Stardew Valley is a very deep game, that dumps you on an old farm, with tons of possibilities! It can be a bit overwhelming at first, so check out our Starter's Guide tips below to ensure you are both learning everything you need to be, while maximizing your early game experience.
Although you may not plan to use all that farm land at first, it's really important to clear it out. Why? Because those crafting materials are important! Your farm has tons of Stone, Wood and other resources laying around that are very useful for crafting some early game items.
Though you do want space for your farm, be sure to save some of the grass. Keep it so you can make Hay out of it later.
Clearing the farm takes a lot of energy, so we suggest you only use about half your energy per day towards clearing things out. You can of course increase this on slow days, or when you have items to refill your energy. Due to the amount of resources you will be collecting, we suggest building a Chest as soon as you can. Place it outside, and you will always have a spot to store your ever increasing supplies.
Are your farming chores done for the day? If yes, don't go to sleep! There is so much more you can do than simply farm, even if you're very low on energy.
Foraging is the best option when you are tapped out of energy for the day. Walk around the map, looking for plants you can pull from the ground, or bushes with red berries growing on them. You can harvest these, and eat them for energy, or sell them for gold. The profits can go a long way early on, and that extra energy will allow you to keep working on your farm.
On day 2 you will receive a letter. Head South from Pelican Town to visit Willy the fisherman. He gives you a fishing pole, unlocking the fishing ability. Now, at any body of water, you can cast a line and try to catch fish.
This isn't the best way to earn money, but it's a nice, leisurely way to spend your days after completing your farming chores. With some luck, you can bring in 300+ gold worth of fish a day, even more if you refill your energy! This early gold can then be spent on Seeds, which will yield even more profits.
The Egg Festival is an event that occurs halfway through Spring. The festival itself isn't important when it comes to making money, it's what the vendor sells that's important to us. During this festival, Pierre will have a vendor stand, and be selling Strawberry Seeds. These are 100G a piece and are worth every penny!
Buy as many seeds as you can, and as soon as the festival is done, the game will place you at your farm. It's late, but there is no time for sleep. Get those seeds planted before you head to bed, as every day counts when growing a Strawberry. So why are they so important? A single Strawberry sells for 120G, and on top of that, the plant will continue to produce new berries every couple days, meaning a single 100G seed investment can yield multiple hundreds of gold in return!
You will notice very quickly that there is a lot going on in Stardew Valley, and it can be a bit intimidating at first. Do you plant new stuff? Socialize with townsfolk? Maybe spend time mining.
We suggest for your first season you focus solely on growing crops. Getting upgrades will be tempting, but it requires you to divert too much attention away from working on your farm, and simply costs too much time and money. By growing as many crops as you can in Spring, and doing a lot of side Fishing and Foraging, you will be going into Summer with a very healthy pool of Gold. This will allow you to go out on day 1 of Summer and purchase several dozen seeds, setting you up for a very profitable Summer season, and with those profits, you will be able to easily afford new tools and house upgrades!
The Community Center is locked initially, but after a few days, a cutscene will play out when you enter town. Inside is destroyed, but if you head left, you'll find a golden sheet of paper. It's gibberish for now, but the next day when you wake up, you'll have a note from a Wizard.
Visit his tower, which is South of your farm, and you'll unlock the ability to read the scrolls in the Community Center. Now that you can read them, you will find out they are quests!
You can view these quests by clicking the icon that's to the right of your inventory, or by going back to the Community Center. Bring the requested items to the Community Center, and you'll unlock rewards. These start off small, but are very valuable later on. The reason you want to start early, is many of the quests are locked by season, so if you can't grow the required items, you'll have no way to complete the quest until the following year!
Outside the General Store is a bulletin board. If you click on the left side, you can see a calendar with everyone's birthday that season, and any special events. Birthdays are useful for building friendship, as gifts given on a birthday will make a character much happier than usual.
On the right side of the Bulletin Board are quests. These are usually simple requests, where people ask you to bring them an item or two. Early on we don't suggest making these a priority, however it's still worth checking each day incase there is a very simple one, like deliver a single Leek to a NPC.
Most of the NPCs from Pelican Town can become your friends. You can give them gifts to improve your friendship, and over time this will unlock special options with that character, like being able to access their bedrooms.
Some NPCs can even be romanced. All Romanceable NPCs will be pointed out by the word Single on the Romance tab of your inventory.
To make friends, or romance a person, you must give them gifts. You can give them nearly anything, but to be efficient, you will want to learn what they like most, and give them those items. You can often times figure out their likes based on the bulletin board. If there is a bulletin board quest where an NPC requests a specific item, that generally means they like it!
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