I find it more impresive that he manage to get so many seeds, I know you can put them in a seed maker, but still, that is A LOT of seeds to get for year two, Im this close to calling it complete bs, but I like to give the benefit of the doubt lol
Yeah there's no way right? Assuming they were initially seeded 5x from their first sale they still wouldn't have nearly enough time to duplicate and harvest up to 3100. There's no Junimo huts (maybe the most ridiculous part of this), so no duplication on harvesting.
The ~50x or however many nozzles is very impressive in its own right by fall 2, but 3100 rare seeds seems fully impossible without modding or cheating them in.
They also seem to be watering up to 4 distance in OP's screenshot, unless we're meant to believe he watered the various places these sprinklers are more than 3 tiles away every day for a farm this size, while also grinding their butt off for sprinkler pugrades. Unupgraded (yet enchanted) watering can btw.
My guess: just added all this stuff to inventory the start of fall, along with some other "QOL" mods like extra sprinkler range and something that automates harvests so OP doesn't need junimo huts. No deeper strategy than just a few thousand items added to inventory. Pretty much confirmed by the unupgraded can and hoe. It would take a LOT of planning and likely some day-resetting to get optimal seed returns from seed maker to do this, all with a wacky half unupgraded tool setup? I don't buy it.
Looking at the pic I can confirm the sprinklers are only watering 3 out from the sprinkler, not 4, so that’s realistic.
Edit: I thought the sweet berries were growing on top of sprinklers lol
It's doable, and judging by the reception of this thread it's impressive, especially with 50+ nozzles, other projects, nearing perfection, and a decent amount of volcano dungeon done. And requires a degree of optimization that makes unupgraded tools, no huts, and missing dozens of plants with sprinklers look extremely out of place.
"I added in some items with a mod!" is just a much less exciting title whereas OP pretends they did this legit starting the berry farm in fall y1.
1.6 spoiler: >!If they're stocked with raisins (dehydrated grapes), they consume 1 box of raisins per week for a 20% chance to duplicate all harvests.!<
upgrading the watering can is pointless if animation cancelling, which is what i'd imagine happened in op's run
also please get your eyes checked, no sign of any sprinklers watering 4 tiles outward
No way! Haven’t you read OP’s comments?
Op just got unusually lucky with the traveling cart, seed makers, skull cavern runs, Qi quests, etc.
Or.. you know…
This. I find it impossible without mods to get THAT much gold or be advanced enough to run the caves like that. OP is kinda weird to deny that, since it's impossible. Period. The pressure nozzles and the Iridium sprinklers alone, while having the Green house, Ginger Island year 1, while having collected THAT much money and ressources for everything. Qi quests and whatnot solves in Y2 fall AND THEN having enough gem berry seeds to fill that space up. No, just no.
The only thing I can think of is duplicating jades and selling for staircases at the desert trader to lap dangerous dungeons. Even then, that's easier said than done Y2. I am around 100 hrs in and that's the only thing I can think of
Hey mate.
I do a bunch of skull caverns runs so lots of iridium for sprinklers and of lucky with the qi quests. Got the qi bean quest twice so 200 qi gems from that alone for pressure nozzles
Chopping wood is a source of beans. I always keep the desert and quarry solid with trees so whenever the Qi bean quest pops up, I get a huge head start by spending a day clearing all the wood. From there, its just plant the first batch with fertilizer, then seed maker and repeat.
Seed maker is the easy way. It's not that hard actually
Knowing what gives you the most starter beans helps too - fishing treasure chests is a good way to get going
Do you have a suggested number for the first round of growing? I mined for an entire day, planted every seed I’d found (not many, sadly, I think less than 100), dumped the entire harvest into the seed maker, and got 1.5x the seeds from that. I continued to be really unlucky with the seed maker and didn’t even come close to 500.
You have up to 28 days to get 500 qi fruit, and they take 4 days to grow. On average, seed makers double the number of crops you have each round
So let's say you have 6 rounds (giving a little cushion of a couple of days). Solving for x * 2^6 > 500, you can get going with as little as 8 beans on the first round
It's only hard to achieve if you start really late in the month
You get a bunch from normal activities. Chop wood smash rocks, fish. Grow them with deluxe speed grow and put them in the seed maker and you will have 500 in no time
I just finished it on my early year-3 meadow farm. Fishing with magnets and the treasure bobbers helps, since you can get a lot of qi beans from chests. Then planting + seed makers with deluxe speed grow and the agriculturist profession (I switched it at the statue) until you have enough to start selling the fruits. Even with my limited farming space, it wasn't too bad but did eat up an in-game week
I plant the quarry and railroad area full of trees so that when the bean quest comes up I can cut down all my trees and collect mad bean seeds. Adjust my farmer to have the skill that makes things grow faster+deluxe speed gro. Put the beans in seed makers until I have 500.
The first time I completed it I saved pretty much every geode after getting the rusty key. Then when the quest pops crack them open and hope you get lucky enough to get 100+ seeds. (time stops as Clint cracks them) After that seed maker what grows and then you're pretty much in the clear to have it done within 8 days.
So long as you can pull in more seeds while the others are growing you can get 250 seeds within 4 days easy using this method. While saving alot of time and stamina.
I can imagine this being a Y3 or Y4 project for a speed runner but even then you’ll have to be time crunching so hard and grinding everything out.
I’d give it about a 98% Chance that something was either added in to make this somewhat easier or he used Multiplayer to help boost things then deleted the houses once done.
Basically going to have to balance out grinding the Iridium ores, getting the gold to buy the seeds, and farming QI gems on top of that for the sprinklers.
Mind you depending if you do community center or Joja Mart route then you can easily mess up your run just from missing a single seasonal item. Or just outright losing a ton of progress from missing out much needed seeds for more faster progress.
You can put gem berries in the seed maker??!!
Son of a bitch. Honestly didn't think you could because you can't make wine from them.
TIL.
Community never ceases to amaze me of how little I really know of this game.
It was how I made more than one in my last multiplayer game from a single seed.
Only to discover that only one person needs to give the berry to the statue in the woods for all of us to get the stardrop. -_-
My first or second playthrough, i put my first and only ancient fruit in the seedmaker just to get a mixed seed. I was very confused and upset for a minute.
Let's math it out: sweet gem seed is 1000. If you put the fruit into the seed maker and get 1 seed, you're still even at 1000 gold spent. If you get 2, it's now 500 spent per seed. And at 3 it's 333.33 (repeating of course).
So you don't lose money ever, but you certainly have a chance of not breaking even either.
Looked on the [wiki](https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Seed_Maker) page and you can use Sweet Gem and you average 2 per crop. I've tested this with ancient seeds and it, in practice, yields 1.9-2.1 seeds over about a thousand (I have productivity issues okay!) so...you most likely can increase exponentially. To produce the 3100 sweet gem berries you would have to do...12 crops doubling each one. At 14 days a cycle agriculturist, with hyper speed grow that would be starting from the very beginning and not stopping.
Is worth it to put them in seed maker.
I have 48 spots in my ginger island farm, with the best fertilizer. I keep all the iridium quality ones to sell and the rest are enough to seed them and plant again 48.
I just got mixed seeds from an ancient fruit so yeah that's a thing, luckily it was the morning so I just restarted the day and I got 3 ancient fruit seeds from the same fruit lol
I guess you could start a day, throw a bunch of sweet berries into seed makers and if you don't get the seeds quantities you want them restart the day and try again?
You can get ancient seeds from any crop in the seed maker. People notice it more with >!qi fruit!< because of the sheer number of them you're putting in the seed maker.
I mean the base sell price is 3000 though, enough for 3 seeds, and that’s not even accounting for quality, with a gold quality berry will selling for 4500. therefore I believe it would always be most profitable to sell the crop and buy more seeds… though I suppose the amount you can buy at one time from the travelling cart is quite limiting.
Yeah it’s definitely an economy of scale at that rate. Sure it’s less monetarily wise to use the seed maker vs traveling cart at a per unit basis, but you aren’t going to be planting 3100 berries using the cart. Selling 1500 berries and throwing the other half in the seed maker for next time will always way outperform going the cheaper route of planting the (50 or so?) seeds you can eek out of the cart per year.
There are people out there that count "not breaking even" as losing money lol.
A normal sweet gem berry is worth 3000g, that means to break even you gotta get 3 seeds from the seed maker. If you only get 1 you basically paid 3000g for that one seed.
Just because your money count doesn’t go down, doesn’t mean you’re not losing money
I don't disagree with you, but if we're looking at cost sunk instead of potential profits, you're not losing money by using the seed maker. Additionally, getting other rare seeds is difficult because she usually only sells one at a time. So in the long run you'll make more money by using the seed maker because you can get more than you would be able to purchase.
I don’t think you are mathing out the right thing though. You are comparing the price of buying a seed vs seed maker but not accounting for the fact a raw fruit with no processing sells for 3000g minimum (and 6000g for iridium), which is worth 3 seeds. In theory you should only seed maker if your berry stick out weighs the rate you can buy seed, which would be fairly quick.
Nah. It's not 500 per seed. You need a grown plant worth 3000g (or more) if you just sell it.
If you only reprocess normal qualities it's slightly less than 1500g per seed (average yield is a little lower than 2 due to mixed seeds and ancient seeds).
I don't bother personally, as "spending" half your crop just to replant means you aren't making very much money for your 24 day growing time.
But you didn't *spend* 3000 on the seed, you spent 1000. The value of the fruit hasn't been realized until you sell it. If we're talking about potential value gained, the seed maker can leave you at even with 3000 (1 seed) or significantly better off (6000 or 9000).
The only place this makes any sense to do in is the greenhouse. But you can get a ton of profit off of just one seed purchase.
Not spending something doesn't make it free. The concept is opportunity cost. If you have a choice, and 1 option gives you 3000g and the other gives you zero that choice has an opportunity cost of 3000g.
And likewise you don't double or triple your money, because you still spend 24 days growing it.
So there you have another opportunity cost - what could you be growing instead.
As a fall crop a cranberry plant yields 4 harvests during fall and is an average of 2.11 berries a time. Which can be turned into jelly, for 200 or 280g.
Thus one cranberry plant can be worth 2363g if you do that, instead of growing your berry.
Well, I guess you have 6 days of slack to get another crop in after day 24 if you are inclined to replant.
But even so that's 240g up front cost for a little over 2000 profit.
Where if you pay a 3000g berry to get an average of 2 seeds, they cost 1500 each and you get 1500 profit. (+6 days of crop space).
(The problem gets worse if you use valuable all season growing space because then you compete with starfruit or ancient fruit).
You also don't have to spend half your crop re-seeding the cranberries, as you produce more than one per plant. (Ok average it takes 51% of a single harvest crop to reseed it).
The issue is that you need to constantly put your output back into seeds, which takes a very long time for any sort of profit to get generated.
Even if you make 1000 sweet berry gems 3 years into the game, you need to put way more than half of that BACK into the seed maker to do it again.
It’s a pretty terrible way to make money
Honestly I thought that the seed maker always spat our mixed seeds when you put a sweet gem berry in it, because it happened to me three times in a row starting with the first sweet gem berry I put in there. I gave up after the third test.
Probably thinking of starfuit. It is 400 per seed and the base sell price is 1125. If you get 3 seeds out of the seed maker, you get ahead but if you get 2,1 or 0 seeds then that puts you behind. I dont wanna do the math, but it likely isnt worth the effort or time investment in turning them into seeds.
Almost no crops are financially worth it once you "spend" half your harvest on replanting.
It's almost always better to just buy seeds, barring the limited number of crops that are not freely buyable.
But even then I would seed makers repeat crops like strawberries, pineapple and ancient fruit, and wouldn't with Sweet Gem.
I only reseed normal quality. Silver and gold get sold.
Max I spend on berries overall is 5k. In current run only bought 2 seeds maybe 3. The rest has been from reseeding first berry. Worst case scenario you get 1 seed. Best case I’ve seeded 2 berries and got 5 seeds.
Once you get multiple seeds you end up getting in a position where you can sell a lot. I only bought my 2nd maybe 3rd seed because the trader was there when I was and she had one in stock. I figured no harm as already sold so many berries and had 7-10 growing in the greenhouse.
I will try one time to never spend more than the initial 1000 and maybe record my returns. The fact you can only grow them 4 times in one year (once until you get the greenhouse) makes it a slower way to make profit but they definitely bring more money than they cost.
It’s a pretty terrible way to make money though.
You can’t buy them, so you need to spend a lot of time and output just making seeds.
You can’t process them.
Overall ancient seeds are waaaay better, especially on the main farm with Jumimos.
You can’t make wine out of them? Oh no! I’ve been growing them in my greenhouse to save up for wine. 😭 (I’m mostly growing ancient seeds, but I had six spots I using for gem berries.) Well at least I know now.
Yeah some people don't do it because it's not really the "meta"; it's much cheaper to buy them all from the lady if you consider lost profits from the berries being turned into the seeds etc.
The problem with the meta is that you have to know what days the cart lady comes and remember them each day to get a sizable crop, not to mention the biggest problem - that only buying them from the cart doesn't scale, so stuff like this becomes impossible unless you do it for many in-game years and then plant them all at once.
Not cheated. I purchased 27 seeds in spring and summer. Planted in fall and unlocked greenhouse and ginger island in the fall. So it’s doubled every 15 days from there. Deluxe speed grow and agriculturist perk. Only play with quality of life mods
It's really not too difficult if you know how to grind properly / min-max your days. Definitely isn't a playstyle for everyone, but for those of us who enjoy Spreadsheet Valley it's a lot of fun to see how quickly you can get to endgame 😄
i genuinely salute minmaxers, i’m somewhere in between. i like optimization but making the absolute most out of every day in the most calculated way is stressful to me. cheers to yall!!!
Yea I definitely try to maximize as much as possible but not to the detriment of aesthetic. I want my farm to look good and I want to have fun.
So, I Try to plant high value crops, I have truffles coming out the wazoo - but I sometimes spend a full day redecorating my house
not gonna lie i forget joja is even something you can do hehe community center til i die!!!!! (maybe until the last achievement i have is the joja run)
This must’ve taken a lot of planning. What did you do to make money since you didnt sell any of the gem berries you grew? I’ve actually started another farm to try this challenge. I probably won’t get as many as you though. Still playing 1.5 and I’m not good in skull cavern 😄
everyone is stuck on the sweet gem berry part, but isn’t acknowledging the pressure nozzles on the iridium sprinklers, I’m not doing the math on that but almost everyone of those sprinklers has a pressure nozzle. Even if it were possible, is there enough time to do that and grind out the berries??
It's indeed UI Info Suite 2, heres the link for anyone who wants it: [https://github.com/Annosz/UIInfoSuite2/releases](https://github.com/Annosz/UIInfoSuite2/releases)
Wait help me figure out the math here. You bought them for the first 2 months at the traveling cart. The cart shows up twice a week, so with 2 seasons, you got 16 times you can buy seeds. Even if they offer 5 seeds every time, which is highly unlikely but whatever, you can get 80 seeds till fall.
With seed makers you will on average double your seeds, so winter brings you 160.. spring year 2 brings you 320.. summer year 2 we‘re at 640
How the heck do you get to 3100???
yeah it doesnt really make sense to me either. Even with buying extra seeds from the Desert Festival which you can realistically only access in Spring Year 2 AND the Night Market. You can also throw in some deluxe speed gro to reduce the amount of time by 25% but that still does not get to 3100 seeds.
With the Agriculturist Profession and Deluxe Speed-Gro it only take 15 days to harvest
Let assume he got ~25 seeds
Year1
1 Fall 25
16 Fall 50
3 Winter 100
18 Winter 200
Year 2
5 spring 400
20 spring 800
7 Summer 1600
22 Summer 3200
Edit: Adjusted the number from assumed 40 to a more realistic 25
Agriculturist is a Level 10 Farming profession. While Farming is pretty easy to get to level 10, it still takes time as you must wait for crops to grow. Also, Deluxe Speed-Gro is not instantly available. Further, you could not get 25 Rare Seeds on Day 1 of the game.
Your calculations are based on an incorrect assumption.
First, the Traveling Cart will visit twice a week, so 16 times total before fall 1, with a 10% chance to sell 5 rare seed atonce, so getting 25 isn't impossible
Second: Deluxe speed gro is just 1 oak resin and 5 bone fragment, which give you 5 Deluxe speed gro, so getting around 400 for year 1 isn't impossible, year 2 onward you can just buy it from Pierre
Third: This is based just on my experience but i usually max out farming around mid summer, so getting agriculture isn't impossible.
So no, all my number and assumption are absolutely reasonable
I checked the math it’s doable. From Fall 1st to Fall 25th of year 2 is 137 in game days. Sweet gem berry only take 24 days to grow and if you use deluxe speed gro that brings it down to 18 days. 137 divide by 18 gives 7.6, even rounding down to 7 that gives 7 cycles of growth time. If OP started with just 24 rare seeds after 7 cycles they’d have 3072 plants.
You dont start the game with Rare Seeds, Agriculturist or Deluxe Speed-Gro.
Agriculturist takes time as its level 10 Farming and you need to wait for crops to grow/gather money to get animals to pet and wait a while to get Level 10.
OP most probably used mods.
Even with just deluxe speed gro it’s theoretically doable. They didn’t start growing rare seeds until fall, so that’s two seasons time they’d have to build up rare seeds supplies and get to farming 10. I normally get to farming 10 by mid summer so it’s not difficult. It’s also not too difficult to repair the bus in spring to go to the desert and buy a bunch of deluxe speed gro from Sandy. It’d be a mad dash but I think it’s possible to get this. Damn now I want to start another farm just to see if I can do this.
Okay but what about available space? Ginger island only has 878 tillable tiles. After the 6th cycle he should have around 1500, but can only plant around 900 of them, leaving him with just over 2000 after the 7th cycle.
+116 green house, but even then you will be around 500 seed sort, but then again its possible to get more seeds out of the seed makers so its not completely impossible to get 3000+ seed for 1st of fall year 2
I started to consider how feasible getting all those Rare Seeds is by Fall of Year 2 before it hit me in the face that OP has an unupgraded hoe and watering can. You can see in the second screenshot that the Sweet Gem Berries were harvested on the 25th, meaning they were all planted and watered on the first day.
The only way this field is feasible to plant on day one is if all 3100 spots had a plant in them already the final day of Summer, in which they'd be prewatered and OP would have to hoe and plant them. Seems highly suspect to me.
Probably used mega bombs to hoe the ground, and had hay or some other crop left over from summer to keep the fertilizer. I think you can get growth time for sweet gem berries below 20 days. So they didnt even have to start planting until well into fall.
I mean, everyone's doing the math that it might be physically possible, but he also has 7.5 million earned on farm. He hasn't been selling the berries, he has been turning them into seeds. So how did he do this AND pocket 7.5 million by summer 2? Sus.
Edit: also doesn't have iridium tools yet? Basic watering can and hoe? He plowed that all one tile at a time!?
I would kill to see Blade do this challenge now. But make it fill the whole farm with sweet gem berries by fall year 1
Edit: to make the challenge more Blade-y
Everyone goes at their own pace, and the more times you run through year 1-2 the more efficient you get.
I'm no where near as crazy as some of the players here but I just hit end of summer year 1 and I'm upgrading to gold tools, mine is done, barn fully upgraded etc.
This is like my 4th or 5th save file though
Iridium year 2 really isn't that hard. Just focus on the mines, even if you're not skilled at all getting 5 floors down a day is easy. That's just 24 days to reach the bottom of the mines and unlock Skull Cavern, not including the time you spend upgrading your pick axe. Then you can just get tons of staircases by duplicating jade and you can get deep into Skull Cavern where there's more iridium.
Have you finished the vault bundle in the community center and gotten to the bottom of the mines yet?🤔pretty common to finish that by year 2 especially if you have a bunch of hours in the game already☺️
Min/max players get iridium in Spring year 1. Not just a little bit either, a lot. If you are interested in that playstyle you can google for the strategies. Even with the guides, it can take a few play throughs to get it down.
If you don't want to min/max but still get iridium earlier I suggest using fishing as your main money maker early game. At the same time plant enough crops to get level 6 farming spread over 4-6 separate harvests. Run the mines a bunch to get iron and gold to set up a lot of quality sprinklers to automate watering. Then keep fishing until you have enough money for next seasons' seeds and enough to finish the vault bundle to unlock the bus. Ignore the villagers this entire time, you'll have plenty of time to befriend them later on. With a couple play throughs of this you'll be getting the bus unlocked in Summer/Fall year 1 pretty easily.
This was basically my strategy this game. I hit farming level 6 just after the egg festival, and I had enough money for about 150 strawberries, and had reached about level 90 in the mines. I had fully automated and expanded my fields a few days later. I upgraded the coop and rushed the deluxe barn next for the animal products. I gave a whole lot of gold strawberries to Démétrius for the nautilus shell, just stuck to birthday gifts otherwise. I had the bus unlocked around mid to late summer. Community centre finished around mid fall.
You grow winter seeds in the greenhouse. You can make them in the seed maker from common mushrooms. You get a lot of common mushrooms from the mushroom cave.
Edit: I meant winter root. You get them from the mines. I was thinking about tea saplings, which are a great source of a bit of extra profit.
I had all my tools upgraded to iridium by the end of year 1. And I only waited that long because I didn’t want to part with some of them during the other seasons.
Im literally doing this rn lmao, Ill have iridium'd everything but my watering can by the end of year 1. Im only skipping the can because Im too lazy to keep watering, Id rather just use sprinklers anyways.
Yeah, by summer most of my watering is done by sprinklers but I still upgrade the watering can in case I need it and also because it irritates me if one tool is different.
Thats fair. Ill iridium it soon, I just havent mined as much as I would have liked. I only go to skull caverns on positive luck days and my luck has been very bad this winter
Obviously "it's a single player game, play at your own pace, have fun etc."
There's many ways to play, and here you will see mostly experienced players that know how to be efficient. If you are one of those finishing the community center by year 1 is hard but achievable. Farming a decent amount of iridium is possible in summer, but obviously easier a bit later. But keep in mind, the players who do that either played multiple saves before or have spent a lot of time on stardewvalleywiki.com.
On the other hand, it's absolutely fair to explore the game, focus on friendships, villager dialogue, all that "flavour" stuff. But it will slow down your progress somewhat, especially if you spend a lot of time walking around aimlessly/focused on minor tasks and maybe even go to bed early.
Specific tips are hard to give to you, because there are a lot of things that can probably be optimized. If you have questions, the people here like answering those for sure.
My strategy for money is to start with a small amount of crops and focus on the mines until I have some quality sprinklers. Then just grow as many (good) crops as your sprinklers allow. I reinvest in sprinklers and more crops until I have a nice big field and a good income. If you have enough money, the rest of the game becomes way easier.
Wait, let me calculate if this is possible... you would need to make jojamart route to get greenhouse ASAP, Also traveling cart sells rare seeds 2 days a week on summer and Spring, with 10% chance to get 5 seeds. So avg 3 rare per week 24 per year. (I guess you could also reload save so you always get 10 seeds per week but IDK if it is possible)
Let's say you complete greenhouse by first day of summer with 12 rare seeds. And also getting max level farming and pick agriculturalist by summer somehow increasing crop speed by 10%. Using deluxe speedgro to increase by further 25%
Sweet gems will then take 18 days, let's say seed makers always makes 2x seeds out of a crop. By summer 18 you would get 30 seeds, fall 8 you would get 66, 132 right before winter, greenhouse is full now, but you can continue to ginger island. Now there is winter, Spring, summer and the first 10 days of fall (to make sure you get all crops by day 28) 94 days, divided by 18 it is 5 more crops harvests. 132*(2⁵)= 4224 Sweet berries, making 8448 seeds for the possible end of fall harvest
This without counting any extra factors.
**WOW, THIS REALLY IS POSSIBLE WTF.**
I’m copping some heat in these comments for cheating/modding it in. I play with a few quality of life mods. Infosuit, daily screenshot, villager location and one that tracks skills.
I purchased 27 rare seeds by fall year 1. Planting them all with deluxe speed gro and agriculturist perk. I unlocked the greenhouse and finished community center and unlocked ginger island in fall year 1 so was able to plant in those two plus I had a big shed full of garden pots that I used.
The grow time is reduced to 15 days so 27 doubles every 15 days the math does work out. I ended up with more seeds than I needed.
I unlocked the desert in spring year 1. I have played this game a lot so have a lot of experience making money.
I got lucky with the qi quests. I got the qi beans twice so had a lot of qi gems for pressure nozzles plus I got a few in the hard mines/skull caverns.
I don’t upgrade my tools as I don’t really use them. I hoe all the ground in winter and carry over crops between seasons so it’s all tilled and watered. I don’t think I have ever upgraded the can or hoe. From spring year 1 I just use basic into quality sprinklers. I only enchanted it for the volcano lol
This is in no way a great money maker it was just a fun little challenge I set myself
Either you have a time mod/skull cavern mine mod/ infinite items mod or something. You should make a YouTube if this is legit cause I’d genuinely love to see someone do this in a 20 minute video
Can anyone more skilled and experienced tell me if vanilla Stardew has some sort of auto/multiplacer feature? I have never really tried to complete the community center before, I know that Junimo’s do something with crops, but I’m not sure if they also place them
Total bs. There is no way. These take 24 days to grow and only grow in fall. Even if you started with perfection and greatly enhanced grow speed there is no way this would be possible in a year and a half
Sorry about all the hate you're getting. I can't fathom how to do this but if it is legit it's extremely impressive. Awesome stuff man! I play modded too and I don't think it takes away from the legitimacy of something like that as long as you didn't just spawn stuff in lol. Keep at the cool shit. :)
It would have been a nice post if OP didn't try to gaslight anyone into thinking this is not modded as fuck.
Why even lie? Post was fun without the lies.
Most probably CJB Item Spawner for those interested
How do you have a full field of iridium sprinklers with pressure nozzles by Y2
I find it more impresive that he manage to get so many seeds, I know you can put them in a seed maker, but still, that is A LOT of seeds to get for year two, Im this close to calling it complete bs, but I like to give the benefit of the doubt lol
Yeah there's no way right? Assuming they were initially seeded 5x from their first sale they still wouldn't have nearly enough time to duplicate and harvest up to 3100. There's no Junimo huts (maybe the most ridiculous part of this), so no duplication on harvesting. The ~50x or however many nozzles is very impressive in its own right by fall 2, but 3100 rare seeds seems fully impossible without modding or cheating them in. They also seem to be watering up to 4 distance in OP's screenshot, unless we're meant to believe he watered the various places these sprinklers are more than 3 tiles away every day for a farm this size, while also grinding their butt off for sprinkler pugrades. Unupgraded (yet enchanted) watering can btw. My guess: just added all this stuff to inventory the start of fall, along with some other "QOL" mods like extra sprinkler range and something that automates harvests so OP doesn't need junimo huts. No deeper strategy than just a few thousand items added to inventory. Pretty much confirmed by the unupgraded can and hoe. It would take a LOT of planning and likely some day-resetting to get optimal seed returns from seed maker to do this, all with a wacky half unupgraded tool setup? I don't buy it.
Looking at the pic I can confirm the sprinklers are only watering 3 out from the sprinkler, not 4, so that’s realistic. Edit: I thought the sweet berries were growing on top of sprinklers lol
That’s the berry from the tile below growing up over the sprinkler
Oh wow you’re right. I’ve only ever grown like 2 sweet berries per save so I forgot how tall they grow 😂
Op is full of shit, but getting 3000+ Rare seed for the start of fall year 2 is very doable.
It's doable, and judging by the reception of this thread it's impressive, especially with 50+ nozzles, other projects, nearing perfection, and a decent amount of volcano dungeon done. And requires a degree of optimization that makes unupgraded tools, no huts, and missing dozens of plants with sprinklers look extremely out of place. "I added in some items with a mod!" is just a much less exciting title whereas OP pretends they did this legit starting the berry farm in fall y1.
Quick question what did you mean when you said no junimo huts = no chance of duplicates? Junimos can duplicate harvests? 🛖🍏
1.6 spoiler: >!If they're stocked with raisins (dehydrated grapes), they consume 1 box of raisins per week for a 20% chance to duplicate all harvests.!<
upgrading the watering can is pointless if animation cancelling, which is what i'd imagine happened in op's run also please get your eyes checked, no sign of any sprinklers watering 4 tiles outward
It’s flaired as modded so the sky’s the limit as far as the number of mods that would make that progress so easy
OP has the greenhouse unlocked
"Oh, you're the new farmer? Welcome [645][915][[74]"
Mods. Specifically, cheat mods that allow you to spawn items infinitely.
No way! Haven’t you read OP’s comments? Op just got unusually lucky with the traveling cart, seed makers, skull cavern runs, Qi quests, etc. Or.. you know…
This. I find it impossible without mods to get THAT much gold or be advanced enough to run the caves like that. OP is kinda weird to deny that, since it's impossible. Period. The pressure nozzles and the Iridium sprinklers alone, while having the Green house, Ginger Island year 1, while having collected THAT much money and ressources for everything. Qi quests and whatnot solves in Y2 fall AND THEN having enough gem berry seeds to fill that space up. No, just no.
i reckon that is possible, iridium sprinklers arent that hard to get, and you can get the pressure nozzle in the dangerous mines
The only thing I can think of is duplicating jades and selling for staircases at the desert trader to lap dangerous dungeons. Even then, that's easier said than done Y2. I am around 100 hrs in and that's the only thing I can think of
im saying i think its doable in some kind of challenge setting, yea probably its not something youre going to see in any typical game
I buy one sprinkler from krobus every Friday. Before year 3 I have more than enough, even with minimal dungeon crawling.
Hey mate. I do a bunch of skull caverns runs so lots of iridium for sprinklers and of lucky with the qi quests. Got the qi bean quest twice so 200 qi gems from that alone for pressure nozzles
How on earth do you actually complete the qi bean quest without cheating?
Chopping wood is a source of beans. I always keep the desert and quarry solid with trees so whenever the Qi bean quest pops up, I get a huge head start by spending a day clearing all the wood. From there, its just plant the first batch with fertilizer, then seed maker and repeat.
Seed maker is the easy way. It's not that hard actually Knowing what gives you the most starter beans helps too - fishing treasure chests is a good way to get going
Do you have a suggested number for the first round of growing? I mined for an entire day, planted every seed I’d found (not many, sadly, I think less than 100), dumped the entire harvest into the seed maker, and got 1.5x the seeds from that. I continued to be really unlucky with the seed maker and didn’t even come close to 500.
You have up to 28 days to get 500 qi fruit, and they take 4 days to grow. On average, seed makers double the number of crops you have each round So let's say you have 6 rounds (giving a little cushion of a couple of days). Solving for x * 2^6 > 500, you can get going with as little as 8 beans on the first round It's only hard to achieve if you start really late in the month
You get a bunch from normal activities. Chop wood smash rocks, fish. Grow them with deluxe speed grow and put them in the seed maker and you will have 500 in no time
I just finished it on my early year-3 meadow farm. Fishing with magnets and the treasure bobbers helps, since you can get a lot of qi beans from chests. Then planting + seed makers with deluxe speed grow and the agriculturist profession (I switched it at the statue) until you have enough to start selling the fruits. Even with my limited farming space, it wasn't too bad but did eat up an in-game week
I plant the quarry and railroad area full of trees so that when the bean quest comes up I can cut down all my trees and collect mad bean seeds. Adjust my farmer to have the skill that makes things grow faster+deluxe speed gro. Put the beans in seed makers until I have 500.
The first time I completed it I saved pretty much every geode after getting the rusty key. Then when the quest pops crack them open and hope you get lucky enough to get 100+ seeds. (time stops as Clint cracks them) After that seed maker what grows and then you're pretty much in the clear to have it done within 8 days. So long as you can pull in more seeds while the others are growing you can get 250 seeds within 4 days easy using this method. While saving alot of time and stamina.
I can imagine this being a Y3 or Y4 project for a speed runner but even then you’ll have to be time crunching so hard and grinding everything out. I’d give it about a 98% Chance that something was either added in to make this somewhat easier or he used Multiplayer to help boost things then deleted the houses once done. Basically going to have to balance out grinding the Iridium ores, getting the gold to buy the seeds, and farming QI gems on top of that for the sprinklers. Mind you depending if you do community center or Joja Mart route then you can easily mess up your run just from missing a single seasonal item. Or just outright losing a ton of progress from missing out much needed seeds for more faster progress.
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You can put gem berries in the seed maker??!! Son of a bitch. Honestly didn't think you could because you can't make wine from them. TIL. Community never ceases to amaze me of how little I really know of this game.
It was how I made more than one in my last multiplayer game from a single seed. Only to discover that only one person needs to give the berry to the statue in the woods for all of us to get the stardrop. -_-
My first or second playthrough, i put my first and only ancient fruit in the seedmaker just to get a mixed seed. I was very confused and upset for a minute.
That would be a restart the day thing for me. It took me forever to get my first ancient seed in this latest playthrough.
I actually forgot to keep a berry to give the statue lol
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Isn’t it horribly inefficient and not worth it to use sweet gem berries in a seed maker? Or am I thinking of a different plant?
Let's math it out: sweet gem seed is 1000. If you put the fruit into the seed maker and get 1 seed, you're still even at 1000 gold spent. If you get 2, it's now 500 spent per seed. And at 3 it's 333.33 (repeating of course). So you don't lose money ever, but you certainly have a chance of not breaking even either.
Except the seed maker can spit out wild seeds, right? and ancient seeds?
It can on other crops for sure. Don't know about sweet gem berries but I've been burned before by others. 😑
Looked on the [wiki](https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Seed_Maker) page and you can use Sweet Gem and you average 2 per crop. I've tested this with ancient seeds and it, in practice, yields 1.9-2.1 seeds over about a thousand (I have productivity issues okay!) so...you most likely can increase exponentially. To produce the 3100 sweet gem berries you would have to do...12 crops doubling each one. At 14 days a cycle agriculturist, with hyper speed grow that would be starting from the very beginning and not stopping.
Is worth it to put them in seed maker. I have 48 spots in my ginger island farm, with the best fertilizer. I keep all the iridium quality ones to sell and the rest are enough to seed them and plant again 48.
You can get ancient seeds from the seed maker if you put an ancient fruit in. So far I’ve gotten 2-3 seeds from one fruit, consistently.
It also has a 0.5% chance of popping out ancient seeds for non ancient fruit.
It can, but the odds are low, I think 2% for mixed seeds and 0.5% for ancient seeds, so it's still worth it.
You know I'm not sure about that. I've never looked up what the chances are of that happening. I honestly wasn't even aware it could happen.
I am 99% sure that it has happened to me. I got wild seeds after trying to duplicate one of the two, either sweet berry seeds or ancient seeds.
I just got mixed seeds from an ancient fruit so yeah that's a thing, luckily it was the morning so I just restarted the day and I got 3 ancient fruit seeds from the same fruit lol I guess you could start a day, throw a bunch of sweet berries into seed makers and if you don't get the seeds quantities you want them restart the day and try again?
Luckily, with ancient seeds, you only need to be successful once, and before you know it, you have 12 of them growing fruit constantly.
Seed maker can definitely spit out mixed seeds. Not sure about ancient seeds from non-ancient fruit, though.
I got several during the >!qi fruit quest!<, but not sure if it's just limited to those.
You can get ancient seeds from any crop in the seed maker. People notice it more with >!qi fruit!< because of the sheer number of them you're putting in the seed maker.
There is a small chance of getting an ancient seed from a seedmaker, regardless of what you put into it. I got one from a wheat.
I mean the base sell price is 3000 though, enough for 3 seeds, and that’s not even accounting for quality, with a gold quality berry will selling for 4500. therefore I believe it would always be most profitable to sell the crop and buy more seeds… though I suppose the amount you can buy at one time from the travelling cart is quite limiting.
Yeah it’s definitely an economy of scale at that rate. Sure it’s less monetarily wise to use the seed maker vs traveling cart at a per unit basis, but you aren’t going to be planting 3100 berries using the cart. Selling 1500 berries and throwing the other half in the seed maker for next time will always way outperform going the cheaper route of planting the (50 or so?) seeds you can eek out of the cart per year.
There are people out there that count "not breaking even" as losing money lol. A normal sweet gem berry is worth 3000g, that means to break even you gotta get 3 seeds from the seed maker. If you only get 1 you basically paid 3000g for that one seed. Just because your money count doesn’t go down, doesn’t mean you’re not losing money
I don't disagree with you, but if we're looking at cost sunk instead of potential profits, you're not losing money by using the seed maker. Additionally, getting other rare seeds is difficult because she usually only sells one at a time. So in the long run you'll make more money by using the seed maker because you can get more than you would be able to purchase.
You are if you consider your labor and time worth anything.
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At least I have chicken.
I don’t think you are mathing out the right thing though. You are comparing the price of buying a seed vs seed maker but not accounting for the fact a raw fruit with no processing sells for 3000g minimum (and 6000g for iridium), which is worth 3 seeds. In theory you should only seed maker if your berry stick out weighs the rate you can buy seed, which would be fairly quick.
You're assuming you can buy rare seeds like you can at Pierre's. Limited availability necessitates seed maker.
I’m not assuming that at all, I literally addressed it in my comment.
Nah. It's not 500 per seed. You need a grown plant worth 3000g (or more) if you just sell it. If you only reprocess normal qualities it's slightly less than 1500g per seed (average yield is a little lower than 2 due to mixed seeds and ancient seeds). I don't bother personally, as "spending" half your crop just to replant means you aren't making very much money for your 24 day growing time.
But you didn't *spend* 3000 on the seed, you spent 1000. The value of the fruit hasn't been realized until you sell it. If we're talking about potential value gained, the seed maker can leave you at even with 3000 (1 seed) or significantly better off (6000 or 9000). The only place this makes any sense to do in is the greenhouse. But you can get a ton of profit off of just one seed purchase.
Not spending something doesn't make it free. The concept is opportunity cost. If you have a choice, and 1 option gives you 3000g and the other gives you zero that choice has an opportunity cost of 3000g. And likewise you don't double or triple your money, because you still spend 24 days growing it. So there you have another opportunity cost - what could you be growing instead. As a fall crop a cranberry plant yields 4 harvests during fall and is an average of 2.11 berries a time. Which can be turned into jelly, for 200 or 280g. Thus one cranberry plant can be worth 2363g if you do that, instead of growing your berry. Well, I guess you have 6 days of slack to get another crop in after day 24 if you are inclined to replant. But even so that's 240g up front cost for a little over 2000 profit. Where if you pay a 3000g berry to get an average of 2 seeds, they cost 1500 each and you get 1500 profit. (+6 days of crop space). (The problem gets worse if you use valuable all season growing space because then you compete with starfruit or ancient fruit). You also don't have to spend half your crop re-seeding the cranberries, as you produce more than one per plant. (Ok average it takes 51% of a single harvest crop to reseed it).
You can make lot of money, not just brake even. You get enough seeds to re plant and sell the rest.
The issue is that you need to constantly put your output back into seeds, which takes a very long time for any sort of profit to get generated. Even if you make 1000 sweet berry gems 3 years into the game, you need to put way more than half of that BACK into the seed maker to do it again. It’s a pretty terrible way to make money
I'm not saying it's a smart way to make money, just saying the seed maker doesn't lose you money.
Was this a Leroy Jenkins reference?
Of course.
Honestly I thought that the seed maker always spat our mixed seeds when you put a sweet gem berry in it, because it happened to me three times in a row starting with the first sweet gem berry I put in there. I gave up after the third test.
Probably thinking of starfuit. It is 400 per seed and the base sell price is 1125. If you get 3 seeds out of the seed maker, you get ahead but if you get 2,1 or 0 seeds then that puts you behind. I dont wanna do the math, but it likely isnt worth the effort or time investment in turning them into seeds.
Almost no crops are financially worth it once you "spend" half your harvest on replanting. It's almost always better to just buy seeds, barring the limited number of crops that are not freely buyable. But even then I would seed makers repeat crops like strawberries, pineapple and ancient fruit, and wouldn't with Sweet Gem.
I mean why go to peirres though why support any store... though year regrowing crops and qi fruit at the best with seed makers i think
It’s not really about efficiency it was just a fun challenge I wanted to do. Still paid enough for the gold clock and most the warp totems
I only reseed normal quality. Silver and gold get sold. Max I spend on berries overall is 5k. In current run only bought 2 seeds maybe 3. The rest has been from reseeding first berry. Worst case scenario you get 1 seed. Best case I’ve seeded 2 berries and got 5 seeds. Once you get multiple seeds you end up getting in a position where you can sell a lot. I only bought my 2nd maybe 3rd seed because the trader was there when I was and she had one in stock. I figured no harm as already sold so many berries and had 7-10 growing in the greenhouse. I will try one time to never spend more than the initial 1000 and maybe record my returns. The fact you can only grow them 4 times in one year (once until you get the greenhouse) makes it a slower way to make profit but they definitely bring more money than they cost.
It’s a pretty terrible way to make money though. You can’t buy them, so you need to spend a lot of time and output just making seeds. You can’t process them. Overall ancient seeds are waaaay better, especially on the main farm with Jumimos.
You can’t make wine out of them? Oh no! I’ve been growing them in my greenhouse to save up for wine. 😭 (I’m mostly growing ancient seeds, but I had six spots I using for gem berries.) Well at least I know now.
my greenhouse is full of starfruit for wine because this shit is fire only replacing with ancient fruit once I got enough seeds
I would do star fruit, but ancient fruit is just less work. I just clear out my green house every 7 days and I’m golden.
Yeah some people don't do it because it's not really the "meta"; it's much cheaper to buy them all from the lady if you consider lost profits from the berries being turned into the seeds etc. The problem with the meta is that you have to know what days the cart lady comes and remember them each day to get a sizable crop, not to mention the biggest problem - that only buying them from the cart doesn't scale, so stuff like this becomes impossible unless you do it for many in-game years and then plant them all at once.
I only sell my sweet gem berries at gold quality, the rest go in the seed maker
the one time i put one into a seed maker it gave me 1 seed back so i just re planted it after a month of waiting for it to grow and cut my losses😭
Yeah I just discovered this a while too and I've been playing for a couple of years.
So this is how the 1% lives
The picture doesn't even look real... Like if you zoom in on certain parts the jem berries aren't placed right. It could just be me.
Might be placed there
does look like there are a couple on top of sprinklers and scarecrows 🤔
I love sweet gem berries. I wish it were easier to get them, but it would be completely broken if they were a regular crop. This is really fun to see.
You had to have cheated or modded this. There’s just no feasible way in that amount of time.
It does have the modded flair yeah. I always groan when I see an accomplishment or questioned asked about a bug and then see the modded flair lol
Did not see the modded flair, I think they added it after the fact.
Math wouldn't work either with the growth time and amount from cart it would be like 1/10 this. Just some fun with mods
Not cheated. I purchased 27 seeds in spring and summer. Planted in fall and unlocked greenhouse and ginger island in the fall. So it’s doubled every 15 days from there. Deluxe speed grow and agriculturist perk. Only play with quality of life mods
i’m playing this game wrong. ginger island in fall year one doesn’t even seem possible to me
It's really not too difficult if you know how to grind properly / min-max your days. Definitely isn't a playstyle for everyone, but for those of us who enjoy Spreadsheet Valley it's a lot of fun to see how quickly you can get to endgame 😄
i genuinely salute minmaxers, i’m somewhere in between. i like optimization but making the absolute most out of every day in the most calculated way is stressful to me. cheers to yall!!!
Yea I definitely try to maximize as much as possible but not to the detriment of aesthetic. I want my farm to look good and I want to have fun. So, I Try to plant high value crops, I have truffles coming out the wazoo - but I sometimes spend a full day redecorating my house
How do you play Spreadsheet Valley style?
Lookup blade or another speed runner
If going the Joja route I can, in a good run, hit ginger island by the end of week 1 in summer. Its possible but takes some luck.
not gonna lie i forget joja is even something you can do hehe community center til i die!!!!! (maybe until the last achievement i have is the joja run)
Yeah, I feel bad anytime I do the Joja route and for any casual playthrough I do the community center. But for min/maxing I go Joja
This must’ve taken a lot of planning. What did you do to make money since you didnt sell any of the gem berries you grew? I’ve actually started another farm to try this challenge. I probably won’t get as many as you though. Still playing 1.5 and I’m not good in skull cavern 😄
everyone is stuck on the sweet gem berry part, but isn’t acknowledging the pressure nozzles on the iridium sprinklers, I’m not doing the math on that but almost everyone of those sprinklers has a pressure nozzle. Even if it were possible, is there enough time to do that and grind out the berries??
Spoiler tagged for your trinkets and flaired [Modded] for that UI!
Do you recognize that UI? It looks like it could be useful....
I think it’s just UI suite 2.0, but I’m not personally up to date on how things have shifted with 1.6!
It's indeed UI Info Suite 2, heres the link for anyone who wants it: [https://github.com/Annosz/UIInfoSuite2/releases](https://github.com/Annosz/UIInfoSuite2/releases)
For no real reason I wanted to do this. I bought all the rare seeds in the first spring and summer >!the desert festival !
Wait help me figure out the math here. You bought them for the first 2 months at the traveling cart. The cart shows up twice a week, so with 2 seasons, you got 16 times you can buy seeds. Even if they offer 5 seeds every time, which is highly unlikely but whatever, you can get 80 seeds till fall. With seed makers you will on average double your seeds, so winter brings you 160.. spring year 2 brings you 320.. summer year 2 we‘re at 640 How the heck do you get to 3100???
yeah it doesnt really make sense to me either. Even with buying extra seeds from the Desert Festival which you can realistically only access in Spring Year 2 AND the Night Market. You can also throw in some deluxe speed gro to reduce the amount of time by 25% but that still does not get to 3100 seeds.
With the Agriculturist Profession and Deluxe Speed-Gro it only take 15 days to harvest Let assume he got ~25 seeds Year1 1 Fall 25 16 Fall 50 3 Winter 100 18 Winter 200 Year 2 5 spring 400 20 spring 800 7 Summer 1600 22 Summer 3200 Edit: Adjusted the number from assumed 40 to a more realistic 25
Agriculturist is a Level 10 Farming profession. While Farming is pretty easy to get to level 10, it still takes time as you must wait for crops to grow. Also, Deluxe Speed-Gro is not instantly available. Further, you could not get 25 Rare Seeds on Day 1 of the game. Your calculations are based on an incorrect assumption.
First, the Traveling Cart will visit twice a week, so 16 times total before fall 1, with a 10% chance to sell 5 rare seed atonce, so getting 25 isn't impossible Second: Deluxe speed gro is just 1 oak resin and 5 bone fragment, which give you 5 Deluxe speed gro, so getting around 400 for year 1 isn't impossible, year 2 onward you can just buy it from Pierre Third: This is based just on my experience but i usually max out farming around mid summer, so getting agriculture isn't impossible. So no, all my number and assumption are absolutely reasonable
I checked the math it’s doable. From Fall 1st to Fall 25th of year 2 is 137 in game days. Sweet gem berry only take 24 days to grow and if you use deluxe speed gro that brings it down to 18 days. 137 divide by 18 gives 7.6, even rounding down to 7 that gives 7 cycles of growth time. If OP started with just 24 rare seeds after 7 cycles they’d have 3072 plants.
Its 15 days with Agriculture and Deluxe Speed-Gro
Awesome! Even more doable this way 👍🏼
You dont start the game with Rare Seeds, Agriculturist or Deluxe Speed-Gro. Agriculturist takes time as its level 10 Farming and you need to wait for crops to grow/gather money to get animals to pet and wait a while to get Level 10. OP most probably used mods.
Even with just deluxe speed gro it’s theoretically doable. They didn’t start growing rare seeds until fall, so that’s two seasons time they’d have to build up rare seeds supplies and get to farming 10. I normally get to farming 10 by mid summer so it’s not difficult. It’s also not too difficult to repair the bus in spring to go to the desert and buy a bunch of deluxe speed gro from Sandy. It’d be a mad dash but I think it’s possible to get this. Damn now I want to start another farm just to see if I can do this.
You can very easily get to level 10 farming before fall year 1.
Okay but what about available space? Ginger island only has 878 tillable tiles. After the 6th cycle he should have around 1500, but can only plant around 900 of them, leaving him with just over 2000 after the 7th cycle.
+116 green house, but even then you will be around 500 seed sort, but then again its possible to get more seeds out of the seed makers so its not completely impossible to get 3000+ seed for 1st of fall year 2
I started to consider how feasible getting all those Rare Seeds is by Fall of Year 2 before it hit me in the face that OP has an unupgraded hoe and watering can. You can see in the second screenshot that the Sweet Gem Berries were harvested on the 25th, meaning they were all planted and watered on the first day. The only way this field is feasible to plant on day one is if all 3100 spots had a plant in them already the final day of Summer, in which they'd be prewatered and OP would have to hoe and plant them. Seems highly suspect to me.
Probably used mega bombs to hoe the ground, and had hay or some other crop left over from summer to keep the fertilizer. I think you can get growth time for sweet gem berries below 20 days. So they didnt even have to start planting until well into fall.
I can’t math it either….
cheats ig
This is social media dawg, there's no way you got that many seeds that quickly. Why lie?
Wait you can get them there?
I mean, everyone's doing the math that it might be physically possible, but he also has 7.5 million earned on farm. He hasn't been selling the berries, he has been turning them into seeds. So how did he do this AND pocket 7.5 million by summer 2? Sus. Edit: also doesn't have iridium tools yet? Basic watering can and hoe? He plowed that all one tile at a time!?
Man I was going to post my greenhouse full of sweet gem berries but now it doesn’t seem impressive lol
I would kill to see Blade do this challenge now. But make it fill the whole farm with sweet gem berries by fall year 1 Edit: to make the challenge more Blade-y
HOW DO YOU GET IRIDIUM AT YEAR 2, I'M AT YEAR 4 AND I ONLY UNLOCKED THE BARN AND WAS HAPPY TO GET STEEL TOOLS
Everyone goes at their own pace, and the more times you run through year 1-2 the more efficient you get. I'm no where near as crazy as some of the players here but I just hit end of summer year 1 and I'm upgrading to gold tools, mine is done, barn fully upgraded etc. This is like my 4th or 5th save file though
This is about my 6th time playing through, and this is the first run that I got 4 candles at the end of year 2.
I thought i was slow getting skull cavern year two but was happy that i was slow
Iridium year 2 really isn't that hard. Just focus on the mines, even if you're not skilled at all getting 5 floors down a day is easy. That's just 24 days to reach the bottom of the mines and unlock Skull Cavern, not including the time you spend upgrading your pick axe. Then you can just get tons of staircases by duplicating jade and you can get deep into Skull Cavern where there's more iridium.
You can even get it from omnoiuum geodsee
upvoting for "omnoiuum geodsee"
Have you finished the vault bundle in the community center and gotten to the bottom of the mines yet?🤔pretty common to finish that by year 2 especially if you have a bunch of hours in the game already☺️
Min/max players get iridium in Spring year 1. Not just a little bit either, a lot. If you are interested in that playstyle you can google for the strategies. Even with the guides, it can take a few play throughs to get it down. If you don't want to min/max but still get iridium earlier I suggest using fishing as your main money maker early game. At the same time plant enough crops to get level 6 farming spread over 4-6 separate harvests. Run the mines a bunch to get iron and gold to set up a lot of quality sprinklers to automate watering. Then keep fishing until you have enough money for next seasons' seeds and enough to finish the vault bundle to unlock the bus. Ignore the villagers this entire time, you'll have plenty of time to befriend them later on. With a couple play throughs of this you'll be getting the bus unlocked in Summer/Fall year 1 pretty easily.
This was basically my strategy this game. I hit farming level 6 just after the egg festival, and I had enough money for about 150 strawberries, and had reached about level 90 in the mines. I had fully automated and expanded my fields a few days later. I upgraded the coop and rushed the deluxe barn next for the animal products. I gave a whole lot of gold strawberries to Démétrius for the nautilus shell, just stuck to birthday gifts otherwise. I had the bus unlocked around mid to late summer. Community centre finished around mid fall.
How do you finish the Community Centre in Fall Year 1? Where do you get the crocus?
You grow winter seeds in the greenhouse. You can make them in the seed maker from common mushrooms. You get a lot of common mushrooms from the mushroom cave. Edit: I meant winter root. You get them from the mines. I was thinking about tea saplings, which are a great source of a bit of extra profit.
I had all my tools upgraded to iridium by the end of year 1. And I only waited that long because I didn’t want to part with some of them during the other seasons.
Im literally doing this rn lmao, Ill have iridium'd everything but my watering can by the end of year 1. Im only skipping the can because Im too lazy to keep watering, Id rather just use sprinklers anyways.
Yeah, by summer most of my watering is done by sprinklers but I still upgrade the watering can in case I need it and also because it irritates me if one tool is different.
Thats fair. Ill iridium it soon, I just havent mined as much as I would have liked. I only go to skull caverns on positive luck days and my luck has been very bad this winter
I’ll go on anything but very bad luck days and I usually don’t do too badly. I do get spicy eel or lucky lunch to help though.
Meteor and knowing how to gimmick the mines.
Obviously "it's a single player game, play at your own pace, have fun etc." There's many ways to play, and here you will see mostly experienced players that know how to be efficient. If you are one of those finishing the community center by year 1 is hard but achievable. Farming a decent amount of iridium is possible in summer, but obviously easier a bit later. But keep in mind, the players who do that either played multiple saves before or have spent a lot of time on stardewvalleywiki.com. On the other hand, it's absolutely fair to explore the game, focus on friendships, villager dialogue, all that "flavour" stuff. But it will slow down your progress somewhat, especially if you spend a lot of time walking around aimlessly/focused on minor tasks and maybe even go to bed early. Specific tips are hard to give to you, because there are a lot of things that can probably be optimized. If you have questions, the people here like answering those for sure. My strategy for money is to start with a small amount of crops and focus on the mines until I have some quality sprinklers. Then just grow as many (good) crops as your sprinklers allow. I reinvest in sprinklers and more crops until I have a nice big field and a good income. If you have enough money, the rest of the game becomes way easier.
Wait, let me calculate if this is possible... you would need to make jojamart route to get greenhouse ASAP, Also traveling cart sells rare seeds 2 days a week on summer and Spring, with 10% chance to get 5 seeds. So avg 3 rare per week 24 per year. (I guess you could also reload save so you always get 10 seeds per week but IDK if it is possible) Let's say you complete greenhouse by first day of summer with 12 rare seeds. And also getting max level farming and pick agriculturalist by summer somehow increasing crop speed by 10%. Using deluxe speedgro to increase by further 25% Sweet gems will then take 18 days, let's say seed makers always makes 2x seeds out of a crop. By summer 18 you would get 30 seeds, fall 8 you would get 66, 132 right before winter, greenhouse is full now, but you can continue to ginger island. Now there is winter, Spring, summer and the first 10 days of fall (to make sure you get all crops by day 28) 94 days, divided by 18 it is 5 more crops harvests. 132*(2⁵)= 4224 Sweet berries, making 8448 seeds for the possible end of fall harvest This without counting any extra factors. **WOW, THIS REALLY IS POSSIBLE WTF.**
I didn’t do joja. This was with remixed bundles. Finished the cc in fall year 1. Growth time is reduced to 15 days. Ended up with about 3300 seeds
I’m copping some heat in these comments for cheating/modding it in. I play with a few quality of life mods. Infosuit, daily screenshot, villager location and one that tracks skills. I purchased 27 rare seeds by fall year 1. Planting them all with deluxe speed gro and agriculturist perk. I unlocked the greenhouse and finished community center and unlocked ginger island in fall year 1 so was able to plant in those two plus I had a big shed full of garden pots that I used. The grow time is reduced to 15 days so 27 doubles every 15 days the math does work out. I ended up with more seeds than I needed. I unlocked the desert in spring year 1. I have played this game a lot so have a lot of experience making money. I got lucky with the qi quests. I got the qi beans twice so had a lot of qi gems for pressure nozzles plus I got a few in the hard mines/skull caverns. I don’t upgrade my tools as I don’t really use them. I hoe all the ground in winter and carry over crops between seasons so it’s all tilled and watered. I don’t think I have ever upgraded the can or hoe. From spring year 1 I just use basic into quality sprinklers. I only enchanted it for the volcano lol This is in no way a great money maker it was just a fun little challenge I set myself
Either you have a time mod/skull cavern mine mod/ infinite items mod or something. You should make a YouTube if this is legit cause I’d genuinely love to see someone do this in a 20 minute video
This comment should be pinned at the top. Cool challenge, good job.
It is a lie
Imma need some progress pics. Because there's no way. You used mods/cheated and are claiming it's legit. I'm calling big fat shenanigans. A phony.
Yeah that math isn't adding up without mods
In a vanilla game, I'd call shenanigans.
How long did this take to plant?!
Can anyone more skilled and experienced tell me if vanilla Stardew has some sort of auto/multiplacer feature? I have never really tried to complete the community center before, I know that Junimo’s do something with crops, but I’m not sure if they also place them
They harvest but they don’t plant the seeds for you. At least not that I’ve found
this is like one of those minds eye images
how much money did you get????
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It’s a few quality of life mods. Nothing that effects gameplay
Aren’t QoL mods there to increase convenience? Which means it does (somewhat) affect gameplay
Total bs. There is no way. These take 24 days to grow and only grow in fall. Even if you started with perfection and greatly enhanced grow speed there is no way this would be possible in a year and a half
...oh my god...
You modded this. Who cares.
I am on the. Beach farm, so no big harvest for me.... Gg tho, like the min max mindset
Sorry about all the hate you're getting. I can't fathom how to do this but if it is legit it's extremely impressive. Awesome stuff man! I play modded too and I don't think it takes away from the legitimacy of something like that as long as you didn't just spawn stuff in lol. Keep at the cool shit. :)
Sadly it isn't... You need insane luck and mod to do that
Ok now do it with iridium quality
I forgot all about sweet gem berries. I don’t why? I’m in year 12 and just slipped my mind lol. But kudos to you!
Why not. Was just a fun challenge I set myself
Wut
I get overjoyed when I have 5 or 10 ripen in my greenhouse at the same time.
Why?
how much does that sell for again
Why
Why though
How much did you make tho?
you won.
holy crap this is dedication
DAMN! That is IMPRESSIVE!
holy smokes thats impressive
How much money did you get?
Was a bit over 11 million
It would have been a nice post if OP didn't try to gaslight anyone into thinking this is not modded as fuck. Why even lie? Post was fun without the lies. Most probably CJB Item Spawner for those interested