100 Easter Eggs and References in Stardew Valley

[@CatsBreadBikes]

In coral island, there's a shop near the mines where you can buy items from the shopkeeper, a concerned monkey

[@rubya.p4437]

​@@SimuLordlet be real here Stardew Valley also did the same thing with the Harvest Moon franchise.

[@itsIvanMoody]

@@rubya.p4437 and i oop-

[@Nina_Maron]

It's so hard to make an farm game without being compared to Stardev Valley and we all know he used Harvest Moon as the base and put everything in he missed at HM (I mean that's we he said in an interview) and I love Coral Island too. I really hope at the next update in August we get more underwater action and it change something so it's his own game. Because they copied everything - from the names to the crafting items. Kinda disappointing.

[@ginar2339]

Now THAT game is going to have a long list of references video sometime

[@coreyjacobi6999]

Its crazy how a game made by one person became so popular that it is referenced in other media.

[@velvetbutterfly]

Have you heard of Five Nights at Freddy's? UnderTale? DokiDoki Literature Club? Tetris? CaveStory? Plenty of outstanding games were made by one person

[@shauas4224]

@@velvetbutterfly naahhh don't throw tetris in there, it's incomparable with sv at any level, except popularity

[@velvetbutterfly]

@@shauas4224 it's still made by one person and changed the gaming world forever

[@pemanilnoob]

@@velvetbutterflyI don’t think Dan Salvado drew everything in DDLC, but idk, he could be some speed demon artist

[@lemolea9571]

I don't think something has to be popular to be referenced somewhere, but it's still impressive all the same. Also have you ever considered that since it was only made by one guy he didn't have to share any profits and became a millionaire through an anti-capitalist game he can no longer possibly relate to? That's pretty funny.

[@BasketOfPuppies642]

4:00 I think that the dolphin might be a reference to the gamecube, which was codenamed "dolphin" in development. That's also why the gamecube emulator is called dolphin.

[@saireberry9]

Usually when you go to the Pirate's Cove and talk to the bartender, he says "Grog and tasties are for da pirates only". But if you put on the Deluxe Pirate Hat, he gives you a mead for free!

[@aint.responsible]

THAT SUBMARINE JOKE CAUGHT ME SO OFF GUARD 💀

[@skyblockreborn1379]

4:50

[@CH_theplayer]

Enginer gaming

[@m0ddotrar]

Nooo salmence nooooo

[@HenrayPatter]

I guess you had an “explosive” reaction

[@itsIvanMoody]

@@HenrayPatter 💀💀💀

[@MickeyBaby42]

8:30 Sam will not lose friendship if he sees you dig in the trash either. I found out through random dialogue it's because his father used to find interesting things in the trash when he was a garbage man.

[@Drulk-cw3tx]

"Instead of being disgusted, he just asks the player why they're searching through the trash. It still costs the player 25 friendship points, however." -straight from the wiki.

[@ahlorachew7726]

Adding on to easter eggs in other games, in Starbound (which is also published by Chucklefish), if you can get ahold of any instrument, it lets you choose from a list of songs to play, and in that list is Stardew Valley's theme song.

[@cadensherman1983]

As well as Grandpa’s Theme.

[@LexiLunarpaw]

Don't forget the Starbound Valley achievement

[@NeatMcKinley]

After pouring hundreds, if not thousands of hours into Stardew, and STILL learning things you didn't know before...that. That is a sign of a great game.

[@LemskiePlays]

Agreed, this game is infinite

[@slwrabbits]

I can pet so many rabbits, this is all I need

[@Rain_.Dr0ps5]

Bro I saw u on insta before 🤓

[@emmorton15]

If you marry Elliott, he also mentions grampletown in his 14th heart event letters

[@webofstars]

In multiplayer, if you get more than one golden statue of Lewis and one of you place both/all of them in town, Lewis will yell at you and one of the statues will be gone. Later, one can be found in Marnie's bedroom.

[@maeveconboy4164]

I had originally thought the trash bear was referencing Totoro since he does the same thing

[@salmence100]

At 10:51, I meant to change the voiceover, as the Skeleton dialogue was patched out, and I replaced it with Pierre's out of bounds dialogue... but I forgot to change it.

[@odinjoassaint1300]

For 78 are you sure that isn't Evelyn and George

[@odinjoassaint1300]

13:11

[@salmence100]

I know but resetting to get Marlon and Gil would've drove me insane lol

[@el1ks1r]

13:43 Sal made an oopsie.

[@stewowo1080]

@@el1ks1rah my favorite chief *Linus*

[@MsCaptainChase]

As a Star Trek: TNG nerd, I am ashamed that I never thought to google what the rest of Wizard's introductory line was and see that it is, indeed, a reference to Deanna's mother. Dammit.

[@JesperVille]

That one surprised me, I always thought it was a reference to Gandalf saying wielder of the sacred flame of Arnor or something along those lines

[@Bamni]

12:47 Thats the most brutal thing i've ever heard, Thankfully i always keep a crystalarium with amethyst to give her every day

[@elissadeannashorts]

7:48 if you pause and wait on the beach you have a chance to see it as well. I had paused my game to get some food and when I came back I barely saw the sea monster swimming away.

[@ghostsuru8429]

About Jodi: It's been said that that ConcernedApe revealed that Abigail isn't the illegitimate child of the wizard. But the wizard says one of the villagers is a kid of his. I'm thinking that because Vincent's design is based off of Studio Ghibli characters who are always magical and mystical, maybe instead Vincent is his child. He's young enough it would fit the time frame. Sam even says Vincent never got to know Kent as a dad. And with the clue that Jodi is a Jodi...it feels like it fits better. Just a random thought. Not 100% committed to it.

[@DevilFruitJourney]

Nah. Vincent never new his father because he was too young to remember him when Kent left. Thats why there is no strong bond between them. I've also asked my son (3.5 years old) frequently about his passed away grandfather if he remembers him (my dad, may allah forgive him) and he said yes for months but 2 weeks ago I asked him again and he said that he can't remember him anymore. This is how children brains work..

[@catzrule1990]

The wizard mentions he suspects that one of the villagers is his *daughter*, so I doubt it is Vincent. That, and Caroline, Abigail's mother, mentions she used to take frequent walks to the wizard's tower, but you must not tell Pierre because he has jealousy issues. Pierre also asks you if Abigail looks anything like him, because he wonders if he is really her father. Abigail also mentions she can't remember the last time she dyed her hair, and she swears it never fades from that color (purple, like the wizard's hair). Although that last one can be contradicted due the the fact Caroline mentions that she wishes Abby would go back to her natural color, so I don't know on that one.

[@NEEDbacon]

@@catzrule1990 It could be the purple hair is due to some magic shenanigans that takes some time to manifest.

[@rellimarual]

There’s a device in Don’t Starve Together called the Lazy Deserter that looks (and works) exactly like the obelisk transporter in Stardew, but I’m not sure which came first

[@qwasr1278]

Items that teleport you to different places are game mechanics in many games

[@rellimarual]

@@qwasr1278 Of course, but these two look alike: Each one is a light brown pyramid with a gem suspended over the tip

[@rellimarual]

I just looked it up and the Lazy Deserter was added to DST in 2017 and the mini-obelisk added to Stardew in 2020, so I'm guessing it's a reference to DST

[@KitsukiiPlays]

Yeah, they’re too similar visually talking for it not to be a coincidence Also, both are too much of a pain for me to bother to use it, lol

[@Psycho48028]

13:14 I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure thats Evelyn and George 💀💀

[@queenofcamp832]

this is so well done! i was ready to be like 'oh yeah, this will be the same ones everyone mentions' but i didn't know most of these! great vid

[@salmence100]

This is the first video I've made where some of the content I actually discovered myself, and weren't listed on the wiki or reddit, like the Salad Fingers reference and Highway '89 painting!

[@queenofcamp832]

@@salmence100 it’s great man! Can tell a lot of time and effort went into it

[@maggiesantos7865]

The Jodi reference is pretty funny! I told my husband about that (he's in the military) and he got a kick out of it 😂

[@lnlonelyness2801]

bro that part hurt me on a personal level for two reasons: 1. I love Jodi simply because her sprite model is so cute 2. I hate NTR with a burning passion so that little trivia painted a really awful imagery in my head and I want to cry

[@peacefulminimalist2028]

I also like that Sandy lives in the desert.

[@LakePlacidBear]

Also, if you talk to Jodi, some of her dialogue indicates that she’s been thinking about what she could’ve been if she isn’t married and have a responsibility to keep her children. If you talk to her during winter night market she even expressed her feelings on how wonderful it is to be able to traveling around the world like those merchants do. Now let’s just imagine if Jodi finds out that witch hut exists….

[@professionalairhead5582]

@@lnlonelyness2801 NTR is based, nothing better than some loser's girl getting her brains fucked out by a real man

[@kittehpops]

15:17 Grampleton is also mentioned in Elliott's 14 heart event, because it's where he starts his book tour

[@smallkidneyjoe4046]

thanks for showing the wizard dialogue in events where you can't reach him, i've always been curious if he actually had any dialogue or if it would just be a placeholder!

[@miskamouska7694]

1:40 “try to cover themSHELLves” 😭😭

[@tenshiefox713]

I definitely recommend watching this till the end! At first i was like "eh.. just another video with the same exact secrets or easter eggs as all the other 200 videos with similar titles" but NO i really really enjoyed this! This was so nice to watch i always like to fill my tiny brain with more and more stardew things because its my fav game, very nice video my guy

[@salmence100]

I almost rearranged things to put the more unique stuff up front, but I decided to keep the well known classics first!

[@tenshiefox713]

I think you did a great job at the way you arranged every part of the video! I liked the feeling of " oh i knew this, but this other upcoming fact i never heard before" then hearing something i knew but probably didn't remember then hearing another fact/secret about the game i got so excited over this 😭😭

[@SullySadface]

The goggles are actually radioactive.

[@Gottaculat]

There was a very fun game adaptation of the TV show "Flipper" that Concerned Ape no doubt watched and played. He's 3 years younger than me, and I see a lot of '90s stuff in Stardew Valley. Also, the working codename during development of the Nintendo Game Cube was project "Dolphin." Nintendo had a graphics demo of a Dolphin to show off the new tech, so the poster could be a reference to that demo. There's no doubt in my mind Concerned Ape was playing a ton of the same games my brothers (his age) and I were playing in the 1990s, especially Harvest Moon 64, which Stardew Valley feels like he took every aspect of that game, then expanded it 100 fold. I love playing Stardew Valley, because it feels super nostalgic, back when games were games, and none of this micro-transaction and "we'll patch the bugs later, maybe," mindset. Games in the '90s were severely limited by the hardware of the time, and if you released a buggy game, you lost a fortune, maybe even go bankrupt. This meant games had to have really good gameplay, a good story, and have as few bugs as possible. We ended up with some great gems. Also some really janky ones, lol. We'd rent the game at Blockbuster, play it a week, and if we liked it, we either rented it again, or bought it. Different times, man.

[@StarcoreZach]

At 4:02 when you are talking about the dolphin poster, this could also be a reference to the Nintendo Dolphin, a code name for what became the Game Cube. This would keep the references in Nintendo related items.

[@jimmyoutlaw9384]

If you click on the Lonely Stone on the map it makes a stone noise and closes the menu

[@remikyu13]

I feel like the that’s a lot of fish one is a bit of a reach personally but this was super fun. Great job!

[@nala]

false advertising smh.... 2 more facts than expected..... liked and subscribed...........

[@I.No.]

Excited to see the wizard's dialogue in the new 1.6 festival!

[@micaangelicagonz]

I think the easter eggs you see with the title screen (clicking the E; the corner; etc) were each added with every major update (1.1, 1.2, etc) of the game. I could be wrong but there always seemed to be a new thing each time!

[@talaofthevalley]

It's in Expanded, but I remember being so shocked when talking to Victor and he mentions continuing to watch 'My Villain Academia', which is a canonical term used for an arc in My Hero Academia. And of course, Legend of Lonk.

[@mayug.2732]

14:00 wouldn't it be 4 ppl in town that don't go to the clinic, if you count the Wizard? I don't think he'd be going to Harvey if he so keen on drinking his forest essence juice 😂

[@Dragonknight62442]

It’s so cool to know that my favorite game creator was just a nerd like me. The fact that he put in so many references from the stuff I love is so incredibly cool to me.

[@EpsilonRosePersonal]

For some reason, seeing Linus walking through the snow made me really want a mod that would change his tent into a giant ceramic jar. ... Maybe also give him a toga and lantern.

[@gb1reinwald]

I still wonder if anyone will ever realise how much the kids, Vincent and Jas, share character traits with Calvin and his neighbor girl Susie from the Calvin and Hobbes comic books. Vincent considers it a tough choice when challenged about getting his clothes dirty, knowing that his mom will hate it - same with Calvin. Also his love for snails and bugs and his lack of interest in school, as can be seen by the low grades he gets (on the cupboard in his home). There is a line from Vincent when you reached a good friendship level with him where he tells you that he considers you not as boring as most grown-ups. Calvin constantly describes grown-ups as boring. Jas has some things in common with Susie, always pretty, always good at school, always playing neatly. Also they go to school together in the comics.

[@spoopyd.8910]

The "familiar zigzag" pattern shirt looks like a reference to Charlie Brown's shirts with those zigzags.

[@cartoonkelly7924]

The first time I visited the wizard m, the Lwaxana Troi reference made me very happy. I’m a huge Star Trek nerd.

[@KatsiYori-zk5gm]

The cool thing is if you put green tea leaves in a keg,it makes tea within one day unlike when you make wine.

[@Vaporeon_MUI]

This is what exactly what I've been waiting for when you give Clint something he loves that is a meme I heard before

[@MemeKing360noscope]

YOOO, I can’t believe I never noticed the turnip head thing! I’ve seen HMC at least 24 times

[@Furry_101_]

I was so socked to see kleptocats mentioned, that used to be my favorite game series

[@PriyaSingh-rx6hx]

kent sends the recipe for crispy bass and that’s a jodi love. very similar to the pumpkin soup to sebastian

[@abee7238]

I’m so glad you knew about the Stardew reference in Gungeon! If you didn’t I would’ve called you out on it real quick.

[@KittyCatThang]

I think this is the first secrets video I've seen in a while with new to me secrets. Neat!

[@bonkersbusy]

Cool video. I though the wizard's line might be from Lwaxana Troy😊 and Master Canolli statue was a reference to Obi Wan Canobi.

[@velvetbutterfly]

It's Kenobi

[@arc-sd8sk]

Legend of the River King is so good criminally underrated lil series imo

[@joepirowska1169]

I think there is another reference, i heven't really seen anyone talk about it yet, but at the beggining of the game, during the cutscene where the main character works at jojo, one of the people working behind desks is Stan from Monkey Island game series

[@evelynkammerzell8784]

5:19 Sal really out here exposing himself like that smh jk great video man, and it's a great series

[@neon_lavander]

Considering how Razmodius is totally not Abigail's biological father it makes sense that he makes a reference to the horniest woman in Star Trek

[@whyarenohandlesavailible]

yippee yippee my favorite stardew creator has graced thee! (with a new video)

[@argella1300]

3:36 there’s also several breeds of chicken that actually lay blue eggs. IRL they look like a light robin egg blue or sea foam blue/green color

[@lcoolguy7520]

i was kind of surprised this didn’t come up in the video BUT the trucker hat is (or so i’ve heard) a reference to the eggscellent episode of regular show and while watching this video, linus’ dialogue at the spirits eve festival is also probably a reference to pops catchphrase

[@Paprrika]

You forgot in Starbound game, you can play grandpas theme on any of the instruments

[@Drie_Kleuren]

Probably mentioned elsewhere and on some other video you made, but still. If you trow an ancient doll in lava at floor 100 (I hope its floor 100, but there should be a level with an lava lake in the minee) trowing in the ancient doll with give you this green gem (the top part of an Terraria Forest Pylon) taking this gem and placing it down in the wizard his basement at the green "bush" (the bottom part of an Terraria Forest Pylon) this will open up a portal to the Terraria universe, where a cat will come out and give you the meowmere (or however you spell it) this is a big Terraria. Terraria is also the game that reminded me of trying this game. I recently played a lot of Terraria and I got the Junimo pet in Terraria. This made me wonder about Stardew valley. I had already found other Stardew valley refrences and things, but this one convinced me lol. I love that these games all have secret messages and refrences and things in all of them releating to some other game. Its really really cool and fun to see. Its one of the biggest things I love smaller indie games so much :)

[@SergeantStark]

I'm late to this video lmao but I'm so glad you mentioned #20 being a Howl's Moving Castle reference, I _love_ the books and the movie and in all my Stardew playthroughs, I'd always make sure to get that scarecrow at the fair. I knew its design wasn't just a coincidence!

[@dragonmoonwave]

14:52 Jojas logo looks like a smile. The o and a are the eyes, the j is the nose, and the smile is well the smile.

[@cartdotjpg]

Owl House jumpscare lol, was not expecting that. Love your vids! ❤

[@Gluiperd]

I'm not really sure, but I'll be damned if a pirate saying 'youch' is not a reference to the Monkey Island game series where Guybrush says youch everytime he gets hurt.

[@Stellarseacowz]

16:41 completely unrelated to the subject of the video but this just unlocked a deep forgotten memory from years ago where I was for some reason I was really interested in this game and watched a lot of lets plays of it 😂

[@owonothanksbro858]

The minecraft one is most likely wrong! It is closer to Terraria and there was a collab between SDV and Terraria, with the junimo pet in Terraria 4:29

[@adamfogel5718]

a reference i think many people missed is that the description for the broken CD says "It's a JojaNet 2.0 trial CD. They must've made a billion of these things" which I'm pretty sure is a reference to America online and the amount of trial CDs they made

[@ScytheBeetle]

4:39 EYE OF CTHULHU

[@simbachvazo6530]

Sea urchins cover them-shelves. This cannot be forgiven.

[@pinagalaxia]

Awesome video! I learned a lot of interesting trivia I never caught from this, and I have almost 400 hours in the game! One thing I want to say, at 14:44, I think the Joja logo is more a parody of the WatchMojo logo than Amazon. They both have the "J" as a nose with a smile below it and are in blue text. "Joja" is a ripoff of "Mojo"

[@VisonsofFalseTruths]

My guy went for blood with that submarine bit

[@Ginsetsu-The-Great-Fox]

The fortune teller rubbing it in my face about Robin will always make me salty

[@StandAloneSoul]

I am 1:27 in and legitimately so amazed that I do the +0× face, I would have never thought that theres so much of this personal little heart felt details of CA in there, I only started playing the game last year when I could finally afford it, and Salmence is my first and only source of stardew facts so far since I dont want myself to be spoiled too much but he mostly keeps spoiler warnings ot does videos focusing on a specific topic that i know about already but want better detailed understanding, and because out of 4 people of tried lostening to the first 5 minutes in, he was the most charismatic to me personally, however, I'm still new to the game and this just completely blew me away and i just started watching :D How fascinating

[@s3vere195]

8:30 and now in 1.6 he can also see you rummage through the trash at the desert festival

[@katgrace8834]

Okay the mermaid one is so cool! I think that might be my favorite out of all of them

[@goopi_eh]

Stardew Fair festival also references the festival in Chrono Trigger, with the silver stars and test-your-strenght minigame.

[@kay_in_pigtails]

THIS ONE'S SLIGHTLY MORE RECENT!!! but Season 2 Episode 16A of The Ghost and Molly McGee (came out november 2023) is titled "Smile Valley Farm" and the episode is about the whole family getting addicted to a game that's kind of a mix of both stardew and animal crossing. tgamm is one of my favorite shows and i SCREAMED when i watched that episode

[@MEDIOCRE_READER]

I think that when Haley has her heart event on the beach and looses her bracelet it is a reference to the beginning of Chrono trigger where Chrono has the option to return Marles pendant

[@katjosephperez8772]

😰 I never realized the rusty spoon reference. A lot of real world artifacts are mundane, so I didn’t think twice about it

[@NuTsi33]

the only reason i know you can look into the trash is because i saw linus doing it. what a champ.

[@Stirlingloveswomen]

I would've said that the Trash bear flying off with it's umbrella was a closer reference to Totoro, as he is gifted an umbrella.

[@OmoriSupportsPalestine_143]

From what I noticed, the sound ConcernedApe makes when clicked on differs according to whether you got your last game saved or no. I don't know if it's just me.

[@The_Real_Goodboy_Link]

11:00 wrong clip, showing shopkeep instead of skellaman

[@Takeninthelight]

The sunflower thing is still right. A lot of people think they still follow the sun even after the flower reaches maturity.

[@mainframe42]

The tunnel exit with the tire marks to the left of the bus stop strikes me as a Dear Esther reference.

[@Frogii-123]

4:27 The dirt: I LOOK LIKE A MINECRAFT DIRT BLOCK?!

[@belen2948]

As a little addition, now with the 1.6 update Linus can also see you open the trash can in the desert festival

[@thestreek9853]

in fact 89 I found out that if two players are doing skull cavern only the person that puts down the staircases will get the "dishonorable cut scene"

[@amyamyhallhall]

Oh there is a omori reference I think the watermelon band looks a lot like auberys head band

[@kytanasapien532]

7:25 WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT SOFT LOCKS THE GAME?!

[@shadow.the.gacha.therian]

Another reference to Stardew is in a graphic novel named Fake Blood (I forget who wrote it :[ ) the older sister has a little poster on a cork board in her room that shows the opening screen of Stardew valley without the ‘New’ or ‘Load’ buttons

[@brainwashingdetergent4322]

I just started this game, just finished spring. I’ve been in the caves and I thought that the wind sounds in the cave were reminiscent of the wind sounds in the movie “Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind” this may be more than a coincidence now that you say there are Makkuro kurosuke like sprites in game.

[@icewingthefox9423]

Correction for 35: It's actually a reference to the silent film "A Journey to The Moon"

[@gasparsigma]

On the posters in the room I thought the Dolphin was because the Gamecube was originally going to be called Dolphin. And on the topic of Chrono Trigger the "surprised" animations are also almost identical to CT surprised animation

[@Rubyfir3]

A missed reference to SV: An achievement for Starbound is titled Starbound Valley, achieved by growing a certain number of different crops.

[@gayjayy]

The Corporal insignia also matches (from my looking online) Canadian, UK, and Australian corporals, even down to the direction that they face.

[@elaynamoore9281]

I always thought the moon looked a lot like Mary's picture of the moon in it's a wonderful life

[@MushroomEater64]

I always had figured that the red and green overrals was a reference to the Mario Bros. I didnt miss it not one bit.

[@Alextroyer.]

I put ale as my favorite thing and when I ate the stardrop it said your mind is filled with thoughts of beer

[@d4r4butler74]

1.6 has added more floor layouts to the Ginger Island Volcano.

[@No1uknow13]

What if Castle Village is where the haunted chocolatier will take place

[@kirbodin]

Linus does not serve you survival burgers at the fair, it is Gus.

[@annareifer2249]

the blue chickens are a zelda reference? OK lol, I always name one Revali - best Rito Birb XD

[@sooseeji_uggo]

also referenced in steven universe short when steven calls lapis and peridot from connies laptop on which the game is installed (like toh)