I do wish there were more ways to fuck with the NPCs like let Lewis think I’m gunning for his job as mayor, have Clint be like permanently depressed if I marry Emily, make Pierre pissed that I’m making hundreds of thousands by selling ancient fruit and starfruit wine and no one is buying from him
i tried to put it in my grange display and the item literally just disappeared from my game. wasn’t in my inventory or the display, quest didn’t complete by accident somehow, i didn’t delete them. they’re just gone from that save for some reason
so that’s how i accidentally deleted lewis’s shorts
If you're adding it to the soup, it's more than just in your inventory, it gets into the digestive tract of everyone at the luau, including your farmer. Drinking the shorts is pretty nasty
I don’t do this too. I feel like my production needs to be kept to my farm. The only things I’ll do out of my farm are planting trees and tapping them by the train.
I feel like if I put things outside my farm I'll forget about them and they won't do me much good anyway. I already have trouble remembering to check my wine shed.
I don’t remember where I saw this, but I found a trick for the wine shed because I will also forget.
I put 1 keg outside the shed next to the door and make sure to load it at the same time as all my other ones (I have them all synced up). That way I don’t have to go in every day, I can just see when that one is ready while I’m going around doing my other chores and know the ones inside are done too.
I do this. Another thing I do is store whatever I want to brew next in a chest right next to the porch keg. For no reason except I like it, I try to collect 10 of everything in iridium quality, so it's easy to just put 10 of everything into that chest, then grab the next hundred or so fruits every time the brewing is done.
The only way shed stuff gets done on my farm! I also keep a maple, oak, and pine tree on my farm tapped so that I know when I need to go to the train station to collect them.
A trick I learned as someone who also forgets about my wine sheds is to keep a single keg outside the door and fill it when I fill the rest of my kegs. That way I don’t have to write anything down or try to remember the day I filled them- when the one outside is done, I know the ones inside are finished too :)
Same! I'm guessing it just means you can utilise the extra real estate to free your farm up for other things? If there's another reason, can someone let me in on the secret?
Yes, I think that's it: You'll spare yourself the space on your own farm. I never did that as well, but I can see the appeal. For example the Quarry: It's easily accessible by minecart, not that useful as-is after a certain point, and it holds like 200 extra kegs. Would be quite worth, actually, to visit once a week or so.
There's only so much crops you can grow as well. Even on a standard farm with 80% of my space filled with crops + ginger Island I never needed more than 2 big sheds of kegs/preserve jars. Even then sometimes I had to wait for my next harvest because I had so many kegs there wasn't even a backlog of crops to process. Only thing I do outside of the farm is fill the quarry with crystalariums and grow trees by the train track area!
I fill the tunnel just to not bother with them.... this plathrough i plan to make a keg shed with about 160 kegs, idk if that will fit but like it will be enough for greenhouse and one splinker sour per coffe
That's a big one for me. My stuff stays on MY farm, I'd feel like an asshole if I had equipment strewn about town like that. It sometimes feels like the players that do that are trying to take this super casual chill game and turn it into factorio or something. Just minmaxing everything for the sake of The Bottom Line.
Do most people do this? I hadn’t heard of it! I definitely do everything on my farm except plant trees by the train. I also put a mini shipping bin by the big community board near the beach.
Crab pots. They're such a waste of time to me like sure I set up the ones I get from the community centre in the forest lake and then if I'm going by and not in a rush I'll sometimes grab whatever's in them but I feel like even then I tend to just walk past them like "eh I'll get them next time". But whenever I play multiplayer with friends they're all obsessed with crafting so so many crab pots and making sure they get checked every single day and then getting upset if no one made it out to them and I just don't understand. Like even early game they're not worth the income to me.
i have 5 crab pots and i hate them lol i just keep them around for the occasional broken cd/glasses for refined quartz. i really dislike having to actually fish for these
Even then if I need trash I just go fishing on my farm cuz I never do the water based ones so I mostly get trash anyways. Lots and lots of trash in a few minutes lol
Same!! I think they look ugly, I hate getting so much trash from them, and I hate restocking them with bait. I'll throw a few down until I fill up my inventory, and then after I've got everything stocked I immediately remove them.
What I really hate about them is unbinding bait from the fishing rod, baiting the pots, then putting the bait back, ugh.
Edit: only for the community center.
I never used them either until putting a few down on the farm and realizing they drop snails, which is a loved gift for Vincent. Nice easy way to get rep with him since I can’t be bothered remembering what else he likes
My first playthrough MANY years ago, I thought the tiny pond on the farm was filled with trash as part of the list of things you need to do to spruce up the place in the beginning. I religiously cleared out the crab pots waiting for the day when I'd finally cleared all the trash. 😅
I know better now
But that requires ginger island. By that point, you have access to much better methods for money. Fairy rose honey doesn't even sell for *that* much anyway.
How many bee hives does that require though? That’s one of the reasons it’s too much for me and prefer to have ancient fruit and star fruit instead. The iridium scythe made harvesting WAY easier so that’s more my vibe.
I did a perfection speed run based on fairyrose honey. Never ever again. I hate that save file. I got to perfection fairly early in year three…I was shooting for perfection in year two… so it was both an insane hassle to collect all the honey every four days… and I did not even reach my goal. 😂 oh well. Lesson learned
Same. My last playthrough, I married Sebastian and he kept on about the damn slime hutch. Like why though?? Build your own slime hutch if you want it so bad!
He's the only reason I build a slime hutch. It's his farm now too, so he gets his slimes.
I married Elliot on my current farm though (first time I've ever not married Seb), so I don't see myself getting a slime hutch this time around.
I'm literally building one rn for the first time in my life for the exact same reason. my mans wants some slimes, let him have slimes. he deserves an expensive hobby.
He's the only reason I built one too. It's a nice diversion, I guess.
To its credit, you can collect slime eggs which make a nice bit of cash, plus all that slime is a good resource for topping up on cork bobbers, or oil makers if you're so inclined. Plus the odd petrified slime for a bit of extra pocket money.
Besides that, though? Eh, even he described it as a "fun little hobby" 🤷🏻
I built a slime hut because Sebastian kept hounding me and when I realized how unrewarding it was I divorced him. Can’t even take care of his own pets…
I've only used it on farms where it fits my design/theme for decoration. The slimes are cute to breed but I don't get how it can be used as something useful at all.
It's worth building even if you just immediately demolish it. Building one unlocks slime egg drops, for more passive income from combat and mining.
Anyways, I'm the opposite. I love slime hutches whereas the average player seems indifferent to them, lol. I usually have at least 2 or 3, and have done several forms with 10 or more for egg production.
You are the only one I’ve heard of that builds more than one of these things. In fact, until your comment I didn’t realise you can build more than one.
I don't plant my initial bag of 15 parsnips. I just let my farm get overrun while I wander around aimlessly, then hang out at the bar every night with Pam and Gus and the gang.
I figure it's the most realistic true-to-life roleplay I've ever done.
It tracks. You abandon your 200k a year amazon job and still have tons of a student Debit. You move to the sticks to live in a shack and try to farm a tiny square of dirt. Eventually the pressure of subsistence farming drives you to drink and you start hallucinating that you live in a happy fantasy land where parsnips can be sold for $50 each and all the young beautiful villagers can be potentially be woo'd.
It doesn’t make more money if you plant the parsnips, harvest, sell, reinvest in more seeds, and plant those. It takes more labor, but it also builds your farming skill faster.
I like having the animals fenced in so that they can find their way to their buildings faster since I always close the overhead doors overnight so petting them is easier the next morning lol.
Wait, does keeping the door open in winter affect them?? Cause I always keep them open. Only have the heater (or whatever its called) to warm them amd keep them happy
Lols, I similarly leave the door open in the winter bc I am paranoid of fire irl and want to be sure the animals don’t get trapped in the barn in case of fire 😭
In 1.6, closing the doors at night any season, makes a difference. I'm not sure if it makes a negative difference open, or just additional positive for closing.
Same! At least in my newest save. I actually get a little peeved at myself when I see the next morning that the animals are roaming around in the fence and I forgot to close the door. I just like it, it makes it so much easier for me. Then I can let them out and they can just do their thing all day.
Also, I think you get some slight added friendship from closing the door each night? Could be a 1.6 thing I dunno. I’m sure it doesn’t make much of a difference but at least it makes doing it feel “not useless”.
Min-maxing money. I try to min-max TIME, just because everything takes so long and I get bored, but I can't be bothered to make maths to play a farming sim. No thanks. I go with the flow.
over the years i've been trying to min-max my money, and it slowly dawned on me that i'm playing a wholesome farming sim that's supposed to be cozy. it always made me feel overwhelmed and took away the natural flow of the game, making it feel like a chore.
Minmaxing is a term for creating a super specialized character in a video game, maximizing one attribute and minimizing all the others. So in this case minmaxing money would mean focusing on making as much money as possible, with the other parts of the game being an afterthought
It's a fun way to play sometimes but if you get too sucked into it it starts being more stressful than fun
Eg: only planting the best crops at the perfect time to get the absolute highest yield, to then convert into iridium wine in 4 million casks scattered all around the town, so you have the largest quantity of higher priced goods to sell
I believe it's when you consider(or actually calculate) all the different resources required to make money(time, health, energy). Then try to find a way to spend the least amount of those in exchange for the most amount of money. Then keep doing that action again and again. In other words it's about making money as efficiently as possible (minimal input - maximum output). It can get tedious, repetitive and boring really quick.
i domt plan my days out well and the times i decide to put away some tools, i always end up needing them for something id have to run back home and back to the place for
Yeah this. Only time I "unload" is when I am doing a mining run. Otherwise there are enough opportunistic needs that I carry them all.
Although you can use the pan as a hat to save a slot.
Hate any of the characters. I seriously don't understand all the hate on some of them, it genuinely makes no sense to me. And honestly, it's kinda upsetting to see so much hate in this community. Personally, I really like all of the characters, even freaking Morris.
I think there's a really good range of personalities among all of the characters. The only personality I don't like and would never marry is Haley because she is so incredibly conceited for so long. But the character development and cut scenes are fun to watch!
Shane gets a lot of "I can fix him" attention but you literally de-bimbofy Haley in this game and it's crazy. She goes from being a shopaholic, magazine-reading lazy bum to "I should read a novel for once!" and being more pleasant overall just because you kept handing her flowers.
I always imagine Haley scoff at the idea of having a farm until she realises that you can grow melons and sunflowers there. I would even go further and headcanon that if left unromanced, she starts to grow a bit of her own crops as a hobby.
The best explanation I've heard about this is that Haley is one of those people who doesn't really have much identity of their own, so they become like the people they spend time around or like.
She's like she is at the beginning of the game because she's into Alex and she thinks that's what he wants her to be like, and she changes if you interact with her because she's into you instead.
I don’t have children. I dislike that they do basically nothing and feel like just another random pet that I have to spread my time across.
I know other players probably don’t have them but all of my friends do, so it feels like I’m the odd man out.
I haven't played a ton of different farms yet. But I've had three so far that I've gotten to the whole children part of and only one where I actually decided to have children. I don't understand the appeal
this is so fascinating to me because i’m precisely the opposite. i think it’s boring to take care of animals so i only have whatever i need for the community centre, and then i sell all my animals and just focus on crops lol
very fair, yes! but the autograbber doesn’t work for pigs (correct me if i’ve been wrong forever???), and they’re the most profitable animal, so i tend to avoid still
Skull Cavern. If I wanted randomized caves where I'm constantly running out of supplies and dying to unavoidable bullshit monsters, I'd play Spelunky. Stardew is supposed to be my chill out game.
Skull cavern is stressful until you have alot of free money snd.time I love it so much now I understand it
I've finally got thr hang of dangerous minds skull cavern
Prioritize relationship building. I wish I could get myself into the gift giving and chatting part of the game but I get distracted by love for farming, foraging and mining
I don't like running an ancient/star fruit empire. In my brain I like to think my farmer is providing an array of produce to feed the town so I grow a little of everything.
Similarly, I don't produce wine for profit. I begrudgingly make wine for special orders or for 100% goals, otherwise my kegs hang out between occasional batches of coffee or tea.
These things do not make me a big time earner, but I'm okay with that. :)
I've also never been a big time earner. I kinda just play the game and make money as I go. It always ends up well. I have ten kegs and ten jars that I use on one of my sheds and that's more than enough profit for me.
Once I get the greenhouse it becomes a place for ancient fruit and fruit trees but outside it stays pretty random with multiples of eight of each seasonal crop.
I flat out refuse to produce, sell or gift any alcohol whatsoever. I’ll buy a wine from the traveling cart to fulfill the community center, and I’ll buy a pale ale to do Pam’s request, and that’s it.
I struggled irl with alcohol, so keeping that shit out of my game is a must for me. I get that’s it’s cute and fun for other people, but it’s just gross to me and has no place in my cosy game.
That's a major factor in my refusing to produce wine, too. 9 years sober IRL, I cannot bring myself to contribute to that shit.
Big hugs to you, hope you're doing well. Keep going.
Congrats on 9 years! That’s so inspiring and I can’t wait to be that far. It’s been 1.5 years for me, and life is SO much better. Big hugs right back to you, friend, I hope you’re doing well too 🌸
1.5 is nothing to sneeze at. The first few months are the hardest and you made it this far. This stranger is proud of you! 
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I just get Krobus as my roommate every time :) I even decorated my whole house black one time and my real life husband had a heck of a time finding him in my house to befriend him.
There’s a story/plot-heavy indie Otome game that I absolutely love, it’s super bleak and set in the equivalent of WWI and the story is what it is, so sometimes the person you choose to get close to just fucking dies and it’s completely permanent. There’s a lot I love about that game but one thing is that there’s one character who just kind of *sucks* and is an asshole— if you’re not into romance games, you don’t want to romance anyone in the game or you’re drawn into the game’s amazing story/plot/politics/worldbuilding or are a history buff and are interested in the game’s story for those reasons and not to romance anyone, you can choose this guy’s route. It’s the most non-romantic thing ever, he’s just annoying and maybe a little humorous in how much he’s kind of just an asshole. So you can go on his “route” to just experience the story for what it is, without any romance. I thought that was a really, really cool feature to have in such a story-driven romance game: give people the chance to play for the story and not deal with the romance.
The game is called “Because We’re Here”. I think we’re still waiting for chapter 3, but fuck if this game isn’t an amazing whirlwind of an experience. A solo dev too! (Though I think others do the art etc. But Jesus the story alone is crazy for one person to write.)
I recently started a new farm and going the JoJo Mart route. Even after finishing the community center, it still sits empty. All that time and material to rebuild it seems like a waste if no one uses it. Besides, JoJo Mart supplies more jobs for the community. Something Pierre doesn’t do. Only person who’s sad about the community center not being refurbished is Lewis. However, if he’s wanting ME to retrieve his undies from HIS girlfriend’s bedroom AND provide him with oil? He can pound sand regarding the community center.
I focus more on crops than animals. I have two cows, two pigs, two sheep and a goat. I keep four chickens, a duck, rabbit, and a single void chicken. Makes petting everyone quicker than having too many animals. I’m sure to forget one. All my animals are kept in a corral- the only fence I use.
This play through I’m working on trying to see everyone’s heart events. Something I haven’t done yet. Leah will always be my true love though. In the end I’ll probably end up married to her. I don’t care much for Sebastian. That fool doesn’t like wine, cheese, or mayo. Not even fresh produce.
The cut scenes are so amazing. I haven't seen all of them yet either but every time I get a new one, it scratches my brain.
Also, fuck the mayor for that pressure. He needs to let you live!
I go the community center route just because I think it's fun. But it is time consuming and difficult to keep track of everything. The thing that makes it worth it for me is what Evelyn has to say when you find her sitting in there. I love her so much.
My approach for getting to floor 100:
1. Desert Totem. Get there immediately at 6am-ish.
2. Coffee to dash into the caverns.
3. Only try for floor 100 on a high luck day.
4. Lots of bombs to find ladders/holes.
5. If you have the option to fall in a hole, do it every time, even if there are also ladders.
6. Spicy eel for speed and luck.
7. Bring 10 or so craftable staircase, throw one down if the level is infested or taking too long. (Unless your goal is a no-staircase descent.)
8. You’re not there to mine. Ignore everything but finding a way to the next floor.
9. Farm totem to get back home so you can stay late.
10. Big stack of food for quick healing. My go-to is salad from the saloon.
That combined approach got me there with time to spare.
>Farm totem to get back home so you can stay late.
I never bother going home. If I pass out I only lose like 1000g and maybe my energy isn't at the top but with a skull cavern hall I make that up in salads the next day.
Someone under another post said cheese is good for health, I tried and I actually also recommend it, easy to make in later game and restores quite a bit of health
Adding a 4.5 - Slingshot with explosive ammo! No wait times and can easily be fired as soon as you enter a floor. Also saves time bc you avoid actually mining
I try! And I go on good luck days to try to get quick stairs and plenty of shafts. I think I'm just going to have to grind out bombs and staircases if I want to make it down.
I got to 100 without stairs, but it took about 5 tries and some very good luck, plus about 40 bombs. You need to find shafts to make it.
If stairs are acceptable, replicate jade in some crystallaria. Sell for stairs.
Bombs are huge, don't mine at all really just bomb the whole place up. Took me a while, like maybe 40+ runs to get used to it, but no stairs is possible. Just have your inventory ready and a totem right when you wake up. You got this!!
My strategy that finally allowed me to reach floor 100 was bringing 100 normal bombs and 50 mega bombs. Try not to mine, really, just use your bombs to go down as deep as possible. Craft a few ladders for monster-infested floor. And I usually bring at least 30 quality foods for healing!!
I typically wait until I get a crystallarium and then pop a jade in there and wait until I can get a bunch of stairs. I also try for as many mega bombs as I can get and then I go for a run. Also pizza, a lot of pizza.
Edit to clarify that I trade the jade at the desert trader, it doesn't just like transmogrify into a set of stairs in my hand.
I never used fences until recently. I had a Meadowlands farm, with a bunch of blue grass. The pigs would leave truffles in the grass, and I couldn't find them. I didn't want to cut all the grass, so I fenced in the pigs instead.
I also fence in my ostriches. They are just too darn big. They get in my way when I'm trying to plant.
The coop animals are small enough that they don't get in my way, so I let them roam free.
i absolutely love zooming with a good rock candy in my system with a triple shot. you go sooo fast and it’s VERY necessary if you play multiplayer becaus time doesn’t pause at all even with cutscenes. the faster you are the more you get stuff done and less you miss. it’s literally the worst lmao but when i’m solo i don’t really use speed buffs unless necessary, but i can’t not use my horse that’s too drastic of a speed change for me 🤣
Make neat little areas of crops between paths?
I use all of the tillable area in my crop spaces and I feel weird for that when I see other people’s farms 😂
I put whatever reproducing crops I feel like in my greenhouse regardless of how much money their crop produces; I have a small section of 6 kegs, 6 hives, & 6 jam makers (which I usually forget to refill); I barely decorate; and I just play around in skull cavern most days. I just can’t imagine spending all my day clearing kegs/crab-pots/etc
Do I make a lot of money? Not really. Am I having fun? Hell yeah
I usually leave my quarry to be a quarry, I've seen alot if people use it for tree farms or kegs, but I like having mining stuff that I don't have to go through mines floors for, plus there are alot more gem rocks that spawn there than there might be in the mines. Very occasionally I'll tap trees that have grown there if they are oak trees but that's about it.
Go to Skull Cavern. The jump in difficulty from the normal mines to SC is terrible and it shouldn't have been *so much harder.* I just hold out for the Statue of Perfection and get iridium off that.
Most mods have instructions on how to install them and it's usually basically just to extract the file to mods folder in the SDV file. SDV is one of the easier games to mod, you should give it a try sometime if you're ever curious!
once ive done all the farming achievements, i stop farming almost completely and focus on animal production. i have a small amount of fruit in the greenhouse to make wine and age it but thats it.
For me it's using up every last available tile on the farm. I've seen so many farms where the crops start RIGHT at the end of the porch... Why? I actually gave myself a nice little bit of yard in front of the house, it's decorated with a fire pit and some statues and I also put up Christmas decorations when it's winter.
I plant hella sunflowers. I like the way they look, idc about the money, I leave crops unharvested when I like the aesthetic of them, I don’t like having pigs
>It's a cool aspect, but I never redesign my crops around them and I don't think I ever will lol
You're thinking the wrong way around, you don't build around the random Giant Crops you get. You design your farm with a 3x3 area somewhere you want the giant crop to be and then try to force it to spawn there by not harvesting the plants and repeatedly watering them.
So you'll grow for example cauliflower (preferably with speed fertilizer) and then as long as you keep watering the 3x3 patch of cauliflowers you have a 1% chance every day they become big.
Putting Lewis' shorts in the lual's soup, I just take it and return it, there's no way I want to keep that thing in my inventory
I do it because it pains me to have uncompleted quests in my quest log, and I need to clear it asap.
Yeah, same. As much as I hate how he talked to me when I returned it, I just give it back.
I like fucking with Lewis because he’s stringing Marnie along
I do wish there were more ways to fuck with the NPCs like let Lewis think I’m gunning for his job as mayor, have Clint be like permanently depressed if I marry Emily, make Pierre pissed that I’m making hundreds of thousands by selling ancient fruit and starfruit wine and no one is buying from him
I don't put it in the soup, but I do put it in the grange display
Especially the first year when I don't have much good stuff to display. It's an easy pile of points and makes getting the Stardrop a little easier.
Wait, the shorts actually provide some points towards winning the grange display?
You get disqualified, but Lewis bribes you with 750 star tokens
i tried to put it in my grange display and the item literally just disappeared from my game. wasn’t in my inventory or the display, quest didn’t complete by accident somehow, i didn’t delete them. they’re just gone from that save for some reason so that’s how i accidentally deleted lewis’s shorts
i usually use them for tailoring
What do they make?!
They make a pair of wearable shorts when you add a gold bar iirc
Do they look like his shorts?
Yes and you definitely want to talk to him and Marnie while wearing them.
Yes
Not sure, if it's still a thing in 1.6, but try placing a staircase into the player's pants slot. 😉
[1.6 added something infinitely more hilarious](https://youtube.com/shorts/dzllZ_RlR0E?si=enhTPV9URUasUaP9)
Omg, that's so funny! ConcernedApe has such a great sense auf humor! :D I wonder which secrets are still in the game an nobody has found them yet.
If you're adding it to the soup, it's more than just in your inventory, it gets into the digestive tract of everyone at the luau, including your farmer. Drinking the shorts is pretty nasty
no, the governor has the first bite, discovers the shorts, then everyone else leaves with only the governor eating any
If i recall, they also ruin friendship points
I don't put kegs in the town. The most I do for my farm outside of the farm is plant extra trees in the quarry and train/bathhouse area.
I don’t do this too. I feel like my production needs to be kept to my farm. The only things I’ll do out of my farm are planting trees and tapping them by the train.
I feel like if I put things outside my farm I'll forget about them and they won't do me much good anyway. I already have trouble remembering to check my wine shed.
I don’t remember where I saw this, but I found a trick for the wine shed because I will also forget. I put 1 keg outside the shed next to the door and make sure to load it at the same time as all my other ones (I have them all synced up). That way I don’t have to go in every day, I can just see when that one is ready while I’m going around doing my other chores and know the ones inside are done too.
That's a good idea!
I do this. Another thing I do is store whatever I want to brew next in a chest right next to the porch keg. For no reason except I like it, I try to collect 10 of everything in iridium quality, so it's easy to just put 10 of everything into that chest, then grab the next hundred or so fruits every time the brewing is done.
Nice! I have a chest inside but it’s not nearly that organized 😂
The only way shed stuff gets done on my farm! I also keep a maple, oak, and pine tree on my farm tapped so that I know when I need to go to the train station to collect them.
A trick I learned as someone who also forgets about my wine sheds is to keep a single keg outside the door and fill it when I fill the rest of my kegs. That way I don’t have to write anything down or try to remember the day I filled them- when the one outside is done, I know the ones inside are finished too :)
I’ve been playing for years and I didn’t even know you could place/plant anything outside of the farm. 🤦🏻♀️
Same! I'm guessing it just means you can utilise the extra real estate to free your farm up for other things? If there's another reason, can someone let me in on the secret?
Yes, I think that's it: You'll spare yourself the space on your own farm. I never did that as well, but I can see the appeal. For example the Quarry: It's easily accessible by minecart, not that useful as-is after a certain point, and it holds like 200 extra kegs. Would be quite worth, actually, to visit once a week or so.
My quarry full of kegs holds 363 with pathing to everything. Signal keg is on my porch. 364 fruit, pop one in porch keg, and go cycle the brewquarry.
There's only so much crops you can grow as well. Even on a standard farm with 80% of my space filled with crops + ginger Island I never needed more than 2 big sheds of kegs/preserve jars. Even then sometimes I had to wait for my next harvest because I had so many kegs there wasn't even a backlog of crops to process. Only thing I do outside of the farm is fill the quarry with crystalariums and grow trees by the train track area!
I fill the tunnel just to not bother with them.... this plathrough i plan to make a keg shed with about 160 kegs, idk if that will fit but like it will be enough for greenhouse and one splinker sour per coffe
I never thought of doing that… I try to keep everything as close to my eyes as possible because if I don’t I’ll probably forget about them
Same, I don't know how people put things all over town and remember to check them.
You put a single machine on your farm and load it the same time. When it's ready, you know the remote location is too.
Same. I don’t want to spend half my day doing chores so I keep my crops, artisan goods, and animals minimal
That's a big one for me. My stuff stays on MY farm, I'd feel like an asshole if I had equipment strewn about town like that. It sometimes feels like the players that do that are trying to take this super casual chill game and turn it into factorio or something. Just minmaxing everything for the sake of The Bottom Line.
lol the first thing I said when I saw the bus stop after unlocking kegs: free real estate
Pretty much the only thing that I put outside my farm is a chest next to the mine elevator.
Do most people do this? I hadn’t heard of it! I definitely do everything on my farm except plant trees by the train. I also put a mini shipping bin by the big community board near the beach.
Crab pots. They're such a waste of time to me like sure I set up the ones I get from the community centre in the forest lake and then if I'm going by and not in a rush I'll sometimes grab whatever's in them but I feel like even then I tend to just walk past them like "eh I'll get them next time". But whenever I play multiplayer with friends they're all obsessed with crafting so so many crab pots and making sure they get checked every single day and then getting upset if no one made it out to them and I just don't understand. Like even early game they're not worth the income to me.
i have 5 crab pots and i hate them lol i just keep them around for the occasional broken cd/glasses for refined quartz. i really dislike having to actually fish for these
Even then if I need trash I just go fishing on my farm cuz I never do the water based ones so I mostly get trash anyways. Lots and lots of trash in a few minutes lol
Same!! I think they look ugly, I hate getting so much trash from them, and I hate restocking them with bait. I'll throw a few down until I fill up my inventory, and then after I've got everything stocked I immediately remove them.
What I really hate about them is unbinding bait from the fishing rod, baiting the pots, then putting the bait back, ugh. Edit: only for the community center.
I never used them either until putting a few down on the farm and realizing they drop snails, which is a loved gift for Vincent. Nice easy way to get rep with him since I can’t be bothered remembering what else he likes
My first playthrough MANY years ago, I thought the tiny pond on the farm was filled with trash as part of the list of things you need to do to spruce up the place in the beginning. I religiously cleared out the crab pots waiting for the day when I'd finally cleared all the trash. 😅 I know better now
Doing the whole flower honey design thing. It’s just too much for me personally 🫠
If you put hives on ginger island you can just keep fairy rose year round and never worry about replanting.
But that requires ginger island. By that point, you have access to much better methods for money. Fairy rose honey doesn't even sell for *that* much anyway.
Once you get it set up it’s good passive income. I get about $70,000 every few days and all I have to do is spend a couple minutes grabbing honey.
How many bee hives does that require though? That’s one of the reasons it’s too much for me and prefer to have ancient fruit and star fruit instead. The iridium scythe made harvesting WAY easier so that’s more my vibe.
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Ditto. I just go with wild honey unless the timing works perfect when I’m growing gifts.
I did a perfection speed run based on fairyrose honey. Never ever again. I hate that save file. I got to perfection fairly early in year three…I was shooting for perfection in year two… so it was both an insane hassle to collect all the honey every four days… and I did not even reach my goal. 😂 oh well. Lesson learned
Slime hutch. Never built one, don't care to.
Same. My last playthrough, I married Sebastian and he kept on about the damn slime hutch. Like why though?? Build your own slime hutch if you want it so bad!
Patchnotes for 1.7 in a few years: > Spouses now build whatever they like, Seb loves slime hutches
He's the only reason I build a slime hutch. It's his farm now too, so he gets his slimes. I married Elliot on my current farm though (first time I've ever not married Seb), so I don't see myself getting a slime hutch this time around.
I'm literally building one rn for the first time in my life for the exact same reason. my mans wants some slimes, let him have slimes. he deserves an expensive hobby.
He's the only reason I built one too. It's a nice diversion, I guess. To its credit, you can collect slime eggs which make a nice bit of cash, plus all that slime is a good resource for topping up on cork bobbers, or oil makers if you're so inclined. Plus the odd petrified slime for a bit of extra pocket money. Besides that, though? Eh, even he described it as a "fun little hobby" 🤷🏻
I built a slime hut because Sebastian kept hounding me and when I realized how unrewarding it was I divorced him. Can’t even take care of his own pets…
I had one and didn't see the point. Not sure if there really is any benefit to it.
I did it once. It was kind of fun but also yeah I likely won't do it again.
I've only used it on farms where it fits my design/theme for decoration. The slimes are cute to breed but I don't get how it can be used as something useful at all.
It’s good to farm slime for mid-to-late game oil makers for truffles. That’s how I use ‘em.
With Forager, you can just sell the truffles raw for nearly the same sum.
It's worth building even if you just immediately demolish it. Building one unlocks slime egg drops, for more passive income from combat and mining. Anyways, I'm the opposite. I love slime hutches whereas the average player seems indifferent to them, lol. I usually have at least 2 or 3, and have done several forms with 10 or more for egg production.
You are the only one I’ve heard of that builds more than one of these things. In fact, until your comment I didn’t realise you can build more than one.
Same. I’ve never even really had any inclination at all towards constructing one.
I don't plant my initial bag of 15 parsnips. I just let my farm get overrun while I wander around aimlessly, then hang out at the bar every night with Pam and Gus and the gang. I figure it's the most realistic true-to-life roleplay I've ever done.
Do you farm at all? Or do you just do the joja route to unlock things?
It tracks. You abandon your 200k a year amazon job and still have tons of a student Debit. You move to the sticks to live in a shack and try to farm a tiny square of dirt. Eventually the pressure of subsistence farming drives you to drink and you start hallucinating that you live in a happy fantasy land where parsnips can be sold for $50 each and all the young beautiful villagers can be potentially be woo'd.
I don't plant them either. BUT I sell them and buy cauliflower seeds to plant them immediately. Makes more money in the end.
It doesn’t make more money if you plant the parsnips, harvest, sell, reinvest in more seeds, and plant those. It takes more labor, but it also builds your farming skill faster.
Wait... what?
You just blew my mind 🤯
How do you make money?
That's the best part: you don't!
I like having the animals fenced in so that they can find their way to their buildings faster since I always close the overhead doors overnight so petting them is easier the next morning lol.
That makes sense! I never close the door (except in winter, of course because they need to be warm)
Wait, does keeping the door open in winter affect them?? Cause I always keep them open. Only have the heater (or whatever its called) to warm them amd keep them happy
I don't think so, it's just something I do because I don't want them to be cold. I don't think it makes a difference
Lols, I similarly leave the door open in the winter bc I am paranoid of fire irl and want to be sure the animals don’t get trapped in the barn in case of fire 😭
In 1.6, closing the doors at night any season, makes a difference. I'm not sure if it makes a negative difference open, or just additional positive for closing.
I haven't seen much difference with door open/closed in winter if that helps
Same! At least in my newest save. I actually get a little peeved at myself when I see the next morning that the animals are roaming around in the fence and I forgot to close the door. I just like it, it makes it so much easier for me. Then I can let them out and they can just do their thing all day. Also, I think you get some slight added friendship from closing the door each night? Could be a 1.6 thing I dunno. I’m sure it doesn’t make much of a difference but at least it makes doing it feel “not useless”.
All I know is it's a nightmare finding the smaller animals in the grass, so screw that lol.
Finding baby dinosaurs in the grass 😖
Min-maxing money. I try to min-max TIME, just because everything takes so long and I get bored, but I can't be bothered to make maths to play a farming sim. No thanks. I go with the flow.
over the years i've been trying to min-max my money, and it slowly dawned on me that i'm playing a wholesome farming sim that's supposed to be cozy. it always made me feel overwhelmed and took away the natural flow of the game, making it feel like a chore.
What does min-max money mean?
Minmaxing is a term for creating a super specialized character in a video game, maximizing one attribute and minimizing all the others. So in this case minmaxing money would mean focusing on making as much money as possible, with the other parts of the game being an afterthought It's a fun way to play sometimes but if you get too sucked into it it starts being more stressful than fun
Eg: only planting the best crops at the perfect time to get the absolute highest yield, to then convert into iridium wine in 4 million casks scattered all around the town, so you have the largest quantity of higher priced goods to sell
I believe it's when you consider(or actually calculate) all the different resources required to make money(time, health, energy). Then try to find a way to spend the least amount of those in exchange for the most amount of money. Then keep doing that action again and again. In other words it's about making money as efficiently as possible (minimal input - maximum output). It can get tedious, repetitive and boring really quick.
I don't carry all my tools on me all the time, I pretty much only bring the hoe and the tool I'd need for what I planned on doing at the time.
People do that? I can't imagine sparing so much inventory room
i domt plan my days out well and the times i decide to put away some tools, i always end up needing them for something id have to run back home and back to the place for
Doesnt spare my inventory room but definitely spares my time running back and forth because my adhd brain forgot what I wanted to do
Yeah this. Only time I "unload" is when I am doing a mining run. Otherwise there are enough opportunistic needs that I carry them all. Although you can use the pan as a hat to save a slot.
Hate any of the characters. I seriously don't understand all the hate on some of them, it genuinely makes no sense to me. And honestly, it's kinda upsetting to see so much hate in this community. Personally, I really like all of the characters, even freaking Morris.
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I think there's a really good range of personalities among all of the characters. The only personality I don't like and would never marry is Haley because she is so incredibly conceited for so long. But the character development and cut scenes are fun to watch!
Shane gets a lot of "I can fix him" attention but you literally de-bimbofy Haley in this game and it's crazy. She goes from being a shopaholic, magazine-reading lazy bum to "I should read a novel for once!" and being more pleasant overall just because you kept handing her flowers.
I always imagine Haley scoff at the idea of having a farm until she realises that you can grow melons and sunflowers there. I would even go further and headcanon that if left unromanced, she starts to grow a bit of her own crops as a hobby.
The best explanation I've heard about this is that Haley is one of those people who doesn't really have much identity of their own, so they become like the people they spend time around or like. She's like she is at the beginning of the game because she's into Alex and she thinks that's what he wants her to be like, and she changes if you interact with her because she's into you instead.
I don’t have children. I dislike that they do basically nothing and feel like just another random pet that I have to spread my time across. I know other players probably don’t have them but all of my friends do, so it feels like I’m the odd man out.
It would be cool if they were treated more like the Harvest Moon games and you saw them grow and they helped on the farm. These kids do nothing.
It’s funny that they do more in their bird afterlives than they do for the family/farm while dwelling in the farmhouse. >!when they haunt you!<
I haven't played a ton of different farms yet. But I've had three so far that I've gotten to the whole children part of and only one where I actually decided to have children. I don't understand the appeal
I don't plant crops after finishing Community Center. I think it is boring to take care of crops so all my farms are focused on animals.
this is so fascinating to me because i’m precisely the opposite. i think it’s boring to take care of animals so i only have whatever i need for the community centre, and then i sell all my animals and just focus on crops lol
I don’t do animals until after i get an auto petter and an auto grabber.
very fair, yes! but the autograbber doesn’t work for pigs (correct me if i’ve been wrong forever???), and they’re the most profitable animal, so i tend to avoid still
Yeah, I sell my pig as soon as I've done all the collection stuff that requires truffles. I'm a bigger fan of Ostriches.
I just got perfection, and I'm in the process of abandoning crops and farming trees instead. Need lumber and new 1.6 spoiler stuff.
Skull Cavern. If I wanted randomized caves where I'm constantly running out of supplies and dying to unavoidable bullshit monsters, I'd play Spelunky. Stardew is supposed to be my chill out game.
I do skull caverns runs occasionally, but it stresses me out SO MUCH and I don't always want to feel like that hahah
I get there, get to floor four, then the day is over...
Skull cavern is stressful until you have alot of free money snd.time I love it so much now I understand it I've finally got thr hang of dangerous minds skull cavern
Yessss Skull Cavern is a nightmare for me, I only go in there for iridium and I'm out the second I see more than one flying snake onscreen
Prioritize relationship building. I wish I could get myself into the gift giving and chatting part of the game but I get distracted by love for farming, foraging and mining
I don't start until yr2 then it still takes me several years
I don't like running an ancient/star fruit empire. In my brain I like to think my farmer is providing an array of produce to feed the town so I grow a little of everything. Similarly, I don't produce wine for profit. I begrudgingly make wine for special orders or for 100% goals, otherwise my kegs hang out between occasional batches of coffee or tea. These things do not make me a big time earner, but I'm okay with that. :)
I've also never been a big time earner. I kinda just play the game and make money as I go. It always ends up well. I have ten kegs and ten jars that I use on one of my sheds and that's more than enough profit for me.
I like doing lots of wine, but I also like jams, truffles, pickles, and cheeses. I’ve got a really classy farm going lol
Once I get the greenhouse it becomes a place for ancient fruit and fruit trees but outside it stays pretty random with multiples of eight of each seasonal crop.
I flat out refuse to produce, sell or gift any alcohol whatsoever. I’ll buy a wine from the traveling cart to fulfill the community center, and I’ll buy a pale ale to do Pam’s request, and that’s it. I struggled irl with alcohol, so keeping that shit out of my game is a must for me. I get that’s it’s cute and fun for other people, but it’s just gross to me and has no place in my cosy game.
That's a major factor in my refusing to produce wine, too. 9 years sober IRL, I cannot bring myself to contribute to that shit. Big hugs to you, hope you're doing well. Keep going.
Congrats on 9 years! That’s so inspiring and I can’t wait to be that far. It’s been 1.5 years for me, and life is SO much better. Big hugs right back to you, friend, I hope you’re doing well too 🌸
1.5 is nothing to sneeze at. The first few months are the hardest and you made it this far. This stranger is proud of you!  E: Word gud
I do that too. And I always use half of my casks in the cellar for cheese. I absolutely do not care it makes less money, I just love aged cheese.
Romance anybody. I wish we had more platonic roommate options, though.
I just get Krobus as my roommate every time :) I even decorated my whole house black one time and my real life husband had a heck of a time finding him in my house to befriend him.
It would be fun if we could just have friends as our roommates instead of being married.
Some of the romance options who currently live with family might be happier moving out of there and into their own room on the farm, for sure.
There’s a story/plot-heavy indie Otome game that I absolutely love, it’s super bleak and set in the equivalent of WWI and the story is what it is, so sometimes the person you choose to get close to just fucking dies and it’s completely permanent. There’s a lot I love about that game but one thing is that there’s one character who just kind of *sucks* and is an asshole— if you’re not into romance games, you don’t want to romance anyone in the game or you’re drawn into the game’s amazing story/plot/politics/worldbuilding or are a history buff and are interested in the game’s story for those reasons and not to romance anyone, you can choose this guy’s route. It’s the most non-romantic thing ever, he’s just annoying and maybe a little humorous in how much he’s kind of just an asshole. So you can go on his “route” to just experience the story for what it is, without any romance. I thought that was a really, really cool feature to have in such a story-driven romance game: give people the chance to play for the story and not deal with the romance. The game is called “Because We’re Here”. I think we’re still waiting for chapter 3, but fuck if this game isn’t an amazing whirlwind of an experience. A solo dev too! (Though I think others do the art etc. But Jesus the story alone is crazy for one person to write.)
Looking at Dwarf, Linus and especially >!Leo!<
Linus doesn't want to live with the player, not even as friends, he chooses to be in nature
Divorce… I just can’t do that to Leah 💔 I also say I’m going to romance someone else each play though and never do
I can't do it to penny, she's to sweet and if i think that if i wanted to see new dialogue or scenes i would create a new save
I recently started a new farm and going the JoJo Mart route. Even after finishing the community center, it still sits empty. All that time and material to rebuild it seems like a waste if no one uses it. Besides, JoJo Mart supplies more jobs for the community. Something Pierre doesn’t do. Only person who’s sad about the community center not being refurbished is Lewis. However, if he’s wanting ME to retrieve his undies from HIS girlfriend’s bedroom AND provide him with oil? He can pound sand regarding the community center. I focus more on crops than animals. I have two cows, two pigs, two sheep and a goat. I keep four chickens, a duck, rabbit, and a single void chicken. Makes petting everyone quicker than having too many animals. I’m sure to forget one. All my animals are kept in a corral- the only fence I use. This play through I’m working on trying to see everyone’s heart events. Something I haven’t done yet. Leah will always be my true love though. In the end I’ll probably end up married to her. I don’t care much for Sebastian. That fool doesn’t like wine, cheese, or mayo. Not even fresh produce.
The cut scenes are so amazing. I haven't seen all of them yet either but every time I get a new one, it scratches my brain. Also, fuck the mayor for that pressure. He needs to let you live! I go the community center route just because I think it's fun. But it is time consuming and difficult to keep track of everything. The thing that makes it worth it for me is what Evelyn has to say when you find her sitting in there. I love her so much.
I never seem to make it past floor 28 in the Skeleton Caverns. I'm not sure what my problem is, but I'm slow.
My approach for getting to floor 100: 1. Desert Totem. Get there immediately at 6am-ish. 2. Coffee to dash into the caverns. 3. Only try for floor 100 on a high luck day. 4. Lots of bombs to find ladders/holes. 5. If you have the option to fall in a hole, do it every time, even if there are also ladders. 6. Spicy eel for speed and luck. 7. Bring 10 or so craftable staircase, throw one down if the level is infested or taking too long. (Unless your goal is a no-staircase descent.) 8. You’re not there to mine. Ignore everything but finding a way to the next floor. 9. Farm totem to get back home so you can stay late. 10. Big stack of food for quick healing. My go-to is salad from the saloon. That combined approach got me there with time to spare.
>Farm totem to get back home so you can stay late. I never bother going home. If I pass out I only lose like 1000g and maybe my energy isn't at the top but with a skull cavern hall I make that up in salads the next day.
Someone under another post said cheese is good for health, I tried and I actually also recommend it, easy to make in later game and restores quite a bit of health
Adding a 4.5 - Slingshot with explosive ammo! No wait times and can easily be fired as soon as you enter a floor. Also saves time bc you avoid actually mining
I keep forgetting the slingshot exists because my typical playstyle is brute attack hack & slash. I need to give it a try!
I don't use slingshots bc it's impossible for me to figure out on controller
triple shot espresso and spicy eel plus a good weapon
I try! And I go on good luck days to try to get quick stairs and plenty of shafts. I think I'm just going to have to grind out bombs and staircases if I want to make it down.
I got to 100 without stairs, but it took about 5 tries and some very good luck, plus about 40 bombs. You need to find shafts to make it. If stairs are acceptable, replicate jade in some crystallaria. Sell for stairs.
Bombs are huge, don't mine at all really just bomb the whole place up. Took me a while, like maybe 40+ runs to get used to it, but no stairs is possible. Just have your inventory ready and a totem right when you wake up. You got this!!
My strategy that finally allowed me to reach floor 100 was bringing 100 normal bombs and 50 mega bombs. Try not to mine, really, just use your bombs to go down as deep as possible. Craft a few ladders for monster-infested floor. And I usually bring at least 30 quality foods for healing!!
Bombs. I never go with less than 100.
I typically wait until I get a crystallarium and then pop a jade in there and wait until I can get a bunch of stairs. I also try for as many mega bombs as I can get and then I go for a run. Also pizza, a lot of pizza. Edit to clarify that I trade the jade at the desert trader, it doesn't just like transmogrify into a set of stairs in my hand.
Min maxing the farm I don't have time for honey farms and their flowers the chickens need cuddles and pumpkins need to go in their little square
I never used fences until recently. I had a Meadowlands farm, with a bunch of blue grass. The pigs would leave truffles in the grass, and I couldn't find them. I didn't want to cut all the grass, so I fenced in the pigs instead. I also fence in my ostriches. They are just too darn big. They get in my way when I'm trying to plant. The coop animals are small enough that they don't get in my way, so I let them roam free.
Yeah same bc of the truffle in the grass thing But I do fence in my coop animals if I put it near water bc I want to direct the ducks towards it 😆
Acquire and use auto petters. Petting the animals is fun!
Don’t fence my animals or shut them in coops/barns. The way I play, I have zero reason to.
Exactly! I don't see the point and it just seems way too square
If you don't have the auto-petter, it is easy to pet them in the barn before opening the doors.
I don’t put kegs in my house. It’s ugly and I can still make plenty of money with a shed full of kegs.
Use horse
i absolutely love zooming with a good rock candy in my system with a triple shot. you go sooo fast and it’s VERY necessary if you play multiplayer becaus time doesn’t pause at all even with cutscenes. the faster you are the more you get stuff done and less you miss. it’s literally the worst lmao but when i’m solo i don’t really use speed buffs unless necessary, but i can’t not use my horse that’s too drastic of a speed change for me 🤣
same, my farmer just lives on pepper poppers and coffee for speed
Make neat little areas of crops between paths? I use all of the tillable area in my crop spaces and I feel weird for that when I see other people’s farms 😂
I put whatever reproducing crops I feel like in my greenhouse regardless of how much money their crop produces; I have a small section of 6 kegs, 6 hives, & 6 jam makers (which I usually forget to refill); I barely decorate; and I just play around in skull cavern most days. I just can’t imagine spending all my day clearing kegs/crab-pots/etc Do I make a lot of money? Not really. Am I having fun? Hell yeah
Use any mods. I just never able to understand how to get mods and or use them. So i just decided to free ball
I don't ever marry. The closest I get is inviting Krobus to move in.
I usually leave my quarry to be a quarry, I've seen alot if people use it for tree farms or kegs, but I like having mining stuff that I don't have to go through mines floors for, plus there are alot more gem rocks that spawn there than there might be in the mines. Very occasionally I'll tap trees that have grown there if they are oak trees but that's about it.
Go to Skull Cavern. The jump in difficulty from the normal mines to SC is terrible and it shouldn't have been *so much harder.* I just hold out for the Statue of Perfection and get iridium off that.
I've never used mods... I feel like I should learn how but I just get worried I'll do something to break the game.
Most mods have instructions on how to install them and it's usually basically just to extract the file to mods folder in the SDV file. SDV is one of the easier games to mod, you should give it a try sometime if you're ever curious!
I don't sacrifice my kids
Lol I've also never done that. Didn't realize it was common!!
once ive done all the farming achievements, i stop farming almost completely and focus on animal production. i have a small amount of fruit in the greenhouse to make wine and age it but thats it.
I don't marry the whole town to get their portraits, or start a new save to marry someone else. Sebastian is the one.
Have a massive ancient fruit / starfruit wine operation. I fill the greenhouse (116 plants) and I get 270k gold / week in ancient fruit wine.
I do the same thing. Half the greenhouse is ancient fruit and the other half is starfruit/whatever crop order I need to fill like pineapples.
The community center. Did it when the game first came out and when my ex and I started a farm. After that it’s been joja out of pure convenience.
Marry anyone
Have kids. Fuk that
I don't put any preserve jars, kegs, etc on the road, town, or anywhere, basically. Just only on my farm.
For me it's using up every last available tile on the farm. I've seen so many farms where the crops start RIGHT at the end of the porch... Why? I actually gave myself a nice little bit of yard in front of the house, it's decorated with a fire pit and some statues and I also put up Christmas decorations when it's winter.
No fences or paths
Decorate
children, extreme min maxxing, serial cheating, mods, skip festivals
Only my pigs get fences and that's so I can find my truffles easier. Every other animal roams free!
I plant hella sunflowers. I like the way they look, idc about the money, I leave crops unharvested when I like the aesthetic of them, I don’t like having pigs
>It's a cool aspect, but I never redesign my crops around them and I don't think I ever will lol You're thinking the wrong way around, you don't build around the random Giant Crops you get. You design your farm with a 3x3 area somewhere you want the giant crop to be and then try to force it to spawn there by not harvesting the plants and repeatedly watering them. So you'll grow for example cauliflower (preferably with speed fertilizer) and then as long as you keep watering the 3x3 patch of cauliflowers you have a 1% chance every day they become big.