I Fixed Stardew Valley's Worst Items

[@idiottqueen5845]

The copper pan should be a wallet item, i think itd make panning infinitely better

[@katelynn1532]

oh my gosh AGREED! it takes up so much space in the inventory and switching to it if there’s a shimmering space in the water sucks, so if it was a wallet item you could just walk up to it pan and be done. oh my gosh i wish it was a wallet item now

[@xxselenaxx2142]

Oh that’d be awesome

[@oranplan1630]

that's such a good point lol. I carry my copper pan on me all the time just bc i want to get SOME use out of it, but I always keep it a far corner of my inventory, so by the time I get it into my main bar, the panning spot is gone

[@Popski887]

I just keep it on my head lmao

[@Glory_to_Arstotzka]

Isn't that why you can have it as hat ?

[@mg-ew2xf]

I picked the forest farm which has an abundance of hardwood so I had a worm bin and crab pots setup on my farm right near my crops. That makes it easy to spend 10 minutes to get a bunch of junk fish to make sashimi. Most of the town has it as a liked gift so I can just hand out stacks of sashimi while passing through town. Here, Pierre, you like this week old snail sashimi, don't you?

[@Thil]

I do the same! I also have two recycling machines at my worm bin crab pot setup so all the trash I get can be turned into useful items like quartz or cloth. The quartz is especially great cause turning trash into quartz for sprinklers is WAY better than melting it which uses coal

[@l0remipsum991]

give pufferfish sashimi to Pierre, he wouldn't know 😈

[@maeikaa4427]

I mean... for the bee house, you can just not harvest the flower 😅 that's what most people do I believe, so I don't think it is a "broken" item

[@Draculaura100Monster]

And it is sometimes used with fairy roses in ginger island, since there flowers don't wither, and in that case they almost rival ancient fruit in profits

[@medic-ez9fo]

Yeah once you got ginger island just plant a fairy rose and fill it whit bee houses

[@Stirdix]

@@Draculaura100Monster Especially since you can plant the fairy rose in the ginger-spawning spaces and use a bunch of beehouses for almost no farmland

[@emmataylor2748]

Yeah I fill the left side of the river on ginger island with fairy roses and bee houses

[@AgentSteffi]

@@Draculaura100Monster OMG i never thought of it. started a multiplayer farm and we get closer and closer to the island and still have no ancient seed. We will just do that till then! Thanks a lot, that is amazing

[@kkamikazee]

Golden scythe should be upgradable or another cut scene route to find just to keep it even with other tools

[@medic-ez9fo]

Iridium scythe could have a big radius, the might of the galaxy dagger, and you can harvest any crops with it

[@LaBlueStateGirl]

I never bother getting the Golden Scythe anymore. I don't want to change the mines when I'm farming coal and except for Fall 28, I like to leave clumps of grass when I do some thinning out to make hay, so it can grow back easily.

[@kkamikazee]

@@medic-ez9fo omg making it have it where you can harvest trellis crops would be soo good. Like instead of using a Juninho hut to get out of reach trellis crops you could use the scythe

[@katelynn1532]

@@LaBlueStateGirl the golden scythe gets you so much more hay than the standard scythe does though the difference is honestly insane

[@V3n0m0usVix3n]

@@katelynn1532 hmmm, I didn't know that. I'm gonna have to try that now.

[@mochapoke3100]

The hopper basically just needs to be automate but vanilla Honestly.

[@marcosdheleno]

the problem is, concerned ape heavily dislikes automation for some reason, i respect the guy, but he thinks we need to swamp out 1 item at a time manualy everytime to enjoy the game... even at late game when you were supposed to be rich and floundering money around.

[@lynnlantern7513]

Bee Houses are actually super OP on Ginger Island. Flowers dont ever decay so you can just plop down a few strategically placed Fairy Roses and fill the whole place with Bees and you get just so much honey

[@anonygooose]

Watching this made me interested in seeing a Spring Onion Mastery speedrun... a relatively difficult speedrun for little gain 👀

[@emmataylor2748]

The flower honey you should be able to make into more valuable mead. Since it’s only worth making mead with wild honey iirc

[@marcosdheleno]

i feel like bee houses should gain bonus similar to fruit trees, but instead of each year, its each season they are out.

[@Dojibu]

My main idea for the bee houses would be to make mead from flower honey affect the end price, like wines are. Sadly, fairy rose honey still makes regular default mead in the keg. You lose money from that exchange.

[@missg6709]

I love the worm bin when I pair with Automate, a chest, a recycler and a massive army of crab pots 👀 Automate for the geode crusher too, paired with a couple other machines. Put the beehouses on Ginger Island, across the river from your farm.

[@ishanchegu]

mate if youre using automate, the worm bin is not the way, the way is to place crab pots all along every waterline, and put a chest someplace it doesnt get wrecked. and use the luremaster profession. FREE BAIT EVERYDAY. and recycling the trash gives you coal, cloth, wood, stone, iron!!! all stuff youll use(coal at least)

[@waffles3629]

Same. I usually end up with a crab pot empire. Nets me a solid amount with zero upkeep. Bonus points for doing this in multiplayer cause you can get the increased sell price AND baitless.

[@missg6709]

@@ishanchegu yup. By the time I get the lure master profession that worm bin gets hooked up to the system in my crafting area. Stockpile that bait for when I'm chasing legendaries... Or more likely that stupid lava eel

[@mertensiam3384]

I use wormbins the same way I still need to make some crabpots to fill the little pond in my farm but it's a nice way to get some cool recycled items

[@kimoro9643]

also, I would improve the trains! I always run up there when I get the notification and most times you get nothing, a few times I’ve gotten a couple geodes, rocks, coal… how fun would it be if you actually got great stuff! especially I wish the Christmas train gave you awesome presents :) great vid!

[@everlyyyyyy]

I feel like the copper pan should be able to be upgraded to iridium (it could start as just the pan) so it doesnt look weird in your inventory, and THE GOLDEN SCYTHE. it looks so weird when all of my tools are iridium and i have the infinity gavel which is purple as well, i think when you get to the end of the quarry mine you should just get an iridium scythe, or get the golden scythe that can from then on be upgraded to iridium

[@ironman-uc7ek]

I actually love bee houses, I use them on ginger island with like 5 fairy roses on the other side of the farm where you have very small amount of room to plant crops, makes me like 85k every 4 days, which isn't that bad.

[@emilygrant6814]

I'd love to see bees flying around my bee houses! In my perfection file I have a few fairy roses on ginger island that produce honey all year round, it's pretty nice

[@Jaspanda_P]

I never used the worm bin or whatever but 25 hardwood is STUPID as fuck. By fishing level 8, you'd have like 50 stacks of bait at that point

[@GokoArkham]

@@tobb7006 I usually get to level 10 fishing by Spring 11-12 year 1.

[@GokoArkham]

@@tobb7006 TL;DR: you'll have plenty of time to mine and stuff. You just need to plan ahead your first spring since money has a snowballing effect early on. Fishing can bring you a decent amount of money your first weeks. Tipically you fish until you pass out. Be broke and be sure you level up a skill so you don't lose any money and you're rested for the following day (you don't get energy penalty if that night you leveled up a skill). Day 5 you mine to floor 15-25 depending on luck. Get 45 copper ore so you can craft a furnace and smelt 5 copper bars on day 6. upgrade pickaxe that same day. Day 6-7 keep fishing. Days 8-9 try to reach floor 40 and get 25 iron ore. Day 9-10 upgrade pickaxe. Fund the upgrades with profits from fishing. Keep Chubs for energy (I plant 215 potatoes on day 6 to reach level 6 farming Spring 12, I really need that energy). If you need wood, just cut enough to meet your needs, normally it's a chest, but don't cut the stump unless you need the spot it's occupying. Stumps are not worth the energy this early on and they spawn tree seeds around them. Rainy days fish at Cindersap Forest for those Catfish, they can be hard to catch, but they are worth a lot. Always go for bubbles and treasure chests and try to get perfect catches (double xp), you'll be leveling up your fishing skill without even noticing.

[@lizard1255]

Bait is 5G per from Willy. When I play I literally just buy 200 bait from Willy, don't care about it for like 2 seasons, and then repeat. Or even if you didn't want to buy it, just go to level 15 in the mines and kill bugs. Using the burglar ring gets you 2 bug meat, or 10 bait, almost every kill.

[@seasaltine]

I find the copper pan useful on Ginger Island at least. I always appreciated getting a few free omni geodes so I could get the rainbow cowboy hat :)

[@1273s]

THREE. IRON. BARS.

[@alexion3007]

"No one has ever used the geode crusher" I mean haboo used it in the 24 hour perfection speedrun ... (because you place multiple geode crushers and then it's fast)

[@gamewrit0058]

Great vid! 12:14 I find it annoying to hear the shimmering lights sound from water bodies all over the game - I hear them a lot and don't see them, plus I don't use the pan because I don't have the space, time, or patience for it. Wish that sound happened only if you had the pan equipped.

[@kobaltblueknight]

The copper pan should be upgradeable, like the other tools. Also, each tool should have a special unique item "upgrade", like the Golden Scythe. The pick and the axe could have a single pickaxe unique item that lets you replace both in your inventory, for example. Each is the reward at the end of a special event, be that a dungeon, or some other method.

[@Shazam1998]

Didnt know Geode Crusher was considered that horrible. On my current very casual playthrough I have a bunch of them standing around where I just put all my Geodes from my day of mining in, I dont really wait for them to finish, I just put them in in the evening, take them out in the morning, and if I have more geodes left than I have crushers I just put them in in the morning as well before going on my daily grind. Saves me some time that Id spent waiting for Clint, its not like I need whatever the crushers spew out immediately.

[@raisi4062]

me who has multiple crab pots in the sewers, 3 geode crushers in the mine, a worm bin on ginger island, and carried the copper pan religiously on my head for a while:

[@ObIitus]

Automate mod makes a lot of those things actully useful. Like crab pots and worm bins together with trash processor make a full-afk farm making useful stuff.

[@greedier-7661]

Crab pots are good item while they are pricey remember that they give u items for almost free (and is free if u take perk in fishing) and makes worm bin useful. Also you forget that one of the best sources of coal is combo of crab pot + recycling bin. Spring onions are good source of gold for first spring as you get your first gold for seeds from them. Oh I will add that crab pots are great source of fishing xp as You don t have to waste stamina on them and can collect them at the start of each day when shops and homes are closed.

[@Masquerade404]

I use worm bins and crab pots every playthrough.. I have 10 crab pots on the farm to produce 10 fish that I "cook" into sashimi (Linus friendship recipe) and 5 worm bins to produce more than enough bait to "feed" the crab pots.. Just be sure to get the crab pot related perks including the one that prevents catching trash items (Mariner?).. The reason for going for "always catch fish" perk instead of "crab pots never need bait" is 2-fold.. 1) Every crab pot filled is guaranteed fish, which means sashimi.. 2) While holding bait, your only interaction with crab pots is to fill them, which prevents loss of time and inconvenience of picking up crab pots accidentally.. Sashimi is a very easy to craft food recipe (literally ANY fish).. You only need a kitchen and about 2-4 hearts with Linus to get the recipe.. Since sashimi does not provide any buffs, it will never override any food buffs that are harder to craft.. While it is only marginally better than iridium quality Salmonberry and Blackberry, you can mass produce it all year round instead of waiting for the small window in each year to run around the entire map to find them.. Which, by the way, is another boon in itself since you don't need to hunt down numerous locations across the entire map (that may or may not even have a berry to harvest) to get the most each year..

[@parapotatoes421]

dude nice, im going to use this on my current playthrough

[@amonizedits]

I love the worm bin. I have 2 next to my stable and put 4-10 bait in my fishing pole every morning before I hop on my steed and ride off. I have like 600 bait in my fishing pole now

[@anagentofdoingstuff6735]

Personally, I would make the Spring Onion mastery cutscene with the vincent and jas sewer scene

[@notnotme1715]

the worm bin is legit OP in vanilla if your farm is full of pots but you don't want to bug farm

[@dentheduck2095]

Automate mod fixes most of them, but most of the ideas are quite great, especially spring onion gift taste change.

[@digifreak90]

Yeah, Crab pots can actually be quite useful due to the existence of Recycling Machines as a fairly consistent source of Refined Quartz, since two of the 5 trash items (Broken CDs and Broken Glasses) recycle into it, and two other trash items (Trash and Driftwood) can potentially give you coal, and Soggy Newspaper has a 10% to give you cloth. Though I 100% agree that panning is near pointless, especially since it's possible to get Lucky Rings in Skill Cavern (in my current playthrough I'd gotten two Lucky Rings before I was able to use the Copper Pan once) and the panning spots are so rare and don't even last that long.

[@Death-Dott]

"no one has ever used the geode crusher" me, looking at Argon matrix's price of perfection run: hmm...

[@karoliinajarvinen7983]

Crab pots are not that bad! The thing is the fish can be cooked into sashimi, which sells for 75g. With the no trash profession, that guarantees 75g per pot per day, for the price of 1 bait. 100 pots = 7500g. And it takes way, way less time and effort than normal fishing.

[@gravajaumbros]

I always have so many crab pots everywhere! I take the fishing perks so that I don't need to use bait with them, and then I have (with the help of a recycling machine) more refined quartz than I know what to do with and all the sashimi I could ever want (which makes for a lot of my income before I really start hitting late game optimization). I also always have at least a space reserved on my farm for 1 flower surrounded by the max number of beehives you can have there and still reach everything. It makes for a great zero maintenance source of regular income, and it's a pretty decent amount for when I get it built. While the "beehives act as automatic fertilizer" would be cool and I wouldn't say no to it, it would mean completely changing up my standard farm set-up. I will admit to only ever building one worm bin per farm, just to go for completion of having built everything. But once I have it I do go ahead and grab the bait from it every day. Not amazing, but pretty nice. And the geode crusher for me is worth it because I always end up with plenty of coal, and Clint's hours such, so I much prefer to have something to open them myself, even if it's just one as I run past the crusher on my way to somewhere else. But I usually have a couple set up. No argument about how useless the Spring Onion Mastery and Panning currently are. Even when I see panning spots in the water, I find there's often no way to actually reach them anyway.

[@NicholasGaming47]

With the beehive thing- on ginger island off the main farm there is a tillable spot that you can plant on the opposite side of the river and since the flowers stay yearround there it’s very much worth!

[@EvanBear]

"I don't think I've seen a single person craft a worm bin" Me, who crafted two: Uhhh 👀 Tbh the worm bin should give wild bait instead of regular bait.

[@hkayakh]

The geode crusher has one significant use. It gives you the last thing that Clint cracked for you. So you Clint cracks open a prismatic shard, and you then put the same type of geode into the crusher, you will get another prismatic shard.

[@codyjordan8722]

beehouses are actually made significantly better by ginger island you can plant a fairy rose on the left side of your farm and place the beehouses around that for a min maxed space to value area that functions year round, and notably the pan is used to get a fossil as well as one of the ways to obtain the lucky ring

[@baboosrandomvids5390]

the issue with crab pots is having to check and refill them everyday. the only time ive ever used them is on my farm or with the automate mod, and a few worm bins nearby to supply the bait. only time you need them is for cooking every item

[@ellalasagna2857]

I love my worm bins and crab pots, they work really well together and with recycling machines

[@its_tables5989]

Me: who puts beehouses and fairy flowers on ginger island, I don’t have such weakness

[@YaoiFan22]

6:04 I did once it was Salmonberry or Blackberry Season. I sold half of what I gathered and ate the rest. I did that until I was able to make Algae Soup. It is the only thing I eat in the mines unless I find something better that isn't a Loved or Liked Gift. 12:28 Pretty sure this mainly applies to those capable of surviving the Desert Mine. I cannot so I don't go in. I don't even visit the Desert unless it's Saturday or Wednesday.

[@batinfaq1157]

Ok some bones to pick I have crab pots and I find them incredibly useful especially paired with the worm maker and a recycle machine. You can get quite a bit of coal out of it. Also, of all the things in the wallet the +1 to luck is by far the better item over spring farking onions. Oh, speaking of disgusting did you know you have little, tiny bugs that live in your eyelashes. Bet you didn't and now you do, and I hope you're as disgusted by it as the spring onion bugs, you're welcome. And lastly ALEX is the hardest NPC to befriend by far. He only has 2 late game cookable items that he loves. Any liked items are weak at best for him. Anyway, thanks for letting me pick those bones. I really like some of your ideas for upgrading underwhelming items in SDV. Thanks for all the hard work that went into this video.

[@purplurpl]

I know that this was made before 1.6, and even 1.5, I wholeheartedly agree with all of these and I’m glad they made the updates they did for the geode crusher, the worm bin, and even adding ginger island for what could be easier farming of fairy rose honey

[@alannadena]

Another way to make the geode crusher more useful would be to make wood (1-3 pieces per geode perhaps) an alternate fuel source, As it stands clint is one of only 4 npcs that remain relevant for me after I get most stuff unlocked.

[@thepianoist]

The hidden value of crab pots is, if you have the Automate mod, you can hook them up to recyclers and bam, free coal, cloth and iron bars for life!

[@CliffCardi]

Trapper: bait no longer required Mariner: same Luremaster: catches are always iridium quality

[@Xhadp]

As a new player here are my thoughts: First of all walking around is a major aspect into what makes an item good or bad. Crab pots, this item is actually pretty good when combined with a recycling machine. Getting refined quartz at an often rate without needing to fish up an item and then getting it is a major help towards the items that require it without needing to constantly fish up trash. A proposed rework/change: I'd say maybe make it able to pick up items depending on its bait status, no bait: High chance of trash and low chance of getting fish parts i.e. pufferish parts. With bait, high chance of fish parts and low chance of the crab pot pieces. The reason for this change is because you have NO idea where any of the fish needed for the Community center spawn unless you fish every day of the year which is a major pain unless you want to wiki. Geode Crusher, I use it. It is good if you don't want to walk all the way and wait until Clint opens. Also the hour passes by through the night making it useful in that aspect. Making it one coal to crush five geodes is a fine suggestion. The coal requirement isn't that bad if you are playing with purchasing minimal items. Spring Onion mastery, oh yeah that item sounds absolutely terrible. Yeah that deserves a rework. Bee House / Worm bin, I think those two are fine once you get into the mid-game.

[@coachandrewb]

Beehouses should produce honey based on the last flower grown near it every year and reset on winter. That way you don't lose space to more profitable crops but it's still worth doing at all.

[@briantroy7376]

Worm Bin: I think that's the wrong fix to the bin tbh. It should produce bug meat instead of bait and like 5 of them per day. At that point its worth the cost, even with the hardwood. Plus it enables the player to craft either bait or wild bait. Pan: I fully agree, it hurt me when I went to clint and he couldn't upgrade my pan. But also it needs good rewards, cause I honestly can't justify carrying it around with me right now. an empty inv slot is worth more to me than the pan is tbh. Hoppers: I think the hopper should actually be a thing that moves items from input to output whenever possible, with input and output labeled, probably just back to front tho. So that you could use it to automate things. For example, chest full of trash -> hopper -> recycle machine -> hopper -> chest. Yes that takes up 5 tiles. but the fact that it now keeps going all the time without you needing to be there is huge. Heck you could also automate things like hardwood into wood and wood into coal. Then at least for forrest farm users, you'd have 1 decent coal solution

[@g42_16]

ConcernedApe MUST see this because this would be so good

[@ncamon]

I'm gonna need to counter that crab pot argument, and provide a different balance idea. The cost itself is somewhat high if you craft them, but the fish shop sells them for 1500g each. Accounting for the ores, coal, and time to make them, Willie's price is better over all. As you mentioned, you get low price fish and trash. This is needs a piece of bait, again bought from Willie's store for 5g without luremaster perk(yes the worm bin is bad). However if you have a kitchen, and got Linus up to 7 hearts for the sashimi recipe, the minimum price for any of those fish will be 75g each. The sashimi is also a very reliable easy to get food item. My early game crab pots fish didn't get sold, they got eaten. And it doesn't override any other food effects I have. I usually am able to have both in by the end of my first summer. The crab pot's strength is that you get fish from it every day as long as you can have access to the area you put them in. You can have hundreds of these along the river and beach, and get a lot of fish everyday. Quantity over quality. The trash is also something I want to get for recycling machines. The changes I would want to make would be make the copper bars the base recipe for crafting, no more iron. Then change the Trapper perk that used to make it cheaper to craft make it so there is a chance at double of what the crab pot catches. The fish are not so high value where this would even break it. Then this would fit better with the lvl 10 perks for the profession.

[@twalton]

I love the idea of the beehives improving crop growth. It would also be great for it to improve the chance of high quality crops. The worm bin could also provide compost/fertilizer to improve crops as well.

[@mentalquorum3116]

On the forest farm worm bins are definitely viable early, but everywhere else they are a bit expensive until late game. I also wish that we could learn crafting or cooking recipes from lost books. This might just be a me thing because I like cooking, but all the good fish buff foods are super cheap if you have crab pots and cows (plus sashimi is amazing). I normally swap my fish sell price buff for crab pots don't need bait after I get a couple hundred thousand gold because you don't fish for money after that and the food is better

[@YayapLives]

A cute side benefit to worm bins would be to give them a chance to spawn artifact spots nearby.

[@smzzy8944]

“You all probably have the geode crusher by year two” Me who didn’t pick that quest up until year six: haha… yeah… year two

[@MarlaAndRubyT]

The geode crusher is awesome because I can just put it in and come back later. Visiting Clint is one of my least favorite things to do, since he’s on the opposite side of town and closes at 4. Plus Clint sucks. I’m all over that geode crusher.

[@Lankpants]

The geode crusher is actually kinda amazing in the dumbest way possible. There's a bug that makes it always produce the last thing that Clint cracked out of a geode. This means if you get iridium from your geode you can just throw one into the crusher and get double. It's not why the crusher should be good, but it's something.

[@diversitydiversity-r8n]

fair criticisms, and yeah I don't do worm bills until late, then jusst decide to jusst stock up on ngredients for wild bait and go from there

[@jihyosteponmyface2206]

I actually do use the crab pots, I don't like using my normal fish for quality fertiliser, so instead have about 30 crab pots set along the beach to passively collect the not-so-good fish that I wouldn't find using for fertiliser.

[@psiah9889]

So... Bees probably don't need adjustment from where they're at, because they're just... Straight up brokenly good on Ginger Island. Your flowers stay forever, there's space can't be used for much else, and right now it's outproducing my greenhouse, moneywise... And I have a bigger greenhouse mod.

[@Placeholdernaame]

The copper pan is an item where if used in ginger island, can produce many lucky rings, I personally have gotten 2 in one day. Additionally, the copper pan can also be worn as a hat, as mentioned in the video, so it literally takes up no inventory space. There is no reason not to bring this item, and would be completely broken if buffed in my opinion.

[@sebastianpochert4511]

You're too harsh on crab pots. I use them a lot. They make gaining Fishing XP much easier. Many people hate fishing in Stardew, you know?

[@Maxime4]

Crab pots are sooo good

[@Bobywan75]

Crab pots and geode crushers can be good if you get the mod to make things automated when a chest is adjacent like: worm bin to fill your crab pots and recycle trash automatically

[@Fandommember]

I mean for honey plant the fairy rose on ginger Island. Never have to replant and you can put them on the side by birdie where you can't really do crops. You can get a large number there

[@holymakerel]

my favorite part of this video and all other videos like this is how severe seanie gets about everything. "i dont think i have NEVER sold this. i don't think anyone ever on the PLANET has ever crafted this." even if i know for a fact he's wrong im like yeah. you're right mr dew...i have NEVER sold a spring onion on purpose

[@grimgrinningghostie]

another option for spring onion mastery could be making it 'forage mastery' instead, maybe not increasing the prices by 5x but increasing the sell prices of *all* forage

[@DrZaius3141]

Crab Pots are already cheap, they only cost 1500g to buy. They also make around 75g per day, so only 3 weeks to break even. The real issue is that they are annoying to handle, because there aren't that many straight coast lines where you could line them up like kegs. Also, the level 5 perk should be that you don't need bait anymore and the level 10 perk should be either the one where you don't get trash or one where it can hold 2 items before needing emptying. Let's not forget that Sashimi is universally liked (apart from 6 people that are usually even easier to please) so if you got 12 crab pots (3 for free, 1 crafted for perfection, 8 bought for a total of 12k), you produce enough liked gifts to satisfy 28 villagers twice a week.

[@stinkusthemouse]

In this video: slander to non-min/max players' items and errands

[@cubemaze9785]

If you have the tracker profession you notice there's quite a lot of panning to do, unfortunately the spots tend to spawn where you can't see them and it's especially tricky if you're in a large area with more than one body of water, so without the tracker you just miss them. I do agree that you should unlock this ability much earlier in the game tho.

[@renoodle5554]

Okay I respect and cherish you but I have to defend the crab pots. I love my crab pots in mid and late game so much because they allow me to make SO. MUCH quality fertilizer and farm extra resources -- also, crabcakes galore! (I tend to run out of spicy eel quick unfortunately) I do agree with you on the cost to craft though, its more bars than a single keg. I honestly think crab pots would be more interesting if we just... took the copper pan out and made it possible for crab pots to get ore or minerals (tho that would probably make both the pan and the fish pond more obsolete). Anyways I have a pond full of crab pots that saves my ass the last day of every season and ill love them forever

[@firecracker3906]

4/5 items in the crab pot bundle can be foraged on the beach and the crab can be obtained from killing those rock crabs in the mines so the crab pot is pretty obsolete

[@ishanchegu]

"from 8g to 40g....waaoooow....what a rush" i laughed at that

[@makay1116]

Panning spots make a splashing sound when they spawn. I'm on the forest farm so they spawn fairly often with those 3 bodies of water. The extra coal, iron, and copper adds up and is a nice little boost for keg making. I agree tho that for a bundle reward like the fish tank, it needs to be beefed up.

[@0XBlondie96X0]

Of course the hopper would be better if it unloaded machines automatically as well as loaded them, but I kinda disagree that not having this feature makes them totally useless. But that might just be because of how I play the game-- I tend to keep stacks of whatever thing I'm processing in my inventory so that when my machines are done processing I could just chuck more into them right away instead of having to root through my chests first. Like for example when I have eggs waiting to be processed into mayo I'll grab as much as I can from the auto grabber and have it in my inventory until I can put it in to be processed. Of course the issue with that is that it takes up valuable inventory space, so having a hopper to put the stuff I want to process in and it loading those things into the machines as soon as I unload them... well, like I said it'd be better if it unloaded automatically too but I still find it pretty useful

[@jcartist5881]

The one reason I think beehouses arent that underpowered is they have on op niche in the end game which is ginger island. Since the season is universal and the crops dont wilt, you can set up a lot of beehouses to make free profit every 4 days with no work needed after set up

[@sneezyfido]

1.6 made crab pots much better! Yes, it takes a season for a crab pot to repay its own purchase value (1500). After that it's passive income. But as of 1.6 the trash you catch is pretty darn good. A map full of crab pots generates the materials for several dressed spinners per day, for free. Go fish, smoke the good ones with the coal you also got from the crab pots, get rich. Or you spend the iron on kegs, sell the cloth. Whatever you like

[@whosfredol5194]

Fair enough, the only reason I have 20 crabpots near the ocean is the fact crab cakes exist, thats it. I just want crabs for crab cakes. nothing less, nothing more.

[@mirasdiary]

“i don’t think ive seen a single person craft a worm bin” *looks at my worm bin* yeah hahah,,, same

[@BenCarnage]

Beehives can be placed on non-tillable spots. So there are quite a few areas on both normal farms and especially on ginger island where you can place a fairy rose on a single tillable spot and then put a ton of beehives on non-tillable spots.

[@alexipaternoster8823]

something that is astonishing to me is the fact that people run out of coal. I don't think I have ever even come close to running out of coal after the very early game

[@vry6946]

I always have a quarry full of furnaces and I consume about 170 coal a day... it's horrible having to go buy more just to make copper or iron ingots :(

[@daniellemurnett2534]

On the topic of crab pots, there should definitely be more incentive to get recycling machines. I'm no game designer so don't ask me _how,_ I just know less people would complain about crab pots getting filled with trash if you could then *do* something with the trash. Not to mention that alongside crab pot and worm bin buffs, it would make both paths of the Trapper profession viable instead of "trash farm vs. bait sink"

[@zxc13x]

Geode crusher actually good for duplicate a item after open geode from Clint, i.e after you get iridium ore from Clint, then try open it with geode crusher, you will get iridium ore too

[@terramarc]

“That’s an absurd amount of hardwood” Uh, actually, I have more than 150 extra hardwood

[@oEllery]

I use the Worm Bin. I have a section of my farm near the water near my house where I keep a few crab pots and a worm bin right near by. Every day the worm bin produces enough bait for me to refill the traps. Then I take the items from the crab pot and put them into an adjacent chest. I use the items from the crab pot to make refined quartz or recipes like fertilizer that just require any fish.

[@OceanLaboratory]

I literally only have crab pots just so I can catch crab to make crab cakes (they give +1 speed boost all day long, unlike other foods)

[@crow__bar]

The only time i really make a lot of crab pots is when playing modded and I have automate installed. bait is ultra cheap so just put a chest next to a line of pots, put in a bunch of bait and it results in quite a lot of passive income.

[@reibubbles2505]

I agree with everything, including the aggressive indignation. I only use crab pots with the Automate mod, it levels my fishing passively, trash is useful, and cheap fish makes for yummy sashimi for the skull cavern. This is the only scenario where 3 iron bars or 2 copper cost is worth it, for me. If the worm bin produced bug meat instead, it would have been useful(bait, wild bait, steak, magic bait...etc). The geode crusher... must be a joke, it has to be, right? Same as the spring onions. Instead of buffing spring onions when you don't need them anymore, how about buff them for 1st of Spring year one, when you need them THE MOST(or only)? In most games I ever played that had bees in them, the apiary would improve the flowers(or crops) somehow, either make them grow faster, stronger, cross-pollination, mutate into something better...etc. So that would be nice.

[@pap3r_cut]

Hey, Seanie! Really enjoyed your vid 🙂. Maybe a fun crab pot mod will come out! In my experience, bee houses can be helpful for making gold, particularly on ginger island. Even without the artisan perk and flower buffs, a bee house generates 25g/day. Not bad for early game! On ginger island, with the artisan perk, a fairy rose bee house can bring in 238g/day all year long. Thanks for reading!

[@abbonlexaforge1774]

I think it would be cool if you could use spring onions as like a weak qi seasoning. like make it elevate food items to silver star or whatever and add a bit of health and energy. I just think it would be really cool

[@Zairin.]

I don't necessarily think the crab pots being as expensive as they are is the problem. 3 iron for infinite usage isn't terrible. It's the loot and the profession. Since when you make enough of them, to fill everywhere they can be, your profession is as good as useless. Make the profession give a higher chance to get more expensive catches, or increase the value of crabpot catches (that isn't junk) 200%. Hell, even decreasing the ratio from 40% trash to 20% trash is an improvement. Better catches that make it worth it would be where I would start, then fix the profession.

[@Alex-mu6sm]

me, appreciating my three (3) worm bins because i never have to bother crafting or buying bait:

[@CoolJguy.]

What abt oil makers? They turn truffles into truffle oil and corn, sunflowers and sunflower seeds into oil. I have the Artisan and Botanist Perk and also a Barn with 4 pigs. I have 1 oil maker bc of a quest which lewis wanted a bottle of truffle oil. After which I realised that truffles at iridium quality bc of botanist perk sold for 1250g each while truffle oil goes for 1491g or smthing like and oil is kinda useless since you buy them from pierre for 200g. THE MAIN POINT is that to craft one,you need 50 slime, 20 HARDWOOD and a gold bar. Hence i think their useless at any point of the game whether its mid or late game bc their useless and 20 HARDWOOD (PS: If there are any error pls tell me in the replies or if there are any good reasons for these stupid oil makers)

[@chocolate104495]

In my perfection attempt file, I managed to snag not one, but two lucky rings! That made it worth it to me to keep it in the hot bar heh.

[@GRAVEYARDSH1FT]

Someone should make a mod for all these changes if they haven’t already- I’d absolutely love to play this version of stardew!

[@iPeanuthead]

I use geode crusher to passively crush geodes, I don’t really need them anymore since i got everything for the museum.

[@MrJablis]

i use the trash "fish" for quality fertilizer. when you don't have to bait them anymore they can be really good.

[@littlest.pet.shops.a]

10:27 is hilarious literally could not stop laughing

[@johnny_crash]

Crab Pots with the Automate mod are insane.

[@lnlonelyness2801]

what if in Crab Pots, they're given a low chance, but still, a chance to get cooked food that gives u fishing buffs? Like for example, 2% of getting a Seafoam Pudding in a Crab Pot?

[@nak-crow]

Dew: No one use worm bin Me: *look over to my 5 worm bin next to my fish pond bacuse I like free bait*