Can anyone give me some more tips? I feel like my progress has been so slow and just haven’t progressed at all. Am i doing something wrong? Please help, anything will help me!
by ReceptionAgitated703
Can anyone give me some more tips? I feel like my progress has been so slow and just haven’t progressed at all. Am i doing something wrong? Please help, anything will help me!
by ReceptionAgitated703
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Best way to make money early game is to go fishing, its hard at first but stick with the bamboo pole until you can unlock the iridium pole
Na, you good, start is slow
When you get the fishing rod you’ll makeore money for more plants
Assuming it’s your first time, I don’t really see anything really wrong here.
It’s summer 3 year 1, got some blueberries planted, scarecrow, got a coop, looks like a gold pickaxe, etc.
Kinda weird you haven’t gotten a better weapon, could be just bad luck. Keep mining and go deeper.
I think once you gotten a whole year done and you feel like you can do better then restart a new game.
One tip I have is to go into options and turn on zooming in and out, it should appear under your gold balance as a + and – sign.
Well I think blueberries are a 10/10 crop since they regenerate after planting! And you already have a chicken coop 😎 seems like you’re doing great! I also like going to the mines in early game. Like others said, fishing is good too. And don’t skip foraging!
Everyone’s first save is slow. You’ll get the hang of it and eventually make a great farm
There is literally NO wrong way to play Stardew Valley. Just go at your own pace and do what feels right . Some people like to fill out the bundles , some like to minmax it’s all up to you. If you want money making advice, go fishing and foraging
There is no right way to play the game as long as you’re having fun (sorry if that’s cheesy but it’s true!!) but if money is an issue there’s a lot of good advice in the other comments here!! 🙂
Time will be your teacher. As with everything else, the more you invest, the easier it’ll get.
Spreadsheets also help.
If this is your first go around of the game, try not to compare yourself to those who have been playing for a decade.
I would focus on fishing to get some immediate funds, mining to get the requirements for a quality sprinkler, and then plant some melons. If you dont get the quality sprinklers before fall, then do pumpkins when you get them, making sure you leave enough time in the season to grow.
Everyone plays differently so youre not doing anything wrong, but if money is your issue (as in burning you out) thats where I would start. I don’t personally like fishing very much, so I focus on farming and you can get a LOT of money with the right crops and patience. Checking the bulletin board outside of Pierre’s for quests can also help with money, and the quest is ALWAYS profitable. Checking the beach for seashells can also bring in decent money in the summer, you can sell them right away to Willie for immediate cash!
No,this seems about right for a first playthrough.
The wiki is your best friend for learning things. If you’re after profits, chickens earn the most in the coop, pigs earn the most in the barn, parsnips are best in the first spring, because you can plant a lot of them for cheap which will really help you level your farming. Fishing is great for making money, catching mountain lake fish is the best. The bait maker is the best thing ever, paired with a trap bobber and fish smokers. Once you get the bait maker unlocked, I recommend catching Goby in south cindersap. They’re a high value fish to catch in all seasons, and easy to hook with targeted bait. I would plant as many parsnips as you can water, and make quality sprinklers as soon as you reach farming level 6. If you’re in summer, I would recommend planting a bunch of radishes. They have good profit and XP.
More crops! As many as you can handle! Fill the whole map with em once you get sprinklers! By summer even hand watering you should have like 10 times that many crops.
Are you enjoying yourself?
If the answer is yes, you’re playing it right.
I made my initial money, with planting cheap(er) crops and then expanding my farm. Then I went for sprinklers and soil additives. Mid game money was pigs and mayonnaise for me (eggs into mayo). Have fun!
You’re fine. You have a coop, and probably animals. Go to the mines, open stuff up. Get sprinklers (not the basic ones – they’re pretty useless imo). Just vibe, mang. There’s no rush. Upgrade your tools with the metal from the mines!
Seems good. took me till year two before I did anything crazy but I’d say invest more in fishing and explore around
Looks like you took a pic of my farm, litterally same exact short of the player. I’m on year 3 summer.
Chickens with mayonnaise maker will be constant revenue. Then fish after that’s set up for extra income. Put all your income into seeds for the farm and expand that plot as much as possible. Once that’s done you’re good.
Then when you’re feeling solid you can hit the mines 😈
It’s hard to play the game “wrong”, but if you are struggling for money, and assuming you are in summer 4, you need to GREATLY expand how many seeds you have planted. Keep investing and expanding your farmland and reinvesting your money into more seeds until you have a big enough farm that it uses 50 percent of your energy in the morning to water it (you can even use more if you have access to food and berries to eat etc.) this is the best way to get money and still allows you to supplement with fishing (fishing is not the best way to earn money despite what people here say). Nothing will earn you as much as farming, and if you did it right by fall you should be able to maximize how many cranberries and pumpkins you can get and those will allow you to have a giant sum of money by winter which you can use to expand your animal enclosures. Get as many kegs and preserve jars as you can and put your NORMAL quality fruits and veg in them for free money. I’ve played the game since release and always have full gold tools by fall and enough money to upgrade my coop and barn fully.
My tip is just play and have fun! You’ll figure things out naturally as you go. Watch the TV every day, check your mail, talk to people, read the “found books” in the library, etc. it will all guide you to making meaningful progress
Get your initial crop in the ground. Don’t put more in until they are grown to lvl 1 farming ater which get a scarecrow and invest in potatoes (crows don’t appear if you have less than 15). Get them watered and then fish but don’t sell anything until level 5 then just dump what you’ve got. Use forage to help your energy. Also helps to forage in spare time for random seems which may drop. After you have a scarecrow, plant them too.
Don’t worry about the Coop unless you’re playing the farm where you get on for free. Animals are handy but it’s getter to get a foundation set up first.
Once the mine is open by all means go exploring. Don’t worry about artifacts, they will come later so just sell any gems or artifacts you find (apart from quartz as it’s good to stockpile that)
As others have mentioned, don’t stress too much. You’re probably learning more than you realize. I made a set of progress milestones for my 2nd farm based on my 1st (after year 2) and absolutely blew through them.
FWIW: My auto-pilot schedule for early game. It seems to get me everything I need and my skills progress pretty evenly.
Mon – clear farm
Tues – forage Cindersap (say hi to wizard) and fish in the river
Wed – next 5 levels of the mine
Thur – forage and fish in mountain
Fri – forage and fish at the beach (stop by saloon for socializing at night)
Sat – free day, more foraging and fishing
Sun – mine wherever, based on what you need most
I try to pass through town once a day to say hi to folks. I’ll look at the quest board, but only take ones that I already have the item, or I know I can complete without changing my schedule.
If trying to catch specific fish that are only come out on rainy days, I’ll switch it up appropriately. For example, if it’s raining on a Wed and I need eels, I’ll do the beach that day, and do the mines on Friday.
I fast track sprinklers and chickens..forage and sell everything..save seeds to make those granola bars…
Did you plant the wild seeds you got from completing the bundles at the community center? Befriending Caroline (2 hearts) will give you the recipe for tea saplings using wild seeds, wood, and fiber. Good early game money.
You can go at whatever pace you like, and really the game is more enjoyable if not trying to min/max for money. But as far as money goes, you have a coop so you have a steady income source there. Open the coop door so your chickens can graze, fill the coop, and make some mayo makers. That’ll give you some income. Personally I do a lot more planting, but you can fish or go to the mines or work on forestry/tapping and building machines. Lots of ways to play.
There is no wrong way to play this game! Don’t stress. The man point is to slow down and enjoy it. Maybe your thing is gifting and building solid relationships with the other towns folk. Making tons of money doesn’t have to be the end all be all!
There aint any wrong way in stardew all ways end in same place
Bv you man 4 4
My best advice is for the first few seasons, wake up, tend your plants and animals, and fish fish fish the rest of the day. Sell all the fish and divide the profits between the farm, animals, and tool upgrades.
Me personality I too am on my first run and during these times I just finished the mines honestly, kept going down and due to that, got good tools, weapons and tons of valuables to gift others or sell if I had excess. You really do need some sort of goal to keep having fun, for me it was doing the community center and getting max friendship on Abigail.
Honestly, what I do on the daily (atm at least) is farming.
While waiting for my crops, I get the fruit bat cave from Demetrius (I forgot what triggers this, but he just comes to your house one day for research apparently to make your empty cave into something, and you have two options to either make bats live tgere to attract fruit or have mushrooms growing there; I chose the former)
Then when that happens (it takes time for the fruits to appear) I just explore everywhere to find drops. My favourite spots are usually in the backwoods, the mountains, or at Marnie’s if there aren’t any in your farm. Honestly, I hoard my stuff as a “commemoration” so I guess that also went in my favour somehow lnfao 💀
Aside from all of that, I just fish like crazy or do some quests that are worth big or little. The chicken coops and barns have been my go-to money making source though (after the eggs’ quality becomes higher and theg produce A LOT, it’d be much easier to just earn a lot from tgat alone lmfao)
Honestly idk if these would suit your preferences, I feel like I’m not thag polished in this game yet myself no matter how much time I put into this darned game, but I feel like setting your mind tj a clear goal helps as well (first time I entered game, I vowed to treat Alex and marry him immediately, so I bugged him and his grandparents daily just to marry him… I have to say he and his grandparents were the first people I 10-hearted while everyone else was only 2.. 💀)
But honestly, find what fits you, it’ll work out. I played not knowing what tj do, then I spent some time figuring out what I can do, and it just came naturally.
No matter what though, high or low, if you earn, you earn. Keep up the good work dude and don’t worry much about your progression if eventually you feel like you haven,’t progressed much. We’ve had those days too lol
AGH SORRY FOR THE RAMBLING, and typos… Freshly awake I should go back tk sleep
Wheat is a good crop to plant early that has a good return. Since you have a chicken coop, get multiple mayo making machines. Then add a second coop. Do the same thing with barns, cows and cheese making machines. 2 of both structures full of animals + 4 of each machine can get you over 5k a day
How serious are you witu this game. Reply to me then I can help accordingly
are you having fun? that’s the most important thing!!
I think you could invest into fishing, expanding your crops and making some kegs to profit more :)) Keep having fun!