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Guide: Fun $1 mill and Community Center in first year. Sharing my farm.

I am a huge fan of the Harvest Moon series so I had to play Stardew Valley. Pretty proud of how much I have achieved in the first year and thought I would contribute back to the community.

In sum: I have more money than I could need, but I'm having fun and not being crazy about the bottom line. I have every animal, every fruit tree, every building and building upgrade. I am one item off completing the community centre (it never rained for the WHOLE AUTUMN so I am yet to catch an Eel). I have at least 5 hearts with all the villagers. Just waiting on a rainy day so I can get married. Have all the minerals but still searching for some artifacts. I have just a few fish types left to catch.

General tips:

EAT FOOD FOR ENERGY, especially mining and early game pre-sprinklers. It hurts to eat good produce but trust me, it is a very valuable investment.
Go for sprinklers as soon as possible. Sprinklers are OP. The initial time investment mining in your first Spring will pay off 10x over in summer when you can get more profitable multi-harvest crops that you do not have to water. Then you have time to do so many things.
Upgrade all your tools as soon as possible.
Keep everything! Unless you have loads of a crop item, keep stuff rather than sell it. Chests are your friend. If you need money stat, you can always take things out of your chests to sell to Pierre on the day.
Get a good system to organise your chests. I started with one "general" chest for junk, and added as needed. I liked having a chest for each season (forage and crops), and separate chests for mining, fishing etc. If a chest got full I split it up eg. I split my fishing chest into "junk, crab pot fish, gear" and a "fish only" chest.
Dig up the worm things.
Make friends. It makes the game fun. Look up the gifts each character likes and be smart about your giving.
Use the wiki. Knowing information in this game saves you time, trouble and effort. eg. by using the wiki I was able to plan things to save for the autumn harvest festival.
For money, crops are always going to be the mainstay. Know the most profitable crops for each month (esp. blueberries, cranberries).
Get the Artisan Skill. Make as many artisan goods as possible from as early as possible, but DON'T SELL THEM YET. Bank them in chests until you get the bonus and then profit $$$.
Mushrooms over bats.
Plant bulk trees from the start. You will need the wood! Note that trees do not grow in winter!
There are essentially two resources in the game: time and energy. Time during the day is limited. Energy is renewable. Therefore, it is better to eat and keep chopping wood/fishing/mining for longer than to go to bed early.

SPRING:

Day 1-4: Plant as many turnips as you can afford. Get your farming skill up so you can make fertiliser. Chop enough wood (with eating food you should have enough on Day 2) to get the bridge at the beach and forage for coral every day.
Check out the bundles for the spring things you need. Eg. save 5x gold turnips for the quality crops bundle.
Once you have leveled up farming skill switch predominantly to potatoes. Plant a few of the other crops – enough for gifts and a gold cauliflower tucked away for the autumn harvest festival. If you can afford the seeds cauliflowers are great money makers.
As soon as the mine opens MINE EVERY DAY. Start making sprinklers as soon as you can. In general don't worry about how fast you go down the levels once you get to 80 and have gold, just keep farming ore if there's lots before going down a ladder even if you open one up. For a particular mineral, just "spam" the relevant levels – I liked to take the elevator to each "5" floor up and down and hope enough good mineral has spawned. In that way you can get hundreds of ores a day.
Early spring, don't hesitate to sell stuff – you need the money for seeds which are a good investment. Later in spring you can start keeping stuff for your chests.
With spare time, start making friends. Harvey, Linus and Leah like spring onions which are a cheap gift. Leah, Linus, robin, pam, shane like salmonberries. George loves leeks. Save gems from the mine for gifts eg. sebastian loves frozen tears.
Fish a little to get your skill up now for later. The lake below the mine is the best place for easy and also profitable fish. Don't really bother anywhere else in Spring. All the bundle fish can also be caught in other seasons.
Buy as many strawberry seeds as you can at the festival.
Complete bundle items as you get them. By the end of spring, you only need to have done the Spring Crops and Spring Foraging bundles. It is good to have 5x gold turnips for quality crops bundle but not essential.
For spring energy: as many spring onions as you can gather in early sprin. In the season (only a few days), as many salmonberries as possible. Aim to get 200 or more. These need to last you til autumn blackberries.
Start saving money at the end of spring for summer seeds.
Build a silo.
Craft some tappers and place on trees. Especially maple (for bee hives) and oak (for kegs)
Upgrade your rucksack as soon as possible. The money is a good investment for inventory space is $$ when mining and foraging.

SUMMER:

This is it folks! Money time! Crunch time! By now you should have a decent amount of sprinklers (15 +) and at least an iron hoe/bronze watering can.
Buy as many cranberry seeds as you can afford on day 1. Plant a few of all the other crops for gifts/quests/bundles etc.
You probably have enough quality sprinklers by mid-late summer to stop making them and start crafting other stuff. I found 35-40 was enough.
Start building as many preserve jars, kegs and hives as you can. Spam the ice levels in the mine for coal and kill the coal sprites.
Build at least a basic coop and barn. Keep all your eggs and milk for now for later processing into artisan goods.
Keep adding to your sprinklers and planting more crops. Crops are $$.
Make more friends. Cheap summer gifts: Lewis and Shane love peppers. Caroline loves summer spangle. Keep giving out your cheap spring stuff as above – spring onions and salmonberries.
Bundles: complete summer crops and forage. Keep 5x gold melons for quality crops bundle. By now you should definitely have completed the bundles in the boiler room with stuff obtained from mining, and the mine carts will save you heaps of walking time and effort. Make sure you plant a poppy. Also, plant all the mixed seed you have, hoping for red cabbage (which you can't otherwise get until Year 2). Check the travelling cart every Friday and Sunday for red cabbage. Fish: You MUST catch the pufferfish and sunfish. However, the pufferfish can be found at the travelling cart fairly often. Upgrade your axe and open the secret woods for fiddlehead fern. As early as you are able to afford it in Summer, plant 1 apple and 1 pomegranete tree ready for autumn.
Once you have opened the secret woods, go chop hardwood every day. This is a good time to start making friends with the wizard, give him solar/void essence. Save enough hardwood and get a horse.
You probably have excess hay by now – take it out of the silo and start storing in chests.
Plant a lot of hops and save for kegs. They make more money (because they take fewer days) than anything else early-game.
Buy a rare seed from the travelling cart.
At the end of summer, start saving for autumn seed.
As you harvest your single harvest summer crops late in the season replace with wheat but don't cut it down with the scythe – leave it for the first day of autumn, which will leave the ground tilled and watered ready for planting.

AUTUMN:

Cranberries are your crop of choice.
Plant some fairy rose near your hives on day 1. Use speed-go (deluxe) to maximise the honey profit time period.
Plant your rare seed. At the end of the season when ripe, give it to the statue in the secret forest.
Keep upgrading your barn and coop, getting more animals. Get pigs ASAP for truffles, ducks for feather, rabbits for rabbit foot.
Keep adding to your stash of artisan materials.
Keep giving cheap liked gifts and favourite gifts where you have them. Buy a stack of salads from Gus and carry them around with you to give opportunistically – everyone in the whole town likes salad except for Willy and Krobus. For en-masse gift giving, the bar on Friday night and Tuesday afternoons at Pierre's (exercise ladies) are great opportunities.
Bundles: autumn crops and forage. Complete the quality crops bundle. Construction bundle if you haven't already. By now you should have the money to complete the Vault and get the desert bus. Fish: your last chance (if you haven't already) to catch woodskip, eel, tilapia, shad, catfish. Complete other bundles as you get stuff. Save at least 2x pomegranetes and 4x apples for the fodder and artisan bundles. Save a sunflower for the dye bundle. If you have been good with your animals and have made friends with Emily (she sends you cloth in the mail) then by the end of autumn you should have completed the pantry and have a greenhouse for the winter!
Make a girlfriend/boyfriend with a bouquet and on a rainy day, buy the mermaid pendant so you can get married.
Plant BULK TREES for winter wood and charcoal for crafting. Don't chop down trees on your farm in autumn. Chop down trees in the forest and do this early, so they can grow back in time for winter.

WINTER:

focus on mining in the skull caves. Chop wood and fish. Craft items. Make friends.
craft all your winter forage into winter seeds, and keep farming outside. Each crop you harvest, turn all the harvested crops back into seeds. Rinse and repeated.
In the greenhouse, I put down the ancient seed I had, some hops starters I had saved for the kegs, and high value autumn crops – pumpkins for the preserve jars and cranberries just to sell. Plant the strawberry seeds you saved and using the seed maker, turn the back into seed for next Spring.
You should have ample money now to give gifts that are loved.
Upgrade your buildings fully. Get a slime coop.
Bundles: Winter foraging and exotic foraging if not completed already. Forage on the beach for a nautilus shell. Keep loving your rabbits and hoping for a foot – it can also be a drop in the skull caverns and I assume the travelling cart may have it sometime. Use the travelling cart to fill any remaining items. Fish: you must catch a sturgeon, walleye, red snapper, tuna, tiger trout. By now you should have completed the fish tank. Providing you can get a rabbits foot and red cabbage, you should have the whole community centre complete by spring!

My Farm: http://ift.tt/1YtZc5q Still needs some more work to look pretty but the basic structure is there. Also haven't finished cleaning up from spring spawns and planting my spring crops, putting sprinklers out.

Submitted June 16, 2016 at 09:35AM by everendingly
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