Grange display tips.

[Grandad]

AARGH ITS TOMMORROW ok so I didnt enter last year and I probably wont this year but if I do any hints to DESTROY the competiion I would like to win. :P

[AvatarMan]

Gold star, stuff that sells high, lots of variety.

[Grandad]

Dont really have much of that I have a lot of variety etc wine animal products as I am working on the bulletin board as its the last thing I have to do. Will that work possibly?

[AvatarMan]

So you know, First Second and Third only win fair coins which you can buy things at the shop with. It's nothing overly fantastic.

[Grandad]

kk

[Dai]

Originally posted by THOMASISGOD™:

AARGH ITS TOMMORROW ok so I didnt enter last year and I probably wont this year but if I do any hints to DESTROY the competiion I would like to win. :P

I'd also check this out, too: https://dd.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/4d1ax6/grange_display_demystified/

[DJCaseyD]

I've come in 2nd both years. This year I had all gold star stuff and a mutant carp. Still 2nd.

[Grandad]

I dont know what a mutant carp is but it sounds...cool. If you came second I guess thats me not entering. :P

[Lurlex]

It's not complicated. Reading the article I linked to below this paragraph will tell you everything you need to know. Forums, and the people who will reply to a brand new thread you shove in everyone's face, are a poor source of information. You either get complete jerks (like me) condescending to you, or morons who don't know what they're talking about.

Once in a while you'll get a truly benevolent soul who really wants to help you, but ... again, you're asking a whole lot of complete strangers to invest a lot of time to duplicate information that's already been distributed across the Interwebz by other people, and you could find for yourself by investing ten seconds for every two minutes you ask those complete forum strangers to spend on answering you.

Grange is all about the sell price of the items you put up, and getting as many silver/gold items as possible up there. Here's the wiki article you should have looked up before making this thread (it would've saved you a lot of time). The tabular formatting is messed up because of the way these forums work, but you should be able to figure it out.

http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Stardew_Valley_Fair

Showcase
To participate in the showcase, bring up to nine items to put in the grange display which best showcase the players abilities. The showcase will be judged on the quality and diversity of the display, and is rewarded with star tokens based on the place achieved.

Games can still be played at the fair after the showcase.

The points are calculated as follows[1]:

Base Points
14 points are awarded automatically.

Number of Items
Points based on how many items are submitted, according to the formula: 9-2x(Number of blank slots on display).

Number of items Points awarded
9 9
8 7
7 5
6 3
5 1
4 -1
3 -3
2 -5
1 -7
0 -9

It is always better to try and fill all nine spots, even if the items submitted are trash, since leaving any spot empty will lessen the overall score.

Categories

There are eight categories of items recognized by the Fair: Animal Products, Artisan Goods, Cooking, Fish, Foraging (including Flowers and Tree Saps), Fruits, Minerals, and Vegetables. Each category represented in the display earns 5 points, up to a maximum of 30 points. This means only six of these categories need to be filled to maximize the score.

Value

A number of points for each item are awarded based on its value and quality, with a maximum of 6 points per item. The value taken is the actual value, AFTER taking the quality factor, not the base value. So an item with base value 200g, at gold quality, goes to 300g, so it gets points for being at 300g AND being gold quality

Item Value No Star Silver Star Gold Star
0+ 1 2 3
20+ 2 3 4
90+ 3 4 5
200+ 4 5 6
300+ 5 6 6
400+ 6 6 6

Assuming that nine items, each worth 6 points, are submitted and that the items represent at least six unique categories, the highest theoretical score obtainable is 107.

Once the judging is complete, make sure to retrieve the items from the table, as they are not automatically returned.

[Grandad]

I should probably have said I didnt do the festival thing. :P