Fun fact: IRL the colour of a chicken's egg is not determined by the colour of the chicken, but by the colour of their earlobe. I learned that as a child and since then waited for an opportunity to bring that up in conversation. Never happened, so this comment section it is.
Most people may already know this, but it bares repeating for those who don't. A single silo can only hold 250 pieces of hay, but you can always put a chest in your coop and barn, pull all the hay out of your silo, and store it in the chest, so you'll essentially have as much hay storage as you'll ever need with just one silo. Just make sure to empty it once it's full.
And if you have no way of pulling hay out of your silo because all the feeding slots are full so it won't let you, you can use a bomb to blow up and destroy some of the hay that's out which will allow you to retrieve hay from the silos to store
You have to leave one of your coops or barns as no bigger than large in order to be able to access the hay. If you have deluxe, the auto feeder prevents that.
One note you missed about wool: higher quality wool than base have a chance to produce 2 cloth with better chances as quality increases! It's actually the only animal product that has a chance to produce more than a single refined item based on it's quality!
Fun tip in regard to grass for your animals: If you place a fence on top of a patch of grass, the animals CAN'T eat it. So, if your animals are in a fenced area, there will always be a patch of grass to spawn more grass. Just place your fence line on a bunch of grass, and you won't need to buy any grass starters until the next year.
I put lightning rods in my grass starters. You wanna space out the starters anyway, to leave room for new grass to spawn, and that works out perfectly for spacing out the rods too - you can travel between them, and so can your animals.
this also works with lightning rods, mayo and cheese machines, and probably other things. I like doing these better because if you put it under a fence then the grass also spreads to outside the fenced area
fun tip about chickens is that if you want to choose the color of your chicken, while buying a chicken marnie asks you to select a coop right? when you look at the top it will mention the color of the chicken given to you, if you don't want the color stated above, just cancel the purchase and try again until you get your preferred color
@@mxm_prime2191 that's exactly how i use it, to segregate the brown chickens from the White chickens. Then I paint the 3 White chicken barns white, and the 1(minority) Brown chicken barn black.....and fence it off from the other chickens in a smaller pasture with the crappy green grass instead of bluegrass..
When you fix the bus, go to the outdoor trader (I'm writing this spoiler free as possible) on Sunday and check out their stock on that day. Combined with the right machinery it will make any mines you might struggle with much more easily manageable. I played without tips but wish I had this one sooner now that I watch plenty of them :)
Don't forget that you can place a lightning rod in a patch of grass near your coop/barn. The aninals can still eat it - yet the grass never leaves (until winter). unlimited food on sunny days Spring to Autumn.
Goat's cheese irl is super texturally and flavor-ally distinct from most cow's cheeses, which is likely why they can't be used interchangeably (Source: culinary student for 2 years)
Polite addition that the rabbit’s foot can I also be used to permanately increase your Luck (an in-game mechanic) if you gift it to the driver in the Joja truck beside the warehouse, even after running Morris out of town!
I didn't realize how rare the auto petter is, I have like 4 on my farm from skull cavern and 2 are just sitting in chests. Thanks for the informative video!!
Hi Salmence, a quick note about the rabbits feet is that one is needed to get the lucky charm from a secret note quest and that they can be a monster drop item in Skull Cavern. Loving this series :-)
The answer is: No. But maturing does decrease the gap by a fair amount. Assuming cask capacity, one cow will make 644 gold per day, with 1 week delay. Also, 1 cow keeps 7 casks busy. The goat is at 1120 per 2 days, and it takes 2 goats for the same 7 casks. Flipped to surface perspective, it takes 3 barns of goats to use up all cask capacity. Total profit per day is 18x1120/2 = 10k 1,5 barns of cows will end up at 18x644 = 11,6k Plus another 1,5 barns pumping out gold cheese for 18x483 = 8,6k for a total of 20k per day from 3 barns and the cellar. I just learned that I should just get the cellar earlier and fill it with cow cheese.. Was hoping that the cellar would push goats up beyond cows even if only for the number needed to fill the casks. Darn 😞
And those full capacity equations don't even take into account the cost of the barns and animals, so it would take even longer with goats to even start making a profit.
@Whitetiger1932 for sure! Of course at 10k/day the startup costs aren't all that bad :) On the total timeline the investment is returned pretty quickly. Personally I'm just sad that 'advanced' animals simply fall short on profit compared to cows and chickens. It makes them a sideline you entertain for the bundle, or just for fun when the earning money part of the game is already over. Would have been nice if the income was at least similar but at different intervals, for instance. On the other hand, I like how sheep do get very profitable if you focus the talents on it. It's niche, but actually possible!
Objection! Color of the egg that you put into incubator matters only for gold and void chickens - those hatch only from gold and void eggs respectively. Regular chickens of all 3 colors (white, brown, and blue) can be hatched from both colors of normal eggs. What you get depends on RNG at the time of its hatching. By restarting the day you can manipulate it in the same way as gifts in the mail - not the best or easiest way to go about it, but possible if you are determined to get all 3 colors but don't want to deal with Marnie.
I have two auto petters, but I got my second auto petter after a full in game year of grinding, and then three days later I achieved perfection. When you say it's rare it's RARE.
If you really want to grind for an autopetter, go to skull caverns on a good luck day with 100+ staircases and just tunnel down. Don't even bother exploring floors. Any floor 10 or lower can be a treasure floor, and floor 100 is guaranteed. Reset days until you get an autopetter. It's a 1/26 chance, and you can expect ~4 treasure floors between floors 1 and 100 if you have the good luck charm and a luck buff on a good luck day, resulting in a ~15% chance for an autopetter per reset. It's not the cleanest or most fun method, but it's not that bad of a grind.
Autopetters only adds half of friendship points on typically what you get if you manually pet them (same as AutoGrabbers, but they don't give Friendship XP). Still really useful to avoid losing Friendship XP if you forgot or just lazy going to the barn/coop everyday.
12:40 I live in Wisconsin, so I definitely qualify as a "cheese enthusiast" Goat cheese has a completely different taste than normal cheese. It's much more sour and soft, and has a generally stronger flavor.
This game is a game, i get that. But the fact that CA decided to not be accurate when it comes to the cows pisses me off. Brown cows don't make white milk, they make chocolate milk.
Super comprehensive vid! :D tiny nitpick to say you missed the fact that ostrich eggs' input quality is always the same as the machine output for mayo ie. 1 iridium ostrich egg = 10 iridium mayonnaise (it's actually the only way you can get iridium mayo to my knowledge)
The Stardew valley wiki notes that the artisan profession doesn't actually benefit oil, even though it says it does in its description. Just a small thing to note, love these videos so far.
Cactus fruit are also good food for skull cavern dives! For chickens, I like to buy eggs from the traveling merchant and go straight for the 2nd coop to hatch them. Just to avoid Marnie. Petty, I know 🤣
If the travelling cart has a duck egg, it's usually much cheaper to buy that and incubate it than to buy a duck. Same way, you can pick up a cactus fruit as forage, put it in the seed maker, and bypass buying the cactus seed from Sandy. Okay, I'm a cheapskate. Or just broke at that stage in the game. 😁
I most definitely buy my first duck egg from the traveling cart. The Wiki says you can get one for as low as 285g. Even just the 400g I remember spending on one was worth it! As for being broke by the time you get to the desert, I feel ya! I usually buy all the rare seeds I can during the first year and use all their profit in fall to unlock the desert.
Oh I went well out of my way with the cart to avoid having to deal with Marnie. I have 2 chickens and a duck, none of which came from her. Once burned by her staring at the microwave for 7 feckin hours, twice shy
Just to avoid confusion, you have switched your pictures of Speed-Gro and Deluxe Speed-Gro. The dark purple one is Speed-Gro, the pinkish one is the deluxe version. On another topic, I believe you can get the auto-petter as a rare drop from monsters in the dangerous mines. Pretty sure I got one that way once.
Thanks for the breakdown, Salmence! Your video reminded me that I forgot to put a heater in my coop for winter! No wonder the eggs' sizes kept switching daily. My babies were cold!
Although, in real life, brown cows are more likely to produce A2 gene milk, and white cows are more likely to produce A1 gene milk. The A2 protein in milk is tolerated better by some people who have milk sensitivities.
Kegs, it should be mentioned, also make beer and pale ale, which are faster to brew and hugely more profitable than vegetables or fruit. (Except for starfruit or ancient fruit, but those are usually not available early game.)
another fact about crows: even tho they have a chance of spawning after 16 crops, it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to destroy the first 15 or 16 crops you plant, so ALWAYS plant your most valuable and important crops first
For goats cheese, I believe it can't be used as a regular cheese substitute since, irl, it was a different consistency and flavor. Additionally, goats cheese is a loved gift for Leah!
Retaining soil does help with a challenge run where you cannot use sprinklers, or otherwise water. Combined with rain it can usually get most crops to harvest at least once by the end of a season, which may be enough to finish bundles. Watering is expensive in time and energy, but if you can skip it you get more of other things done.
You missed going over the blue chicken, I know the benefits are the same as the normal chicken but it wasn't mentioned so I thought I would bring it up here
Yes! But it does have one benefit: It's much easier to see the blue chicken in tall grass than white or especially brown. Also, I think they always give white eggs? But I'm not sure.
I think a good use of the Rancher skills would be to buy all the coop/barn animals you plan on getting and use Coopmaster and Shepherd to max out friendship. just hold on to all the artisan goods you make during that and switch to the Artisan skill after all your animals are max friendship.
12:37 You asked for a cheese enthusiast - and I happen to be one. Goat cheese usually contains less fat and more protein than cow cheese and it is fatty acids can be digested by the body more easily - generally making it a healthier option than cow cheese. But, what really sets apart goat cheese from cow cheese is it’s strong and unique taste. Every receipt that you cook with goat cheese instead of cow cheese automatically gains a very different flavor. I would go so far as to say that with goat cheese you get a completely different meal. Of course, I assume that the same could be said for other ingredients as well, such as dinosaur eggs… but hey, all I‘m only ever concerned with is cheese. 😊
here's a tip for people who own alot of pigs in winter, you can sell your max friendship pigs at the end of fall/start of winter, for more than it costs to buy a new one, then, use the month of winter to raise friendship with them to full at the start of spring. that way you will get basically a free 4.8k for each of them you sell.
Coopmaster and Shepherd also have a hidden effect (according to the wiki): they also increase the consistency at which you get higher-quality products from the respective animals!
Only the farmer, master of all the 5 skill can bring economic balance in the valley. But when Pelican town most needed him, he passed away. After 20 years a New farmer arrived to the Valley. Although him habilities are great, he had a lot to learn to save the valley. I believe that him can save us.
One point, Coop master and Shepard have a hidden bonus. They increase the odds for higher quality animals products on coops and barns respectively. This is not stated in-game, and is still entirely outclassed by Artisan. Also of note, if you're doing multiplayer, so long as one player with Artisan is online, anything sold in the shipping bin will get the bonus, so other players can pick things like Agriculturalist or Shepard.
so that's why I have so many iridium eggs even when I ignore my chickens ... I always pick Coopmaster exclusively to befriend my several dozen rabbits quicker.
You can have the more expensive animals in a small coop or barn, you just need to have multiple coops or barns. I made a second coop and transferred my rabbits over (for the friendship grind)
Void eggs can also be used (with a periwinkle) to make a strange buns (recipe from Shane after 7 hearts) Can be used at the shrine in the witches hut to turn on/ off monsters on your farm!
The comment at 7:18 was great lmao Thank you so much, Salmence, for these videos!! So amazing and helpful. Planning your video essay and editing it is such hard work!
12:45 no cooking with goat cheese: Goat cheese tends to have a rather specific, strong taste. As with goat meat, it takes a bit of attention to bring out its best flavor in cooking. Some people love it, some hate it. I'm guessing our beloved ape might be in the hate category. Either way, I would not freely substitute goat cheese in any recipe using cow or sheep cheese. Random fact: For all of this response my phone's autocorrect changed goat to ghost. It makes me wonder, who has been writing about ghost cheese so much that it's in the list? Why? What is it?
Just a small thing which I would have loved to be in the game: In Harvest Moon you may leave your animals outside over night if the next day will be sunny. This is because you'll have to collect each animal (chickens can be held and carried into their coop, cows and sheep have to be pushed into their barn, they won't go there by themselves). However during the night there also is a chance that wild dogs appear and scare or kill your animals but you have a weapon: your dog. By training your dog with the ball, it will be more and more useful when it comes to wild dogs since it will hunt and scare them away. So when I first played Stardew Valley I obviously chose a dog (even though I am more of a cat person and would have loved to have a cat) because of that. I later found out that animals may return into their building by themselves and the dog wouldn't do anything so I started a new farm and got a cat. And even though I prefer cats, I really would have loved to have a useful dog.
I might have commented this on another video, but it bears repeating here; ostrich eggs are unique in that they produce mayonnaise of equal quality to the egg. So if you put an iridium ostrich egg into the mayonnaise machine, you will get 10 iridium quality mayonnaise. This is actually the only way to get iridium mayonnaise that I am aware of
Just as a note, the auto-petter has been available as a drop in the dangerous mines since it was introduced in 1.5, and as of 1.6.4 (obviously released after this video) can be found in a golden mystery box! Still super rare though! 0.5% from a gmb and 2% as a "special item" drop, which you only get from 2.2% of barrels/crates or 1.2% of slimes (the ones with gold stars) or 0.2% of any other monsters (no visual indicator).
If you're ever having trouble finding an Auto Petter, and you went on the Community Center route, you can use the dangerous version of the Regular Mines. The 1/26 chance of getting one in the Skull Cavern is quite tedious and can be found way easier. Use a spicy eel or a luck buff food on a perfect luck day and head down to the dangerous mines. Farm the slimes on levels 1-20, as the ones with the golden stars on their antennae have a chance of dropping an Auto-Petter upon defeat. Hope this helps! 😊
Can we talk about how Stardew's animal sprites are of utter cuteness? I mean, the whole game is cute, but especially the cowies and duckies etc. They always make that ^_^ face 😂❤
i know this is an older video but i wanted to say thank you for making these! your channel is super informative and enjoyable to watch :) i appreciate your content
Awesome video, thank you for sharing the info! Just wanted to mention that I hatched a dino egg and it came out a baby dino who is taking some time to grow up, I just figured I would mention
Great video to look back at since, I have right now, chickens, ducks, cows and goats. I just got into stardew, and learned so much and still learning actually, but i got the hang of it. Thank you!
Don't apologize for being sick! Take your time making videos. Love your content as always, good job on this one. I learned alot as I never really bother with animals unless necessary.
One thing the time it takes to turn goat milk into goat cheese then wait for it to be iridium quality is less time then it takes for a keg to make ancient fruit wine
16:07 I'm thinking there are valid use case for selling animals: If you want all of your Chickens to be the same colour, so that the Eggs will stack better, be easier, faster, lower effort to handle. Say you find yourself with 6 brown and 2 white. At a certain point, it makes sense to sell the white ones and just replace them by incubating brown Eggs. Likewise, it seems to me that I'll only want to keep Ducks and Void Chickens until I've gotten a sufficient stockpile of their products, i.e including a couple of gold star Void Eggs as birthday gifts for Sebastian, and so forth. So after that, sell them and replacs by incubating Chicken Eggs of the most prevalent colour. Same with Goats as with Ducks. Keep them until you have what you need for bundles plus a few spares, then sell and go buy Cows to replace them.
Cactus are actually pretty decent to grow inside your greenhouse on the midgame while you don't really have enough of the good croops but do have the greenhouse and the desert. They are pretty easy to get, you can multiply them superfast cause they keep growing all the time, sell for an actually decent amount (even more if you use a barrel to process them) and, best of all, they are a pretty decent raw food giving no buff but the amount of health and stamina they restore is pretty high for a raw product that grows so fast, I literally just eat those cause I hate cooking. Villagers also usually like them. They are just a supersolid mid tier crop that is okay at everything.
I find the basic sprinkler useful for watering the flowers for bee hives.. saves having to watering it every day.. and a nice cross pattern of flowers can cover a lot of hives.
On multiplayer, with specifically the agriculturalist profession, how does the game determine if a crop will grow faster? For example, if I, the host, have the agriculturalist profession and another player, without this profession, plants a crop, will it benefit from the faster grow rate?
As a Shepherd advocate, I will note that not only does Coopmaster and Shepherd have the effects you mentioned, they also add a factor into getting quality products. Having the respective profession branch will boost the odds of getting better quality product. Still, Artisan just blows everything out of the water, but I find it so above and beyond I like to pretend Artisan simply doesn't exist, as it just feels unfair.
I just want to say that your videos are very helpful. I was a bit late to playing the game (years late), but your videos helped me a lot. Thank you and you deserve more subscribers!
Fun fact: IRL the colour of a chicken's egg is not determined by the colour of the chicken, but by the colour of their earlobe. I learned that as a child and since then waited for an opportunity to bring that up in conversation. Never happened, so this comment section it is.
I did not know that chickens had external ears. Guess I've never looked since the ears are not going to peck or claw me ...
@@slwrabbitsthey have holes in their heads that is their ears
@@swagaw3some546They do have earlobes. My hens earlobes are hidden by feathers but out of curiosity I looked once and sure enough they were there!
I didn't even know they had colors specific to them
Thank you for this information. I am going to go look at my chickens earlobes now
You forgot to mention how Marnie is always closed when you run out of hay smh
She wants my animals to starve, and freeze to death.
That right there is fact
Marnie is NEVER there!
I've definitely dropped multiple F bombs walking into her house and seeing no one at the counter.
🦋it's crazy everytime!😂
Most people may already know this, but it bares repeating for those who don't. A single silo can only hold 250 pieces of hay, but you can always put a chest in your coop and barn, pull all the hay out of your silo, and store it in the chest, so you'll essentially have as much hay storage as you'll ever need with just one silo. Just make sure to empty it once it's full.
And if you have no way of pulling hay out of your silo because all the feeding slots are full so it won't let you, you can use a bomb to blow up and destroy some of the hay that's out which will allow you to retrieve hay from the silos to store
Huh! Never thought of that, I just build more silos like an idiot😅
You have to leave one of your coops or barns as no bigger than large in order to be able to access the hay. If you have deluxe, the auto feeder prevents that.
@@aynsleyhoelscher988 very true, thank you!
@@aynsleyhoelscher988 you can always just blow up some of the hay in the barn with a bomb 👀👀
One note you missed about wool: higher quality wool than base have a chance to produce 2 cloth with better chances as quality increases! It's actually the only animal product that has a chance to produce more than a single refined item based on it's quality!
Also, you accidentally swapped regular and deluxe speed-gro. Regular is purple, deluxe is pink.
It took me a while to realize this was why I kept ending up with more cloth than wool. Happy rabbits make iridium wool!
One notable, more hidden use for a Rabbits Foot: Give it to the truck driver outside of Joja Mart for a permanent +1 to your luck stat
Fun tip in regard to grass for your animals: If you place a fence on top of a patch of grass, the animals CAN'T eat it. So, if your animals are in a fenced area, there will always be a patch of grass to spawn more grass. Just place your fence line on a bunch of grass, and you won't need to buy any grass starters until the next year.
Oh my god this is such a great tip. I never bothered with planting grass cause the animals would devour it in two days
I put lightning rods in my grass starters. You wanna space out the starters anyway, to leave room for new grass to spawn, and that works out perfectly for spacing out the rods too - you can travel between them, and so can your animals.
this also works with lightning rods, mayo and cheese machines, and probably other things. I like doing these better because if you put it under a fence then the grass also spreads to outside the fenced area
I use lamp posts, as they provide light around the farm also for ambience.
I like to use bee houses. It'll only produce wild honey but it's a producer anyway, and I think it looks good with the grass under it.
Its worth noting that ostrich eggs make ten mayo the same quality as the egg so iridium quallity eggs produce iridium quality mayo
Agreed!
I still hate the fact about how the quality is randomized tho.
@@gerrylaksono1222 The egg or the mayo?
@@SkillfulNick according to the context, probably the eggs
I Agree 100 💯
fun tip about chickens is that if you want to choose the color of your chicken, while buying a chicken marnie asks you to select a coop right? when you look at the top it will mention the color of the chicken given to you, if you don't want the color stated above, just cancel the purchase and try again until you get your preferred color
Sounds like chicken racism to me
Smh
@@mxm_prime2191 that's exactly how i use it, to segregate the brown chickens from the White chickens. Then I paint the 3 White chicken barns white, and the 1(minority) Brown chicken barn black.....and fence it off from the other chickens in a smaller pasture with the crappy green grass instead of bluegrass..
I like how I just started Stardew a week ago and then run into this channel doing a stardew 101 course at the same time lmao
When you fix the bus, go to the outdoor trader (I'm writing this spoiler free as possible) on Sunday and check out their stock on that day. Combined with the right machinery it will make any mines you might struggle with much more easily manageable. I played without tips but wish I had this one sooner now that I watch plenty of them :)
Even though there are literally dozens of "Stardew Valley for Beginners" and "Stardew Valley 101" videos out there.
Don't forget that you can place a lightning rod in a patch of grass near your coop/barn. The aninals can still eat it - yet the grass never leaves (until winter).
unlimited food on sunny days Spring to Autumn.
***le gasp
A fence works too, but lightning rods never decay so they are better!
@@Marialla. And it helps keep a steady supply of battery packs!
working smarter not harder 👌
but does it give you electric sheep?
@@Chrono_Mitsurugi Only robots dream of electric sheep.
Goat's cheese irl is super texturally and flavor-ally distinct from most cow's cheeses, which is likely why they can't be used interchangeably
(Source: culinary student for 2 years)
I agree.
(Source : I'm a random French guy)
But that also is true for goats milk und you still can take it to cook.
Thats true.
(Source: i love cheese a lot)
Correct
(Source: I hate cow cheese but love goat cheese)
Personally, I find almost any dish that calls for feta is better with chevre.
Polite addition that the rabbit’s foot can I also be used to permanately increase your Luck (an in-game mechanic) if you gift it to the driver in the Joja truck beside the warehouse, even after running Morris out of town!
I didn't realize how rare the auto petter is, I have like 4 on my farm from skull cavern and 2 are just sitting in chests. Thanks for the informative video!!
That's so lucky! You're welcome!
I wish you could give me one, I've been running skull cavern runs for weeks and still haven't got one
It's rare but still easier to find than lucky ring. Just need best lucky day, a lot of staircase and luck buff from food n drink.
@@kadapbanar I found lucky ring but still haven’t gotten an ancient seed lol that’s what I’m running for
@@brandib2821 but ancient seeds so much easier to find than lucky ring. 🤣
It's the first few artifact that i found.
Hi Salmence, a quick note about the rabbits feet is that one is needed to get the lucky charm from a secret note quest and that they can be a monster drop item in Skull Cavern.
Loving this series :-)
You can also age your cheeses in casks once you've unlocked the cellar, getting you iridium cheese and goats cheese.
It makes me wonder if goats can top cows in gold per day, with maturing taken into account
The answer is: No.
But maturing does decrease the gap by a fair amount.
Assuming cask capacity, one cow will make 644 gold per day, with 1 week delay. Also, 1 cow keeps 7 casks busy.
The goat is at 1120 per 2 days, and it takes 2 goats for the same 7 casks.
Flipped to surface perspective, it takes 3 barns of goats to use up all cask capacity. Total profit per day is 18x1120/2 = 10k
1,5 barns of cows will end up at 18x644 = 11,6k
Plus another 1,5 barns pumping out gold cheese for 18x483 = 8,6k for a total of 20k per day from 3 barns and the cellar.
I just learned that I should just get the cellar earlier and fill it with cow cheese.. Was hoping that the cellar would push goats up beyond cows even if only for the number needed to fill the casks.
Darn 😞
And those full capacity equations don't even take into account the cost of the barns and animals, so it would take even longer with goats to even start making a profit.
@Whitetiger1932 for sure!
Of course at 10k/day the startup costs aren't all that bad :) On the total timeline the investment is returned pretty quickly.
Personally I'm just sad that 'advanced' animals simply fall short on profit compared to cows and chickens. It makes them a sideline you entertain for the bundle, or just for fun when the earning money part of the game is already over.
Would have been nice if the income was at least similar but at different intervals, for instance.
On the other hand, I like how sheep do get very profitable if you focus the talents on it.
It's niche, but actually possible!
@@sneezyfido and duck are 10x better than chickens, because if their close to a pond or river they swim in it!
Technically other coop animals can go in regular coops as long as you have one deluxe coop to unlock them, I made one for just my rabbits :)
Duck feathers are also in one of the community centre bundles
Specifically, in Emily's Dye Bundle.
Objection!
Color of the egg that you put into incubator matters only for gold and void chickens - those hatch only from gold and void eggs respectively.
Regular chickens of all 3 colors (white, brown, and blue) can be hatched from both colors of normal eggs. What you get depends on RNG at the time of its hatching. By restarting the day you can manipulate it in the same way as gifts in the mail - not the best or easiest way to go about it, but possible if you are determined to get all 3 colors but don't want to deal with Marnie.
I have two auto petters, but I got my second auto petter after a full in game year of grinding, and then three days later I achieved perfection. When you say it's rare it's RARE.
If you really want to grind for an autopetter, go to skull caverns on a good luck day with 100+ staircases and just tunnel down. Don't even bother exploring floors.
Any floor 10 or lower can be a treasure floor, and floor 100 is guaranteed.
Reset days until you get an autopetter. It's a 1/26 chance, and you can expect ~4 treasure floors between floors 1 and 100 if you have the good luck charm and a luck buff on a good luck day, resulting in a ~15% chance for an autopetter per reset.
It's not the cleanest or most fun method, but it's not that bad of a grind.
Autopetters actually do add a little friendship points - it's just a tiny ammount but if you add it up it does help!
Autopetters only adds half of friendship points on typically what you get if you manually pet them (same as AutoGrabbers, but they don't give Friendship XP). Still really useful to avoid losing Friendship XP if you forgot or just lazy going to the barn/coop everyday.
@@ViperDivinity it's really good if you want to spend a few days on the island! :)
12:40
I live in Wisconsin, so I definitely qualify as a "cheese enthusiast"
Goat cheese has a completely different taste than normal cheese. It's much more sour and soft, and has a generally stronger flavor.
This game is a game, i get that. But the fact that CA decided to not be accurate when it comes to the cows pisses me off. Brown cows don't make white milk, they make chocolate milk.
That's racist.
😅😅
@@mikel4526 classic snowflake response
@@FaultyStar274 it's called satire.
Super comprehensive vid! :D tiny nitpick to say you missed the fact that ostrich eggs' input quality is always the same as the machine output for mayo ie. 1 iridium ostrich egg = 10 iridium mayonnaise (it's actually the only way you can get iridium mayo to my knowledge)
Mayonnaise is an artisan good, so it can be aged in Casks.
The Stardew valley wiki notes that the artisan profession doesn't actually benefit oil, even though it says it does in its description. Just a small thing to note, love these videos so far.
Cactus fruit are also good food for skull cavern dives!
For chickens, I like to buy eggs from the traveling merchant and go straight for the 2nd coop to hatch them. Just to avoid Marnie. Petty, I know 🤣
If the travelling cart has a duck egg, it's usually much cheaper to buy that and incubate it than to buy a duck. Same way, you can pick up a cactus fruit as forage, put it in the seed maker, and bypass buying the cactus seed from Sandy. Okay, I'm a cheapskate. Or just broke at that stage in the game. 😁
I most definitely buy my first duck egg from the traveling cart. The Wiki says you can get one for as low as 285g. Even just the 400g I remember spending on one was worth it!
As for being broke by the time you get to the desert, I feel ya! I usually buy all the rare seeds I can during the first year and use all their profit in fall to unlock the desert.
Oh I went well out of my way with the cart to avoid having to deal with Marnie. I have 2 chickens and a duck, none of which came from her. Once burned by her staring at the microwave for 7 feckin hours, twice shy
The Rancher profession tree, Coopmaster especially, makes a lot more sense when you find out that butchering was originally going to be a mechanic.
Just to avoid confusion, you have switched your pictures of Speed-Gro and Deluxe Speed-Gro. The dark purple one is Speed-Gro, the pinkish one is the deluxe version. On another topic, I believe you can get the auto-petter as a rare drop from monsters in the dangerous mines. Pretty sure I got one that way once.
Joja route allow you to buy it 🤫
@@Zigzagonein60seconds yeah but no one does-
@@bloomenvogel I do >:]
I always choose Joja… so much easier than doing the bundles.
Thanks for the breakdown, Salmence! Your video reminded me that I forgot to put a heater in my coop for winter! No wonder the eggs' sizes kept switching daily. My babies were cold!
For me as a beginner, this series is THE best to watch to get to know everything ☺️
Cactus fruit has pretty good health and energy stats too. I usually bring them as my food to the skull cavern
Although, in real life, brown cows are more likely to produce A2 gene milk, and white cows are more likely to produce A1 gene milk. The A2 protein in milk is tolerated better by some people who have milk sensitivities.
Another correction, you can also get the autopetter in the more dangerous version of the mines by a loot drop
Tip you can get void mayo in the lake on the witch area so you can fish next the npc needing the void mayo
Kegs, it should be mentioned, also make beer and pale ale, which are faster to brew and hugely more profitable than vegetables or fruit. (Except for starfruit or ancient fruit, but those are usually not available early game.)
13:50 Pigs CAN dig up truffles on top of crafted paths and grass
another fact about crows: even tho they have a chance of spawning after 16 crops, it is IMPOSSIBLE for them to destroy the first 15 or 16 crops you plant, so ALWAYS plant your most valuable and important crops first
For goats cheese, I believe it can't be used as a regular cheese substitute since, irl, it was a different consistency and flavor. Additionally, goats cheese is a loved gift for Leah!
Retaining soil does help with a challenge run where you cannot use sprinklers, or otherwise water. Combined with rain it can usually get most crops to harvest at least once by the end of a season, which may be enough to finish bundles.
Watering is expensive in time and energy, but if you can skip it you get more of other things done.
Thank you for putting so much effort into making these videos. There is so much good info in here!
11:15 "There's a lot of complexities with how its cowculated"
Also the truffle oil is also used in the quest where Lewis asks you for some lube.
I absolutely love your intro! I've been a bit depressed recently and that silly lil intro got a giggle out of me. Also very helpful video, thanks!
Something neat about brown cows: they have pale spots when they're young, and dark spots when they have grown up!
You missed going over the blue chicken, I know the benefits are the same as the normal chicken but it wasn't mentioned so I thought I would bring it up here
Yes! But it does have one benefit: It's much easier to see the blue chicken in tall grass than white or especially brown.
Also, I think they always give white eggs? But I'm not sure.
I think a good use of the Rancher skills would be to buy all the coop/barn animals you plan on getting and use Coopmaster and Shepherd to max out friendship. just hold on to all the artisan goods you make during that and switch to the Artisan skill after all your animals are max friendship.
12:37 You asked for a cheese enthusiast - and I happen to be one.
Goat cheese usually contains less fat and more protein than cow cheese and it is fatty acids can be digested by the body more easily - generally making it a healthier option than cow cheese. But, what really sets apart goat cheese from cow cheese is it’s strong and unique taste. Every receipt that you cook with goat cheese instead of cow cheese automatically gains a very different flavor. I would go so far as to say that with goat cheese you get a completely different meal.
Of course, I assume that the same could be said for other ingredients as well, such as dinosaur eggs… but hey, all I‘m only ever concerned with is cheese. 😊
here's a tip for people who own alot of pigs in winter, you can sell your max friendship pigs at the end of fall/start of winter, for more than it costs to buy a new one, then, use the month of winter to raise friendship with them to full at the start of spring.
that way you will get basically a free 4.8k for each of them you sell.
o7 thank you for hard work and diligence, I was wondering what to do about my pigs going into winter this year...
I was so disappointed when i got my first blue chicken and it didn't make a blue egg
LMAO “ produce wool every o- *edit* four days” man I love that you leave those things in, love these guides
Coopmaster and Shepherd also have a hidden effect (according to the wiki): they also increase the consistency at which you get higher-quality products from the respective animals!
I've only seen a couple of your videos so far, but after that opening I hit subscribe so quick 😂❤
Only the farmer, master of all the 5 skill can bring economic balance in the valley.
But when Pelican town most needed him, he passed away.
After 20 years a New farmer arrived to the Valley.
Although him habilities are great, he had a lot to learn to save the valley.
I believe that him can save us.
One point, Coop master and Shepard have a hidden bonus. They increase the odds for higher quality animals products on coops and barns respectively. This is not stated in-game, and is still entirely outclassed by Artisan.
Also of note, if you're doing multiplayer, so long as one player with Artisan is online, anything sold in the shipping bin will get the bonus, so other players can pick things like Agriculturalist or Shepard.
so that's why I have so many iridium eggs even when I ignore my chickens ... I always pick Coopmaster exclusively to befriend my several dozen rabbits quicker.
Just in time, I just built my barn and coop
You can have the more expensive animals in a small coop or barn, you just need to have multiple coops or barns.
I made a second coop and transferred my rabbits over (for the friendship grind)
I JUST learned this a few days ago from BlaDe!
Don't forget that you can turn in 1 rabbit's foot to the driver in the van next to the joja mart for the charm upgrade that goes in the wallet!
Is this even after you finish the community centre?
@chrundle it should work at any time, I dont think that driver actually goes away even when you convert the joja mart to a movie theatre
I just went to buy some hay for my starving pets and she just stood there in her kitchen watching the damn microwave for straight two hours.
Seed makers can also make mixed seeds (1-3) with a 1.99% chance
Void eggs can also be used (with a periwinkle) to make a strange buns (recipe from Shane after 7 hearts)
Can be used at the shrine in the witches hut to turn on/ off monsters on your farm!
The comment at 7:18 was great lmao
Thank you so much, Salmence, for these videos!! So amazing and helpful. Planning your video essay and editing it is such hard work!
The gatherer profession gives u a chance of picking up two of the items u picked instead of one. This also affects truffle… kinda op
Hi Salamence, I know this is an older video, but I appreciate you being consistent with warning us about endgame spoilers.
cloth does in fact sell for less than iridium wool, but an iridium wool yields 2 cloth
12:45 no cooking with goat cheese:
Goat cheese tends to have a rather specific, strong taste.
As with goat meat, it takes a bit of attention to bring out its best flavor in cooking.
Some people love it, some hate it.
I'm guessing our beloved ape might be in the hate category.
Either way, I would not freely substitute goat cheese in any recipe using cow or sheep cheese.
Random fact: For all of this response my phone's autocorrect changed goat to ghost.
It makes me wonder, who has been writing about ghost cheese so much that it's in the list? Why? What is it?
Also, you can aged cheese to make a radium cheese that will sell for a lot more
Just a small thing which I would have loved to be in the game: In Harvest Moon you may leave your animals outside over night if the next day will be sunny. This is because you'll have to collect each animal (chickens can be held and carried into their coop, cows and sheep have to be pushed into their barn, they won't go there by themselves). However during the night there also is a chance that wild dogs appear and scare or kill your animals but you have a weapon: your dog. By training your dog with the ball, it will be more and more useful when it comes to wild dogs since it will hunt and scare them away. So when I first played Stardew Valley I obviously chose a dog (even though I am more of a cat person and would have loved to have a cat) because of that. I later found out that animals may return into their building by themselves and the dog wouldn't do anything so I started a new farm and got a cat. And even though I prefer cats, I really would have loved to have a useful dog.
Just found you today, so far helped me a lot in Stardew. Also, love your voice.
Iridium cactus fruit kick ass from a energy/health boost perspective.
I might have commented this on another video, but it bears repeating here; ostrich eggs are unique in that they produce mayonnaise of equal quality to the egg. So if you put an iridium ostrich egg into the mayonnaise machine, you will get 10 iridium quality mayonnaise. This is actually the only way to get iridium mayonnaise that I am aware of
Wool to cloth is doubled in a loom depending on quality, so iridium wool is still beneficial to put in a loom as it will produce 2 cloth instead of 1.
Just as a note, the auto-petter has been available as a drop in the dangerous mines since it was introduced in 1.5, and as of 1.6.4 (obviously released after this video) can be found in a golden mystery box! Still super rare though! 0.5% from a gmb and 2% as a "special item" drop, which you only get from 2.2% of barrels/crates or 1.2% of slimes (the ones with gold stars) or 0.2% of any other monsters (no visual indicator).
I have several Void chickens in one of my save files. I love my two goth chickens. 😁
If you're ever having trouble finding an Auto Petter, and you went on the Community Center route, you can use the dangerous version of the Regular Mines. The 1/26 chance of getting one in the Skull Cavern is quite tedious and can be found way easier. Use a spicy eel or a luck buff food on a perfect luck day and head down to the dangerous mines. Farm the slimes on levels 1-20, as the ones with the golden stars on their antennae have a chance of dropping an Auto-Petter upon defeat. Hope this helps! 😊
Can we talk about how Stardew's animal sprites are of utter cuteness? I mean, the whole game is cute, but especially the cowies and duckies etc. They always make that ^_^ face 😂❤
the animals also make the best sounds
These guides are saving me so much time thank you. Also I feel like the little kid with the penguins I am sure this is too much information.
In my late game farm, I absolutely went on skull cavern runs for the sole purpose of finding the auto-petters XD those things are wonderful.
This Avatar intro is just too good. I love it!
i know this is an older video but i wanted to say thank you for making these! your channel is super informative and enjoyable to watch :) i appreciate your content
Awesome video, thank you for sharing the info! Just wanted to mention that I hatched a dino egg and it came out a baby dino who is taking some time to grow up, I just figured I would mention
Great video to look back at since, I have right now, chickens, ducks, cows and goats. I just got into stardew, and learned so much and still learning actually, but i got the hang of it. Thank you!
“Not circle not square shape” that’s my new favorite way to describe an octagon.
Really nice video. Just a small note, you can place an ostrich incubator in any of barns.
I was watching this video while playing Stardew Valley and as soon as they mentioned the witch event, I got the witch event i’m still in shock.
Don't apologize for being sick! Take your time making videos. Love your content as always, good job on this one. I learned alot as I never really bother with animals unless necessary.
One thing the time it takes to turn goat milk into goat cheese then wait for it to be iridium quality is less time then it takes for a keg to make ancient fruit wine
16:07 I'm thinking there are valid use case for selling animals: If you want all of your Chickens to be the same colour, so that the Eggs will stack better, be easier, faster, lower effort to handle.
Say you find yourself with 6 brown and 2 white. At a certain point, it makes sense to sell the white ones and just replace them by incubating brown Eggs.
Likewise, it seems to me that I'll only want to keep Ducks and Void Chickens until I've gotten a sufficient stockpile of their products, i.e including a couple of gold star Void Eggs as birthday gifts for Sebastian, and so forth. So after that, sell them and replacs by incubating Chicken Eggs of the most prevalent colour.
Same with Goats as with Ducks. Keep them until you have what you need for bundles plus a few spares, then sell and go buy Cows to replace them.
Ostrich eggs are the only egg that the quality of the egg will carry over to the mayo. (Silver egg = silver mayo)
I subscribed because of the opening alone. I literally love avatar so now I’m ur new biggest fan
In Winter I have learned that you can sell the pig but on day 18 of winter, you buy the pigs and then they're ready to find truffles again.
Absolutely love the starting of this video. Flameo, hotman.
Cactus are actually pretty decent to grow inside your greenhouse on the midgame while you don't really have enough of the good croops but do have the greenhouse and the desert.
They are pretty easy to get, you can multiply them superfast cause they keep growing all the time, sell for an actually decent amount (even more if you use a barrel to process them) and, best of all, they are a pretty decent raw food giving no buff but the amount of health and stamina they restore is pretty high for a raw product that grows so fast, I literally just eat those cause I hate cooking. Villagers also usually like them.
They are just a supersolid mid tier crop that is okay at everything.
I find the basic sprinkler useful for watering the flowers for bee hives.. saves having to watering it every day.. and a nice cross pattern of flowers can cover a lot of hives.
On multiplayer, with specifically the agriculturalist profession, how does the game determine if a crop will grow faster? For example, if I, the host, have the agriculturalist profession and another player, without this profession, plants a crop, will it benefit from the faster grow rate?
This intro is phenomenal. TH-cam award nominee for the intro alone lol
As a Shepherd advocate, I will note that not only does Coopmaster and Shepherd have the effects you mentioned, they also add a factor into getting quality products. Having the respective profession branch will boost the odds of getting better quality product. Still, Artisan just blows everything out of the water, but I find it so above and beyond I like to pretend Artisan simply doesn't exist, as it just feels unfair.
I just want to say that your videos are very helpful. I was a bit late to playing the game (years late), but your videos helped me a lot. Thank you and you deserve more subscribers!
Duck feathers are also a loved item for Leo
You use goat cheese for your pizza, then get back to us.
Duck feathers are also a favorite gift of Leo's, if you're playing 1.5.
Do mention that when you put a higher quality wool into a loom. it is very likely to produce multiple cloth.
The garbage can clothing set made me chuckle when the combat skill rolled on screen 🤣
that was the best intro to a stardew valley video i’ve ever watched