Which type of farm is the best?

Which Farm Map is the best?

  • Standard Farm

    Votes: 18 29.5%

  • Forest Farm

    Votes: 19 31.1%

  • Riverland Farm

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Hill-top Farm

    Votes: 3 4.9%

  • Wilderness Farm

    Votes: 3 4.9%

  • Beach Farm

    Votes: 5 8.2%

  • Four Corners Farm

    Votes: 13 21.3%
  • Total voters
    61
A Junimo

A Junimo

Planter
I'm creating a gaming Youtube channel, and obviously I'm gonna play Stardew Valley on it. For my playthroughs. I'm thinking I should create a new farm and start from scratch. Any idea on which farm layout I should pick?
My personal favorite is DEFINITELY, 100% the Beach Farm, but I'm also looking for some outside perspective. Thanks in advance!! :)
 
Alfyna

Alfyna

Sodbuster
The forest farm is my absolute favorite. <3 But I also admit that I'm more into RP ambience than I am profit, so I don't mind all that water and those non-farmable areas on the map. It's really fun to work with ~nature etc. by building among the trees and setting up pretty flowery areas by the lakes to make the farm pretty but also productive. I also love the little grassy nooks included on the lefthand side to put in optional coops. It's really picturesque and I enjoy the challenge of working with the more limited space.
 
rippytrippy

rippytrippy

Planter
I like the forest farm a lot because it's great for foraging. the only thing that's annoying about it is the numerous lil ponds that get in the way and all you can fish up is trash from them :/
 
BringsTheSnow

BringsTheSnow

Planter
Forest farm for foragables and easy access to Hardwood. Pairs especially well with the musroom cave if you are focusing on foraging.

I, too, am more focused on role-playing rather than profit but the wide open south of the greenhouse is still a decent amount of space for farming and/or grass for animals.
 
Lew Zealand

Lew Zealand

Helper
While I'm very much enjoying the Beach Farm in my new-for-1.5 save, the Forest Farm is really fun to use and plan around. Standard Farm is a bit boring but great for mass building. Hill-Top Farm can be good but I eventually grew to dislike it because of the movement and placement constraints. 4 Corners Farm could be good but seems not to have a personality. I've never tried the Riverland Farm but I'd probably end up with a similar opinion to the Hill-Top Farm.

I'm too afraid of the Wilderness Farm because I'm out a lot at night finishing my chores I put off at 6am.

And spoopy.
 

secretlondon

Farmhand
Depends on what you like - they all have benefits and drawbacks. I'm currently playing four corners solo (with mushroom cave and joja) which I'm enjoying. My furthest 1.5 farm is a beach farm with fruit bats and community centre.
 
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A Junimo

A Junimo

Planter
Thank you guys for the responses so far, but I just remembered the Four Corners farm! I'll add that option in my poll.
Your advice is greatly appreciated! :smile:
 
imnvs

imnvs

Local Legend
4-Corner has a bit of everything (a miniature quarry like hill-top, a hardwood stump like forest, lots of space like standard) and lends itself to easy organization, and this goes whether you're playing solo or MP.

Beach, the wife and I have a MP and I have a solo. It has more space than everything, and I'll be honest, only 202 sprinklerable squares... so that's the drawback. Is it really, though? It will take 8 iridium sprinklers in tillable tiles and 1 quality sprinkler in a non-tillable to cover it makes for 194 tiles. I can live with that. Until I had so going that I needed to grow 160 ancient fruit outside, I was getting by with just 192 tiles of crops growing. I'll get more space on the island to grow my ancient fruit fields in later game. I'll still have the greenhouse. It's a close second behind the 4-Corner, for me. In our MP, the wife and I plan to go a little heavier on the animals than we normally would. In my solo, that'll probably mean more space for fish ponds.
 
Cuusardo

Cuusardo

Farmer
Riverlands was my first farm. I love being able to fish so close to home, panning is plentiful, and filling a watering can is super convenient. While the layout is a bit more challenging to work with, I have moved and rearranged some things since I started to make things as efficient as possible.

My second solo farm is a hilltop farm. Having a quarry is fantastic. While the fishing isn't great, there's loads of space for crab pots and paddy crops. In general I really like the layout.

My third solo farm, which I started after the update so that I could experience all the new stuff from the beginning, is a wilderness farm. It was a bit dicey at first, defending myself with my scythe because I didn't have a proper weapon, but after getting a weapon the monster drops are pretty great. It's got a lot more wide open space than my other two solo farms, which made it a little tougher to plan the layout without the landscape essentially making some decisions for me. It too has a generous amount of space for crab pots as well as paddy crops.

I've played the four corners with @imnvs and I love using that layout for a co-op game. Don't know if I'd like it as much for a solo game because there's so much space for so much stuff that it could feel overwhelming. The forest farm we've got is pretty fun too, and I may do a solo version of one in the future. We're just starting out on a beach farm, and that one's an interesting layout to work with.
 
Michael LeChite

Michael LeChite

Rancher
So I'm still taken with the Standard Farm, boring right? It was the first farm I tried with and I've recently started using Animals so the layout is quite easy to use. I do look forward to using the Beach Farm someday soon, but hearing so much positive talk about the Forest Farm has me wondering about trying a new farm now 😀
 
Maugatta

Maugatta

Tiller
My favourite farm is the forest farm,
but I've noticed that I usually use the Riverland or the Hilltop.

(Wow, anybody voted the beach farm, I was really expecting to see all the casted votes on that farm !) :flushed:
 
Anhaga

Anhaga

Rancher
I've been enjoying the Beach Farm quite a lot. The watering isn't too bad; you can easily plant in the dirt field even before you cut up the big logs, and I have been getting tons of water-retaining soil as drops from critters in the mines and beach crates. It is nice to be able to fish for ocean fish and just trot back to the house when it gets too late, not needing to run multiple screens or use a totem. I've put in crab pots and am getting a really high proportion of fish rather than trash. I do wish I could adjust my initial settings; I decided to live dangerously and enable monsters, and that makes night-fishing a bit irritating. Bats, apparently, do not freeze in the same way that NPCs do if you've hooked a fish and are trying to reel it in.
 
A Junimo

A Junimo

Planter
Thanks everyone for your help so far! It seems as though people in the poll are really liking the Forest Farm, while most of the comments are recommending either the Four Corners farm or the Hilltop Farm. Between those three, which one should I pick?
 

secretlondon

Farmhand
A Junimo said:
Thanks everyone for your help so far! It seems as though people in the poll are really liking the Forest Farm, while most of the comments are recommending either the Four Corners farm or the Hilltop Farm. Between those three, which one should I pick?
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All of them :)
 
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