A Complete Guide for your First Winter - Stardew Valley 

im on my first playthrough and on the last day of fall and was wondering what to do for the winter, this video helped me realize i did nothing and my farm is doomed

Remember you can always follow this guide through year 2 and that theres no extra rewards for finishing community center in year 1

Doing my first winter now and I'm 3 minutes into this video and I'm not convinced we're playing the same game lol

11:37 "Now, the killer." *dramatic music, flames, red cabbage LOL

13:47 Take a fishing pole with the talisman to the witch's swamp: There's a 25% chance to fish void mayo out of the water, and you can hand it to the Henchman right away.

Wow!!! Just started playing a couple months ago and had NO IDEA it had so many amazing features. I'm so glad I randomly bought this game I am in love with it. It's endless!

2 things that aren't covered in this guide (might be because of it being an older build?) 1. The traveling merchant sells the Nautilus Shell during spring. It's RNG, just like the Red cabbage seeds, but it makes it possible to finish that bundle before winter. 2. To get past the goblin in the witches cavern, you don't need to get a void chicken, you can just fish in the water next to him. Void mayonnaise is one of the "fish" available in these waters.

Bonus tip: if you touch the Reaper after obtaining the golden scythe you a warped back to the entrance!

This is my first year and I've been trying to find tips but also not spoil things. That being said, this is my first of your videos and I've done none if the things you said to do 😂 welp. I have no coop, no greenhouse, small barn, just completed the mine, etc pray for me yall

Iridium sprinklers winter year 1 is crazy. I got them year 3 after the statue from Grandpa. Mining iridium was over my head grindy. And I completed the mines winter year 2 and fishing. Didn't attempt the skull cavern once until year 3. And got the greenhouse by fall year 2. I neglected fishing yesr 1, so I caught up in winter on skillups.

you are the only person whose stardew playthroughs i can sit through and they honestly make my days a lot better when i can watch them bc i can learn about a game i love without having to worry abt my own play through

On my first year of fall, didn't finish the green house but this is my first playthrough so I'm just enjoying the ride, but sadden that I won't have much of an option when winter hits, also hoping to get some animals soon, finished the mines though.

A bit of an advanced tip for anyone new to the game watching this video, but when growing the Winter Seeds into the foraging items, I like to keep some Crystal Fruit and if I have the kegs for it to make wine out of them. They don't sell for as much as Ancient Fruit Wine or Star Fruit Wine, but Crystal Fruit Wine does sell for more than Crystal Fruit, which will boost your profits for winter. You may not have a lot of Ancient Fruit or Star Fruit in your greenhouse at the start of winter, if you have the greenhouse unlocked at all, but you will have an entire season to forage and turn those items into seeds to plant. If you keep making seeds after picking them, you can turn a quick profit selling what remains in addition to growing more as the season goes on. The more you grow, the more Crystal Fruit you have the potential to get, and the more Crystal Fruit you have after harvest, the more kegs you can fill up to make wine if you have kegs but don't have Ancient Fruit or Star Fruit. But first, you need to get to winter and have a high enough farming skill to have unlocked kegs in the first place.

also for the goblin, you can actually fish up a void mayo from the witches swamp if you don't want to buy from Krobus

Started watching your channel about a week ago and I have no idea how you haven't been getting way more views than you have. You have great content and are now my go to channel for stardew. Keep it up bud, you'll get there

Demetrius sends you a nautilus shell in the mail if you’re good enough friends. The traveling merchant sells rabbits foot if you’re lucky, eliminating the need for a Deluxe coop in year 1.

For the silver quality wine. On ginger island, when gus is there, you can buy gold quality mango wine from him. That works for the movie theater bundle too

Your guides saved me and my husband so much time. Thank you for this quality content!

I completely missed the Fiddlehead Fern, now I will have to wait until summer or count on prehistoric floors in a skull cavern which I am definitely not crazy enough to try.

that red cabbage moment was so hilarious, incredible work

The travelling cart can sell a red cabbage too. It's super rare and unlikely but in my current playthrough, the cart sold me a red cabbage (not the seed) in the middle of spring. I did miss a fish the first year (because it did not rain the entire fall) so it didn't completely matter but I was really lucky :)

Okay your intro on the red cabbage made me laugh out loud, so thanks for that 😆 Thanks so much for making these videos, they're so well made with so much useful info and not packed with spoilers for those of us on android without 1.5! You're very easy to listen to ❤

i just started playing (w/o watching walkthroughs, just googling for the wiki whenever i need help for gifts etc.) since last week and i can safely say your guides are very comprehensive and very useful!! i learnt a lot of the stuff you said here myself by trial and error and it was fun but i watched your guides just to make sure that i didn't miss anything. keep up the good work! hopefully your channel will blow up soon bc this is really iridium quality content right here :D

Just a small note, once you grab the golden scythe you can click the statue again to warp out.

Loving these guides. Appreciate your work. New to the game and 40 hours in. Completely hooked. I got the tea set from Leah!

Uhhhhhh are people really this advanced their first play through in the first year? 😳😬

it's late fall and I haven't been playing suuper optimally (all of my bundles are lacking, I've *just* built a barn, and I'm barely friends with anyone) BUT I'm still turning a profit every day, and I'm having fun, and I think that's what's important :D that being said, I'm totally keeping all of this in mind

You can grow winter seeds in winter. If you have a seed maker, only one winter root makes the winter seeds. Otherwise, all four of the winter forage.

I just want to say this video made me actually laugh multiple times 😂 the red cabbage portion with the music & the pause when you introduce “Willy’s back door” not sure if it was intentional but if it was- gold!

Watched all 4, SO helpful. Thankyou so much for your time and info. 🎉❤

you can actually interact with the statue in the quarry dungeon and it will teleport you all the way back to the start.

the dramatic presentation of the Red Cabbage was... perfect.

Just purchased the game a few days ago and im alr in year 2 didnt knew all these tips. Thank you!!!

Thank You Salmence, this playlist is excellent.

I love your vibe! You, good sir, have got yourself a new subscriber :D

Would love for a full on greenhouse guide! Your videos are really useful.

It took until my second winter to realise I could still farm using the winter seeds (even to realise there were winter seeds. They're pretty good to run every few days

In the abandoned joja mart, if you are in winter and you want to start foing things for it. Use a rain totem

I really love the videos. 🙂 Oh! You can also get voted marriage by finishing in the water at the witch's hut.👍

Im playing for the first time and boy oh boy this game is endless. Definitely years worth of playing

I usually complete the CC by mid Autumn or beginning of winter, because of the red cabbage. I got it in mid Autumn this time around. Stresses me out getting those cabbages. Then ginger island in Spring year 2 for Kent. Anyway I know it's late for commenting but I'm on switch, doing my second true perfection run for the forest farm while waiting for console update. I've been enjoying your contents so thanks for your tips. It's really helpful.

That red cabbage intro 🤣🤣🤣🤣 11:40

Huh, didn't know that about the tea set. Got one on my current save as my gift year 1.

We love you, Sal.

13:57 you can also fish up void mayo from the water in the witches swamp!!!!

i already finished the first week of winter today(new player) and after watching these guides i noticed how many mistakes i did, i only just got the coop at the end of fall and havent upgraded any tools

i caught legend first month and got rusty key first playthrough i didnt get rusty key until summer of second year first playthrough i didnt watch these videos but now they helped me a lot

I wish I've seen this video much early, I'm at the last day of Fall and I'm about to enter Winter. Better like next year.

God bless you I love this game and appriciate your advice

Loved this 🥰

Tip for those who want to finish community center Year 1: check the traveling cart religiously for red cabbage AND rabbit foot! Followed this guide for my new 1.6 save and ALMOST didn’t make it! I grind for every deadline and did so well financially, however the rabbit foot just never dropped😢 Had my deluxe coop ready at the end of the fall and purchased two rabbits immediately too. I was giving up and accepting the fact that I’m not finishing CC year 1. Then at Winter 28 the traveling cart had a rabbit foot for the first time. I screamed! Now I can proudly say I officially finished community center in Year 1 😊 thanks Sal!

I'll always remember how in my first playthrough, I didn't know about the red cabbage, was only missing it and saw "Oh ok, it's unlocked in spring year 2" and it never unlocked at Pierre. He never started selling the damn seed. Had to wait for a travelling cart to finally have one (in like summer year 3). 😂

Bro I finished my greenhouse at the last day of fall and had money to fill it with starfruits and 1 ancient seed and two rare seeds

So funny. I managed to get a red cabbage from skull cavern grinding but forgot to get pigs early for truffles haha

i got the cabbage the first time i checked the merchant and i didnt know how rare it was but i bought it, and it was not even the seeds it was the full grown thing, now that i know how important it is i feel so good to have it bought and donated to the community center

Thanks for no spoilers!

Seems my winter is going to be very different I've been neglecting the coop still only the basic one, I don't even have a barn.. But I might have the resources/gold to get a deluxe coop.. Maybe it's time to spam tea saplings again.

kind of old but ive noticed it a few times but after you grab the golden scythe you can click on the statue to be teleported to the exit

wait so if i dont have any deluxe farm buildings or a greenhouse or have oasis unlocked… is my farm screwed??? like can i not just continue doing those things in year 2?

Oh my god I just finished the fall guide I’m literally on winter day 2 thank you so much

I play remixed bundle, do I need to rush with the animals? I don't need them for the bundles, and I have big coop/barn.

just pointing out - i check "year completion" when starting a new file. and both years it took until winter to get that blasted seed lol

My phone is at one percent

I found hops + kegs in the greenhouse more profitable than the starfruit setup!

I only bought one of each animal in my first year and it took from Summer 21 all the way until Spring 24 to get a single duck feather. Meanwhile I got 7 rabbits foot.

Willys gonna ask me to go in his back door? Whaaaaaatttt? 😂😂 13:37

there’s so much to do and i’m already at yr 1 winter :( i didn’t get the skull caverns 😞

I guess I got unlucky when I did the red cabbage thing cause I didn't see one my first year even though I checked every day lol

im in my first year, and played on and off for months, but my biggest mistake, was forgetting all about the community center, so i dont have any bundles completed and im almost in year 2

i’m in day 5 of my first winter, for me i have the vault done, boiler room, craft room. all i need is a catfish for the fish tank and 2 gold melons for the quality bundle and goats. i’m building my big barn rn ;(

also one thing you didn't mention about botanist making forage items iridium including truffles from pigs

I didn't get a red cabbage seed from the trader....BUT a red cabbage 😂

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6:26 dont forget your cork bobber

I see a lot of people saying things like they’re screwed because they didn’t fully prep for winter or they just discovered this vid and it’s to late and should restart. If so, then I disagree. If you don’t have a good source of income that gives you a great opportunity to do something like putting most of your focus to the mines and going as deep as you can, while also gathering as many materials as possible in the process. Ores and many other materials that are only found in the mines are some of the most important resources in the game. Set up a little area with a handful of chest on your farm and use them for storing all your mine goods. By the end of winter, you will be set for a while and it will be one less thing to worry about come the following seasons. There’s always a way to stay productive, but most importantly, just relax and have fun! Because that’s all that really matters in SV. (:

Not the boss music with the red cabbage 😂

i had the red cabbage seed idied in the mines i lost it i asked for recovering but i didn't know i could only get one item back, turns out i got my rabbit feet back but not the red cabbage seed. i cried a lot

This shows me how much I have been failing at the game lol. I haven’t done half this stuff yet. Just Vibing

I got super lucky and received the tea set from Caroline, the one character it actually makes sense to receive it from, in my very first winter. I didn’t even realize it was rare at the time. I assumed it was a scripted event in whatever year that you’d visited her sunroom and gotten the tea sapling recipe. Unnnnnfortunately, that file is on mobile and the tea set (along with what feels like everything else) has been bugged since its inception, meaning it can’t be placed on a table (without some jank control stuff, possibly). So literally the luckiest combo of character and gift, and all I’ve been able to do is let it sit in a chest for several in-game years because I guess mobile doesn’t get bug fixes. :(

if you haven't done the crop bundles, you can still buy a joja membership :)

This year I decided to start a new stardew valley world and got red cabbage in year1 summer. What’s even worse is that I didn’t have enough money to buy it and I checked the cart quite late. What’s even worse is that i also forgot to add my parsnip to spring crops bundle.

I got a glow ring from penny and now I’m in love. Could have asked for something better.

NGL I missed a ton of shit but I'll complete my community center in year 2 for sure

I unlocked the movie Theatre and was too lazy and exited and did not give a rabbit's foot to get the lucky charm, (I had plenty of them) I was unlucky and it rained that night thinking i could still do it after doing the last bundle.. if im wrong please tell me lol im on year 5. 😑

I sold out on this playthrough to get irridium year one before winter, and i will never do it again. It was so grindy. I also have no buildings, due to how much i put into mining 😅

Out of curiosity, how much time goes into these seasonal guides?

I don't think leveling Foraging is that rough. I usually have the fall wild seeds recipe unlocked before spring year 1 ends. Then again, I do usually play on the forest farm, and chop the stumps almost daily after upgrading the axe once. But that's easily supplemented with reserving a ~20 crop section for wild seeds on your farm. They're good gifts for some of the villagers too, if you want to dance with someone on year 1

Actually the you can complete the bulletin board in fall. Demetrius can send you a nautilus shell in the mail.

Got the red cabbage, made it to winter... Forgot the cat fish. Guess it will be finished in spring

I have been following the videos but no I did not finish my bundles 😔

Thx a lot

11:40 Bravely Default!

While he's treating the red cabbage as a challenge I'm cursed with getting it everywhere I go

The most profitable crop will vary depending on how you judge it, which is impacted by what you are limited by. If you want iridium quality wine and are limited by space in your cellar, then starfruit wine is best. However, if you are just going for regular wine (or just the fruit), and using the greenhouse so you don't need to worry about the initial cycle and you are limited by crop space, and are interested in gold per plant per day, then ancient fruit will beat starfruit, unless you have the artisan profession and are using hyper speed grow. And at that point it is 330 vs 343.75. And at that point there is the question of if buying all the seeds and planting them is worth the extra 13.75 gold per plant per day. Alternatively, if you are the agriculturalist, then the comparison is mostly the same with starfruit wine just winning at 265.3 vs 235.7. But both of those values are much lower than the 330 gold/day from ancient fruit wine. And the other advantage of ancient fruit is you can choose to use other fertilisers, such as the retaining soil to never need to water it and not lose 330g/day due to sprinklers; or if you plan on selling crops you could use deluxe fertiliser to get more from the crops.

Hey. I need help, for some reason even though I have all the stuff, I can’t place the foraging stuff in the bundle. I am in mobile. No matter what I try it’s just not possible. What do I do?

I’m in winter and I haven’t done anything mentioned in this video 😩

i just started year 1 winter, and im so behind im restarting with your spring guide thanks for making these tho they are very helpful

realizing i made a ton of grave mistakes in my play through, i didn’t unlock the greenhouse, haven’t gotten to skull caverns yet, i went the mushroom route in my cave instead of fruit bats… i’m struggling over here 💀

Im on year 7 and still watching this

Oh nooo lol. Its my first day of winter and i dont have the greenhouse, or really anything. I was so unprepared :[ lol