Stardew Valley 1.5 Min-Max Guide

NathanAldenSr

NathanAldenSr

Greenhorn
Hi, all. I've been working really hard on a new min-max guide for Stardew Valley 1.5. The guide is similar in spirit to Zamiell's guide but my guide is much more detailed and comprehensive. Additionally, I have recorded videos for every day in Year 1 that I plan on uploading to YouTube as soon as I get a chance to edit them.

The guide is not yet finished as I have yet to experience the Ginger Island content. I will likely refine the guide at that point.

I hope you find this useful. I had a blast putting this together, but it's been very hard work. Take a look at the commits in the repository if you don't believe me. :wink:

Feel free to submit an Issue or Discussion in the repository if you find any issues.

Enjoy!
 
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NathanAldenSr

NathanAldenSr

Greenhorn
A little bit about my playthrough:

My primary goal was to create the guide. To accomplish this, I did use save file backups since I had to reset days, sometimes several days, in order to correct errors or omissions. I initially started writing the guide trying not to do this, but it became far too time-consuming, especially since I have a family and a full-time job. It's my hope that my guide is thorough enough that you won't miss the stuff I missed.

My biggest issue throughout most of the run was Coal. I simply could not get enough to smelt all the Ore I acquired. It's pretty laughable, actually, how unbalanced Coal acquisition is. At one point I went for the Dust Sprite reward--the Burglar's Ring--which helped a bit, but I was still left farming floor 41 of The Mines over and over on several occasions.

Looking at my Y2-Sp1 backup, it looks like my total earnings were 2,184,655g. However, if I include unsold Pumpkins, Starfruit, and Starfruit Wine (excluding Starfruit in Kegs and Starfruit Wine in 124 Casks), the total balloons to over 6 million G. Including the Keg-bound Starfruit and the Starfruit Wine in Casks, the total is an astounding (to me, at least) 7 million G.

I neglected to plant an Apple Sapling and a Pomegranate Sapling so I wasn't able to reach Ginger Island in Year 1, unfortunately (I recently updated the guide to remind the player to plant those Fruit Trees).
 
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NathanAldenSr

NathanAldenSr

Greenhorn
@BlaDe Not to get off on too much of a tangent, but I just found your Twitch channel. I see that animation canceling is a thing in this game. I might have to redo my guide videos. :cool:

FWIW I'm a software developer of 20+ years myself.
 
BlaDe

BlaDe

Farmer
Animation cancelling is cool, but not everyone likes to do it. It helps me push the game to the limit though!

Hope you like my content. I quite enjoy digging into the code and using what i learn to do crazy things on vanilla.
 

Caxafvujq

Greenhorn
NathanAldenSr said:
Additionally, I have recorded videos for every day in Year 1 that I plan on uploading to YouTube as soon as I get a chance to edit them.
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Thanks for the guide! Did you ever end up uploading those videos to YouTube? I've also been struggling with Spring Year 1 following Zammiel's guide (which is how I found your guide). It would be especially helpful to see more detail about early Skull Caverns days when you aren't exactly swimming in bombs.
 
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