Massive Stardew Valley Mistakes You Should Avoid

1 mistake we will never forget, You didn’t put a scarecrow down and that day he lost his red cabbage and Ancient fruit… “If it weren’t for those crows.”

My first time playing stardew, I wanted to avoid reading the wiki to have a more authentic experience because it made me nostalgic of my first days in minecraft. So without knowing what it was, I put all my parsnip seeds in the shipping bin thinking it was a chest.

*Don't sell everything you find. Me, a hoarder: smiles like the grinch

one time I named my farm "farmy farm" and it made me giggle when npcs would say "farmy farm farm"

I think many people are missing the real point of the game, which is just enjoying. It's literally endless, it never ends and if you miss anything, your game will be longer but that's actually the point. It's better than finishing everything and getting tired of it really fast. Instead, try to enjoy it, find the spouse you like, mine and die, get beautiful crops, make some kids, and just don't rush it. Once you get tired of it, it's really hard to find that magical feeling of always having something to do.

Don't sleep on fishing! Many portions of the game is gated by tools, quests, or just time, when the game starts - you are never going to have as much time on your hands to get fishing as you will at the start - which is a great thing, because fishing is a very good way of getting money in your hands immediately, which will help you get your farm off the ground!

Speaking of chests: Put a chest RIGHT OUTSIDE THE MINES!! That way you can go longer without buying a backpack and can save up for strawberries.

400+ hours in stardew. 50+ hours on my Riverland farm… and I’ve just realised you can chop down the bushes in the middle of the farm. Here I was, trying to design my farm around these random bushes 🤦🏻‍♀️

Marrying Haley is not a mistake, Great character development, cooks for me at least 2-3 times a week, Does farm tasks 1-2 times a week, Overall great wife 10/10

Alright I have NEVER seen anyone mention this mistake but in early game, I feel like this is important! When you first start the game, you might notice scything takes no energy. I have cut EVERYTHING scythe-able on my farm BEFORE I got a silo. Meaning, I had to wait for the grass to spawn back to get hay or I had to spend money on hay from Marnie. It would have been so much better had I not cut the grass. Like. Go ahead, cut the weeds for fiber, but don't cut the grass (or at least all of it...)

Recently started playing with my wife.. she was the one in a billion that didn't know about the elevator in the mine and even yelled, "How the %@#$ did you get to floor 20?!" Then I showed her the elevator..😅 I put farm in the name of my farm and had to restart a few days in after seeing my farm was "farm farm". 🤦‍♂️

My dumbest mistake was shipping the 1 ostrich egg you get from the journal scrap on ginger island. It took me over 100 more hours of playtime to get another one from a chest in the volcano mines so i could finally get ostriches. Sebastian had to raise the kids alone that year....

During my first play through I named my farm “twin pines farm” but I somehow didn’t realize part of the word “farm” got cut off as well as farm already being included in the name by default so my farm ended up being named “twin pines fa farm”

"don't chop down all your trees" The trees all around the map automatically replant, so in a pinch you can clearcut the forest to the south.

It's not a big mistake but on my first game I would break every single rocks on a mine level before going down to the next one, this made going down so slow that I was not able to craft quality sprinkler during the first year. On the plus side, rocks aren't a resource I ran out of back then. Another mistake is not fishing because it's too hard. Fishing is the biggest money maker early on. One of the fist stardew videos I watched on youtube helped me a lot: it suggested starting a game just to learn fishing, i.e. don't do anything but fish until it's not hard anymore then delete that game, don't plant, don't forage, just fish.

"You can find Dino Eggs relatively easily." I have killed like 30 Pepper Rexes and went on Prehistoric Floors on the luckiest days WITH the luck buffs from both the Lucky Ring and the Spicy Eel.. I never got one dino egg. And the first dino egg I got was from a fucking artifact spot.

The community center really drives the gameplay for me. There IS stuff to do after it’s completed, but for me personally my playthroughs always lose a little steam once it’s completed

9:20 When cooking, items are always consumed in order, from bottom right in your inventory to top left. So if you are making sashimi, make sure the fish you don’t want to consume is place on a top left slot and the fish you do want to consume is placed in a later slot. The same logic applies to anything that is consumed in a recipe.

I LOVE how Linus likes cheap things, like spring onions and wild horseradish. Sure, it's just a like, not a love, but he's EASY and CHEAP to befriend. Leah also likes cheap thing, including MOST forage. The following people LIKE Salmonberry: Demetrius Jodi Kent Leah Linus Pam Robin Sandy Shane. Add Elliott and Harvey to that list for Blackberries. This makes it SO EASY and CHEAP to befriend 8-10 villagers, for Grampa's Test. Just make sure you have 4 Forage level by the 15th of spring, and get all the salmonberries, for wonderful, stackable, food and gifts, and level 8 Forage level by the 8th of Fall, for the blackberries. At level 4, you get double berries and at level 8, you get triple berries. And if you're at level 10, and you eat a survival burger, or pancakes, and then go foraging, for as long as the +2 buff lasts, you'll be getting FOUR berries per bush! And if you are a Botanist, that is FOUR IRIDIUM GIFTS PER BUSH! Even on a bad luck day, at four per bush, you're likely to break 100 and on a good luck day, at four per bush, you may even get 200! Per day! For FOUR DAYS! I almost ALWAYS put everything else on the backburner during berry season. The berries are stackable FOOD and GIFTS, for a targeted handful of villagers. They're GREAT for in the mines, especially if you have Botanist, and they're iridium. Also, turn those cheap salmonberries into jelly, and EVERYONE BUT SEBASTIAN will like them. Seriously, a stackable gift that applies to all but ONE villager? Gifting is SO EASY. Yes, it's a like, not a love, but that still gives you a decent bonus to friendship. And you can do SO MANY of them, quickly. Jellies take 2-3 days to make in a preserves barrel. Fill a shed or barn with preserves barrels, and use them to make expensive preserves (jellies, pickles, or even CAVIAR, if you have the sturgeon fish ponds) most of the year, but in berry season, you just pop those berries into the preserves jars, and have a big rush of jellies for friendshipping. Salmonberry jelly sells for 15 g (or more, if you have the right abilities, such as the Bear's Knowledge and Artisan), so it's no big deal to give away something so cheap. By the time I'm able to make preserves barrels, I'm easily getting better stackable food for the mines, so it's time to use all my left-over berries for jellies and gifts. Also, give CAROLINE Daffodils, throughout spring, and by the last week, you should be able to get into her sun room for one free tea leaf per day (except Wednesday), plus the ability to craft tea saplings, which make GREAT permanent fencing, and a passive income the last week of spring, summer, and fall. And TEA is LOVED by Caroline and Lewis, and LIKED by everyone else, except for Jas and Vincent, and takes only 3 hours to make in a keg! Which means that, if you start building your fencing on the first of summer (or last of spring), you can have a nicely-defined farm, and EASY gifts for almost everyone, by the end of summer. If you plant those 30 spring seeds, and replant throughout the season, then by the end of spring, you'll have enough wild seeds to make LOTS of tea saplings, for LOTS of fencing, and LOTS of tea gifts! True, tea sells for 100 g, instead of 15, but it's still a pretty fast and easy and cheap gift. And don't forget COFFEE! Another cheap and easy (and FAST to brew!) gift, IF you start out early in spring. I like to save my coffee beans from the coal sprites, and then plant them in my greenhouse, as soon as possible. Just a few will do the trick. Then, you save up the coffee beans you harvest in your greenhouse, and plant them, on day 1 of Spring, Year 2, so that you have a big coffee harvest, every few days. It takes quite a few beans to make coffee, but if you plant a large amount of the plants on the first day of spring, they'll give you coffee beans all through spring AND summer, every other day! It's surprisingly fast. And coffee is SUPER useful, as well as being a stackable gift for MOST villagers. Again, everyone but the children likes coffee. And Harvey LOVES it.

The problem with playing both Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing is that the shipping bin in AC only gives you 75% of the item's value. So it's easy to forget sometimes.