The daily not-a-daily Stardew Valley post

[thistlechaser]

Once more behind the cut. Short and sweet. A sad lack of screenshots.

• Upgraded my house, and learned why I hadn't previously been able to figure out how to cook. Yay a kitchen!


• Built a chicken coop. Next coop is being built now (ducks I think?).


• Biggest challenge of the game thus far: Finding Marnie actually working at the ranch so I could buy animals.


• Got a spiffy ring from a fish: It's like a flashlight in a ring, keeps an area around me bright at night/in caves.


• Caught a legendary fish (no idea what to do with it. I dropped it into storage. Hope it won't rot or something.)


• Fruit bats moved into the cave on my property. Haken would approve.


• Bees made honey. Have not seen a bee yet.


• Bought two hats from the hat mouse. I'd like my money back. They look horrible on Haken.


• When attending a luau, apparently it's not recommended to add seaweed to the communal soup. (Sorry everyone.)

Farming is my least favorite part of the game thus far (other than making friends with people). I think my sprinkler isn't working (the 8-square one, not the basic 4-square one). It doesn't seem to water anything. Life is too short to water crops with a watering can.

Current big/long term goal: Fish up the special sword. I enjoy mining/fighting critters, but my sword isn't so good.

Haken named his chickens: Chicken, Hen, Bird, and Rooster (the hen). Naming the rest of his animals is going to be fun.

kelen's idea to spread the machines out was a good one. Also, two forges are much better than one, especially when you have things like gold bars to make...

Wish I had more time for mining, but my time (energy!) right now is split between fishing on rainy days and clearing my land on sunny ones.

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I knew going in that I should wait on giving things to Gunther, but I still do it, then I curse the item I later needed. :P Doesn't help that Sebastian likes earth crystals too!

Oooh thanks for the hint about the area! I still haven't seen the traveling vendor, though now I'll have a better chance of catching him. Last night I gave in and started using the 'teleport' feature of that cheat. It's not that I minded walking so much as I have no sense of direction and I'm endlessly lost and having to stop and look at my map. (I knew that cheat was going to be a slippery slope for me...)

With fishing, money never seems to be an issue anymore. I hit level 10 yesterday, so that's nice.

Good to know about the slimes dropping iridium! I wondered where that came from. Most of my ores come from fishing, other than copper. I haven't gotten very deep into the mines yet.

[kelen.livejournal.com]

I haven't used the teleport yet. When you have the horse it isn't so bad. :)

Iridium comes from the skull dungeon. Once you reach the bottom of the mine you'll get a key to the skull area. However, you must unlock the bus repair at the community center to reach said area. Bus goes to the desert, which has a shop to the south, and the dungeon area to the north, left.

Good about fishing! :) You sound like you are making real progress.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I read about the bus! Once I have money to burn, I'm going to do that.

Ah ha! I'm far from the bottom of the dungeon. I think level 5 is the lowest I've gotten. I think later in the game I'll have more time to do that, once my land is all settled and needs just maintenance instead of outright clearing.

I really, really want the horse! That's a long way off though. I'm already looking at new skin options for it. :P