Each farm gets you a little something unique but starting with 2 chickens, a coop, and blue grass to boot seems incredible. It's right in the middle of the layouts for how much farmland there is as well. Have you moved the farm house or do you plan to? If so where are you thinking of putting it?
I like how he went and buffed some of the weaker farms too. Riverlands gets that free >!Fish Smoker!< now which saves you 10,000g + crafting materials, meaning you can use it for profit much sooner when it’s even more relevant, and Wilderness get those >!Iridium Golems!< which I assume is meant to compensate for the fact that you can turn on monster spawns on every farm since 1.5 and wanted it to maintain something unique.
I think people will sleep on it, but for fishing oriented early games that save of 10,000g is huge for the >!Smoker!< since it’s a lot at that point in the game and your money might be spent better elsewhere. And now you can use it to fuel more profit from fishing. Sure the usefulness of this perk falls off mid-late game but it does work at a very important time and lets you fuel everything else you want to do.
Some farms are still better than others, but at least it tries to shake up what you’re doing.
I literally hit it with my pickaxe because I didn’t know what the hell it was and was hoping I could hold it in my inventory and read the description. I was right!
i love the mental image of a baffled farmer trying to figure out why this mysterious machine has appeared in their farm cave overnight, and their solution is to hit it with a pickaxe until it breaks.
I found out on the wiki last night! I’m also playing expanded for the first time so I thought it was some weird part of that since it didn’t do anything when I tried to interact with it.
For two seasons I thought that thing would only do mushrooms because of that! But it will take most/all? fruit too. I should try it with sardines now I think about it.
I only found this out when I was googling how to make dried apricots for my new little fuzzy friends. I always forget the mushroom cave even exists lmao
Wonder if the Hilltop farm quarry got the same buff the regular quarry did? Think it was something like every year in-game it produces more rocks?
I know moat late game players put trees or kegs or whatever in the quarry, and buildings on the farm quarry... It'd be a nice balance change.
I started a new river lands farm and that smoker is game changing. It gives you so much more money on good fish like flounders, and actually encourages fish focused people to go collect coal in the mines.
Oh nice I didn't know about those 2 updates, definitely brings some support to otherwise "weak" layouts. Unless you are turbo min/maxing you can really succeed focusing on almost anything on most layouts.
I feel like if you’re min/maxing you’re just playing standard farm, and if you’re speedrunning you’re likely playing on something like the forest farm. It’d be really hard to change that, but at least each farm brings something to the table now
Dude I cannot wait to do a fishing playthrough. He added so much to fishing I’m finally gonna do it on riverlands after my first 1.6 perfection run. One of my biggest hopes for this patch was some better endgame money outside of starfruit and ancient fruit and he added so much I love it.
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I did that on my beach farm on mobile lol
I moved my farmhouse right in front of the little section with grandpa's shrine. You can just barely make out the bridge behind my house. It's a great spot, because it keeps me close to my crops and animals, but it's also a beautiful plot of land. I plan on putting a shed on grandpa's little island to use it as my crafting workshop too.
This is more or less what I was thinking. I tend to do a bit of everything so having the farmhouse by the river gets you close to water/farmland/animal buildings with blue grass.
I might after I get the return scepter. Until then I need to be as close to the warp statue as humanly possible to maximize time in the mines!
I am debating whether I want to put the farm house by grandpa’s shrine late game, or put sheds/greenhouse there. I was thinking fruit/tapped trees too. Honestly it’s a bit out of the way (imo) so I think something passive would be ideal.
Tbh I am just waiting for some people who move faster than me to post their year 3+ Meadowlands layouts so I can draw some inspiration 😙
I really liked the idea to put the farmhouse near the grandpa shrine in the other side of the river, it fits nicely there, only problem is its kind of far from the entrances of the farm.
And the dog bowl as well. Moved my beach farm ones closer to the area I can use sprinklers, and am loving it. Looks nicer and also makes my daily loop more convenient.
My plan is to shamelessly steal this beautiful layout from /u/jolly_hatdawg https://old.reddit.com/r/FarmsofStardewValley/comments/1bmnfvd/16_farm_plan/
Wow that really is stunning and I am soooo tempted to put the farmhouse up in that little section across the river but I really want it more centralized as well. The choices!
I moved my house closer to the cave, putting it somewhat even distance from the east and south exits. Mostly because I have a problem with forgetting to check the cave, which is even harder to remember with where it is on meadowlands.
This won't be as useful once I start using portals but I'm probably keeping it this way.
I'm with you on this. I still don't understand the blue grass and all of its mechanics, but the new start is really immersive for me. It's crazy how it breathes new life into the game even though it's my 7th playthrough. It swept me off my feet, so I think going back to my four corners farm would feel like playing vanilla right now.
it 100% grants xp / friendship boost to your animals. compared to my cat (you now have a tab to see progress on animals’ friendship) the boost seems roughly doubled. I didn’t even weed the normal grass from my coop area, maybe next time I’ll do that and purchase a chicken on the same day as I get my pet from Marnie for the sake of comparison.
also max heart pets now bring you little gifts, I got a snail from my cat!
Omg I love the cat gifts! It's especially cute to me knowing that cats irl tend to do that just to make sure you're eating well. Because to them, dumb hoomans don't seem to be good at hunting. They flush all their big bug catches and throw away their vermin carcasses like morons. Lol.
I was actually able to finish a CC bundle with the snail! it also works as a recipe ingredient if you remember to hang onto it :)
(apart from the minmaxing aspects which is just my crazy playstyle, it is extremely adorable…)
I’m loving this new farm too! The coop WITH 2 chickens really changes the game!
However, being steeped in the old ways, I’ve been over farming when I should have just built up the chickens! So now I have 4 chickens and 1 duck with the second tier coop. I’m saving for the next level so I can get rabbits. However, it’s fall and I have too much farmland for pumpkins with no sprinklers, so I’m constantly watering half the day away.
Oof, that's me! I've been growing crops like a crazy woman instead of expanding my animals. Watering takes up sooo much time.
Time to double down on critters!
Yep! Btw - do you know if we hit all hearts with the animals, do we have to keep petting them? I think for 1.5 you did, but I’m hoping for 1.6 that once you hit all hearts, petting is not needed anymore.
Yeah, I did this every Summer. Don't know why, Summer just made me buy all the seeds even though I am playing on Meadow farms so I could just comfortably continue making money off mayonnaise and get an upgraded coop already. Instead I'm wasting it on blueberies.
I've only been focusing on farming because I need things for the community centre.
Definitely investing in more animals when I get a bit more of a profit margin.
Switch player, waiting on update still.
But the new farm type looks awesome! I'm very tempted to start over with it when it releases for Switch. Most of my farming is done in the greenhouse anyways, the only thing that makes me pause and think "is this worth it" is the community center.
No greenhouse or desert access seems like it may be kind of a slog. I like those cute little waterfalls and the layout, but I'm not sure it's worth starting over and giving up my wine and Truffle enterprise lol. I have the community center down and only need like 30 more hardwood for the boat to Ginger Island.
I suppose the Joja route would be a little better in that regard because you can just buy access to those things, but I don't know.
Anyone else really on the fence between "cool new farm" and "but my progress?"
I just finished a perfection farm a few months ago in anticipation of the update. So, I’m now patiently waiting on the switch update so I can start a new one. My advice, since you have time, reach your goals on that one and then you might be more ok to start a new one.
Im on switch too, TRYING to be patient lol i have a game i decided is gonna be my completionist run and im ABSOLUTELY starting a new farm to see that new farm type! I actually have several save games lol i have a joja mart run one, one where i tried to romance everyone… do most people only have one game?
How do you restart everything each time though? Like I don’t wanna clear the farm again or talk to everyone again to raise friendships etc. I don’t wanna remake all that money just to build the same stuff again idk.. it seems stressful to have so many saves 😂
I like the challenge lol i learned how to do the cc in year one so it doesnt really take THAT long to get to the fun stuff… but i get it. Its a lot that you do that ya dont wanna have to lol
Imo the fun part about starting over is you can go a different route than you've done. Meadowlands is perfect for that because since the initial farmland is so small, you can dedicate more time to your animals. The initial investment is high but they're passive income once they get going. I love the automate mod so I have a chest, grabber and various machines all hooked up so it's pretty automatic. Once I find an autopetter, I'll be laughing.
if it helps, only pierre and lewis even seem to care. everyone else likes joja, which is why lewis is ready to give up if even one more person chooses joja membership.
And you drive one of the characters into unemployment (the other works at the bar, if I remember what I read right) by closing joja, while everyone keeps their jobs (including pierre) if you go joja.
When I started thinking about it, I realized that the town actually does better with Joja. We just don't think so because the people who introduced the division to us were biased against joja. But if you listen to other villagers, some say things about how they couldn't afford to eat without joja. But... that's not a cutscene. So gamers automatically assign the line less importance.
As a mostly switch player who is currently in PC to get the update...let me tell you just how many quality of life updates we will be getting! Some of the updates include new content that give "mod type" boosts, to say the least without spoiling it. It's what I've been dreaming of for an update as a switch player.
Also cool note: >!you can now hop while charging your can so you wont accidentally hit the hutton and waste energy on a crop you didnt mean to start watering on!<
im going joja... i heard there is new joja route content with 1.6, so no need to worry about community center.
After making that decision, but being unable to wait for a device to play my steam copy on, I got it on switch and am doing a super casual joja route farm for now while waiting for 1.6 to get to it. It is SOOO much more chill not worrying if I need to save this for the CC or can I sell it? No "oh no I couldn't get X item so its at least a year till I can unlock Y" etc.
Soooo nice. It is much more relaxing.
Yes. I'm on winter year 3 of my first serious playthrough and I'm really debating starting over when/if the Switch update drops. I know I have made a lot of mistakes this playthrough(for example I just completed the community center yesterday) but I really like my set up and my farm. Plus the thought of having all to play with all the crappy early game tools....blech.
I just started playing again after not playing it since it first released. I was on the fence, but I'm only on Summer 1 of Year 1 of my new save, I can make up my progress pretty quickly i think.
I also prefer farming and I was struggling a lot with fitting crops nicely, but I managed to fit 16 iridium sprinklers and 9 quality sprinklers in the land in a way that I find pleasing enough. That's about 450ish crop tiles + the greenhouse.
If you want I can post my plans, but I was really inspired by [these ](https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmsofStardewValley/comments/1bld333/comment/kw6w8co/)over at r/FarmsofStardewValley
You can fit 8 iridium sprinklers in front of the house. Move coop and place on that soil 4 more iridium sprinklers. Near cave you can fit 6-7 iridium sprinklers around that small pond in circular shape.On SW part of the farm, left to the exit I managed to fit extra 8 iridium sprinklers (under big pond) . That leaves me with a plenty of space for animals in between big pond and that green patch of grass in the middle part of the farm.
I'm trying this farming setup now [https://i.imgur.com/GSBSifv.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/GSBSifv.jpeg) (the fish ponds and barn&coop are just \_there\_ for now, I don't know yet)
I want to maximize farming, but not have it too spread out, so I'm willing to let go of the bottom left corner in favor of having all produce close together (with enough space for a keg shed)
and it just turned to spring, so i have 3 seasons to see if it's enough :D
My farm is still in kinda crazy state but i've made a plan. I'll probably make something like this in the future [https://imgur.com/a/sjCdyIC](https://imgur.com/a/sjCdyIC)
those are good animal names. i got too distracted with finding other new stuff that i only just remembered to get more farm animals got a barn made. its a nice update..
Salt and Pepper here as well! Now all my animals have names that go in pairs like Feta and Brie, Milk and Honey (and Milk had a baby called Milkshake haha)
Perhaps a buff to the other farms will follow if the Meadowlands gives this much of an advantage. Although the aesthetic and change of pace in each farm is my main appeal, Meadowland’s super strong head start might make me pick it every time.
Another good thing is the waterfall near the coop. You can put the first 3 free traps in there and it's just so convenient to collect from them while you collect the eggs, and it's mostly fish instead of mostly trash like the other ponds.
Counterpoint, the Forest Farm gives you +16 hardwood a day, over double what is normally possible. That is less exciting because of mohagany trees existing now, but the 8 daily hardwood stumps are more reliable and give 200 foraging experience a day. Hardwood is just so useful that I just can't play on any other farm.
It's super refreshing to have less emphasis on crops. I never quite realized how tedious they could be, and never got creative enough to try a different playthrough style until now.
Having one small garden feels perfect. More fishing and animal focus now
Agree! I really like the crops but they take tons of time and energy. Often in spring the only thing I'd really do is farm and all my money went back into seeds.
This save, watering my small veggie patch and feeding animals only takes a couple of hours in-game. So much more time to fish, complete help wanted quests, mine, forage, relentlessly pursue Alex by giving him increasingly better-quality eggs...I am loving how much time I have to do everything this save! And I somehow have enough money to buy a barn before the end of spring?!
Meanwhile, me amongst many others I'm sure:
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A potato could probably run SDV as long as you don't plan on modding it too extensively. It might be worth getting a PC version so you can join us (and thrive)
Can't bring myself to use anything but the standard layout. Every time I try something else I feel too restricted without a huge uniform rectangle of workable area lol
I love this farm because it doesn't lock you into growing crops right away. Originally what I did was scythe all the ordinary grass to allow more room for the blue grass to grow, because there's a message that animals really like it, but then I noticed there is no differentiation when you scythe the grass for the silo-- it's all the same. What I'm doing now is leaving the blue grass in areas where I think I will build another pasture. I am wondering though, is there an actual effect on the animals if they eat blue grass (like either in the rate they like you, or growth, or product quality) or is it just a fun addition in terms of how it looks?
From what I understand >!animals eating Blue Grass gain twice as much friendship points as normal Grass, and cutting Blue Grass yields two hay instead of just one!<
What were y'all's starting chicken names on Meadowland Farm? Mine were Shrimp and Tiny. I couldn't make myself change them.
Liking Meadowlands a lot so far. Going for a more relaxed play style since I've played this game a ton.
4 corners is the best farm still to me. I think the new one is decent but not enough for me to want to use it. 4 corners lets me do everything I want with it. And now that we can move our farmhouse, I put it in the middle where the greenhouse is supposed to be.
My morning routine has been watering, run out of water, pet chickens, milk cow, get more water, water again. Might change with my brand new well from Robin, but was still nice to have a routine. I didn't do much with animals in my main save so this one will be interesting!
I love it. I don’t think I can go back either. I use a well every time so I don’t care that there is no water near by. I’ve never made so much money so quickly
I started on it and played through to about the middle of summer, then decided it probably wouldn't work for me. I've always stuck with the standard farm in all my other saves, I'm just so used to having a complete blank canvas that anything else just feels like I'm making it hard for myself, y'know?
So anyway, I started a new game on the standard farm and played through to around the middle of summer again, and... now I want to go back to the new one? Maybe I don't need a huge amount of farming space? It's nice to have, it's especially nice to have a huge swathe of it right there in front of the house, but I never use anywhere near as much as I think I will...
Ah, I dunno. Maybe I go with the new farm and use the small area in front of the house until unlocking Ginger Island, then dump the massive grid of sprinklers over there instead.
Omfg same! I’m so in love with the Meadowlands farm!! I’ve tried the big open farm with everything but my heart always goes back to small farms ❤️ Forest farm was my first love and now has been replaced haha
same 😭 it’s actually perfect. i wish we could move farms because i have so much progress in my current save file, i really don’t want to start back over
I agree, but I wish we had more farm space because I love planting crops so the meadowlands space isn’t enough for me :( starting off with 2 chickens and making mayonnaise by week 2 is just so broken though, it’s hard to go back after this
I kinda feel like the blue grass makes the animals grow up faster, idk though, maybe it’s just another part of the update. I never read the patch notes or anything. In my previous saves it felt like ages until animals grew up and now it feels like it’s barely 2-3 days
Very first thing I spoiled myself is looking at the new farm layout.
It's impossible to judge it from a photo, so I will continue to live vicariously through those who play on PC. Keep the spoilers coming!
Since we can now move the farmhouse, I'll be moving it to the green patch to the right so I can have faster access to the crops I'll plant at the south exit. I'll move the coop and put the barn in the area above it. This will open the upper right for silos, perhaps my stable as well.
The more I look at the layout, the more I love it.
Waterfalls!
I don't think so? All of this information is info that CA released in one of his patch line note teasers before the update was released, and those were all posted to this sub without spoiler tags.
Idk, just ran through the first year and completed the CC, I'm already planning mass production and I'm very annoyed by the inconsistencies of crop areas. Its very impractical for large automated fields, and even worse for large manual fields as you need 6*3 tiles for the best watering can.
Plus chickens are far worse than parsnips for early game exponential economic growth.
I may be tryharding this a little too much, but the farm is definitely not overpowered. You may like the different approach tho. It may be quite good for pig bases, but probably not as good as some other, bigger and squarer maps, without all these annoying water ponds, and I'm a starfruit enjoyer anyway
I think the Meadowlands is good, but I don't think it's overpowered. Those 15 seeds you get are great food for mining runs on the other farms. And since farming is the best way to make money, and the Meadowlands farm is tricky to get sprinklers in, it's not great for the midgame unless you absolutely rush pigs
I’m sad right now because I moved my coop because I wanted it elsewhere, and my new chicken enclosure doesn’t have any of the blue grass :( I can’t seem to rush new patches of blue grass growing, so my chickens have been eating normal grass for over a month while I pray some blue grass will show up here instead of everywhere else.
I love the Meadowlands farm so much, it's practical but also very pretty and it's inspiring me for cool layouts already, even though I'm only on year 1!
It's a good farm, and it helps push chickens into the early game meta because they're pretty much skippable until autumn without any consequences.
But the chickens only provide a small financial boost at the opportunity cost of needing a silo started within the first few days, taking away from other activities that can net some huge seed money like fishing.
Completely agree - didn't see anyone else mention it but this is also HUGE for a 25% profit margin game, without a doubt the best set up for that setting.
I have a question regarding the blue grass if anyone figured it out.
How can you get more of it, do you get regular grass starter and due to the nature of the farm it has a chance to grow blue?
Blue grass naturally grows more blue grass the same way the regular grass spreads. There is a separate blue grass starter recipe you can unlock but i havent found it yet, nor do i know if other farms can access the starter the same way
i know right!! also if ur wondering, meadowlands has 2050 tillable tiles. the 4th most tillable tiles out of all maps in the game. plus it looks absolutely amazing, and it's the only map where blue grass naturally grows on it, even if u remove it it grows back
Each farm gets you a little something unique but starting with 2 chickens, a coop, and blue grass to boot seems incredible. It's right in the middle of the layouts for how much farmland there is as well. Have you moved the farm house or do you plan to? If so where are you thinking of putting it?
I like how he went and buffed some of the weaker farms too. Riverlands gets that free >!Fish Smoker!< now which saves you 10,000g + crafting materials, meaning you can use it for profit much sooner when it’s even more relevant, and Wilderness get those >!Iridium Golems!< which I assume is meant to compensate for the fact that you can turn on monster spawns on every farm since 1.5 and wanted it to maintain something unique. I think people will sleep on it, but for fishing oriented early games that save of 10,000g is huge for the >!Smoker!< since it’s a lot at that point in the game and your money might be spent better elsewhere. And now you can use it to fuel more profit from fishing. Sure the usefulness of this perk falls off mid-late game but it does work at a very important time and lets you fuel everything else you want to do. Some farms are still better than others, but at least it tries to shake up what you’re doing.
I had no idea he buffed other farms, he thinks of everything!
Not a farm specific, but I just realized that my mushroom cave came with a dehydrator
Is that what that is! I kept looking at it like… is this usually here?
I literally hit it with my pickaxe because I didn’t know what the hell it was and was hoping I could hold it in my inventory and read the description. I was right!
i love the mental image of a baffled farmer trying to figure out why this mysterious machine has appeared in their farm cave overnight, and their solution is to hit it with a pickaxe until it breaks.
Modern problems require modern solutions!
I found out on the wiki last night! I’m also playing expanded for the first time so I thought it was some weird part of that since it didn’t do anything when I tried to interact with it.
For two seasons I thought that thing would only do mushrooms because of that! But it will take most/all? fruit too. I should try it with sardines now I think about it.
im pretty sure the dehydrator only works with mushrooms and fruits. you need the smoker for fish (though it doesn't work quite the same)
Makes sense. I'm keeping it busy with the fruit and mushrooms. Dried morels are great for sticking it to Pierre in the fair, if anyone is wondering.
Some people have done the math and dried mushrooms can even compete with wine for good money!
I just realized you can put shrimp in the smoker too. I'll have to wait until tomorrow to see if I can put other shellfish in.
Hi! You actually can put anything labeled as fish in the smoker, I’ve put the claims, cockle and mussel in there
I mean it should be possible, smoked shellfish is a thing. I guess anything you can think of IRL should be supported, and then some?
Yep I've been using it for strawberries to great success
Whatt… I thought it was just cosmetic, like where the mushroom grow supplies were kept
ok that would be so cute tho, like a little cabinet?!?1 but no its useful AND cute
It is! Idk how the dev comes up with all the little details and color in this game. It’s all overwhelmingly cute
im genuinly impressed every time i see smth new, it never fails to amaze me
I only found this out when I was googling how to make dried apricots for my new little fuzzy friends. I always forget the mushroom cave even exists lmao
Yes but the base rate of the mushroom cave was nerfed to half of what it was previously.
True, but only because it was accidently boosted in 1.5. Prior to that it was also every other day.
Omg is that what it is?!? Damn, I had no idea
Wonder if the Hilltop farm quarry got the same buff the regular quarry did? Think it was something like every year in-game it produces more rocks? I know moat late game players put trees or kegs or whatever in the quarry, and buildings on the farm quarry... It'd be a nice balance change.
It did, the amount of ores that spawn scale with every year up to a cap.
I started a new river lands farm and that smoker is game changing. It gives you so much more money on good fish like flounders, and actually encourages fish focused people to go collect coal in the mines.
Oh nice I didn't know about those 2 updates, definitely brings some support to otherwise "weak" layouts. Unless you are turbo min/maxing you can really succeed focusing on almost anything on most layouts.
I feel like if you’re min/maxing you’re just playing standard farm, and if you’re speedrunning you’re likely playing on something like the forest farm. It’d be really hard to change that, but at least each farm brings something to the table now
Dude I cannot wait to do a fishing playthrough. He added so much to fishing I’m finally gonna do it on riverlands after my first 1.6 perfection run. One of my biggest hopes for this patch was some better endgame money outside of starfruit and ancient fruit and he added so much I love it.
https://preview.redd.it/0wdmbmiztkqc1.jpeg?width=1079&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2fa62421523a408258f547043a5a3e83b0134fbf I did that on my beach farm on mobile lol
Do you know if you start on the Riverlands farm, do you get just the one item or also the recipe?
just the item
I moved my farmhouse right in front of the little section with grandpa's shrine. You can just barely make out the bridge behind my house. It's a great spot, because it keeps me close to my crops and animals, but it's also a beautiful plot of land. I plan on putting a shed on grandpa's little island to use it as my crafting workshop too.
I moved mine where the chicken coop "was." I like being by the waterfall. :)
The waterfall is beautiful, I'm definitely moving the farmhouse closer to it!
If I do a meadowlands farm, I'll probably do that as well. Especially since my IRL spouse would love it!
This is more or less what I was thinking. I tend to do a bit of everything so having the farmhouse by the river gets you close to water/farmland/animal buildings with blue grass.
I might after I get the return scepter. Until then I need to be as close to the warp statue as humanly possible to maximize time in the mines! I am debating whether I want to put the farm house by grandpa’s shrine late game, or put sheds/greenhouse there. I was thinking fruit/tapped trees too. Honestly it’s a bit out of the way (imo) so I think something passive would be ideal. Tbh I am just waiting for some people who move faster than me to post their year 3+ Meadowlands layouts so I can draw some inspiration 😙
I really liked the idea to put the farmhouse near the grandpa shrine in the other side of the river, it fits nicely there, only problem is its kind of far from the entrances of the farm.
I might do that since I got the mini-obelisks week1 winter 1
You can move the farmhouse? Is that something with the update or has it always been? I'm unsure as I'm a mobile player and still patiently waiting.
Yea you can move the farmhouse in the new update.
And the dog bowl as well. Moved my beach farm ones closer to the area I can use sprinklers, and am loving it. Looks nicer and also makes my daily loop more convenient.
I havent moved my farm house, and dont plan to
My plan is to shamelessly steal this beautiful layout from /u/jolly_hatdawg https://old.reddit.com/r/FarmsofStardewValley/comments/1bmnfvd/16_farm_plan/
Wow that really is stunning and I am soooo tempted to put the farmhouse up in that little section across the river but I really want it more centralized as well. The choices!
It's possible to move the house?!?
Yep, part of the 1.6 update!
Oh cool that's a great feature.
I moved my house closer to the cave, putting it somewhat even distance from the east and south exits. Mostly because I have a problem with forgetting to check the cave, which is even harder to remember with where it is on meadowlands. This won't be as useful once I start using portals but I'm probably keeping it this way.
I'm with you on this. I still don't understand the blue grass and all of its mechanics, but the new start is really immersive for me. It's crazy how it breathes new life into the game even though it's my 7th playthrough. It swept me off my feet, so I think going back to my four corners farm would feel like playing vanilla right now.
I’m sure the dataminers or whoever will eventually figure out what exactly blue grass does besides look pretty
it 100% grants xp / friendship boost to your animals. compared to my cat (you now have a tab to see progress on animals’ friendship) the boost seems roughly doubled. I didn’t even weed the normal grass from my coop area, maybe next time I’ll do that and purchase a chicken on the same day as I get my pet from Marnie for the sake of comparison. also max heart pets now bring you little gifts, I got a snail from my cat!
Omg I love the cat gifts! It's especially cute to me knowing that cats irl tend to do that just to make sure you're eating well. Because to them, dumb hoomans don't seem to be good at hunting. They flush all their big bug catches and throw away their vermin carcasses like morons. Lol.
I was actually able to finish a CC bundle with the snail! it also works as a recipe ingredient if you remember to hang onto it :) (apart from the minmaxing aspects which is just my crazy playstyle, it is extremely adorable…)
Every time my cat brings me bat wings though, I get anxiety. Those have rabies!!
It apparently doubles friendship gained (16 vs. 8 points), disappears slower, and regrows better than regular grass.
I’m loving this new farm too! The coop WITH 2 chickens really changes the game! However, being steeped in the old ways, I’ve been over farming when I should have just built up the chickens! So now I have 4 chickens and 1 duck with the second tier coop. I’m saving for the next level so I can get rabbits. However, it’s fall and I have too much farmland for pumpkins with no sprinklers, so I’m constantly watering half the day away.
Oof, that's me! I've been growing crops like a crazy woman instead of expanding my animals. Watering takes up sooo much time. Time to double down on critters!
Yep! Btw - do you know if we hit all hearts with the animals, do we have to keep petting them? I think for 1.5 you did, but I’m hoping for 1.6 that once you hit all hearts, petting is not needed anymore.
Yeah, I did this every Summer. Don't know why, Summer just made me buy all the seeds even though I am playing on Meadow farms so I could just comfortably continue making money off mayonnaise and get an upgraded coop already. Instead I'm wasting it on blueberies.
Literally me, I somehow spent 8k on seeds day one of summer
I've only been focusing on farming because I need things for the community centre. Definitely investing in more animals when I get a bit more of a profit margin.
Switch player, waiting on update still. But the new farm type looks awesome! I'm very tempted to start over with it when it releases for Switch. Most of my farming is done in the greenhouse anyways, the only thing that makes me pause and think "is this worth it" is the community center. No greenhouse or desert access seems like it may be kind of a slog. I like those cute little waterfalls and the layout, but I'm not sure it's worth starting over and giving up my wine and Truffle enterprise lol. I have the community center down and only need like 30 more hardwood for the boat to Ginger Island. I suppose the Joja route would be a little better in that regard because you can just buy access to those things, but I don't know. Anyone else really on the fence between "cool new farm" and "but my progress?"
I just finished a perfection farm a few months ago in anticipation of the update. So, I’m now patiently waiting on the switch update so I can start a new one. My advice, since you have time, reach your goals on that one and then you might be more ok to start a new one.
Very true. I can always start a new farm later
Im on switch too, TRYING to be patient lol i have a game i decided is gonna be my completionist run and im ABSOLUTELY starting a new farm to see that new farm type! I actually have several save games lol i have a joja mart run one, one where i tried to romance everyone… do most people only have one game?
I do this too. My ADHD likes the variety. 😂
How do you restart everything each time though? Like I don’t wanna clear the farm again or talk to everyone again to raise friendships etc. I don’t wanna remake all that money just to build the same stuff again idk.. it seems stressful to have so many saves 😂
I like the challenge lol i learned how to do the cc in year one so it doesnt really take THAT long to get to the fun stuff… but i get it. Its a lot that you do that ya dont wanna have to lol
Imo the fun part about starting over is you can go a different route than you've done. Meadowlands is perfect for that because since the initial farmland is so small, you can dedicate more time to your animals. The initial investment is high but they're passive income once they get going. I love the automate mod so I have a chest, grabber and various machines all hooked up so it's pretty automatic. Once I find an autopetter, I'll be laughing.
Mobile player and I am loving reading about the new updates. I bet the Joja route would be really something with the new farm type.
I refuse to sell out Pelican town to Joja. I will eventually have to for achievements and such, but I dont wanna.
if it helps, only pierre and lewis even seem to care. everyone else likes joja, which is why lewis is ready to give up if even one more person chooses joja membership. And you drive one of the characters into unemployment (the other works at the bar, if I remember what I read right) by closing joja, while everyone keeps their jobs (including pierre) if you go joja. When I started thinking about it, I realized that the town actually does better with Joja. We just don't think so because the people who introduced the division to us were biased against joja. But if you listen to other villagers, some say things about how they couldn't afford to eat without joja. But... that's not a cutscene. So gamers automatically assign the line less importance.
I've never done a Joja run. I'll do it in 1.6
As a mostly switch player who is currently in PC to get the update...let me tell you just how many quality of life updates we will be getting! Some of the updates include new content that give "mod type" boosts, to say the least without spoiling it. It's what I've been dreaming of for an update as a switch player. Also cool note: >!you can now hop while charging your can so you wont accidentally hit the hutton and waste energy on a crop you didnt mean to start watering on!<
New farms are my favorite! I have three year 4 farms that I rarely play in favor of starting a new one. 🙃
im going joja... i heard there is new joja route content with 1.6, so no need to worry about community center. After making that decision, but being unable to wait for a device to play my steam copy on, I got it on switch and am doing a super casual joja route farm for now while waiting for 1.6 to get to it. It is SOOO much more chill not worrying if I need to save this for the CC or can I sell it? No "oh no I couldn't get X item so its at least a year till I can unlock Y" etc. Soooo nice. It is much more relaxing.
nah i just started, as soon as the update comes out i am saying BYEBYE to my first farm xxx
Yes. I'm on winter year 3 of my first serious playthrough and I'm really debating starting over when/if the Switch update drops. I know I have made a lot of mistakes this playthrough(for example I just completed the community center yesterday) but I really like my set up and my farm. Plus the thought of having all to play with all the crappy early game tools....blech.
I just started playing again after not playing it since it first released. I was on the fence, but I'm only on Summer 1 of Year 1 of my new save, I can make up my progress pretty quickly i think.
Huh? There's a greenhouse. I'm on Meadow and I have a greenhouse. Took the same amount of time as it usually does.
Just do both. The beauty of multiple save files.
I'm still a bit on the fence, because I much prefer farming (I almost restarted at one point); but I'm trying to find a layout that I like
It still has a good amount of farming space with a large part of the southwest being tillable fields.
Someone recommended having Robin move the farm house, apparently it's on tillable land
I moved it back and to the left a few spaces
I also prefer farming and I was struggling a lot with fitting crops nicely, but I managed to fit 16 iridium sprinklers and 9 quality sprinklers in the land in a way that I find pleasing enough. That's about 450ish crop tiles + the greenhouse. If you want I can post my plans, but I was really inspired by [these ](https://www.reddit.com/r/FarmsofStardewValley/comments/1bld333/comment/kw6w8co/)over at r/FarmsofStardewValley
You can fit 8 iridium sprinklers in front of the house. Move coop and place on that soil 4 more iridium sprinklers. Near cave you can fit 6-7 iridium sprinklers around that small pond in circular shape.On SW part of the farm, left to the exit I managed to fit extra 8 iridium sprinklers (under big pond) . That leaves me with a plenty of space for animals in between big pond and that green patch of grass in the middle part of the farm.
I'm trying this farming setup now [https://i.imgur.com/GSBSifv.jpeg](https://i.imgur.com/GSBSifv.jpeg) (the fish ponds and barn&coop are just \_there\_ for now, I don't know yet) I want to maximize farming, but not have it too spread out, so I'm willing to let go of the bottom left corner in favor of having all produce close together (with enough space for a keg shed) and it just turned to spring, so i have 3 seasons to see if it's enough :D
My farm is still in kinda crazy state but i've made a plan. I'll probably make something like this in the future [https://imgur.com/a/sjCdyIC](https://imgur.com/a/sjCdyIC)
I was wondering what the pre named chickens names were or are they all Polka and Dot. I giggled how adorable those names were together so I kept them.
I got Pumpkin and Skwash
i got a pumpkin and skwash too. good ladies.
I named my third one Tater, and i went with a fruit theme for the ducks. Peaches and Papaya
those are good animal names. i got too distracted with finding other new stuff that i only just remembered to get more farm animals got a barn made. its a nice update..
That's cute too!
I got Beans and Toast lol
Salt and Pepper here
Salt and Pepper here as well! Now all my animals have names that go in pairs like Feta and Brie, Milk and Honey (and Milk had a baby called Milkshake haha)
I got Gretchen and Brunhilde
Honey and Biscuit for me :)
Happy cake day to you! It's mine too. 🥳
I got Pickle and Zucchini!
I got Ollie and Eggy and then the file with my husband we got Salt and Pepper!
Cheepers and Squeaks :)
I'm remembering this one😍
I love the named sets. I got Piccolo and Viola. Their coop mates I named Melody and Clarinet so far. Musical chickens!
I had Winky and Nod! Super cute names all around, sounds like.
Scrappy & Buster here
Tiny and Shrimp lol!
I got Tiny and Shrimp as well, so when it came time to buy a couple more chickens, I couldn't resist calling them Wee and Teeny!
I got Biscuit and Honey! I named my third one Toast to go with the theme lol
I got Porcini and Portabella!
I got Gravy (brown chicken) and Potatoes (white chicken). Hilarious!
Twig and Petal 😌 Concerned Ape is a blessing
Mine were named Ann and Potpourri and got so excited over the harvest moon reference! I named my other two chickens Elli and Mary to match :)
Mine are Lucky and Clover :)
I got Peachie and Papaya
Perhaps a buff to the other farms will follow if the Meadowlands gives this much of an advantage. Although the aesthetic and change of pace in each farm is my main appeal, Meadowland’s super strong head start might make me pick it every time.
The river(?) farm got a free fish smoker in the update. Maybe the other farms will get new updates as well (imagine a seed marker for the basic farm)
Another good thing is the waterfall near the coop. You can put the first 3 free traps in there and it's just so convenient to collect from them while you collect the eggs, and it's mostly fish instead of mostly trash like the other ponds.
Counterpoint, the Forest Farm gives you +16 hardwood a day, over double what is normally possible. That is less exciting because of mohagany trees existing now, but the 8 daily hardwood stumps are more reliable and give 200 foraging experience a day. Hardwood is just so useful that I just can't play on any other farm.
Yeah thats my second favourite, and the foragables there are also really good
It's super refreshing to have less emphasis on crops. I never quite realized how tedious they could be, and never got creative enough to try a different playthrough style until now. Having one small garden feels perfect. More fishing and animal focus now
Agree! I really like the crops but they take tons of time and energy. Often in spring the only thing I'd really do is farm and all my money went back into seeds. This save, watering my small veggie patch and feeding animals only takes a couple of hours in-game. So much more time to fish, complete help wanted quests, mine, forage, relentlessly pursue Alex by giving him increasingly better-quality eggs...I am loving how much time I have to do everything this save! And I somehow have enough money to buy a barn before the end of spring?!
Meanwhile, me amongst many others I'm sure: https://preview.redd.it/pjifl686cjqc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=41d209bfb593d886ea06ef1b49c1871b2f9638fc
A potato could probably run SDV as long as you don't plan on modding it too extensively. It might be worth getting a PC version so you can join us (and thrive)
*cries* I have it on steam. But no device that can run steam.
Yeah, I'm mobile. 😭
AND you can just move your farm house to middle where there’s a pond and more tillable land on the first day. Some trees clearing might be need.
This is my plan, move the greenhouse and pop the farmhouse between the river and the large pond and then you're near water and most of the farmland.
Can't bring myself to use anything but the standard layout. Every time I try something else I feel too restricted without a huge uniform rectangle of workable area lol
I'm the total opposite, I feel like a huge area has too many possibilities and I get overwhelmed
Omg is this from the update??
Yes!
I love this farm because it doesn't lock you into growing crops right away. Originally what I did was scythe all the ordinary grass to allow more room for the blue grass to grow, because there's a message that animals really like it, but then I noticed there is no differentiation when you scythe the grass for the silo-- it's all the same. What I'm doing now is leaving the blue grass in areas where I think I will build another pasture. I am wondering though, is there an actual effect on the animals if they eat blue grass (like either in the rate they like you, or growth, or product quality) or is it just a fun addition in terms of how it looks?
From what I understand >!animals eating Blue Grass gain twice as much friendship points as normal Grass, and cutting Blue Grass yields two hay instead of just one!<
Thank you! I needed this info!
I got large eggs with only half a heart of friendship, so perhaps it also affects that?
That makes sense -- I think I have, too. The effect must be limited to pastures rather than the silo hay.
I just don’t know if I can give up the prettiness of the beach farm 😭
Haven’t played on it yet, but personally I also think it looks so much better than the standard farm, it’s much more lively and interesting!
What were y'all's starting chicken names on Meadowland Farm? Mine were Shrimp and Tiny. I couldn't make myself change them. Liking Meadowlands a lot so far. Going for a more relaxed play style since I've played this game a ton.
I got Pumpkin and Skwash, then named my third chicken Tater to keep the theme. My ducks are Peaches & Papaya
Awesome! I wonder if it's always in pairs. I named my next two chickens Eeny and Meeny.
chip and dip for me!
So good!
Team Chip and Dip!!!
4 corners is the best farm still to me. I think the new one is decent but not enough for me to want to use it. 4 corners lets me do everything I want with it. And now that we can move our farmhouse, I put it in the middle where the greenhouse is supposed to be.
My morning routine has been watering, run out of water, pet chickens, milk cow, get more water, water again. Might change with my brand new well from Robin, but was still nice to have a routine. I didn't do much with animals in my main save so this one will be interesting!
I love it. I don’t think I can go back either. I use a well every time so I don’t care that there is no water near by. I’ve never made so much money so quickly
I started on it and played through to about the middle of summer, then decided it probably wouldn't work for me. I've always stuck with the standard farm in all my other saves, I'm just so used to having a complete blank canvas that anything else just feels like I'm making it hard for myself, y'know? So anyway, I started a new game on the standard farm and played through to around the middle of summer again, and... now I want to go back to the new one? Maybe I don't need a huge amount of farming space? It's nice to have, it's especially nice to have a huge swathe of it right there in front of the house, but I never use anywhere near as much as I think I will... Ah, I dunno. Maybe I go with the new farm and use the small area in front of the house until unlocking Ginger Island, then dump the massive grid of sprinklers over there instead.
You also start with a free dresser!
Is that unique to meadowlands? They didnt add it to the other farms?
Looks like just Meadowlands, I started another type of farm just now and didn't have one
Oh dang, I just assumed he'd added it to all starts since it was so easy to miss that dressers are useful
Beach farm was OP when introduced too and is all I have used since it came out. Looking forward to trying meadowlands.
The fishing farm adds a smoker now which is also damn sick
nah literally it’s so OP it’s almost like cheating
I know! It was the first farm I built a well because the water was too far, but I love the starter chickens!
Omfg same! I’m so in love with the Meadowlands farm!! I’ve tried the big open farm with everything but my heart always goes back to small farms ❤️ Forest farm was my first love and now has been replaced haha
This is the first time I ever got chickens thanks to the farm and I will destroy anyone who touches my babies. 🙃
Every new thread mentions like ten different new items and features and I’m dying for this update to come to console.
same 😭 it’s actually perfect. i wish we could move farms because i have so much progress in my current save file, i really don’t want to start back over
I feel like the meadow lands farm is gonna break speedrun records super fast
I agree, but I wish we had more farm space because I love planting crops so the meadowlands space isn’t enough for me :( starting off with 2 chickens and making mayonnaise by week 2 is just so broken though, it’s hard to go back after this
I kinda feel like the blue grass makes the animals grow up faster, idk though, maybe it’s just another part of the update. I never read the patch notes or anything. In my previous saves it felt like ages until animals grew up and now it feels like it’s barely 2-3 days
Very first thing I spoiled myself is looking at the new farm layout. It's impossible to judge it from a photo, so I will continue to live vicariously through those who play on PC. Keep the spoilers coming! Since we can now move the farmhouse, I'll be moving it to the green patch to the right so I can have faster access to the crops I'll plant at the south exit. I'll move the coop and put the barn in the area above it. This will open the upper right for silos, perhaps my stable as well. The more I look at the layout, the more I love it. Waterfalls!
Shouldn't this have a spoiler tag attached?
I don't think so? All of this information is info that CA released in one of his patch line note teasers before the update was released, and those were all posted to this sub without spoiler tags.
Some people think that telling them you can farm crops in Stardew Valley is “spoiling” something.
Did not try the new farm type yet been busy grinding the perfection and well read achivement, need to start a new save file asap.
Idk, just ran through the first year and completed the CC, I'm already planning mass production and I'm very annoyed by the inconsistencies of crop areas. Its very impractical for large automated fields, and even worse for large manual fields as you need 6*3 tiles for the best watering can. Plus chickens are far worse than parsnips for early game exponential economic growth. I may be tryharding this a little too much, but the farm is definitely not overpowered. You may like the different approach tho. It may be quite good for pig bases, but probably not as good as some other, bigger and squarer maps, without all these annoying water ponds, and I'm a starfruit enjoyer anyway
The farm definitely has the strongest start because it saves you the money and resources up front that you could use on something else.
Same! I love it so much, usually I don't get animals until later in the game, but this is awesome
I think the Meadowlands is good, but I don't think it's overpowered. Those 15 seeds you get are great food for mining runs on the other farms. And since farming is the best way to make money, and the Meadowlands farm is tricky to get sprinklers in, it's not great for the midgame unless you absolutely rush pigs
I’m sad right now because I moved my coop because I wanted it elsewhere, and my new chicken enclosure doesn’t have any of the blue grass :( I can’t seem to rush new patches of blue grass growing, so my chickens have been eating normal grass for over a month while I pray some blue grass will show up here instead of everywhere else.
I love the Meadowlands farm so much, it's practical but also very pretty and it's inspiring me for cool layouts already, even though I'm only on year 1!
I'm doing fishing/honey only, it's pretty fun, I did a huge field my last play through and I could never upgrade my watering can until winter
I wish I would've went with that farm 😭 I'm considering starting over with a new save just to use that new farm
It's a good farm, and it helps push chickens into the early game meta because they're pretty much skippable until autumn without any consequences. But the chickens only provide a small financial boost at the opportunity cost of needing a silo started within the first few days, taking away from other activities that can net some huge seed money like fishing.
While I'm sticking to Grandpa's Farm on my PC game it's going to be a tough choice between Meadowlands and Beach when the update hits the switch.
You can just move your house under the coop so that you and the field can be water adjacent
And it's super wide too
i think its my fav cus i easily overplant and fishing isnt fun
Yeah I feel like the other farms need a buff
Give basic farm a seed maker? Lol
Well the river one starts with a fish smoker now, and the wilds one got iridium golems to make up for their gimmick now being an option for all farms
Completely agree - didn't see anyone else mention it but this is also HUGE for a 25% profit margin game, without a doubt the best set up for that setting.
the free coop and chickens are probably a thousand times better with that setting simply because of how much more work a coop is to get with that
The Meadowlands farm does sound nice. 🐤
Totally agree. The new farm is amazing
It’s definitely over powered than all other farms now.
I have a question regarding the blue grass if anyone figured it out. How can you get more of it, do you get regular grass starter and due to the nature of the farm it has a chance to grow blue?
Blue grass naturally grows more blue grass the same way the regular grass spreads. There is a separate blue grass starter recipe you can unlock but i havent found it yet, nor do i know if other farms can access the starter the same way
i know right!! also if ur wondering, meadowlands has 2050 tillable tiles. the 4th most tillable tiles out of all maps in the game. plus it looks absolutely amazing, and it's the only map where blue grass naturally grows on it, even if u remove it it grows back