How, and when, did you achieve perfection?

24k Ancient Fruit

Rancher
ShneekeyTheLost said:
You cannot achieve Perfection without getting into Qi's room and his endless grind. So to your question 'when will you achieve' the answer is 'never, for this reason'. However, if you want an even more on-topic rant, then I've got just the one for you, my friend!

Everything the Perfection quest asks for is pure grind. Ship one of everything, make one of everything, catch every fish, cook every recipe (which means obtaining every recipe which means it isn't even obtainable before the end of Y2), max hearts with everyone, find all the walnuts... it's a boring pointless grind for the sake of boring pointless grind. And in many cases, directly counterproductive to actually playing the game.

The problem is that you have all these optional things you can do if you feel like it, included with the knowledge that not everyone is into it, and very very few people will ever do them all. Now suddenly they aren't optional anymore if you want access to actual content. Which is lazy coding at its worst. Let's take a look at the numbers, shall we? This is from the Steam Achievements page, which granted isn't the entire userbase, but is a large enough percentage to be representative for our back-of-napkin calculations.

Many of these 'perfection' milestones are already achievements, which makes the numbers easy to look at:

* Master of Five Ways (getting skill 10 in all skills): 9.7%
* Legend (earn 10 million gold) isn't exactly getting the golden clock, but that is the price tag on said clock, so we can give the benefit of the doubt and use it as a stand-in: 5.4%
* Full Shipment: 2.9%
* Master Angler: 2.9%
* Protector of the Valley: 2.5%
* Gourmet Chef: 1.5%
* Mystery of the Stardrops: 1.3%
* Craft Master: 1.1%

So you took all these achievements, and made them mandatory to unlock additional content. You took the second rarest achievement (second only to Fector's Challenge) and locked content behind it!

So congratulations, to that likely less than 1% of all players (since one must have ALL of them, not just any given one) who are able to achieve Perfection. And these are the stats at least a month after the 1.5 launch, which likely encouraged at least some people to go through and complete them just to see what happens when you do.

This is poor game design at its worst, locking content behind pointless achievements that 99% of the player base will never see.

There, is that on-topic enough for you?
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As long as you're having fun playing the game, it's all good! Perfection is just another thing that players who have built a lot of stuff on their farms can strive for. Clearly, Perfection is not for everybody, especially one feels that it cuts into the enjoyment of the game. Others, on the other hand, may rather enjoy 'the grind' and view it as a sort of Easter Egg hunt.

Whatever you do in Stardew Valley, keep having fun! :wink:
 
ThePerfectGarden

ThePerfectGarden

Farmer
Lew Zealand said:
Actually I just prefer to wait for the Lurks to approach the Lava edge (which they seem to like to do) and spam the Galaxy Sword. I rarely take much damage and got a couple Teeth that way.
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From the Lava Lurks? Really? I killed a decent bunch, but never got any teeth from them. 😮
 
Lew Zealand

Lew Zealand

Helper
Lenora Rose said:
They seem to come to the edge, an usually near your farmer, every second time they emerge.
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Yeah, once I realized they weren't coded to be just ultra annoying (like constantly staying out of range or similar) and in fact come over to you like good wittle doggies, I almost felt guilty killing them. Until they open their oversized smile factories to spew a quartet of fireballs at your head without even the common courtesy of a nice barbershop tune to accompany.

That's when Farmer Bobbi gets a touch testy and commences with the Galaxy flailing, ruckus-making and tooth-loosening.
 
FilthyGorilla

FilthyGorilla

Local Legend
I did perfection, first save file on PC, I wanted to do it but it wasn't a goal, most of the stuff just comes as you want to get achievements in game and on steam too.
I didn't try at all and so I got it on 25th of spring year 4 which I'm ok with, might try for a year 2 perfection sometime or just get better at gettign it faster but I don't get too much fun from that so I might not as well.
The hardest part of perfection for me was honestly not getting distracted by other stuff, it's pretty laid back, fishing is the most action you will get form direct challenges so it's not thrilling and I was also doing a lot of SC deep dives which I love more.
 

Elenna101

Farmer
MogBeoulve said:
Never. Because I cannot throw darts.
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Tip: jiggle your mouse around quickly to reset it, then move your mouse to where you want to aim as fast as you can and click immediately. The more you try to aim slowly and carefully, the more time the thing has to drift away.

Mr satan said:
For me I need to kill 14 pepper rex's and get the 10 mil,I am getting an average of 50k per day,not sure if that is good or not
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50k per day isn't bad, that's about what you get from a greenhouse full of ancient fruit all being kegged. You'll certainly get there eventually. If you want to speed it up, best way is to plant more ancient fruit or starfruit on Ginger Island, and make sure you have enough kegs for it. Find somewhere to plant a bunch of oak trees with tree fertilizer if you don't have enough oak resin for the kegs, it doesn't have to be on the farm, can just be anywhere villagers don't go. Remember you can just buy wood, copper, and iron if you don't want to farm them, as long as you have enough fruit to be using the kegs, it'll pay for itself quickly enough.
 
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