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Small tips and tricks (self.stardewvalley)

submitted 2 months ago by anamethatisnt to c/[email protected]

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I recently learned that crows only eats your crops if you have 16 or more tiles planted. That means you can plant 15 crops early without worrying about the crows at all.

What are other small tips and tricks you guys know?

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[–] HollowNaught 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I see this sentiment a lot about silos, and I don't agree.

I used to be the same. Always get a silo before a coop to... what, exactly? A silo does three things:

Gives young animals food
Give animals food on rainy days
Give animals food in winter

But those three are the vast minority of an animal's time on the farm, and by the time you get to winter you'll have one anyway.

The 500g is much better spend on seeds or an earlier coop. The animals can eat grass anyway, it gives more friendship than hay.

Buy the silo when you have money, like after the first harvest in summer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Always get a silo before a coop to… what, exactly?

It's mostly to store some food before you buy your first animals, so you don't need to buy it from Marnie, and you have some time to set up some space for them to graze on later. (The early game farm is usually a mess, and it gets a bit annoying to get animals walking through all of that junk and your crops.)

That said it's perfectly fine to ignore this piece of advice - as any other - if you already know the game a bit better.

[–] HollowNaught 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but why do we want to store food? The few days of early friendship isn't worth it, and you'll only really be seeing the benefits way down the line

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Unfed animals don't produce, so you're losing 50G/day/chicken until the silo is complete. And small bits of money like this are actually a big deal in the early game, sometimes you want to do something and you can't simply because you got no money.

[–] HollowNaught 1 points 1 month ago

In other words, you're better off saving your money unless you get 10 very early rainy days

Even then, a 500g investment in seeds will make you more money in the long run