and it's surprising how many people don't use it
After you run out of space for sheds and kegs you can put kegs all over the map. I always use the tunnel and the road by it first. Any path NPCs take will destroy anything you place.
my tactic for the betting wheel is betting 500, then 250 until it lands on orange, then I bet 1000, then back to 500 and then 250 again, repeat, it's never caused problems and it's always pretty quick
for the first tip, you don't actually need to buy a new barn / coop! just use a bomb (i prefer cherry bomb) to destroy some of the hay, and then you can get it out of the silo! :D
@@Z0MBiiK1TTY You destroy some of the hay just to gain access to the hopper. Then you can remove all the hay from your silo through the hopper and store it in a chest for your animals later. Then you can go scythe more hay and it will be stored in your now empty silo rather than be wasted.
A thing i learned is that if you have the artisan or rancher trait, don't sell emeralds directly, turn the into cheese at the desert trader then sell the cheese. It will get you more money than the emerald.
put your higher quality crops still in the keg etc, because the quality price increase is still smaller than the prince increase you get for fermenting etc.
My husband made a character named Wuturt that looks exactly like your character years ago!! It was the funniest co-op playthrough ever. Literally same avatar character with the same outfit!
regarding tip number 30 at 12:54 this only applies if you don't have enough kegs/preserve jars to make artisan goods out of absolutely everything. especially if you have the artisan skill (but even if you dont), base quality wine still sells for more than even gold quality crops. if you can only process part of your crops, definitely use the low quality ones first, but if you have keg/jar space to spare, keg all your fruits (+ hops, wheat, pumpkins & red cabbage) and pickle all your veggies (+ apricot, blackberry, blueberry, hot pepper & salmonberry). i recommend the artisan profession btw! very efficient for making some money :P tl;dr: keg/jar as much as you can and only sell high quality stuff raw if you don't have the machine space to process everything
and the same works when you’re trying to pick up truffles and you keep interacting with your livestock instead. right click and hold and you won’t bring up the animal menu. also useful to try and get in doors that animals are blocking!
You don’t need to make a new coop because you can just break the hay in a fully up graded coop or barn by using a bomb which the coop with then let you take the hay
Also if you have an upgraded backpack you can click on one hay. Move it from the first bar to the second or third bar in your backpack. Then go back to click more hay and you can get as much as you’d like!
Field Snacks are great, I'm lucky enough to have figured this out on the first spring of my first file, and I use them as food until Salmonberry season on all my new saves.
When selling crops, I like to sell my high quality crops to Pierre's because the NPC's will actually buy your crops and when you talk to them, they'll actually say they bought something and comment on how good it was. (depending on the quality of crops you sold) So, I like to save my high quality crops to sell to Pierre's and all my regular crops in the shipping bin. Same thing goes with selling fish to Willy. NPC's will sometimes buy fish and crops and occasionally comment on how much they liked it based on quality.
On my first EVER farm in spring year 1, I didn't know that needed green beans for the community center and when I realizes that it was summer and I had to wait the whole year so i could complete that stupid bundle
@@potatoejauregui ...Did you somehow manage to not go into town at all until Year 4? Because that is the absolute only way that your statement is remotely possible, lol. When you go into town in the first few days you get a cut scene about the Community Center sooo...
By holding down the "c" key or whatever key it is to plant seeds, and holding M1 down on an adjacent tile, you can run down a plot of land planting two rows at a time.
My biggest mistake playing this game was choosing the river farm. I feel like I'm running out of space on spring of year 2. I want to start over but I made so much progress. 😩
Try making a new save and see how you like it! Even if you decide you don’t like restarting, you can just head back over to your old save. I started with the wilderness farm at one point and restarting was honestly a lot more fun in my opinion haha 😅
tbh i’m biased bc i love the river farm but i would suggest going online and looking for river farm inspiration! there are a lot of creative ways to maximize the limited space of the river farm. my year 8 save file is a river farm and i’ve managed to fit quite a bit of stuff into it :) good luck!
@@briabecker Thanks! I ended up doing that and I love the forest farm. I'm very happy I decided to start over, and redoing everything isn't so bad. It was worth it 😊
I'd actually say Field Snacks arent worth it at all, you can get things that restore a similar amount of stamina by just fishing. Make friends with Linus for Sashimi and get an even better energy restorative. Save your tree seeds for a tree farm, the wood will be more worth it in the long run.
True. Indoors you'll have to use your best guess what spots are safe. Outdoors you can use the wiki to look up "pathing" and find images of where all the safe spaces are to plomp down a chest in Pelican Town. One favorite of mine is a chest behind George's trash can, between the tree and house. It's nice and central so it's great to store gifts for anyone in town. Also, tree fruits are liked gifts for everyone, so fruit trees are a great way to have something handy to give out any time. Better to give liked gifts regularly than loved gifts only rarely.
Tip 9 is basically catching people who never played Harvest Moon, the first thing I did when I upgraded my tools was trying to see if I could charge them
If you destroy some hay in the barn or coop when animals aren't in it with a bomb and it allows you to empty your silos too so you don't need to waste space on your farm
Don’t get a coop just for accessing hay. Just bomb the hay bench when the animals are out. Destroys the hay on the bench and let’s you pull hay from the hopper.
Another video on common mistakes other people and myself have made!
ruclips.net/video/GxZjQaDA5sk/видео.html
Thx
Apparently you can use bombs in the farm buildings near the hay to break it and use that to get more hay??? I haven't even played stardew yet- I've just been watching vids about it- but it sounds very handy if true! Also, your vids are pretty rad.
Anddd I’m drunk:) I FEEL LIKE IM MELTING🫠
Not sure if I'm super lucky or they changed but I choose orange everytime last time I got like five in a row
Another fun thing about being able to use the "C" key as a use button is that it makes fishing a lot easier.
Thanks for the tip
how do you use the 'c' key like that?
@@elijahbrooks704 It works like a left mouse button.
you can also use x for interacting
I cannot fish at all with c it just isn't the same
Is it inefficient to chop down the stumps and clear out the grass early game? Yes. Am I going to do it anyway cause I can't stand not having a completely clear farm as soon as possible? Also yes.
Get 30 clay
Build 3 silos
Clear everything and you'll get hay !!!!!
Then you can clear everything
@@D4llast you also need 15 copper bars and 300 stone and I don’t have that kind of patience
@@emsmnms3507 if you are in year one it doesn't matter anyways
You play in a pretty chill way so at your pace maybe plan fo year 4 silos
Depends on your purpose. I always clear my farm. I need the stone and wood. First year I save up and buy the raw material. Year two every raw material has an increase in price. So to get the coop and barn and silo yes I clear it all. Free material.
For energy everyday after rain I pick up the onions by the sewer drain. I also pick up all forgables. The best option is a multi-player. You can rest and regen while other is working.
Goodness, me too.
I... kept searching for another way to confirm prompts, because I play with as much keyboard only as possible and having to grab my mouse again is super annoying, and this is the first time I actually found an answer to the question. So thanks. (:
I use lightning rods instead of fences since they don't wear down and you are guaranteed a bunch of batteries when there is a storm.
Also, make sure to plant grass under fencing or lightning rods as it cannot be eaten by the animals but it will cause more grass to grow next to it.
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BRUH
I once had a bunch around my dinosaur coop like it was an electrified fence! Iron fence posts interspersed between is a fun way to add the gates without ruining the aesthetic too bad
@@smrodan how do you get more than one dinosaur egg? if you hatch it, does it produce more eggs like chickens?
@@juliasherwood697 yes they do produce more eggs! It takes a very long time to hatch and they don't produce new eggs nearly as often as chickens but it's kind of a fun challenge to have hatched 12 dinosaurs, enough to fill a fully upgraded coop
7:34 That's not a bug or anything, ConcernedApe clearly made it so that if you put your horse behind the counter, your horse will serve you the ice cream.
What I've learned from the thumbnail is I should avoid oak trees at all costs
I was expecting to learn something about oaks
That's right. Never cut oak trees. Tap them.
Never stand on the left of trees
never have a iridium axe
Never wear sunglasses if you're bald
i always keep 1 or 2 of everything... or 100-1000. My need to collect everything because "you never know" won't let me sell things, even when i'm making something for profit, i need a good amount of buffer of it first. especially good quality stuff. which is why i have a million chests all colour coded for different types of things and there is nothing more frustrating, then needing 10 of something, and i only have 9 and can't get more till next year...
I'd like to add to 9:42 (which only works in multiplayer) that in case you're playing in a singleplayer file and you need energy but don't want to waste the day by going to sleep, you can get easy energy by staying still in the water at the spa. It took a while before i realised this so hopefully it helps.
The three horsemen of perfect pixels.
Minecraft
Terraria
Stardew Valley
Each complement eachother. MC Is 3d. Terraria is 2d. SV is also 2d, but compliments 3d with a upper view.
Nah man u forogt pac man
@@radicalgames480 pac man isn’t in this genre.
I have a tip about crab cakes, when you get willy’s 6 heart event, gus would sell an unlimited amount of crab cakes for the next 3 days for 550 each, it might sound like much but when you’re in mid-late mid game that would be dirt cheap for an entire day of +1 speed.
I don’t think I’d ever get to the point where I’m lining a dozen sheds in a row. I like keeping that farm aesthetic. I’m but a humble farmer.
Fun fact paths actually give a speed increase as well.
Honestly, I only started playing Stardew just a couple days ago, and the only good tip here I'd say is keep 1 of everything.
I've been watching all kinds of videos and there is so much information overload and stuff to remember that I'm sure others feel that same way. So simple general tips like that are very very helpful and I'm glad you brought it up.
Facts!!! some of the tips are way more advanced and it’s overwhelming
@@adrian3747_ honestly once you get the gist of the game its mostly self explanatory stuff you just forget and ways to be more efficient. don't stress yourself out obv, but in the future i'd recommend coming back to this video!
omg the gambling wheel. i lost so much betting on orange. i kept thinking it cant be green every time....it was
😭me too
Ive lost betting on green. Tried it after another video i saw a few days ago. Lost all my tokens lol
For early game, there are a lot of npcs who like salmonberries and blackberries which are really easy to have in bulk, and i tend to have them on me as my food supply regardless. Study up on which npcs like which berry and they’ll like you in no time!
One thing I recently found out is that your daily luck actually influences the slots in the casino!
If you want to make friends with the entire village and hate thinking about presents just get a bunch of rabbits and collect rabbit's feet while also duplicating diamonds in the gem machine. Easy and fast way to befriend everyone.
Additional tip for grass before winter: Even if you have a fully upgraded barn/coop, you can use a bomb to blow up the hay in the trough. The auto-hopper wont repopulate them until the next morning. So you can completely empty your silos as many times as needed to cut down all your grass. Then just reload your hay hopper so the silos are filled again and stow the remaining hay in a chest for later.
adding to tip 14, if you grind out the monster hunt achievement for dust sprites in the mines (levels 40-79 I think) you get the burglar's ring which, when equipped DOUBLES all monster drops regardless of luck, but luck also increases drops! Keep ruby-producing crystalariums in the desert and trade for spicy eel from the desert trader for luck and speed (or just get from killing a few flying serpents, again much more likely to drop with the burglar ring)
Just learned this last week in year 10 of my game. I filled my greenhouse full of ancient fruit early on so I would just get infinite harvests worth good money. But fertilizer disappears with the changing of the season so the crops are more average than gold. BUT, I finally cut down my crops and started planting starfruit and learned this. As long as the crop carries over into the next month on a one-plant, one-harvest item, the fertilizer stays. I have been running 4 seasons now on the same fertilizer.
actually what you had was a glitch that was fixed in the recent 1.5 update where fertilizer would disappear at the end of the season in the greenhouse, and besides fertilizer on multiple harvest crops only affects the first harvest.
The only tip I didn't know about was refilling the watering can at sinks. Neat!!!
I loved the refresher on all the other tips too.
Ill ask you this
Did you know you can reach a status that is 100+ lvl without using any cheat or mods
Ill ask you this
Did you know you can reach a status that is 100+ lvl without using any cheat or mods
lifehack that i dont see anyone mentioning EVER: if your coop or barn is at max upgrade you can destroy the hay on the feeding thing with bombs which will let you still take out hay
Came to the comments to check if anyone said this yet. 👍
So you can take hay out of the silo
in case your silos are full and you want to get more hay from the grass on your farm. When you use a scythe on the grass on your farm, the hay automatically goes into silos, unless they are full and then the grass/hay just disappears, it doesn't go into your inventory). It's especially handy if you do have enough grass on your farm and want to gather more hay for the winter
This guy seems like the kind of guy to make a spreadsheet of their funds in game
the holding down right click while walking trick for planting seeds also works for harvesting! it picks things up in the row you’re in and the adjacent ones.
You can also use a bomb to take the
Hay out of already fed animals. Aka fully upgraded barns. It destroys the hay already out but then you can empty the hopper and go mow the lawn again. I usually do this in the last day of fall and fill up a cheest so I've got stacks of hay in a chest instead of trying to make more silos.
thanks im gonna avoid that very specific tree thats in the thumbnail
You could buy a calendar. Orrrr…. You could keep the wiki open on a separate monitor. ;) that way I know when birthdays are and what I should give to each townsperson. (I have not memorized best gifts.)
Or just use any of the mods that give u a calendar in ur inventory
Lookupanything mod fixes this
Tip 29 : When setting a chest next to an NPC, you have to be careful. If it is on the path they usually walk, they will DESTROY the chest. You have to make sure to put chest where no NPC's will walk if you want it to remain there.
With the 1.6 update: instead of putting the staircase in your pants slot, put it in Lewis's room!
There is another way to improve your speed besides Horses, Coffee, and food!
Place paths where you walk the most! They give you another slight speed boost and they make walking around your farm, or to the bus or thr main square a lot faster over time!
He had this tip in another video, but good call posting it again! I’m sure a lot of people still don’t know about this.
About the calendar thing, you can also just go to the friendship tab and it will show you people’s birthdays there
easier to plan ahead if you can see the whole month at a time though.
The thumbnail make me remember my first time playing this game. I chopped down every tree and didn't plant any of them back, so when I needed them, there weren't any grown tree left. I ended up have to wait a really long time for them to grow
You just got The Lorax experience
the rinqueen joke... 💀😂 happy to see acknowledgement for her on a big channel!
This is for PC players who are comfortable with mods but the NPC locator(I think) mod shows where any npc is on the map in real time and if they have a quest or birthday you will see an icon next to them to show this. Birthday is a present and quest is the exclamation mark
I have found that once I fill my silo that if I just give my animals unlimited access to outside grassy areas they don’t even eat the hay inside so unless it’s a rainy day I don’t have to feed them from the silo until winter time. It saves me a lot of work of cutting grass for extra silos of hay and it also saves me from having to pay for multiple silos. after realizing this I’ve only ever had one silo except for once when I needed two of them because I went a bit crazy with the amount of animals that I had 😂
I went to check my steam account to see how much Stardew Valley I'd played when you said "I've played a ton" and I realized I have a bit of a problem, as holy moly I've played a lot too. I'm going to pretend it was because of quarantine. While everyone else was their 2020 Animal Crossing faze I was packing in over a thousand hours of Stardew.
I feel that. I’ve wracked up more variety of games because I didn’t want to outright burn myself out on any of them but I think my quality of gameplay has decreased slightly.
Definitely didn’t basically play my own kind of Stardew and Animal Crossing in Minecraft, noooooo 😅
I have a lot too, but that's also because I've had the game since it came out and have been playing throughout the years and then playing modded.
I have no excuse for the hours on my switch
Another tip I never see anyone mention, goes along with 2 of your tips. 1. Only chopping down the top part of the tree and not the stumps in the early game. 2. Field snacks being good early game energy. My additional tip is: Trees drop seeds randomly on their own but leaving full grown trees everywhere blocks your vision so you can miss them and then another tree grows instead. But the stumps of trees continue to drop seeds even without the full grown tree and don't block your vision much at all, so if you just chop the tops of the trees off you can spend the early morning of each day making a quick trip around your farm collecting the tree seeds that are in the ground and turning them into field snacks. If you left a decent amount of stumps you can usually make like 4 or 5 each morning by only using a little bit of energy to dig them up. Also if you are cutting down trees, rotate which ones you cut down like do one of each instead of just using all your energy cutting down just the pine trees that way you'll get a higher chance of a mix of seeds that you can turn into field snacks to use to continue cutting down trees. If you do this correctly you can clear most of your trees in a single day with the energy you get from the field snacks.
"you can glitch into secret wood using chairs"
me: YOU CAN WHAT???
thanks for the great tips!
Happy to help!
Outstanding insight. I'm finally trying out Stardew Valley and it feels intimidating to learn how everything works. You've done an amazing job explaining so many mechanics that have had me confused. Thank you, sir!!
if you have grass near the stable or chicken coop you can just open the animal door and you only have to feed them on rainy days
I really appreciate the time stamps! It makes it easy to actually use your videos to learn something since it's so well structured. I've been here since 20k. much love
Here’s one:fertilizer only does anything for the first harvest of a regrowing crop (unless it’s retaining soil) so you probably don’t want to waste your deluxe fertilizer on it
A better way of doing the first tip is to just use a cherry bomb to blow up the hay this means you dont need a new coop etc and can just use a single cherry bomb
Like blow up the grass or blow up the hay feeder thing or something else
I just don’t really understand
huh? does that give you hay? lol
Does that give hay?
@@kirin1230 No blowing up the hay in the feeder allows you to take hay out of the silo which allows you to collect more hay from the grass on ur farm
I swear, for the green and orange spinning wheel, mine loves to hit orange when I try and do it.
7:25 might actually save my life with Stardew Valley. I have this weird sensory thing where I have to right-click whenever I left-click almost no matter what, and that has sort of made the whole "you have to click to use a weapon/tool" thing a pain because it wastes a lot of energy. Absolute lifesaver, man. Thanks.
That sounds like a symmetry compulsion.
I can't believe in all my 500+ hours of playing this game I have never put 2 and 2 together and tried filling my watering can at the sink.
Tip 25: not quite right :) You can also get a speed buff from the savage ring. My favorite thing to do: drink espresso, eat spicy eel, two savage rings, kill a slime then jump on your horse. Super speed.
Another reason for keeping the stumps is that they spawn tree seeds around them over time.
For your tip #27 there is actually one much easier tip than just getting the calendar. If you go to the friend tab in the inventory and click on the villagers portrait you can see their birthday there as well as what they hate/dislike/like/love from either gifts you've already tried giving them OR what you've learned from secret notes or chatting with villagers. It's super useful for when you don't want to keep the wiki up but still want to give the best gift possible for raising friendship.
I already knew all of these, but nice vid. Bonus tip, you can farm the trees off your farm for wood and tapper stuff. They will automatically respawn over time, so it's a great way to do those special quests, like when robin wants you to get 1k wood. Swapping to the perk that increases wood per harvest makes that quest go by fast with just the trees off your farm.
13:19 if you hold right-click anywhere on screen while holding whichever ingredient you want to put in the kegs and then walk past the kegs like usual, it automatically harvests and refills the kegs. much easier than manually hovering over every keg
without being next to each keg?
@@9Nikko8 thx, forgot about that. changed the comment
Another minor thing about stumps is that they continue to spread seeds.
Use them for Field Snacks or more trees.
A good tip about full feeding tray in barns: you can use a cherry bomb to remove some of the hay there, so you can regain access to hay from the hopper.
Refill watering can in the sink? So obvious yet I never knew it 😂
these tip videos are insane. with as many hours as i have you would think i would know most of them, but i only knew a handful...
1200+ hrs in SDV and I learned that you can turn off Junimo harvest. Thank you for your helpful video.
Sorry if it's been mentioned before, I can't find it anyways. For tip 1: you can use a bomb in a fully upgraded coop or barn to destroy some of the hay there, then you can take hay out of the hopper thing
Me heading to the game forgetting everything I've learned:
So many great slap-my-head-it's-so-obvious tips! Thank you for the awesome video!
I never thought about emptying my silo and putting the hay in a chest, I usually just buy another silo when it's full.
I don't know what the captions captioning but it's not from this planet
I just bought this on Switch the other day to start the new year and I already feel like I have so many things to do.
@Barbara Aww. I really need that. Thank you for your reply. To be honest, I already felt a little frustrated but maybe I'll start again later and take it slow this time. Your reply made me feel better. Thank you.
Just sit back and enjoy it. There is so much to do, no need to rush it. Unless you are doing Sam's heart events, one has to be triggered in the first year but the internet is your friend for that.
As this video continues to be viewed by many it would be advisable to add subtitles to have a clearer understanding.
Agreed!!!!!!!
So uhh. My mom has 2011 hours in Stardew valley. I've loaded a few mods for her like Stardew valley expanded (after she got bored) and tractor mod (she loves the farming but can't really fish or mine... Also the NPCs are annoying in her opinion lol) I wonder if she can be considered a pro?
definitely
Definitely
2011 hour in and cant fish and mine?? tf
There is a fishing overhaul mod that if you cast the rod you catch fish automatically! Maybe that would be easier for her? I also use bombs instead of mining and it makes it go quicker. :)
Moms always rack up the craziest play-hours, they the real pros
When you said to "keep one of everything" and showed that you had at least 6 chicken statues, I felt that
I’m on my first play through in fall and with every video I’m shocked at how much more there is to this game then I thought 😳 I’m so behind
This is me lol. So many things I'm missing or don't understand. Probably why I'm in Winter 1 and basically broke, and don't really have much to show for it all lol. I really want to make this game work but so much I have no clue about.
Beach farm - first day of summer year one - Clear the beach of grass / debris then buy 600+ wheat seeds and plant on the beach over one or two days. - Never water - because you only need 4 rain days to get a crop, sell for quick profit or make beer for extra gold.
WAIT i have almost 400 hours in the game and i didn’t know wheat made beer. i knew honey made mead but i had no idea about beer. i guess it makes sense though, now i just feel dumb.
Well said! I've been preaching this for years, but you probably worded it better than I do.
how can you guarantee 4 rain days? how do they not die on the second day?
@@juliasherwood697 Plants do not die if they are not watered. They only do not grow to the next stage.
So you can leave them unwatered as long as you get four TOTAL days of rain for them.
Edit: which, since wheat grows both summer and fall, you probably can grow three or four crops of wheat. You might need to water the last crop a few times at the end of fall just to be sure.
C is an alternate way to get fish too, I liked it better then mouse, you can also regain energy in the bath springs and it's surprising how many people don't use it
Glad we get that 30 second loop of Haboo slamming his desk
After you run out of space for sheds and kegs you can put kegs all over the map. I always use the tunnel and the road by it first. Any path NPCs take will destroy anything you place.
my tactic for the betting wheel is betting 500, then 250 until it lands on orange, then I bet 1000, then back to 500 and then 250 again, repeat, it's never caused problems and it's always pretty quick
for the first tip, you don't actually need to buy a new barn / coop! just use a bomb (i prefer cherry bomb) to destroy some of the hay, and then you can get it out of the silo! :D
Why do you need hay if not for your animals?
@@Z0MBiiK1TTY bundles
@@Z0MBiiK1TTY also your silo can only hold so much. I do it to store more hay just in case
@@Z0MBiiK1TTY You destroy some of the hay just to gain access to the hopper. Then you can remove all the hay from your silo through the hopper and store it in a chest for your animals later. Then you can go scythe more hay and it will be stored in your now empty silo rather than be wasted.
A thing i learned is that if you have the artisan or rancher trait, don't sell emeralds directly, turn the into cheese at the desert trader then sell the cheese. It will get you more money than the emerald.
"So you never have to set foot near Pierre again" in this house we dunk on pierre
I could have moved my fishing line this whole time......
put your higher quality crops still in the keg etc, because the quality price increase is still smaller than the prince increase you get for fermenting etc.
yeah but its worst profit than normal ones.
and if you need quick money its worth selling more than waiting.
The buying 25 items at a time thing can be done on console if you hold down both Square and X on the controler
My husband made a character named Wuturt that looks exactly like your character years ago!! It was the funniest co-op playthrough ever. Literally same avatar character with the same outfit!
The chair hack blew my mind
Same I never thought of that either
regarding tip number 30 at 12:54
this only applies if you don't have enough kegs/preserve jars to make artisan goods out of absolutely everything. especially if you have the artisan skill (but even if you dont), base quality wine still sells for more than even gold quality crops. if you can only process part of your crops, definitely use the low quality ones first, but if you have keg/jar space to spare, keg all your fruits (+ hops, wheat, pumpkins & red cabbage) and pickle all your veggies (+ apricot, blackberry, blueberry, hot pepper & salmonberry). i recommend the artisan profession btw! very efficient for making some money :P
tl;dr: keg/jar as much as you can and only sell high quality stuff raw if you don't have the machine space to process everything
And for gifting?
crab pots, click and hold right click like you do with seeds. you won't pick up the pots and your hands can be empty or holding whatever.
and the same works when you’re trying to pick up truffles and you keep interacting with your livestock instead. right click and hold and you won’t bring up the animal menu. also useful to try and get in doors that animals are blocking!
You don’t need to make a new coop because you can just break the hay in a fully up graded coop or barn by using a bomb which the coop with then let you take the hay
Also if you have an upgraded backpack you can click on one hay. Move it from the first bar to the second or third bar in your backpack. Then go back to click more hay and you can get as much as you’d like!
For the full silo harvesting, you can blow up the hay in your barn so you can take some out of the hopper.
999 stone for a staircase is reasonable.
Field Snacks are great, I'm lucky enough to have figured this out on the first spring of my first file, and I use them as food
until Salmonberry season on all my new saves.
When selling crops, I like to sell my high quality crops to Pierre's because the NPC's will actually buy your crops and when you talk to them, they'll actually say they bought something and comment on how good it was. (depending on the quality of crops you sold) So, I like to save my high quality crops to sell to Pierre's and all my regular crops in the shipping bin. Same thing goes with selling fish to Willy. NPC's will sometimes buy fish and crops and occasionally comment on how much they liked it based on quality.
Yea but then Pierre takes credit for the really good crops, while tells everyone you grew then if they are normal. This is why I shop at jojo.
@@sup1602 you’re so spiteful of Pierre that you take the time to walk 20 more in game minutes, just to shop… I can respect that.
@@willc7076 Pierre is a dooooooouche
On my first EVER farm in spring year 1, I didn't know that needed green beans for the community center and when I realizes that it was summer and I had to wait the whole year so i could complete that stupid bundle
i just did this with the blueberry ;(
oh honey I was on year 4 before I even discovered the Community center 😂😂😂
@@potatoejauregui how? i'm genuinely asking
@@potatoejauregui ...Did you somehow manage to not go into town at all until Year 4? Because that is the absolute only way that your statement is remotely possible, lol. When you go into town in the first few days you get a cut scene about the Community Center sooo...
Video plays - learns several things I didn't know.🙂😊
Video ends - what did I learn again? 😱😭
By holding down the "c" key or whatever key it is to plant seeds, and holding M1 down on an adjacent tile, you can run down a plot of land planting two rows at a time.
These field snacks saved my life so many times when I was almost dying in the mines…. Now I always have about 50 on me just in case
woah I didn't know about the chair way to the secret woods
I didn't even know there was a secret woods, and I'm like 55 hours in my first game
It think it was a glitch/exploit, could be fixed in the future. I wouldn’t use it in my game but still cool to know you can do that haha
My biggest mistake playing this game was choosing the river farm. I feel like I'm running out of space on spring of year 2. I want to start over but I made so much progress. 😩
Try making a new save and see how you like it! Even if you decide you don’t like restarting, you can just head back over to your old save. I started with the wilderness farm at one point and restarting was honestly a lot more fun in my opinion haha 😅
tbh i’m biased bc i love the river farm but i would suggest going online and looking for river farm inspiration! there are a lot of creative ways to maximize the limited space of the river farm. my year 8 save file is a river farm and i’ve managed to fit quite a bit of stuff into it :) good luck!
@@briabecker Thanks! I ended up doing that and I love the forest farm. I'm very happy I decided to start over, and redoing everything isn't so bad. It was worth it 😊
@@angelnunyabeezwax3348 That’s great! Have fun farming and have a great day! :)
This is such a wholesome reply section. You guys are great. Hope you’re all doing well :)
I'd actually say Field Snacks arent worth it at all, you can get things that restore a similar amount of stamina by just fishing. Make friends with Linus for Sashimi and get an even better energy restorative. Save your tree seeds for a tree farm, the wood will be more worth it in the long run.
Tip 29 - Be Warned! If a chest is placed in the path of where any NPC would walk they will destroy it in order to get past.
True. Indoors you'll have to use your best guess what spots are safe.
Outdoors you can use the wiki to look up "pathing" and find images of where all the safe spaces are to plomp down a chest in Pelican Town.
One favorite of mine is a chest behind George's trash can, between the tree and house. It's nice and central so it's great to store gifts for anyone in town.
Also, tree fruits are liked gifts for everyone, so fruit trees are a great way to have something handy to give out any time. Better to give liked gifts regularly than loved gifts only rarely.
Tip 9 is basically catching people who never played Harvest Moon, the first thing I did when I upgraded my tools was trying to see if I could charge them
fix tip 2. the correct tool is a cherry bomb. destroyes like 3 hay and you can just pull all you need. no extra building required.
Also another meal you can eat to give you speed is spicy eel you can get eel in spring but only between 4pm to 2am and when it's raining
best way to get those is a lava eel pond or for 1 ruby at desert trader
@@alexanypercent i learned the recipe I forgot who gave it to me
@@adianahernandez439 george iirc!
If you destroy some hay in the barn or coop when animals aren't in it with a bomb and it allows you to empty your silos too so you don't need to waste space on your farm
For speed and early game, paths increase your speed a tiny bit
They stop grass from slowing you down, but do not actually make you walk faster than a smooth area.
Don’t get a coop just for accessing hay. Just bomb the hay bench when the animals are out. Destroys the hay on the bench and let’s you pull hay from the hopper.