30 Tricks Stardew Valley Doesn't Tell You 

Y'know, passing out at 2am from lack of energy sounds like a godsend for those times when my sleep schedule goes off the rails.

Not sure if it was said or its just something everyone already knows lol but the saloon sells birthday gifts...let me explain. Pretend its Jodi's bday, if you go to the saloon and scroll all the way to the bottom of the menu there will be an option to buy Jodi's favourite dish/meal that you can gift her. It happens on everyones bday :)

A tip I would add to this list is that while you're casting your fishing line you can hold your directional keys to change where the bobber lands in the water. Game changer for reaching those fishing bubbles you thought you couldn't reach.

Tip 8 - according to the wiki, only the center crop needs to be fully-grown and watered for a giant crop. Tip 15 - the wiki lists some silver quality items that give the best response. Tip 17 - Robin's prices quintuple, not double.

Queen of Sauce reruns on wednesdays will always show recipes you have missed. You will only see recipes you already know if you haven't missed any! From year 3 onwards, the reruns on Sundays will appear in the same order as they originally aired but wednesday reruns will still prioritise missed recipes.

I would also mention that in Options, you can turn on a feature that shows you where your tool will hit. I don't think this is automatically turned on when you start your first game, in all the next games it is.

This is great list for people who are fairly new to the game. I appreciate that it doesn't contain any spoilers or cheats.

One other thing I would add to the list is, if you harvest your crops from west to east vs east to west you will harvest them faster. Idk the reasoning behind this but harvesting starting at your most western crop and going east is way faster.

On PC the game is fully playable without a mouse and actually just your left hand!! The mouse buttons are also mapped to X and C so you can literally curl up on your side with your laptop open and play with just one hand poking out of the blankets. 10/10 way to relax for the evening.

I was always scared to use the Magnet bait because it said that the fish aren't crazy about the taste. Good to know it does not affect them the way I thought it would 🙃

Forageables and artifact spots respawn on Saturday, you can leave them until then and then just runa around and collect them all

I just learned this by accident: On controller you can hit RB when you have a chest open to automatically select the Add to Existing Stacks button.

Unless it was changed in a patch, I believe for giant crops it actually only needs to be the middle one that is watered. The surrounding 8 can even be not fully grown, as long as the middle crop is grown and watered, there will be a chance for it to turn into a giant crop. I think Robin's prices quintuple in year 2 rather than double like Clint's. And I think you also don't get an energy penalty when you level up even if you pass out from exhaustion by depleting the energy bar

I’m sure y’all knew this but I only found out a day ago. Apparently if you put a fire quarts in a furnace you get 3 refined quarts. I was struggling to finish the community center cause of the refined quarts but it’s so easy to get!

I figured out 2 different tricks by accident. First one, When you are about to pass out and you lost track of time in the mines and you know you won't make it home in time but you don't want to lose $5,000 and half of your items, Just eat something poisonous to drain the rest of your health and energy. You'll pass out but when you wake up the next day in your bed, you will still have all of your items, you will get a letter saying you passed out and that you were billed $1,000 from the hospital but that is way better then losing 5,000 and half your items. Another trick, if you are about to pass out and you know you can't make it home from the mines, (assuming you haven't unlocked the carts yet), If you can atleast make it to Linus's tent, you can go in there and pass out in his tent. You'll wake up the next day in your bed with only half energy for the day, but you won't lose any money or any of your items because Linus will have your back all night.

For the tip 27, the fishing cast indirectly matter. In fact, closer you are to the perfect cast, futher away the fishing bubber will be threw. Your level of fishing also increase the distance. And in most map, high quality fish area are pretty far from the shore, and mainly when you are low levrl in fishing, it's important to have a good cast, not necessary a perfect but at least a good one. The different fishing quality area of all maps are available in the wiki, so you can see the fishing spots which doesn't require big distance.

I think others have noticed but the Trash Bear is by the Forest Sewer Entrance, not the Mines. :) Also, to add to the tip about checking the social tab's gift details for specific villagers, you can click each villager for a unique animation and the background changes with time of day like the farmer's portrait. (I had another tip about that but as I was typing I realized it might only exist because I use UI Info Suite, but if I have one of the items listed on the villager's page in my inventory when I'm looking at the page, the item has a little backpack icon to show me that I have it -- but like I said, I'm not sure if that's vanilla or UI Info Suite)

Also, exhaustion when passing out can be prevented by interacting with your spouse and getting the little red heart above your head!

For the tip 27 if u do a perfect fish catch the exp will be 240%more than if u would catch it normally :)

New to Stardew Valley. Didn’t pick up on most of these on my own, especially the relationship status and gifts tip. I love the way you present the information in your videos! Your tone and clarity are top-notch.

When harvesting, if you hold down the button and move the cursor over plants within range, you can harvest multiple crops without having to wait for the animation.

re: tip 14 -- you can also do this with geode's at clint !! this might seem obvious to some, but my partner CONTINUES to button-mash when opening HUNDREDS of omni-geodes if i don't remind him x)

Zoom?!!?! THE GAME HAS ZOOM!?!?! TWO YEARS....goooshshh

a friend of mine came over once and i showed him my farm. he looked confused as to how i swapped my inventory, and i thought that's something you just know for some reason. now i see the very first tip and realise he's not the only one who never found out about that :o great tips already

One correction on the Perfect Catch from fishing! It will only bump up a star level if the catch was already silver or higher. Meaning it will bump Silver to Gold, or Gold to Iridium, but it will NOT bump no star into silver star! As a fun bit of trivia this means it is impossible to perfect catch a fish and obtain a silver star quality, as a silver becomes gold, but no star remains no star! Additionally, Perfect catching a fish awards you a 2x multiplier on the exp, I believe (with treasure awarding a 1.5x).

Something that I've always liked is that if you don't have anything in your hand and you need to move an empty chest a short distance like one tile, you can hold the button to destroy it but instead of getting the chest, it hops over to another tile. Whichever way you were facing that is. Also, one slight thing here, I play on console and although most of the information that you say is something I know, I also know a few people who don't know a lot. If you could maybe convert your keyboard and mouse controls over to controller, that'd be amazing. The only reason I say this is because I know that a few people are like 'Wait, how do I press cntrl?!' You know?

The Luau soup can have the best outcome at silver quality, it just depends on the item. stuff like ancient fruit wine works at silver

Finding out that you could shake the bushes and berries fall off, different ones every season, or shake the trees to have pinecones, and what not fall off, has been a game changer lol…I’m pretty sure that I actually found out from one of your other videos, but it could be from somebody else, too… First of all, during some seasons, like autumn, especially, there’s an insane amount of them… Just look for any bush that has a little colored top of it… Usually purple or red. And you can get blackberries and I forget what the other kind are. Second of all, you can also shake the trees, as I said, which is nice if you need a pinecone or acorn, but don’t feel like cutting down the whole truth… next, during certain seasons, there in insane amount of berries, and a fair number of towns people actually like them as a gift… plus, even though they aren’t worth much, it’s still a nice way to get a little extra money by just walking around… Lastly, it’s just really gratifying to collect them lol it’s honestly one of the more gratifying things to do in the game in my opinion lol So, assuming it was you… Thanks for that one and hopefully somebody else didn’t know and will see this

Here's a neat one I found out through some experimentation: If you have Stardew Valley for both Android and PC, you can migrate saves between the two platforms. Just connect your phone via USB to your PC, then it's as simple as dragging and dropping the save folders you wish to migrate. The first time you migrate from PC to mobile, the mobile game may prompt you to give permission to access the folder. Just navigate to the Stardew Valley installation folder in your phone, and grant permission. I've only tried this with vanilla saves. However, it might be possible to add mods to the mobile version, as long as you create the appropriate folders. Might be worth looking into. Great way to take the game with you if you're like me and don't use a laptop to game (desktop is the way to game if you're a serious gamer). It's also a great way to conserve laptop power, or avoid using your business laptop for personal gaming while traveling.

Trees fall away from the side you're standing! (I thought it was random for *years*)

Tip 5: One thing I found out recently after playing again for the first time since upgrading to a 4k monitor is that the zoom does not compensate for your screen's resolution. If you want to see the game "as intended" (100% zoom at 1080p), you have to set the zoom to 150% if you're on a 4k monitor.

I literally had no idea there was a quick access to the community center bundles until your videos, literally SUCH a timesaver!!

Wednesday tv recipes are random unless you (or another player on the file) missed a Sunday recipe. Then it shows you the recipe you missed. Life saver for sure.

0:35 Yeah. I remapped the Tab key to open my inventory. There is nearly zero situations where I need to swap the quick access bar (and thus mess up if I have my weapon in hand or not) that can't be solved just as quickly by opening the inventory and adding the next stack of food (or whathaveyou) to the now empty slot. Looking forward to the rest of the video, though. XD

Going back to this game for the first time in a LONG time exclusively because of things I've learned from your videos. Thanks!

Yo 1:27 THANK YOU SO MUCH I’ve been go the community center every time I don’t what I need

to add on tip 24; you can also put "Sign of the Vessel" on your fish ponds and it'll act the same way as signs do, an d you can remove the signs you put in your ponds by left-clicking it with an axe or pickaxe :) (i discovered this myself and i didn't know so i hope this helps someone out there xD)

this video is so helpful! Started playing recently and little tips like these are amazing, thanks!

*sigh* I love when a stardew video drops while I'm playing stardew. 😁

I remember telling you in your stream chat ages ago that leeks spawn more often in the backwoods and you were SO skeptical 🤣 “I’m not sure that that’s true”

Another useful tip I learned especially for the early stages, if you click and hold while watering plants instead of just clicking it will water the 3 plants in the direction you are facing.

31. Lightning rods make the best fences in the game. They are immune to decay, and indestructible. All you need are the two fence/wall posts to attach a gate, the rest can be lightning rods (or machines/chests/decoration) :)

Another amazing part of the re-runs is that they only show recipes you've missed (or in multiplayer the one most people have missed) so if it says that you know the recipe on Wednesday you're caught up!

I lo e that the "view bundles" is in the inventory spot, but it makes no sense that they have an area that LOOKS like you can put the bundle items in the slits, but it doesn't actually LET you put the items there. It would be a game changer if you could add items remotely...

Thanks for this a few of these are good to know as a returning player from pre-1.4 doing another playthrough. Some of these of these quality of life tips used to be mods. I learned a bunch of useful things from the patches since I played.

Also on PC (I play on laptop without phisical mouse) you can use x for right click and c for left

the trash bear wants 4 items, not 3! the first 2 are foragables/fish and the last 2 are recipes!

idk if this is true for every version but harvesting is fastest when moving from the left to the right than from the right to the left.

Its amazing how much detail ConcernedApe put into this.

(Will edit with more tips when I think of them) 1. Press Y to quickly confirm certain actions instead of clicking the box (like leaving the mine or eating food.) 2. Certain things happen while your inventory is open. This includes trees falling and item collecting (and before 1.5, bombs exploding). Opening your inventory for these things can save a lot of in-game time if you would have otherwise just stood there waiting for said thing to happen. 3. Have the +10% crop speed perk most of the time and then change to the artisan perk the day before you sell your artisan goods (day-of doesn't work, stockpiling them for a single big sell day is a good idea). The buff is better than you might expect, removing a day from growth time from most plants (including short term ones like parsnips and carrots) and more from longer term plants. It doesn't change the harvest rate of multi-harvest crops, but can get you another harvest for just about all of them by making them grow faster. 4. Summer Squash is an amazing source of food, giving 50 health and 113 energy each at gold quality and regrowing every 3 days, and if planted at the start of summer, gives you 8 harvests before the season is over. The seeds can be found in the crates in the mines. Very easy to mass produce with seed makers once you have some going. Highly recommend.

tip 23!!! i cannot tell u how many times i’ve missed cc rewards bc of a full inv !!!!! that’s such a good tip tysm !!

I play a lot of open world 3D games, and tab is always something so I just instinctively tried it when I started.

Genuinely helpful, wow. Ty!!!

omg tip 19 is amazing, thank you so much!!

Finally. A video that actually helps a new player. Thank you sir. You are a very good teacher.

Actually, the best result at the Luau is gated behind Mayor Lewis' lucky purple shorts.

The first tip I actually figured out by accident when I accidentally presse my Tab key instead of Esc. Best accident that has happened to me, tbh.

It’s a shame a lot of these aren’t applicable to the mobile game, but still fun to know.

Genuinely game changing video

One thing I didn't realize for a long time is that you can use your hoe on spots with wiggling worms in the ground to get an item.

I'm on console, but the "hold down the button to do tasks without opening the dialog box" (tip 13) is a literal LIFESAVER.

1:27 this is so useful. The only reason I didn't want to complete the community center is because of how many times I had to go back to it

0:40 I use my inventory for different jobs, like one row is sword pickaxe and high quality foods for the cave; other row is axe and remaining for farming. It is not always like that but usually similar to this. So tab is a life saver at least for me.

I expected to know pretty much all of these, and I did, but sign on the fish pond absolutely blew my mind I don't think I'll ever be done learning about this game

For Switch players: press minus to skip cutscenes. Took me a while to find that one

found most of these out by accident thankfully, but it would have been helpful to know when I first started

I didn't know that about selling weapons to the Adventurer's Guild! Thanks for the tip!

if you hold shift and ctrl AND both clicks on the mouse, you can buy 50 each time.

If you're playing on mobile, sometimes clicking on an item won't do anything (egg not picked up, note not read, tree not chopped) even though the green square bregisters the input. I find zooming in or out a bit (pinching morion) or walking up to the thing from a different side can rattle it loose. Maybe its just me. Also, press and hold on items to get a description or to only pick a few instead of all from inventory.

casting distance does actually make a difference, per stardew wiki. "Every water tile is assigned a Fishing Zone of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 5[2] that controls many aspects of fishing. The further from land (in every direction), the better the zone. The game considers most walkable surfaces, including islands, piers, and stone bridges to be "land"; wooden footbridges are one exception. If the bobber lands at least 5 tiles away from any land, it is located in zone 5." chance of catching trash reduces as fishing zone rises, along with the base quality of the fish you're catching. bubbles make you catch faster but they also provide a +1 to fishing zone buff (this buff only changes the available fish, it does not add to the quality modifier zone increases normally provide).

i knew almost every single one of these... And i got the game last week

brb gonna go put some signs on my ponds! had no idea about that

thank you and please do make more of this

I knew the first one and it's helped me so much!

i play at stardew since long time and i didn't know all that tips !! thanks you ;)

In skull caverns where time is the most essential, it's really useful to know that you don't have to go home at all and just pass out after 2am. The 1000g penalty is not a big of a deal when you reached that point in the game. It is also useful to just use a totem to teleport to the desert rather than wait for Pam on her 10am bus schedule.

Also Max cast effects if you get more things in the fishing treasure chests. Chance for multiple items goes up

R1/L1 also work for swapping toolbar if you're using a controller

If your doing the community cleanup job from the job broad in front of Lewis’ house you can go to the spa and fish all the trash you need to complete the job. You’ll also get some decor and soda from time to time. Btw idk if this works across all platforms because I’m playing this game on the Nintendo switch.

One thing about the emote menu, idk how, but sometimes i open the emote menu options, where you can choose which emotes options you want to have i think. Idk they key to activate it tho.

omg thank you for these

I think you only have to water the middle crop in the group of 9 for the chance for the megacrop, which is pretty much all of them if they are in a square except the outside rows. And for the fruit trees to go up in levels they have to consistantly have a space all around be empty just like when they were growing or they will remain regular quality

Hey, "The Sun can bend an Orange Sky" sounds different.... What did you use? I would love to know what you use in your videos, they sound great!

Almost 80 hrs in the game and i didn't knew you can swap your inventory row with tab lol, thank you.

Omg I never knew I could buy more than 1 crop seed at a time, thank you!!!!

thanks for telling me about the community center gifts thing, ihad to restart my whole day for that

Not ne trying to yse tab to switch inventory in Minecraft after enough Stardew

I’ve been checking the TV daily for no reason?? 😭

I’m watching this as I’m playing stardew on my first ever run and I literally screamed when you told us abt the tab button thing WHATTTT

I found out about thr Tab feature on my seventh playthrough, after all these years, from your video 🙏

That fishing tip is amazing

Holding down Mouse 2 to pet pets without opening up pet display is awesome - thank you - I had no idea lol

I just started playing the game for the first this week so this was handy

tip for pc players about the hot bar-- rebind it to spacebar instead of tab if you value ABM (always be moving) and not cramping your hand. i also keep my weapon right below my pickaxe in my inventory so i can tap space to quickly switch since my scroll wheel is very sensitive

The first tip blew my mind 😳😳😳😳 I am newish to this game though lol

nice tips

I only figured out the tab to change inventory pages thing because there’s a button on the switch version so I figured the pc would also have one.

Wait the metal rod doesn't have a lower bite rate??? I literally never used it cause i assumed it had low bite rates that would make it not worth using.

Tab for inventory and holding down right click to pet all animals....thank you!

Oh my God thank you for telling me the watering thing. I was waiting to upgrade my watering can until I finish harvesting