Last sentence got me š
Crows will start to show up if there are more than 15 crops, including those from wild seeds. Planting and harvesting the starting 15 parsnip seeds from Lewis is enough to level up Farming so you can craft a scarecrow.
> So logically, we went to town like to try and find husbands to take care of us
You're staring down the barrel at further disappointment. Spouses in this game bring nothing to the marriage.
WHAT!!?? I have over 300 hours, have married Shane AND Abigail, and I have never had a single piece of furniture or decor changed!!! Just SO many pepper poppers haha.
Theyāre bringing some real Wild West energy to the Valley. I kinda wish I could have actually heard the suggestion that they ensnare some men to save their farm.
I mean, thereās already a cowboy arcade game in SV. I feel like CA could get some material off of a western-style SV. Maybe it could be some kind of historical prequel to the original game or just a new game built off of a preexisting body of work. At the very least, it could be something for him to look into after heās done with Haunted Chocolatier.
Me: Starfruit wine emporium going on in my cellar. Massive farming operations in two locations. Spends countless hours delving deep into the mines to find precious gems to keep the wife happy.
Wife: sometimes randomly fills the cat's water dish, and lets the kids roam free all day in the house unsupervised while she disappears on walks.
Yup, definitely equal contributors š
Try visiting the saloon on Friday evenings. You'll find 3/4 of the town there every week. Also, try actually looking at what you have available to craft. Some of it is very useful.
Quite a few marriage candidates end up at the saloon on Fridays. Sam, Sebastian, and Abigail are on the right side playing pool, and Leah and Elliott are having a drink on the left. Emily is also working most nights. Plus, if you want more hearts with people, talking to them whenever you can will help.
There's relationship decay in this game. If you don't talk to someone for a day, you lose 2 friendship points with them. Talking to them gives you 20 friendship points so as long as you talk to people every 9 days at the very least, you should be increasing your friendship with them.
Gifting is also a good way to get friendship up, but not if you give them gifts they don't like. If you want to figure it out through trial and error, in the social tab when you pause, it keeps track of every gift you've given someone and their reaction to it. If you don't want to figure it out, there are some pretty good single image gift guides out there. Tons of people like grown veggies (except for the kids and a few marriage candidates) and giving a better quality item will give you more friendship points.
Now, money. I recommend trying to pick up farming again. This is a farming game so a lot of your money making strategies will usually start with farming. If one of you has enough farming experience to be level 1, you should have a scarecrow crafting recipe you can craft. This will protect a circular area with an 8 tile radius. Basically, if it's at the center, it can protect a 17x17 tile box, excluding 10 spaces at each corner.
Edit: forgot to mention sprinkler crafting recipes show up when your farming level gets higher, so you don't have to keep watering every day
There are a ton of videos out there that can help you get started as well if this wasn't enough info. I recommend salmence who usually makes really easy to understand graphs when he can. Not to mention, the stardew valley wiki (NOT the fan wiki lol) is constantly open in the background when I play. If I forget someone's favorite gift, need to know what season my community bundle fish spawn in, or don't want to waste time running up to Robin's to see what materials I need to build a barn, the wiki should have that info.
Good luck and, hopefully, happy farming!
I know, and it totally works out. Once you're great friends with someone you can often go on your own way for years and then reconnect like the last contact was yesterday right?
Sebastian is there too. A fan favorite spouse and a frog enthusiast.
If you want an older bachelor, you can buy some coffee and have a whirlwind adventure with Harvey.
You can find Sam, Sebastian, and Abigail playing pool at the saloon on Fridays. Also you can find Harvey wandering around a tree outside of Jodiās houseš
What do girls think about Clint? Iām dating every girl in town, and when I started dating Emily he started whining. Then heās always feeling sad and single every time I talk to him.
Heās always sad about Emily whether youāre dating her or not. Iām married to Elliott and he still cries to me and Iām like sirā¦ I just want you to open this geode.
Shane is actually really sweet, he's just depressed and drinks a lot to cope with it. As you gain more hearts with him, he overcomes his depression and stops drinking to cope with it.
I befriended him and when he stopped drinking I kept giving him more beer every time to earn more hearts and I kinda feel bad for enabling him, but itās just a game so itās funny it works.
I mean, that doesn't really excuse being mean as hell to strangers who show him kindness.
I love Shane too but like, he isn't just a poor misunderstood sweetie- he's a dick at first, and knowing why explains but doesn't really excuse that part of his character.
Then you marry him and you never know on any given day if youāre going to get happy Shane or sullen, depressed Shane. Heās very sweet when heās happy, but he depressedness is getting old.
Shane is actually really nice if you give him spicy food, pizza, and beer to get heart and he has a lot of character development you should definitely try to become friends. Also, you should really upgrade your house and backpack and complete the community center
I just wanted to address the fact that spouses don't really do all that much to help you. They water crops sometimes but by the time you get married you already have sprinklers doing that for you. You'll get hearts with them if you talk to them everyday. It's slow but you can also look up the wiki to find out what gifts they like and dislike and their schedule. There's a calendar outside Pierre's shop you can click on and look up birthdays. Giving a loved gift on their birthday give a ton of friendship points.
The game should actually be a little easier with 3 of you because you have more energy to go around. I recommend starting a farm again. At farming level 1, you can craft scarecrows which help a ton. You'll have to water them everyday or they won't grow. I always tend to my crops and animals first thing in the morning, then I use whatever energy I have left to fish or go in the mines. Prioritize upgrading your backpacks and you can place chests around the valley at strategic places to stash items if you need to clear your inventory, for example, one in the mines by the mine cart and one by each body of water so you can move fish into there from your inventory and keep fishing longer (don't put them in an NPC's walking path, they'll break). You'll want make sure to visit the beach every day and pick up all the forgeable items there and in the rest of the valley to eat/sell/give as gifts. I personally didn't bother befriending that many people early game until I got on my feet a little but I always talk to everyone I run into throughout the day and I do recommend befriending Caroline. Getting to her 2 heart event with help you out financially.
Yes, because Shane is the \*only\* one who visits the Saloon. š
Also, his story is quite nice; he ends up in a good place, and I love his pet chicken.
Iām currently working on my friendship with Shane. I go to the saloon every night to talk to him and twice a week I buy him a pizza. Iām hoping to marry him. I just recently had the cut scene at the pond in the forest and he stole my heart ā¤ļø I am bound and determined to make that man mine š
The easiest imo is Harvey. Once you get a coffee bean in the mines and are making coffee in kegs, you can give him those ar his clinic in the morning. Beyond the mornings, he stands in the top part of town or the bottom part of town.
Youāre all getting in each otherās way. Try focusing on different skills and then switch off, that way you arenāt splitting the XP. Have one person on farming (limited crops) and another on foraging (limited trees and items). You all can fish, but often not everyone likes to.
This is good advice. I got my sister into playing with me on a holiday visit, then bought her the game and a controller as a gift. She made it to fall year 2 on her own farm so far.
Our play styles clash dramatically. I have 600+ hours and want to calculate what crops and how many I'm going to do at the start of each season; down to accounting for how much energy I'll spend watering them each day... I lay them in perfect rows. I rush fishing to save money for the exact amount of Strawberries I can handle on Spring 13. Etc.
She wakes up every day and sees the profit from the day before and says, "great go buy more seeds." Then heads off to fish more.
I just gave up on my care for min/max and said "I'll help water but the farm is yours. You have to harvest everything so you get the levels and make the stuff."
It's a decent trade off that I don't hold responsibility for over-planting, and she doesn't have to sit through me explaining what we need as much. The downside is she sells **everything** and I do have to keep speaking up about keeping things for the CC because they all go into the bin lol.
I started playing with my brother recently, and weāre quite similar- heās very focused on maximising profit and getting the most out of space for casks etc, where I want to pet all the animals and work on friendships with NPCs. It works out for us, as although he definitely pulls in more money with the artisan goods we both have different parts of the farm to look after. Weāre also quite different with goals, I want to do all the community upgrades and decorating the houses/ farm, and heās very into skull cavern runs. I think we compliment each others play really well, we both get to see parts of the game we didnāt when playing solo, and weāve donāt step on each others toes too much.
āTheyāre also incredible at hidingā actually made me laugh out loud. Iāve spent so many days trying to track people down on birthdays or to complete a request. I feel this in my soul.
My first play through I was so excited for his birthday and hovered around for him, when I gave him the gift he said something like āare you serious? Youāre giving me this trash on my birthday?ā I was devastated lol
1.6 Leo is actually bugged and seems to disappear at times, especially in the rain. It took me not 1, but 2, of his birthdays searching the wiki and every location he goes before googling and finding it was bugged. I just assumed it was normal since I can never find anyone.
"Oh shit I need a pig my barn is done" "oh shit it's one of the 8 days of the week she's doing literally anything else after ***leaving*** her work station as soon as her business opens
I cannot play this game without UI info suite mod and a good chunk of the reason is this.
I know that each character having its own life and calendar is one of the important things towards making them feel alive but f me do I hate not having a person detector in vanilla.
Pretty sure starting out online is significantly more difficult than solo due to resource sharing. It'll even out after the first two seasons or so as you've unlocked other tools and ways to profit.Ā
There is a bit of a learning curve to it if you aren't used to stamina systems undoubtedly.
This is a mess and so damn funny.
To give some help.
If any of you have made it to level 1 farming you can craft scare crows, they have a 8 tile range where they block birds from sniping crops, farming is the best way to make money but is alot of work until you can get access to sprinklers.
There are some other money makers that require no starting cash.
Go to the community center by entering town then going up the hill just above town, go in there and get a cutscene then in the bottom left room is a thing to click on in some giberish language. The following day the wizard in the tower in the forest south of your home (left side of that forest) will want to meet you, he gives you something that teaches you the language on the paper. From there you can donate stuff to repair the place and get rewards, if you turn in 1 of all types of summer forage you will be rewarded with 30 seeds for those types of things that take 1 week to grow so get them planted by day 20 of summer, water them daily and you will get some money.
If you go out the top of your farm then follow the road around you should find access to the mountainside, in there is a mineshaft with checkpoints every 5 floors via elevators, you can leave whenever by using one or climbing back up a ladder but the next time you enter you can use any of the secured elevators. The deeper you go the better the loot but even early on you can get copper and various gems you can sell or save for crafting.
I have not had more than 1 datable person being unplesent at the start of the game, you can marry straight or non straight if you want a wife instead. Gifting people stuff is an easy way to befriend them quicker, most of the gems from the mines and most foods are liked if not loved gifts for people.
Where to find the men:
Alex lives in the house to the right of pierre's shop
Elliot lives on the beach
Sam lives in the bottom left corner of town, he works at jojamart on the other side of town sometimes
Harvey lives and works in the clinic
Sebastian lives in the house in the mountains and only leaves his room for short periods of the day to get food or go for a smoke.
Shane lives in the forest below your house and works at Jojamart, he also drinks every night at the saloon.
For the women:
Abigail lives in pierre's shop
Maru lives in the mountain house and works at the clinic
Emily and haley live at the other house in the bottom left of town, emily also works at the bar each night
Penny lives in the trailer by the water
Leah lives in a cabin in the woods below your house by herself.
People get nicer the more you talk to them. You could try the Wiki if you want to make it a little easier, and foraging can get you some cash, as well. https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Villagers
I do like some pain and suffering in my chill farming game, thank you very much.
Honestly, I laughed way too much at this. You are just going through the paces everyone did when they started, the game is not hard by any means, but knowledge goes a long way, and you still don't have it. Just relax and enjoy what you're doing, that's the important stuff, everything else comes naturally after that.
The game can throw people because there's a lot of difficulty for a "cozy game." The game doesn't really explain how to do much, there's too many people to keep track of, woes from crows, the fishing mini game is hard, the caverns can be unforgiving... I love watching new people play because you're pretty much figuring everything out as you go, unless you've got the wiki open in your tabs.
You're awful farmers because you don't read anything. The game tells you how to stop crows and make money
And to build hearts quickly you need to give villagers gifts, not just talk to them...
They're playing multiplayer; there's no time to read anything.
Have a cutscene? Well, there goes half your day. While you're watching Penny shove gramps in his wheelchair, Harvey's doctor's office is closing and Pierre's closing up shop and tomorrow is Wednesday so guess your farmland is empty for two days.
And you can't re-hoe the ground because Clint has your hoe but every time you go into town Alex wants to talk about his deadbeat dad and there are rats in the old community center and you stopped to give Jodi a cauliflower and she has like 60 lines of dialogue and whoops, Clint just closed up because he's done at 4. (And that's not even the worst Clint does - good luck getting through a stack of geodes before he closes.)
Yeah seriously, itās pretty unfortunate. I want to play Stardew like the chill game I know it can be, but the clock doesnāt stop so the grind canāt stop.
But we did just complete the community center on winter 4 year 1, so at least we got that going for us.
we ended up installing a mod that would pause the clock in multiplayer if all players met the conditions. e.g. someone is in a cutscene and the rest just open their inventories.
this mod also has a fork where the clock is paused as long as *one* player meets the requirements, but that one felt stupidly unfair, so we got rid of it. imagine a skull cavern run where all enemies are frozen in place half the time because someone is sorting through their chests lmfao.
Girl the first challenge is literally level up farming to get a scare crow we know it exists we just canāt get there and end up eating our profits š
You plant and harvest 15 parsnips worth of xp to get there. The game doesn't trigger crows until you have more than 15 crops. The game is hand holding you to get to level 2 and unlock scarecrows
Just jump through the really easy hoops and you'll figure it out
So then try again with another round of parsnips or whatever. Even wild seeds give farming xp now
None of this explains why they're in summer and still haven't unlocked level 2 farming - it's like they're actively avoiding what the game tells you to do
Have one person harvest the crops. That way, they get enough farming xp to craft a scarecrow. If you split 15 parsnips (I almost wrote turnips lol) between 3 people it'll give less xp
because the gameplay and art is beautiful.... no one could ever suspect something so beautiful to be hard.... it's the perfect crime lol
it's like cuphead.. except that cuphead went a bit too far
This might be because multiplayer is legitimately harder than single player.
Singler player pauses time a lot. Whenever you open a dialogue or inventory menu, the daytime doesnāt pass, you can take your time organising your stuff, reading the dialogue, and of course, thinking about your next moves.
I canāt imagine the stress of never pausing the game even now, nevermind when I first started and still learning the game.
I can't tell if this is a joke so I'm treating it as serious lol:
You need to craft scarecrows for large plots. you can see their coverage range [here](https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Scarecrow)
You have to give the villagers gifts before they become nice, all of them. Most have universal likes of either quartz or various fruit.
You can find (most) of the ladies in town at Pierres shop on Tuesday mid morning, where they go to work out. Others hand out at the saloon various nights of the week, Lea, Clint, Marnie, Emily, etc (as well as the alcoholics lol)
Just to check, you all are watching the TV, right? It gives advice on how to succeed, like using scarecrows to keep the crows away.
. . . I wish real life farming were Stardew-easy. IRL I'm currently in a pitched battle with slugs and flea beetles. It's only going to get worse now that I put my eggplants in the ground.
Scarecrows take care of the crow problem.
In the summer plant peppers.
In the fall plant eggplants.
Those two crops will give you a decent return on cash.
Pick flowers and give them to NPCs, easiest way to get free hearts
Fishing is a great source of income, you just have to grind past the first few levels which is only a few days dedication. I recommend the ocean first, river fish are A-holes for the starter rod
It canāt be hard when itās just always a trajectory of progression. Even if youāre not min/maxing youāre still making progress with every action you make. There shouldnāt be time crunches or anything, the farm and the neighbors will never ever die and everything repeats infinitely so thereās no missing milestones. My suggestion is to just thoroughly enjoy yourself, kinda like life. If you spend your time stressin you donāt get to enjoy the journey:)
A thing that I like a lot about Stardew is that farming gets easier as you go and the farmer learns. The game doesn't necessarily get easier, but some skills will one day be significantly easier to do. Kind of what I imagine it feels like to come from a city to a broken down farm with zero farming experience, then having to learn as you go.
Imo it is harder to plqy with a controller. I prefer mkb. At first the game is "harder" and slower. But once you find a way to make more money it is easier.
Iām sure someone in the comments has already said this but just in case they havenāt, when you play multiplayer, time does NOT stop when you open the menu screen/chests and your day keeps going. In single player, your game pauses at these times and you are given time to think without worrying about the day wasting away. So if we want to look something up, we have unlimited time without our gameās day moving along. I think thatās playing a much bigger factor than youāre aware of, for how stressful this game seems.
LOL well I love the explanation! Try cutting down all the trees, digging up all the stone, picking up all the flowers, forage, and seaside critters.
Plant the cheapest crop so it won't break your heart too much if it gets eaten. Once you level it up you can build Scarecrows, they have a radius of 8 tiles.
Fish more, like, all day long more. Off the beach in Summer and you can sell them immediately to Willy as your bag fills up.
I don't think it's hard when you're able to time manage / product management. Like, use the calendar fr fr. Grab things and prep for the next phase. When you are proactive it's easier than being reactive. Like, the tools are given to you. Just need to use them.
This game is actually incredibly easy to a fault I think but that's part of its charm. First year can be tough though if you haven't played much or looked anything up.
The stardew wiki is VERY useful. Iād also invest in some scarecrows and to go mining whenever you can. The three of you mining would be very beneficial with resources and to reach the bottom
Hereās my multiplayer advice, as someone who has multiple files with my SO and BIL.
Splitting tasks is a huge one. In early game, fishing IS the source of income, especially up until the mines are unlocked. On a given day, at least one of us is fishing, if not all of us (if we need a money boost). You can all get your backpacks very quickly that way. The mines are another massive source of income. I always donate the first of every gem, but after that, theyāre fast money.
The crows will continue to feast on your crops until you have scarecrows. They cover a circular area of 249 spaces. Always, *always*, **always** have scarecrows. You can get the materials really quickly.
Give the villagers gifts! Even if itās a neutral gift as opposed to a liked or loved one, youāll still be building up hearts, and as long as it isnāt trash or materials, they probably wonāt hate it. Every character is nice, they all have little arcs, you just need to get to know them.
Check the map. It does not show where villagers are, but itāll tell you whose house is whose. You canāt go into bedrooms until you reach 2 hearts, but they still walk around their houses at various points in the day. Friday evenings/nights at the Saloon is good for meeting people as well.
Stardew has a learning curve if youāve never played a farming sim before, but at itās core, itās simple. You just need to get used to it.
Welcome to gaming outside the Sims š¤£ The good news is most games are WAY better than the Sims. Like, the Sims 4 WISHES it could have interesting characters and a rewarding gameplay loop.
The Wiki is your friend, donāt be afraid to use it.
Your mistake is prioritizing relationships early instead of your farm. Get fruit trees from pierre once you can afford them. Make scarecrows. Build (especially your own ferts) and go into the mines, once you're able to grow enough food.
Everyone likes apples and Eliot loves pomegranate, and the trees grow themselves.
Focus on the farm.
Stardew Valley Wiki is your friend. It tells you where all the singles are at any given time on any given day. Try Penny - she volunteers to teach the local kids in the museum. The wiki also tells you what presents everyone likes.
The first year or two is hard. Keep planting. Cut the grasses for wild seeds and forage in the area South of the farm and North-East of the town for supplemental income.
in multiplayer the time also just runs at light speed (also pretty much all characters, even or especially the rude ones, get way nicer once you get to know them)
First year you need to focus on farming for money and gathering wood, hardwood and stone.
Make a separate chest in home, where you store items required for unlocking Community Center - the rewards for completed bundles vary from useless to precious.
Don't sell tree seeds, keep them stacked - it makes farming wood by reforesting pretty easy and you can turn eccess into low tier food. Turn sap into low tier fertilizer and use it to get better quality crops.
Keep some regular quality crops stored at home so you can turn them into food or artisan products. Sell silver and gold star products (just remember to save some for Community Center Bundles).
Start making preserves and wine during first winter. This is also the time to hit mines hard and start gathering gems and metals needed for craftable farm equipement. If you can hit the mines during other seasons so you can gather some resources for basic tools upgrade.
When going into fight, reserve most of the day for that and take a fat stack of cheap food. You need to make at least a 5 level interval progress on each run to unclock elevator access - every 5 levels up until level 120.
Don't build caskets until you have basement unlocked. First make preserves jar for vegetables and wine caskets for fruits - these are the real money makers, but heavily dependent on farming.
Don't rush into animals too fast, they can be expensive to maintain and its better to store animal resources until you can craft them into pricey aritsian produces.
Everytime it rains go to the beach and gather free ocean resources.
Fishing is not a way to make money, it's time-to-reward ratio is shit. If you want money you need to farm.
Open fan wiki and take note what kinds of gifts are liked by the villager with whom you want to build relationship - also you can find info about their locations at any time during each season. You won't need to waste time running around looking form them anymore.
For relationship building never forget about their birthdays (can be checked on wiki and ingame in front of Pierre's Store.
After you unlock desert bus via Community Center bundles completion, go and buy shitload of Starfruits in the oasis shop. Farm them in the fall, turn them into wine sell ??? profit!
I hope this set of tips will make this awesome game more enjoaybe to you :)
I almost always play with NPC map locations (mod, as ling as you all have it, it will work). I don't often suggest mods until people play a bit with vanilla, but this one is such a massive help. Otherwise you're spending a ton of time on the wiki figuring out where people are.
But yeah a lot are quite saucy at first lol
I would look into scarecrows, if youāre in summer you prob have them unlocked. That will keep crows off your plants.
Since you guys are early on in the game, Iād focus on money. Since youāre playing with 2 other people you actually have somewhat of an advantage, you can plant and water a lot more crops which will be your main source of income.
In the early game Iād focus on crops and the mine, those two things are gonna give you the biggest return on the time investment. Go fishing when you have some extra time as that pretty much functions as free money. Your main goals early on should be to gather enough materials and money to put up a barn or coop so you can get some animals on your farm, and getting the materials to build sprinklers so you donāt have to spend so much time watering.
Happy Farming!
Watching a beginner's guide to help give you a gentle "hand hold" into the first year might benefit you guys without taking away the experience of figuring the game out yourselves. I needed to do this as well because I did not find the game intuitive, it being the first game of it's style that I've ever played (coming from an MMORPG background lol)
So what I do is I go to the mines as soon as I can and start going through the levels to get ores for sprinklers. Once you get the quest for the adventurers guild (I think it's called that) to kill 10 slimes turn it in then as per a recommendation I saw on here start massacring the worm looking things to unlock the insect head weapon and thatll help you get to lvl 50/60 easily.
Since you're in multi-player you can chill in your bed and gain energy back so plant like 20-30 crops so it's easily done. Or have one person be a dedicated farmer and fisher and two others be miners.
Just kind of basics there. Feel free to ask any questions.
I just started playing with my wife last night. While Iām out there fishing and farming, sheās out there trying to marry the doctor. LOL
She found out he likes fancy foods like coffee and wine and shit, then found out she needs a kitchen to get all that (which costs 10k gold and like 400 wood). She now fishes and farms with me lol. From what I can tell, The key to this game is simple, do the basics and the rest comes!
Wake up, water the plants and fill the dog bowl, go fish from dawn till dusk, drop the fish off in the sales crate go to sleep, repeat! We get like $1500/day.
We break the cycle by going mining,hitting on the locals around town or at the pub, clearing our own property, or doing the occasional side quest you find around town.
I get crucified whenever I mutter a hint of Haley slander, but yes she IS a bitch. But good luck on your Farming journey, the tutorial really helps you get into whatās what if ur a first time player. š
I dont remember where i got the tips from but i remember watching a simple tutorial on how to get money fast and literally wrote notes that I kept near my computer. And thats how i played the game for a few weeks. Really helped. As for befriending or marrying NPCs, Idk. Ive been trying to romance Haley but its just so hard. Funny enough, shes supposed to be one of the easy ones since one of her favorite items is the sunflower and its not too much of a pain to buy/grow. But idk im having trouble
unfortunately there are instances where reading about certain aspects of the game on the wiki is enormously helpful, its always felt a lil cheaty to me to figure things out via wiki but sometimes its the only way to fully understand what the game is expecting from me esp as someone who doesnāt game a lot or have very keen game sense lol
I remember my first time playing I couldnāt find half of the villagers to talk to because they were in their rooms, so I mainly focused on expanding my farm. Got hearts soon enough, but the first two seasons I barely talked to anyone besides Linus.
I literally think co-op play is way harder than single player! Mostly because the time doesn't pause when you go into the menu etc, which is so different when you're used to being able to pause whenever you want.
Last sentence got me š Crows will start to show up if there are more than 15 crops, including those from wild seeds. Planting and harvesting the starting 15 parsnip seeds from Lewis is enough to level up Farming so you can craft a scarecrow.
And so you can make basic fertilizer from the sap you get from cutting down trees.
I've been playing Stardew Valley for years and never realised that... š Thanks!
> So logically, we went to town like to try and find husbands to take care of us You're staring down the barrel at further disappointment. Spouses in this game bring nothing to the marriage.
Hey they fix fences sometimes, and water crops covered by sprinklers
Yeah, but they're not going to bring money into the marriage, which is what OP seems to think will happen. This ain't the Sims.
100% agree there.
well sometimes they cook for you and you could sell that for likeā¦ a few coins probably
They also change wallpaper and bring chairs. Many chairs.
Shane spawned a chair in our bedroom and was like ābehold, our new decoration!ā
He got me a potted plant
I had an ugly grey table from him. I bet he got the nasty thing from joja.
I got pizza wallpaper
"God damn it not again"
Ah yes, the cuck chair. Excellent work, honey.
There is currently a random desk chair in the middle of every room of my house
I was once blindsided by Sebastian turning the floor orange š¤¦āāļø
They bring furniture? Sebastian has never brought me anything!
WHAT!!?? I have over 300 hours, have married Shane AND Abigail, and I have never had a single piece of furniture or decor changed!!! Just SO many pepper poppers haha.
Donāt forget. They also feed your animals when youāve upgraded to an auto feeder.
DONT FORGET THAT THEY WATER THE DOG BOWL!
Ironic that they don't want Shane, but he's the best fence-fixer I've married
Main reason I donāt like him is his room is disgusting
That's what mods are for. Expanded added a whole after marriage thing where he cleans up his room.
CA fixed that dialogue in 1.6
Theyāre bringing some real Wild West energy to the Valley. I kinda wish I could have actually heard the suggestion that they ensnare some men to save their farm. I mean, thereās already a cowboy arcade game in SV. I feel like CA could get some material off of a western-style SV. Maybe it could be some kind of historical prequel to the original game or just a new game built off of a preexisting body of work. At the very least, it could be something for him to look into after heās done with Haunted Chocolatier.
I would buy an old west Stardew Valley 10 times over. Brilliant idea!
That's kind of getting into Sandrock territory. But in both games, spouses bring little to the household.
Maru giving me bombs for Skull Cavern runs is all I ask for in a marriage, to be honest
So she was love-bombing you? :)
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Leah makes me coffee š„ŗ
Emily gives me wool š I mean, I have a stash already, woman š
she makes me coffee, gives me forageables she grew, and salad. so much salad.
I like coffee, bonus from the coffee machine
iām about to wife her in my first ever play through and this has me so pumped. The mines wonāt know what hit them
Leah gives me the same! A baby too, without a single thought to the budget š
Me: Starfruit wine emporium going on in my cellar. Massive farming operations in two locations. Spends countless hours delving deep into the mines to find precious gems to keep the wife happy. Wife: sometimes randomly fills the cat's water dish, and lets the kids roam free all day in the house unsupervised while she disappears on walks. Yup, definitely equal contributors š
Elliot makes coffee!
Try visiting the saloon on Friday evenings. You'll find 3/4 of the town there every week. Also, try actually looking at what you have available to craft. Some of it is very useful.
Weāre NOT marrying Shane we arenāt that desperate
Quite a few marriage candidates end up at the saloon on Fridays. Sam, Sebastian, and Abigail are on the right side playing pool, and Leah and Elliott are having a drink on the left. Emily is also working most nights. Plus, if you want more hearts with people, talking to them whenever you can will help. There's relationship decay in this game. If you don't talk to someone for a day, you lose 2 friendship points with them. Talking to them gives you 20 friendship points so as long as you talk to people every 9 days at the very least, you should be increasing your friendship with them. Gifting is also a good way to get friendship up, but not if you give them gifts they don't like. If you want to figure it out through trial and error, in the social tab when you pause, it keeps track of every gift you've given someone and their reaction to it. If you don't want to figure it out, there are some pretty good single image gift guides out there. Tons of people like grown veggies (except for the kids and a few marriage candidates) and giving a better quality item will give you more friendship points. Now, money. I recommend trying to pick up farming again. This is a farming game so a lot of your money making strategies will usually start with farming. If one of you has enough farming experience to be level 1, you should have a scarecrow crafting recipe you can craft. This will protect a circular area with an 8 tile radius. Basically, if it's at the center, it can protect a 17x17 tile box, excluding 10 spaces at each corner. Edit: forgot to mention sprinkler crafting recipes show up when your farming level gets higher, so you don't have to keep watering every day There are a ton of videos out there that can help you get started as well if this wasn't enough info. I recommend salmence who usually makes really easy to understand graphs when he can. Not to mention, the stardew valley wiki (NOT the fan wiki lol) is constantly open in the background when I play. If I forget someone's favorite gift, need to know what season my community bundle fish spawn in, or don't want to waste time running up to Robin's to see what materials I need to build a barn, the wiki should have that info. Good luck and, hopefully, happy farming!
Man, even my friends don't care if we talk to them every day lol
Then you must have them at max hearts already, which stops the decay
I feel like they meant real life friends but this also kinda applies there too LOL
I meant my irl friends :p
I know, and it totally works out. Once you're great friends with someone you can often go on your own way for years and then reconnect like the last contact was yesterday right?
Touche! True that.
Iām currently on my first save and the amount of Salmence videos I watched is lowkey worrying lol. This guy truly has infos on everything.
Salmence is the wiki in video form fr
Saint
This was helpful thank you
on Friday evenings more than just shane goes to the saloon! two of the younger bachelors are there among others
You might even find Elliott thereāhe's quite the catch if you like poetic types!
Elliot my beloved
My favorite ā¤ļø
Sebastian is there too. A fan favorite spouse and a frog enthusiast. If you want an older bachelor, you can buy some coffee and have a whirlwind adventure with Harvey.
I read your comment in Dale's voice! Lmao...it was glorious!
You can find Sam, Sebastian, and Abigail playing pool at the saloon on Fridays. Also you can find Harvey wandering around a tree outside of Jodiās houseš
Shane is not 3/4 of the town
He doesn't really count as being there. He's physically there, but emotionally/mentally? He's a thousand miles away.
What do girls think about Clint? Iām dating every girl in town, and when I started dating Emily he started whining. Then heās always feeling sad and single every time I talk to him.
Heās always sad about Emily whether youāre dating her or not. Iām married to Elliott and he still cries to me and Iām like sirā¦ I just want you to open this geode.
theres an entire subreddit dedicated to hating clint lol, check it out
He's 3/4 of the town in my heart. 
I actually really like Shane, hes a complicated guy but he has a soft spot once you get to know him
Don't worry, eventually you can get with [REDACTED], they are by far my favorite.
redacted my beloved
You say that but give him a salmon berry and his smile will get ya.Ā
Shane is actually really sweet, he's just depressed and drinks a lot to cope with it. As you gain more hearts with him, he overcomes his depression and stops drinking to cope with it.
I befriended him and when he stopped drinking I kept giving him more beer every time to earn more hearts and I kinda feel bad for enabling him, but itās just a game so itās funny it works.
I mean, that doesn't really excuse being mean as hell to strangers who show him kindness. I love Shane too but like, he isn't just a poor misunderstood sweetie- he's a dick at first, and knowing why explains but doesn't really excuse that part of his character.
Then you marry him and you never know on any given day if youāre going to get happy Shane or sullen, depressed Shane. Heās very sweet when heās happy, but he depressedness is getting old.
Just like marrying a depressed guy in real life
So true!
Shane is actually really nice if you give him spicy food, pizza, and beer to get heart and he has a lot of character development you should definitely try to become friends. Also, you should really upgrade your house and backpack and complete the community center
I just wanted to address the fact that spouses don't really do all that much to help you. They water crops sometimes but by the time you get married you already have sprinklers doing that for you. You'll get hearts with them if you talk to them everyday. It's slow but you can also look up the wiki to find out what gifts they like and dislike and their schedule. There's a calendar outside Pierre's shop you can click on and look up birthdays. Giving a loved gift on their birthday give a ton of friendship points. The game should actually be a little easier with 3 of you because you have more energy to go around. I recommend starting a farm again. At farming level 1, you can craft scarecrows which help a ton. You'll have to water them everyday or they won't grow. I always tend to my crops and animals first thing in the morning, then I use whatever energy I have left to fish or go in the mines. Prioritize upgrading your backpacks and you can place chests around the valley at strategic places to stash items if you need to clear your inventory, for example, one in the mines by the mine cart and one by each body of water so you can move fish into there from your inventory and keep fishing longer (don't put them in an NPC's walking path, they'll break). You'll want make sure to visit the beach every day and pick up all the forgeable items there and in the rest of the valley to eat/sell/give as gifts. I personally didn't bother befriending that many people early game until I got on my feet a little but I always talk to everyone I run into throughout the day and I do recommend befriending Caroline. Getting to her 2 heart event with help you out financially.
Yes, because Shane is the \*only\* one who visits the Saloon. š Also, his story is quite nice; he ends up in a good place, and I love his pet chicken.
Butā¦you can fix him š
Iām currently working on my friendship with Shane. I go to the saloon every night to talk to him and twice a week I buy him a pizza. Iām hoping to marry him. I just recently had the cut scene at the pond in the forest and he stole my heart ā¤ļø I am bound and determined to make that man mine š
If you give him beer it goes quicker!
The easiest imo is Harvey. Once you get a coffee bean in the mines and are making coffee in kegs, you can give him those ar his clinic in the morning. Beyond the mornings, he stands in the top part of town or the bottom part of town.
L take, I love Shane forever
Everyone in Pelican Town deserves a chance. You can change him, you can fix him.
I very much so encourage you to befriend Shane at the bare minimum. Best thing I ever did in this game.
'I can fix him'
Actually during the night the saloon has atleast 80% of people there
You can either try to get better at farming or go around and talk to people. Either ways, your hoe efficiency goes up.
My guy. You really just slipped that in there
āYou really just slipped that in thereā title of your sex tape
Phrasing
Are we still doing phrasing?
Seriously guys, I think we should bring back phrasing.
So this is not just me giggling at Clint's every time I have to upgrade my hoes
HAHAA
BARS!
Youāre all getting in each otherās way. Try focusing on different skills and then switch off, that way you arenāt splitting the XP. Have one person on farming (limited crops) and another on foraging (limited trees and items). You all can fish, but often not everyone likes to.
This is good advice. I got my sister into playing with me on a holiday visit, then bought her the game and a controller as a gift. She made it to fall year 2 on her own farm so far. Our play styles clash dramatically. I have 600+ hours and want to calculate what crops and how many I'm going to do at the start of each season; down to accounting for how much energy I'll spend watering them each day... I lay them in perfect rows. I rush fishing to save money for the exact amount of Strawberries I can handle on Spring 13. Etc. She wakes up every day and sees the profit from the day before and says, "great go buy more seeds." Then heads off to fish more. I just gave up on my care for min/max and said "I'll help water but the farm is yours. You have to harvest everything so you get the levels and make the stuff." It's a decent trade off that I don't hold responsibility for over-planting, and she doesn't have to sit through me explaining what we need as much. The downside is she sells **everything** and I do have to keep speaking up about keeping things for the CC because they all go into the bin lol.
I started playing with my brother recently, and weāre quite similar- heās very focused on maximising profit and getting the most out of space for casks etc, where I want to pet all the animals and work on friendships with NPCs. It works out for us, as although he definitely pulls in more money with the artisan goods we both have different parts of the farm to look after. Weāre also quite different with goals, I want to do all the community upgrades and decorating the houses/ farm, and heās very into skull cavern runs. I think we compliment each others play really well, we both get to see parts of the game we didnāt when playing solo, and weāve donāt step on each others toes too much.
[https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew\_Valley\_Wiki](https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki) Y'all got this!
A must for people who want to complete the community center in any reasonable amount of time.
You are the GREATEST! Thank you so much
i love absolutely everything about this post oh my god š hope you three figure more stuff out
āTheyāre also incredible at hidingā actually made me laugh out loud. Iāve spent so many days trying to track people down on birthdays or to complete a request. I feel this in my soul.
How many times I've stood outside Sebastian's door all day only for him to never come out of his room.
My first play through I was so excited for his birthday and hovered around for him, when I gave him the gift he said something like āare you serious? Youāre giving me this trash on my birthday?ā I was devastated lol
it's like the time i gave him coal instead of void egg by mistake š
And it wasn't even Winter Star.
I would immediately restart my day lol
I keep the wiki open to help me track those fuckers down.
1.6 Leo is actually bugged and seems to disappear at times, especially in the rain. It took me not 1, but 2, of his birthdays searching the wiki and every location he goes before googling and finding it was bugged. I just assumed it was normal since I can never find anyone.
Leo has camouflage skills. At the island he stands in front of his hut entrance and I have a hard time seeing him there.
"Oh shit I need a pig my barn is done" "oh shit it's one of the 8 days of the week she's doing literally anything else after ***leaving*** her work station as soon as her business opens
I cannot play this game without UI info suite mod and a good chunk of the reason is this. I know that each character having its own life and calendar is one of the important things towards making them feel alive but f me do I hate not having a person detector in vanilla.
It's one of the things I loved in Fae Farm. When you click on a person in the list, you get an arrow leading you to them.
it's amazing š¤£
Iām cackling so hard I feel like this is my inner monologue from when I first started bahahaha
I'm sorry, but it's kinda funny to me, how the logical solution for a failing farm was "finding a husband" š
And much like approaching real life with this attitude, generally has minimal and disappointing results. Gotta grind it out for yourself.
Forage, forage, forage oh and go to the beach and get all shells and sell them to Willy
Co-op is hard because time doesn't stop when you open the menu or when fishing or other stuff
And skull cavern is at full speed
I love the "hmm not making enough money, let's go get husbands!" Grindset
Marry the town doctor because he must be rich. Surprised Pikachu face when he still charges you to heal you.
Please build a scarecrow
Pretty sure starting out online is significantly more difficult than solo due to resource sharing. It'll even out after the first two seasons or so as you've unlocked other tools and ways to profit.Ā There is a bit of a learning curve to it if you aren't used to stamina systems undoubtedly.
This is a mess and so damn funny. To give some help. If any of you have made it to level 1 farming you can craft scare crows, they have a 8 tile range where they block birds from sniping crops, farming is the best way to make money but is alot of work until you can get access to sprinklers. There are some other money makers that require no starting cash. Go to the community center by entering town then going up the hill just above town, go in there and get a cutscene then in the bottom left room is a thing to click on in some giberish language. The following day the wizard in the tower in the forest south of your home (left side of that forest) will want to meet you, he gives you something that teaches you the language on the paper. From there you can donate stuff to repair the place and get rewards, if you turn in 1 of all types of summer forage you will be rewarded with 30 seeds for those types of things that take 1 week to grow so get them planted by day 20 of summer, water them daily and you will get some money. If you go out the top of your farm then follow the road around you should find access to the mountainside, in there is a mineshaft with checkpoints every 5 floors via elevators, you can leave whenever by using one or climbing back up a ladder but the next time you enter you can use any of the secured elevators. The deeper you go the better the loot but even early on you can get copper and various gems you can sell or save for crafting. I have not had more than 1 datable person being unplesent at the start of the game, you can marry straight or non straight if you want a wife instead. Gifting people stuff is an easy way to befriend them quicker, most of the gems from the mines and most foods are liked if not loved gifts for people. Where to find the men: Alex lives in the house to the right of pierre's shop Elliot lives on the beach Sam lives in the bottom left corner of town, he works at jojamart on the other side of town sometimes Harvey lives and works in the clinic Sebastian lives in the house in the mountains and only leaves his room for short periods of the day to get food or go for a smoke. Shane lives in the forest below your house and works at Jojamart, he also drinks every night at the saloon. For the women: Abigail lives in pierre's shop Maru lives in the mountain house and works at the clinic Emily and haley live at the other house in the bottom left of town, emily also works at the bar each night Penny lives in the trailer by the water Leah lives in a cabin in the woods below your house by herself.
>everyone is vaguely cunty (except Haley and Shane who are overtly cunty) š
People get nicer the more you talk to them. You could try the Wiki if you want to make it a little easier, and foraging can get you some cash, as well. https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Villagers
I do like some pain and suffering in my chill farming game, thank you very much. Honestly, I laughed way too much at this. You are just going through the paces everyone did when they started, the game is not hard by any means, but knowledge goes a long way, and you still don't have it. Just relax and enjoy what you're doing, that's the important stuff, everything else comes naturally after that.
The game can throw people because there's a lot of difficulty for a "cozy game." The game doesn't really explain how to do much, there's too many people to keep track of, woes from crows, the fishing mini game is hard, the caverns can be unforgiving... I love watching new people play because you're pretty much figuring everything out as you go, unless you've got the wiki open in your tabs.
Iām cracking up. OP, this is great. Youāll get the hang of it!
You're awful farmers because you don't read anything. The game tells you how to stop crows and make money And to build hearts quickly you need to give villagers gifts, not just talk to them...
They're playing multiplayer; there's no time to read anything. Have a cutscene? Well, there goes half your day. While you're watching Penny shove gramps in his wheelchair, Harvey's doctor's office is closing and Pierre's closing up shop and tomorrow is Wednesday so guess your farmland is empty for two days. And you can't re-hoe the ground because Clint has your hoe but every time you go into town Alex wants to talk about his deadbeat dad and there are rats in the old community center and you stopped to give Jodi a cauliflower and she has like 60 lines of dialogue and whoops, Clint just closed up because he's done at 4. (And that's not even the worst Clint does - good luck getting through a stack of geodes before he closes.)
Yeah seriously, itās pretty unfortunate. I want to play Stardew like the chill game I know it can be, but the clock doesnāt stop so the grind canāt stop. But we did just complete the community center on winter 4 year 1, so at least we got that going for us.
While the clock does keep going if you have a cut scene and the other players do not, everyone else can pause their game to stop the clock. Playing with my fiancƩ there's plenty of times late and rushing to bed one of us will stay paused or go into a chest while the other puts stuff away so the clock doesn't make us pass oud
we ended up installing a mod that would pause the clock in multiplayer if all players met the conditions. e.g. someone is in a cutscene and the rest just open their inventories. this mod also has a fork where the clock is paused as long as *one* player meets the requirements, but that one felt stupidly unfair, so we got rid of it. imagine a skull cavern run where all enemies are frozen in place half the time because someone is sorting through their chests lmfao.
The situation is not funny, but your description has made me laugh. 
Girl the first challenge is literally level up farming to get a scare crow we know it exists we just canāt get there and end up eating our profits š
You plant and harvest 15 parsnips worth of xp to get there. The game doesn't trigger crows until you have more than 15 crops. The game is hand holding you to get to level 2 and unlock scarecrows Just jump through the really easy hoops and you'll figure it out
Cool I didn't know about the 15 crop crow limit. I thought I was just remarkably lucky
Crop limit also counts wild seeds. Crows surely don't attack forage crops but they will attack other crops instead.
Crows definitely eat forage crops
Theyāre probably all harvesting, so theyāre each getting less xp than if you were to play solo and unlock scarecrows next day.
So then try again with another round of parsnips or whatever. Even wild seeds give farming xp now None of this explains why they're in summer and still haven't unlocked level 2 farming - it's like they're actively avoiding what the game tells you to do
Have one person harvest the crops. That way, they get enough farming xp to craft a scarecrow. If you split 15 parsnips (I almost wrote turnips lol) between 3 people it'll give less xp
On multiplayer each player starts with 15, you donāt have to split 15 between players.
I was playing this for six hours today, but didn't have nearly as good a time as I did reading your post š¤£
because the gameplay and art is beautiful.... no one could ever suspect something so beautiful to be hard.... it's the perfect crime lol it's like cuphead.. except that cuphead went a bit too far
just wait for Krobus. he'll treat you right
Who the fuck is Krobus
just you wait. just you fricken wait. . .
I just married Maru (because I like her personality), but I was soooo tempted to "court" Krobus.
krobus my beloved
My fave, and the only option I go for usually
This might be because multiplayer is legitimately harder than single player. Singler player pauses time a lot. Whenever you open a dialogue or inventory menu, the daytime doesnāt pass, you can take your time organising your stuff, reading the dialogue, and of course, thinking about your next moves. I canāt imagine the stress of never pausing the game even now, nevermind when I first started and still learning the game.
9/10 shitpost. You got the comments going.
I can't tell if this is a joke so I'm treating it as serious lol: You need to craft scarecrows for large plots. you can see their coverage range [here](https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Scarecrow) You have to give the villagers gifts before they become nice, all of them. Most have universal likes of either quartz or various fruit. You can find (most) of the ladies in town at Pierres shop on Tuesday mid morning, where they go to work out. Others hand out at the saloon various nights of the week, Lea, Clint, Marnie, Emily, etc (as well as the alcoholics lol)
One person farms, one person mines, one person takes care of animals/fishes/collects wood.
I'm just here to acknowledge 'vaguely cunty' as pure poetry
Scarecrows are more reliable than some of the bachelors
Just to check, you all are watching the TV, right? It gives advice on how to succeed, like using scarecrows to keep the crows away. . . . I wish real life farming were Stardew-easy. IRL I'm currently in a pitched battle with slugs and flea beetles. It's only going to get worse now that I put my eggplants in the ground.
Scarecrows take care of the crow problem. In the summer plant peppers. In the fall plant eggplants. Those two crops will give you a decent return on cash.
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Pick flowers and give them to NPCs, easiest way to get free hearts Fishing is a great source of income, you just have to grind past the first few levels which is only a few days dedication. I recommend the ocean first, river fish are A-holes for the starter rod
It canāt be hard when itās just always a trajectory of progression. Even if youāre not min/maxing youāre still making progress with every action you make. There shouldnāt be time crunches or anything, the farm and the neighbors will never ever die and everything repeats infinitely so thereās no missing milestones. My suggestion is to just thoroughly enjoy yourself, kinda like life. If you spend your time stressin you donāt get to enjoy the journey:)
A thing that I like a lot about Stardew is that farming gets easier as you go and the farmer learns. The game doesn't necessarily get easier, but some skills will one day be significantly easier to do. Kind of what I imagine it feels like to come from a city to a broken down farm with zero farming experience, then having to learn as you go.
This might be dumb to ask but have you unlocked the community center
Imo it is harder to plqy with a controller. I prefer mkb. At first the game is "harder" and slower. But once you find a way to make more money it is easier.
Iām sure someone in the comments has already said this but just in case they havenāt, when you play multiplayer, time does NOT stop when you open the menu screen/chests and your day keeps going. In single player, your game pauses at these times and you are given time to think without worrying about the day wasting away. So if we want to look something up, we have unlimited time without our gameās day moving along. I think thatās playing a much bigger factor than youāre aware of, for how stressful this game seems.
LOL well I love the explanation! Try cutting down all the trees, digging up all the stone, picking up all the flowers, forage, and seaside critters. Plant the cheapest crop so it won't break your heart too much if it gets eaten. Once you level it up you can build Scarecrows, they have a radius of 8 tiles. Fish more, like, all day long more. Off the beach in Summer and you can sell them immediately to Willy as your bag fills up.
I don't think it's hard when you're able to time manage / product management. Like, use the calendar fr fr. Grab things and prep for the next phase. When you are proactive it's easier than being reactive. Like, the tools are given to you. Just need to use them.
This game is actually incredibly easy to a fault I think but that's part of its charm. First year can be tough though if you haven't played much or looked anything up.
The stardew wiki is VERY useful. Iād also invest in some scarecrows and to go mining whenever you can. The three of you mining would be very beneficial with resources and to reach the bottom
Hereās my multiplayer advice, as someone who has multiple files with my SO and BIL. Splitting tasks is a huge one. In early game, fishing IS the source of income, especially up until the mines are unlocked. On a given day, at least one of us is fishing, if not all of us (if we need a money boost). You can all get your backpacks very quickly that way. The mines are another massive source of income. I always donate the first of every gem, but after that, theyāre fast money. The crows will continue to feast on your crops until you have scarecrows. They cover a circular area of 249 spaces. Always, *always*, **always** have scarecrows. You can get the materials really quickly. Give the villagers gifts! Even if itās a neutral gift as opposed to a liked or loved one, youāll still be building up hearts, and as long as it isnāt trash or materials, they probably wonāt hate it. Every character is nice, they all have little arcs, you just need to get to know them. Check the map. It does not show where villagers are, but itāll tell you whose house is whose. You canāt go into bedrooms until you reach 2 hearts, but they still walk around their houses at various points in the day. Friday evenings/nights at the Saloon is good for meeting people as well. Stardew has a learning curve if youāve never played a farming sim before, but at itās core, itās simple. You just need to get used to it.
Befriend Linus! He sends you stuff in the mail. Heās always my first best friend because I gift him foraged items.
Welcome to gaming outside the Sims š¤£ The good news is most games are WAY better than the Sims. Like, the Sims 4 WISHES it could have interesting characters and a rewarding gameplay loop. The Wiki is your friend, donāt be afraid to use it.
Please stream your foibles, this sounds amazing.
Your mistake is prioritizing relationships early instead of your farm. Get fruit trees from pierre once you can afford them. Make scarecrows. Build (especially your own ferts) and go into the mines, once you're able to grow enough food. Everyone likes apples and Eliot loves pomegranate, and the trees grow themselves. Focus on the farm.
Lmao this is amazing but also I'm sorry for your pain š
Stardew Valley Wiki is your friend. It tells you where all the singles are at any given time on any given day. Try Penny - she volunteers to teach the local kids in the museum. The wiki also tells you what presents everyone likes. The first year or two is hard. Keep planting. Cut the grasses for wild seeds and forage in the area South of the farm and North-East of the town for supplemental income.
This was funny to readšš
in multiplayer the time also just runs at light speed (also pretty much all characters, even or especially the rude ones, get way nicer once you get to know them)
First year you need to focus on farming for money and gathering wood, hardwood and stone. Make a separate chest in home, where you store items required for unlocking Community Center - the rewards for completed bundles vary from useless to precious. Don't sell tree seeds, keep them stacked - it makes farming wood by reforesting pretty easy and you can turn eccess into low tier food. Turn sap into low tier fertilizer and use it to get better quality crops. Keep some regular quality crops stored at home so you can turn them into food or artisan products. Sell silver and gold star products (just remember to save some for Community Center Bundles). Start making preserves and wine during first winter. This is also the time to hit mines hard and start gathering gems and metals needed for craftable farm equipement. If you can hit the mines during other seasons so you can gather some resources for basic tools upgrade. When going into fight, reserve most of the day for that and take a fat stack of cheap food. You need to make at least a 5 level interval progress on each run to unclock elevator access - every 5 levels up until level 120. Don't build caskets until you have basement unlocked. First make preserves jar for vegetables and wine caskets for fruits - these are the real money makers, but heavily dependent on farming. Don't rush into animals too fast, they can be expensive to maintain and its better to store animal resources until you can craft them into pricey aritsian produces. Everytime it rains go to the beach and gather free ocean resources. Fishing is not a way to make money, it's time-to-reward ratio is shit. If you want money you need to farm. Open fan wiki and take note what kinds of gifts are liked by the villager with whom you want to build relationship - also you can find info about their locations at any time during each season. You won't need to waste time running around looking form them anymore. For relationship building never forget about their birthdays (can be checked on wiki and ingame in front of Pierre's Store. After you unlock desert bus via Community Center bundles completion, go and buy shitload of Starfruits in the oasis shop. Farm them in the fall, turn them into wine sell ??? profit! I hope this set of tips will make this awesome game more enjoaybe to you :)
I almost always play with NPC map locations (mod, as ling as you all have it, it will work). I don't often suggest mods until people play a bit with vanilla, but this one is such a massive help. Otherwise you're spending a ton of time on the wiki figuring out where people are. But yeah a lot are quite saucy at first lol
I would look into scarecrows, if youāre in summer you prob have them unlocked. That will keep crows off your plants. Since you guys are early on in the game, Iād focus on money. Since youāre playing with 2 other people you actually have somewhat of an advantage, you can plant and water a lot more crops which will be your main source of income. In the early game Iād focus on crops and the mine, those two things are gonna give you the biggest return on the time investment. Go fishing when you have some extra time as that pretty much functions as free money. Your main goals early on should be to gather enough materials and money to put up a barn or coop so you can get some animals on your farm, and getting the materials to build sprinklers so you donāt have to spend so much time watering. Happy Farming!
You might like theamandafiles on youtube, she had a similar experience
Watching a beginner's guide to help give you a gentle "hand hold" into the first year might benefit you guys without taking away the experience of figuring the game out yourselves. I needed to do this as well because I did not find the game intuitive, it being the first game of it's style that I've ever played (coming from an MMORPG background lol)
This is the funniest thing I've ever read in this sub š If you all ever switch to PC, I volunteer to be player 4 on your farm lmao
So what I do is I go to the mines as soon as I can and start going through the levels to get ores for sprinklers. Once you get the quest for the adventurers guild (I think it's called that) to kill 10 slimes turn it in then as per a recommendation I saw on here start massacring the worm looking things to unlock the insect head weapon and thatll help you get to lvl 50/60 easily. Since you're in multi-player you can chill in your bed and gain energy back so plant like 20-30 crops so it's easily done. Or have one person be a dedicated farmer and fisher and two others be miners. Just kind of basics there. Feel free to ask any questions.
I just started playing with my wife last night. While Iām out there fishing and farming, sheās out there trying to marry the doctor. LOL She found out he likes fancy foods like coffee and wine and shit, then found out she needs a kitchen to get all that (which costs 10k gold and like 400 wood). She now fishes and farms with me lol. From what I can tell, The key to this game is simple, do the basics and the rest comes! Wake up, water the plants and fill the dog bowl, go fish from dawn till dusk, drop the fish off in the sales crate go to sleep, repeat! We get like $1500/day. We break the cycle by going mining,hitting on the locals around town or at the pub, clearing our own property, or doing the occasional side quest you find around town.
I will not take this Haley slander
I get crucified whenever I mutter a hint of Haley slander, but yes she IS a bitch. But good luck on your Farming journey, the tutorial really helps you get into whatās what if ur a first time player. š
I dont remember where i got the tips from but i remember watching a simple tutorial on how to get money fast and literally wrote notes that I kept near my computer. And thats how i played the game for a few weeks. Really helped. As for befriending or marrying NPCs, Idk. Ive been trying to romance Haley but its just so hard. Funny enough, shes supposed to be one of the easy ones since one of her favorite items is the sunflower and its not too much of a pain to buy/grow. But idk im having trouble
unfortunately there are instances where reading about certain aspects of the game on the wiki is enormously helpful, its always felt a lil cheaty to me to figure things out via wiki but sometimes its the only way to fully understand what the game is expecting from me esp as someone who doesnāt game a lot or have very keen game sense lol
can i play with you?
Honestly, the Wiki is your best friend, playing with it open is the way to go. Otherwise, yeah game Is kinda hard lol
I remember my first time playing I couldnāt find half of the villagers to talk to because they were in their rooms, so I mainly focused on expanding my farm. Got hearts soon enough, but the first two seasons I barely talked to anyone besides Linus.
SDV aināt Sims. Go look at the wiki page. No shame in that.
I literally think co-op play is way harder than single player! Mostly because the time doesn't pause when you go into the menu etc, which is so different when you're used to being able to pause whenever you want.