16:07 irony is Pierre wants to become "The Man" Later dialogue in the game he expresses his wishes to open up his shops across the country. Basically his dream is to become Joja Mart but "His" Joja Mart.
Its why Stardew is such a brilliant satire of capitalism. The giant conglomerate and the "small business" entrepreneur are both bad and motivated by greed, but just at different points on the ladder. Eric makes us think he is going for a "big business crushing the little guy" thing but at the end he makes the point that they are fundamentally the same.
@@joepops727 And the Player Character is not an "entrepreneur?" Investing in the community often for your own ends. Eventually having a life far grander than anyone else in the Community. I think you're looking at it kind of backwards. Jojomart actually being far less evil than the game tries to convince you of. Pierre does absolutely nonthing for the community, doesn't even provide a single person a job. Meanwhile Jojomart will organize the construction of community projects, hires what would be the unemployed in Stardew Valley. It's kind of the Steambot Chronicles effect which has a similar Anti Capitalist narrative in it but because people don't undertand how liberal economics work, actually fail to see the game actually doing the opposite. It actually shows the importance of Private Business. How opening up a community helps it grow. Steambot in particular has a quest line which you discover a commune in the mountains. They ask you to help build railroad to the outside world. After doing so the community changed dramatically, they had access to new technology, resource and wealth. Some in the community left ie the Commiservatives who wanted to keep their old communal ways. Which the game tried to make you sympathies but in actuality helped prove Capitalist criticism of Socialist being a CONSERVATIVE movement... it's why the earliest Socialist were Conservative Socialist as it's since been coined. Socialism was founded in opposition to the rise of private business, the middle class vs the old Nobility and old Commercial Guilds which dominate Feudal Society. Only reason Socialism isn't associated with Conservatism today is because Liberal Economics dominated the 19th/20th century. So to be s modern Conservative is to Support Class Liberal thought. It's why it's more accurate calling left wing Liberalism as Progressivism not Liberalism as it's most often opposed to Liberalism.
The fact that Joja run is much more comfortable that regular run is pretty accurate to real life. Working under a corporate entity is much easier than having to manage your own business. But it’s literally the very thing that’s slowly killing you and the environment
21:57 I saw someone on reddit say they got to year 3 and just realised you can upgrade your bag, they were playing with only 12 slots 😅😅 I’d go insane too
I actually had fun with my Joja playthrough. The consequences of joining aren't really that bad, nobody except Pierre actually cares, and the community still improves by the end. It would've been more realistic if Joja corp completely took over pierre's store, marnie's ranch, Robin's carpentry business, and the fishing lodge as you ascend through the ranks; and the townspeople all become blue collar workers for Joja. Someone should make this mod right now lol
Doing the Joja route now for the first time, and I agree with this sentiment. As it stands, you really could just root for Morris, as you know nothing about him...but I dont know many players who root for Pierre after getting to know him. There should be a few more consequences. Otherwise its just an easy money route if you dont want to do a bunch of collecting. Would be nice to give Morris a complicated personality, and see where that leads. Which, I dont hate. Did the Community Center twice, and didnt feel like restarting it for this playthrough. Its a good alternative route, and makes you ponder which is really better / who is really a better person.
Well put my foot in my mouth....I thought Morris was like Gunther....only out from behind a counter during cutscenes and unable to be interacted with...til I got to 10:12. Was searching through comments to see what people's thoughts were when I made that comment.
I love how she was "not trying to achieve too much" and plays 100x better and makes way more money and progress faster than I ever could hahaha.... so effortlessly.. love it.
When I saw the Morris cutscene where he brings in the coupons I was so annoyed that the game doesn't ACTUALLY give the player a 50% off coupon from the event . . . that I actually walked over to Joja Mart, bought only half the quantity of what I'd been planning on picking up, and used SMAPI commands to spawn in the other half. XD
The Morris backstory in this mod is actually heartwrenching. Justice for Morris tbh. Only thing every villager in The Valley has in common is the fact that they probably deserve better.
I remember there was some mods making joja more realistic like having cheaper prices like real big companies It does make the joja route easier but I like when things are more realistic and joja feels like an actual threat
A joja run is the best time to do an overall "evil" playthrough where you make all the dick-moves in the game, including: -romancing EVERY NPC in order to get the special "cheater" cutscenes -divorcing a spouse -turning your children into doves in the witch's house -force Krobus to move out of the sewers into your home to be your roommate -picking all of the obviously bad dialogue options -putting the mayor's purple shorts in the luau soup -putting the shorts in the grange display -trimming the shorts to wear around Do all the things you never want to do in a normal playthrough that would make you feel like a horrible monster! There's no better time!
@localmenace3043 krobus talks about having to hide from society and loving his sewers and missing them, which is why I used the word "force", even if it's a bit dramatic In reality, most people never think or know to move him in with you, and it's just perfect for a run where you try things you never do
I love that they coded him a little neurodivergent (a bunch of hobbies he has abandoned, awkward lines and a hard time making friends, hyperfixation) as well as giving him some lines verging on nice guy territory-but without making him a complete loser or a joke. He has flaws-real ones, big ones-but he has a lot of personal struggles and ultimately just wants to succeed and help people while he is doing it.
It's not made well. It looks like it's written by a 5-year old. Bad business guy is actually a good guy who wants to make friends... and he loves his mama... pathetic
@@unemilifleur ton of excessively detailed lines that are not realistic for his initial character. He's not a neurotic with self-esteem problems who doesn't know the consequences of his actions. Nothing hinted at that in the original story.
@pushista9322 why are you so intent to hate on this mod 😭 someone put effort into it and while it's simple and not super deep it's still impressive and does not deserve this much hate. You need to chill lol
I did a Joja run not that long ago and honestly...i found it quite nice. With the community center i always worry about missing or forgetting seasonal things, therefore the Joja route is a bit more comfortable.
My Joja route my character was named Evil of Hell Farm. Since the only thing cheaper at Joja is sunflower seeds, I decided to marry Haley. This playthrough made Haley my favorite romanceable character. Also, Evil had wild luck. She found two dinosaur eggs before Spring 20 of year one. She found a prismatic shard also in spring year one. Due to that, I bought the desert first and got my galaxy sword, destroyed the mines, and then got my greenhouse for starfruit and fruit trees, and have slowly been converting the greenhouse to ancient fruit. Evil got access to the sewers super early compared to all my other playthroughs too, like I met Krobus before the winter event. It's still one of my favorite files, but that's because Evil grew on me as one of my favorite characters. Her counterpart, Good of Heaven Farm is still working on his marriage candidate of Shane. Good is a himbo who thinks he can fix Shane.
If you walk into your bed, and hit "no" when it asks you if you want to sleep, and just stand there until you close your eyes you can take a nap and get your energy back up without having to go to the spa or eating!
I just started my first Joja game. I felt guilty at first (lol), but it's great to not have to worry about "Oh, no -- I need that fish I just sold for the community center! What am I going to do?" It's actually kind of fun.
I had no idea you could wear it as a hat! I always carry it. When you get an iridium pan you get so many good items! There's also enchantments you can get which makes it even better
The sunflower thing is really clever because thats an actual trick big box stores use. The store my mom works at had to stop selling a certain brand of candles because Walmart started selling them at a loss
Why does Morris have all the hobbies of the other marriage candidates? Art like Leah. Piano like Elliot. Photography like Haley. Coffee like Harvey. Video games like Abigail. Who else does he mimic?
Probably to try and relate to the other villagers, but it came off cringe and backfired. He kept everything despite this, but photography he was actually good at so he kept it.
When I started playing the game again, I always told myself "You only need 1 more achievement, just man up and take Joja route" and failed miserably every single time. And I have spent more than 1.000 hours of my life on this game and had more than 10 saves. For all the players had completed Joja route, you have my respect.
They ain't bad. Given how the town was before them, they help make improvements to the town. Give job to people, and some villagers like shopping with them. They got great didficult to get products like auto petters.
- panning gives you a chance for a lucky ring so early on - doesnt even need to take up an inventory slot because you can wear it as a hat so you have no excuse to not carry it with you
Based on the way you play one counter-intuitive way you'd able to improve your profits is don't plant anything until day 15. Spend the first day clearing as much of your farm as you can selling all of your fibre and retaining only the stone/wood you need for chests and furnaces get forageables for energy, then from day 2-14 fish all day every day, on non-rainy days fish in the mountains keeping the chub for energy and on rainy days fish in the river for catfish only selling what you need to get the better fishing rod stockpile the rest for when you get the fisher/angler perks, then on day 15 you can buy a ton of cabbage seeds and have a ton of fish for energy to help with the extra watering. Even the worst fisher can make 1500+ a day from fishing and it doubles as a way of getting energy for other tasks as well.
Fun fact: in the Marry Morris mod you can redeem him by taking the community centre root. I’m currently doing this on my stardew valley world. I luv my silly guy
Joining Joja can give some decent benefits like being able to buy the autopetter, and its fun to have a playthrough focused entirely on the accumulation of wealth
i still havent played stardew yet but this is SO interesting. also maybe the reason sunflower seeds are cheaper at joja is bc they are a mixture of both seeds for farming and seeds for eating? i could absolutely see a company 'saving money' by trying to combine one or the other to extend shelf life of the product. this was a lovely vid.
Hope you got the game and did the community center route where you can tell Pierre to punch morris in the face lol. This mod really puts him in a different light tho, it's refreshing
@freelemonade9695 Pierre is actually worst then Morris. He is a greedy dude, worst then Morris. How he tried to ripl off customers and yourself with the products he ask you to give him.
For a Joja run, she was actually taking it super easy. If she had wanted to get stupid about min maxing and garbage like that, she could have been done with all of her goals Fall 1, easy. Of course, that would have made it less fun to play and to watch, so... 🤷♂️
Oh. OH. Maybe I can’t bear looking at the Junimos and then turning around and helping Joja (who left the skeleton of a coworker at their desk two cubicles down from ours)
Probably way too late to add this comment, but just wanted to note on the energy depletion in the beginning of the game. It's best to chop down trees and leave the tree stumps as it's not worth how much wood you get from the stumps versus how much energy it costs to chop the stumps down too. Plus, leaving the stumps keeps on making new trees grow in the area too.
9:48 I’ve done a full year of basically nothing but foragable farming, like fields covered with seeds that I would exhaust myself multiple times a day to water just to pass out and start all over again I sold tea saplings (as many as I could make) and seeds and leftover forage (and beach forage every Saturday) and earned over 450k+ just that first year
There is seriously so much to this game. I have played a lot of Stardew Valley. I mean, hours and hours and hours. But not since the 1.5 update. Like I don't even know what Ginger Island is. And I probably only scratched the surface before. Repeating all the things I usually do. I was looking at this video constantly thinking: That's in the game?! I'm currently back on the bandwagon, though. A fresh batch of hyperfocus for Stardew Valley. Ready to discover all that I missed. Also, if the local friendly shop is cheaper, what's the point in going to an impersonal superstore? Isn't the point of those that THEY are cheaper?
This video is so well produced! I'm amazed how much work was put into it. Commentary is nice, wholesome (for a joja employee) and so beautifully written and recorded By any means, this was one of the best video game videos I've seen in a while I mean Wow Ps You don't need to water once you have sprinklers. Even the first day
on my first playthrough that second "are you sure?" did save me from accidentally buying. i had accidentally skipped some of lewis's dialogue explainging everything and had no idea if i was supposed to get a membership or not
Wow! I'm surprised the mod gave Morris such a good character background. Nice farm, too! I'm actually gonna copy some of your ideas since Joja hasn't trademarked them yet.
Glad you did a joja run, you should to a ridgeside/expanedd run with both mods.... and east scarp. So many options to expand how you see things. Expanded adds a lot to the Joja side of the story.
Me and my friend on our co-op playthrough did the Joja route because we got lazy with the bundles. Edit: I kinda would like characters exclusive to each of the routes in this game. It would be interesting if more people involved with Joja came to town and had heart events as well as new people moving in/returning to town if you pursue the community center.
I only shop at Pierre’s because it’s cheaper, closer, and has more variety. I fucking hate that man. I got him as the person you’re supposed to give a gift to for my first ever Feast of the Winter Star. Instead of getting him a present I slingshotted a rock at him. I considered giving him a hated item but decided he wasn’t worth the effort.
the problem is that corporate shills are also people… he’s got “higher ups” putting pressure on them and causing them to make stupid decisions in order to impress a company that will never actually value them. he’s just stuck in the mindset that, if he just does well enough and proves himself to be successful in capitalism, maybe his existence will have meaning. lots of managers/owners of franchises are like that.
When in reality, the only thing any of these people will ever get from the company they work for is “thanks for making us JUST enough money even though we yelled at you the whole time for not making enough. We appreciate your efforts soooo much! If you ever feel like dying because we suck, call our personalised help number, an outbound call centre located in a poorer country run by other machine cogs that want to jump off a cliff! Just like you! Except they have even less rights! KEEP UP THE GRINDSET!”
And yeah not to forget that Pierre also has a megalomaniacal view on capitalism and believes his shop is the only one that should exist and that it should expand elsewhere….. it’s the exact same as Morris’ view we just are made to believe from the start that one has a more honourable venture than the other when in reality they literally want the exact same thing.
People with full time jobs have their humanity sucked. Which is unfortunate, since not everyone can afford living their dream as an artist, farmer, creator, etc. Some people need to do whatever to survive, and that means losing their soul, passion and ultimately humanity.
Joja was my first 3 routes I played on Stardew, but my most recent is the community center, before I knew anything about the game and started looking up the lore.
I couldn’t, I looked back at one of my old saves where last minute I did the Joja Route, and I was actually ashamed of myself. I just couldn’t doom all the npcs like that 💀💀💀
surprisingly fun watch. also, the little tidbit about caroline and the tree saplings paying mad dividends in spring is one of the best tips i've seen for quick cash in this game. had no idea doing spring seeds like that could get you mad cash (so long as you befriend caroline)
Your keg shed is not full. You have room for 12 more kegs if you put them on the left and right of each row rather than have the paths down the sides. You only need a path through the middle. You can still put items in the kegs that are seemingly unreachable so long as you have the tile diagonally next to a keg empty.
I can't believe the Morris romance mod made me tear up, wtf? Great video though! I've never really watched stardew content but this was highly entertaining and you did a fantastic job!
In the new update the clay pattern thing is no longer a thing! BUT if you want it you can toggle it on in the settings when you create a new farm save. It is called legacy randomisation I think
I made an entire separate file just for the joja mart achievement. And that was the file that I would use as an experiment file where I can try different things I don't want to try in the files that I play often in
I've got almost all of the achievements but I have absolutely no desire to even try for the two Prairie King achievements. If I wanted to play arcade games I would have bought arcade games.
it's in the base game, just go into the social tab (it's a heart) in the pause menu and you can see how much friendship you have with everyone, and people you havent met will be marked as "???" to help with the introductions beginning quest
Omg I just discovered you and am immediately obSESSED. Cannot wait to binge watch your other Stardew videos, this one was *chefs kiss*, the cringe was at an all-time high. Thank you for doing this so I can experience it without ever having to do it myself.
15:12 pierre shoulda ttaken it so he could fire all employees and send joja crashing down as people share stories of how they got fired for no reason on reddit, and then after pierre could reopen the store
Willie called you "lass"! Clearly a viewer. Also I have sometimes used the panning pan as a hat so I don't forget it and I still never actually pan anything. But if I did, that would sure be a good idea. Although fashion over function almost always; I can't not be a hat mouse customer, poke.
10:25 She watches the TV to see the weather at 1pm, then time magically jumps back to 6am, making a super cringe following 20 seconds as she pretends to "rush" to grab copper & upgrade the watering can in time! Nullifies the entire experience to know this was ran with a cheat menu to speed things up and script it.
with the marry morris mod it sorta looks like after quitting joja and running away you’re just so entranced by discount bezos that you rejoin the cult and idk i love that its so unserious
Just started my Joja playthrough. Made my character look like a robot named Roberta. With a tuxedo cat named Byte. Together we ravage the valley in the most capitalistically optimal way. Whenever i feel guilty i just think...WWJD? Marry Penny, thats what.
Loved seeing this side of you and the game hehe. Speaking of maybe future merch 👀 would love to see a return of the real gamers play farming sims design (especially potentially on more items?!) but it is my favorite shirt and so freaking cool! Love you and your content!!!
you can still get Junimo on your Farm because the wizard offers their Huts for Sale it's like a Starfruit and some Gold. Plus I have a Mod that actually Makes Joja Prices Cheaper like they should be.
I’ve done the community center, haven’t finished everything in that save, but I did it and made another save and decided to do the whole joja thing. It’s definitely much faster but things like the coffee machine and other things given by community center are now things you just gotta do for yourself, which makes everything slower in terms of progress, in my opinion. Obviously Stardew is meant to be played slowly, but I like doing things fast😂
"crazy that men can go their whole lives without feeling empathy !!" AAHAHHAHA i just know that moment that they Discover Empathy becomes a core memory DSJNFJNDS
omg i love you doing the joja route and only befriending caroline. you're ruining pierre's livelihood AND stealing his wife hahaha
unfathomable villainy
and marry his daughter, triple whammy
She should also become best friends with the wizard haha
You also want to befriend pierre, but only up to the point where you discover his secret stash, then you tell his wife.
No
I don't shop at Pierre's out of principal. I do it because it's closer and your character moves at the speed of a snail
I shop at Pierre's because I didn't know until this video that you can buy things at Joja
real
It is cheaper tp buy from Pierre.
It is cheaper tp buy from Pierre.
It never made sense to me that Pierre's is cheaper and closer.
"Marnie decided to clock in today" IS THE REALEST THING IVE EVER HEARD that woman is never at her till when I need her istg
She complains about needing buisness and how poor she is, UHM IDK MAYBE STAY OPEN AND ACTUALLY SIT YOUR ASS AT YOUR DESK?!?!
I have problems with Marnie and robin
just buy the animal catalogue
@@yadaplayz1654 this was before 1.6 probably
Every time I go to her she walks OUT of the place she sells stuff and stands in her bedroom for hours😭
16:07 irony is Pierre wants to become "The Man" Later dialogue in the game he expresses his wishes to open up his shops across the country. Basically his dream is to become Joja Mart but "His" Joja Mart.
Lines up with him trying to sell your produce to Gus for a ludicrous markup.
Its why Stardew is such a brilliant satire of capitalism. The giant conglomerate and the "small business" entrepreneur are both bad and motivated by greed, but just at different points on the ladder. Eric makes us think he is going for a "big business crushing the little guy" thing but at the end he makes the point that they are fundamentally the same.
@@joepops727 And the Player Character is not an "entrepreneur?" Investing in the community often for your own ends. Eventually having a life far grander than anyone else in the Community.
I think you're looking at it kind of backwards. Jojomart actually being far less evil than the game tries to convince you of. Pierre does absolutely nonthing for the community, doesn't even provide a single person a job. Meanwhile Jojomart will organize the construction of community projects, hires what would be the unemployed in Stardew Valley.
It's kind of the Steambot Chronicles effect which has a similar Anti Capitalist narrative in it but because people don't undertand how liberal economics work, actually fail to see the game actually doing the opposite. It actually shows the importance of Private Business. How opening up a community helps it grow.
Steambot in particular has a quest line which you discover a commune in the mountains. They ask you to help build railroad to the outside world. After doing so the community changed dramatically, they had access to new technology, resource and wealth. Some in the community left ie the Commiservatives who wanted to keep their old communal ways. Which the game tried to make you sympathies but in actuality helped prove Capitalist criticism of Socialist being a CONSERVATIVE movement... it's why the earliest Socialist were Conservative Socialist as it's since been coined. Socialism was founded in opposition to the rise of private business, the middle class vs the old Nobility and old Commercial Guilds which dominate Feudal Society.
Only reason Socialism isn't associated with Conservatism today is because Liberal Economics dominated the 19th/20th century. So to be s modern Conservative is to Support Class Liberal thought. It's why it's more accurate calling left wing Liberalism as Progressivism not Liberalism as it's most often opposed to Liberalism.
there was a whole south park episode about this and the whole concept is actually so interesting to me
@@kyaearsoh that coffee shop episodes was great. Poor Tweak
I like how Morris said he'd demolish Pierre's Shop, as if that isnt also his house, the church and half of the hospital.
hes just that evil
"IT'S FOR THE GOOD OF THE COMMUNITY!"
- Morris, probably
No Yoba, only Joja.
He'd probably still allow them to live in the cardboard boxes of the additional warehouse he was going to build there
@@hedmeddigWell, for a small fee of course :D
The phrase “Morris’s special chowder” is a phrase I never wanted to hear in a Stardew Valley video 💀
Omg 😂😂😂
I don’t wanna hear that anywhere 💀💀💀
Nice to hear that I’m not the only one that hated that 😭
The fact that Joja run is much more comfortable that regular run is pretty accurate to real life. Working under a corporate entity is much easier than having to manage your own business. But it’s literally the very thing that’s slowly killing you and the environment
21:57 I saw someone on reddit say they got to year 3 and just realised you can upgrade your bag, they were playing with only 12 slots 😅😅 I’d go insane too
Good lord that sounds like pure torture
Dawg this literally happened to me cause i forgot about it😭😭
I just got into it and didn’t know you can
Thanks
I didn't know you could make chests until like year 2.. i was strugggggling
@@flanticflame2200 HOW 😭😭😭
I actually had fun with my Joja playthrough. The consequences of joining aren't really that bad, nobody except Pierre actually cares, and the community still improves by the end. It would've been more realistic if Joja corp completely took over pierre's store, marnie's ranch, Robin's carpentry business, and the fishing lodge as you ascend through the ranks; and the townspeople all become blue collar workers for Joja. Someone should make this mod right now lol
Doing the Joja route now for the first time, and I agree with this sentiment. As it stands, you really could just root for Morris, as you know nothing about him...but I dont know many players who root for Pierre after getting to know him. There should be a few more consequences. Otherwise its just an easy money route if you dont want to do a bunch of collecting. Would be nice to give Morris a complicated personality, and see where that leads.
Which, I dont hate. Did the Community Center twice, and didnt feel like restarting it for this playthrough. Its a good alternative route, and makes you ponder which is really better / who is really a better person.
Well put my foot in my mouth....I thought Morris was like Gunther....only out from behind a counter during cutscenes and unable to be interacted with...til I got to 10:12. Was searching through comments to see what people's thoughts were when I made that comment.
@@schribbler1592 in the base game Morris is like Gunther
And you can only buy from the Joja store and the entire town shuts down when all the Joja cola beans have been stripped from the ground.
Pierre isn't offering jobs to any of the town's people, but Joja IS. They really aren't that bad.
I love how she was "not trying to achieve too much" and plays 100x better and makes way more money and progress faster than I ever could hahaha.... so effortlessly.. love it.
I mean she was also using crop profit calculators, and travelling cart predictors and such so...
When I saw the Morris cutscene where he brings in the coupons I was so annoyed that the game doesn't ACTUALLY give the player a 50% off coupon from the event . . . that I actually walked over to Joja Mart, bought only half the quantity of what I'd been planning on picking up, and used SMAPI commands to spawn in the other half. XD
Considering how expensive their shit is, you probably still took a decent hit to your profit margins
The Morris backstory in this mod is actually heartwrenching. Justice for Morris tbh. Only thing every villager in The Valley has in common is the fact that they probably deserve better.
Not Pierre
@@mooshyshoomyagreed, definitely not Pierre… there’s a reason why there’s an entire subreddit dedicated to hating him
@@thecrazyastrogirl Why? he doesnt do anything wrong. Lewis however is another story
@@xaviersmith5154i read that it’s because he’s a liar, a bad father, a bad husband, and engages in tax evasion & bribery
@@jessaXDto be fair we all do a *little* tax evasion-
No? Just me? Huh ok
If anyone is considering a Joja run, do install the “Joja Immersion” mod. Villagers have comments after each of the community upgrades you pay for.
I remember there was some mods making joja more realistic like having cheaper prices like real big companies
It does make the joja route easier but I like when things are more realistic and joja feels like an actual threat
@@froggycolouring That’ll probably be “Lore-Friendly Jojamart Prices”.
A joja run is the best time to do an overall "evil" playthrough where you make all the dick-moves in the game, including:
-romancing EVERY NPC in order to get the special "cheater" cutscenes
-divorcing a spouse
-turning your children into doves in the witch's house
-force Krobus to move out of the sewers into your home to be your roommate
-picking all of the obviously bad dialogue options
-putting the mayor's purple shorts in the luau soup
-putting the shorts in the grange display
-trimming the shorts to wear around
Do all the things you never want to do in a normal playthrough that would make you feel like a horrible monster! There's no better time!
I love this idea omg
Ive litterally never thought to do this. But im doin it now
How is having Krobus move in with you a dick move...?
@@dayandere2669I mean tbf it says “force” but like. There is no way to “force” Krobus to move in lmao. If anything it would be nice.
@localmenace3043 krobus talks about having to hide from society and loving his sewers and missing them, which is why I used the word "force", even if it's a bit dramatic
In reality, most people never think or know to move him in with you, and it's just perfect for a run where you try things you never do
That Morris marrying mod was really well made. I like that they really gave dept to his character
I love that they coded him a little neurodivergent (a bunch of hobbies he has abandoned, awkward lines and a hard time making friends, hyperfixation) as well as giving him some lines verging on nice guy territory-but without making him a complete loser or a joke. He has flaws-real ones, big ones-but he has a lot of personal struggles and ultimately just wants to succeed and help people while he is doing it.
It's not made well. It looks like it's written by a 5-year old. Bad business guy is actually a good guy who wants to make friends... and he loves his mama... pathetic
@@pushista9322 not saying that it’s reinventing anything, but they added tons of lines that develop his character and that work together
@@unemilifleur ton of excessively detailed lines that are not realistic for his initial character. He's not a neurotic with self-esteem problems who doesn't know the consequences of his actions. Nothing hinted at that in the original story.
@pushista9322 why are you so intent to hate on this mod 😭 someone put effort into it and while it's simple and not super deep it's still impressive and does not deserve this much hate. You need to chill lol
I did a Joja run not that long ago and honestly...i found it quite nice. With the community center i always worry about missing or forgetting seasonal things, therefore the Joja route is a bit more comfortable.
It wouldn't be a deal with the devil if it wasn't tempting
😅
Plus, getting everything unlocked in the Joja route is actually possible by halfway through year one, if you really grind it out.
@@michaelhgravesjr9608wdym? It’s possible in the first spring
My Joja route my character was named Evil of Hell Farm. Since the only thing cheaper at Joja is sunflower seeds, I decided to marry Haley.
This playthrough made Haley my favorite romanceable character.
Also, Evil had wild luck. She found two dinosaur eggs before Spring 20 of year one. She found a prismatic shard also in spring year one. Due to that, I bought the desert first and got my galaxy sword, destroyed the mines, and then got my greenhouse for starfruit and fruit trees, and have slowly been converting the greenhouse to ancient fruit.
Evil got access to the sewers super early compared to all my other playthroughs too, like I met Krobus before the winter event. It's still one of my favorite files, but that's because Evil grew on me as one of my favorite characters.
Her counterpart, Good of Heaven Farm is still working on his marriage candidate of Shane. Good is a himbo who thinks he can fix Shane.
need Evil and Good to kiss
@@restlessCrustacean They would but that would be a beard situation. Evil is a lesbian duck (and the light of my life), and Good is a gay robot.
I'm going to start a route just like that, ty for the idea
If you walk into your bed, and hit "no" when it asks you if you want to sleep, and just stand there until you close your eyes you can take a nap and get your energy back up without having to go to the spa or eating!
That is only true in multiplayer i believe
I’m pretty sure with the marry Morris mod you can upgrade the community center instead of Joja and have new cutscenes with Morris!!
Now I lowkey wanna try it out lmao
I just started my first Joja game. I felt guilty at first (lol), but it's great to not have to worry about "Oh, no -- I need that fish I just sold for the community center! What am I going to do?" It's actually kind of fun.
You didn't quit in the opening, you got promoted to company mandated wife for Morris
"Company mandated wife" 😂
The way I keep my pan on me is I have my character wear it as a hat 😂 it’s not cute but it keeps it in my inventory with out actually taking up a spot
So literally Brock from Pokemon lol
Using your frying pan as a drying pan
always gotta roll for that lucky ring. plus 1 luck is so broke
I had no idea you could wear it as a hat! I always carry it. When you get an iridium pan you get so many good items! There's also enchantments you can get which makes it even better
The joke about Morris gaining empathy after his cutscene was chef kiss. Caught me off guard and I loved all this commentary.
The sunflower thing is really clever because thats an actual trick big box stores use. The store my mom works at had to stop selling a certain brand of candles because Walmart started selling them at a loss
lol "im really hoping to squeeze in a marraige soon"
liss minutes later "omg we kiss now. i dont know how to feel about this, this is a lot for me"
Why does Morris have all the hobbies of the other marriage candidates? Art like Leah. Piano like Elliot. Photography like Haley. Coffee like Harvey. Video games like Abigail. Who else does he mimic?
Ah, coffee. My favorite hobby! /j
@@jessicadragonare7993 Mine too! But then, I am from Seattle.
Probably to try and relate to the other villagers, but it came off cringe and backfired. He kept everything despite this, but photography he was actually good at so he kept it.
Morris is really down for that JoJussy
I gotta stop reading the comments 😭🤣
This comment is so cursed
I scrolled too far 💀
Wtf 💀
I went through all my life without reading this comment. Thanks for ruining that.
we need to talk about how joja is literally amazon
When I started playing the game again, I always told myself "You only need 1 more achievement, just man up and take Joja route" and failed miserably every single time. And I have spent more than 1.000 hours of my life on this game and had more than 10 saves. For all the players had completed Joja route, you have my respect.
literallyyy like i just cant do it
They ain't bad. Given how the town was before them, they help make improvements to the town. Give job to people, and some villagers like shopping with them. They got great didficult to get products like auto petters.
- panning gives you a chance for a lucky ring so early on
- doesnt even need to take up an inventory slot because you can wear it as a hat so you have no excuse to not carry it with you
What if I want to wear a different hat??
If it’s not a good luck day and you don’t have any luck buffs you’ll have less than a 0.01 chance of getting it.
Based on the way you play one counter-intuitive way you'd able to improve your profits is don't plant anything until day 15.
Spend the first day clearing as much of your farm as you can selling all of your fibre and retaining only the stone/wood you need for chests and furnaces get forageables for energy, then from day 2-14 fish all day every day, on non-rainy days fish in the mountains keeping the chub for energy and on rainy days fish in the river for catfish only selling what you need to get the better fishing rod stockpile the rest for when you get the fisher/angler perks, then on day 15 you can buy a ton of cabbage seeds and have a ton of fish for energy to help with the extra watering.
Even the worst fisher can make 1500+ a day from fishing and it doubles as a way of getting energy for other tasks as well.
Ngl, the thumbnail makes Jojamart look kind of culty. "Join us, thrive."
Now I need to see a Stardew Valley mod that has a Joja cult or something.
Fun fact: in the Marry Morris mod you can redeem him by taking the community centre root.
I’m currently doing this on my stardew valley world. I luv my silly guy
I’ve always wanted to know what happens on Joja runs BUT I FEEL BAD PLAYING IT MYSELF
Joining Joja can give some decent benefits like being able to buy the autopetter, and its fun to have a playthrough focused entirely on the accumulation of wealth
i still havent played stardew yet but this is SO interesting. also maybe the reason sunflower seeds are cheaper at joja is bc they are a mixture of both seeds for farming and seeds for eating? i could absolutely see a company 'saving money' by trying to combine one or the other to extend shelf life of the product. this was a lovely vid.
Hope you got the game and did the community center route where you can tell Pierre to punch morris in the face lol. This mod really puts him in a different light tho, it's refreshing
@freelemonade9695
Pierre is actually worst then Morris. He is a greedy dude, worst then Morris. How he tried to ripl off customers and yourself with the products he ask you to give him.
this + emmalutions joja series allows me to live out all my evil joja dreams vicariously
This was a fun watch, I'm shocked she got so much done in one year though
For a Joja run, she was actually taking it super easy. If she had wanted to get stupid about min maxing and garbage like that, she could have been done with all of her goals Fall 1, easy. Of course, that would have made it less fun to play and to watch, so... 🤷♂️
Oh. OH. Maybe I can’t bear looking at the Junimos and then turning around and helping Joja (who left the skeleton of a coworker at their desk two cubicles down from ours)
Probably way too late to add this comment, but just wanted to note on the energy depletion in the beginning of the game. It's best to chop down trees and leave the tree stumps as it's not worth how much wood you get from the stumps versus how much energy it costs to chop the stumps down too. Plus, leaving the stumps keeps on making new trees grow in the area too.
9:48 I’ve done a full year of basically nothing but foragable farming, like fields covered with seeds that I would exhaust myself multiple times a day to water just to pass out and start all over again
I sold tea saplings (as many as I could make) and seeds and leftover forage (and beach forage every Saturday) and earned over 450k+ just that first year
There is seriously so much to this game. I have played a lot of Stardew Valley. I mean, hours and hours and hours. But not since the 1.5 update. Like I don't even know what Ginger Island is. And I probably only scratched the surface before. Repeating all the things I usually do. I was looking at this video constantly thinking: That's in the game?!
I'm currently back on the bandwagon, though. A fresh batch of hyperfocus for Stardew Valley. Ready to discover all that I missed.
Also, if the local friendly shop is cheaper, what's the point in going to an impersonal superstore? Isn't the point of those that THEY are cheaper?
They are cheap if you join their membership.
This video is so well produced!
I'm amazed how much work was put into it.
Commentary is nice, wholesome (for a joja employee) and so beautifully written and recorded
By any means, this was one of the best video game videos I've seen in a while
I mean
Wow
Ps
You don't need to water once you have sprinklers. Even the first day
11:10 dude the way she says this... SUCH mean girl voice. I adore it.
My heart can't handle the disappearance of those little things juminos in the community center.
this run absolutely killed it kjdhfgjkfhdg i love the creativity! thank god there was a mod to go full JOJA
on my first playthrough that second "are you sure?" did save me from accidentally buying. i had accidentally skipped some of lewis's dialogue explainging everything and had no idea if i was supposed to get a membership or not
This is the opposite of a hallmark movie plot
Wow! I'm surprised the mod gave Morris such a good character background. Nice farm, too! I'm actually gonna copy some of your ideas since Joja hasn't trademarked them yet.
I love the Joja run, whenever I get the hankering for some star drew I search up play throughs. Glad to see someone married him!
Same
the cut to the decorated joja shed was SO CUTE
I've never played this game, but loved this vid. Very amusing. Morris seems like a great guy, congrats!
You will like Morris more in 1.6 update
Morris's lore is actually making me cry, why is it so sad 😭😭
Glad you did a joja run, you should to a ridgeside/expanedd run with both mods.... and east scarp. So many options to expand how you see things. Expanded adds a lot to the Joja side of the story.
30:06 oh, the main moonlight jelly doesn't come to the player if they go the joja-route, apparently!
Player.... I know you're capitalisms...... 💀
Me and my friend on our co-op playthrough did the Joja route because we got lazy with the bundles.
Edit: I kinda would like characters exclusive to each of the routes in this game. It would be interesting if more people involved with Joja came to town and had heart events as well as new people moving in/returning to town if you pursue the community center.
I only shop at Pierre’s because it’s cheaper, closer, and has more variety. I fucking hate that man. I got him as the person you’re supposed to give a gift to for my first ever Feast of the Winter Star. Instead of getting him a present I slingshotted a rock at him. I considered giving him a hated item but decided he wasn’t worth the effort.
Lmao Imagining a grown ass farmer slingshotting a rock at Pierre during the happy gathering got me.
He deserves it, but still.
😂😂
the problem is that corporate shills are also people… he’s got “higher ups” putting pressure on them and causing them to make stupid decisions in order to impress a company that will never actually value them. he’s just stuck in the mindset that, if he just does well enough and proves himself to be successful in capitalism, maybe his existence will have meaning. lots of managers/owners of franchises are like that.
When in reality, the only thing any of these people will ever get from the company they work for is “thanks for making us JUST enough money even though we yelled at you the whole time for not making enough. We appreciate your efforts soooo much! If you ever feel like dying because we suck, call our personalised help number, an outbound call centre located in a poorer country run by other machine cogs that want to jump off a cliff! Just like you! Except they have even less rights! KEEP UP THE GRINDSET!”
And yeah not to forget that Pierre also has a megalomaniacal view on capitalism and believes his shop is the only one that should exist and that it should expand elsewhere….. it’s the exact same as Morris’ view we just are made to believe from the start that one has a more honourable venture than the other when in reality they literally want the exact same thing.
People with full time jobs have their humanity sucked. Which is unfortunate, since not everyone can afford living their dream as an artist, farmer, creator, etc. Some people need to do whatever to survive, and that means losing their soul, passion and ultimately humanity.
"And I'm committed to being morally questionable, anyway! Sue me!" LOL omg I'm loving this :D
Joja was my first 3 routes I played on Stardew, but my most recent is the community center, before I knew anything about the game and started looking up the lore.
Lollll me rn
omg yay! i’ve been looking forward to this since you mentioned it on stream liss!!🥰
16:00 Very rare Pierre W
LISS!! This is exactly what I needed in my life. Thank you 😭❤️🙏🏼
I'm a semi-new player, and I didn't know how to fix the the community center and thought joja mart was the only option 😭
I couldn’t, I looked back at one of my old saves where last minute I did the Joja Route, and I was actually ashamed of myself. I just couldn’t doom all the npcs like that 💀💀💀
13:49 i wear the pan on my head so I don’t forget it lol (it’s my fav hat cause of how ridiculous it is plus it has a use lol)
surprisingly fun watch. also, the little tidbit about caroline and the tree saplings paying mad dividends in spring is one of the best tips i've seen for quick cash in this game. had no idea doing spring seeds like that could get you mad cash (so long as you befriend caroline)
This feels ILLEGAL I’m so excited
Joja has Liss so far gone... that she didnt even name her cows. Their just Joja cow #1 .
So heartless lol
🤣
I like to think Joja Cat is also a well placed pun. 😂
Your keg shed is not full. You have room for 12 more kegs if you put them on the left and right of each row rather than have the paths down the sides. You only need a path through the middle. You can still put items in the kegs that are seemingly unreachable so long as you have the tile diagonally next to a keg empty.
I can't believe the Morris romance mod made me tear up, wtf?
Great video though! I've never really watched stardew content but this was highly entertaining and you did a fantastic job!
PLEASE MARRYING MORRIS is WILD! Thanks for the amazing video!
"Morris is a gamer, uhh"
meanwhile, playing a game
i'm sure you would love the 1.6 update. tons of joja furniture...
21:50 seeing that frozen tear get thrown away hurt me 😢 (i love my stupid emo frog man ❤)
In the new update the clay pattern thing is no longer a thing! BUT if you want it you can toggle it on in the settings when you create a new farm save. It is called legacy randomisation I think
I made an entire separate file just for the joja mart achievement. And that was the file that I would use as an experiment file where I can try different things I don't want to try in the files that I play often in
HOUR LONG VID?!? oh you feed us 😭💖
I've got almost all of the achievements but I have absolutely no desire to even try for the two Prairie King achievements. If I wanted to play arcade games I would have bought arcade games.
I just started playing Stardew and this is blowing my mind at how fast you are making money! Thanks for the tips!
I’ve never played Stardew but this was so much fun to watch! Love a bit of harmless corporate greed 😂💀
33:48
YOU CAN SEE HOW MUCH FRIENDSHIP YOU HAVE?! Please tell me that's a mod, and I haven't been dumb this whole time!
it's in the base game, just go into the social tab (it's a heart) in the pause menu and you can see how much friendship you have with everyone, and people you havent met will be marked as "???" to help with the introductions beginning quest
Omg I just discovered you and am immediately obSESSED.
Cannot wait to binge watch your other Stardew videos, this one was *chefs kiss*, the cringe was at an all-time high.
Thank you for doing this so I can experience it without ever having to do it myself.
15:12 pierre shoulda ttaken it so he could fire all employees and send joja crashing down as people share stories of how they got fired for no reason on reddit, and then after pierre could reopen the store
Willie called you "lass"! Clearly a viewer. Also I have sometimes used the panning pan as a hat so I don't forget it and I still never actually pan anything. But if I did, that would sure be a good idea. Although fashion over function almost always; I can't not be a hat mouse customer, poke.
I really love your Stardew videos. Easily my favourite content creator for the game.
finally liss. i`ve been waiting to see you join the joja.
10:25 She watches the TV to see the weather at 1pm, then time magically jumps back to 6am, making a super cringe following 20 seconds as she pretends to "rush" to grab copper & upgrade the watering can in time! Nullifies the entire experience to know this was ran with a cheat menu to speed things up and script it.
I’m on my second play through. My kid deleted my 200+ hour farm. I just joined joja a few days ago to switch it up.
with the marry morris mod it sorta looks like after quitting joja and running away you’re just so entranced by discount bezos that you rejoin the cult and idk i love that its so unserious
The first time i played i went the Joja route. Getting all the items for the community center just seemed so overwhelming
Love the format you do for these videos Liss! I was also dying cringing at the Morris cutscenes 😅
37:21 why am i genuinely shedding tears wtf
49:13 " Well, guess we'll see how much sleeping I do then" AHHHH WHAT DOES HE MEAN😭😭🙏🙏
Just started my Joja playthrough. Made my character look like a robot named Roberta. With a tuxedo cat named Byte.
Together we ravage the valley in the most capitalistically optimal way.
Whenever i feel guilty i just think...WWJD?
Marry Penny, thats what.
love this vid so muchhh. You have excelent humor girll, a full 1-hour vid without a single boring moment
Loved seeing this side of you and the game hehe. Speaking of maybe future merch 👀 would love to see a return of the real gamers play farming sims design (especially potentially on more items?!) but it is my favorite shirt and so freaking cool! Love you and your content!!!
you can still get Junimo on your Farm because the wizard offers their Huts for Sale it's like a Starfruit and some Gold.
Plus I have a Mod that actually Makes Joja Prices Cheaper like they should be.
I’ve done the community center, haven’t finished everything in that save, but I did it and made another save and decided to do the whole joja thing. It’s definitely much faster but things like the coffee machine and other things given by community center are now things you just gotta do for yourself, which makes everything slower in terms of progress, in my opinion. Obviously Stardew is meant to be played slowly, but I like doing things fast😂
"crazy that men can go their whole lives without feeling empathy !!" AAHAHHAHA i just know that moment that they Discover Empathy becomes a core memory DSJNFJNDS