Fish Ponds are Broken? - Now Fixed :(

Fixed on 1.6.9

In 9 days you can get a full stack of items from a fishpond.

Alexa's channel:
@alexion3007

FAQ:
Q: HOW?!
A: Animal Crackers double the output from a fish pond. If a fish pond doesn't produce an item, the previous day's produce will double instead. Keep on doubling and you end up with 999.

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Alexa's dupe sequence:
Step 1 - Find a specific spot in the pattern. This specific spot is "no roe, noe roe, roe".
Note down the current location of the fish pond [I use a stone owl] and be prepared to move specific quantities left and right [I place down paths to help with that]

Step 2 - Sleep Once

From here, the sleeping and the movement is consistent.
Step 3 - Move fish pond 4 to the right, sleep 10 times [safe to move one early]
Step 4 - Move fish pond back to stone owl, sleep 9 times [safe to move one early]
Step 5 - Move fish pond 3 to the right, sleep 11 times [not safe to move one early, if necessary move one left of stone owl for between 1 and 10 times and then continue to step 6 with the according amount of sleeps counted]
Step 6 - Move fish pond back to stone owl, sleep 12 times [safe to move one early]
Step 7 - Move fish pond 3 to the right, sleep 9 times [safe to move one early]
Step 8 - Move fish pond 4 to the left [1 to left of owl], sleep 9 times [safe to move one early]
Step 9 - Move fish pond 3 to the right [2 to right of owl], sleep 7 times [safe to move one late]

To optimally obtain roe, sleep 9 times in step 3 and then start collection. IMPORTANT - On any fish that isn't tiger trout, you need to fish out the extra breeding fish. Tiger trout is good to practice on since you don't need to, but it's critical that you do fish out the excess each time

2.3% chance of process failing by/on day 231, 8% by 298, 13% by 365 but it shouldn’t get that long.

[DizzyLizzy]

concerned ape really got rid of clay farming only to accidentally introduce prismatic shard farming

[AnotherLostFTW]

"Do you want 1 prismatic shard or double it for the next day?"

[xaniella]

i hope he never runs out of ways to break this game

[KassFireborn]

Noticing that my phone helpfully put "expositional growth" instead of "exponential growth" in the chat and now that's faithfully preserved in close-up video form. I suppose I should figure out what that even means.

ETA: I've decided "expositional growth" refers to trying to explain something, only to realize first you need to explain something else, only to realize before that you need to explain yet another thing, only to realize... and so on. See also: Kingdom Hearts.

[toryistatertot]

Love that you are letting the Dev know. You're devious but honorable at the same time. :D

[Lookitsnic]

Robin: why is every farmer suddenly so obsessed with fish ponds??

[unnaturalredhead]

Absolutely going to get patched ASAP, since it can happen on accident in casual play (albeit probably not with prismatic shards), but still very neat

[Larszard]

The thumbnail immediately amused me greatly because I was there this morning (last night for your timezone I suppose) watching you make the thumbnail for this, and then you went with something completely different 😂 (I like it by the way, simple but to the point!)

[mikec]

Technically if you do it for long enough you would eventually have to fish out the tiger trout. Per the wiki: In the game code the spawn rate for Tiger Trout is set to meaning it could technically reproduce after that number of days. To reach that number of days in Stardew Valley would require over 8900 years of the game to be played.

[everettfields]

Blade always keeps finding ways to break the game...

[mikkelborby]

i love how blade shows how easy it is to fix as well

[vickysterling]

aw cmon guys we couldnt wait to discover this until 1.6 hit consoles???? cries in patch notes

[mewsli]

Again, Blade proves he has a brain the size of a planet ! Sorry Marvin !

[waffles]

I love this game 😂 BlaDe might not always be the one to find glitches, but he sure can figure out how to exploit them.

[rainsparks]

main reason this could get patched is since it can happen in regular gameplay - that's the whole reason it was discovered. It's alright if you're knowingly using the exploit, but a bit jarring if you suddenly get 128 roe for no apparent reason

[IsaC.]

Which tile of the fish pond has to be on a spot where a prismatic shard will be produced?

[apia]

i think it would be cool if concerned ape did one of those things where he keeps it in but nerfs it or acknowledges it, like maybe it would be x1.5 if it hadnt produced

[appletuntrainer]

Man's filling the dangerously funny vaccume that has been left and I'm all here for it.

[NingyoHimeDoll]

Players: Fish ponds need an upgrade

ConcernedApe: say no more

[mateuszkus]

Least broken stardew exploit discovery