The Ultimate Qi Challenge Guide - Stardew Valley

Qi's Special Orders are the hardest challenges in the game, and I'm gonna do my best to make them as easy as possible for you!
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Sections:
0:00 - Intro
0:35 - Gathering Qi Beans
5:27 - Growing Qi Fruit
7:18 - Let's Play a Game
8:36 - Four Precious Stones
10:23 - Qi's Hungry Challenge
10:55 - Skull Cavern Invasion
12:18 - Qi's Cuisine
13:40 - Qi's Kindness
14:55 - Extended Family
16:18 - Danger in the Deep
18:20 - Qi's Prismatic Challenge
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[@salmence100]

Big correction: staircases are sold on Sunday!! Don’t know why I said Wednesday it’s literally right there on screen

[@shutupimstilltalking]

10:01 You can get 100 jade per year from 2 Crystallarium So you only need 8 crystallarium to get 400 stairs a year that's 4 trips for me.

[@vivaciost1430]

@@shutupimstilltalking thanks for the fact 😊

[@Jkizzle4996]

I actually had this same issue, there is a wiki page somewhere that says the wrong day. Not sure if it’s the official wiki or not but I def saw it in my googling and had the same issue

[@sarahkatherine6973]

@@shutupimstilltalking 😊😊

[@vexywexypoo]

I could've sworn I got staircases on Wednesdays at one point but apparently not

[@airtonoliveira1732]

RECENT NOTE: AS OF 3/27/2024 Stardew Valley has been updated to make it so you have to collect the prismatic shards during the span of the Four Precious Stones quest.

[@awesomegirls10]

Nooooo 😢

[@samuelkalen2971]

This is however made easier since you now have a 50% chance to get prismatic shard from meteorites on your farm!

[@caosin3667]

​@@samuelkalen2971meteor is too RNG dependent to rely on

[@samuelkalen2971]

@@caosin3667 how? Just wait til you have a couple on your farm and start the mission. Of course you might not get all 4 you need but it will sure help

[@caosin3667]

@@samuelkalen2971 its 1% chance of a meteor appearing in your farm + the chance for prism shard is only 25% By far the better method is deep diving the skull caves

[@lolli_popples]

Salmence: You’d need a lot of eggs. Me(who’s main file is a farm where my only source of income is chickens): MY TIME HAS COME

[@penguindrummaster]

How many chickens are we talking? I just consolidated all of my machines and eggs because I had hundreds of eggs, between my coop of chickens and void chickens, lol. Love the passive income they provide, plus all the cooking it enables

[@lolli_popples]

@@penguindrummaster I think I have almost 50 chickens, more soon hopefully. They’re all maximum hearts.

[@penguindrummaster]

@@lolli_popples bravo! I had full hearts on most of my animals, and then I discovered Ginger Island. Now none of them even recognize me 😭 I'm also envious of your egg production. I'm swimming in eggs with only 24 chickens combined. To have double that 🤑

[@lolli_popples]

@@penguindrummaster I sell most of mine lol. Its my main income source. I kinda wish I’d gone the Joja route so I could have auto petters. Obviously those aren’t great for getting them up to full, but it would mean I wouldn’t have to pet all 50 every day lol.

[@keigothinker]

@@penguindrummasterLMAO SAME i used to pet them every single day then once i fully unlocked ginger island i was like "it'll probably be fine if i just pet them every couple days" until i only do it whenever i remembered (which is like once every couple in game weeks 🫥)

[@gabereal9252]

On the Prismatic Grange one, you can mismatch any items of the same color, such as 75 Joja Cola, and 25 Clams.

[@salmence100]

Ah yes! I should’ve mentioned that, I assumed it was implied

[@aroramccracken2429]

I actually didn’t know this! I’ve mainly been using that quest to farm qi gems and that would’ve been a big help if I knew that

[@thermophile1695]

Fun fact: The spiders have an absolutely crazy drop pool. They drop everything dust sprites do (winter foreagables, coal), and everything void spirits do (void essence, bars, rare disc), as well as Qi items, like pressure nozzles, or even galaxy souls. Burglar ring and monster musk lets you get a disgraceful amount of loot from spider slaughter.

[@molten_4493]

What floor/floors would you say is the best for farming the spiders?

[@thermophile1695]

@@molten_4493 Hmm. I don't remember the exact floors I used; I think it might have been 55-60, but I'm not sure. Just go through the entire area with sliders a couple of times until you get a feel for the floors with the best drops.

[@windflier1684]

If you can tolerate those damn green ghost then that's pretty good

[@trout512]

@@windflier1684Bring ginger ale or ginger with you, and you can negate the nausea debuff. Using a sword and the block effect rather than a hammer/dagger will also stop the nausea attack pretty well. I haven't had any issues since the first time I ran into them. Ginger ale also has a +1 luck buff and heals more, so that's what I prefer to use. It's sorta hinted at in the item description, something about ginger ale settling upset stomachs.

[@slwrabbits]

You can also avoid all debuffs by stacking mermaid boots and an immunity band.

[@crowncryptid]

For the getting qi beans from fiber, it has to be fiber cut on ginger island. Cutting it on the mainland doesn’t work but if you do it on the island it does!

[@CrazyIvan865]

I was just about to comment. I did get 3 Qi Beans from cutting fiber in the dark talisman area in the sewers. 5 if you count the 2 that went *bloop* into the water.

[@slwrabbits]

It's an incredibly low chance, though. I also got a few from the mutant bug lair, but cutting weeds all over the island yielded nothing. The most consistent source of qi beans was actually coconut trees.

[@user-bo7qf6ry5o]

Sorry but I don’t think that’s true, or it may have been but changed in an update. I’ve definitely received a few QI beans while farming fiber on floor 81 of the mines

[@Pandor18]

what I love about games like Dead Cellls and Stardew Valley is that when you stop playing for a while, when you come back, it's almost like a new game

[@flyinghippocamp126]

Two tips about using geodes for qi beans: 1 - not only is the chance of getting a qi bean the same across all geodes, if a particular geode crack is going to give you qi beans, it will give you qi beans regardless of what geode type you use, you can verify this using the mouseypounds predictor 2 - because of the way geodes are seeded, if you have clint crack a geode, and then put that same type of geode into the geode crusher, you'll get the same result. If you immediately stick a geode in a crusher every time you get qi beans from clint, you double your qi beans, which is great if you have 100 geodes on hand

[@jimmyrodriguez5670]

Don't you have to wait for the crusher in 2?

[@jerryglennii1406]

My lava eel ponds just became even more valuable!

[@leslieviljoen]

I think this has been patched now.

[@Chris_winthers]

12:17 alternatively, just waste 125k on coffee and make them into triple shot espressos for immediate cooked items without a need to be watered

[@PoliticRevolutionnaire]

Oh that's a very useful idea since I drink an absurd amount of coffee in game

[@gamingtime9716]

​You don't get to drink the coffee, you have to ship it

[@cardnial_omega6701]

That’s exactly what I did lol. It’s fun being a multi-millionaire.

[@leslieviljoen]

I had enough beans from my coffee farm to be able to brew them. I think it was about 700 coffee.

[@cruisindownthestreetinmy6490]

I bought a lot of flour for bread, I used my eggs for omlets, fish for sashimi, cranberries and sugar for cranberry candy, and yes, a lot of coffee. There was a bunch of other stuff in there, but those were the most accessible.

[@farmergiles1065]

Qi's Cuisine: *Before getting the quest* , obtain one or more Coffee Beans from your favorite source, plant them, and plant their produce until you have as many plants as you want to grow, and collect all the necessary beans into a chest. These are your stockpile seeds for growing as much Coffee as you want in the future. Buy the Triple Shot Espresso recipe from Gus in the Saloon for 5000g. The next Spring, plant some stockpile beans. Grow 3345 Coffee Beans plus stockpile replacements for your next harvest. Place 3345 beans in Kegs to get 669 Coffee. Place the Coffee in a Chest. You're ready to go. *After you accept the quest* , cook the Coffee into 223 Fresh Triple-shot Espresso and ship them. The Qi Gems are added to your holdings when you awake the next morning. The beauty of this plan is that all the real work is done while you're waiting to get the quest. Once it arrives, you're done in 5 or 10 minutes of game time. You never have to scramble to find what to cook or what ingredients you have or need to use. You never risk using resources you didn't want to spend this way. You're completely covered. And you don't have to pay anyone for ingredients ever again. By stockpiling beans for replanting, you can repeat the process at no cost, and at your leisure or choice of time. This technique is very handy for all the other uses you may have for Coffee or Espresso too.

[@seekeroftruth38]

U can use burglar ring and hot Java ring together to get a lot of coffee too! This is easier i think

[@farmergiles1065]

@@seekeroftruth38 In one spring and summer on the farm, I planted a field of coffee, watered with iridium sprinklers, and harvested by Junimos. My yield was approximately 30,000 beans, which I placed in Kegs (280 Kegs at a time in 2 Big Sheds), making about 6000 Coffee. Cooking 2000 Espresso is then trivial and it supplies all you want to drink for some time, plus even two repeats of the quest. I can't imagine having to grind for that many drops, and you can't undertake any such operations with the rings until you can get them later in the game. So this is my preference.

[@LindaMissad]

you can also buy the coffee beans from gus and make the triple shot expresso. It counts as being cooked. goes alot faster if you have the money.

[@farmergiles1065]

@@LindaMissad True. I sometimes overlook the expedient of buying raw materials because I just make it my own practice not to buy. If I *can* make it, then I *do* make it. Faster by buying means slower buying something else, and there's always something else to buy. Besides, I tell myself "Why buy what you can make? Seems wasteful." Well, that's arguable, but it just reflects my personal attitudes. I don't follow capitalistic practice in all things. Not that it doesn't have its place, but I'm not in a rush to build, capital, or farm. And I like being free to practice that attitude in a way one can't always do in life.

[@rachedenO]

Thanks for this tip! I complete this challenge so fast

[@ikasushi1989]

Great video! I fully agree that the Junimo Kart one is much more demanding than it may initially seem-- getting through the whale level with only one life is, in my opinion, as difficult as (if not more difficult than) completing progress mode. Here are some extra tips from my experience after completing all the Qi quests: Qi's Crop - You can also get Qi Beans by killing enemies, breaking crates, and opening chests in the Volcano Dungeon. Not quite as easy as chopping trees or fishing, but if you're going through the volcano anyway for cinder shards or dragon teeth, it's pretty nice. - The chance of getting beans from breaking rocks is low, but if you're doing a Skull Cavern run with lots of bombs, you'll break much more than just 200 rocks along the way. If you get one of the two Skull Cavern challenges during the quest and aren't planning on staircase-skipping, this is a very nice bonus. - Seven harvests of four days each takes 28 days in total, not 24, so you would have to plant all 72 beans on the very first day. To reach 500 in six harvests, you'd need at least 84 beans planted (or three and a half iridium sprinklers). - If you miscalculated your yield or just have extra Qi Fruit at the end of the quest, you can sell it to Pierre to prevent it from disappearing and then buy it back the next day, which can make future runs of the quest much easier! Qi's Hungry Challenge - I personally recommend the Phoenix Ring (from volcano chests) and Slime Charmer Ring in addition to Vampire Ring and a Vampiric weapon. Considering your means of healing are very limited, being able to revive at half health with the Phoenix Ring is a game-changer. The Slime Charmer Ring will let you kill slimes to your heart's content to heal without any risk of being damaged by them. - Although you can't eat or drink once inside the cavern, you can still get buffs prior to entering it, so you can bring a Triple Shot Espresso and Spicy Eel, then use them right before heading in. If you can afford a Magic Rock Candy, it helps tremendously. - On normal and dangerous mode Skull Cavern runs, it's pretty much always best to jump into any shafts you fall into, but when you can't freely heal with food, their damage can really hurt. If you're below half health, it's often better to just skip the shafts. Qi's Cuisine - A slightly more expensive, but nevertheless viable, option is to buy 669 Coffee from Gus and turn them into Triple Shot Espressos. Unlike the Wheat Flour method, this doesn't require you to wait a day for it to process. If you have a coffee-brewing setup on your farm already, you can even supplement some of the cost with your own Coffee. Qi's Kindness - If you're using Rabbit's Foot or Prismatic Shard as your universal gifts, be aware that Penny hates Rabbit's Foot and Haley hates Prismatic Shard. - Iridium Bars are loved by Willy, Maru, Clint, and Krobus. Not the cheapest option, sure, but if you go to the Skull Caverns a lot and/or have the Statue of Perfection, it's definitely worth considering. Extended Family - The Son of Crimsonfish is only hook-able from the right side of the beach (i.e. the tide pool area), not anywhere. Other than that, though, the location explanations were on point! Danger in the Deep - The new enemies are tough, but have predictable patterns once you get used to them. Notably, the Shadow Sniper only fires in the four cardinal directions, so if you stay diagonal from them, you're perfectly safe. Qi's Prismatic Grange - Some other potentially useful items: Cherry Bombs and Salmonberries (Red), Ginger and Torches (Yellow), Green Algae and Seaweed (Green), and Blackberries (Blue) Good luck to anyone who's looking to attempt these. They're brutal, but can also be very rewarding!

[@regan_cm]

For the loved gifts challenge i hoard the hell out of loved gifts (esp ones that go for multiple people, like strawberries, pizza, diamonds, and amethyst) in chests until i get that challenge. then it’s just a matter of running around. it helps to buy the key to the town first :)

[@stolenhero6650]

So for the family fishing quest, here's a better load out that makes fishing almost trivial. Enchant your fishing rod to have "Master" to get +1 fishing levels when holding, to get you to level 11. Then, take some magic seasoning and make seafoam pudding that gives you a +1 to the fishing given, so giving you a total of +5 fishing. The fish required to make it is actually easily found, surprisingly. As they're both on the island during any season, so it's best to look on the wiki where you find them, cuz I can't be fucked to tell you. This so far gives you a +6 level in fishing. And a cork bobber, this gives you +24 pixels to your green bar, but in reality this is more like "give you a free level in fishing." If you didn't know, just having a master fishing rod, and maxed fishing, there's these little gray ticks on the side of the green bar, at level 11 fishing, you get one tick, and like 60% to another tick. But using the cork bobber puts you slightly over the second gray tick. This leap in size is essentially another level up honestly, and I feel the description should be changed because more people would use it if they knew it was actually a level up size, or well, even more than a level up size. But for arguments sake, this is another +1 fishing level. So essentially, you get +17 fishing. Now this may not seem like a big deal reading this on a KZbin comment, but do it in actual gameplay, your green bar is actually like 33-40% of the ENTIRE fishing window. Like, if just a master and a cork bobber is two gray ticks, this would be four. It's fucking massive. But anyways this makes literally EVERY single legendary fish trivial except for maybe glacier fish if you have a really bad movement luck, or the legend, for the same reasons. Otherwise it's a guaranteed catch, like it made catching the angler so easy for me, that I let it go just so I could try to get a perfect, three times before I gave up out of laziness and caught it without perfect.

[@NeoMusicGamer]

9 months late and I didnt realize Ginger cured the nauseated debuff. Would have saved me quite a bit of annoyance. Good tips all around, if anything this video helped me realize the quests arent nearly as daunting as I thought theyd be on paper. Cheers to you and the rest of the comments for being helpful.

[@neokatwastaken]

for Qi's prismatic grange, I find the easiest way is to use: red: spaghetti orange: copper ore yellow: sap green: fiber or salads. Depends on how much fiber you have blue: blackberries or joja cola. purple: bug meat or void essence.

[@completelygivingup9413]

Salmon berries worked best for red for me! Especially if you get it in spring, or save them for energy

[@feefifodum]

Bait is the best for red.

[@Akirasip]

Where you madlads getting all that fiber? Me and friends are always short on it.

[@JayJayM57]

@@Akirasip 2 week late reply, you can get a lot of fiber from sewer. Remember when you had the quest for magical ink. It opened an area with a lot of fiber.

[@diospato]

@@Akirasip pretty late but i always get the recipe for fiber seeds and plant them on winter, its nice since the farming space wouldnt be used anyways in winter (if you struggle with the mission for fiber seeds recipe, fishing in the farm ponds grants a high chance to catch trash)

[@DrZaius3141]

Fun note: If you have Qi fruit or Qi beans left, you can use them for the prismatic quest. Be advised though, that all the fruit and beans get completely deleted after the quest is over - even if they're already in the prismatic grange chest. Additional tip: If you're going for perfection, you only need 18 radioactive ore (3 bars, 3 ore) and frankly, nothing you craft with them is even remotely worth it. So don't go too crazy on the challenge levels.

[@mahbeans]

That's a pretty useful tip, using qi beans/fruit for the prismatic grange quest. Didn't know we could have 2 Qi quests active at the same time, I rarely check them.

[@meh8982]

You can actually keep your leftover Qi fruit after a quest. Sell them to Pierre the last day of the quest, the day that you ship, and buy them back after the quest is over. He will likely still have most of them the next day. Then they will stay in your chest until you need them again.

[@HelloThere-nm5pb]

here are my suggestions (and personal favs) for the prismatic grange: red- salmonberries (i collect too many in the spring even if i dont need them...) orange- apricots/oranges (i planted too many apricot trees for fruit salad.. 😂) yellow- idk dude sap is right there green- tea leaves bc i planted too many tee trees as well. also bc i wanna save my fiber for other crafting recipes blue- blackberries !!! purple- usually a mix of bug meat, void essence, and iridium ore

[@sarasuggs7240]

If you use the exploit to get a ton of statues of perfection, you basically have endless iridium ore, which can be helpful for the prismatic grange.

[@e-readme]

Because I'm the only person on the planet who goes big into crab pots, qis cuisine is always free.

[@FrostyFrostySnow]

Very interesting to see on the Qi Beans, I've only attempted once and definitely found that trees were the best method. I normally have my quarry full of tapped trees and then I'd cut them all down to do this before moving on to the naturally occurring trees

[@jimmyrodriguez5670]

I just did this for the first time, and I think a regular skull cavern run will get you most of what you need.

[@jerryglennii1406]

I made a tree farm set up cause I got tired of always being low on old saves. Can finish Robin's 1k wood request in a single day. So...can't wait till I can try Qi's

[@rxqss]

One of my favorite stardew channels right now keep it up bro

[@lilysmith1673]

agreed

[@outsanely]

For the freshly cooked challenge, I like to grow taro for Poi (just something I do regularly, and keep the taro in the chest for the future- sells for 400g iirc), and, once you get the coffee ring, you can get a lot of coffee to make into triple-shot espressos (which sell for 450g each). Sashimi is also a good option, like you mentioned, and ginger ale is also a decently easy one for late game- I use sugar from growing beets to keep costs down.

[@Silverleaf_Ranch]

Tbh I just buy coffee I change it into triple shots expresso

[@Aboni-rw7uy]

Been watching your whole stardew playthrough and it's getting me through some pretty rough days. 😌

[@salmence100]

That makes me so happy to hear! Glad I could make them better!

[@emmadm826]

Thank you!! This is really helpful. I avoided the qi bean challenge when it first came up because I felt wholly unprepared. I still think I'll do some of the others before attempting it, and I'd like to get 100% cooking first, but I feel a lot more prepared now!

[@jimmyrodriguez5670]

I just did this for the first time, and I think a regular skull cavern run will get you most of what you need.

[@lostfroglet7015]

If you set up for the cooking one wayyy in advance it’s not that bad. I achieved it really easy by growing about 50 of each crop for two years and then making things like red plates and vegetable medley. Worked almost too well!

[@hereforyoutube7695]

Oooh nice! I just used a lot of crab traps and coffee plants for sashimi and expresso, im not all that creative XD

[@slwrabbits]

I didn't keep track of how much food I was making and ended up overshooting the goal by 40,000 G. Whoops.

[@christopherdavis6319]

Thank you so much for this awesome guide! It was really well put together, and it helped ease my mind about these challenges. Subbed!

[@fee6362]

Qi beans is Easy 1. you can accept, get some Qi beans, grow them, and wait till the last day, sell them to Pierre! Qi doesn't steal the beans from him, you buy them back and can grow as many as you like 2 if you have the geodes from the start. I did this laytly, and it worked pretty well. But I had like about 500 Geodes. Plus I don't think you get more from any type of geode. And if you have them right from the start. ( and winter and the space, you can use than seedmakers.

[@roetemeteor]

For Qi's Cuisine, if you got Coffee beans, you can make Triple Expresso. The beans produce a TON, but you'll need a ton of kegs as well. Doing nothing but coffee, you can produce, if you use a 1/4 of your farm for it with non-optimal set-up (we're talking no iridium sprinklers and aiming for aesthetics over production, about 200 expresso every two days. You can easily produce more. However, that DOES require more set-up, and you may want to just use the cake set-up for easier production if it isn't spring or summer. However, do note it only takes 223 expresso's to nail this target, and 100,000 every two days is certainly nothing to sneeze at. It certainly produces exceptionally quickly compared to something like AFW or Iridium cheese production. Also, you can just set up for this ahead of time, because you'll likely stock up on coffee regardless because of just how damn useful it is.

[@Silkencira1710]

Yesss you are back! Now I can binge watch again 🥰

[@xMartyLuvzx]

Salmence, your vids are seriously a god send! One method to farming Qi beans I wanted to mention was BOMBS. Your mining probability is right,however I'm finding that bombs are producing more Qi beans in mines than just straight up mining, getting about 2-3 per fairly packed cluster of rocks with a mega bomb. This is the method I'm using.. will update if it flops

[@speedyboi88]

the video nobody asked for, but everybody needed

[@melissajade3603]

I needed this right now! Super helpful

[@aeternamente13]

I'm a bigtime lead bobber loyalist, and I'm surprised it never gets recommended. Not having to worry about ricocheting off the ends of the bar is HUGE for me, but I know fishing strategy can be very personal and idiosyncratic

[@84SuperBeast]

if you time it just right and tap the reel-in right as it's about to hit the bottom you can make the bobber not bounce at all. I don't get it perfectly every time or anything but I usually do it well enough to not need the lead bobber. Whatever works for you is perfectly fine of course, but if you can get that little finesse down it opens up the tackle spot for something else.

[@aminaaziz9019]

found an exploit where in multiplayer if one player opens the elevator menu before accepting the quest and the other player accepts the quest, the first player can go to floor 120 instantly and claim those qi gems!

[@salmence100]

That’s cool! Reminds me that back when 1.5 just came out, you could just enter the Skull Cavern to complete the Mines quest, since Skull Cavern Floor 1 is treated as Mines Floor 121!

[@ajdove1823]

I was not expecting the fart reverb, I laughed way too hard, thanks for that Sal I was having a bad brain day

[@Thebeautyspill]

my dude you earned a like and sub, I just got to end game and don't take some quests just because they are so god damn hard

[@alliu6562]

12:58 for the Qi’s cuisine quest, I’ve found that curry and ginger ale are some of the best ways to complete it. The ingredients are all or mostly farm-made or foraged and aren’t used for anything else important so you can hoard them in anticipation of the quest, except maybe coconuts if you’re romancing Haley or buying golden coconuts from the island trader. Other than that, I save crab pot fish to make sashimi. Using the Java ring + burglar’s ring to farm coffee is also not a bad idea. I’ve found the drop rate is pretty good on coffee, and triple shot espresso is solid value.

[@rellimarual]

I love the dangerous mines so much! The enemies drops are amazing. You can get metal bars, bombs, etc., but also qi gems on occasion and such gear as pressure nozzles, enrichers, autopetters, iridium daggers, even galaxy souls. Always go for the special slimes for the best loot

[@chimkeeee]

this guide is very useful :) thx!

[@anthonyk1667]

I finished the qi crop one yesterday. It is definitely easy if you're prepared with enough sprinklers and speed gro. Before I knew it, I had more than 500 qi fruits. Every day, I would go out to gather beans, come back to the farm and plant what I found, and then fish until it was late, then plant the qi beans I found while fishing. Speed gro, seed maker, repeat. It's a very fun quest!

[@penafloridajhond.6352]

What kind of speed gro did you use

[@anthonyk1667]

@@penafloridajhond.6352 mostly the quality one, bc it was easy to get

[@BoredMobileGaming]

10:52 if you already have access to the forge, combine any of the 2 rights Sal had recommended with the burglar ring. The burglar ring doubles your chances for a drop (this is the simplified reason, it actually rolls the loot table twice when an enemy dies. Ex. You kill an iridium bat and it drops 2 solar essence instead of 1 with the ring). Since the heart from the slime is guaranteed, you get 20 health instead of 10.

[@thatcrystalpie]

"Rate of *beanage"* and *"bean* rate" are forever a part of my vocabulary now

[@Anticlockwise1206]

For Qi's cuisine, I found doing the quest in autumn (when there are loads of blackburries available) and having blueberries and cranberries in the greenhouse help a lot. I basically stuffed it with blueberry tart, cranberry suace, and blackblerry clobber + bread, sashimi, maki roll, and chocolate cake here and there. For Qi's prismatic grange, doing it in spring is enjoyable. You have loads of salmonburries for red, and I just fished a lot of anchovy, sardine, and herring for blue (for once, I found those fish useful...)

[@brandileigh7684]

For Qi's Cuisine, I stockpiled coffee to turn into triple shot espresso when this quest came around. Honestly, unless you're already planning on making a bunch of coffee for yourself, I can't say I recommend going through the work. Just buy the wheat or the coffee.

[@Lure-Light]

For prismatic grange I keep flowerpots on ginger il end with multiple pots of the re-grow plants and crystalariums for re-newing supplies as long as I remember to check them. This is also helpful for the cooking quest. That being sead I’m also a hoarder so that might be why this strat works lol

[@gabriellef]

Re Qi’s prismatic challenge: I was lucky enough to get this challenge during fall while there was blackberries on bushes! 100 easy for blue in one day!

[@CarterCumber28]

4:52 I can’t believe this guy left the resort open when he wasn’t there. Poor villagers going all the way for nothing.

[@Babyvalkyie]

I save my geodes, and when I do the qi bean quest I just mow through them and usually get a BUNCH. Also bombing the mountain mines with a lucky lunch

[@svetaAFG]

I absolutely love dangerous mines. Just get the ginger+crab cake and it's a breeze. Drops are nice and include things that Qi offers you to buy with gems (like pressure nuzzle or galaxy soul)

[@notzelduh]

yall gotta start using explosive ammo for the mine challenges, and for qi beans while mining. makes it so much faster lol

[@kubankhaos]

The cooking quest. My setup burglar/napalm with iridium/java. Monster scent in reg mines floors 45, 55, & 65. Pop up to 0 to reset. Collect coal from sprites and coffee/espresso from monsters. Keep the coffees until this quest > Make espresso > Sell espressos!

[@louisagreer1700]

I've only just started doing these challenges. For the prismatic grange, I had a ton of cranberries for red and blueberries (obviously for blue) lying around. I have a habit of hoarding berries. Kale also works for green, and if you must, spare a few jades for that. I actually didn't have enough fiber, I go through it very quickly.

[@aaronwadzinski5761]

If you have a geode crusher, and are getting beans with geodes, at clints, whenever clint cracks open a qi bean one, put another of the same geode in the crusher right after, and double up!

[@heyitszinia]

my tip for Qi's cuisine is you can go to the saloon and buy a lot A LOTT of coffee and then cook them into the triple shot coffees and those will count!!!

[@Iggyhaxor]

I just dedicated a chunk of my ginger island farm to hops/grapes/blueberries/cranberries because hops grow daily, blueberries drop multiples etc then use sap and copper i just stockpile the crops in a chest so whenever the quest pops up i have it done in seconds lol for the gifts i have a combination of rabbits and then an area inside dedicated to farming gifts + storage for bought ones lol

[@milkis9098]

my main dishes for the cuisine challenge were poi (it’s easy to get tons of taro root), triple shot espresso (spring/summer turn all your beans into coffee and fall/winter buy coffees and then turn into triple shot), and then tropical curry if i have the ingredients

[@backgroundartist1879]

Because my farm land is ridiculously large (and i like to grow a bit of everything) i always go with cranberries, grapes, blueberries, hops, corn or hay, and i just sell gems fish etc for orange (i also hoard everything so ye)

[@maddiemcnugget1076]

I'm around this area of the game so while I think I know what to do, it's always good to learn other people's ideas. On that note, I want to mention how weird it is that there's no legendary fish in Ginger Island. It just seems like a place that would have one, but that's just my perspective.

[@lachouette_et_le_phoque]

I struggled so much with the Qi bean challenge the first time I tried it, because I was going with a variety of what the wiki says to do - I was scrambling the entire month and still missed the goal. Now I just save up geodes for this quest and fell a ton of trees and that makes the quest remarkably easy. With an iridium axe, I honestly find it kinda satisfying to mindlessly chop trees for a few days. Changing farming profession for the 10% growth speed boost is also really worth the 20k gold (2x change). I'd recommend not just saving a few hundred geodes, but also planting a whole lot of trees well in advance of getting this quest, if you're playing on vanilla. There simply aren't as many trees on the vanilla map as would be ideal to cut down. Last time I tried it, I cut down pretty much 90% of all trees on the SV Expanded and Ridgeside map, and I still didn't have quite enough wood at the end to craft all the preserve jars and kegs that I wanted.

[@adarcus4053]

I completed qi crop by getting 7 beans and the combining with speed grow fertilizer and then used the seed machine. It basically doubles your fruit count in seeds. So if you have 10 fruit you put in you will get around 20+ beans. just keep repeating till done.

[@darlenedarl9769]

love your channel xoxo

[@Silentgrace11]

An additional purple item you can buy for the quest is Life Elixirs. Much more of a steep investment, but you can get them out of the way all at once rather than going through ten days of buying void essence from Krobus

[@QwixLF]

I'd venture to say a casual run through skull cavern is the most effective. Just running through with bombs and not really too focused on being optimal depth, I could usually net 20-30 on a run. Some iridium as well, which usually slots well while an initial batch grossed from stockpiled geodes were growing.

[@flamingturnip]

If you have the dangerous mines I SWEAR killing monsters gives you way more beans. After I'd thrown in the qi fruit challenge I got like... 50 in two days of the mines. Granted, that's with burglar ring and luck buffs but I feel like that's accessible by this point of the game.

[@nathanwongchinrenntps2403]

I like how villagers was like hello when they saw you fished a qi bean

[@Sugar3Glider]

I learned getting Qi Beans via fishing in the farm so all I was getting was trash and beans. Cutting trees does seem better though, I'm glad I had built a tree farm. Best thing was using seed extractor though, I was doubling my beans every harvest, so I quickly got enough

[@phluffydragon8097]

Ive done the Qi crop quest 2 or 3 times and its one of the easier quests in my opinion, as long as you have enough space to plant the crops and a good number of seed makers, you can easily finish the quest in way less than the time given. I normally collect the beans through saved up geodes, chopping trees, and collecting coconuts. And when im not planting new fruit, or popping them into the seed makers i can go collect a few more and i get all the fruit i need in no time.

[@coltsnationable]

500 crops in 7 days seem rough

[@AndersRose]

Little thing about Prismatic Shards and Rabbits Feet, they're not a totally universally loved gifts as Haley hates shards and Penny hates rabbit foot

[@slwrabbits]

Re: stockpiling rabbit feet Me and my two deluxe coops full of fluffy rabbits are PREPARED!

[@agatemoonshine]

Note on Qi Beans, the challenge is way easier now with 1.6 updates "Treasure totem" I found that to be the most efficient way to gather Qi Beans, got around 45 with 10totems and I finished the challenge whole 7days earlier

[@scissorbanner9735]

The way I always got Qi beans was bomb spam in the mines, it worked well enough for me.

[@justlisa1599]

hey! great video! about the qi beans... wiki says "killing monsters" also. any thoughts or data to share about that? thanks! : )

[@cindylovemassoud3788]

For the Prismatic Grange because I plant in the winter, I can use the winter root (orange), crystal fruit (blue) and the crocus (purple) and then just sell the holly. That leaves the red - salmonberries, yellow - wheat cheap to grow and store, green kale or bok choy. What else will you grow in winter. Also, coffee to expresso for selling the 100,000.

[@JennzOrs]

Idk why but "rate if beanage" is so funny lol

[@StarlightNkyra]

For some reason I decided to take on Qi's prismatic grange first. I used mostly void essence, absolutely went crazy on joja cola, used petrified slime and fiber for green, used excess ginger and gold for yellow, dove into my copper supply and used whatever red thing I had on me and could find. I just barley made the deadline. Then, for my second I decided to keep my track record of bad decisions and took on the challenge of the reset elevator...

[@saiyurico2682]

i was so nervous doing the bean task cuz of everyone online hating it. it was incredibly easy even when i wasnt full prepped. have a tree farm in the desert, bomb the mines, kill enemies with a napalm ring. got all the seeds i needed in like 3 days, finished with 10 days to spare while doing other game stuff.

[@meh8982]

For the cooking one, triple shot espresso (if you have lots of coffee plants) or poi work well. Easy to grow tons of taro root for the poi. Lately I throw some Tropical Curry in there as well if I have the makings.

[@farmergiles1065]

Qi's Prismatic Grange: Red: Salmonberries! Pick them in Spring, keep them around. They're also still great food after the early game, since a large stack can be accumulated and carried conveniently for use whenever buffs are not a key need.

[@petrabotha8314]

Like many others, I prefer coffee for the cooking challenge. Difference is, if you drink monster musk, equip a burglar ring and a hot java ring, and mine dust sprites, you don't need any set up and the quest is easily completed within a week, especially if you add some root platters from the same floors.

[@rixgames69]

As of 1.6 with the addition of mastery, artifact spots ARE repeatable now, since you get the crafting recipe for the treasure totem that spawns them if you unlocked the foraging mastery

[@karlijnhulshof4370]

Also maybe helpful, with a geode crusher you can open a geode and get the exact same thing you got at Clint's before. If you do this each time when you find a stack of 5 qi beans it is even more profitable!

[@darkPegasista]

For the cuisine challenge I usually just buy a bunch of coffees and turn them into espressos. You'll get to your goal overnight

[@caprikat]

my fav common things to use for the dye is sap, bug meat, bait, broken cd's, fiber, and clay.

[@alexandrebrochu4265]

In fishing you have around a 50% chance of having Qi Beans in a treasure chest. Not 50% chance to get a treasure chest and 100% chance to get Qi Beans. Using tackles and such that increase chest chance will increase your chance of getting Qi Beans because you will get more chest. Not that I tested it myself but it's just the way I understand how the info has been passed down.

[@sliptrickproduction2727]

For the cooking quest, you can just buy coffee and the make triple shot coffee. More expensive but saves time.

[@TimeLady8]

Okay, I watched this video yesterday, and today I accepted the Qi Crop quest. While cutting trees, I cut weeds to get at them and got 3 beans while doing it. I also fished up some beans in the area next to Willy's boat. I was going for the life preserver, but I'll take the beans. LOL

[@ShotgunLlama]

You can save up foraged salmonberries and blackberries for the grange, and I think blueberries might be a good option you can grow

[@jojol.2630]

I normally play on 25% profit margins so the cooking one took soooo muuuuuch. I also had three straight weeks of Mr. Qi offering only the mines and skull caverns quests so I shot him with iridium ore.

[@LvrSienna]

energy tonic also works if anyone wants it done quick and easy from harvey’s clinic and also any received in the mail will work too!

[@gayowulf]

Sal: You need 100 items of each color: red, orange, yellow, green, and purple. Blue: Am I a joke to you?

[@liliespetals19]

For the cooking quest, if you have a healthy stack of coffee, making expresso counts!

[@blainethemono4550]

Triple expresso counts as freshly cooked food AND its expensive to sell. Also, there is unlimited supply of expresso available to buy in the saloon to cook triple expresso from. Enjoy.

[@KhanhTheLearner]

Fun fact: for the cooking quest, it's best to buy coffee from Gus, make triple shot espresso, and sell. It will still count, and it's pretty easy.

[@sculkwizard]

Hold the phone haleys HATES prismatic shards and penny I believe hates rabbit feet

[@smallkidneyjoe4046]

i always use void essence for purple in the prismatic grange (i have way too much of it from going through dangerous mines and skull caverns with the burgular's ring)

[@hommefataltaemin]

“Beanage” is just a wonderful word lol

[@werewolfmlm]

For the prismatic challenge, blueberries are also a good option if you have some in the greenhouse. I had a full 999 stack in my fridge that had no other use since I only use ancient fruit for wine so. Though I wish you could use bait as part of the quest, its just chopped up bug meat :/

[@jennifermorrison7887]

You mentioned purple is rough but honestly if you have a few crab pots and a few recycling machines the glasses and broken CDs make refined quartz

[@Pancakesbetterthenwaffles]

By the way, in the 1.6 update the prismatic shard quest you have to find them you cannot use your originals

[@divergent_bowtie1066]

wow i wish i knew about the ginger debuff like an hour ago lmao