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Stardew Valley! First Spring Guide!

Stardew Valley! First Spring Guide!

Stardew Valley Spring Guide

This article will assist as a Stardew Valley Spring Guide. If you are not familiar with the game, Stardew Valley is one of the best mobile games out at the moment and is highly addictive without being overly monotonous.

We will guide you through spring with a day-by-day solution for making the most of your first spring.

Day 1

  • Pick up any wild plants.
  • Listen to anything anybody has to say. Good friends listen, and you never know what you may learn.
  • Plant and water 15 crops, 15 Parsnips or 13 Parsnips plus a Green Bean and a Cauliflower. Save your money and Mixed Seeds for later.
  • Chop trees and make a Chest.
  • Be in the house by 1:50 a.m.

Your Weaknesses

These are the most essential steps for your first day. Next, we’ll talk about your weakness for the day.

Energy. You are appallingly flabby at the moment.

Don’t have more than 15 crops to water until Spring day 6. Save your energy for trees, rocks, and fishing.

Avoid using your pickaxe at all today. To exit your farm south using no pickaxe and little axe energy, head directly south from your mailbox/shipping bin/pond area before turning west.

Avoid tilling or watering anything unnecessarily.

Chop down tree tops only leave the stumps to gain maximum experience for the energy you will spend.



Backpack space.

Build a Chest. Save every bit of your energy today to chop tree tops for wood to build a Chest. Make up for limited space by carrying a chest with you to use at your fishing spot, the Mines, the Blacksmith, the Saloon, and other places.

Drop items on the ground. If you try to craft a Chest or retrieve something when your backpack is full, you don’t always have to throw something away to make room for it. Instead, drop your lowest value stack of items onto the ground off to the side of your menu. It will always drop directly in front of you, so this could drop things in the water if you are fishing.

After the first day, chop three trees down a day to ensure you don’t run out of wood.

Your Strengths

Now we’ve talked about your weakness. It’s time to talk about your strengths for the day ahead.

Time. Time is always short in Stardew Valley. But you have very little going on and as much free time as ever today. Greet people you see, forage, and use your scythe as frequently as possible on weeds wherever you see them for fibre to sell and possibly mixed seeds to plant later.

Fresh start. Your future is wide open. If you feel lost and would like more time just to explore and window shop Stardew Valley before committing to Grandpa’s farm, you can use Exit to Title under the inventory/menu and Load the day again without penalty other than losing anything you did since you awoke. Stardew Valley saves your progress when you go to sleep every night. You can retry the same day as many times as you want until you go to sleep and it’s a new day.

Make sure on your first day you also go out and socialise with the other villagers as it is crucial to make friends and find a possible partner that will eventually lead to marriage. Make sure you give them gifts on their birthdays. You can find out on the calendar in the middle of town when a character’s birthday is. Also take the time to find out what they like and dislike this will help in making friendships faster.

 

Underneath, I’ve found a table that should help with your farm basics.

Obstacle Tool Cost Uses
grass (you can walk through it) scythe time only none yet
weeds (you can’t walk through it) scythe time only money today, fibre for scarecrow soon
small logs, trees axe energy wood for chests (50) and bridge repair (300) and, sap for fertilizer (2) this week
small rocks (until you get a chest, aim for zero; after two chests, aim for 100 then, your entire farm to level up mining) pickaxe energy coal for scarecrow soon and stone for saving



Day 2

Today: Water crops and top more trees if necessary for a second chest, empty your backpack except for a chest and your hoe, and go south from town to try fishing at the beach. Make sure you go foraging as you may come across some artefact spots, and you will till them with your hoe.

On day 2, you’ll also get access to a fishing rod, and that is how you can make money fast. The best place to make money and the highest value fish would be up in the mountain area near where robins house is and where the mines are currently locked off to players up until day 4.

Some people are able to make more money in the first few weeks with fishing than with early crops. Try it out for the rest of the day. If you strike out, you can wait a month to start fishing and stick to farming and foraging this season.

Here’s a plan of how your day should go if your are being efficient,

  • Water your 15 crops.
  • Clear your farm a bit until 7:30 am and make another chest for the beach.
  • Go to the beach with a chest, some spare energy, and/or money. Willy will give you an old fishing rod.
  • Try out the fishing mini-game from the mountains. Ignore your success on the first cast; it’s fake and not representative. Try another 2-5 bites. If you did not like that, here’s what you can do:
  • Fish the rest if the day. Keep an empty space in your backpack at all times. Eat your smallest stacks of fish, forage, algae, and seaweed to make space or just for energy. All this will get you to fishing level 1 or beyond today. From there on out, everything just gets better.

To become an expert fisherman, keep fishing for experience until you drop. Fish non-stop for a few days before deciding whether fishing will be worth your income until you become a rich farmer.

If you strike out early at fishing, leave it for later and prepare for mining by chopping more tree tops for another chest and lots of rock-breaking on your farm until you are low on energy.

If you are not going to fish, it may also be worth your effort to repair the Beach bridge to the tidal pools, which need 300 wood for income toward Strawberries. Keep getting wood by chopping tree tops until you reach Foraging level 3.

Toward the end of the day, check your skills tab to plan your bedtime.



Day 3

Today is rainy (Future rainy days are random, but not today). Work on clearing your field and farm, including rocks and tree tops. Just don’t waste your energy tilling anything for future days with your hoe; early tilling can revert.

Prepare for Spring 6 planting. Get your field area planned and cleared (not tilled) to a size of about 80 tiles. Save all possible sap for fertilizer; 20 fibre, 1 coal, and 50 wood for a scarecrow; and your foraging and fishing money for seeds. Aim to clear your field and your entire farm of all small rocks (for Mining experience). If you can finish this today and tomorrow, you will unlock Staircases for rapid descent in The Mines. When you run out of energy, continue to focus on weeds by the dozens all around your farm since you are still quite flabby, the sale value of the fibre is still significant to you this week, and weeds stand in the way of tree regrowth on your farm and forage spawning off your farm.

Cut the tops of trees that are crowded enough to obscure each other. The stumps don’t help you level up much, and they continue spawning seeds (they do not regrow). Chop the stumps later for wood. As you need more wood, thin your farm more, especially on the west end, but do not clear cut beyond your field area, and leave one of each type close enough to your field to see while you tend your crops. Avoid felling Oak trees (the ones with a tight canopy and reflective mop top vs open canopy and visible branches) until you start getting seeds. Collect seeds, especially Acorns (Oak), for planting around the farm and the valley for Tapping.

Resist the temptation to snowball your field unmanageably large; you will be rolling in money soon enough, and a week or two, either way, won’t ultimately matter much. What will matter is missing out on the things that this walkthrough alerts you about. Instead of overplanting willy-nilly, stick to your 15 or 40 crops for now and save your money for more expensive crops on Spring day 6.

You need to learn to carry your hoe at all times and notice wiggling “worms” Artifact Spots sticking out of any dirt you pass by. Digging up these spots is crucial to get some of the Artifacts to donate to the museum. And keep all Geodes. You want to donate five items to the Museum on or before Spring day 16 to get nine free Cauliflower Seeds.

While you can’t mine yet, you can prepare now. What you really want on your farm are sprinklers so your fields can grow beyond your ability to water and so you can just relax between planting and harvest. And the way to get sprinklers is to descend into the mines as quickly as possible to floor 80 (or 90 for a special sword) to unlock the elevator to the floors that have the ore you want and the armour and weapons that make mining ore and coal easy. Clearing 100 farm rocks (Mining skill level 1) will unlock a recipe for cherry bombs for The Mines, and 380 farm rocks (Mining skill level 2) will unlock a Staircase recipe for The Mines. Clearing your farm of small rocks will get you to level 2 and build up coal, copper, and stone for your rapid descent. Beyond enough wood for two chests (one near home and one at the mines), use your energy to clear every small rock from your farm.

There are no fish unique to Spring for the Community Center or loved gifts, so you have a couple of months to save one Sunfish and as much time as you want to save examples of the other fish you find, so feel free to delay fishing—unless it’s making you money—until your fields are sprinkled or sell or eat anything you catch right now. After a couple of months, the only significant value of fishing will be fun, CC completion, and villager gifts.

 

Day 4

Today is a good day to forage thoroughly again for wild plants and start saving some of them. Here’s how to use the wild plants you find:

  • Spring Onion: food as needed
  • Leek and Dandelion: food as needed and Community Center Crafts Room “Spring Foraging Bundle”. Save some for gifts.
  • Wild Horseradish: money or food as needed and Community Center Crafts Room “Spring Foraging Bundle”. Save some for gifts.
  • Daffodil: money as needed and Community Center Crafts Room “Spring Foraging Bundle”. Save some for gifts.

Keep using your hoe on Artifact Spots around your farm and the valley. And keep all Geodes as you clear every small rock from your farm. You want to donate five items to the Museum on or before Spring 16 to get free Cauliflower Seeds.

If you’ve cleared your farm of rocks, now would be a good time to plan and start planting a double-spaced Oak tree farm on your farm. Or plant them on the beach or anywhere else. You collect seeds by chopping tree tops or fallen seeds.

 

Day 5

Skill upgrade alert: Today is your first harvest. Hopefully, that will unlock recipes tomorrow for a Scarecrow (from 20 fibre, 50 wood, and 1 coal) and some Fertilizer. Make sure you have room for them and all the seeds you will be able to afford.

Birthdays alert: Save one of your new Parsnips for Mayor Lewis’s birthday on Spring day 7. And young Vincent would like a Daffodil for his on Spring 10. Mark the dates! Note that gold star quality always impresses people most on birthdays.

You’ll get a notice that the path to a mine is open today, and that’s good since the ore you find there is necessary to upgrade your tools and is all you need to build basic and Quality sprinklers if you are tired of watering. Meanwhile, if you keep your field small by stepping methodically to Strawberries, you will have time to fish, mine, and follow the Stardew Valley story.  Valley/Mining especially about ladders, then grab your pickaxe, hoe, fishing pole (just in case), stone, copper, coal except one for a scarecrow, food, and a new chest and go early in the day out your north exit to The Mines in the northeast corner of the valley. Once inside The Mines, put your chest by the elevator and leave everything but a sword, pickaxe, coal, copper, stone, and food. Now start your first day of mining in rapid descent mode! You can take time to break any crates and barrels or convenient shiny rocks and still make 5 floors today using rapid descent strategies if you start early enough. For the rest of the month, use any long good luck days starting mid-morning and rapid descent strategies to unlock 5 or 10 floors in a day.

Today your first Parsnips will be ready to harvest. Equip your scythe for safety and harvest them. If you planted more than 15 crops, you have been losing crops to crows.

If you are tight on gold, toss all Parsnips but two (for Lewis and the Spring Crops bundle) in the shipping bin and go to The Mines or fishing. You will get the Parsnip money tomorrow morning. Or take your Parsnips tomorrow to Pierre’s and sell all but the two to Pierre. However, you get the money (fish, forage, Parsnips), and buy all the expensive 6-day crops you can afford (up to 80) to plant tomorrow.

If you get out of The Mines before midnight, you may want to catch the Friday night action at the Saloon and listen to the villagers. Later on, you can keep chests full of gifts in a safe location near the Saloon and hand out gifts on Fridays after 5 pm and evenings. After you’ve gifted a bit, check the social (heart) tab on your menu to remember which of your gifts were really liked.



Day 7

Don’t miss Lewis’s birthday today. He would like a Parsnip.

Visit the Wizard if he invites you. Then donate to the Spring Foraging Bundle when you have all four. You will receive a reward of Spring Seeds. Spring Seeds are also known as the Spring version of Wild Seeds (Wild Seeds (Sp)). They are not the same as the Mixed Seeds you get from chopping weeds. Mixed Seeds grow into random farm crops with a few failures. Spring Wild Seeds grow into Leeks, Dandelions, Wild Horseradish, and Daffodils as crops on your farm. That said, it saves more energy and gives you up-front money for Strawberries if you sell the seeds immediately.

Save 4000gp for 40 Strawberries at the Egg Festival. Some people even wait to upgrade their backpacks until they get their Strawberry seeds. Chests at safe locations near the Mines, Blacksmith, Saloon, and your fishing spot(s) can get you by with your small backpack. Keep an extra chest with you everywhere you go.

 

Day 10

Young Vincent would like a Daffodil for his birthday today. The official Wiki can tell you where to find him if he isn’t at school in the Museum/Library/School.

Today would not be a bad day to make a wild plant round unless you’d rather wait until Friday.

Keep saving for Strawberries.

 

Day 10-12

 

Get ready to spend 4000gp on Strawberry at the Egg Festival on Spring 13. For the Community Centre Spring Crops Bundle, sell all your harvests except 1 Potato, Green Bean, and Parsnip (the lone Cauliflower harvest coming on Saturday morning). Buy and plant seeds for 8-16 Parsnips on fertilizer to try repeatedly for five gold stars through the 24th. Depending on your Farming skill level, around 1/4 of your fertilized crops will be a gold star crop, and that will increase through to the end of the month.

Make another wild plant round by Friday if you want. Save one of everything and a gold star Daffodil for Haley (Spring 14) and maybe Emily (27) and a gold star Dandelion for Pierre (26).

Friday night is an excellent time to catch many of the villagers at the Saloon after 5 pm.

 

Day 13

Egg Festival!

 

  1. Before you go, harvest your lone Cauliflower, water your few crops that may be in the ground, and prepare and water spaces for about 40+ Strawberries (be careful about your time and energy commitment) at 100 gold each. Make sure you have complete Scarecrow coverage.
  2. At the festival, buy Strawberry seeds BEFORE you start the egg hunt.
  3. When you get back home at 10 pm, take the Spring crops bundle to the Community Center and get your Speed Grow reward. Then apply the Speed Grow and plant ALL the Strawberry seeds in the prepared and watered spaces. Do not keep any Strawberry seeds. Plant them. Now is when you need the money most. Next year you can buy plenty when you are rich.

 

Day 14

Birthday alert: Haley (Spring 14) would like a gold star Daffodil on her birthday.

 

Day 17-21

Birthday alert: Pam (Spring 18) would LOVE a gold star Parsnip on her birthday. Gold star is always best, of course! Shane (Spring 20) would LOVE Pizza or Beer from the Saloon on his birthday.

 

Day 23-28

 

Birthday alert: Pierre (Spring 26) would like any of your vegetables or a Dandelion on his birthday. Emily (Spring 27) would like a Daffodil or LOVE an Emerald, Aquamarine, Ruby, Amethyst, Topaz, or Jade on her birthday. Gold star is always best!



End of Spring

At the end of Spring, if you have planned well, you will have some sprinkled crops and good money coming in, hopefully, enough money to buy a nice fat heap of Summer seeds, to upgrade your backpack and some tools or a Silo. Demetrius may come by with a controversial and big decision; search Fruit Bats at the end of this article.

You could chop down all your plants on the 28th, but it’s far less work to take a scythe to the dead remains on the first day of Summer; you don’t have to re-hoe any soil after that.

If you have done exceptionally well-earning money in Spring, you may reach the point of having earned 25,000gp before the end of Spring. Whether this happens in Spring or later, Demetrius will drop by and ask to use your cave for Science, Fruit Bats or Mushrooms.

Fruit Bats

  • Erratic delivery, but they last a month, so you don’t have to check often
  • Erratic range and number of fruits and berries, from forage like Salmonberries (5gp) to tree fruit like Pomegranates (140g)
  • Enable community centre completion without planting fruit trees

Mushrooms

  • Regular delivery of six mushrooms every other day, but they don’t accumulate, so you must harvest every other day
  • Erratic range (mostly Commons), but generally worth more than the range of fruits
  • Enable community centre completion without going deep into the Mines.

Neither choice is worth significant money after a while. So it boils down to frequency and whether you’d rather avoid fruit trees or mining. If you choose mushrooms and feel aggressive about an early greenhouse, you’ll need to plant Orange and Peach early in the last week, so they can fruit late in the Summer (and plant the Apple and Pomegranate by mid Summer to fruit in the late Fall). If you are tight on money, there is always next year, or you can choose fruit bats and go mining for Community Center mushrooms.

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