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How Soon Can I Finish Stardew Valley’s Mastery System?



How Soon Can I Finish Stardew Valley’s Mastery System?

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I enjoyed improving my old ‘Max all Skills’ run and going beyond this go around. At the time I didn’t think rush Mastery would be too interesting, but squeezing it all in during my first spring was pretty exciting.

Since I wanted to beat my old video, I did this run unseeded, which puts a huge wrench into how fast you can reasonably accomplish things. I don’t think I could personally max skills any earlier, but perhaps the mastery grind could be optimized further if you have time to start a cavern run on the 22nd?

There’s a lot of potential to improve this in seeded runs, particularly if you look for the rare EXP Books in the traveling merchant’s stock, since unlike the bookseller, you aren’t limited to purchasing just one book, which is very exploitable if you have the cash.

Getting a monster musk from trading in a combat quarterly would be extremely helpful as well for the combat exp grind, having lv8 combat to prepare explosive ammo pre-festival would make a big difference in how many eggs you can earn. I’d love to try that out in a future video.

Hey, if you’re still reading this, you’re pretty cool. Just wanted to let you know.

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27 Comments

  9. @Kosmic8477 on

    It’s crazy how you were STILL able to finish the run so comfortably despite accidentally not going inside the community center or getting the Galaxy Sword earlier, great job Shark!

  11. @bumeary on

    I enjoyed the video, but please disclose your sponsorships in the future. While I'm all for creators getting that bag, it feels icky and dishonest to say you just "randomly found this app" when you have a full segment for it and an affiliate link at the top of the description and in the pinned comment.

  15. @Storm-li1re on

    Parsnips have a better energy to gold ratio than salads, especially gold quality parsnips. Personally I would have kept those for food, although the higher healing of salads can be more convenient.

  18. @jdt231 on

    As others have said, please be more upfront about your sponsorships. The whole "randomly found this app" thing followed by a clearly structured segment leaves a sour taste in the mouth. You deserve to get sponsored and paid, we don't care, just be up front about it. Don't spoil an otherwise banger video.

  25. @an0ob591 on

    if you truly "randomly found" the app then say that, but still mention that you got sponsored, doing it undisclosed is scummy (and illegal in some countries like germany)

  26. @jennam8591 on

    I see lots of people have asked you nicely to disclose sponsorships, but I would like to add that it's not a preference – you are required to disclose ads. I advise you to review Youtube's policies and FTC guidelines (edit: and your local laws) regarding sponsorships and edit the description/video accordingly.