11 Things You Thought Were Useless In Stardew Valley

[@log3157]

I just started playing Stardew, thought it was a good idea to start on the beach farm…its been tough but i have learned so much about the game

[@fench1234567]

The beach farm will give you chances to practice almost everything the farming, building, and fishing experience has to offer. It makes you think and yet, gives you enough fishing, foraged items, boxes, and above all, an AWESOME layout to build a long term dream farm on. (spoilers excluded on purpose, but I LOVED my playthru on the beach)

[@a6ustbby774]

It's a good layout though

[@miiyyuu]

I love the beach farm! I make profit out of animal products

[@somerandomcassfan7289]

You can't use sprinklers though

[@fench1234567]

There are about 200 tiles you can plant and water using sprinklers. This is PLENTY for year 1 to get on your feet and to get the greenhouse and Ginger island farms going. Diversify your skills and your farming, and the Beach farm will be your best ever.

[@labrinthhermen1846]

Blob fish is my go to for fish ponds... Because i get most of my pearls there and even if pearls dont have much use its still very satisfying seeing your blobfish pond produce one randomly, also blobfish gives 1-2 roe and it sells for a good price plus the added bonus of the pearls and the farm warp totem which is very very convenient in the first or second year

[@ZackWolfson13]

Lava eel ponds produce Spicy Eel, between that and the serpent's drop, I've got enough Spicy Eel for the Skull cavern dives, before I can afford enough crystallariums for the rubies.

[@l0remipsum991]

plus pearl is a universally loved gift

[@nemo18466]

First or second? I built blobfish pond in 3rd year 😨

[@aalikane6219]

I don't waste time building a bunch of charcoal kilns. Maybe a couple early on, but once I have access to levels 40-79 of the mines, I will spam those levels killing every dust sprite i can find. Then once I've killed 500, get the burlgar's ring and go back. With a burglar's ring, a monster musk and an infested level.... I can come away with 200-300 coal in a single day's run.

[@t900HAWK]

Naw kilns are still worth it

[@aalikane]

​@@t900HAWKnot to me.

[@ThrusterMcBuster]

Although the lava eel is probably the best fish for the ponds it is definitely not the only worthwhile fish. Sturgeon can be gotten fairly early and gives great profit. A little later blobfish is like a slightly better sturgeon and has a chance to give pearls. And later after that stingrays which although do not produce much money will give you batteries, dragon teeth, magma caps, and cinder shards.

[@Hot-Beef-Soup]

And rainbow trout sometimes gives the rainbow grm

[@saoirsemcglynn9586]

Plus you can trade them with the island trader for mahogany seeds.

[@monokumasussy9685]

⁠@@saoirsemcglynn9586do mahogany seeds have any value? What do you use them for

[@millienexu5684]

lava eels are actually more worthwhile than sturgeon, caviar is not as expensive as aged lava eel roe

[@I33cerfixj]

@@Hot-Beef-SoupBut it’s a very low chance,I think it would be better to do skull cavern runs on a max or good luck day as one iridium ore has a 4 percent chance to drop a prismatic shard.

[@Fran10969]

I didn't know you could put driftwood into the wood chipper. It seems so obvious now but I just never thought of it. So thanks!

[@DizzyedUpGirl]

Aww No one said Goats are useless. Of course they're not. Sheep though.

[@ChaosandKirby]

Not in 1.6! Sheep got some uses! :)

[@fench1234567]

Hoppers useless??? No. You just have to think how best to use them. They do the most good for you when you use them on the shortest, most repetitive processes. Examples include smelting copper ore or quartz, dropping MASSIVE amounts of produce into seed makers quickly while you just stand there and get seeds (very applicable to Qi fruit quest), or my favorite... COFFEE MAKING!!!

[@ThangCal]

Yeah, it's less useful compare to the automated one, but NOT useless.

[@annieshavingthoughtsagain]

I sometimes stream a no-farming challenge run on the beach farm. It's pretty fantastic if you're building your life around crab pots.

[@the_clockwork_jackass6897]

"lava eals are the only profitable fish" Me with my sunfish Tod, Todd, Tim, Tym, Timmy, John, Jon, Johny, Jim, and sir Charles the third of the raging river; "what about emotional support? That's valuable!" 😂

[@bethoverton-]

I did not know you could put a tree seed in a space surrounded with floor tiles! Thx!

[@mGaud2]

Only works with regular trees, not fruit trees

[@janeenschultz8502]

@@mGaud2 You can put tiles around the fruit tree after it's fully grown. Before then, just keep the area cleaned.

[@cass6020]

I highly suggest placing the tiles first if you plan on planting a bunch of trees the same way the video shows (particularly if you're on console, I have a very hard time controlling the cursor sometimes) so that you plant them where you want them and don't have to dig up the seeds to fix when they place wrong

[@cass6020]

I didn't realize the workbench was that strong, I've been using it to access just two chests and still finding it awesome! Nobody talks about it, but when you're crafting items that require like 4 things it's just so tedious to go get each thing out of the chest

[@slwrabbits]

I'm honestly lazy enough that I have a workbench hooked up to the one chest I have on my island farm. I just don't feel like getting ANYTHING out of a chest after using the workbench for so long. I don't know how anyone goes without!

[@jimmysthoughts8571]

@@slwrabbits Yeah, I get a workbench pretty quickly on any new playthrough, lol

[@theillestwaifu]

Another use for the crab pots: any farm layout with freshwater ponds or a stream can be used to passively acquire periwinkle and crawfish, both needed for Fish Stew (+3 fishing buff), which is infinitely easier than fishing for flounder and midnight carp to try to make Seafoam Pudding (+4 fishing)

[@steelfox9061]

My friends and I found a good use for hoppers. We placed them around the may with kegs and coffee beans, so now we can grab coffee on run and not worry about carrying it. It does not sound like much but it has been surprisingly convenient.

[@slwrabbits]

I borrowed this idea and wow, it makes such a difference to grab coffee on the run a couple times a day. Thanks!

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

Or you could eat a crab cake and have extra speed for the entirety of the day.

[@slwrabbits]

@@peacefulminimalist2028 The speed boosts stack, so why not consume both?

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

@@slwrabbits Sure that works too :)

[@victoriahewitt9938]

So cool seeing someone talk about the goat cheese method!! That's my money maker!

[@rubensanchezramirez7028]

To get coal you can also go to level 45 in the mines and start killing dust sprites, find the ladder to the next level and kill more sprites. Repeat the previous step and you can get a lot of coal.

[@lexslate2476]

That's not the biggest reason to hunt dust sprites, not by a long shot. The Adventurer's Guild reward for killing a lot of those is worth the farmhouse's weight in gold.

[@rayan6244]

You are the true definition of underated.

[@27mujtabamahdavi97]

Yeah bro, i've stopped playing Stardew Valley long ago but now i play it again just because of this guy

[@napkinx4341]

idk hes kinda obnoxious

[@Sophie-e6c]

TIP: if you need refined quarts very quickly set up 1 or 2 recycling machines next to the small pond on your farm, fish up the trash until you get the broken glasses or broken cd, put them in the machine and continue fishing. Within a few in game hours you will have 5-10 pieces of refined quarts for you to use for anything. Also for the fish ponds, if you chuck some sturgeon fish in there and use the roe in a preserve jar, it becomes caviar. Caviar is used for the missing bundle and also sells for 1100 G, so since sturgeon are mush easier to acquire it’s a much easier way of profiting.

[@sliceofcheeseyza]

if you have a friend who you dont play stardew valley with much, get them to get you a celler, one is for wine, and the other is for cheese

[@shibainu2528]

I'm not terribly great as a player, but I like to farm the skeletons in the regular Mines for the bone swords, both because it's a decent weapon if you are trying to get to 120 by the time Summer hits, and it's a decent money source for like 200g a pop, which is quite a lot in my eyes.

[@kioshekat7931]

(first playthrough and on switch so correct me if I'm wrong) I do wish there will be sheep milk in the future. with how long it takes to unlock a loom vs the faster access to the recycling machines and not much use for fabric unless you want to change ur clothes daily like animal crossing or if there's a reward in the future for finishing a catalogue like such, sheep are pretty useless. plus without mods it's another specific-use tool to worry about. I just don't have the heart to sell my one sheep.

[@MandalaBunnyhome]

The beach farm really is great when you're getting bored with the game, you have to try new strategies

[@l0remipsum991]

Hoopers works nicely with recycling machines too. I have separate chests for storing trash and recycled items and it's easy to just use 'Add to stack' button and dump all stuff in one go.

[@hoot_645]

I just started playing this game for the first time about a couple weeks ago and i learned a few things i wish i had known at the beginning. Like there are some berries that you can plant and harvest over and over and then turn them into seeds then sell the seeds. It's practically printing money because of how fast it is. Also by year two just save up all your base level strawberries and blueberries and make jelly and suddenly money isn't a problem anymore

[@tomdaboss2885]

Cant believe there are people out there who dont use the workbench

[@Aromatherapist_tris]

The ancient fruit wine sells for more at its base price than the iridium goat cheese. It makes it more lucrative in the sense that it’s less labor intensive and you can produce so much more at a time. If you neglect goats even for a day quality drops

[@slwrabbits]

That's weird, I only pet my goats about twice a week and still reliably get large goat milk.

[@bluesonicstreak7317]

The hopper and deconstructor are so late-game that I don't understand why someone would use them to get gold bars. I have absolutely zero use for gold at this point, so I don't get it.

[@RochesFan]

My jaw dropped when you introduced what the work bench can do when it's connected to multiple chests. This is literally the first time I've heard about it.

[@makinley.s]

I was really confused with all the different farm options when I was creating my first playthrough (which im still on right now) so I just went with the basic one but when I make a new safe file, I'll be doing a much more detailed look at the different options to see what will work best. Right now it would probably be the forest one as I do a lot of foraging.

[@LadySharon3710]

I have only played the mobile version of the game. Played a few months ago on the 1.4 and got decently far then stopped for a bit. Picked it back up recently with the 1.5 update. So I’m no where near expert and don’t even have access to even close to all thouse items yet. But selling extra weapons and armor has been a life savor early game. I can be a few hundreds short of something and I go sell my stash ( I keep at least one chest by the mine entrance -- I tend to pass out or leave the mine too late to sell ) and boom I can get that upgrade lol. I’m looking forward to unlocking ginger island and the enchantments. Though not looking forward to doing the volcano leaves to get to the forge.

[@janeenschultz8502]

Thankfully the volcano is short, but there's no immediate shortcuts.

[@mr.mcphoenix]

I have 1 pond with a sea cucumber, 1 with eels, 1 with stingrays, and 1 with rainbow trout. I like the cucumbers/eels for cooking and the rainbow trout for the random prismatic shard

[@SagemaGrindset1894]

Another banger video, love how you always present important things straight to the point in the most amusing dead-pan way and never beat around the bush. Also top tier editing 👌

[@CobaltContrast]

Crab pots are so useful for people who hate fishing minigame.

[@LunaHowBoutPoona]

Fun fact: A club can also be enchanted with haymaker.

[@elizavtuber]

I still think I'm the most useless thing in Stardew Valley 😂 Good video, mGaud!

[@jfloww]

These are all really great tips! Keep up the awesome videos ❤

[@myrakwulf686]

Who trashes their weapons? I see most of them as collectibles and I wouldn't trash them as many of them are hard to come by. Especially weapons like the ones found in the Volcano can take a lot of time to find x.x

[@viktor821]

Top quality content as always, def going to check out the playthrough

[@blubifisch]

Wait how did you jump over the pond? And what is the soundtrack at 5:06?

[@Kizaco]

I would say you can use the goat cheese and fairy dust tips to get iridium quality goat cheese immediately

[@MickeyP1230]

I put a hopper in the deconstructer and it gives you a radioactive bar. 3000 gold each.

[@priyanshugoel3030]

Also keep 2 fishing rods enchanted one for hard fish (the +1 fishing level enchant) and one for easy fish (auto hook).

[@johnmatthewgayo6044]

OHHH MYY GOODDD!! YOU are actually playing it!!!!! I would love to see it!!

[@blacklight683]

The only thing they need to make the hopper actually good is to make it able to harvest machines or even just add an item the does that

[@ThePolice233]

1:53 fairy dust is good to finish the missing bundle

[@Artemitenx]

crab pots would be cool if it wasn't that easy to accidentally pick them up whenever filling them with bait or picking up stuff. it's so annoying it repels me from using them for more than a couple days

[@MeigetsuNoSeishin]

I didn't know that you could put driftwood in the wood chipper!

[@dagreif187]

Anyone else not care for the fishing and mining? The fishing is my least favorite thing so far, I can’t figure it out on Xbox so I committed myself to farming. No regrets.

[@pbobaggins6904]

workbench is like one of my first splurges after i upgrade tools.. if i’ve got the extra skrilla

[@monalala6500]

i use hopper for coffee kegs and charcoal kiln and it's a win

[@mGaud2]

Oh, I can see that. Since coffee produces so quickly

[@SullySadface]

4:57 I like that Jump

[@Dhalin]

RE:Coal: Why is it people seem to forget that Dust Sprites are a thing? I always end up with hundreds of coal just by killing those guys to get that item drop ring bounty done and/or while trying to farm frozen geodes to get up to the 60 artifacts.

[@LunarAnimeAngel]

I grow mahogany trees, toss them into wood chipper and then that wood goes into a charcoal kiln for my supply of coal.

[@selalewow]

I used my crab pots to complete Linus' garbage fishing quest in 2 days.

[@maxschmidt666]

Can you put swords into the deconstructor? (It's a long time ago that I played SDV - and although I love the game, I have had enough of it)

[@sanjaysony40]

I have a new type of video idea make video about places in stardew valley where you can create tree tappers farm solar battery farm ect. Places like desert or quarry and more

[@mikec4390]

The treasure hunter tackle is a TERRIBLE example for the deconstructor/hopper. You can buy them from Willy for 750, use the deconstructor for two gold bars, which sell for... 750, IF you have the blacksmith profession, otherwise it's a net loss. Absolute waste of time unless you need the gold bars themselves and don't have any ore lying around, which by the time you have the deconstructor, shouldn't be an issue to obtain a bunch of it for free in the mines. The best use of the hopper is actually to put it IN the deconstructor. If you have extra Qi gems and you need some radioactive bars, every 20 gems spent on a hopper and then tossed into the deconstructor will give you a radioactive bar, which can be more reliable than trying to farm for it. As for the woodchipper, if you use hardwood gained from deconstructed cork bobbers purchased from Willy, it amounts to paying 150g per piece of hardwood, which when subsequently put into a woodchipper, makes it cheaper than buying wood from Robin from year 2 onward. It's unclear if it's cheaper to make coal with that wood than it is to buy from Clint (also year 2+) due to the range of amount of wood you can get. It would require some testing, because you would need to get wood at a rate that is functionally cheaper than 25g each since it takes 10 for the charcoal kiln.

[@Khammurabi]

Bruh just when I thought I was doing alright in this game I realized how much I'm actually missing out on lol

[@smokeywilly4364]

Golden eggs also produce 3 mayonnaise instead of just 1.

[@cailus3273]

Number 9, u won't need crabpots for making fertilizers, u can just use mussels from the beach on Ginger Island.. it's also categorized as fish so..

[@victoriahewitt9938]

Early game, though, is when you really need every boost of crop quality you can get. You could buy fertilizer for 100g or make it with a periwinkle & 2 sap for 22g.

[@l0remipsum991]

I keep those cheap fish for making sashimi. Perfect for Mr. Qi quest of shipping 100k worth of food. Works better if you have extra Qi seasoning to boost its sell price to 112g.

[@Shinyreaper816]

Aka 9 things I didnt know exist in stardew vally

[@acemahakud]

Bro told he is gonna stream on twitch, I'm still looking for his 💀

[@sabersroommate8293]

Crabpot was my bestfriend during 1.0.

[@LegoMaster132]

The guy is literally ezlily but with slightly better facts In my opinion

[@braderbell6814]

you trying to tell me that there's people who think the workbench is useless?

[@tophfan]

my wishlist for 1.6 is just a reverse hopper

[@mGaud2]

I'd pay money for that to be added to the game....

[@l0remipsum991]

extractor?

[@MichaelSmith-ex5tt]

Another backpack upgrade?

[@TraciPeteyforlife]

Wait you can sell weapons to the guild?! Oh heck yeah!

[@slvttyo]

Love your videos ❤️

[@TNTrolling]

i thought woodchip only turned hardwood into wood...

[@carelesswhisker4155]

It takes a while to get to lava eels, but in the meantime you can use butterfish from shearwater bridge, you can catch them on any sunny summer day at about the same difficulty as pike. A butterfish pond has a chance to give you glazed butterfish, which boosts your fishing a bit

[@mintycookies1327]

butterfish? that isn’t in the base game, and this video isn’t about mods

[@joereynolds5046]

yeah but you only get the golden chickens once you have already beaten the game.

[@mitsueadachi242]

This is how i get coal!!! I wear a burglar 's ring with hot java ring, and i just go to lvl 50 with monster musk. Its great way to spend a day imo 😌

[@sanjaysony40]

Upload videos about stardew valley as fast as you can.

[@justmob9917]

People always hate on the beach farm and I don't get it. Sure you can't use sprinklers but are people really that reliant on them? I personally loved my beach farm experience as it gave me a higher appreciation for deluxe water retainer, honey, fish ponds, etc. And now whenever I play stardew I always have some of those on my farm just because they're fun. It's unfun ignoring half the game because sprinklers and starfruit. I even had some fun spamming crab pots to catch crabs very close to home and be permanently boosted by crab cakes and triple shots

[@rachelkim4457]

Omg i shouldnt have sold all my cheeses 😭😭😭😭

[@NacerDaniel]

This video will make me use a lot of 🐐 XD

[@t900HAWK]

Feel like hopper needs a rework

[@mrdude88]

Hehe. I’m pretty sure it was this channel that told me to not raise goat because they are useless.

[@michealmalloy1934]

You can pry my sturgeon fish pond out of my dead hands.

[@TNTrolling]

i did think wood chipper was useless

[@yeaisSabi]

always best video ideas for us

[@Bagwis-mh1mk]

Harvest Town and Stardew Valley should merge

[@garra123454]

The beach farm is my fave farm

[@Uhhh_me]

am i the only one who has never used a single torch in stardew valley?

[@o0XS]

Need a torch to get past floor 31-39 in the mines. It pure dark down there.

[@solouno2280]

Fishing for fun? It is never fun

[@thatonedude]

Sounds like a skill issue

[@solouno2280]

@@thatonedude no, it's a patience issue

[@yesg651]

I love your voice so much lol 😂

[@bincks2880]

I like the hilltop farm

[@RoastyToastyGamer]

Think I start on beach farm

[@Isaac-ph5co]

But what about the thumbnail though

[@malixaron]

nice

[@gachaskits6497]

Is he saying mulk

[@AlwaysBolttheBird]

Ok I followed you on twitch. Now go do something haha

[@Lordzykar]

Is easier to get one coal than 10 wood ngl, u guys just too lazy to farm it

[@pichuyang3865]

Did some math by myself, and turns out aging Goat Cheese, and speed up Starfruit Wine from (G) to (I) are actually quite good idea! Already started to scrap some Hardwood bcs how easy to farm those later on. Thanks for sharing out!

[@libero2711_]

i love your content but I'm extremely disappointed with the clickbaiting thumbnail in this video, i thought u were an honest person

[@tomdaboss2885]

Relax

[@shayleeledevre6401]

I love your content. You make me laugh so much while learning. Thank you 😊

[@Swordkid669]

I love these videos 🤩