Where do you shop at the most?

[Uzzlegorf]

Dwarf is not on the list...

 

[benjellyman]

Is dwarf one of them?

 

[PookieDoodle]

Neither is the unnamed lady in the traveling cart. She's my go to early in the game when I'm trying to finish the community center.

 

[romanhasfallen]

in earlier versions i would definitely be at krobus the most - aside from breaking geodes and buying seeds from pierre. i have yet to see krobus on any of my 1.5 saves though, lol. i just keep starting new saves!! im terrible! i only buy recipes at the saloon, usually. ill check joja for walls and floors, but thats it. i also buy recipes from robin, but i dont usually buy furniture. i just save up for the catalogues. i guess i just dont need a lot of stuff from the shops lol. haha i feel bad for them i should be giving them my business!
i might change things up in 1.5. hopefully i can actually start raising animals thats been a big goal of mine

edit: someone mentioned the traveling cart! haha thats definitely the place i go most

 

[benjellyman]

edit: someone mentioned the traveling cart! haha thats definitely the place i go most

Added travel cart!

 

[Tom]

I see Krobus a few times a week in my Pacifist/Sustainability run because I need the Essences and the Fish. I always see him weekly for the Iridium Sprinkler.

 

[MissDandy]

Neither is the unnamed lady in the traveling cart. She's my go to early in the game when I'm trying to finish the community center.

She saved my butt so many times. If this was a vote for who you rely on the most in a tricky spot, I'd have to pick her. She's quite handy when you're cooking all the recipes as well (if you decide to attempt that daunting task in the first place )

 

[ConArtist]

Mostly Pierre, and occasionally Robin to expand.

 

[Boo1972]

Robin and Sandy currently. Quite a while ago, @ShneekeyTheLost and @Lew Zealand (I hope I’m remembering correctly) had a discussion about whether buying wood or chopping wood was more efficient and buying wood won hands down. Once my foraging level is up, I always buy wood- there are other things I’d rather do. Plus, I like spreading the wealth. If I want Pelican Town to flourish that means supporting local business.

I do understand the desire to be self-sufficient though.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Robin and Sandy currently. Quite a while ago, @ShneekeyTheLost and @Lew Zealand (I hope I’m remembering correctly) had a discussion about whether buying wood or chopping wood was more efficient and buying wood won hands down. Once my foraging level is up, I always buy wood- there are other things I’d rather do. Plus, I like spreading the wealth. If I want Pelican Town to flourish that means supporting local business.

I do understand the desire to be self-sufficient though.

It's not necessarily a matter of about efficiency so much as bulk. When I start building infrastructure, I'm talking a couple hundred kegs, ninety or so preserves jars, multiple sheds to house them in... when I buy wood from Robin, I do so multiple stacks at a time. I simply cannot keep up with my wood demands internally on what I can chop.

This is a tough question, though. I spend money at Pierre's and Robin's frequently and Clint's occasionally (coal), then finally Sandy rarely (mostly for bundle completion and some Starfruit). Of the vendors I go to, I probably spend more at Robin's than anyone else. I also only hit up Pierre probably once a season at most, and once I get to Year 2, I rarely if ever see him again due to proliferation of ancient fruit being my staple crop while that only increases the rate at which I do business with Robin, so that kind of clenches it.

 

[Flav]

i'm going to robin's house the most for expansions

 

[PookieDoodle]

She saved my butt so many times. If this was a vote for who you rely on the most in a tricky spot, I'd have to pick her. She's quite handy when you're cooking all the recipes as well (if you decide to attempt that daunting task in the first place )

I make it a point to stop by her cart every Friday and Sunday. Even after I've gotten basically everything I need. Sometimes it's nice to slack and just buy something from her instead of making it yourself. Plus, she's good for a hint on who's b-day is coming up by what she's got in stock.

 

[Worblehat]

whether buying wood or chopping wood was more efficient and buying wood won hands down.

I could very trivially keep up with wood requirements by chopping. But I ignored most of my farm area, then clear-cut late in Year 3 (not because I needed the wood or the space, just because I was tired of the mess). I still have over 6000 wood stored in chests, and that would be close to 8000 if I'd bothered to enchant the axe (I know from Stardew Predictor that the next enchantment would be Shaving, and I have the prismatic shard; I just don't care). The idea of buying wood from Robin is completely bonkers to me. I have at least considered whether I might someday need coal from Clint, though the answer ended up being "absolutely not, I have ridiculous amounts of wood and I can make far more coal than I'll ever need".

Though I could see how it could be of use to players who set up mega-farms with most of the available space planted with crops.

 

[Elenna101]

I could very trivially keep up with wood requirements by chopping. But I ignored most of my farm area, then clear-cut late in Year 3 (not because I needed the wood or the space, just because I was tired of the mess). I still have over 6000 wood stored in chests, and that would be close to 8000 if I'd bothered to enchant the axe (I know from Stardew Predictor that the next enchantment would be Shaving, and I have the prismatic shard; I just don't care). The idea of buying wood from Robin is completely bonkers to me. I have at least considered whether I might someday need coal from Clint, though the answer ended up being "absolutely not, I have ridiculous amounts of wood and I can make far more coal than I'll ever need".

Though I could see how it could be of use to players who set up mega-farms with most of the available space planted with crops.

On my main farm I have about 480 kegs and about 200 jars (going to add more of both once I get around to planting stuff on Ginger Island). That's over 24k wood. And I wouldn't even call it a mega-farm, it's just 20 iridium sprinklers and a greenhouse of ancient fruit + trees on the edge of the greenhouse. *shrug*

That being said, most of that was crafted back when I was still trying to be self-sufficient on wood/stone, so I set aside a largeish chunk of my farm for trees (this was also before I realized that you could plant trees off the farm) and made sure to chop and replant whenever I saw some that were grown. IIRC this kept up pretty well with my 20 oak resin a week, at least. Just took a while to get everything crafted. If I were trying to do the same thing these days I'd plant a bunch more oak trees (probably off the farm) for resin and buy the wood, so that my limiting factor would be money and not resin.