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Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
I can’t help myself from making vast fields of iridium-irrigated crop land for the chance at giant crops. It’s more profitable to go whole hog on berries, but I gots to have those giant cauliflower/melons/pumpkins greeting me during the appropriate season.

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Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Is there a new version out for Stardew Valley? I am having trouble reading that post in any other way.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:

A caviar tycoon is respectable, the envy of the valley, his farm's products feeding the elite of zuzu city. His farm becomes a synonym for elegance. A man who puts his money into Lava eels? A fool who cares only for money. He may know the math of farming but he knows nothing of the art.

Is this an adapted quotation? It sounds vaguely familiar, but I have not been able to locate a source online.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Wait til they get to the RTS Warcraft tribute taking place in the Gotoro War :allears:

Kidding. That isn’t in the game. But would it really surprise you to learn that it was?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

thehoodie posted:

All I need to do for true perfection right now is the golden clock. Right now I have a basement full of stardew wine fermenting and have been growing berries or whatever. Is there a faster way to get to 10m?

Ginger Island supposedly has 878 plantable spaces. A big shed fits 129 kegs (slightly more for some input methods), meaning 6 sheds full of kegs can handle almost the full output of the island. So, build 6 big sheds and fill them with kegs. Plant 129x6 ancient fruits on Ginger Island. Harvest them once a week, and bring them to your sheds on the farm. Remove any wine that finished fermenting there, place a new fruit in the kegs, and continue on your merry way for the next six days. That’s 6 x 129 x (550 x 3) = 1.3 million gold per week, though I have no clue if you will be able to finish the six sheds before earning the 10 million directly. If you don’t have 774 oak resins handy, you can use preserves jars instead for slightly less profit per fruit.

(This is my current plan. Haven’t put it to practice yet, since I am still bootstrapping my way through a strawberry/preserve pair of sheds, which give 52000 gold every four days. That money goes right back into Robin’s/Clint’s greedy pockets for the raw materials I need for sheds and kegs. :argh:)

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Probably not, but the sheds are nice and rectangular, so things look orderly when I go in there.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Does anyone else get Recettear vibes from the apparent “dungeon for ingredients, then place items to sell” gameplay loop?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Where does player gender come up in Stardew valley?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

chaleski posted:

I always just read it as him being a "literal-minded nerd" trope

It would not surprise me at all if there were significant overlap between people on the spectrum and people considered to be literal-minded nerds.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Poque posted:

I wonder if there will be a multiplayer option at all. Hard to guess since we don't even know that much about the game yet, but there didn't seem to be anything that looked like MP in the trailer.

The Haunted Chocolatier FAQ posted:

Is it Multiplayer?

No, it’s currently just single-player. I have no current plans to make it multiplayer.

https://www.hauntedchocolatier.net/faq/

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
What am I even looking at there? I know where that screenshot was taken, but not how it differs from the usual state of things there.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
If I am only going to play one Rune Factory game in the foreseeable future, should I make it 4 or 5? RF4 has the advantage of already being out, but maybe there are fun new mechanics or polished up old ones in 5?

Edit: looks like Rune Factory 5 is Switch-only for a while to come. Guess I will add RF4 to my Steam wish list now. By the time 5 comes to Steam, maybe I will want to play another Rune Factory game.

Grundulum fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Nov 5, 2021

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Gwyneth Palpate posted:

"What if we made Harvest Moon, but 40% of the game had nothing to do with farming instead of 25%?"

In fairness, it sounds like they’re trying to use Stardew Valley or Rune Factory as their starting point rather than building directly from Harvest Moon. I never played HM or any of its sequels, but does combat play a role in them?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Is anyone following the mobile 1.5 status? On the App Store Stardew still shows up as 1.4.something, and the old articles I can find state (1) ConcernedApe has not given up hope of releasing it, but (2) there are no set plans yet.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

:lol: Thanks. Does he tweet that out every day, or did I happen to time the question exquisitely?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

What’s the deal with the lone sprinkler right above your character? And what building is in the opposite corner, above the stable?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Silver Falcon posted:

:monocle:. Holy moly that's a nice prize!

By the time you hit 100% completion, is that prize meaningful at all? What do you need them for at that point?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
How important is it that one person always controls one character? If both parties agree to use the game’s host character for single player sessions, they can play whenever and just keep the second character on ice for multiplayer sessions. This does mean the second character will advance more slowly in skills, collection, and relationships, but it’s at least a built-in way to achieve the stated goal of mixed single/multi-player.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Wafflecopper posted:

Are there any circumstances where buying fertilizer from Pierre is worth it? I just ran some numbers and if I've done it right it looks marginal at best.

I trust your numbers, but it’s nice that this is an option so that players like my 10-year-old, who don’t really care about optimization and just want to goof around in the valley, can still do their thing.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Alxprit posted:

The wiki is saying that if you have a blueberry plant, the effect of the fertilizer will only apply to the blueberry you pick, and not the multiple blueberries that fall off of the plant afterwards that you also pick up.

I don’t even know how many hours I’ve spent playing Stardew Valley, nor how many times I’ve read that exact line from the wiki, but that interpretation never occurred to me. Today I learned something for whenever I finally get a chance to go back and play!

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Both Rune Factory 4 Special and Rune Factory 5 are on sale right now on Steam: $20 and $25 respectively (Story of Seasons Friends of Mineral Town is also on sale for $16, but not relevant to my question). Is there a reason I see RF4 recommended so frequently here and not RF5? I kind of want to buy one, but I don’t want to buy both.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Cartoon Man posted:

Look at y’all without an orchard on volcano island.

My volcano island is chockablock full of ancient fruit. Dunno what poor life decisions led you to use that space on fruit trees.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
You can edit your Steam library so that pushing “Play” for Stardew Valley launches the SMAPI executable rather than the Stardew game exe. If you aren’t using SMAPI, then you’re on your own.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Jaxts posted:

Archipelago added Stardew a while back and I just completed my first solo randomizer. If you're the kind of person that likes randomizers, it does a really good job. I was stuck in perpetual fall until I finally befriended Marnie which unlocked eggplants which unlocked a fishing rod which let me catch the season of summer.

what

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

eightysixed posted:

Am I supposed to regret marrying Haley, no mods, on the Switch?…

When Abigail, Eliot, Maru, and Sebastian are options you apparently passed on, I think the answer is yes.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
On a non-Stardew note, I can’t recall Fae Farm ever being discussed in this thread. It’s another farming/village game, but based on my wife’s run through the demo it has a lot of QoL improvements over the Switch implementation of Stardew. Has anyone here tried the full version?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

webmeister posted:

- 1.6 is much bigger than what’s been teased, but more focused on the valley
Son of a bitch! :neckbeard:

webmeister posted:

- he’ll probably never stop making updates

Son of a bitch! :holy:

webmeister posted:

- Haunted Chocolatier has been on pause for the 1.6 update

Son of a bitch! :mad:

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Solumin posted:

I'm trying to plan where to plant my orchard because you can't easily move fruit trees, and there's just too much.

I believe this was changed this very patch. You can chop down trees and get replantable saplings of the same quality as the tree you just felled. Or so said one of ConcernedApe’s posts in the lead up.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Dr. Stab posted:

You get stuff at 200 and 300 now.

eightysixed posted:

I can tell if this is a troll post or not.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Let’s say I wanted to dip a toe into automation late game. Does the Automate mod harvest berries from contiguous patches of ground? From pots indoors? Can it collect/restock Preserves Jars if I just dump a stack of fruit in an adjacent chest? Will it automatically collect from the crystallaria?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
It bothers me more than it should that the dehydrator requires just over one day to complete its thing, so I can’t check at the same time each day. But checking every other day dramatically slashes how frequently I get dried fruit out of it. Darn it, ConcernedApe, make the duration 1590 minutes, not 1750!

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Mad Wack posted:

hmmm this is concerning, the internet has taught me a wizard's source of power is remaining celibate

Are you conflating wizards and monks? Or perhaps wizards and incels?

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
Is it a viable strategy to buy a shitload of cheap seeds on the last day of the season and plant them to preserve fertilizer in the fields? Folks were talking about doing that with fiber seeds, but wheat and parsnip seeds are not very expensive; if you can save a lot of quality fertilizer (and just as importantly, time tilling/refertilizing) then maybe it is the “right” play.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

explosivo posted:

How do I get farther down in the skull cave in the desert? Those flying things gently caress me up so bad. Should I be shooting for that rock crab ring from the adventurer's guild?

Crab rings help, sure, but you basically should be spending as little time as possible on each floor. Drop a bomb if you’re near a cluster of rocks, keep yourself from taking damage just long enough for the bomb to go off, and jump in the hole. If there isn’t a cluster of rocks near you, or if you’re on a monster floor, drop a staircase instead. Finally, make sure you’re at full health before dropping down a hole so you don’t accidentally knock yourself out.

You’re using a sword as your primary weapon, right? Something with good sweeping angle, long range, and fast speed? That will make it a touch easier to keep the flying eels away.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

effervescible posted:



Am I doomed to have that truffle sitting out forever? I watched a pig dig it up right in front of me and I cannot reach it from any angle.

PC, Switch, or mobile? I believe there are ways to interact on the diagonal in all three systems, albeit possibly very slowly.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
What’s this discussion about trees transforming? I’m yet to play 1.6, but the wiki page for trees has nothing to suggest that trees might change their type.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Silver Falcon posted:

I'm sure it's a huge waste of money but I like to get the million-dollar statue from the casino that spits out a loved gift on everyone's birthday.

Is it way too expensive? Yes. Is it convenient to have a loved birthday gift ready to go? Also yes!

Does that work with expansion mods like SVE, etc? The one game where I had a million dollars sitting around, I’d already gotten pretty much everyone to max hearts already.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Spalec posted:

Finally getting around to building a few fish ponds, what are the best fish to catch for them?

I’ve seen people suggest stingrays because of their drops.

Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006
I’m confused. It takes 8 weeks to get 2x gold for iridium-level wine. Or two weeks to get 1.25x gold. If you restock your casks every two weeks with new starfruit wine, you get 4*1.25=5x gold per cask. If you only turn over your cellar every two seasons, you get (1*2)+3*1=5x gold per cask (directly selling the sets of wine you didn’t cask). Since the actual money amount is the same, I guess the real value is player time saved?

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Grundulum
Feb 28, 2006

Mylan posted:

Hope Haunted Chocolateer comes out sometime this decade. I wonder if it's gonna be like Reccetter the way Stardew was based on Harvest Moon?

Oh my god, I hope so.

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