The ULTIMATE Guide to Multiplayer in Stardew Valley

There's a lot to consider when creating a multiplayer game, so here's some pointers to ease you into it! We'll go over everything from setting up the multiplayer file, to some exploits you can only pull off with two people. Don't stress about the settings too much, they can all be changed once you're in game!
Sections:
0:00 - VHS Intro
0:48 - Who can play multiplayer?
1:47 - Setting up a Multiplayer File
4:09 - Differences from Single Player
7:03 - Multiplayer Exploits
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[@LadyAstraan]

"Congratulations you have friends" Well, you've lost me there

[@SirenPandaSabo]

Can I eat them? Oh wait...

[@LiIBeary]

​@@SirenPandaSabo You can Whether you should, is an entirely different question

[@AR-tu8gw]

I'll be your friend and play with you 😊

[@PhoenixWing-hx3hs]

"Congratulations, you have friends!" Naw man, I've got a ✨️DAD✨️

[@yadiyyussof95]

I don't wanna be that guy,, but why bother watching this video when the title literally said "guide to multiplayer". Obviously this video will help you play with other people

[@DownWithLogic]

There's one more I'd like to point out! On multi-player, if player 2 reaches floor 100 in the skull mime they also receive the special reward. They can receive that same award at least twice if they reach floor 100 again, giving them a nice advantage over player one as tank!

[@projectdaaltaran]

I can't find anything online about this. Are you saying player 2 must be with player 1 the first time and somehow gets player 1's reward and then their own the second time.

[@DownWithLogic]

@@projectdaaltaran my player 2 did arrive at floor 100 with me the first time at roughly the same time. But afterward I did not need to accompany them. I don't know if it works in 1.6 but it works in 1.5.

[@mawkeetwo]

There are some disadvantages on multiplayer. I've been playing with my wife and son for the last weeks. One instance that is REALLY annoying is that doing the skull cavern is now REALLY hard. Time doesn't stop when you're eating, so you die much easier. Also, the default "knockback" doesn't work as it does on single player. Monsters keep walking to you even after you hit them. One other really annoying thing is that when someone is in a cutscene (and even though I know most of them from heart, my wife and 8 year old son don't, so they have to sloooooooowly read everything) time is not paused. You can pass out at 2 AM if you are in a long-ish cutscene. There's a mod that will make you invincible while you're eating and also pause when any player is in a cutscene. We've been using that and it removes those annoying problems without making it that much easier.

[@dafthoon4771]

I'm pretty sure time is paused during a cut scene or whatever if the other player opens his inventory

[@ParryTFronters]

yeah that lag between players online and over local wireless on switch is a chore. I hope it gets fixed in the 1.6 update.

[@Kill3rKBee]

i noticed the cutscene one and it really has fucked me over cause ill be trying to get home, get a cutscene ive never seen. then get out of it and pass tf out and im like "well thats great, a new experience just cost me 2000g from Harvey."

[@mawkeetwo]

@@dafthoon4771 Not without mods

[@dafthoon4771]

​@@mawkeetwo playing on switch coop without mods, maybe thats the issue here

[@DownWithLogic]

Also time pauses in split screen too, when both players have a menu up (like the wallet, inventory, stores, chests, cooking, etc.)

[@mllea6140]

yeah, everytime me or my friend had a cutscene we asked for a pause so we wouldn't lost all day to see it ^^, or when we had to eat in the mine or skull cavern, opening menu would stop the enemies from attacking us during the little animation (which saved us a lot of time)

[@emurphy42]

Not only that, but you regain energy from the spa even while time is paused. (I don't think it works for laying down on a bed, though.)

[@1lucia]

7:20 A great use for this is the Qi Fruit quest, me and a friend of mine were like 10 Qi Fruits off on the final day, thus we tried farming them at the same time for like 100 fruits. This worked like 1/10 times, but was enough to save the quest for us :D

[@emanuelkukucka9349]

THANK YOU for showing where the Cabins are placed at the start, I couldn't find that info ANYWHERE!

[@imriax6724]

As player 2, you can pick up the coal Minecards and coal bags in the mines as often as you want. =infinite coal

[@LordFluffiness]

This is one of my favorite multiplayer secrets!

[@frostyflames7864]

And here I was thinking that my p1 friend was just too dense to be grabbing those themself 😅

[@ghostsquee6328]

Omg I didn’t know this I’m always running out of coal with my farm with my sister!! I’ll make her grab them all now lmaooo

[@rauchschwalbelp7693]

Only if the hodt does not grab it. Once the host grabs it, it's gone

[@ghostsquee6328]

@@rauchschwalbelp7693 ohhh I seee x thank u so much tho!!

[@user-ti3yd4ri3u]

This vid came out at the perfect time, I was talking to my friend about starting a farm together after 1.6 yesterday

[@ajroberts9570]

On the last point at 8:31 : There is actually a gameplay use for the tone shift for the other co-op players. The fish catch sound is different than player 1’s. Absolutely massive for split-screen fishing

[@animeotaku307]

Something else to bring up is how different professions work in multiplayer. Mainly, the ones that affect sale prices will cover everyone even if they don’t have it. So if one person has the Artisan profession, that affects the sale prices of all artisan goods, regardless of who ships them. The professions that affect actions, on the other hand, are only for that player. So only crops planted by the Agriculturalists will get the speed growth bonus. Still, these can be exploited. Have the agriculturalists plant crops for the bonus, then everything can be processed for more money. This works even if you have separate wallets.

[@superuby]

90 hours in playing co-op with my fiance, and NOW I learn about duplication glitches?! Thank you!

[@josephlodato5919]

There is an exploit that can be done that allows you to complete certain bulletin board and qi’s quest without actually having to give the specified item. A quest such as the Robins hardwood quest on the bulletin board. If you place all the hardwood into the bin immediately after closing the menu you reopen it. The quest will be completed but you will be able to grab whatever items you put in back out. I believe this is multiplayer exclusive as there is a delay between the quest being completed after closing the menu.

[@AgentM124]

I wish time would stop if all players were in a situation where time would normally stop in singleplayer. I get so frantic when playing together because normally I have time to think out my next steps in a menu, but now I gotta talk with my friends and also think about what I wanna do and it's overwhelming.

[@NebulaIsMundane]

I’m excited to show this to people when inviting them to play Stardew With me. What a great video! Thank you Salmence!

[@boxorox1964]

only reason i play this game is so i can make friends with the npcs! you think i have real ones? wow, just wow

[@xxselenaxx2142]

I have more than one multiplayer farm but that intro had me hooked darn it

[@Bumblebeelover26]

The intro is just majestic!I love VHS 😀

[@dayancaballero3338]

I love your videos! I always end up learning something new

[@NDCR_]

As someone who play on mobile and doesn't have any friend, this video is absolutely useful

[@TheKittyDrago]

Thank you for making this! I remember requesting this topic a few weeks ago, but I didn't expect to see it out so quickly :) This will be great as a reference when my partner and I start up a new farm for Ver. 1.6!

[@Briggetyt]

Thanks for making this right before 1.6! My friends are playing once the update drops

[@rngtime6453]

thank god you made this video before me and my friend tried getting pennys 14 heart cutscene twice

[@Ricardo_Rick]

2 Mods i would love for multiplayer: One that reduces the rate at which time passes, since you can't pause it with inventory open. And one so that you can eat food without the prompt, i lost count of how many times i died at the mine because i clicked on the food but wasn't fast enough to press the yes button

[@projectdaaltaran]

Both of those mods exist. There are several time mods out there. The removal of food prompts is in the fast animation mod. However, someone on here mentioned that the player is invulnerable in the middle of the food prompt. If true, just keep your food easily accessible in the hottbar so you can quickly enter that action.

[@Ricardo_Rick]

@@projectdaaltaran i played in multiplayer and you are not immune, only fter pressing yes you are immune. also, i think the fast animation one needs to be installed by all players, right?

[@projectdaaltaran]

@@Ricardo_Rick Multiplayer notes: Animations will be sped up smoothly for you, but other players may see them skip frames. If multiple players have it installed, some animation speeds may stack.

[@projectdaaltaran]

@Ricardo_Rick and you can use fast animation and just change all speeds to one, only checking to remove food prompts. This would remove an animation speed boosts.

[@projectdaaltaran]

@@Ricardo_Rick I haven't looked into it. Perhaps it was a mod. Someone should probably make a mod that makes you immune while in your inventory

[@ladyofthewittyremark]

Also, if you're buying items with limited stock in a menu (at the traveling cart or the iridium sprinkler at krobus's shop), as long as everyone has the shop open before anyone buys anything, each player can purchase the item. It still charges the price, but on a single friday four players could walk away with four iridium sprinklers.

[@Squidglows]

Personally for multiplayer I start the day with going straight to the mines well the other person does the daily chores before joining me in the mines once i reach the next check point

[@wokekoala5790]

this is what we needed!!

[@supervegha7958]

I believe (at least on PS5) that the mines don't get randomized at all more then once per day, you get one seed, and that's it rocks and enemies don't respawn as well, which nerf fiber collecting and dust sprite farming a whole lot

[@kelcesar]

The pain of watching this video knowing I'll never play on multiplayer because I don't have friends. At least not friends that like to play videogame 😢

[@maxios-7613]

Likewise, the only person I have who has similar interests as me is my sister

[@wolfninga]

How do profession buffs such as tiller or rancher work in multiplayer? Do they apply to just the person selling the item? Or are they shared if money is shared between players.

[@glukko8245]

I cannot believe you haven't done a quide to the bulleting board, so could you please make one?

[@drWoods-xq6sd]

when you play on local and both players are in inventory time stops (from what i recall)

[@ZeddyDJ]

I have a problem on Multiplayer when im hosting my Farm my friend always disconnect saying lost connection or server close from 3 to 5 mins whenever he joins. I tried some fixes on the Community Post but it doesn't seem to work.

[@StormEagle5]

With what you said about luck. What would be your advice when it comes to scenarios in multiplayer where luck is important? Like going for deep dives in skull caverns, or panning for luck ring?

[@minkmania12]

You didn't show the cabin layouts for the beach farm ? 😅

[@3ricbae]

how does perfection work in multiplayer?

[@RoweClementine]

Good video I wish I had friends to play with

[@colin5227]

I completely forgot that i had watched almost all the video, so when i clicked on it now weeks later, it started at almost the end. I looked away for a sec and all i heard was the part about musical instruments at the very end. And "that's all you need to know about multi player" Lmao

[@MaxLSilver]

One thing I've been curious about with multiplayer is how to handle Perfection. The biggest thing that I don't think the wiki makes clear is how to handle Stardrops. The for instance in our group is that we have the player who enjoys fishing and has been handling catching all the fish, but he's not really interested in marriage/roommate/etc, even just doing the wedding ring for the sake of getting the stardrop. It's for reasons, it's fine, but does that mean that we're out of luck in terms of hitting the Stardrop goal unless another one of us also gets Master Angler and married? I know that the other Stardrops are fine, it's just those two in particular.

[@selfloathinggameing]

5 seconds in and I'm already depressed. I don't know what I expected clicking on a video about multiplayer when I haven't had a friend in years

[@ieatbookz]

can someone explain why you won’t get the option to select your room decoration from penny when you are on multiplayer?

[@pokadotplot]

Maybe I'm just bad, but playing multi-player in the mines (at least with only two people) seems even harder when there are mobs of enemies. Eating doesn't pause enemy movement in the slightest. Any suggestions on how to get good at combat in multi-player, or should I just find more friends?

[@thaleskronenberger8636]

I always get confused with the skills, lika agriculturalist (do we all get bonuses? Does only the person planting the crop gets it?)

[@DRofYouTube]

The VHS at the start reminded me of some analog horrors and nearly made me bolt from this video in the first 3.14159265 seconds.

[@noeldamian7509]

Does anyone know if you create a farmhand via local play, can that existing farmhand be chosen via multiplayer on a different switch? My girlfriend is thinking of buying a switch and would love for her to be able to choose her already existing character when she gets online to play. Thanks for any info on this!

[@Ssssuuuuupppppppeeeeerrrrrr]

The split screen stuff reminds me of 1v1ing my brother in bo3 and wed pretend we totally werent looking at the other persons screen. Twas fun.

[@cheeseycheezy]

How to play without online without splitscreen?? I’ve been trying to play with my friend and closest we could get was her being able to control my keyboard remotely and me playing as player 2 with a controller… we wanted to play each with our own screen on each computer but idk how to 😅

[@TelvanniGuard]

There's a fucking pause for multiplayer? :U Buddy and I have only been stopping for breaks when it's the results screen for the end of the day. ._.

[@Yellowiee_]

Hello, i tried to find the invite code for the multiplayer mode but cant seem to? its just empty for some reason.

[@ollie_acorn]

Can all players marry npcs or can only the host? How does the housing upgrade come into that?

[@UFGrace14]

If I have Xbox game pass on pc can I play co-op with my Xbox?

[@prestigedora2184]

I really wish I could play with someone else, but in the end you are on a mobile phone and the feature is not available 😞

[@Craxin01]

There are a few things that make multiplayer super frustrating to me, mostly the lack of time pausing. There are things that make up for it, if you can get everyone playing on the same page, like planting and watering a massive farm. Sometimes, the goofy interactions I have with my friends is more fun than actually getting things done, but overall, I prefer single player.

[@Soneilly0930]

do you have any solution for server lost ?

[@thepaper888]

So as a so and so who has never played stardew hidden ranch valley, and my friend has, can we just co op together? Should I play on my own? Do we share? Is it separate. Sorry I'm writing this after pausing the video at 2 seconds. Its like I really want to play ff6/3 on snes level of co op but story rpg. Or secret of mana. Oh yeah that hilarious intro is hey i do have one friend who is willing to play some games with me, only system in common switch. Cool co op games but mostly local. I got up in animal crossing newton fig leaf and was kinda meh after a while, I always mean to go back and clean up and maintain but its like multiplayer wise snoozeville

[@lastgreen2]

But why does every multiplayer farm I play randomly kick out the farmhand :(

[@editon7569]

can i use mods in multplayer?

[@SirenPandaSabo]

I'll be joining a 4+ Player farm when the update releases o3o

[@berkantyetik6640]

Well, I have a little question... I'm trying to play with my Friend on the Xbox but it doesn't work or when I create a farm in co-op mode, my friend can't join me. It always says that there are problems with the connection or something like that. Does anyone have any idea what it could be?

[@ryleerohwedder9461]

time not pausing in multipler definitely accounts for the advantages imo, it littlerslly is so frustrating and tbh i wish theyd make time slightly slower in multi player its so annoying

[@rytrongaming]

I literally met my closest friend from a xbox group post like 4 years ago best homie around

[@anishgulhane2259]

Is there any active servers on discord to find people who play this game

[@Milko-xk5wt]

Is there any info on perks like Agriculturist or shepherd? Ho do those work, they only buff Your stuff or is it global?

[@salmence100]

you would have to buy the sheep for it to get the shepard bonus, you would have to plant the crops for agriculturalist. That's a good point though, i wish I would've covered that

[@angryrollofbread]

Ive always dismissed luck since i never felt it changed enough. Learning that it is averaged makes me wonder what it feels like in a single player farm

[@futurehashira910]

There's a multiplayer mod for Android which does work. There's third party application involved to host it so watch a tutorial on it.

[@zlogyxide]

Buddy pilled friendmaxxer is crazy

[@Euniceiscool]

I heard the multiplayer servers on PC are GoG whether you play on Steam or GoG. I had a period of about 4 hours in February where we straight up could not play multiplayer unless we were on LAN because their servers went down.

[@tobystevens1171]

I found a better dupe exploit, If you have an auto collector both players can remove stuff at the same time, I'm assuming this is why two players can't access a chest together but auto collectors were probably forgotten

[@tep_123]

1:53 what Mod is he using in the character creation that shows numbers 1-9 on the side?

[@salmence100]

That's the default farmer mod: www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/12421 It basically makes it so I don't have to set up my character every time I start a new farm, which is great when I start like 5 new farms to show things off in these guides lol

[@rauchschwalbelp7693]

You forgot a few things. First, all farmhands lack the knockback that the host has. You will notice a significant difference. Second, unless the host raids the coal carts/backpacks in the mines, the farmhands can raid them again and again and again.....we did this a lot and it never fails. Well, until the host gets the coal. Same with crates in the mines that appear in bunches. In some levels there are a dozen or more crates and barrels for you to destroy and loot - if the host does not destroy them, they will spawn again. This is of course only for the regulat mine, since the Skull Caverns are randomly generated.

[@202cardline]

Hardmode activated, since I’m the only one who can do combat in our multiplayer and I’m a farmhand! At least I know I’m not crazy after trying to learn about how to make skull cavern less horrible. Turns out I cannot 😌 Staircase time.

[@CrazYTactiC]

Rip mobile players

[@aHappyTrashCan]

My wish is to set up an active co-op farm that stays consistent. I've tried multiple times and they'veall fallen through due to scheduling.

[@austinmullins6416]

You can pause in Multiplayer as long as you are all doing something that pauses the time at the same time

[@wolfydawolf1296]

6:43 I'm so aromantic I didn't even want to marry any of the romançable npcs, so I used the fact that the wedding ring exists plus my own spare controllers to marry myself in faux co-op for the stardrop, all to achieve perfection. Just missing the golden clock, now

[@the_vine_queen]

Just set up a new farm with my bf! He’s never played before so it’s nice for me to be aware of the differences so i don’t give him false info that is only true in Singleplayer

[@StormEagle5]

But how do you stop the multiplayer disconnects?

[@salmence100]

There's supposed to be some fixes for that coming in 1.6!

[@insanegamermalayalam9517]

But there's no code showing 😢 03:36

[@pecet690]

what about skill professions

[@maxios-7613]

The only downside to multiplayer is that you can't join with your own save file that you worked hard on, someone has to start fresh while the host can use their own pre-existing farm

[@erik.isomer]

Are you gonna be continuing your SVE playthrough after 1.6 comes out?

[@salmence100]

I'm continuing it once my cough goes away, I've had it for 2 weeks now, and it's harder to do longer recording sessions. Shouldn't be too long!

[@erik.isomer]

@@salmence100 Sorry to hear you’re sick, stay strong!

[@meh8982]

Multiplayer would be great if it weren't for the inability to pause while eating, etc. It makes me really nervous about going into Skull Cavern in my multiplayer game. I foresee a lot of deaths that would be easily avoidable in single player.

[@darknexxenby]

one difference you never mentioned is that the farmhands are forced to use the additional cabins, and not the main farmhouse. the way farmhands claim a cabin is by collecting the parsnip seeds inside. if a farmhand who already has ownership over a cabin or the host attempt to take someone elses parsnip seeds, it will not work, simply giving the message "these arent meant for you" also, you cant remove or change furniture in someone elses house, but you can place stuff down. if you have an expensive piece of furniture or place an item on someone elses table, its theirs now. sorry.

[@emalee8366]

I didn't know farm hands can be tone deaf! That's hilarious!

[@necokimatienza]

I wish I could afford To purchase Stardew valley on stream pc, 😢 it is not really not that fun to play on mobile specially pirated ones. I would like to purchase mobile version however u can't play multiplayer for it. Since multiplayer is only available in pc and u need to mod mobile SDV to play multiplayer. I wonder what it feels to play multiplayer SDV in PC version🥺

[@YourPalRal]

I wish a video was like this when I played multiplayer with that one person I dated when I played this the one and only time I did.

[@doktorsmiles2034]

Mp is broken. And i love it. Just dupe tons of iridium star fruit wine and buy at your hearts content

[@xBlueUnicorn15]

question, can I play co-op with my old save? which means friends can visit my farm on current save.

[@cobaltlance18]

Bruh the intro had me fucked up cause my headphones are kinda going out and occasionally have issues where things arent as clear as they should be. So knowing thats not how loud your videos are had me pissed at my headphones 😂

[@okokok-py3if]

noice

[@SunniDazed]

❤

[@AnimeCafe93]

I would love to join a farm with you honestly

[@krepieri]

I do have friends, but, unlike me, they are Nintendoplayers

[@xxleoproxx7495]

What are friends

[@TheDjpwn3]

Why am I watching this, I don't have friends (who play Stardew (on the same platform as me))

[@i1khyra]

what platform?

[@xasdi1773]

Fun fact, taking bus doesn’t cost u time!

[@thefailus4550]

co-op? more like competition

[@soupking5392]

Table glitch. The end

[@Halopowner]

We have cross play between Steam and PC GamePass versions

[@voidfloof]

Those are not different platforms. Steam is PC

[@Halopowner]

@@voidfloof You're right however not everyone may know this about these versions considering how PC Game Pass picks and chooses which games it wants to use console versions of. Just so happens in this instance that the PC Game Pass version is a true PC version as well.

[@AgentM124]

Wait, so divorcing Penny won't give the other people an opportunity to marry her and get the event?

[@salmence100]

They can marry her, but the event won't trigger

[@AgentM124]

@@salmence100 any reason for that? Does the love only spark once to 14 hearts?

[@shadedway5277]

I don't have friends I have siblings I can force to play Stardew Valley with me between college classes

[@ironwolf5802]

I didn't know about the split screen so that's cool. My boyfriend and I had a farm together and got married in game. We're existed to play again when the update comes out.