Doing stupid things

[Lew Zealand]

My favorite wrong tool use in early game:

Step 1: after finishing chores, go fishing
Step 2: fish until you are one throw away from exhaustion
Step 3: run home to sleep
Step 4: accidentally use the fishing rod, and end up exhausted anyway.

Thing I love about early game is how much Spring Onions and Salmon Berries you can stock up on for free. They aren't really good, but they save me from ever getting that low.

Plus seaweed. I eat so much seaweed.

Yes to both of these! I also have a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure variation of Ereo's Fishing strategy. The setting is the bottom left of the Mountain Lake, Fishing eastward:

Step 1: Fish until almost exhausted
Step 2: On the last viable cast, no bites for a while then a difficult fish which takes more time, usually toss in a Treasure Chest as a shiny distraction
Step 3: Arrange stuff in cluttered inventory on Treasure Chest screen

This where your brain chooses:

Step 4a: Close inventory and cast again, because Steps 2 and 3 caused a brain Stack Overflow error
Step 4b: Close inventory with 1 too many clicks and unintentionally cast again, because itchy trigger finger
Step 4c (stealth choice): Actually had enough energy because Math bad but after Treasure Chest, sprite resets to facing South and I cast that way into nothing because of itchy trigger finger (see above), cancel that and cast East

Step 5: Exhausted. Stuff Seaweed into mouth, hair, ears, trudge slowly back to Farm looking like Creature from the Black Lagoon:

It was hot that day, I was sweaty!

 

[imnvs]

Step 5: Exhausted. Stuff Seaweed into mouth, hair, ears, trudge slowly back to Farm looking like Creature from the Black Lagoon:

Step 0: When interacting with spouse in the morning, click once only. Do not kiss and get the heart icon.

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Step 6a: When exhausted, kiss spouse to remove all effects of exhaustion.
Step 6b: If not married or already kissed spouse, drink muscle tonic to remove all effects of exhaustion.

 

[Flav]

When I wanted to kiss my wife, I gave the item in my hand. i live this all the time

 

[Chito]

My crabpots are on the beach right where Vincent likes to sit and when I try to add bait to the crabpots, the game always, always feeds one piece to Vincent.

I started carrying grapes just to give to Vincent before I go baiting the pots so I can't accidentally stuff the kid with wigglies.

haha I did that twice already with poor Willy. I accidentally placed one of my crabpots right where he likes to fish on the pier in front of his shop.

 

[PookieDoodle]

I've seen a few already mentioned that I'm guilty of as well, like giving a bad gift or using an item on accident. Another mistake I seem to make a lot is selecting and/or using the wrong tool. Whether it's while farming, mining, fishing, fighting, or pretty much any other situation I just seem pretty clumsy when it comes to the tools. I've also had a few times where I gave Clint a tool to upgrade, then forgot that I gave them to him and still tried doing things that required those tools. Another mistake I've made a few times is accidentally buying items because I pressed the wrong button.

I think the worst thing I did happened while playing my current save, and I have no idea how I did it but I somehow managed to lose the golden scythe. I use a mod that lets me ship anything, so I probably put it in the shipping bin on accident. Oh and I totally didn't use a mod to get it back and then pretend like it never happened!

Just wanted to add that I've also had several times where I went into my slime hutch for the slime balls, but forgot I had my weapon out and ended up killing most of my slimes instead of using the slime balls.

I've lost my golden scythe several times. Looked high and low for it. Then went into my fridge to make some meals for caving and there it is, sitting next to a head of red cabbage. lol

 

[haywud]

I've lost my golden scythe several times. Looked high and low for it. Then went into my fridge to make some meals for caving and there it is, sitting next to a head of red cabbage. lol

You ended up making me start up the game and double check my fridge just to be sure it wasn't in there... it wasn't but I had to make sure lol.

 

[Hill Myna]

I've got my fair share:

Misclicking in the Traveling Cart interface and buying a Pale Broth for 600G when I'm saving up for a Barn.

Seeing a yellow blob in my inventory that's got Clint's name all over it – oopsie daisy, apparently that was my Pufferfish (meant for Willy's fishing quest), not my Topaz. Hey Emily, want this?

How about the time when I took a Shaft before noticing that I'd left a Prismatic Shard just lying on the ground 'cause my inventory's full of iridium and sap?

Or when I sold all my Truffles right before Winter, putting my Oil Makers out of business for the whole season?

What about finding a Mummified Frog and then restarting the day? Or doing the same thing with a Galaxy Soul because of a misfortunate death?

But worst of all: watering the same crop way too many times because my Farmer was too lazy to move just one tile over.

 

[Storm Eagle]

Turning on "monsters attack the farm at night" and forgetting to take the napalm ring coming back from the mines off before fighting them.

 

[450735]

I most certainly did a ton of stupid things during my short Stardewvian career, but right now I can only remember two of them.

The first one was spoilering myself nearly the entire game because I was too curious, resulting in me rushing through certains quests or not having the pleasure of discovery. I usually don't mind having prior knowledge of whatever fictional world I'm getting in, but I pushed it overboard with SDV.

The second one is a more conventional one. One of the first things I do in the morning is checking my casks (every single day, because I can never remember the right day), and use my return scepter to teleport from the cellar to the front porch. But I tend to forget to remove the scepter from my hands, so when I try to open a gate or something, I annoyingly often end up teleporting myself from whatever task I was trying to accomplish to my front porch and have to backtrack.

 

[Hill Myna]

Turning on "monsters attack the farm at night" and forgetting to take the napalm ring coming back from the mines off before fighting them.

Ah yes, I tried putting Slimes outdoors, only to find that mass Slime breeding results in frequent lag spikes. So I head to thin them out a little, BOOM! there goes 15 minutes of decorating outside the Slime Hutch.

 

[PookieDoodle]

You ended up making me start up the game and double check my fridge just to be sure it wasn't in there... it wasn't but I had to make sure lol.

LOL It would of bugged you all night long. But it would of been great if it was sitting right next to a red cabbage.

 

[Phate4569]

One of the first things I do in the morning is checking my casks (every single day, because I can never remember the right day)

I do Spring and Fall 28 every save because it is the easiest to remember.

 

[hexnessie]

What's the last stupid thing you did while playing? Or something you do without fail?

Oh, hey, I remembered something I did when I'd just started playing -- I didn't know you were supposed to put things like rings and boots ON your character, and I was frustrated that they took so much inventory space and didn't do anything :D

Then one day I was staring morosely at my character and there was a lightbulb moment of "waaait, what's this slot then? It looks like... boots slot? Could it be?!"

 

[Boo1972]

Oh, hey, I remembered something I did when I'd just started playing -- I didn't know you were supposed to put things like rings and boots ON your character, and I was frustrated that they took so much inventory space and didn't do anything :D

Then one day I was staring morosely at my character and there was a lightbulb moment of "waaait, what's this slot then? It looks like... boots slot? Could it be?!"

I’ve posted this twice before, but I wanted you to know you’re not the only one:


My first farmer managed to find a small glow ring early in the mines. I happily tossed in my backpack and headed home. “Huh,” I wondered “How come this ring isn’t glowing? Is it just really weak? Maybe I need to activate it somehow.”

I walked around with the ring IN MY BACKPACK for several days. Then I took good look at my backpack inventory and noticed an image of my farmer. There, as clear as day if I had bothered to look, were slots for clothing with a space to wear a ring.

I’m still embarrassed about that to this day

 

[One More Day]

giving Marnie money for chickens when I have a perfectly good incubator

In the long run, hatching eggs actually costs more than just flat out buying a chicken from Marnie. Remember that eggs are put into a mayo machine, making mayo that sells for 190g a pop even without the Artisan profession.

It costs you one egg to hatch your own chicken, and due to the incubation period, it delays the date at which your new chicken reaches adulthood by six days, costing you you another six eggs. That's a total cost of seven eggs, or at least 7x190g = 1330g lost, when a baby chicken only costs 800g

Hatch if you want, but don't do it for the money

 

[FarmerJoJo]

Re: chickens - I'm still not sure why I keep them around when it takes 4 eggs plus time in the mayo machine to make the same amount as an iridium truffle. Possibly a stupid thing, except they are cute! (especially the blue ones)

My cringe worthy moment was, early in the game when I'm trying to get enough artifacts for cauliflower seeds, digging up the Ancient Sword, turning around and gifting it to Linus. So much for all the goodwill from gifted leeks!

 

[PookieDoodle]

In the long run, hatching eggs actually costs more than just flat out buying a chicken from Marnie. Remember that eggs are put into a mayo machine, making mayo that sells for 190g a pop even without the Artisan profession.

It costs you one egg to hatch your own chicken, and due to the incubation period, it delays the date at which your new chicken reaches adulthood by six days, costing you you another six eggs. That's a total cost of seven eggs, or at least 7x190g = 1330g lost, when a baby chicken only costs 800g

Hatch if you want, but don't do it for the money

You're absolutely right. It's just the thought of giving her money that I don't like. lol

 

[Cuusardo]

• I accidentally blew up some of my nearly ripe melons because I forgot to take my napalm ring off before returning home to my wilderness farm.
• Also blew up some of the stuff in my house because I accidentally put a bomb down next to my mayonnaise makers instead of putting an egg into one.
• Accidentally given someone a gift they hated (because I use the name exploit). This one has happened many more times than the previous two.
• Sold back seeds I just bought because I forgot to exit out of that menu before trying to move them to a different spot in my inventory.
• Constantly forgetting to bring explosives with me to the Skull Cavern.

 

[PookieDoodle]

• I accidentally blew up some of my nearly ripe melons because I forgot to take my napalm ring off before returning home to my wilderness farm.
• Also blew up some of the stuff in my house because I accidentally put a bomb down next to my mayonnaise makers instead of putting an egg into one.
• Accidentally given someone a gift they hated (because I use the name exploit). This one has happened many more times than the previous two.
• Sold back seeds I just bought because I forgot to exit out of that menu before trying to move them to a different spot in my inventory.
• Constantly forgetting to bring explosives with me to the Skull Cavern.

I HATE giving the wrong gift to the wrong person! Their always so ungrateful. ....and it's why I DON'T give Marnie a birthday present. Oh, sorry about giving your a diamond by accident....and that you don't like it!! lol Could you imagine?

The seed thing happens to me far too often. Or buying something because you click a hair to the left of the X out of the screen button.

 

[Vanilla]

My usual Stupid Thing: Use the Return Scepter to go back to the farm, run to the other end of the farm, accidentally trigger the Return Scepter again and have to run back to the other end of the farm AGAIN.

Spouse’s usual Stupid Thing: Carrying a bomb into the shed full of ready-to-harvest machines and setting it off.