Stardew Valley/First Spring: Difference between revisions
From StrategyWiki, the video game walkthrough and strategy guide wiki
Experiment with first Spoiler alerts on this page. The page needs big abridgment with controversies and Spoilers in expanding sections. I hope to work on that later.
(The cave: Fruit bats and mushrooms.) |
(Experiment with first Spoiler alerts on this page. The page needs big abridgment with controversies and Spoilers in expanding sections. I hope to work on that later.) |
||
| Line 20: | Line 20: | ||
* Museum: Claim a Cauliflower Seeds reward before Spring 16 for donating at least 5 items. Plant it by Spring 16. | * Museum: Claim a Cauliflower Seeds reward before Spring 16 for donating at least 5 items. Plant it by Spring 16. | ||
* Foraging: Hoe all wigglers, get enough food for mining, save 4 gold star Daffodils for birthdays and one basic Leek, Dandelion, Wild Horseradish, and Daffodil for the Community Center. Tap some trees, mostly oak. | * Foraging: Hoe all wigglers, get enough food for mining, save 4 gold star Daffodils for birthdays and one basic Leek, Dandelion, Wild Horseradish, and Daffodil for the Community Center. Tap some trees, mostly oak. | ||
* Mining: | * Mining: Get ore and minerals from [https://stardewvalleywiki.com/The_Mines The Mines]. | ||
* Fishing: Try fishing for at least half a day, and if you | * Fishing: Try fishing for at least half a day, and if you can do it, fish for energy and income. Otherwise work on leveling up when you have spare time. | ||
* Farming: Plant Parsnips on Spring 1 | * Farming: Do just enough to level up at first since you are flabby at first. Plant 15 Parsnips on Spring 1, 40 Potatoes or Kale on Spring 5 and 6, Strawberries on Spring 13 and 14, and a few more Parsnips, some free Cauliflower and mixed seeds at least one Green Bean after Spring 13. Make some sprinklers. This calendar balances energy/time and growth by saving all your money to put the most expensive crops possible in the ground. It also has a day of padding in case you miss any watering; the earlier days are always safest. | ||
Legendary crop alert: The legendary crop in Stardew Valley is Ancient Fruit, and you can't buy seeds for it. You must snowball from a single Ancient Seed artifact (or any additional ones) you happen to find into Ancient Seeds (with an "s"), then to Ancient Fruit, more seeds, and more fruit and beyond. So when you happen to find any Ancient Seed artifact, feel very lucky and never sell it or its raw produce. | Legendary crop alert: The legendary crop in Stardew Valley is Ancient Fruit, and you can't buy seeds for it. You must snowball from a single Ancient Seed artifact (or any additional ones) you happen to find into Ancient Seeds (with an "s"), then to Ancient Fruit, more seeds, and more fruit and beyond. So when you happen to find any Ancient Seed artifact, feel very lucky and never sell it or its raw produce. | ||
| Line 30: | Line 30: | ||
* Pick up any wild plants (Spring forage) you see. (see "First Day\Get wild plants" section below) | * Pick up any wild plants (Spring forage) you see. (see "First Day\Get wild plants" section below) | ||
* Listen to anything anybody has to say. Good friends listen, and you never know what you may learn. | * Listen to anything anybody has to say. Good friends listen, and you never know what you may learn. | ||
* Plant and water 15 Parsnips (not more today) and | * Plant and water 15 Parsnips (not more today). Save your money and Mixed Seeds for later. | ||
* | {{Spoiler|16 crops unlocks destructive crows. 40 crops is a lot to water in your first week. 15 Parsnips is just right to unlock Scarecrows and Basic Fertilizer for your Spring 6 planting if you are able to make money meanwhile fishing.}} | ||
* Top trees and make a Chest. (Ship all Fiber and Clay for gold and to make backpack room until you get a Chest; ship Sap only if necessary.) | |||
{{Spoiler|Topping trees instead of chopping them all the way is the fastest way to unlock tree seeds and Tappers (to get Oak Resin for Kegs to make big Summer Pale Ale income with Hops) with your limited energy. In addition, stumps on your farm keep dropping seeds until you remove them. (Off your farm they don't drop seeds; they grow back.)}} | |||
=== Your weaknesses today === | === Your weaknesses today === | ||
| Line 133: | Line 135: | ||
==== Fishing ==== | ==== Fishing ==== | ||
You’ll get an invitation to go [[Stardew Valley/Fishing|fishing]]. You have 500gp plus anything from what you shipped last night. After trying fishing, | You’ll get an invitation to go [[Stardew Valley/Fishing|fishing]]. You have 500gp plus anything from what you shipped last night. After trying fishing, save your money for other things or or buy fishing supplies. | ||
Some people are able to make more money | Some people are able to make more money the first few weeks with fishing than with early crops. Otherwise, you can wait a month to start fishing and stick to farming and foraging this season. | ||
* Water your 15 Parsnips. | * Water your 15 Parsnips. | ||
* Clear your farm a bit until 7:30am. | * Clear your farm a bit until 7:30am and make another chest for the beach. | ||
* Go to the beach. Willy will give you an old fishing rod. | * Go to the beach with a chest. Willy will give you an old fishing rod. | ||
* Try out the fishing mini game from the pier | * Try out the fishing mini game from the pier. Ignore your success on the first cast; it's fake and not representative. Try another 2-5 bites. If you did not like that, here's what you can do: | ||
* Keep an empty space in your backpack at all times. Eat your smallest stacks of fish, forage, algae, and seaweed to make space or just for energy. All this will get you to fishing level 1 or beyond today. From there on out everything just gets better. | ** Buy the training rod for 25gp | ||
*** only the easiest fish will bite | |||
*** the minigame green bar will be like level 5 | |||
** Move to an easier location. Follow the bulleted walk-through at [[Stardew Valley/Fishing#Coping with poor fishing skills]]. | |||
* Fish all day. Keep an empty space in your backpack at all times. Eat your smallest stacks of fish, forage, algae, and seaweed to make space or just for energy. All this will get you to fishing level 1 or beyond today. From there on out everything just gets better. | |||
* If you are an expert fisher, keep fishing until 11pm. Then decide whether fishing will be worth income until you become a rich farmer. | * If you are an expert fisher, keep fishing until 11pm. Then decide whether fishing will be worth income until you become a rich farmer. | ||
| Line 148: | Line 154: | ||
If you are not going to fish, it may also be worth your effort to repair the Beach bridge to the tidal pools (300 wood) for income toward Potatoes and Strawberries. Keep getting wood by chopping tree tops until you reach Foraging level 3 (Tappers). | If you are not going to fish, it may also be worth your effort to repair the Beach bridge to the tidal pools (300 wood) for income toward Potatoes and Strawberries. Keep getting wood by chopping tree tops until you reach Foraging level 3 (Tappers). | ||
At the end of the day, check your skills tab. Any night you level up in any skill, your energy is restored to 100% even if you go to bed late. The game really doesn't like you to fall asleep outside your house; you may even rarely lose tools. But you can be inside by 1: | At the end of the day, check your skills tab. Any night you level up in any skill, your energy is restored to 100% even if you go to bed late. The game really doesn't like you to fall asleep outside your house; you may even rarely lose tools. But you can be inside by 1:50am on those days without any trouble. | ||
=== Spring 3 === | === Spring 3 === | ||
