Winter Season

[gooseleene]

Is it only me or is the winter season a little to hard?
I'm still on Town rank E, grinding the hell out of the ocean/mine and now im here without any seeds. Is there a trick or am i missing something?

[Piperbird]

Sam will sell seeds at town rank C, but you can plant wild seeds for tea leaves.

You can also get snowdrop seeds as a reward from the museum for 140 donations.

But you don't need crops, you can still make money with everything else in the game - ranching, selling extra artifacts, fossils, and gems, fishing, bug collecting, selling ores and kelp.

Or you can use winter to decorate the farm and work on relationships.

[Lemmus]

It's common in farming games for winter to be the time you focus on things other than farming, such as the mine, ocean cleanup, fishing, etc.

I'm on my first play-through, although I have played an absurd amount of Stardew Valley plus several other cozy farming games, and by mid-winter of year 1 I've finished all four mines, cleared the ocean, and unlocked Town Rank C.

The only "trick" I've used is to change day length in the settings to have longer days. You're still limited by your stamina, but the map is a bit big to navigate on short days.