What I Wish I Knew BEFORE Playing Stardew Valley

Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Tip 1: 0:48
Tip 2: 1:28
Tip 3: 1:51
Tip 4: 2:49
Tip 5: 3:44
Tip 6: 4:34
Tip 7: 6:12
Tip 8: 6:51
Tip 9: 7:11
Tip 10: 7:39
Tip 11: 8:02
Tip 12: 8:25
Tip 13: 8:49
Tip 14: 9:40
Tip 15: 11:02
Tip 16: 11:31
Tip 17: 12:11
Tip 18: 12:47
Tip 19: 13:19
Tip 20: 13:47
Tip 21: 14:20
Tip 22: 15:06
Tip 23: 15:45
Tip 24: 16:05
Tip 25: 16:44
Tip 27: 17:25
Tip 28: 17:47
Tip 29: 18:16

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[zorkan]

Tip 0 you need to know BEFORE playing Stardew Valley: You don't need any tips. This game is about relaxing, chilling, and discovery. You don't need to min-max your first run.

[TripleBerry]

i wish i knew the game existed a lot earlier on, I've only been playing Stardew Valley since late July/ early August of 2020. It also would've been cool to see when DF actually uploaded Stardew Valley like everyday.

[dazcarrr]

The NPCs can literally destroy solid metal structures by stepping on them, but Haley can't open a jar of pickles

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[GlassDeviant]

Tip 7: Sure, you don't need silos for the spring, summer and fall, but unless you want to fund Marnie's retirement you need one for the winter, or several if you plan to have lots of animals, and it's a good idea to keep lots of grass, other than what's there for the animals to eat, around to periodically mow down to fill the silos.

[bluevervain]

Cool little things I discovered that I haven’t seen mentioned:
- There are hidden paths/shortcuts through the trees at the bottom of screen in Secret Woods and on the left hand side of the Forest Farm map.
- You can make oil for cooking by putting corn or sunflower in the oil press.
- Tea saplings can be used as permanent fences. To get the blueprint, get Caroline to 2 hearts and then visit her greenhouse (the door at the back of her kitchen). She’ll mail it to you the following day.
- The saloon’s dish of the day is always a villager favorite. Check often for meals that are rare/hard to make (e.g. calamari for Pierre) and you can stock up for when birthdays roll around.

[Nils_]

1.5 SPOILER WARNING (warning for mobile players)


"Hammers are underrated because they're kinda slow"
forge it with one single emerald, it already does a huge difference, you can add rubies for more damage if you're already satisfied with the speed, and if you're not put another emerald

[justthisguy]

A silo is not a particularly big investment early game and allowing the player to harvest extra hay, or to build up reserves for winter, is a good idea.
Have your animals eat grass every day, but also build a silo.

[KellyS_]

After multiple farms, community center completions, and even a jojamart run, I *finally* learned that you can buy multiples of items from the traveling cart lady. Just buy something, "x" out of the purchase menu, then open it up again. Super useful if she has an early game apple, pomegranate, or pufferfish. (Apparently this only if playing the game on a mobile device)

[ystacalden]

Something I only just figured out after so many years playing- Everyone in the village except Sebastian likes Jelly. Keeping a stack of Jelly of some of the cheap fruits, or the trees you grew just for community centre bundles, is a ton easier than trying to remember who likes particular vegetables or cheese.

[NicoUnken]

Bonus tip: Leave a chest in the mines. When you go mining, leave your unnecessary tools - like your scythe, hoe, axe, fishing rod, even watering can if you forgot to leave it at home. Don't be afraid to leave certain valuables in the chest if you have to prioritize other items; you can always come back later to pick them up!
Remember; your inventory is never truly full as long as you have access to 50 wood in the area.

[rhiannaclipperton]

Just so no one gets any misinformation, fruit trees increase the star quality of their fruits by one every year. Unless it's different for the greenhouse (which took a full year to get my fruit to silver quality) it should take three years before it's iridium quality fruit, not two.

[Enkazadas]

You can actually fit 18 trees in the greenhouse. At the back, instead of planting right at the back, go a tile away from the wall and you can fit 6 instead of 2. There's an image in the wiki that shows it

[Andrew-qulq]

Since there are a good handful of days that Robin doesn't stay at her house for building structures, you can still interact with the counter as long as she's walking by even after hours and even on a day that she doesn't usually stay there, like when she comes home for the evening, or first thing in the morning as she's heading out.

[_TheJesterShade]

Tea saplings are easy to make; 2 wild seeds, 5 fiber, 5 wood and they sell for 500 gold a piece. You just have to get Caroline to 2 hearts and then walk back into her secret sun room, past their kitchen, and she send you the recipe the next day. You can make bank as early as day 15, take about that long to get 2 hearts with the help of gold star Daffodils and Parsnips.

[rheamarkoski]

When I first started playing I didn’t know u could cut down trees. It take quite a couple chops initially and I thought you just got wood from the forage drops. Such a game changer 😂

[happyhippoeaters]

That thumbnail works really well, because every time I see it, I want to jump into this video and yell at you about how important the backpack is, even to this day.

[CurlyWhirly]

5:31 hi correction on the fruit tree drops, they increase in quality by one star every year starting from when they've matured, so it would take you 3 years with a fruit tree to get iridium quality fruit

[shreeyasalikram]

Fun fact: just fish in the mountains, its profit paradise at the beginning and experience pool

[DaCheat]

on Tip 24, an additional method is to unlock linus's quest at the special orders board where you clear 20 pieces of trash from fishing. He will give you a fiber seeds recipe, this grows across ALL seasons including winter. And because they cross seasons you ALSO get to keep your fertilizer. So you plant them and let them grow (7 days), and on the first you harvest them, you now have tilled, watered and fertilized soil ready to go for planting.

[THJ]

If you use the layout on the wiki for the greenhouse page you can actually get 18 fruit trees.
Also for tip 24 once they're unlocked you can use Fiber Seeds for every season. This is especially good to pre-hoe and water crops for the first of Spring as fiber seeds even grow in winter.