Silly Mistakes You've Made?

[Terdin]

I mistook the shipping bin for a chest. I think everyone made that mistake when they first played Stardew Valley.

Not me. I have made similar mistakes in Harvest Moon games though over the 25+ years I've been playing those games.

 

[cockyDawg]

I didn't know the upgraded Hoe tilled multiple spots.
I didn't know Weapons had a second attack or a block.
I didn't know you could stand on one crop spot and Till/Water/Fertilize/Harvest the block of 9 adjacent ones without moving.
I didn't know the Sword and Scythe don't use Energy. Ended up accidentally using my Axe or Rod and getting Exhausted all the time.
I didn't know you couldn't marry Caroline.

And loads of others long since forgotten. I mega-noobed my way through my first save and it was so great!

what is second attack

 

[cockyDawg]

i didnt know there are desert and forest so i stopped playing for a few months, does it count?

 

[Terdin]

what is second attack

I play on mobile, so some of this might not be accurate for other platforms, and activate it when I touch the screen where a monster is (and sometimes other times) With a sword, it's a block, stopping an attack at that moment from harming you. Dagger has a rapid stab thing, and the hammer has a slam with strong knockback. In the item bar the weapon gets a diminishing vertical bar marking the cool-down time until you can use it again.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

I play on mobile, so some of this might not be accurate for other platforms, and activate it when I touch the screen where a monster is (and sometimes other times) With a sword, it's a block, stopping an attack at that moment from harming you. Dagger has a rapid stab thing, and the hammer has a slam with strong knockback. In the item bar the weapon gets a diminishing vertical bar marking the cool-down time until you can use it again.

Just to clear it up for anyone playing on other platforms, it's a 'secondary attack'. It triggers (with a cooldown) when you press the other main interaction button (the one you use to open doors for example) when holding the weapon.

 

[nicodeux]

• On my first playthrough, I read the letter from Evelyn about crops dying at season change and I laughed loudly because it seemed so obvious. Guess what I did nonetheless a few days before the end of my first Spring? You guess right: I felt so stupid on first day of Summer with all my withered crops...
• I learned the hard way to change IMMEDIATELY my inventory slot when Maniac Kent mails me one of the bombs that he keeps on his shelves... What a lovely man. Tell me Kent, how many children do you have at home?
• I went numerous times to the Mines/Volcano/Skull Caverns... only to realise there that I've stashed my weapon/pickaxe in a chest at the farm.

 

[Yvi]

I went numerous times to the Mines/Volcano/Skull Caverns... only to realise there that I've stashed my weapon/pickaxe in a chest at the farm.

The amount of times I've rushed to the Volcano Dungeon early morning in order to spend all day there ... only to immediately return home because I didn't bring my watering can ... embarrassing honestly.

 

[Rahnee]

you can just drop the big chest on an existing chest and don't have to do nearly as much shuffling around of stuff as I did.

What.

O My Word. I'm on my third save and I didn't realize that was possible until I saw this. Since I'm also a hoarder thrifty with my supplies, I've been doing so much shuffling!! Egad, this is going to revolutionize my storage! THANK YOU!

 

[Duckbill]

When I first visited Ginger Island, I set up scarecrows around the fields as usual.
And even after reaching a perfection score of 100%, those scarecrows still stand there today.

 

[JamaicaGinger]

I mistook the shipping bin for a chest. I think everyone made that mistake when they first played Stardew Valley.

YES I DID
I threw away all my possessions from the first 5 days
But not me first feesh ^^

 

[Contented-Slime]

When I first started the game, I didn't know how to leave the pause menu/inventory, so I didn't play until about three months later when I finally figured out how to unpause.

 

[JamaicaGinger]

When I first started the game, I didn't know how to leave the pause menu/inventory, so I didn't play until about three months later when I finally figured out how to unpause.

this is..
:/

 

[Maher]

And that you could un-hoe spots of tilled dirt with a pickaxe.

And get rid of perennial crops you no longer want in the greenhouse! Before I realized you could do it with a pickaxe, I was bombing corn plants to clear space for AF.

 

[Jayamos]

And get rid of perennial crops you no longer want in the greenhouse! Before I realized you could do it with a pickaxe, I was bombing corn plants to clear space for AF.

I could see doing that deliberately.

 

[Draconifors]

Put my first Dinosaur Egg in a mayo machine because it was right in front of the incubator...

Fortunately, it was early morning so I simply reset the day.

 

[Luna_Tuna]

When I first started the game, I didn't know how to leave the pause menu/inventory, so I didn't play until about three months later when I finally figured out how to unpause.

I’ve never heard of something like this happening lol

 

[Terdin]

Going fishing for Legend II, only to get to the lake and realize I didn't have any bait on my rod. Then realizing I should've got extra tackle too, since at least two sets are needed for a day of fishing. Definitely didn't have my ducks in a row that day, not even with having just one duck.

 

[Yvi]

When I first started the game, I didn't know how to leave the pause menu/inventory, so I didn't play until about three months later when I finally figured out how to unpause.

This is such a mood! My friend stopped playing because she couldn't figure out how to open her door. I played co-op at first and the other players had to get back out of bed the first night to come to my cabin and demonstrate how to get into the bed because I couldn't figure it out.

And that you could un-hoe spots of tilled dirt with a pickaxe.

I had the opposite problem, I kept accidentally hitting crops with my pickaxe. My friends started making me only hold the scythe unless I was actively using a different tool.

 

[Jayamos]

This is such a mood! My friend stopped playing because she couldn't figure out how to open her door.

I’m so glad to hear I’m not the only one who had this problem. That was when I decided the wiki was my friend.

 

[MogBeoulve]

This is such a mood! My friend stopped playing because she couldn't figure out how to open her door. I played co-op at first and the other players had to get back out of bed the first night to come to my cabin and demonstrate how to get into the bed because I couldn't figure it out.


I had the opposite problem, I kept accidentally hitting crops with my pickaxe. My friends started making me only hold the scythe unless I was actively using a different tool.

There is always a learning curve. I definitely spent a lot of time reloading the day in Harvest Moon. Many of the core mechanics are the same or very similar, so I got a lot of these glitches ironed out before I ever started playing Stardew Valley. For example, I had long ago trained myself not to run around holding anything in my hands, for fear of running into a villager and gifting it to them. The moment I see my farmer holding anything above their head, I immediately flip through the inventory slots until they are holding the scythe or a weapon (and this is another ingrained tactic, because if I accidentally trigger using the tool, at least swinging around the scythe/weapon does not eat up energy).