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I am immensely bummed out. My game keeps randomly freezing when I go to sleep and the error log is no help. Fall Y2 with a good farm. I think I'll hafta put the game down for awhile and wait until 1.5.5 release and hope that fixes the issue.
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coolusername posted:
Hopefully you've got an RF4 special save so you can get the special guest characters for RF5 Margaret and Doug 
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Nov 6, 2021 22:10
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Anyway, see you all in 2022 when I buy rune factory 5 to continue no-lifing my life?
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What's more "end-game"? I'm in Fall 2 and everything is more or less on auto-pilot on my beach farm. I'm doing starfruit in the greenhouse as I get my ancient fruit crops up to speed, and I'm otherwise doing a little bit of everything between fruit trees, fish ponds, honey, and tappers, with the small bit of arable land doing the crop of the moment (aside from some recipe stuff). I don't have a full set of iridium gear, but I did just unlock the island and I can go to skull cave. I'm woefully unequipped for the latter and lack both the stairs and bombs to do a deep-dive. I went to check out the island but it makes zero sense atm, which I suspect is the point and that's fine. I guess the question is, at this juncture which do I focus on, or which do I set aside for the time being, while doing day to day stuff? The island I find more interesting, but it's rather time-consuming to get to at the moment, and it seems rather vast, while I know Skull cave is rather cut and dry, unless it's been greatly changed.
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Nov 12, 2021 11:17
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You’ve pretty much got it. The endgame is whatever you wanna do with your farm and the townspeople, getting resources (chiefly iridium, which becomes more common the deeper you go) in the skull cave, and figuring out the island. There’s also two shorter quest lines you may or may not have started, one that begins if you go to the northern mountain (where the bathhouse is), and another that starts by solving a puzzle in the tunnel to the left of the bus stops. There’s some endgame things unlocked at the end of those, as well. You may also look into getting a full set of dwarf scrolls if you haven’t already. E: sorry, that didn’t really answer any questions. My personal recommendation is whatever smaller goals you have, and then prioritizing the island over the skull cave. The island is cool.
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Nov 12, 2021 11:46
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I'd say you are in the end-game regardless. Sadly you can't make the 'How did I do?' event happen early that would once have been a clear marker. Usually happens end of Year 3 (but you can make it recalculate if you don't like the result.) The island is more or less intentionally a bunch of post-game puzzles and options. Wiki-dive or not as you see fit. Worth spending some time with proper attention though. Eventually you can unlock some quirky challenges. Skull Cave is older content, but also much easier if you get some of the ring upgrades the island can offer. Other things have been covered by Zulily, as well as general Secret Note stuff. Also trying to get all fish caught and all museum slots filled. (Those both of those are hard work). All the quests from the Special Board near Lewis are a fun distraction with unique rewards IIRC. EDIT : Some options for skull cave to make it easier can be crystallarium Jade traded for stairs with the desert trader, also explosive shot on the sling shot is a cheap way of getting a lot of impact explosives that can't hurt you. Whether it's better or worse than Bombs and Mega Bombs is a matter of taste. Tylana fucked around with this message at 12:08 on Nov 12, 2021 |
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Nov 12, 2021 12:02
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100YrsofAttitude posted:What's more "end-game"? I'm in Fall 2 and everything is more or less on auto-pilot on my beach farm. I'm doing starfruit in the greenhouse as I get my ancient fruit crops up to speed, and I'm otherwise doing a little bit of everything between fruit trees, fish ponds, honey, and tappers, with the small bit of arable land doing the crop of the moment (aside from some recipe stuff). You sound like a wo/man who could use a return scepter or some other horribly expensive farm equipment to work towards. Have you redecorated your farm? Just woken up one morning and thought "these paths are all wrong, what was I thinking"? Maybe built a giant shrine to a golden statue of mayor lewis?
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Nov 12, 2021 19:41
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Guildenstern Mother posted:You sound like a wo/man who could use a return scepter or some other horribly expensive farm equipment to work towards. Have you redecorated your farm? Just woken up one morning and thought "these paths are all wrong, what was I thinking"? Maybe built a giant shrine to a golden statue of mayor lewis? There's definitely things to work towards. I could use the specter and I haven't even fixed the last bundle in the Community Center nor built Pam a house. I just know that the money stuff will get done as soon as my modest wine production gets going. I'm not even min-maxing it, because it hardly feels necessary. I have one barn with a pig in it that I'm going to sell and then I don't know what I'll do with that building if I don't raze it. I've kept rabbits for their feet and because wool is generally useful. I've also beaten this game early on on PC, so it's just the new stuff that's new to me. I still haven't married, but I'm leaning Leah if not Maru. Like there's stuff to do, but I was just curious what the new long long term goal I should have is. I'll probably back off from the island for now, focus on getting a full set iridium tools and clean up the economic stuff in town and the desert. Then I'll do the island after doing a minimum of skull cave.
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Nov 12, 2021 19:55
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There's also collections to complete. Have you cooked all the dishes? Caught all the fish? Filled the museum?
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Nov 12, 2021 22:08
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Pththya-lyi posted:There's also collections to complete. Have you cooked all the dishes? Caught all the fish? Filled the museum? I'm missing a handful of items in the museum, same for shipping, and just waiting on winter to roll around for those fish. I've been collecting seasonal veggies for the cooking list. I'm by no means bored, but a lot of goals like these are long term or dependent on a season, much like the expensive items ones. It's a great game and I've got a lot of plans for it moving forward for sure.
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Nov 12, 2021 23:07
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Dumb question but I'm playing on PC, how do I pull up a path tile on my farm?
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Nov 13, 2021 05:36
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You've probably found the answer by now, but mining pick.
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100YrsofAttitude posted:There's definitely things to work towards. I could use the specter and I haven't even fixed the last bundle in the Community Center nor built Pam a house. I just know that the money stuff will get done as soon as my modest wine production gets going. I'm not even min-maxing it, because it hardly feels necessary. The scepter is a huge qol upgrade that's worth the price tag. Also not yet available to you but if you keep advancing stuff there's a way to make rings and weapons that are more gooder.
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Nov 13, 2021 10:07
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The automate mod is just  Does it make a chest auto harvest tea leaves or batteries along a line by any chance?
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Nov 13, 2021 21:24
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Poil posted:The automate mod is just I know it does batteries, haven't tried tea leaves tho
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Nov 13, 2021 21:30
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ohnobugs posted:You've probably found the answer by now, but mining pick. thank you!
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Nov 13, 2021 21:36
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Poil posted:The automate mod is just It definitely does tea leaves. I put a chest and a keg in my "pot basement" (tea trees in Garden Pots), and the chest would automatically pluck the leaves and shove them into the keg for making into tea.
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Nov 13, 2021 21:50
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Great, it's even better than I thought. That means I can cluster my rods behind the barn and coop and not worry that I can't reach all of them. And gathering from long hedges will be a breeze. I had a ton of trash before I got my recycler and it just happily chugged through the whole lot with no need for me to run back and forth over days.
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Nov 13, 2021 22:03
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Automate also harvests fruit trees, and shakes wood trees for seeds . There's enough room in the Greenhouse to fit eighteen fruit trees and fifty-four preserves jars without blocking access to the growing area or the water trough.
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Poil posted:Great, it's even better than I thought. That means I can cluster my rods behind the barn and coop and not worry that I can't reach all of them. And gathering from long hedges will be a breeze. I had a ton of trash before I got my recycler and it just happily chugged through the whole lot with no need for me to run back and forth over days. Oh if you really want to go down the Automate rabbit hole... try putting a chest next to some crab pots. And then put a Recycling Machine next to the chest... maybe a Charcoal Kiln or a Furnace if you're feeling really feisty. Easiest place to do this is on a dock or a bridge, but be careful of NPC pathing. Look up what spots they won't walk through and wreck your stuff. From there you can daisy chain crab pots up and down a body of water... and if you want to get really sassy, have a look at the config file for Automate. It designates some paths as being "connectors," meaning if you lay them down adjacent to a chest, they connect the chest to the thing you want to automate. You can use this trick to line the whole dang beach with crab pots and automatically process all the trash into useful materials. I had the beach farm so I did the same with the docks to the south and the southern shore. I just checked 'em once a week or so. Easy money between the lobsters and crabs, sashimi, cloth, etc. and plus the extra coal, ore, and refined quartz was always nice.
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Nov 14, 2021 04:34
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I'm a big fan of automate + crab pots. You even still get fishing exp when you empty the chest. Sashimi's also a really good food you can get the recipe for very early and easily and crab pot catches from the sewer make the same sashimi wild caught halibut does. Very few townies don't at least like sashimi as a gift, further, and it's got no buffs so you can take a big pile of sashimi into dungeons for hp restore without worrying about losing buffs from other foods/potions/whatever.
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Nov 15, 2021 07:32
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I finally bought a Wood Chipper. I'd considered them useless because I thought they only had one use, and hardwood is so much more difficult to come by than regular wood in the early game. Having learned that they turn driftwood into regular wood at similar rates, I have started eschewed using the recycle machines on Driftwood because you get so much more from the wood chipper.
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Nov 15, 2021 07:44
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Returning player from the 1.0 - 1.3 era. Anything I’m missing in mods since then? I’m looking into trying Stardew Valley Expanded, interested in hearing people’s opinions on that. Any other big must haves or mods worth trying?
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I will say, the game is still fine unmodded (and is my playstyle) But then, I've only sunk like 100 hours in across a few farms. Especially with things like the Zoom controls added and community bundle icon in the inventory. But, there are a number of popular QoL mods, like LookUp Anything, or *digs into thread history* Spalec posted:https://www.nexusmods.com/stardewvalley/mods/239 A lot of people love Automate. But it feels like not playing the game to me? Stardew Expanded has a lot of mixed responses, but it certainly works for some people.
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Nov 15, 2021 17:22
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Automate is a cheat mod. I happily use it and am fine with that, but let's not kid ourselves about its nature. If you're of the "I want to get all the cheevos without cheating!" persuasion then you should skip it. If you don't care about that and just want to save the IRL time you would otherwise have to invest in busywork, hell yes Automate is the greatest thing ever.
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Nov 15, 2021 17:24
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I'll admit, after having done most of the post-game island, and lvl100 skull caves and most/all of the special board quest and stuff like that, and still not having enough money to buy a warp obelisk suggests that if I wanted thank kind of stuff, I'd need to either automate my farm, or just hack in money. <.< Admittedly, Beach Farm doesn't play into scaling up your crops so much. But it also stopped me from stalling out. So success.
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Nov 15, 2021 17:28
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The only mod you need is Abigail centuar mod I don't use mods because I'm lazy and I still enjoy the base game
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Nov 15, 2021 17:38
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Automate just replaces manual clicking, to me it's along the same line of going from manually watering your crops to using sprinklers.
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Nov 15, 2021 18:24
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Yeah but it also allows you to accomplish a LOT more in a day, thus make a lot more money in a day, than the game was designed to allow.
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Does automate mod require any materials to be spent to build whatever automates things? Because 10000g or an iridium bar for one sprinkler is also for game balance
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Nov 15, 2021 18:29
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Sure but time means nothing at all in the game, not like you're racing to hit specific goals unless you just really want to for your own personal reasons.
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CFox posted:Sure but time means nothing at all in the game, not like you're racing to hit specific goals unless you just really want to for your own personal reasons. Right there with you dude, I was just pointing out its cheating nature in case OP is the type that likes to play games "pure" or whatever. I also use CJB Cheats to permanently set my speed to +3 because I value my IRL time. WFW: No, you literally just plonk a chest next to whatever and it does its thing. Like for example if you build 20 beehouses, one chest and 4 kegs all in a 5x5 square you can just come back in a few months and you'll have a huge pile of mead. You can do this outside the farm
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Yeah, gotta admit weirdly tempted to cheat in enough to build a stable, or a permanent coffee buff or whatever. (In my new poking at playthrough, which is mostly trying not to spend money on buying other lifesim games. Haha.) Same as how I really should have looked at a way of just making speed potions last 999hours or whatever in Graveyard Keeper.
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Nov 15, 2021 19:13
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On the forest farm I’m planning to construct a coop on the grassy patch to the north of the center pond: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/File:Forest_Farm.png Can grass starter be planted on that grass?
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Wildtortilla posted:On the forest farm I’m planning to construct a coop on the grassy patch to the north of the center pond: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/File:Forest_Farm.png You can plant grass but it won't spread there. At least the last time I tried (a few patches back)
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I don’t think I have ever gotten my money’s worth from planting grass. I’ve tried several elaborate schemes, but in the end buying wheat has always been cheaper and easier. All the animals are income positive after buying wheat even at 0 hearts, so it’s not like you need grass.
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Eating grass rather than hay maxes out their happiness IIRC, which makes large/more valuable products more likely, but the overall effect is pretty negligible vs. just using the auto-feeder and periodically dumping in a stack of hay. Grass still looks nice though and Aesthetics Are The Game
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Nov 16, 2021 05:32
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I just had a thought, has anyone tried planting grass on the new island? Does it grow there? In the winter?
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Nov 16, 2021 05:33
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Grass sucks because I can’t see the truffles 
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World Famous W posted:I don't use mods because I'm lazy and I still enjoy the base game  Wildtortilla posted:On the forest farm I’m planning to construct a coop on the grassy patch to the north of the center pond: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/File:Forest_Farm.png GodFish posted:You can plant grass but it won't spread there. At least the last time I tried (a few patches back) In addition, if you put down grass starter and then a fence (or lightning rod) on top of it, your animals will come out and eat it, but the grass will not disappear. Which means you can do things like this; 
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AJA posted:In addition, if you put down grass starter and then a fence (or lightning rod) on top of it, your animals will come out and eat it, but the grass will not disappear. Which means you can do things like this; Hey thanks, this was going to be my next question.
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