Destroying Stardew Valley With Mushrooms (1.6 Update)

[@explodingpineapple6459]

Speaking as the person who wrote the mushroom logs wiki page, that supposed 'optimal layout' you found on reddit is an affront to god and a sin of the highest calibre. Under no circumstances is that the best layout. Out of pure rage, I went and found the post you are referring to, and the explaining comment they left confirmed that there was no secret I was missing that makes this better. It's simply bad. If you are wondering what the actual best layout is, its simply rows of alternating tree, mushroom log, tree, mushroom log, tree, ect. The rows should be vertically spaced by one tile. You also need to add an extra layer of alternating tree, blank space, tree ect... one tile out from any log for maximum efficiency. The trees should be pine for highest profits but oak is only slightly lower. The new mystic trees do give more profits but by the time you get those you will probably have better money making methods anyway. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[@DPadGamer]

Damn, I can't believe I was led astray. For real, thanks for the heads up. It was hard to find concrete numbers on what makes for the best layout, the one I used looks neat at least so theres that. This also means I had a better layout before I demolished it in year 2. Woopsies.

[@explodingpineapple6459]

@@DPadGamer haha at least now you know. Btw should you ever attempt this challenge again know that probably the fastest way to complete this challenge in terms of in game time is to pick woodland farm and make summer and fall seeds, getting the ingredients from the naturally generating forage and bat cave. You can also get one from birch tree in the second half of fall for those seeds. rush foraging 5 to increase the rate at which your seeds multiply, and also rush farming 10 by saving all mixed seeds for summer so you can get the talent that makes crops grow 10% faster allowing you to get an extra harvest per season. Keep some rocks on your farm so they slowly spread from there so you can farm them more easily. Then using the mining exp gained from this and the farming level you have, repeatedly hoeing then pickaxeing ground in winter is a net energy gain due to the reduced tool cost and forageables you find from hoeing. Use this to farm food and clay. Food you will need for the insane amount of crops you will harvest in year 2 (also remember seasonal seeds dont need scarecrows) and whatever clay and stone you have should be turned into retaining soil to make your job easier. Then simply farm your entire farm of forageables summer and fall year 2 for a fall year 2 finish without bending the rules one bit! (albeit with a bit of luck required). This route was made in 1.5 and can probably be improved upon but i have not yet got around to that

[@explodingpineapple6459]

Maple tree* . Idk why i said birch

[@DPadGamer]

Ahh, lots of good info. The repeatedly hoeing & pickaxing the ground in winter; I hadn't ever heard it explained like that. I'll have to try that out next time I do a normal-ish playthrough / challenge.

[@porkeyminch8044]

@@explodingpineapple6459 Hoeing and pickaxeing the same spot reduces energy use? What black magic is that?

[@Marcara081]

'I'm tired of the ratrace. I want to live off the land with down to earth people,' vs, 'To hell with y'all, I'm becoming a hermit in the woods.'

[@crazybird07]

To answer your question, yes chickens will eat mushrooms, they'll eat anything they think is editable

[@andrewwade785]

Like word documents?

[@Luck-nr4su]

@@andrewwade785yum 🤤

[@Happyworldshark]

@@crazybird07 as an owner of many chickens, I can confirm. They would probably eat your finger if it wasn't to hard to pull off of your hand

[@portergogniat6409]

Mine ate a small bird one ripped it to shreds

[@bruh10246]

emphasis on think. they're not the smartest, anything with a hint of red is good enough

[@RolieKloeOlie]

Nice challenge! I’m working on my own remix of the hermit challenge: allow warp totems to certain areas but can’t leave them without passing out or warping back. Opens up fishing and caving, just don’t pass out in the cave. Having tent kits allow someone to stay in a place overnight. I picked the beach farm to speed up the process to craft a warp totem for the beach to get fishing and bought bait, soup, and all the rods I could before I left when I passed out from energy. I picked a dog for some good gifts as well. There was a lot of tree chopping but it finally picked up. Also, I hope you figured out you can scythe moss off of the trees.

[@Goteryup]

One potential thing i noticed that you are missing, is advanced slime breeding, different color slimes actually drop different loot, and because slime babies have a chance to mutate slightly, you can slowly get new colors that you cant even find naturally such as yellow slimes, and they have unique drops as well, for yellow slimes they can drop gold ore, and another useful one would be gray slimes that drop stone, or even brown slimes that can drop hardwood

[@slippyfish1819]

I think the starter chickens names are paired, ours were Huffy and Puffy. (For those who don’t know beans on toast is something we eat in the uk)

[@someoneoneone-d9o]

After spending to much time on the wiki for this challenge I learned you can level up fishing with books and after a while crab pots which can lead to lighting rods without panning!

[@DPadGamer]

You will need an fishing books to reach the worm bin because otherwise you have no baits for the crab pots but yes you are correct

[@edelledezma9872]

Loved the animation at the beginning. Awesome video ❤

[@DPadGamer]

Thanks! Its my first proper animation made in Blender and it was a lot of fun seeing it come to fruition :)

[@abielreh]

1:16 the chickens are British

[@kobemarasigan6279]

Cool are you going to do a this challenge on the ginger Island farm

[@DPadGamer]

Maybe

[@gkjzhgffjh]

Great video, I loved the editing and the script kept me invested from start to end. I haven't really checked out 1.6 so all of these new cool ways of being self-sufficient were pretty new to me.

[@KassidyKobold]

Btw tree seeds are still counted as trees by mushroom logs and you can also plant mushroom logs on top of tree seeds without the tree seeds growing and breaking the logs

[@chaichapstick]

Dpadgamer giving more stardew valley just when i had lost my faith in the world. love you, guy

[@daringspino3446]

I have played this game for hundreds of hours and I never know about that slimes can escape your farm.

[@KryptCeeper969]

I've played this game for hundreds of hours and had no idea you could breed slime

[@aceofashot]

12:43 reference was a good one, I appreciated it

[@alexpixels8876]

It would be really cool if the ending was implying does the next challenge what is a challenge to get a million dollars on Ginger Island

[@EricN73158]

wow I just watched the other video of making 1mill not leaving your farm the other day and now I got this in my feed. Perfect timing.

[@shadowwally]

I watched your 1.5 video and I wanted to do it in 1.6, so I started, I'm at like 600k

[@DPadGamer]

Nice! Hope the rest of the challenge goes well for you :)

[@daymare0]

I did it too! I used the four corners farm and mushroom logs for money.

[@TheSOTA]

I love the attention to detail with the hole you made in the floor of the farmhouse!

[@DPadGamer]

:D

[@thefriendlyelephant1280]

Been waiting to watch this ever since you first announced it. I really enjoyed the first video, and I can't wait to see how it's going go this time!

[@DPadGamer]

Hope you enjoy it :D

[@thefriendlyelephant1280]

​@DPadGamer Just finished the video. Awesome work on it! Great editing skills btw 👍

[@DPadGamer]

@@thefriendlyelephant1280 thanks :]

[@shuuly]

This video was super super fun to watch!!!! thank youuu

[@shadow_shine3578]

I love the mushroom thing. Ive been planning on making that more profitable too I've been drying them

[@sheepriderkiller1181]

Now you should do a series where you show every obtainable item on each farm type, using only what the farm has to offer raw

[@Goteryup]

That would be quite a considerable amount of items due to all of the niche ways to get them, and my favorite of which being selective slime breeding would alone open up a huge amount of potential items

[@rhys8981]

The wait for this was worth it; awesome video bro

[@dantebayer919]

how did you start with the pan? the only way i know to get it is the glittering boulder.

[@DPadGamer]

I just added it to my character. Thats what the "and this copper pan I found" line was referring to. Definitely shoulda made that clearer, my bad.

[@jakegarner4548]

Bless your commitment to this game

[@crescentsrolls1507]

I love this series!!!

[@starr0sana]

You poor man i can't believe youre doing this again I want more

[@Gingiey]

No way you posted a second one!!

[@JamesTDG]

I wonder if it is possible to do it exclusively on the island

[@Faeblemind]

Love the intro!!

[@NovasYouTubeName]

How did you start with a pan?

[@DPadGamer]

I just cheated it onto my character. Thats what the "...and this copper pan I found, it should open some interesting strategies" was referring to when I talked about making my character / farm. I probably should have made that more clear.

[@NovasYouTubeName]

@@DPadGamer thanks for the reply 👍🏼

[@Happyworldshark]

We love becomeing a hermit in the woods 😌

[@danielgoins1041]

how did you get the pan? don’t you need to finish the fish tank in the CC?

[@DPadGamer]

I just gave it to my character when I generated the farm

[@warlord7361]

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees I've been waiting for this challenge. I've done this challenge on every farm type I a god at this challenge

[@DPadGamer]

Oh hermit god of farmcraft, I hope this video entertains you.

[@warlord7361]

Wait you banned mixed seed?

[@DPadGamer]

Yes I didn't want to reuse any major strategies from the first game and relying on mixed seeds was one of those

[@warlord7361]

Im Ig

[@warlord7361]

OK I pleased with the final results year 3 is actually really good for Meadowlands farm heck you did better than me I did it on year 4 with my best time fall year2 on 4 corners farm so I'm impressed

[@HereticalKitsune]

That was easy and quick compared to the first try.

[@luthenwilliams5338]

25:35 NO SHANE

[@jacksonmiller4158]

why is clint the only exception for leaving the farm?

[@DPadGamer]

By "digging a hole" to his place, I have annexed the blacksmith, therefore its part of my farm. Aka I used a mod to teleport me there and back, meaning I benefited from absolutely nothing else. Also the mystery boxes didn't sway the ultimate gameplan for earning my 1 mil so I think it was okay.

[@riftrishere]

Finally!! Im so happy

[@blainewalter5601]

I'm not sure why, but I was playing with a friend of mine, and I never did any fishing, then one day Willy showed up on the farm and gave me a training rod... any idea why?

[@DPadGamer]

I'm assuming thats because in a multiplayer game only one person is gonna get the meeting-willy-on-the-docks cutscene and or you met him outside the beach so it flagged you as deserving a rod.

[@desilaart]

WAIT WAIT WAIT DO THE SLIMES POPULATE FOLLOWING THE FIBONACCI NUMBERS LIKE RABBITS OMG

[@DPadGamer]

Uhhh, unsure. I just named numbers that made sense

[@gwenheuckendorf]

Mushroom lore

[@laurelneff7138]

U probably could have used a geode crusher to break them open

[@DPadGamer]

That doesnt work on presents

[@laurelneff7138]

@DPadGamer ooh ok I didn't know

[@callmealx]

I thought Willy visited you after a year to give you fishing level 1 and a training rod if you don't fish? or is that just after you've met him?

[@DPadGamer]

I've never heard of that, if its a thing it must require meeting him outside the beach first.

[@JohnNaasz]

Defend the post! 25:53

[@daffazv]

What i don't understand is, you can spawn pan but can't spawn fishing rod? Why?? Just fishing!!

[@DPadGamer]

I have no logical answer other than a vibe based one saying I don't know Id just feel wrong giving myself fishing rod

[@daffazv]

​@@DPadGamerI see, i think for the next time try with one. I mean more thing to do means more content right? I don't think chopping tree for 30 minutes will make a good one. Just saying.

[@nathanrobb4373]

Why are mixed seeds banned?

[@DPadGamer]

I used them in my first challenge run and didn't want to repeat the strat of relying on mixed seeds

[@Moonstrider]

Nintendo Switch?

[@DPadGamer]

This is on PC

[@TekkenGirl4Lyfe]

It says 1.6 my guy, Switch players like myself don't get that until next month.

[@Thegodoffreak]

I watched the video

[@Sugar3Glider]

3:38 dude, you might want to learn to do a screenshot review while the game is paused

[@DPadGamer]

Yeah that is smart, but I'nt.

[@binothekid1732]

first 50 seconds bro

[@DPadGamer]

Welcome and enjoy!