What I Wish I Knew BEFORE Playing Stardew Valley

[@zorkan111]

Tip 0 you need to know BEFORE playing Stardew Valley: You don't need any tips. This game is about relaxing, chilling, and discovery. You don't need to min-max your first run.

[@ratcrusher3251]

I disagree, there are some features that arn't immediatly known about that make the game better/more fun. Another comment stated how they didn't know that they could move the greenhouse, which is a nice tip for people who want to make a specific look for their base.

[@zorkan111]

@@ratcrusher3251 Sure. But on the other hand, there's a bunch of these "things to know before playing" videos that give tips like 'save money for strawberries', 'give gifts X to people', 'place crops X into kegs', etc., basically giving spoilers and ruining the sense of discovery for people. First timers don't need to min-max. The game is easy, no one's going to lose the game if they do certain things suboptimally.

[@Waligug]

Very true!

[@Kaiimei]

@@ratcrusher3251 I never knew that, and that is most definitely useful xD

[@brettjc0483]

I mean yeah, I didn’t follow any guides on my start, but I also sold an ancient seed instead of giving it to the museum.

[@TripleBerry]

i wish i knew the game existed a lot earlier on, I've only been playing Stardew Valley since late July/ early August of 2020. It also would've been cool to see when DF actually uploaded Stardew Valley like everyday.

[@nalu467]

same, but i just starded playing last year

[@xvdvn2216]

I only started playing in November after one of my friends gifted it to me for my birthday. Let’s just say I’ve definitely gotten their money’s worth out of it.

[@DanniBananni]

I started playing last month lol

[@Check.ur.theism]

Started playing this week... I have nearly everything done and i'm in year 2. Playing when the game was new would've been nice though

[@mirasdiary]

as fun as it was seeing DF upload everyday, i think it’s better now as you can binge 😂

[@GlassDeviant]

Tip 7: Sure, you don't need silos for the spring, summer and fall, but unless you want to fund Marnie's retirement you need one for the winter, or several if you plan to have lots of animals, and it's a good idea to keep lots of grass, other than what's there for the animals to eat, around to periodically mow down to fill the silos.

[@bluevervain8317]

Cool little things I discovered that I haven’t seen mentioned: - There are hidden paths/shortcuts through the trees at the bottom of screen in Secret Woods and on the left hand side of the Forest Farm map. - You can make oil for cooking by putting corn or sunflower in the oil press. - Tea saplings can be used as permanent fences. To get the blueprint, get Caroline to 2 hearts and then visit her greenhouse (the door at the back of her kitchen). She’ll mail it to you the following day. - The saloon’s dish of the day is always a villager favorite. Check often for meals that are rare/hard to make (e.g. calamari for Pierre) and you can stock up for when birthdays roll around.

[@aedoria]

This is an excellent tip! I've played several hundred hours of Stardew Valley but never noticed this. I buy plenty of the regular items for villager gifts, but I never realized the special item was always a fave too! Definitely keeping this in mind for the next time I play!

[@KellyS_77]

After multiple farms, community center completions, and even a jojamart run, I *finally* learned that you can buy multiples of items from the traveling cart lady. Just buy something, "x" out of the purchase menu, then open it up again. Super useful if she has an early game apple, pomegranate, or pufferfish. (Apparently this only if playing the game on a mobile device)

[@noahkirschtein8169]

wait WHAT

[@brandonsalinas4888]

The wiki says this only works on the mobile version of stardew valley. Unfortunate, but it saves me from regret b/c the traveling merchant was selling iridium ore when I played yesterday.

[@justthisguy2976]

A silo is not a particularly big investment early game and allowing the player to harvest extra hay, or to build up reserves for winter, is a good idea. Have your animals eat grass every day, but also build a silo.

[@jadenfoxx9159]

Honestly, from now on, I'll only ever build a single silo and use a chest to store any hay I do chop down. Much cheaper way of doing things so makes a lot more sense. Now I can use those 5 copper bars for something else that will make more money.

[@Nils_61]

1.5 SPOILER WARNING (warning for mobile players) "Hammers are underrated because they're kinda slow" forge it with one single emerald,it already does a huge difference,you can add rubies for more damage if you're already satisfied with the speed,and if you're not put another emerald

[@rhiannaclipperton8792]

Just so no one gets any misinformation, fruit trees increase the star quality of their fruits by one every year. Unless it's different for the greenhouse (which took a full year to get my fruit to silver quality) it should take three years before it's iridium quality fruit, not two.

[@ystacalden]

Something I only just figured out after so many years playing- Everyone in the village except Sebastian likes Jelly. Keeping a stack of Jelly of some of the cheap fruits, or the trees you grew just for community centre bundles, is a ton easier than trying to remember who likes particular vegetables or cheese.

[@mirjanbouma]

I do that too! Jelly is the way to everyone's heart (I keep some spare frozen tears in a chest by Robin's house for him)

[@Enkazadas]

You can actually fit 18 trees in the greenhouse. At the back, instead of planting right at the back, go a tile away from the wall and you can fit 6 instead of 2. There's an image in the wiki that shows it

[@dazcarrr]

The NPCs can literally destroy solid metal structures by stepping on them, but Haley can't open a jar of pickles Logik

[@NicoUnken]

Bonus tip: Leave a chest in the mines. When you go mining, leave your unnecessary tools - like your scythe, hoe, axe, fishing rod, even watering can if you forgot to leave it at home. Don't be afraid to leave certain valuables in the chest if you have to prioritize other items; you can always come back later to pick them up! Remember; your inventory is never truly full as long as you have access to 50 wood in the area.

[@Andrew-qu7lq]

Since there are a good handful of days that Robin doesn't stay at her house for building structures, you can still interact with the counter as long as she's walking by even after hours and even on a day that she doesn't usually stay there, like when she comes home for the evening, or first thing in the morning as she's heading out.

[@DaCheat100]

on Tip 24, an additional method is to unlock linus's quest at the special orders board where you clear 20 pieces of trash from fishing. He will give you a fiber seeds recipe, this grows across ALL seasons including winter. And because they cross seasons you ALSO get to keep your fertilizer. So you plant them and let them grow (7 days), and on the first you harvest them, you now have tilled, watered and fertilized soil ready to go for planting.

[@rheamarkoski1276]

When I first started playing I didn’t know u could cut down trees. It take quite a couple chops initially and I thought you just got wood from the forage drops. Such a game changer 😂

[@_TheJesterShade]

Tea saplings are easy to make; 2 wild seeds, 5 fiber, 5 wood and they sell for 500 gold a piece. You just have to get Caroline to 2 hearts and then walk back into her secret sun room, past their kitchen, and she send you the recipe the next day. You can make bank as early as day 15, take about that long to get 2 hearts with the help of gold star Daffodils and Parsnips.

[@muffinzforce5]

6:09 this is a great tip, however i suggest getting a silo before winter at least because there is no grass durring winter so you want the stockpile of hay

[@THJ13]

If you use the layout on the wiki for the greenhouse page you can actually get 18 fruit trees. Also for tip 24 once they're unlocked you can use Fiber Seeds for every season. This is especially good to pre-hoe and water crops for the first of Spring as fiber seeds even grow in winter.

[@bluesonicstreak7317]

For help avoiding backpack upgrades, it helps to place chests in strategic places, like where you fish and outside the mines so that you can drop off things overfilling your inventory. For the mines in particular, you can head back up and do a dump every 5 levels.

[@MizuMing]

5:34 That might be true on PC, but it's not true on console. It takes fruit trees multiple years to reach iridium levels on the console version. The first season the fruit is normal, the next year the fruit is silver, the year after that the fruit turns gold, and finally the fruit is iridium the following year.

[@CurlyWhirly]

5:31 hi correction on the fruit tree drops, they increase in quality by one star every year starting from when they've matured, so it would take you 3 years with a fruit tree to get iridium quality fruit

[@Waligug]

Thanks

[@shreeyasalikram5556]

Fun fact: just fish in the mountains, its profit paradise at the beginning and experience pool

[@ShinryuZensen]

Tip 2: Not quite the right thing to do in my book. You SHOULD build a silo first, stock up hay until it's full, THEN take animals. Let them eat the grass until you reach winter. Then, on winter, you feed them with hay from the silo. You don't need to mow all the grass to fill the silo all the way in one go: you can free some space, gather some hay, then let the grass regrow: it's fast, you'll never run out if you do things gradually.

[@Mew2Man]

For tip 24- if you've unlocked the fiber seeds, plant those! They don't die on season cross-over, so I use them to keep my nice fertilizers from evaporating between seasons, too!

[@ieatchildren7468]

Here’s a random way for you to get some money and mess with the villagers for stardew starters: when you get the mail about the mayor’s shorts, take your time getting to 2 hearts with marnie you don’t want to rush your first run, and when you do get the shorts put the shorts away until the sdv fair, because when you put the shorts on the thing and tell Lewis you’re ready he’ll see it and give you a a fair amount of money, then you can do what ever you want with them. you can combine them with gold in Emily’s sewing machine if you have enough hearts with her and then you’ll be able to make them wearable to mess with Lewis, you can wait until the next luau to mess with him A LOT, or return them, or even wait until you get Lewis as your secret gift giver etc

[@linneax]

ooooh i wish i knew this sooner!!

[@yono321]

he gives you 750 star tokens, not actual money. only really useful if you are too lazy to earn some more tokens during the fair.

[@childcrone]

I find that first backpack is SO helpful and like to get it the day the mine opens. If you do some fishing for cash and time parsnip and potato harvests to sell before the Egg Festival, you can have enough cash for more strawberries than you probably want to take care of. :~)

[@jamierose9095]

I agree, if you know how to make fast money early you can get the first pack upgrade and still be able to buy lots of strawberry seeds.

[@Rubyllim]

Here's a list of stuff I put into kegs, for those who just want a concrete list (from tip 11) -cauliflower -melons -pumpkins -crystal fruit -ancient fruit -starfruit -strawberries (they're not very good, but they're still worth it)

[@Seriously_Unserious]

In general, some good tips, however I'll correct you on the "Don't get a silo" part. You NEED a silo, or your animals will starve all winter. In the winter, everything's covered in snow and there's NO GRASS outdoors for them to eat, I repeat NO GRASS. plus the animals won't go outside in the winter and if you trap them outside, they'll hate you and stop producing. You NEED the silo as that's the ONLY way to store animal feed for the winter, when there is NO GRASS for them to eat. Also, you need to feed them during the other 3 seasons on rainy days, as the animals won't want to go outside and therefore can't eat the grass growing outside, so you'll have to feed them. You NEED a silo to feed them for the entire winter and during rainy days in the other seasons. On non-rainy days, they'll happily go outside and eat grass if they can.

[@FaeSparrow]

You can just store grass in a chest that you keep in the barn, and feed them manually. it's a bit more effort though.

[@TekGriffon]

@@FaeSparrow Did they patch that? I thought cut grass doesn't do anything unless you have a silo.

[@ivanmarcusdegoeslopes1705]

@@FaeSparrow yeah...at that point, just build the silo. Not that costly of an addition.

[@mattstanislen3165]

you know you can plant grass starters IN your barns and coops right?

[@the_rabidsquirel]

@@mattstanislen3165 Assuming they'll eat it, which I didn't know, is that really more economical? Grass doesn't spread if planted inside, so you'd have to keep planting. But grass starters cost 100g, whereas hay only costs 50. You could craft the starters, but at 10 fiber per that will add up really quickly since again, it won't spread. Also animals only eat hay anyway if they couldn't find grass that day, so the whole point of not getting a silo in the first place doesn't make much sense. Seriously, I've got a full barn and coop for 24 animals, and the hay count on my silos doesn't go down at all while there's still grass outside (except if it's a rainy day of course).

[@sovietbot6708]

I played with no tutorial, tips, or anything. It took almost 10 years, but I reached true perfection. (in game years)

[@cmccftqt4277]

How long is a in game year?

[@indecisivegh0st997]

@@cmccftqt4277 4 seasons but it deppends how early you go to bed how long it will take you to get to the next year

[@lovelyrubyisabella]

@@cmccftqt4277 each full day is about 13.5 minutes if you played the whole day not going to bed early, and a year in Stardew valley is 112 days I think so a year is about 25 hours real time I believe My math sucks though so someone should confirm

[@kavsiyoutubebdngh]

yeah bro approximately 25 hours in real life if you play 10 years (game year) it would be something like 10,5 Real day

[@astralynxx]

i didn’t understand how the community center worked until fall of my first year, i wish the game told you more about it to prevent this honestly

[@dahjiat.8562]

it was annoying at first but i kinda like it. i feel like the only reason i haven’t lost interest in the game is bc i’m constantly learning something new and starting new saves to see how much better i can do.

[@pikminfanclub]

Correct me if I am wrong on this, but I think the library in Stardew Valley actually informs you on this and gives you other helpful tips :O

[@rainbowroadthekilljoy8]

If you place stuff with a timer that is out of way such as the quarry always place one keg, gem duplicator, etc. in your house that matches so you know when they're done!

[@happyhippoeaters4261]

That thumbnail works really well, because every time I see it, I want to jump into this video and yell at you about how important the backpack is, even to this day.

[@DrZaius3141]

Even better than planting your Sp/Su/Fa/Wi seeds: Get 2 starts with Caroline, visit her in her drug den and learn to craft tea saplings. 2 seasonal seeds (+5 fiber +5 wood) gives you a sapling you can sell for 500 gold. If you're fast, this can be done before the Egg Festival, but even if not, dutiful foragers can make buckets of g for hardly any effort (compare that to sowing those seeds, watering them and harvesting). This gets even better starting Fall 2 of Year 1. If you get the "Community Cleanup" quest from the board, you can craft fibre seeds, a crop that doesn't need water and grows in winter. You get ludicrous amounts of fibre out of it. Now you can even purchase the wood for the tea saplings and you still make a massive profit off them.

[@DrZaius3141]

@KIRRA WIDJAJA It's a special order's quest, so starting on fall 2 of year 1 and every monday after that, you have 2 options on the board south of Lewis' mansion. There are 14 quests that are possible (fewer in winter), some of them can't repeat, so once you do them they don't pop up anymore. In other words, the probability that you get community cleanup within 7 weeks (even 8 weeks would be enough so you can plant the fiber on winter 22) is almost 90%. Unfortunately, it can't be guaranteed, but as long as you accept and complete the unrepeatable quests (see wiki for that), you have a solid chance.

[@kittycat4378]

To add to this, putting a common mushroom in a seed maker gives fall seeds which you can use to create more tea saplings. Super good if you picked mushroom cave!

[@MayhemsMother23]

I wish the game would have told me when I upgraded my tools that if I hold the action button it’ll cover a wider area. I didn’t know for so long 😭 I thought it was just using less energy

[@gregbassett8372]

Isn’t this only the case with the hoe? If not, you’re teaching me as well 😅 just started ~last month though!

[@_.omikami._]

@@gregbassett8372works with the hoe and watering can!

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

Technically, you can upgrade the watering can on Day 27 on Sunny Spring and even on Summer and Fall, provided that you don't plant cross season plants. Because on Day 28, there is no point to watering, because the next day, those plants will die anyway. It's an old Harvest Moon trick I learned a while back.

[@Gr3nadgr3gory]

If you've got sprinklers you can upgrade by fall 1 even with cross season crops.

[@kiahnte]

It's worth mentioning that the community center icon pulsing only works for items that are in a visible bundle. In other words, if you haven't unlocked the fish tank yet, none of the fish will make it do that.

[@nerdess323]

I always build my coop in the grass. Later, I build 2 silos during the last week of fall. On the last day of fall I cut the remaining grass to fill them for the winter. When spring comes the grass will regrow and I repeat this each year.

[@lizgl]

Picture this.. my first farm where I married Sebastian, completed CC, perfection and true perfection.. He walked over my CC trophy and it's gone, I didn't even noticed till soooo much later, so no chance to just restart the day. Its lost for ever but my love for him is bigger than that *(cries and screams inside)*

[@destrelyascorner4968]

I NEVER FISHED EVER Both in PC and Mobile Never had any farm animals either Never completed the community house Im at year 3000 and never ever upgraded my house. Buncha kegs and barrels kept me entertained that much and acient fruit farmin. This game is really built different It has no end game its infinite you can go futher beyond boredom

[@zelioz848]

3000...

[@dwainetyncompany]

Damn dude...... Just build the house already. Live a little.

[@user-0917fckvjjigk]

3000?!

[@marcinpierzchaa5236]

Year 3000 is approximately... 9,5 real years online, that's impossible unless you dont play a full day, but still...it's unbelievable.

[@lopsie7479]

Yeah well im at year 30000 and havent even left the farm yet

[@trajectoryunown]

Actual protip for early game food. Field snacks are abysmally expensive. Save those seeds to grow trees for wood after year 1 when Robin DRASTICALLY increases the price of wood and stone. Instead, befriend Linus who will send you the recipe for Sashimi. This heals a moderate amount (by later standards. Early on it's a great deal.) and can be made with only a single fish. Literally any fish works. This also functions as a decent way to increase the value of your catches if you're hard on cash.

[@ucanmcigor9642]

Yes but you need a cookout kit or a upgraded house to make said sashimi. Field snacks are much easier to make.

[@alexlucas9535]

I have over a 1,000 hours on Stardew and I only just now found out you could hold right mouse to plant crops as you walk...

[@Zartexal]

To add to the 'already hoed land' hack, I use my winter seeds to prime the crop locations for spring. Granted this is a later game idea as you are losing seeds and money doing this, but getting the jump on Spring crops is always helpful, particularly if you are doing Ancient Fruit.

[@agustiarfalahi7285]

Tips for ENJOY the game: just search information that you want to know. I mean, youtuber A with a "do and don'ts" video saying that i must build a silo first, THEN the coop. And this youtuber said "hey you don't need a silo at all!!"🙂🙂🙂

[@lillianclark2159]

He said you don't need a silo early game. Plus during winter you'll have to buy hay anyways. I buy a silo at the end of fall and cut all the grass on the last day.

[@GamerJV]

@@lillianclark2159 even then, you can buy the hay and place it in a chest in the coop/barn. Unless you have an autofeeder from the deluxe barn/coop, silos are slightly useless. more than one is a waste as well. get a chest and pull the hay you scythe down into it and you can go over the 240 max of one silo. when you run low, you can put the hay back in.

[@Masquerade404]

I always try to get a couple silos down as soon as I can so that when I am clearing land for crops, the potential hay doesn't go to waste.. I also don't cut grass unless I need to clear land for something else.. I do like to have a small area of my farm designated for wild grass to harvest every once in a while for more hay.. Hay is necessary to keeping your critters happy during winter since all the grass has died out.. I put my silos in a vertical line along the western edge of the basic/default map by Grandpa's Shrine.. And yes, I prefer the basic/default map because you get the most uninterrupted space to use for crops and such.. I like my massive fields of 480 crops! If I don't get pigs, I can mirror it for 960 crops!

[@faraway8831]

I like how the video is mainly for newer players but then he refers to the Community Center as CC like the newer players would know that

[@zaraheart]

Right 😂 This video he did some stupid things new players definitely should not do. He’s using mods and cheats and stuff, and that part where he spammed prismatic shard to Haley was dumb. Don’t gift things people don’t like and something that is worth a lot and needed for end game.

[@ratqueenbee]

only at tip 9 so not sure if this has been said yet, but put lightning rods in your grass for the animals! they don’t eat those patches so it allows the grass to spread again

[@koalaking0093]

fences are a lot cheaper but its the same concept.

[@col.mustard2192]

I like to use the decorative hay bales just cos it looks nice

[@kierstenburtz8442]

You do actually need a silo for animals. They can't go out and eat in the winter. You could just go to Marnie and buy hay and put it in chests and feed them by hand every day, but that wastes a lot more time, money, and energy than you need to.

[@samsungfrid_ge]

Adding one to the hammer thing here's an OP build -Artful -3 emeralds onto it from forage -iridum bands and slime charmer combined -vampfire ring plus any ring you want/need

[@CurlyWhirly]

add the luck, napalm, and burglars ring to those options too, with the hammer u can get some crazy combos using the napalm ring

[@Crim_Zen]

Bonus tip for fishing, the first fish you catch will be a 100% catch... this means you can level fishing with crabtraps and such and reserve your first real cast for a difficult fish like one of the one time only fish.

[@Ajlez]

Nnnnn you ever watch a Stardew video and partway through you think "Oh yeah I need to look up [thing]" but then you wait half a second too long and you have no idea what it was? ... This happens too often for me.

[@WhoodaHell]

Here's a weird little thing I don't see a lot of people talk about, the timing for using tools. If you click at the right moment just at the end of your swing/pour, usually right when you hear the tool sound, you skip the awkward pause at the end of each use. It's a very small time save and requires fairly good timing but I find it helps when doing things like mass cutting trees or planting/watering before tool upgrades. It's not as fast as animation cancelling but you don't need any macro scripts, which I assume also means it could be useful for console players.

[@keigothinker]

my farm was overrun in summer with grass and i cut all of them WHILE my silo was being built because i didn't know they turn into hay lol. so i had to buy a bunch of grass starters and hope they'd grow enough during fall to last me through winter. i honestly almost cried

[@rayoko_tube]

**me looking up Stardew tips on KZbin** **"Don't Do This/Don't Buy That/BIGGEST Mistakes in Stardew"** **.....me who's already done all of that** 👁️👄👁️ ... LOL

[@KillerKatz12]

Jokes on you I already know all those 😎.

[@dumbelldoreftw]

Best mistakes to do in stardew valley :- 1. Plant crops at 28th of every season. 2. Gift trash to Shane 😅. 3.Buy joja membership on first run. 4.Dont gift villagers on their birthday. 5.Trying to catch catfish on 3rd spring , year 1. 6.Clean all grass before building silo. .... Add more guys . And make sure to add the numbers so that it looks like a list/series.

[@defaultio3354]

7. Marrying haley

[@mistic_planet]

8. selling a community center item

[@dumbelldoreftw]

@@defaultio3354 🌚how's that a mistake ?😅

[@dumbelldoreftw]

@@mistic_planet Red cabbage 🥬yes sirr

[@THEDEXSAXOPHONE]

I did number 3

[@RyanWithAnE]

That multiplayer money tip and that greenhouse tip are both thing that I knew and it was interesting finding out that some people didn’t. Good job spreading good information!!!

[@Dhalin]

RE: Not building Silos ... uh... you still need hay for when it rains, and it's nice to get free hay by building a silo. Also, you need enough silos for 28 days worth of Winter hay. For one full Deluxe Barn, and one full Coop, you need just over two silos. You could build 3 or you could build 2 and stick some hay in a chest. But if you have no silos, you'll have to buy hay anytime it rains or winter arrives because animals will not graze in the rain or winter and thus won't produce anything which means you will lose lots of money. Silos are only 3x3, stick them in some far corner of the farm.

[@shadeb6021]

You're better off making 1 single silo and then adding a chest to put hay in to save farm space.

[@Dhalin]

@@shadeb6021 It's only 3x3 ... unless you are utilizing every single square on your farm, it is very unlikely you'll notice 9 squares in the very far corner of the farm being taken up by a silo. I'm willing to bet that a good chunk of the playerbase will only use half of their land or less for crops.

[@sodaaalime]

I like how he gifted Pierre trash. Well deserved.

[@theillestwaifu]

Be aware, the fruit tip means fruit TREE items, so the forage fruits like blackberry and salmonberry will vary by villager, from like to hate

[@theillestwaifu]

Also, a really fun way I made money early was COFFEE. I used it for my greenhouse before I could afford Starfruit seeds, they also can be planted outside for two seasons. The beans you harvest double as seeds for more plants, they only require 30 MINUTES in a keg for cups of coffee, and they’re a popular ‘like’ gift because they count as cooking. So fun for the first couple years

[@marcusspears9165]

My dude look into tea saplings you can get the recipe as early as spring 14 from Caroline day after her 2 hear event and for 2 wild seeds 5 fiber and 5 logs you get 500 coins

[@QueenAleenaFan]

Easiest tip for stardew Valley, save one of everything

[@nojusisnarauskas2343]

I’m so glad that I actually used the field snacks immediately because it pretty much let’s you gain energy for clearing your farm

[@guardingdark2860]

2:04 Robin mocked you for having walked all the way to her house without having the money to buy the shed you were after. Savage.

[@walnightcat8349]

Once I made such a mistake... When I started i didn/t know how fridge works and i thought it's like second chest or somthing. So i placed all of my legendary fishes in it and gues what happend :D Yeah I turned them by accident into sashimi :)

[@Kaiimei]

That backpack thing is only really true if you don't then manage to haul more items, thus earning more than 2,000 extra gold by having those slots available. Say I was mining and had to go all the way back home to deposit loot. If I had more slots, I would be carrying more stuff back, and thus making more money, and so, as long as I made more than 2,000 total, I'd have earned a profit and thus buying the backpack is actually better than not.

[@eduardovarela4462]

>Buys the backpack upgrade >Fishes for 1 day > *Profit*

[@Kaiimei]

@@eduardovarela4462 Exactly! With a backpack, if you fish after 5 and can't sell them off immediately, you can DEFINITELY make more than 2,000 gold with the extra slots, thus making a profit and making the bag totally worth it.

[@ems2911]

Yeah, the backpack is good! He wasnt dissing the backpack though, He was just saying dont buy it right before egg festival

[@Caramika]

Still wrong. The 2000g backpack I the most important early game investment to go for as it carries by far the most weight. (No pun intended)

[@Kaiimei]

@@ems2911 That's 13 days of one row of items. Say it takes 6 days to scrape up 2k since you've sold the Parsnips and bought potatoes instead. You buy the pack, then you have 6 days to make that doubled inventory worth it. Considering how much cash you can make from fishing since time stops whilst you are reeling in a fish in SP, and the fact that the Fish Shop shuts at 5pm but you can reasonably fish until about midnight before running back, longer if you fish at the lake instead of the ocean, means you have 7 whole hours of fishing you can do without being able to sell them. That is usually plenty of time to fill up most if not all of those slots with different fish. As such, in the time between buying the bag and the Spring Festival, as long as you are good, you could catch a lot of fish and sell them, and probably make more money than you would have if you didn't have the backpack, simply because you can carry extra fish, since the different rarities don't stack, each fish species could take up 3 slots, that quickly eats through a bar of inventory, especially if you haven't put away tools and foraged items.

[@Bloody.Mushroom]

I feel like the reason a lot of people assume they can only catch particular fish in one season is because of animal crossing

[@mxriaguer]

how does people have so many materials to make everything, i'm struggling to get hay for my 4 chicken and my 4 cows 😭😭

[@abiclare4486]

Get Robin to build you a silo!!

[@hipsnowsis7374]

the thing I've found most helpful is having at least a rough plan for what you're going to use your energy and time for each day, and make sure you're dedicating time to collecting your resources (wood, stone, you know) - make sure you replant your trees too! if you're the modding type, there's a built in to-do list mod called To-Dew that can help with this

[@mapron1]

I am struggling to even craft extra chest. no way I ever get a barn or something. So no matter how bad you at game, there always people like me than 100x times worse

[@sansenemi]

The only tip here is use the stardew wiki if you want to and find guides mid game. Early game just enjoy the game and dont worry much.

[@katel3369]

exactly

[@dominicstevenson8816]

Tip 7, is correct only at the start of the game, and unless you want to spend extra money when it rains or tons of money during winter, you will probably want a silo to store tons of extra hay, I would recommend about 1 silo per 8 animals. But I am still pretty new to the game.

[@Blarrp99]

I tend to just run one silo until I'm trying to actually go for a specific look on a farm. You can keep pulling from the hay dispenser in a coop or barn until the silo is empty and just store it in a chest, then cut grass and repeat til I'm content lol

[@robbiejohns4731]

I've been playing this game for 8 years and while these are great tips, I personally don't do them because I prefer to do things my own way since sdv is one of my major coping mechanisms to deal with depression

[@Waligug]

Whateva floats your metaphorical boat my friend

[@paisley1642]

okay?

[@dominicstevenson8816]

The dead crops tip, I first used a pick axe, but one day tried synth and figured it out on my own, I was so glad I found out because I waisted. tons of time and energy before.

[@cbgaming7209]

I wait tell the last day of fall before cutting down all my grass, when I have a silo, sense the grass would die the next day anyway

[@2111jade]

Upgrade your tools ASAP.

[@merevel436]

Great video and I would like to add a couple of things. In multiplayer with split money enabled, everyone gets individual gold from quest completions, this is really handy from the weekly quests! Also I found out that, at least on ps5, that there are more in town foraging spots than most people know. Just when npcs walk by they destroy the items.

[@emeraldmoon9551]

having played this game for 5 years, I still watch these videos

[@Zeta-ry3fs]

Love how this video is published months ago but comments are from a few days ago.

[@donovan1345]

because algorithm. You watch a video about stardew and random stardew videos start showing up in your feed

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen6147]

I hate to tell you this but in the way you can hold down to plant you can hold down to gather the wine and put in more wine

[@Stoneybaloneyponey]

Wasn’t he doing just that at 2:25?

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen6147]

@@Stoneybaloneyponey it looks like he’s pressing them individually to me but I could be wrong lol

[@darkrave2977]

Well…aren’t silos necessary for winter? The animals are inside all winter, so the silos keep them fed during the winter.

[@BoredMarcus]

theoretically you can store hay in chests and take it out and feed them manually. In early game this makes sense, since you feed them manually anyway and if you place a chest in the barn/coop you can store it right there. But when you get the autofeeder you need a silo, because it takes the hay from there.

[@geministargazer9830]

I just starved mine through the winter, sold a few off. Spent the winter mining hard instead

[@Sam-gs8iw]

Lewis destroyed my gold Lewis statue before.

[@drorbitaldeathray]

One of my NPCs walked through the Solid Gold Lewis once and destroyed it. I was BEREFT.

[@carmenelliott3976]

6:31 If, of course, you like to abandon your animals during rainy days and during winter.

[@Craxin01]

Usually, by the end of the first year, I've unlocked the ability to craft (or managed to find) a rain totem. Use it on Winter 28 to make it MUCH easier to plant on Spring 1, ESPECIALLY if you've got a very large farm. All you have to do is clear the debris, hoe the ground, add any fertilizers, and plant your seeds. Not having to water and having no hoed ground due to the season change to allow sprinklers to work, helps IMMENSELY! What used to take rigorous timing to ensure maximum efficiency so as to make sure every tile was filled now is not nearly as bad.

[@haneopi]

wait this is actually genius! Thank you!

[@Craxin01]

@@haneopi Saved me quite a bit. My endgame farm has 768 tilled plots. The roughest planting is Spring 1. Since I'm using strawberries, Summer 1 isn't terrible, just have to use a scythe to remove the dead plants and plant on already tilled and watered soil. Same for Fall 1, since I use blueberries in the summer. Cranberries for the fall. A greenhouse full of ancient fruit, and a max size barn full of kegs.

[@elizabethellis7052]

I accidentally gave Abigail something she hated on her birthday…. I was so mad at myself

[@-jeff-]

I might be a veteran mobile farmer, but just moved to 1.5 on PC and love how much I'm learning from you about how to use the interface and techniques on PC. Thanks! Jev's Farm is back in business!

[@zukostryder]

I printed out the calendars and then taped everyone's loved and liked gifts and have it taped to my computer it's really helpful

[@MarkDeSade100]

Just get 1 or more Crystalariums, produce infinite free diamonds, and give everyone diamonds. They're a universally loved gift.

[@meganmacabre]

One of the best places to put kegs is in the tunnel to the left of the bus stop!

[@aclark0114]

Whoa this is crazy but if that’s your real name we have the same last name

[@YourIngrownToenail]

Another tip: There are coals inside the minecart when you go mining. Just right-click on it and it'll give you around 6 coals.

[@moohHa22]

Easy hack: get the map that allows 4 players. Buy a house (100g, stone and wood), remove the furniture and use that as a cheap storage shed 😁

[@captainspirou]

Don’t clear any dead plants until you are ready to plant something there. As long as the dead plant is there you don’t have to hoe the ground again.

[@abslee8806]

I’m currently on my longest save file ever (just hit year three, woo!). I personally made my greenhouse into a “brewery” it has hops, ancient fruit and star fruit and a TON of kegs all around the edges ! If you guys are stuck for space or don’t want to pay for a shed when you don’t have the excess money for it right now

[@aglioeolio8494]

Nice..glad u having fun..Im just starting over n over,repeating spring because I always regret picking a farm..and finally i manage to get to summer earlier today..;) *PAIN*

[@Joshi3b0i]

Charlie brown in stardew is amazing for absolutely no reason

[@myownmeadow1320]

I wish I knew what a prismatic shard was. I found one in at the quarry right after I fixed the bridge, and decided to donate it to the museum… at least I didn’t just sell it.

[@metestrongman6270]

2:30 you dont need to put iridium star ancient fruits to your keg just put normal ones sell the stared ones believe me its nothing different

[@doinyourmom7236]

Nowhere was that the point of any part of the video my guy.

[@MythicAce218]

don't ignore birthdays.....proceeds to forget about literally every birthday except for a select few of people

[@luc1ddream5]

I'm pretty sure you need the Silo especially for Winter.... Plus it's super cheap in materials anyway so it doesn't really waste any resources

[@Quija_Bored]

i made it cuz i farmed so much wheat

[@luc1ddream5]

@@Quija_Bored that too. plus marnie never does her damn job so filling up for winter is great

[@maki_rollin9020]

i actually didn’t think the game was as old as it is....i just got it this year (2022)💀💀

[@pandaeggroll5408]

Welcome to the community

[@slavic_viking9638]

same

[@certifiedpimp4972]

same got it a few days ago

[@bunny1780]

Watching this after i went thru my first two years in game, and im almost laughing at how many of these things i figured out on my own, as well as how many "mistakes" ive made and had to learn from....ive still got a long way to go, but as a casual player, tips like these do help, but i definitely tried to stay away from spoilers as much as i could...if i found an item I thought was valuable, i would check the wiki about it and move on and so far im having a blast in this game...good tips and video👍

[@DeathxStrike18]

Heres a tip buy 1 copper from clint so you get the forge day two morning pickaxe 25 stone and then head down to get your fishing rod and spend the next 2 days fishing (ocean when not raining and River when raining) and try to catch eels and catfish you can make around 4-6k, before 4pm on the 3rd day enter the blacksmith and you can smelt your copper bars as long as you dont leave after 4pm and still buy the upgrade you should only have your pickaxe and fishing rod in inventory for max fish space you can eat the seaweed/algae for energy and make room for the fish. Worst case you can upgrade your pickaxe on the 4th and have it ready the day after mines.

[@MaterClaritas]

if you get back in your bed without going to sleep and stay there it replenishes your energy

[@aurkisx909]

Thanks, I didn’t know that!

[@nerdolo748]

WHAAAT

[@RhejMacTavish]

Only in multiplayer, I think

[@rainbowroadthekilljoy8]

It's only in multiplayer

[@jynx1891]

what O.O

[@krinkrin5982]

I usually use about 1/3 of my greenhouse to plant hops and brew ale to make money. It takes about a day in the keg and sells for a very respectable amount.

[@samuelforsyth8934]

You can make hops in the slime hutch too

[@meringue5901]

Me who plays on mobile: *yep I totally need some of these*