1.6 Update What happened in your game today?

[KarinL]

So it's Spring Y5 now. First thing I did was pet all my animals and open their doors. Then I removed some of the stray green grass that had grown overnight, so my farm is once again just covered in blue grass.
Then I harvested my fiber, put down a ton of deluxe speed grow and planted as many of my accumulated seeds as I could on my small(ish) plot. That took care of that day.

Day 2 I once again took care of all the animals, then decided to go to Ginger Island to play around in the volcano a bit. It was an extremely lucky day. Found two Deluxe treasure chests on Level 3. One had a deluxe pirate hat, and one had the mermaid boots I was hoping for. I also managed to collect a tiger hat, which I only noticed when I was trying to empty a few slots in my inventory for magma caps.
Since I have over 200 bottles of mystic syrup, I took some with me instead of food - turned out I didn't need it, as these first few levels also had a lot of magma caps.

I kind of like the slower gameplay of being a shepherd instead of an artisan. I don't have as many kegs, and I'm not too stressed about keeping up with the wine production.

 

[Rahnee]

Kate turned over the blue jazz (still not the right color), and got an extended family quest so after the chores went legend 2 fishing and caught 7 in one afternoon (two of them were free extras from wild bait). We'll see how many I can get, destined for the smoker. Although, I have 182 million G in the bank and who knows how many million in stored products, so even a couple hundred thousand doesn't really even register anymore. It's interesting how the gameplay progresses ... at the very beginning 100 G seems like a lot!

 

[Nonak]

It's interesting how the gameplay progresses ... at the very beginning 100 G seems like a lot!

Yeah! Especially on low profit margin. I also notice myself almost never checking how much money I have further in the game. Nearing perfection (but not nearing your numbers) it's often just "enough for the obelisk" or "not enough for the obelisk".

 

[Terdin]

Almost at the end of year 15. The diamond chest is full and mining professions have been changed in preparation to sell the contents. In year 16, that chest will be turned over to house something else.

On a side note, a song I remembered made contemplate making a save with a male farmer named Harald. Probably won't follow through on that small urge. The first two verses of the rhymed lampoon praise Harald's ability to drink and fight. Third indicates that he's not interested in women. The fourth warns farmers to lock up their sheep... I think that song may be part of why I've never had a farm with sheep on it.

 

[BeBop268170]

4 little things today. And by "today" I mean in the last few weeks. In no particular order:

I couldn't find Linus at first. Finally found him hangin' out up near the summit. I know it's a common bug on mobile or with mods, but I play on Playstation so I was quite surprised.

I beat my Personal Best in Junimo Kart, with 12 lives remaining upon completion. It wasn't long ago that I dismissed this game as impossible, but now it's trivial to beat it. Practice makes perfect!

I caught 8 big slimy fish! I doubt 9 is possible, so I guess I won't try anymore.

Year 74 and I'm now noticing a suspicious package in the jungle. I'm not touching it. It's clearly a trap!

Have fun and take care! ^.^

 

[Rahnee]

Kate got a total of 22 legend II in the extended family quest. Probably could have gotten a few more but on the last day I cut my fishing short because I remembered I had to go harvest and replant my taro on GI. I don't like missing anything on a weekly timeframe, because then I either miss a whole week or have to assign those chores to a different day. Just me being persnickety.

After a couple of best-luck days Anlei finally got enough crackers for the barnful of golden chickens, now working on the dinos. Cows, ostriches, ducks and rabbits are next on the list, though probably not in that order...

 

[Lenora Rose]

(Another long hiatus playing Wildmender instead)

On the first sunny day for awhile, Rowan went through the farm chores. On their rounds, though, they found both another crate of bombs - had a ship been sunk in the war with Gotoro? There hadn't been news of such, but news of the war was thin and Rowan was disinclined to spend a lot of time reading up on it when there was a fresh island farm and songbirds to enjoy. Bombs just didn't seem like a standard civilian shipment. They made a point of putting the bombs in a chest as soon as possible, not wanting to set off an unexp[ected explosion near the animals or the orchard. They resumed the round, and some distance further down the beach, they discovered a strange stone owl statue.

Not a songbird, but it was a bird, and rather nice looking. They put it in the relaxation shed among the still-thin decor. When they headed to Robin's next they'd have to get a few more items. There wasn't really anywhere to hang pictures or plants there, with all the windows out into the island, but surely they could still fill it with pleasance.

They got another rock crab for Willy, but an assessment against the catch quality chart said that made two sets of two, not one set of three. Oh, well, one more try, surely, before summer ends,

 

[Terdin]

Year 16 started, and 87% of the way to the billion G earned target. With the shift in professions, diamond stacks are now destined for the end-of-year sale, while metal bars are hoarded. Had mixed luck with the fish ponds since Spring began. Had a single Legend II give me 10 roe in one day, another day I got about 14 roe in total from the 30+ ponds...

 

[Maher]

I did a proof of concept for my Ipecac suggestion:

1. Gathered gold quality goat cheese from the dairy shack.
2. Went to level 53 of local mines, dangerous.
3. Got myself vomited on by Vomit Ghost for the nausea debuff.
4. Warped home and went to cellar to cask the cheese.
5. Attempted to load a cask that was already loaded.
6. Instead of getting "do you want to eat the goat cheese? I got this:

I think that's a success! No eating the profits if you're nauseous!

 

[Rahnee]

30+ ponds...

Whoa! That is a lot of ponds! Max I've ever had is 8, but I do think if I ever try the beach farm I'd definitely lean much more on ponds. It'd be fun to try more variety of fish/crustaceans...

 

[Terdin]

Whoa! That is a lot of ponds! Max I've ever had is 8, but I do think if I ever try the beach farm I'd definitely lean much more on ponds. It'd be fun to try more variety of fish/crustaceans...

Especially on a hill-top farm... I've taken advantage of the fact that I don't need to physically reach them to get the roe. 7 in the quarry, 16 on the low area south of the river. 3 near Grandpa's tomb, 3 flanking the small rise north of the river and one north of it, and one between shipping bin and bus stop exit. I could fit in a few more if I wanted.

 

[Nonak]

Loaded up a save for the first time in a while, went to play Junimo Kart endless and on the very first try got a new best of 64 something thousand points... Couldn't even get to 50k before. Cool.
Didn't really know what to do, so I just ran around collecting forage, moss and everything else I could get my hands on. Found three out of four leeks I apparently needed for a quest. On a tuesday (!!), usually I have trouble findinding them even on Saturdays. The next day my wild seeds were ready, so I collected the last one and got my coffee maker.
Going into the flower dance, I had three or less hearts with all the marriage candidates, but decided to ask around anyway, and it worked! Talking to Emily pushed her to four and dancing up to five. Neat little jump.

 

[Lenora Rose]

So I spent a sad amount of Sunday in Stardew Valley, but not with Rowan. I was trying to get Whimsy (my mod resource farmer) into position to test a tweak I made to my Underestimating the Elders mod, for which she needed the Ginger Island Resort done. So I needed to summon all the items I needed to finish the community centre overnight, then to fix the boat, then to build up GI enough to have the resort open. So it was simultaneously playing (Because even with Whimsy I can't seem to skip watering crops and I haven't upgraded her tools past copper) and really really cheating.

The most satisfying bits, therefore, were taking time off to do the desert festival (since Rowan doesn't go, what with that whole hermit thing, I indulged myself and actually did two days of it as if I were playing a normal farmer, just for the sake of playing.)

And of course test 1 pulled the wrong dialogue. So I need to look again and tweak.