Can the storage chest hold more than one type of item?

[King Mustard]

I started playing 20 minutes ago.

I have used my tools on the trees, rocks etc. outside my home and I saw the chest next to it.

I opened the chest and put the wood in there; so far so good.

But then I put the rocks in there and it appears ONLY the rocks are in there now and there's no way to get my wood back?

If that's the case, it's awful design. It's not clear at ALL how it works without first losing items you're spent ages earning and "learning from your 'mistakes'".

Could anyone elaborate?

[MightyJean]

That's not a chest, it's the shipping bin where you put what you want to sell without the need to go to Pierre or Clint each time.

Edit: You can reclaim the latest item you put there (the rocks in your case) but nothing beyond that. You can craft chest for 50 wood though.

[King Mustard]

Originally posted by MightyJean:

That's not a chest, it's the shipping bin where you put what you want to sell without the need to go to Pierre or Clint each time.

Edit: You can reclaim the latest item you put there (the rocks in your case) but nothing beyond that. You can craft chest for 50 wood though.

Looks like a storage chest to me 😂 So I sold them? At least they're not wasted, then.

EDIT: I just put something else in there but my money didn't increase.

Also, the game has failed to successfully explain how I use 50 wood to make a chest. It says you can but doesn't explain how.

[-Na Shagul-]

Originally posted by King Mustard:

Originally posted by MightyJean:

That's not a chest, it's the shipping bin where you put what you want to sell without the need to go to Pierre or Clint each time.

Edit: You can reclaim the latest item you put there (the rocks in your case) but nothing beyond that. You can craft chest for 50 wood though.

Looks like a storage chest to me 😂 So I sold them? At least they're not wasted, then.

EDIT: I just put something else in there but my money didn't increase.

You don't get paid until it gets shipped overnight.

[King Mustard]

Originally posted by -Na Shagul-:

Originally posted by King Mustard:

Looks like a storage chest to me 😂 So I sold them? At least they're not wasted, then.

EDIT: I just put something else in there but my money didn't increase.

You don't get paid until it gets shipped overnight.

The game literally explains none of that. No "Shipping bin" name when you open the shipping bin, no description when you first open it etc.

And the first mission, to greet 28 people, has so far taken me over an hour and I'm up to 17./ The game doesn't explain where to find the others.

To be honest, I think I'll get a refund. The first two hours has been a crap experience.

[LuckySara]

Originally posted by King Mustard:

Originally posted by -Na Shagul-:

You don't get paid until it gets shipped overnight.

The game literally explains none of that. No "Shipping bin" name when you open the shipping bin, no description when you first open it etc.

And the first mission, to greet 28 people, has so far taken me over an hour and I'm up to 17./ The game doesn't explain where to find the others.

To be honest, I think I'll get a refund. The first two hours has been a crap experience.

Did you skip the intro? Lewis explains to you about the shipping bin and how he'll take the items from there later.

[King Mustard]

Originally posted by LuckySara:

Originally posted by King Mustard:

The game literally explains none of that. No "Shipping bin" name when you open the shipping bin, no description when you first open it etc.

And the first mission, to greet 28 people, has so far taken me over an hour and I'm up to 17./ The game doesn't explain where to find the others.

To be honest, I think I'll get a refund. The first two hours has been a crap experience.

Did you skip the intro? Lewis explains to you about the shipping bin and how he'll take the items from there later.

I didn't skip it but it must not have sunk in that the object he's referring to is the one that looks like a storage chest.

[LuckySara]

Originally posted by King Mustard:

Originally posted by LuckySara:

Did you skip the intro? Lewis explains to you about the shipping bin and how he'll take the items from there later.

I didn't skip it but it must not have sunk in that the object he's referring to is the one that looks like a storage chest.

Stardew Valley's storage chests are small compared to the shipping bin, and he looks right at the bin when he explains about it

[King Mustard]

Originally posted by LuckySara:

Originally posted by King Mustard:

I didn't skip it but it must not have sunk in that the object he's referring to is the one that looks like a storage chest.

Stardew Valley's storage chests are small compared to the shipping bin, and he looks right at the bin when he explains about it

Looks? It's pixel art. You can't tell where he's looking.

[LuckySara]

Originally posted by King Mustard:

Originally posted by LuckySara:

Stardew Valley's storage chests are small compared to the shipping bin, and he looks right at the bin when he explains about it

Looks? It's pixel art. You can't tell where he's looking.

Yes you can. He looks "North" while explaining it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=358KwkXv3qo

(at 5:10 he looks North, and clearly he isn't talking about the mailbox here, even though he's closer to it)

[I Kinda Fail]

You... might just want to restart the game, OP. It sounds like you weren't paying attention in the intro and already got off to a bad start. Still, it's nothing you can't recover.

You can craft a chest with 50 wood to store things in. I think they hold like 30 different stacks of items. Lewis explains in the opening cutscene that the box he stares at is used to sell items. It's a throwback to Harvest Moon, where your farm had a shipping bin, and the NPC doing the intro explained it there too.

It's a great game, it'd be a shame if you refunded it just because you weren't paying attention in the opening 30 seconds. And there's no real time limit on most activities - there's no rush to meet everyone. The "quests" just help guide you through the game's mechanics. There's no real rush to meet everyone in town, just keep an eye out for unfamiliar faces.

[abbi]

you have to pay attention to what all the npc's and the mail tell you. you learn over time and not at once. There is, like I Kinda Fail said, no rush to get through everything. You are not going to die, or fail or lose out if you don't immediately learn everything There is no right way to play. Explore everything and find out what you like to do - farm. fight, gather, fish, or just wander lol. Or maybe all of those things.

[Rice]

"Whoever designed this should be shot" Actually, refund the game, such an amazing game made by ONE guy cannot be appreciated by simpletons such as you blaming other people for your own lack of attention.

[King Mustard]

Originally posted by LuckySara:

Originally posted by King Mustard:

Looks? It's pixel art. You can't tell where he's looking.

Yes you can. He looks "North" while explaining it.

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(at 5:10 he looks North, and clearly he isn't talking about the mailbox here, even though he's closer to it)

I never once mentioned a mailbox?

Either way, when standing slightly right of the mailbox and no where near the chest, he looks North (at nothing) for a 1/2 second before the text box appears and explains things poorly.

There's no explanation that, when you open the shipping bin, that it's a shipping bin (there's nothing on-screen to tell you it's a shipping bin), that you can only put one thing in it at once, that you'll loose anything extra you put in it or that it only ships overnight.

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

You... might just want to restart the game, OP. It sounds like you weren't paying attention in the intro and already got off to a bad start. Still, it's nothing you can't recover.

You can craft a chest with 50 wood to store things in. I think they hold like 30 different stacks of items. Lewis explains in the opening cutscene that the box he stares at is used to sell items. It's a throwback to Harvest Moon, where your farm had a shipping bin, and the NPC doing the intro explained it there too.

It's a great game, it'd be a shame if you refunded it just because you weren't paying attention in the opening 30 seconds. And there's no real time limit on most activities - there's no rush to meet everyone. The "quests" just help guide you through the game's mechanics. There's no real rush to meet everyone in town, just keep an eye out for unfamiliar faces.

I paid full attention to the intro, it was just rubbish and hardly helps a new player.

I don't remember seeing anything about 50 wood to make something and even if I missed it, based on the fact there's no help regarding the shipping box, I bet there's no help with that, either. If the game relies on you constantly paying full attention to every message and there's no help afterwards, it's extremely poor design.

Originally posted by Rice:

"Whoever designed this should be shot" Actually, refund the game, such an amazing game made by ONE guy cannot be appreciated by simpletons such as you blaming other people for your own lack of attention.

So just because one guy makes it means it's not a rubbish game for beginners and doesn't need to be massively improved?

I've literally spent 4 hours so far trying to find all 28 people to talk to and I haven't managed it, yet. Until I do, I can't move on. I've been all over the map a dozen times and can't find anyone extra. There's no checklist of who I still need to talk to, so I can't even check Google to find the location of the last people. Why the game doesn't help at this point is beyond me - even if it's just popping dots on a map to help show beginners which people are remaining would help.

It's the most frustrating first few hours to any game I've ever played (I'm 33 and have been playing games since I was an early teenager) and I'm ONLY pursuing because Steam users have (for some reason) rated it 'Overwhelmingly Positive'.

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What I'm most frustrated with is that *I* feel stupid and I really don't think I am. I am an attentive gamer, yet all those massive "Overwhelmingly positive" scores for the game make me feel really stupid that I'm struggling at the start. However, I'm not stupid. I'm intelligent and have played games long enough to know the introduction few hours to this game and any explanations it's supposed to give are awful. I fully believe is possible that a majority can be wrong. Look at the political world.

[KellyR]

It really doesn't look exactly like a chest. It looks like a trash dumpster, which is what I assumed it was on my first playthrough, personally.

[-Na Shagul-]

Originally posted by King Mustard:

What I'm most frustrated with is that *I* feel stupid and I really don't think I am. I am an attentive gamer, yet all those massive "Overwhelmingly positive" scores for the game make me feel really stupid that I'm struggling at the start. However, I'm not stupid. I'm intelligent and have played games long enough to know the introduction few hours to this game and any explanations it's supposed to give are awful. I fully believe is possible that a majority can be wrong. Look at the political world.

Lmao get over yourself, dude. For your sake I really hope you're trolling at this point because I pity you if you're going to try and demean an entire community just because -you- can't grasp a single basic concept that literally everyone else does without issue.