1.6 Update What happened in your game today?

[Nonak]

Played junimo kart. This time it was actually all I did. Can't even say that I walked to the saloon, because I loaded a save and was already standing next to the arcades. Got a few attempts at both mushrooms and red hot rollercoaster, but no luck passing either so far.

 

[Rahnee]

Because the blue jazz in Kate's flower garden continues to be ornery, I decided I wanted a bit of a break from it. So Farmer Fran started anew on a Wilderness farm, with remixed bundles doable in Y1 (for the first time). Rain has been sparse this spring, sadly, but she did find an ancient seed in a treasure chest fishing on day 4, so that's rather awesome. She planted it thinking that by winter she'll get plenty of fruits so as to get a jump start when the greenhouse is fixed, plus maybe a few for some early moolah.

 

[KarinL]

I started my Meadowlands farm earlier this week. I'm trying to play slowly. My chickens are called Chip and Dip.

I used my starting money to one parsnip, one bean and one cauliflower, and bought potatoes with my remaining cash. The foraging is really good in this particular save, I literally had dozens of leeks in the first two weeks and a ton of daffodils. Spent my time running around the town giving everyone flowers (except George, of course). I think this is the best spring foraging I've had in all of my new saves.

I immediately jumped into the mines as soon as they opened up, because I really need a silo. So I had Clint on my doorstep on Day 6, with his blueprints. Managed to scrape together enough copper ore and clay from the mines to get the silo in week 2. I'm starting on removing all the green grass on the farm, hopefully giving the blue grass room to spread.

I think I'm going for Rancher this playthrough, and then go for Shepherd. I generally go for Tiller, but I like the idea of having a sheep farm.

Spring's almost gone, I'm hoping for a productive summer.

 

[pealee]

HOW?

Sorry, I'm not ignoring you, I just, I don't know. It's like a multi-part video and it just started so the later parts aren't out yet. I'm not interested enough to watch right now but it seems like he starts on the Riverlands Farm with 2 Cabins so that he starts with 3 total Fish Smokers. So I guess he fishes alot and probably goes to the Desert Festival I guess. Maybe you could watch it for me and uh, keep us updated :) haha

Well I mean, the invitation actually extends to everybody. Surely SOMEBODY on the forums can "see YouTube" and let us know. I noticed that episode 4 is out, but I'm not one to watch hours of YouTube.

No one knows the entire method he used because it's not out yet but so far: start with 3 fish smokers, get bait maker and max fishing level asap. Catfish mainly, Legend, Bullhead/Lrgmth Bass make up most of the income. unlock all joja bundles, and get to floor 120 of mines, and ginger island, BEFORE desert fest, spring 14. (He has reset every single day, multiple times, sometimes many manyyy tries, to get most ideal rng. i'm talking many irl hours spent on each and every day)

Day 12 and 175,000g so far. how he'll make 800,000g in the last two weeks remains to be seen.... assuming it involves skull cavern/desert fest/fishing (like if he gets the extended fam qi quest... game over, 800k would be easy lol.

 

[KarinL]

I finished my first spring for this save. I actually managed to remember everyone's birthday - even Pierre's. I also got 18 strawberry seeds at the Egg festival earlier, and managed ot get the speed grow from the community center bundle when the festival was over, so I had three harvests of strawberries.

Unfortunately I did forget Jas in the first week of summer. I also keep forgetting the travelling cart, and I forgot QoS a few times, but I'm now caught up again by watching a ton of reruns.

I spent the first few weeks of summer just mining. The first two dwarf scrolls practically fell into my lap, so I'm now grinding for the third, just doing the ice floors with blue slimes over and over again.
My mining and combat skills are actually higher than fishing, which is unusual.

I upgraded all my tools except my trash can to copper. I'm now gathering iron ore. Decided to be a Miner (more ore) and a Fighter (because I'm not too great at special moves anyway). I also picked Gatherer over Lumberjack this time.
I still need to get fishing up to level 5. Trout Derby is coming up, so maybe I'll waste a few days fishing for trout with my bamboo pole.

 

[Terdin]

Two days with high luck in a row, and managed to do two treasure totems on each. On Ginger Island one day, and on the beach the next. Haven't played that much over the last week. Not SDV anyway.

 

[Crazy.Hungry.Monster]

I updated my mods and it made the whole game mess up and not load saves or new game, it was a mess. Had to pull all the mods out and put them back in carefully. now my old save doesn't work and I lost all my work, but I fixed it and I can play again. and I'm starting my own mod this week also.

 

[Gardening Spirit]

I feel your pain @Crazy.Hungry.Monster, I've had that happen to me too. Glad you were able to restore your save again.

Today in my game I'm turning my farm buildings into seasonal japanese buildings with this mod, can't wait.

What mod are you starting (if you can say - if not yet please be sure to let us all know when you have uploaded it!)?

 

[KarinL]

So I'm now on my first summer. Like I said, I forgot Jas. Annoying, because it takes forever to get these kids up to 8 hearts so they can tell me the secrets of the spring onion... By the time they tell me, I'm usually already at the stage where I really don't bother to go pick them in the first place...

I planted my crops the first day. I made basic fertilizer for my melons, as I want to get gold-star melons for the community center. I also planted a lot of corn. I hope I can find 5 gold-star corn and finsih the Quality bundle.

I found the blue dwarf scroll in the mines, and a rusty spoon. Also found a cog, I think this is the third or fourth cog I've found so far. Somebody murdered and dismembered a piece of machinery and buried the evidence all over the valley...

I keep forgetting QoS on Sunday, but usually remember to watch the reruns. I also keep forgetting to check the travelling merchant. However, the few times I did check (mostly because I accidentally passed the wagon on my way to somewhere else) anything that seemed useful was also super-expensive.

I gave Gus a diamond for his birthday. Maru got a strawberry. I saved my gold-star strawberries for Maru and Demetrius. I also had one gold-star cauliflower, and I used that for the Luau soup the next day, to impress the plump purple politician Lewis was schmoozing with. I should have remembered to get the purple shorts for the soup...
I gave Alex one of Chip's gold-star large eggs, because I really didn't know what else to give him.

On Sunday I learned how to cook pancakes. I don't know why it doesn't say "make" - cooking pancakes doesn't sound right.

I brought my axe to Clint for an upgrade. I
removed the last of the green grass in an effort to fill my second silo.
I also realised I finally have the materials to make a glowstone ring, which was very much needed.

 

[Nonak]

Also found a cog, I think this is the third or fourth cog I've found so far. Somebody murdered and dismembered a piece of machinery and buried the evidence all over the valley...

I guess some of the Maru's inventions aren't very welcome...

to impress the plump purple politician Lewis was schmoozing with

Triple p is an objectively better name for him. Thanks for the idea.

I also realised I finally have the materials to make a glowstone ring, which was very much needed.

I keep forgetting that you don't get that neat glow around you when starting a new save. Equipping one sure does feel great.

 

[Cuddlebug]

to impress the plump purple politician Lewis was schmoozing with

That's great, btw, fantastic nickname

Somebody murdered and dismembered a piece of machinery and buried the evidence all over the valley...

Interesting idea, but yeah, you're probably right about it.

I gave Alex one of Chip's gold-star large eggs, because I really didn't know what else to give him.

It was a pretty good idea, you never can't go wrong giving him eggs...

 

[Nonak]

If I could play Stardew on PC it'd look like this for now:

(not actually JK, I just edited the name and icon of microsoft edge, though anything would do)

Got to Sunset Speedway for the first time, have some hope of beating it soon.

 

[KarinL]

I keep forgetting that you don't get that neat glow around you when starting a new save. Equipping one sure does feel great.

I really missed the light, and the magnetism. I was so happy with the glowstone ring, and it's even better now that I have a glow ring from one of the cc bundles. It's always weird to go from a Perfection farm to a new save, I keep missing my shortcuts, the mine carts, my rings, and of course decent tools.
I'm not in a hurry with this save, but there are some things I really want to get my hands on as soon as possible.

So I'm still on my first summer. I started the new week planting new melons. I got two gold-star melons from my harvest, so I'm hoping I'll have 3 more.
I also retrieved my upgraded axe and got into the Secret Woods. I was really excited to get in and then forgot all about the area for the rest of the season.
For some reason I thought it was a good idea to have Robin build a third silo. I still only have two chickens...

Wednesday was Sam's birthday. I'd been giving him cans of Joja Cola, but didn't have one in my inventory on his birthday, so I gave him a large egg, too. He was pretty happy with it, and I saw his 3-heart cut scene that same day. I usually miss that, but I'm concentrating on the villagers more than I normally do.
I watched the rerun of QofS, and for the first time I did not get a new recipe. I'm finally caught up. For now. I asked Clint to upgrade the pickaxe to steel. Busy day.

Demetrius came by the next morning to ask about the cave. I picked mushrooms and forgot all about the cave straight away. I did get mushrooms in the mines, so the cave mushrooms are immediately useless for the community center.
Now that I don't have bats, I should get myself some saplings. I'm probably already too late to get the apples, but should maybe get one pomegranate if I plant it now. (Well, I did have the good intentions. Let that be a comfort!)

On Friday I went to the mountains to give Demetrius a strawberry. While I was up there anyway, I decided to go into the mines to see whether I could find Dwarf Scroll IV. I took the elevator down to a level with a lot of dirt to hoe, and actually got it on my second try. So I ran to the library, gave the scroll to Gunther, picked up the steel pickaxe and rushed back up to clear the path to the dwarf. So efficient. And I was not even planning to be efficient.

I managed to get my fishing up to level 4 during the Trout Derby. I got all the prizes (barely), but it took me both days this time, with the bamboo rod and no bait. I kept the diamond for Willy's upcoming birthday.
I still didn't remember to visit the cave and check out my mushrooms. Maybe next week.