"Stop stalking the villagers and get to work." That called me out so hard, my first year playing, I was just running around gifting Alex all the time LOL.
I just can’t believe this game of this quality only charges $15 while other game companies charge you 60 bucks for a lazy game that is basically the same as each one before it and the graphics don’t improve.
LimpossibleProductionz because it’s an indi game and he is trying to make a name for himself. This earned him a lot of respect and brownie points for later titles he might make.
- marries and divorces characters constantly - goes to level 1 million in skull cavern - stalks characters for their entire backstory "I still have no clue about crops!"
Just a tip for your first year, don't buy 235 blueberries like I did. Once you plant them, every day you have to water them all. And by the time you're done, its 5:00 PM and your energy is almost gone. By this point you probably haven't reached lv 40 in the mines which it where you find iron to make sprinklers (the iron one hardly clear any space anyways. Golden ones are the only one's anywhere near efficient) sure, every day you can go to the spa and gain energy, but by the time you're done, it's like 7:00 which means you have barely any time to do anything. It traps you in a stalemate for the rest of the season
God yes. Watering is such a pain in the ass. Upgrading my watering can was the best thing ever, even just to copper level. Three instead of one space made a hell of a difference
@@Mona-kg6hy Lmao. Reading this comment 2 years later is a trip. especially because i've reached lv 100 in the mines on spring before. it's not too hard. In my recent game the stars never aligned for a watering can upgrade during spring. so i had to wait for summer storms which hardly ever happen
Currently my farm, because I didn’t realize just how big the scarecrow space was.. wish itd have like the red/green squares so you can get a good look at just how much land is covered
My favorite crops are the ones that keep growing after you harvest them. Saves stress from constant crop purchase. Edit: Damn it's been four years since I posted this? Pretty sweet.
I somewhat grow all crops cuz me and my dad have a very good organization he makes money from mine and i make sure he has all the crops required to cook and make them beter and trust me my job is way harder cuz it takes a lot of patience and timing
Some of these flowers are actually pretty great. Fairy Rose makes great honey, once it's mature, you don't have to water them. Just let them sit and decorate your farm and attract bees. Sunflower seeds or flowers can be made into oil, great for cooking. :)
Not to mention the fact that those flowers (especially the silver and gold quality) offer great energy for early game! A gold star blue jazz gives you 83 energy and 20 something health!
Was erked about that myself. Was like.... god damn you, flowers are for beekeeping! There are other uses for flowers that can make you a lot of money in the long haul as well, just not necessarily in farming itself.
I planted ALL coffee beans for the entirety of my year 2 spring and summer, and I'm pretty sure I'm set for life lol. Coffee's not only great for selling, but nearly everyone likes them as gifts (excluding the little kids) and I always chug a cup so I can get around quicker :D
I've put in thousands of hours into Stardew Valley, lived countless different lives, and yet I still love watching even the most mundane of topics that DF uploads about Stardew.
My favorite part of the game, is the first two years. I love building up a farm. I have a couple 50 year farms, but I prefer the simpler times when a thousand coins is a lot of money, and you're actually excitied to see Pierre sell wallpaper, lol.
I agree. I have only two farms in the third year, and I prefer playing other farms I do experiments or challenges with. I've done the community center in one year challenge and the million gold challenge several times each.
My first THREE games I misunderstood and thought scarecrows only defended the neighbouring 8 squares, so I planted my crops in 3x3 plots with a scarecrow in the middle of all of them. I'm so daft.
You know I used to think Pierre’s store didn’t exist. The first day I actually played was Wednesday because I was stupid and sleeper through Monday and Tuesday. I used jojamart for 2 years. I did always open my mail but I didn’t meet Pierre so I didn’t get any about him.
a tip for anyone who wants to know: Hops are a summer seed that produce EVERYDAY after full growth, they don’t sell for much ( I can’t remember the price so maybe it’s in the middle value for crops) but the money adds up over time so they’re valuable if you plant a shit load.
Hops also give you great health and energy! First summer and absolutely slayed the mine’s slimes, bats, etc. bc I had so much health and energy. Might be good to complete the adventurer guild kill-list 😂
The purpose for flowers is increasing the value of your honey. (Also tulips are a loved gift by evelyn if you're trying to get friendship. Even just plant one and save it for her birthday) However, jazz honey will be more valuable than tulip honey. Plant your flowers within (I think 5?) squares of a beehive and they will produce honey from that flower instead of wild honey. A higher quality flower will take priority over a lower one, so if you plant tulip and jazz beside each other, it will make jazz honey.
Lucky Number 13 hey, free cookies and cake when she loves you? Sign me up. Also, if you befriend Pam (which is hella easy to do with parsnips) she mails you energy tonic and batteries.
Aye and Penny loves Poppy flowers, so generating a years worth of gift giving stock of them to give to penny twice a week is a cheap easy way to get her hearts up if your wanting to make her your wife.
But the type of honey doesn't matter when you use it to make mead. Wild honey, tulip honey, and jazz honey all make mead of the same value so using flowers in the spring to make honey doesn't matter. Might as well plant other crops for value.
and here i am just planting a few crops once in awhile and focusing on fishing and mining and stalking a few select villagers. also got an ancient seed and its my favourite baby.
My babies are the Ancient fruit, Gemberry, Coffee beans and my Fishies :3 The triple espresso coffee cost about 400 so i make sure i stock up on them , just a tip :/
... I... I got a Coffee Bean in the mine and didn't know how much value it had. I threw it away for quartz... Oh the regret that stabs at me right now...
I've been playing SDV for over 1000 hours and I only just recently realized this: Tulips actually have a use! They make bad honey and you can't sell them for anything but tulips are the best early food crop! Tulips cost as much as parsnips, 20g, to plant but they give 45 energy as opposed to 25 energy from parsnips. Although kale provides the best energy per plot in the spring (50 energy per plot per 6 days) tulips come in a close second but you can buy 3.5x the amount of tulips that you can buy kale.
Jazz would be a better option for honey, but yea flowers in general are good as gifts to NPCs and for increasing the value of honey, with fairy flowers I believe producing the best honey. Too bad you can green house the hives and have them produce honey based on the nearby flowers.
No, but you can put loads of Bee Houses all over the forest and get mountains of Wild Honey - plenty of raw stock for making Mead. And if you have the Automate mod active, you can even make the honey automatically collect in chests - and then auto-brew in Kegs.
But the type of honey doesn't matter when you use it to make mead. Wild honey, tulip honey, and jazz honey all make mead of the same value so using flowers in the spring to make honey doesn't matter. Might as well plant other crops for value.
Only the parsnips need to be gold, and only for the quality crop bundles (you need 5 or 10, can't remember). You can put any quality in the Spring bundle.
Pumpkin and corn are two more that you need five gold quality for the quest. I want to say the last one is melon, though I do not remember since it's been a while...
Yeah but Lucky Lunch also requires cucumber and tortilla, cooking it isn't exactly the most fun thing to do. Other than the achievement, I'd rather just buy it off Krobus, Gus or the traveling merchant
Another great tip is to spend the first couple of days scything all the grass on every part of the farm, forest, and a couple spots in town. Doing that gives you a chance of mixed seeds being dropped, and when you start the game you can usually get about 30+ and those crops are basically free money since you don't spend money or energy (using the scythe doesn't expend energy) getting them. Since mixed seeds are randomly picked from the crops available in whatever season you plant them in, (besides strawberries or anything that's a "starter" like grapes or hops) and sometimes you can get a bunch of free cauliflower or potatoes early on! It's also really good for summer since mixed seeds can grow into corn, which lasts multiple seasons and is constantly regrowing
On my first run of the game, I had no idea what I was doing and still had barely accomplished anything by the end of the second year. On my second run, however... I rolled Parsnips into more Parsnips, into more Parsnips. I used foraging items to make up the money in the meantime. I'd forage a ton, get more Parsnips, repeat. Until the Strawberries. I poured every single cent I had into Strawberries. I spent the rest of that first Spring babysitting those strawberries because while I had access to build sprinklers, I didn't have the materials to do so. It was a very large crop that needed watering every single day. I rolled the Strawberry money into Melons. I babysat Melons for the entire Summer season. I rolled the Melon money into Pumpkins for the first Fall. I had 5 million in money by the end of that first year. I dedicated winter to upgrading my tools and exploring the mines. By the time winter was over, I had all my tools except the Pickaxe at Gold Quality. Spring rolled back around and I had been crafting sprinklers through the winter as well. I began working on everything else in the game, including the Community Center. I also romanced and married someone (Penny). I was sitting pretty with about 4 million in my pocket, so I began work on achievements as well. By the time Year 2 was done, I was sitting on something like 60 million dollars, I'd completed the Community Center, had all my skills maxed out, had almost the entire town at 10 hearts, and most of the achievements. Min/maxing can be... a somewhat boring way to play. Though, I still haven't completed my museum collection yet. Still, it's rather tedious to do.
You can't plant them until you have the crafting recipe to convert ancient seed artifacts into plantable ancient seeds; Gunther gives you that recipe as a reward for donating an ancient seed artifact. I think he even gives you back a plantable ancient seed as a reward.
The scarecrows can cover that much? Boy have this game screwed me over. Had crows eat my crops while having a scare crow waaaaay closer to it than that. After that i just got super paranoid and just had multiple scarecrows just in case
of course he did, every videogame prankster starts out as a tutorial makes and stops when he/she has covered anything and either becomes a fact telller or a prankster like DF
actually tulips are good at the beginning for the Evelyn she loves them and she gives really good gifts for energy early on when you can afford them as much
you in first 15 seconds - "After 100 years in game and hundreds of hours I'm still not entirely familiar with all the crops" Me- why am I watching this guy when he openly states he's a mindless buffoon. Me 1 minute seconds 30 later - "woah, hold up I need to take notes"
One neat trick I discovered, though timing is pretty tight on it, is that even though you can't grow cauliflower in time to get money for strawberries, you can grow one to complete the spring crops bundle and get 20 free speedgro. I recommend tilling and watering those 20 spots in the morning before the egg festival because you'll have to run to the CC at 10pm that night to get your prize. Planting those 20 strawberry seeds with the speedgro on the night of the egg festival will get you three harvests and a fairly significant amount of extra cash (or extra seeds for next year). You can hold off planting the rest until the next few days and still get two harvests from the rest of the seeds.
Fairy flowers are horrible for making mead, unless you like throwing money away! Mead has a value of 200g or 280g with the artisan bonus and it doesn't matter what kind of honey you use to make it. but fairy honey will sell for almost 1000g! (In case of sarcasm, ignore this comment)
I always save Strawberry Seeds for the next spring for maximum harvest. Boring the first year, but after that you'll always have strawberry seeds at the start of spring and don't have to wait for the festival.
Fun fact for those planting 1st year strawberries: speed gro will give you 3 yields instead of 2 before the end of the month. Plant two cauliflower and two beans on day 1 (replicates to account for day 1-5 crows), and potatoes and parsnips during the first week and you should be able to get the 20 speed gro bundle ON the day of the festival. You can grab a few more if you get 2-4 tappers set up on pine trees by 7th or so, and keep at least the same number of clams you forage from the beach. Time will be tight, so be sure to water in the morning before the festival, and you should probably keep the stuff you need for the CC bundle (parnsip, potato, bean, cauli) on you so that you can sprint back into town and then the CC to fill the bundle at night. If you plant the strawberries in speed-gro soil on the night of the festival you'll get harvests on the 20th, 24th, and 28th.
Rick Steves! I for one am very thankful that you quit doing European travel guide videos for my mom and started doing Stardew Valley guide videos. It’s 100x more relatable!
Your channel has made me want to start playing this game. I have just bought it and I'm watching these videos as it downloads. I can't wait to start playing!
10/10 best Stardew Valley tutorial (crop-wise) that's actually not all about statistics and math. I've actually asked a bunch of people what crops give the best gold and has the best use on the Stardew Valley steam forums and many of them acted like I was an idiot and started doing all these weird equations instead of just giving me a simple list of crops and their selling price >.> And no one gave me any helpful tips on how to utilize each crop when i plant them because i kinda wanted to plant like 9 of every kind of crop each season so i can find uses for them. LOL Anywho, enough of my ranting, thanks for this video, DF.
The flowers are great for an energy boost especially early game. The only thing that sucks is there are too many color variants so stacking them can be a pain.
My personal favorite summer crop is hops. They’re easiest if you have a sprinkler so you don’t have to water AND harvest them everyday, but I usually make a patch of about a a hundred of them. When they’re fully grown, the produce everyday and getting a hundred hops everyday and selling them is 2,500g a day. I also tend to keep the lower quality ones to turn into pale ale and pickled hops since that brings up the value!
Agii Dandelion aight I may be late but on fridays and sundays check the traveling merchant near the secret woods it’s a green haired lady in a cage with a pig wearing a fez
Forgot to mention Hops is actually one of the best of them all, probably THE best, grow every day after 14 days and become pale ale once put on kegs.....HUUUUUUUGE money there Also forgot to mention that buying just 1 flower per season is ok if you have bee houses
Pale Ale doesn't sell for that much though. The only good thing about it is that keg processes hops much faster than the many fruits used in wines, but that's about it.
@@smaragdchaos it sells for 300g each and only requires 1 hop so if you stack up on hops you’re gonna get a shit ton by the time you have access to kegs
So i was just replaying the game and went super into depth with the math for these crops, using the baseline of my late game farms size of 1150 spaces, but the findings would scale down. And i did this using updated things df didnt have 4 years ago, including hyper speed gro. Oh, and I used a baseline of 250 gold, 350 silver, and 550 normal quality per harvest, as is average with 10 farming. So my findings were such: In spring, its strawberries, hands down. Even rhubarb from oasis is honestly pretty crap. Even if you plant them the day of the first festival they are still the most profitable. But the better thing is plant as many as you can year 1, harvest them, keep them all, put them into a seed maker, get the greenhouse by fall, plant more there, seed maker all of those through winter, and do a giant strawberry field year 2. Most of those seeds were basically free, so the profit margins are HUGE. And if you hit 10 farming by the end of year 1, you were a diligent farmer, get agriculturist, you get an extra harvest. No speed gro needed, just free profit. And that perk will come in handy later. But until you get the strawberries just do parsnips for levels. Oh, and if you do want the margins, strawberries with only 5 harvests, not even the bonus 6th harvest from agriculturist, profits 820k. Rhubarb, the second best crop, with no speed gro of any kind gets 2 harvests with a profit of only 369k. And you can only get 3 harvests with hyper speed gro AND agriculturist, so just go for strawberries. For spring, again, clear cut winner, starfruit. The profit on these things are INSANE! But year 1 youll unlikely have the desert open yet, so instead, grow blueberries for profit. On my farm of 1150, after subtracting seed cost, melons would profit 500k, blueberries profit 640k, partially due to only buying seeds once for 4 harvests. But do note, multiple harvest crops only give farming xp on the first harvest, so maybe expand the field with the money from the first blueberry crop, plant some other crops, prolly melons for the gold stars, or anything on a short turnaround for xp. So yeah, if you have oasis access go starfruits, they are insane. If not, blueberries for pure profit. Now fall, fall is where it gets interesting. In spring, speed gro of any level doesnt dethrone strawberries. The only thing that COULD dethrone it is coffee, but that eats into your spring profits from starfruits. But fall? Fall has FOUR contenders, and this was where my math got a bit insane. So, the four contenders are artichokes, beets, pumpkins, and cranberries. I leave out sweet gem berries, because youll probably never get a full fields worth of these things, and even if you did, we’ll get to it later, but its still not efficient. So for fall, there are two things to look at. Best easy and best hard. Best easy is just what youd do for year 1, no speed gro, maybe agriculturist, but maybe not. The baseline. In this scenario, cranberries win easy. Artichokes get 3 harvests for 550k Beets get 4 harvests, with a mill every single beet makes 3 sugars for 50 gold each, making every beet worth 150 gold, same as a gold quality beet without the tiller perk, with tiller you make slightly more, but without it you make 598k. And everything here was calculated without tiller. With tiller it gets 613k. Just multiply the numbers by 1.1 to get tiller profits for everything else, beets are just special. Pumpkins are second making 642k in 2 harvests Cranberries you plant once but get 5 harvests, profiting 707k on average (with an average of 10% chance for an extra cranberry on each one harvested) So with no speed gro, cranberries win easy. But here comes the bombshell. WITH speed gro, the best case scenerio, things get interesting. So first off, ima throw away artichokes. They are technically second best here, BUT they are the only one that requires hyper speed gro at all to reach its maximum profits here, the rest only need deluxe speed gro. But if you were wondering, with hyper speed gro and agriculturist you get 6 harvests for 1.1 mil profit. Cranberries are also out, you cannot get more than 5 harvests, even with hyper speed gro+agriculturist. Speed grow only affects the first harvest, not the regrow rate. So its profit is unchanged. Pumpkins are actually third here, with just deluxe speed gro you can get a third harvest bringing it up to 963k profit. But the grand winner in fall is actually beets! With deluxe speed gro+agriculturist, you can get a grand total of NINE HARVESTS! Yeah, NINE! Even buying seeds every time, when converting all normal and silver quality beets to sugar, without tiller you make 1,345,000. With tiller you get up to 1,379,000. Also fun fact this would produce just over 31000 sugar, which is a monstrous amount of the sweet stuff! This method combines willy wonka and walter white into one ruthless sugar dealer lol. But the ultimate winner, unsurprising, ancient fruit. Plant day 1 in spring, use deluxe speed gro for one extra harvest (its worth it) and you can get 750k every single WEEK, WITHOUT TILLER! With tiller its about 825k. And in my farm i currently have, i also have 330 kegs in the quarry, so converting 330 normal quality fruit each week plus just the silver and gold quality ones and saving the normal quality leftovers for winter brewing, i make just over 1 million gold every single week. Which makes beets ~1.4 million for a full season seem utterly pathetic in comparison. And heres my easy trick for this, use winter seeds, fill your field full near the end of winter with them, let the seeds rot as the season changes, and the sprinklers will water them all, none of the spaces will become unhoed. no need for hoeing or watering, just a much quicker scything. I get the whole 1152 field scythed, fertilized, and planted, all by about 10 pm on day 1 of spring. Once you get the greenhouse plant a bunch of ancient seeds there and make more seeds out of them, rinse repeat until you can make a field of them in spring. Oh, and oasis sells deluxe speed gro on Thursdays for about half the price of pierres shop, and oasis sells it year 1 while pierre only sells it year 2 onwards. Oh, and while sweet gem berries will make approximately 1 million more than a season of ancient fruits, because they can only be planted in fall that means you would have to cripple your spring and summer profits to plant them, because you would not be able to clear a huge field of ancient fruits in one day, unless you use bombs, but collateral damage is guaranteed there. But even still, id say just stick witb ancient fruit, for the main farm. Now, you could use the ginger island farm for sweet gem berries, since they grow all year there, instead of just in fall. So if youre gunna do big rare seed crops, do them on ginger island not the main farm
This is all without taking into account artisan goods, though. Hops + kegs is, insaneely OP in summer. Can honestly contend with starfruit with the right setup, it's all about having *enough kegs*. While starfruit has better keg efficiency, Hops with kegs and artisan profession give you an absolutely absurd value multiplier of 119 x your initial investment. Starfruit+deluxe speed grow only value multiply by ~ 50 (since you can't actually reinvest your second crop for the third crop as wine, due to the keg wait time). More keg efficient, though, as said. But starfruit also not really an option at the start of the first summer - so if you're going for a keg empire (IMO, clearly the best value strategy), first year the best summer crop by far is Hops. Since fall crops suck anyways (just... dissapointingly worse than hops in every way) and winter is well, winter, the lower (but really not that bad) keg efficiency of your hops isn't nearly as much of an issue - you can brew the absurd quantities of hops your produce over summer (should be in the several thousands) over those seasons when you have nothing better to do than build more kegs. I think it honestly might be most efficient to just treat Fall like an extension of winter, tbh. Forget about planting anything, just spend all the time and money you have building an absurd number of kegs for your thousands (ideally, tens of thousands) of hops.This lets you almost completely ignore building kegs in Summer - prioritize *more hops, nothing else* (almost nothing else. See to tapping your oak trees on a rainy day, and making a quick buck/getting energy reserves on forageables. Non-rainy days - you'll be watering, and nothing else), you have all of Fall to do nothing but build kegs (and brewing a little to cover the cost of your materials), and all of winter to do nothing but brewing. If we take your amazing farm of 1150 squares as an example (without deluxe speed grow); this strategy nets you a revenue of > 8million in year 1. Let's say 6 million, because buying all those materials for all those kegs is very expensive (you *will* be buying all the wood/ore, no way you can gather enough) but, nonetheless; absurd quantities of money.
You’re videos are great! I started playing Stardew Valley again after a few months of taking a break. The first video of yours I watched was about your 34th year lol great stuff
@@chromaticblue3976 Don't be sassy, everyone has to start somewhere, and there aren't a lot of "here's how to START Stardew Valley" videos or tips out there
If you struggle with energy early game, your best bet would be to level up foraging skill to level 1 and create a whole bunch of field snacks. They have decent healing and energy restoration factor, and it only takes 1 of each tree seeds to create. Salmonberry season in spring and Blackberry season in autumn also work wonders when it comes racking up cheap food with decent restoration value (especially powerful if you take the gatherer-botanist line in foraging skill)
This advice works in the first year when I mostly sell raw crops and prioritize the little ores I make for tool upgrades. However, in my second year, I start to build a honey farm, and flowers become a really good value-add because it improves the honey prices with very little maintenance. I also have some kegs so I’m making hops and pale ale. Artisan stuff allow me to expand my farm variety and it’s so much fun.
You kinda forgot Kale. Summer Wise Hops >> blueberries and everything else. provided you have kegs, and hops gives you a TON of Farming XP so you'll have kegs. I do 150 of them for 1 million.
I have learned that kale is really not worth it. It gives no farming xp since you use a scythe to harvest it, it's not quite as good as potatoes moneywise since you get extra potatoes for every 4, and even though it is the most food possible per plot in the spring, there are two better cheaper options for that (tulips and parsnips). There are a few recipes that use kale so you will need it for that.
I heartily agree with you on the hops, they are one of the best crops to plant overall in the game, and so often overlooked by most people. Not only can you make a lot of money from them with pale ale, and get lots of farming xp, they also are the best food crop in the game as each hop gives 45 energy. I usually use hops as my major food source after my salmon berries run out and before blackberry season.
I always end up running a coffee farm. They grow for two seasons, constantly produce beans that you can instantly plant for MORE coffee plants, they yeild 2-4 beans each harvest, and they sell for a pretty good price. I made money really fast this way
I calculated this, and if you buy one bean at the 5th, plant all the beans through spring, then harvest but not plant all through summer, you should have 77 plants by the end, giving you 3448 beans, which sell for 51,720G (if they're all base quality, which they won't, so it will actually be more). Or you could make them into 689 coffees (leaving 3 beans) which are worth 103,350G (and 45+G from the three spare beans). Not bad! Yes, I did this for the lols
one last thing, in summer if you can place a lot of kegs plant hops, they make pale ale it is the most profitable beverage to do (not most expensive, most profitable initial cost to outcome)
"who doesn't like big melons" you're a genius XD also, here's a few things I wanna point out First of, melons are Penny's favorite gift, so if you want to make her happy quick you can build up a small stock of those to keep and give them to her every day. Corns and pumpkins are also used to complete the community center, you need to get them gold quality too. Flowers aren't actually useless in your first year. You might want to put together a few beehives although you will need to get maple syrup from the trees which requires ressources that are important, but if your main focus is money, you can grow some flowers and put the beehives next to them, you only need one of them to power more than one beehive, not exactly sure how much is required but, once you get the flower-induced honey, it is worth *alot*, as much as an ancient fruit actually! I know that a single fairy rose can upgrade your honeypots for them to be worth over 670 gold!
This is so strange seeing you doing a tutorial like this especially when I joined your Channel with you breaking Minecraft dungeons LOL I literally just got stardew Valley so this is very helpful thanks
Me too 😂 I just started and now I'm on my first year in the end last week of fall I believe and I planted a bunch of wheat and have spending all my money on wheat ;-;
Spring 0:30 -scarecrow and fertilisers from farming lvl 1 important!!! -don't buy tulip & jazz -SAVE MONEY FOR 13th!! for strawberries!!! (best crop for spring) -money not super important: grow cauliflower (however they won't be done by 13th) -money important: grow potatoes (only 6 days so can get strawberries) -community center: parsnips, beans, cauliflower & potatoes (gold) Summer: 8:00 -blueberries make most money (buy lots) -melons can make giant crops (and make still a lot of money just not as much as blueberries -flowers are kinda useless -wheat is not very valuable -corn can be valuable as it runs through summer -rest of seeds are alright -valuable seeds are in desert (STARFRUIT!!) -community centre needs: tomatoes, hot peppers, blueberries and melons Fall: 11:38 -best cranberries (money) -community center: corn, eggplant, yams -grapes and pumpkins also good for money -avoid fairy seeds (don’t sell for a lot) however have a chance of allowing a fairy to come mature the rest of ur crops once that flower has matured (very beneficial) -bok Choy sells for same as flowers yet kinda valuable -plant rare seeds (then put in seed maker)
Personally I say wheat is worth your time, as it is multi-season, extremely cheap to purchase, quick to growth and extremely quick to gather. Basically, you just plant a lot of it, in a section of the farm that's not getting watered by sprinkler or yourself, letting rain and/or wife do it, making money through volume that can't be managed by anything else, without sprinkler. The only time you should water wheat is, toward the end of autumn and you were unlucky with rain, for that last batch of wheat you planted.
A summary of the best crops per season as stated in this video, plus tips I've learned along my time playing SV as well as ones DF gave in the video: *Spring* *Normal crops:* Potatoes & strawberries & coffee (The sooner you can get strawberries going the better, save some from year one and grow them day 1 of spring the next year.) *Special crops:* Ancient fruit (If you can find them, the sooner you get them growing the more profit you will make. Put ancient fruit into a seed maker to make more ancient seeds for large profits in spring and summer, year-long if you can get the greenhouse going.) *Summer* *Normal crops:* Blueberries & coffee & corn (Coffee planted in spring will bring a lot of extra side profit in from planting them early in spring. Corn planted as early on as possible is also going to be the best for profit, the longer you wait the less profitable it becomes.) *Special crops:* Ancient fruit & starfruit (They are very expensive but very profitable, plant these early on for max profit. Read above for ancient fruit tips.) *Fall* *Normal crops:* Cranberries *Special crops:* Ancient fruit & sweet gem berry (Preferably, save your ancient seeds and rare seeds for your greenhouse unless you have a surplus of seeds due to the seed maker. Plant these as early as you can for max profits.) *Winter* *Normal crops:* Winter seeds (These you can make from foraging the winter foragables in winter, or getting them as rewards via the community center. These are the only naturally grown plants in winter.) *Special crops:* Any special crop listed above (As long as you have a greenhouse.) *Overall tips:* Use fertilizer ALWAYS. Even low tier fertilizer will do. Get the greenhouse unlocked ASAP. Save your ancient seeds and rare seeds until you can grow them in their respective seasons, turn at least some of the fruit into seeds with the seed maker to begin growing your hoard. Use scarecrows efficiently. A normal scarecrow covers a space of 248 spaces all together, about 8 spaces out on all sides. A deluxe scarecrow can be obtained and/or crafted after collecting all 8 rarecrows, and it affects a grand total of 888 spaces, or about 16 spaces out on all sides. Always plan for the next year. If you grew strawberries from the first festival in spring of year 1, save some of them and put them in the seed maker to use in spring of year 2. Planting them as early as possible will yield a far greater profit. Fairy seeds are useless if you are selling the flowers themselves, however, they are the most profitable honey-flavor type ingame. Plant them near bee houses to increase the produced honey's value from a base of 100 gold to 680 gold. They also have a chance to spawn a fairy at night when they become mature, resulting in some of your crops instantly becoming mature and harvestable.
Sunflowers make Sunflowers and have a chance to drop seeds too. The Sunflower can be turned into oil which... isn't terribly useful unless you cook a lot a guess.
The plants from Jazz seeds are necessary to make “Lucky Lunch” (which I found out using mobile is one of the foods you give to a raccoon in the forest near the sewer later in the game near the end to clean up some areas of town) and Tulips are one of Evelyn’s favorite gifts. Not completely useless but you really only need a few
OMFG I SERIOUSLY thought that the scarecrows ONLY reach about 8 squares MAX, so I have like 4 of them on every litte plot HAHAHA god now it looks so ridiculous haha 😭😭
It's really good to buy more strawberry seeds then you think you need in the first year, as in the unlikely case you do complete the greenhouse bundle, that's great for quick profit. (Along with, of course, every other infinitely producing plants, blueberries also work well in the greenhouse early on because they tend to produce multiple berries per harvest)
The way this guy talks I get the impression he is always smiling as he does so, and then when he mentioned melons i got the impression his smile got even bigger :P Thanks not sure how up to date this is now, but new to game so all helps me at this stage :P
@@smaragdchaos no but if you put the beehives on your farm they produce honey without you having to do anything, so there's really no downside to it in the long run. plus you can gift it or make mead out of it. unless you have space concerns or don't want to use the resources to make it there's not reason not to have honey, & planting a couple of cheap flowers increases its value.
For the flowers, they are not that useful by themselves but 1 flower can increase your honey’s value so much! Plant it with a cheap sprinkler, surround it by bee houses and forget it. In fall, the fairy rose honey is worth so much with very little to water!
"Sunflower seeds unfortunately only produce sunflower seeds. So I don't see the point." --> Have you really ever planted them?! You will get a sunflower plus the chance for another seeds when you harvest them. And moneywise you do not want to buy them from Pierre's. They also make great gifts for Haley and you can turn them into oil for cooking. Playing the game "all about the money" style is the worst thing to do, because money is the only unlimited thing in the game. Soon enough you'll realize there's nothing desirable to buy for all that money. (Caution! This could be an opinion and not a fact.) Flowers can make decent money, but you only need few of them planted in the right spot. If you don't want them as gifts, they are only worth planting as soon as you get access to the bee house. You can't argue about honey being worth twice as much or even more.
It's called a CHALLENGE for a reason. Yes there is a reason, personal achievement that you can minx/max and get that many gold as early as possible. Don't take your opinion as the absolute truth kid =) Not to mention there are several expensive items made for people that like to min/max like the statue of endless fortune and many more =)
Well, if it's something YOU desire, just do so. For me, money in SV get's useless over time. I don't need that golden clock or those ugly towers on my farm. So the game is not "all about the money" for me. Everybody has to decide on his own, if having a lot of money early in the game is fun or not. I am on the other side of the "all about the money" medal. I simply don't care about money. There will be more than you can spend on desirable things soon enough. That's what I experienced in hundreds of hours playing the game. I haven't even skipped a single day. Just play the game. Try whatever you like best without always looking into money. That's my advice to other players.
You are literally contradicting yourself. First you explicity say "playing about the money style is the worst thing to do" as if it's the absolute truth, fogetting about other people's desires in the game, then you start talking about "everybody has to decide on his own" Lol? What if i like minmaxing for money? there's a LOT of people that play SV that way, who are you to say they are wrong? Its cuz you don't have the capacity of playing in such hardcore and skillful way? By min/maxing you can have BY YEAR ONE: 95% of the farm with Q+I sprinklers (5% for a building or so), over one million and maybe 1,5 in a good RNG run, all villagers atleast 4 hearts, community center pratically finished, massive keg infraestructure for more profit in the long run, and a lot more shit. How can you tell ANYONE that's not good? You have enough money and infraestructure to not worry about it for the rest of the game so you can just focus on other stuff, as opposed to randomly idling through days in the most inneficient way ever, why would i waste time on stuff that won't help me if i can just optimize my gameplan and make the most profit? who are you or anyone really to say that's wrong? Lol.
"Stop stalking the villagers and get to work."
That called me out so hard, my first year playing, I was just running around gifting Alex all the time LOL.
That was me with Shane 😂
That is me with emily
@@theoneyt9073 Same brother
@@theoneyt9073 that is me with haley
I liked Penny, since she reminds me of myself when I was younger.
I just can’t believe this game of this quality only charges $15 while other game companies charge you 60 bucks for a lazy game that is basically the same as each one before it and the graphics don’t improve.
and it was all made by one guy like wow
LimpossibleProductionz because it’s an indi game and he is trying to make a name for himself. This earned him a lot of respect and brownie points for later titles he might make.
@@Mr.Plant1994 Honestly, if he continues making indi games like this he can have my money
Its ok you can say fifa
All sports games and cod games. 😂
"I hate the community and I love my money"
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You sir are an inpiration
Efren Arevalo basically mr krabs
Rule of Acquisition 10: Greed is Eternal.
Also Nick In Left 4 Dead 2
R/Wooooooooosh
An inspiration to youtube executives everywhere.
- marries and divorces characters constantly
- goes to level 1 million in skull cavern
- stalks characters for their entire backstory
"I still have no clue about crops!"
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This game drives me NUTS. Never expected that i could do so much different things in an "innocent looking" game like this... money well spent!
At first i didnt understand the game and thought it was boring, 100h laters. And yeah im kinda late
3 now. Pirating a game, believe it or not, doesn’t make you cool
Just a normal Shark damn he deleted his comments. I absolutely love reading shit like that
I miss SWG!
It's so good!!
Just a tip for your first year, don't buy 235 blueberries like I did. Once you plant them, every day you have to water them all. And by the time you're done, its 5:00 PM and your energy is almost gone. By this point you probably haven't reached lv 40 in the mines which it where you find iron to make sprinklers (the iron one hardly clear any space anyways. Golden ones are the only one's anywhere near efficient) sure, every day you can go to the spa and gain energy, but by the time you're done, it's like 7:00 which means you have barely any time to do anything. It traps you in a stalemate for the rest of the season
This is my favorite comment
God yes. Watering is such a pain in the ass. Upgrading my watering can was the best thing ever, even just to copper level. Three instead of one space made a hell of a difference
@@Mona-kg6hy Lmao. Reading this comment 2 years later is a trip. especially because i've reached lv 100 in the mines on spring before. it's not too hard. In my recent game the stars never aligned for a watering can upgrade during spring. so i had to wait for summer storms which hardly ever happen
I planted 100 blueberries but I finished by 11:30 AM so I guess thats good😂
Same but I got 300 wheat 🙃
You should've named this Video "Stardew Value"
Expl0sive Hewk I *seeds* what you did there. 😆
Expl0sive Hewk p
Expl0sive Hewk lel
Lol
hah
I appreciate that my first farm had a scarecrow every like 3 spaces because I was extremely paranoid
Currently my farm, because I didn’t realize just how big the scarecrow space was.. wish itd have like the red/green squares so you can get a good look at just how much land is covered
My current farm, I just watched this video and only now realised this 😂
No way, same XD I saw the scarecrow recipe and immediately worked to put one scarecrow next to EVERY plant patch
"I scared 97287382 crows"
My favorite crops are the ones that keep growing after you harvest them. Saves stress from constant crop purchase.
Edit: Damn it's been four years since I posted this? Pretty sweet.
Especially when harvest lands on an event so you can't even buy new seeds until the next day.
I somewhat grow all crops cuz me and my dad have a very good organization he makes money from mine and i make sure he has all the crops required to cook and make them beter and trust me my job is way harder cuz it takes a lot of patience and timing
Hops are harvestable everyday in summer
@Bunnyshooter 223 joja though
I have seed makers
I once made the bundle run in less than twelve parsnips.
Elpeligrito this comment is way too underrated
It's so bad it's good
*insert 'I understood that reference' here
This is an extremely high IQ comment.
I don’t get it
Some of these flowers are actually pretty great. Fairy Rose makes great honey, once it's mature, you don't have to water them. Just let them sit and decorate your farm and attract bees. Sunflower seeds or flowers can be made into oil, great for cooking. :)
Not to mention the fact that those flowers (especially the silver and gold quality) offer great energy for early game! A gold star blue jazz gives you 83 energy and 20 something health!
It's Sarah!
Was erked about that myself. Was like.... god damn you, flowers are for beekeeping! There are other uses for flowers that can make you a lot of money in the long haul as well, just not necessarily in farming itself.
Can you leave the Fairy Rose Flowers all year round?
I think he's still bitter about the Fairy Rose Disaster.
I thought the range of a scarecrow was the 8 spaces directly around it so I have a lot of scarecrows in 3 by 3 areas.
Yesssss
That’s exactly what I thought too 🤦🏼♀️
Same
ME TOOOOOO
Wait....
"The crop that you want from spring is the strawberries, which you can get from the egg festival"
Me, a week away from the end of spring: "Shit"
I've had to make new farms to get this correct bc i kept forgetting about the damn strawberries
"Time to start a new save...again."
I planted ALL coffee beans for the entirety of my year 2 spring and summer, and I'm pretty sure I'm set for life lol.
Coffee's not only great for selling, but nearly everyone likes them as gifts (excluding the little kids) and I always chug a cup so I can get around quicker :D
The only problem with that is the community center that is burdened on you to fix.
Titus Dezern if you can get all the crops done within your first year, then it won’t really matter what you do afterwards.
I did that just last week. I hated harvesting it but if you sell the quality beans alone you make money very quickly.
@@titusdezern2954 With all that sweet coffee money you can just get the unlocks through Joja.
like me in real life
I've put in thousands of hours into Stardew Valley, lived countless different lives, and yet I still love watching even the most mundane of topics that DF uploads about Stardew.
Me too
My favorite part of the game, is the first two years. I love building up a farm. I have a couple 50 year farms, but I prefer the simpler times when a thousand coins is a lot of money, and you're actually excitied to see Pierre sell wallpaper, lol.
I agree. I have only two farms in the third year, and I prefer playing other farms I do experiments or challenges with. I've done the community center in one year challenge and the million gold challenge several times each.
@@adropintheocean6282 sorry i'm not responsible for the person I was two years ago lol
I played 7 years ingame 110 hours in real life.
4:28 it pained me to watch him walk past all those foraged goods lol
Melanie Anne Ahern he dose not care he's rich
Dragon Slayer 4088 isn’t much
15:04 he just ignores the Artifact Spot
the Artifact Spot too :'(
Copyed another comment on another of his videos?
I do thank you for showing the scarecrow coverage, I knew it was 8 spaces, but I didn't know it was also diagonal too
8 spaces sideways, 6 spaces diagonally.
If you look at scarecrow in the wiki you can see the exact squares it affects in an image
My first THREE games I misunderstood and thought scarecrows only defended the neighbouring 8 squares, so I planted my crops in 3x3 plots with a scarecrow in the middle of all of them. I'm so daft.
Thomas Kirkness-Little My first game I did the same. My motto now? Check the wiki xD
Use the Pythagorean theorem to find the diagonal spaces.
You know I used to think Pierre’s store didn’t exist. The first day I actually played was Wednesday because I was stupid and sleeper through Monday and Tuesday. I used jojamart for 2 years. I did always open my mail but I didn’t meet Pierre so I didn’t get any about him.
Bruh
Annika Jones lol nice.
Sad
no way you managed 2 years without any backpacks
yikes
best crops
everything that has a berry in the name
ancient fruit
Coffee *B E A N S*
*_BEANS_*
salmonberries?
Star Berry?
@@RealCtc coffee berry
a tip for anyone who wants to know: Hops are a summer seed that produce EVERYDAY after full growth, they don’t sell for much ( I can’t remember the price so maybe it’s in the middle value for crops) but the money adds up over time so they’re valuable if you plant a shit load.
the value of hops is when you put them in kegs for beer right?
@@gabrielgan9295 yes and it gives a lot of farming level
Lol me and my friend just spammed hops and coffee and kegs. Loaded
Hops also give you great health and energy! First summer and absolutely slayed the mine’s slimes, bats, etc. bc I had so much health and energy. Might be good to complete the adventurer guild kill-list 😂
The purpose for flowers is increasing the value of your honey.
(Also tulips are a loved gift by evelyn if you're trying to get friendship. Even just plant one and save it for her birthday)
However, jazz honey will be more valuable than tulip honey. Plant your flowers within (I think 5?) squares of a beehive and they will produce honey from that flower instead of wild honey. A higher quality flower will take priority over a lower one, so if you plant tulip and jazz beside each other, it will make jazz honey.
Soprie Those seed packets are also part of the recipe for those spring/summer flower barrels that you can obtain at the Forest Dance for $2000 Gold.
who likes evelyn
Lucky Number 13 hey, free cookies and cake when she loves you? Sign me up.
Also, if you befriend Pam (which is hella easy to do with parsnips) she mails you energy tonic and batteries.
Aye and Penny loves Poppy flowers, so generating a years worth of gift giving stock of them to give to penny twice a week is a cheap easy way to get her hearts up if your wanting to make her your wife.
But the type of honey doesn't matter when you use it to make mead. Wild honey, tulip honey, and jazz honey all make mead of the same value so using flowers in the spring to make honey doesn't matter. Might as well plant other crops for value.
and here i am just planting a few crops once in awhile and focusing on fishing and mining and stalking a few select villagers.
also got an ancient seed and its my favourite baby.
My babies are the Ancient fruit, Gemberry, Coffee beans and my Fishies :3
The triple espresso coffee cost about 400 so i make sure i stock up on them , just a tip :/
... I... I got a Coffee Bean in the mine and didn't know how much value it had. I threw it away for quartz...
Oh the regret that stabs at me right now...
I use wheat to keep my fields 'busy' during the transition from summer to fall. Saved me a lot of hoeing and watering.
Same. I hate having to re-farm my fields.
And they preserve the fertiliser as well
@@ThePrimeMinisterOfTheBlock That too, yes. Though at this point, I don't use fertilizer anymore. Speed Grow is more interesting to me^^
I've been playing SDV for over 1000 hours and I only just recently realized this: Tulips actually have a use! They make bad honey and you can't sell them for anything but tulips are the best early food crop! Tulips cost as much as parsnips, 20g, to plant but they give 45 energy as opposed to 25 energy from parsnips. Although kale provides the best energy per plot in the spring (50 energy per plot per 6 days) tulips come in a close second but you can buy 3.5x the amount of tulips that you can buy kale.
Jazz would be a better option for honey, but yea flowers in general are good as gifts to NPCs and for increasing the value of honey, with fairy flowers I believe producing the best honey. Too bad you can green house the hives and have them produce honey based on the nearby flowers.
No, but you can put loads of Bee Houses all over the forest and get mountains of Wild Honey - plenty of raw stock for making Mead.
And if you have the Automate mod active, you can even make the honey automatically collect in chests - and then auto-brew in Kegs.
But the type of honey doesn't matter when you use it to make mead. Wild honey, tulip honey, and jazz honey all make mead of the same value so using flowers in the spring to make honey doesn't matter. Might as well plant other crops for value.
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Fill my farm with whatever stupidity I want? A field full of Hayley and Alex? Sounds like great fun!
Don't forget shane
Or Pam
i would love a field of lewiss
Don't forget Marnie
I think theres a mod for that now
Only the parsnips need to be gold, and only for the quality crop bundles (you need 5 or 10, can't remember). You can put any quality in the Spring bundle.
Pumpkin and corn are two more that you need five gold quality for the quest.
I want to say the last one is melon, though I do not remember since it's been a while...
that is indeed correct but you only need 5 gold quality of 3 out of those 4 mentioned.
I thought the quality crops bundle was 5 of any gold-star crop from each season. I haven't completed it yet, so I'm probably dead wrong.
me? 2 years late? yeah
anyways, tell me if your right but i believe it might be rng from any of the crops in the respective season bundle?
I love watching you play stardew while I play stardew
The blue jazz does have a good use I use pretty frequently when going into the desert mines, is that it's one of the ingredients for the Lucky Lunch.
Yeah but Lucky Lunch also requires cucumber and tortilla, cooking it isn't exactly the most fun thing to do. Other than the achievement, I'd rather just buy it off Krobus, Gus or the traveling merchant
Another great tip is to spend the first couple of days scything all the grass on every part of the farm, forest, and a couple spots in town. Doing that gives you a chance of mixed seeds being dropped, and when you start the game you can usually get about 30+ and those crops are basically free money since you don't spend money or energy (using the scythe doesn't expend energy) getting them. Since mixed seeds are randomly picked from the crops available in whatever season you plant them in, (besides strawberries or anything that's a "starter" like grapes or hops) and sometimes you can get a bunch of free cauliflower or potatoes early on! It's also really good for summer since mixed seeds can grow into corn, which lasts multiple seasons and is constantly regrowing
On my first run of the game, I had no idea what I was doing and still had barely accomplished anything by the end of the second year.
On my second run, however...
I rolled Parsnips into more Parsnips, into more Parsnips. I used foraging items to make up the money in the meantime. I'd forage a ton, get more Parsnips, repeat. Until the Strawberries. I poured every single cent I had into Strawberries. I spent the rest of that first Spring babysitting those strawberries because while I had access to build sprinklers, I didn't have the materials to do so. It was a very large crop that needed watering every single day. I rolled the Strawberry money into Melons. I babysat Melons for the entire Summer season. I rolled the Melon money into Pumpkins for the first Fall. I had 5 million in money by the end of that first year. I dedicated winter to upgrading my tools and exploring the mines. By the time winter was over, I had all my tools except the Pickaxe at Gold Quality. Spring rolled back around and I had been crafting sprinklers through the winter as well. I began working on everything else in the game, including the Community Center. I also romanced and married someone (Penny). I was sitting pretty with about 4 million in my pocket, so I began work on achievements as well.
By the time Year 2 was done, I was sitting on something like 60 million dollars, I'd completed the Community Center, had all my skills maxed out, had almost the entire town at 10 hearts, and most of the achievements.
Min/maxing can be... a somewhat boring way to play. Though, I still haven't completed my museum collection yet. Still, it's rather tedious to do.
Im currently in my my first spring and I found an ancient seed and gave it to gunther because I didn't know what it was. I am SO MAD AT MYSELF
Judah Daniel that’s good! You get ancient seeds.
You can plant the ancient seeds you get.
You can't plant them until you have the crafting recipe to convert ancient seed artifacts into plantable ancient seeds; Gunther gives you that recipe as a reward for donating an ancient seed artifact. I think he even gives you back a plantable ancient seed as a reward.
@@88michaelandersen Precisely.
88michaelandersen wait so if ur in early game of the first yr should I give my one and only ancient seed to gunther...?
The scarecrows can cover that much? Boy have this game screwed me over. Had crows eat my crops while having a scare crow waaaaay closer to it than that. After that i just got super paranoid and just had multiple scarecrows just in case
Ikr one time my crop got eaten when it was Litteraly right next to the scare crow :(
Cc Rae Lmfaoo, how sad.
Wow, I didn't know DF started out as a humble Stardew Valley tutorialist
of course he did, every videogame prankster starts out as a tutorial makes and stops when he/she has covered anything and either becomes a fact telller or a prankster like DF
actually tulips are good at the beginning for the Evelyn she loves them and she gives really good gifts for energy early on when you can afford them as much
you in first 15 seconds - "After 100 years in game and hundreds of hours I'm still not entirely familiar with all the crops"
Me- why am I watching this guy when he openly states he's a mindless buffoon.
Me 1 minute seconds 30 later - "woah, hold up I need to take notes"
I'm so used to the funny non-serious games from your chanel. I've only started stardew yesterday and this was genuinely helpful and very nice.
One neat trick I discovered, though timing is pretty tight on it, is that even though you can't grow cauliflower in time to get money for strawberries, you can grow one to complete the spring crops bundle and get 20 free speedgro.
I recommend tilling and watering those 20 spots in the morning before the egg festival because you'll have to run to the CC at 10pm that night to get your prize. Planting those 20 strawberry seeds with the speedgro on the night of the egg festival will get you three harvests and a fairly significant amount of extra cash (or extra seeds for next year). You can hold off planting the rest until the next few days and still get two harvests from the rest of the seeds.
I use poppies to give to Penny, I don’t want to be lonely for the rest of my farmer life, and I want an excuse to be an alcoholic
oh come now, we ALL know fairy flowers are the best flower, especially for making mead. ;)
Fairy flowers are horrible for making mead, unless you like throwing money away! Mead has a value of 200g or 280g with the artisan bonus and it doesn't matter what kind of honey you use to make it. but fairy honey will sell for almost 1000g! (In case of sarcasm, ignore this comment)
Lol, yeah. You haven't seen his video on this subject have you?
favoritekittykat "In case of sarcasm ignore this comment"
No one tells me what to do.
pie
I don't know what it is, but your videos are so fun and make me want to listen to you all day ! Keep it up
I like tulips on spring for the regen they give (55 to 90 depending on the quality), its very useful on the mines :)
I always save Strawberry Seeds for the next spring for maximum harvest. Boring the first year, but after that you'll always have strawberry seeds at the start of spring and don't have to wait for the festival.
Fun fact for those planting 1st year strawberries: speed gro will give you 3 yields instead of 2 before the end of the month.
Plant two cauliflower and two beans on day 1 (replicates to account for day 1-5 crows), and potatoes and parsnips during the first week and you should be able to get the 20 speed gro bundle ON the day of the festival. You can grab a few more if you get 2-4 tappers set up on pine trees by 7th or so, and keep at least the same number of clams you forage from the beach.
Time will be tight, so be sure to water in the morning before the festival, and you should probably keep the stuff you need for the CC bundle (parnsip, potato, bean, cauli) on you so that you can sprint back into town and then the CC to fill the bundle at night. If you plant the strawberries in speed-gro soil on the night of the festival you'll get harvests on the 20th, 24th, and 28th.
"By my estimation he's only the third dumbest character in Stardew Valley" ok who are you out to get
Shane.
Haley and Pam?
I think it’s Haley and Alex lol he called them stupid in another video.
Solaris Haley and Alex, 100%. He calls them Stupid and Idiot Stick.
@@galaxydoes8034 Shane isnt really stupid though, just depressed. I mean, he made it to >SPOILER< breed blue chickens. Thats pretty awesome.
you are one of the very few youtubers that i don't have to set the speed to 1.5
Rick Steves! I for one am very thankful that you quit doing European travel guide videos for my mom and started doing Stardew Valley guide videos. It’s 100x more relatable!
The flowers are useful for increasing the value of the honey your bees produce. Fairy flowers make your honey worth the most
Your channel has made me want to start playing this game. I have just bought it and I'm watching these videos as it downloads. I can't wait to start playing!
Here’s what I do:
take half of my non-quality crops every season and make them seeds, it, saves you tons of money
Yosh how do you make them seeds?
Metalhead 1966 craft a seed maker
10/10 best Stardew Valley tutorial (crop-wise) that's actually not all about statistics and math. I've actually asked a bunch of people what crops give the best gold and has the best use on the Stardew Valley steam forums and many of them acted like I was an idiot and started doing all these weird equations instead of just giving me a simple list of crops and their selling price >.> And no one gave me any helpful tips on how to utilize each crop when i plant them because i kinda wanted to plant like 9 of every kind of crop each season so i can find uses for them. LOL
Anywho, enough of my ranting, thanks for this video, DF.
“You should stop stalking the villagers and get to work” like he’s been watching me play 😂😂😂
your voice is so pleasing to the earholes, and also the video is informative, what more could we want?
The flowers are great for an energy boost especially early game. The only thing that sucks is there are too many color variants so stacking them can be a pain.
My personal favorite summer crop is hops. They’re easiest if you have a sprinkler so you don’t have to water AND harvest them everyday, but I usually make a patch of about a a hundred of them. When they’re fully grown, the produce everyday and getting a hundred hops everyday and selling them is 2,500g a day. I also tend to keep the lower quality ones to turn into pale ale and pickled hops since that brings up the value!
1. Can you get quality giant crops?
2. Does your farming skill increase from chopping down a giant crop?
Yeah i think
1. No
2. I guess yeah
Seeing something informative on this channel is jarring after only seeing stuff from the last year or so
Did anyone else not realize how much a scarecrow covers??? I have like 6 in the span of land he showed I feel like a fool rn
Id love to see an additional video with the new 1.5 update crops. These videos are so chill, I honestly rewatch them just to relax
Man I feel dumb... everytime i get coffee beans i throw them out .-.
I did that on my first playthrough haha!
I didn't even get the coffee beans cause I was all, "Coffee can't be *_that_* valuable. It's just the beans!"
how do i get coffee beans
Agii Dandelion aight I may be late but on fridays and sundays check the traveling merchant near the secret woods it’s a green haired lady in a cage with a pig wearing a fez
@@hollowknight266 hold up secret woods??
Forgot to mention Hops is actually one of the best of them all, probably THE best, grow every day after 14 days and become pale ale once put on kegs.....HUUUUUUUGE money there
Also forgot to mention that buying just 1 flower per season is ok if you have bee houses
Pale Ale doesn't sell for that much though. The only good thing about it is that keg processes hops much faster than the many fruits used in wines, but that's about it.
Ya Hopps are underrated I first thought that it was a bug because it keeps growing Lol
@@smaragdchaos it sells for 300g each and only requires 1 hop so if you stack up on hops you’re gonna get a shit ton by the time you have access to kegs
I only watch these so i can hear him say "parshnips".
I feel like I've seen a lot of your videos. Your voice sounds immediately recognizable so yeah i should probably subscribe
"That wasn't a very big crop at all."
- cost 92800g in first year -
So i was just replaying the game and went super into depth with the math for these crops, using the baseline of my late game farms size of 1150 spaces, but the findings would scale down. And i did this using updated things df didnt have 4 years ago, including hyper speed gro. Oh, and I used a baseline of 250 gold, 350 silver, and 550 normal quality per harvest, as is average with 10 farming. So my findings were such:
In spring, its strawberries, hands down. Even rhubarb from oasis is honestly pretty crap. Even if you plant them the day of the first festival they are still the most profitable. But the better thing is plant as many as you can year 1, harvest them, keep them all, put them into a seed maker, get the greenhouse by fall, plant more there, seed maker all of those through winter, and do a giant strawberry field year 2. Most of those seeds were basically free, so the profit margins are HUGE. And if you hit 10 farming by the end of year 1, you were a diligent farmer, get agriculturist, you get an extra harvest. No speed gro needed, just free profit. And that perk will come in handy later. But until you get the strawberries just do parsnips for levels. Oh, and if you do want the margins, strawberries with only 5 harvests, not even the bonus 6th harvest from agriculturist, profits 820k. Rhubarb, the second best crop, with no speed gro of any kind gets 2 harvests with a profit of only 369k. And you can only get 3 harvests with hyper speed gro AND agriculturist, so just go for strawberries.
For spring, again, clear cut winner, starfruit. The profit on these things are INSANE! But year 1 youll unlikely have the desert open yet, so instead, grow blueberries for profit. On my farm of 1150, after subtracting seed cost, melons would profit 500k, blueberries profit 640k, partially due to only buying seeds once for 4 harvests. But do note, multiple harvest crops only give farming xp on the first harvest, so maybe expand the field with the money from the first blueberry crop, plant some other crops, prolly melons for the gold stars, or anything on a short turnaround for xp. So yeah, if you have oasis access go starfruits, they are insane. If not, blueberries for pure profit.
Now fall, fall is where it gets interesting. In spring, speed gro of any level doesnt dethrone strawberries. The only thing that COULD dethrone it is coffee, but that eats into your spring profits from starfruits. But fall? Fall has FOUR contenders, and this was where my math got a bit insane. So, the four contenders are artichokes, beets, pumpkins, and cranberries. I leave out sweet gem berries, because youll probably never get a full fields worth of these things, and even if you did, we’ll get to it later, but its still not efficient. So for fall, there are two things to look at. Best easy and best hard.
Best easy is just what youd do for year 1, no speed gro, maybe agriculturist, but maybe not. The baseline. In this scenario, cranberries win easy.
Artichokes get 3 harvests for 550k
Beets get 4 harvests, with a mill every single beet makes 3 sugars for 50 gold each, making every beet worth 150 gold, same as a gold quality beet without the tiller perk, with tiller you make slightly more, but without it you make 598k. And everything here was calculated without tiller. With tiller it gets 613k. Just multiply the numbers by 1.1 to get tiller profits for everything else, beets are just special.
Pumpkins are second making 642k in 2 harvests
Cranberries you plant once but get 5 harvests, profiting 707k on average (with an average of 10% chance for an extra cranberry on each one harvested)
So with no speed gro, cranberries win easy. But here comes the bombshell.
WITH speed gro, the best case scenerio, things get interesting. So first off, ima throw away artichokes. They are technically second best here, BUT they are the only one that requires hyper speed gro at all to reach its maximum profits here, the rest only need deluxe speed gro. But if you were wondering, with hyper speed gro and agriculturist you get 6 harvests for 1.1 mil profit.
Cranberries are also out, you cannot get more than 5 harvests, even with hyper speed gro+agriculturist. Speed grow only affects the first harvest, not the regrow rate. So its profit is unchanged.
Pumpkins are actually third here, with just deluxe speed gro you can get a third harvest bringing it up to 963k profit.
But the grand winner in fall is actually beets! With deluxe speed gro+agriculturist, you can get a grand total of NINE HARVESTS! Yeah, NINE! Even buying seeds every time, when converting all normal and silver quality beets to sugar, without tiller you make 1,345,000. With tiller you get up to 1,379,000. Also fun fact this would produce just over 31000 sugar, which is a monstrous amount of the sweet stuff! This method combines willy wonka and walter white into one ruthless sugar dealer lol.
But the ultimate winner, unsurprising, ancient fruit. Plant day 1 in spring, use deluxe speed gro for one extra harvest (its worth it) and you can get 750k every single WEEK, WITHOUT TILLER! With tiller its about 825k. And in my farm i currently have, i also have 330 kegs in the quarry, so converting 330 normal quality fruit each week plus just the silver and gold quality ones and saving the normal quality leftovers for winter brewing, i make just over 1 million gold every single week. Which makes beets ~1.4 million for a full season seem utterly pathetic in comparison.
And heres my easy trick for this, use winter seeds, fill your field full near the end of winter with them, let the seeds rot as the season changes, and the sprinklers will water them all, none of the spaces will become unhoed. no need for hoeing or watering, just a much quicker scything. I get the whole 1152 field scythed, fertilized, and planted, all by about 10 pm on day 1 of spring. Once you get the greenhouse plant a bunch of ancient seeds there and make more seeds out of them, rinse repeat until you can make a field of them in spring. Oh, and oasis sells deluxe speed gro on Thursdays for about half the price of pierres shop, and oasis sells it year 1 while pierre only sells it year 2 onwards.
Oh, and while sweet gem berries will make approximately 1 million more than a season of ancient fruits, because they can only be planted in fall that means you would have to cripple your spring and summer profits to plant them, because you would not be able to clear a huge field of ancient fruits in one day, unless you use bombs, but collateral damage is guaranteed there. But even still, id say just stick witb ancient fruit, for the main farm. Now, you could use the ginger island farm for sweet gem berries, since they grow all year there, instead of just in fall. So if youre gunna do big rare seed crops, do them on ginger island not the main farm
This is all without taking into account artisan goods, though. Hops + kegs is, insaneely OP in summer. Can honestly contend with starfruit with the right setup, it's all about having *enough kegs*. While starfruit has better keg efficiency, Hops with kegs and artisan profession give you an absolutely absurd value multiplier of 119 x your initial investment. Starfruit+deluxe speed grow only value multiply by ~ 50 (since you can't actually reinvest your second crop for the third crop as wine, due to the keg wait time). More keg efficient, though, as said.
But starfruit also not really an option at the start of the first summer - so if you're going for a keg empire (IMO, clearly the best value strategy), first year the best summer crop by far is Hops. Since fall crops suck anyways (just... dissapointingly worse than hops in every way) and winter is well, winter, the lower (but really not that bad) keg efficiency of your hops isn't nearly as much of an issue - you can brew the absurd quantities of hops your produce over summer (should be in the several thousands) over those seasons when you have nothing better to do than build more kegs.
I think it honestly might be most efficient to just treat Fall like an extension of winter, tbh. Forget about planting anything, just spend all the time and money you have building an absurd number of kegs for your thousands (ideally, tens of thousands) of hops.This lets you almost completely ignore building kegs in Summer - prioritize *more hops, nothing else* (almost nothing else. See to tapping your oak trees on a rainy day, and making a quick buck/getting energy reserves on forageables. Non-rainy days - you'll be watering, and nothing else), you have all of Fall to do nothing but build kegs (and brewing a little to cover the cost of your materials), and all of winter to do nothing but brewing.
If we take your amazing farm of 1150 squares as an example (without deluxe speed grow); this strategy nets you a revenue of > 8million in year 1. Let's say 6 million, because buying all those materials for all those kegs is very expensive (you *will* be buying all the wood/ore, no way you can gather enough) but, nonetheless; absurd quantities of money.
Lost it when he described the scarecrows XD
To think that DF was this enthusiastic in the past makes me feel nostalgic
I just started playing the game and the traveling merchant was selling coffee beans but I didn’t know how good they were so I didn’t buy them 😭
I found it in the mine... and I threw it away...
You’re videos are great! I started playing Stardew Valley again after a few months of taking a break. The first video of yours I watched was about your 34th year lol great stuff
How do you have enough energy and time to water all these cauliflowers everyday on your first spring with basic level tools?
Food? Salmonberries work wonders.
@@chromaticblue3976 Don't be sassy, everyone has to start somewhere, and there aren't a lot of "here's how to START Stardew Valley" videos or tips out there
eat.
@@caitlinobrien273 tougourao isnt being sassy lmao
If you struggle with energy early game, your best bet would be to level up foraging skill to level 1 and create a whole bunch of field snacks. They have decent healing and energy restoration factor, and it only takes 1 of each tree seeds to create. Salmonberry season in spring and Blackberry season in autumn also work wonders when it comes racking up cheap food with decent restoration value (especially powerful if you take the gatherer-botanist line in foraging skill)
This advice works in the first year when I mostly sell raw crops and prioritize the little ores I make for tool upgrades. However, in my second year, I start to build a honey farm, and flowers become a really good value-add because it improves the honey prices with very little maintenance. I also have some kegs so I’m making hops and pale ale. Artisan stuff allow me to expand my farm variety and it’s so much fun.
You kinda forgot Kale.
Summer Wise Hops >> blueberries and everything else. provided you have kegs, and hops gives you a TON of Farming XP so you'll have kegs. I do 150 of them for 1 million.
I have learned that kale is really not worth it. It gives no farming xp since you use a scythe to harvest it, it's not quite as good as potatoes moneywise since you get extra potatoes for every 4, and even though it is the most food possible per plot in the spring, there are two better cheaper options for that (tulips and parsnips). There are a few recipes that use kale so you will need it for that.
I heartily agree with you on the hops, they are one of the best crops to plant overall in the game, and so often overlooked by most people. Not only can you make a lot of money from them with pale ale, and get lots of farming xp, they also are the best food crop in the game as each hop gives 45 energy. I usually use hops as my major food source after my salmon berries run out and before blackberry season.
yeah I know its a bad crop, but he didn't mention them
YESSSS i discovered the wonder of hops by accident. and you get more every day! it's wonderful!
You have just gained a follower lmao. This was funny yet educational
I always end up running a coffee farm. They grow for two seasons, constantly produce beans that you can instantly plant for MORE coffee plants, they yeild 2-4 beans each harvest, and they sell for a pretty good price. I made money really fast this way
I calculated this, and if you buy one bean at the 5th, plant all the beans through spring, then harvest but not plant all through summer, you should have 77 plants by the end, giving you 3448 beans, which sell for 51,720G (if they're all base quality, which they won't, so it will actually be more). Or you could make them into 689 coffees (leaving 3 beans) which are worth 103,350G (and 45+G from the three spare beans).
Not bad!
Yes, I did this for the lols
one last thing, in summer if you can place a lot of kegs plant hops, they make pale ale it is the most profitable beverage to do (not most expensive, most profitable initial cost to outcome)
"who doesn't like big melons"
you're a genius XD
also, here's a few things I wanna point out
First of, melons are Penny's favorite gift, so if you want to make her happy quick you can build up a small stock of those to keep and give them to her every day.
Corns and pumpkins are also used to complete the community center, you need to get them gold quality too.
Flowers aren't actually useless in your first year. You might want to put together a few beehives although you will need to get maple syrup from the trees which requires ressources that are important, but if your main focus is money, you can grow some flowers and put the beehives next to them, you only need one of them to power more than one beehive, not exactly sure how much is required but, once you get the flower-induced honey, it is worth *alot*, as much as an ancient fruit actually! I know that a single fairy rose can upgrade your honeypots for them to be worth over 670 gold!
It's not really worth it using beehives regardless of the flower
This is so strange seeing you doing a tutorial like this especially when I joined your Channel with you breaking Minecraft dungeons LOL I literally just got stardew Valley so this is very helpful thanks
I wish I watched this video before I started...
Me too 😂 I just started and now I'm on my first year in the end last week of fall I believe and I planted a bunch of wheat and have spending all my money on wheat ;-;
@@dazedcitrine I spent a decent bit on wheat just for a quick batch of hay (no silo yet, working on it)
DiamondSparklz61 I’ve found that just befriending Marnie helps: sometimes she just gifts you 50 hay for no reason!
@@ellielamport hmmm
Spring 0:30
-scarecrow and fertilisers from farming lvl 1 important!!!
-don't buy tulip & jazz
-SAVE MONEY FOR 13th!! for strawberries!!! (best crop for spring)
-money not super important: grow cauliflower (however they won't be done by 13th)
-money important: grow potatoes (only 6 days so can get strawberries)
-community center: parsnips, beans, cauliflower & potatoes (gold)
Summer: 8:00
-blueberries make most money (buy lots)
-melons can make giant crops (and make still a lot of money just not as much as blueberries
-flowers are kinda useless
-wheat is not very valuable
-corn can be valuable as it runs through summer
-rest of seeds are alright
-valuable seeds are in desert (STARFRUIT!!)
-community centre needs: tomatoes, hot peppers, blueberries and melons
Fall: 11:38
-best cranberries (money)
-community center: corn, eggplant, yams
-grapes and pumpkins also good for money
-avoid fairy seeds (don’t sell for a lot) however have a chance of allowing a fairy to come mature the rest of ur crops once that flower has matured (very beneficial)
-bok Choy sells for same as flowers yet kinda valuable
-plant rare seeds (then put in seed maker)
Personally I say wheat is worth your time, as it is multi-season, extremely cheap to purchase, quick to growth and extremely quick to gather.
Basically, you just plant a lot of it, in a section of the farm that's not getting watered by sprinkler or yourself, letting rain and/or wife do it, making money through volume that can't be managed by anything else, without sprinkler. The only time you should water wheat is, toward the end of autumn and you were unlucky with rain, for that last batch of wheat you planted.
you can make flour and beer with it too
A summary of the best crops per season as stated in this video, plus tips I've learned along my time playing SV as well as ones DF gave in the video:
*Spring*
*Normal crops:* Potatoes & strawberries & coffee (The sooner you can get strawberries going the better, save some from year one and grow them day 1 of spring the next year.)
*Special crops:* Ancient fruit (If you can find them, the sooner you get them growing the more profit you will make. Put ancient fruit into a seed maker to make more ancient seeds for large profits in spring and summer, year-long if you can get the greenhouse going.)
*Summer*
*Normal crops:* Blueberries & coffee & corn (Coffee planted in spring will bring a lot of extra side profit in from planting them early in spring. Corn planted as early on as possible is also going to be the best for profit, the longer you wait the less profitable it becomes.)
*Special crops:* Ancient fruit & starfruit (They are very expensive but very profitable, plant these early on for max profit. Read above for ancient fruit tips.)
*Fall*
*Normal crops:* Cranberries
*Special crops:* Ancient fruit & sweet gem berry (Preferably, save your ancient seeds and rare seeds for your greenhouse unless you have a surplus of seeds due to the seed maker. Plant these as early as you can for max profits.)
*Winter*
*Normal crops:* Winter seeds (These you can make from foraging the winter foragables in winter, or getting them as rewards via the community center. These are the only naturally grown plants in winter.)
*Special crops:* Any special crop listed above (As long as you have a greenhouse.)
*Overall tips:*
Use fertilizer ALWAYS. Even low tier fertilizer will do.
Get the greenhouse unlocked ASAP.
Save your ancient seeds and rare seeds until you can grow them in their respective seasons, turn at least some of the fruit into seeds with the seed maker to begin growing your hoard.
Use scarecrows efficiently. A normal scarecrow covers a space of 248 spaces all together, about 8 spaces out on all sides. A deluxe scarecrow can be obtained and/or crafted after collecting all 8 rarecrows, and it affects a grand total of 888 spaces, or about 16 spaces out on all sides.
Always plan for the next year. If you grew strawberries from the first festival in spring of year 1, save some of them and put them in the seed maker to use in spring of year 2. Planting them as early as possible will yield a far greater profit.
Fairy seeds are useless if you are selling the flowers themselves, however, they are the most profitable honey-flavor type ingame. Plant them near bee houses to increase the produced honey's value from a base of 100 gold to 680 gold. They also have a chance to spawn a fairy at night when they become mature, resulting in some of your crops instantly becoming mature and harvestable.
Useless talking about tsundere 😂
Almost all of things in stardew valley is good
6:50 I was playing stardew day 2 first spring I'm exploring around i saw some worms I dug them up and found an ancient seed!
Lucky you...
“ and which ones are in to play with!” The egg plant!
Sunflowers make Sunflowers and have a chance to drop seeds too. The Sunflower can be turned into oil which... isn't terribly useful unless you cook a lot a guess.
The plants from Jazz seeds are necessary to make “Lucky Lunch” (which I found out using mobile is one of the foods you give to a raccoon in the forest near the sewer later in the game near the end to clean up some areas of town) and Tulips are one of Evelyn’s favorite gifts. Not completely useless but you really only need a few
I love planting hops in the summer since you can harvest them everyday
OMFG I SERIOUSLY thought that the scarecrows ONLY reach about 8 squares MAX, so I have like 4 of them on every litte plot HAHAHA god now it looks so ridiculous haha 😭😭
It's really good to buy more strawberry seeds then you think you need in the first year, as in the unlikely case you do complete the greenhouse bundle, that's great for quick profit. (Along with, of course, every other infinitely producing plants, blueberries also work well in the greenhouse early on because they tend to produce multiple berries per harvest)
The way this guy talks I get the impression he is always smiling as he does so, and then when he mentioned melons i got the impression his smile got even bigger :P Thanks not sure how up to date this is now, but new to game so all helps me at this stage :P
Something to keep in mind, a lot of npcs appreciate corn as a gift, look it up it’s actually a lot of them
Your voice is so calming and great content thanks!
Flowers are good to plant by bee houses to boost the price of your honey. Just make sure you don't turn it into mead, it's a huge waste
honey is not a huge money maker to be quite honest
@@smaragdchaos no but if you put the beehives on your farm they produce honey without you having to do anything, so there's really no downside to it in the long run. plus you can gift it or make mead out of it. unless you have space concerns or don't want to use the resources to make it there's not reason not to have honey, & planting a couple of cheap flowers increases its value.
@@blakkmetal-wizkokk Why waste the space for hives if you can have crystalariums instead?
Random tip: sunflower seeds cost less at the joja mart and get a bit cheaper if you buy the membership (not that i recommend it but do what ya want)
The vid that connected me to a mad man who does crazy stuff for money and marriage, the golden days...
For the flowers, they are not that useful by themselves but 1 flower can increase your honey’s value so much! Plant it with a cheap sprinkler, surround it by bee houses and forget it. In fall, the fairy rose honey is worth so much with very little to water!
"Sunflower seeds unfortunately only produce sunflower seeds. So I don't see the point."
--> Have you really ever planted them?!
You will get a sunflower plus the chance for another seeds when you harvest them. And moneywise you do not want to buy them from Pierre's. They also make great gifts for Haley and you can turn them into oil for cooking.
Playing the game "all about the money" style is the worst thing to do, because money is the only unlimited thing in the game. Soon enough you'll realize there's nothing desirable to buy for all that money. (Caution! This could be an opinion and not a fact.)
Flowers can make decent money, but you only need few of them planted in the right spot. If you don't want them as gifts, they are only worth planting as soon as you get access to the bee house. You can't argue about honey being worth twice as much or even more.
IWD try the 2 million gold before year 1 challenge, then you can say playing for money doesn't matter. Good luck.
There is nothing useful to buy for that money. So what's the reason to have it that early? Right. There is none.
It's called a CHALLENGE for a reason. Yes there is a reason, personal achievement that you can minx/max and get that many gold as early as possible. Don't take your opinion as the absolute truth kid =)
Not to mention there are several expensive items made for people that like to min/max like the statue of endless fortune and many more =)
Well, if it's something YOU desire, just do so. For me, money in SV get's useless over time. I don't need that golden clock or those ugly towers on my farm. So the game is not "all about the money" for me. Everybody has to decide on his own, if having a lot of money early in the game is fun or not. I am on the other side of the "all about the money" medal. I simply don't care about money. There will be more than you can spend on desirable things soon enough. That's what I experienced in hundreds of hours playing the game. I haven't even skipped a single day.
Just play the game. Try whatever you like best without always looking into money. That's my advice to other players.
You are literally contradicting yourself. First you explicity say "playing about the money style is the worst thing to do" as if it's the absolute truth, fogetting about other people's desires in the game, then you start talking about "everybody has to decide on his own" Lol? What if i like minmaxing for money? there's a LOT of people that play SV that way, who are you to say they are wrong? Its cuz you don't have the capacity of playing in such hardcore and skillful way?
By min/maxing you can have BY YEAR ONE: 95% of the farm with Q+I sprinklers (5% for a building or so), over one million and maybe 1,5 in a good RNG run, all villagers atleast 4 hearts, community center pratically finished, massive keg infraestructure for more profit in the long run, and a lot more shit.
How can you tell ANYONE that's not good? You have enough money and infraestructure to not worry about it for the rest of the game so you can just focus on other stuff, as opposed to randomly idling through days in the most inneficient way ever, why would i waste time on stuff that won't help me if i can just optimize my gameplan and make the most profit? who are you or anyone really to say that's wrong? Lol.
A tip with strawberries. Buy in bulk. And save them for the next spring
8:21 I got 110 blueberries form just a couple of the plants
Hops are absolute insanity if you have enough kegs, rivaling the big crop like starfruit and ancient fruit
I love that he sounds like Caboose from Red vs. Blue