How To Have The PERFECT First Week In Stardew Valley

[@MelonLord_2]

Please! Make a guide just like this for the entire first spring, heck, maybe even for every season! I absolutely love this.

[@apia46]

thing is, the further you go the less theres a definitive guide and it more depends on what you plan on doing: community center vs joja, perfection or not, whether you just want a billion dollars, whether you just want a pretty farm, etc

[@spam-el3ee]

Same! You're not wrong though, beeka

[@ninteney9777]

You can just google a minmax guide, it is basically the same as this video

[@bossd1410]

@@apia46 do you know any guides for a full year that goes around the community center while making money?

[@apia46]

no i do not

[@jessicacrenshaw7078]

As a console player I really appreciate the guide not using glitches and mods. Great video and would love more like this!

[@donnikubbitz2146]

But somehow getting WAY more done in the same amount of time......how? He also filled back in some of his farm area he cleared.

[@bethanyfern6869]

I would love to see more videos like this. It was really easy to follow and I'm excited to try out this plan

[@Leapalot]

Hope the route treats you well!

[@GongaDuck]

Great tip on the villager pathing for day 1. I've got a different pathing, but this one seems easier with more redundancies built in to it, you know, just in case you get distracted or something. Thanks!

[@Leapalot]

Distractions are inevitable. 😔

[@drWoods-xq6sd]

you can meet all villagers at egg festival

[@peterknutsen3070]

0:46 The reward is only 100 coins, and in terms of fallback, you can find a lot of NPCs in the Stardrop Inn Friday evening, Evelyn and more importantly George in their home, and Robin, Demetrius, Maru, Sebastian and Linus up at the Mountain Lake. After that you go hunt the strays.

[@Karthos1000]

Tip: Get Strawberries for the current AND next season at the Spring Festival. Before you go, till and water 20 spaces for Strawberries. Get 20 Strawberries for planting that day. (The rest for next Spring.) You get home from the festival at 10 PM. You should be able to go out and complete the Spring Crops Bundle (if you planted cauliflower on day 1) for which your reward is 20 speed gro. Use the 20 Speed Gro and strawberry seeds, in the already tilled and watered soil before you go to bed, and you'll get three harvests instead of just 2 for Spring of Year 1. Significant extra profit.

[@ZaItan1]

Thanks! Speed gro from spring crops bundle is a great tip. I always planted 10 potatoes after the 15 parsnip day 1. But you're right buying 1 cauliflower and 1 green bean would allow this strategy. If you get lucky, some mixed seeds might be caulis (two dots in the ground), then you don't have to buy cauli! Another thing I used to forget: last day to plant potatoes prior to Egg Festival is day 6, year 1. That way you harvest them day 12 and can sell. That results in more cash for buying strawberries. Any additional seed purchases past day 6 would mean less money for strawberries and more energy wasted watering them that could've been spent fishing.

[@DanksterPaws]

I never buy strawberries for next season, I just save 1 seed then plant them in the greenhouse when i unlock it early fall.

[@dewberrystar]

I've been using this method for years and years and I'm always surprised that not more people know about it 😄

[@sneezyfido]

20! I aim for 128. That's enough to fish or mine until the festival, and still learn quality sprinklers after the first harvest. It feels odd, but it's a nice kickstart.

[@emmataylor2748]

No need to buy strawberries for year 2. Keep a few you harvest and use the seed maker, pop them in the greenhouse in fall then you will have plenty of strawbs to turn into seeds for spring year 2.

[@sockmonkey1994]

I would definitely watch a whole series of week by week

[@internalfugue16]

love the focus on vanilla play style strategy (with notes for vanilla+ things like chair hopping)!

[@Serena_Lunar]

Bit of an improvement: don't go up to the Lake on Day 2, just stay down at the Ocean until you pass out. The extra money you get from Lake fish is negated by the time lost running up there, and the amount of XP averages out pretty similarly in both locations. Doing this, I was able to hit Level 3 on Day 2, which gives us more headroom for hitting Level 5 the next day.

[@Serena_Lunar]

Also, only eat Iridium Chub. Once you have the L5 perk, its better to sell Gold Chub and buy Salads instead if you need extra energy after your Iridiums. And eat every Green Algae/Seaweed you see, they're exceptional energy/gold on par with basic Dandelions and Leeks (though quality ones are the best food of all at the start)

[@peterknutsen3070]

Yeah, it’s a mistake to only think in terms of Energy. Time is a factor too, and travelling large distances is slow. Experienced players might think in terms of mounted travel with constant Espresso buff, but that’s very different from Spring year 1.

[@davidhatch7603]

The problem with this is your chest is still at the ocean. Not enough inventory to bring it all back.

[@okyxoo3914]

​@@Serena_Lunar Where do i buy salads?

[@flamestar0727]

I always have trouble deciding what to do in the first week so this is really nice. Great video as always!

[@elliamorse1442]

Notes from this video! Not a definitive guide, just suggestions! DAY 1 0:34 Plant parsnips, clear north and south exits (could wait on planting crops until we meet everyone (except Willy) to forage Cindersnap before Jas) 11:20am Jas, 11:40am Hailey in Forest 11:50am Penny grass 12:00pm Leah heading to Pierre 12:10pm Harvey heading outside, Marnie walking home Head down to the beach, find an artifact, and Elliot (Drop off the artifact if you find it) 1:30pm Clint 1:50pm Sam Pam and Shane at JoJa mart 12:10pm Abigail Bridge 12:30pm Caroline (gift daffodil) Jodie, and Evelyn watering plants, Vincent is in the yard 12:50pm Pierre, buy Cauliflower and green bean 3:00pm Maru walks to the bench 3:10pm Gus at Saloon 3:40pm Emily at home 4:00pm George and Alex 5:10pm plant crops 6:00pm Demetrius outside, Linus 6:50pm Sebastian outside (Sell forage in the shipping bin on the way back) 8:30pm Cindersnap forage, craft another chest DAY 2 3:28 Check mail, water crops Empty inventory other than hoe, chest, one fiber, and maybe food 7:20am Willy at the dock, gift fiber 9:00am get training rod, fish, get enough gold for fiberglass rod by 5? 5pm Pick up chest 5:40pm Drop off sardine at home Fish until pass out possibly? Get to fishing 2 by EOD DAY 3 4:43 If you find an artifact, fish by the museum 9:00am donate artifact Head to the beach, and sell everything you can to get fiberglass rod Spend all gold on bait (except 75 if you need to buy copper from Clint still) Head to the mountains to fish Level 5 fishing by EOD Bring items home if you hit 5 before the end Possibly save fish for bundles: carp, bullhead, chub, bass Could save forage for tea sapling strats 
DAY 4: 6:50 Check weather Sell fish in the shipping bin since you are at fishing 5! Maybe keep the community center fish Save chub of gold or higher value for energy 11:00am Fish at the mountains 7:00pm Drop off fishing at home Enough wood for two, ideally 3 chests, start resin farm Back up to the mountains until 12 or 12:20am If it is not raining, leave the rod in your chest at the mountains NEED 2k gold by EOD, should have more like 7k DAY 5: 8:45 Harvest parsnips, keep all except 1 gold for Lewis' birthday, and bring the rest for food to mines Pick up copper, iron, coal, chest, and pickaxe to head to mine Mine 25 copper for furnace, set up the furnace with one bar Farm floor 11 until we get 20 more copper, leave at 3 at the latest Head to Clint’s with bars and copper and furnace Buy as much iron as possible to leave you at 3100 gold, upgrade pickaxe Pierre’s by 5 to get 1 potato, 14 kale Start smelting iron and fish at the mountain, leave by 12:00am (11 if we have seeds to still plant) with iron and at least 1 coal. If rainy grab the furnace Sell fish, check the weather, plant seeds DAY 6: 11:16 Plant seeds if you have not already Craft scarecrow and bide time until 7:30am Enter town by 8 for the community center cutscene Check Junimo writing Continue to smelt and fish 7:00pm Take a trip home 12:00am head home, Have at least 5k by EOD, really need 7k DAY 7 12:25 8:00am Meet the wizard Turn in pickaxe for iron 9:30am (5k gold) 11:50am Buy backpack upgrade (2k gold) Load up on bait with remaining gold, fish Eel if rainy until EOD Bonus 9th Iron pickaxe ready, zoom through mine using chubs for food Make sprinklers

[@audreyl606]

i loved this! i would have loved for you to do one more week of this. it was very engaging and easy to follow, and it was interesting even for a seasoned player like myself

[@Rikrobat]

Your pathing for catching all villagers on Day 1 (except Willy because locked) is awesome! I will definitely be following that in future playthroughs. ❤

[@slwrabbits]

I always forget that Joja exists, so I regularly miss Pam and Sam. Gotta keep it in mind for next game!

[@leahbee0311]

I am an expert, I think, at this game with over 2k hours in it, but I still learned a lot from this video and would appreciate a full spring guide as well. The only time I ever got a perfect game was in a multiplayer save, and I have been trying to get it in a solo playthrough. With 1.6 out now, I think it would be a perfect time for you to update this video, taking into account the 3 different jellies you can get from all the fishing. I really enjoyed the video. Thank you for your hard work!

[@Leapalot]

The foundation is still good but I agree that it needs updating. 🤔 Thank you!

[@Vinoalviano-cm1zp]

Wdym 3 different jelly ?

[@slwrabbits]

I feel like this is way too stressful for me to attempt, but definitely still learned some interesting tips!

[@peterknutsen3070]

Yes, you have to find whatever balance between efficiency and stress that suits you. SDV is a game. It’s supposed to be fun. I will say, though, that after starting over many times, I’ve found that if you play more hardcore and tightly in Spring year 1, you’ll become quite wealthy and so be able to have a somewhat leisurely yet very profitable Summer, and even more so for Fall: Lots of income, yet needing to do very little labour. It’s all about being able to buy enough Iron Ore for 12 or even 16 tier-1 Sprinklers no later than the first day of Summer, as well as enough Copper (including 5 for the Watering Can) if you haven’t found enough in the Mines.

[@johnmole17]

definitely have to do a week by week series, at least if you did i’d very much appreciate it, i’ve watched your 200 perfect days video every night while sleeping because its always calming to hear you and also i always take away something new. favorite youtuber by far and can’t wait for the next video. as ringo would say “peace and love” 🖤

[@dantemanalo3476]

I really appreciate you making content that doesn't include exploits or action canceling ❤

[@peterknutsen3070]

Especially since the content is them also relevant for console and iOS players.

[@victoriahewitt9938]

That was really helpful! I never thought of laying out the sprinkler pattern right from the start, which always meant watering by hand until summer. I also didn't realize chubs were such great energy, or that it was that easy to make that much money early on. I feel like I'm always too busy to seriously hit the mines early on so it was nice to see it fit smoothly in. This made the first week feel so much more relaxed! I do usually wait until the egg festival to meet everyone but I might try this. Also helpful to note is that this is for the standard CC. Remixed bundles might require you to save different things.

[@slwrabbits]

I've started laying out crops for quality sprinklers from the start. Can't be persuaded to use the basic sprinkler for anything but slime hutches and honey flowers.

[@myntstrawberry]

i’m sososo happy you included the tip to buy cauliflower and a green bean seed on day 1, the speed grow strawberries are amazing

[@milkmilkmilkmilkmilkmilkmilk]

this satisfies my minmaxer brain to an indescribable degree. please make more videos like this!! really wonderful content and this got me to make a new stardew save to try it out

[@kb27787]

With the early fishing money, what I do is buy 425 parsnips seeds from Pierre and plant them in before the next rain day comes (day 3 is probably too early but the catfish money from day 3 will be enough... and day 3 is likely where you will hit fishing 5). Then just leave them there--no need to water. If you get 4 rain days total in the season (more likely than not), you can harvest them all and hit farming 6, completely bypassing basic sprinklers. Otherwise I find that watering 400+ crops makes a fine way to spend terrible luck days without wasting them. More ambitiously, you can aim to get level 6 before Spring 16th, which is when the strawberries need to be planted so that you have quality sprinklers for strawberries--AND a lot of the ground is still tilled so you can just plant the strawberries on top of the harvested parsnips.

[@mia_met7346]

I once got one rainy day on spring year one. Which is 3rd 🥲

[@tragics99]

your guides for playing the game are so satisfying. the efficiency and forethought you put into everything REALLY help out. also love that you don’t do the (subjectively) game ruining chair hopping/animation cancelling strategies

[@eledeog]

Thank you for these tips! ❤

[@Leapalot]

Thanks so much! 😱

[@paradoxmint]

Despite this being a year old I still love this guide, naturally I tweak a few things, but the first week is really make or break for me and Im so good at starting farms and then restarting more or less by year 2 or 3 lol so I go crazy trying to do it all in the early game. Wanted to say tho that Im fishing on day 2 up at the lake on a high luck day and got some ore and bait like normal until i reel in a carp with a chest and now I got a dino egg. This is the run ever.

[@hollyandivy4]

PLEEEAAAASE more of this! i'm scared to go into the second week after completing the first with this run 😬

[@peterknutsen3070]

Don’t be scared. If you have a good first season, or a really good first week, then you’ve set yourself up, making the rest of the game much easier.

[@kennalikespizza4515]

This is great for a second+ playthrough! 🤓 I'm such a baby and won't go past day 3 unless I catch the catfish because I like to try and zoom through CC

[@Leapalot]

You'd still need the tiger trout from fall though right? Even if you get an early catfish? But catfishing on day 4 can be incredible for money! If you can catch them.. 😬

[@kennalikespizza4515]

@@Leapalot You would still need the tiger trout, BUT if you catch it on day 3 it'll almost definitely be a normal quality, and then you don't have to donate a silver/gold/iridium catfish in the fall instead of selling it. Plus I'm just an early achiever LOL

[@Vianarts.]

I usually do go for the Catfish as soon as possible, since i like to have the Community center finished as quickly as possible- even though you can catch the fish in a different season- I also try to save up as much money as i can for strawberry seeds!

[@boi8396]

Watching this video, as a Minmaxer, is heaven trying to slip in as much stuff as I can into these seven days. My current plan in theory gets SO MUCH KALE for Farming XP that my brain explodes, or I become one with the Kale obsessed mothers I have nearly had a panic attack at how much Kale I am going to farm, it is that stupid! Amazing Video, I love it to bits and will be rewatching it for ages to come

[@somebodysomewhere8217]

Very very nice, exactly what I like to do (minmax the start of the game and then give up lol). Would love some more!

[@luigimonroe2364]

I am very interested in more! Could do a clean perfect no mistake one and a oh no I fucked up for each early day one.

[@Leapalot]

That would be kind of cool!

[@pokadotplot]

This was super cool to see what I've been missing. Smelting at Clint's is an amazing idea.

[@Leapalot]

It's better to smelt in the mines so pyu can continue gathering resources, but if you're worried about time or distractions it can be a good choice!

[@BaconWraped]

Love the format of this vid, hoping to see more in the future!

[@itsyll]

This a great guide, and there's a huge gap right now in week one walkthroughs for meadowlands farms, and that's what everyone's doing because it's new! Every guide assumes you're starting off with 15 parsnip seeds but all the people who are jumping back into the game after a long time off and trying to remember how to Stardew with a brand new farm are starting with 15 hay instead. You'd kill it with a Meadowlands first week guide!

[@TocsTheWanderer]

10:27 This is no longer an issue. 1.6 changed it so you can now buy from Clint and have him break open geodes while he's working on upgrading a tool.

[@owenrice1756]

Hey Leapalot! Don't comment often but you are the stardew youtuber who plays most similarly to my style - make the most of each stardew day! I've started messing around with less meta early game strategies like "Most preserve jars Spring 1" "and "Most buildings and building upgrades by Spring 1". Honestly came about from playing with my girlfriend who is focused on an aesthetic or vibe like being a florist and I try to find ways to help us arrive at that vision quickly. So yes, she is the artist and I am the work horse and grinder lol. It's fun to think about other ways to play the game that change up what your best first month looks like for that goal. For example, in preserve jars run I prioritized coal farming, spending all extra money on coal, and getting the best items for preserve jar products rather than getting far in the mines and the usual keg preparations. What is kinda convenient is I think the first week looks about the same for all runs with tweaks, so this video could be the core to trying different strategies the other three weeks. One thing I'd love to see you tackle in this style - I'm really curious if it would be possible to get to the desert in time to buy, plant and harvest rhubarb first spring, so by the 14th I believe. So you're probably replacing strawberries completely with rhubarbs. You need the 42.5k for bus and more money to buy seeds of course, and enough community center progression to have the vault. Or maybe you'd have to go joja route. I think the only way to get that kind of early money would be the push for tea saplings early on top of early fishing. I've done 20k in saplings by day 16 pretty casually before so I am thinking if you tried to min max your materials and getting the recipe early maybe its possible? Imo trying to min max tea saplings early is a fun challenge on its own. Probably no real gain in doing all that for rhubarbs haha but its fun to break up the typical fishing > mines > strawberries > skull caverns > kegs formula. To throw out some other ideas - Joja spring vs community center spring (can you get spring ginger island going joja route?), early spring coffee farm (w kegs?), best spring fish farm, cheese empire, slime egg value in skull caverns. I think it would be fun to see these ideas first year but seeing how far you can get them Spring 1 is also fun to see the concept and is much less time consuming. Love the video!

[@Leapalot]

Those are all great ideas! Things that are at the very edge of being possible! 🤔

[@ftwilwin]

Awesome video as always!

[@_glint]

your name is extremely familiar to me but i can't place it ..

[@vickisnemeth7474]

Thank you for the Introductions pathing! Also, I never thought of giving Willy a cheap gift (even one he doesn't like) just to get the Journal money. I have a different way of following the game's narrative (which may even be sub-optimal) and I also use minor exploits, but this is giving me good ideas.

[@aron1889]

Wow I just started playing and I knew fishing was really useful but this perspective changes everything!

[@KellyS_77]

I watched a lot of the live streams where you were testing these strategies. After watching this video, I gave it a try, but lately I’m kind of out of luck when I think. I kept forgetting my copper bars. So I found myself at the end of Day 7 with fishing 5, farming 1, zero iron, and a big pile of copper bars. I should watch this video again and take notes lol. Maybe I can do better. It’s kind of fun following a formula, like testing a scientific finding.

[@Leapalot]

Sounds like the foundations are good though!!

[@KellyS_77]

@@Leapalot I took notes on this video (yes I'm that kind of geek lol). Then tried again. At the end of the first week, I was up to level 7 fishing and level 1 for Farming, Mining, and foraging. I also had my pickax in for upgrade to iron. I played a couple more days before stopping for the evening, and was able to absolutely tear through the mines. I think your method/plan works :D. Neat!!

[@TTh42bYA]

this is so helpful I'd love to see more guides like this!

[@poldesux]

really helps a lot... this is my first time playing this beautiful cozu game im your new subscriber !

[@Leapalot]

Have so much fun! This is from 1.5 so I'll need to do a new one for 1.6!

[@SlyPearTree]

This was a great video, it will definitely influence my next new game.

[@cymonmonica8634]

I need the continuation on this 😂 im learning alot even 400+ clocked in

[@msoldini]

This is awesome! I'd love one of this with specifics for multiplayer with shared money

[@Leapalot]

Thanks! I find multiplayer harder to route mostly because time never stops. But it would be worth looking into! 🤔

[@irishviking514]

Great video! I think this is a very good way to start your first week off right

[@Jeromy1986]

I'm proud that someone is willing to play like a normal person with no mods or cheats

[@Acarpenter08]

Have been following this. Appreciate it can be useful for those on consoles who can’t do some of the other min-max stuff. Seems like with animation canceling you can get like twice as much done in a day! One issue I’m having though is the Introductions quest doesn’t complete after meeting Willy. I think it wants the wizard too. Is this a platform difference? Curious to know if others are seeing that too. I hope you do more!

[@Leapalot]

That's interesting! I haven't done a min max type run on console in a while so I haven't run into the introductions quest being an issue. If that's the case, I would spend the first day gathering wood on the farm to hit level 1 foraging before going to look for any actual forage. That gives a chance at higher quality finds right out of the gate. Then just meet everyone at the egg festival. 🤔 And yes! With animation canceling your new bottleneck is energy instead of time. 😅

[@brreakfastYT]

Hmmm... I'll try to do roughly follow this, buuuut if I'm too slow and miss something I'm not gonna be too hung up on it! Thanks for the guidelines though! 😅

[@Pullout21]

the first week is the hardest part of Stardew Valley

[@Leapalot]

Having no energy, and no way to restore, plus not method to increase your speed.... It's just hard to get much done sometimes!

[@pianoman7753]

​@@Leapalotplus, im worried about missables even though theyre just heart cutscenes!!! If itll be an unmarked mark, i gotta get it done. So im worried about making friends while managing my first few days..

[@peejthepk]

Great video, deff made faster work than my first week on the farm haha

[@The73MPL4R]

And then there's me just running around in the mines desperately trying to get amethyst to get Abigail to 4 hearts before the Flower Dance

[@isidroduarte8942]

I can do almost all but the sprinklers. I like the social aspect of Stardew a bit too much to neglect it lol. Also I usually buy lots of things from the traveling cart for the CC or gifts.

[@Leapalot]

They just take practice! And a cheat sheet lol

[@isidroduarte8942]

@@Leapalot yeah I’ll have to map out the villagers schedule for maximum efficiency to cut some time off for more fishing or mining. Thanks for the insight!

[@DynastyOSX]

Please make more guides like this, maybe for Week 2 or even Spring or the entirety of Year 1

[@MrGizzyborn]

Willy didnt like my gift

[@bqminh1806]

6:21 I don't think you need to start over if you didn't hit Fishing 5. Just sell $2000 worth of fish and keep the rest for after you get the profession.

[@JohnTibbitt]

I know it was suggested but how about a part 2 video? How to efficiently mine, allocate time etc. This is amazing

[@theprinceofawesomeness]

This is really intrasting, i bought Stardew around a week ago and i'm now trying to "MinMax" Spring 1. What i mean by this is to hit every birthday, get a partner for Flower dance (i prefer Haley over Shane), year 1 Community Center, and most important get as much money for Strawberrys as Posible since those are worth a lot of money (highest amount of Strawberry seeds i got was 115). I am quite possitive i overplanted both all Strawberries, Parsnips, Colliflowers, and one green bean and are overwhelmed, but so far i can't do better and i did a few mistakes

[@francswike192]

On day one, once I have foraging level one, I only hit the trees 9 times. Takes 10 to knock it over, but you don't get seeds. That way on day 2 I hit them once and hopefully get seeds. Now make energy bars, a chest & go fishing, without using too much energy

[@spam-el3ee]

I wish I had been able to see this video on the first week of my first world, I was so lost

[@TheVerity77]

This has been my strategy for playing on switch as you can't farm clay. By Autumn I'm starting my ginger island run for walnuts and basically have nearly all the CC done.

[@flamarianchief164]

1. fish at the mountain Unless you really want to start community center bits or sell, 2. Kale and hops are excellent XP wise 3. For CC, Potato and cauliflower are mixed seeds. 3, and most important: Level ups restore your energy the next morning. your only punishments for passing out (at 2AM) are gold and energy. So, consider if you want to keep fishing instead of selling everything in the evening.

[@BiggestSanemi_Simp]

I love the beach farm it’s so pretty

[@jaimeirigoyenlopez5884]

You should do this with the new 1.6 stuff included, maybe some things change given the fish smoker & other new content

[@locustsun]

3:07 Careful here… ONLY if you leveled up should you dip into the negative. Otherwise, you’ll wake up with 50% energy for the next day. You generally will have leveled up if you’re trying here, but it’s not a guarantee.

[@gferrol118]

"Collect our free parsnips" *Confused meadowlands noises*

[@Leapalot]

Might need a bit of an update. 🤔

[@evankimori]

Aw I was hoping for more of these. :(

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only chump who can't manage to catch catfish on day 3 of a new save lol Cool video, I definitely won't follow it like this because just listening to it is kinda stressing me out. Usually I'm more of a minmax person than most other people I know IRL who play it, but I guess that's my limit. I find myself thinking stuff like "hey, I just wanna have fun and sometimes make suboptimal choices just because I want to". Giving a bad gift to Willy just to get the quest reward a bit faster? Never! Also yeah, the tea sapling strategy is so overpowered it's bordering on a mistake, it's crazy how much I'm raking in the money immediately after receiving Caroline's letter with the receipe. Feels very satisfying though!

[@Leapalot]

This is by no means the end-all be-all guide! If it doesn't work for your playstyle, then that's fine too! But I will absolutely abuse Willy and every other villager in town for an extra nickle! 😅

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

@@Leapalot oh yes, sorry, I know you aren't saying people can't play however they like! I watched the video in case there are any tips I want to borrow, and there are a few tidbits in there that I might try out. Like being more liberal about buying ore for early upgrades instead of grinding the mines.

[@slwrabbits]

If it makes you feel better, it took me until year three to catch my first catfish. The last item I donated to the community center was an eel - because I couldn't catch one for months.

[@Drie_Kleuren]

I am new, I have not really started a whole lot of new farms. What I do is spawn in, plant my parsnips, do whatever and meet villagers and I spend all my 500 starting gold on pasnips. I do this untill the parsnips are ready. I also fish in here and there. once my parsnips are done I just sell EVERY parsnip to pierre and buy potatoes using all my money. Then continue fishing and meeting villagers and doing some quests, like the cc unlock, the mines and the wizard cutscene. once my potatoes are done I sell them all and dont farm something new. I do the mines a few days. I try to save up as much money as possible without spending a lot. At the 13th is the egg festival. I spend all my money on strawberry seeds and I plant those. then I just continue playing and trying to save up money for tools, backpack and stuff like that and I just play and do whatever I want. after this point I dont really try to min-max or have a scedule or plan. So its just comes down to saving as much money as possible to buy as many strawberries at the 13th

[@cozy.color.palette]

I love this game but I am OVERWHELMED. I think I might have to start over lol

[@Leapalot]

This is kind of a try hard version of the first week. If you're just getting started I'd recommend just taking your time and letting the game play out and introduce new concepts to you. 😊

[@cozy.color.palette]

@@Leapalotthank you so much! 😊

[@savannahsammons8126]

I always play it in basically 3 day stretches day one mining to get further and further in the mine because I’m bad at combat and it takes me a bit longer so I dedicate the day to it day 2 is fishing I spend the whole day fishing to try and level up and get money day 3 is set aside for working on the farm like gathering wood and stone or doing basically whatever I want this allows me to get a good bit of money and level up everything quickly

[@kule48]

Fishing 5 by end of day 3 seems impossible on my 5th attempt at this point. Have tried using fishing spots have tried standing in place have tried mixing it up. Whats ur secret? Also some good ways how to freestyle it without fishing 5 could be a good follow up video.

[@Leapalot]

Hi there! I did testing for this run during live streams and consistently hit 5 by the end of day 3. The best advice I can give is to use the training rod to get to 2 as quickly as possible. The training rod essentially sets your fishing level to 5 for the purposes of your fishing bar's size. This makes perfect catches much easier. After hitting 2, it's more important to use the fiberglass rod with bait for the decreased bite time. Perfect catches add a 2.4x multiplier to the experience gained, which makes a perfectly caught fish "easier" worth more experience than more valuable fish. If you're not getting perfect catches you'll struggle to hit 5 by day 3. This is mostly just practice! A big part is also using every hour of the day and limiting travel time. It's better to pass out early when you have no money to lose and you're leveling up skills every day since that resets your stamina to max even if you fall asleep in the mud. I think that mostly covers things. 🤔

[@SarahK86]

Very informative.

[@TheVerity77]

It's such a good idea not planting mixed seeds until scarecrow as I lost my green bean to crows.

[@mewsli]

Oh wow ❤ thankyou Leap.

[@riklaunim]

The shop now should work while a tool is upgrading. Also with fishing and like forest farm the farm fishing spot has ~40% for trash which could be recycled into quartz bars, iron/coal ore etc.

[@agaba5500]

i also used the training rod to start

[@ninjaspeed7581]

here is something you can add to the first week without issue you can add building a silo if you have the extra gold to burn to get the copper now clay might be the hard part but it can be an extra if you want a silo early

[@Leapalot]

I usually don't build a silo very early actually! It's just never really at the top of my list. 🤷

[@ninjaspeed7581]

@@Leapalot it’s more like an extra if someone wants than anything

[@slwrabbits]

I can usually build a silo within the first week and a half! Then I start cutting grass for hay.

[@xxsniperkittykatxx]

Love this guide. Question. I see a lot of Stardew players prioritize fishing early. I get it the first 5 days where there's only fishing and foraging. Is it also better money than mining?

[@Leapalot]

It is to start! But I don't spend a lot of time fishing after the first couple weeks. Mining for resources and smelting bars becomes better day to day cash, and artisan goods are your best multi day goods.

[@ebetg4191]

loved this!!

[@bonkersbusy]

I'm saving this!❤

[@cosarara1312]

i tried doing all that and i haven't even gone through half of it and its already like 10pm HOW

[@XariusClemont]

Please make the full spring guide

[@kannakamui8608]

what a lovely video tysm~

[@sunnybloom7272]

This has been really helpful as a baby SV player who gets overwhelmed by infinite options. But question how on earth do you get to level 10 mines on day 5 in such a short amount of time or at the very least how on earth can you get 45 copper ores by 3 pm with just starting equipment, it boggles the mind and makes everything else much harder

[@Leapalot]

Seeing this late, sorry! To move through the mines quickly I zoom out as far as I can to see potential free stairs. Other than that it's just moving through groups of rocks as fast as I can. Also, floors with no enemies generate stairs in more locations. If there's only like 1 thing to kill it can often be worth it to do so. I also kill the bugs with 1 hp because they can stop some stairs with almost zero time investment!

[@LukasJampen]

I have trouble getting enough copper on day 5. Ibarely get enough copper and am to late or I make it on time and have way to little.

[@Leapalot]

If I have no time but enough money, I'll buy copper ore from Clint and smelt it in his shop! He doesn't kick you out even after he closes, and you can still process the upgrade even when he's working away from the counter.

[@aquagirl555]

I end up just skipping basic sprinklers, because i end up at bottom of mine by the end of salmon berry season, and save bars for quality sprinklers, tend to have all my sprinklers b4 summer

[@МаксимАндреев-щ7б]

In 1.6 you probably should choose the riverland farm because there is a fish smoker there

[@Leapalot]

The Fish Smoker is amazing and I played my newest farm on the Riverland farm! I'd rather leave that choice for the individual though I think. 🤔 I need to do a new video for 1.6 probably.

[@pythe1313]

How do you find ores/ladders so fast? I got an above average luck fortune on day 5 and I still consume time going down the mines and finding ores. I end up resetting the day but to no avail.

[@Leapalot]

Ladders are more common after all enemies are dead. That can be helpful! Ore is just the luck of the draw. I sometimes have to buy copper ore to reach my goal.

[@EmariePeach]

Very informative video! I am curious about a few things, though. Why do you give Willy fiber specifically? Is it just because it's a common item you'll most likely have in the beginning? Why buy the training rod when it only lets you get basic quality fish and not use the bamboo one until you can buy the fiberglass rod? Thank you!

[@Leapalot]

I use fiber because it's cheap and easy to find. That's all. Wood and stone are more valuable to me at the beginning. Sap would be fine too! I use the training rod because it costs 25 gold which is basically nothing and sets your fishing bar to the same size as if you were level five. This makes catching perfect fish much easier which helps me level up much faster!

[@OnlineObsessionista]

This is the 4th time I'm trying to get in town in time and I can't, I'm too late everywhere

[@quicksilver2923]

I love metagaming the first spring in stardew. the early game is terribly slow and samey for me so I like to burn through it as fast as possible. fishing up the legend in spring really speeds up progression. maybe it would be worthwhile to try and smoke it for even crazier early game profit.

[@Leapalot]

It's very fun to smoke and sell the legend with angler lol

[@okyxoo3914]

Where can i find this place? 4:20

[@davidhatch7603]

I'm struggling to get 45 copper ore before Clint closes at 4.

[@vanbrewer5932]

Carrying around a chest and smelter to craft bars while you fish‽ 🤯

[@martinschulte7936]

This route ist pretty similar to the one I've been using on new farms. My main differences: -Day 1: I actually delay planting crops until after I've met everyone. The extra 2 hours help clear out the Cindersap forage before meeting Jas and leave me with more farm time in the evening. My meeting route is similar to yours, except I don't enter Joja mart to meet Pam, Sam and Shane (all of them are met easily enough outside between 4:30 and 5:20 p.m.) and go drop off at the farm after meeting Harvey (~2:30 p.m.) only to dip back into town immediately and moving up to the mountain through town after meeting Shane. Also, I only buy the green bean and rely on mixed seeds to get my cauliflower (if I get a Cauli before a potato I'll stick to 15 crops though). -Day 2: I don't immediately trash my Bamboo pole and try to fish depending on whether I need more fishing XP (Training rod) or money (Bamboo pole) for the Fiberglass rod (It also is a better failsafe than the Training Rod in case you miss out on the Fiberglass). Also I stay on the beach after 5 p.m. as the beach spawns Flounder (same price as Largemouths) for an hour longer than the Lake spawns Largemouths and the difference between Lake and Ocean between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. (Herring/Anchovy/Halibut vs. Carp/Bullhead/Chub) is not significant enough for me to warrant a move. -Day 3: I'd always river fish unless you feel very concerned about your ability to catch catfish (~65% catch rate is good enough to go for them). At my skill level, if I can reach fishing 4 in a feasible way (using Trout Soup if needed) I'll go for catfish. Town river (south of Jodi's house) bc it's less travel time to Willy if needed and Smallmouths are easier-to-perfect Chubs that give 2 base EXP less. -Day 4: With Fisher, selling gold Chubs/Smallmouths to buy salads is even better. I usually sell fish directly to Willy today as I'm buying a Crab Pot as well as the backpack upgrade today (potentially also potato seeds, the copper ore from Clint to have the Furnace recipe on day 5 or some salads/coffee from Gus). The gems will get to live unless I sell them for a day 6 upgrade or for short-term Clint cash. - Days 5-7: Selling enough to the bin to have 3.000 gold tomorrow (2.000 if I already bought my potato seeds on day 4); doing the CC cutscene today. Keeping at least 2 parsnips (one for the CC, one for Lewis' birthday on the 7th; (optional) potentially more if the person I want to marry that run likes them). I'm also delaying my copper pick upgrade to the 6th (giving me another 1/2 day in the mines for leeway and an additional 25 copper ore for another tool upgrade on the 8th since my Steel upgrade will be during the Egg festival). Since grinding copper on 11 is a pain, I'd prefer to get to 20 today if possible (if not, not a huge deal). Oh yeah, I personally prefer potatoes>cauli to reach farming 2; I need one for the CC bundle on the 13th anyway and while it's 6 more crops to water, it's a bit more profitable money-wise (these 20 potato seeds should give you 2.000G for Strawberry seeds in time for the Egg festival because of quality and the 20% chance of an extra potato on harvest). This is totally up to personal preference though.

[@pizzagod4277]

I want to remember all this but I can’t!!!!

[@teche6564]

How did you get Iridium quality fish on day 3? I've tried the same strategy and barely managed to get 2 silver quality chubs at the end of the day and only got to level 4 by 2:00am despite doing +80% of the catches perfectly.

[@Leapalot]

It might be related to casting zones. At certain levels your cast distance increases and that's directly related to quality potential. Casting left or right increases distance compared to up or down. Basically you want to cast so that your bobber hits a place as far away from land as possible. There's some good info on this page: stardewvalleywiki.com/Fishing_Strategy

[@teche6564]

@@Leapalot Ah, I forgot about that, thanks. I was confused because I was doing the long casts on my other save and getting good quality fish just fine but I was trying to cast short on this file in order to save time.

[@teche6564]

@@Leapalot I did another attempt and got plenty of iridium quality fish along with level 5 on either my second to last or last catch before 2:00am! Thanks for the info!

[@tomhemming9236]

Floor 6 infested slime floor ruined day 5 for me lol, reloaded day with seed manip to fix it because i cba

[@Leapalot]

Funny story! I one of my test runs I had a slime floor and had accidentally trashed my sword. Throwing the sword away is kind of whatever since you can just avoid mobs at lower levels, but I couldn't progress past that and had to just buy copper for the pick upgrade. Set me back a day, but still worked out! 😅

[@tomhemming9236]

@@Leapalot I redid the day using a seed override trick, managed to get copper and to clints on time, and got an ancient seed from a bug during the dive, so very glad I went for the reset xD

[@tinglesrosyrupeeland]

Wow we really have different playstyles

[@Leapalot]

Yeah I'm a little weirdo so. 🤔

[@fernandaa7334]

Can you do a guide like that but including the expansion mods?

[@Leapalot]

I haven't played through expanded or east scarp or anything!

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

Meeting all the characters is such a chore with the expansions that I didn't even try to make a concerted effort on my most recent playthrough, just waited for the first festival to talk to everyone. Meeting over 60 people is daunting!

[@KingSlayer21_0]

If you are bad at fishing like me You can learn how to clay farm Its gonna take some time but its REALLY useful You can easily get 2k minimum with clay farming even on day 1 So in 5 days you can get 10k It's absolutely OP

[@Leapalot]

Clay farming doesn't work in 1.6! At least not without some settings adjustments.

[@KingSlayer21_0]

@@Leapalot well Im on Android so Im praying in 1.5