The last tip is so true, we shouldn't be stressing about time because there's always the next day. This game is meant to be for chilling and having fun.

About the mixed seeds I like saving them for ginger island because if you plant them there they could grow into blueberries and pineapples ･ᴗ･

Don't forget to take your hoe to the mines and hoe the dirt spots for easy clay, cave carrots and artifacts

One of my favorite tips is you only need one silo and one silo period.. granted it only holds 250 pieces of hay etc.. but once you unlock the silo and get yourself a coop.. you can place a chest in your coop and then empty your silo viva the hay shoot.. then place the hay into the the chest.. go out harvest the grass to make hay fill the silo.. granted this only works until you have a max level barn/coop aka the auto feeder sorta ruins your ability to access the hay shoot.

As a new player of Stardew Valley (who is actually finding it quite difficult ngl...no-one has ever accused me of being a gamer lol) this is one of the only videos on KZfaq that have actual tips for BEGINNERS and not just tips for the experienced player. It is super useful, thanks so much!

My best tip which I've not seen - it's a faff but 100% worth it; 3 cabins have the same footprint as 2 sheds. They have 3x the floor space of a big shed and a cellar each at max upgrade. If you have the resources, 1 person can upgrade all 3 in a day with time to upgrade your barns at the same time (they don't use a Robin build slot). Once they're max level that's 500 casks, 300 kegs, 100 crystalariums, 50 furnaces 20 bone presses, and space for loads and loads more and leaves your farmhouse completely free to decorate - and no sheds! Wine alone is 10 mil a year once you have greenhouse and cabins! Oh... And put cheese presses, mayo churns and looms in your coops. Lastly iridium wool sells for more than cloth and iridium truffles even with artisan perk (iridium is guaranteed with forager perk now that hardwood is renewable)

For anyone wondering no it is a bad idea to sell those 15 parsnip seeds with the gold you have, you get more farming exp and more consistent gold just using parsnips plus once you get that crop done you have the time needed to plant a bunch of potatoes and sell them before the egg festival (aka strawberry time bebe) But it doesn’t really matter much for the most part pick which start you want honestly

The time thing gets me still. I used to play the farming games where time was restrictive and you had to finish by year x or lose. Still this is the best farming game out IMO.

That bed tip is invaluable, for real. Hope you, baby sharky and lady shark are doing well!

Best year one tip for massive money, horde foragables, wood, fiber & befriend Caroline! Get tea saplings, do not plant, just sell for 500 gold EACH!

Bug meat should be used for making fishing bait. 1 meat = 5 bait = up to 5 fish to sell or eat. It works out a lot better than 10 meat for 1 meal and levels your fishing skill too. The only reason not to turn bug meat into bait is if you simply don't want to fish. You will need to get a few levels in fishing to buy the rod that allows bait to be used, but I think it is definitely worth it to do so.

One tip I would give is checking the traveling merchant on Fridays and Sundays, 2500 for the coffee beans sounds pricy at first but it's a two season crop that I've made tons of money on in year one. Also can help you with your community bundles 😁

The menu option I choose first, as soon as I have control is Lock Toolbar. Instead of your toolbar jumping to the top(or bottom) of your screen when you get close to it, it turns transparent. I have vision issues, and the jumping toolbar tends to give me eye strain. I lock mine on the bottom, but you can lock it at the top if you prefer.

The last tip is probably the most important! I've recently reached the stage that unlocks the bigger challenges board & it is stressful to complete those...better ignore them & enjoy the game at your pace!

Before I forget: regarding the chest in the mines: I tend to keep my sword/weapons in the mine chest, so I a) can drop it there, saving inventory space for other things I want to bring with me back to the farm and b) don't forget it/miss it when going mining again, planned or spontaneous. It just happened too many times to me, and I don't carry my sword with me around until I get the 36 slots backpack upgrade, so the sword oftentimes stays in a chest in the farm.

If you're running the river farm like in your video, crab pots are amazing, especially when you get the profession that makes them significantly cheaper to craft, and eventually require no bait. I have infinite food all year round, as you can make several recipes with fish, sashimi being the obvious easy pick, which you unlock by befriending Linus. Setup some recycling bins, and you'll have more refined quartz than you know what to do with (I consider refined quartz a trash item, I have so many). Refined quartz is a great stone/wood substitute for making pathways on the farm, once you have the crystal pathway recipe unlocked. Recycling trash you get from crab pots is also a great way to get supplemental coal, iron, and cloth. You'll also have more torches than you know what to do with. I used them to light paths around town early game, and now, I just sell them. They're basically worth nothing, but it beats throwing them away. Early game, that little extra income can be useful. People trash-talk the river farm, but I like it. Besides, if I want to plant a lot of crops, I just do that on Ginger Island, which is basically a massive outdoor greenhouse. I use the river farm as a fishery/ranch, and the island farm as my crop farm. Well, I also use the river farm for tree farming in the SW corner.

I do disagree with some of these because it’s all subjective, a good list though. I would suggest keeping the parsnips and spending the rest of yours day one money on parsnips. When ready to harvest sell for potatoes as that will get you a lot of money just in time for strawberries! Keep a potato and a parsnip plant any mixed seeds to get a cauliflower and at some point buy a green bean starter. For the cc bundle. Forage constantly and befriend Caroline. I make all my spring forage into seeds once I have a bunch I plant it all and turn it into seeds again. use the recipe you get from reaching 2 hearts with Caroline to make tea saplings. An ABSURDLY GOOD early money method!!! Needs 2 seeds, 5 wood, 5 fiber. Farm fiber on floor 21 in the mines and if all out of wood you could buy some from robin for 10 gold. I bet you could complete joja mart month one using that method. Maybe not idk

Another tip for grass/ hay. Put a lightning rod on top of a grass starter in your animal's pasture. It prevents the animals from eating it and you from cutting it down. Also, the rod never deteriorates so it will always be there. You can use a ton of the lightning rods for the fencing as well but it takes some time for you to craft enough of them.

Okay so I also like to have my tv by the bed, but for the record as long as you make it inside your house- you will not lose money the next day- you do not actually need to make it to bed💁🏽‍♀️ i do however love my bed next to the door still just because it does still save me those extra few seconds in the mornings! Layout is important 👏

I'm currently on fall 14, year 7, and i JUST now realized i didn't have auto-run on lollll thank you for sharing!!

I never use the initial 500 on seeds, I plant my parsnips to use as food or gifts, then fish for most of the first week (except for a trip into the mines around day 5-6 (most often 6 so I can use the first travelling merchant day to forage and do errands in town). I tend to have enough money for a fiberglass rod and 100 pieces of bait day 2-3 (day 2 is only if I get super lucky on chests while fishing, usually its near the beginning of day 3 I get it) This usually lets me buy the first backpack upgrade, 2x rare seeds and anything else I want from the travelling merchant by day 7, as well as having enough money left over to get roughly 40x kale seeds to raise my farming level. Just gotta be wary of overbuying seeds afterwards, because with the initial watering can you use up so much time and energy watering cops that its easy to overbuy them and it really limits you on what you can do. Also, if you leave the trees as stumps they'll continue to spread seeds around them, so if you plant all 3 tree types in a small area (or clear out an area around 3 that already exist on your farm and then make those into stumps) you can check that area for seeds and hoe them up to make field snacks. Also you might not always want to eat your lowest value fish. For example, an iridium herring gives you a lot more energy than a gold herring, but it doesn't sell for that much more. Imo its better to eat an iridium herring or anchovy when I need that extra bit of energy to keep fishing and I don't have anything else. Also, in my experience the ocean tends to give the best money for your fishing early on. Bullheads and Chubs do sell for more than anchovies, sardines, and herring, but you'll find a ton of carp as well which sell for crap, and the largemouth bass don't appear past 6pm so you won't be able to catch the most valuable fish there. Meanwhile you'll have chances for flounder or halibut all throughout the day at the ocean (though sometimes you'll only catch one or the other. iirc you can catch both in the morning, flounder only in the afternoon, and halibut only past around 6pm. Overall with the removal of carp and the ability to catch more valuable fish all day long I tend to make more money at the ocean (often 1k-1500 more over the course of a day. You are absolutely right about catfish being the best money though, but I tend to catch those just outside of Leah's cabin in cindersnap forest. I once got 16 catfish in one day there, and made over 7k between all the fish and gems I got from treasure chests. Plus if you fish often enough you have a decent shot at getting a Neptune's Glaive or Broken Trident from a treasure chest, and those can both help a ton in the mines early on. Other than that great stuff I actually hadn't realized the paths made you faster, I'm gonna have to make a few roads around my farm now.

I've finally started playing the game after many years, I've watched a handful of guides and this one has been the most helpful so far, thanks~

Sharky, you're my go to guy for all Stardew Content! I love all your videos and really enjoy the fact you keep playing this game for us! Thank you!

The tip at the end where you said not to stress about the time. SSOOO HELPFUL. That was my biggest complaint. or that I have to make everything perfect. Thanks for the tips!

I'm a semi-beginner and I found a lot of these tips to be really helpful. Thanks for a great video! Also, people have put a lot of additional tips in the comments, so very helpful.

I started playing this game yesterday and I knew nothing about it, now I'm watching your video (very awesome btw) and I've realized that in the first tips I had already screwed up my game hahahaha - I'll start a new one following your tips, Thank youuu

thanks for this video. Very helpful indeed. I am new to the game and this helps a-lot. Especially I think the last tip where you mention that you can easily just play at your own pace and you dont miss out on anything.

Hello! Hope you Mum Shark and Baby Shark are doing really well l! Loved the final tip about doing things in your own time. I finally achieved true perfection in year 7 of my first play through then decided to try a 100 days challenge which I realised really quickly I wasn't enjoying. Kick back, relax and have fun 👍👍. Love your videos 😃

I’ve just started playing stardew valley and this video has been so so helpful! Thank you so much!

Sharky, SAME. I used to min max my days so hard I'd restart if I forgot a tool at home. But chilling is the right move

In addition to keeping a chest (or two, as eventually the first one fills up) at the mines I also keep my furnace(s) there so I can smelt ores as I mine. More recently I've also started doing some of my animal product processing in the mines entrance, as I can refill the machines regularly during a mining day so don't need as many to get everything processed.

Great tips!! Thank you so much ❤

Sharky! I have over 1200 hours in this game and I didn't know about the zoom buttons! Thanks and congrats on the new baby. :)

I just started playing Stardew Valley a few days ago. I'm finding your tips are excellent for beginners. The tip about bringing a chest to the mine just blew my mind.

I started this game a few weeks ago and I'm at year 2. Playing on mobile, which, from the guides I'm following, I can tell is a bit different than the PC version. Thanks for the tips, the bed one will be gold as it has happened to me to pass out half way to the bed! I hope I will be able to move it.

In multiplayer if you lie in the bed you can restore energy. When I was playing with a friend the other night I would just constantly go out and use all of my energy chopping down trees and then go and rest a little bit, Then come back out for seconds I was able to use 3 energy bars worth of energy as a result of this in A-day.

Love this, some great tips on here will definitely keep watching

Omg this video gave me so many ideas and I’ve been playing for almost a year xD I love your layout!!

I would not recommend tip 4, you should actually do the opposite. Parsnips actually have a better return on investment than potatoes (i.e. for a fixed investment, parsnips will give you more money per day than potatoes). Potatoes only give you more money per day if you are limited by farming slots rather than money (witch is usually the case except on day1). If you want to make money from crops quickly, invest your day1 money in parsnips not other crops (you can get potatoes and cauliflower from planting free mixed seeds anyways, you can buy just one green bean seed if you want to complete a bundle early). On day 5 you can sell your parsnips and then switch to potatoes. Or keep your parsnip for energy to go to the mines. If you want to focus on other things than crops early, just plant the 15 parsnips and no more. Crows will start to eat your crops when you have more than 15. The 15 parsnips will get you farming lvl 1 on day 5 which unlocks the scarecrow crafting recipe.

Just started playing yesterday and I am not going to lie, the TV tip is really helpful! I don't even own a TV in real life so I never turned it on in the game. Will definitely be checking that out now!

Thanks for the tips! I'm brand new to the game and loving it, defenetly will use some of your advises! 🧡🌼

Thanks for the video. This game was stressing me out and I just felt overwhelmed.

Just got back to the game after A WHILE. Exactly the vid I needed Thx !!!

These tips really helped. I messed up big time with my first play through. Now I can restart and do it better.

‪Nice One keep up the awesome work Sharky ‬

Awesome! Thank you!!

The bed tip is also good, because moving the bed away from the wall ensures that if your pet falls asleep right next to the bed (and prevents you from getting into the bed on that side) you can zip around to the other side.

i spend tons of early game days with bad luck omen fishing for Sea Cucumber so i can make an assload of lucky lunches. once i open the green house i dedicate approximately 1/5th of the plating area blue jazz specific. i also make sure to build plenty of bee houses to get honey for Farm Warp Totems. stay in that damn skull cavern till 1:30AM that way with that luck on bigtime 😎

I'm brand new to the game. Just now entered summer of my second year. It's nice to see that I've actually been doing most of the things you've suggested, already! Good to know that I'm on the right track.

just wanted to say u don't need to chop trees to get seeds, u can just shake the trees to save time if u don't necessarily need the wood

Great vid I love how you say inventory

Did you ever try the shoplifter mod? I once made a playthrough were I survived only on the stuff that I stole. And all the stolen fruit tree saplings were later making me rich. If you haven't, I can recommend this as a challenge. Beware though, you can only shoplift once a day!

the last tip is so true, i just started my first farm and i barely know what im doing but i was stressing so much over time & efficiency after watching multiple stardew valley tutorials of ppl saying what has to be done 😅

Super Tips, Thank you

I'm new to the game, but i didn't fish for a long time and Willy decided to gift me a free training rod

great tips thanks brother

Nice little video, missed out on the preserve jars, those suckers make huge profit. Also, those fruit trees are a really good investment, only need to clear around the tress as they grow and never need watering. People say fishing is the best money maker this is partially true, for the amount of work and skill needed (best the minigame) placing ten preserve jars and keeping them full up is much easier. Also, fish ponds roe can be used in preserve jars, the sturgeon makes caviar a good item to sell. Really nice little video. Lots of nifty little tips. Overall this is a worthwhile little game, having the ability to customize spots and to carry on as long as you wish is pretty spiffy. It can be boring once you finish, at that point you can decorate.....everywheres! Fyi so long as the area is not used for other stuff like festivals or characters do not walk in. You can make the sewers floored with gamstones and such......

made mistake on very first playthrough and cleared all the trees and grass from my farm. now, after i clear an area for farming, i hold on the grass until i get a silo, then scythe grass to fill it up so my chickens (i always get the coop after the silo) will have plenty of food.

I haven't played stardew valley in about 2 years and I'm finally back to it. Feel like I haven't watched your videos in forever. This is the first channel I come back too for my stardew valley content tho!! So thank you for the fun and helpful videos.

Save one parsnip seed. Sell the rest but not needed. Just buy 1 seed of each on spring day 1. At least the ones needed for cc bundle. Harvest the last one needed on Easter. Buy at least 20 strawberry seeds at the Easter egg hunt. Go back into town after the Easter hunt with your collection for the bundle and get the speed grow for the 20 strawberry plants. This gets you one more harvest from 20 strawberry plants. Don't plant more than 15 seeds until you get scarecrows. The crows won't come and feast.

That weather channel watering can tip was so big brain👍🏼

Not only are these tips for beginners which are great but they are tips that really make that internal story so new players don't feel like they're just roaming around pointless and aimlessly

I just started playing again on my PC. I played on Switch and could never fully get into this game. Then I decided to try on my PC and it's just a better experience on PC. Plus, I've already downloaded some mods. These tips are helping me out!!!

I’m sucha a Stardew noob these videos make me feel better. I know I’m making mistakes but I’m learning and just want to enjoy the game. Even if I’m not very good at it.

tysm for these tips. easily the best was one of your last, which was don't stress about the time.

Best tip video!

I've found that a silo isn't needed if you're going for a wheat farm. Plenty of hay. Pop a box down in/near the coop or barn, bobs yer uncle.

The last tip is the best.😊

1 handy tip: forage at Saturdays' because foragables will reset at sunday or after Sunday and you will have time for mining farming and fishing

I personally never complete the coop until mid to late game because in my opinion it’s a waste of valuable resources early on

I like to spend the first year fishing and mining upgrading tools by year two I have all fish cuaght and every thing growing with sprinklers

The hint with the bed I do not like because it does not look nice to lay directly behind the door. Anyway thank you very much for all tips! :-)

the last one is the most important tip for me! last month i started my first game and some days later, my brother and i started a game together. he plays so moneyhungry and uses every second of the day until he passes out. he dosnt understand why i not only plant the crops wich brings the most money and bugs me to drink coffee in game to run faster. but i dont need that....thats just stress. i want to enjoy it! in the shared game with him, the community center is already finished and we unlocked ginger island. but i dont go there! because hes just turning everything into stressfull situations and i feel very overwhelmed by it

the chest outside mines tip blew my mind like i never thought about keeping a chest in important areas 😭😭

The silo is one of my favourite tips. So few guides show it.

Broo moving the bed yould have saved me like a dozen times already and I never thought about it 😭

Well, I also store away my tools in the early days if I know I won't need em. If I go mining, I'll leave watering can, axe, scythe... at a chest. Or if I go fishing, I'll normally just have my rod and maybe hoe with me.

Good tip i always use is the sturdy ring, sells for 750g I think and easy enough to craft good cash earner early game.

About sell starter tip we can plant this then sell and plant all potato so we can sell them before spring fes that we have enough money to buy strawberry which bring best profit in spring

I just got back to stardew again with a new save. And after a few hours not remember how to play. Safe to say I’m back in the grinding mode played hours and hours again lol. Here I am knackered at 2am thinking. Just one more day lol

On day one you should chop down enough trees to reach forage skill 1. That way on day 2 you can make field snacks.

But... I like stressing about the time! Lol. It's so exciting if I actually do everything I meant to do in the time allotted, like unlocking the greenhouse in fall of year 1, and maybe even the community center (I hold off, though, for the friendship points with Kent from the bulletin board).

hey dude your accent is awesome

*tip* sell your parsnip seeds you start with and buy 1 of each crop which includes a parsnip? (Check the video for him doing it. 🤣) Parsnips and then potatoes to lead into buying strawberries at the festival every time.

So weird how we all collectively use similar colours for certain chests 😂

thanks

Came here for game tips but surprisingly come out with life lesson. Don't stress with time. There's always be new day :)

One thing I do when I have to upgrade my watering can is do it in Winter. It ain't raining in Winter. Of course, it is preferred to do it before but it is easy to make sprinklers....

On day one I started befriending Caroline and by day 14 I had tea sapling and selling tea saplings was so helpful.

Idk if it's the smartest idea but I always that the solmemberrys and Blackberrys as jelly ESPECIALLY in winter when you never have anything consistent to pickle or turn to jam.

The “boog steak” hehe 😂

I've only ever had the original version of this, and I've loved it since the beginning. I enjoy getting inspired by others layouts, since my main focus for a large majority of time was all about efficiency and quantity. Beauty came last even though esthetics were always present. I'm going home tonight and I'm going to reformat my parcel of land...

Buy only parsnips, good fast farm xp On first good luck day go clear the town grass patches.

I’ve just started playing, and what I am doing is I have a chest of stuff I will sell and stuff I will not sell

Question: if the mixed seeds go into a pot what's the chance of it becoming a red cabbage plant?

Actually it's better to save for strawberry seeds then the inventory upgrade

Look is important, got it.

Used to love this game. Still do I guess, but haven't played in a couple of years. Starting over feels like a slog as I know I have forgotten so much. The last game I had for SV I was using mods that were great and expanded the map in wonderful ways but buggy and going back to the vanilla version seems like a letdown. I hated fishing in this game so I had a mod for that, too. 🤣

Will you upload a new part of your modded playthrough soon? :D I downloaded all of the same mods, and I have so much fun again with the game.

I don’t get the rain watering can tip.....I just refill at the pond. Why wait till after rain if it’s easy and convenient? Is this a feature of the copper can specifically? Also what’s the negative of passing out due to energy?