Earning $1,000,000 Without Leaving The Farm in Stardew Valley - DPadGamer

[@CallMeKevin]

You took out the only thing that kept me sane, absolute chad move

[@SubwayUnofficial]

Sanity? Who need it when you've got 1 million dollars?

[@pieskobi943]

Sanity? More like Bore Ragnarok

[@96Champ994]

kevin is a comment genius

[@griffest4852]

wassgood kev

[@virtualcommando7098]

Kevin you were never sane in the first place

[@johndavid1611]

Bro rolled up to pelican town, doesnt talk to anyone for half a decade, and started selling the best quality wine the city had ever seen.

[@rustyhowe3907]

Mind on the grind for sure.💪

[@Niterayde]

Jesse, we gotta cook.

[@bul6457]

must be dionysus in his basement

[@Invader19x]

You essentially were the farming equivalent of Willy Wonka. Nobody sees him, nobody goes in, but amazing goods are produced, and no one knows how.

[@MessedUpZucchini]

Preach, this dude is the master of farming, like wonka is the master of candy creation, and yet know one knows if it’s even him, or if he’s hiring someone. No one has ever seen the mysterious farmer Dpad.

[@mewxtherealitygod4706]

There's also fairies and meteors on hus land from otherworldly areas

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

No, he did not have -oompa loompas- junimos

[@karimhalawa3072]

Amazing jaw dropping goods such as corn juice and pickled corn

[@Lester_Houston]

Bro is gonna actually become wonka in Haunted Chocolatier

[@kennyrlarsen]

“I am a very annoying combination of lazy, determined, and stubborn.” This guy gets me

[@samanthab3292]

Too relatable.

[@michealmalloy1934]

Far to relatable

[@Przemko27Z]

Pretty sure that's an apt description of adhd and/or autism.

[@kennyrlarsen]

@@Przemko27Z Oh, for sure. ADHD in my case

[@kakahass8845]

@@Przemko27Z Meanwhile it's 100% autism in my case lol.

[@Charriii5]

Watching this makes me realize just how little I've really scratched the surface of this game. You poor soul.

[@DPadGamer]

:)))

[@LimeLoaf]

@@DPadGamer hey, did you know stardew valley is on sale for 12 dollars on switch!

[@Zero_de_Nova]

@@LimeLoaf Or for free if you buy a switch (at least for me =) )

[@mvfkdorlvm1480]

@@Zero_de_Nova what?? Where are you from? In my country it isn't free

[@Zero_de_Nova]

@@mvfkdorlvm1480 It was in my German Gameshop.

[@aaronjohnone]

The first day in town you buy a joja mart membership and buy out the community center in one go. The town hates you and wishes you just stayed on your farm.

[@griffinshorts785]

😂

[@shinyregicecool]

You can only do one per day

[@shinyregicecool]

@@erner_wisal yes lmao you can

[@shinyregicecool]

@@erner_wisal no you can’t. Try it and you will see you are wrong

[@erner_wisal]

@@shinyregicecool oh yea, mb. Mustve remembered wrong.

[@melozules]

That bit at the end telling the story of the hermit farmer via edited news channels was awesome

[@samwisefamgee]

RIP grandpa, once Evelyn hit him with the super stardew table tennis special slammer surprise, he never recovered.....

[@Metzli]

I loved the little detail of Morris saying "For once, this isn't my fault" xD

[@lesliewyman5916]

I loved the idea of this challenge and had to try it for myself. I reached 1,000,000 gold on Day 26, Fall Year 4. I think the reason I got there faster is because I sold $25000 gold of products as soon as I could to be able to use the cave, and chose mushrooms for a daily profit. And was able to sell lots of wood due to creating a tree farm that filled an entire corner. It was a fun experience!

[@tharwab]

This playthrough seems so much more doable in 1.6 with green rain/moss, flower seeds, and the meadowlands farm

[@Priscabc]

Without silos, you couldn't feed the chickens for the winter and you wouldn't be able to build up meaningful friendship. You'd be stuck at two small eggs per day, and mayo machines need earth crystals which you can't get.

[@cata0rostika]

​@@Priscabcyou would have better honey though, weeds would overgrow during summer with the green rain (giving more wild seeds) and I think you can stablish enough friendship with the chickens before winter to have large eggs for a while

[@SPQR_14]

@@Priscabc Couldn't you just hoard wheat from the wild seeds?

[@Priscabc]

@@SPQR_14 You could, but you'd run into the same problem Dpad did on the other farm: without the special weeds, you just don't get mixed seeds.

[@Hamstray]

no mining = no sprinklers = massive chore

[@Shinntoku]

Petition to name this the Stardew Hermit% run

[@GeaForce]

And make the Hobo beard mandatory

[@Marialla.]

@@GeaForce Even if you're female?

[@dantheman425]

@@Marialla. even if you're female. Hobo beard supremacy

[@Marialla.]

@@dantheman425 Well okay. I'll have my character grow a beard. But it may not show up on her face.

[@summergamer7650]

@@GeaForce you also have to take off you pant at the beginning of the run and immediately trash them

[@escobarisanoctopus]

The ending is so good. I love the timeline of a ruined economy by one diligent farmer who sold a bunch of Ancient Fruit Juice, Corn Juice, Pickled Corn and just other random fruits.

[@DPadGamer]

Oh boy. Glad to have this video out. That said, I wanna note that the channel has been in a pretty rough slump as of recent. I want to work towards fixing that, which means going forward I'm going to be uploading much shorter videos (not YT Shorts) more often... so if you feel like subscribing, keep that in mind. P.S I know Stardew uses Gold not Dollars, but a $ in the thumbnail looks more clickable.

[@kallixo]

ok

[@froggouk2]

Don't burn yourself out Dpad! I love your content regardless and always find games from your videos and recommendations! Thanks for all your content and effort!

[@gdbigbuggygaming4791]

I'm doing a challenge like this but without planting anything.

[@visionare3656]

Anchent froot

[@princepersona]

Was entertaining and a pretty cool challenge. Congrats on being the first to actually stay the whole year but then blow it out of the water with seven years. Not sure if you did but if you didn't you could also have spent any extra energy at the end of each day hoeing the ground which actually has a chance for items as well.

[@Nauriek]

One challenge i'd love to see is a mod that adjusts the prices of most items, crops, hospital fees ect. to their real-world value... including the subtraction of taxes for selling. I wonder how different a playthrough would be if the stardew farmer made realistic amounts of money... and had to pay land and housing tax every month in the form of an ever-increasing minimum amount of money.

[@flopsnail4750]

Play on 0.25x profit margin. It's a fun challenge

[@Lemony123]

But every country tax was different.

[@shrek6723]

Dinosaur egg, diamond, gold bars, dwarves computer, and life elixir included?

[@fanndx]

@@flopsnail4750 So like with upgraded trash can?

[@flopsnail4750]

@@fanndx similar. Steel trash cans reclaim 30%, so a little less than that. But I'm talking about the options screen when creating a save file that explicitly lets you change how much things sell for when shipping and selling stuff.

[@chaichapstick]

I wanna mention that your editing did not go unnoticed. The Fall Clickclock Wood in fall, the Boggy-Race music in winter. The Glitter Gulch Mine music in the mines of your other video. Lovingly crafted music choices for your video in a direct collision between two very lovable games. It warms my heart. I love your content

[@DPadGamer]

:)

[@imorihikaru9961]

I'm glad someone else noticed lol I love when ppl use Banjo Kazooie music!

[@thetruecrystalvixen]

I enjoy that someone else noticed.

[@TLTheLegend]

Imagine some guy moves near your town, never leaves the farm, never talks to anyone, and yet he ends up a millionaire and no one knows how

[@Marialla.]

If you want another fun challenge, I did a Poverty Run, where I didn't allow myself to make any money by selling things. My only income was through jobbing, or from mail. It really changed the perspective of the game to have all my fishing, crops, mining, etc. ONLY be for me to use the resources, or to level up the skills, but never to make money from them. In my run I managed to open the community center within one year, and get friendships with nearly everyone up to max. It was surprisingly effective! Edit: I must admit I allowed myself a couple cheats. I gave myself three days to acquire a backpack and an upgraded fishing rod at the beginning of first spring. But I don't think anything else I did made a big difference in the run, for me.

[@Smithy779]

I found a good way to start a hermit run is to leave the stumps instead of harvesting them, since they continue to spawn seeds you essentially get infinite field snacks which are great for energy and also early cash since they are 20g each, the same as clay but easier to farm. Especially on the beach map where there are tonnes of trees.

[@asthinecrowflies]

Callmekevin is the purest bestest being in existence and it always makes me so happy when another KZbinr references him. Side note tho I love this challenge and am enjoying this video 😅

[@maddieb.4282]

I love him too but I doubt I’d call him “pure” lololo

[@Twifff]

@@maddieb.4282 he is anything but pure he destroys everything he touches aha

[@ashleymalx]

@@maddieb.4282his youtube persona not so much, but in general he does seem like a genuine friendly guy

[@porkeyminch8044]

Another "fun" challenge is to try and reach perfection without ever levelling up any of your skills. You can get a lot further than you might expect.

[@joybreegaming8781]

You can’t to my knowledge get the gold quality crops for the community center blocking quite a bit of progression

[@veryoriginalname2515]

@@joybreegaming8781 argonmattix did the community center without leveling up skills

[@joybreegaming8781]

@@veryoriginalname2515 in single player

[@veryoriginalname2515]

@@joybreegaming8781 true just remebered he used multiplayer

[@porkeyminch8044]

@@joybreegaming8781 With remixed bundles it's possible to avoid anything gold star while still keeping your XP under 100, so the community center is actually doable. Or you could just switch to Joja at that point. Not having the preserves jar will probably hinder you later on though.

[@lolli_popples]

I’ve done this with only leaving the farm once per year, and I also used the standard farm for the mini quarry. And that’s how I know that acorns sell for more than pinecones and maple seeds.

[@ConFect99]

The video was well produced and your general strategy was fun to watch. But the end was like SSS+ tier stuff, I love these kinds of edits

[@DPadGamer]

Thank you, Im glad you liked it. The end bit was a last minute addition, super proud with how it turned out.

[@mehchocolate1257]

@@DPadGamer how do I get to ridgeside village exactly

[@AntheanCeilliers]

Great video! I'm a big fan of Stardew and Call Me Kevin and was excited to see someone I hadn't seen before try this weird challenge. Instant fan of yours!

[@DPadGamer]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

Basic sprinklers can be nested together in a pattern where there aren't empty spaces between them. It's less walkable, but less awkward to water and takes up MUCH less space.

[@zel3535]

i’ve recently got back into stardew valley again and this was both a good refresher on the game and really entertaining!

[@hogndog2339]

It took him less time to get to 1mil without leaving the farm than it’s taken me to complete year 1 on my current play through…

[@OdysseyObscura]

same

[@KiritaWindwalker]

That recap at the end was the cherry on top.. RIP Hermit Millionare Farmer

[@christianmclean9891]

This must have been a terrible idea

[@maclegend9169]

12:57 - It's called being efficient. Laziness is a term people who aren't able to optimize efficiency use to make us feel bad.

[@bl4cksp1d3r]

Congratulations, you're a local cryptid now

[@DPadGamer]

Its all I've ever wanted growing up

[@retinazer7652]

@@DPadGamer man moves into town, first sighting is 7 years after he moves in

[@nephalemnova]

"The old farmer died of being a ping pong table" HAHAHA

[@Jordan3DS]

Fun idea for a challenge! It's interesting how limitations can make you look at a game in a completely different way

[@teineone]

Winter would've been the absolute best time for making money. Clay farming techniques apply to snow yams and winter roots as well, and with plenty of open space you could probably pull 75 of each (depending on how much you're able to regain energy) and make around 15-20k per day. Always my winter go-to.

[@xkristixx]

I just watched The Price is Right and my GOD the sound of you harvesting those crops initially sounds like the theme song. 😆

[@meeblemoo565]

This was so cool, it inspired me to do my own attempt at this challenge on the 1.6 patch, and I'm happy to say I succeeded! I decided to use the hilltop farm, because I wanted to use a new farm type, and I was optimistic about the additional ways to get seeds provided by 1.6. While I had high hopes for the new seed spots, they didn't end up being that significant a source of seeds except in winter, because they just didn't spawn that often. What was stunningly useful, however, was green rain. Green rain day in summer effectively doubled my yearly mixed seed harvests, because the whole farm is covered in weeds. Even more significant, though, ended up being mixed flower seeds. Mixed flower seeds drop from weeds in summer (conveniently green rain season) at around the same rate as normal mixed seeds do. However, they are far better than mixed seeds, because when planted in summer and fall, they have a chance to spawn SUNFLOWERS. Sunflowers are incredible, because they are the only crop (besides coffee) to drop their own seeds upon harvest. This not only meant I could replant them for multiple harvests per season, it also meant I could build my seed bank across multiple years. As the only way to actually increase my annual farming XP, they were invaluable; I think I ended up with over thirty sunflower seeds at a time. Meanwhile, I was also grinding for mining and forage XP. Mining was a little faster because of the larger quarry of the hilltop farm (though I did get unlucky and get an iridium meteor in my quarry in year 4). I ended up getting mining 7 only slightly before getting farming 9. Upon reflection, I spent too much time and energy on levelling foraging, since I could have stopped after getting tappers. Other than that, I used primarily the tactics you did in your video, including taking your advice and not planting spring crops. Eventually, I got my hands on seedmakers, ancient fruit, and ancient fruit wine, which quickly got me to 1 million! All told, this challenge took me 7 in-game years, and 14 real life hours. Thank you for inspiring me to try it, it was a lot of fun!

[@DPadGamer]

Great work! I wouldn't have considered the aspect of a plant dropping its own seeds but you're right that makes sunflowers incredible for this challenge. Good to hear you had fun :]

[@cremeriie]

that ending was so funny i couldnt breath bc i was laughing so hard SDFGHHGD the pale cryptid of a farmer running towards the camera...lmao.

[@Itzaric]

It's always fun to watch someone go through monotonous grind & stress while being completely uninvolved but by the end I felt a bit of pity lol

[@birdyfuture2322]

I've played 30+ hours on one world haven't made it even to 50,000 with leaving the farm. So you my man are incredible

[@DoctorKamino]

i have to say, that making wine from the farm cave is a bit of a fool's errand. i'll never forget the time i spent a whole day foraging blackberries, made them into wine, aged that wine, and spat out my beer when i saw the value.

[@travisretriever7473]

“I am a very annoying combination of lazy, determined, and stubborn.” Me too, OP. Me too.

[@blacknexus1852]

I love call me Kevin and loved his playthrough. It's good that you refered to him.

[@MollyHJohns]

As a single player with no friends the only time I use the four corners farm is to deliberately separate each corner for crops (where my house is), livestocks, fish ponds, and trees for fruits, mushrooms and other drops. I separated each with hardwood fences and gates too. And the small mine is like a bonus but rarely visited (I just wait until special rocks are spawned to collect them later lol). But of course I play with mods so everything's setup within the first few days lol for the aesthetics purposes.

[@ThePersonWhoKnocks]

This was such an interesting and unique challenge! It's amazing how much strategy and planning goes into earning a million gold without leaving the farm. I especially loved the edited news clips at the end that told the story of the hermit farmer. It really added a fun and creative touch to the video. Your editing skills are top-notch! Thank you for sharing this fun and entertaining video with us, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your content in the future.

[@Decaying_bacon]

Imagine being the other people in town realizing that this farmer, that has never left his property for anything somehow has made morr money than you

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

nitpick: you CAN get crab pots before level 3 by putting in foraged fish and crab into the crab pot bundle, but since that requires you to leave the farm, still impossible

[@jettpatterson8297]

At Christmas I started this challenge on my farm with a few differences. Hilltop farm, bought a fishing rod and spawned in a seed maker. It’s a grind but I love it

[@Keshlynne]

"I'm an annoying combination of lazy, determined, and stubborn." That comment alone got me to subscribe, and I kind of want it on a shirt, LOL.

[@futur3ndings651]

Decided to try this out for myself because like all Stardew players, I'm masochistic. Gotten to day 15 of spring and have 3.2k gold, and skills are as follows: Farming 3, mining 2, foraging 3. Was really trying to get a tree farm going early to get to foraging 4 for double salmonberries, but what can ya do. Moving forward I'll be saving my mixed seeds.

[@jannetlouis103]

I love all the Banjo-Kazooie & Tooie music. Fits wonderfully with the video and makes it even more enjoyable! Great work!

[@nicolasrededeo805]

I spent like 20 minutes thinking of what the best farm to choose would be before watching. I thought that the forest farm would be great since it allows you to get forage items that you can craft into wild seeds, and get extra mixed seeds, but this would mean huge amount of crops that you would have to water every day, or the hilltop farm since you can gain tappers and bee houses thanks to copper. Let's see if I was correct

[@sethboyle90]

Awesome video as always! Always interested to see people doing challenges in video games

[@cr33p3rface]

So basically the farmer had Covid and was just trying to protect the villagers.

[@wozzles9364]

And they just kept getting it again and again from themself

[@AstralArbourSys]

@@wozzles9364 the farmer and their cat kept re infecting each other lol

[@KCzz15]

Only thing he's protecting himself from is the vax, since that's the only dangerous covid related thing.

[@fuzzyface4515]

This sounds absolutely miserable. I love it.

[@lauriefranck772]

I fellllt the satisfaction of the first big ancient fruit harvest haha

[@boris90]

Hey DPadGamer, just wanted to drop a quick TLDR comment on your Stardew Valley video: - DPadGamer aimed to earn $1,000,000 without leaving the farm. - Tried different farm layouts but settled on Hilltop Farm. - Struggled initially with low drop rates and limited resources. - Switched to Four Corners Farm, optimized farming routine. - Used ancient fruit for massive profits, reached goal in Year 7. - Took over 17 hours but proved it's possible to be a millionaire without leaving home! Great job on the challenge and thanks for sharing your journey!

[@FluffyFractalshard]

man this is awesome! basically a more relaxed speedrun format, where strategy is a much more deciding factor than the speed at which you play the game.

[@AtomicVegetable]

It is actually possible to get refined quartz, but you need to capture 2 slimes, breed them to get a white one and kill it for quartz

[@Everlucky_Clover]

points to the giant pond) in the bottom left you can actually sometimes get fish for fishing exp. it's a 50% chance of fish from cindersap forest and a 50% chance of trash. then once you get the recycling bin viola coal free refined quartz from all those cds and glasses you fished up along the way. no slime shenanigans needed. also newspaper sometimes turns into cloth and trashbags can sometimes turn into a spot of coal. joja cola/green alge while a bad food if you get enough of them can actually help as well. so the only real trash is driftwood. final edit: damn it i forgot he couldnt get the fishing rod..........

[@nowayjose1313]

I tried this challenge where the $1M had to be achieved without leaving the farm within 24 hours of play time. I achieved it almost the exact same way as this video but it took me until year 8 and 18 hours of play time. The spice berry was definitely a saver as that produced more ancient seeds on the seed maker.

[@chrundle2700]

Did you sleep through most days?

[@nowayjose1313]

@@chrundle2700 that is correct. Once you got the farm going with ancient fruit the best thing to do is sleep most days after that

[@yukimizukisisterstudios7366]

That's what it looks like if an introvert is running a farm

[@myrakwulf686]

I was so happy when you choose the hill top farm, but I am very sorry that you did not get many mixed seeds on it :( Makes it somewhat sad that the quarry is kinda useless, even I put barns on it ^^;;;

[@BrandOn-zf9hm]

I did this challenge on every farm. It took a total of about 186 hours total. Mushroom trees ended up being the main source of income on farms like the standard, river land, wilderness, and the beach. The most fun one was the four corners, I even started a new four corners with 25% profit margins. I went into town on the start of the tenth year on that farm, I ended up only getting path recipes and the fishing rod.

[@Cereal-m9o]

This is my new account

[@Porcupinespeerit]

3:12 -Woodland farm: "hey wtf bro"

[@DPadGamer]

Ahh yeah, I forgot to include my reasoning for excluding it; I didn't want to manually water the 1000's crops i'd have needed to farm to make it to a milli.

[@Porcupinespeerit]

@@DPadGamer Very smart. I cant imagine this without sprinklers.

[@sherriepectol9324]

So happy you did that and not me. I get bored to easily to stay in one place.

[@TheGoldfox9111]

You should try it again with the stuff from 1.6. See if you can get 1 million gold faster.

[@gummybread]

I already enjoyed this video, but that ending recap video pushed it over the edge of greatness, especially the farmer chasing down reporter Krobus

[@lazynoodle6739]

Ah man i am impressed by the time and determination to attempt that successfully, part of me wants to try this as well but it also sounds like pain haha

[@DPadGamer]

If you do this for yourself I would suggest implementing Call Me Kevin's allowance of leaving the farm once a year otherwise please don't do it don't make yourself suffer.

[@abielreh]

1:58 The fact that he’s filming this on the hilltop farm is crazy😂

[@thedox6324]

Just finished the same run as you! Its true you can shave off some time with your tips at the end. My run lasted about 9-10 hours of active playtime and about 14 hours in total. Forgot that AFKing is counted as playtime. XD It was a fun challege.

[@DPadGamer]

Congratulations! Glad to hear you were more efficient than I was. Its a neat challenge, but not neccessarily one I'd want to do more than once :p

[@opekamma]

Very good video! I had been hoping another challenge video like this would cross my algorithm and I'm glad this one did! Very thorough, thank you for the amount of work you put into this challenge, it was very fun to watch. I'll definitely check out the rest of the channel!

[@HalfBoyHalfGod]

What a feat. Can definitely relate to 12:56 too

[@its_just_seb]

i'm also currently doing this challenge after seeing callmekevin doing it (and thinking i could do better), but instead of a monetary goal, seeing as money is quite useless if you can't spend it, i wanted to have the widest variety of crops possible. to do this, i researched if it was possible to get the seasonal seeds without leaving the farm, and it is! for one out of the three seasons, that is. you can get fall seeds before getting the seed maker by choosing the fruit cave for plums and blackberries, tapping a mushroom tree for common mushrooms, and hazelnuts by shaking trees from fall 15th - 28th (i didn't even know this was possible before doing research). it's probably more of a hassle to water all the seeds just for the forageables, but i like that they fill up my farm somewhat in the absence of any buildings

[@reha1345]

I made a farm after watching Kevins video. Glad someone else is also making a video. More content for me!

[@Kosmo1945]

you could allow monster to spawn, kill a golem, and get quartz, refine it, and make the quality sprinklers

[@DPadGamer]

The only type of Golem that can spawn on the farm are Wilderness Golem and those don't drop quartz. Stone Golems drop quartz, but are only found in the mines.

[@AtomicVegetable]

@@DPadGamer White slimes can drop quartz, but to get them you need to capture and breed the slimes that spawn. Bred slimes dont despawn at day.

[@DPadGamer]

@@AtomicVegetable and you can't breed slimes without leaving the farm

[@AtomicVegetable]

@@DPadGamer not true. They mate on their own if you can get a male and female in a pen before 2am from the random monster spawns.

[@AtomicVegetable]

@@DPadGamer i cant find your reply about not being able to get slime hutches, but thats not what im saying. Slimes mate even outside the hutch, so you can build a fenced in area and breed them without a hutch

[@qvcybe]

would love to see you keep this up to the money cap as i think i could be super funny to watch you slowly expand your farm to over run the farm with crops XD o also i would made a rule that you were allowed to upgrade your tools if you got the ore from the farm

[@DPadGamer]

Oh lord, reaching the money cap would be extremely frustrating.

[@qvcybe]

@@DPadGamer but funny to watch you lose your mind XD besides that i would still remove some of the limits if you would do it to make it slightly more barrable XD

[@DPadGamer]

Yeah upgraded tools would help a lot, mainly the larger area with the hoe. Would probably have to place kegs along the border of the entire farm, making for the worlds longest run every time a new batch of wine is done.

[@qvcybe]

@@DPadGamer along with letting you upgrade the sprinklers if you allow your self to go get the stuff main limit is the ores you have to get all the ores you need from your farm but you could get the rest of stuff you need from else were XD

[@christinef3792]

@@DPadGamer get a among us mod

[@Lanthardol]

Something else worth considering for how the townsfolk view you, Lewis is the one who comes and checks your shipping box every night (between 2am and 6am no less!) which means even though he never saw you he must have seen you were definitely maintaining the place and for long periods of time kept coming back everyday to check if you were selling anything just day after day of mostly nothing, until he suddenly has to get over 100k of gold because you seem to have mass produced so many goods, and then silence again until you start producing an ancient fruit out of nowhere and he has to start paying for that highly priced product

[@MM-jf1me]

I really enjoyed this video! It was fun seeing how you tackled this challenge. How much time did you spend on this play through in real time?

[@DPadGamer]

Across the two playthroughs, I believe it was 25 to 30 hours of gameplay.

[@CaitlinKoi]

4:31 That Glitter Gulch Mine music just set off my nostalgia sensors like a nuclear bomb

[@DivineDragoon]

So you were basically Willy Wonka wine edition. Neat.

[@HailTheRegent]

Props to Demetrius for meeting with the weird reclusive farmer in the name of science

[@DarkD112]

I have no idea why you would ever subject yourself to this. Here I am struggling to make myself water the crops for the half a year it takes to start getting sprinklers, but you took that to a whole new level. For.... bragging rights? views? money? grow your channel? just cause?

[@DPadGamer]

Well, I thought it'd be a fun and interesting video. I was wrong.

[@jay-mp1rb]

@@DPadGamer it was fun and interesting

[@anthenyiscool2758]

Haha, I can imagine the residents of Pelican Grove spreading rumors about you being a hermit and rude for never introducing yourself.

[@haleyfromstardewvalley6003]

As actual Haley from Stardew Valley I approve of this video. 🌸

[@DPadGamer]

Don't think we've ever met, but thanks!

[@AstralArbourSys]

haley why did you call me gross

[@haleyfromstardewvalley6003]

This comment is why I can’t never change my username. THE dpadgamer replied to this amazing comment.

[@NovasYouTubeName]

The Dpad was invented by Nintendo

[@bruh10246]

what about making foragable seeds from the forest farm? from my knowledge you can get all the foragables from the forest farm and multiply them by p;wanting the seasonal seeds and selling the seed s for money(more than the forage alone)

[@DPadGamer]

Definitely an option, but all crop watering would be manual.

[@aurelijs8891]

I really loved the story/ summary/ perspective at the end! That was very cool :D

[@leoroon3141]

Stardew Tip: Common Mushrooms (from the cave) + seed maker = fall seeds. do with this knowledge as you see fit.

[@clarkefoster6847]

When I did this challenge on Hilltop I also did fruits as it offers more. Common, red, and purple mushrooms are still available via tapping mushroom trees and the fruit bat cave enables spice berry giving summer forage. He's totally right about how slow hilltop is it took me 9 years for enough seeds to get level nine farming.

[@leoroon3141]

His strategy was to farm as many mixed seeds as he could to get to lvl 9 farming so he can then convert all of his crops into ancient seeds. He was just using the bat cave as a source of extra income, and not doing any bundles in this challenge. That's why I mention turning the common mushrooms into seeds. Not only does this help jumpstart the number of ancient seeds he gets, it also makes him more money because on average the common mushrooms from the cave are worth 90g each when converted.

[@goverlord]

going for the mushrooms instead of the bats allows you to make fall seeds from regular mushrooms.

[@Yeshanu]

So I started a harder version of this challenge. I call it the "Sleeping Beauty" challenge. Sleep through the first two years, and only start really playing when Grandpa's ghost wakes you up. This fills the farm with trees, giving you lots of wood, but the weeds are almost non existent. The parsnip seeds are two years old, so they're garbage. Throw them out. Sleeping Beauty is a princess, and no princess worth her salt would deal in common goods. You can only sell items tgat are artisan goods, crafted by your own princess hands, or cooked (when you've leveled up enough to get the cooking kit.) I also am allowing myself to sell duplicate artifacts, because antiques are very princessy, IMHO. Plus, there's nothing else you can do with them. So far, I have three quadrants cleared, and my weeds are beginning to grow, but it's fall, so not for long. I'm thinking that in winter, I'll do a lot of soil tilling, as there's a higher chance of getting stuff. Going for tgat one million gold before showing my face in town, though, because no self respecting princess would ever go about town while still a pauper!

[@rieriema1827]

Just started replaying stardew again. This challenge looks so fun (and repetitive haha). Probably gonna try it out. Fun video! ☺️

[@joecanhearyou]

This feels like motivation.

[@colbysheep]

I like this run a lot but I'd like to see more where you can leave one time a year to see what the most efficient route and purchases could be

[@flashjcb8869]

This was entertaining, watching you suffer. I can't wait to see what other content you'll make in the future.

[@wilwaycoholland4337]

That ending was hilarious and made the whole thing worth the watch. Sad I didn't find this until now. Keep up the great work.

[@DogHoldsController]

15:31 why does it look so good

[@kingcancercell248]

This makes me remember the Japanese live stream of a man trying to get 1 million yen with just mail giveaways, he was mentally destroyed it was really depressing

[@blacklight683]

3:00tbh if it was me i would have chose the forest farm but am not the guy who talks cuz there is no way am doing this💀

[@GameJam230]

This challenge would probably be even easier in a few places now that 1.6 is out, thanks to having the ability to get new seed types from artifact spots

[@pierkieI]

and the mixed flower seeds too, which makes bees much better

[@RomaKING2006]

What

[@kyrum1234]

epic thanks so cool awesome amazing 10/10

[@DPadGamer]

now this was a real gem of a comment, very cool

[@Jouleside]

The narrative you make up in the end had me cracked up. I loved the idea of how the villagers would’ve seen you

[@moldorm30]

Nah. The quarry will not generate enough iron ore in that amount of time that passed for you to fill all your sprinklers and such, and you would never have gotten all those ancient seeds lmao.

[@DPadGamer]

I got everything shown in the video exactly as described, but okay then.

[@KimberlyAnne88]

And don't you have to get the ancient seed recipe from Gunther to be able to craft more seeds? I'm confused

[@Sraelynn8]

I had to check the Wiki to be sure, but sadly the Hilltop and Wilderness farms are the only ones that don't have a chair or bench in your house. A chair or bench can be placed to skip passed the boulders like how we can also skip the log for the Secret Woods.

[@DPadGamer]

Oh interesting. I would have thought that as furniture, they can't be placed outside. Are seats an exception?