What is You favorite Season and why?
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One More Day
Farmer
Hard to choose. I really love them all, apart from Fall, obviously
They all offer something appealing. Spring has the incomparable challenge of getting everything set up, Summer has the most valuable single season crop, the best forageables and an abundance of challenging fish, and Winter has the best music, and the most beautiful scenery. Fall looks way too browny-orange, only offers mediocre crops, and has the worst music.
They all offer something appealing. Spring has the incomparable challenge of getting everything set up, Summer has the most valuable single season crop, the best forageables and an abundance of challenging fish, and Winter has the best music, and the most beautiful scenery. Fall looks way too browny-orange, only offers mediocre crops, and has the worst music.
Ferris Bueller
Farmer
it's autumn/fall because it's so colourful! winter has nice soothing music but looks so empty if you have a lot of trees or crops
StardewNiblet
Greenhorn
Definitely Fall, I may be biased because one of my favorite marriage candidates is Abigail and Pumpkins are one of her favorite gifts. However, the aesthetic of fall in the vanilla game is incredible, and some of the best crops grow in the fall (for example, Pumpkins, and Fairy Roses), not only this but the Stardew Valley Fair and Spirits eve take place in fall, and they are arguably the best of all the festivals in the Vanilla Game. I don't like the other seasons much either, the crops in the other seasons are cool but other than that I would honestly prefer it to be fall all year round (especially since mushrooms are only available to forage in fall unless you choose the mushroom cave and even then, you only get 6 every time you get them out of the cave.) That's my reasoning but it honestly depends on what your play style is, what your aesthetic is, and what some of your favorite items are. Except Winter, Winter just kinda sucks (But that is just my opinion in the long run, like what you want, it doesn't affect me.)
Aly_Inscore
Greenhorn
I love summer personally cuz i just think its really colorful and fun second place would be spring cuz i LOVE the festivals
MogBeoulve
Farmer
I like all of them for about three weeks, and then I can't wait for the next season.
riaismyname
Farmhand
probably winter because of the bgm but fall / autumn really looks cute and my husband elliotts bday is on fall so definitely fall.
nicodeux
Farmer
Autumn is by far my favorite season in Stardew Valley.
I love the music. If sometimes I happen to play Stardew Valley with the sound muted, it is never during autumn: I play another farmer instead and wait to be able to play with the sound on.
I also like the atmosphere, colour tones, fruits, crops and forageables of the seaon. Some of my favorite NPCs have their birthday in autumn.
Strangely enough, I'm not a big fan of the festival for this season. Yes, they are very well done and funny, but they are not my favorite ones.
I love the music. If sometimes I happen to play Stardew Valley with the sound muted, it is never during autumn: I play another farmer instead and wait to be able to play with the sound on.
I also like the atmosphere, colour tones, fruits, crops and forageables of the seaon. Some of my favorite NPCs have their birthday in autumn.
Strangely enough, I'm not a big fan of the festival for this season. Yes, they are very well done and funny, but they are not my favorite ones.
FilthyGorilla
Local Legend
Spring is nice but the crops are incredibly bad, summer colours are just bland, I enjoy fall colours and music, same with winter I like to take the focus off of farming on play throughs where it’s a large aspect of the game
Lew Zealand
Helper
Well you'd think it would be Winter because it's rumored there's far less to do, so barely any excuse is needed to take it easy and avoid my Crops and Animals and Spouse and..... Mmmm but then there's the glare. Really Winter is eye- and soul-searing and something must be done about it. Related to that is the weirdest and most jarring thing about Winter: how you get the Magnifying Glass. Why on Yoba's green SPF 50 white Ferngill Republic is a Shadow Person out in the day when it's blinding out?? I'm playing the game through a welder's mask with eye black below my eyes and some in my ears to temper the dour Winter music. That Shadow Person is basically streaking at a sporting event. After which you catch him burning ants in clear spots under bushes forcing him to hastily shove the deadly weapon of choice at the Farmer, saying "shedidit!" and splitting into thin air.
Then there's the Night Market. Hey everyone, lets meet at the Beach!
In Winter.
At night.
Over the water.
For 3 days.
I am 100% convinced that Penny wears full length patterned leg warmers. The pattern being that of her own legs. OK maybe Haley's. There's no other explanation for her continual refusal to be frostbitten.
Winter Year 1 also comes with... disappointment and failure. And there's whole month of it to remind you, like what MogBeoulve said but instead it lasts ~27 days once Winter realization sinks in. Didja unlock the Greenhouse? Nah, forgot to visit the Cart Lady like 1/3 the time and no Red Cabbage. Are ya growing Fiber for easy g Tea Saplings? Erm, well no because Emily and Gunther and Lewis and Gus were hogging up the Special Order board all Fall. Spending the season at Ginger? Hello McFly <knocks yer headnoggin a couple times> Hello anyone home? I didn't even get the Greenhouse done much less all the Fishing!
Eh, what?
Listen bud, that Fishing Pole is a harsh mistress and it just drains me to sit at the River for hours just waiting for a bite. I need naps and the Fish have learned to wait for the snores before grabbing my Bait. More often than not I wake to an empty can where my hook used to be and I'm convinced they're swimming inside the sound-amplifying can listening to me and telling fish jokes. Which brings me to my final point about Winter. Winter weather stinks and is really not conducive tosleeping engaging in activities outside lest I risk turning into a nondescript snow-covered lump. Who invented this season where you freeze to death with a second-degree sunburn?
Nah, Spring is best. Make a minimum of effort on Winter 28 planting a few dozen Grass Starters (whew, no Hoeing and Watering needed), drag exhausted butt to bed and wake up a week or so later to 3 seasons of Animals I never need to feed or see again. If someone asks why my Farm looks unattended I just tell them it's fallow, a totally natural process, and all that is nutritious Hay to be converted into Milk, Eggs, Wool, and Truffles. Grass boom + Animals + Auto-Grabbers = happy and well-rested Farmer.
Yes yes, fallow again this year. Look I single-handedly turned that overgrown field of detritus into an overgrown field of slightly less detritus, with Cows! This is Ecology, we must not upset the delicate balance of the outdoors with sweaty, tiring planning. Let someone else fight for organization and machine accomplishment, I will chill and snooze to be one with Mother Nature.
Then there's the Night Market. Hey everyone, lets meet at the Beach!
In Winter.
At night.
Over the water.
For 3 days.
I am 100% convinced that Penny wears full length patterned leg warmers. The pattern being that of her own legs. OK maybe Haley's. There's no other explanation for her continual refusal to be frostbitten.
Winter Year 1 also comes with... disappointment and failure. And there's whole month of it to remind you, like what MogBeoulve said but instead it lasts ~27 days once Winter realization sinks in. Didja unlock the Greenhouse? Nah, forgot to visit the Cart Lady like 1/3 the time and no Red Cabbage. Are ya growing Fiber for easy g Tea Saplings? Erm, well no because Emily and Gunther and Lewis and Gus were hogging up the Special Order board all Fall. Spending the season at Ginger? Hello McFly <knocks yer headnoggin a couple times> Hello anyone home? I didn't even get the Greenhouse done much less all the Fishing!
Eh, what?
Listen bud, that Fishing Pole is a harsh mistress and it just drains me to sit at the River for hours just waiting for a bite. I need naps and the Fish have learned to wait for the snores before grabbing my Bait. More often than not I wake to an empty can where my hook used to be and I'm convinced they're swimming inside the sound-amplifying can listening to me and telling fish jokes. Which brings me to my final point about Winter. Winter weather stinks and is really not conducive to
Nah, Spring is best. Make a minimum of effort on Winter 28 planting a few dozen Grass Starters (whew, no Hoeing and Watering needed), drag exhausted butt to bed and wake up a week or so later to 3 seasons of Animals I never need to feed or see again. If someone asks why my Farm looks unattended I just tell them it's fallow, a totally natural process, and all that is nutritious Hay to be converted into Milk, Eggs, Wool, and Truffles. Grass boom + Animals + Auto-Grabbers = happy and well-rested Farmer.
Yes yes, fallow again this year. Look I single-handedly turned that overgrown field of detritus into an overgrown field of slightly less detritus, with Cows! This is Ecology, we must not upset the delicate balance of the outdoors with sweaty, tiring planning. Let someone else fight for organization and machine accomplishment, I will chill and snooze to be one with Mother Nature.
wildandblue
Sodbuster
Not a full season answer, but I love the last week of winter and the anticipation of spring. That first day of SDV spring when you walk out the door and see the lush greenery and hear birds singing is so pleasurable. Here in the far north US, it's the same way in real life except spring's arrival is never on time like it is in SDV. I wish!
Lew Zealand
Helper
This is but one example:
Yes in this one I've done more than just a Barn and Coop but is an example of the general amount of Grass that makes me happy.
Jayamos
Farmer
Oh, this is awesome, inspiring even, in its minimalism. I think you’ve posted this before with the fine slime art. And there’s your one field, appropriately placed right next to the house, trying not to be overwhelmed by the Grass. I finally get the essence of Lazy Farming.
MogBeoulve
Farmer
I made basically my entire farm into pasture. The junimos only have a couple tea leaves to harvest every month, their hut is decorative now.
nicodeux
Farmer
Your point of view is very interesting to me and is another proof that Stardew Valley speaks differently to everyone.
I have the opposite feelings: the autumn and winter musics are my favorite season musics. I find that ConcernedApe did an amazing job with them: the melancolic and contemplative tunes that one can expect from autumn and winter are always mixed with some positive and even optimistic notes (especially at the end of the music). I even remember reading a review from a journalist that had the same views regarding SDV winter soundtrack.
Wait... Junimos can harvest tea leaves? I've never thought of that... Today, I learned!
MissDandy
Farmer
Spring because it's the furthest thing from Winter. I hate snow. In real life, simulated, whatever form you can think of I hate it. Sure, it's pretty and I'll look at a picture of it. But if someone came and told me that I could never walk through snow again, or make a snowman, or catch snowflakes on my tongue, I would jump on the rooftops and scream out with joy.
Sitting in my living room playing in winter and looking out my window to a sunny, grassy hill only reminds me that "car-won't-start" season is just a short time away (although with my car that could be any day honestly). I hate snow and snow hates me, there will be no Lorelai Gilmore moments here thank you very much.
Sitting in my living room playing in winter and looking out my window to a sunny, grassy hill only reminds me that "car-won't-start" season is just a short time away (although with my car that could be any day honestly). I hate snow and snow hates me, there will be no Lorelai Gilmore moments here thank you very much.