I wish you could go from one sprinkler to the next. It would make basic sprinklers so much more popular! Like, add a gold bar to make a quality sprinkler, and then an iridium bar to make an iridium sprinkler.
This is a more recent solution, as I know this wasn't a thing when the game first came out, but you could just put your old sprinklers into a deconstructor to get some materials back.
My favorite part of watching haboo is watching him do the mundane things like tree chopping, mining, crop watering because legit the way he does everything is so much faster and efficient than anyone else. Even just little things like knowing how far away you can stand from a water source and still refill your watering can, it’s crazy. Also the animation canceling is goated. Keep it up haboo!
It's what's refereed to as animation canceling, can't remember exactly how it's done because I never learned how to do it, but pretty much as soon as they can they cancel the action and that lets you move early and reset it
That's the thing, a lot of people don't really think of the early game, especially from the perspective of a newer or less skilled player. Older files don't really have to worry about the materials or energy. More skilled players can reach level 6 a lot faster and get the materials a lot more easily even starting a new farm. But a new player, even the average player, doesn't have the skills and knowledge to quickly reach level 6 farming and get low enough in the mines to craft better sprinklers, and they don't have the time, energy, or other resources to go without sprinklers, and they don't really have the luxury to put too much focus on their farm layout. They're struggling to have the energy to water every crop they have, they're struggling to get the money to buy more food so they don't collapse, they're struggling to get through the mine with more than just rocks. And the issue goes beyond calling basic sprinklers bad, it's a lot of other elements of the game. Not optimal is not the same as bad. Options like crab pots, tapping trees, foraging, farming honey, all of them are decent ways to make money for a newer player that doesn't know about clay farming, that doesn't know the favourite gifts and birthdays of every villager, that doesn't know the best ways to get lower in the mines. Options like those are not meant for the experienced or late game players that have access to everything, they are meant to be good enough to be worth the time and effort for newer players that haven't even unlocked the forest cave by the start of summer.
@@KahadiI hated the mines when I first tried playing. I could never imagine willingly going into the skull caverns. I've been playing recently and while far from optimized simply having sprinklers made not only the whole game more enjoyable, but also gave me time to enjoy other aspects. With sprinklers I often have extra time and things like the mines in general are enjoyable. I just thought that was the way it was tbh. I once started playing coop with 3 of my friends. 2 of them had more experience than me, but neither of them said anything about the lack of sprinklers. I bought the game for the 3rd and feel bad now knowing that I likely led her astray too.
I was talking with a friend who was like "I'd rather save the resources for other things and wait for the quality sprinklers" but the peace of mind the basic sprinklers gave me compared to them who had to water every crop one by one every day didn't convince me that waiting was worth it XD
12:12 - 13:12 I really like this little ramble about Basic Sprinklers. For the experienced player, yeah... level 6 farming and floor 80 of the mines isn't a huge ask, you can reliably do it by the time you need to plant strawberries. But so often I'll see people suggest to completely new players to just avoid Basic.... Only for that new player to end up at the end of Fall wondering how they're supposed to get anything done because they're 'always out of energy and have no time' because they've spent every day watering every crop. New players are bad at the game... level 6 farming and floor 80 can take AWHILE for them. Telling them to ignore the MUCH more achievable level 2, and floor 40 is such a bad advice choice.
Just plant and harvest 430 parsnips and get lucky with a few rain days before the 13th and you'll have lvl 6 farming by the time strawberries come around...
@@sobblegaming350 How? You can get two harvests max. I suppose if you got lucky in an early mines you might be able to afford extra potatoes for the second harvest, but even then... we're talking hundreds here
@@trequor 40 parsnips on day 1, fishing from day 2-4 for money, sell fish to Willy on day 5 and buy 180 Kale, or 215 potatos, suffer for 6 days, profit
I always thought basic sprinklers were bad because I could only think of them placed in the normal grid formation. I never even thought of going diagonally until watching Haboo’s videos-now I swear by them.
bro one time i was at a hotel and the ants got into the mini fridge 😭 nine-year-old me was so devastated that the cookie i’d been saving wasn’t protected by the fridge. my parents are always shocked when the ants get into the trash can, but i just assume nothing is safe fjbfnrbdb
I was so confused what that was about. And chat was even worse with them saying it's spelled lazaña or whatever. It's like... uh? It's an Italian dish, spelled lasagne and lasagna for plural. There is no ñ or z. In Spanish it's lasaña, but they didn't make the dish. That's just how they spell it. Using ñ for the same sound as gn in Italian.
i genuinely love watering my crops by hand... got a little over 100 hours on the game, so barely any knowledge about what's good and what's not, so i just avoided the basic sprinklers, water by hand, and only really do things when it's raining- it's kinda relaxing, having a reliable routine, when you aren't rushing the game
That's honestly what I did too until recently. While watering will always have a soft spot, I now find other things much more enjoyable than before have been able to actually seriously attempt the skull caverns. There just wasn't the time or energy to do much else. It also was difficult because by the time I really considered sprinklers I had unlocked the iridium quality sprinklers. To save my limited resources I wanted to go straight to iridium. The problem? I didn't realize my resources were limited because I was spending so much time on watering. If you're having fun go for it! You can always keep some to be watered by hand and expand with sprinklers if energy or time becomes an issue.
I have to agree about the raisin tangent. There's not a single dried fruit that has the same flavor or dryness that especially purple raisins have. Green raisins are usually moister and more like a miniature dried plum (but with a lighter flavor). I think what makes them so different is the fact that grapes are already small and so much of their volume is water, so they get really tiny and especially dry.
TIL that you can donate 3 apples (in total) to the CC, no matter the quality. same for the wheat/hay. I thought I needed 3 or 10 of the same quality to be able to donate it. :o even though it is a speedrun or slow walk 😂 i feel really chill watching haboo play and try to pick up some game knowledge from watching.
You're actually not that wrong, I think it was only with the 1.5 (maybe1.4?) update that mixed quality donations became possible. Thank god that was changed.
Basic sprinklers are good for early game, when you're most hurting for time/energy. But, after getting a horse, the more space between your sprinklers, the better. Trying to ride a horse through a field with basic sprinklers is annoying. Especially since their ideal pattern makes riding in any of the four cardinal directions in a straight line impossible.
Basic Sprinklers are great. In my opinion, they're just as good as quality sprinklers. Yes quality sprinklers water more, but they also cost a LOT more than basic sprinklers. That and you can get well over 30 basic sprinklers before day 13. That's 120 strawberries that you can plant and forget about. They're broken and should probably be nerfed a bit to level 3 instead of level 2
Nah. It's important to free up time and energy for other pursuits. This game gets real old when you have to water everything all the time. Basic sprinklers are the bomb though. I actually find the pattern rather aesthetic, and of course they require less coal and are available immediately after 2nd harvest (assuming you plant strawberries)
on basic sprinklers: while they do look awkward in most cases, they’re actually really satisfying with bee houses. putting 4 bee houses on the 4 corners it doesn’t water and putting flowers on the spots it does water looks pretty cute and boosts the honey sell price a bit plus you can sell the flowers at the end of the season. so when i phase out the basic sprinklers on my main crops i use them with bee houses
Oh my… I might be not-sober, and I might not know how to speak a correct English at this state. But… what a wonderful voice you have mister… congratulations! You earned a new subscriber!
Haboo spotting Pine Tars, Oak Resins: It's fine. (more angry) It's fine... Everyone run and hide, there is a Haboo about to become a Ha-boom Ha-bomb! BTW, I think that BlaDe could perfectly predict where the syrups are going to show up. With the recycling machine, it depends on placement and time of the day. I suspect that it might be similar with the wood chippers.
It’s almost year 3 in my save and I still haven’t completed the community center because accidentally chopped down my apple tree… I couldn’t imagine doing this 😭
I've watched like 4 of you videos in one sitting...its currently 12am. your videos (perfection videos in particular) made me realize that I don't know as much as I thought I did about stardew.
I have near-no interest in speed running anything, but I do enjoy watching these vids on my side monitor while chilling with some (non-speed-running) Stardew. :) I don't like full live streams, but I really love the fact that you've got trimmed down version of them on YT, thanks!
my first playthrough i didnt know that you could make chests until the middle of winter. By then I had cut down every tree and sold the wood so I couldn't craft one until I got to the desert and had more trees to cut
This may be controversial....but I don't use basic sprinklers OR quality sprinklers. I don't bother crafting or buying any of those. I wait until I unlock Krobus and then buy Iridium Sprinklers. Sure, it may not be the most effective or efficient technique, but I just personally don't find it worth it as a casual player unless it's an Iridium sprinkler Edit: not saying that new players should do this. Not saying it's the best route, just my personal preference as I don't do much farming :)
Haboo does a lot of speedruns, so it makes sense why he goes for the basic ones But for casual players, I definitely think quality and especially Iridium are the way to go. It isn't worth it to set up basics
So you're going to manually water every crop every day, wasting all of your time and energy that could instead be put into mining or fishing? Either you don't actually do much if any farming until that point, or you are doing nothing but farming. Or you are not making any money.
@@arandomperson7141 you expect new players that don't know about optimal strategies or clay farming, ones that might not reach level 6 farming until well into Summer, to manually water crops, wasting all of their time and energy so they can't really do anything else in the game? And you still expect them to enjoy the game? They are well worth their value in the early game. They are not meant for optimization or min-maxing or anything like that, they are meant to help newer players actually progress in the game instead of wasting every day watering dozens of squares just to afford their first barn in Fall.
@@Kahadi As a new player who didn't unlock better sprinklers until late summer/winter of year 1, yes. I just watered them myself until I realized how to make refined quartz I just value the look (a neat square) more than I value having a little extra energy every day
Hey. I don’t know why you torture yourself making speedrun type videos out of everything… I’d easily watch a 2 hour long video of you playing peacefully and without trying to do things fast, no cuts, no pressure. 🤣 I love your long videos!
He's both a speedrunner and an extremely competitive person, the difficulty, self torture and most importantly the doing things fast is point of playing the game for him
I don't bother with basic sprinklers since for how little an area they cover, the cost isn't worth it. I'd rather put up with watering manually at the start, than spend all that time in the mines getting iron for basic sprinklers, just to do it all again for quality
@@Mystic-Midnight oh true, I was only thinking of my main setup for storage. I also use the automate mod, so if I’m including those chests, and random other ones I have around, I have 20 actually 😂
The only reason I don't like basic sprinklers cuz I hate how I would need to make my farm look like. Other than that yes I would use them if I could make them look good but that would drive me nuts.
I once sold my parsnip seeds On whatever year it was I received a parsnip in the mail from Caroline it counted as finishing the quest normally 😂 Also I usually ignore them and they just lay on the floor for like thousands of years 😂
Yeah but it's still aesthetics. You don't loose anything cause u can still use them later. Actually by not using them you're always losing time+energy early. I still rarely use them, but I can see that they're objectly good for min/maxing
Newer players can't get to floor 80 easily by the end of Spring. That takes a lot more knowledge and skill than you might realize. You also aren't considering just how much work it is to reach level 6 to even craft them. For a long term player with more experience and more dedication to the game, it might not seem like much. But for a new player, it is a lot. Level 2 is only 48 Parsnips. Level 6 is 413. Obviously other crops give more experience, but they also cost more money and take longer to grow, and new players struggle with knowledge of better ways to earn money and, mostly because of that, lack ways to conserve energy and restore energy within a day. Considering you start with 270 energy and every watering can use costs 2 energy per square, plus they need to use the hoe on the day of planting for the same cost as well as the pickaxe and axe to clear out space, a new player pretty well exhausts themselves if they try getting decent money in the early game and really wouldn't even be able to visit the mines if they tried grinding to level 6 farming as well as earning money. Keep in mind they are not intended for optimization or anything like that. They are intended to make the game easier for players starting out. Which is a lot more valuable than aesthetics when you can only manage a small portion of your farm every day.
