Wontan: Just a quick heads-up about refined quartz because the game very poorly signposts this! You can refine your own quartz in a kiln the way you can smelt bars of gold and copper. It just takes one quartz and one coal.
I only figured this out after accidentally stepping too close to a kiln one day and just happening to have quartz highlighted.
If you have a recycling machine you can also make it out of broken glasses or CDs that you fish up all the time out of the pond in front of the house in the default farm.
I would actually skip upgrading your watering can; if you have an upgraded pickaxe instead and go mining in winter, you’ll find more than enough steel/gold/quartz to build enough sprinklers to compensate.
Yeah my number one goal as a farmer is to never have to water my crops again
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
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Having an upgraded watering can is still nice for when you first hoe a new field and plant your crops there. But it's definitely a low priority upgrade.
I started a new game; @Moriveth forced me to get into bed by 11.30 pm, though, which I really needed although I was itching to play more.
Regular farm. I want to concentrate on landscaping this time so I want the maximum farming space.
Going to really concentrate on wooing all the villagers. Try not to marry anyone until end of the second year. I’d realized in my last game that I’d skipped Alex’s 8 heart event and there was no way to see it after marriage (since his timetable changes, he never goes to the beach in summer, which is what is required to trigger it).
Operation Schmooze Haley in order to make her my dance partner by Spring 24, since I’ve only ever managed to get Shane to 4 hearts by then.
Also going to really push my farming limits; generally my actual crops have been relatively small compared to some farms I’ve seen.
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WACriminalDying Is Easy, Young ManLiving Is HarderRegistered Userregular
Wontan: Just a quick heads-up about refined quartz because the game very poorly signposts this! You can refine your own quartz in a kiln the way you can smelt bars of gold and copper. It just takes one quartz and one coal.
I only figured this out after accidentally stepping too close to a kiln one day and just happening to have quartz highlighted.
... what the FUCK, game? This is some shit that needs to be taught. I could have had all the sprinklers I need by now, I've been selling quartz like I went to school for quartz-selling.
I started a new game; @Moriveth forced me to get into bed by 11.30 pm, though, which I really needed although I was itching to play more.
Regular farm. I want to concentrate on landscaping this time so I want the maximum farming space.
Going to really concentrate on wooing all the villagers. Try not to marry anyone until end of the second year. I’d realized in my last game that I’d skipped Alex’s 8 heart event and there was no way to see it after marriage (since his timetable changes, he never goes to the beach in summer, which is what is required to trigger it).
Operation Schmooze Haley in order to make her my dance partner by Spring 24, since I’ve only ever managed to get Shane to 4 hearts by then.
Also going to really push my farming limits; generally my actual crops have been relatively small compared to some farms I’ve seen.
Good on Mori. Can't have you waking up all low-energy, or worse, passing out while playing and having to pay someone to drag you to bed.
I just picked the game back up on the Switch after taking an extended break from it on PC and I have to say, what I do and don't remember about strategy is weird. But at the end of the 1st year I've already completed three community center bundles and have at least two hearts with everyone without trying hard or giving any gifts, so that has to count for something.
Also, playing it in mobile mode on the Switch has become my favorite way to play. I guess what I really wanted was Stardew Valley DS. As though I don't already have multiple versions of Rune Factory.
Wontan: Just a quick heads-up about refined quartz because the game very poorly signposts this! You can refine your own quartz in a kiln the way you can smelt bars of gold and copper. It just takes one quartz and one coal.
I only figured this out after accidentally stepping too close to a kiln one day and just happening to have quartz highlighted.
... what the FUCK, game? This is some shit that needs to be taught. I could have had all the sprinklers I need by now, I've been selling quartz like I went to school for quartz-selling.
A good general rule of thumb for Stardew Valley is, I think, knowing that nothing is TOO hard to obtain in this game. The only really hard-to-obtain things are things like the legendary fish (probably prismatic shard for mining) which don't offer the player anything but achievements or kudos. So if a resource seems rarer than it ought to be, there's probably another way to obtain it!
(Btw, only regular, not fire, quartz works in the kilns. Go ahead and sell all your excess fire quartz).
Wontan: Just a quick heads-up about refined quartz because the game very poorly signposts this! You can refine your own quartz in a kiln the way you can smelt bars of gold and copper. It just takes one quartz and one coal.
I only figured this out after accidentally stepping too close to a kiln one day and just happening to have quartz highlighted.
... what the FUCK, game? This is some shit that needs to be taught. I could have had all the sprinklers I need by now, I've been selling quartz like I went to school for quartz-selling.
A good general rule of thumb for Stardew Valley is, I think, knowing that nothing is TOO hard to obtain in this game. The only really hard-to-obtain things are things like the legendary fish (probably prismatic shard for mining) which don't offer the player anything but achievements or kudos. So if a resource seems rarer than it ought to be, there's probably another way to obtain it!
(Btw, only regular, not fire, quartz works in the kilns. Go ahead and sell all your excess fire quartz).
While not hard, the artifacts can be incredibly rare. Which makes them very time consuming. But I think you get a pretty good heads up on that when you select the item.
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For Leah i just bought salads at the pub to give to her. Easy peasy.
Absolutely; I've had a relatively tough time finding enough artifacts to get the sewer key by the end of the second year!
I mentioned the prismatic shard though because it has a couple of additional purposes to just being another museum submission. While it's nice to add to the museum collection, past obtaining the sewer key most of the artifacts hold little other use. Diamonds can be placed in the Crystalarium (prismatic shards can't), and other gems needed for quests and whatnot are generally easy enough to find.
It’s amazing what a difference small things make in this game.
In my new game it’s only Spring 7 yet I’ve already had 4 rainy days! I already have 60 copper ore since I’ve been able to spend a whole day down the mines. Last game I had 2 rainy days in my first spring, and one of those was on day 2 when I couldn’t do much.
Also there’s a lot I originally missed and I’d still be lost without a guide at times. I know it can be more fun to play without a guide but on the other hand I managed to spend an entire in-game year not being able to complete Linus’s blackberry basket quest because it wasn’t until I used a guide that I realized you can walk into the area containing the bus tunnel. I also completely missed two tree stumps in the secret woods for two whole games before I saw someone pointing them out on reddit.
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BroloBroseidonLord of the BroceanRegistered Userregular
Got Haley to 4 hearts before the Spring Dance! Operation Schmooze Haley was a success
I did also try with Emily and Leah, got Leah to 3 hearts but that was even with fulfilling a request of hers posted outside Pierre's, not sure 4 hearts would be possible without a birthday.
What a difference rainy days + plenty of good luck days makes!
End of Spring, Year 1:
- 3 community center bundles complete
- level 55 of the mines reached
- upgraded axe to copper
- barn built (though no cows)
- coop built (2 chickens)
- two villagers at 5 hearts
- 25 artifacts/gems donated (I got more geodes than in all of my previous games' first months combined)
- 12 villager requests completed
All of that is pretty unprecedented and it wasn't for lack of trying in other games; I really just lucked out.
WACriminalDying Is Easy, Young ManLiving Is HarderRegistered Userregular
I can't attach tackle to my Fiberglass Rod. I've tried:
1) Going into my inventory, selecting the tackle with A, then moving it over the rod and pressing Y.
2) Going into my inventory, selecting the tackle with A, then moving it over the rod and pressing A.
3) Both 1 and 2, but moving the rod over the tackle instead of the other way around.
4) Outside my inventory, using the right stick to move over the tackle on my hotbar and select it with A, then hovering it over the rod and pressing Y.
5) Outside my inventory, using the right stick to move over the tackle on my hotbar and select it with A, then hovering it over the rod and pressing A.
The tackle in question is the Dressed Spinner. I've googled this and I keep seeing threads that go like this:
Anon: I can't do the thing!
The thread: Try (insert description of item #1 on my list).
Anon: It's still not working!
The thread: I'm doing it right now on mine and it's working. You just have to (insert description of item #1 on my list).
Anon: Oh, you're right, that does work.
...but it doesn't work, not on mine. Am I just an idiot?
Tip that I didn't realize until this playthrough; might be obvious to others but not to me:
If you're on a level of the mine with cart tracks, follow the cart tracks to the end to find a cart full of coal. Since coal *can* be in short supply otherwise (depending on your luck) this can provide you with a nice little stockpile. This only works for the first time you visit that level, but still. Going through the mines once and checking all carts will yield you over 100 coal this way!
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If you have a recycling machine you can also make it out of broken glasses or CDs that you fish up all the time out of the pond in front of the house in the default farm.
Yeah my number one goal as a farmer is to never have to water my crops again
Regular farm. I want to concentrate on landscaping this time so I want the maximum farming space.
Going to really concentrate on wooing all the villagers. Try not to marry anyone until end of the second year. I’d realized in my last game that I’d skipped Alex’s 8 heart event and there was no way to see it after marriage (since his timetable changes, he never goes to the beach in summer, which is what is required to trigger it).
Operation Schmooze Haley in order to make her my dance partner by Spring 24, since I’ve only ever managed to get Shane to 4 hearts by then.
Also going to really push my farming limits; generally my actual crops have been relatively small compared to some farms I’ve seen.
... what the FUCK, game? This is some shit that needs to be taught. I could have had all the sprinklers I need by now, I've been selling quartz like I went to school for quartz-selling.
Good on Mori. Can't have you waking up all low-energy, or worse, passing out while playing and having to pay someone to drag you to bed.
Also, playing it in mobile mode on the Switch has become my favorite way to play. I guess what I really wanted was Stardew Valley DS. As though I don't already have multiple versions of Rune Factory.
Twitter: @LittleWren42
A good general rule of thumb for Stardew Valley is, I think, knowing that nothing is TOO hard to obtain in this game. The only really hard-to-obtain things are things like the legendary fish (probably prismatic shard for mining) which don't offer the player anything but achievements or kudos. So if a resource seems rarer than it ought to be, there's probably another way to obtain it!
(Btw, only regular, not fire, quartz works in the kilns. Go ahead and sell all your excess fire quartz).
While not hard, the artifacts can be incredibly rare. Which makes them very time consuming. But I think you get a pretty good heads up on that when you select the item.
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I mentioned the prismatic shard though because it has a couple of additional purposes to just being another museum submission. While it's nice to add to the museum collection, past obtaining the sewer key most of the artifacts hold little other use. Diamonds can be placed in the Crystalarium (prismatic shards can't), and other gems needed for quests and whatnot are generally easy enough to find.
In my new game it’s only Spring 7 yet I’ve already had 4 rainy days! I already have 60 copper ore since I’ve been able to spend a whole day down the mines. Last game I had 2 rainy days in my first spring, and one of those was on day 2 when I couldn’t do much.
Also there’s a lot I originally missed and I’d still be lost without a guide at times. I know it can be more fun to play without a guide but on the other hand I managed to spend an entire in-game year not being able to complete Linus’s blackberry basket quest because it wasn’t until I used a guide that I realized you can walk into the area containing the bus tunnel. I also completely missed two tree stumps in the secret woods for two whole games before I saw someone pointing them out on reddit.
@Aistan where did you get your better portraits mod? I want more buff villagers.
Me toooo
Got Haley to 4 hearts before the Spring Dance! Operation Schmooze Haley was a success
I did also try with Emily and Leah, got Leah to 3 hearts but that was even with fulfilling a request of hers posted outside Pierre's, not sure 4 hearts would be possible without a birthday.
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End of Spring, Year 1:
- 3 community center bundles complete
- level 55 of the mines reached
- upgraded axe to copper
- barn built (though no cows)
- coop built (2 chickens)
- two villagers at 5 hearts
- 25 artifacts/gems donated (I got more geodes than in all of my previous games' first months combined)
- 12 villager requests completed
All of that is pretty unprecedented and it wasn't for lack of trying in other games; I really just lucked out.
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/888
Do they have different expressions too?
3DS: 1607-3034-6970
Yeah, all the default expressions and emotional states are replaced.
E: With expressions and emotional states in that art style, to be specific.
Wait, who's the person in the blue shirt with glasses?
It's not Pierre, Gunther, Morris or Harvey, and I can't think of anyone else who wears glasses?
Willy just take me now :tell_me_more:
1) Going into my inventory, selecting the tackle with A, then moving it over the rod and pressing Y.
2) Going into my inventory, selecting the tackle with A, then moving it over the rod and pressing A.
3) Both 1 and 2, but moving the rod over the tackle instead of the other way around.
4) Outside my inventory, using the right stick to move over the tackle on my hotbar and select it with A, then hovering it over the rod and pressing Y.
5) Outside my inventory, using the right stick to move over the tackle on my hotbar and select it with A, then hovering it over the rod and pressing A.
The tackle in question is the Dressed Spinner. I've googled this and I keep seeing threads that go like this:
Anon: I can't do the thing!
The thread: Try (insert description of item #1 on my list).
Anon: It's still not working!
The thread: I'm doing it right now on mine and it's working. You just have to (insert description of item #1 on my list).
Anon: Oh, you're right, that does work.
...but it doesn't work, not on mine. Am I just an idiot?
The fiberglass rod only has a slot for bait, not tackle. Only the iridium rod has 2 slots, one for bait and one for tackle. I ran into the same issue.
Edit: whoops late!
If you're on a level of the mine with cart tracks, follow the cart tracks to the end to find a cart full of coal. Since coal *can* be in short supply otherwise (depending on your luck) this can provide you with a nice little stockpile. This only works for the first time you visit that level, but still. Going through the mines once and checking all carts will yield you over 100 coal this way!
I SAID IT WAS PROBABLY OBVIOUS OK
Like you never just headed for the nearest ladder?
Anyway I got a pig by Fall 13! 10 days for it to reach adulthood means a potential 5 days of truffles, and that allows for a few rainy days, too.
Of course I've not yet found red cabbage at the travelling cart so I might not get the community center complete by the end of Year 1 after all...
But that's mostly because I'm painfully average. They also called me Dickhead.
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"comic"
"genius"
"blessed"
"to"