One of my all-time favorite games since n64 has been Harvest Moon. Naturally, I’ve had a large amount of people tell me I should try Stardew Valley.
I never really looked into it much or cared to try it…until I saw someone on here mention that it has MULTIPLAYER OPTIONS?!
So, I may be changing my mind. Do any of you play? Any advice or recommendations? If you do, what are your favorite parts?
I only recently started playing it. It was a gift from a friend.
It’s pretty nice. I do recommend watching a letsplay first, just so you can get a general understanding of it and some of the options that can effect your game depending on which option you pick.
It’s one of those time waster games. Something to play when you just need to chill and don’t really have to be watching the clock to get to anything important.
Yes yes yes and yes. It is BETTER than Harvest Moon and LGBT friendly. You can multiplay with your friends or solo your farm by yourself.
I would say my favorite part was making a winery and making lots of money aging the wine in the basement casks and of course decorating and planning out my farm. The townspeople are interesting and there’s lot of intrigue going on with some of them and prospective romance choices.
Advice #1 Don’t buy the Jojomart membership and work toward rebuilding the community center. It will take a while to collect all items to unlock everything opposed to just paying for it but it is well worth it.
Advice #2 Plan to upgrade the watering can when it is going to rain the next day (watch the tv every day for weather, recipes and luck) or wait and upgrade your watering can in the winter.
Advice #3 Explore the mine (bring food!) when your luck is good or high.
Advice #4 use guides or find out what each townsperson likes and give gifts on birthdays for a bonus.
Advice #5 there is a sort of secret forest area north of the wizard tower blocked by a log you can chop up once your axe is upgraded enough. Once you can access that area there’s 4 or 5 logs of hardwood there every day.
Crap man. I literally just got a “new” ps2 for my bday because I wanted to replay HM:Save the Homeland, and I’m like halfway through that game and about to drop it for this! xD
Guide-wise, I’m using this right now. If you know of any better ones please send them my way!
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Wiki
From what I’ve seen it has a lot of content. ^ wiki will help. I have like 3h played into Stardew. I never got into it.
Whenever I tried play Stardew, I hate everyone. lol. It like I want nothing to do with the town. I have no idea why.
I felt that way about some of the newer towns of Harvest Moon (ie for Wii) because they weren’t the HM characters I grew up with. Luckily, I don’t even care about the town people very much I just want to FARM.
It is definitely one of those games where you will have to have the wiki open at all times. There are some mods that can help with taking out some of the more tedious library-hunting.
There’s something to be said for finding out everything on your own, but there are so many things that are “hidden” (read: unlocked at certain relationship levels, or only available during certain times of year, or certain times of year in certain areas during certain weather at certain hours…) it will drive you crazy.
I feel like that’s another thing it must have in common with HM then. I always had to have their guide open while playing for this reason…well, this and because every freakin’ version of it had a lot of the same things but in different seasons/locations or same characters but liked different gifts/etc. >:(
Oh, before I start my game today, is there anything I NEED to know? Someone mentioned choices that can effect the rest of my game?
AFAIK the only choice that affects the whole of the game is whether you sign up to help the town, or you sign up to help JojaMart. Which you won’t do.
Because that’s terrible.
I keep hearing about this. Is this like the Walmart of Stardew?
Yes. The game centers around your relationships with the townspeople and your farm, but there is the lurking specter of capitalism crushing the town’s spirit through JojaMart. Every small town dreads having WalMart move in because it chokes the life out of the town itself, which is exactly what happens in the game.
If you choose the JojaMart option (which I think you have to go out of your way to do in the first place) you basically cut off all the item hunting and mystical fun stuff in order to just… pay your way to the top.
Don’t do it, especially not on your first playthrough.
ALSO, one other decision that can affect the rest of your game is your farm type. Just stick with the default farm. The others are weird or multiplayer-centric.
I see. So basically what Farmville-esque games of FB became lol.
Well, one of the reasons I planned to play was to do so with guild-mates in the future so I was going to go with the multiplayer farm map. =/
The basic farm has the most space for growing crops & animals. The others have different stuff that are mostly for minor gameplay changes.
The wilderness farm, for example, has enemies that spawn. It’s really annoying and you aren’t likely to get anything useful from them!!
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Farm_Maps
Four Corners works just fine in singleplayer. But it’s tailored towards multiplayer. You might wanna go with that just so you have the options.
edit: fwiw you can go between SP and MP pretty easily. All you have to do is build a cabin for each extra player, which is really really cheap.
Thank you so much for all the info! I’m watching a few “getting started” tutorials now too. I appreciate the help!
Also, what do these mean:
As far as I know / for what it’s worth.
If I were you and I wanted to future-proof my run in order to easily accommodate friends playing, I would start a co-op game and choose the Four Corners map. You can play it in SP afterwards, but it will come with the extra cabins + quadrant gimmicks (one has mining, one has a pond, etc.) for both your personal, singleplayer use, and multiplayer shenanigans.
Awesome. I really liked the multiplayer map I saw, since there is a fishing spot and a little mining area as well which seems to be handy.
For money making, what’s that like starting out? I’m seeing everyone say “save up 2k to get the next bag size” and wondering if thats a “takes a few days” type deal or a “takes a week+” type thing.
For starting out it’s more or less identical. You have more farm space with the default farm, but you won’t be able to utilize all that extra space since you’re just starting your game.
Four Corners will give you a little bit of mining space without having to go into the actual mines or whatever.
Saving up for bags isn’t a bad idea, but you do have to spend money to make money. You will be given some starting seeds but they won’t make much money, so you’ll probably want to buy some extras.
As you can probably guess, money flow is relatively small and stable until harvest day, where it spikes massively.
When I play with my girlfriend, our thing is always planting our starter crops, getting those watered and handled, then going fishing. Since you can fish any time of day and catch fish right off the bat (as soon as Willy gives you the option to get a fishing pole), you can start making money immediately.
Sorry for all the questions.
If you are living on a friend’s/host’s farm, can you also have your own farm for single-player?
EDIT: if not, can you access the host farm if the host is offline?
The farm’s save is stored locally (on your own PC) so only the host has access to it. Other players connect to you.
However, that means that you, the host, can play it singleplayer any time you like.
I think my favorite part of SDV is the fact that its on… literally everything.
You want Xbox SDV? There’s Xbox SDV! Playstation SDV? There’s that too!
Switch SDV? Why not!
Phone/Tablet SDV? We got you!