How the heck do you manage your time in this game?

[Jester]

Like I find my self spending a good chunk of my time in the morning just tending to my crops/animals like giving hearts or just converting Truffles,cheese and eggs into artisan goods.
I want to make my farm prettier but doing so would cause me to walk around much longer = so more time wasted so I just opted to making stations near my house and making my entire farm look mad ugly.

Any tips to be more efficient?
Like I can't imagine doing these stuff all over the place when I have a beach farm now and several more from the Stardew valley expanded mod.

[DromedarySpitz]

try the automate mod

[karen.kjaer]

You dont have to pet the animals every day after they grow up. They need food all the time though. You can go mining and just wait untill you have collected a lot for kegs and then use some hours there. Plan after events/birthdays and opening hours, otherwise you will get bored before you figure out the fun stuff - best of luck, it is a fun, relaxing game, no rush

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Sprinklers essentially eliminate any interaction needed with crops outside of planting/harvesting.

They also have items that do that for animals.

The beach farm is absolutely not one I'd ever play for any reason. Not having sprinklers just makes it no fun, and you can see why.

[Gnasty Gnorc]

But also, I forget the name of it, but there is a mod that allows you to control time. You can speed it up, slow it down, or flat out stop it with a couple button presses.

I used to do this when I wanted to hit the mines. I'd just make it so that like, 10 minutes IRL was an in game hour.

[iLovePie_42]

You don't have to manage your time in this game mate. It's literally a sandbox game, it's meant to have fun, not to max out everything. Just sit back and relax, take things slowly, enjoy the moment. This way, you can play and have fun for a few hundred hours, and when you get bored, you can download mods to enhance your experience (and pour a few more hundred hours lol).

[no1schmo]

Yes, you can easily arrange your life so that it takes all day to do your daily chores. Until you get far enough to have upgraded iridium sprinklers and auto-petters and jumino huts, you want to pace yourself. Or, you focus on making money for the first year or two, then downgrade when you're swimming in cash. I tend to play the game slower; I don't plant too many crops, I don't have too many animals, I focus more on mining and fishing and progressing. But do whatever you want to do. It's the strange problem with sandbox games; given too many choices, sometimes it feels paralyzing instead of freeing.

[TamanduaGirl]

Some people have said they wont touch Stardew because the amount of things to do stresses them out. But you literally don't need to do any of them. You don't even fail quests because there's no punishment and you'll get them again. You can literally spend 5 years on a farm doing nothing but fishing if you want. Crops don't even die from not being watered they just don't grow, but you don't even need to grow them in the first place. Heck you can just get up and go right back to bed and sleep for years and be fine. You just wont get anything done but nothing bad happens for doing nothing.

If it's really too much though you could always try Joja route. You just buy the things you would have done CC quests for. So you'll have more freedom in how you accomplish things as there's lots of ways to make money besides crops.

Also would probably not do expanded since it adds more stuff to do. It's generally a good idea to get a feel for a game, if not actually finish it, before modding.

[Stardustfire]

sprinkler gives you tons of free time as long you dont on a first day of a month where you need to retile and set seeds.
autograbber is your best friend in coops and barns, no need to milk/sheer the pets or scan the whole coop for where stil an egg is. all animal products gettable in one place.
better tools give you more time as well, because you can tile/water bigger areas in one action, feel trees with less hits and crack stones with less strokes.

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Something that really helped me was saving up for the upgrades in Clint's shop. When you upgrade your watering can it waters more than one spot. Of course, you will need to go mining but I would recommend doing farm work in the spring and summer, foraging in the fall, and mining/exploring in the winter. (until you get the greenhouse fixed.)

[NBOX21]

If you have silos, you can put hay into them and you'll be able to feed your animals directly from inside the barns and coops, or, if you have the deluxe upgrade for them, they'll feed them automatically for you every morning as long as there's enough hay to go around. That alone can be a huge time saver. Having sprinklers also saves a lot of time as you don't have to water your crops every morning.

But I wouldn't worry about "running out of time" in a game like this because as TamanduaGirl said, there's no rush. You have an unlimited number of days to play so you can take as long as you need to do whatever you want. Even after your farm gets assessed at the end of Year 2, you can just place a diamond into the shrine so you can have it assessed again later until you light all four candles.

[Voden]

Since you mentioned wanting to pretty-up your farm, here's a website that will let you plan your farm layout, so you can know ahead where you want to place/move things around. Saves a TON of time you can burn on trial/error (especially if you're placing/moving buildings).

https://stardew.info/

[red255]

Originally posted by Matador:

Like I find my self spending a good chunk of my time in the morning just tending to my crops/animals like giving hearts or just converting Truffles,cheese and eggs into artisan goods.
I want to make my farm prettier but doing so would cause me to walk around much longer = so more time wasted so I just opted to making stations near my house and making my entire farm look mad ugly.

Any tips to be more efficient?
Like I can't imagine doing these stuff all over the place when I have a beach farm now and several more from the Stardew valley expanded mod.

yeah, at a certain point you get barn and coop level 3, so the animals get feed themselves, and you can purchase an auto grabber which collects their droppings themselves. truffles can be collected once a week otherwise you don't need to just grab them.

Money wise you get a greenhouse, you get a big shed filled with kegs, you get ancient fruit in there, and its 116 ancient fruit wine every tuesday for me, for a quarter of a million gold.

money isn't the BIGGEST of issues. I also got 16 peach trees in there. which I do either hand out as gifts or turn into wine.

So you do big collections of animal products once every whenever, then you go into your house and you have a room with a chest in it, inside this chest is a bunch of machines.

you pull out the machines like 15 cheese makers, and you load them up with milk, and go to bed, and wake up, and load with 15 more milk, we've processed 30 milk. when our milk is done, we shift to eggs or whatever. its not urgent.

you could use the cellar of your house, but you don't really need much more than a room.

I got stuff, it generates stuff, but my MAIN money maker is my once a week ancient fruit wine production on tuesdays. everything else isn't important.

[DarkFaceGlow]

I use a mod that allows me to adjust the speed of time. I set it so now my days are twice as long. Now I find myself going to sleep at supper time.

[Jester]

Thanks for the tips guys but I seemed to figured out my problem.
I'm playing Multiplayer and only recently started playing alone.
Saves a lot of time when the games pauses itself occasionally lol.

[Maya-Neko]

I mostly just care about crops the first 3 month above anything else. More often than not i just waste like 2/3 of the day just to water the 400+ crops in summer. Obviously the rest of the day i try to get my hand on some ore to upgrade my watering can in particular and to get ready for building sprinklers at around summer or fall (preferably summer, but it can easily take up more time, if there's no rain in summer).

Also i keep myself as poor as possible, so that i can just pass out in the mines, since only 10% gets deducted from your money up to 1k, so having nothing in your pockets definitely makes it possible to grind for a littlebit longer.

And by Winter 1st year it gets way more chill, given that i've added up several 100k at this point, which i can use to build some T3 animal buildings, put an auto grabber in it and just try to train my skills.

As for converting goods i usually tend to have way more converting machines than i mathematically need, so that i don't need to do it multiple times a day, but can just do it like once ore maybe twice and be good. Also if i really don't feel like it, i also just get goats instead of cows to only get half the amount of milk or i just sell milk directly every now and then (at this point i don't really need to min-max that much anymore). Or i just ignore it for a while when i don't feel like it and just wander into the barn like a month later to just collect the truck load of milk.

As for the beach farm i would pretty much do the same for the first few month, but then shifting towards animals after fall, given that crops doesn't make sense here. At that point i rather focus on unlocking the ginger island and the farm on it to start building a proper farm there (sadly without junimos, but harvesting stuff there every 1-2 weeks is definitely better than watering everything on the beach farm every single day).

And currently i'm playing on the immersive farm 2 with SDV expanded, which is pretty much identical to the standard map the first few month, given how crop centric the area in front of the main house is. Though it is so big, that even with 2 people it's still hard to get everything watered in time to at least having 4 hours left to farm some ores^^