10 Things I Love about Stardew Valley 

Dude the new dialogue is EVERYTHING. The fact that during summer i had Lewis be like "Hey your melons are probably almost ripe now. Your grandpa's favorite dish had melons in it." and then Gus later was like "Lewis said your tomatoes ripened real well! Imagine a culinary world without tomatoes." Like im having to un-learn my speed click through of dialogue cause i feel like so much attention and love has been added

I love that Stardew has EXIT POINTS. At the end of every day is a perfect opportunity to put the game down. So many games don’t have anything like that, and encourage you to just keep playing non stop. I love that Stardew gives me the chance to put it down regularly.

7:49 It's really worth mentioning that CA has been an extremely stand-up guy the whole way through as well. Dude is a total class act when it comes to dealing with bad circumstances (like with Chucklefish ages ago) and listening to the community. So many features specifically come from community feedback it's unreal. How many devs can you name who take time out of their day to help individual people fix their stardew saves when issues come up? I don't mean to put him up on a big ol pedestal or anything but I think he plays a big part in making the community one that for the most part truly stands out as an incredible example of a fandom executed well, and he definitely deserves credit for that. His status as a primarily solo act has also made it much easier for him to avoid controversy from stealing breast milk, lol.

CA is 100% beast mode. SDV shows that these AAA titles focus on the wrong things when making games. This mans mind is full of amazing ideas and his work ethic executes to perfection.

One the biggest ones I LOVE is ConcernedApe's support for modding. Some of the features in 1.6 feel like previously modded things and he also worked with the modders for SMAPI and SVE!

it makes sense that such an earnest and thoughtful game would attract an equally lovely community but i remember being SO surprised when i first when went on the stardew valley subreddit and bracing myself for the worst (given the absolute vile way gaming communities can often act...) and it was just filled with genuine love for the game, each other, and concernedape. love this community and i'm glad you're a creator in this space sal :)

The community is definitely the best part of this game for me. Stardew is the only game I've actually joined the big discord for, because I wanted to get into modding, and I was terrified it would be a cesspit of garbage like most other big gaming communities are. It's law of numbers -- the more people you get in one place the more jerks you find. If there's 1 jerk to every 100 people, that's still a lot of jerks. Everybody in the Stardew Discord has been so incredibly sweet and welcoming, especially the modding and art communities, which I find tend to be the LEAST friendly to newcomers traditionally in fandoms. Basically every time I go into the modding chat it's full of people helping someone troubleshoot, or collaborative idea sharing, or people just complimenting each others' work. Absolutely phenomenal you funky little video game

Love this video! It's really cool to see everyone fall in love with the game all over again 🌸

Honestly I love all the new gift specific dialogue, like how Sandy will comment on the smell forage flowers, Alex will eat the eggs you give him raw, and Hailey will mention that coconuts remind her of the beach. Makes their preferences feel all the more intentional instead of just "Wow this is great!"

That was not the tears of the kingdom pause menu😭

7:34 There's no reason to pontificate all day on why the Stardew community is pretty chill, because the answer is right there on the surface: it's not a PvP game.

I don't know if this counts for the entire game, but I love when CA adds content to the game. Not just for new stuff to discover, but because of how it always feels fresh and new. Like he isn't just copying from the modding community to make things official, he's coming up with this big ideas and giving unique things to them. Like Ginger Island is an obvious example, but the Mastery System in 1.6 is amazing. And I've seen some Mastery mods, sure, but none like what he did

3:22 I've been working on a mod that adds _even more_ of those custom dialogue lines for specific gifts. It's been an absolute blast. Easily my favorite part of the update too since it directly led to me picking up the proverbial pen.

stardew valley is such a beautiful game. especially as someone who has a lot of hours in the sims 4, its just so refreshing to feel the dedication and love that has been put into stardew valley. 15eur up front and no money grab broken dlcs, only expansive free updates. i count more (and often game breaking) bugs in one sitting of the ts4 than i have ever experienced in stardew throughout my entire time playing it, and all bugs that i have experienced have since been patched. i started playing modded not long ago and there i also see such a difference between the two, it really is fixing and adding missing parts vs complimenting. the game feels whole and it has so many beautiful little thought out details and how many possible things there are to do, it feels so so polished. the genius it takes, to make a game that feels so whole and easy to follow but yet sets you free to do whatever you want. it lets you play at your own pace and in your own way. and its so nice to see CA reply to tweets of people bringing up issues they have and promising to get to fixing it immediately, and smapi telling me i need to remove a mod from my mod folder because the feature has been implemented into the game (esp after playing the sims which has been having the same major bugs for over half a decade, and only keeps introducing new ones, that you often even pay for, before fixing the already existing issues). its really exciting to play a game that feels so truly loved and cared for by its creator. i really hold this game so close to my heart

Whilst I love the themed catalogues, you best believe I'm looking for a mod that combines all of them into one furniture piece, with the new catalogues just being tabs along the top.

Hi, Salmence! I am just commenting here because I want to let you know that your videos gave me newfound love for Stardew. Ever since I started watching you, I have found ways to make my gameplay more fun and you introduced me to mods! Thank you so much for doing what you do. I love unwinding from work while watching your videos. Cheers!

The thing I love about stardew is that there is no time limit. I'm on year 7 of my first playthrough and still haven't completed perfection and it doesn't look like it soon because I'm only at 32% 😂

Penny's marriage decorations can now be bought from penny's stand during the desert festival which is awesome

I must add that not only the overall community, but specifically the content creators are top notch. I'm always in awe at how creative and passionate you folks are. So thank you for giving us not only entertainment, but also new perspectives on the game

The haptic feedback from the controller was the biggest thing I missed when I started playing on PC after learning on Switch

I don’t know I loved this so much. But maybe it’s because everyone could have a different favorite 10 things, and I just enjoy learning what other people like about probably any media I’m interested in. But I legitimately could hear like 50 more things you like about the game and be interested still

I think Stardew Valley is the ultimate comfort game not because of how relaxing it is (anyone inexperienced who is simultaneously checking 20 pages of the wiki to understand what to do will know that - I speak from personal experience on this) but because your progression ingame is literally a reflection of you, and because there's always a second chance no matter what mistakes you make. There's no rush to progress, no to do list constantly keeping you in the run unless you actively choose to add to it and take in responsibility. You can play and progress at your own pace. There's no game over system. Sure, you can die, you can lose money because of bad decisions of if you're like that one guy on the wiki who lost 200000 gold because Penny changed the wallpaper in the house and deleted all his calls of starfruit wine, but you can always recover. Even if you die, you wake up again and you always have another chance (god bless you Harvey, no amount of money is too much to pay when you literally bring me back from the dead). There's no bills, no pressure. The valley and the town never age. You can walk and talk and play for as long as you want, then step away satisfied knowing that there won't ever be a big deadline or pressure that you have to meet when you return - unless you voluntarily took up that deadline. It's the perfect formula for an addictive but ultimately peaceful and satisfying experience.

1.6 playthrough when?! I need something to watch while cleaning my house 😂

I absolutely love this game and this community. The general vibe is one of doing your best at your own pace. It's calming that the only person setting the expectations is yourself.

Second Wind did an episode of Unpacked last week where their editor-in-chief ranted about how terrible menus have become in AAA games, and here's Stardew with its simple, elegant interface that never bogs you down in its menus or inventory management, you just go in, do what needs done, and get back to picking parsnips. I've been playing through My Time At Sandrock again, and while I love that game enough that I put it in my top 3 for all-time favorites, the inventory management/menus are...well...unmodded Skyrim comes to mind. Stardew is SO much better, the iridium standard for the genre.

I believe there are 3 heart events that you can miss. Sam's 3 heart event in year 1 like you mentioned, but there's also Penny's 4 heart event if you complete the community center before triggering it, and Clint's 6 heart event if you've seen Emily's 8 heart event first.

Can’t wait to see your perfection video whenever it comes out! Still waiting for 1.6 to hit Switch, in the meantime your videos for advice on what ways to make money are great to watch!

0:36 This will forever be an... interesting line to take out if context Sal, you question Erik about "jack be nimble, jack be thicc", I give you your "vibrations"

Sal, thank you so much for mentioning that waiting for the fish is not the most exciting part of the game. I've been watching your stuff for a while (as well as other SV youtubers), and everyone always gushes about how great and important fishing is, while I usually end up avoiding it because I find it more difficult than anything to just stare at a motionless screen waiting for a tiny movement. So to hear that you, as someone who makes content about this regularly, also kinda struggle with that - it really helped to validate me in that! It means a lot!

I love the new dialogue! It makes me feel like I'm actually a part of the community when I hear Kent tell me (someone who marries Sam) he's happy his son his happy

I really love that I can do as little - or as much - as I want.

I agree with all of this, except that is NOT the Tears of the Kingdom pause menu. That is the ToTK fuse menu

I just wanted to write this to appreciate your spring, summer, fall and winter guide(I started a week ago but your videos are 2 years old). Although it gave me a lot of stress and made me overwhelmed, it gave me a path to follow. I couldn't finish in year 1 but I did in year 2 just because of your guide. Also I can't forget to mention how well you explain things, I saw a lot of guides but they fail to explain it to the viewer in a way that everyone can understand. Overall you're a W RU-vidr and you earned a subscription.

I absolutely prefer a game controller to the mouse n keyboard, (mainly cause I started playing the game on Switch, and then got the computer-Steam vers when 1.6 came out cause I could not and would not wait for the switch update release lol). There's just something about the handheld controller that feels so much more seamless than the keyboard controls.... also, yea, the vibration is a huge bonus for fishing, especially since some of the bite sounds just blend into the rest of the game's background noise. You do not know how many times I've mistaken the natural sound of the water just blooping for my bite notification sound 😂😅

I love all the references to reading in this game. I love that you aren't forced to spend any time in a community if you chose not to. I love the hominess of Pelican Town. I also love the rainy days. I also love knowing when I start a day, I have so many activities to choose from each day. Some days I go to the water fountain in town or the bench by the cemetery and people watch. No judgment or penalty for doing that. Awesomeness.

love love the context dialouge. i havent played that much but lewis and caroline saying that pierre was bitter over me winning the fair display the day after it just soooo fun!!

Longtime fan and this probably is my favorite video that you’ve ever done. I love our community so much!

but that isn’t the TOTk pause menu tho… the pause menu is where you see all your weapons and food and armour…

this one is so wholesome!! i love CA made it so personal and accessible all by himself! so excited for his new projects :D

I love your videos a lot and I appreciate the effort that you put into making them. I would really like to see a play through video where you’re going for perfection or any other goal you’d like

I enjoy the new specific fish bait, and how willy sells a random one daily. Often if someone wants a fish he has that kind of bait, but I think I've just been getting lucky.

I always watch your videos when eating dinner and it makes me fell relaxed just like what the game does ❤

A few weeks ago I redownloaded SV on a whim to my Xbox and opened a save last touched six years ago in Fall year 1 that was way behind (all copper tools, no sprinklers, barely through the mines). Now in Fall Y2 I have tons of quality sprinklers, one rabbit foot away from finishing the CC, all gold tools, and a lot more money. Your guides helped a lot, and it’s way easier to enjoy the game’s vibes when you have a clue what you’re doing.

the fact they can tell you someone likes or dislikes and that gets added to the socel thing, vincent year one told me jas hates mead, and there it was added to jas's socle thing under hates i did not even know mead was in the game till vincent told me

Man, those lists complete me with my completions and are completely awesome! I wish more games had such an easy-to-read, all items included menu tab. Loved the video ❤

oh i absolutely love playing with a controller too!! and mainly yeah because there's a vibration feedback... whenever my horse runs through dirt, it's like a mini massager for my hand lmaoooo and i love the new dialogue as well!! they made the characters so much more endearing :>

1. Penny 2. Penny 3. Penny 4. Penny 5. Penny 6. Penny 7. Penny 8. Penny 9. Penny 10. Penny

After the sadness I experienced when I made Legend bait, I didn't think to try Legend II bait. I'm currently on the extended family quest, so I want to give this a try!

This was so good! Totally agree with everything. Thanks!

Love you videos Sal! When are you realeasing a 1.6 playthrough or a modded episode?

I enjoyed this video alot, this bit of positivity is what i needed today. Thanks :)

Thoroughly enjoyed the video and I really agree on so many of your points!

1) I love your voice in these videos, it's like thanksgiving gravy and potatoes. Seriously smooth. 2) BWAHAHA you're in trouble hon, that's definitely not the ToTK pause menu! Good point though, that is a bad menu to use 3) Weenie Hut Jr! xD

Love this video. The part about the menus being easy to use is so real, it just makes it so much more accessible for people of all different levels of gaming skill or interest in gaming.

Its 1am for me so glad i stayed up. Im glad you still find so much to enjoy in this game. Keep it up.

Weenie hut junior build for the win.

since you mentioned it, legend II farming is INSANE i found that my go-to build was deluxe bait with a trap bobber and a quality bobber. with the angler and artisan professions and the new fish smokers plus tent kits to save time, i was able to catch twenty-five iridium quality legend II, which after smoking and skill bonuses rounds out to... 1.05 million gold. in three days.

I recently returned to the game after many years (the last time I played, I loaded the game up just long enough to check out that new "witch's hut" thing), and your content has been the absolute BEST for getting back into things without getting too spoiled on the major changes that happened not just in 1.6, but in 1.5. I really like how you structure most of your videos so that I skip the endgame spoilers. However, I wish you would explain more basic things (been watching your series where you break down each skill), since it's been long enough that I don't really know all the things that "everyone knows." The wiki is great, but if there's something I don't know about, I can't just look it up, because I don't even know it's a thing. For example: I kept hearing all these references to Ginger Island and how it's the best place for farming, but no one ever said WHY. Ginger Island didn't exist the last time I played, so it took me weeks of snippets of random videos to finally pick up on the fact that it's like the greenhouse in that you can grow any crop regardless of season. Anyway, thanks for making high quality content. And if you ever want to make a "guide for people who haven't played since the base game and whose information is out of date", there's probably an audience for that!

I'm so stoked for the new fishing things because the farm i started for the 1.6 update is my first attempt at a perfection run and the legendary fish scare me I've only ever caught ONE on all my previous saves

The "unmissable content" thing is actually something I'm a little mixed on - it's nice to know you can always get anything you missed later, but I also think there's something incredibly satisfying about making decisions that give you access to certain things while locking you out of other options, pushing yourself to achieve something in a certain manner that gives you a bonus, and so on. However, I don't think Stardew is not the right type of game for that, so the fact that there is so little content that can be permanently missed in Stardew specifically, is a big plus.

this was genuinely nice to watch :)

Woo you know it's a good day when a Sal video comes out!

Such a good game. Thanks for the great content!

#10 is great. I loved the game my first play through, and didn’t even unlock the cc until year 3 LOL.

My personal favorite fishing combo is just deluxe bait, lead weight, master enchantment, and then cork bobber or quality hook to taste. The lead weight has to be the most underrated fishing rod attachment imo. Everyone talks about how good the cork bobber is, but I've lost more legendary fish hooks due to not being able to get the bar to stop bouncing off the bottom when they dive down than to not being able to keep the bar on them when they're bouncing around.

I can't wait to see the new 1.6 perfection run from you!

I love your videos so much. Thanks man

Even the expansion mods are so immersive! Characters will comment if you chose CC vs Joja... They say hi/hello to each other more. They talk about recent events. The valley definitely feels alive.

This game makes me so happy. I like doing a bit of everything and being able to just tackle things at different speeds is so nice. I have a small group of friends that I love playing with because it's so wholesome to have us all running around going "I just saw your romance partner over there" with us all having unique playstyles. We are all joking about one player yearning for the mines, while I go hunting secrets, and another loves the animals. I'm their encyclopedia and can find them odd resources or help complete funny quests, and we're all just vibing in happiness. And while my fav hats so far are Wearable Dwarf Helm and Witches Hat, I have also found so many others, like the leprechaun hat (SO BEAUTIFUL) and lucked into a perfect arrow quiver trinket. I have found *one* other missable thing: *spoilers for a new event* Green rain year one *spoilers* Demetrius's hazmat suit, I have only seen it in the first year. I have also made sure everyone around me has seen it because it was so funny

Minecraft is the best game I've ever played, but I personally have NEVER enjoyed a game as much as Stardew Valley. Thank you for dedicating so much of your time to talking about and teaching about my (and many others) favorite game.

Hi thank you for the video Sal !

I think there is one other permanently missable item, unless there was a way to get it in added in 1.6. The Boat painting was ONLY obtainable from fishing at a specific spot on the Beach farm. Its a shame because I usually romance Elliott, and I like to have the boat painting as like an "our first date" memory.

This is one of the most chill videogames, and it's genuinely impressive it was built by just one guy. I'm still waiting for 1.6 to drop on console, since I play on PlayStation.

I was usuallt more into puzzle games and I was very reluctant on playing this game, It was the best desicion, I absolutely adore how big the world of stardew valley is, the great community and the amazing creator, I felt so welcomed being a newbie, This game is just Fantastic.

Yay. Waiting for the perfection video :)

Stardew is one of the best games I've experienced at being whatever kind of game you want it to be. It's not a sandbox open world but there is so much flexibility in how you approach game play.

It's worth mentioning that is not the pause menu for TOTK, that's the quick access menu 😂 The pause menu is more organised into categories and pages (for anyone who hasn't played it lol)

Eyyy fiberous farm mention! Always a delight

Exactly, thank you for this video

re: the new dialogue, i was playing through a new run in 1.6 and i talked to caroline with a bouquet in my inventory and she said “you’ll make her really happy with that.” at first i didn’t even know what she was talking about, but now i’m convinced she was talking about me giving the bouquet to abigail

Though I played with mods for 1.6, I easily cruised through Fall of Year 2 in just a week and a half of playing, already 110 hrs in. The new stuff to optimize like dehydrators and fish smokers tacked on so much fresh air into making money. 2 years and 570 hours later and its by far the best 15 dollars I’ve ever spent.

My favorite new dialogue refers to (spoilers) the green rain. Year one, everyone is panicking when this unknown substance starts falling from the sky, but when it happens again, everyone is super chill with it now that they know that it's not harmful.

Im playing destiny 2 in the pause menu as you brought up the pause menu example 😂 also a hunter and had to do a double take

I love SDV on controller. Especially with UI Infosuite 2, it's so convenient and yea i can zone out looking at the ocean and listening to the breeze while I fish.

hi, what's the name of the font on your covers! I really like them, however you really bring some interesting content! ☺️

Hey, is there any chance you could make a video on 1.6 that covers the easier to miss new stuff? Or at least something similar to that? I'd love to have a resource I can look at when 1.6 comes to console that won't spoil everything, but will help with making sure I see all the new stuff.

I always love watching salamance. His vibes are so chill and genuine, idk it warms my heart

Please help, I really want to start my stardew profile but Im a completionist and worried about missables, did all my reading and figured out all I need to do is get sam to 3 hearts and see that one scene before winter, and everything else is at my own pace, but I still wanna have the most profitable year 1, and Im stuck trying to get the first week absolutely perfect so I can get the speed gro from the spring crops bundle reward, to get 3 strawbrrry harvests spring year 1 my first playthrough ... it sounds dumb. Should I just get my missable cutscene and wing it?

5:48 "I would consider myself aesthetically challenged" MOOD

this list is spot on ❤

IDK if it would be to much but i would love to see full on redos of the 100 days no farming imperfection and skill guide videos in 1.6

I played pretty hard core my first go around of Stardew and it lead me to getting burnt out. I recently came back to the game and told myself “bro you don’t have the complete anything in the first year” and it has made the game so much more enjoyable

I cant wait for this update on switch. Patiently, Impatiently waiting.

I really can’t wait for 1.6 to come to console! I’m so excited for the new dialogue and all the new features ❤️❤️

Oof. Talking about the community just after I read an article about how trans streamers being harassed and doxxed... Lol. But yes, on the whole, the community is amazing. The Wiki is what amazes me the most. It's so jam-packed that it covers nearly everything about the game (minus some 1.6 stuff so far). You can tell that a lot of people are passionate about the game. And I'm also loving the new dialogue, too. I got the crimsonfish yesterday and saw Willy's new dialogue and smiled. All this new stuff is just making me more and more excited for Haunted Chocolatier. For anyone else, I'd pass up on the premise of the game, but I have confidence CA is going to do really well on it and probably knock it out of the park like he has with SDV.

I gotta admit: I just got the chicken hat and it’s entertaining. Walking around like there’s a chicken where my head should be? Slightly reminds me of the Kids in the Hall skits where the guy has a cabbage for a head (yes, I’m that old). 😹

I would love to see a video of fishing exploits hahah

I went from controller to mouse and I missed so many fish the first few times because I didn't know they didn't have the vibrations on mouse

6:53 Making that song from the mine cart in the bus stop to the entrance of the farmhouse would lead to 75% less passing out just outside the door.

The thought of playing a calming game while travelling and admiring nature in real life is just beautiful.