pyromaniac221this just might bean interestin YTRegistered Userregular
I’m at the point where I have enough cash to get a substantial amount of crops going at any given time but I haven’t come across any iron with which to make sprinklers, so I can’t put it to use since I’m still hand-watering everything and it takes too much time and energy. Should I be spending more time in the mines at this point? How long until I regularly come across iron ore?
Mine levels 40 through 80 are where you're most likely to find iron ore. Probably best to go mining on rainy days because you won't have to spend any time or energy on watering anything first.
You can also buy ore from Clint if you really want to.
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Handsome CostanzaAsk me about 8bitdoRIP Iwata-sanRegistered Userregular
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Are sprinklers even worth it? They only auto water 4 tiles and they're all spaced out from each other. Also is refined quartz useful for anything? I have a shitload of it from all the broken classes and broken cd's ive recycled.
You also use Refined Quartz to make Lightning Rods, which make Batteries (which are useful for some useful stuff) and prevent lightning strikes from messing up your crops.
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HenroidMexican kicked from Immigration ThreadCentrism is Racism :3Registered Userregular
Yeah regular sprinklers are... eh. The next tier up though is actually worthwhile. And yes quartz is useful for many things. Throw that shit in the furnace and make it refined.
@joshofalltrades if you look in the menu it'll show you who you've met and who you haven't, signified by them having ???? in place of their name. Describe who it is and we can drop ya some hints. For the record though, the Adventurer's Guild guy and Wizard don't count toward it I think.
When does the recipe for quality sprinklers unlock? I have a ton of refined quartz thanks to my crab pots + recyclers.
I'm definitely agreeing with "play the game how you want." I am doing minimal farming - just enough to get the crop bundles checked off.
Instead I am spending most of my time fishing and mining, and it's working out great. I feel like I have plenty of money coming in. I'm in the middle of summer 1 and have the 36 slot backpack, 1 steel tool, 3 copper tools, and the Iridium Rod.
I think part of my success is from picking the island farm. Less space for farming + water outside my doorstep fits my play style perfectly.
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DaimarA Million Feet Tall of AwesomeRegistered Userregular
The best tip I learned is that you can buy one Iridium sprinkler per week (Friday) from Krobus, it waters a 5x5 area and costs 10,000 gold, so isn't an item you'll start buying right off the bat, but once you do get cash rolling in it's the best place to get them.
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Okay Abigail sorry you didn't like my gift of a random onion I found
But it's not the gift it's what the gift was trying to say
You made me cry, Abigail
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
I think I used the basic sprinkler to keep four flowers watered that were near my beehives, and that was it. And eventually I replaced all my quality sprinklers with iridium ones, which I bought because getting the materials to craft them seemed like a pain at the time.
What's really funny about this game to me having just picked it up last week is that for me it's this relaxing, simple farming game where I'm kind of plodding along and talking to the townspeople here and there.
Then I talk to experienced SDV players or read tips and my head feels like it's going to explode, and that I'm doing it all wrong and will be in ruins once summer comes and I'm freaking out man. How am I missing all of this in the game :?
SDV is full of systems that let you compensate of having missed out on something earlier.
For example, I slacked off on socializing with most of the villagers until Fall but by then I had an upgraded house that let me turn things like algae and cheap fish into soup and sashimi that most villagers like so I have a steady supply of gifts to play catch up there.
It's also set up so that a lot of systems work together. For example, running a very large farm is hard without a sprinkler network which requires mining.
Experienced players tend to engage more of the systems early on instead of compensating later.
I found three more people, one's some homeless dude and another's a little girl who I guess is impossible to find unless you're lucky.
Still have one last person to find. My guess it's the guy running the Adventurer Guild? But he won't even open the door until I make it to level 5 in the mines.
Jas is a kid so her range of activities is a lot more limited. In the spring, it's mostly either playing outside near her home or being tutored by Penny at the library. If you're not doing logging in the morning or afternoon or making frequent donations to the museum, she can be easy to miss. Vincent has a similar deal.
I was gonna gift something to Abigail on her birthday. It coincides with the Egg Festival so I thought I would give it to her but the game is just like lolnope and after winning the egg hunt everybody just... goes to bed. Am I missing something? Is it seriously impossible to give her a gift on her birthday?
I was gonna gift something to Abigail on her birthday. It coincides with the Egg Festival so I thought I would give it to her but the game is just like lolnope and after winning the egg hunt everybody just... goes to bed. Am I missing something? Is it seriously impossible to give her a gift on her birthday?
Wait, what? Abigail's birthday is Fall 13. Haley's birthday is Spring 14, which is the day after the Egg Festival.
I don't think there's ever a day that has both a festival and birthday.
Are sprinklers even worth it? They only auto water 4 tiles and they're all spaced out from each other. Also is refined quartz useful for anything? I have a shitload of it from all the broken classes and broken cd's ive recycled.
I found that as long as you can put up with the mental anguish of a non regular layout of farm then the low tier sprinklers are totally worth it.
I hit the mines hard early so had loads of ore which meant I had more than a dozen small sprinklers, laid out in a staggered pattern that's a lot of crops auto watered. More time for going into the mine!
Pro Tip: put a paving slab on the spot you want the sprinkler - then you can't accidentally harvest them.
yeah. the 4-tile sprinklers just end up being really cost ineffective, but quality ones are real good. The iridium ones are kinda overkill though for the most part.
yeah. the 4-tile sprinklers just end up being really cost ineffective, but quality ones are real good. The iridium ones are kinda overkill though for the most part.
The iridium ones are more than one really needs, but since they can be bought eventually, it's not really a big deal. And they do free up a few spaces if used in the greenhouse for late game maximizing of efficiency.
That said, it's certainly possible to overdo a sprinkler network. I just got into second spring in my game and couldn't finish plowing, fertilizing, and seeding my field the first day and I "only" had 17 quality sprinklers set up.
yeah. the 4-tile sprinklers just end up being really cost ineffective, but quality ones are real good. The iridium ones are kinda overkill though for the most part.
The iridium ones are more than one really needs, but since they can be bought eventually, it's not really a big deal. And they do free up a few spaces if used in the greenhouse for late game maximizing of efficiency.
That said, it's certainly possible to overdo a sprinkler network. I just got into second spring in my game and couldn't finish plowing, fertilizing, and seeding my field the first day and I "only" had 17 quality sprinklers set up.
This is what I'm afraid I'm going to end up with on the Switch version.
Plowing still takes awhile but on PC I can fertilize/plant stupidly fast if I combine mouse+gamepad. On my last three farms though even doing that I'd barely get it done by 1am during year 2 when I had everything fully set up.
Also fuck me I loaded up my latest farm last night to count sprinklers and now I'm fighting the urge to say fuck it to Shadow of War and instead fire up Stardew and time travel a month or so into the future.
regular sprinklers are also handy early on for flowers and trellis plants that you only want a few of. Mass crop layouts don't work easily with them. You have to do weird offsets to get them to tessellate. But if you have them or can get them, they're real nice for saving a little bit of time and stamina when it's tight.
Yesterday I learned that while Vincent and Jas do not like most artisan goods, they DO like Mead.
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Huh. I'd say something but my brothers, cousins and I were all given something similar on the holidays, a Portuguese sweet alcohol (I dunno what to classify it as). So drink up Vincent and Jas!
alcohol is basically a guaranteed success in stardew valley.
So basically true to life for any small town that has little to do besides work
Something a lot of people appreciated about Stardew Valley is that even though it's where your character escapes to in order to get away from the old way of life, almost every other young adult hates it there or at least can't see a way to a successful life there (and it's telling how the only venue for entertainment is a bar).
I really need to start being friends with the villagers. I'm halfway through Summer Year one on the Switch and it's been all about getting on my feet.
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I just started autumn year 1. I have 11 sprinklers set to help grow a bunch of stuff. The manual plots I have that I didn't have enough sprinklers for amount to 198 spots, split into two lanes of 99. But I have a gold water can already. Also those 198 spots are filled with pumpkins. And I already have the next round of pumpkin seeds bought on harvest day. So I'm set for the season as far as buying seeds goes. All my money now can be funneled into other things.
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SteevLWhat can I do for you?Registered Userregular
I really need to start being friends with the villagers. I'm halfway through Summer Year one on the Switch and it's been all about getting on my feet.
I barely gave any villagers gifts my first year in the game. I never even properly dated anyone before I stopped playing, so I missed out on the whole marriage thing.
I really need to start being friends with the villagers. I'm halfway through Summer Year one on the Switch and it's been all about getting on my feet.
I barely gave any villagers gifts my first year in the game. I never even properly dated anyone before I stopped playing, so I missed out on the whole marriage thing.
But you're missing the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE GAME!!!!
... not really. Marriage isn't really that deeply implemented. But it's the signifier that you're a true Stardew Valley fan, that you will argue fervently for your preferred waifu/husbando.
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Speaking of, who is everyone aiming for as far as marriage candidates go? Reminder that everyone is bi.
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You can also buy ore from Clint if you really want to.
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Quality sprinklers are 100% worth it. Regular sprinklers are debatable.
Yeah, you can make quality sprinklers with quartz. :biggrin:
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I'm definitely agreeing with "play the game how you want." I am doing minimal farming - just enough to get the crop bundles checked off.
Instead I am spending most of my time fishing and mining, and it's working out great. I feel like I have plenty of money coming in. I'm in the middle of summer 1 and have the 36 slot backpack, 1 steel tool, 3 copper tools, and the Iridium Rod.
I think part of my success is from picking the island farm. Less space for farming + water outside my doorstep fits my play style perfectly.
But it's not the gift it's what the gift was trying to say
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SDV is full of systems that let you compensate of having missed out on something earlier.
For example, I slacked off on socializing with most of the villagers until Fall but by then I had an upgraded house that let me turn things like algae and cheap fish into soup and sashimi that most villagers like so I have a steady supply of gifts to play catch up there.
It's also set up so that a lot of systems work together. For example, running a very large farm is hard without a sprinkler network which requires mining.
Experienced players tend to engage more of the systems early on instead of compensating later.
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Jas is a kid so her range of activities is a lot more limited. In the spring, it's mostly either playing outside near her home or being tutored by Penny at the library. If you're not doing logging in the morning or afternoon or making frequent donations to the museum, she can be easy to miss. Vincent has a similar deal.
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I can't? Trying to head to town gives me a message that they're setting up and I need to wait till the festival.
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Wait, what? Abigail's birthday is Fall 13. Haley's birthday is Spring 14, which is the day after the Egg Festival.
I don't think there's ever a day that has both a festival and birthday.
Oh yeah, that one takes place in the town square. For the ones on the beach or whatever you can wander around town before it starts.
I did a major goof though; I bought a Rare Seed from the wagon lady, and accidentally tried planting it. It's the wrong season. So it poofed gone.
I found that as long as you can put up with the mental anguish of a non regular layout of farm then the low tier sprinklers are totally worth it.
I hit the mines hard early so had loads of ore which meant I had more than a dozen small sprinklers, laid out in a staggered pattern that's a lot of crops auto watered. More time for going into the mine!
Pro Tip: put a paving slab on the spot you want the sprinkler - then you can't accidentally harvest them.
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Currently Ebaying Nothing at all but I might do in the future.
My last farm on the standard map had well over almost 70 of them
The iridium ones are more than one really needs, but since they can be bought eventually, it's not really a big deal. And they do free up a few spaces if used in the greenhouse for late game maximizing of efficiency.
That said, it's certainly possible to overdo a sprinkler network. I just got into second spring in my game and couldn't finish plowing, fertilizing, and seeding my field the first day and I "only" had 17 quality sprinklers set up.
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This is what I'm afraid I'm going to end up with on the Switch version.
Plowing still takes awhile but on PC I can fertilize/plant stupidly fast if I combine mouse+gamepad. On my last three farms though even doing that I'd barely get it done by 1am during year 2 when I had everything fully set up.
Also fuck me I loaded up my latest farm last night to count sprinklers and now I'm fighting the urge to say fuck it to Shadow of War and instead fire up Stardew and time travel a month or so into the future.
this game has claws
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So basically true to life for any small town that has little to do besides work
Something a lot of people appreciated about Stardew Valley is that even though it's where your character escapes to in order to get away from the old way of life, almost every other young adult hates it there or at least can't see a way to a successful life there (and it's telling how the only venue for entertainment is a bar).
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But on the other hand he's already in the bar and I do need those blue chickens...
I barely gave any villagers gifts my first year in the game. I never even properly dated anyone before I stopped playing, so I missed out on the whole marriage thing.
My Backloggery
But you're missing the MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE GAME!!!!
... not really. Marriage isn't really that deeply implemented. But it's the signifier that you're a true Stardew Valley fan, that you will argue fervently for your preferred waifu/husbando.