Do you know these 1.6 balance changes? | Stardew Valley Showcase 

With all these buffs, nerfs, neutrals AND time stamps the video description is too long so I have posted all the nerfs I didn't talk about in depth HERE! BUFFS 43: Harvesting moss now grants 1 foraging exp per moss. 44: The Junimo Kart Qi quest now rewards 20 Qi gems up from 10. 45: Added scaling edibility to juice, jellies, wine, and pickles. 46: The mushroom cave now comes with a free Dehydrator. 47: Building cabins no longer requires materials, only the 100g price. 48: Reduced worm bin's hardwood needed 25 to 15. 49: can buy all brazier recipes in Robin's shop at once 50: small chance to find cosmetic items while doing random tasks. 51: Train cars which carry wood can now drop hardwood. 52: Rare yellow slimes now drop money. 53: Brown slimes now drop wood 54: Harvesting berry bushes now grants 1 foraging XP per berry. 55: Raised insect head's damage 10-20 to 20-30. 56: Raised kudgel's critical attack power +4 to +50 57:Added grace jumps in Junimo Kart: when you run off the track, you can still jump for a short time to recover. 58: Your score is now saved if the minigame forcibly exits while playing endless mode. 59: Noxious gas emitting mushrooms no longer appear in pairs. 60: Reduced bubble spawn rate on whale level. 61: Barrels now spawn on skull cavern levels divisible by 5. 62: Reduced the maximum possible effect a bad luck day can have on finding a prismatic slime. 63: Reduced number of bugs to kill for monster slayer goal from 125 to 80. 64: Made remixed specialty fish bundle and analogues reward 5 Dish O' The Sea, to make it consistent with the classic bundle. 65: River fish bundle now gives deluxe bait. 66: Improved some community center rewards. 67: Quality fertilizer now requires 4 sap instead of 2, but produces 2 per craft - still only requires 1 fish 68: Spouses now have a seven-day "honeymoon" period after marriage which prevents them from laying in bed all day due to being upset. 69: Kissing your spouse, and giving them a gift on the previous day, each reduce the "min heart level" for a bed-ridden day by one heart 1 to 10 if you do both. 70: Rebalanced the crop fairy event: the chance no longer depends on the number of planted crops, it can no longer happen on the last day of the season to avoid growing crops that might die, no longer choose dead crops 71: Increased the shaving enchantment's effect on giant crops. Each giant crop now has a 60% chance of dropping an extra six crops while the shaving enchantment is equipped, spread across the number of hits needed to break it. For example, a base axe which breaks the giant crop in three hits gets three 20% chances of dropping 2 crops. 72: Spreading weeds can no longer destroy artifact spots. 73: Increased the number of monsters that daily monster quests will ask you to slay in some cases. Added more custom quantities, for example Dust Spirits will ask for 10-20 kills. NEUTRAL 74: survival burger foraging level 2 to 8; 75: Treasure chests are now a universally liked gift... except by Linus. 76: Bombs now affect terrain features like trees and crops within the round explosion radius rather than a square area. 77: Slightly increased rate at which skeletons throw bones or shoot spells. 78: speed gro now requires 5 Moss instead of 1 Clam . 79: deluxe speed-gro now requires 5 bone fragments instead of 1 coral. NERFS 80: Adult mossy green rain trees boost the moss growth rate of nearby trees. 81: Moss now grows more slowly on sunny summer days, and recovers more slowly after harvest. 82: Reduced meteorite prismatic shard chance 100% to 25%. 83: Void egg is now poisonous. 84: Increased cost of warp totem: farm in casino 500 → 1000 85: Raised some hat prices from Hat Mouse. 86: Put limits on some casino stock. 87: Reduced chance of fishing void mayonnaise at the witch swamp.8:Friendship gain is reduced by 33% for spouses. 88: You can no longer plant trees in the beach farm tunnel. 89: Slightly increased time you have to push against farm animals before passing through them. 90: You can no longer plant trees in town.

For 99% of people, the slime hutch taking up less space is a significant buff that means they will actually try using it now. For example, if someone found the Hutch's aesthetic "ugly" it was impossible to ignore; now trees can be planted in front of it. It will fit in smaller corners of existing layouts. Furthermore, for the profit-per-tile nuts this also makes it a bit more competitive.

without fail, my 1st ancient seed comes from bugs in the mines. i never once saw a ancient seed in the cart.. ever

the grass surviving in winter lends well for decorating your farm

I think the tea sapling nerf was pretty necessary. IK it's a funny perk and whatever, but being able to farm that ammount of money, so early, with common and almost worthless materials, never made sense to me

man .. i got my traveling cart ancient seeds the DAY before that patch dropped. thank u CA for waiting for me specifically 🙏

I never even knew that the traveling merchant sold Ancient Fruits seeds after 5+ years of playing, so it's definitely a case of "your milage may vary".

I mean, the Traveling Cart not having the ancient seeds isn't a huge issue imo. You can still pretty easily brute force one early from Grubs and go from there. I don't think we'll see them go anywhere tbh.

I LOVE the smaller Slime Hutch. I always hid it in the corner because it’s too loud and purple but now it’s so cute 😂

I still think tea saplings are worth it. The reduction was a needed balance because they were too powerful, but 250g is still pretty great considering it's only 5 fiber, 5 wood, and 2 wild seeds. All of those components sell for 85 gold in total. Especially if you're using basic quality forage to make the seeds, in the early game, that is still a lot of money. It's not a long term thing anymore, but still can put some coin into your pocket early game more easily than a lot of other options.

OMG OMG OMG THE GRASS WILL NOT VANISH ON WINTER??? ive always decorate the whole valley with it, only for me to redecorate the whole place again on spring, i swear, such a game changer! i am soooooo gonna decorate more passionately

Dont sleep on the insect head it got a major buff

About the secret notes during festivals. I once fished up a secret note during the ice festival, but when I got back to my farm I didn’t have it.

Energy tonic price nerf is probably to make them even more efficient than cheese and salad in terms of health:gold ratio. They were already technically better, but now you lose even money by eating salad instead of energy tonic. (Only applies to energy tonics from skull caverns which are worth 250g, if you buy them from Harvey theyre obviously reslly inefficient at 1000g)

huh, i didnt even realise the travelling cart sold ancient seeds, i always got mine from bugs!

I think the reason the value of the fairy dust going down might be because you have waaay more ways to get it. I have like 10 from playing on a new save since 1.6 launched. I didn’t craft a single one.

For ancient fruit, there's two ways I get my start. First are bugs on levels 10-20. Each one has a low but not zero chance of dropping the relic ancient seed, and you're killing plenty of them off as you descend. This can be a mid-spring find, meaning you can plant it immediately, harvest multiple fruit in summer and fall, and by the time your greenhouse goes up you don't just have one ancient fruit, you've got multiple. The other is the 0.5% chance from turning any random fruit into seeds in the seed maker. Doing this with blueberries still nets a profit over selling the fruits raw, and with hundreds of blueberries, it's a pretty solid chance.

I am into winter on my second year on the Meadowland Farm which probably doesn't affect mining and I have found that I am consistently getting a lot more coal from mining, chests, even the wormy things. In the past I have had to farm the dust sprites to keep pace with the coal I needed. I still spend a lot of time on those levels because i need iron to build bombs which I usually bought before. There also seems to be a greater range of energy sources in the early game which is making the start much easier. I really like the Meadowland farm and will start a second playthrough on it soon as I now have a much better idea of what I want to do. Thanks for the tips it was a very informative video.

The ancient seed seems to be much higher in drop chance now since i got 6 ancient seeds in my first year (and i am still in mid fall) compared to rarely even 1 before the patch.

I found the tea sapling nerf to be fine. They went from op to fair. At 250g each, the money you make is still handy the first month or 2 when selling 10k is difficult. It's only 40 saplings, or 80 seeds, and game start fiber and was real nice. Now that I'm in year 2, it wasn't worth the fiber, I need it for other things, and I have plenty of thingss that make more than 250g. I like the change honestly. I saw a bug fix for the multiple perfection statue glitch, which is what is currently affecting my new play through 😅

I just wanna tell you that you make great content and it’s a damn wonder you don’t have more subscribers than this, but you earned one right now so I hope that helps!

Mushrooms and other foragables can now also be put in perserves jars and kegs (well mushrooms don't go into kegs but others can) which bumps the value of some foragables up till you get the always iridium achievement

Salmence actually made a short about the tea sapling "nerf" and basically said that it was actually buffed because now you can just plant a bunch of them on ground and after the first harvest break the tea saplings and sell the tea leaves alongside them for a 600g profit

I usually get my first ancient seeds from the Caves via flies/grubs or from a fishing chest.

"now passing out in the mine is a lot less punishing" -Cuts to loosing prismatic shards-

I ALWAYS got ancient seeds from the cart. The first one was my first cart ever in my last playthrough and have had a total of five from the cart on that farm. I believe the ancient fruit seeds on the cart only happens if you click community center completeable by year 1. I'm also with you on the slime hutch. I liked the big size and enjoyed decorating an area for it.

I have gotten notes at the Ice Fishing Competition, but they were gone when I got home.

I never find prismatic shards from iridium nodes....this nerf is making things even worse!

I needed this so bad!! I’ve been requesting this kind of video on so many peoples channels and nothing! Thanks so so much!!

Somehow panning suddenly became one of the best activities you can do. Saw some guy on reddit who got 51 omni geodes and 3 artefact troves, decent amount of iridium and other ores and so much more with a enchanted iridium pan with luck buffs, it's actually crazy and it's also less expensive than skull cavern

I'm about to finish year 1 and I've been burning through so much coal with that fish smoker. I imagine that will slow down a good bit in year 2 as the cost of coal increase means fewer fish will be smoked, but it's interesting to see how things are changing. With both angler and artisan even many crab pot fish are worth smoking in year 2 so long as they sell for 90+. (Though unless you have it automated through mods, you may prefer to only smoke fish with a higher profit margins)

honestly before 1.6 dropped I can’t ever remember a time where I got my first ancient fruit seed from the travelling cart. I would just throw wheat into the seed maker and hope for the best if I hadn’t got the artefact. But when 1.6 dropped there were ancient seeds in there almost every single time. It was a great start for my ancient fruit empire this time around, I stored all of the fruit I harvested and then put them into seed makers to plant in the greenhouse😊

😮the chest storage on #15 is a work of art

For life elixir and fairy dust, I think it may just have something to do with other aspects of the 1.6 update. Mushroom logs do make it easier to obtain life elixir, so much so that I actually use it now. I’ve also noticed you can trade mystic syrup for fairy dust, so CA probably didn’t want to make it so you can just make additional money for reselling your item

The Slime Hutch size decrease is 1000% a plus. The area you dedicated to it was based around its size. So now you just re-decorate to fix that or enjoy the added space you get back. Problem solved.

You can trade the new mysterious syrup for fairy dust with the new racoon neighbors, so probably that's why the fairy dust sells for less now.

I never knew you could buy an ancient seed from the travelling cart. I almost always get it randomly in spring the first year and am able to get a couple harvests and get enough seeds started for a significant amount by the time I'm in the green house. I have lucky rng I guess but I thought it was a pretty common drop

I can't put a staircase in my pants slot anymore. That's a change that saddens me. No more lucky purple shorts with the update.

I feel like I've been finding things like ancient fruit seeds much much more often now.. And for things like the snake vertebrae, you could try the treasure totem

I definitely understand the pain of looking for snake vertebrae😩 I spent three seasons looking for it (not actively but still it was hard to find though)

Sorry if this has already been said, but after you start using recipes the Life Elixirs get redundant, so they build up pretty fast if you are diligent about gathering mushrooms from the cave. It was a great source of money. Now that there are more ways to get mushrooms it makes sense that the price would go down.

I've never gotten ancient seeds from the traveling merchant. I've always gotten it from the mine.

Tea saplings: your error is that it is a DELAYED profit/benefit. 1] make seed packets, make tea saplings (day 1 of season) 2] PLANT THEM (wait 20 days), harvest tea leaves (day 21 - 28, last week) 3] make tea/gift the tea leaves, 4] day 28 harvest the tea saplings to sell them with the tea/tea leaves Profit needs more steps (old profit (+ 100 - 300 g)).

I am in Year 2 now (Spring) and for some reason I still haven't gotten that Ancient Seed artifact and in the past I've gotten it during year 1! So now half of my focus is trying to find it when I go mining since that's usually where I get it. Here's the interesting thing though, I've already gotten 3 prismatic shards, and that's rare up to this point, most of the time I am not able to get one until I get to Skull Cavern lol. I knew crafting deluxe fertilizer had changed, but it doesn't bother me since I tap Mahogany trees for their sap for that reason.

As a casual player (mods to help fishing, walk speed, automation, qol, etc.) I found selling tea sapling still heled in the first year. Now I dont bother though as i get plenty of money from dried good and smoked fish amoung the other things.

Also iridium wool guarantees 2 cloths! Sheep are worth it now although pigs still better

I have really appreciated all of your videos on 1.6! Thank you!

the life elixer thing is a buff. the amount of money you lose is based on your wealth, and item prices are calculated into that. Because it was never viable profit to sell life elixers, you now just lose less money for holding a bunch if you die.

I like the innate enchantments on random weapon drops. I found a steel falchion with slime slayer and basically dropped the Obsidian Edge right then and there until i got monies for a lava katana Im actually kind of annoyed at the foraging experience being added to cave mushrooms cause im doing a mining/combat only run and i didnt know about that until i tried to set one up. Ah well. Still nice for everyone else ^-^

I personally didn't notice much about the nerf, except with that mr qi special quest you mention. Maybe because i always do different things, or i wasn't familiar with any exploit. I was just playing normally, and with the added mastery box, i was able to acquire more stuff in the game. And there are other added bonus on each starting maps. I also didn't know about ancient seeds sold by travelling merchants, maybe because i get them anywhere.

i immediately lost my tent kits in the volcano

When was hopping up-down-left-right while charging the water can added? I don't remember doing that before 1.6.

I won’t be starting a new save, that’s for sure. The reduction of prismatic shards from (the already rare chance of a meteor strike) from 100% to 25% is just mean. If I do update at all, I’ll use an old save where the only nerf that will hurt is the increased bomb costs.

An iridium quality smoked Legend II with the angler and artisan professions is worth 42000g by itself. And you can catch these more easily now with Legend II bait (surely) and the reenforced iridium rod. This could be a very interesting money maker…

I found my 1st ancient seed within the 1st few weeks of spring from a bug in the mines, it was actually the earliest I ever found one.

It's really weird because I heard about ancient seed packets not being sold at the traveling cart anymore, but I literally just bought one (for 800 or 900 gold) there so either that wasn't implemented, or implemented wrong? Like a single ancient fruit seed.

Quartz in two or three crystalariums is typically my go-to method for getting bombs from the desert trader, and that has not been nerfed. If that trade didn't exist, then yeah the bomb changes would be rough. I think many of these changes try to avoid money being the most viable solution to most gameplay problems and offer more meaningful choices.

I practically exclusively play the fish monger in all my runs so Id definitely love a break down on the new addtions vs what I was doing before.😅

Coal nodes doesn’t just appear in volcanoes, also quarry and quarry mine. I no longer need prospector or deliberately hunt dust sprites for them (partially also because you’ll need less preserves jar now that dehydrator is added)

Y'all are sleeping on mushrom you can combine mushrom logs with tapper farms then apply dehydration for a fantastic money maker

You can make 126,000 gold from a single fishing cast. Use challenge bait to catch Legend II (with a buffed fishing skill of 17 and two cork bobbers it should be doable). Each Legend II is 5,000g, 5,000x3 is 15,000. Since they're iridium with a perfect catch, 15,000x2=30,000 Fish smoker doubles it again to 60,000. Angler and artisan stack *multiplicatively* for smoked fish, 60,000x1.5*1.4 = 126,000 On top of that, there's no limit to how many times you can do this in a day.

The ancient fruit „nerf“ is not a really big issue. Grubs, bugs and cave flies drop the artifact versions which you can transform. I got 3 in the first spring and planted them. Later when I needed more copper (after I farmed my iron and gold for sprinklers) I dropped 4 more. Because you need your copper for kegs and tappers you spend some time killing these mobs anyway.

After the update, I found 2 vertebrae almost immediately once I got to ginger island. I am so glad he increased their spawn rate

Qi is a Chinese name that is pronounced Chi, like Chia Seed without the A. However for some reason CA butchers the pronunciation and calls him Kwee

Year 1 fishing has become a farming skill due to fish smoker and the ease of getting 15+ super cucumber in 8 in game hours. Farming exp has become really valuable if you dont want to focus on blacksmith+skull cavern

So, uh... we can have up to 8 wine cellars on a farm now. Expensive af to setup, but the annual earnings are insane, with very little work once you have it going. Assuming you go ancient fruit wine instead of the more lucrative-yet-tedious star fruit wine, you're looking at - with optimal cellars of 125 casks, so 1,000 casks total, you're looking at 4,620,000 gold every 2 months, or 9,240,000 gold/year for a handful of days worth of work. I'm making my 7 cabins all trailers, because it's funny af to have a trailer park vineyard. Setup has been quite tedious, though, and like I said, very expensive. Also, I had no idea you could get ancient seeds from the traveling cart; I always just dug them up from artifact spots, which I dig up compulsively whenever I see one.

Grass dissappearing in winter was always my biggest nitpick, as I use a lot of grass starters for decoration purposes This might be the best change of the update hahah!

13:42 "iron looking bombs"... My dude, just call it a normal bomb

Very useful video for Stardew valley update! Hope your channel grows bigger 😁

I got an ancient seed from the bugs in the mines in week 3 of spring. It's only the second time I've ever gotten it that way.

I don't get the fairy dust sell nerf, it wasn't profitable to sell even before that. Remember that a single diamond already sells for 750 gold. I didn't even use it before, when do you really need a specific late game item from a keg so urgently that you'd want to waste an expensive item like fairy dust on it? Can't say I'll use it now either, unless there's a quest that it's super useful for. Only thing that comes to mind is maybe Pam's potato juice quest, but with any kind of reasonable planning, that isn't a problem either time-wise, and usually I got that quest before unlocking Ginger Island.

I got my first ancient seed from fishing most of the time. So I do not miss the traveling merchant Ancient Seed much.

Am having very hard time getting jellys

I had no idea the ancient fruit was ever in the traveling cart, I have never not gotten it on my way down to 120 before lol

I just wanna stress how much of a buff Fishing got in this update. The targeted fish bait makes it borderline impossible not to get to fishing, specially if you're playing mods like Stardew Valley Expanded. In that mod, there is a fish that can be caught as of level 8 of Fishing in a remote spot called King Salmon. Because of how far the spot is, and how rare the fish is, often times I'd get back with 3, maybe 5/6 King Salmon after a whole day. Now, because of the targeted fish bait, I can easily get 12+ King Salmon in a day, which, after being smoked, can give you roughly 30k in a single day (gold quality). And this is a decently rare fish, I can guarantee that with something far more common, and accessible (like the catfish) you might be able get just as much profit, albeit with more coal usage.

Tapper is fine, i don't feel any nerf on that, i was collecting wood a lot in early game, i unlock it pretty quickly.

sinse wild seeds gives much less forage xp, instead of maxing forage as first skill (mid fall) i maxed it as last (late winter)

Yep I'll still be a proud artisan 😂

I think the life elixir price reduction is so it costs less to recover them if you lose your stack of them.

I think the change to the life elixir sell price wasn't due to something people were doing but rather to prevent the new mushroom logs from being ridiculously OP.

I never sold any bars outside iridium to make money via mining. Gold is completely useless eventually, and i used purely on bombs. I really only bought the tier 2 bombs, but at 1k each you're losing 250 each vs buying the materials from clint in year one.

I can't wait for the update to come to switch!

Not a fan of dropping the farmable foragables, that was always what I used my tillable tiles for in winter year 1. It basically guaranteed you to hit lv 10 foraging by the end of year 1, didn't make your farm a complete waste of space for 1/4 of the year, and gave you a big boost of money to get anything you needed Spring 1 of a year. The money will still be worth it, but it feels like a big penalty to people who used those seeds to grind early game exp

Funny enough the first few farms i had i never in 5 years found a prismatic chart 😂 this 1.6 new farm i found 3 within the first year 😎 galaxy sword let's gooooo

Sad that only 1,6 people will find this content

I never even knew that the travelling cart can give ancient seeds. I always got mine year 1 from the mines.

playing 1.6 rn, got my second snake vertebrae on the third day on the island 💀

Are tea saplings still worth it? If the wiki prices are accurate now, selling 2 seasonal seeds nets you 70g. If you buy all the wood in year one, that's 50g loss. The sell price of tea saplings is now 250g, so you'd be making 130g more than selling just the seasonal seeds on their own, for every 2 seasonal seeds. It also takes 5 weeds, so as long as you have spare weeds I'd say it's worth it. Just maybe not worth going out of your way for, and obviously befriending Caroline still takes effort. Or you could plant the tea saplings instead if you're willing to wait for them to grow and harvest the tea leaves. 250g - 50g (wood) - (2x35g) (seasonal seeds sell cost) = 130g

The fairy dust nerf makes sense when you consider that you will get fairy dust regularly from the ticket machine in the mayor's house. Actually, about foraging I think it is pretty neutral. I usually did quite some foraging in the older versions. I got my foraging XP in my 1.6 playthrough even easier because a lot of things that gave no foraging XP (like the salmonberries) now give a little and it accumulates very quickly. I also enjoyed getting a bit of farming XP from using wild seeds. You just don't have the discrepancies of foraging XP anymore because everything you do in that regard gets a little XP reward. Because I am not a mines and skull caverns diving adventurer and I also don't like mass producing kegs and wine, with the fishing and dried fruits and mushrooms options (also you can use forage items and mushrooms in preserves jars now, forage items also in kegs) I had a way easier time to get enough money in my 1.6 playthrough. I also love doing quests and the ticket machine spits out quite nice rewards like iridium sprinklers. Overall I consider the game more balanced now, with more than one or two viable strategies to improve your farm.

Because the fairy dust Can be exchange with the Blue sap or smth They decrease the price so we cant sell it I think

I don’t think I’ve ever gotten ancient fruit seeds from the cart, I’ve always gotten the drop from bugs/grubs before even the end of spring. That goes double for 1.6, since the buffed insect head sword incentivizes farming them early anyway

It seems like bugs are dropping ancient seeds more often, I've gotten so many this new playthrough.

Life elixir nerf is probably because mushroom cave has been buffed.

can we still put a Yellow Couch on the Loom and get Cloth? this happens because the Item ID for the Yellow Couch and the Cloth are the Same. so if you buy the Furniture Catalog you can get free Cloth Basically.

I got my second ancient fruit seed artifact from the mines but I can't convert it to ancient fruit seed because somehow the museum didn't gave me the recipe. It's not the end of the world but it's still annoying.

#21: There are also coal nodes in the quarry-dungeon #32: Nerf? Having more space available on your farm is a Nerf? Sorry, but no. #74: That's a nerf in my book, I used to be able to gather ~400 Blackberries in first fall with them... but no longer :-( #83: Neutral ;-) Also, did I miss you mentioning the Mayonnaise-Buff?

Btw Vineyard is not pronounced Vine Yard it’s Vin-yrd

Can I get all lost items back (or just one?) if I die in the mines with the recovery service? It's nice to know that tools are safe since they are irreplacable. But what about the (enchanted) fishing rod, the Return Cepter or the horse flute? I'm horrified about losing those so I usually restart the day to be safe. Would really appreciate an answer from someone

1:16 can explain what’s a wild whats that mean?

Not tested it fully yet but do moss covered trees stop tappers working?