How easy/hard is to get Farming level 9 on first year?

[Shadow Locust]

Hello, guys.

Well...I mean you getting it without rushing like a freaking speedrunner, but at least putting some work on planting/harvesting.

[Regal Pixel King]

It's doable, but you can't exactly be casual about it. All I can tell you is to try to save as much money as possible until the Egg Festival in Spring where you can buy Strawberries which sells for a lot. From there Summer is probably where you will be getting a majority of your farming skill up. Also if you can get a greenhouse, that will make is possible to grow plans in the Winter which will make it very possible to get your Farming level maxed out by the end of the year.

[Shadow Locust]

Originally posted by Regal Pixel King:

It's doable, but you can't exactly be casual about it. All I can tell you is to try to save as much money as possible until the Egg Festival in Spring where you can buy Strawberries which sells for a lot. From there Summer is probably where you will be getting a majority of your farming skill up. Also if you can get a greenhouse, that will make is possible to grow plans in the Winter which will make it very possible to get your Farming level maxed out by the end of the year.

The reason I'm asking it is exactly because of the strawberries. I used to play this game for about a year, but without purchasing it and using lots of mods. So I didn't get to know the actual pace of the game. Now I've purchased it (because I really love this game and knew yesterday about the 1.4 update).
So...I really know the game, but I still don't know it at the same time. Haha

I was used to buy as much strawb seeds as I could, make jams of the first harvest and save some of the second harvest to make seeds on the Seed Maker to use them on next year. Because the game was modded I could easily get level 10 on Summer or beginning of Autumn.
So I don't know if it's normal to get level 9 on the first year or if you need to manage macroplays like speedrunners or if it's impossible.

TLTR: I just want the Seed Maker to make strawb seeds for the next year and don't know if it's possible to get Farming level 9 on the first year, without using mods or playing like a speedrunner.

[Stardustfire]

i say it is maybe possible, but only if you mainfocus on stuff that raise farming exp

[TheCollector]

You increase farming level by harvesting crops. If you plant enough valuable crops, it is doable. However to water all the crops, you need to get quality sprinklers early, which requires a lot of iron, gold and quartz, so you should reach mines level 80 or more in spring and establish a sprinkler farm early to allow you growing more crops.

see
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Farming

see for a min/max guide year 1 first season
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aF9ZQtqgvKY

[I Kinda Fail]

I got Farm level 9 on my current file that only has ~40 crops. I rushed to get a barn, though - animals give XP every day, even in Winter. So I hit level 8 Farming in Fall, and got level 9 Farming on like Winter 10.

[ehyder]

Originally posted by I Kinda Fail:

I got Farm level 9 on my current file that only has ~40 crops. I rushed to get a barn, though - animals give XP every day, even in Winter. So I hit level 8 Farming in Fall, and got level 9 Farming on like Winter 10.

This is the way I tend to get there as well. Less farm plots, some animals, focus on crops that have multiple harvest so that I don't have to spend time replanting.

The wiki provides a breakdown of experience gained per crop to help you decide what you want to use to optimize experience and profit: https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Farming. For Ranching, from the wiki: "Petting, milking, and shearing farm animals or picking up an animal product inside a barn or coop each give 5 experience points"

Now it is time to make that complicated spreadsheet :)

[FruitLord]

I was farming 10 in early fall after my first cranberry harvest. You need to sell all your strawberries from Spring 1 so that you can buy more blueberry seeds on Summer 1. You'll get the seedmaker but I'm not sure you'll really need it for strawberries in Spring 2. Strawberries just get you money, and I've been casually following the money guide(1/4th the crops?) and have tons of cash by Winter 1.

[Lunacy]

Strawberries might not be worth it if you're aiming to max farming skill asap.
They'll give you 18x2 farming xp each, the money is better spent on parsnips.
Say you manage to get 800 gold, you could buy 40 parsnips for 320xp after 4 days, 16 potatoes for 224 xp after 6 days, or 10 cauliflower for 230 xp after 12 days. (8 strawberries would be 288 xp)
The only issue with mass parsnips is will you have the early game energy to water them every day, or at least until you can start making sprinklers (unlocked after 48 parsnips)(buy 33 more for 660g asap, then try to get iron and copper)
Beans (9xp) might also be viable, since they make back more gold than parsnips and get just as many harvests if you plant them by day 3 and make you back more money (15g per parsnip, 140-180g per bean) which will be important for summer; but you can only plant 1/3 as many as parsnips due to the price.

Wheat will be similar to parsnips, cheap and fast, but don't net you back much profit.
Blueberries will only get you 10xp(x4) per crop, but will get you all the cash you need for fall.
Poppies might be viable, 20xp(x3), and sell back at 40g profit. They will be extremely annoying to harvest without a backpack upgrade so you could spend 250g and 150 wood on a closer shipping bin.
Corn sounds viable since you'll get 11 harvests out of it if planted on the 1st of summer, but it's extremely expensive and isn't very profitable. (summer alone will only net 50g profit each). Because of the price, you may not be able to plant very many, getting minimal value out of the plentiful harvests.
Hops might be good as well, you get 17 harvests at 6xp each and aren't very expensive compared to other options.
On the final days of summer, plant wheat so they can be harvested on Fall 1st to save tilling energy.

If you got a coop with 4 chickens by summer 1, they'll net you 1680 exp just from petting them each day, you need 15000 exp to hit lv10 farming so they'll make around 11% of your goal by winter 28. Mayonnaise is also a great for passive income and obtained at lv2 farming. So that will help get more crops the earlier you get 4 chickens. (5600g total)
They only take 4 days to begin producing eggs (according to wiki), so they will only take roughly 12 days to make up the cost of the coop.
(you'll want a Silo beforehand, which is 100g 10 clay 100stone 5 copper bar)

For fall, I think I would recommend Grapes. Normally you'd go Cranberries, but depending on how tight you are on gold, you can get 4x as many grapes than cranberries if you have enough sprinklers and energy, and they give the same 14 exp, so the more the better.

Winter, you'll be left with barn and coop animals. Winter seeds level up foraging and not farming. If you went with Joja Mart, you can buy a Greenhouse. It'll total up 40,000g to get it.

TLDR: Green beans, rush silo and 4 chicken coop, hops and poppies, grapes.

Note: calculations never factored crop quality, so profits will of course be higher

[Vinyl Scratch]

I mean...I usually get 8-9 farming near the end of spring..
I'm not even really 'speedrunning' or anything either. Usually I get around 5 farming with my 2nd harvest (first being parsnips/kayle, second being potatoes) then the strawberries I buy at the egg festival get me up a lot from there.

I suppose it's a tough question to answer because it really just depends on how much you know to prioritize to make good money quicker to buy more seeds earlier.

[BonBon]

Difficulty: Easy
Method: Below

Crops work on EXP when they're harvested if you want me to boil it down to what crops you SHOULD do just for the EXP to reach high levels of farming early on:

Spring: Kale
Summer: Radish
Fall: Amaranth / Beet (If you have access to desert)
Winter: Winter Seeds (place winter roots into seed maker to create winter seeds)

This is not for profit this is just for pure speed leveling. I would recommend juggling and focusing on unlocking the bus, via the community bundle.

Again unlocking the desert also needs access to the bus repair + pam's beer quest.

[Omegatherion]

With strawberry/blueberry i usually reach Farming 10 in summer. If you focus a bit on farming it's not that hard. With cranberries in fall you should be guaranteed to reach level 10 before winter. Except if you go for a smallish farm. But 200 plots of crops should be enough for sure.

200 throughout summer and fall that is. In spring you can't possibly water all of that by hand. But as soon as you get the sprinklers you're fine.

[Salem Jericho]

For the Joja achieve all I did was potatoes and blueberries and I had it by the end of summer. I just would try to push out as many blueberries as I can a day and with the spa open you might be able to push even more.

[Floowandereeze]

its very easy man for me ,
lvl 10 on fall first year ,just focus on farming plants , and i skip animals stuff

[Soviet Groot]

I did it on the beginning of second year, and I wasn't even farming that much, so it's easy, at least definitely easier than foraging.

[ehyder]

Originally posted by Santa Groot:

I did it on the beginning of second year, and I wasn't even farming that much, so it's easy, at least definitely easier than foraging.

lol, that depends on your focus. I usually max foraging before farming from cutting trees and picking up everything that is lying around. And then going Gatherer Branch at L5 which doubles your experience because you pick up twice as much.