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** Chop down tree tops only (leave stumps) for maximum experience for the energy you spend. | ** Chop down tree tops only (leave stumps) for maximum experience for the energy you spend. | ||
* Backpack space. | * Backpack space. | ||
** Drop on ground. If you try to craft a chest or retrieve something when your backpack is full, you don't always have to throw something away to make room for it. Instead drop your lowest value stack of items onto the ground off to the side of your menu. It will always drop directly in front of you, so this | ** Drop on ground. If you try to craft a chest or retrieve something when your backpack is full, you don't always have to throw something away to make room for it. Instead drop your lowest value stack of items onto the ground off to the side of your menu. It will always drop directly in front of you, so this could drop things in the water if you are fishing. | ||
=== Your strengths today === | === Your strengths today === | ||
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* Turn on "Always Show Tool Hit Location" to help you save energy by avoiding errant tool use. | * Turn on "Always Show Tool Hit Location" to help you save energy by avoiding errant tool use. | ||
Now it's time to plant. Pick up your free seeds and leave your house. Pause the clock without obscuring your farm by checking your mailbox or trying to chop a big stump (only once, and only if necessary; it uses energy) While the clock is paused, choose a place to plant your 15 Parsnips. Whenever the clock is not paused, clear weeds generally in your preferred area with your energy-free scythe. | Now it's time to plant. Pick up your free seeds and leave your house. Pause the clock without obscuring your farm by checking your mailbox or trying to chop a big stump (only once, and only if necessary; it uses energy). While the clock is paused, choose a place to plant your 15 Parsnips. Whenever the clock is not paused, clear weeds generally in your preferred area with your energy-free scythe. You want to be near a water source, and you don't want to clear even one rock today (later you do, but today you would like to get close to the 50 wood you need for a storage chest if you can muster the energy). So find a mostly clear or grassy/weedy patch of ground (away from big stumps, nearly rock-free, maybe not obscured by trees, and not too big; you still have city slicker muscles and cheap tools) near a pond. | ||
[[File:SDV-Starter-field.PNG|thumb|50px|3x3 squares]] For the first year and beyond, a layout of 3x3 squares is perfect. | [[File:SDV-Starter-field.PNG|thumb|50px|3x3 squares]] For the first year and beyond, a layout of 3x3 squares is perfect. | ||
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** Trains yourself not to "commit" your sprinkler spaces to anything slow-growing | ** Trains yourself not to "commit" your sprinkler spaces to anything slow-growing | ||
** Allows for your first sprinklers in case you want to stop watering. You can fill in the middles anytime if you decide you don't want sprinklers or you want to see [[Stardew_Valley/Tips_and_Tricks|giant crops]]. | ** Allows for your first sprinklers in case you want to stop watering. You can fill in the middles anytime if you decide you don't want sprinklers or you want to see [[Stardew_Valley/Tips_and_Tricks|giant crops]]. | ||
* Allow for a scarecrow. Plan for a 3x3 square empty in the middle of a field shaped like a | * Allow for a scarecrow. Plan for for 160 crops with a 3x3 square empty in the middle of a field shaped like a plus sign. [[File:SDV-scarecrow-middle.png|thumb|50px|Scarecrow in middle of 20 squares]] Or leave a space left (west) or right (east) of a future rectangular field. Either way, one scarecrow can guard 5 squares in the first column near it and 3 squares in the second (64 crops on one side) without obscuring any crops. Two scarecrows centered on the edges of a field can cover 3 x 5 squares (9 x 15 tiles) wide or tall. (Scarecrows are very soon cheap enough you don't need to worry too much about optimizing them, so relax and have fun.) [[File:SDV-scarecrows-3x5-square-tall.png|thumb|50px|Tall 3 x 5 grid of square]] | ||
Using your scythe and hoe only, prepare and water a tile here for each of your 15 seeds. If you get mixed seeds using your scythe on Weeds now or anytime today, trash them or plant them too (saving for later would be best, but your space is limited) until every seed is planted and watered. | Using your scythe and hoe only, prepare and water a tile here for each of your 15 seeds. If you get mixed seeds using your scythe on Weeds now or anytime today, trash them or plant them too (saving for later would be best, but your space is limited) until every seed is planted and watered. | ||
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==== Craft a chest ==== | ==== Craft a chest ==== | ||
Use your axe to chop the top (leaving the stump | Use your axe to chop the top (leaving the stump to get maximum Foraging experience for your limited energy) of enough trees near your house and any small logs you can't avoid (they don't level up your Foraging at all) to get 50 wood in your backpack. Then craft a chest and put it near your field, your house, and your path to town. Before you leave your farm, unload everything except your hoe and food into the chest. | ||
Avoid using your pickaxe on rocks until you have a chest. | Avoid using your pickaxe on rocks until you have a chest. | ||
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=== Spring 2 === | === Spring 2 === | ||
==== Farming ==== | ==== Farming ==== | ||
Rare Offer Alert: There is an Egg Festival on Spring 13 | Rare Offer Alert: There is an Egg Festival on Spring 13. It's your annual chance to buy seeds for Strawberry to harvest and sell twice before Summer comes. This is very valuable to you as you start because it will put lots of money in the ground without taking all your time and energy to water that money. You can do this if you transition to Potatoes (they cost 2.5 times as much as Parsnips and take 1.5 times as long--6 days) by Spring 6. Pierre's store is closed on Festival days, so you can't sell your harvest on Spring 13. To step up from Parsnip (Spring 1 and 2) to Potato (Spring 5 and 6) to Strawberry (Spring 16), you need to harvest and sell everything on or before the 12th to get enough money to buy lots of Strawberry at the Egg Festival. | ||
Planting calendar: From today to Spring 6, save all your money (up to 4000gp) for up to 80 Potatoes. Right now you don't want to be watering more than 40 Parsnips, and you can get money for Potatoes by fishing and foraging. Save any Mixed Seeds you find for later. You won't have time for | Planting calendar: From today to Spring 6, save all your money (up to 4000gp) for up to 80 Potatoes. Right now you don't want to be watering more than 40 Parsnips, and you can get money for Potatoes by fishing and foraging. Save any Mixed Seeds you find for later. You won't have time for three harvests of Parsnips before the Egg Festival, so you may as well save up from here out for Potatoes on Spring 6. Switching to potatoes on Spring 6 helps you keep your field small to save time and energy to work on other important things. | ||
Today: Water, empty your backpack except for food and hoe, and go try fishing. | Today: Water, empty your backpack except for food and hoe, and go try fishing. | ||
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* Clear your farm a bit until 7:30am. | * Clear your farm a bit until 7:30am. | ||
* Go to the beach. Willy will give you an old fishing rod. | * Go to the beach. Willy will give you an old fishing rod. | ||
* Try out the fishing mini game from the pier for 3 to 5 casts. Ignore your success on the first cast; it's fake and not representative. Then evaluate your prospects and start formulating a decision: How good are you at fishing? Were you close to catching anything? Would you like to try from an easier spot with some extra help? It doesn't delay the story to delay fishing for a month. So you aren't required to fish. But fishing is comparatively good income at first. If don't want to try it, spend your money on 25 more (no more than that) Parsnip Seeds (General Store) and return straight home to level up your farming, mining, and foraging by planting, watering, and chopping tree tops and small rocks. If your prospects don't look great, but you still want to try it, do the following: | * Try out the fishing mini game from the pier for 3 to 5 casts. Ignore your success on the first cast; it's fake and not representative. Then evaluate your prospects and start formulating a decision: How good are you at fishing? Were you close to catching anything? Would you like to try from an easier spot with some extra help? It doesn't delay the story to delay fishing for a month. So you aren't required to fish. But fishing is comparatively good income at first. If you don't want to try it, spend your money on 25 more (no more than that) Parsnip Seeds (General Store) and return straight home to level up your farming, mining, and foraging by planting, watering, and chopping tree tops and small rocks. If your fishing prospects don't look great, but you still want to try it, do the following: | ||
** Buy one or two Trout Soup from Willy if you have gold. It's good general food (a little worse than Salad from the Saloon), so it's not a waste of your money to buy two. | ** Buy one or two Trout Soup from Willy if you have gold. It's good general food (a little worse than Salad from the Saloon), so it's not a waste of your money to buy two. | ||
** Go straight north and east to the Carpenter's Shop and the [https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Fishing_Strategy#The_Mountains Mountain Lake], at the east end of the long fence and start fishing from there. Some of the fish here can be caught passively (no clicks). | ** Go straight north and east to the Carpenter's Shop and the [https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Fishing_Strategy#The_Mountains Mountain Lake], at the east end of the long fence and start fishing from there. Some of the fish here can be caught passively (no clicks). | ||
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Cut the tops of trees that are crowded enough to obscure each other. The stumps don't help you level up as much, and they continue to spawn seeds (they do not regrow). Chop the stumps later for wood. As you need more wood, thin your farm more, especially on the west end, but do not clear cut beyond your field area, and leave one of each type close enough to your field to see while you tend your crops. Avoid felling Oak trees (the ones with a tight canopy and reflective mop top vs visible branches) until you start getting seeds. Collect seeds, especially Acorns (Oak), for planting around the farm and the valley for Tapping. | Cut the tops of trees that are crowded enough to obscure each other. The stumps don't help you level up as much, and they continue to spawn seeds (they do not regrow). Chop the stumps later for wood. As you need more wood, thin your farm more, especially on the west end, but do not clear cut beyond your field area, and leave one of each type close enough to your field to see while you tend your crops. Avoid felling Oak trees (the ones with a tight canopy and reflective mop top vs visible branches) until you start getting seeds. Collect seeds, especially Acorns (Oak), for planting around the farm and the valley for Tapping. | ||
Resist the temptation to snowball your field unmanageably large; you will be rolling in money soon enough, and a week or two either way won't ultimately matter much. What will matter is missing out on the things that this walkthrough alerts you about. Instead of overplanting willy nilly, stick to your 15 or 40 Parsnips for now save your money for Potatoes on Spring 6. | Resist the temptation to snowball your field unmanageably large; you will be rolling in money soon enough, and a week or two either way won't ultimately matter much. What will matter is missing out on the things that this walkthrough alerts you about. Instead of overplanting willy nilly, stick to your 15 or 40 Parsnips for now and save your money for Potatoes on Spring 6. | ||
You need to learn to carry your hoe at all times and notice wiggling "worms" Artifact Spots sticking out of any dirt you pass by. Digging up these spots is an important way to get some of the Artifacts to donate to the museum. And keep all Geodes. You want to donate 5 items to the Museum on or before Spring 16 to get free Cauliflower Seeds. | You need to learn to carry your hoe at all times and notice wiggling "worms" Artifact Spots sticking out of any dirt you pass by. Digging up these spots is an important way to get some of the Artifacts to donate to the museum. And keep all Geodes. You want to donate 5 items to the Museum on or before Spring 16 to get free Cauliflower Seeds. | ||
The rewards for reaching 5 and 10 donations are Wild Seeds for Spring and Summer, respectively. | The rewards for reaching 5 and 10 donations are Wild Seeds (not to be confused with Mixed Seeds, see Spring 7 section) for Spring and Summer, respectively. | ||
==== Mining ==== | ==== Mining ==== | ||
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See also: First Spring Mining tips at the bottom of this article. | See also: First Spring Mining tips at the bottom of this article. | ||
While you can't [[Stardew Valley/Mining|mine]] yet, you can prepare now. What you really want on your farm are sprinklers so your fields can grow beyond your ability to water and so you can just relax between planting and harvest. And the way to get sprinklers is to descend into the mines as quickly as possible to floor 80 (or 90 for a special sword) to unlock the required ore-bearing floors and the armor and weapons that make farming ore and coal easy. Clearing 100 rocks (Mining level 1) will unlock a recipe for cherry bombs for The Mines, and 380 rocks (Mining level 2) will unlock a Staircase recipe for The Mines. Clearing your entire farm of small rocks will get you to level 2 and build up coal, copper, and stone for your rapid descent. Beyond enough wood for two chests (one near home and one at the mines), clear every small rock from your farm. | While you can't [[Stardew Valley/Mining|mine]] yet, you can prepare now. What you really want on your farm are sprinklers so your fields can grow beyond your ability to water and so you can just relax between planting and harvest. And the way to get sprinklers is to descend into the mines as quickly as possible to floor 80 (or 90 for a special sword) to unlock the required ore-bearing floors and the armor and weapons that make farming ore and coal easy. Clearing 100 rocks (Mining skill level 1) will unlock a recipe for cherry bombs for The Mines, and 380 rocks (Mining skill level 2) will unlock a Staircase recipe for The Mines. Clearing your entire farm of small rocks will get you to level 2 and will build up coal, copper, and stone for your rapid descent. Beyond enough wood for two chests (one near home and one at the mines), use your energy to clear every small rock from your farm. | ||
==== Fishing ==== | ==== Fishing ==== | ||
As soon as you reach Fishing level 2, buy a Fiberglass Rod and start using Bait to speed up your fishing income. | As soon as you reach Fishing level 2, buy a Fiberglass Rod and start using Bait to speed up your fishing income. | ||
There are no fish unique to Spring for the Community Center, so you have a couple of months to save one Sunfish and as much time as you want to save the other CC fish you find, so feel free to delay | There are no fish unique to Spring for the Community Center, so you have a couple of months to save one Sunfish and as much time as you want to save the other CC fish you find, so feel free to delay fishing—unless it's making you money—until your fields are sprinkled or sell or eat anything you catch right now. After a couple of months, the only significant value of fishing will be fun and CC completion | ||
=== Spring 4 === | === Spring 4 === | ||
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Birthdays alert: Save one of your new Parsnips for Mayor Lewis's birthday on Spring 7. And young Vincent would like a Daffodil for his on Spring 10. Mark the dates! Note that gold star quality always impresses people most on birthdays. | Birthdays alert: Save one of your new Parsnips for Mayor Lewis's birthday on Spring 7. And young Vincent would like a Daffodil for his on Spring 10. Mark the dates! Note that gold star quality always impresses people most on birthdays. | ||
You’ll get a notice that the path to a [[Stardew Valley/Mining|mine]] is open today, and that’s good since the ore you find there is necessary to upgrade your tools and is all you need to build sprinklers if you are tired of watering. Meanwhile, if you keep your field small by stepping from Parsnips to Potatoes to Strawberries, you will have time to fish, mine, and follow the Stardew Valley story. When you reach Mining level 2 (by clearing your farm of all small rocks) and have lots of food (forage, fish, or Salad from the Saloon), read [[Stardew Valley/Mining]] especially about ladders, then grab your pickaxe, hoe, fishing pole (just in case), stone, copper, coal except one for a scarecrow, food, and a new chest and go early in the day out your north exit to The Mines in the northeast corner of the valley. Once inside The Mines, put your chest by the elevator and leave everything but sword, pickaxe, coal, copper, stone, and food. Now start your first day of mining in rapid descent mode toward floor 80 or 90! Maybe you will make 5 or even 10 floors today if you start early enough. For the rest of the month, use any long days starting mid morning and [[Stardew Valley/Mining|rapid descent strategies]] to unlock 5 or 10 floors in a day, reaching floor 80 in time to have or envision sprinklers when you shop for Summer crops. | You’ll get a notice that the path to a [[Stardew Valley/Mining|mine]] is open today, and that’s good since the ore you find there is necessary to upgrade your tools and is all you need to build sprinklers if you are tired of watering. Meanwhile, if you keep your field small by stepping from Parsnips to Potatoes to Strawberries, you will have time to fish, mine, and follow the Stardew Valley story. When you reach Mining skill level 2 (by clearing your farm of all small rocks) and have lots of food (forage, fish, or Salad from the Saloon), read [[Stardew Valley/Mining]] especially about ladders, then grab your pickaxe, hoe, fishing pole (just in case), stone, copper, coal except one for a scarecrow, food, and a new chest and go early in the day out your north exit to The Mines in the northeast corner of the valley. Once inside The Mines, put your chest by the elevator and leave everything but sword, pickaxe, coal, copper, stone, and food. Now start your first day of mining in rapid descent mode toward floor 80 or 90! Maybe you will make 5 or even 10 floors today if you start early enough. For the rest of the month, use any long days starting mid morning and [[Stardew Valley/Mining|rapid descent strategies]] to unlock 5 or 10 floors in a day, reaching floor 80 in time to have or envision sprinklers when you shop for Summer crops. | ||
''Main article: [[Stardew Valley/Mining]]'' | ''Main article: [[Stardew Valley/Mining]]'' | ||
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1. There is a Pantry "Spring Crops Bundle" of donations to complete at the Community Centre. These things are only farmable this month. And if you donate them all, you will get a helpful prize now. Be aware of the time it takes to grow them. Start them after planting Strawberries. | 1. There is a Pantry "Spring Crops Bundle" of donations to complete at the Community Centre. These things are only farmable this month. And if you donate them all, you will get a helpful prize now. Be aware of the time it takes to grow them. Start them after planting Strawberries. | ||
* 1 Parsnip: 4 days | * 1 Parsnip: 4 days | ||
* 1 Green Bean: 10 days | * 1 Green Bean: 10 days for first harvest | ||
* 1 Cauliflower: 12 days | * 1 Cauliflower: 12 days | ||
* 1 Potato: 6 days | * 1 Potato: 6 days | ||
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3. There is a Community Center Pantry "Quality Crops Bundle" you can't complete now. It requires 5 gold star examples of three of the following: Parsnip, Corn, Melon, or Pumpkin. If you save 5 gold star Parsnips, you can complete it next month with Corn and Melon. The frequency of gold will increase toward the end of the month. So keep only Lewis's gold star Parsnip for now. Sell all your other Parsnips to buy Strawberry seeds, then start saving gold star ones for the CC and Pam's Birthday after you get Strawberries in the ground. | 3. There is a Community Center Pantry "Quality Crops Bundle" you can't complete now. It requires 5 gold star examples of three of the following: Parsnip, Corn, Melon, or Pumpkin. If you save 5 gold star Parsnips, you can complete it next month with Corn and Melon. The frequency of gold will increase toward the end of the month. So keep only Lewis's gold star Parsnip for now. Sell all your other Parsnips to buy Strawberry seeds, then start saving gold star ones for the CC and Pam's Birthday after you get Strawberries in the ground. | ||
It may be worthwhile to put a chest in your house now for your Community Center, Birthday, Luau (see Spring 14), and Fair (see Spring 14) items. And soon you may want to categorize your chests further to help you reserve the right things. | It may be worthwhile to put a chest in your house now for your Community Center, Birthday, Luau (see Spring 14 section), and Fair (see Spring 14 section) items. And soon you may want to categorize your chests further to help you reserve the right things. | ||
==== Foraging ==== | ==== Foraging ==== | ||
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=== Spring 7 === | === Spring 7 === | ||
Don't miss Lewis's birthday today. He would like a | Don't miss Lewis's birthday today. He would like a gold star Parsnip. | ||
Visit the the Wizard if he invites you. Then donate to the Spring Foraging Bundle when you have all four. You will receive a reward of Spring Seeds. Spring Seeds are also known as the Spring version of Wild Seeds (Wild Seeds (Sp)). They are not the same as the Mixed Seeds you get from chopping weeds. Mixed Seeds grow into random farm crops with a few failures. Spring Wild Seeds grow into Leeks, Dandelions, Wild Horseradish, and Daffodils as crops on your farm. That said, it saves more energy and gives you up-front money for Strawberries if you sell the seeds immediately. | Visit the the Wizard if he invites you. Then donate to the Spring Foraging Bundle when you have all four. You will receive a reward of Spring Seeds. Spring Seeds are also known as the Spring version of Wild Seeds (Wild Seeds (Sp)). They are not the same as the Mixed Seeds you get from chopping weeds. Mixed Seeds grow into random farm crops with a few failures. Spring Wild Seeds grow into Leeks, Dandelions, Wild Horseradish, and Daffodils as crops on your farm. That said, it saves more energy and gives you up-front money for Strawberries if you sell the seeds immediately. | ||
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=== Spring 10-12 === | === Spring 10-12 === | ||
Get ready to | Get ready to spend big on Strawberry at the Egg Festival on Spring 13. Prepare your field with fertilizer. Sell all your harvests except 1 Potato for the Community Centre. Buy and plant seeds for any missing Community Centre Spring Crops (1 Green Bean and 1 Cauliflower if they aren't already growing from Mixed Seeds) and about 16 Parsnips on fertilizer to try repeatedly for five gold star (six including Shane's birthday on Spring 20) through the end of the month (12th, 16th, and 20th). Depending on your Farming skill level, around 1/4 of your fertilized crops will be gold star, and that will increase through the end of the month. | ||
Make a wild plants round by Friday if you want. Save one of everything and a gold star Daffodil for Haley (Spring 14) and maybe Pierre (26) and Emily (27). | Make a wild plants round by Friday if you want. Save one of everything and a gold star Daffodil for Haley (Spring 14) and maybe Pierre (26) and Emily (27). | ||
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== End of Spring == | == End of Spring == | ||
=== Spring 14-16 === | === Spring 14-16 === | ||
Birthday alert: Haley (Spring 14) would like a Daffodil on her birthday. | Birthday alert: Haley (Spring 14) would like a gold star Daffodil on her birthday. | ||
As soon as you can afford them (from fishing, foraging, and mining income), plant | As soon as you can afford them (from fishing, foraging, and mining income), plant | ||
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Cauliflower season: Cauliflower is the next most expensive crop available to you right now, and you can use two gold star ones to show off at the Luau and the Fair. These three days are good for planting as much Cauliflower as you can afford (see Museum reward freebie). | Cauliflower season: Cauliflower is the next most expensive crop available to you right now, and you can use two gold star ones to show off at the Luau and the Fair. These three days are good for planting as much Cauliflower as you can afford (see Museum reward freebie). | ||
Festival and Friendship Alert: There is a Luau on Summer 11 where you can win friendship with every villager by putting a gold star Cauliflower in the soup. This | Festival and Friendship Alert: There is a Luau on Summer 11 where you can win friendship with every villager by putting a gold star Cauliflower in the soup. This potential friendship boost is unique among all the festivals. So plant whatever Cauliflower you can afford these three days now and save the best Cauliflower you get for the Luau. | ||
Museum reward and cauliflower deadline: Gather your geodes, artifacts, and minerals as soon as you finish watering on or before Spring 16 and take them to the blacksmith (closes at 4pm) and the museum to see if you can reach 5 donations to the museum and get Cauliflower seeds as a reward. It's worthless to plant them after Spring 16, and a day of padding doesn't hurt. | Museum reward and cauliflower deadline: Gather your geodes, artifacts, and minerals as soon as you finish watering on or before Spring 16 and take them to the blacksmith (closes at 4pm) and the museum to see if you can reach 5 donations to the museum and get Cauliflower seeds as a reward. It's worthless to plant them after Spring 16, and a day of padding doesn't hurt. | ||
=== Spring 17-21 === | === Spring 17-21 === | ||
Birthday alert: Pam (Spring 18) would LOVE a Parsnip on her birthday. Shane (Spring 20) would like a parsnip, green bean, or potato on his birthday. Gold star is always best, of course! | Birthday alert: Pam (Spring 18) would LOVE a gold star Parsnip on her birthday. Shane (Spring 20) would like a gold star parsnip, green bean, or potato on his birthday. Gold star is always best, of course! | ||
Now you can upgrade your backpack any time you want or use the same 2,000 to buy gold ore for your first Quality Sprinkler assuming you are now rolling in Iron and Quartz, but not Gold. | Now you can upgrade your backpack any time you want or use the same 2,000 to buy gold ore for your first Quality Sprinkler assuming you are now rolling in Iron and Quartz, but not Gold. | ||
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Limit the size of your fields carefully. | Limit the size of your fields carefully. | ||
Even if you want to stay on your farm and have the biggest field possible, you will want to move beyond your basic watering can, and to do that, you have to explore the rest of Stardew Valley a little. So it's a good rule of thumb to be able to finish watering your field | Even if you want to stay on your farm and have the biggest field possible, you will want to move beyond your basic watering can, and to do that, you have to explore the rest of Stardew Valley a little. So even if you love spending your days watering, it's a good rule of thumb to be able to finish watering your field by 2pm. That will allow you time on days when you need to harvest and replant or make a pre-rain upgrade trip to the blacksmith who closes at 4pm. But ... | ||
This walkthrough helps you finish your watering mid-morning to give you time for mining copper, iron, and beyond for tappers, sprinklers, and tool upgrades or fishing for cash and energy. You can finish watering as early as 9am at your fastest and still profit well if you step methodically from Parsnips to Potatoes to Strawberries. | This walkthrough helps you finish your watering mid-morning to give you time for mining copper, iron, and beyond for tappers, sprinklers, and tool upgrades or fishing for cash and energy. You can finish watering as early as 9am at your fastest and still profit well if you step methodically from Parsnips to Potatoes to Strawberries. | ||
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* Forage | * Forage | ||
** If you cross the river directly south of your farm you should find the entrance to the Sewers and some trees near large patches of dirt. These patches of dirt often contain Spring Onions (during Spring, of course) and the Spring Onions regrow and reset every day - you can pick them right from day 1, and revisit them later. Like Salmonberries, they sell for very little but they are worth eating when you’re running out of energy. Unlike Spring Onions, all other forageables do not disappear every night - they spawn every day and accrue up to a limit until Saturday night. Then they [https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Foraging#Spawning_Limit reset on Sunday]. This means that you are best advised to forage once or twice a week for everything else and possibly every day for Spring Onions if you need energy more than time. | ** If you cross the river directly south of your farm you should find the entrance to the Sewers and some trees near large patches of dirt. These patches of dirt often contain Spring Onions (during Spring, of course) and the Spring Onions regrow and reset every day - you can pick them right from day 1, and revisit them later. Like Salmonberries, they sell for very little but they are worth eating when you’re running out of energy. Unlike Spring Onions, all other forageables do not disappear every night - they spawn every day and accrue up to a limit until Saturday night. Then they [https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Foraging#Spawning_Limit reset on Sunday]. This means that you are best advised to forage once or twice a week for everything else and possibly every day for Spring Onions if you need energy more than time. | ||
** Prioritize eating your extra forage in this order: eat Salmonberry (15th-18th), eat Spring Onions, eat Leeks, eat Dandelions, sell Wild Horseradish, and gift, save, or sell Daffodils. | ** Prioritize eating your extra forage in this order: eat Salmonberry (15th-18th), eat Spring Onions, eat Leeks, eat Dandelions, sell Wild Horseradish, and gift, save, or sell Daffodils. | ||
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* Calendar | * Calendar | ||
** Plan to buy and plant Strawberries on Spring 12 at the Egg Festival since they are the most energy-saving crop you can buy right now. Pierre will sell Strawberry seeds at 100gp each that are great for income and experience. (Ignore the fun Rarecrow. You can get the Rarecrow next year for fun when you have lots of cash.) Right now you need income and experience more than you ever will again, so grow and sell them and save one Strawberry in case you want use a Seedmaker before the next Egg Festival to start a Strawberry crop in your Greenhouse. | ** Plan to buy and plant Strawberries on Spring 12 at the Egg Festival since they are the most energy-saving crop you can buy right now. Pierre will sell Strawberry seeds at 100gp each that are great for income and experience. (Ignore the fun Rarecrow. You can get the Rarecrow next year for fun when you have lots of cash.) Right now you need income and experience more than you ever will again, so grow and sell them and save one Strawberry in case you want use a Seedmaker before the next Egg Festival to start a Strawberry crop in your Greenhouse. | ||
After Spring 15th you need to stop and think before planting, or preferably before buying seeds. Have you got enough time for these seeds to grow? If the packet says (in mouseover text) 12 days, that really means 12 nights, so Cauliflower should be planted by the 16th (17th with Speedgro, which you might get from a Community Centre bundle) to be harvested on the 28th. You can plant parsnips as late as the 24th. | ** After Spring 15th you need to stop and think before planting, or preferably before buying seeds. Have you got enough time for these seeds to grow? If the packet says (in mouseover text) 12 days, that really means 12 nights, so Cauliflower should be planted by the 16th (17th with Speedgro, which you might get from a Community Centre bundle) to be harvested on the 28th. You can plant parsnips as late as the 24th. | ||
** Salmonberries will be available from Spring 15-18. (The TV show "Living on the Land" will alert you to this on the 15th.) These are a foraged item - “use” a bush that is decorated in berries to collect them. They’re worth only 5 gp each - even for a new farmer that’s negligible. But they provide energy, and you can collect a lot of them - some simply as you walk around to places like town and the community centre, but there are many many suitable bushes in Cindersap Forest, south of your farm. You might collect as many as 100 Salmonberries, and this provides good fuel for trips to the mines. | ** Salmonberries will be available from Spring 15-18. (The TV show "Living on the Land" will alert you to this on the 15th.) These are a foraged item - “use” a bush that is decorated in berries to collect them. They’re worth only 5 gp each - even for a new farmer that’s negligible. But they provide energy, and you can collect a lot of them - some simply as you walk around to places like town and the community centre, but there are many many suitable bushes in Cindersap Forest, south of your farm. You might collect as many as 100 Salmonberries, and this provides good fuel for trips to the mines. | ||
** Repairing the bridge at the beach before Spring 6 if you can afford the energy to collect 300 wood, especially if you are fishing at the ocean often, can help you buy more Strawberry seeds and provide several weeks of significant income before you get too rich and busy to care. The tidal pools on the other side usually yield about 300gp worth of foraged items per visit - varying between 100gp on a poor day and 1000 gp on an exceptional one. This is well worthwhile for a starting farmer. | |||
* Repairing the bridge at the beach before Spring 6 if you can afford the energy to collect 300 wood, especially if you are fishing at the ocean often, can help you buy more Strawberry seeds and provide several weeks of significant income before you get too rich and busy to care. The tidal pools on the other side usually yield about 300gp worth of foraged items per visit - varying between 100gp on a poor day and 1000 gp on an exceptional one. | |||
== Mining == | == Mining == | ||
See the [[Stardew Valley/Mining|Mining]] article. Leeks are the most dense Spring food forage, and Kale is the most dense Spring food crop. You can also buy Salad from the Saloon if needed. | |||
== Fishing == | == Fishing == | ||
See [[Stardew_Valley/Fishing#Coping_with_poor_fishing_skills|Fishing article]] | See the [[Stardew_Valley/Fishing#Coping_with_poor_fishing_skills|Fishing article]]. It's common to find fishing frustratingly hard. The only way through that is to level up your character's skill, and you may not have time for that until later in the year if ever. Depending on how bad your skill is, you may want to start by fishing even for trash for hours in your own pond or the mountain lake east (right) of the Carpenter Shop (the east end of the long fence or the south end of the island in the lake are often recommended for easy fishing) until enough skill-free fish happen along over a few sessions to level you up. Once you have any personal skill at all or are able to put bait on your upgraded pole to keep the fish biting, buy trout soup from Willy to boost your fishing level for a few real-world minutes while you fish. Maybe you will even start to like fishing! | ||
It's common to find fishing frustratingly hard. The only way through that is to level up your character's skill, and you may not have time for that until later in the year if ever. Depending on how bad your skill is, you may want to start by fishing even for trash for hours in your own pond or the mountain lake east (right) of the Carpenter Shop (the south end of the island in the lake | |||
== End of Spring == | == End of Spring == | ||