Misc questions

TruePurple

Cowpoke
Is there a reason to go to the flower dance if you don't have a partner? Or should I spend the day mining or fishing? Granted easier to talk to people, but they'll be available after it ends, right?

If you get a quest to collect ores you don't have to turn in, can you craft with those ores as you collect them? Do ores you gathered already and put into chests count?

Fertilizer that increases quality doesn't do so for crops after the first for crops that keep giving all season according to resources, is this correct? How does reliably one get gold quality corn for bundle then?
Does fertilizer that increases grow speed shorten the grow time between crop production on multi-production producers? How does the game round?
 
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Salty1

Salty1

Planter
For the flower dance, even if you don't want to dance with anyone you still might want to buy some things from Pierre. At the very least, there is a rarecrow to buy at the flower dance, and missing it on one year will mean you'll need to come back another year to buy it if you want to complete the rarecrow collection. This can be an important point if your late game farm plans demand the use of a deluxe scarecrow.

For your other questions, I can't confirm the exact limiting factors and just want to stress that this is based off of memory - so I will share what I "think" is accurate and expect Cunningham's Law to kick in if I am wrong:

If it is a basic wanted post on Pierre's shop, then you just keep the ore in your inventory and go talk to Clint when you have it. Having it "in hand" is not necessary and might gift when not intending to do so. If it is related to a special request from the late game, I'd double check what the journal notes say. If you are not meant to place the ores in any special bin, then you just need to collect and not maintain the cluster.

Fertilizers only affect the first harvest for that crop. Multi-harvest crops, like blueberries and corn, won't benefit from either speed or quality except on that first harvest. I think you can view it as a relative downside to using them instead of other crops (though this is less an issue if you're just loading everything into kegs, since quality won't matter then anyways). If this is for the community centre bundles, keep in mind that you only need to acquire three of the four viable options (assuming this is the basic vanilla bundle sets), so corn isn't necessarily mandatory. But if you want to get enough gold quality corn, my suggestion is plant it in summer so you can harvest in fall as well, and then eat food that boosts your farming level when you harvest to further increase your chances. There won't be any failsafe method, but it should perhaps help.
 
imnvs

imnvs

Local Legend
For the quests that say, "Get X of Y ores. You can keep them after," what happens is you collect the ore, then you talk to the person and you get the reward... and yes, you keep the ores and can then turn them into bars or craft. However, yes, you must collect them after picking up the help wanted quest from the board outside Pierre's.

Fertilizer that increases quality does so for every harvest of plants that fruit multiple times, for example blueberries. However, blueberries and other plants have a chance at harvest to provide more than 1 of the the fruit/vegetable that is produced by that plant... and the fertilizer only applies to the first of those.

Fertilizer that increase crop growth speed only has an effect on when the first harvest happens. It doesn't speed up how often the plant fruits afterward.
 

TruePurple

Cowpoke
I'm asking, if you get a quest to collect 20 copper ores, you collect 12 copper ores, you turn them into 3 cherry bombs, then collect 8 more, have you fulfilled the quest?

How does the game round? Like if you have something that grows in 4/6/8 days on speed grows 10% faster, how many days do they take to grow?
 

Ereo

Helper
No, you need to have 20 in inventory when you talk to Clint. It doesn't have to be the same 20 you gathered though, so you can turn them into cherry bombs while mining and just pick some out of a chest later. You just have to first find 20 new ores and then talk to Clint with 20 in your inventory.
 

TruePurple

Cowpoke
Can one frighten crows manually by standing near the crop? Will crows go after small amounts of crops outside a scarecrows range?
 

Ereo

Helper
No, because crows come at night and you will never see them.
Yes, anything unprotected they will go after.
 

TruePurple

Cowpoke
How does the game round? Like if you have something that grows in 4/6/8 days on speed grows 10% faster, how many days do they take to grow?

But I have seen both the shadow of crows and actual crow flying overhead.
 
imnvs

imnvs

Local Legend
Okay, but crows eating crops isn't an animation. It is an "overnight event". Chasing away little animated sprites does nothing to affect the calculations for that event while you're sleeping.

As for how the game rounds, down, mostly. Something that takes 4 days to grow will take 3 with just regular speed gro or being an agriculturalist.
 
PoppyForPenny

PoppyForPenny

Farmer
I always chase the crows when I see them but it's too late, they've already eaten a crop.
To get the 5 gold corn, I plant about 3 corns in summer. Actually I usually get them from mixed seeds. They keep putting on corn every few days until end of fall, so plenty of time to collect the 5 gold ones.
 

TruePurple

Cowpoke
Odin said:
If you saw a bird at night, it was an owl!
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But I saw the actual bird, and it was not a owl, it was black and crow like. Even with pixal "art", crows and owls look too different to be mistaken for each other.

https://stardewcommunitywiki.com/Spring_Seeds so crows won't eat these or the seeds you get from mowing grass? But do the presence of these kind of seeds make other types of seeds more at risk? Like do they count for 15 crops?
 
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imnvs

imnvs

Local Legend
If they aren't counted in the crow calculations, they aren't counted.

And no, you could plant and water at 11pm or 7am, makes no difference.
 

Ereo

Helper
Wild seeds (the ones you get from mowing fiber) are normal crops and count. Crops count in any growth state.

The only thing that doesn't count are spring, summer and fall seeds because they produce forage instead of crops.
 
Squigglyruth

Squigglyruth

Planter
Ereo said:
No, you need to have 20 in inventory when you talk to Clint. It doesn't have to be the same 20 you gathered though, so you can turn them into cherry bombs while mining and just pick some out of a chest later. You just have to first find 20 new ores and then talk to Clint with 20 in your inventory.
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I don't think this is true. Once you have mined 20 ore (or whatever was asked) the journal entry switches and just says 'speak to Clint'. I have done that without having the ore in my inventory at the time. I think you could turn the ore into something else first.
 

Ereo

Helper
Squigglyruth said:
I don't think this is true. Once you have mined 20 ore (or whatever was asked) the journal entry switches and just says 'speak to Clint'. I have done that without having the ore in my inventory at the time. I think you could turn the ore into something else first.
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Yes, you're right. I don't know if it used to be like that and it was changed or if I simply assumed so because he wants to examine it.
 
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