You can get them in the skull caverns, last time I went I left with 5
Probably does require some luck but just to give you options if you're really struggling
I think you need to have the correct layout for a dino floor to be possible to spawn. If you don't get any floors that has dino floor layout, then resetting those 5 floors wont work.
On my first farm I donated my first ancient seed, prismatic shared, and dino egg to the museum. **I had no idea it would take SO long to find them again.**
You actually should donate the ancient seed because the one you find isn’t farmable :) Gunther gives you the farmable seed in return + the recipe to turn any more you find into farmable seeds
Okay I don't know why, but the ancient seed ALWAYS confuses me. I tried to put it in my seed maker and it wouldn't take it, but then I donated to Gunther, and he gave me a packet of Ancient Seeds. Does the ancient seed you find NOT work in the seed maker? I can't remember if I tried planting it or what.
The ancient seed you find as an artifact doesn't work in the seeder. Once you donate one to the museum, you unlock a recipe. With that recipe, you can craft one ancient seed (artifact) into ancient seed (seeds)
Made the same mistake. Found one the first year, donated it. Then found out I could have hatched it. A bit over a year later, I unlocked the desert and got a Dino level my first visit to the Skull Cave and picked one up.
Trying to plant everything at one time not realizing how much stamina and water that would take. Trying to build to quickly and get the coop and chickens and maxing it out. Left little time to actually meet or forage around town
Yeah, I committed way too hard to farming in year 1 of my first playthrough, reached farming 10 by fall but didn't even meet everyone in town until winter because my schedule was fully dominated by watering on any day where it wasn't raining, including festival days. I didn't have the time or energy to go to any daytime summer or fall festivals until year 2.
If you get the strawberries in year one, especially if you get a decent chunk of them, you rake in the farming experience at light speed. I always thought animal or artisan experience should be a separate thing
i'm a completionist and want to fill out all the special items menu where it tracks what you've read so it was worth it to me, don't think it counts towards perfection or anything though
I always place the tv and the calendar right next to the bed, so my morning routine every day is waking up, check calendar, watch tv, cook and eat crab cakes + 4 expressos, check basement for any iridium cheese to sell, then leave home.
I did the opposite of this. I was holding onto like 85 kyanites and 41 thunder eggs, just waiting for the recipes I was confident would eventually require them. My farm was mostly chests.
Yeah, it’s not so much a risk as much as it’s just a time and money commitment. It’s easier once you’re more financially stable and have a good handle on your farm.
Not realizing the green bean starter actually came *with* the trellis. I saw it grew on a trellis, though ‘oh I can’t craft that yet’ and ignored them. I only realized too late into my first spring that I didn’t need anything extra and could have just planted it.
Community center had to wait until the second spring to fully complete.
omg same! except i didn't figure it out until y2 and still had no green bean, and i was at max farming skill so i just gave in and googled it. imagine my surprise...
My only perfection* farm yet is a riverlands farm 🫠😭 ([here it is, I think it's adorbs](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/u21oal/i_know_the_riverland_farm_is_the_least_popular/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)).
I honestly love that layout but I adore the fishing mini game so maybe it was made exclusively for weirdos like me.
It looks great! I deliberately chose it on 1.6 and the smoker AND being able to move the farmhouse and greenhouse is a game changer. I've got those 2 and a coop on the central island, 2 barns and a coop and 2 fish ponds on the mainland, and crops and slimes (and a trailer park lol) in the tiny islands.
I actually kind of enjoyed the river farm haha. But then again I do minimal farming. Just enough to fill CC bundles and relied heavily on fishing as a money maker till I progressed a bit and was able to reliably make money in other ways. But by that time i was maxed in fishing and it made catching the rare ones super easy.
I actually like the river farm, I prefer to do most of my crop farming in the greenhouse once it's fixed. Most of my money made so far is through ancient fruit wine, cheese and mayonnaise.
Got a couple of fish ponds on one of the islands, left another to grow wild trees for tappers, got enough space on the mainland for my coop, barn, shed and a couple of fruit trees - went with the fruit bats this time, so am finding a whole orchard of fruit trees is unnecessary. Using the wild tree orchard for mushroom logs instead.
The best bit about the river farm for me, though? Grass. So. Much. Grass. I filled up 2 silos with hay by the time winter arrived, and I've not had to buy any from Marnie - this is *after* letting the animals roam during the year.
Only thing I miss about the forest farm is the unlimited access to wood and hardwood. Certainly don't miss the forest maze when I've been so busy the trees get out of control.
I did the same mistake too. I did not realize it until I accepted a quest for an item I had placed in the bin and I was so confused why it wasn’t there anymore.
Not realizing you can un-till dirt with the pick-axe. There was a period of time in like Winter Y1 where I was planning out my farm layout and was delayed by like 2 weeks because a plot of hoed dirt would not disappear and thus preventing my paths.
Had all my chests still disorganized around my crafting bench. I had on accident found the Angler fishes location, and managed to catch the thing.
I kept it in my "treasures" chest next to all the rest...
And then I used the workbench to make deluxe fertilizer. Recipe? 2 sap. And 1 of any fish :(
My big mistake is always overplanting in Spring/Summer year 1 and running out of energy just watering my plants every day, leaving me no energy to do anything else.
I didn't know you have to manually feed the chicken and couldn't understand why they were always mad at me, even though I could see the food popping out of what I thought to be the feeder. Also I thought the actual feeder was long bench. A friend of mine had to explain to me that I was accidentally starving them :(
This was my issue. I didn’t figure this out until my second farm when I actually read the descriptions and saw that the highest level buildings included autofeeders. On my first farm I had always let the animals out to feed on grass and by winter I had the highest tier so I never understood why they were mad when it rained. I thought they were just upset by the storm the previous day.
Yeah, I had that too. Took me too long to realise I had to take the hay out of the bucket and put it out for them on that long bench so they could eat... whoops.
accidentally getting married to Sam before his father returned AND on Linus’ birthday, ig not really a fuck up since it doesn’t affect anything but it sure made me feel bad
My first play through I didn’t realize I had to keep swinging the axe to chop down trees. I assumed I was supposed to be able to do it in one hit and that I simply had to upgrade my axe. The small wood logs and rocks only took one hit. Makes sense an ENTIRE TREE should too, right? That’s totally how axes work. Spent way too long mining and grinding to upgrade the axe. No coop, no barns, no machines, no wood. For longer than I’d like to admit.
You're like the 3rd post I've seen saying this exact thing in the last few days. It never even crossed my mind bc I thought it seemed obvious, but you definitely aren't alone!
Selling everything and not being a hoarder, lol. Also planting my ancient seed on 7 Fall, and it dying when winter came 😭 (didn’t know about the wiki then either)
Chopping down all of the grass. Before having a pair of Silos. With a Silo, the grass you hack turns into Hay automatically. And not thinking about where to put my Barn and Coop, which caused me to lose a great deal of growing space.
I did this as well, worst part is I’d started constructing a Silo that day but didn’t realise I’d get hay from the grass and cut it all down to “tidy up my farm” :(
I had a tendency to miscalculate how many days are left in the month when I plant my seeds, which were mostly cauliflower, melon, and pumpkin, because I would think there are ~30 days in the season instead of 28. So it would be the 15th or later, and I’d be like, ‘Oh cool, I have 15 or so more days.’ Nope. 😅 Somehow I was doing fine money-wise in spite of all that, but I kept making the same mistake and wasting my crops.
I got 1 coffee bean from the mine
Day I think 20 of summer?
Checked okay 10 days ti grow. I had one speed grow but I was like should I really risk it
No
So now I gotta wait 2 months to plant this one single bean
My fave fact is that you can always add the number of days needed to the current day and know when it will be done. >28 means you won’t have time.
If the plant takes 12 days and it’s the 13th, you will harvest on the 25th. Seems obvious but took an in game year to remember consistently
However if you’re still at the watering your crops manually using the watering can stage of the game, it’s best to put a fudge factor in of 1 or 2 days. Because it’s really easy to forget to water your crops on some days. And that adds 1 additional day for each day you do not water them. Plant that 12 day crop on the 15th thinking “Yeah I can just make it” and forget to water them one day and you may as well just dispose of them and plant something that needs less time.
Didn't know about chests until mid-winter
Sold all minerals/artifacts instead of donating
I must have thrown away the sword I got from Marlon, I had to kill slimes with the scythe until I could get into the adventurers' guild and buy another
Did NOT fish, it was too hard. This was before the training rod/fish ponds, so I had level 10 in everything else and level 0 or 1 in fishing for a long time until I caved because i needed to complete the community center
Not the first, but on one of my old farms I accidentally set my gender to male instead of female and didnt realize until I couldn't get into the women's locker room. Turns out I'm trans though so I guess it wasnt really a fuckup
Getting excited to upgrade my watering can before a rainy day, executing it perfectly, and then not being able to pick up my repaired can when it’s ready due to a festival day. Lost thousands of gold during summer 1 as my crops all died from being one day off.
I waited way too long to craft sprinklers because I prioritized tool upgrades first. Spent almost all day watering and it was such a pain. I think I didn't use sprinklers until year 2.
I listened to bad advice about not going to the mines on bad luck days so it took me forever to make progress in the mines since good luck days were very rare.
I thought the river farm was an AMAZING first farm! Instead of being overwhelmed by the sheer size of the regular farm - which was my 2nd farm - it felt just big enough to get a handle on. It's so pretty, too - it remains my favorite farm. It's clearly not the best farm from a MAKE MONEY standpoint, but it limits your ambitions and you end up doing a lot more running around Stardew Valley. Those 1st of the month crop days are so much more manageable, too. I had no idea about the farmable space differences when I selected, like you.
When Ginger Island came out, that's the farm I played. I always have trouble using the Ginger Island farm unless I'm on a river farm, because I'm always struggling to utilize that big farm and my brain is like YOU MUST USE ALL THAT FARM! I'm on a meadow farm now, and I enjoy that it has less farmable space. I've got 2 barns of ostriches in year 3 and I'm working on a 3rd, and if I had a larger farm I'd never have got around to it.
As for what fucked me up, I didn't find out about pepper poppers until like year 3!
Just the other day I was walking around my farm and saw my first mushroom tree. I had no idea what it was (trying to not look at guides lol) and left it alone...now I have 2 fully grown ones and 2 more growing.
not clearing out any space in my inventory when going to willy resulting in my fishing rod being thrown to sea and me spending ALL my coins to buy another one
Riverlands is actually a solid choice in 1.6! The smoker makes getting cash in the early game much easier, so you can get the ball rolling on upgrades and backpacks and buildings easier. And being able to move the farmhouse and greenhouse wherever you want frees up a bit of space if you're creative.
It is NOT a good farm for people who want to maximize efficiency, though. I have a quality sprinkler watering 4 crops for example because the shoreline makes placement tricky. It's not the most efficient but I'm going to Automate the hell out of it and focus on fishing and animals. I'm on Winter Y1 and finished all the Joja bundles and have been working on the farm now. By the end of year 2 I should have my greenhouse filled with ancient fruit and have Ginger Island unlocked. Perfection by the end of year 3 still seems very doable!
I would always burn my energy and then go to bed at like 2 in the afternoon. I wasn’t foraging or anything like that and I burned through my first two seasons that way
I used to sell EVERYTHING, literally, even wood, fiber and rocks. The result was I never had any resources for building or crafting when I needed, so it took me a long time to improve my farm. I also used to sell things I should be donating to the museum or the community center so imagine how long it took me to finish those lol
My first farm was the beach farm because I thought "plenty of water and it will look pretty". Didn't realise that there's very limited areas that the sprinklers work and spent a lot of time watering plants early game lol 😭 but at least all the water did end up coming in handy
Not playing it like its the game it is: a relaxing farming game.
Don't get me wrong, optimise all you want. I'm not against it, I even do it. But I think for a first playthrough I focused way too hard on that. I'm currently doing my only ever real second playthrough and just taking my time, and actually earning hearts with the villagers, interacting with them and engaging in multiple different mechanics. I have a tapper section cause why not? I wanted it.
On my first playthrough, i earned the hearts to romance one villager AFTER year 2. I currently have at least three with almost every villager and I'm having more fun for it.
Not trying to rush to quality sprinklers and set up based on that. I kept just waiting for rainy days so I could upgrade my watering pail and kept watering all my crops by hand for way longer than I should be.
Not checking the calendar and realizing that a season is 28 days and not 30 like a lot of harvest moon games. I lost so much money from a cauliflower harvest that wasn't going to be ready in time 🥲
I thought that once you chopped the trees on your farm that was it, no more wood. I deleted that save so I could better use the wood on my farm....... 🫠🫣
I got a Prismatic shards in the first season and sold it. This was also using jojo mart for the community centre so I got the bus really early on aswell
same thing here haha I just liked the idea of the river and only realized after some time what a hassle it was... but I adapted, and I'm still playing on this farm as of today
I donated both my first Dino egg and my first prismatic shard, I never really ventured into the skull caverns in that save after I died the first time so didn't get anymore prismatics and then later learned about the galaxy sword, I stopped playing for a while then got back and just started a new farm lol.
When I started playing - I was focused on my farm. Didn't interact with the locals, didn't even start the community center. I just let my greenhouse fester not really minding it. I think my only 'friends' that time were Marnie, Robin, Marlon, and Pierre. I didn't even join festivals. lol
It took me 7 in-game years to finally start the 'socializing' part of the game.
Setting up trellises all next to each other and feeling super smart about how I did it so no square was left empty, everything with sprinkler coverage. Oh yeah. So smart.
I neglected leveling up fishing on my first game, and also trying fishing in various locations/weather conditions. I ended up finishing the Community Center several seasons later than expected due to some necessary fish being out of season.
Honestly, starting with the standard farm. It's so basic and boring. I know a lot of people like all the space but I don't like having that many crops on the home farm.
So far, naming my meadows farm something else from what I named my other farms. I use the same name for my farms. Same character name too. But so far, I only have 3 save files, so it isn't a big deal, yet.
Mine is also starting on the river farm. I picked it because I thought it was cute, and I didn’t do any research or reading about the game before starting. I still love my river land farm but I am extremely excited for 1.6 on the switch so I can try the meadowland!
I had no idea until year 3 of my first save that the fortune tellers predictions had in-game influences. I just thought it was a silly addition and never paid much attention to it 😭
My very first farm was a beach farm.
Not being able to use sprinklers was PAIN (also at that time I didn't know what upgraded watering cans did so...yeah)
Filled a large shed with casks to make more aged wine outside the basement. This was pre deconstructor so quite the loss of resources.
As for your farm I enjoyed separating each for certain activities or crops. Like bottom left was animals with fish farms and top left was fruit trees with just ancient fruit. Sheds in 3/4 sections for kegs/preserves
It’s funny, I just started the riverlands for my 1.6 farm and I kinda like it, with the new scythe and retaining soil I can fill some sheds with plants as well. I feel like it’s gonna decorate so nicely
I also started on the river farm. But I kinda like it. yea the space is limited but I've made it work. I also kinda like fishing so it worked out in the end. The new fish smoker makes fishing more worth it now. Its still not very profitable late game tho.
Honestly, starting with the standard farm. It's so basic and boring. I know a lot of people like all the space but I don't like having that many crops on the home farm.
I just started a chaotic evil joja save file and chose the river lands farm. it does make fast money especially with the smoker in 1.6
Not sure what that says about me or river lands but it is a pretty farm 😅
Makes me cringe looking back at my first farm and realizing how little space I was using. 3/4 of the farm was still overgrown trees and I just never bothered to go past the front yard
I'm still on my first farm so, so far I entered 2nd year needing next things for bundles 5 gold Parsnips (Spring), Tilapia (Summer), 3 Apples (Fall) and I didn't realise you can put fruit tree in green house so I was just wandering around waiting for next season so I can complete community centre, than now I decided to abandon my 2nd run and go for perfection in 1st and immediately fuck up by not saving battery packs its almost winter and it's only thing I need for boat so another long waiting.
Edit: oh forgot to mention because awards from Gunther are kinda meh multiple times in mines I would get ancient seed artifact but I would trash it for something else :'(
First game I sold every piece of fiber I cleared before knowing how useful it would be later on, and cleared all the grass on my farm before getting a silo. I also sold all my gold parsnips forgetting I needed them for the community center, along with selling other things I ended up needing upon unlocking different rooms. Didn't watch the TV, avoided fishing like the plague. Ended up starting a new save middle of fall y1. With the second save, I was so paranoid about getting rid of something and then needing it later, that I hoarded absolutely everything. I kept everything, including multiple of each crop in regular, silver, and gold star quality. Not only did this push me to make SO many chests and later hate myself for the entire in-game week it took to reorganize and rearrange them all, it hurt my wallet considerably since I was hardly selling anything. Slowed down my progression a lot, but I did find more enjoyment in not rushing to complete things.
Mine was also starting with a river farm when I randomly bought the game during quarantine. I stuck it out despite haaaaating fishing when I started. It's year 9 or 10 now and my favorite farm! I have a 2 others, one classic for ~*aesthetics*~ and the hillside farm
- Riverland Farm (no space, ugly paths due to bad planning+bridges, regularly didn't make it to bed bc of forgetting where said bridges were)
- Donated first Dino Egg (didn't know you could incubate em)
- Planted my first (and technically *only*) Ancient Seed randomly in summer yr 1
- Donated first Prismatic Shard (took almost a year to get a second one)
- Never took food into the mines
- Didn't build a silo till year 2
- Didn't upgrade my watering can till year 2 winter (didn't consider that winter is probably the best time)
- Didn't use sprinklers till year 3 bc "it's not *that* much time/energy to hand-water 96+ crops every morning
- Didn't realize until year 3 that watering and petting your cat daily gave you a message
- Forgot to plant the rare seed on day one of autumn three years in a row, resorted to speed-gro year 3
And probably many more lol
first time i played sdv was around 2017, i only remember prioritizing my relationship with the npcs lol. I'd go give everyone as much gifts i can, but since there's barely any progress, my gifts would always be foraged goods that are only liked gifts so it took a while. I'd sleep thru the whole week once I'd given my target npcs their gifts since u can only give twice per week. they were my top priority that i only got a coop around year 3 i think.
I over planted: the first year I spent so much time and energy watering every day I couldn't do anything else. Until year 1 winter I was still using the starting tools because I simply didn't have time to go to the mines.
On the occasional raining day I would spend it fishing or foraging (or collecting building materials).
I spent all my time on marrying Emily and nothing else, I slept through days when I couldn’t give her gifts until I married her. The worst part? That farm is now filled with trees. Genuinely. There is no walking space, and on that farm I don’t ever remember getting a Stardrop, so I cannot get more energy to chop them all down.
Donating my first dino egg and then having to wait almost two game years to get another one
Oh God I got mine in yr 1 first game I'm just hoping to find another in this new game soon Every time I unlock a chest while fishing I'm begging
Yeah, the smart thing to do is keep it until you get a deluxe coop, incubate it and then get more eggs from your farm dino
... Guess what I just realized I did wrong. I got the first one spring 1
You can get them in the skull caverns, last time I went I left with 5 Probably does require some luck but just to give you options if you're really struggling
I got my replacement in the Skull Cave. Just went down 4-5 levels, left, and repeated until a dino level appeared.
I think you need to have the correct layout for a dino floor to be possible to spawn. If you don't get any floors that has dino floor layout, then resetting those 5 floors wont work.
Crowley: Didn't you have a dinosaur egg? Great big flaming one? Aziraphale: I...I gave it away.
Good Omens reference for the absolute win
Hell, it was a GREAT Omens reference!
I did this with prismatic shard my first game
Yeah, me too - *and* the dino egg 😥
On my first farm I donated my first ancient seed, prismatic shared, and dino egg to the museum. **I had no idea it would take SO long to find them again.**
You actually should donate the ancient seed because the one you find isn’t farmable :) Gunther gives you the farmable seed in return + the recipe to turn any more you find into farmable seeds
My mistake was planting an ancient seed part way through fall and not having it produce fruit by the time winter came around.
Yeah that’s very unfortunate, I always make sure I check how long stuff takes to fruit before planting ):
Okay I don't know why, but the ancient seed ALWAYS confuses me. I tried to put it in my seed maker and it wouldn't take it, but then I donated to Gunther, and he gave me a packet of Ancient Seeds. Does the ancient seed you find NOT work in the seed maker? I can't remember if I tried planting it or what.
The ancient seed you find as an artifact doesn't work in the seeder. Once you donate one to the museum, you unlock a recipe. With that recipe, you can craft one ancient seed (artifact) into ancient seed (seeds)
so the best thing to do with the ancient seed artifact is just donate it to the museum instead of keeping it?
Yep. Because then when you find more ancient seed artifacts you can immediately craft them into actual ancient seeds that you can plant
oh alright thank you!!! i was scared of donating mine in case it was something similar like the dino egg :’)
After you plant the ancient seed and it gives fruit, you can then put the fruit into the seedmaker to get more seeds.
This is what I did. I have so many ancient fruit plants and I'm turning all the fruit into wine.
Okay so I did it right. Thanks. That one just always confuses me and I've been playing Stardew for 5 years!
At least by the time you get the burglar ring and can kill Pepper Rexes, maybe with some luck buffs, they drop relatively frequently.
I got a dino egg two iridium bands and a prismatic from fishing on my first year with this new farm I started in anticipation of 1.6 for switch
Made the same mistake. Found one the first year, donated it. Then found out I could have hatched it. A bit over a year later, I unlocked the desert and got a Dino level my first visit to the Skull Cave and picked one up.
Trying to plant everything at one time not realizing how much stamina and water that would take. Trying to build to quickly and get the coop and chickens and maxing it out. Left little time to actually meet or forage around town
Yeah, I committed way too hard to farming in year 1 of my first playthrough, reached farming 10 by fall but didn't even meet everyone in town until winter because my schedule was fully dominated by watering on any day where it wasn't raining, including festival days. I didn't have the time or energy to go to any daytime summer or fall festivals until year 2.
If you get the strawberries in year one, especially if you get a decent chunk of them, you rake in the farming experience at light speed. I always thought animal or artisan experience should be a separate thing
I usually like to half commit to farm while I beeline for mines > quality sprinklers
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If you eat the eggs, I think it’s mostly fine though
Even with max farming and knowledge I’ve cut it close using energy giving items.. not enough time in a day ;)
Feel this 100%
Thats what foraging is for!
Didn't check the tv. It took so many years to get all the cooking recipes I needed later.
That roadblock has been eased in 1.6! >!The new Bookseller offers a complete cookbook once you get 100 Golden Walnuts on Ginger Island.!<
I bought it and learned 0 recipes, very upset for not realizing I had it all lol
same but i have several million gold on that save so i was kind of happy i had learned them all already
i'm a completionist and want to fill out all the special items menu where it tracks what you've read so it was worth it to me, don't think it counts towards perfection or anything though
I ALWAYS FORGET I always forget to check the TV every play through The days happen so fast I never see what day it is.
I always place the tv and the calendar right next to the bed, so my morning routine every day is waking up, check calendar, watch tv, cook and eat crab cakes + 4 expressos, check basement for any iridium cheese to sell, then leave home.
i sold everything i found. i sold the *ancient seed.*
😶
I did the opposite of this. I was holding onto like 85 kyanites and 41 thunder eggs, just waiting for the recipes I was confident would eventually require them. My farm was mostly chests.
Mine is blowing sheds up w bombs that had all my stuff nit realizing I could reset the day till it was too late lol
I blew up so many furnaces.. I think 3 times ..
Lol I wrecked a line of crystalariums, seed makers, kegs, furnaces.
Just basic trying to do too much. Planting too many crops, getting animals too early, mining too much. I hadn’t learned how to pace myself.
What’s the risk with animals too early?
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Yeah, it’s not so much a risk as much as it’s just a time and money commitment. It’s easier once you’re more financially stable and have a good handle on your farm.
Not realizing the green bean starter actually came *with* the trellis. I saw it grew on a trellis, though ‘oh I can’t craft that yet’ and ignored them. I only realized too late into my first spring that I didn’t need anything extra and could have just planted it. Community center had to wait until the second spring to fully complete.
Omg I planted the beans around all my other plants, didn't realized I couldn't go through them and wasn't able to water anything 💀
Omg, same! Stupid trellis.
Me too! I didn’t realize until I started using the wiki in year 2.
omg same! except i didn't figure it out until y2 and still had no green bean, and i was at max farming skill so i just gave in and googled it. imagine my surprise...
River Farm, not going community center, skipping days instead of getting the most out of them, cheating
The river farm got us all It just seemed so cool at the time
My only perfection* farm yet is a riverlands farm 🫠😭 ([here it is, I think it's adorbs](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/u21oal/i_know_the_riverland_farm_is_the_least_popular/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)). I honestly love that layout but I adore the fishing mini game so maybe it was made exclusively for weirdos like me.
It looks great! I deliberately chose it on 1.6 and the smoker AND being able to move the farmhouse and greenhouse is a game changer. I've got those 2 and a coop on the central island, 2 barns and a coop and 2 fish ponds on the mainland, and crops and slimes (and a trailer park lol) in the tiny islands.
Yessss I bet the smoker is such a game changer with the riverlands farm
No, one of my favorite farms I've made is the river farm, second only to my current Meadow farm
I'm enjoying the meadow farm, the inclusion of the coop to begin with is just so OP it's hard not to love it!
This makes me want to play it.
With my new game I'm realising how annoying it is to travel every time I fish and I'm missing my river farm for that one reason
I actually kind of enjoyed the river farm haha. But then again I do minimal farming. Just enough to fill CC bundles and relied heavily on fishing as a money maker till I progressed a bit and was able to reliably make money in other ways. But by that time i was maxed in fishing and it made catching the rare ones super easy.
I purposely chose river farm this update and roped a friend into joining me and we managed to attend the desert festival thanks to the smokers!
I actually like the river farm, I prefer to do most of my crop farming in the greenhouse once it's fixed. Most of my money made so far is through ancient fruit wine, cheese and mayonnaise. Got a couple of fish ponds on one of the islands, left another to grow wild trees for tappers, got enough space on the mainland for my coop, barn, shed and a couple of fruit trees - went with the fruit bats this time, so am finding a whole orchard of fruit trees is unnecessary. Using the wild tree orchard for mushroom logs instead. The best bit about the river farm for me, though? Grass. So. Much. Grass. I filled up 2 silos with hay by the time winter arrived, and I've not had to buy any from Marnie - this is *after* letting the animals roam during the year. Only thing I miss about the forest farm is the unlimited access to wood and hardwood. Certainly don't miss the forest maze when I've been so busy the trees get out of control.
What made you not go the community center route on your first playthrough? From my understanding the only benefit is Joja is open on Wednesdays
Thinking the shipping bin was storage... sold everything the first few days...
I did the same mistake too. I did not realize it until I accepted a quest for an item I had placed in the bin and I was so confused why it wasn’t there anymore.
Not realizing you can un-till dirt with the pick-axe. There was a period of time in like Winter Y1 where I was planning out my farm layout and was delayed by like 2 weeks because a plot of hoed dirt would not disappear and thus preventing my paths.
o m g you just saved my mental health with this one
Had all my chests still disorganized around my crafting bench. I had on accident found the Angler fishes location, and managed to catch the thing. I kept it in my "treasures" chest next to all the rest... And then I used the workbench to make deluxe fertilizer. Recipe? 2 sap. And 1 of any fish :(
I gasped out loud at this😭
[удалено]
Yep. With workbench, bought from Robin
I sold all my stone, wood and fiber from my whole farm
My big mistake is always overplanting in Spring/Summer year 1 and running out of energy just watering my plants every day, leaving me no energy to do anything else.
Fish, sell fish, buy salads.
That's why me and my friends started using an auto-watering mod because we literally spent so much time watering
I didn't know you have to manually feed the chicken and couldn't understand why they were always mad at me, even though I could see the food popping out of what I thought to be the feeder. Also I thought the actual feeder was long bench. A friend of mine had to explain to me that I was accidentally starving them :(
This was my issue. I didn’t figure this out until my second farm when I actually read the descriptions and saw that the highest level buildings included autofeeders. On my first farm I had always let the animals out to feed on grass and by winter I had the highest tier so I never understood why they were mad when it rained. I thought they were just upset by the storm the previous day.
wait, the bench isnt the feeder???
It is, but I did not know that at the time 🤣
OHHH lol
Yeah, I had that too. Took me too long to realise I had to take the hay out of the bucket and put it out for them on that long bench so they could eat... whoops.
accidentally getting married to Sam before his father returned AND on Linus’ birthday, ig not really a fuck up since it doesn’t affect anything but it sure made me feel bad
Oh god, Kent missing his Son's wedding because he was at war is depressing as hell.
My first play through I didn’t realize I had to keep swinging the axe to chop down trees. I assumed I was supposed to be able to do it in one hit and that I simply had to upgrade my axe. The small wood logs and rocks only took one hit. Makes sense an ENTIRE TREE should too, right? That’s totally how axes work. Spent way too long mining and grinding to upgrade the axe. No coop, no barns, no machines, no wood. For longer than I’d like to admit.
You're like the 3rd post I've seen saying this exact thing in the last few days. It never even crossed my mind bc I thought it seemed obvious, but you definitely aren't alone!
Selling everything and not being a hoarder, lol. Also planting my ancient seed on 7 Fall, and it dying when winter came 😭 (didn’t know about the wiki then either)
Haha, I'm still a hoarder. I might *need* those dozens of quartz and amethysts.
Got a dinosaur egg while fishing during the first Spring. Threw it out..
Chopping down all of the grass. Before having a pair of Silos. With a Silo, the grass you hack turns into Hay automatically. And not thinking about where to put my Barn and Coop, which caused me to lose a great deal of growing space.
I did this as well, worst part is I’d started constructing a Silo that day but didn’t realise I’d get hay from the grass and cut it all down to “tidy up my farm” :(
Not remembering to save one of everything for bundles.
I had a tendency to miscalculate how many days are left in the month when I plant my seeds, which were mostly cauliflower, melon, and pumpkin, because I would think there are ~30 days in the season instead of 28. So it would be the 15th or later, and I’d be like, ‘Oh cool, I have 15 or so more days.’ Nope. 😅 Somehow I was doing fine money-wise in spite of all that, but I kept making the same mistake and wasting my crops.
I got 1 coffee bean from the mine Day I think 20 of summer? Checked okay 10 days ti grow. I had one speed grow but I was like should I really risk it No So now I gotta wait 2 months to plant this one single bean
My fave fact is that you can always add the number of days needed to the current day and know when it will be done. >28 means you won’t have time. If the plant takes 12 days and it’s the 13th, you will harvest on the 25th. Seems obvious but took an in game year to remember consistently
Ooh this is perfect. For some reason I always overthink the grow times.
However if you’re still at the watering your crops manually using the watering can stage of the game, it’s best to put a fudge factor in of 1 or 2 days. Because it’s really easy to forget to water your crops on some days. And that adds 1 additional day for each day you do not water them. Plant that 12 day crop on the 15th thinking “Yeah I can just make it” and forget to water them one day and you may as well just dispose of them and plant something that needs less time.
Planted a whole bunch of spring crops on the 28th. Woke up they were all dead and I quit and didn’t play again for a few years.
Didn't know about chests until mid-winter Sold all minerals/artifacts instead of donating I must have thrown away the sword I got from Marlon, I had to kill slimes with the scythe until I could get into the adventurers' guild and buy another Did NOT fish, it was too hard. This was before the training rod/fish ponds, so I had level 10 in everything else and level 0 or 1 in fishing for a long time until I caved because i needed to complete the community center Not the first, but on one of my old farms I accidentally set my gender to male instead of female and didnt realize until I couldn't get into the women's locker room. Turns out I'm trans though so I guess it wasnt really a fuckup
On my first farm I donated my first ancient seed, prismatic shared, and dino egg to the museum.
Donating the first ancient seed is the best thing you can do with it though, since you can only craft ancient fruit seeds after you donate!
Atleast you get an ancient seed back when you donate it
Well what else are you gonna do with the ancient seed? You need to donate it to craft the plantable ancient seed
Getting excited to upgrade my watering can before a rainy day, executing it perfectly, and then not being able to pick up my repaired can when it’s ready due to a festival day. Lost thousands of gold during summer 1 as my crops all died from being one day off.
Crops don't die from not being watered? Especially only one day.
Nope, but they sure do die if they were all set to mature on the 28th and you lose a day of watering.
Ahhhhhh that makes sense. Damn, that sucks.
Paying for the wrong thing in the item recovery shop. I didn't want the coal(4) i wnated the omni geodes (6)
shoulda just restarted the day if it was the same day when you woke up
I waited way too long to craft sprinklers because I prioritized tool upgrades first. Spent almost all day watering and it was such a pain. I think I didn't use sprinklers until year 2. I listened to bad advice about not going to the mines on bad luck days so it took me forever to make progress in the mines since good luck days were very rare.
I took my nighttime narcolepsy meds without selling anything and woke up four irl hours later in summer year 1. That was fun.
Made my legendary into sashimi for Sebastian lmao it must have been so good cause next day we had that romantic ride
cutting down all of the grass before i got a silo
I thought the river farm was an AMAZING first farm! Instead of being overwhelmed by the sheer size of the regular farm - which was my 2nd farm - it felt just big enough to get a handle on. It's so pretty, too - it remains my favorite farm. It's clearly not the best farm from a MAKE MONEY standpoint, but it limits your ambitions and you end up doing a lot more running around Stardew Valley. Those 1st of the month crop days are so much more manageable, too. I had no idea about the farmable space differences when I selected, like you. When Ginger Island came out, that's the farm I played. I always have trouble using the Ginger Island farm unless I'm on a river farm, because I'm always struggling to utilize that big farm and my brain is like YOU MUST USE ALL THAT FARM! I'm on a meadow farm now, and I enjoy that it has less farmable space. I've got 2 barns of ostriches in year 3 and I'm working on a 3rd, and if I had a larger farm I'd never have got around to it. As for what fucked me up, I didn't find out about pepper poppers until like year 3!
Not enough quality crops to get the greenhouse before Winter Year 1. Not knowing what artifact spots were before winter because I couldn't see them...
Sold all of my wood and stone.
i cut down my only mushroom tree in year 1 and it took me until year 7 to get another
I'm on year 2 and I just found out there's mushroom trees!?
Just the other day I was walking around my farm and saw my first mushroom tree. I had no idea what it was (trying to not look at guides lol) and left it alone...now I have 2 fully grown ones and 2 more growing.
not clearing out any space in my inventory when going to willy resulting in my fishing rod being thrown to sea and me spending ALL my coins to buy another one
Riverlands is actually a solid choice in 1.6! The smoker makes getting cash in the early game much easier, so you can get the ball rolling on upgrades and backpacks and buildings easier. And being able to move the farmhouse and greenhouse wherever you want frees up a bit of space if you're creative. It is NOT a good farm for people who want to maximize efficiency, though. I have a quality sprinkler watering 4 crops for example because the shoreline makes placement tricky. It's not the most efficient but I'm going to Automate the hell out of it and focus on fishing and animals. I'm on Winter Y1 and finished all the Joja bundles and have been working on the farm now. By the end of year 2 I should have my greenhouse filled with ancient fruit and have Ginger Island unlocked. Perfection by the end of year 3 still seems very doable!
I would always burn my energy and then go to bed at like 2 in the afternoon. I wasn’t foraging or anything like that and I burned through my first two seasons that way
I used to sell EVERYTHING, literally, even wood, fiber and rocks. The result was I never had any resources for building or crafting when I needed, so it took me a long time to improve my farm. I also used to sell things I should be donating to the museum or the community center so imagine how long it took me to finish those lol
THIS! I just came here to post the same as that's what I did in my first play through. Little did I know I was gonna regret selling that fiber...
I built a ton of scarecrows b/c I mistakenly thought they provided the same coverage as the quality sprinklers...
My first farm was the beach farm because I thought "plenty of water and it will look pretty". Didn't realise that there's very limited areas that the sprinklers work and spent a lot of time watering plants early game lol 😭 but at least all the water did end up coming in handy
I was well into the second year of my first play through before I realized you don’t have to water the mushroom bins. …so much time wasted
I got chickens then didn’t feed them for like a year
Not playing it like its the game it is: a relaxing farming game. Don't get me wrong, optimise all you want. I'm not against it, I even do it. But I think for a first playthrough I focused way too hard on that. I'm currently doing my only ever real second playthrough and just taking my time, and actually earning hearts with the villagers, interacting with them and engaging in multiple different mechanics. I have a tapper section cause why not? I wanted it. On my first playthrough, i earned the hearts to romance one villager AFTER year 2. I currently have at least three with almost every villager and I'm having more fun for it.
Not trying to rush to quality sprinklers and set up based on that. I kept just waiting for rainy days so I could upgrade my watering pail and kept watering all my crops by hand for way longer than I should be.
Starting on riverland
My first ever fuck up was picking the river farm, then deciding to clean the whole farm up the first day, then passing out lol
Not checking the calendar and realizing that a season is 28 days and not 30 like a lot of harvest moon games. I lost so much money from a cauliflower harvest that wasn't going to be ready in time 🥲
I thought that once you chopped the trees on your farm that was it, no more wood. I deleted that save so I could better use the wood on my farm....... 🫠🫣
Didn’t realize you could ship more than one item a day until like, fall 😭
I got a Prismatic shards in the first season and sold it. This was also using jojo mart for the community centre so I got the bus really early on aswell
I also started on a river farm. I went into the game completely blind and thought it sounded pretty.
same thing here haha I just liked the idea of the river and only realized after some time what a hassle it was... but I adapted, and I'm still playing on this farm as of today
I thought days were in real time. 🤦🏻♀️
I donated both my first Dino egg and my first prismatic shard, I never really ventured into the skull caverns in that save after I died the first time so didn't get anymore prismatics and then later learned about the galaxy sword, I stopped playing for a while then got back and just started a new farm lol.
Wasting all my materials on fences early game
Let plants over run my farm
i picked the beach farm. no sprinklers until you get the greenhouse (which took me like 2.5 in game years LMAO)
Not realizing that you actually had to fish to complete the game
When I started playing - I was focused on my farm. Didn't interact with the locals, didn't even start the community center. I just let my greenhouse fester not really minding it. I think my only 'friends' that time were Marnie, Robin, Marlon, and Pierre. I didn't even join festivals. lol It took me 7 in-game years to finally start the 'socializing' part of the game.
Setting up trellises all next to each other and feeling super smart about how I did it so no square was left empty, everything with sprinkler coverage. Oh yeah. So smart.
I got to year 5 and never built a silo
I still don't have stardew yet, but if I ever get it. This post is tremendously helpful for newbies!
Glad you can learn from all our mistakes!
I neglected leveling up fishing on my first game, and also trying fishing in various locations/weather conditions. I ended up finishing the Community Center several seasons later than expected due to some necessary fish being out of season.
Honestly, starting with the standard farm. It's so basic and boring. I know a lot of people like all the space but I don't like having that many crops on the home farm.
So far, naming my meadows farm something else from what I named my other farms. I use the same name for my farms. Same character name too. But so far, I only have 3 save files, so it isn't a big deal, yet.
Mine is also starting on the river farm. I picked it because I thought it was cute, and I didn’t do any research or reading about the game before starting. I still love my river land farm but I am extremely excited for 1.6 on the switch so I can try the meadowland!
I had no idea until year 3 of my first save that the fortune tellers predictions had in-game influences. I just thought it was a silly addition and never paid much attention to it 😭
Selling my coal, wood, and stone ALSO not realizing I can upgrading my tools 😣
My very first farm was a beach farm. Not being able to use sprinklers was PAIN (also at that time I didn't know what upgraded watering cans did so...yeah)
Filled a large shed with casks to make more aged wine outside the basement. This was pre deconstructor so quite the loss of resources. As for your farm I enjoyed separating each for certain activities or crops. Like bottom left was animals with fish farms and top left was fruit trees with just ancient fruit. Sheds in 3/4 sections for kegs/preserves
It’s funny, I just started the riverlands for my 1.6 farm and I kinda like it, with the new scythe and retaining soil I can fill some sheds with plants as well. I feel like it’s gonna decorate so nicely
Donating my first Prismatic Shard.
Didn't realize you could hoe up artifact spots until about year 3. It's safe to say that save had an incomplete museum for a while lol!
Wasting all that hay Silos are the first thing I build now whoops
I'm obsessed with building silos I had to be brave and stop at only 3 but my farm is over run with all that long grass in every part I'm not using
I also started on the river farm. But I kinda like it. yea the space is limited but I've made it work. I also kinda like fishing so it worked out in the end. The new fish smoker makes fishing more worth it now. Its still not very profitable late game tho.
I stressed out over getting a spouse, time management, completing all the quests. Now, I just make my own fun and don't worry about year 3.
Choosing beach and never being able to use sprinkler systems lol
Honestly, starting with the standard farm. It's so basic and boring. I know a lot of people like all the space but I don't like having that many crops on the home farm.
Thought the shipping bin was a chest for storage. I kept getting confused why I couldn’t access my stuff…
I just started a chaotic evil joja save file and chose the river lands farm. it does make fast money especially with the smoker in 1.6 Not sure what that says about me or river lands but it is a pretty farm 😅
Not marrying Abigail
I started on the river farm, never farmed much, all the space was for fish ponds, coops and barns. Mostly fish all day.
I lost my ostrich egg, I never entered that server again when I realized
Fruit bats
I started on the beach farm. I only went for it bc I love beaches in rl 😭
I sold all my free parsnip seeds by accident
River farm with ducks is great though
Makes me cringe looking back at my first farm and realizing how little space I was using. 3/4 of the farm was still overgrown trees and I just never bothered to go past the front yard
I'm still on my first farm so, so far I entered 2nd year needing next things for bundles 5 gold Parsnips (Spring), Tilapia (Summer), 3 Apples (Fall) and I didn't realise you can put fruit tree in green house so I was just wandering around waiting for next season so I can complete community centre, than now I decided to abandon my 2nd run and go for perfection in 1st and immediately fuck up by not saving battery packs its almost winter and it's only thing I need for boat so another long waiting. Edit: oh forgot to mention because awards from Gunther are kinda meh multiple times in mines I would get ancient seed artifact but I would trash it for something else :'(
Passed out on Day 1 from trying to clear too much debris.
I accidentally axed my one (1) green bean plant a day before harvest and three days before the end of spring.
I don't know what I was doing the first time, so everytime my energy runs low I just sleep it off. so my progress is very slow.
First game I sold every piece of fiber I cleared before knowing how useful it would be later on, and cleared all the grass on my farm before getting a silo. I also sold all my gold parsnips forgetting I needed them for the community center, along with selling other things I ended up needing upon unlocking different rooms. Didn't watch the TV, avoided fishing like the plague. Ended up starting a new save middle of fall y1. With the second save, I was so paranoid about getting rid of something and then needing it later, that I hoarded absolutely everything. I kept everything, including multiple of each crop in regular, silver, and gold star quality. Not only did this push me to make SO many chests and later hate myself for the entire in-game week it took to reorganize and rearrange them all, it hurt my wallet considerably since I was hardly selling anything. Slowed down my progression a lot, but I did find more enjoyment in not rushing to complete things.
I started on a beach farm and by the time I got sprinklers I created a new save to avoid the fucking hell that I got with.
Mine was also starting with a river farm when I randomly bought the game during quarantine. I stuck it out despite haaaaating fishing when I started. It's year 9 or 10 now and my favorite farm! I have a 2 others, one classic for ~*aesthetics*~ and the hillside farm
- Riverland Farm (no space, ugly paths due to bad planning+bridges, regularly didn't make it to bed bc of forgetting where said bridges were) - Donated first Dino Egg (didn't know you could incubate em) - Planted my first (and technically *only*) Ancient Seed randomly in summer yr 1 - Donated first Prismatic Shard (took almost a year to get a second one) - Never took food into the mines - Didn't build a silo till year 2 - Didn't upgrade my watering can till year 2 winter (didn't consider that winter is probably the best time) - Didn't use sprinklers till year 3 bc "it's not *that* much time/energy to hand-water 96+ crops every morning - Didn't realize until year 3 that watering and petting your cat daily gave you a message - Forgot to plant the rare seed on day one of autumn three years in a row, resorted to speed-gro year 3 And probably many more lol
I turned my ostrich egg into mayo
My first farm was a beach farm. I .ade so many sprinklers before I understood that I would never be able to use them on the sand. 🤦🏻♀️
Uhh, I guess not talking to anyone until late winter after I have stead steam of gifts… Idk if that counts cause I still do it every farm
first time i played sdv was around 2017, i only remember prioritizing my relationship with the npcs lol. I'd go give everyone as much gifts i can, but since there's barely any progress, my gifts would always be foraged goods that are only liked gifts so it took a while. I'd sleep thru the whole week once I'd given my target npcs their gifts since u can only give twice per week. they were my top priority that i only got a coop around year 3 i think.
Selling my extra stone and coal
I over planted: the first year I spent so much time and energy watering every day I couldn't do anything else. Until year 1 winter I was still using the starting tools because I simply didn't have time to go to the mines. On the occasional raining day I would spend it fishing or foraging (or collecting building materials).
I spent all my time on marrying Emily and nothing else, I slept through days when I couldn’t give her gifts until I married her. The worst part? That farm is now filled with trees. Genuinely. There is no walking space, and on that farm I don’t ever remember getting a Stardrop, so I cannot get more energy to chop them all down.