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Stardew Valley
Metallikat
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Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot7uXNQskhsHomepage:
http://stardewvalley.net/
After a surprisingly lengthy number of years, someone has finally gotten around to making a good Harvest Moon-like game for the PC.
Features (as taken from the official website):
Turn your overgrown field into a lively farm! Raise animals, grow crops, start an orchard, craft useful machines, and more! You’ll have plenty of space to create the farm of your dreams.
Improve your skills over time. As you make your way from a struggling greenhorn to a master farmer, you’ll level up in 5 different areas: farming, mining, combat, fishing, and foraging. As you progress, you’ll learn new cooking and crafting recipes, unlock new areas to explore, and customize your skills by choosing from a variety of professions.
Become part of the local community. With over 30 unique characters living in Stardew Valley, you won’t have a problem finding new friends! Each person has their own daily schedule, birthday, unique mini-cutscenes, and new things to say throughout the week and year. As you make friends with them, they will open up to you, ask you for help with their personal troubles, or tell you their secrets! Take part in seasonal festivals such as the luau, haunted maze, and feast of the winter star.
Explore a vast, mysterious cave. As you travel deeper underground, you’ll encounter new and dangerous monsters, powerful weapons, new environments, valuable gemstones, raw materials for crafting and upgrading tools, and mysteries to be uncovered.
Breathe new life into the valley. Since JojaMart opened, the old way of life in Stardew Valley has changed. Much of the town’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair. Help restore Stardew Valley to it’s former glory by repairing the old community center, or take the alternate route and join forces with Joja Corporation.
Court and marry a partner to share your life on the farm with. There are 10 available bachelors and bachelorettes to woo, each with unique character progression cutscenes. Once married, your partner will live on the farm with you. Who knows, maybe you’ll have kids and start a family?
Spend a relaxing afternoon at one of the local fishing spots. The waters are teeming with seasonal varieties of delicious fish. Craft bait, bobbers, and crab pots to help you in your journey toward catching every fish and becoming a local legend!
Donate artifacts and minerals to the local museum.
Cook delicious meals and craft useful items to help you out. With over 100 cooking and crafting recipes, you’ll have a wide variety of items to create. Some dishes you cook will even give you temporary boosts to skills, running speed, or combat prowess. Craft useful objects like scarecrows, oil makers, furnaces, or even the rare and expensive crystalarium.
Customize the appearance of your character and house. With hundreds of decorative items to choose from, you’ll have no trouble creating the home of your dreams!
Some Screenshots:
And a Reddit thread containing helpful tips for the game
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Now to wait for a steam sale, not because the game isn't worth it, but because steam has taught us all time again buying games out side of sales is basically just burning half your money.
It is very good.
I usually go by that as well, although I'm a big fan of harvest moon games and I was looking forward to this. It was also made over the course of 4 years by only 1 guy, so I feel like he deserves my 15 bucks. It's worth it too. Reminds me of starbound/terraria combined with farming.
I was hopelessly addicted to Rune Factory 1-3.
COME OUT OF YOUR FUCKING HOUSE
I DON'T CARE THAT IT'S RAINING, COME GET YOUR FUCKING FISH
I haven't gotten far into the game yet, but from what I understand the combat is only a very tiny part of the game.
And it is a delight.
I like the cold sterile convenience store.
be aware that your game only saves when you sleep
exiting the game mid-day can cause you to lose progress
Pretty much the only place with no background music too. Just to show how much it's not really a part of the valley.
Meanwhile, this game is awesome.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
Abigail beat me
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
3DSFF: 5026-4429-6577
This is actually a pretty neat difference, thematically.
That said, the Joja content sounds super boring to me. There's no rent or mortgage (thank god) so i'm not in any rush. I like having the different goals, so after I water my plants I can go do whatever I want and feel like i'm still progressing.
I can't figure fishing out...
What you'll want to do is find a spot in the water where there are bubbles, that will make the fish bite more so you don't spend most of your time waiting. Once you get a bite just kind of feather the button so that the top of the green area stays over the fish. It's just a difficult minigame, and not that well designed I don't think.
Eventually chests will start to show up in the minigame, and you need to hover the green area over it for a few seconds to open it and then catch the fish as well afterwards. It can be tough.
I just passed rank 5 fishing and was able to choose between a perk that has fish sell for some% more that I can't remember at the moment or one that makes crab traps cost fewer resources. I picked the former. If I run into an area of the water that has bubbles early on in the day and spend most of it fishing there I can get about 2-3k gold just from fish that day.
Also I just found a broken trident in a fishing chest. It's a dagger that does 15-24 damage.
Considering it's still Spring and I only just upgraded my first tool to copper that's a bit of a jump over my wooden sword.
Stardew Valley is a breath of fresh air. There's lots to do without ever feeling like I have too much to do. Not having marriage rivals means I don't feel forced to rush into marrying someone, and can pick away and give people gifts at my own pace (although Heart values do seem to drop over time, which is something to be aware of). Lots of crop variety, plenty of freedom to build and lay out my property as I desire. The writing and townsfolk are all quite charming and I find myself liking most of the characters. So much heart has been jammed into this game, and with the amount of things to do, I can see myself sinking a lot of time into this for years to come.
Just about to finish up the summer in another week or so. Got my silo built, and decided it was time to get myself a chicken. The long term plan is to spend the winter chopping trees, and mining so I'll be able to build an actual barn and start looking at buying some larger livestock. That'll start me on Year 2 with a solid foundation to build on outside of just growing crops, and gathering wild materials. I've been avoiding spoilers, so a lot of time is being spent just experimenting, and trying different things out as I progress at my own pace. What a wonderful game.
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I'm probably just going to have to print out a wiki page.
Currently DMing: None
Characters
[5e] Dural Melairkyn - AC 18 | HP 40 | Melee +5/1d8+3 | Spell +4/DC 12
This game doesn't do any similar nonsense right, because I'm quite interested in this game but don't want any surprise like that again.
Spousal gameplay is the same as both genders (with the caveat that you adopt as a same-sex couple)
You just sold this game to me then.
Because I never played another Harvest Moon after that bullshit they pulled off, but I've always wanted get back into a similar game.
Either way that was a decade ago. No game since, spinoff or otherwise has done it.
That mostly just tells you how long it has been since I last owned a nintendo console. :P
Yep. I watched it the other day and learned a stir fry recipe. I thought that was pretty cool.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
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