What is random in this game?

[DarkangeL]

The title says is all, but to be more specific, I want to know if at least there's something about the map generation that's random or the caves or anything that makes the game has replay value. (Sorry for the bad english).

[Eyo]

The cave layout is fixed but the stairs to next level is random. But (atleast for me) the replay value comes from choosing a different spouse or getting jojo mart membership or not.

[PhilkIced]

You can choose 2 paths, the "selfish" and the "selfless", by repairing the Community center with a lot of hard work or selling it to Joja because moneys.
The ore placement, stairs location and monster spawns on the mines are totally randon.
The spawn of wild stuff that you can forage is randon too.
There are also some randon events that may come sooner or later, but they're always the same and everyone gets them eventually, they're just randon in their order and time.

I think the replayability comes from the fact that you can do whatever you want with your farm, you can start new games and try different paths for making money and different farm layouts for optimization with the experience acquired with last games.

[Hextravert]

There are many little things that are random.

But at the end of the day, the majority of the game is predictable.

Stardew Valley definitely doesn't derive its (re)playability from its randomness.

Originally posted by DarkangeL:

The title says is all, but to be more specific, I want to know if at least there's something about the map generation that's random or the caves or anything that makes the game has replay value. (Sorry for the bad english).

[DarkangeL]

Originally posted by PhilkIced:

You can choose 2 paths, the "selfish" and the "selfless", by repairing the Community center with a lot of hard work or selling it to Joja because moneys.
The ore placement, stairs location and monster spawns on the mines are totally randon.
The spawn of wild stuff that you can forage is randon too.
There are also some randon events that may come sooner or later, but they're always the same and everyone gets them eventually, they're just randon in their order and time.

I think the replayability comes from the fact that you can do whatever you want with your farm, you can start new games and try different paths for making money and different farm layouts for optimization with the experience acquired with last games.

Yeaah, thanks. I'm now more confident to buy it.

[Hurodrik]

The weather is also random.

[Proteus]

Also, where lightnings during thunderstorms hit (and destroy stuff)