Best way to start? Any ultimate guide?

[Coffee]

Is there any ultimate guide to start? Which thing I should do first and all?

I saw some guide but more like tips than actualy walkthrough to have a little decent start.

[Cystile]

No need for a guide! All you need to do is plant your crops and water them every day, and explore from there. The main part of the experience is discovering and growing

[hsinyuehliu314]

join us on /r/stardewvalley where we have more tools for crop prices, and spreadsheets. Or if you just want to watch something, I recommend DangerousFunny channel on Youtube.

[Pyrimidal]

Originally posted by Louna:

Is there any ultimate guide to start? Which thing I should do first and all?

I saw some guide but more like tips than actualy walkthrough to have a little decent start.

Here are a few links :
https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/4z40y1/overviewnew_player_guide_how_to_enjoy_sdv/
https://community.playstarbound.com/threads/stardew-valley-1-1-newbie-guide.125018/
https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/5ewiqk/year_one_guide/

These are fairly descriptive guides that offer a good amount of insight into the game. The 3rd one provides set goals for you to achieve each season, and explains how you can achieve them. However, I would highly recommend just playing the game without any outside help. It's much more rewarding to carve your own path to sucess than it is to take the routes of others.

If you want some starting tips, here are a few I can get off the top of my head.

Create a harvest schedule based on the calendar : make sure you don't have to buy seeds on Wednesdays or holidays. This is because on Wednesday Pierre doesn't open his shop, forcing you to delay your schedule by 1 day or buy from Joja Mart (which is a total ripoff). On holidays, in spring, you won't even be able to enter the main square which means that you can't buy seeds. You should also figure out in what order you're going to plant crops in order to maximize effectiveness. For example, how many batches of potatoes can you grow until the season ends? Will your last batch of potatoes be ready by the time the season ends? If so, will you try to use another crop or will you just not plant for the rest of the season?

In regards to energy, try to balance your activities. For example, if you go all in on farming you won't have enough energy for foraging, fishing, or mining. In SDV, each activity tends to benefit the other activities. For example, mining nets you ores that you can use to upgrade your foraging, mining, and farming equipment. Farming and fishing provide you with money to purchase upgrades for either your tools, house, farm buildings, etc. Foraging gives you useful foods to either increase or restore your energy, allowing you to do more of other activities.

I would strongly recommend against buying farm buildings during your first spring and summer, maybe even fall. This is because buildings are expensive, as are animals. If you really do want to get farm buildings though, you absolutely MUST get a silo first. This will allow you to store hay, which means you won't have to go to Marnie to buy hay.

Finally, don't worry too much about events or villager relationships. It's not like you're short on time or anything : you have all the time in the world to do as you please. This game isn't a race, and it's not even a marathon. It's just a nice, long walk that lasts as long as you wish it to last.

[Jonathan J. O'Neill]

My main thing is to maximize profits in the first 13 days so that I can buy as many Strawberry seeds on the Egg Festival as possible.

This, generally, involves:

Day 1- Grab your 15 parsnip seeds from your house. Buy 25 parsnips from Pierre. Till and water 40 spaces. Plant your seeds. Forage for extra cash but do not sell Spring Onions. They're eaten to keep your stamina up. Also, try to cut down enough trees to reach forage level 1 but no more than that. Keep one of each forage item (Horseradish, Leek, Daffodil, Dandelion) for the bundle.

Day 2/3/4- Keep your parsnips watered and clear out an additional 120 spaces to plant stuff. Dig up tree seeds and shake/cut down some trees to try and get around 20 acorns (not dire that you get this many). Do this after reaching foraging 1. You want to get seeds while getting sap (around 80).

Day 5- Gather your parsnips and sell them. If you have Gold ones, keep them for the bundle (You'll need 5). Return to pierres and purchase 40 parsnip and 40 potato seeds. Plant all your Potatoes on day 5.

Day 6- Craft scarecrows (available after your first harvests sells) and craft 40 fertilizer from the sap you gathered. Fertilize 40 spaces and plant your parsnips on them. If you've got 300 wood, take it to the beach to fix the bridge and forage there as wells. Also, you should have the community center cutscene by now so go in and look at the gold plaque so you get a mail from the wizard tomorrow.

Day 7- Read your mail from wizard. Go talk to him in Cindersap Forest. Keep foraging and keep your plants watered. Take the four wild plants (Horseradish, Leek, Daffodil, Dandelion) to the community center and turn them in to complete the spring foraging bundle. Get the 25 Spring seeds as a reward and plant them at your farm. Remember to use the Spring onions to keep your stamina up.

Day 8/9/10- Keep your plants watered. Keep foraging as wells. This will take most of your stamina but don't worry. If you've been turning in artifacts you may have been digging up, you may have access to cauliflower seeds by turning in five items. If not, don't worry. If you do, plant them before Spring 14. If it rains, go mining. Try to get copper as you'll need it.


Day 11- Harvest Parsnips. Keep gold ones until you have five and one regular one to turn in at community center, sell everything else.

Day 12- Harvest Potatoes. Keep one for the bundle, sell the rest. At this point, you should have 4000G-6000G. If you have more than 4k, buy potatoes but don't go under that amount. If you have 6k, buy 40 potatoes. Plant them.

Day 13- Egg festival. Water all your crops and make sure you have enough tilled/watered soil for 40 strawberries. Buy 40 strawberry seeds from the festival then plant them as soon as you return home (10pm, that's why we did oall the work before going). You want to do it tonight so you get two harvests before Spring ends.

Day 14/15/16/17/18/19- At this point, it's pretty smooth sailing. Your spring seeds will be harvested, saving you stamina by not having to water those anymore. Your potatoes will also beharvested a little later. If you did not get cauliflower from gunther by the 14th, buy one from pierre and plant it before the end of the day. You need it for the bundle. Keep foraging. Salmon Berries now grow on bushes around the area and are twice as effective as spring onions for keeping your stamina up. Get a green bean planted before day 18 for the bundle.

Start mining once you can manage your stamina. You want copper and iron. You want 45 copper ore (25 for 5 copper bars and 20 for a forge). Keep checking the weather. When it's going to rain or storm the next day, take your watering can and 5 copper barsand 2000G to clint to upgrade it. He'll work on it while its raining and you can pick it up the day after. If you don't get rain, do it on the 27th as nothing needs watered ont he 28th. You will also want to upgrade your hoe by the end of spring too (another 5 copper bars and 2000G).

When Demetrius shows up about your cave; Bats are the better choice as the fruit sells more than mushrooms. It can also be turned into preserves and helps you get some bundles out of the way sooner.

Once your potatos are harvested, if you have an additional 2000G AFTER tallying tool upgrade costs of 4000G, buy your first bag upgrade. I know it's been hard not to buy it but you're trying to make the rest of the game easier by getting money flowing into your farm.

Start getting your 20 acorns planted as wells. As soon as you hit foraging 3, you want to get tappers on those trees for oak resin production.

Spring 20- Harvest your strawberries and rewater them. Strawberries keep producing after harvesting. If you planted them on the night of the egg festial, they'll be harvestable on the 28th. Buy 40 more potatoes if you can. It's the last day you can plant them and get a harvest.


Spring 21/22/23/24/25/26/27/28- At this point, all of your money is being saved for summer. Mine and forage. Mine and forage.

Ideally, you want to start summer with around 16,000G-20,000g so that you can buy the following seeds for bundles:

40 Melon Seed
8-16 Corn
8-16 Hops
1 Hot Pepper
1 Tomato
1 Sunflower
1 Poppy
10 Wheat

and 80 Blueberry seeds for your cash crop.

Complete your spring crops bundle but you will not be planting anything else this spring. Keep your current crops watered. Harvest you Cauliflower and turn it in to the community center, along with your parsnips and potatoes and green bean if you haven't done so already. If you end the season with 20,000g, you can make your life easier by purchasing a couple of gold bars from clint to turn into quality sprinklers. These water the 8 squares surrounding it, saving you 16 actions when watering. Otherwise, save for the above.