13 MOST IMPORTANT Do's & Don'ts In Stardew Valley

Wow, so many things you should do in Stardew Valley, and so Many things You Should Avoid! Enjoy

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:04 Don't Worry About Luck
0:36 Don't juggle
1:15 Don't Be Reckless
1:45 Don't Sell Everything
2:30 Don't Avoid Fishing
3:14 Don't Build Buildings Recklessly
4:17 Don't Have a Boring Winter
4:46 Don't Build A Bridge
5:14 Don't Have an Unsavory Farm
5:47 Avoid Avoiding The Hard stuff
6:15 Don't Work Hard, Work Smart
6:53 Don't Just Play The Game Normally
7:26 Don't Rush
7:56 DO Enjoy the rest of your day
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[Ophelos]

One of the most important "Don'ts", is don't follow everything these do's and don'ts videos tell you. You'll get bored of the game because you're just copying someones elses gameplay style. Still great tips video :)

[sitara]

Funny story about my first playthrough: I didn't realise that you could fill up your watering can, and so as soon as i used up all the water, i had to rely on rain for my crops. Then, i thought that the only way was to refiill your can was to buy the upgrade from clint. And so my first tool upgrade was the watering can...but upgrading the watering can doesn't refill it! I can't believe i was that clueless 😅

[Trewq]

Best "don't" I've ever heard in this game:

Don't stress about it. If you decided to spend the first year just sleeping, the game just starts over like day 1. So just go out, do what you want to do, and have fun.

[sevinlepage]

Yea my biggest issue is definitely the burnout. I just started not too long ago and i was trying to do everything at once and feeling overwhelmed with everything i had to do. So now im gonna try to slow it down and have some fun with it rather than trying to do things with my own internal time constraints

[farmerash]

I would argue that the early bridge IS very much worth it, for multiple reasons:
1) The second beach is a separate area to the normal beach, and as such makes a trip to the beach much more lucrative.
2) Just like all the other areas, forage items on the beach reset every week, meaning you can't just wait till fall for level 10 Foraging, go there and expect a magical beach filled with Coral and Sea Urchins on every tile.
3) You're basically guaranteed to make at least 3000 gold from emptying the beach on two consecutive Saturdays (the day before the reset). You know what you can buy with 3000 gold? The 300 wood you spent on the bridge.
4) All the items on that beach give Foraging experience, which gets you to Gatherer and Lightning Rod recipes faster

[Took_D_photo]

When I first played I thought that shipping bin was supposed to be a box to keep ur stuff 😭😭

[RobinLecter]

*First winter is so profitable!*

My first winter I was absolutely out of money so I started tilling soil in search for winter roots and snow yams.
I quickly found out that you can find an abundance of them.
My strategy was getting as much food that replenishes energy in my in inventory, drinking a coffe at the beginning of the day and then heading out for the beach. I tilled ever single tile on the beach plus every other tillable tile on the map and by the end of the day I'd end up with about 30-50 snow yams + winter roots to sell.
That first winter I bought both the red and blue backpack upgrades, finished the treasury bundle and upgraded my house and tools.
Don't sleep on winter, it can give you such a boost!

[Ultimate]

Tip: after you get the Golden Lewis Statue put it on wherever on the town and Lewis will write you a letter with 750 g (you can only do this once), also wherever you place it it will be replaced with a rotten plant and the Statue will end up on Lewis's room(or in rare cases on Marnie's Room)

[nolabel]

Tips: Can use quarry to grow hardwood or regular trees. Same with desert. Just visit areas to see if ready, if not, then reload farm and play normal. No wasting time. Watch time clock, if blinking, time is paused. Place a keg outside shed when you refill all kegs inside make sure to fill keg by door. No more having to go inside to see if ready.

[kerahann]

I'm late to this video but I just had to say that luck most definitely affects more than just finding ladders in the mine, and is actually a very useful mechanic that comes in handy if you're utilizing it correctly. It affects fishing, combat, and the amounts and qualities of loot that you can get from mining, as well as the other activities. It can make your life a whole lot easier to do certain things on lucky days rather than unlucky ones. It's by no means required, it's just very useful and can save you time and energy.

[SonnyFRST]

Mountain Lake is a perfect starting point to fishing:
- Carp is the easiest fish in the game (perfect catches are doable even at Lv1)
- Players will find all 4 fishes in the Lake Bundle here (last one is Summer/Winter-only)
- Hardest year-round fish there is still catchable with the Training Rod
- It's only fitting for people to start here, given the "endgame" is also here.

[enclaw]

The most important do is enjoy and explore the game at your own pace, and most important dont rush if you are new to the game

[bellsbishop]

You make some really nice points, but I think building the beach bridge early is a good idea. Yes, it costs a lot of wood, but if you have the extra wood or even if you simply farm trees sustainably, you can find a lot of valuable things on the other side of the bridge, like sea urchins and clams, which sell for a lot and help up the foraging skill. Great video!

[woodlandxwarrior]

Early game I found that chopping trees and not the stumps gives a ton of acorns needed to make the field snacks. I leave the stump in the ground because it leaves back plenty of respawnable acorns and I slowly take any extra acorns that I'm not using for field snacks to plant trees in the upper left side of the map as soon as possible. I use the field snacks to quickly maximize my forestry and for any other additional activities that I normally could not fit into a day due to energy demands. I can usually get two to three days of energy out of one day using this technique as long as I plan the day before I go off and get things done. The first month is usually very specific but after that anything goes. Made something like 25, 000 in the first month which I feel is plenty especially since I was able to purchase about 150 strawberry plants during the festival and buy my backpacks by the end of the month.

[callmecei]

Personally, I almost always finish the beach bridge by the 6th of spring in my playthroughs, this is just preferential as it gives me access to additional forgeables, and I can very easily get my wood back later simply by utilising the near-limitless energy in salmonberry season. There are always plenty of trees on my farm and I always make sure to chop as few of them down as possible until I have level 1 foraging (Which really doesn't take long, I typically chop down about six trees and collect forage and get level 1 on Day 2) that way I can get the seeds from trees when I'm chopping them down and I can plant additional trees for salmonberry season. Even one day's worth of Salmonberries is usually (if you have level 4 foraging) roughly 75-100 berries. Which is worth 1800-2000 energy! (25 energy per berry) That much energy can easily allow me to cut down AT LEAST 40 trees. So I just find this worth it to me. Hell, sometimes I just go ahead and sell some of my wood early game before the egg festival just to get a few extra strawberry seeds. (At a rate of 2g/wood, that's 50 wood for a single seed, so it's not a great exchange, but I personally try to get 40 seeds year 1, so if I'm a little short, this is my method to gain some extra money.)

[jakegallagher]

I’m quickly realizing how much of this advice is fully applicable to real life

[vg]

I knew most of these things as a veteran player, but a few of these tips are rarely thought of and mentioned. I learned knew things with it. Thanks.

[realcatlands]

I don't sell everything I have I just dump it in a chest and don't sell most of the time

[anistyn]

Thanks so much for all these tips and tricks ! I started playing stardew valley a month ago and already finished my community center!

[tfLimac]

A correction about the first bit of the video where you show Clint opening geodes when talking about luck: Geodes and Troves aren't affected by luck, they are affected by your map seed. There's a predetermined item you will get based on what geode/trove you are opening. For example: your 100th item will be Item A if you r opening a normal geode, Item B if you r opening a magma geode, Item C if you r opening a trove and so on.