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summer 2, year 2. Got a little over ambitious and planted about 150-200 crops. 90 of those are blueberries. The rest mostly corn and hops, so no re-seeding like those drat potatoes. I don't have enough sprinklers. Got married last day of spring. Abi has been watering the crops every morning so far, saves me a ton of time. Cows and chickens at max happiness, getting iridium quality milk and eggs, but not cheese/mayo is still gold only. My pig is also digging up more truffles than my one oil maker can handle per day. Got a couple of oaks producing resin, crafting barrels and slowly expanding my brewery operations. Also planted hops and starfruit in the greenhouse. Also ventured into the skull cave. Not sure if I just had a bad luck day but finding stairs took long, had to clear 80-90% of the rocks before one showed, and one time it was just a hole that dropped me down 8 floors. Also there are flying beetles that don't take damage from my sword?
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Not sure how blind you're wanting your playthrough to be but mayo/cheese only comes in normal or gold. It's entirely dependant on the size of the input good small or large not the star quality. Cheese can be upgraded once you get basement casks. Skull cave is a luck game. You can help out by going on high luck days and carrying lots of stone to make your own stairs and bombs to clear out chunks of rocks to save time. The beetles are unkillable.
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Nov 2, 2017 10:35
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Darkhold posted:Not sure how blind you're wanting your playthrough to be but mayo/cheese only comes in normal or gold. It's entirely dependant on the size of the input good small or large not the star quality. Cheese can be upgraded once you get basement casks. Ok, thanks. Does it still pay off to turn iridium eggs into mayo or are they more valuable as-is? Crafting stairs I almost forgot about, can do that yeah. Does the skull cave have an elevator-type thing like the mines or do you start from floor 1 every time you go back? I got a quest to reach floor 25, doubt that can be done in one in-game day. Trying not to look up too much, but there are so many little things in the game that aren't explained properly that sometimes help is needed.
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Nov 2, 2017 12:27
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Skull cave doesn't have an elevator, no. Just bring lots of rocks to make stairs with, and big bombs to mine with. Getting to 25 isn't even particularly hard without rocks/stairs (but with bombs) on a good luck day, but you'll want to go deeper for a good haul of ore.
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Nov 2, 2017 12:33
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alright, i guess i'll need to craft some bombs and bring food, the last time i got taken off guard by the slime blobs turning into smaller ones
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Nov 2, 2017 12:53
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In winter 2, I have 18 kegs and 9 preserves barrels, and I feel like I’m in aesop’s fables, happily brewing/preserving away my hundreds of hops and cranberries that I saved up just for this purpose. When this game is satisfying, it’s REALLY satisfying.
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Nov 2, 2017 14:06
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There's a mod that adds an elevator to the skull cave but it's essentially a cheat mod.
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Nov 2, 2017 14:15
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Dictator. posted:Ok, thanks. Does it still pay off to turn iridium eggs into mayo or are they more valuable as-is? Edit: well not great is relative to if you have the 'right' perks. I made it sound worse than it is. Also there's one non-chicken egg layer that the silver and above egg is worth more than the mayo. Darkhold fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Nov 2, 2017 |
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Nov 2, 2017 15:52
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Because I chose dumb perks, I’m pretty sure that gold and above wool and large goat milk are worth more than their resulting artisan products for me.
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Nov 2, 2017 16:01
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Yeah there's a couple like that but eggs are pretty straightforward.
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Nov 2, 2017 16:03
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Darkhold posted:Yeah there's a couple like that but eggs are pretty straightforward. Except that never, ever make your dinosaur eggs into mayo because it actually decreases their value. Uncle Wemus posted:I wonder if theres some way stardew, and the other harvest moon type games, could work in farming meat from cattle and such and still maintain the relaxed and innocent tone of the game
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Nov 2, 2017 22:38
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I'm pretty sure selling animals for cash qualifies as using them as meat, cause what else is gonna happen to them?
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Nov 2, 2017 22:49
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They become ethereum quality.
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Nov 2, 2017 22:54
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Internet Kraken posted:I'm pretty sure selling animals for cash qualifies as using them as meat, cause what else is gonna happen to them? I'd like to think of it as a donation because you get piddle amounts of money for growing one of those things to adulthood. While CA mimicked Harvest Moon, he didn't mimic farm-life. You grow Betsy nice and fat, then take her to the annual fair and hope you get first place so you can sell her off to the meat-grinder for a good price and then begin again. Fair awards would apply to all the other animals too.
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Nov 2, 2017 23:38
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Don't name animals ya plan on butchering is what my uncle told me. Unless ya name them after your enemies.
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Nov 2, 2017 23:58
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World Famous W posted:Don't name animals ya plan on butchering is what my uncle told me. Unless ya name them after your enemies. My grandpa had a cow named Buster, and it wasn’t until I was older that I realized that sometimes Buster would get younger and change colors right about the time he’d give us a large amount of beef to throw in the freezer. 
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Uncle Wemus posted:I wonder if theres some way stardew, and the other harvest moon type games, could work in farming meat from cattle and such and still maintain the relaxed and innocent tone of the game I mean, most farmers don't butcher their own cattle anyways. I'm imagining something where you click a button one day to send the cow off to slaughter, and then get your meat in the mail a couple days later.
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showbiz_liz posted:I mean, most farmers don't butcher their own cattle anyways. I'm imagining something where you click a button one day to send the cow off to slaughter, and then get your meat in the mail a couple days later. My dad started out butchering his own cattle but eventually couldn't bring himself to do it so he started sending them off to someone else do it
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I think Shepards crossing 2 is the game where if you play as a girl none of the bachelor's are interested in you but are pressured into marrying you by their family not out of love but just to reproduce. So after the wedding your husband tells you he's moving to the city for work and you won't see him much but he'll send you money.
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Uncle Wemus posted:I think Shepards crossing 2 is the game where if you play as a girl none of the bachelor's are interested in you but are pressured into marrying you by their family not out of love but just to reproduce. So after the wedding your husband tells you he's moving to the city for work and you won't see him much but he'll send you money. Which game is the one where if you're a woman and get married, the game ends (or so I hear)?
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Cream-of-Plenty posted:Which game is the one where if you're a woman and get married, the game ends (or so I hear)? Harvest Moon for Girl
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Nov 3, 2017 02:21
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Magical melody makes you keep working while pregnant and halves your stamina
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I name my chickens things like [74] and [645] after my grandpappy.
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Pug Rodeo posted:Harvest Moon for Girl Specifically, Back to Nature For Girl and when choosing the girl in GB3.
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Bogart posted:I name my chickens things like [74] and [645] after my grandpappy. does that work on animals too? Internet Kraken posted:I'm pretty sure selling animals for cash qualifies as using them as meat, cause what else is gonna happen to them? you can do that? who buys the animals? Thinking of selling at least the pig come winter, he won't be finding me truffles for the whole month so that's just another mouth to feed. Also the sheep is barely pulling his weight with one piece of wool every third day. Or does it pay going into cloth? I've just been adding kegs and cashing on dairy products and mayo.
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Dictator. posted:does that work on animals too? Yes, but I think in animals' case it's a one-off because the only time their name is ever called by the script is when you first acquire them. Dictator. posted:you can do that? who buys the animals? No one in particular. You just right click the animal then click the sell button that appears, and he animal disappears and you get cash. Sell your pig only if you don't intend to keep pigs anymore. Even if you buy all the feed it costs (50 each times 30 days) $1500 to feed it all winter, which is nothing compared to the long term cost of lost truffles while you're waiting for a new pig to grow up. Rabbits are better sources of wool than sheep, because (a) they don't require manual harvesting, and (b) they also occasionally drop rabbit's feet. Eric the Mauve fucked around with this message at 13:38 on Nov 3, 2017 |
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Eric the Mauve posted:Yes, but I think in animals' case it's a one-off because the only time their name is ever called by the script is when you first acquire them. so it wouldn't work when you check up on them and it says "[AnimalName] is looking happy" Eric the Mauve posted:
Oh right, then I'll get rabbits in stead, and add more cows or goats and get rid of the sheep
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Dictator. posted:does that work on animals too? pigs are still good, truffles are big bucks and they produce for 3 out of 4 seasons, 2x a day regularly. I'm pretty tepid on sheep/rabbits b/c they don't produce often enough compared to a daily huge milk or huge egg that can be processed quickly into a more valuable product. You don't even need any of them for the community center since their products can all be gained in other ways. (Emily will also send you wool or cloth, newspapers can recycle to cloth, dragon eels drop rabbits feet)
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Dictator. posted:so it wouldn't work when you check up on them and it says "[AnimalName] is looking happy” No because that’s in a different dialogue box. I usually just leave a few spots open in the coop and buy a few chicken with [166][163][74] as the name (with the item codes changed around each time since you can’t have animals with the same name. That gives me a treasure chest and Legend fish which are worth $10000 together, as well as a prismatic shard for gifts. Then I go back to the coop and sell the new chicks. At that point I can go back and do it all over again for more money or go back to my chores. I justify my actions because I was a dummy and picked rancher instead of tiller so I don’t get an artisan bonus. 
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Pug Rodeo posted:
You can fix this in a few seconds with a save editor, if you really need to
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Psion posted:You can fix this in a few seconds with a save editor, if you really need to Playing on the Switch unfortunately.
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Reading this thread makes me feel like I’m playing the game wrong because I’m not min-maxing everything.
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Reading this thread makes me feel like I’m playing the game wrong because I’m not min-maxing everything. You're not, don't worry. 
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Nostalgia4Infinity posted:Reading this thread makes me feel like I’m playing the game wrong because I’m not min-maxing everything. The point of Stardew is to relax and have fun. There is no "right" way of doing things, so don't worry.
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F_Shit_Fitzgerald posted:The point of Stardew is to relax and have fun. There is no "right" way of doing things, so don't worry. Yeah, once I learned that there was no real downside if you happened to 'miss' your evaluation, and can get another one virtually any time, I stopped caring about having the 'best' farm, and now just have a farm.
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Listen, I'm not saying you're playing the game wrong, but if you don't have a spreadsheet open while you're playing, then you're playing the game wrong.
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said spreadsheet must have at least 7 macros
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and i don't meant that pussy =SUM(B1:B12) bullshit i mean real honest to god multivariate macros that take into account individual profit optimization and planting days to give real rates of return
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Nov 4, 2017 20:07
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u PLEBIAN
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I got this game for the switch about a month ago and I'm hooked. It's like animal crossing mixed with the sims. And you get to fight monsters! I'm on spring y4 and I've filled my greenhouse with ancient fruit, a shed load of kegs/oil machines and a barn of pigs. My next goal is to try and get to 10 hearts with everyone before I choose myself a spouse 
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