The ULTIMATE Year 1 Beginner Guide | Tips & Tricks

Here's an guide to successfully complete your first year. This video has been made before but since I get so many questions about it. I decided to add all the beginner guide episode into one long video to help those out who need it. I hope you guys enjoy the video :)
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:51 - Spring
11:27 - Summer
20:13 - Fall
28:43 - Winter
36:13 - Outro
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[@aotcanakin]

this video is how i realized i had absolutely no idea what i was doing when i started this game omg

[@VeraTanabe]

you’re not alone on this one😂i just started today and it made me want to restart a new game again because of the time i wasted wrong😂

[@augustbrown9711]

@@VeraTanabe Please don’t! Don’t listen to these people. Play at your own pace! ❤

[@ellarosales5867]

Same. Planning to restart the whole game after watching this hahaha

[@callofdutyknul]

Same! I thought i was doing really well when i finished spring. Halfway into summer i came across this vid. I've deff no clue what i am doing lmao

[@ZeriTV]

I was a week in, I did a restart but didn't follow day per day. Just getting ideas so I can enjoy the game kind of slow paced

[@sepitai]

Man as a beginner a lot of this is just information overload. This feels like it should be a 2nd playthrough guide, not a beginner's.

[@augustbrown9711]

This is! Please don’t listen to people like the is if you are a new player. These people love to GRIND and make it as convoluted and difficult as possible. It doesn’t need to be. If you’re a beginner, TAKE YOUR TIME! ❤ This game is what you make it. Please don’t watch these kids of videos until like you said, your second play through.

[@Siliphx]

Just focus on finishing the pantry bundle for the community center before winter so u don’t mess up any progress! As a beginner I was so bummed when I realized nothing grows during winter without the greenhouse 😭

[@lila.sorelli]

Beginner as in someone who wants to try and do things fast as possible after playing the game many times before

[@augustbrown9711]

@@lila.sorelli That’s not what beginner means..

[@lila.sorelli]

@@augustbrown9711 it can be used to describe what im talking about tho. like beginner speedrunner, which a video like this can be used for. you can play stardew many times as you want but not know how to go about getting everything in one year, you would be a beginner in that.

[@UndeadMonkey7]

"Everyone should know this by now..." Proceeds to blow my mind with new information.

[@Nick.McIntyre]

Big hack for hardwood. Pick the forest farm. Or, plant a mahogany seed on your farm and let it go wild, creating your personal hardwood forest. Lots of hardwood and foraging xp

[@patriciaaangeli]

omg thats what its for lol

[@drewgarey9233]

I just got 100% on year 7 after 300 hours

[@ezlilyy]

Congratulations!! 🎉🎉

[@MartinHermans-dw3is]

i think thats pretty normal for a first time casual playthru

[@timboyoho]

Ooooof I’m at 300 hours and at 50%, but most of that time was spent getting that goddamn trophy for beating the arcade machine game without dying 😂

[@idfrost0118]

good for you, i'm not planning to finish my game whatsoever😅 nor reaching the true perfection

[@leonardodelrosso6549]

I’m still not even 50% and I’m on year 13

[@hommefataltaemin]

Truly I have no idea how you got all that shit done in spring. I am playing the game for the very first time right now, and only got like 50 levels down in the mines by the time summer was over, and only completed like 2 bundles…. A more complete walkthrough on each season might be super useful as there were many things you skipped over that I was left questioning “what now?!”, haha. Or even if u streamed playing the ways you mention here, I’d love to watch it.

[@mzmoett]

These youtubers have dumped hundreds of hours into this game and have started new farms many times lol! I just created my 2nd farm (nowhere near end game in my first) and still lagging behind compared to her playthrough lol. Seriously, I didn’t complete a lot of stuff until like year 3-4. But with my new save, I have the knowledge of what to do to get things done a lot quicker. Good luck!!

[@augustbrown9711]

Please don’t compare yourself to these people! They have played this game for THOUSANDS of hours and know everything! I personally think they ruin the game for newbies… I’m not by any means, but the grind mentality is a turn off.

[@SwedePotato314]

I was JUST coming to say the same thing that the other commenters did. If not for you then for anyone else who reads it. This game is meant to be relaxing. There are NO hard deadlines at all. None. Nothing happens if you don’t complete a board request. You can take 3, 5 or 10 years to complete the community center, and another year to complete the mines and literally nothing will happen. It took me a long time to get out of that mentality. There’s nothing in the game that won’t come back around again if you miss it. Take 2 days and do nothing but fish. Or just completely clear and reset up your farm. Or chop wood. Or talk to and gift presents to the villagers. You don’t need to do anything by a certain time. You don’t need to do everything the most efficient way possible. Once you have a farm that’s a few years old you will have figured out ways to do things that are the most efficient for YOU. Everyone’s playstyle is different and everyone has different goals and things they like about the game. Don’t worry too much about reaching perfection. You can have your farm evaluated for perfection ANY time after year 3. When I started my first playthrough I told myself to not take it too seriously and that it would be a practice run and I could always start a new farm once I understood the mechanics and everything. I’ve never restarted and I just play to relax. I’ll get there when I get there lol. If you don’t water your crops they don’t die- they just don’t grow that day so if you have an extra good luck day just skip the watering and go to the mines! I only went on days when my luck was super high and it made ALL the difference. I would aim for 5 floors per trip. If I did more than 5 I would go up and empty everything into a chest at the top and then continue but with only the goal of finding resources and not making level progress. I can tell you that a good luck day makes ALL The difference in the mines.

[@Gold_Roses_]

Was introduced to this game at 15, never touched it until almost 9 years later. (23 yrs old now) and now I’ve bought the game on every platform I could (Phone, PC, Console) and have a new farm for each one. This guide has helped me a TON! I went in blind, not knowing ANYTHING about the game, and boy has it been a blast being a farmer! Well done guide. 🙌🏾

[@sans42093]

I was just thinking of starting a new farm THIS IS PERFECT

[@TheCoolGuy_]

As a beginner who is no longer a beginner but a slight better biggner I can confirm her claims

[@timleeder3929]

Seems more like a "so you're beginning your 3rd farm, Year 1 Guide" 😅

[@10pripri]

I'm so lost... how do you get the time to do all that???? I barely have the time to wake up and its already night time!!! Plus I'm poor af!

[@susheetofu]

i feel u 😭😭

[@papilightskin]

I feel you on the time issue, but fishing and the little coral/ sea urchin spot (I forgot the real name for it 😭) are great income opportunities

[@SwedePotato314]

Just take it day by day and don’t rush. If all you do is watch KZbinrs you’ll be like I was in the beginning and always rushing because you’ll want to be where they are. There are no hard deadlines or anything that you’ll miss. You don’t have to min/max it. I owned the game for years and would only ever barely start it because instead of a chill game it self super stressful and then I realized that I can play however I want lol I don’t enjoy min maxing and trying to make the most money as soon as possible. It’ll get done when I get it done I don’t care if it’s the most efficient or not I just want to play and relax. I had to read a comment like the one I’m posting now like 3 times before it finally clicked for me lol

[@RhondaH]

Once you get a mahogany seed you can plant it on your farm and make a little hardwood forest... easier than going to the secret woods every day!

[@augustbrown9711]

I do both! ❤

[@user-mw7vt9oz2h]

This is smart. The hardwood trees dont die out during winter??

[@avgalice]

my roommate just got into Stardew and this is PERFECT for them!

[@ezlilyy]

Tell them they gotta like and subscribe too! 😉

[@animaguss4311]

Thank you my first playthrough went swimmingly with your help! Thank You

[@pjdava]

ezlilyy, This made me so happy! I liked and subscribed!

[@freya1548]

Basic sprinklers are pretty good though. Yeah their layout is funny but they are cheap and easy to get early on so you can devote that energy to other things like the mines and fishing.

[@fiery_taurus5984]

esp im trying a beach save so hardly have much room to use sprinklers on, defo not skipping that first one! Gah i hate watering 1 at a time arly

[@kannakamui8608]

ohhh this was very helpful!!! ✨❤

[@MartinHermans-dw3is]

hey lily! hope you had a good christmas!

[@ezlilyy]

Hey! Hope yours was good too 🌸

[@lancerkiller3200]

I just finished this and I feel like i did everything wrong hahaha

[@anneflower5252]

Girl you go super fast with every goal in this game :o I'll take your advice, but aty own pace ;)

[@vickisnemeth7474]

I had a couple of false starts this year and am resisting starting another file until 1.6 comes out. Now a bunch of "new file" tutorials are coming out in December. Getting so many ideas...

[@mcdonuts2017]

Great video! Just finished my first spring and cut all my grass before getting the silo 🤡 😅

[@ezlilyy]

🤡 🤡 🤡

[@adamori8207]

i knew i needed to watch this from the beginning when you started chopping trees. i thought the base axe wouldnt get through big trees...

[@Misslawxchocolate]

BEST GUIDE EVERRRRRR🎉🎉🎉🎉And have a merry Christmas 😊

[@ezlilyy]

Glad it helped! 🌸

[@z0zd_1]

@@ezlilyywhy you ignoring my comments😢

[@MrPanisLetsPlaySeries]

I love your vids lily. What is your PC specs?

[@EinKindStirbt]

3:24 "My goals are beyond your understanding."

[@MissRuthina]

On my first playthrough i only decided to get perfect part way through the second year... Managed to finish spring on my 3rd year.

[@TheLarsPlay]

I start diffrently. I plant 13 parsnips and sell 2 seeds. This is enough for farming level 1. (I might buy 1 seed of peas, caulieflower for the bundle, but no more, crows starts showing up if you plant more then 15 seeds total on your savefile) I clear a way for the north and south exit of my farm, this produces enough materials for a chest or two (don't bother removing all stumps from the trees you cut, low gain vs energy used). I then head south with my hoe at 11 o clock. Meet all the npcs along the way. Then i go to the beach, (focus on trying to get all npcs except Willy (and the Wizard)). Look for forageables, worms or thin waving grass on the ground to hoe for artifacts or carrots (carrots are fantastic, 75 energy and takes only 3 days to grow). Then go to the museum, clint, jojo mart, back down to the middle of town (buy seeds now if needed and talk with pierre), then to the house with the old couple, go past the community senter north, meet the hobo and talk with sebastian at 7 o clock. Head back home. Do what you can with the rest of the day, like clear your farm for bushes and hope you get mixed seeds or/and clear some more trees to get enough for a chest to bring with you when fishing (you can also go and pick up leeks). If you found alot of dafodills. You can use em to get the blue haired tea girl or haylei happy, and give linus/hobo a foraged food. Linus got great gifts to you when you get hearts with him. And thr tea sapplings recipie from the blue haired girl is great aswell. Day 2 you read the mail, (think it always rains on day 2, so no need to water) maybe get spring onions and run to the beach With your hoe and a chest. Then you fish until you get level 2 fishing, selll enough fish to willy so you can get the glass fiber rod and a handfull of bait. Go fish near the mine or if you feel lucky, fish outside hayleis house for Catfish, hard to catch buy is worth alot of cash. Easier to gain kevels by heading to the lake near the mines and get perfect catches on chubs (chubs are better to eat instead of selling). The next days i wil just fish alot until the mine get unlocked. You can do alot of diffrent smart choises between day 3 and 5. Like if you got alot of catfish, head to flint, buy 1 copper ore to unlock the furnace recipe event at day 4, if you got fishing level 5 during day 3, you get 20% more cash for the catfish you stored. With this money, you buy enough materials to make 1 or 2 furnaces. Buy copper to make enough bars to upgrade your pickaxe to copper. Really nice to have on day 5 when the mine opens. Etc. Etc. Try making some ideas and try em? Like trying yo get the house upgrade asap, so you can make sashimi if you get 2 hearts with linus. Turning all your bad fish into 75 energy food worth 75 gold a piece.

[@-shinigamisuisen-5485]

Thanks for the subtitles

[@pomsn5847]

You recommend to skip "Basic Sprinklers", but in the Summer playthrough we see a lot of them? Whats the reason? Are some pretty good to skip watering 200 plants each day?

[@JohnMayes-eq6sb]

Your voice is the best sound I've ever heard

[@user-iq7jf2oc6r]

I must be missing something because I can not do this much stuff in that amount of time

[@ChristyTina22]

The music was a bit loud over your voice. But a very good guide. Ty.

[@ezlilyy]

Thanks for watching 💙

[@daveincognito]

I've found that putting tappers on the trees in the backwoods and near the bus station is less frustrating than trying to work around tapped trees on the farm.

[@nik0_plays]

1:50 you have until saturday to fix the bridge to get all the corals before they reset wouldnt do it on day 2 day 2-4 fish day 5+ go mines unless if its raining fish :P

[@jlst_gtr4498]

I'm completely new to the game and I'm currently in my first casual playthrough. I'm amazed by what you already accomplished in your first spring and summer! I'm nowhere near the lvls you managed to reach after spring :p By the time I'm done watering my crops, it's 12 PM already. Not so much time to do a lot of other stuff so by the time I'm at the mines for example, I only managed to go to the next 5 - 6 levels. How do you do everything so fast? I'm also not really focused on gifting as I don't really like that part of the game. Is that fine in the beginning?

[@kinseyyoung8865]

If ur playing casually then how fast u finish stuff doesnt matter too much because theres so much time in stardew to complete stuff. If u dont like gifting now dont worry abt it. If someone was specifically min-maxing and trying to reach max hearts as soon as possible like before the end of year one and two then they would havw to start gifting immediately but if ur just playing it casually then it doesnt matter :)

[@Seany_02]

What did I get myself into buying this game yall this shit goes DEEP

[@nikalicious2012]

Is the song at the beginning of the nintendogs shop music? Sounds soooo familiar

[@PrincessBubblegum]

You should give roots of pacha a try

[@m.ya.9032]

that music is really loud lol

[@rodrigoserrano75]

Is this guide still good if you re doing joja route?

[@idk39609]

don't mind me...just jamming to the songs in the background

[@matorr1019]

How do get enough energy for the wood on day 3?

[@gorgor6601]

What you do when that time you forgot the poppy flower?

[@idfrost0118]

and here i am year 4, 900k gold, all day from monday to sunday occupied😢 i even have my own notes

[@varzso24]

you are great

[@SwedePotato314]

I think I really suck at this game. I’m in fall of my first play through and I’m only on floor 105 of the mines, I have some bundles done at the community center but I’ve only been over 10k gold twice and I immediately had to upgrade my tools so I won’t be getting any of the vault bundles any time soon. I’m always broke. I didn’t get my rarecrow for donating 20 artifacts to the museum for some reason. I have like 6 villagers with 0 hearts because I just don’t have enough time in the day to find them all and talk to them and give them gifts and sometimes when I do they hate it lol I’m trying to do it as a relaxed playthrough with minimal wiki help and I’m doing it on console so no mods. But man it is HARD to get everything right. 9 times out of 10 I forget to even look for the traveling cart. I’m just not good at this game lol I’m really hoping by year 2 or 3 I have a better base of money, more ways of getting income, more automated farming so I’m not spending 2 hours every morning watering the crops that aren’t being covered by the quality sprinklers. After winter when everything dies I will reset my field to be better optimized so I don’t have to water hardly anything. But I had some fairy roses by my bee hives and I only got one fairy rose honey before I accidentally picked the flower while trying to water it. I’m just feeling really far behind.

[@ezlilyy]

There is no real fixed standard to playing Stardew! Every farmer has good and bad seasons💜

[@SwedePotato314]

@@ezlilyy thank you 💕 that was very sweet of you and you’re right. Every game gets easier the more you play it.

[@user-cm3td2jy4w]

for the Quality Bundle. you don't need to wait til Autumn to get gold star pumpkin. you can finish it in Summer by give 5 of Gold star Melon and Corn instead.

[@user-cm3td2jy4w]

also in my case I play with remixbundles. this one get replace by rare crops bundle ( required 1 Ancient Fruit or Sweet Gem Berry ) for 3 game save in row that's make me cried . YoY

[@abishekblesson4875]

I learned much from this but i aldready finished 1 year

[@annavanwormer970]

What if I started but it’s going super slow is there any way to save it by using the tips? This is also my very first time ever touching the game

[@jazzlynjohansen9332]

Idk where you’re getting the money to do all of this

[@internaltuning9914]

Music and voice volume levels are stressing me out

[@vlonecombo4206]

I bought my rabbits foot at the merchant for a thousand dollars

[@posindowe]

I dont have tapers yet and im at 30 days in the game

[@cleanfrank218]

Money🦀

[@totothepotato2794]

I’m on year 2 ill put what I did in replies but you should tell me what you did by year 2 if you want

[@totothepotato2794]

I got: married, my cat loves me, I have 2 cows, still cant get past floor 18 in the normal mines

[@Isaac-ph5co]

27:25 you were trying to get silver?

[@InspiredCaterpie]

Probably ment iron

[@elenahernandez5092]

I accidentally deleted my year 7 save file 😢

[@WiseOwl_1408]

RIP. Try one of the new farm plots

[@DaemonDreemur]

Where is your accent from

[@ezlilyy]

I'm from South Africa 🌸

[@druidplayz2313]

And i thought i was minmaxy

[@Lordofcookiejars]

Music was so loud

[@AryanneChhetri-bu6xx]

You really love this game huh...

[@ayub2862]

First....hehehehe

[@Misslawxchocolate]

Me 2