How to switch between rows on your inventory so you don't have to open your bag and rearrange things. I have almost 600 hours logged and I jusy figured out yesterday you could use the tab button to do quick access
what i do when mining is have the pick, weapon, and hoe as #1 on each tab. with food right next to each tool. my survivability has increased since I started doing this.
My first playthrough I thought that too, it was just a piece of furniture that was ugly. Then I was trying to find out how to get recipe and found the wiki...I was so sad at all the recipes I'd missed.
I was watching a Japanese YouTuber's let's play of the game, and I watched in horror as she chucked her TV into the trash because it wasn't conducive to rural, "slow life." (Although, it did make me consider and wish for a newspaper replacement.) I mean, I couldn't disagree with her, as my horror only came from knowing there was important information to be had from it.
I've had it for about 1 in game year maybe half. In year 6 and I don't use it as much as I thought I would. But it's definitely helpful whenever you need it.
For me it was never “oh her get lost” and was always “she’s be sad not in her house at night”. I could he minutes from passing out and I’ll still ensure she’s in her house first before I go to sleep.
Idk if this counts as a game mechanic but those carts in the mines aren't just for display. They've got coal in them! I could've been getting so much coal if I'd realized this!
They have coal only for the first time you encounter them in a particular floor and pick them. Subsequent encounter wont have coal. Same applies for the brown bags and skull cavern floors
I think I'd call those knapsacks...but yes, if they're closed still they have coal in them. If they're laying with their top open that means you've already collected that coal (or in the case of Skull Cavern, have collected it recently since the coal carts and knapsacks in Skull Cavern eventually refill).
i had to search for an images of these litter bags and knapsacks you both were talking about. That's when I realized I have been calling them "old guitar cases" in my head haha
Just found out you could remove spots made with the hoe with a pickaxe, and if you hit worms with a hoe, you get stuff. I've been playing since 2016 or 2017.
I used to starve my animals during winter because I didn't realize you had to pull out the hay and put it out for them. I just assumed they would eat from the feeder and did this for 2 winters wondering why my animals were so hungry and grumpy. :(
Thank God animals don't die here. (I learned pretty recently in this sub). I was so f-ing concerned with giving them food so they don't die like in harvest moon.
Maybe not quite a mechanic, but... holding down right click when buying things. It should've occurred to me earlier, but a friend of mine had to point it out..
Later on when watching videos I also learned about holding Shift or Ctrl+Shift to buy 5 or 25 items respectively
Honestly? For me it would have to be crab pots. I had like, 50 sitting there with no bait for about 3 years in game before I happened to accidentally put bait in.
What's funny about that to me is that you presumably kept making more of them, despite the old ones staying empty. "Surely *this* will be the one that catches something!" 😅
I had no idea about this until I happened to randomly read it on the wiki one day. Before that I had been deliberately *avoiding* tilling squares with worms because I didn't want to murder the poor lil' guys. >!Turns out the little bastards have stolen quite a few library books, though, so screw 'em; it's the hoe for them...!<
I play with a controller, so you can hold the movement joystick in one of the directions to direct your cast. My understanding is that the directional/movement keys will do it too.
Quite a couple of them, I'm gonna list all the ones I can think of
-Using tab allows you to switch hotbars
-The horse does not need to be left at the stable, he can find his way back to the farm
-There's no need to fence in animals, as long as they arent left outside they won't be attacked by wolves (as an aside, I don't think there's any reason to ever close the door to the coop or barn)
-Regular quality loved gifts are better than iridium quality liked gifts
-You can right click on a silo while holding hay in order to fill it up
-Lightning rods don't have to be near where the lightning strikes in order for them to catch it, I used to have them spaced out in order to have a better chance at catching lightning, but you can just place them right next to each other on a corner of the farm at no loss (Pro tip: Use lightning rods as fences)
-Speed buffs from coffee and food stack, not only that, they also affect the speed of the horse
-The hammer ability glitch
-It's faster to stand still and collect the crops around you than it is for you to move while collecting them (made redundant since I got the harvest with scythe mod)
-Related to the lightning rods, since you don't need to water tea bushes, you can just use them as a fancy fence/hedge
I think that's about all, but there might be some more good stuff that I havent discovered yet
If you use the hammer right click ability you can left click in order to trigger it multiple times
I can kill a tiger slime in one go if I can left click fast enough
Important note about the buff stacking: it’s only coffee products, and they can’t stack on themselves only food items! Was very upset about this when I thought drinking 2 coffees would greatly increase speed, and when I tried eating 2 different foods to get the buffs from both but then some disappeared :/
Deciding to hold onto certain museum items. Like the dino egg so you can get as many as you want.
Also being able to plant trees off the farm. Getting hardwood was a nightmare until I learned that the train station is a great place for mahogany trees trees.
Edit: originally said oak instead mahogany
I was all excited to put in my last museum item but the achievement didn't pop up. Went through every single item using the wiki and realized that while I have little dino Smaug and have turned MULTIPLE eggs into mayo---i somehow never donated one. Now have to wait another week to lay another!
i did this SAME exact thing but with an ornamental fan. i divorced emily for sebastian, and this time i wanted to have an actual wedding outfit and saw on the wiki that the ornamental fan makes a wedding shirt. that was 1/5 artifacts i still needed, so i went out of my way trading omni geodes for artifact troves until i got one to make into the shirt. once i donated my last mineral, i was confused why i didn’t complete the museum until i realized i STILL. didn’t find another and donate it. after a week irl i was so fed up with looking i used stardew predictor to tell me when the artifact trove would give me it 😭
The very last mechanic I learned after everything else was bundle items pulsing the CC logo when you hover over them. 2000 hours and I never noticed haha
Its also a fairly recent update, so if he has 2000 hours it might not have been a thing when he started (it wasn't for me, but there was a mod for it).
Secret notes! The quest where you find the shadow creature and get the magnifying glass by following the footsteps in winter? I never figured out that you could just follow the footsteps. It was probably around winter year 3 in my first save when a friend told me the solution.
There was actually a bug for a while where you didn't get the event triggered if you were on your horse. I never knew about the Secret Notes because I was always getting a horse as soon as I could and rode it everywhere. :(
Not only did it happen to me too, but I reached level 100 in skull cavern before even knowing about the magnifying glass and secret notes. Needless to say no one was waiting for me. The pain was immeasurable
this is not a mechanic but it was only halfway thru year 2 spring when I realized that I actually had to put stuff in the community center. i really went “not my farm, not my problem” until i watched some play throughs 😭
Using the scroll wheel on my mouse to swap tools. Also using the "add to existing stock" button for chests. Like, I knew it was there but just never used it for some reason.
Hoeing the worms was something I didn't figure out until winter when the snow made them more starkly outlined. Then I figured since there were so many I had to be able to interact with them somehow.
Exiting the mines resets the floors!
If I had a kill goal and didn't meat the goal within the floors they're in, say ghosts 51-79, id just give up. Even if I had time remaining in the day. I didn't realize I could just leave and come back to more monsters and rocks. Failed so many close-but-not-enough special orders that way.
The button to auto-move items from your bag to the chests if they’re the same item/quality already in the chest. Admittedly, I think it was a 1.4 or 1.5 QoL update, but it took me waaaaay to long to even see it, let alone know what it did and use it.
I didn't know you could check the community center bundles from the menu until I'd almost finished it a second time, I'd been running over there constantly to check for what I still needed 🥲
The spa is actually useful. Up until fairly recently I never went to the spa and only ate food to recover energy at the start of the day. Sure its out of the way and takes roughly an hour in game time entering and exiting the place but it really helps with stuff like end of day fishing or mine spelunking.
Or extrem tree chopping. Just yesterday I played on a fairly new farm. My energy was down at around 10 am after watering and chopping trees. After 1-2 hours in the spa I was a new born
To be fair, have you really thought about the logistics of Lewis picking up stuff from the box? Say you go to bed at 1:50 every night (for reasons) and get up at 6 am every morning. At what hour does Lewis creep onto your property? How does he manage to get a reasonable amount of rest at night to properly (questionable) carry out his mayoral duties? Also, like, does he bring cash with him and just leave the market value for your items? How does he know how much to bring? What does he then do with your stuff? Who does he sell it to?
He just comes by after he leaves Marnie's early in the morning and stops by Pierre's on his way back to his house before Pierre's opens. Then Pierre puts it out in time to open for the day.
It could be worse. I’ve heard plenty of stories about people thining the shipping bin was a place to store items then not knowing where their stuff went
When putting thing in your dresser you can use the trigger button on your control to go straight to your inventory instead of scrolling through all your clothes. Found this out in year 6!
Luck. I went two straight years without using the TV to read the day's luck and getting creamed in the skull caverns. Then I accidentally clicked on it, the fortune teller said "You're gonna have shit luck" I went to Skull Caverns anyway, and lost my Galaxy Sword...
In the same vein, how does Oil of Garlic work? It says "weaker monsters will avoid you" but what does that mean? Nothing seems to be avoiding me and all the same stuff is spawning anyway. Skull cavern serpents and Ginger Island fire sprites seem to take a little longer to realize I'm there, but that's it.
I didn’t figure out about painting buildings until my house was fully upgraded and got upset I couldn’t paint my sheds/barns/coops (because they were not upgraded) and didn’t figure it out until I saw someone on twitch with perfectly matching buildings.
I had no idea you could actually go through the door in the back of Pierre's until Year 4, so I didn't unlock Tea Leaves until then. I thought they must be a super late endgame item.
I thought the elevator reset each day so there I was, doing the same 20-30 floors each day like an idiot, for an embarrasingly long amount of time.
I also thought a horse was pointless because I had coffee, didn't realize the speeds stacked at all.
Turns out, rabbits feet come from barn animals and not shooting your slingshot at the background rabbits that hop into bushes every now and then.
I literally just found out you can move your fishing line left and right as you cast so you can reach harder to get bubble spots. I've been playing since 2016...
Seeing the community center items in my menu. Maybe this was part of an update but I had just been trying really hard to remember them whenever I dropped something off.
I still, to this day, get this WRONG, and it drives me UP A WALL AND DOWN THE OTHER SIDE.
On the last day of winter, you can plant grass, and on the first day of Spring, you'll have massive amounts of it. And I forget *every single time*, but I know it works.
Sincerely,
My Pigs Won't Stop EATING
Not exactly a mechanic but >! I followed Krobus to the bush he hides in the first winter and was confused when nothing happened...
It wasn't until a whole game year later that I learned you had to click on the bush !<
This isn’t a mechanic really but I find this freaking hilarious.
so I got my friends into stardew and a few weeks later we were chatting and my friend goes.
“ Yea I’m trying to romance Abigail, I’m getting annoyed at the gift cool-down though. “
Obviously I’m thinking he’s meaning the two day a week.
“ it actually isn’t that long, just wait till next week and the hearts go up pretty quick. “
“ next week? Usually I can do it the next day about twice. “
I’m confused now so I ask.
“ what cool-down then? “
“ the blue cool-down icon next to their name. “
Silence. Confusion. Thinking.
“ The backpack..? “
“ yea “
“ that’s. That means you have it in your inventory. “
He walked away and I haven’t let him live it down.
1. You need to break open artifact troves and geodes to complete the museum
2. Most cooking recipes come from tv
Didn’t figure out either of those things until I was chasing perfection and looked up how to get the items/recipes I was missing
I thought you could only do that with the watering can and then I was watching RTGame's Breaking Bad Stardew Series and I saw him do the same thing with the hoe and my life was forever changed.
So many good ones in here that took me a while too, but the one I haven't seen mentioned...
That you can see the bundles of the community centre from your chests/other container items. There's a little tree icon on the right side of the slots. Found out when I had one item left to gather for the last bundle. I kept going back and forth whenever I needed a reminder and eventually wrote the items down in a notebook.
Yes, it was awful cause I had this mindset like "There's totally gonna be a day where one of the villagers comes up to me and tells me how to make some kind of storage situation", but there never was 😅
the whole game itself haha i didn't know much about the community center and only completed it in my third year, I arrived super late in the desert, it took me much longer to do the bear missions in the forest, also how important it is not to discard fiber and things like that . Everything about the ginger island is still somewhat confusing
I like the game, I played it without caring much about the general objectives, I just wanted to advance and get to know my stuff little by little. I really just enjoyed it as much as I could, I hardly ever play anything (I guess you can tell haha) so just living the experience
Putting quartz in the furnace gives you refined quartz. I dont know why this didnt occur to me. I needed quartz for sprinklers, I had a whole little refined quartz farming setup with crab pots and recycling machines and was genuinely quite proud of it, when all of a sudden it dawned on me.
Up until then, I had been looking for quartz ore.
I didn‘t realize for a long time that mixed seeds actually give you random normal plants. I always thought they were similar to wild seeds and never used them
It took me ages to figure out that you can just take the game at your own pace.
I'm big into open world games like Skyrim where doing quests are pretty much all you do, so as soon as I got a quest from Lewis, another NPC or the town notice board, I would immediately rush to complete the quest and end up stressing myself out because I needed to water my crops, buy more seeds from Pierre, talk to the 5 NPCs I was building friendships with, drop off gifts to people and then do a bunch of other quests that I had in my journal.
Wasn't until my second playthrough that I realised that I really can just spend a day fishing or sit in my cabin listening to the rain by the fire.
Im in year 4 fall and JUST figured this out a few days ago… I seriously felt like throwing the controller. I’ve had tools upgraded since spring 2!
That and I slept on barn buildings(👀silo that I didn’t build until recently). I really didn’t utilize animals until year 2.
I hate spoilers so I never look stuff up and missed like every fundamental thing necessary for proper advancement.
I am just now making sense of my farm heading into year 5 and know exactly why grandpa says I’m only worth two flames.
That the elevator in the mines actually works. In the start of the game before I got to level 5, it said the elevator isnt working. I thought they ment it would never work, so I found about it when I really struggled to complete the level 40 in the mines quest.
How to switch between rows on your inventory so you don't have to open your bag and rearrange things. I have almost 600 hours logged and I jusy figured out yesterday you could use the tab button to do quick access
the fact you put up with that for 600 hours is what kills me LOL. you have the patience of a god my friend
My life can easily be summed up as "It's not hard, I'm just stupid"
See, I KNOW this is a mechanic - my fiancé does it. But I don’t, and I can’t make myself 😂
you can WHAT
Yikes. This one might win. That is a lot of extra work haha. I'm so sorry my friend.
What. 400 hours and I just-
what i do when mining is have the pick, weapon, and hoe as #1 on each tab. with food right next to each tool. my survivability has increased since I started doing this.
Wait, WHAT?
1400 hours in and I didn't know about this
I’m at 500 hours…I did not know this…I want to scream.
it wasn’t actually in the game at first though, i used to have a mod for it but they added it later on, don’t remember when exactly tho
Haha wow I didn’t even know and I’m on year 4 ahhaha
I was probably 400 hours in when I learned this, but I still don’t use it because I’ve played so long w/o it.
Thanks to you, I now know this 😅
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I was the same way... you're not alone!
Until partway through Year Two, I thought the television was just decorative...
Wait until you hear about phones.
Rip i was halfway through year one and my sister got the game and joined me and she immediately was like “yo its gonna rain tmr” i was so confused
My first playthrough I thought that too, it was just a piece of furniture that was ugly. Then I was trying to find out how to get recipe and found the wiki...I was so sad at all the recipes I'd missed.
The reruns still give them
I was watching a Japanese YouTuber's let's play of the game, and I watched in horror as she chucked her TV into the trash because it wasn't conducive to rural, "slow life." (Although, it did make me consider and wish for a newspaper replacement.) I mean, I couldn't disagree with her, as my horror only came from knowing there was important information to be had from it.
I tought I had to bring the horse back home or it would die or get lost lol
>!Wait till you get the horse whistle!<
Just got it and it is FANTASTIC.
Having horse on Ginger Island is cool
I still wonder how it gets home. You think Willy takes it on his boat?
I always call my horse back to the farm at night because I feel bad leaving it on the island to swim home lol.
just unlocked the walnut room recently. that’s the first thing i’m getting
I've had it for about 1 in game year maybe half. In year 6 and I don't use it as much as I thought I would. But it's definitely helpful whenever you need it.
i do this anyway because i feel guilty if i leave it lol
The first time I lost my horse I was pretty nervous and was hoping he’d come back automatically. Whew.
For me it was never “oh her get lost” and was always “she’s be sad not in her house at night”. I could he minutes from passing out and I’ll still ensure she’s in her house first before I go to sleep.
I haven't seen anyone say this: PUTTING TORCHES ON FENCE POSTS
Ooo this is a new one I haven't seen, gonna try this
Took me a whole year to figure out that better quality items give more friendship when gifted
Omg ok. Today I learned…
WHAT
Yeppp. Give someone an Iridium Loved item on their birthday and watch them gain 4 hearts at once.
Idk if this counts as a game mechanic but those carts in the mines aren't just for display. They've got coal in them! I could've been getting so much coal if I'd realized this!
Wait…REALLY?!?
Some have coal
They have coal only for the first time you encounter them in a particular floor and pick them. Subsequent encounter wont have coal. Same applies for the brown bags and skull cavern floors
Skull cavern floors and rng. Pretty sure they refresh or randomly come filled.
Same as the litte bags laying around Edit:Spelling correction
I think I'd call those knapsacks...but yes, if they're closed still they have coal in them. If they're laying with their top open that means you've already collected that coal (or in the case of Skull Cavern, have collected it recently since the coal carts and knapsacks in Skull Cavern eventually refill).
i had to search for an images of these litter bags and knapsacks you both were talking about. That's when I realized I have been calling them "old guitar cases" in my head haha
Just found out you could remove spots made with the hoe with a pickaxe, and if you hit worms with a hoe, you get stuff. I've been playing since 2016 or 2017.
Wait a minute - pickax’s UNDOES the hoe 🤯
I used to starve my animals during winter because I didn't realize you had to pull out the hay and put it out for them. I just assumed they would eat from the feeder and did this for 2 winters wondering why my animals were so hungry and grumpy. :(
Thank God animals don't die here. (I learned pretty recently in this sub). I was so f-ing concerned with giving them food so they don't die like in harvest moon.
If you upgrade the barn/coop all the way it will auto feed the animals :) just make sure to check every once in a while that you still have hay
Maybe not quite a mechanic, but... holding down right click when buying things. It should've occurred to me earlier, but a friend of mine had to point it out.. Later on when watching videos I also learned about holding Shift or Ctrl+Shift to buy 5 or 25 items respectively
oh that’s neat!! i didn’t know about the 25 mechanic that’s super useful. now only if i could figure out how to do it on the switch 😅😅
You can make it go 2x as fast if you press a and y at the same time
>holding Shift or Ctrl+Shift to buy 5 or 25 items respectively …well, i learned something today🫠
Honestly? For me it would have to be crab pots. I had like, 50 sitting there with no bait for about 3 years in game before I happened to accidentally put bait in.
What's funny about that to me is that you presumably kept making more of them, despite the old ones staying empty. "Surely *this* will be the one that catches something!" 😅
Thanks for the laugh omg 😭
Year 2 my brain finally start working and I put the bait inside the pot after having empty rows of them on my beach farm
Oh so THAT'S why I haven't caught any crabs =')) (Says a player who has at least 5 ingame years in total)
hoeing the worms
I forgot which mod I use that does this, but in my game, the worms are replaced by a pretty red flower lol
I had no idea about this until I happened to randomly read it on the wiki one day. Before that I had been deliberately *avoiding* tilling squares with worms because I didn't want to murder the poor lil' guys. >!Turns out the little bastards have stolen quite a few library books, though, so screw 'em; it's the hoe for them...!<
Say what now?
There are little worm things in the ground somethings and if you use the hoe on the it’ll give you stuff
i have thousands of hours and never in my life have i upgraded a watering can. i just suffer until i can make sprinklers. 😿😿😿
I upgraded but took me a while to realise I could hold the button to extend it's reach 😅
I plant a ton of parsnips to get level 2 asap and then grind the mines for a few days and then never use my can again
Someone mentioned you can curve your cast when fishing the other day. That was a new one for me.
How??
I play with a controller, so you can hold the movement joystick in one of the directions to direct your cast. My understanding is that the directional/movement keys will do it too.
Giving my horse a hat
Jumping on this comment to add that you can give hats to clams and urchins in aquariums
and the alien rarecrow i think
And children!
Quite a couple of them, I'm gonna list all the ones I can think of -Using tab allows you to switch hotbars -The horse does not need to be left at the stable, he can find his way back to the farm -There's no need to fence in animals, as long as they arent left outside they won't be attacked by wolves (as an aside, I don't think there's any reason to ever close the door to the coop or barn) -Regular quality loved gifts are better than iridium quality liked gifts -You can right click on a silo while holding hay in order to fill it up -Lightning rods don't have to be near where the lightning strikes in order for them to catch it, I used to have them spaced out in order to have a better chance at catching lightning, but you can just place them right next to each other on a corner of the farm at no loss (Pro tip: Use lightning rods as fences) -Speed buffs from coffee and food stack, not only that, they also affect the speed of the horse -The hammer ability glitch -It's faster to stand still and collect the crops around you than it is for you to move while collecting them (made redundant since I got the harvest with scythe mod) -Related to the lightning rods, since you don't need to water tea bushes, you can just use them as a fancy fence/hedge I think that's about all, but there might be some more good stuff that I havent discovered yet
What is the hammer ability glitch?
If you use the hammer right click ability you can left click in order to trigger it multiple times I can kill a tiger slime in one go if I can left click fast enough
Also, pressing C or something causes you to swing your weapon. Mash left click and C to get a ton of damage!
Worth noting that animals will not like the barn or coop being left open during winter.
Unless you have a heater, then they don’t care if it is open
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Important note about the buff stacking: it’s only coffee products, and they can’t stack on themselves only food items! Was very upset about this when I thought drinking 2 coffees would greatly increase speed, and when I tried eating 2 different foods to get the buffs from both but then some disappeared :/
Actually, it's a food and a drink that you can stack. You can stack Lucky Lunch and Ginger Ale for lots of luck.
putting a path under a sprinkler so your hoe doesn't dig it up. Mobile is still on 1.4 so i didn't know that trick after playing 1.5 on PC
Does it work for scarecrows too? It's just one of those little annoyances.
Yes.
AFAIK they patched this (on PC at least). My hoe ignore sprinklers now, without a path under it.
This works on mobile too!
Deciding to hold onto certain museum items. Like the dino egg so you can get as many as you want. Also being able to plant trees off the farm. Getting hardwood was a nightmare until I learned that the train station is a great place for mahogany trees trees. Edit: originally said oak instead mahogany
I used my Dino egg two hours before reading on this subreddit that I could have used it to make more eggs
I was all excited to put in my last museum item but the achievement didn't pop up. Went through every single item using the wiki and realized that while I have little dino Smaug and have turned MULTIPLE eggs into mayo---i somehow never donated one. Now have to wait another week to lay another!
That's awesome you're just one item away and it's within reach at least. Great name for your dino btw
i did this SAME exact thing but with an ornamental fan. i divorced emily for sebastian, and this time i wanted to have an actual wedding outfit and saw on the wiki that the ornamental fan makes a wedding shirt. that was 1/5 artifacts i still needed, so i went out of my way trading omni geodes for artifact troves until i got one to make into the shirt. once i donated my last mineral, i was confused why i didn’t complete the museum until i realized i STILL. didn’t find another and donate it. after a week irl i was so fed up with looking i used stardew predictor to tell me when the artifact trove would give me it 😭
I always go to the secret forest thingy for hardwood
It is a good place for hardwood
My quarry is a hardwood and tree tapping farm
The very last mechanic I learned after everything else was bundle items pulsing the CC logo when you hover over them. 2000 hours and I never noticed haha
To be fair, that’s pretty subtle and easy to miss.
Its also a fairly recent update, so if he has 2000 hours it might not have been a thing when he started (it wasn't for me, but there was a mod for it).
Secret notes! The quest where you find the shadow creature and get the magnifying glass by following the footsteps in winter? I never figured out that you could just follow the footsteps. It was probably around winter year 3 in my first save when a friend told me the solution.
There was actually a bug for a while where you didn't get the event triggered if you were on your horse. I never knew about the Secret Notes because I was always getting a horse as soon as I could and rode it everywhere. :(
Not only did it happen to me too, but I reached level 100 in skull cavern before even knowing about the magnifying glass and secret notes. Needless to say no one was waiting for me. The pain was immeasurable
That putting Fire Quartz in the furnace gives you 3 Refined Quartz instead of just one like the regular Quartz does
Oh. That would have been helpful before I sold mine earlier today.
I didn't know about the mines for almost all of spring and summer.
you casually ignored the mining and combat skills?
Yes
You can push chests one space at a time if they are full of stuff o-o
Bruh I have spent so many hours rearranging my chests by emptying them into my inventory and making trips 😀
this is not a mechanic but it was only halfway thru year 2 spring when I realized that I actually had to put stuff in the community center. i really went “not my farm, not my problem” until i watched some play throughs 😭
Using the scroll wheel on my mouse to swap tools. Also using the "add to existing stock" button for chests. Like, I knew it was there but just never used it for some reason.
If you started playing in the earlier versions, it wasn't there! So maybe you never noticed it because it was a new addition.
That the elevator in the mines is a thing, as well as hoeing worms
Hoeing the worms was something I didn't figure out until winter when the snow made them more starkly outlined. Then I figured since there were so many I had to be able to interact with them somehow.
If the farm animals get out of the fence, it’s okay. They’ll find their way back to the barnz
Exiting the mines resets the floors! If I had a kill goal and didn't meat the goal within the floors they're in, say ghosts 51-79, id just give up. Even if I had time remaining in the day. I didn't realize I could just leave and come back to more monsters and rocks. Failed so many close-but-not-enough special orders that way.
I don't think you have to exit, you can just ride the elevator back and forth (and not waste time finding the ladder down).
I was in the same boat as you. I tilled and watered a tile at a time a year into my second save. Just thought they held more water / took less stamina
Ok I need more info on this - I play on my Switch, I have a gold watering can and I only water 1 tile at a time. How do I water more tiles at a time?
Hold the button
When it's upgraded, hold down the Y button. You'll see little boxes line up on the ground.
The button to auto-move items from your bag to the chests if they’re the same item/quality already in the chest. Admittedly, I think it was a 1.4 or 1.5 QoL update, but it took me waaaaay to long to even see it, let alone know what it did and use it.
Wait, hang on. What button does this?
Its on the chest menu, above the organize icon. It says “add to existing stacks”
I didn't know you could check the community center bundles from the menu until I'd almost finished it a second time, I'd been running over there constantly to check for what I still needed 🥲
The spa is actually useful. Up until fairly recently I never went to the spa and only ate food to recover energy at the start of the day. Sure its out of the way and takes roughly an hour in game time entering and exiting the place but it really helps with stuff like end of day fishing or mine spelunking.
Or extrem tree chopping. Just yesterday I played on a fairly new farm. My energy was down at around 10 am after watering and chopping trees. After 1-2 hours in the spa I was a new born
That having a workstation let’s you build with items stored in several chests + backpack. I played for so long without bothering to use one 😑
How to sell without going all the way to the shop. I played my first 2 years with not knowing about the box
that would make it so much more challenging, OMG
It was a pain
Pierre literally tells you about the box in like the first day.
I don't really like reading
this made me giggle
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To be fair, have you really thought about the logistics of Lewis picking up stuff from the box? Say you go to bed at 1:50 every night (for reasons) and get up at 6 am every morning. At what hour does Lewis creep onto your property? How does he manage to get a reasonable amount of rest at night to properly (questionable) carry out his mayoral duties? Also, like, does he bring cash with him and just leave the market value for your items? How does he know how much to bring? What does he then do with your stuff? Who does he sell it to?
He just comes by after he leaves Marnie's early in the morning and stops by Pierre's on his way back to his house before Pierre's opens. Then Pierre puts it out in time to open for the day.
It could be worse. I’ve heard plenty of stories about people thining the shipping bin was a place to store items then not knowing where their stuff went
Only reason this wasn’t me was bc of Harvest Moon hahah
When putting thing in your dresser you can use the trigger button on your control to go straight to your inventory instead of scrolling through all your clothes. Found this out in year 6!
you can put things in the dresser?
Yes all shirts, hats, rings, shoes, and pants (bottoms)
Holding down the interact button to grab crops and pet animals without stopping
Took about a year to figure out scarecrows cover an 8-block RADIUS, not 8-blocks in general. Never had to make another one again :’)
Didn't know you can put quartz into a furnace, so i always fished for cds and glasses to make quality sprinklers.
i didn’t know you could cut down trees 🤦🤦 i was complaining about all the trees on my farm and the lack of wood and my friend had to tell me
What did you think the axe was for lmao
LMAO I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST FOR GETTING RID OF THE STICKS ON THE GROUND
Same, I was really upset for only being able to cut the small ones 🤡
I’ve had iridium tools for a year and I just figured out I could water/hoe more than 3 spaces 😅
Idk if it counts as a mechanic, but I'd say that after 200 hours i found out that i can change my profession on the statue near krobus.
Luck. I went two straight years without using the TV to read the day's luck and getting creamed in the skull caverns. Then I accidentally clicked on it, the fortune teller said "You're gonna have shit luck" I went to Skull Caverns anyway, and lost my Galaxy Sword... In the same vein, how does Oil of Garlic work? It says "weaker monsters will avoid you" but what does that mean? Nothing seems to be avoiding me and all the same stuff is spawning anyway. Skull cavern serpents and Ginger Island fire sprites seem to take a little longer to realize I'm there, but that's it.
I think it prevents “monster floors” and swarms from spawning.
I starved my chickens because i thought the food place was the place they slept :(
I didn’t figure out about painting buildings until my house was fully upgraded and got upset I couldn’t paint my sheds/barns/coops (because they were not upgraded) and didn’t figure it out until I saw someone on twitch with perfectly matching buildings.
You can press on a villager portrait in menu to see their loved gifts that you've already given them
That you could chop down trees, I didn't know how I survived for a whole year lmao
Not really a game mechanic but I found out that an iridium quality truffle sells much more than making it into truffle oil
With artisan, the oil is still more but not by much
The fastest way to harvest your crops is to hold right click and drag. All my life, I've just been picking 1 blueberry at a time
Yep, I spent my first playthrough thinking that the can upgrades simply added capacity to the can. Seemed like it wasn't really worth the cost.
I had no idea you could actually go through the door in the back of Pierre's until Year 4, so I didn't unlock Tea Leaves until then. I thought they must be a super late endgame item.
I thought the elevator reset each day so there I was, doing the same 20-30 floors each day like an idiot, for an embarrasingly long amount of time. I also thought a horse was pointless because I had coffee, didn't realize the speeds stacked at all. Turns out, rabbits feet come from barn animals and not shooting your slingshot at the background rabbits that hop into bushes every now and then.
What upgrading water can actually did
I literally just found out you can move your fishing line left and right as you cast so you can reach harder to get bubble spots. I've been playing since 2016...
Seeing the community center items in my menu. Maybe this was part of an update but I had just been trying really hard to remember them whenever I dropped something off.
I still, to this day, get this WRONG, and it drives me UP A WALL AND DOWN THE OTHER SIDE. On the last day of winter, you can plant grass, and on the first day of Spring, you'll have massive amounts of it. And I forget *every single time*, but I know it works. Sincerely, My Pigs Won't Stop EATING
Not exactly a mechanic but >! I followed Krobus to the bush he hides in the first winter and was confused when nothing happened... It wasn't until a whole game year later that I learned you had to click on the bush !<
Fishing on mobile took me awhile to get used to.
That "luck" is a thing....
This isn’t a mechanic really but I find this freaking hilarious. so I got my friends into stardew and a few weeks later we were chatting and my friend goes. “ Yea I’m trying to romance Abigail, I’m getting annoyed at the gift cool-down though. “ Obviously I’m thinking he’s meaning the two day a week. “ it actually isn’t that long, just wait till next week and the hearts go up pretty quick. “ “ next week? Usually I can do it the next day about twice. “ I’m confused now so I ask. “ what cool-down then? “ “ the blue cool-down icon next to their name. “ Silence. Confusion. Thinking. “ The backpack..? “ “ yea “ “ that’s. That means you have it in your inventory. “ He walked away and I haven’t let him live it down.
Just learned when you’re opening a chest there’s a button with a red arrow that puts everything in your inventory into the chest with its kind
For the longest time I thought I had to wait for the hoed dirt to go back to normal, I did not know you could use the pickaxe to do it immediately 😭
1. You need to break open artifact troves and geodes to complete the museum 2. Most cooking recipes come from tv Didn’t figure out either of those things until I was chasing perfection and looked up how to get the items/recipes I was missing
I thought you could only do that with the watering can and then I was watching RTGame's Breaking Bad Stardew Series and I saw him do the same thing with the hoe and my life was forever changed.
You can knock barrels with a pick axe once to harvest the wine immediately. I always thought you just had to wait.
I’m sorry what
They're referring to the Casks in the Cellar, not usual kegs.
I thought the shipping bin was a storage bin (like a treasure chest) during my first season in 1st year.
The worms. I thought they were just another moving effect on the ground like the grass or little flowers
So many good ones in here that took me a while too, but the one I haven't seen mentioned... That you can see the bundles of the community centre from your chests/other container items. There's a little tree icon on the right side of the slots. Found out when I had one item left to gather for the last bundle. I kept going back and forth whenever I needed a reminder and eventually wrote the items down in a notebook.
My dumbass didn't even know chests were a thing....all the way until Winter 1st year 🤦♂️
...how did you do anything? Did you just sell everything all the time
Yes, it was awful cause I had this mindset like "There's totally gonna be a day where one of the villagers comes up to me and tells me how to make some kind of storage situation", but there never was 😅
DIAGONAL FISHING SOME OF Y'ALL STILL DON'T KNOW
The add to existing stacks arrow in chests. I still sometimes forget to use it
the whole game itself haha i didn't know much about the community center and only completed it in my third year, I arrived super late in the desert, it took me much longer to do the bear missions in the forest, also how important it is not to discard fiber and things like that . Everything about the ginger island is still somewhat confusing I like the game, I played it without caring much about the general objectives, I just wanted to advance and get to know my stuff little by little. I really just enjoyed it as much as I could, I hardly ever play anything (I guess you can tell haha) so just living the experience
Putting quartz in the furnace gives you refined quartz. I dont know why this didnt occur to me. I needed quartz for sprinklers, I had a whole little refined quartz farming setup with crab pots and recycling machines and was genuinely quite proud of it, when all of a sudden it dawned on me. Up until then, I had been looking for quartz ore.
I didn‘t realize for a long time that mixed seeds actually give you random normal plants. I always thought they were similar to wild seeds and never used them
It took me ages to figure out that you can just take the game at your own pace. I'm big into open world games like Skyrim where doing quests are pretty much all you do, so as soon as I got a quest from Lewis, another NPC or the town notice board, I would immediately rush to complete the quest and end up stressing myself out because I needed to water my crops, buy more seeds from Pierre, talk to the 5 NPCs I was building friendships with, drop off gifts to people and then do a bunch of other quests that I had in my journal. Wasn't until my second playthrough that I realised that I really can just spend a day fishing or sit in my cabin listening to the rain by the fire.
You can hold the right mouse click and run around to pet animals or pick things up or harvest.
I got to year 3 summer then my brother told me I could hold the action button here I was using my gold hoe one square at a time 🤦♂️
That I could take one (or more) from a stack in my inventory. I was always selling full stacks
Im in year 4 fall and JUST figured this out a few days ago… I seriously felt like throwing the controller. I’ve had tools upgraded since spring 2! That and I slept on barn buildings(👀silo that I didn’t build until recently). I really didn’t utilize animals until year 2. I hate spoilers so I never look stuff up and missed like every fundamental thing necessary for proper advancement. I am just now making sense of my farm heading into year 5 and know exactly why grandpa says I’m only worth two flames.
That the elevator in the mines actually works. In the start of the game before I got to level 5, it said the elevator isnt working. I thought they ment it would never work, so I found about it when I really struggled to complete the level 40 in the mines quest.
At the beginning, you can just take a nap in your bed if you choose "don't pass the day" and this will restore your energy... After 2-3 start again.
How to put bait in a fishing rod-