Easy Money in Spring - Stardew Valley

[@thegreypoet9518]

My favourite tip is to use tea saplings as fencing, because they look like hedges, and don't degrade, and make money sometimes.

[@koolkrafter5]

Lightning rods also make good fences. If you have the materials to spare, a good number to have is about 35-50 to prevent damage to your farm and get lots of batteries for sprinklers and crystalariums.

[@danheidel]

@@koolkrafter5 Lightning rods can also be used to increase your grass growing for animal farming. If you put down a spot of grass and then drop a lightning rod on it, it can't be eaten by the animals but will still spread. I found that a grid of rods every 3 or 4 squares not only gives tons of batteries but also means you have to devote far less area to grass even when you have a lot of animals. You'll need to rip up the rods every spring to replant the grass (or better, on winter 28) but that's a pretty minor thing.

[@skyellama8374]

A little exploit that I like that can sometimes pay off is getting into the secret woods early. With the basic farm, your house spawns with a chair. This can be placed behind the log that normally blocks the woods, and you can sit in it to hop past the log. Now you can pick up all sorts of forage in there early. Just ALWAYS use a chair and NEVER use a bench. You'll get stuck and I had to learn that the hard way.

[@Marialla.]

This is nice because it's so pretty, and running in straight lines as a fence it'll be easy to harvest!

[@Marialla.]

@@skyellama8374 I'm usually against cheats/exploits but I'm in favor of this one. It makes sense that a person could climb over a log with a chair to help.

[@TelAlissa]

It’s crazy how advanced you get your first spring. 😮 I spend my first spring dirt poor digging into trash cans

[@kolz4ever1980]

Git gud scrub

[@MomOfThree_333]

Trash can gang over here!!!!

[@MrCheestr]

i literally don't know what to do😂

[@LUCASxGonzalez]

​@@MomOfThree_333skrrr

[@MrNerdyBrit]

LMAO 😅

[@neokatwastaken]

In Winter, by clay farming on the beach you will be able to get winter roots and snow yams instead of clay, which make you 5x the profit! It's incredibly overpowered when you need quick money to afford huge crop purchases for spring year 2, as it makes 10k-12k a day!

[@salmence100]

Wait that’d still work? That’s actually crazy!

[@Peyt0n.]

Lemme try this in winter then! I can't wait

[@neokatwastaken]

@@Peyt0n. Remember to do it on the beach, and to keep clay spawning until you get a yam/root!

[@trollleyy]

from the deepest of my nonexisting heart I come to say thank you for making this comment

[@nikokyran2332]

God damnit, I only found this comment after I passed my first winter, great

[@bashbach1927]

UPDATE: 1. Tea saplings now sell for 250 gold, not 500 2. Tree tappers have been moved back to level 7 farming

[@temnndy1944]

Is it true that now you can't clay farm? :(

[@soulfire3491]

@@temnndy1944Yes but you can go back to the old way by going into game modifiers and tagging legacy randomization at the bottom before your next run.

[@mr_sugarcube]

Tappers actually now at level 4 foraging instead of level 3

[@kranberry3318]

Tappers at level 7 farming? What are you talking about? Tappers are from the foraging skill, not farming. They’re also available at level *four.*

[@shyla.xxx1]

Mine sells for 500

[@CorinneStephens]

Do craft kegs early!! It doesn't come around until summer but I like to plant a bunch of wheat and make it into beer, which has a 200g base sell price. You can buy wheat seeds for only 10g apiece and they only take 4 days to grow, and beer only takes 1-2 days in the keg, so it's got a pretty good turnaround time. It's the best early-game use for kegs I've found personally!!

[@TetraDax]

Much more importantly, the ability to make beer enables you to befriend Shane quite quickly and Shane is bae.

[@CorinneStephens]

@@TetraDax I mean if you're in already in summer you may as well just give him peppers so you don't feed his alcohol problem 😭

[@Marialla.]

I agree! Beer is very OP with the profit margin of turning 10g wheat seeds into 200g beer in under a week! I often plant a huge field of wheat with no intention of ever watering it, just relying on rainfall to grow it eventually. It's a good way to use space on your farm that is otherwise unused in early game, and an excellent source of income. It even gives hay, which is useful for folks who might not have a silo yet.

[@Marialla.]

@@ihavenoidea2805 I have often planted hops, but I think their best use is as food for the player. Especially the starred ones. The plain ones are fine to brew if you have the space. But beer only takes one day to brew, while Pale Ale can take two days, especially if you're staying up till 2am. If so, that cuts its profit margin in half (per day). So beer can be the better choice if you have both wheat and hops available to choose. Another factor for me is that I really enjoy scything wheat. I find it much more satisfying than picking hops. And I like the bonus hay you get. Most importantly is the work involved. Hops must be watered daily to produce well. Wheat can be ignored if you want, and left for nothing but rainfall to grow it eventually. You can get several huge harvests through summer and fall with almost no energy invested yourself.

[@dddmemaybe]

@@Marialla. You make some good points. I do think Hops give out so many items that they almost feel like cheating for health/energy though, assuming you use basic or quality sprinklers for them. (Just make sure to have a copper hoe or better, because if you don't water them, they can become disabled due to trellis soil becoming untilled and you have to indirectly re-till or the tool bounces off). The main thing with Hops is that every tile gives 17 Hops items per season. So? Every single gold quality Hops recovers 81 energy, which becomes broken af with basic fertilizer and a few farming exp levels. There simply isn't a crop in the game, excluding maybe starfruit, that generates as much energy(or salad-energy money) compared to Hops, especially without level 10 farming and a lot of artisan machines. They are somewhat less efficient per quality sprinkler at 6-1 instead of 8-1 per machine but, that still doesn't make a dent in the energy lead it has in the early-mid game. If you consider making Pale Ale with all of the basic quality Hops, nothing comes even close in year 1. It makes the Skull Caverns a bit of a joke. If you plant 60 hops w/ 10 quality sprinklers and basic fertilizer at an average farming level of 7 (harvests 17 times for good exp), that's about 300 golden quality Hops, that's either 25,000 _energy,_ or for hp instead, about _70 full-health bars_ of recovery for the Skull Caverns. That's just 0.3 of the Hops, which comes out to the same health recovery of 120 golden Melons. edit: wheat is perfect if you have even a single animal building because it's very cheap, makes good money and also feeds the animals passively to boot. A fun thing I found with wheat, is that it keeps fertilizer from summer to fall while also keeping the ground pre-prepared. On it's own that's just good for late summer but, wheat also only needs 1 speed grow level to jump from 4 days to 3 (28% more wheat/season), while also being a farming crop that doesn't care about quality at all since you refine all of them anyways with bread and/or beer. So you get to bring 1 speed-grow per tile all the way from summer 1 to fall 28 while getting good value the whole time. You can even go for Amaranth on those tiles in Fall because they both get a massive output boost from speed-grow levels, both use a scythe, and Amaranth's base 150g value is great in a preserves jar (30g more than a strawberry, which isn't too shabby).

[@ninjacrumbs]

GET the training rod right after you catch your first fish. Build two containers and plop them on the river and lake to negate any tiny backpack problems. Spend three days straight fishing while taking care of your initial crops. Keep drinking Joja and eating algae to sustain your fishing day. You will get thousands a day....but it is the experience that is priceless (a perfect catch is a shit tonne more valuable than any silver graded fish with a bamboo rod!!) In three short days, if you are good at fishing, you will reach level 5. That equals more $$$. Get a new rod, then fish whenever applicable while setting up your vision. Creep your way up to level 10 then you can get treasures, artifacts, and resources galore!! Spend a day or two fishing before the Egg festival and you got $$$ for lots of seeds. Once you get that, fishing will soon become near irrelevant and, with the aid of your initial crops, it will open your game up!! It is, hands down, the BEST 25g you will ever spend in the game. All hail the Training Rod!!!!!

[@cobratran]

Agreed! Training rod is amazing for getiing to lvl 2 & unlocking the fibreglass rod ASAP. If you are lucky with bubbles, it is possible to get lvl 5 fishing on day 2 which is huge for catching catfish on day 3. Another tip: buying a few trout soups helps with catching perfects, energy, as well as catfish on day 3. An extra catfish catch because of the +1 fishing skill buff pays for itself + $$$

[@ninjacrumbs]

@@cobratran To be honest, with all the hours I have logged, I have never caught a catfish in the first week. But then again, I only use catfish to complete the fishing bundle, and that, with the friendship bundle, are the last two I complete early year 2.

[@cobratran]

@@ninjacrumbs with day 3 rain being guaranteed if you are able to get consistent catches (~50%) it is definitely worth it. I'm a min/max player so this is extremely crucial and is enough to net me a copper pick upgrade along with 5 iron bars (total ~9k) on day 3. Even playing casually it is worth pursuing day 3/early rain days catfish as it is better than mountain/ocean. The money will help with getting more strawberries (assuming thats what you save up for) which snowballs in the long run. Try eating a trout soup for bigger bar & geting used to catfish pattern (restart day if having no luck). Some of the encounters will be basically impossible to catch but when you are able to catch one at a low fishing level, it is hella satisfying

[@apricot8301]

What if I'm good enough at fishing to get perfects anyways? 🤔

[@cobratran]

@@apricot8301 then you get a gold medal for being awesome! (At low levels some are impossible to catch perfectly because you don't have enough time to accelerate the bar)

[@BlockCheddar]

Diamonds make a lot of money in a crystallarium, but jade is used to trade for stairs at the desert cart, which are basically required for skull caverns. So diamonds are great at first, but once you have a decent amount of money, it's probably best to switch to jade exclusively.

[@dddmemaybe]

I always go for Rubies for the permanent Spicy Eel speed boosts regardless of whether I'm in Skull Caverns(still very good there) or not. You only need an average output of 2 rubies per day to already have an infinite Spicy Eel buff. It's 7 minutes long per item, and each day is 14 minutes long. If you always harvest them every other day, you'd only need 4 crystalariums to have like a 90% Spicy Eel buff uptime. With 6 you should never run out even if you waste like 20% of them.

[@BlockCheddar]

@@dddmemaybe this is fantastic advice, thanks! I'm starting a new playthrough so I'll definitely use this

[@Pirokh]

Another good thing about the training rod early on is the normal fish all stack in single piles so you save space which is kind of a commodity until you get those bag upgrades. I like using tea-plants as fences as opposed to actual fences.

[@mado-wh4jv]

You have to mention that in order to complete the spring crop bundle so you can use the speed grow in strawberries, you have to plant in day one coliflower, potatoes and green beens. To guarantee that you don't lose them by crows, you have to buy at least 2 of every seed. Another tip is using mixed seeds. You should have mentioned this since is literally impossible otherwise to complete the spring crops bundle before the egg festival.

[@Pirokh]

I grow a string bean and cauliflower with 13 of my original 15 parsnips so I don't activate crows and have to worry about my crops being eaten. Why 13? Because if you harvest 13 Parsnips its enough to get to level 1 farming to unlock the scarcrow so you don't lose a single crop to the birds. After you can make scarecrows you would buy your potato for the community center and whatever other crops you would normally be buying.

[@ihavenoidea2805]

@@Pirokh exactly, crows only appear when you have at least 16 crops, as long as you have less than 16 it's fine, they're never gonna get eaten... so someone can plant 13 parsnips, a cauliflower (bought from Pierre) on day one and a green bean (Pierre again) on day one/two (and a potato ofc, but that's after you already harvest the parsnips since they only take 6 days, so you'll have enough time), turn those in to the community center on the 13th, receive the speed gro and boom, you have 3 harvests of strawberries instead of 2 for 20 strawberry crops! (you do have to hurry to turn the crops in though, which is why you should always prepare the sprinklers and hoe and water the ground in the morning before the egg festival even begins to have time to plant those strawberries, go to the cc, return and use the speed gro, and go to bed) btw a good strategy is saving your mixed seeds for ~(1.5 spoiler) the Linus's trash quest to plant fiber seeds,~ but if youre not playing with 1.5 you can plant them

[@jayscott9133]

​@@PirokhThis is genius

[@bdoeden64]

This is what I tend to do, and I am NOT a speed runner (or even very good at the game) - I tend to focus on Farming, doing other activities as able. Spring 1 plan, again, focused on farming (sorry for the length): In the below, keep in mind you can eat crops for energy. I know wild seeds sell for more than the crops they tend to produce, but the crops they produce can give you energy. Likewise, you can eat parsnips for energy as well, instead of purchasing them, same thing with Fish (eat a fish/multiple fish if you run out of energy while fishing). 1. Clear farm area (at least 24 spaces for crops you will purchase, plus spaces for wild seeds), plus clear all the brush easily gettable for wild seeds. Cut enough trees down to craft a chest, craft one and put all excess items in it to make room for seeds. Put any tools you don't need into the chest (time pauses when you are interacting with chests). It will be tempting to buy the backpack upgrade to help with inventory room, but I save the money for crops. Day 1, and day 13 are very tight on energy and/or time, if you screw up, before the 2 AM timeout or before going to bed (before saving), just exit to the title screen, reload and try it again. 2. Plant the 15 parsnips you get at the start, water them. By then Pierre should be open. You could sell the parsnips, but they mature in 4 days (day 5), which also benefits you by giving you Farming level 1, which gives you the ability to craft a scarecrow. 3. Buy 2 Cauliflower, 2 Green Beans, 4 Potatoes, 1 parsnip (should bring you to zero money). You are buying these crops to complete the spring crops bundle in the community center, and make money. I buy 2 minimum of each Summer Crop bundle in case a crow eats one. Excess potatoes are for money. 4. Plant and water the crops you bought 5. Empty your inventory leaving at least room for 6 items. Look for forage (including the spring onions to the south of Marnie's, I eat the spring onions for energy as my crops get so big I start to run out of energy). Make sure to keep 1 of each Daffodil, Dandelion, Leek and Wild Horseradish for the Spring Foraging bundle (which gives you 30 more crops to plant). You can sell or eat excess forage. 6. Keep clearing farm with remaining energy. 7. Day 2: From here on out, assume the first thing you do is tend to your crops (water/harvest/plant), and that any money you make you buy more seeds and plant them. potatoes take 6 days to grow, the last day you will buy or plant potatoes is day 6. After that you will buy and plant parsnips until day 8, stopping on day 9. All crops will be harvested and sold by day 12, so you can buy strawberries on day 13. Be careful to plan for inventory space requirements so that you don't have to make multiple trips to Pierre or back home to drop stuff off. 8. Forage the maps (note: Forage stays until Saturday, so you can check areas periodically without losing forage), then get your fishing pole (make sure to get there before 5 PM). Hopefully you have some room in inventory, if not run home quick and drop as much off as you can, so you can catch as many fish as you can. Typically when foraging, I primarily check the bus stop map, the map by Marnie's, and the beach map. If my inventory gets full I drop stuff off at my chest at home or sell it. 9. Fish as much as you can. Sell what fish you can in the sales bin by your house, except for community center bundle fish, keep at least 1 of each. 10. I also, at this point and moving forward, try to do some more farm cleanup and get more chests made. I have found putting a chest by Willie's and by the Mines really helps (especially when I forget to drop stuff off at home before going to either). 11. You next big step is on day 5, the mines open up and the community center event becomes available on the first day from day 5 on when it isn't raining. Enter town from the bus stop map to trigger. 12. Day 5: Harvest parsnips, sell, buy seeds, plant seeds, tend to crops (save golden parsnips until you have 5 for the quality crops bundle). 13. I believe it always rains on day 5, but if it isn't, make sure to trigger the community center cut scene, and then visit the community center and activate the Foraging area to trigger the wizard event. Otherwise, do it on the first day it doesn't rain after day 5. 14. I go to the mines on day 5 and try to get at least 5 levels done (LOL, I have seen Haboo / Tooshi / Therm / Z etc. do 40+ levels in one day in spring), after foraging of course (and remember to empty your inventory and bring food for energy and health). If you want to get deeper in the mines, don't forage unless you don't have a food source, consider using your parsnips instead of selling them, etc. 15. Day 6 (or first non-rain day day 5 or after): Visit community center (again, if it isn't raining), after cut scene, go back to community center and activate the foraging package to trigger the wizard on the next day. 16. Day 7: Harvest your potatoes, sell them, buy parsnips, plant/water them. Reminder, whenever a crop matures, other than crops you are saving for community center packages, you sell and buy more crops. Make sure, as of day 7, you stop buying potatoes and start buying parsnips, also, don’t buy any more seeds after day 8 as they won’t be ready to sell by day 12. Also, keep planting wild seeds you find no matter what the date is. 17. Plan ahead - the last run I did, I had 7,400 g, enough for 74 strawberries, so when planting your crops, keep in mind you will want an easy layout for your new strawberries. 18. Visit the wizard to give access to the community center's bundles (forage while there). If you have at least 7 open spaces in inventory, you can take your spring forage bundle with you to the wizard to save time. 19. Visit the community center, fulfill the spring forage bundle, get the 30 seeds reward. Return to farm and plant/water the 30 seeds. 20. From this point on, it is your call what you want to do with your remaining energy and time. Whether it is clearing the farm/mining/fishing. I usually try to mine, but because of crop sizes, I am often very low on energy and/or time by the time I finish watering all the crops, and dandelions and spring onions only help so much with energy. You'll have to figure your plan out based on the resources you have available. I also try to get 300 wood to fix the beach bridge to get more foraging money. 21. Day 9: Stop buying new crops, just harvest mature crops. Don't sell anything though. Hold on to all sellable items now until day 12. That way you can fish or go into the mines and stay out until 2 AM. If you have no money on you, you lose nothing. 22. Day 11: Harvest beans, keep one for community center. By day 11 I recommend you make at least 1 trip to the community center to drop off the spring crops that you have, it makes inventory management easier on day 13. 23. Day 12: Put everything in shipping bin that you want to sell. 24. Day 13: This is a big day, the festival event ends if you are not there by 2, so you have a lot to do before then. 25. Hoe at least 1 tile for every 100 g you have (7,400 g = 74 tiles), and for ease of applying speed gro, I separate 20 of the strawberries into their own patch. Water the tiles, but make sure to get to the festival by 2. I strongly recommend that you lay out the farm in an up down direction, it is much easier to plant/fertilize when moving up and down versus left and right. I recommend practicing a bit if you are not efficient, and then reload the game (e.g. go buy some parsnips and practice planting very quickly). 26. Put your remaining spring crops bundle in your inventory, but make sure to leave at least 2 open slots (one for the straw hat you win from the egg hunt, and one for strawberry seeds). Buy as many strawberries as you can afford. Here's the tricky part: 27. When you end the festival it will be 10 PM. I recommend you run immediately to the community center, drop off the spring crops bundle, get the 20 speed grow as the reward, and then run back to the farm. This ensures that you will get the 20 speed grow and apply it - you may run out of time to plant everything, so at least you will have your 20 speed grow strawberries planted. The other can be delayed by a day (or two) because you only get 2 harvests anyway. 28. Plant the speed grow, and then plant all the strawberry seeds. If you get it all done, you should have 3 harvests of the 20 that have speed grow on them, and 2 of the others. Congratulations, you are well on your way now. 29. After day 13, you can figure out what works best for you. Tend to your crops, plant more. Continue fishing/mining/cleaning up the farm, again, planting any wild seeds and selling forage for money. Buy at least 27 parsnips (pretty much ensures you will end up with 5 gold ones for the quality crops bundle) and plant/water them. After you get 5 gold parsnips you can switch entirely to potatoes (best profit other than Strawberries). 30. Note: Day 15 through 18 (I believe) is when the berry bushes start producing around the maps. Try to harvest them as you can, it is an easy source of a lot of free forage (I got around 120 berries by the end of the 18th, if I remember correctly). 31. Continue planting potatoes until day 22, then switch to parsnips until day 24. Note: By day 24, you will have a lot of money coming in, and you may not be able to plant all the parsnips you can buy, figure out what your limits are :). Keep in mind you can eat parsnips for energy as well.

[@legendkrit]

Lmao so long comment, thx btw

[@_Amit_Sunil]

OCD inducing

[@HeavensNoriaki]

THANK YOU for taking the time to write this all down. I needed this in a readable format so bad !!! thank you

[@mirandacecania1580]

Oh no no, keep mixed seeds!! With the right quest you can turn them into Fiber Plants which you can then use to turn into Tea Plants to sell like you mentioned. Pair that with the new Clay Farming tip I just got from this video and yeah

[@Sky_Guy]

Not to mention I believe Summer has slightly better mixed seeds crops?

[@salmence100]

It does, but by then I usually have enough money to buy the ideal regular crops. So Summer is usually when I start saving them for fiber seeds. I just find them especially useful when you’re scrambling to have enough money to just buy seeds

[@mirandacecania1580]

Ah, but heres a fun fact, if you arrange your planting schedule right, since Fiber Seeds work for all seasons, you can preserve your fertilizer and crop space if they are growing between months. No need to redo your crop spots or water on the first! Not to mention they are plantable during Winter!

[@Vittrich]

@@salmence100 yesterday i put 8000 cranberrys in the seedmaker, i will never run out of mixed seeds again lol

[@nami3958]

I just bought this game today and I can't wait to play it. I might be familiar on some things since I used to play lots of Harvest Moon back in the days, thank you for the tips!

[@o0Sazie0o]

I love fishing, as soon as I get my first fishing rod. I go fishing straight off the bat, it is relaxing and exciting to fish in this game. xD Most people don't like fishing in my group, so I'm usually in charge for fishing but eh I don't mind. I think in most games, if there is fishing I just love it. It is my favorite activity, no matter the difficulty.

[@PQSxSins]

My sweet spot for raw farming and watering crops is 180 crops, it will leave you with 20-40% of remaining energy depending on how much and what tier of water retaining soil you use and you'll finish around 11am to 12 pm leaving the rest of the day free. If you've triggered the demetrius cut scene and pick the mushroom cave you can use those for a quick boost in energy if your doing something energy intensive like fishing the rest of the day or cave mining. Also I would recommend saving cheap fish and coral every now and then as those are needed to make high tier quality fertilizer.

[@Dojibu]

While I agree with upgrading the pick, I usually end up upgrading the watering can because of how limited energy is in the earlier game. This lets me plant larger crops. Should also be noted that you shouldn't sleep on those craftable sprinklers when they become available.

[@hoodiegal]

Notable thing about the early spring crops, strawberries and speed-gro: If you want to get the speed-gro from the bundle in time to use it on the strawberries, you HAVE TO plant Cauliflower on day 1! If you plant it any later, it won't finish growing until after you've already planted the strawberries. You also have to plant the Green Bean no later than day 3. This does impact your ability to make as much money as possible before the egg festival, and you risk crops getting eaten by crows before you get the scarecrow, but if it pans out, you're off to a great start monetarily.

[@PonderingJosh]

I had no idea how bad I was at this game until I watched the video. It hurts, but pain is an excellent teacher (and you have made me wise).

[@sobblegaming350]

I didn't buy backpack until after the egg festival so I could get 38 strawberries. IT PAYED OFF

[@LUCASxGonzalez]

But how do you fish and get money to buy those strawberries if you don't have space to keep the fish ???😢

[@sobblegaming350]

@LUCASxGonzalez bro this was a year old. Just keep a chest and sell fish on day 5 with level 5 fishing for 25% extra sell price. My newest playthrough I got 147 strawberries. 38 feels miserable.

[@Antonio1350]

I got 151 Strawberrys 147 is miserable

[@Mzrenegade]

I like to clay farm on day 1 and get my backpack upgrade immediately, drives me nuts not having room for stuff

[@Nightweaver1]

There are so many items in this game that 12 slots fills up almost immediately once you have played for awhile like me. Even at the full upgrade of 36, on Year 8 (my main farm), I fill that up just from my farm by the end of the morning!

[@vivianposadas998]

I can do the clay farming, it doesn’t work for me

[@perfectthingzx_]

​@@vivianposadas998It's removed it the new update

[@ChristinaGerman]

I’m so new to this game and I’ve been watching all your videos but there’s so much great information it’s like a 5 year old trying to learn alegraba 😂

[@TocaUnicorn]

I personally love getting the Tea Sapling recipe from Caroline, and it's amazing money for such a cheap recipe! You get 500 per sapling it's very op early on. It's what helped me repair the bus :)

[@Nightweaver1]

The clay farming tip and starting out with a ton of parsnips instead of potatoes I did not know. Thanks!

[@renatocustodio1000]

Beware you'd want 5 golden parsnips if you hope to get the greenhouse on year one.

[@vincentwei9869]

no you don't... the community center requires only 3 of 5 corn, 5 melon, and 5 pumpkin...

[@breadphones28]

you can plant melons, pumpkin and corn later in the year when you have more gold which means more seeds, more chances to get gold crops

[@Thatguyishere1]

No you don’t need parsnips you need three of the four options so obviously choose corn and pumpkins but melon growth is better than parsnip so never make the parsnip after the first few

[@strix501]

Easy if you know it earlier, i guess you can do it too

[@Vednier]

Well, first tool i upgraded was water can - ability to water 3 squares instead of one is HUGE improvement if you really growing crops. You can cut stuff and mine stones with starting tools alright, especially if you foraged tonnes of salmonberry. However at around level 40 pickaxe upgrade is almost mandatory. Farming clay is kinda too cheaty imho, but clay naturally is pain in ass, you dont have enough when you need silo and later its garbage.

[@Blissteen_BB]

tea saplings and honey are my favorite! i didn't realize how much i liked bee houses. I rushed a maple syrup farm and spent most of my time in the mines slaying dust sprites for coal. I was able to complete a 152 hive setup in fall, and with fairy roses 1 harvest was 103k gold!!! i'm in winter rn, so idk how much it makes in spring, but collecting honey is so satisfying! and i love that i'm finally able to use flowers, since they're so pretty. i'm not a huge fan of clayfarming, so tea saplings are a good way to skyrocket your farm early on. You could complete the vault, upgrade your instruments or set up barns, coops, upgrade your house early and much else. it honestly kind of feels like cheating 😅

[@2111jade]

With tea sapplings and strawberries in spring I was able to make enough money to get mellons which in turn gave me enough money to make a barn and buy pumpkins. Also with the money from four cows cheese let me upgrade it once then twice. It’s winter year one and I got 8 cows and 4 pigs. Can’t wait till spring year two

[@arthurlodar6805]

oh my god i forgot that caroline can give you tea saplings. i really need to give her more daffodils

[@janette2422]

been playing SDV for about a year now....This is my new fav channel

[@speckledpup]

Thanks for this video! you're my favorite stardew valley youtuber

[@douglasanderson7260]

I always save my mixed seeds to make fiber seeds later in the game. But that is because I do not like letting my fertilizers go in winter. So I almost never plant my mixed seeds.

[@Emilyandlizzytv]

I have watched so many spring tutorials first day tutorials first year tutorials nothing absolutely fucking nothing beats this This has been the shortest easiest to follow best tutorial thank you so fucking much I just had to say that

[@malaco__8951]

these videos made the game playable for me, thank you so much for the information!

[@augustaseptemberova5664]

I actually plant the spring wild seeds once I have a scarecrow, and I continue to grow large amounts of them, including in summer. That way I get the botanist profession in time for when my pigs grow up to produce truffles by end of summer, and in fall's blackberry season I get tons of iridium blackberries that, for me at least, are a great and dirt-cheap food for skull cavern.

[@davidlandry3487]

This is my new favorite beginners' guide! One thing I want to try is to save up money for strawberries on the 13th, but specifically to keep a couple dozen seed packs stored away to have it available right away at the start of spring year 2. This is a great guide to get enough for that goal!

[@PeterTeal77]

Not a bad idea, but I would recommend planting all your strawberry seeds on spring 13 and then processing some of the resulting strawberries in the seed maker. You will get a quicker return on your gold and have more seeds. Also (minor spoiler for new players) if you get the greenhouse year 1 you can use that to multiply your strawberry seeds the same way.

[@Droplete]

I actually do have a star shard sitting around because I confused them with cinder shards before I got to ginger island lol

[@JorgeL721]

Damn! How did you come across the clay farming trick? How intricate!

[@salmence100]

Saw it while watching a speedrun where they try to make as much money as possible in year 1, and I checked it out!

[@neokatwastaken]

@@salmence100 I am assuming you are talking about Cordite? That video by Waligug was a great watch haha.

[@windflier1684]

The thing to stop me from planting more crops is not money, but the watering works

[@sobblegaming350]

Yeah planting 150 blueberries was not fun

[@gsgaming6976]

Yeah I never plant more than 40 crops till I have the copper watering can now. My first time playing I way overplanted with the regular watering can and found I was using half my day just watering every day and couldn't do much of anything else.

[@sobblegaming350]

@@gsgaming6976 i rush to get quality sprinklers by the end of spring specifically for this reason, although almost 100 strawberries still have to be watered

[@sobblegaming350]

The end of spring for me is just grinding to get gold and iron ore

[@gsgaming6976]

@@sobblegaming350 Yeah. For me I spend most of the first 3/4ths of the month fishing, most of the last week mining, and I only plant around 30 strawberries because I don't want to sell most of them, just keep them for gifts and the seed maker. I generally end up making somewhere in the 80-100k margin by the end of spring doing that, as well as getting enough mats for 6-10 quality sprinklers and a steel watering can. Summer first my latest playthrough I had 60x blueberries, 50ish coffee plants, 48x corn, 30x melons, 20x mixed seeds, 10x each tomato, radish, sunflower and pepper, 2x ancient fruit and 1x starfruit planted and watered on day 1. With the steel watering can and the 7 quality sprinklers I was able to manage before the end of spring I can get it all watered by 9am with about 1/4 of my energy left.

[@kevineina6454]

so much detail, I think I need to take notes to really get benefit of all this stuff

[@bumbabees]

felt. been playing this game for a few years now and i still dont think ive completely wrapped my head around it all yet, haha. theres so much in this game it can be a bit overwhelming sometimes.

[@ab.ba.1683]

well... i needed this video there is so much info so thanks alot

[@martimzurita]

Awsome guide for begginers like myself! Thank you!

[@salmence100]

You’re very welcome, glad I could help!

[@EaterOfGeese]

If you want level 10 farming by year 2, PLANT WHEAT SEEDS! Seriously, each one is 12 gold, they take 4 days to grow, harvesting takes no time at all, and they live through 2 consecutive seasons! day one of summer, buy as many as you can. 100-200 surrounding a scarecrow is enough. They're a pain to water but I promise you will level up farming so fast and you can unlock those spicy sprinklers for the winter! just make sure you mine a lot to craft them...

[@LaCrownedGamer]

The buff I want for Honey has nothing to do with the bee houses, one another video I saw a comment that said Mead is always the same price no matter what type of honey you put into it. Played my game and can confirm as much. I want a buff for the mead!

[@miays7288]

thanks!! some of this ive already know, but your voice is so soothing i can listen you to all day!😆

[@salmence100]

That makes me so happy to hear, thank you!

[@TheDrexxus]

Parsnips are amazing cash crops. Lots of dufuses look at "gold per day" for crops, but what they don't consider is return on investment per day. Parsnip costs 20 gold and gives you 35 gold minimum 4 days later. That is 175% of what you invested in them, every 4 days. Meanwhile, potatoes cost 50 gold and return 80 gold. That is only 160% of your investment, and it takes 6 days as well. If you are a doof and just look at "gold per day" you'll be like "well taters give 5 gold per day profit and parsnips only give 3.75 gold per day profit!" but that is just PER PLANT and only matters when you reach numbers of plants you can't handle watering anymore. That 500 initial money can net you 25 parsnips which will yield 875 gold total in 4 days whereas investing in taters would only yield 800 in 6 days. You get money 64% faster with parsnips than taters. In 12 days you can get 2 tater yields and 3 parsnip yields. With that starting 500 gold, going 3 rounds of parsnips will turn that 500 gold into 2625 gold. In 12 days. Meanwhile, potatoes get you 1,280 gold in the same amount of time. Everytime I see people plant crops based on their "gold per day" value it pains my soul. Parsnips are KING. And you can easily water over 100 crops a day without even needing to eat. You can earn so much money (and farming xp) so quickly with parsnip spam, you can just buy the ores from clint to mass produce quality sprinklers to automate farming. And you can just keep on growing your fortune with quick turn arounds. They're even better than strawberries. 10 strawberries, cost 1000 gold, and will return 2400 gold over the next 2 weeks, only getting 2 harvests when you buy them at the egg festival. Meanwhile that 1000 gold invested into parsnips 1750 4 days later, 3,045 4 more days later. So in just 8 days you already get more money than those strawberries will get you for the rest of the month. They're the crop of fast, easy money and crazy farming leveling speed. And again, the quantity you have to maintain doesn't matter at all because you're making so much money so quickly, you can just BUY the mats for sprinklers en masse to do all the work for you. You only have to actually bother watering them manually a few times, and every rain day is 1/4 of the waterings needed per harvest. Parsnips are so good.

[@pelucotas]

thanks i didnt know any of these! i just began playing and spent most of my days just chopping down trees and mining only to get 2k at the end of the day

[@janusberry8814]

I've played stardew for a while and this is so nice to know

[@Vednier]

Never used training rod - fishing is fine with one you got from willy. Its little hard at start but your "green bar" growing really fast as you gain levels. And yes, fish is really good source of money in early game.

[@fahadparacha4758]

God this video already feels nostalgic. The time i spent playing stardew felt like i actually was the farmer himself doing everything. Tier 1 game forever

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

A little later, once you can afford to get the Grass Starter recipe, and once you can craft the Fiber Seeds, you can earn a lot of money from turning fiber into grass starter and selling it.

[@pumpskybp]

by my research, kale is the best crop. it makes a little less money than potatoes but it takes like 4 days less to grow.

[@foroguemon]

I never noticed your outro is the credits after you reach perfection 9:05

[@Parrotlad]

For spring what I do is save up money to get some strawberries, but not plant them till year 2, or save some for a seed maker, just how I play. And then from after i become rich i buy enough strawberries to fill my whole field for every next year.

[@mastrtonberry2]

What I started doing was saving up and buying as many strawberry seeds as I can then growing them and saving the berries until I get a seed maker. Then I seed them all and plant them Day 1 of Spring the next year

[@Parrotlad]

@@mastrtonberry2 Yeah that's what i've been doing on my newest farm. It's an investment but pays off well.

[@deliriouscheeto]

I need a remake of this video bc so much of this had been changed now 😅

[@Sabbalab92]

2:39 the 1.6 update reduced the tea saplings sell price in half to 250g. It's still a pretty good way to get money early on though (I bought my first house upgrade and coop with the money I got from it), but if you have a few preserves jars or kegs, planting a few is a pretty decent move now too. Each green tea nets 100g and each pickled tea leaf nets 150g, meaning you could get 700-1150g a month for each tea bush you have. Personally, I'd recommend holding on to at least 10% of every batch of saplings you make for planting and sell the rest. Made 20 of them? Plant 2.

[@Wendy-zhou]

The starting spring walkthrough is where i smack that sub. Beautiful

[@NeoSapphire]

I find myself spending most of spring planting parsnips so that i get the 5 quality ones for the bundle. getting greenhouse year 1 is vital!

[@Beth-zs2jr]

I'm mid game in starting to get desperate for clay in recipes and buildings... clay farming here I come!

[@luckyilyducky]

I've learned that in fall, sell yams. About 20 of them can net you a good 2000 gold.

[@antonioaquino5234]

I didnt expect this pixelated game is too complicated than PC, PS4 and PS5 games :D

[@jasonrobbins4227]

Spring quick cash plant parsnips on day 5 harvest. In-between farm grass, forgables, wood, stone all sell buy more parsnips. Rinse and repeat get your strawberries

[@FloorFourteen]

All these guides always recommend kegs and beehouses super early but never elaborate how to get that much coal early on. I grind on dust sprites once I'm there in the mines but have never been able to get to them that early.

[@melkiorwiseman5234]

If you can get enough money, you can just buy coal from the blacksmith.

[@Kallensayz]

FOUND THE MONEY GUIDE YOU ARE A SAINT

[@powerfulshammy]

do not craft spring seeds you use flowers to 2 hearts Caroline and if you want Emily also another great use. Another thing you can deforest the forest sell wood easier than you get clay. Trees grow back in forest

[@ethribin4188]

Beehuts do need a slight buff later in the game, as kegs, cheese and mayo take over. Mainly because neither the Artisan or Rancher proffession affect Beehuts. And while you could put honey into kegs, and thus have Artisan affect it, its nearly always worth more to put fruit crops into kegs. The fact honey looses its flower affected value when turned into mead makes this even worse. No big buff is needed. But I do feel that, mead's value should go up if you put higher value honey in it. Also, Fairy Mead and Jazz Mead just sounds like an awesome drink. Introduce a new/rare flower, called that dragon flower, and you can even get Dragon Mead that way! In short, Beehuts dont needa buff, no. Though having it be affected by the Rancher profession would be great. Mead though, needs buffs!

[@zykos52086]

I bought 100 strawberries seeds (I could've bought 132 seeds but I needed the money) Also bought the back pack and the fiberglass fishing rod

[@gray_exists9905]

This is the first time I've ever heard you cuss, I love it.

[@Jellybeansatdusk]

That last tip was the real lifesaver 😂❤

[@sorbbae620]

this is similar to what i do, i spend pretty much the entire 1st spring min maxing the game, my method of choice is fishing, every single day fish, fish fish, and more fishing, usually by the egg festival i can get to around fishing level 8, and get 15k gold, i spend that 15k gold on 150 strawberry seeds, plant them all, i spend the entire rest of spring watering them everyday and then going to the mines to see how far i can get and start getting tool upgrades, then the rest of my year is played normally lol

[@invenblocker]

Personally, I don't really want bee houses buffed, but I do want them reworked. Basically, my thought is less using them for direct profit, and more using them for buffing. Flowers planted within the area of the bee house will have a chance of advancing an additional growth day overnight. I imagine it'd be something like 10%, but +5% for each additional bee house beyond the first one to a maximum of +30% at 5 bee houses. When a flower finishes growing, each nearby bee house has a 25% chance of elevating the fertilizer quality (non-fertilized → fertilizer → quality fertilizer → deluxe fertilizer). Bee houses now take 7 days to produce their product, but honey now has quality, with each flower within the bee house's area having a 10% chance of giving +1 quality to the honey. Maybe also give benefits to nearby fruit trees, although that's a bit outside the realm of their current scope.

[@cooffeeduck3280]

This was posted literally when me and my friend just started a new coop playthrough on switch lol

[@emred4653]

Didnt knew about clay trick its insane

[@UsernamedYT]

I like the RuPaul ending!

[@OldBeezer]

8:57 I just spit out my drink that caught me so off guard 😂

[@Mushigrem]

He snuck that last one in there and I wasn't ready lmao real hard truths out here.

[@emirtektas9419]

not the ruapul quote at the end 😭😭😭

[@ch33tah91]

I do as much fishing as possible the first few days (when I can get fishing rod) and spend as much of the days before spring festival fishing either in the mountain or the village is its raining. I can usually get about 20k by the 13th and the its all STRAWBERRIIIEEEESS and then I work on getting sprinklers for blueberries in the summer

[@Marialla.]

The 300 wood it takes to fix the beach bridge is okay, but I wouldn't say it's the first thing you should do with that resource. You might want to invest it into building a coop instead, which is much more profitable and helps raise your farming skill very quickly.

[@daultonsimpson2641]

Was that a RuPaul’s Drag Race Reference at the end? Lol 💜🥺

[@fuzyfuzfuz2]

❤ that's what I thought!!!

[@ghostsuru8429]

3:54 I feel he went a little off script here. lmfao

[@STARSFORISABEL]

Thank you for the tips💕

[@chaze0064]

Info: Clay Farming will work with 1.6 Update only if you change it in the options! They have left it inside the game for speedrunners.

[@TheOakwoodGrove]

BHAAHAHHAHAAH i’m watching this as if i didn’t spend my first four days trying to meet all the people 😭

[@rubensanchezramirez7028]

How about having extra crops for quests or gift giving? I think focusing your first year in making money is a mistake. I prefer to build an inventory so I have a little bit of everything. That way I always have things for fetch quests (which allows me to make money), completing the community center and giving gifts.

[@ruby9846]

Not the drag race quote at the end 💀

[@bripeanut806]

I am on year nine and I just set up my tree farm QvQ My farmer has all the regrets because he was my first save

[@LexiLex421]

Easy, try to get as much strawberry seeds in the start, plant them, and BAM! You get about double your money.

[@cheezycrossman34]

okay quoting Mrs. Paul.

[@GustavoFernandesKing]

YAS MAMA BOOTS THE HOUSE DOWN FOR YA NERVES WERK *tongue pop*

[@earthenvessel7]

@@GustavoFernandesKing oKURRRRRRRRRRRR

[@AleksandarIvanov69]

5:03 - that is crazy 😄😄

[@IceBloo]

First you say spend all on parsnips then you say get speed gro to plant the strawberries to get another harvest. You can’t do that unless you don’t only buy parsnips on day 1.

[@salmence100]

It's just two different methods, you could also just make some extra money on day 1 to also afford the bundle crops

[@superp2222]

By the time I found this video I was already way past early game as I was a bundle away from completing the community center. However, I then suddenly found myself being invited into my friends’ Stardew server in the middle of Year 1 Winter with 500 gold, 15 useless parsnips, and basic tools that prevented me from efficiently mining. That’s when I realized how busted the contents of this video was

[@voidheart8047]

I didn't know this thank you!!!! liked and subbed! 👍

[@Emily-qu3ty]

Thanks for the guide!

[@Veronicz]

I normally keep forageables as gifts early game. Should I be selling them instead. And if so, what should I be gifting instead?

[@tahaismailkilic7368]

If you are a good fighter, caves are the best way to get sone money i think

[@vax.8491]

does clay farming still work or was it patched?

[@yoelmark3535]

Salmence is the best man in so glad he leaves it in when he says the wrong name with so much confidence

[@cho2969]

I'm very new to the game, but have been watching a let's play series. They recommend upgrading the watering can in the final days of spring; and it does seem very beneficial. Would you agree?

[@Pirokh]

If you do plan on upgrading your watering can you should do it on a day that has rain the following day so your crops are watered. Or near the end of the season where you won't be getting new crops / watering old crops that aren't producing before the end of the season anyway.

[@gsgaming6976]

My watering can is the first thing I upgrade tbh (well, besides the backpack). I always get it the day before the first rainy day I can afford it (usually day 8-10ish) so I can water more crops faster with less energy and have more time to do everything else. A lot of people say to upgrade the pickaxe and axe first. But most of the rocks below floor 40 in the mines take only 1 hit with a normal pickaxe, so upgrading the pickaxe isn't going to help you too much there. And I honestly don't see the rush on the axe when I can still get it upgraded before day 14 if I really need to (I like to chop a lot of trees down days 10-14 to get foraging to lvl 4 for double salmonberries. Salmonberries are liked gifts for 5-6 villagers, and also if you hunt everywhere for salmonberries you can easily get over 200 in the four days they spawn, which will give you a ton of energy for later. You can also restart the day each day during the salmonberry season to get more bushes to have berries on them [its a glitch], which can net you over 400-500 berries just for saving and exiting once each day during the salmonberry season) I like to have a steel watering can before summer, as when fully charged it lets you water 5 tiles at once. If you stand in the middle of 2 crop fields (you have to be watering from the top/bottom, not left to right) you can water 6x 1x5 lines while standing still in one spot. This has allowed me to maintain 60x blueberries, 50ish coffee plants, 30x melons, 20x mixed seeds, 10x each sunflower/tomato/radish/pepper, as well as 2 ancient fruit and 1 starfruit from day 1 of summer. I'm literally done watering all that around 9 am, with over half my energy left, and I still have around 160ish salmonberries left over so being at half energy isn't really a problem. I also managed to plant 48x corn and 8x hops, but those are on quality sprinklers I got through a combination of gold ore in fishing chests and iron from recycling trash/the mines. Got most of my money in spring from fishing. The ocean gave me a pretty consistent 4-5k gold a day (more if I sold gems from treasure chests sometimes), and fishing in the river just south of Leah's cottage on rainy days one time netted me almost 8k in a single day because I was able to catch around 16 catfish (I already had level 10 fishing and the iridium rod) Plus when fishing you have a small chance to find a pretty good sword and dagger early on for the mines. The sword in particular will outclass just about anything you can find in the mines below floor 80ish. If you struggle with the fishing mini game try using the 'c' key when on PC (use tool button). You mostly wanna tap it, not hold it down. You'll get used to the rhythm. If you tap it fast you'll slowly raise the bar, tap it slow to slowly lower it, and tap at a steady rhythm to keep the bar in place. And with some fish remember they respond to you. Like, if you're lowering the bar they'll go up. So you tap rapidly and a lot of times it can "fool" them into not darting around as much, or into going the direction you want them to instead of bouncing all over the bar.

[@kyi7109]

Sure using mixed seeds can gain profit early game too, but what about saving them for ginger island or even fiber seeds?

[@salmence100]

Generally I'd only plant them in the first month or two anyway, after that yeah it'd be worth saving them for other uses!

[@kyi7109]

that is true, totally slipped my mind. thanks!

[@cobratran]

By the time you unlock ginger island, you'd usually have enough money to buy & plant whatever crop you want. The amount of money you'd make from them relative to your whole farm's value would be minimal compared to what you would get from the early game. 1k early on is much more useful than 10k in year 2

[@emeraldflask8865]

Looks at this on my last day of spring.

[@iamnotmoonlight]

Extra tip: After getting the mine unlocked you can get minerals and other artifacts which you should donate to the museum to get 9 cauliflower seeds for FREE! I forgot how many artifacts are needed though, but you do get rewards from donating (such as seeds!) so don’t hoard everything :)