Earning $1,000,000 Without Leaving The Farm in Stardew Valley - DPadGamer 

You took out the only thing that kept me sane, absolute chad move

The first day in town you buy a joja mart membership and buy out the community center in one go. The town hates you and wishes you just stayed on your farm.

You essentially were the farming equivalent of Willy Wonka. Nobody sees him, nobody goes in, but amazing goods are produced, and no one knows how.

Bro rolled up to pelican town, doesnt talk to anyone for half a decade, and started selling the best quality wine the city had ever seen.

“I am a very annoying combination of lazy, determined, and stubborn.” This guy gets me

Watching this makes me realize just how little I've really scratched the surface of this game. You poor soul.

That bit at the end telling the story of the hermit farmer via edited news channels was awesome

Petition to name this the Stardew Hermit% run

This playthrough seems so much more doable in 1.6 with green rain/moss, flower seeds, and the meadowlands farm

I loved the idea of this challenge and had to try it for myself. I reached 1,000,000 gold on Day 26, Fall Year 4. I think the reason I got there faster is because I sold $25000 gold of products as soon as I could to be able to use the cave, and chose mushrooms for a daily profit. And was able to sell lots of wood due to creating a tree farm that filled an entire corner. It was a fun experience!

Oh boy. Glad to have this video out. That said, I wanna note that the channel has been in a pretty rough slump as of recent. I want to work towards fixing that, which means going forward I'm going to be uploading much shorter videos (not YT Shorts) more often... so if you feel like subscribing, keep that in mind. P.S I know Stardew uses Gold not Dollars, but a $ in the thumbnail looks more clickable.

The ending is so good. I love the timeline of a ruined economy by one diligent farmer who sold a bunch of Ancient Fruit Juice, Corn Juice, Pickled Corn and just other random fruits.

One challenge i'd love to see is a mod that adjusts the prices of most items, crops, hospital fees ect. to their real-world value... including the subtraction of taxes for selling. I wonder how different a playthrough would be if the stardew farmer made realistic amounts of money... and had to pay land and housing tax every month in the form of an ever-increasing minimum amount of money.

I wanna mention that your editing did not go unnoticed. The Fall Clickclock Wood in fall, the Boggy-Race music in winter. The Glitter Gulch Mine music in the mines of your other video. Lovingly crafted music choices for your video in a direct collision between two very lovable games. It warms my heart. I love your content

Imagine some guy moves near your town, never leaves the farm, never talks to anyone, and yet he ends up a millionaire and no one knows how

Another "fun" challenge is to try and reach perfection without ever levelling up any of your skills. You can get a lot further than you might expect.

Callmekevin is the purest bestest being in existence and it always makes me so happy when another RU-vidr references him. Side note tho I love this challenge and am enjoying this video 😅

If you want another fun challenge, I did a Poverty Run, where I didn't allow myself to make any money by selling things. My only income was through jobbing, or from mail. It really changed the perspective of the game to have all my fishing, crops, mining, etc. ONLY be for me to use the resources, or to level up the skills, but never to make money from them. In my run I managed to open the community center within one year, and get friendships with nearly everyone up to max. It was surprisingly effective! Edit: I must admit I allowed myself a couple cheats. I gave myself three days to acquire a backpack and an upgraded fishing rod at the beginning of first spring. But I don't think anything else I did made a big difference in the run, for me.

I found a good way to start a hermit run is to leave the stumps instead of harvesting them, since they continue to spawn seeds you essentially get infinite field snacks which are great for energy and also early cash since they are 20g each, the same as clay but easier to farm. Especially on the beach map where there are tonnes of trees.

The video was well produced and your general strategy was fun to watch. But the end was like SSS+ tier stuff, I love these kinds of edits

I’ve done this with only leaving the farm once per year, and I also used the standard farm for the mini quarry. And that’s how I know that acorns sell for more than pinecones and maple seeds.

It took him less time to get to 1mil without leaving the farm than it’s taken me to complete year 1 on my current play through…

Congratulations, you're a local cryptid now

"The old farmer died of being a ping pong table" HAHAHA

This must have been a terrible idea

Great video! I'm a big fan of Stardew and Call Me Kevin and was excited to see someone I hadn't seen before try this weird challenge. Instant fan of yours!

that ending was so funny i couldnt breath bc i was laughing so hard SDFGHHGD the pale cryptid of a farmer running towards the camera...lmao.

i’ve recently got back into stardew valley again and this was both a good refresher on the game and really entertaining!

i have to say, that making wine from the farm cave is a bit of a fool's errand. i'll never forget the time i spent a whole day foraging blackberries, made them into wine, aged that wine, and spat out my beer when i saw the value.

15:31 why does it look so good

I just watched The Price is Right and my GOD the sound of you harvesting those crops initially sounds like the theme song. 😆

That recap at the end was the cherry on top.. RIP Hermit Millionare Farmer

I love call me Kevin and loved his playthrough. It's good that you refered to him.

Basic sprinklers can be nested together in a pattern where there aren't empty spaces between them. It's less walkable, but less awkward to water and takes up MUCH less space.

“I am a very annoying combination of lazy, determined, and stubborn.” Me too, OP. Me too.

So basically the farmer had Covid and was just trying to protect the villagers.

Fun idea for a challenge! It's interesting how limitations can make you look at a game in a completely different way

It's always fun to watch someone go through monotonous grind & stress while being completely uninvolved but by the end I felt a bit of pity lol

That's what it looks like if an introvert is running a farm

3:12 -Woodland farm: "hey wtf bro"

Imagine being the other people in town realizing that this farmer, that has never left his property for anything somehow has made morr money than you

Winter would've been the absolute best time for making money. Clay farming techniques apply to snow yams and winter roots as well, and with plenty of open space you could probably pull 75 of each (depending on how much you're able to regain energy) and make around 15-20k per day. Always my winter go-to.

I fellllt the satisfaction of the first big ancient fruit harvest haha

I've played 30+ hours on one world haven't made it even to 50,000 with leaving the farm. So you my man are incredible

Hold up wait a minute, birds playing Conker's bad Fur Day music in the background 🔥🔥🔥

nitpick: you CAN get crab pots before level 3 by putting in foraged fish and crab into the crab pot bundle, but since that requires you to leave the farm, still impossible

First trip into town: “hey, I’m a millionaire just so you know” NPC: “?????? Who is this dude?????”

This was so cool, it inspired me to do my own attempt at this challenge on the 1.6 patch, and I'm happy to say I succeeded! I decided to use the hilltop farm, because I wanted to use a new farm type, and I was optimistic about the additional ways to get seeds provided by 1.6. While I had high hopes for the new seed spots, they didn't end up being that significant a source of seeds except in winter, because they just didn't spawn that often. What was stunningly useful, however, was green rain. Green rain day in summer effectively doubled my yearly mixed seed harvests, because the whole farm is covered in weeds. Even more significant, though, ended up being mixed flower seeds. Mixed flower seeds drop from weeds in summer (conveniently green rain season) at around the same rate as normal mixed seeds do. However, they are far better than mixed seeds, because when planted in summer and fall, they have a chance to spawn SUNFLOWERS. Sunflowers are incredible, because they are the only crop (besides coffee) to drop their own seeds upon harvest. This not only meant I could replant them for multiple harvests per season, it also meant I could build my seed bank across multiple years. As the only way to actually increase my annual farming XP, they were invaluable; I think I ended up with over thirty sunflower seeds at a time. Meanwhile, I was also grinding for mining and forage XP. Mining was a little faster because of the larger quarry of the hilltop farm (though I did get unlucky and get an iridium meteor in my quarry in year 4). I ended up getting mining 7 only slightly before getting farming 9. Upon reflection, I spent too much time and energy on levelling foraging, since I could have stopped after getting tappers. Other than that, I used primarily the tactics you did in your video, including taking your advice and not planting spring crops. Eventually, I got my hands on seedmakers, ancient fruit, and ancient fruit wine, which quickly got me to 1 million! All told, this challenge took me 7 in-game years, and 14 real life hours. Thank you for inspiring me to try it, it was a lot of fun!

Props to Demetrius for meeting with the weird reclusive farmer in the name of science

This sounds absolutely miserable. I love it.

"I'm an annoying combination of lazy, determined, and stubborn." That comment alone got me to subscribe, and I kind of want it on a shirt, LOL.

This was such an interesting and unique challenge! It's amazing how much strategy and planning goes into earning a million gold without leaving the farm. I especially loved the edited news clips at the end that told the story of the hermit farmer. It really added a fun and creative touch to the video. Your editing skills are top-notch! Thank you for sharing this fun and entertaining video with us, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your content in the future.

Man builds a farm, stays isolated, and a few years later he creates a mysterious wine from a long since deceased fruit.

At Christmas I started this challenge on my farm with a few differences. Hilltop farm, bought a fishing rod and spawned in a seed maker. It’s a grind but I love it

4:31 That Glitter Gulch Mine music just set off my nostalgia sensors like a nuclear bomb

I love all the Banjo-Kazooie & Tooie music. Fits wonderfully with the video and makes it even more enjoyable! Great work!

This makes me remember the Japanese live stream of a man trying to get 1 million yen with just mail giveaways, he was mentally destroyed it was really depressing

You should try it again with the stuff from 1.6. See if you can get 1 million gold faster.

I already enjoyed this video, but that ending recap video pushed it over the edge of greatness, especially the farmer chasing down reporter Krobus

1:58 The fact that he’s filming this on the hilltop farm is crazy😂

Awesome video as always! Always interested to see people doing challenges in video games

I did this challenge on every farm. It took a total of about 186 hours total. Mushroom trees ended up being the main source of income on farms like the standard, river land, wilderness, and the beach. The most fun one was the four corners, I even started a new four corners with 25% profit margins. I went into town on the start of the tenth year on that farm, I ended up only getting path recipes and the fishing rod.

So happy you did that and not me. I get bored to easily to stay in one place.

It is actually possible to get refined quartz, but you need to capture 2 slimes, breed them to get a white one and kill it for quartz

Ah man i am impressed by the time and determination to attempt that successfully, part of me wants to try this as well but it also sounds like pain haha

man this is awesome! basically a more relaxed speedrun format, where strategy is a much more deciding factor than the speed at which you play the game.

I tried this challenge where the $1M had to be achieved without leaving the farm within 24 hours of play time. I achieved it almost the exact same way as this video but it took me until year 8 and 18 hours of play time. The spice berry was definitely a saver as that produced more ancient seeds on the seed maker.

The Dpad was invented by Nintendo

Decided to try this out for myself because like all Stardew players, I'm masochistic. Gotten to day 15 of spring and have 3.2k gold, and skills are as follows: Farming 3, mining 2, foraging 3. Was really trying to get a tree farm going early to get to foraging 4 for double salmonberries, but what can ya do. Moving forward I'll be saving my mixed seeds.

going for the mushrooms instead of the bats allows you to make fall seeds from regular mushrooms.

Haha, I can imagine the residents of Pelican Grove spreading rumors about you being a hermit and rude for never introducing yourself.

Grandpa's ghost be like, "Guess the bloodline has ended, but hey, your wine's good shit."

As a single player with no friends the only time I use the four corners farm is to deliberately separate each corner for crops (where my house is), livestocks, fish ponds, and trees for fruits, mushrooms and other drops. I separated each with hardwood fences and gates too. And the small mine is like a bonus but rarely visited (I just wait until special rocks are spawned to collect them later lol). But of course I play with mods so everything's setup within the first few days lol for the aesthetics purposes.

Very good video! I had been hoping another challenge video like this would cross my algorithm and I'm glad this one did! Very thorough, thank you for the amount of work you put into this challenge, it was very fun to watch. I'll definitely check out the rest of the channel!

Hey DPadGamer, just wanted to drop a quick TLDR comment on your Stardew Valley video: - DPadGamer aimed to earn $1,000,000 without leaving the farm. - Tried different farm layouts but settled on Hilltop Farm. - Struggled initially with low drop rates and limited resources. - Switched to Four Corners Farm, optimized farming routine. - Used ancient fruit for massive profits, reached goal in Year 7. - Took over 17 hours but proved it's possible to be a millionaire without leaving home! Great job on the challenge and thanks for sharing your journey!

My dude, you could have tilled up the farm to get winter roots that you could then put in the seed maker to make winter seeds for more foraging and more money

As actual Haley from Stardew Valley I approve of this video. 🌸

So you were basically Willy Wonka wine edition. Neat.

lmao the devs should now have an idea of what happens when you talk to no one for an entire year, after a while rumors start spreading around the town about the mysterious farmer man who lives in the forest

What a feat. Can definitely relate to 12:56 too

Something else worth considering for how the townsfolk view you, Lewis is the one who comes and checks your shipping box every night (between 2am and 6am no less!) which means even though he never saw you he must have seen you were definitely maintaining the place and for long periods of time kept coming back everyday to check if you were selling anything just day after day of mostly nothing, until he suddenly has to get over 100k of gold because you seem to have mass produced so many goods, and then silence again until you start producing an ancient fruit out of nowhere and he has to start paying for that highly priced product

I love the idea that this guy moves into the valley, ignores everyone, refuses to leave his farm, everyone basically thinks his dead, and then he turns up at the shop after 8 years as a multimillionaire, just to buy 2 backpacks and process 10 million geodes :')

Just started replaying stardew again. This challenge looks so fun (and repetitive haha). Probably gonna try it out. Fun video! ☺️

The boulder blocking the bridge is part of the challenge of the lot

I had to check the Wiki to be sure, but sadly the Hilltop and Wilderness farms are the only ones that don't have a chair or bench in your house. A chair or bench can be placed to skip passed the boulders like how we can also skip the log for the Secret Woods.

I like how you used Banjo Kazooie and Tooie music. As for the challenge, this is ridiculous. I didn’t think this was possible.

So I started a harder version of this challenge. I call it the "Sleeping Beauty" challenge. Sleep through the first two years, and only start really playing when Grandpa's ghost wakes you up. This fills the farm with trees, giving you lots of wood, but the weeds are almost non existent. The parsnip seeds are two years old, so they're garbage. Throw them out. Sleeping Beauty is a princess, and no princess worth her salt would deal in common goods. You can only sell items tgat are artisan goods, crafted by your own princess hands, or cooked (when you've leveled up enough to get the cooking kit.) I also am allowing myself to sell duplicate artifacts, because antiques are very princessy, IMHO. Plus, there's nothing else you can do with them. So far, I have three quadrants cleared, and my weeds are beginning to grow, but it's fall, so not for long. I'm thinking that in winter, I'll do a lot of soil tilling, as there's a higher chance of getting stuff. Going for tgat one million gold before showing my face in town, though, because no self respecting princess would ever go about town while still a pauper!

This games shows us that with the right farm EVERYTHING is possible

I was so happy when you choose the hill top farm, but I am very sorry that you did not get many mixed seeds on it :( Makes it somewhat sad that the quarry is kinda useless, even I put barns on it ^^;;;

i'm also currently doing this challenge after seeing callmekevin doing it (and thinking i could do better), but instead of a monetary goal, seeing as money is quite useless if you can't spend it, i wanted to have the widest variety of crops possible. to do this, i researched if it was possible to get the seasonal seeds without leaving the farm, and it is! for one out of the three seasons, that is. you can get fall seeds before getting the seed maker by choosing the fruit cave for plums and blackberries, tapping a mushroom tree for common mushrooms, and hazelnuts by shaking trees from fall 15th - 28th (i didn't even know this was possible before doing research). it's probably more of a hassle to water all the seeds just for the forageables, but i like that they fill up my farm somewhat in the absence of any buildings

I made a farm after watching Kevins video. Glad someone else is also making a video. More content for me!

This is how my little sister plays the game Doesn't bother to leave the farm Just stands around doing nothing most of the time Hurts my soul ....just keep reminding yourself that different people enjoy games in different ways. she's enjoying one of your favourite games, just be happy

The optimal run would probably be level mining, gather mixed seeds, plant every summer, and save all the crops to get ancient fruit. Plant and sleep a lot.

I like this run a lot but I'd like to see more where you can leave one time a year to see what the most efficient route and purchases could be

Grunty's Revenge OST? Well that's something you don't hear every day.

I really loved the story/ summary/ perspective at the end! That was very cool :D

that ancient seed in the seed maker was a third act rise up

This challenge would probably be even easier in a few places now that 1.6 is out, thanks to having the ability to get new seed types from artifact spots

i like to think the npcs think the hermit farmer is some sort of cryptid...

the introvert ending