1.6 Update What happened in your game today?

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.
 
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!
 
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.
 
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.
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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!
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I caught 8 big slimy fish! I doubt 9 is possible, so I guess I won't try anymore.
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Year 74 and I'm now noticing a suspicious package in the jungle. I'm not touching it. It's clearly a trap!
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Have fun and take care! ^.^
 
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...
 
(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,
 
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...
 
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:
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I think that's a success! No eating the profits if you're nauseous!
 
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Rahnee said:
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...
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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.
 
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.
 
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.) Emily dressed Whimsy up as a postal worker on the second day (first one was a nice red dress, but the head kerchief was a bit much), which might be reflective of how I use her...

And of course test 1 pulled the wrong dialogue. So I need to look again and tweak.
 
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Terdin said:
I don't need to physically reach them to get the roe
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Really?? How do you do that? I personally feel a bit limited sometimes because on mobile even when standing right next to one it is sometimes tricky to get the roe using default controls, because it wants to walk you around to the upper left corner of the pond. Weirdly, if standing immediately adjacent to the right or left or above it works to get the roe without trying to walk around the whole pond, but if standing below it refuses to do it. It might if the path was totally blocked, but it's still frustrating...
 
Rahnee said:
Really?? How do you do that? I personally feel a bit limited sometimes because on mobile even when standing right next to one it is sometimes tricky to get the roe using default controls, because it wants to walk you around to the upper left corner of the pond. Weirdly, if standing immediately adjacent to the right or left or above it works to get the roe without trying to walk around the whole pond, but if standing below it refuses to do it. It might if the path was totally blocked, but it's still frustrating...
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The path being blocked is a major part of it. Though sometimes it does that if it for whatever reason can't calculate a path to a pick-up spot. If you look at the bottom-most picture of the farm in the linked thread, I've long since stopped visiting the quarry, allowing the rocks and nodes to block the way. I've long considered blocking off the left-hand side of the bottom ten ponds to make it a bit easier for me, but haven't got around to it.
Terdin

Hill-top Farm Thread 'Erica's journey on Hardship Farm'

Started a farm with the intent to both take it easier than in my past 6 saves, and to make myself play well beyond reaching Perfection. Other goals are to only sell full stacks of the mass-produced artisan goods after the farm is up and running, developing the entire farm, and make at least some attempt at coordinated indoor decoration. Picked remixed bundles. No mods.

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Doesn't look like much towards the middle of Summer of year 1. Having played this farm map earlier, I have a good idea of where I want to place the first few buildings, I just haven't had been able to afford...
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A bit more Whimsy last night, trying to get to where the dialogue I need to see should happen (I need Alex to go to the resort, which I don't have a way to cheat. Then I need to talk to him and see the dialogue. Then I need to talk to George or Evelyn and not have some other event take precedent). First test got me George telling me "(no translation...)" because somehow the last time I had checked my i18n file* I managed to typed in a random letter c at the very start... then it called the wrong dialogue again.

I think I found the problem and fixed it, but I need the in game characters to be in the right actual place to confirm that (George's medical appointment AND the flower dance were getting in the way), so I ran through a few days of minimum chores, talk to George and Evelyn, then sleep then check the errors file for issues, with my son looking over my shoulder. He asked me to please stop calling it my "cheater" game -- even as I'm literally warping from Blacksmith to Farm to Ginger Island several times each (and only used the GI obelisk once or the minecart once) so that I could finish the day's tasks in the first couple of hours Clint is open and duck back to bed.

I started pointing out the things I was doing that you can't do in the base game and I don't do with mods when playing for fun. I also, pointedly, didn't auto-spawn money or spawn and sell items just to make the money when I realised I spent too much breaking Geodes to upgrade my pickaxe. Because even while cheating that's cheating too far... (Because it isn't related to the thing I'm testing).

I'm actually looking forward a bit to playing the game on NORMAL non-cheat mode again.

*All you need to know about coding is that this is the file where the dialogue is found. And that one random letter will indeed bork the entire thing.
 
Terdin said:
The path being blocked is a major part of it.
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Ookay, time for me to try that! I checked out your farm, very nice and gives me ideas for maybe starting that beach farm I keep thinking about. Maybe that'll be my last new farm before 1.7 comes out. Hmmm.

I wonder if it'll work if I surround it with a fence...

Lenora Rose said:
that one random letter will indeed bork the entire thing.
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I believe it, I've been there! Not with Stardew mods, but other coding. Wishing you successful testing!
 
So, I decided to go and start that beach farm I'd been thinking about, planning to focus on fishing and ponds. Turns out I actually quite like the layout - the one patch available for sprinklers is plenty good size, and you don't have sprinklers to begin with anyway so at the beginning planting on sandy soil doesn't much matter. And I like the little forage area. So farmer Max (decided to also play a male farmer this time) began his journey on Perdu farm.

Spring started to pass without much rain, sadly. Gameplay progressed fairly normally until spring 25. On spring 25, Y1, I took a handful of geodes (a mix of normal and some omni geodes that I think came out of a crate that washed up) to Clint for breaking... it would cost 300 G to do so but I had enough and wanted to see if I could get enough museum donations for the melon seeds reward before summer. As of the last omni geode I'd gotten one new mineral, some stone, and a few ores. And what popped out of the last omni geode, do you ask?

A prismatic shard. Yep, I officially have set my new record for earliest-gotten prismatic shard. Of course, it won't do me any good for quite a while, but I was still pretty tickled 😄.
 
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