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If only you could put fish in it. That was a let down when I tried.
Bought this on a whim a week or two ago on switch and I'm absolutely LOVING this game. Feels like it's perfect for the switch as well
Does getting "Max" when casting have any effect? Other than casting distance, of course.
To my knowledge, Max distance is a criteria for getting certain treasures from the chests that randomly appear
High username to post ratio
Thanks, gonna get them gold fishes 8)
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I'm approaching winter of my first year on my Switch save. What should I do except for trying to complete the bundles? I'm already at the bottom of the mines and I don't have any animals yet.
I was in your shoes (minus finishing the mines) my first winter has been getting and upgrade a barn and coop since between Cows, Goats, Chickens, and Ducks I was able to complete all but the finishing and bulletin board bundles. Obviously your mileage may very based upon what you did in spring -fall. Winter can also be a time to give towns people a lot of gifts to work on making them like you or redesigning your farm layout for the next year. I tore down all my stone fences and moved my barn, coop, and production items somewhere more aesthetically pleasing.
Glad to see you made the jump!
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Thank you! Good to have you in here.
Yeah I guess I'll focus on animals and gifts. I played the game for ~20 hours back when it came out, and over 70 hours on PS4 and in that playthrough, which was kind of like a min/max-lite playthrough, I completed all the bundles around the start of fall of year 2, so this is kinda like my first playthrough that I play just to have a nice, relaxing experience without any pressure behind it. So right now I only do what I really want to do, which made me forget to get animals, haha. Thanks for the help!
Having a good Barn + Coop by Winter Year 1 was essential on my second playthrough. Otherwise your residual income is basically 0. With 4 Chickens, 4 Ducks, 4 Cows, and 4 Goats, I get about 8000G per day just from my animals.
Glad to have a place to discuss this game again! I've been mostly trying to just play this "myself" without obsessing over min/maxing or looking up too much. The next time I fire it up marks the first day of winter, so I'm looking forward to the change of pace. I expect it won't change too much for me, since I never really expanded my garden plots much (I haven't exactly been raking in cash as a result) but it will be a good chance to build up my other non-farming production. Still waiting to unlock kegs so I can get my brewing and winery going!
Thanks for the OT. I'm still waiting for the Switch to get a patch for the crashing bug. Don't want to play and worry about that just because I have space in my fridge inventory and whatnot. Was there an ETA on the patch?
YAY! So happy to see this thread. This game has seriously taken over all my play time over the past few weeks. It's so nice to just sit back and relax with it. I'm nearing the end of Winter 1 and I have a good nest egg of money and quality sprinklers for spring. I've been taking it slow with the amount I plant and the upgrades I do to my farm and its actually worked really well. I just gave Leah a salad for her birthday and now we're best friends. Soon I will waifu. My Year 2 is gonna be amazing.
Nice to see this thread again.
Middle of Spring Year 2, only have the animal stuff to go before unlocking the greenhouse. So it's gonna be a while to get farm animals and check the traveling cart to get them all for the bundle.
Maxed out my inventory with the last backpack, and made enough money to pay the largest Vault bundle to fix the bus. Bought and planted a whole lot of strawberry seeds for more profit and to pay the other bundles.
Middle of Spring Year 2, only have the animal stuff to go before unlocking the greenhouse. So it's gonna be a while to get farm animals and check the traveling cart to get them all for the bundle.
Maxed out my inventory with the last backpack, and made enough money to pay the largest Vault bundle to fix the bus. Bought and planted a whole lot of strawberry seeds for more profit and to pay the other bundles.
It's probably a lot to ask given one person developed the game but it would be cool if the NPCs had an additional scene when you get to 10 hearts with them.
Just started this game on the normal map. I have a feeling it will be like Animal Crossing that I will just spend all the time fishing and trying to gather them all. Should I change to the riverland farm instead or does normal one make me able to catch everything?
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You can catch every fish no matter what farmland you pick. The Riverland Farm just has fishable water, but iirc it's the same water as the rivers in town.
If I put furniture in the desert, does it stay there even after I leave? Maybe I can make my own oasis.
So just purchased a switch and plan on getting this. Is there MP in this version? No matter I plan on making all the pale ale and winning Hailey's heart once again.
No MP yet, but Switch will apparently be the first console to get it
So I'm playing the game for my first time on Switch. Maybe 20 days into my first playthrough. Just unlocked a few Community Center objectives so I'm trying to build toward the Green House and such.
How do you all generally balance your time between farming, mining for resources, fishing, and building relationships? I still don't have nearly enough ore to build sprinklers, so by the time I'm done manually watering my plants half my energy is gone so I have little left to use in the mines unless I stock up on bars to bring with me. But then I can't make bars because I'm not finding enough ingredients for them.
And then that leaves little time for talking to people.
Additionally, how do I find out what each person likes? I try to talk to most people every day, but most of them seem to say the same things every single day. I try giving some of them random gifts but I don't know what to give them so I'm just kinda stuck.
How do you all generally balance your time between farming, mining for resources, fishing, and building relationships? I still don't have nearly enough ore to build sprinklers, so by the time I'm done manually watering my plants half my energy is gone so I have little left to use in the mines unless I stock up on bars to bring with me. But then I can't make bars because I'm not finding enough ingredients for them.
And then that leaves little time for talking to people.
Additionally, how do I find out what each person likes? I try to talk to most people every day, but most of them seem to say the same things every single day. I try giving some of them random gifts but I don't know what to give them so I'm just kinda stuck.
Save the mining for rainy days, or you can plant less crops.
People will sometimes hint at what they like, and don't feel the need to talk to everyone every day. Minerals are usually liked by nearly everyone.
Farming, first of all if you long press the watering can you can water more than one crop at once (though not sure if true on the default, took me one game year to figure that out)
Fish when it rains (won't have to water crops that day). Fishing absolutely sucks when you first start out but gets much much easier. Fish until you can get anew pole.
pick the mushrooms, not the fruitbats
You don't want to upgrade any gear until the winter when you can't farm (till you get the greenhouse)
Also go to the community center and start working the message boards on the left hand side from now. Always check your inventory before selling items to see if you can hand stuff in to the center.
As far as relationships, I just googled what they liked.
Mining? You could wait until the winter for that too.
My advice, chop down some trees, make some storage chests. Save some money for the strawberry seedssold at the spring event and store them so you can plant them next spring.
That depends on the level of your watering can. The default watering can only waters one square at a time. Copper = 3 squares, Iron = 5 squares, Gold = 9 squares, Iridium = 18 squares.
And I would also suggest upgrading the watering can as soon as you can afford it and have the materials. Just wait for a rainy day or the end of the season when there's a day you won't need to use it.
I finished my first year a while ago and noticed that some parts of the soundtrack sound incredibly familiar or almost like a tribute to tracks from other games/artists.
for example "Ravens decent" (https://youtu.be/idOmc35hlhU) sounds like something you would find in Sim City 4.
(for comparison: https://youtu.be/o6l1CsqZtnk)
Parts of "the wind can be still" (https://youtu.be/y_ezfsJ4-Lw?t=51s) sounds like it was taken straight out of one of Perturbator's Albums.
there are many others as well.
Just a coincidence? Am I imagining things?
for example "Ravens decent" (https://youtu.be/idOmc35hlhU) sounds like something you would find in Sim City 4.
(for comparison: https://youtu.be/o6l1CsqZtnk)
Parts of "the wind can be still" (https://youtu.be/y_ezfsJ4-Lw?t=51s) sounds like it was taken straight out of one of Perturbator's Albums.
there are many others as well.
Just a coincidence? Am I imagining things?
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Do you guys have any computation on using speed-gro and deluxe speed-gro? I'm thinking of using it on starfruit seeds but I don't think it has chance to make it 9 days from 13 harvest?
If that's the case, it is best to use it on crops below 10 days? 11? 12?
If that's the case, it is best to use it on crops below 10 days? 11? 12?
Nice. That's 3 harvest for summer.
Will it stay on the soil once I harvested the crops like fertiliser?
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Starting year 4. Over 100 hours on the PS4 version. I just saved the community center and am now focusing on developing relationships.
Mostly just doing stuff for trophies at this point, like shipping out a bunch of stuff, hunting for recipes, etc.
Planting a bunch of Starfruit so I can quickly get to $1,000,000.
Mostly just doing stuff for trophies at this point, like shipping out a bunch of stuff, hunting for recipes, etc.
Planting a bunch of Starfruit so I can quickly get to $1,000,000.
Wow, didn't realize how deep this game is. Good stuff. Finding it very relaxing. I live in a place(IRL) where it doesn't rain much. I'm loving the rainy days in Stardew.
Finally unlocked the greenhouse before winter 2. Moved all my kegs in there and planted my first batch of starfruit. Ramping up production!
Still so many trees to cut down before I can really get into designing the farm.
Is there a way to know where grass is going to crop up once spring starts?
Still so many trees to cut down before I can really get into designing the farm.
Is there a way to know where grass is going to crop up once spring starts?
Had my first crash on Switch after a great day in the mines...winter, year 1. Any news on that patch? I haven't gone back to it since (with Mario and Etrian Oddysey 5 I have had plenty to keep me busy) but crashes just piss me off so much and I don't want to risk it again.
Was a game i bought on a whim... and im deeply in love spring and summer I make coffee then i just blag it