A Quick Mastery Guide in Stardew Valley 

Nice of Mayor Lewis to invite us over for a picnic, eh farmer?

​@@subway_koopa I hope he made lotsa parsnips!

Jon Bois, you have an up-and-coming rival.

Especially after the minor golden mystery box update.

I'm sure it will be covered in the foraging mastery specific video

yeah, i agree. i think it took a week tops IRL for me to reach mastery in all levels and i just did my normal gameplay. i play around 2-3 hours mostly every day.

That bug was only around from 1.6.5 or 1.6.4, the 50% debuff wasn't there from the beginning of 1.6, so some folks got lucky lol

@@lincsmash6795 well guess it came around at just the right time to annoy me specifically then

@@hipsnowsis7374 oh dang unlucky, if you're still working on it id recommend skull cavern runs for grinding xp, that's what got me the most of the way through

Explains why so many of those values didn't match the normal ones after reaching mastery lol

@@hipsnowsis7374 Ha ha, me too. Definitely felt the difference with the fix. It was pretty rough starting Mastery with everything at 50%.

I agree, it took me ages to hit level 10 foraging for some reason but once I had all five categories the masteries rolled in quickly. I had all of them unlocked nearly by the end of the first year on my new farm without trying.

I managed to unlock mastery by late fall, fishing is incredibly easy to level, i was mostly waiting on farming as i had barely done any until summer

I sucked at fighting so Combat was the last one for me to reach the level 10 . And my only motivation to get the level 9 at Combat was because the Trash Bear wanted me to cook Squid Ink Ravioli and you unlock the recipe by reaching the level 9 in Combat.

​@@ElenaSofia98if you don't use the seasonal forage seeds or cover your entire farm in trees forage xp is a big pain in the butt, I don't really blame you

@@vanillajellyfish you need so much wood, foraging was my first to max. 10 wood for 1 charcoal

I did this and it's definitely the fasted way. You just need a lot of luck that a book is sold for a decent price

however, i noticed that when i was using the iridium scythe to harvest crops i gained no experience at all. i had to pick them up by hand to get that XP bar to go up.

@@sleepyavo That's been my experience, too, that the scythe grants no harvest exp for regular crops. I'll happily harvest coffee with the scythe as I find the time savings on that very worthwhile, but anything worth more exp I'm still picking by hand for the exp.

@@sleepyavo in my playthrough, i used the scythe on the starfruit farm i had on ginger island and i breezed through all of the mastery xp levels

​@@TiaKattmaybe there was a patch because I have been getting over 10k experience per week from scything ancient fruits. The same as I got harvesting by hand.

Seasonal wild seeds got nerfed in the 1.6 update, I think each harvested forage crop is worth like 2 XP now.

@@ZehraShafqat Yeah. They went from 7 forage XP to a mix of 2 forage and 3 farming XP.

In my opinion: Mining, Farming, Foraging, Fishing, then Combat (Combat earlier if you've gotten to Ginger Island and want the convenience of the mini forge). The statue of the dwarf king has some amazing buffs for skull cavern and volcano dungeon runs, and at 20 iridium bars it isn't hard to make especially with the increased output of the heavy furnaces. Farming for the scythe and animal crackers, but the statue of blessings is expensive to craft and not as useful as the dwarf statue. It's honestly a toss up for the last ones for me, but I made the mistake of unlocking combat before I'd even gotten to the island. Trinkets are nice but not as useful as a better fishing rod or the golden mystery boxes. EDIT: and don't get me started on the anvil in combat mastery! One time out of curiosity I attempted to reforge a trinket to get its max level and had to reset the day because I went through my entire stack of 199 iridium bars with no luck...

I did farming then combat (trinkets!), then foraging, and will be taking mining next for the furnace. Fishing will go last.

Hard disagree. Fishing is the best source because time doesn't pass in game when a fish is on the line.

Both give you exp! Bombs won't give you exp for trees they knock down, that's pretty much the only exception

You can have all of them, you unlock them gradually

you can choose them in any order

What’s the golden clock update?

Yeah, this game is hands down the best value for money I've ever spent on a game! I was so sceptical at first, seemed relatively boring when it came out. I bought it like a year ago and have love it ever since. This 1.6 update is crazy good too. Gives so much content!

Golden Clock is 10% of perfection, and costs 10,000,000 gold from the Wizard. Each Perfection Waiver excuses you from 1% of perfection, and costs 500,000 gold. 10 Waivers would therefore cost 5,000,000 gold rather than 10,000,000 for the clock. However, you will not receive any of the benefits of having the Clock. The Waiver route is probably preferable only to speedrunners.

It does! And it multiplies together, you can see that I broke a jade that dropped 4 gems in the video

Welcome back!! Yeah things are a little different lol

@@salmence100I can see you’ve grown a lot 😂 250k now!!!

Did you get one of each colour, donate all 4 colours, then check rewards?

@@SirenPandaSabo Yes I donated all the 4 different colors ^^ You should get the reward automatically from Gunther, right?

Yeah, that's weird. It should be a donation reward that you pick up at Gunther's desk. You can still talk to the Dwarf in the regular mines although you can't understand them without the guide, so check there to see if it's simply not showing up in your Powers/Abilities tab.

That was clearly and obviously just an example. You're taking it way too literally.

I'm not sure it was intended to be shown as the only order to get Masteries, and I think he said later that they unlock in any order you choose.

Nope, you can only reforge the stats

That is a Skull Cavern shrine that lets you activate the Dangerous version of SC. It's similar to the one beneath the regular mines.

Oh thanks, but how do I unlock it. Cause I've done Mr QIs challenge twice already

@@fernanbro09 Specifically, the Qi Challenge that unlocks the shrine is "Skull Cavern Invasion", not the level 100 challenge or "Qi's Hungry Challenge". If this isn't working, I do not know why and cannot help you

I believe GamerGar's video on Trinkets demonstrates some re-rolls, if that's what you're looking for.