An Exhaustive Guide to Mastery in Stardew Valley

[@sunburntsatan6475]

I got to floor 216 after showing up to skull caverns at 11 am using the "no bomb damage" effect and just bringing a shitload of mega bombs. Didn't use a single staircase! There's a special pleasure in just carpet bombing skull caverns and having Mr Qi tell you that you're "honorable"

[@bailey8715]

i used mega bombs and normal bombs however i did use maybe 5-10 staircases and he still called me honourable

[@StrawbsIsAway]

@@bailey8715As long as it's 10 or less staircases, he will commend you for being honorable.

[@DoubleMcZombie]

A relaxing playthrough tutorial: "Do what you want when it occurs to you. There is no rush, there are no deadlines. Everything can occur again. You can always try that quest again another time, there will always be another season, and you can reset your day if you mess up big. Take your time and have fun."

[@RogersOG]

This is the way

[@thanotosomega]

To bad the game seems to disagree with you, Mr Qi is the worst thing to happen to this game,

[@RobertKoch-fv5wp]

​@@thanotosomega​what makes you say this? I might be forgetting something, but I don't understand what makes Qi a source of stress.

[@i_am_ergo]

The problem is the time until "another time." Can be three months in case of some fish, can be three years in case of the paintings. Can be decades if you want a particular spouse weapon from the Desert Festival. So there _are_ things that will inevitably come 'round down the road, but the wait time might as well render them "missed for good." Or at least make you feel like you've bottlenecked yourself *hard* .

[@thanotosomega]

@@RobertKoch-fv5wp his whole gimmick is forcing a challenge run mind set, he is the reason achieving perfection which causes much of the stress about stuff is such a big deal, he's an arrogant stop having fun guy, he is the person telling you your dark souls progress doesn't count because you didn't do it the way they wanted,

[@raven2269]

The Tresure Appraisal Guide affects the price of dinosaur eggs sold raw, which means that at higher friendship level the iridium quality dino egg you get will sell for 2100g which is more than dino mayo that sells for 1120g

[@harodos3354]

This means Dinosaurs will make about 4200g each week, or 600g per day

[@jamiemaddox-fisher7021]

A more affordable option for liked gifts is salmonberry jelly. Every single NPC except Sebastian likes it, and it is super super cheap and easy to mass-produce

[@Xeyxey0]

My favorite is corn, I just plant a bunch, everyone either likes corn or tortillas, which uses 1 corn. I think Pierre doesn't like either, but he can go eat rocks anyway.

[@mdmarcus7494]

My brain hit Nirvana the moment i used scythe on other crops.

[@fruityb0wl232]

switch players only got it yesterday and let me tell you it’s a game changer

[@KekeLouLou]

@@fruityb0wl232FRRR

[@i_am_ergo]

During the iridium scythe segment, it was worth mentioning that harvesting by hand still has the advantage of the animation pausing the clock. It's faster to harvest with the scythe in real time, but it comes at the cost of in-game hours, thus eating into your plans for the harvest day.

[@David-cf1wt]

as someone that always play in multiplayer, that real time save is amazing!

[@nathanwongchinrenntps2403]

Honestly by then you should be already in the boring stage of getting enough money for perfection and crafting recipes as most of NPCs are maxed out. So by then there is really nothing to do other than harvest, sleep until Monday get some qi gems and yeah. Iridium scythe save irl time

[@leifpeterson4850]

By the time you get the iridium scythe it really shouldn’t be necessary to try to save like 1-2 in game hours. It just doesn’t matter as much later in the game.

[@YourPalRal]

It's nice having these mastery videos combined into one.

[@YourRyeBread]

thank you for making these. I cant push stardew back onto myself when I’m fixating on something else but I get excited to have your videos to marathon later

[@kaylahaas]

well now i want to know what you’re fixating on bc i’m the same way

[@minbyc]

@@kaylahaasnot the original commenter but I do the same thing! I tend to cycle between stardew valley, graveyard keeper, coral island, and more different games like No Man’s Sky or Astroneer. I was also completely locked into Outer Wilds for a WHILE and it’s still the best game I’ve ever played

[@magiciandice]

Kind of a bummer that the frogs and fairies get different color variants but the parrot doesn't. I know there's other parrot sprites in the game, so what gives? But thank you as usual, Sal, for a really in-depth explanation of new mechanics. (I play Switch and am living vicariously through PC players at the moment.)

[@slyborgl]

Thank u so much for all the charts u make!! They're always well-organized, visually appealing, and concise! Super helpful 😊❤

[@Matsubusa69]

Another video to add to the sleep playlist!

[@alexia3336]

i love how some people could mistake this as an insult but the right audience knows sleep videos are elite

[@spellbinder3113]

@@alexia3336 Thanks for elaborating. I did look at the comment as an insult.

[@mintycat67]

this gonna be a good meal with this video 🙏🏻

[@sofi316]

omg i just now finished eating lunch at work watching this ahahaha, i love my ipad kid meals

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

just a few things i thought were helpful to add: the iridium scythe can be used to harvest berry bushes which i find helpful in cindersap forest, if you have the treasure appraisal guide then dinosaur eggs get the artifact price buff so it's way more profitable to sell the eggs and is affected by quality/friendship, the heavy furnace is goated since you need 5 times less space and can click them 5 times faster, and especially if you're a parrot girlie like me throw the anvil recipe in the trash since each level of egg has an equal chance to drop once you unlock it so you'll be swimming in level 4 parrots

[@Jaybug58]

Additionally, having botanist guarantees iridium truffles, which sell for more than truffle oil with the artisan profession.

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

@@Jaybug58 it doesn't actually, iridium truffle oil sells for more than an iridium truffle

[@Jaybug58]

@@aldrichunfaithful3589 Nevermind, my math was wrong. However, you can't get iridium truffle oil.

[@aldrichunfaithful3589]

@@Jaybug58 it was a typo my bad, but yeah

[@rivkakinney6192]

Actually, any sword will also harvest from berry bushes. Something I learned on accident and have used like crazy since 😂

[@TheGuardianssorrow]

I watched all these videos but this was perfect to have on on the background as I work on my final project for my class

[@osteth]

I used crap pots to max mastery. I purchased ~350,000g worth of crab pots from willy and laid them down the right side of the island farm, the stream at the bottom of town, and over then entire beach. each day I walk the entire trap line and collect and rebait (at lvl 10 fishing I took the perk that eliminates the need for bait) my trap line makes ~15,000g/day and 5xp/crap pot/day this dominates any other method on the list IMHO.

[@lilyyoung1002]

Nice

[@Shelleton.]

This also takes up your every single day of the year

[@boethia7367]

My guess is they enjoy it. I personally like to do a massive farm with iridium Sprinklers over most of it.

[@Syrius_Li]

The iridium scythe is actually so peak

[@TRIBUTES14642]

hey man! i used to watch your videos when I first started playing the game. your challenges are always so entertaining and i thought it was really cool seeing you come up with creative ways to complete them! I stopped playing a while back but have just gotten back into it and am overwhelmed with all the new additions :,) this guide was really helpful and im really glad to see you're still making stardew content! keep it up king

[@jokelethkurueisner9229]

0:49 [Spouse Name], look! It's from Morris! "Dear pesky farmer, Joja Mart and I have taken over Stardew Valley. The Mayor is now a permanent guest at one of our seven Joja Hotels. I dare you to find him if you can!"

[@greattitan371]

"Dear Morris, Keep him."

[@deltacream]

6:00 A little minor correction, since Farming contributes *half* of the experience gained to mastery, compared to any other skill where you get the full mastery, if you get 250 exp in all skills, that essentially makes it (250/2)+250+250+250+250 = 1125 mastery points Just a little something to point out.

[@RosSkylark-p6e]

I always love hearing the Pokemon mystery dungeon music in the background of these videos! Craggy coast is a great sound track

[@Glotzie1]

Thank you. I KNEW that I recognised the music from somewhere, but because I haven't played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon for several years, I couldn't put my finger on it. I can't thank you enough, now my brain will finally leave me alone about it! 😅

[@RosSkylark-p6e]

@ glad I could be helpful!

[@NannyOggins]

Oh boy, what a massive amount of work this must have been. I can’t thank you enough for this it has explained so much and will ensure I don’t make disastrous choices 😄

[@aubgecko]

im on year 17 in my main file, but these videos are the best for having in the background, sometimes there may be a tiny detail i missed in game, which is always useful

[@EnzoVaz-je9tp]

Recently I unlocked the mastery cave and I immediately headed to the skull caverns with my slingshot and explosive ammo. IN 1 DAY I UNLOCKED 2 MASTERIES, that’s a whopping 25.000 xp a day. this is certainly the best exp farming method IMHO

[@Rando-zc1vz]

I did the same Got to 8k from 2k (I'm on mobile and slingshot is really hard to use)

[@elcucumber2847]

22:27 that juicy 12% mixed seeds is actually really, really useful for fiber seeds - which are also the only practical way to get the fiber for the statue of blessings

[@MaddieThePancake]

Double of the same video jumpscare

[@MaddieThePancake]

@@FaLLeN3421 I mean I got a separate notification for this exact video like a half hour ago

[@sylvanaswindrunner4357]

​@pancake7117 youtube might have bugged. From what I remember, your video doesn't post the moment you hit post, it has to render and took a while quite a few years ago so my friend would hit post and it wouldn't post until like an hour of so later depending on the length and resolution of the video

[@nahhitsnotnys]

@@FaLLeN3421 i think your taking it to seriously, he made separate videos so people could easily watch one (ie; combat) then leave it at that, people requested him to combine them all into a full video so he did exactly that, its just simple content creation. if you don't want to watch someone "milk" content, then...don't lol

[@placeholderdoe]

@@FaLLeN3421personally I really like that the videos are uploaded individually and then made into one big video, and to my knowledge a lot of other people do as well. This seems to be a situation where increasing views and general viewer enjoyment coincide

[@jesshuxt]

thank you for always being there when i want stardew content

[@gianna322]

Lava eel fish ponds aren't actually hard to set up once you have farming mastery. Wait for blessing of the waters then head to level 100 of the mines OR the caldera on ginger island. Lava eels are the only fish in either place and the blessing doesn't get used up by reeling in trash. Boom, 3 iridium quality lava eels. Fishing anywhere else rolls the dice on what fish will be easy but those places are a guaranteed good use of the blessing.

[@rightwing707]

Something to note about harvesting with the scythe, time won't freeze if you do. Picking things by hand freezes the clock for the duration of the animation. Whether this saves game time or not I can't say, but it just might be worth testing.

[@ana_.m]

I'm so happy with that iridium scythe that I might completely ditch the junimos on my current save, it's so much faster now!

[@Whiskin87]

Love the compilation!

[@louloudaki_]

my loot goblin heart loves pairing mining mastery with the gem profession. it makes me very happy

[@tiffanyv5942]

thank you for your hard work in making this video it is very appreciated ❤️❤️

[@katlowell8519]

Lost my sh*t at 21:56 because the only thing I've been doing for WEEKS is relistening to TAZ: Balance and MBMBaM while playing through 1.6 😭 love the McElroys so much

[@erc3338]

What are these abbreviations

[@PixelRoserade]

@@erc3338 TAZ - The Adventure Zone, and MBMBaM - My Brother, My Brother, and Me. They're the podcasts ran by the McElroy brothers, with TAZ being their Dungeons and Dragons podcast.

[@BubblyBoop]

It'd be nice if you could do a video for all the events in stardew valley now that there's also more events like trout derby and desert festival as well new layouts and stuff for the older ones like the feast of the winter star and stuff. There's a lot to keep track of now and I keep losing track of things.

[@boethia7367]

There are so many parts I did not understand. I kept chopping down my mystic trees. Thank you for this!

[@emmetran27]

I got Blessing of the Waters. My 3rd fish was the Crimsonfish. It was ridiculously easier to catch. (I used the advance iridium rod, cork bobber, lead bobber, and deluxe bait.)

[@saracurley9622]

Random but I appreciate the Pokémon dungeons background music lol

[@UhmKrulcifer]

just casually showing TOP gameplay

[@louloudaki_]

kinda wish (because it would be funny) that if you’d read the dwarvish safety manual and got the blessing that made it so bombs don’t do damage to you the bombs just healed you for the amount that the manual would reduce. so like heals you for 25% of the damage the bomb would do or however much it is i forgot. it’s not gonna happen but like it would be funny

[@nikkicollins5888]

11:38 Pierre?

[@Alex-xv6me]

I fidnt exprct to see TOP footage in a stardew video and i am pleasantly surprised.

[@awesomesauce2291]

20:00 do artifact spots on ginger still have a chance for their respective locations bones? (snake vertebrae, ribs, etc.)

[@sherrisour360]

EARLY!!! Thanks for all your hard work! Love your videos!

[@Wolfheart-5262]

with 1.6.9 the target fishing loadout can also be used to get multiple legend 2 for fish ponds quickly

[@jugomebu]

Thanks Sal! You make such wonderful to watch videos.

[@mimmikyute]

on my new 1.6 farm I picked up Combat Mastery as my second, then got a Perfect Quiver immediately and I don't think I'm ever going to use anything else. All flying enemies are just not annoying anymore, and nothing will ever be more worth it to me. I'm still hunting for frog eggs regardless because I know how much my hubby Sebastian loves them, so I'm creating a fish tank room just for frogs. The sanctuary I encouraged him to start...

[@quetzalthegamer]

I'm really confused about the ducks being better at low friendship. Edit: I looked this up and I understand it now. Ducks at high friendship have a chance to drop Duck Feathers _instead_ of their normal eggs. I was confused because I thought they dropped both of those things independently, not that it was an either/or type of affair.

[@slwrabbits]

he just means that you will make more money if your ducks only lay eggs (which are then turned into mayo) and don't give you duck feathers (and you're more likely to get feathers at high friendship with the duck)

[@quetzalthegamer]

@slwrabbits Yeah, I looked it up and I get it now. I'll edit this.

[@nathanwongchinrenntps2403]

11:04 it’s useful in Qi’s hungry challenge if you don’t have staircases

[@Bulbasaur204]

great vid after all 1.6 things and i play console, im teasing myself

[@Tb0n3]

The best thing in my opinion is the iridium scythe. Saves so much time harvesting.

[@Biggi19]

Honestly my strategy for going into the skull caverns is to -Wait until the luckiest day happens (spirits will shower everyone in gifts) -jade for emerald I guess Only real strategy imo since I’m still pretty new to the 1.6 update on PlayStation :D

[@DeVoIta]

44:30 no way they added terrarias goblin scammer in sv

[@catgirlboy]

30:05 i actually used the Legend II strat for most of my money making late game, but instead of your loadout my go-to was quality bobber+trap bobber (i think cork bobber would work just as well) with any bait (i used deluxe bait but on second thought, wild bait might be better since you always have a chance to get a bonus afaik). if you spend the entire 3 day period just trying to hook the Legend II then the targeted bait, while useful, is in my opinion not worth wasting the fish. if you want to maximalize the #grind, it's a good idea to craft a few tents and sleep right by the lake. my best 'score' with my set up was over 500k but it's dependent on rng. either way, i found it a fun way to actively play while waiting for all the wine to finish. also, when i didn't have the extended family quest, i would typically head to the volcano and try to get lava eels with the same setup. if I got lucky, it also paid quite well, but I found it more enjoyable to go after the Legend :-)

[@catgirlboy]

i especially disagree with the targeted bait strat, since 1) sacrificing a legendary fish is criminal, 2) i can't imagine giving up the master enchantment for anything else. i guess one level isn't that much of a difference if you set it up carefully but i usually don't have seafoam pudding and just go wild with literally anything that has +anything fishing

[@donwald3436]

26:06 Harvest those fruits!!!!! lol

[@trash_lin]

WAIT. Travis McElroy!? That's amazing hahah my fandoms are meeting

[@romanf.8558]

Might be a weird calcculation, but assuming, that you sometimes get more than one Omnigeode, it probably adds up, that you get at least one OG for every artifact spot.

[@charlesedwinbooks]

Maybe i missed it but, are you able to get ALL of these buffs? Or are we stuck picking between 1 of the 3 and then being locked into it?

[@MazerTime]

You can do 4 rows wall for the trellis crop cause you can reach to the 2nd row from eahc size

[@foragidodoalcoolicosanonim1513]

you know about the stardew predictor site? and on top of it, have you already used?

[@Reece8u]

Fairy dust from mystic sap could essentially be treated as a 3 day keg

[@hoomanplaysgames]

day 2 of asking sal to make an overview of all the books (great video btw ❤❤❤)

[@azazelraidz9539]

Finally watching this video after getting up to mastery on my stardew run and I have a question. I'm doing a run with my friend on Xbox, and every time it says "the raccoon shop has expanded", it... Doesn't? The only 4 things are the 4 different random seeds from each season (like carrots or powder melons for example). Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

[@zetenybarsony7033]

Yoooo salmence video and about masterys

[@dorborb]

for the blessing of the butterfly, if you have stardew expanded, can it venture into the added on parts of the valley? there was a day i got the butterfly and reset my day twice trying to find it before giving up.

[@Kirjava88]

Queen of Sauce recipe books give XP and you can buy however many you want.

[@RunOnGasoline_]

switch just got mastery and my save was in winter. the door was easy to find 😌

[@slwrabbits]

lucky! I know where it is and I still missed it. Eh, can't get in yet anyway.

[@shadownocas]

I don’t understand… we can only choose one mastery? Or can we have them all?

[@YonaMcBona]

we have them all but its one by one as you level the mastery bar

[@shadownocas]

@@YonaMcBona ohhh that’s amazing wow! Tysm :))

[@valterrafaelmateus5743]

finaly got to play the update, my main save was on switch and when it came out i didnt have the time to play, and when you said golden fisihng chest on the fishing mastery section i got my first golden fishing chest

[@jmueller1111]

The denizens of the skull cavern when I’m on my way back to get more iridium ore so I can re roll for a prismatic frog 😭

[@NyxcPyxc]

Came here because I got a parrot egg trinket within a day of picking this mastery class and wanted to know if it was worth switching to the frog lol I guess not

[@TheAuron32]

as a FF14 player, i loved the reference lol

[@0_clover740]

44:39 terraria players are shaking in their boots from goblin tinkerer flashbacks

[@carolyncorcoran3]

Appreciate your uploads. I play on my iPad where game APP lags considerably behind in getting updated to new version😢.

[@mach4241]

What about the ostrich?

[@freecheese3329]

I want to be able to reroll the fairy color on the fairy box so bad!

[@damian4590]

travis is playing as magnus back when he was just a carpenter

[@Reece8u]

Dinosaur eggs are worth more than dinosaur mayo because of the artifact book

[@godly9550]

Is there gonna be a update soon for mobile i wanna experience this too

[@strawberryjam0585]

Right now there's no announced release date for 1.6 on console or mobile at all.

[@SoulKingBrasil]

Ur wrong about dinasours eggs. They vallue more as an artifact than as maio... So we gotta calculate that with the treasure book

[@donwald3436]

0:49 So Grandpa thinks you're pesky......... lol me too.

[@r.ipeter6445]

Yay salmence posted

[@alexandrejamesklingbiel2718]

the mcelroy are everywhere!!!!

[@rqlen]

listening to this while i clean lmao

[@StrawbsIsAway]

43:56 best new item in the game

[@charlesedwinbooks]

IS that a xenoblade chronicles song I hear in there?

[@RomaKING2006]

i really hope the update comes out soon for mobile (like rn)

[@NickemGames-od8xs]

I’m from the future: Right now the 1.6 update for console and mobile comes tomorrow (November 4th)

[@RomaKING2006]

@NickemGames-od8xs hi im also from the future and its technically already november 4th for me

[@caleb7905]

is mastery in Verizon 1.5 and up? im on console so i dont believe 1.6 is out yet.

[@plontkegurl9529]

I have a star drop tea. What do you do with it?

[@slwrabbits]

Give it to anyone you need more friendship hearts with :)

[@fruityb0wl232]

39:46 i’m gonna go postal this is not expensive at all

[@Official_VallTorr]

"so in some competitive game "stay with me". "

[@A_mentally_unstable_gamer]

For the treasure spot totem in foresting mastery,I believe the omni geode is 100% spawn rate on wiki as sometimes it gives you multiple omni geodes, for example if it gave you 2 all the time but only 50% it means for one omni it could be 200% or 0% equating to 100%

[@Anonymous_2314]

cool vid

[@Jaybug58]

Dinos. With the artifact appraisal guide, it's better to sell higher quality dino eggs.

[@THEpanda538]

Year 2 Mid spring i maxed skills, but it was 1.5 caus console just got update

[@ddarling988]

salamence post????? YAYAYAYAY

[@rayraygames13]

How do you have 12 in one pond

[@mostmediocre2887]

Noooooo new vid! but my streak!

[@Troll-destroyer]

I have max 10 of everything how do I get exp ?

[@mrssmuthy2527]

11:36 okay why is piere naked dude

[@emjoca]

7:31 also kale