Be Excellent To Each Other

They must have nicked that from Persona5. Tch.

OH DANG

We might have a problem.

My sister and I have created a new farm and set a challenge - first one to complete the community centre wins. She agreed to this, and then reminded me that she only works part time hours and has no other responsibilities.

I somehow have to beat her anyway.

Meth

I got the game Saturday evening. I'm almost at the end of the first year. This weekend was a complete write-off.

I can't do fishing at all. Controlling the little floaty thing to land a fish appears completely beyond my skills.

It took me AGES to get used to the fishing, although I'm pretty good now. Gentle taps/clicks/whatever to keep the bar behind the fish icon rather than pressing and holding work better for me. Some fish are just impossible to catch until you reach a certain level though.

On PS4, tapping seems to do nothing. Only holding down the button does anything then the bar rockets all over the place. I'm clearly doing something wrong and shall experiment further.

I've got the hang of fishing on the PS4 now, so it's your spazzy hands.

I am four items away from completing the bundles. One of them is a poppy. Poppies grow in summer. It's fall. Argh.

Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

Poppies come up on the travelling cart sometimes.

Oh, I know, I’m there all the time now.

I’m watching MrsDoc play and wow: Hell is other people’s Stardew Valley chest organisation.

I am in winter of year two. All bundles complete. Lifetime earnings at 1.4 million ish. I have a greenhouse full of Ancient Fruit, and two sheds of kegs turning them into wine. I just got a Slime Hutch and just bought the last house upgrade. I have all the animals. I need more iridium for a full sprinkler setup for next spring, though.

Approx 60 hours playtime. Jesus, this game is a thing.

Colour me curious

It's not bad or anything. It's just not exactly the same as how I've done it!

I generally have a chest per item type. So one for seeds, one for fish, one for misc materials (clay, wood, stone, fibre), food stuffs, mining stuff (ore, gems etc), then in my 'big' game I have chests for gold quality items and iridium quality items (1 of each).

I really wish you could upgrade the fridge so that you could store all of the food in there.

Does food go off?

I'm converging on this design, spent some time yesterday moving things around and splitting out some generic "crops" chests into "fruit," "veg", and "forage/flowers." Additionally, I have small areas marked out with flooring eg. one where I have cheese presses / mayo machines / looms and a chest that stores the inputs and outputs of those processes. Although I mostly sell the outputs, and just keep a small stash.

I've done all the bundles now, I'm concentrating on iridium (I have a paltry four iridium sprinklers and only 2x tools upgraded) and friendships.

:this:

No. I once got "mmm, smells fresh" as a comment when delivering someone a lobster that had been in a chest, outside, at room temperature, for a year.

No, but when you cook it will draw ingredients from your fridge as well as your inventory, whereas if you e.g. have chests of ingredients in your house they are ignored.

You may know this already but you can buy them from

Oooh, that's handy.

When do you get the sewer key? I've had

but nothing since.

This is a thread I’d really, really like to put on ignore.

All the Harvest Moon, Animal Crossing and Legend of River King games ATE MY LIFE, and I must not look at this as the pull towards selling my child and entering hermitage is too real.

That's where all four came from -- I'm hoarding the bars for my tool upgrades.

After 60 donations to the museum. I donated everything as soon as possible but it still took ages.

Learn from my mistakes, though: don't donate your first Prismatic Shard. Hang on to it until you get to the desert. You need one for a puzzle there, and it has a sweet-assed reward.

TIL there's a desert.

I'm honestly surprised you don't play it Mimi, as I think of you every time I turn it on

Theoretically, is it a game that can be played on PS4?

Theoretically it very much is, yes

And practically.

It might even be on sale.

Hnghhhh...

Whoop

So far Mimi has managed to move the table in the house next to the bed. Before that she took the bowl off the table and threw it in the bin.

A man came and told her to go fishing. She caught a 1 inch sardine and promptly threw it in the bin.

She asks if there is a way to look up the controls or whether anyone can link to a guide for how to play.

Hide the bin!

I've not used any guides so can't recommend but there's loads out there.

Mimi, get Russell to drive and shout instructions at him.

I don’t think I could play it in the car.

I played to about day... 12? I don’t know, it’s oast my bedtime. I keep throwing things in the bin, but apart from that it’s Harvest Moon lovely.

It’s my perfect kind of game. I’m having a bit of trouble fishing. Do I press as soon as the exclamation point comes up, or do I wait for it to say ‘hit’?

It only says "hit" when you've pressed the button as the exclamation mark comes up.

Ah! Gotcha. Mostly I just catch wet newspapers and old cds.

Keep those. Particularly keep the CDs and the broken glasses.

D’oh. I put them in the bin.

I’ll get myself a junk chest

Is that so I can recycle them later?

I need to start properly organising stuff, more chests is a good route I think.

Yep