Hello!
After 151 hours I finally hit perfection on my farm (Inaba ). In no way would I consider myself an expert of this game, but I’ve definitely learned a lot about it when researching the best way to go about this and generally just being a big fan. If anyone is trying to get perfection, just start a farm, or whatever feel free to ask!
Before anyone asks anything, I’d like to share resources that helped me
- Stardew Valley Wiki (highly recommend having this open whenever you play)
- Summerstarfisher’s fishing guide (reddit link)
- T4C000’s loved gift guide (reddit link, missing Leo who loves oranges)
- Generally speaking, the subreddit has an incredible amount of information
- Salmence’s youtube channel (excellent video guides)
For easy early game money, sell tea saplings. They sell for 500 gold each! You’ll need to get Caroline to two hearts (gift her daffodils) and you’ll need to collect the seasonal foragables as well.
To hit that final 10 mil gold for the golden clock, I used ancient fruit wine. I kept casks aging at max capacity in the basement and had just under 200 kegs to sell regular wine in the meantime. This can definitely be expanded much more, but I cba and was still doing other things at the time so I didn’t mind it taking a bit longer. Grow the ancient fruit in the greenhouse and use the seed maker until you have as many seeds as you want.
Along with the standard requirements for perfection, I also forged the infinity weapons, got everything from Mr Qi’s shop, got the return scepter from Krobus, and enhanced all my tools / weapons in the forge. At this point I’m going to give this file a break until the 1.6 update drops. Just need to do a Joja run for the last steam achievement.
Anyway, go play Stardew if you haven’t already. It’s a wonderful game
Do you like any other similar games? My wife and I loved playing Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town.
this is actually the first game like this I’ve played! how similar is story of seasons?
Pretty similar since ConcernedApe based Stardew off of the original Harvest Moon, which turned into the Story of Seasons series. Better graphics but not as much depth, since games are released every few years instead of one person iterating on his one game.
I’d give Friends of Mineral Town or Pioneers of Olive Town a whirl if you’re looking to scratch the same itch.
Congrats!
General question for the Hexbear SV heads
What would be a baseline laptop (with some wiggle room to still be relevant in a few years) to run Stardew Valley and other similar mid-level games (Coral Island. Sun Haven)? Budget would be about $700 or so.
My wife also 100%'d SV and is looking for her next game fix after she finishes 100% Dragon Quest 11. We just have a Switch so I thought it would be fun to get her into Stardew Valley Expanded (or other mods).
what farm did you pick? who did you marry?
