This seems a lot less convincing when you had 150K buying the mats and pumpkins. Would have been nice to see your plan naturally come together rather than take such a boost to show it off.
The most lucrative way to earn money in the first week of a new playthrough is fishing on the second, third and fourth of spring, and then go to the mines for copper to turn into copper bars and sell them for early game money
I strongly disagree that you should upgrade inventory space "as soon as you can." You need to save as much money as you can for Strawberry Seeds in Year 1. Never upgrade your backpack before the Egg Festival.
I disagree with your grinding for rain totems strat, I prefer grinding the mines to craft sufficient quality sprinklers by the end of summer for all my fall crops
Rain totems are used in full money runs to water thousands of starfruit. By having the ginger island filled with planter boxes growing starfruit, you can just use a rain totem every day to grow all of them.
I do enjoy your videos but why does watching some of them make me want to start a new game? In any case my current one is only at day 11 year one and frankly is not doing well, so nothing much will be lost.
I started so many games. Partly because there were new farms released and I wanted to try them, too. I have to convince myself not to restart regularly because I just seem to have a compulsion to do things perfectly that I need to work out before I ever make it to end game. If I do. Even if I don't, brilliant game. Love it.
@@tanekrune5873 I do the same thing, so glad I'm not alone lol. I binged too many 100 days videos and started like 3 new games trying to make money much faster 😅
@@beccamatilda8621 Oh no, so many people restart that I know of. But I am by far the worst. All my friends are on like year 8+ and I'm back here at year 2 or 3 in my furthest game. I'm just indecisive.
YES, was just about to check up on some gold-farming tips, but then you came with this video like a legend! You really helped me out with progression and more overall fun in Stardew, so thank you for everything
Heres a tip for fishing! Dont buy the training rods and stick to just the bamboo. Youre better off investing in some fish stew for both stamina issues in the early game and better catches. Also I tested the rods and honestly there is not much change in value of catch or fish. The only time I noticed a worthwhile change was when I used the iridium fishing rod which allows for bait and tackle. Plus its more efficient to just buy the best rod and stick to bamboo to level up and get more fishes.
For real you have to eat your fish just to fish so why anybody would waste money on the training rod is crayfish. Just focus on the level up. Buy nothing always be making money.
@@winterrain1947 Plus the training rod is really good for early game. Not only is it cheap as all hell, but you're pretty much put at level 5 automatically with it. The only downside is you can only catch normal quality fish with it and can't get some species, but it is WAY better than the bamboo rod when you're not level 5, seeing as some still struggle with the fishing minigame given how difficult it is when you're just starting out with that tinyass bar. Keep the training rod until you hit that level, THEN bamboo rod, assuming you don't have enough for the fiberglass by that point. Anyways yeah idk why they're acting like the training rod is crippling for the wallet, it's literally only 25 gold??? That ain't EVEN an investment. The fiberglass and iridium rod is an investment, the training rod is fricking pocket change.
Great tip on the first week fishing. I managed to complete the Community Centre and earned 1million gold under 100 days, the other tips would have made that accomplishment quicker to achieve.
Now that I finally got perfection on my oldest farm: Spring 1 Year 14 no less, I plan on doing a mass dump of my chests. I can't wait to see what I get.
I'm a huge hoarder so near the end of each season I try to go through and sell stuff I don't need... like the 15 prismatic shards I got on one riDONKulous lucky day in the Skull Caverns. (Note: That 15 was on top of others I had hoarded for gifting and tool enchantments - I wouldn't miss them and that 15,000g was nice.)
I was able to buy 108 pumpkin seeds during Fall year 1 and i used the gold in upgrading my coop and barn to deluxe. I also made sure to get the 30 quality fertilizers on the CC(need 5k gold to complete) to use that on my pumpkins, and then the rest had basic fertilizers. Luckily, i was able to get 2 giant crops so more gold. Also yes fishing with training rod is good. That was my money maker for Spring and Summer.
I can’t lie. I don’t agree at all with the training rod. If you use the regular rod and just find one of the “prime spots” like beside the rock pillar on the pier or directly south of Leah’s shrub, you can catch gold quality fish on day two, and if you’re good or lucky enough, you can catch some iridium quality fish on your first day fishing. I always recommend the pillar by the pier because the only fish that can spawn there in spring are incredibly easy and let you level up your fishing quick, even with the regular rod. You’ll get waaaay more money per fish at not very much difference in difficulty. I know this sounds a little mean, but day to day fishing in Stardew is not that hard at all. The legendary fish and some rare ones like puffers are, but the vast majority of fish are incredibly easy to pick up on, enough that you should be recognizing what fish you’re catching just by the swimming pattern. Also, remember not to hold the button, but to tap it rapidly to keep your bobber where you want it. Fishing is easy once you get more practice, and as you level up it’ll just get easier.
With the training rod, you're only able to get to level 3 in fishing, but it is guarenteed catches, even though they are basic. It makes base amount of money, sure, but the training rod helps grasp the concept of fishing for the game.
If you want to spend your time fishing I recommend placing down a chest BESIDES the door of Lewis shop, and later on, after you get the second rod, one in the mountains. The chest wont get destroyed if you place it properely, and you can catch as many fishes as you want with your limited inventory space. You should also leave tools that you arent using at the farm, like the scythe or watering can. If you need energy, I recommend spending your time foraging for spring onions and other stuff at the beginning of each day of spring, and ALSO get all the salmonberries during the 15-18th of spring, since they really help you . If you are all out of energy, you can check the garbage cans, or run to give gifts to people like Lewis, or if you are desperate you can shake trees for tree seeds. Caroline is also a great friend to have, since at 3 hearts she will send the tea-sapling recipe, which is a great way to get money in the early game, you can have tea tree saplings going in summer. Here is another tip: make sure you trigger the community center by entering the pelican town from the bustop by walking in during 8-10 PM. You can get 30 spring seeds for 1 of each spring foragable. You can miss the community center trigger IF you just run south of your farm towards the beach. At the spring festival at day 13 you can also buy strawberry seeds, I usually try to get as many of them as possible of them. If you also USE a 10% fertilizer you can get a total of 3 harvests of strawberries.If you set up your farm to complete the community bundle you can also get 20 speedgro´s for the Spring Crops Bundle. If you chop down trees, try to get one of each tree seed, since you can get a field snack, this can enable you to chop even more trees. Another thing that I do is to skip out on upgrading the watering can and the hoe, at least initially. I just hoe and water by 1 tile at the beginning, and I try to rush towards getting quality sprinklers. I do tend to upgrade the hoe though, but its the last thing I do. I dont bother with the watering can, until late game, and I just do sprinklers, since watering is sort of boring. I also recommend placing down TILLERS on the 3 trees at the bustop. I set up a tilling farm later though, but the first batches can help me with the community bundle and placing down the first 10-20 kegs. There is a lot more things that I think is worth doing, but, eh, cant write it all down.
Excellent tips! I would not have thought of leaning in to the training rod, as I am a pretty good fisher, but you make very good points! I will give it a try sometime. Side note: It is possible to earn enough cash to buy the greenhouse from Joja by about the Egg Festival, which can also help so much with early game money! Everbearing strawberries, coffee, hops, etc from early game is such a huge help!
I basically aim for level 10 fishing early to mid spring and I use all that money to fuel the purchases of the level 2 coop and barn. I try to get them as early as possible because they are the most consistent form of Farming XP early in the game and you will want to be able to make Kegs by mid to late summer. I also try to get to the bottom of the mines in Spring, so that I can end that season and start Summer by building quality sprinklers. The goal being in summer to have 2 "farms" of maximum size for the normal scarecrow - one with just coffee beans and the other with summer crops and hops for pale ale.
I guess one of the things I do think it's sooo stressful top one is the small inventory. So a way I can have a bigger one the day the mines open is extremely helpful. Tks ❤️
one suggestion for the sprinkler vs rain totem argument (if you wish to continue reading prepare for some opinionated stuff) TL:DR I think sprinklers are easier to obtain and more reliable overall firstly mathematically speaking it would be hard to pull this off while using rain totems for one thing their is the money it would cost over 60000 gold just to buy a barn and one pig wildly expensive early in the game going off of average summer profits that is about a third of what i make and that is only if you go for a deluxe barn and one pig and mind you to get that much money i use sprinklers. secondly there is the question of infrastructure sprinklers in themselves are permanent structures that work forever and do the job of watering rain totems however would need a high number of tappers requiring a dedicated pine tar farm saying that pine tar takes 5 to 6 days you would need to either stockpile well in advance or have 30 tapped pine trees set up to ensure you don't go without rain which costs 60 copper bars and a massive 2400 wood not impossible to get with the reduced wood prices but would set you back either 24000 gold or a lot of time and energy chopping it down and when you still need preserves jars and or kegs that is asking a lot compared to the quality sprinklers which need gold refined quarts and iron for each which requires more bars but are a lower energy investment and much more feasible in the early game saying that with a bit of planning you can fully sprinkler your field by summer and then simply build more. look even i can tell this has gone on too long and kudos to anyone especially ezlilyy herself for reading this i am merely making the suggestion to use sprinklers
I stink at fishing, so while I do some of that for quick cash in early game, my whole first year strategy is planting the maximum amount of profitable crops I can. Potatoes and Cauliflower in Spring, Melons in Summer, and Cranberries and Pumpkins in Fall. So much money and resources are needed in early game play and now that I know what I'm doing in SDV, I can't bear to do it any other way. I suffer until Winter then spend all winter upgrading all of my tools (let's be honest - I probably have upgraded the pickaxe at least before Winter but let's not split hairs xD) so that Spring Year 2 is easy-peasy. Then I have a massive stockpile of geodes to crack open after occupying Clint for the entire season.
I also SUCKED at fishing! On my multiplayer server I just had my friend do it, but honestly? Try the training rod, it's cheap and it makes it soooo much easier! Yea, you only get common fish, but you can really level up fishing fast! If you spend enough time just leveling up w/ the training rod, regular fishing becomes easy! Trust me, it's worth it for all those fish :)))
Tried to do the fishing thing, I only managed to buy the fiberglass rod at day 4 because the fish took FOREVER to bite with both the bamboo and the training rods. One time it took me 2 in game hours to get a single bite. That will still help me big time, but ugh… why
there's one way to make a crapton of money pretty early in the game that i hardly, if ever, see people talking about, it is a bit of abore, but it is garanteed to make 10-15 thousand A DAY. and can easily be achieved in the first year. crab pot with 100% fish upgrade, on the beach, basically, sell anything 75g+ make the rest into sashimi. because of the %, once you fill the beach with crabpots, you will be making(been a while since i did this), around 15k, bait cost included. it may feel like going for the fish price would be better, but going the crap pot route means, cheaper/faster setup and a garanteed almost fixed income. and while it does take a long time to collect/refil everything, it waste no energy, meaning, you could still do whatever you want the rest of the day. it would be nice if we could either pay a npc for that work, or have the hopper pick items up from the crabpots(with that you could go the no bait route), so i understand why people dont do this. also, even though it might look like the beach farm or the lake farm would be good for that, they actually arent, as the lake prices are pretty low compared with the beach, and the beach map seems to be borked so crab pots dont really work that well there.
My personal early game strat is actually tea saplings, you can buy summer spangles relatively cheap at the travelling cart, they’re also quite common in my experience, and Caroline likes daffodils if you can’t find them cheap enough, you should only need five or less spangles to get to two hearts. Min price for summer spangles is 270, if you end up needing five that’s 1350, pretty pricey, but the saplings sell for 500 each and you can get 5 from each wild seeds you craft, it pays itself off right away. Even at their most expensive they’re only 5000 all together, that’s only 10 saplings and is easily paid off. The biggest issue is normally fibre for me, but you can get it pretty easy in the mines and you have the chance of an ancient seed on those floors, which is also very useful. This remains really good money through early and midgame, but after you get linus’s trash quest it gets even better. I personally recommend getting a good wood stockpile from robin ASAP with this method, after the fibre issue, wood can become a problem, you use tons of it.
Befriend Caroline as soon as possible. After 2 hearts go into her backroom and she'll give you the recipe for tea saplings. Level your foraging with the tip from the video and gather as many foragables as you can. You'll need as many seasonal seeds as you can to make them into tea saplings. Plant a few and sell the rest for 500 G each. It doesn't sound like much but this tip regularly saved my ass on the first day of a new season. That's even more money to spend on pumpkin seeds :)
While you are busy making money fishing, you can invest in lightning rods. Once installed, they are a care free source of money. During storms, lightning hits the rods and creates battery packs, which can be sold for 500 gold. To create a lightning rod, you need iron ore and a furnace, so that means at least level 40 in The Mines or buying the ore from Clint (150 g during the first year). Lightning rods also make excellent fence posts. They never rot. And they will continue to produce battery packs throughout the entire game. Speaking of fence posts that never rot, I recommend giving daffodils to Caroline in the General Store. At two hearts, you are able to enter her private sun room, where she introduces you to tea. The next day she mails you a recipe for making tea saplings. They are made of wood and fiber, and sell for 500 gold. You can plant them all over your farm. You don't need to till the soil. You don't need to water them. They are a trellis crop, so leave space to walk around them. They take 20 days to grow to maturity, after which each bush will produce one Tea Leaf each day during the last week (22nd-28th) of Spring, Summer, and Fall. Each leaf sells for 50. Once you reach Farming Level 8, you can put one leaf into a keg for three hours, and it produces a cup of tea, which sells for 150. Once you reach fishing level 3 and have access to iron bars, you can build crab pots. They are a very easy way to catch all kinds of marine life, which you will need for the Community Center Crab Pot bundle. You will also snag some trash. The trash can be recycled into cloth, iron ore, coal, wood, stone, torches, and refined quartz, which you will need for your lightning rods. At Farming Level 9, you can turn all the seafood into Quality Fertilizer, which will save you 150 g if you bought it from Pierre, and produce more silver and gold crops, which will sell for more. Save your money and invest in a Deluxe Barn. Fill it with pigs. Complete the Joja Community Development Form and buy an Auto-Petter. If you chose the Foraging skills of Gatherer and Botanist, each truffle will be worth 1250 g. Rinse and repeat.
My strategy is super simaler, almost exact, except the only difference is I spend every second of my spare time in summer grinding ore in the mines. I always end with 30+ qualities sprinklers by fall. That's 240 Watered squares. 100 cranberries 100 pumpkins and 40 misc. At the end of winter, I always have ten foraging cause I just slam up like 500 winter seeds with all the watered space. Spend winter grinding fiber and skull caverns. Turn all the winter seeds to tea tree saplings. 500k off saplings for year 2 sounds like a grind, but honestly, summer is the only grind heavy portion.
I avoided fishing and have start with wheat work well to get money for strawberries, but seeding would be best in jear 2 or get fast a seed maker. With my 10 seed maker i don´t have to buy seeds because i can have all by myself. Seed all wild seeds to get early repeating crops and choose msuhroom to get fallen seeds really easy. Best is to get fast 2 hearts with Caroline to get tea fast. for seed you get 500 and for leaves is 350 per season and for tea is 500 per season which is a little bit better but best is to get just one coffee bean to get fast a full field for making tons of money with no really effort and to get an ancient seed. With that making money is a joke and buy catalogues to prevent spending money where it is not needed to like casino for furniture. More slots is not neccessary with chests and on each farm spot you can put one to collect them at the end of the season or year. you get faster money if you sell at pierre direct. Ores or minerals you can sell at clint and willy buy fishes, but him i don´t use so much. With merchant you can get 40 % for all craftables and that is a huge amount of money and you sell almost nothing. 21 iridium star fruit ancient wine bring 100k in a full cellar there is space for 189. so you can make up to 900k per half of a year.... Fruit trees are good to get a fast reward. from year 2 you have get more profit as you have spent and after year 4 all fruits are in iridium quality. Cherries with 3.4k cost in relation to apricose much more, but 1 tree bring in 4 years 12.8k and from then 4.480 per tree. On my farm are 50.... and 50 other trees and 50 teatrees on sideways where my sprinkler don´t water. Even that sideproduction bring 70k per year and chicken i wait for big eggs then i raise just black chickens and i need rabbits. On the outside i put my seedboxes and put all treesides on every possible field where i don´t walk and hardwood you can stay stomps to get a new seed. With them you can get up to 4 possible seeds to make an own forrest
Can someone explain how to fish on PC? All anyone tells me is to left click with mouse. That just makes it shoot up. When I let it go, it drops like lead. I spent so long avoiding fishing, that Willy came out to my farm to give me the training rod and beg me to give fishing another chance.
I always fish late in my game (autumn) I like to forage and mine and farm I have harvested 100 wild seeds in my first spring on my pc world and had about 10k from cauliflower and stuff I have planted a lot and foraged until level 4 so far (in about 2hrs)
I originally bought stardew valley over a year ago and the fishing was the reason i quit playing 30 mins in. I hadnt researched stuff online and i hadn't found the youtube community yet so i had no idea there was a training rod. I couldn't figure out what sound i was supposed to click on and if i got it right i still couldn't catch the dang fish. I was frustrated as heck. A few months later i decided to try again because i just heard so many good things about sv. I actually learned about the training rod online and now i love fishing. It was the right amount of help to get the hang of it and then i got the fiberglass rod. Its how i make the bulk of my money in my first spring. I have so much fun fishing and it makes me sad i missed out of months of playing. I'm so greatful for all the helpful videos on youtube that have helped me learn so many things i would have struggled to realize by myself.
I was in the same boat, but I kept playing and avoided fishing at all costs. I lucked out and got most of the fish i needed for the bundles from the traveling cart and Linus 😄
How did you keep your stamina up on that first day of fishing? Liked several of these ideas but, like another commenter, I would mine for sprinklers and not go rain totems.
The layout of the bee houses is actually bad though. Some of them were not within range of the flower so they were only producing Wild Honey, you can see her collecting them in the video. The price difference between Fairy Rose Honey and basic Wild Honey is pretty big so she was losing a lot of money just by not having a few more flowers.
Awesome vid its full of so many useful tips some i knew and some i didn't and that's why i always come back to stardew valley when ever im between games or want to go on a farm siming binge, and videos like this make it even more enjoyable so keep up the amazing work lilly dont stop also congrats on being over 30k subs now i stilll remember some of the early vids from when you were had like 5k subs haha
Huh, I always thought fishing just anywhere was far too time consuming to be profitable, I pretty much exclusively fish in the fishing "hot spots" that appear randomly in the water from time to time.
Those hot spots aren't worth it actually unless you're really early in the game. You can look up the viable fishing spots but one is by Leah's cabin and the other is the rock by the pier. They guarantee high level fish consistently.
@@Klausish I think the hot spots are worth if you're only fishing on the side and not as a primary source of income (Once you're at fishing 5+ with a good rod and bait then I agree with you). I've started spending the first in game week full-time fishing and it's proven to be quite a money machine... but you wind up spending the whole day doing it which might not be some people's idea of a fun day in stardew valley.
If you don't like fishing spend your first few days shopping down trees and make a bunch of field snacks with the seeds. You can clear your farm and save money on resources for early game buildings! Field snacks make cutting trees down soooo easy and so worth it.
1. I only use rain totems when I'm upgrading my watering can 2. Also I never get sprinklers until I can afford the iridium ones, I feel like they're a waste of money and resources since you can water everything by yourself and it doesn't take this much time 3. You can get a little iridium in early game by fishing, go for a super cucumber and put it into a fish pond, there's a 5% chance to get 1-3 iridium from them, it's not much but it's much better than nothing
Aaaah, so many new games but these are such handy tips. I admit, I knew fishing was helpful and I tried to include it, but I seem to neglect it early game. I’ll give these all a try in this new game, thank you~
it looks like i actually know a tip she doesnt. Im a little shook that her pine tar orchard has no stones around to keep the baby trees from spawning. makes my life so much easier once the trees are where i want them.
Im in fall first year with 40 teir 2 sprinklers. I think its going pretty good at least i dont have to grind for crops like i did in my first playthrough
my plan is just to farm a bunch mine/fish make tappers when i can until i can make kegs also using the hoe on worms to look for the anceiet seed to get the recipe
