Number 1 do is so true!! So many people feel overwhelmed or stressed by the game. I try to explain to them they can do nothing but sleep for 5 years and you haven't ruined or missed anything!

Don't give a dragon egg to Günther. Store it, breed it and give one to him after you have more :D

Do: Use the first crystalarium you get from the 25000 g bundle for jade, not diamonds, since you can trade 1 jade for 1 staircase in the desert, and getting deeper in skull cavern will help you to not only get valuable iridium ore and gems but also the mining experience you need to get the crystalarium recipe at level 9 and start making more to replicate diamonds for a profit

*Are we not gonna talk about how she gifted everyone coal-*

I remember my first playthrough, cutting all the grass without the silo. I didn't even know the grass turned to hay afterwards....the pause I took at my own stupidity tbh.

If you don’t have sprinklers, Keep the watering can until the last two days of the season. Water your plants on the first day, take it to Clint, you’ll get it back on the first day of the next season

Another great tip- when you are making a fenced in area for your animals, plant grass seed in it! It will save you from having to replace the hay in the barn every morning. Most of the hay you cut can be saved for winter!

You could do the smart trick with the watering can, or you could be a real chad and after 200 ingame hours, 7 ingame yearsand 75% perfection and still have a standard watering can.

When I started I felt that decorating was a waste of time and money. Then one game night I had nothing left to do so I did some decorating and found that how things look does improve my enjoyment of the game. Not that I would win any decorating prize. About the horse: It's great but I just figured out that using it all the time can sometime be counterproductive. I haven't measured it but I think that going berry picking on horseback takes more time than going on foot because of all the backtracking to get back on the horse. After three years (I think) the spirit of your grand father gives you a score of one to four candle at his shrine (north west of the farm), I just discovered recently that that score is not definitive, you can get another one later after achieving more stuff (check the wiki to see what is needed) by offering a diamond to the shrine. The good is if you get four candle then you get a statue that give you a few iridium ores each day for free. This is great if you're not a fan of mining in skull cavern.

If you're just starting a new save and you want to cutting down trees, *DO NOT* cut the stump. With a starter axe, it takes 10 hits to break the top and 5 hits to break the stump. It isn't worth the energy. Plus, only the top part of the tree give you foraging exp and you can leave the stump until you have upgraded axe.

I relate so much with the fishing. At first I hated it and aboided it as much as I could, but then I bought the training rod and everything went lovely from there. Now is one of my favourite activities in the game.

*NEVER GO AND MIN-MAX THIS GAME IF IT'S YOUR FIRST TIME PLAYING IT.* I recently tried to do a min-max-y speed-run-ish playthrough in an attempt to get the greenhouse by 10th of Fall and the Community Center by Winter of the first year. It was draining, and it took away most of the fun; it felt dry and tedious and it didn't have the magic it had when I was playing normally. _Relax and play at your own pace._

I will never love the fishing mini-game. However, with practice, level 10 fishing, the iridium fishing rod, the trap bobber, and Lobster Bisque (+3 fishing & +50 max energy buff for over 16 minutes), I finally managed to catch ALL of the fish including the legendaries. Hooray! The harder fish are now a doable challenge instead of extremely frustrating. As for for staying in Skull Cavern until 2am, I thought you also randomly lost items. Or is that only if you're killed? If it's just a percentage of gold, this is a strategy I fully intend to use!

Just started playing the game 2 weeks ago and I'm now bingewatching a lot of Stardew Valley content. The community overall is really likeable and you're as well. Thank you for your do's and don'ts, Lily. I'm so glad I'm replaced pretty stressing (and sometimes toxic) games for this one :)

About the slow walking speed: you run faster on paths, so placing them around your farm is a good idea. I think it only works in your farm so you can’t just place them everywhere and the buff is something like a 0.1x increase, but it adds up!

I definitely agree fishing is an intimidating minigame, but once you get the hang of it, its actually pretty easy. Fishing is honestly like 70 percent of my earnings, and its really good to get good at it so when winter comes around you have a super easy source

I think you missed a huge title opportunity.. "12 Dew's and Don'ts" Idk lol

my first playthrough that im aiming for 100% perfection, i made the mistake of building a coop first and then struggling to find enough clay to build the silo with 4 chickens

for those who still dosnt like to fish, if you play on PC you might find easier to fish using your keyboard, just press C to throw and to play the minigame instead of the mouse, maybe will suit you better. (sorry for my poor english skill, i'm from brazil)

"Don't rush." Me: _running Skull Cavern for iridium to upgrade tools, unlock Ginger Island, and get Obelisks because I haven't gotten to year 3 for Statue of Perfection_

I kinda disagree with having to build a silo first you can make a coop/barn first and let the grass grow, and open the coop/barn and let the animals out they'll eat the grass directly from the ground (which makes animals happier btw) you only need silo for winter

great video! just a quick tip, i personally think that using spicy eels for a speed buff is not as efficient as using crab cakes. mostly, it's because crab cakes last the entire day. i just have a chest in front of my house + my hut on the island with a couple crab cakes and i'll eat one as soon as i wake up and i don't have to carry them around with me all day. but part of it is that i think crab cakes are easier to find. 50% of the time, an iridium crab should drop a crab cake, and that chance is increased with the burglar ring. if you use explosive ammo, then the crab's shell will be blown off and it'll be defenceless, and you'll be able to kill it easily. in contrast, the serpents will only drop a spicy eel 6% of the time without a burglar ring.

Fishing mini game is my favorite early game money maker. I max my fish skill within the first month and always purchase the best rod before I even upgrade my backpack at all. Late game I harvest truffles with piggies.. so many piggies.. it slows the game waaayyyy down with how many barns I cram in lol

Tip on silo, grass and animals: definitely do get the silo first. it should be available quite early, as with most of the ingredients needed to make it, and the resources needed to make the ingredients (Cliff gives u the furnace blueprint to smelt ores as soon as you start mining, so yeah) however, after getting your first silo. DO NOT, and I repeat, DO NOT, chop down all your grass. This might sound mad, but heres why, as long as you leave patches of grass around your farm, specially near your coops or barns, and you let your animals roam, they will AUTOMATICALLY feed on the grass during the day and produce items over night. Let the grass stay as close to as is until the last day of fall. Also use this time for potentially additional silos. Anyways, on the LAST DAY OF FALL, as in the day before the first day of winter, THIS is where you wanna harvest all your grass and turn it into high through the silo. If you're like me, you'll easily fill up the silos you have and it should EASILY be enough to keep your animals fed through the winter. It's much more convenient than harvesting all your grass right off when you first get a silo, as it lasts longer this way :) As for fishin; get to level 5 as quickly as possible, and chose the fisherman thing, that lets you sell fish for higher income. Then start selling fish at that point. Not before that point is met. Stock up on your fish while levelling up and once you've reached level 5 fishing and picked the option that increases your fishes value, thats when you sell. Just trust me on that. Anywho, those are a couple of the things I do when I play and it helps me out a whole lot!

I actually didn't hate fishing from the start lmao, it made me feel excited when I found a fish harder for me to catch so I kept fishing until I got them and now I'm on level 10 fishing and all the other buffs are 5 or lower 😅

I suffer through my watering can until Winter and use the first three seasons to prep. Then I upgrade the watering can for a solid week or more all at once so it's go time by spring. Or I use mods until I do this at a comfortable pace, whatever I'm feeling. SPOILER FOR 1.5 BELOW: You can use the forge in the volcano mines of Ginger Island to enchant your watering can to be bottomless. It's everything.

i remember putting the angler fish in my fridge and turning it to sushimi

Do: Get a deluxe fish tank from Mr. Qi and a large fish tank from Willy, catch all the legendaries and their family members, and put them in the fish tanks as living trophies.

The biggest thing that made the fishing minigame easier for me was realizing you need to hold down the mouse button to make the bar go up, not repeatedly click. Also saved my index finger.

I'm relatively new to Stardew Valley, but my tip is do rush the greenhouse. Makes mixed seeds and fruit trees much more viable.

In the beginning I gave everyone random stuff, like trash or stone/wood 😭😭 they’d always be like wtf?

Do: if you're on a farm with friends, make them mine so you can water everyone's crops Don't: listen to the Do part. Make sure you divide the work evenly or let everyone do the things they enjoy most. However, if someone is only romancing the town, leave them to water everyone's crops

Your enthusiasm and cadence make your videos fun to listen to, and your content is super helpful! I didn't play Stardew for a long time, thinking I wouldn't like it. One of your videos actually persuaded me to play the game and I am absolutely loving it! Keep up the good work!!

actually for me the faster i rush the less burnout i feel, i absolutely book it before winter and then during winter i calm down for a bit and work on fishing and catch up on designing my farm better with the resources i gained during the seasonal rush.

Thank you so, so, so much for the tip about the Training Rod. I started playing last night and struggled to lv2 Fishing and it was an absolute nightmare. Will be switching it up when I log back on to play later.

Do: on the mobile version of stardew valley you should use auto attack if you don’t want to worry about defending yourself, a downside to this however is your character will attempt to hit enemies behind rocks where you can’t hit them and you won’t be able to move.

Absolutely agree with you, the most important thing is to have fun without feeling pressure or rush, just enjoy the game. Thank You!!

I am only about 25 hours in and having a blast. Been binging your guides and they have helped immensely! Keep up the great work

im a new player playing stardew valley, when i was on year 1 i got the ufo event, i was shock "what was that" and i check my farm theres alien stuff beside cave, my farm still has so many tree, so i googled and i didnt found any information from it so i just ignored, and then i just realized that was the rare event, that was on year 1 (Sorry my english bad, english not my first language)

I rely too much on the traveling cart hahaha

You are soooo right about fishing. I HATED it when i first started. Then i found out about training rod! What a difference!! Now I LOVE it. Even love the river farm where i can fish right out behind the house in the evening.

ezlilyy: "Make friends" also ezlilyy: Gives coal as a gift to pretty much everyone

Started this week and I’m having a great time! Thanks for the tips.

whenever i watch videos lie yours i feel bad about my crappy farm. then i remember everyone plays different. i love your farms and the tips. very entertaining!

Year one is when fishing becomes a must for me to make money. Level five fishing lets me make lots of money for tons of seeds. If you build the coop or barn first before a silo its best to move them close to patches of grass. That lets you not worry to much about feeding them until you can build a silo.

I started playing stardew valley just a few days ago and buying the training rod was definitely one of the smartest thing I did in he game. It was worth it.

Do's - when doing skull cavern place bombs, weapon, slingshot pickaxe in one tab. I'm playing in switch and disorganized inventory killed me several times 😂 then next tab is bunch of foods for regen (that'll save a lot on serpents). And skull cavern feels speed running! So fun and exciting when I hit floor 100 with 10 mins left of the clock before passing out 🎉

Here’s a tip I’ve picked up: On the last/ second to last day of fall if you have animals, sythe up all your grass. You might think you can’t hold it all but if you get all of the hay out of the hopper in your barn or coop, you can place it in a chest then hold all your hay there. It might seem obvious but I feel like you wouldn’t normally think of that. Hope this helps!

Thank you for your videos! I bought this game about two months ago and I love it! I'm so glad I found it.

I’ve just started this game and your videos have been great. Also, your accent is very pleasant on the ear, it’s lovely.

Really helpful video and you made me remember that gaming is just for fun 😊 don’t get caught up on the fancy stuff! Thank you x

6:30 glad I'm not the only one that ruins their perfect fishing by pressing the button too soon.

I am on my 5th year and I still haven’t gone to the skull canvern, maybe only 2-3 times and decided naah, that’s a fight for another time. Lol I even bought the return scepter before concurring the 100th level on the skull cavern. 😂 Same for fishing, I’ve played the game in real time for months! Before mastering the fishing and now I do it all the time.

are we all just going to ignore the fact that they got FOUR PRISMATIC SHARDS??????

I always build the coop before the silo in early game. The chickens can eat the grass outside, amd if it rains, you can buy some hay from marnie. Those few extra mayonnaise makes a big difference in the first spring!

The burnout tip is actually so helpful. Thank you very much for the video.

Pro tip: Empty out the hopper and store the extra hay in a chest that way you only need one silo. Then go around and thin out your grass to replenish. I do this every time the silo gets pretty full. (No more winter stress to find Marnie for hay)

Hi Ezlilyy! I'm really looking forward to your new Twitch streams. I just recently came across your channel on youtube and so far I haven't been able to catch your live stream. I want to thank you for the content you make and the joy and sweetness you give people in these difficult times. Greetings from Russia!

You bombing through skull cavern is mesmerizing, I have to try this out as well ^-^

Woaahhhh!! I didn’t know you could shoot bombs with the sling shot! I’m trying as soon as I’m out of work 😤

Triple espresso ☕️ is a must. my character seems extremely slow with out now. :)

This was really sweet and helpful thank you!

The first advice burns deep lol. Thanks !

Just started the game and your videos are going to help, thank you.

Only found your channel a little while ago, mostly because ive started replaying stardew. But you do an amazing job with your videos and im glad to see since i've subscribed, you have gained about a 1000 subs... CONGRATULATIONS on 30K subs!!!

i remember a few years ago getting the dino egg in like my 2nd year and just giving it to the museum. i still dont think i ever found another egg on that save file

Lily, just discovered your videos this past week as I find myself getting into the Stardew Valley rabbit hole during the holidays after a very stressful month (shout out to my fellow IT homies dealing with log4j vulnerability patching) and your cheery disposition fits the wholesome feels Stardew exudes. I've been playing for years now so I know most of what you're going to say each video but I still watch them in the background as I play. Thank you for helping my Christmas weekend off feel more rejuvenating.

I had a funny experience with fishing. I found it super annoying, but never enough to flat out give up on it... But I've only recently got into Stardew Valley. I had the training rod at my disposal. For some reason I skimmed over the description and just thought it was worse than the Bamboo rod. By the time I actually noticed it gave you the fishing efficiency of level 5 fishing, I was already level 6 lmaooo

If there's something about the game that really bugs you, there's probably a mod that tweaks it.

Thank you for taking the time to do all these SDV videos. You are my #1 source for my own farms. Thanks again and great details I never thought of. What other games do you like?

You do not need to buy the silo before coops/barns unless you won’t be able to afford it or something before winter. leaving the gate open for your animals allows them to go eat grass within 20 blocks of their little door. This actually makes them happier than if you fed them silo hay.

Love your videos! I thought I knew everything about this game, but you’ve taught me things! Do you have a video showing the best stardew valley mods?

That fishing one is so true, i avoided fishing for a bit but then my brother played on my account while i watched and he was really good at fishing, so i gave it a try and not too long later i caught my first sturgeon. it was very rewarding slowly getting better until i got my main goal.

as a recent new player. Your guides have been very helpful with my current playthrough! thank you!

Another mistake to avoid: don't use too much time or energy to cut down all the trees on your farm. Only clear the exact amount of land you need to accommodate the crops for that season. Leave the trees to drop seeds and reproduce. Also don't cut down the saplings. Cut down the full size trees and the surrounding saplings will grow within a couple days. You will need that wood. Don't obsessively clear cut your land. It's bad forest management.

i do want to add to the don't ignore the towns people thing. don't give them bad gifts if you arent purposely trying to fill out the gift list in game cuz you will be given a - in friend points even if the npc is full hearts and that's gonna bring you back tho obviously if you talk to every npc everyday then you already earn enough + friendship points to remeby that but still XD

Very helpful and yes didn't like fishing but starting to like it now I've got the hang of it.

Really like your videos. Looking forward to see more. Keep it up

lol one time I had all my sea cucumbers in a fridge and my coop partener used them all to make maki roll and I was mad

Great video, very helpful. Thank you.

I was bad at fishing too til after my first year. I decided to buy the training fishing rod and that helped me a lot.

Awesome guide! I have been addicted to stardew the past week

For the upgrading watering can, I upgraded mine on the 26th of Summer, it was raining on the 26th and my crops weren’t going to produce anymore after the end day, so I figured they would survive two more days or so + my dog didn’t die of thirst so I suppose that’s a plus ( joke ) And I had a good watering can for Fall !

People upgrade their watering can as early as in spring? usually this is something I do in winter or late game when money is no longer important to me :D

This video was so helpful thank you!

Your voice is very pleasant, I really enjoy watching your videos! !

To easily level up fishing, you need to have access to the sewer, and catch carp. They don't wiggle a lot and still raise your fishing level.

Aaw new fan here I really enjoyed this video makes me more excites continue playing stardew valley.

Another mistake i made: i sold the slime ring because i thought it was useless, and i sold my galaxy sword because i thought the dragon cutlass was better but i didn’t know about galaxy souls. Moral is always keep things even if you think they’re useless (same goes for forgables or crops)

tips for fishing: use c instead of left click, its a lot easier to control at least from my experience :) hopes this helps !

Thank you for being you. Love your content

I love fishing in Stardew Valley, the moment when you beating some hard fish and boom u have the fish and its like lovely moment 🙈 once i caught the crimson fish with begginer rod

Love your voice! Thanks for making videos for us!

I am shook at how much there is to this game 😢😂 I’m pretty overwhelmed and def. Feel like I’m so behind. I’m gonna take it easy and play it my way though! No pressure 😅

The first time I played, I cleared my whole farm without getting a silo first :(

Here's a fun thing to try if you've already had a couple of farms, and you're finding yourself doing the exact same things every time you start a new save file! Come up with a 'routine' for yourself, almost like the NPCs have. Of course it's more flexible, and probably more varied than the average villager, because the player has a lot more things that they can do around the valley. Some days your routine is going to change because there's great luck for mining, or because you really need certain materials. That's okay! Personally, I found that even in my first playthrough, I fell into my own 'loose' sort of routine anyways. Changing up, and even planning out a new routine can really spice up your new save file. This is where the wiki comes in handy! Check out the pages for some characters you don't usually get to know very well and plan your routine around theirs. Or come up with a story, and plan your routine around the story you made for your character and the villagers you want to be friends with. It will help the story come to life more, in your head! Sometimes it's not the most efficient way to play, but it can be really fun and rewarding to simply change the way you do things. Even just changing the time of day you would usually go to Pierre's - or going to the mountains before dropping something off at the Wizard's tower instead of after - can completely change what villagers you meet most frequently, and how you spend the majority of your day!

I find when I fish, what helps me is listening to the sound of the fishing line and the trout soup and training rod or upgraded rod

Have you ever wanted any fiber? Well on the big requests board linus has a quest where you fish trash out of the water. After you do that, he will mail you the recipe for fiber seeds. They are easy to make, give a lot of fiber, and they grow in every season including winter. So that means that you can technichally grow crops in winter that arent the seasonal seeds.

I was not aware coffee increases movement speed, I kind of have a roleplay-ish approach and refused to drink coffee, since I don't take coffee irl lmao

I've been playing Stardew Valley for almost 2 years now and your first advice is something that I never thought of, I always rushed to plant crops and make money that I get burnt-out in the first year of the game