Can I make 1 Million Gold in Spring? | The Ultimate Stardew Money Guide

Can I make 1 Million Gold in Spring? | The Ultimate Stardew Money Guide

Is it truly possible to make 1 million gold in spring? We’re going to find out. Hello everybody. This is Gamerg Gar. And in this challenge video, we will attempt to have 1 million gold on hand. That’s right. By the end of spring, we’re hoping to go into summer with over 1 million gold to spend on whatever we see fit. In this challenge, we are not using animation cancelling. No seeds are being used or any sort of exploits. We are going to use the core mechanics of this game as well as 1.6 six updates to see if we can make over a million gold. Now, we’re going to start by making a couple of chests. We’re going to run around the valley as per the usual day one tactics to get as many forgeables as possible. Now, we are going to be selling everything. If we’re going to make this strategy work, we’re going to go down to the beach and we’re going to get all of the forgeables down here as well. Now, we can’t access Willie today, so we can’t fish. So today will primarily be tons and tons of foraging. Once we sell everything to Pierre, including the parsnip seeds, we’re going to go to Gus. We’re going to purchase a total of four salads. We need this for energy. We’re going to go to Cap forest. We’re going to pick up even more forageables. Now, all these ones that we pick up will be used for energy because when we get back to the farm, we’re going to cut down an immersive amount of trees. You’ll also notice we’re not using the standard farm. We are in fact using the forest farm. Reason being, you get access to huge amounts of hardwood every single day on this farm. We managed to get enough wood together to fix up the bridge to get into the tide poolool area. I wanted to access the zone from day one in the hopes to get a sea urchin. Once we get that, we can make a bait maker. And the bait maker is going to be the big decider in terms of if we can make a million golden spring or not. So, the sooner we get that, the better. If we don’t end up getting a sea urchin, we’ll more than likely fail the challenge. That’s how important the bait maker is. We got a few skid ups today and we made 761 gold. The next day, we’re doing some fishing. If I didn’t chain up huge amounts of perfect catches, I would reset the day and try again. Many day resets were done so that I could get the fiberglass rod fairly early. We’re now going to pay Clint a visit and any sort of geodess we come across, Clint will break those open. We will always sell Clint back the materials because we’re always going to make a profit most of the time. We also have a dried starfish as well. So, we’re going to give that into Gunther. And we are rewarded with 250 gold. It’s a nice money boost at the start, especially if you’re striving for the fiberglass rod in the early days because it costs 1,800 gold. Once we pick up the fiberglass rod, we actually managed to get more geodess from fishing. We’re going to get Clint to break open all these geodess. And every time he breaks one open, we just sell back the mineral. Once we were finished, we ended up making a pretty nice profit here from the geodess. And we got our gold back up to 702. This was very important cuz now we’re going to go to Pierre and we’re going to purchase a parsnip, a bean starter, a cauliflower, and a potato seed. We’re going to plant all those for the community center bundles. For the rest of the evening, we’re going to go up to the lake and do loads of fishing. And there’s a couple of reasons why we want to prioritize fishing. Number one, it’s a great money maker. And number two, the higher our fishing skill goes, the more recipes we learn, more importantly, the recipe for the bait maker. Now, we end up getting a maximum of four fishing skill ups today. We were close to level five fishy, but we just didn’t quite get there. The next day, we got the furnace recipe off Glint. We’re now going to do some catfishing today because it’s a rainy day. You always get it on the third, which is nice. Now, catfish are hard for beginners, even for advanced players. I mean, sometimes you can just get a bad catfish, bad RNG, and they just bounce all over the place. It’s very hard to catch them, you know. Now, I reset today a few times, but after a while, I just give up, you know. I was trying really hard to get a tool upgrade done today. After a few more attempts, I said to myself, what’s one extra day of our pickaxe being with Clint going to do to the run? You know, you can always just start the mines on day number six instead of day number five. It will give us one more day of fishing. And the big thing was, as long as I had the minimum requirements for the good cavern run by the time we get to Desert Festival, it didn’t really matter anyway. So, we’re going to spend the rest of the day doing even more fishing. Now, we got lots of catfish today, which was great, but not huge amounts of catfish. If we had the bait maker, we could have got, you know, 15, 20, or even 30 pieces of catfish. We will take fisher because we got fishing level five. Level six gives us the bait maker. Now, we can’t make that just yet. We still have to get our sea urchent. We also need some iron bars to make that, too. Level seven fishing was really nice. The next day started with the watering of crops. Once we’re finished with these, you can probably guess what we’re going to do. That’s right. We’re going to do some fishing. Now, I wanted to get a backpack upgrade done today as well. I also needed money to get a tool upgrade done. So, I sold some rubies to Clint. That gave me enough to upgrade the pickaxe now to a copper. That’ll be done by day number six, which isn’t too bad. We’re going to get Clint to break open some more geodess here in the hopes that we might get something nice. Again, all of these minerals will be sold. Get extra money. I had 826 gold at the moment. So, I’m going to sell the marble as well as the opal there. I had a th000 gold. I’m going to head up to the lake. I had lots of fish inside my chest here. I’m going to grab all these, go back down to Willie, sell the fish, then go back to Pierre and get the backpack upgrade. That was a game changer because I didn’t want to throw fish away or throw semiful items away to make room for other fish. So, that backpack upgrade is going to save us a lot of effort. Now, we ended up fishing up in the lake for the whole day again. We got jewels of the sea book of power. It’s a nice book. there’s a chance you’ll get row from fishing treasure chests and that row can be sold for extra money. So, the big tactic now is to get our fishes up to 10 so we can get 50% more for selling fish. All that money can be used then for Georgia development projects. It can be used for tool upgrades. It can be used for things that we need that will make our lives much easier when it comes to making the most out of spring. And I did mention Georgia development projects. You see, this run is going to be half community center and half Georgia. And there’s a reason for that and keep watching and I’ll show you. So, we visited Willy today. We’re now on the fifth. We’re going to sell him all of the fish we caught yesterday. It put us up to 13,000 gold. It was really nice. Now, I’m going to get the aridium rod now just to get that over with. Does cost 7,500 gold, but it’s worth it because we can now use trap bobbers and other things. We now have 5,000 gold, but we’re going to look at the community center bundles. We can’t read them right now. We have to get the forest magic, but we will get a letter off the wizard the next day to go visit him. So, it’s nice just to get that activated. We will go back up to the lake for the rest of the day. We picked up a combat quarterly 250 XP towards combat. We activated that and we got a skill up. That was really nice before going into the mines to get that. We’re now going to do even more fishing. Getting bubbles is such a game changer. We actually have a fishing skill of nine at the moment, which is great. Once we get to fishing to 10, we’re going to make even more money from doing fishing. We also picked up a Neptune’s glaive. That’s going to make life really easy for us now going to the mines tomorrow. Level one combat allows us to make the boke steak. It’s handy to get that too in the early days. So, we ended up making almost 14,000 gold today primarily from selling fish. And if you think that’s good money, wait until you see what we’re going to be making in a couple of days. We also selected the mushroom cave for Demetrius. And we also visited the wizard as well. He’s going to give us the forest magic so we can talk to those junimo bundles. Speaking of bundles, we actually have all the forgeables on us. So, we’re going to go ahead now and complete the spring forging bundle. We’ll then make our way right down to Pierre. We’re going to sell him the spring seeds that we got for extra money. Because I had 20,000 gold, I said to myself, now is a good time to get the final backpack upgrade for 10,000 gold because that’s something we won’t have to buy in the future. So, we now had a lot of the big kind of money spenders done. We had the copper pickaxe upgraded. We had the backpack upgraded all the way. And we had the aridium rod. So, we were actually doing very, very well. And we were only on day number six. And all of this is thanks to fishing. So, we’re now in the regular version of the mines. We’ve got our copper pickaxe, our Neptune’s glaive. We’re going to prioritize copper doors for today because we need to upgrade the axe as well. We want to get to Ginger Island as early as possible. To make that happen, we need three things. We need 200 pieces of hardwood. We need five battery packs. And we need five aridium bars. Now, the hardwood and the bars will be easy enough to get because of the farm type that we’re on. The big problem is going to be the battery packs. There’s two ways you can get those in spring to my knowledge. Number one is a traveling cart. Now, that’s that’s a big if there, you know, chances are we’re not going to get any from the traveling cart. Number two is by farming aridium bats. They only appear after floor 15 in Skull Caverns and they only have something like a 5% chance to drop a battery pack. But keep watching. I’m going to show you some really good tactics in terms of how you can get to Ginger Island very quickly. It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner player or a veteran, you’re going to take something away from all these tactics. So, at the moment, we’re focusing on mining. We got down to floor 20 here. We picked up the steel small sword. We’re not going to use that though because the weapon we have right now is far superior. What we really want though before Skill Cavern opens is a mining skill of six so we can make bombs and a combat skill of five so we can get the attack power boost. Now I got my fair share of infested floors today. This was actually a blessing because I was wiping out so many bugs and I was getting so much bug meat I was using that to restore my energy. I also picked up a monster compendium and this gives me a small chance for enemies to drop double loot when they are defeated. Now, we got down to floor 28, but unfortunately luck wasn’t on our side with the staircases and we passed out on floor 28. So close to floor 30. That means we start back at 25 the next day. But it’s not the end of the world. We’re not in, you know, a huge rush to get down to floor 110 as quickly as possible to grab the best defense you can get before you go into the SC caverns. We’re going to go to Clint now. We just upgraded our axe there to a copper. We’ll get that in a few days. We’re going back down into the mines today to make more progress cuz right now we’re all about skid ups. We just want to get the minimum requirements for Skull Cavern. Then we can spend the rest of our time on fishing and doing other things to get money. We got to floor 40. We picked up the slingshot. That was nice. We can now access iron ores, which are very important. Now, every single piece of ore that we pick up will be used to make bombs. We’re not going to be turning it into any sort of sprinkler or doing other things with it. It’s going to be used on bombs and a bait maker. And that’s it. We need huge amounts of bombs for Scout Cavern if we want to get a pretty good run done. The dust sprites will also serve as fuel because there’s a good chance they drop coal when you beat them as well. Getting down to 450 awards us with the Tundra boots. It’s just the next tier up in terms of defense. I picked up a rare disc from wiping out one of the monsters there. We’re going to sell that, of course, for money. Gunther will not see an absolute thing in this challenge, unfortunately for him. So, we were now on the seventh, more or less the first week done. And I have to say, I’m really happy with progress in terms of the first week. There’s three weeks left. So, we basically have one more week now to get our combat and mining skills up to scratch and to make enough money to unlock the bus. Now, we got lots of skillups today, which was nice. The next day was the eighth and new day, new opportunities. So, we’re still in the middle section, but we’re very close now to hitting 70s where we get to fight the skeletons. We got the master slingshot on floor 70, which was nice. We will use the master slingshot once we get over island. Now, these skellies have a chance to drop the bone sword. It’s a nice weapon if you don’t have a Neptune’s glaive like me. Charity bombs are being used to save time and energy. So, we’re just detonating clusters of ores there, getting lots and lots of iron ores. We picked up another monster compendium though because we already have the passive skill. Activating the book again I believe gives us skill ups in combat which was nice as well. Now you don’t get 250. I think you just get something like 100 but look it’s better than nothing. Now I ended up getting a lack of iron ores today and once I get a minus kit of six I’ll be able to make something like 60 or 70 bombs which is amazing. I picked up the fireworker boots on floor number 80 and we’re still making more progress which was nice. So, I was happy that I was able to get into the bottom tier today because now we’re getting a lot more XP towards mining and we’re getting a lot more XP towards combat. There’s also a chance we can pick up fire quartz down here as well. And this is very important for the minecart bundles. Now, there’s a few weapons we can pick up if we’re lucky inside these crates and barrels that are better than Neptune’s glaive. So, here’s hoping we get some of those weapons before we go into the skull caverns. The slammer is a nice weapon to get. The steel falcon is really good, too. The tempered broadsword is a nice weapon. The holy blade is also really nice. Now, we managed to take it down to floor 90 today, literally by the skin of our teeth. We picked up the obsidian edge. We popped a warp totem back to the farm, so we’re not going to get hit with a penalty for passing out. We got level four combat and level four mining today, which was nice. We met almost 8,000 gold. Now, a lot of that kept from selling stuff we got in the mines. Amethysts, gold or jades, rubies, diamonds. Normally, you keep diamonds and rubies, but we still need a lot of money for a lot of upgrades. So, for now, we’re selling everything we get. There will come a time where we won’t sell those things. We’ll keep them for buff foods and things like that. I ended up getting the sea urchin today. I was so happy with this. We can now go ahead and we can craft up a bait maker. And because today was raining, we are going to make full use of this day. So, we got back our copper axe, which was great. We can now start farming hardwood on our farm. We’re going to give Clint copper pickaxe upgrade to a steel pickaxe. We’re now going to spend the whole day putting up catfish. Once you put catfish bait into your rod, you significantly, I mean significantly, increase the rates in which you get to fight catfish. We’re now going to see a big ramp up when it comes to money coming into us every couple of days because we’re going to make huge amounts of money after today. I actually managed to get one perfect catch on a catfish today, which was nice. Sometimes I can manage two or three catches. To be honest, it’s not really a matter of skill. It’s a matter of how nice RNG is to you because sometimes the catfish can bounce all over the place. Other times, they can kind of remain quite still and you can kind of pull off that perfect catch. So, we got level 10 farming, which was great. I didn’t sell any of the catfish the previous day because I wanted that fishing perk. I wanted the extra 50% before they sold anything because we have our copper axe. We can get rid of all of these stumps every single day on the farm. Not only are we getting magnificent forging XP, but we’re getting hardwood. We’re going to go up to the lake today and do even more fishing. We got a dinosaur egg. That was quite lucky. We’re going to sell it though. So, we’re going to use the bait maker again today and we’re going to pull up largemouth basses primarily. While largemouth bass, it’s probably one of the most profitable fish you can get spring bar the catfish and you can access it every single day. It was time to experiment. Now, I done a couple of day resets because the stonefish should not be underestimated. It’s a rare fish to get, but you know what? It’s worth a lot of money. One aridium quality stonefish with all of the fishing perks, it goes for 900 coupled. That’s not in the snuff at I met over 32,000 gold today. Let’s look at the breakdown. So, from the previous day, we had the catfish there, 17,000. But look at the stonefish. 45,500 for five stonefish there, the smallmouth bass. One perfect catfish that was going for 600 gold. That was really nice as well. But let’s flick over into the next page. We also have largemouth bass. They’re going for 300 gold to pop. 5,400. Now, could you imagine the figures we would have gotten if we had a fish smoker? That’s the next thing we’re going to get. But first, we need to farm up more hardwood. You know what I love about this farm? The fact that you can get forage on it as well as hardwood every single day. It’s just a great farm type for accelerating foraging skills. Now, we actually got a crop fairy the night before. I just forgot to record it. I was able to complete that bundle fairly quickly and I got some speed grow. So, it just saved me a few days there, which was nice. I’m now going to complete the entirety of the mining room. That’s going to give us a fast travel. While we’re here, we’re going to spend the extra few bobb and complete the vault bundles. Now, it is a little bit cheaper to do it with Georgia, but you don’t get the prizes, and I wanted the crystalarium. And the thing with Georgia is that you can only complete one project per day. As you can see there, I just knocked out two rooms there in one day, no problem. So, we’re going to go back to Tide Pool the next day to get more forgeables. We got another sea urchin, but you don’t need to make more than one bait maker. Trust me, one is enough. We got our steel pickaxe off plent and we’re now going to upgrade our copper axe to a steel axe. That way we can now go and knock down the big tree stumps to get even more hardwood and forging XP. Now any of the diamonds and rubies we pick up today, we are going to keep and trade those into the desert trader for troubleshot espressos and spicy eels. We’re now making our way down to floor 100. Would be nice to get that star drop and after that make it down to floor 110 to get the space boots. Once we make it to 110, we’re going to stop. We’re not going to get the skull key. There’s a few reasons for this. The biggest reason is that when you get the skull key, it’s like a double-edged sword. Okay, all monsters have a chance to drop prismatic shards. You can get galaxy weapons, but enemies also become stronger. They have more HP. They’re harder to kill. You do not need the skull key to access Skull Cavern during the desert festival. So, if we don’t pick up the skull key, we’re going to fight weaker versions of the enemies within the Skull Caverns. That’s going to make life way easier for us when it comes to farming that place for the two or three days that we’re going to be in there for. We also picked up a lot of mushrooms here to 97. This is a mushroom floor. All of those purple mushrooms will be saved and they will be used to heal us in the skull caverns. We also managed to get level five mining today too, which is important. And we got down to floor 100 in the mines to pick up the star job. Now, level five mining means plus one or per vein, which is needed greatly, but we need one more level in mining so we can make bombs. And today is the 11th. That means we have time to get that level before we go into the skull caverns. The Junimos have fixed up the fast travel and they’ve also fixed up the bus. And we got lots of skill ups today, which is great. Level five combat will give us fighter or attacks the 10% more damage and will take minor for the level five mining plus one or prevail. Now, we fought an elite slime on for 103. It dropped a steel falcon. This thing is an absolute beast. But look at the enchants we got on this thing. It came with a plus five attack. That’s absolutely insane. We are now going to massacre enemies for the remainder of spring with this weapon. It’s It’s just an absolute beast of a weapon. What makes the weapon so good is that it’s really, really fast. The amount of DPS you can output on that weapon is extremely high. The only downside with that weapon is that it’s short. It doesn’t have great reach on it like the Obsidian Edgewood or the Galaxy Sword would. But you know what? when you start seeing enemies just drop dead before your feet, you kind of get over that very quickly. So, we picked up the space boots on 110. That’s where we stop in terms of progress. We’re going to go back now to the middle section, and we’re going to prioritize coal and iron so we can make more bombs for the SC run. Now, at the moment, we’re about halfway there to level six mining. Hopefully, we can get that today or tomorrow. Picking up those diamonds is going to help greatly because we get 150 XP for mining those up. We’re also getting XP for all of the iron nodes as well. You’re getting 12 XP a node. You get 18 XP for the gold node. So, the difference isn’t staggering between farming up iron and farming up gold to get combat XP. Now, if you’re enjoying these challenges and you’re not subscribed to the channel, would you consider hitting the subscribe button? Because the more people that subscribe, the more the YouTube algorithm will push my content to other people that also watch Stu Valley videos. There’s still a great deal of people out there that watch Stardu Valley that have never heard of me before, believe it or not. Even though I’ve been doing this for a few years now. So, subscribe if you haven’t. It really helps me out. So, we got the level six mining. We can make bombs. We got the judge membership. And we sold weapons to Marlin that we don’t need. On to the next day. But first, let’s see how much money we made today. So, we made 5,600 gold today. Now, primarily that just came from bits and bobs we found in the mines. Not huge money, but still very important that we squeeze every single day to the best of our abilities when it comes to progress and money making. I met 65 bombs today with all of the resources I collect. That was nice. Today was many day resets. Many reason being I wanted a cave jelly and I also wanted to pull up huge amounts of stonefish. Now I end up getting a few cave jellies today which was great. The more cave jellies I can get, the more fish smokers I can get if I get the fish smoker recipe. I had lots of ripper jellies. I had lots of sea jellies. Cave jellies, though. Didn’t have a whole lot of. I made 19,000 gold today. A lot of that came from stonefish. They just sell for really nice money. The next day, we’re going to talk to Clint. We’re going to get back our steel axe. With the steel axe, we can now start getting lots of hardwood. Because we went to Georgia out now, we have three projects to complete before we can get to Ginger Island. So, we’re going to start by getting the panning upgrade. We’re now back down to 7,599 gold. Money is now extremely important. The sooner we can get those projects done, the sooner we can go to Ginger Island. We’re going to sell some fish to Willie to get the fish smoker. This is a great investment. This will double the value of every single thing we fish up. We’re going to go to the desert trailer and we’re going to purchase some troubleshoot espressos and spicy eels to get ready for tomorrow. We’re also going to purchase some warp totems to the desert so we can get early starts. I also made three fish smokers. I now have three fish smokers and a bait maker. And that is going to seal the deal when it comes to getting money for us. But first, we need to look at the requirements for fixing up Willy’s boat. We always have to think ahead when it comes to doing these challenges and taking the time now to farm all of this hardwood so I don’t get bottlenecked when the time comes to fix up Willy’s boat. Ideally, once you get the quest to fix that boat, you’re not going to have a whole lot of time to farm Ginger Island to make all the money we need to get a million gold in spring. Now, I decided to go down to floor 100 today in the hopes to get a few lava eels because if we capture these and smoke them up, they sell for huge amounts of money. They’re in a league of their own. They’re even way better than the stonefish. I managed to get three lava eels, so I’ll get maybe 8 or 9,000 gold for that once they’re smoked. Level five forging. We’re going to take gatherer chance for a double harvest of forgeable items. It’s now time for the desert festival. So, first we’re going to take our food buffs. We took a spicy and a trouble shot espresso. We’re then going to get the chef to make a special food here that stacks with our current buffs. So, we’re going to get the rumpled flute skin. This gives us a further buff to look as well as speed. We’re then going to talk to Mariden and we’re going to pick up a quest. We’re going to take treasure hunt. Collect 15 pieces of aridium. That would give us 40 calico eggs. Now, the desert festival is quite fun. The more shrines we click on, the more egg ratings we’re going to get. You get one egg rating every time you get down five floors. You get one additional rating when you click on a statue. Now, the statues can give you buffs or they can give you debuffs. Sometimes they give you nothing, but they’ll always give you one egg rating. Now, to increase the chances of me getting battery packs today, I needed a certain amount of debuffs, believe it or not. So, here’s the couple of things we need to do today. We need to make it down to floor 50 as quickly as possible so we can start encountering Aridium bats. We want to get debuffs that increase monster spawns and increase bats. That means a lot more Aridium bats with spawn, more opportunities to get battery packs. The full refreshes are nice. The extra calico eggs are nice. The speed boosts are nice. What we don’t want are debuffs like bugs become assassin bugs. Mummies get angrier, more serpents, more ghosts, skeletons are after us, monsters do more damage. They’re all the debuffs we don’t want. Now, we end up getting most of those debuffs today because of the amount of statues we click on. You know, sometimes it’s just inevitable, you know? But you know what? Even with all those debuffs, you need to look at the silver linings. More enemies mean more XP, more resources. So, that’s how I looked at every time I went into a room, literally filled up to the top with enemies like you were playing some sort of a Diablo game. You know, some of the rooms were just ridiculous. So, the big goal was five battery packs over the next 3 days and five aridium bars. The aridium is going to be easy, extremely easy. The battery packs, well, that was going to make or break the challenge. If we didn’t get the battery packs during this event, the only thing we could do afterwards would be to get the skull key, go back down in the skull caverns, and do it every single day until we got battery packs. So, we could go over to Ginger Island and check the traveling cart, of course. But every single additional day we spend in a skull cavern is one day we don’t get to spend on Ginger Island. So, I gave myself maybe two additional days after this event. If I didn’t get the battery packs, chances are we would fail the challenge. Now, after that skirmish there with the last packium bats, I managed to get two battery packs. And I got so excited when that happened because this was our first day in the skull caverns and we already had two battery packs three to go. And because I was getting all these debuffs that increased the spawn rates of monsters, sometimes you’d enter rooms and there’d be tons of aridium bats, which is great. Normally, I would avoid aridium bats like the plague because of their high HP, high offensive power. You know, it’s just not worth your time fighting them. But we were all about aridium bats today, you know. Getting the crystalarium on floor 87 was real nice. You also get 50 mining XP every time you break up in a calico node. So, this event is also a great place to go to really accelerate your mining skill. And if we can get a mining skip of 10, we can get the blacksmith perk. That increases all metal bars by 50% in terms of money. So we can sell aridium bars for 1,500 gold instead of 1,000 gold. And if you have something like 100 or 200 aridium bars, you’re going to see the difference straight away. Now, we ended up getting a fairly decent egg rating today, and we got 200 calico eggs off, bringing us up to 681 Calico eggs. We’re going to buy mega bombs from those. And look at the amount of mega bombs we get. 45 in total. With those mega bombs, we can now go straight back into the skull caverns the next day for another decent run. We got lots of skiups today, which was nice. And we made some money, too. We made 7,460 gold, which was all right, I suppose. The next day, we’re going to select deep dive. Reach level 30 of Squad Cavern for more Calico eggs. We currently have two battery packs. We need five in total. So, here’s hoping we get the final three battery packs today. More monsters from the Calico statues is really nice. More ghosts was not nice. I absolutely hate ghosts. If I had a good weapon with Crusader, I would have loved that because ghosts drop on the geodess. And if you were going for the very specific run, if you wanted to basically accumulate hundreds of artifact troves and get yourself an early book of power known as a treasure appraisal guide, they would be debuffs you’d be hoping for. Now, when I got the debuff, skeletons are after you. It made this run much, much harder because the skeletons are no joke. They have a lot of HP. They don’t give you a whole lot of combat XP when you defeat them, and they just get in the way. Especially the mage skeletons that freeze you in place when you fight them. As we can see here, we’re on floor 37. We’re fighting Aridium bats. The only reason this is possible is because it was a prehistoric floor. And that’s the only way, as far as I know, you can get Aridium bats without making it past floor 50. So, it was nice to get an additional opportunity to fight those bats in the hopes to get some battery packs. Here is another horde of helium bats on floor 60 and one of them managed to drop a battery pack just for me. That means I only have two battery packs left to get to complete the requirements for fixing up the boat to get to Ginger Island. When this happened, I made the decision that I would play through today as per normal. If I didn’t get any more battery packs today, fine. I would play the dungeon again tomorrow. However, if I didn’t get any battery packs on the 17th, I would reset the 17th until I got the necessary amount of battery packs needed to fix up the board, which would have been at least two. Now, on floor number 80, I got huge amounts, huge amounts of aridium bats to spawn. Unfortunately, none of them dropped battery packs, and I must have killed about 20 or 30 of them. When I got down to 400, the prize was the dark cowboy hat. I didn’t really need it. I did click on the statue that was the real prize. I got to debuff more bats. This was an absolute blessing for me. The more bats, the better. On for 101, I got more monsters. That was also good because it meant more bats. Now, look, it meant more everything, but look, as long as it meant more bats, I didn’t care. I picked up another battery pack before 105 there. I wasn’t expecting it, but I was so happy when it dropped. That means I only had to reset day 17 over and over until I got one battery pack. And that sounded pretty feasible to me. But look what happened on for 109. I got the last battery pack. When I got that, I left the mines straight away. It was time to leave anyway. I had 600 calico eggs. I’m going to talk to Gil. We had an egg rating of 49. So, he’ll give us 200 Calico eggs now again. With those 800 eggs, I was thinking about buying some skill books for foraging. I said, “No, I’m going to get the mega bombs because we also had to think about the volcano dungeon as well.” I got lots of skid ups today, including level 10 mining. We’re going to get the blacksmith perk. Metal bars worth 50% more. So, we now had the hardest part of this challenge, don’t believe it or not. We had the aridium bars. We had the battery packs. And it was only a matter of time now before we get 200 pieces of hardwood. And between the eight stumps that spawn on this farm every single day, and the fact that we can also go into the secret woods and get the stumps here, we were going to have the 200 pieces of hardwood in no time at all. I also went back to the desert festival and I got some artifact troves here as well. I also completed a few quests here like I got Willy’s golden bobber and I bought some hardwood off Leah using calico eggs. I went to Clint and I gave him some aridium bars for money. I got him to break open all of the artifact troves that I got. I guess what I got from one of the artifact troves. I got the book of power treasure appraisal guide. Absolutely amazing. This will triple the value of all artifact items, including dinosaur eggs. I sold some more aridium bars to Clint so I can get some Georgia development projects done. There’s just two projects left. We’re going to go with the bridge 25,000 gold. I had 20,000 gold on me at the moment, and I had more than enough back at the farm to complete the next project for tomorrow. So, the earliest now we can probably get Ginger Island would be the 21st. That will give us a good solid week of fishing up lava eels to see if we can get 1 million gold. For the rest of day number 17, I was just fishing up some stone fish, smoking them up, smelting aridium ores into aridium bars, and all of these will be sold bar five, which I have stored away in a chest where they’re nice and safe. I’m going to get the hash brown recipe off Gus. And I’m going to get a couple of salads as well for energy. The reason why I got the hash browns is because I want to make some dish of the seas. And we all have to remember we still haven’t fished up the legend. So we’re just waiting for a rainy day for that opportunity. 65,000 gold today. Now a lot of this came from smoked lav eels 9,000. Smoked swordfish 72 and 6,700 gold. So really nice money there in terms of fishing. In terms of mining, we have a bridium bars that came to 22,500. And if we take a look at the other category, the big thing here was actually the artifacts. So, if you take a look at the ornamental fan, 900, the anchor 3, ancient sword, 300, the golden pumpkin, 2500, the ancient seed, 15 gold. Don’t give out to me in the comments, okay? It’s a spring challenge. The next day started with the collection of even more aridium bars. Just goes to show how beneficial those two skull cavern runs were. We’re also collecting more hardwood today as well, and we’re now very close to actually getting all of the hardwood needed to fix up the hole in Wood Moody’s board once we get it unlocked. Of course, we’re going to go to Secret Woods, get more hardwood, then we’re going to visit Morris, and we’re going to get the last Georgia development project, which is the greenhouse. It was then time to visit Clint because we’re planning ahead here. We’re going to upgrade the watering can to a copper. It’s always nice to have at least a copper when you go to Ginger Island, especially when you’re going through the volcano dungeon. We’re going to spend a good portion of today doing some fishing. I wasn’t getting great RNG with the stonefish. So, I left floor 20 in the mines and I just did bullhead fishing for the rest of the day. I was at a stage now where I didn’t need to reset days if RNG wasn’t on my side. So, I said, “You know what? The bullheads will do the job for us.” Morris and the lads are now fixing up the greenhouse. Let’s take a look at how much money we made today. We made 45,000 gold. Now, the great majority of that came from aridium bars. 1,500 gold a pop. We also made a little bit of gold from fishing. We have a smoked stonefish and we have some smoked bullheads there as well, which was nice. The next day, we got the soda machine that gives us one Georgia every single day. It’s not bad, you know. I suppose it’s better than the trophy that you get complete in the community center. We’re now going to ho up the ground here. We’re going to plant some kale. I wanted to get some farming levels, you see, if people will allow it. I want your opinions in the comments, okay? If you want to see this run extended, and if you want me to play through a whole year to see how much money we can make, just let me know in the comments. If there’s enough interest for it, I’ll do it. And I’ll set a goal of 50 million gold. Let’s see if we can do that, but only if you want me to continue this challenge. First of all, let’s see if we can make 1 million gold in spring. Once all this kale is planted, it should be enough to get us to a farming level of six. So when it comes to summer, we can make quality sprinklers and automate the watering process. I’m going to make some dish of the seas today because tomorrow is a rainy day and it would be nice to get ourselves a nice legend fish. We’re now going into the regular versions of the mines and we’re making our way down to floor 120 so we can get the skull key. This means we can do as many skull cavern runs as we wish. Because we have lots of bombs, it doesn’t take us too long to get down to the bottom to get the skull key. There isn’t much we can do right now except Skull Cavern runs because we’re waiting for Willie to give us the letter to say come look at my boat. It’s in tatters and that takes one additional day. You see that’s why we’re doing SC runs. But we also picked up some rain totems today. We got two. I was over the moon with this. Tomorrow is also a rainy day and because I planted kale that means I won’t have to water up kale for at least 3 days which is absolutely amazing. I also traded in my prismatic shard for the Galaxy Sword. It would be nice to go to the volcano dungeon with an extra bit of firepower. The next day was also a rainy day. That means I didn’t have to use my rain totems, so I was going to get four rainy days where I don’t need to water my crops. I finally got the letter off Willie. Today’s the 20th. I also got letter off Mr. Key to say if you make a passport 25, I’ll give you something nice. We already made a passport 25. So, we’re going to get 10,000 gold off Mr. Key tomorrow. So, we could have the bones of 100,000 gold going into Ginger Island, which is nice. We’re now going to fight the legend. Now, we’re not going to make a fish pond for this. We’re just going to smoke it up and sell it. We get about 20 22,000 gold. Now, here’s a tactic for the advanced players, okay? You could ignore this. Go to Ginger Island, get the journal scraps, get the free quality bobber that you get just up from birdie’s house when you ho up the ground and try to pull up an aridium quality legend and then smoke that. But that means you’d have to fight it without a trap bobber because there’s no way you’re going to have fishing mastery in spring unless you minmaxed the absolute limit out of every single day. But, you know, it’s just food for thought. You know, if you wanted an original quality legend for the rest of the day, we are going to absolutely abuse this bait maker and pull up huge quantities of catfish. Now, we end up getting so much catfish today. We’re going to make a ton of money. Willie and Robin are fixing up the boat. We can now go Ginger Island the next day. But first, let’s see how much money we made. 52,692 gold. primarily from the 24 smoked catfish that came to 21,600 and the smoked legend which came to 22,500. We are now entering the final week of this challenge. Can we make 1 million gold? I wasn’t too sure at the time. The first thing we’re going to do anyway is get 10,000 gold off Mr. Key. We popped our rain totem so we don’t have to water crops the next day. We have the letter here from Willie to say at 8:00 we can enter his house, go into the boat, and go to Ginger Island. And that’s where we’re going right now. The first thing we’re going to do is get enough golden walnuts together so we can get the parrots to fix up the house. So, if we pass out over on Ginger Island, we’ll wake up in the house. Now, you are given tent kits as well, which are nice. You get three of them, but I would much prefer to have the house done today, so I don’t have to worry about the future days. We’re now going to run around and get all of the golden walnuts as quickly as possible. Once I get enough to fix up the house, we are going straight up to the summit and we are going to prepare ourselves for some hardcore lava eel fishing. That’s right. If you want to make 1 million gold in spring, one of the medics you can use is to fish up lava eel if you can make it into Ginger Island in spring. Now, if you had fishing mastery and if you had an advanced rod, you would make way more money, but we don’t have that. We just have to use a regular aridium rod. And we will be switching between a quality bobber, a trap bobber, and a dressed spinner. Now, we only needed 20 golden walnuts after we got access to the west side of Ginger Island. So, once we had those, it was straight down to the parrots house upgrade done, and then it was straight into the volcano. As we can see, I was only about halfway through today. There was still a lot of hours left when this house was built. So, I took my bombs, took all my gear, and I went straight up into the volcano. I avoided most of the things on my way up bar the cinder shard nodes because I needed cinder shards to enchant my fishing rod. I needed I absolutely needed the preserving enchant. Preserving has a chance for your fishing rod to not consume any durability on the tackle or any bait after you pull up a fish. This is extremely important when it comes to pulling up lava eels. Now, we picked up the mermaid boots from that elite chest. It was nice to get it. We also picked up a prismatic shard from the summit there as well. For the first enchant, we got master. For the second one, we got preserving. I would have been in trouble if I didn’t get that. Actually, I what I really should have done there was not enchant my rod with preserving today, kept the prismatic shard and enchanted it tomorrow. And if I didn’t get preserving, reset the day until I got it. So, I took a pretty big gamble there, but the, you know, the gamble paid off. Now, I’m not going to sell any of these lava eels today. I’m going to fish up a few, turn them into bait, and do the serious fishing tomorrow. We also got the journal scrap where X marks the spot just above Bird’s house. This is going to give us the quality bobber. And as far as I know, this is the only way you can get a quality bobber before you do the community quest for Willie. Now, this is extremely important because if we use this, all of the lav eels we pull up will be quality. That means when we smoke them, they’re going to be ripidium quality lava eels. And this is the setup that we’re going to use to make 1 million gold. We have three fish smokers and we have a bait maker. Because we have to preserve an inch and because we have lots of bait, we won’t have to use the bait maker that much for the next day or even tomorrow. I also picked up an ancient dot and I chucked it into the water there for the cool Terraria collaboration. We just got the far away stone there. If you bring that to the wizard’s tower, you can actually trade that in for the Meow Mir, which I believe is a legendary weapon you can get in Terraria. Now, I had to go back to the farm that night to activate my rain totem, so I didn’t have to, you know, water up the crops today, which is the 23rd. Once I was finished with the watering of crops, we went back to fish up even more lava eels. Now, the quality bobber ran out, so we’re now getting gold star lava eels. Now, these lava eels are hard. They’re harder than catfish, but they’re not as hard as legends. Look at all the money we made today. 452,000 gold. There you go, folks. Now, that’s two days of putting up lava eels. Not that’s not just one day. And that’s also with the fishing perk angler fish worth 50% more. If we had artisan, which is level 10 farming, we would have got even more money for those. But we don’t have artisan. So, could you imagine if we had an advanced aridium rod, we had a dress spinner, a quality bobber, plus artisan, how much money you can make off those every day. Well over 500,000 gold. The next day starts with the watering of crops. But look at how much money I have on hand right now. 592,000 gold. And this shattered all of my previous records because of this new method I have come up with. I never realized just how powerful it was to cope Ginger Island as quickly as possible and to farm up lavats. It just never occurred to me. I always knew it was a powerful money-making method, but I never knew just how powerful it would be in spring with just, you know, some of the more basic equipment like the Aridium Rad. So, we’re now into the 25th. We watered up the crops. We went back to the summit here and we’re pulling up even more lava eels. We actually picked up quite a lot of skill books as well, such as combat quarterlies, mining, monthlies, things like that. What’s going to be very interesting now is can we get up to 1 million gold after today of putting up lava eels. So, we’re going to leave the summit a little bit early today and we’re going to sell these. We don’t want to pass out. Let’s see how much money we made. 2 days of lava eels, 443,186 gold. Let’s check the breakdown. 137 smoked lav eels were acquired from today and yesterday. 431,550 gold. Let’s now go into the next set. See how much money we have. And there you go. 1 million 327,94 gold. Challenge complete. And we still have the 26th, the 27th, and the 28th to make more money if we wanted to. If I went up to the summit right now and did nothing but fish, I did the same on the 27th and the 28th, you’d be looking at at least 1.5 million, maybe even close to 2 million, depending on, you know, how good RNG would be to us. But we’re not going to do that because we’re now going to look ahead. We’re going to just go cavern run. We’re going to accumulate resources to get ready for summer. And I know I said in the comments, let me know if you want to see Summer, but look, when I got the 1 million gold, there’s no way I could put this file down. This file needs to be completed. We can’t just leave it alone. Look at what we achieved. And we achieved this together. I didn’t come up with this on my own. This was from the countless comments people put on my videos. People tell me about these little tactics here and there. People tell me about better ways you can do things. So, I just want to give a big shout out to all my subscribers. You were all stars and thank you so much for giving me feedback all the time because there was absolutely no way I would have figured this out on my own. The Star Valley community is probably one of the best gaming communities around in terms of support. So believe me when I say it, but it’s always a privilege to bring to you a good Star Valley challenge like this. I always wondered to myself for many many years, is it possible to make 1 million gold in spring? And I always thought that it would be impossible. And I’ve tried this so many times. Even when I do regular 100 day challenges, sometimes I try to challenge myself to see if I could pull it off. And here’s the proof. Level six farming is nice. What are these sprinklers? We also got some good skill ups in combat as well. Now, what are we going to do with our 1 million gold? It’s quite simple. We’re going to invest it. We’re going to purchase two full batches of star fruit. That’s 2,000 star fruit, give or take, we get to use for summer. I could have got 3,000 if I wanted, but there’d be no point cuz we don’t have the space to plant it on the ground. The only thing I regret is I didn’t choose the standard farm. I mean, look, the forest farm is great, but it doesn’t have the same crop space that the standard farm gives. So, we’re going to prioritize Ginger Island for now in terms of setting up a farm for Starfruit. The big question is, could I have still done this if I selected the standard farm? To be honest, I don’t know because the forest farm gives you a whopping eight hardwood chunks you can farm every single day. Combine that with the secret woods and you’ve got tons of hardwood that you can get every single day. The standard farm doesn’t give you that. Now, it is a bigger farm and it does have more kind of big hardwood logs on it, but still a tough question. What if you powerleveled foraging and you got the fertilizers? time that you’re putting into foraging is time where you’re not making money. So, you know, it’s just one of those things where you’d have to test it for yourselves. But for now, this is the farm that we got. This is the file that we’re using. And as we can see, the Ginger Island farm is now complete. It’s ready to go for summer, filled up with quality sprinklers and starf fruit. We’re going to go into the quarry here. We’re going to get the golden sight. It’s nice to have for the green rain event when it comes to collecting moss and things like that. We’re now going to go back to our farm and we are going to collect all of these lovely forgeables and collect even more hardwood. It’s also worth noting too that we handed in our pickaxe to Flint to get that upgraded. We can now ch upgrade all our tools to rooting quality in summer. And we’ll also aim for mastery. We also fixed up the treehouse here for the raccoon so we can take on raccoon quests in the next few days as well. And this is basically the end of the challenge. Let me know in the comments what you thought about this one. And again, if you haven’t subscribed, hit the subscribe button. And if I can get 100,000 subscribers, there is a very good chance I can do this full-time. Could you imagine the kind of content you’d see every single week if I was doing this full time? That’d be a lot. Thanks again, everyone, and a huge shout out to all my channel members. Thanks so much for taking time to watch my content. I really appreciate it. What will summer bring us? We’ve made 1 million gold already. What can we do in summer? You’re going to find out very soon. This is Gamergar. I have made 1 million gold in spring. I will see you in the next Stu Valley challenge.

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Mods used in this playthrough:
UI Info Suite 2:
https://github.com/Annosz/UIInfoSuite2
Elle’s Cuter Coop Animals:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/20043
Elle’s Cuter Barn Animals:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/20044
Seasonal Flowery Grass:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/28359
Skell’s Flowery Tools:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/11104
Dynamic Night Time:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/2072
Dynamic Reflections:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/12831
Fennmont Farm:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/28250
Legendary Weapons:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/7610
Visible Fish :
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/8897
Water Flow:
https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/11790