I would add my two cents to this: 1. Rice is better to pickle - sells for a bit more than milled rice (110 or 154 with Artisan vs. 100). Not a huge difference, but still something. And you probably have some preserves jars waiting for something to process anyway. 2. For foraging I like pancakes better than burgers - buff lasts 2 times longer, for almost a whole day! Plus pancakes can be bought from Gus or gifted by Sam. And with reload glitch I was able to collect a bit over a stack of blackberries in those 4 days in fall - over 1K berries! My preserves jars will be busy for a very long time... And yes, salmon- or black-, it works with both berries. 3. For spring-to-summer transition I use coffee beans. Though you will have to axe (yes, better than pick - less accidents) them out on the first of summer, but it's faster and easier than whacking weeds + hoe + water. Plus fertilizer is saved too. And depending on when you plant them - you might be able to get at least one harvest before hacking them off. 4. Trellis can be used as a fencing for your animals. Not a permanent solution, but works if you need to - with double bonus of getting crops! 5. Crab pots - I prefer no-bait if I go this rout. With tons of pots you would need either tons of worm bins or ton of bug meat to make bait. Not hard, but tedious. Plus trash can be recycled - and you don't have to worry about getting refined quartz or cloth ever again! As an additional bonus, I lit up whole map with torches - viva Las Vegas! 😜
@NottedOkenStaf About foraging - you get additional berry at levels 4, 8, and 12. So you have to be at least lvl 9 and eat a burger to get that 4th berry (burger gives +3 and pancakes +2). I don't even bother with buff for berry season in year 1, since I am also normally only lvl 8 by that time. While 9 (and even 10) by 8th Fall is possible I usually busy with other things. Still, with reload glitch and 3 berries I get about 600+ berries in Fall year 1. How reload glitch works - just like in the video. You restart the day, that's it. Somehow you get more bushes bearing berries vs just continuing playing normally. And I'm not sure reloading more than 1 time will add even more berries, maybe someone who knows how coding in the game works can answer that. But for me 1 reload is enough already. So (let's say it's fall) - wake up on morning of 8th, close to the title, reload, play the day, wake up on morning of 9th, close to the title, reload, play the day. And so on. Normally I would get less than 100 berries a day, with glitch - over 200 easy no matter the daily luck, once even had close to 300 on a very lucky day (with lvl 10 and pancakes). And yes, that's from the whole map, so it takes time to get around collecting them. Is it worth it vs mining or fishing? That's everyone has to decide for themselves. Nice tip about cranberries! Though I usually go with starfruit (3 in summer) - wheat - pumpkins (2 harvests) - yam for the last one (ready on 28th). Then - fiber seeds throughout winter (save for transition to Spring 1st), then rhubarb in spring (3 harvests). Then plant coffee beans on Spring 28th, hack them off on the Summer 1st - and repeat it all over with starfruit. No need to get more fertilizer. 👌
I hadn't thought of using trellises for fencing! I usually put up lightning rods (except one spot either side of where I need a gate) because they never break down and I get a bunch of batteries after every thunderstorm.
Pickling rice might be better for profits in a number sense, but the amount of time it takes to pickle each one (2-3 days), vs how long it takes for a mill to turn them into packs of rice (overnight)... not to mention that the mill can do basically an unlimited amount at a time, whereas you'd need LOADS of space to set out preserving jars to do that much in one go... It's FAR more profitable on a time basis to mill the rice
@@BYERE My assumption was... First, who grows rice en masse anyway? You can buy shoots, sure, but why bother in late game when you can grow taro on the island (free drops too!)? And in early game there are more profitable crops and you don't get that much of them drops from grubs to bother with more than a side project. Second, you most likely have preserve jars sitting idle since you mainly growing starfruit and/or ancient fruit for kegging. They are just left there from your early in-game days, so why not use them? Also, it was just a note to people who might not know that rice CAN be pickled. Btw, I didn't know at first that you can pickle ginger (in-game, I mean). The more you play...
@@nkabanets Oh I totally agree on the rice thing. I only ever grow them because I get them as drops or from foraging, and then never sell them, but once I get the mill I just mill them into usable substance for cooking. Taro you won't get until you get to the island, so it's then you should switch to it from rice... but you're still likely talking about a year to a year and a half in, depending on how lucky you are finding a red cabbage from the weekly trading cart. As for the preserving jars, I never really used them, and only have one or two about for the first year or so of play. They take so long I don't see the point, as you're making maybe an extra hundred or so on an item, which in the same amount of time you could have grown a whole handful of quick crops (ie, the ones that only take a few days to grow). The ones I do have, I just stick next to a chest filled with salmonberries or other masses of fruits. Even if I wasn't using the Automate mod, I'd just be constantly using the preserving jar/s for that, regardless of how profitable it is by comparison. Different styles of play, really. I wasn't dismissing what you were saying or anything :)
Personally Hops are such a good way to made side money along with other stuff early game until you can start making the big bucks. I usually buy a lot of hop starters and blueberry plants during my first summer in a playthrough
I also continually grow a small batch of hops in flower pots in a shed - I've found them useful for topping off my health in the mines when I don't want to lose food buffs or eat something more rare and expensive.
I'm all about those berry days, and didn't know about this exploit. Yes, I'll be using it. As for crab pots, I usually go for the "no bait" option, because I still want glasses and CDs for the recycler. Don't want to waste the coal to cook quartz.
@NottedOkenStaf I mean the cloth is actually part of a bundle so if you don't want to buy it from the travelling cart you can get cloth from newspapers but after that I just sell the cloth and torch
@@Jafelle123 yea putting quartz in furnace is one of ways to get refined quartz, but it's way easier to get a bunch of broken CDs and glasses from crab pots and put them in recycling machines
You can easily earn 500k in your first winter with fiber seeds + wild seeds. All you need is the community cleanup quest before the end of winter. Fill your 300-600 tilled slots with winter seeds or fiber, and when it's all said and done you can easily have 2k winter seeds and 5k fiber. Buy 5k wood (50k g), craft 1k tea saplings, sell them for 500k. True, you need sap, mixed seeds and clay for the fiber seeds, but if you save them up the entire year that's the most you will get out of what's otherwise trash.
I kinda use the wheat tip, but as I optimize my crops with speed grow to get 3 money harvests per season I use a disposable crop (don't use wheat as it wont die!), the cheapest one per season and the let it die to keep land hoed and watered. I also make sure to have all the crops I need for day 1 of every season by buying it from the night market. Saves a bunch of time! 😊
Oh. I didn't know about the Salmonberry glitch. I had noticed it "seemed" like there were more berries on days I reset but I assumed it was confirmation bias. Good to know. The wheat saving time tip can also be used in Winter with the fiber crops. They take longer but since nothing else grows you can at least have the spots and fertilizer ready for Spring 1. I make the fiber into grass to plant near my animals. Krobus sells 10 mixed seeds on Thursdays to help have enough material to craft enough fiber seeds to fill a field.
Hops are my main Summer 1 crop for playthroughs when I want to start ancient fruit wine early. They give a ton of farming XP to unlock Artisan, they produce a lot of items to put in the seed maker (1/200 chance for ancient fruit seed), and they give you something very productive to do with your kegs before you get to ancient fruit wine.
I do the wheat trick every chance i get since god forbid hoeing and watering the first day of the standard farm when its all farmland, and also the self irrigating crops are rly good the first year if your lazy on the right farm layout.
Wheat my favourite crop. Usefull to maintain the fertilaizer from summer to autum, can be crafted to beer that sells near 200% more than the base price of wheat seeds and also give you a bit of animal food. And if this it's not enough, it can grow very fast (4 to 2 days with perk+fertilizer), so can save your day if the next season it's near.
I only farm a infested slime room if it's close to the elevator to get the slime ring thingy... I always prefer to farm those black thingy in ice caves for coal.... and for the crab pots thingy tips, I recommend you dont get the crab pot profession, crab pots producing trashes are actually good as you can recycle those trashes for other items, and the main item you want from those trashes are coal or maybe wood if you really need that much wood, but yeah, trashes from crab pots have more value than getting those other item's considered as fish..... and if you got the automated mod, you can just connect the crab pots to a chest, and connect that chest to the recycling machine and it will produce all sort of goodies, just dont forget to put bait or connect that entire thing to a worm bin so you won't run out of bait
In case of salmon berry what i need just lvl 4 foraging for double harvest of salmon berry i can get over 200+ berries easily and if you're not lvling foraging skill or it's to low when berries season came, beforehand you just visiting gus everyday for food that can boost your foraging skill and keep 3 food and when the time is come just eat that food before you search those sweet free energies berries. And when summer come make sure you plant 12 hops with basic vertilezer and sprinklers, and don't sell the hops leaf because is so good for energy supply when you're salmon berries stock run out this hops will ready to eat and hops will carry you out until the black berries season come, with this strategy you will never run out of energies anymore.
I figured out the wheat trick awhile ago. You can do this with any crop, really. In spring, put strawberry bushes everywhere to keep that soil free for summer (and scythe away the wilted plants on summer 1), also retaining any soil additives, and do the same with wild and winter seeds in winter. Barring crows, giant crops messing up a tile or two, or accidentally pickaxing a tilled tile, you in theory should never have to hoe or fertilize a field ever again once you get it set up. Saves a ton of time in field prep and materials/gold in fertilizer acquisition.
@@jujupark2362 Strawberries are a multiple-harvest crop. So the plant stays around after you harvest. You should be able to get 2 harvests out of them if you plant after the egg festival, then just leave plants in place & scythe them on the first day of summer.
i have done the first trick in 1.4 because Im farming for red slimes for their eggs and use it for my slime hutch and the salmon berry trick also works with tea saplings. which I use a lot for pickles.
The chair tip was hilarious ahaha. A few days ago, I instinctively hopped onto and off of a bench near the fountain to get to Haley a millisecond faster. Cracked me up when I realized what I'd done. I guess such a thing could be used in speedrun (or late-night) situations, but either way it's pretty funny :]
I also have a tip, preserves jars are better than kegs in some aspects. Preserve jars make as much amount of money as kegs if you turn it into jelly or pickles. Preserve jars will almost make the same amount of money as kegs and preserves jar only take 3 days to make jelly or pickle while kegs take 7 days. The only downside is you can't use jellies and pickles in cask meaning you can't double there value and some plants like starfruits and ancient fruits are better to be used in kegs because of there high value. Preserves jars also really need 40 wood 40 stone and 8 coal, while kegs need 30 wood 1 copper bar 1 iron bar and 1 oak resin which is pretty hard to get for some players. The only thing you really need to worry abour preserves jar is its 8 coal which is also pretty hard to get.
Additional tip (or alternate): When you get access to fiber seeds you can use those for season transitions - works for every and all seasons, winter including! Takes 7 days to grow, so plan accordingly - or whack them off on the 1st of season.
I like to use two health and energy foods In the mines. I use my cheese of course, but my secondary for when I only need a little health is hops. Like you said, they harvest every day. They provide good early game health, and late game profits when you have abundance of better foods.
@@ezlilyy thank you so much you're the sweetest 🥺 i actually just started playing about two months ago, im so addicted i have 90 hours now and your videos helped so much keep up the good work!
Decorating tip for anyone that may decorate or even may want to utilize the bus stop pathway for min/maxing: Putting chairs and benches and stuff in front of items that pam can break interestingly enough seems to prevent her from breaking them. I have a bench in front of a bunch of seasonal plant decorations when I was decorating the bus stop, and the only time she ever broke them was when I was rearranging and moved the bench that was in front of the seasonal plants away from them. I would definitely say it needs more testing, specifically for the min/max folks to prevent you from losing your kegs and other machines, but it would definitely be worth looking into.
Fiber is an amazing crop. You passively collect so much clay, sap, and wild seeds that you can produce a huge number of fiber seeds annually. Fiber's superpower is that it grows during the winter-so if you plant fiber seeds on all of your fertilized tilled land on the 28th of fall and just leave it alone, you can scythe it all on the 1st of spring and have tilled, fertilized land ready to go in seconds. Since sunflowers can bridge summer and fall, I only have to fertilize once a year, on the 1st of summer. Plus, you can convert all of the fiber you've just harvested into grass starters to fill in pasture areas for your animals faster than it would naturally grow. I usually place them one tile apart all over the pasture area on my farm; since it's such a huge volume of grass, it will grow and fill in naturally, doubling or tripling the amount of free feed for your animals.
@@ezlilyy it's SO helpful. With getting two berries a bush I usually end collection with some 180 berries and that covers me basically till Fall. Very worth it
oh, I'm actually use those wheat trick often. not only the tile would preserved until next season. but even the fertilizer/speed gro are keep intact as well. so i didn't have to buy another stack of deluxe speed gro for fall season. (in case anyone who reading this didn't know. fertilizer and speed gro are intact in a tile until the season change) and since I mostly keep agriculturist profession as my skills, with a deluxe speed-gro tiles, wheat could grow in just 2 days. which means I could start plant those wheat at 27th summer. it's really an effective trick to saves money from buying more speed-gro/fertilizer, and i didn't even have to waste my time to tile and water the crops unlike any other first season.
I made an entire farm for crab pots and i made like 75g per day and i had 100 so i made 7.5k a day. Arent that bad early game if you have mariner and sashimi recipe.
there's a bug that I've known for a long time, but I don't know if it's already been removed.. it happens in multiplayer.. If you and your friend harvest the fruit from a bush at the same time, it multiplies by 2, that's in the first years , I don't know what would happen if they both had to multiply and click together..
Berries glitch is my favourite. I've amassed 1.3k berries every berry season this way. You can sell them with Bear's Knowledge, spam eat them for cave runs or gift them to everyone, berries are awesome!
I'm not sure about the actual glitch, but the tip for salmonberries should also work with blackberries in Fall. Meaning you can get tonnes of those too. Also, you didn't mention it, but before you do all this, make sure you find and complete one of the secret notes that lets you meet a bear in the secret woods for some maple syrup. It TRIPLES the profit you'll make from salmonberries and blackberries. I used to do this back when I first got the game, as it was a great way to make easy money over those 6 days of the year.
I really use the advice about infected levels to complete tasks. Advice about picking berries is priceless, I love to use seasonal berries of iridium quality for cheap health replenishment
For the crabpots I think is more profitable to have the luremaster profession. I love trash because it can turn into iron, refined quartz and coal, between other things, which are very useful to fill your farm with processing jars and kegs. You can use the coal and iron to turn into iron bars and that would be more profitable than selling those cheap crabpot fish and snails. I filled my map with crabpots and now I can get all my coal and iron from it.
As someone who loves slime raising and selling slime eggs, this first tip is super helpful! Thanks so much; I’ll be trying it out the next time I boot up Stardew. :)
If you don't have fertiliser, parsnips for spring/summer is ok, but the crops will be dead so its a sacrifice you should be ready for. As for hops, the volume you will get will exceed the kegs you have in the early game, so you would get more out of kegging melons and starfruit. Late game, starfruit is more profit for less effort and is more compact. However the stealth winner for trellis crops is the green bean. It multiplies the money you put into it by about 50% more than strawberries if selling raw, however compactness is still an issue.
I’ll probably use the hops tip, I might be wrong but I’m pretty sure I calculated them to be the most profitable greenhouse crop (even more than ancient fruit) so I’ll definitely set up my greenhouse using that beautiful layout.
Using the berry glitch might be an overkill. Even without it, you can have stacks of berries. Also blackberries can be used to cook blackberry cobbler which is a decent food source.
As someone who plays Stardew Valley expanded and needs a disgusting amount of salmoneberries/blackberries for a specific, high tier dish, I think I WILL use that tip, thank you :)
Two words:- Pineapple Wine. They sell for 900 gold per bottle. The down side is you need access to the Fern Isles to get the seeds, so you have to just through a bunch of hoops just to get the seeds.
Trash Items are Actually Useful, Especially in Early Game with Getting Cloth (Newspaper Trash, 470 Per Cloth) and Refined Quartz (Broken CD and Broken Glasses, 50 per and is Common) And Can be Done as Soon as Mid-Late Spring with a Recycling Machine. You can Even get Iron Ore from the Trash Bag Variant.
Loved the video but wanted to say the salmonberry thing isnt a glitch! Every 4 levels of foraging you gain an extra berry so level 4/8/12 (with the food buff) its an actual thing in the game :D love collecting them!!! Also works on the berries in fall I believe!
The hopes around the sprinklers is one I used after watching this vid a few weeks ago, well did a different trellis crop I think.... though was likely hopes. That was before I did a restart and even changed the farm lay out. But the tip is the most useful over all of the ones here.
Regarding the wild berries, I'm guessing the save file remembers which bush got flagged for berries, but every time you reload the save file it rolls the dice on the empty bushes again, logs them... until potentially every single bush in the valley has berries. Honestly though, the best part of getting so many berries is that you'll never have to conserve energy, it's like spring onions on steroids
There is another wheat tip that I learned recently, If you plant a bunch of wheat on the first of summer you can just ignore it for the rest of summer without watering them. It will most likely rain four times in summer, so after four rainy days you can just swing by and collect some free wheat
For some reason it didn't even register that Pam had a house as Ive never followed her home. XD Don't know why as I know each character has a place to go to sleep at. XD
Hi lily! Im a new subscriber and im new to stardew valley! Can i ask for a video with some cheap yet great tips? Idk if thats possible but i sure do hope so.
Hmmm, think I'll do the pam chair one next time I play as it's very passive and so I don't need to do anything for it after placing the chairs and I'm not getting the warp totems as that is just room on my farm that could be a shed filled with crystalariums.
I think it's fairly clear from your video that fertilizers *do not* carry over from one season to the next (unless your dirt looks different from mine when there is fertilizer on it)
One of the Quests MR. Qi gives you resets the elevator in the mines so you need to get to level 120 again. You can use stairs to get there quicker. After completing the challenge you find the shrine of challenge at level 120 in the mine. It’s disabled when you first complete it so you have to return the next day ( elevators still work). You activate the shrine and boom Dangerous Mines until you deactivate it again :)
I just did that (in the regular, non-dangerous mines). I killed roughly 600 slimes in a week. Made my slime hutch sooooo much nicer, plus I was able to focus on frozen/fire floors, so I killed my "start up" green slimes, stocked the hutch with red and blue slimes, and bred a bunch of purple slimes!
Is there a way to play a friends coop farm without them online? Like downloading the map or something? I play with my friend, but sometimes our time just doesn't match so we cannot plat together...
