The Ultimate Guide to Combat in Stardew Valley 

There was a lot to cover, so I inevitably missed some things: - The Dark Sword is dropped from Haunted Skulls, and is the only weapon with a vampirism effect. It's a bit weaker than the obsidian edge, but it can be really useful if you get lucky enough to find it early in Haunted floors of the mines. - the Thorns ring deals damage back equal to what you sould've taken at 0 defense, unless it's less than 10 damage, where it's then lower than what you would take. Please enjoy the video despite their absense!

Thank you Salamence for showing us the art of setting up 6 dragon dances.

This Last Airbender opening is absolutely inspired it makes me smile every time. Not sure if I’ve mentioned that yet.

I found the iridium needle and immediately felt like I was straight up exploding my enemies. I thought it was hilarious and now I love it.

Great guide! A few things you should've probably mentioned besides the stuff in the pinned comment. 1. Since you mentioned the Nausea debuff, you should've probably added that it prevents you from eating any foods and drinks EXCEPT ginger and ginger ale, which so happen to remove the debuff. Most people knows this, but for completeness' sake, it was worth mentioning. 2. Since it's a guide to combat, it was worth talking about the process of combat itself as well as its quirks. For example, not all enemies have infinite aggro range. Ghosts do, but serpents don't. Another one is that your attack range isn't equal on all sides - since the attack originates in the top half of the character entity, you can reach farther up than down. That's why you want to position yourself below the enemies whenever possible. But otherwise, yeah, very complete and informative. Thanks!

Always happy to see another Sal video! Would you consider making an “Ultimate Guide to Multiplayer”? I realize it would be more difficult as research would inherently require someone else to help, but I feel there’s a big gap in content there. I’m in my first serious multiplayer save and am continuing to be surprised

salmence is the uncle iroh of the stardew community, always giving everyone amazing advice and kind words

Something interesting I noticed while playing: When you use a weapon's special attack, it triggers a cooldown for all weapons of that type (sword, dagger, club) but not for weapons of the other type. If you want to, you can swap weapons and use one special attack after another.

Some important notes: Slimes aren't the only monsters that drop the special items, they are just the only ones where it is easy to see when they are special. This also missed most of the remixed weapons (probably because they are harder to get). My personal favs are the femur -because I like bones but also it is a club- and the ossified blade -which probably isn't as good as the obsidian edge you could get instead but it looks amazing. Also bone sword is a personal fav. I end up using it more than obsidian edge if I get one from skeletons cause I just love the speed.

Isn’t it weird that you can’t ship a sword or ring but bombs are ok?

Me who wore topaz ring to floor 120: MY LIFE IS A LIE

24:00 I'm sure that someone already pointed it out, but you get the Leather Boots as a reward in Floor 10 And the Space Boots as another reward in Floor 110 Edit: 24:18 BUH- IT'S EVEN RIGHT THERE XD

There is actually a pretty obscure ring you missed that can be found in the Volcano Dungeons: The Phoenix ring. This ring doesn't do anything on its own, but when you "Die" it will revive you with 50% of your HP. This can only work once an in game day. It is found in Volcano Dungeon Rare Chests. Otherwise, great video! :)

Thank you for these guides. They've really helped me get back into the game after years away. And for getting ready to do a foraging only challenge run

AAAAHH I've been so excited for this one!!! I love the combat, all the drops and rewards and the challenge! I'm so happy this vid is finally here!!

This is what I needed, since I needed to find the best weapons. Great guide!

Are those other Stardew RU-vidrs in the intro? I'm just now noticing this after watching your guide videos so many times. Invaluable series. Packed with easy to understand explanations, and also your voice is soothing. Thank you for your hard work

FINALLY THANK YOU 🎉 This is the guide I have needed most and been waiting for ❤

Love the Elden Ring reference in the beginning 😂 ❤ thanks for always putting out great, entertaining, and VERY helpful content!!! SO excited for 1.6 update!

This is exactly what I've been needing! Thank you!

I would love for you to do a MARGO playthrough. The combat and other things are expanded in an amazing way!

Hey, thanks for finally delivering on combat, Salmence! I didn't realise it was that much, keep up the good work ✌🏼

Eyyy I’ve been waiting for this! Super excited!

Thank you for these guides, they have dramatically improved my experience playing Stardew. If you are looking for ideas, have you considered a guide for Co-Op?

I know most of this but I love these videos anyway cause I like listening to you explain things

I've had incredible luck in my current playthrough. The first time going into the skull cavern I got a lucky ring and within like 5 pannings I got a lucky ring on ginger island. I was blown away. Also in almost 1200 hours of early to mid game play I've gotten the neptune sword 2 times and 1 of them I accidentally threw in the water 🥲

Your guides saved me when I started playing Stardew. Thank you!!

Finally!! I really appreciate these guides!

I remember watching the other parts months ago, already done with the game but I'll watch this when I inevitably get back into it

I’m new to stardew and found everything very frustrating and overwhelming! After finding your videos turns out I’ve been making a lot of mistakes 😂 going to finish out my first year so I get the hang of the basics but then I’m going to start new. Thank you for all of your help!

Playing the Goron City music while talking about the forge > brilliant

Good Video, because I’ve wanted to honor this video and so that the algorithm is better, I haven’t skipped, even though I knew the most (except for specific details like when you can get some weapons)

I enjoyed this series so much!

Wow this series is a greater refresher for someone who just returns hyped for 1.6 update!

Loving the Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush/Curse soundtrack in the background. Also informational and taught me a lot and was really useful

I love the start lmaoo, tysm for this

The intro is top tier🤣❤️ I’m here for it

The Gerudo music in the background is great lol

That intro gives me goosebump, best intro by far 🎉

wow...gosh all friday !! THIS is super helpful. I'm 160mumble hours in and have gotten to the bottom of the basic mines only to get the reward of ; a key to more difficult mines. thank you for showing me that i should have been using the weapon i just earned on each successive level down. Maybe i can get that " 10 " sometime soon. YOUR reward is new subscriber.

I love this series!!

The intro was EPIC. 🔥🔥🔥

this was very helpful, thank you sm

Here's the combat we've been waiting for!

As a newbie Stardew Valley player I find these videos so helpful! 🙂

Thank you so much! Combat is always the worst for me. This is very helpful!

After playing Roots of Pacha, I’m really not excited to get back into combat when I start my 1.6 farm. I was definitely more comfortable with the light puzzling and maze mechanics over any of the combat in Stardew. But if I must, then this is helpful, cheers!

Very thorough. Learned a few things despite having well over 300 hours of play time

oh man i loved that broken trident, got me through the entire mines

I don't usually comment before finishing a vid, but I needed to like and sub just for the intro. Thanks for the laugh!

I got lucky to get iridium band while fishing in my first year. I just got this game and am loving it. Your videos are a help too. I'm glad I watched videos before getting too far. I would have given my dino egg to Gunther instead of incubating it.

Would love to see a more in depth video on the forging aspect, like best weapon buffs or ring combinations for different purposes

I put off watching any tips videos until now (80 hours in) and learned much. I never dealt much with adventure guild, until realizing my sword (obsidian) was comparatively weak. After hitting up the quarry, waiting for 2pm, I found the prismatic shard. What a jump in damage now. Thank you

Just that intro alone is worth a subscribe! Made me laugh!

Oh shoot!! I forgot that you hadn't done the combat video yet! Exciting 😄

there will never be a day that I don't leap in joy to see that sal has released a new video

YES!!!! I clicked SO FAST when I got the notification. THIS IS THE BEST SERIES!!!

i just realized the 5 elements of strawdew valley had different youtubers, oh om g it's so cuet tho, your character is the main character, able to wield all of them :o

Don't forget you can get the iridium ring from fishing... it's rare, but I got one early in my latest playthrough with my wife, and it's spoiling.

this was my favorite intro of all time

Ayo, I thought this series was over What a lovely day to be mistaken

Loved putting this series on to fall asleep. Pretty sure it subconsciously got my sweetheart into Stardew Valley though.

I love the intro when your voice is calm with the music.😅

Subbed for the airbender opening 😂

Literally cracking up at every single description of the weapons. I didn’t know weapons could be so controversial 😂😂😂 “It’s… definitely there” 😂😂 Love this one 🙌🏼👏🏻

It was cool hearing the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon music in the background.

we love slamence and his guides

love the avatar reference, great video

Overall this was a very informative guide that really shows how in depth the combat system is despite its simplicity

Your intro is so good.

Infinity gavel with acrobat and artful is chef's kiss good.

Omggggg!! Thank you because I just got a Prismatic Shard and didn’t know what to do with it!!! Now I DO!!!

This is gonna be very useful cause I absolutely suck at combat

Fair warning to anyone greedy like me, wearing two burglar rings will not compound their effects 😅

You should have talked about the slingshots and what ano you put deals around of damage, but the video itself is incredible

I remember finding Wicked Chris in a treasure chest while I was fishing for the Crimson fish

I found a wicked kris relatively early in one game, and ended up using it until I got the galaxy sword. For some reason I had not picked up a comparable sword or club, and so this little dagger was straight up murdering everything I hit in one shot. Plus, it looks cool.

Dude I love your intro

There is a mistake Space boots is also obtained in the mines level 110. Its a pretty good boots. You also get tundra shoes in the mines

saw this show up in my feed and ran here so quick

That intro will never get old to me 🌟

I really didn’t expect to watch a video explaining the mechanics of combat in Stardew but leave wanting to play Legend of Zelda

ope, on my current playthrough, I was lucky enough to get an iridium band from a treasure chest while fishing. It certainly was a pleasant surprise, especially in year 1.

Welp, time to rewatch the series ^^

Space boots are also guaranteed from level 110 of the mines. If you have a huge stack of good food (like gold star cheese as example) then the Atk dmg upgrade talents are objectively better, you basically have infinite HP with a stack of 999 gold star cheese on you.

I shouldn't have to say this, but just in case: a lot of these can and do go out the window with certain mods. In particular, MARGO has a big overhaul for all things combat. Of particular note is it's defense rework, where instead of being flat damage reduction, it is percentile reduction. This makes it more useful longer but weaker in the early game.

Dude, the Avatar opening is *FANTASTIC!!!!*

fun fact! You can get the iridium band in fishing chests, which i found out in the first couple months of playing stardew during summer year one of a playthrough

I never knew you could sell your weapons at the Adv Guild. Thanks.

I only just realised Wickedy is the Foraging part of the Intro XD Also Seanie and Leapalot lol

lol, really love the templars blade

From the small bit I've played, combat in the mines was probably what I spent the most time doing.

Thank you

Bro sounded tired and glad to be done with this one lol. Like the last homework assignment that he knew was huge and had coming for a while 😂

That opening was boss!!

That is intro tho🔥🔥🔥

Are those.... Skull Lamps? *sweeeeeeet.*

Sal, you're fucking rad.

Wait, I never realized I couldn't ship weapons and yet some random A-hole can mail me bombs?

Jajajajajaja weeeeeey, me encantó el intro, solo vine por eso, pero se ganó mi like UwU ❤