Tip 0 you need to know BEFORE playing Stardew Valley: You don't need any tips. This game is about relaxing, chilling, and discovery. You don't need to min-max your first run.
I disagree, there are some features that arn't immediatly known about that make the game better/more fun. Another comment stated how they didn't know that they could move the greenhouse, which is a nice tip for people who want to make a specific look for their base.
@@ratcrusher3251 Sure. But on the other hand, there's a bunch of these "things to know before playing" videos that give tips like 'save money for strawberries', 'give gifts X to people', 'place crops X into kegs', etc., basically giving spoilers and ruining the sense of discovery for people. First timers don't need to min-max. The game is easy, no one's going to lose the game if they do certain things suboptimally.
i wish i knew the game existed a lot earlier on, I've only been playing Stardew Valley since late July/ early August of 2020. It also would've been cool to see when DF actually uploaded Stardew Valley like everyday.
I only started playing in November after one of my friends gifted it to me for my birthday. Let’s just say I’ve definitely gotten their money’s worth out of it.
Tip 7: Sure, you don't need silos for the spring, summer and fall, but unless you want to fund Marnie's retirement you need one for the winter, or several if you plan to have lots of animals, and it's a good idea to keep lots of grass, other than what's there for the animals to eat, around to periodically mow down to fill the silos.
1.5 SPOILER WARNING (warning for mobile players) "Hammers are underrated because they're kinda slow" forge it with one single emerald,it already does a huge difference,you can add rubies for more damage if you're already satisfied with the speed,and if you're not put another emerald
A silo is not a particularly big investment early game and allowing the player to harvest extra hay, or to build up reserves for winter, is a good idea. Have your animals eat grass every day, but also build a silo.
Honestly, from now on, I'll only ever build a single silo and use a chest to store any hay I do chop down. Much cheaper way of doing things so makes a lot more sense. Now I can use those 5 copper bars for something else that will make more money.
**me looking up Stardew tips on RU-vid** **"Don't Do This/Don't Buy That/BIGGEST Mistakes in Stardew"** **.....me who's already done all of that** 👁️👄👁️ ... LOL
Cool little things I discovered that I haven’t seen mentioned: - There are hidden paths/shortcuts through the trees at the bottom of screen in Secret Woods and on the left hand side of the Forest Farm map. - You can make oil for cooking by putting corn or sunflower in the oil press. - Tea saplings can be used as permanent fences. To get the blueprint, get Caroline to 2 hearts and then visit her greenhouse (the door at the back of her kitchen). She’ll mail it to you the following day. - The saloon’s dish of the day is always a villager favorite. Check often for meals that are rare/hard to make (e.g. calamari for Pierre) and you can stock up for when birthdays roll around.
This is an excellent tip! I've played several hundred hours of Stardew Valley but never noticed this. I buy plenty of the regular items for villager gifts, but I never realized the special item was always a fave too! Definitely keeping this in mind for the next time I play!
the thing I've found most helpful is having at least a rough plan for what you're going to use your energy and time for each day, and make sure you're dedicating time to collecting your resources (wood, stone, you know) - make sure you replant your trees too! if you're the modding type, there's a built in to-do list mod called To-Dew that can help with this
I am struggling to even craft extra chest. no way I ever get a barn or something. So no matter how bad you at game, there always people like me than 100x times worse
Just so no one gets any misinformation, fruit trees increase the star quality of their fruits by one every year. Unless it's different for the greenhouse (which took a full year to get my fruit to silver quality) it should take three years before it's iridium quality fruit, not two.
After multiple farms, community center completions, and even a jojamart run, I *finally* learned that you can buy multiples of items from the traveling cart lady. Just buy something, "x" out of the purchase menu, then open it up again. Super useful if she has an early game apple, pomegranate, or pufferfish. (Apparently this only if playing the game on a mobile device)
The wiki says this only works on the mobile version of stardew valley. Unfortunate, but it saves me from regret b/c the traveling merchant was selling iridium ore when I played yesterday.
@@THJ13 I commented because I mostly play iPad (though I do have it on PC and Switch) and didn't realize when I saw this that it was part of 1.5, so iPads don't have it!
@@cmccftqt4277 each full day is about 13.5 minutes if you played the whole day not going to bed early, and a year in Stardew valley is 112 days I think so a year is about 25 hours real time I believe My math sucks though so someone should confirm
You can actually fit 18 trees in the greenhouse. At the back, instead of planting right at the back, go a tile away from the wall and you can fit 6 instead of 2. There's an image in the wiki that shows it
I wish the game would have told me when I upgraded my tools that if I hold the action button it’ll cover a wider area. I didn’t know for so long 😭 I thought it was just using less energy
it was annoying at first but i kinda like it. i feel like the only reason i haven’t lost interest in the game is bc i’m constantly learning something new and starting new saves to see how much better i can do.
Bonus tip: Leave a chest in the mines. When you go mining, leave your unnecessary tools - like your scythe, hoe, axe, fishing rod, even watering can if you forgot to leave it at home. Don't be afraid to leave certain valuables in the chest if you have to prioritize other items; you can always come back later to pick them up! Remember; your inventory is never truly full as long as you have access to 50 wood in the area.
When I first started playing I didn’t know u could cut down trees. It take quite a couple chops initially and I thought you just got wood from the forage drops. Such a game changer 😂
In general, some good tips, however I'll correct you on the "Don't get a silo" part. You NEED a silo, or your animals will starve all winter. In the winter, everything's covered in snow and there's NO GRASS outdoors for them to eat, I repeat NO GRASS. plus the animals won't go outside in the winter and if you trap them outside, they'll hate you and stop producing. You NEED the silo as that's the ONLY way to store animal feed for the winter, when there is NO GRASS for them to eat. Also, you need to feed them during the other 3 seasons on rainy days, as the animals won't want to go outside and therefore can't eat the grass growing outside, so you'll have to feed them. You NEED a silo to feed them for the entire winter and during rainy days in the other seasons. On non-rainy days, they'll happily go outside and eat grass if they can.
@@mattstanislen3165 Assuming they'll eat it, which I didn't know, is that really more economical? Grass doesn't spread if planted inside, so you'd have to keep planting. But grass starters cost 100g, whereas hay only costs 50. You could craft the starters, but at 10 fiber per that will add up really quickly since again, it won't spread. Also animals only eat hay anyway if they couldn't find grass that day, so the whole point of not getting a silo in the first place doesn't make much sense. Seriously, I've got a full barn and coop for 24 animals, and the hay count on my silos doesn't go down at all while there's still grass outside (except if it's a rainy day of course).
Once I made such a mistake... When I started i didn/t know how fridge works and i thought it's like second chest or somthing. So i placed all of my legendary fishes in it and gues what happend :D Yeah I turned them by accident into sashimi :)
That thumbnail works really well, because every time I see it, I want to jump into this video and yell at you about how important the backpack is, even to this day.
Something I only just figured out after so many years playing- Everyone in the village except Sebastian likes Jelly. Keeping a stack of Jelly of some of the cheap fruits, or the trees you grew just for community centre bundles, is a ton easier than trying to remember who likes particular vegetables or cheese.
5:31 hi correction on the fruit tree drops, they increase in quality by one star every year starting from when they've matured, so it would take you 3 years with a fruit tree to get iridium quality fruit
I NEVER FISHED EVER Both in PC and Mobile Never had any farm animals either Never completed the community house Im at year 3000 and never ever upgraded my house. Buncha kegs and barrels kept me entertained that much and acient fruit farmin. This game is really built different It has no end game its infinite you can go futher beyond boredom
My dude look into tea saplings you can get the recipe as early as spring 14 from Caroline day after her 2 hear event and for 2 wild seeds 5 fiber and 5 logs you get 500 coins
@@SpairM here is the reason to buy at the very least 1 silo your first year. Until you have one cutting grass just gives you nothing but once you get a silo it gives hay so the last day before winter you can slice up all your grass on the farm and have less money you need to waste in winter just for hay
That backpack thing is only really true if you don't then manage to haul more items, thus earning more than 2,000 extra gold by having those slots available. Say I was mining and had to go all the way back home to deposit loot. If I had more slots, I would be carrying more stuff back, and thus making more money, and so, as long as I made more than 2,000 total, I'd have earned a profit and thus buying the backpack is actually better than not.
@@eduardovarela4462 Exactly! With a backpack, if you fish after 5 and can't sell them off immediately, you can DEFINITELY make more than 2,000 gold with the extra slots, thus making a profit and making the bag totally worth it.
@@ems2911 That's 13 days of one row of items. Say it takes 6 days to scrape up 2k since you've sold the Parsnips and bought potatoes instead. You buy the pack, then you have 6 days to make that doubled inventory worth it. Considering how much cash you can make from fishing since time stops whilst you are reeling in a fish in SP, and the fact that the Fish Shop shuts at 5pm but you can reasonably fish until about midnight before running back, longer if you fish at the lake instead of the ocean, means you have 7 whole hours of fishing you can do without being able to sell them. That is usually plenty of time to fill up most if not all of those slots with different fish. As such, in the time between buying the bag and the Spring Festival, as long as you are good, you could catch a lot of fish and sell them, and probably make more money than you would have if you didn't have the backpack, simply because you can carry extra fish, since the different rarities don't stack, each fish species could take up 3 slots, that quickly eats through a bar of inventory, especially if you haven't put away tools and foraged items.
Tips for ENJOY the game: just search information that you want to know. I mean, youtuber A with a "do and don'ts" video saying that i must build a silo first, THEN the coop. And this youtuber said "hey you don't need a silo at all!!"🙂🙂🙂
He said you don't need a silo early game. Plus during winter you'll have to buy hay anyways. I buy a silo at the end of fall and cut all the grass on the last day.
@@lillianclark2159 even then, you can buy the hay and place it in a chest in the coop/barn. Unless you have an autofeeder from the deluxe barn/coop, silos are slightly useless. more than one is a waste as well. get a chest and pull the hay you scythe down into it and you can go over the 240 max of one silo. when you run low, you can put the hay back in.
theoretically you can store hay in chests and take it out and feed them manually. In early game this makes sense, since you feed them manually anyway and if you place a chest in the barn/coop you can store it right there. But when you get the autofeeder you need a silo, because it takes the hay from there.
I find that first backpack is SO helpful and like to get it the day the mine opens. If you do some fishing for cash and time parsnip and potato harvests to sell before the Egg Festival, you can have enough cash for more strawberries than you probably want to take care of. :~)
Since there are a good handful of days that Robin doesn't stay at her house for building structures, you can still interact with the counter as long as she's walking by even after hours and even on a day that she doesn't usually stay there, like when she comes home for the evening, or first thing in the morning as she's heading out.
5:34 That might be true on PC, but it's not true on console. It takes fruit trees multiple years to reach iridium levels on the console version. The first season the fruit is normal, the next year the fruit is silver, the year after that the fruit turns gold, and finally the fruit is iridium the following year.
Tip 2: Not quite the right thing to do in my book. You SHOULD build a silo first, stock up hay until it's full, THEN take animals. Let them eat the grass until you reach winter. Then, on winter, you feed them with hay from the silo. You don't need to mow all the grass to fill the silo all the way in one go: you can free some space, gather some hay, then let the grass regrow: it's fast, you'll never run out if you do things gradually.
Once you get higher lvl fishing becomes a lot easier. The green bar gets quite large and makes it great :) then your quality goes up loads since you won't be missing as much. Purple stars most time, and you'll make bank
I hated fishing when I first started playing cause I was terrible at it. I thought it shouldn't even be in the game. I've played a lot since then and now I genuinely enjoy it! I started a new game recently and all that practice has really helped. I've caught all the spring fish for my remixed community center bundles. It only gets easier as you practice and gain levels. Try the training rod you can buy from Willy!
Tea saplings are easy to make; 2 wild seeds, 5 fiber, 5 wood and they sell for 500 gold a piece. You just have to get Caroline to 2 hearts and then walk back into her secret sun room, past their kitchen, and she send you the recipe the next day. You can make bank as early as day 15, take about that long to get 2 hearts with the help of gold star Daffodils and Parsnips.
Actual protip for early game food. Field snacks are abysmally expensive. Save those seeds to grow trees for wood after year 1 when Robin DRASTICALLY increases the price of wood and stone. Instead, befriend Linus who will send you the recipe for Sashimi. This heals a moderate amount (by later standards. Early on it's a great deal.) and can be made with only a single fish. Literally any fish works. This also functions as a decent way to increase the value of your catches if you're hard on cash.
Nnnnn you ever watch a Stardew video and partway through you think "Oh yeah I need to look up [thing]" but then you wait half a second too long and you have no idea what it was? ... This happens too often for me.
Also, a really fun way I made money early was COFFEE. I used it for my greenhouse before I could afford Starfruit seeds, they also can be planted outside for two seasons. The beans you harvest double as seeds for more plants, they only require 30 MINUTES in a keg for cups of coffee, and they’re a popular ‘like’ gift because they count as cooking. So fun for the first couple years
Right 😂 This video he did some stupid things new players definitely should not do. He’s using mods and cheats and stuff, and that part where he spammed prismatic shard to Haley was dumb. Don’t gift things people don’t like and something that is worth a lot and needed for end game.
@@daniellejones9712 Oh thank you someone yesterday told me that tapping A on them “pets” them. I didn’t know. There’s no animation or anything lol. Wish they had made that a little more obvious but now I’m on the path of happy lil animals.
wait what happens when you leave the door open at night? I'm an... ?experienced?... player and i do that cause i didn't know you're supposed to close it... but I've never had anything happen i think (unless they lose hearts?)
Here's a list of stuff I put into kegs, for those who just want a concrete list (from tip 11) -cauliflower -melons -pumpkins -crystal fruit -ancient fruit -starfruit -strawberries (they're not very good, but they're still worth it)
@@helioks bruhh isnt 20 strawberry enough as we can get 20 speed grow and thats perfect..the spare 2k for backpack is actually good. You don't need to rush to the chest or keep one with you every time in the mine or during fishing
Haley is also my mortal enemy but mainly because my real life girlfriend (who was a lot like Haley) dumped me and I lost all my friends so now I'm dealing with Sebastian who watches me sleep even when I sleep in Ginger Island
6:50 Don't you need silo for winter ? I'm pretty sure that if you don't feed your animals they won't produce stuff, and you will have to spend money on hay instead
Yep, usually a better tip is to buy a silo before even getting a coop so you can get grass out of your way to design your farm/get the hay before winter starts (Winter will get rid of all the grass on your farm)
@@kafyu if you get the silo before coop/barn+animals and it fills up how do you get the hay out so you can store it and keep benefiting from the grass??
@@XwickedXtwistX Go into your barn/coop and keep clicking on the hay (where you take it out to feed your animals) and you can just spam click till you get it all out & just put it in a chest
Picture this.. my first farm where I married Sebastian, completed CC, perfection and true perfection.. He walked over my CC trophy and it's gone, I didn't even noticed till soooo much later, so no chance to just restart the day. Its lost for ever but my love for him is bigger than that *(cries and screams inside)*
Best mistakes to do in stardew valley :- 1. Plant crops at 28th of every season. 2. Gift trash to Shane 😅. 3.Buy joja membership on first run. 4.Dont gift villagers on their birthday. 5.Trying to catch catfish on 3rd spring , year 1. 6.Clean all grass before building silo. .... Add more guys . And make sure to add the numbers so that it looks like a list/series.
You do actually need a silo for animals. They can't go out and eat in the winter. You could just go to Marnie and buy hay and put it in chests and feed them by hand every day, but that wastes a lot more time, money, and energy than you need to.
For help avoiding backpack upgrades, it helps to place chests in strategic places, like where you fish and outside the mines so that you can drop off things overfilling your inventory. For the mines in particular, you can head back up and do a dump every 5 levels.
Stardew Valley is better enjoyed at your own pace. And seriously, in my opinion, but a second spent on the wiki for anything other than "when can I fish this fish?" spoils the experience. I was lucky enough to only have heard about the game's name before and nothing else, and I had a good 100 hours of pure stardew experience. I recommend doing the same PS: No, I didn't just do basically nothing, I got 4 candles in my first run ez pz
Depends on the individuals playstyle, I personally hate playing the game knowing I'm clearly making inefficient choices. I spent a lot of time in the Wiki min-maxing the Fall season so I can unlock the greenhouse before winter starts, and I'm having a blast playing.
on Tip 24, an additional method is to unlock linus's quest at the special orders board where you clear 20 pieces of trash from fishing. He will give you a fiber seeds recipe, this grows across ALL seasons including winter. And because they cross seasons you ALSO get to keep your fertilizer. So you plant them and let them grow (7 days), and on the first you harvest them, you now have tilled, watered and fertilized soil ready to go for planting.
If you use the layout on the wiki for the greenhouse page you can actually get 18 fruit trees. Also for tip 24 once they're unlocked you can use Fiber Seeds for every season. This is especially good to pre-hoe and water crops for the first of Spring as fiber seeds even grow in winter.
I have a question good sir: should I make my first attempt (messy and a lot of bad decisions) my long-term world or should I honestly just restart before it hurts too much? I'm in spring of year two and I've made most the mistakes people tell me not to. I don't think it's enough to make it impossible to turn it around but my farm layout is terrible I'm broke and I doubt grandpa will be proud. Nothing magical has happened in my world yet either. I thought this was just a farm sim until I started watching videos about it.
It really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. There is only one cutscene you can miss out of everything in the game (Sam talking about his Dad not being there) and that's it. Everything else can be experienced at whatever pace you set and it won't hinder your future time in the game. The game doesn't punish you at all. If you forget something, do it later. Pass out, you'll lose some money. Die, you'll lose some items which you found (and can easily find again). You didn't make Grandpa happy the first time, just give him a Diamond and he'll re-evaluate your progress again. There is nothing that absolutely requires that you start again. It's not like there's a big ding on your worldsave that lets others know you've messed up. That said, I am a person that likes to restart with the knowledge I learned and try to do better. If I feel like I'd lose too much recovering from a bad start, I'll just restart. I'll also just restart because I haven't played in a few days and forgot where I was. So I completely get wanting to restart because you feel like you've messed up or because you want to try something different. It's ultimately up to you whether it's worth restarting or not. Personally I'd always encourage people to stick with it since those hours you spent won't feel "wasted", but if restarting feels better, go with that.
@@DemainaNyx Thank you for this thorough response. I have decided to stick with it, and I'm slowly reshaping my farm to be what I want. The grandpa diamond thing saved me a lot of stress so now I just want to focus on building my keg empire.
Once you get into floor 40+ in the mine you’ll get lots of frozen tears! Befriending Linus will also give you the recipe for Sashimi which just requires one fish.
@@balintfodor6956I just gave her daffodils during spring and the first half of summer, liked gifts were enough to get me to four hearts by the flower dance so they're not too bad
Technically, you can upgrade the watering can on Day 27 on Sunny Spring and even on Summer and Fall, provided that you don't plant cross season plants. Because on Day 28, there is no point to watering, because the next day, those plants will die anyway. It's an old Harvest Moon trick I learned a while back.
Here’s a random way for you to get some money and mess with the villagers for stardew starters: when you get the mail about the mayor’s shorts, take your time getting to 2 hearts with marnie you don’t want to rush your first run, and when you do get the shorts put the shorts away until the sdv fair, because when you put the shorts on the thing and tell Lewis you’re ready he’ll see it and give you a a fair amount of money, then you can do what ever you want with them. you can combine them with gold in Emily’s sewing machine if you have enough hearts with her and then you’ll be able to make them wearable to mess with Lewis, you can wait until the next luau to mess with him A LOT, or return them, or even wait until you get Lewis as your secret gift giver etc
It's worth mentioning that the community center icon pulsing only works for items that are in a visible bundle. In other words, if you haven't unlocked the fish tank yet, none of the fish will make it do that.
I don’t agree with no silo. What if it rains or it’s winter and you can’t buy hay cause shop is closed or don’t have money to? You would be out of luck
@@lord_ozymandias hahah, i bought backpack as soon as i could and was only able to buy 1 strawberry seed when it was spring. i ended up accidently axing it too
@@vanilla_cookies0603 yeah you can do whatever you want ofc it’s a simulator game, but if u play the game at normal progression a backpack isn’t a necessity until after the egg festival when you get deeper in the mines and begin getting a bigger variety of stuff
I am so confused...when you gave the pre tips for what levels of the mine to find ore at- what mines are you at? Or are u using some kind of mod? Because my floors 20, 40 etc of the normal mines look absolutely nothing like that
@@SamoGingerYes3 go to Robin i think the women who upgrade and build houses and move it (only if u fixed it) + those mines are in the desert area good luck on them
Tip for those watching, this guy is using cheats on his save so don't compare yourself to him or your farm/house to his. Stardew is a game that you customize to you. Nothing this dude says is a need. Just enjoy it. The game teaches you everything you need to know. You'll learn and enjoy it more by doing so
RE: Not building Silos ... uh... you still need hay for when it rains, and it's nice to get free hay by building a silo. Also, you need enough silos for 28 days worth of Winter hay. For one full Deluxe Barn, and one full Coop, you need just over two silos. You could build 3 or you could build 2 and stick some hay in a chest. But if you have no silos, you'll have to buy hay anytime it rains or winter arrives because animals will not graze in the rain or winter and thus won't produce anything which means you will lose lots of money. Silos are only 3x3, stick them in some far corner of the farm.
@@shadeb6021 It's only 3x3 ... unless you are utilizing every single square on your farm, it is very unlikely you'll notice 9 squares in the very far corner of the farm being taken up by a silo. I'm willing to bet that a good chunk of the playerbase will only use half of their land or less for crops.
