My favorite tip is to keep at least one of everything. You never know when an NPC might request/ post a help wanted for a certain item, so it can just make quests go by quicker

A tip for people that want a lot of early money, without really having to do a lot is to get Caroline to 2 hearts asap and then make tea saplings and sell them, they sell for 500 each and don’t require stuff that’s too hard to get a lot of besides Fiber

If you plant a cauliflower day 1, and a green bean day 1 or 2, as well as the usual parsnips and potatoes, you can complete the spring crops bundle the night after the egg festival and get 20 speed grow. Put that on 20 of the strawberries you just got, and those will get 1 extra harvest. You might get cauliflower from your day 1 mixed seeds, but you must buy the bean if you want to do this.

Keep a chest outside Clint's house for your blacksmith and museum items. You can drop off any time and pop in to do a big cracking or big dono when they're open. Also, have a chest and furnaces at the mines!

If you have a ton of crystalariums out of sight (e.g. in a shed, in the desert, etc.) and struggle to remember to check on them, place one for each mineral you’re duplicating inside your house. Those indoor crystalariums will serve as convenient reminders to harvest the others when they’re ready. You can also use this strategy for other processing machines.

Everytime I watch a "Do this X thing in stardew valley" people put so much stuff on screen I get overwhelmed easy, so I decided to play the game as inefficient and slow as possible It was the best decision I made, because it made me learn the game slowly while not feeling I was pressured to do those things Truly an awesome game

Really like that last tip! Watching all these speedrunners complete the community center in spring of year one somehow always makes me think "I could do that" but then I remember that I don't want to. I want to take my time and enjoy the game. This goes for any game really, especially with elitists that clown on anyone who plays on easy mode. Games are for fun, and are pretty crap if you aren't having fun.

my favorite tip that you didn't cover is to never ignore birthdays for NPCs you're interested in befriending or dating. i spent my first couple playthroughs not really thinking about it, but hoooooo boy, it can make a difference. even a gift they like instead of love or a universal neutral is better than nothing, and can still get you some nice friendship points. i also feel like this is doubly true if you're playing with mods that add more NPCs like SDVE or ridgeside, because of how massive the maps can get, you obviously won't be making a trip around the map daily, so boosts from birthday gifts can really help make it easier.

_"see you're laughing"_ oh nono, i just learned that today. 2:42 i didn't know that *Tab* swapped my inventory bar. Thank you. I am part of that _one_ person who has benefited from that tip. 🙏

One trick I discovered that I haven't seen people mention online is that you can store an infinite number of items in dressers _and then pick them up._ So if you have a bunch of rings or clothes you like to swap between (or just want to transport them), you can keep them all in your inventory and switch them out whenever you like. The only drawback is that you can't place dressers everywhere, but you can place them in the mines entrance and I think inside other buildings, so it's only a small inconvenience.

You can put path tiles around trees once they've grown to keep clutter from spawning around them so you don't constantly have to clear the around them. It won't prevent them from generating crops. They only need the cleared space to grow, once grown the clear space is no longer required.

Best tip here for me was one you did not give. 12:02, you can plant fruit trees *outside* the tillable area in the greenhouse. I had literally no idea.

That little tree icon that flashes when you hover over an item in your inventory that you need for a community center bundle? You can click on that icon to pull up a list of what you need for the bundles without having to visit the community center. Took me a while to realize this! Another time-saver is the phone you can purchase from Robin: it lets you call all of the shops in town and check on inventory, prices, and/or building costs without having to physically visit them. It's great to be able to double-check what building materials you need for something before you trot all the way over to Robin's store. Also, if the shop is closed for the day, it can save you a disappointing trip. The chest at the mines is a great help--so is putting one down next to your favorite fishing spot. Having trouble with fishing? Willy sells a training rod with a sizable bar to help you catch some of the basic fish, it will help you get your fishing skill up. And, keep in mind, crab pot catches count towards your fishing skill as well. Also, talk to each villager at the festivals--even if you can't gift them, it's an easy way to earn friendship points. It adds up.

Once you get rabbits, always try and carry a rabbit's foot or two with you. Almost all villagers (apart from Penny) love them, so you can easily stack up on friendship if you see a villager you're struggling with.

I’ve never used this myself, but you could have a bee farm with the seasons flower as your main income, without needing scarecrows. Since something a lot of people don’t know is that crows don’t spawn if you have less than 15 seeds, they also can’t eat seasonal seeds (forage seeds)

One thing I like to do is to plant fiber seeds on all of my crop spaces in winter and letting them stay there until Spring 1 so that when springs comes, I don't have to spend the entire day cleaning up, tilling, and watering the soil! I have 504 crops currently, so it takes me ALL day to get all that space ready for crops if I don't use this trick. (SPOILER WARNING AHEAD) - To unlock fiber seeds, you need to do the community cleanup quest for Linus. Fiber seeds will grow in any season and they don't have to be watered. BUT, if you set up a sprinkler for them, the sprinklers will still water them. Which is even more useful come Spring 1, because that means that all of the tilled spots will be watered already. So all you have to do is harvest your fiber and then put seeds down. AND of course if you put fertilizer down before you plant the fiber seeds, it'll save that fertilizer for your spring crops! AND AND, the fiber plants are only harvested with a scythe, so there's no risk of walking through your fiber plants and accidently harvesting one (unless of course you're walking with your scythe out) AND AND AND it's obviously a great way to save up on fiber for crafting! Just try to save up as many mixed seeds as you're going to need for all of your crop spaces. It takes 1 mixed seed to make 4 fiber seeds ( +5 sap and 1 clay), so divide all of your crop spaces by 4 to know how many you'll need. You can either plant them all as soon as winter comes, or you can take a look at the wiki to see when exactly you'll need to plant them in order to be able to harvest them on Spring 1! I hope all of this made sense LOL

Great video! Another tip, plant mahogany trees as they drop hardwood instead of regular wood (you can get seeds as drops from stumps). Plus they look pretty in fall.

I always keep a "quest items" chest in my farm so I can keep items that I know will be required for a quest later in the game like largemouth bass for the Jodi dinner event, or cave carrots for Marnie's goats or even community center items

I would say a big tip is to go fishing early game, I found a lot of times i had time and energy to kill at the end of days near the ends of seasons, and even just fishing for 3 hours of in game time can net you a good amount of cash early game, this also helps a lot if you go the fisher - angler route

The play how you want tip is great. My first time playing Stardew I got burnt out after a day of trying to min max when I should've just been relaxed and learned the game as I played. I just picked up Stardew again not too long ago and decided to just play how I wanted to play, I'm still learning things and it's been a joy finding out new stuff to learn.

Have 180+ hours in the game and......did not know about the shift-tab inventory trick. You really did just help me out a ton, there.

I love your last tip. I decided to play a farm where I only sold on the last day of the season. The only way to make money throughout the season was to complete posts from the community boards or to fulfill the main game quests. It was a great way to work on my friendships with the townsfolk which I usually neglect. It's my favorite farm. It's almost 5 years old, and I just did the last house upgrade. Throttling back on how often I get a big cash influx forced me to slow down and play the game based more on interactions with the town than focusing on getting to the next money goal. Which is what Grandpa wanted all along. :)

RIP tip 16 in the 1.6 update. Closing the barn/coop door increases friendship with animals now.

THANK YOU! NO ONE ever mentions TAB! I stumbled across that one by total accident and it's the best dang hotkey.

I've spent at least 300 hours playing Stardew, other good hundred on the wiki... yet I enjoy watching this type of useful information. Great video! :D Edit: Best tip is tryhard getting the trashcan hat

Consoles don't have many of the exploits so it is important to have an idea of what you want to accomplish each season. On another note, Kent arrives in year 2 so finishing the community center with the friendship bundle in year 2 will start you with 2 hearts with Kent.

About tip 11: Take into account that you not only need 3 Hearts with Linus, but also to have the first house upgrade to cook. Selling 10 Sunfish/Anchovies may only be 300g right now as opposed to 750g when sold as Sashimi. But those 300g can help you a heck of a lot more right now on Spring 10, than the 750g will help you on Summer 15, because by then the gold would have been invested and reinvested to the point where it's become more than 750g worth of profit.

Tip: If you ever need some spice in your game, it’s never a bad idea to ply with mods that DONT change the game drastically. Im personally not a fan of stuff like the tractor mod but I love aesthetic mods like Character Facelift or Starblue Valley. Just play around, see what you like. It helps a ton.

That clay farming tip was literally the tip I've been neeeeding for my farm. Thank you!!!!!

It did help!! Never knew I could go through my inventory like that! Thanks! :D

One idea I haven't ever seen mentioned on any of these videos is having different tools in different hotbars. He touched on this, but I like to have my axe, hoe, and scythe in one row, my weapon and pickaxe in the next, and my fishing rod and pan in the next. This makes it so I have a lot more room to organize my items while giving me access to the kinds of tools I might need for a specific task.

1 good tip I can say is to buy a calendar from Robin. This way you can check for villager birthdays before you start your day and don't have to travel all the way to Pierre's shop. I personally have it right next to my bed to either check 1st thing when my character starts a day and then again before going to bed in case I forget due to in game events.

I just recently started replaying and my first season I just fished so I could save up lots of money to get strawberries and blueberries. I found that worked really well at making money and was a nice little challenge. By the end of the first season I think I had maxed my fishing skill and I was making so much money from getting around 30 ish fish a day. I also decided to have a no animal farm which made getting a truffle a challenge, but was a big victory when I finally saw it in the travelling cart. When choosing my farm layout I went for the one that splits into four to make it a lot easier to diversify. Each part earns money in a different way.

The last tip means a lot. This is a nice little farming game about escaping your old sucky job. Use this as your escape from real world issues, have fun. If that means trying to do everything perfect great! If it means taking your time doing small random things also great! Just have fun

The tip to use tab to switch inventory rows is so helpful I’ve been playing and I never realized this thank you!

I've enjoyed the fact that dressers stopped being useless, merely decorative, furniture items as of 1.4. And now the player can go whole hog in storing hats, rings, shoes, and clothes in them. This saves so much chest space after buying one, for all the hats and rings you get.

One of my favorite examples of a (genuinely helpful!) tip that I purposefully ignore is any way to save tilled spaces for the next season; I find one of my favorite things in Stardew is the absolutely hectic fervor of buying seeds, tilling, watering, fertilizing, and planting everything you need in day 1 of a new season. It's just.. a lot of fun and excitement for me, so I purposefully just let my fields empty naturally as I run out of plants that will mature in time and have fun going to town on day 1 making it all work in time

The final tip is the cherry on the top. I absolutely love taking my time, hand watering my crops, etc. I May spend half a day each sunny day watering crops but I don’t care because it’s so much fun for me. I’m in late summer year 2 on my first save and I’ve truly just been enjoying farming foraging and friends. I literally just unlocked the desert and the skull cavern and stuff but it’s genuinely not that important to me because I’m just running my own little farm and that’s something I wanna do irl at some point and doing it in game is so worth it just because I’m realizing how much fun I’d have actually doing it. I love gardening irl and the farming aspect of sdv I’ve fallen in love with and it’s all just my little fantasy 😂

This is my first video watched from your channel, and I am very impressed! I already knew se of these, but some I didn't. One video is all it takes for me to subscribe :) Keep it up!

last tip is definitely the best. ive played the game SO slowly and it’s been so fun. didn’t look anything up ab stardew for the first two in game years. just found out ginger island is a thing?? idek what it looks like, i’m letting it stay a surprise. i just dick around all day. im on year three and maybe unlocked 50% of the game. i ignored the community center for almost a year. im having a blast

Tappers can be placed on trees outside the farm. I put some on the ones at the bus stop since I pass by there a lot and it reminds me they need collecting (I always forget about the ones on my farm)

thank you! tab for swapping inventory, who would've thought something so simple would make such a difference!

The flower+bee house tip is amazing, thank youuu🥺

4:55, I thought that paving my entire farm with brick flooring was going to be very complicated, but this video helped me a lot

Man this was extremely helpful and I appreciate the time you took to make this video thanks 👍

You're such a pleasant person! Thank you for this!

Anyone else in year 3 and just now thinking about a chicken coop?…lol😂

really great video, i actually found out some stuff i didn’t know. keep up the good work! :)

I actually didn't know about the hidden pathway in the hidden forest! That's going to pair perfectly with the zoom out option I also didn't know about. Thanks!

There's a lot of emphasis on min-maxing on stardew youtube, and don't get me wrong, that is definitely the type of content I enjoy. I love watching insane challenges where you need to be a near-perfect player and make lists and guides to do everything you have to to complete the challenge. But that really ruined my experience of the game for a while. I put in 100 hours on my first farm ever then noticed I hadn't played in a month despite really enjoying the game and having plenty of time to. I even would find other things to do than play. And I realized that I put too much pressure on myself and the farm. I got to ginger island in fall (ginger island spoilers ahead obviously) I was very frustrated trying to get all the golden walnuts I needed. And like I said, i arrived in fall. And one of the things to get walnuts, the first step to was growing a melon, which is a summer crop. I was very frustrated and a friend told me that melon seeds were sold at the night market. So I was just pretty much waiting on the night market and working on crops. I went to and from the island almost daily to make sure everything was going well on both farms and had to remember each night where I wanted to be in the morning because of an event or birthday and I think two days before the night market I put up stardew for the night and never picked it up again because I didn't want to remember all the sstuff I "had to do". I started a new farm. it's going really well. I'm pretty broke, but man I am having a lot more fun.

Omg the tab trick!! You’ve just saved me SO much time!!!

That flower honey tip is so cool !!!

A quick tip for Honey; If you plant a poppy and a sunflower in the same range of the beehouse, it will take to the flower grown first, in this case the poppy. The sunflower can be helpful because it grows in fall as well, meaning you're still getting more expensive honey while waiting for your fairy rose to grow.

that tip about switching inventory w tab is about to change my life

Thank you for this, I just subscribed. This was in your comment section, there is a mod to slow time. The game is faster than I'm comfortable, I would love for the days to be longer. Something I just learned to use is the button on the right side, it says add to existing stacks. Oh my what a time saver. I also like how it then organizes what's in there. I spent so much time trying to see what went into the open chest. Hit the button and it does it for you. Maybe almost everyone already knows this. This is for the one who doesn't.

"fuck me do what you want buy a salad" has probably been the easiest way a channel got me to subscribe to them, loved that lol

The Botanist perk also applies to the Bat Cave - but no perk can improve the shrooms =( - although, adding worm bins to the mushroom cave can be a nice bonus.

You have no idea how you helped me with the bag tricks thank you so much

It's been a wild since I played and I just got it pulled up again with my mods so the Tab for inventory is MIND BLOWING to me!

The Tab system for inventory! I didn't know! Thanks 😊

in the beginning of the game, always check the traveling merchant. Sometimes she will have community center items.

I have to write that, because you think that would be just silly, but the tip regarding using tab to swap between the inventory slots is incredible. Not kidding, thank you! thank you! and thank you!

thank you for saying which key swaps your inventory! i kept seeing it but i never knew which key it was.

OMG, I appreciate the time you took to make this video, thank you. Greetings from Argentina ♥

Tip 4 had me crying! I didn't even know you could shift inventory with tab😭 You helped one person over here❤😭

Nice tips and I learned about shifting my inventory. Thanks

The end cracked me up, I love your content!

One tip to increase your fishing skill early game is to buy the basic fishing rod for 25g. Because it's easier to use, you can get more perfect catches which increases your fishing skill quicker.

Dude that tab to switch storage rows is gonna save me so much hassle, I used to play on PlayStation but I switched over to PC and I could not figure out how to switch it thank you!!!

Hi, not only am I the one viewer who didn't know the toolbar scrolling tip, the rest of this video was just great and you have gained one more subscriber.

The tab information is VERY valuable!

the tab just changed my life! xD thankyou

There are actually 2 paths to the 2 stumps in the secret woods.

in the new 1.6 update, shuting farm animal doors after 7 increases friendship levels with the animals

Oh my god so it was the TAB key! Finally I know the magic behind this one. Thank you!

THANKS FOR THE TAB TIP, it really helped

Hands down one of the best youtube videos ive watched for a while. It took me so long to start playing and get into Stardew Valley and now i consider it one of the best games ever. Its what a "game" should be. It doesnt hold your hand but its not crazy hard, there are objectives but they arent cemented down as necessary. Im not far enough yet but i just heard about Ginger Farm and frankly thats what i think im most excited for. I just want to grow all my favorite things at the same time in one place lol (so many peppers and berries 🤣) think im gonna start setting up a honey and tree farm today because thats something else i love in real life (bees gardening and making mead/wine/hotsauce. That would be awesome if they let you do stuff like fermenting veggies and making pickles or hotsauce)

I had no idea about that TAB trick THANK YOU

Coming from Minecraft into a blind playthrough of Stardew... the use of "tab" to move through the inventory is *life changing* Thank you

If you have an extra furnace or whatever you don't want. you can place it down to see if a village will destroy it. It's good for seeing where you can put shipping bins or chests.

If you're really bored with the game, try changing your play style up! If you always finish the CC during the first year, try going to for Joja. If you mine a lot, try fishing instead. And if that doesn't help, either, take a little break. The game isn't going to disappear, and you'll definitely appreciate it more if you're playing because you want to, not because you have to

I don't know if anybody mentioned this, but early in the game, when you may be resource limited, you can pickaxe your tappers off of trees and reset them on another. I've found that this can be really useful for time management and getting a jump on the community center bundles.

Last tip made me subscribe! Love your stuff

I NEEDED TIP 5 SO MUCH THANK YOU

I like to keep chests outside of Robin’s, Marnie’s,and Clint’s and keep it full of all the materials I might need for their services. And also one by the beach for trout soup and bait

Bro this is a year old video and I just learned that tab thing for scrolling to the next backpack line. Mind blown. Thx man haha

i literally just got to spring 1, year 2 & never knew i could use tab… THANK YOU LOL

OMG that TAB thing helped me!

I never knew about the Tab to swap through my inventory, thanks lol

A huge tip I have is: if you find something frustratung and hurting your enjoyment of the game, look for a mod. Whether aesthetic, quality of life, or changing mechanics you dobt enjoy, its you game so do what makes it more fun to you

Dude number 4 was just for me thank you

Amazing video, love the vibe

TAB?!? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I played on console originally and when I switched to PC I was so frustrated at having to rearrange constantly

my personal favorite small bonus of botanist is having it for year 2 salmonberry season, as since they are so plentiful then, and sell for so little, they serve as an amazing energy booster, granting 65, meaning you basically never need to worry about running out of energy until next spring, where you can again

The chest tip was amazing thank you

YOU KIDDING ME ABOUT THE TAB KEY :'D :'D THANKS DUDE

Always get bored and restart before I reach perfection, but one of my best tips is to play multi-player. Even if you can't play online, co-op exists on console and having an extra pair of hands really helps. Second, NEVER choose the mountain/quarry farm. Or the beach farm. Yes the quarry is nice, but becomes irrelevant late game. Plus the 4 - corner farm has the same thing. Having no space on the farm is way worse than it sounds. Same with no sprinklers on the beach farm. Finally, to people who don't know, USE THE QUICK SORT BUTTON IN CHESTS. It makes it way easier to sort items.

I had no idea about the tab button thing! Thank you! 😭😭

A tip id recommend is getting the mushroom cave for mushrooms. These can be converted to fall seeds and furthermore converted to expensive tea saplings which can either be sold or actually grown to produce tea which itself sells for a good amount

I have a tip on your farm there is this curly fern that every single time you break it, it will give you mixed seeds and it’s only on your farm