Stardew Valley

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Faerytech Jan 21, 2024 @ 10:18am
Frustration, grind, marriage?
I'm in year 4. I finished the community center and the mine, I retrieved the wizards ink and spoke to Mr. Qi, most people in town are my friends and I'm not getting any new quests, everything is pretty repetitive and frustrating. The main things I need to do are:
1. Get iridium. I need it to repair the boat and craft the wizard's staff.
2. Get to level 20/25 of the calico desert mine per Qi's challenge
3. Find the final dwarven scroll so I can talk to the dwarf and I'm on the last display of artifacts in the museum.
4. Get married

Issues:
The calico mine is too hard and the stardew mine is too boring. I have the spaceboots and a level 9/10 sword and I can craft a lot of good food and potions but the calico mines still suck, I don't enjoy combat in this game enough tbh, I kind of hate it and I'm really tired of it.
I'm so tired of farming I've started to neglect it because I just cannot pet that ugly pig or sort another vegetable into a bin without losing my ♥♥♥♥.
I figured if I got married they'd help me but I'm not sure I like any of the marriage options tbh. I dated Shane for a while and got him up to 10 and went on a date with him and it was so gross, I don't like him at all, I had to dump him. I like all the others but I don't see anyone as being a good match. Sam and Sebastian are like my bffs, how can I play more dnd with them btw??? I only got to play it once and I'd love to play it more. But I can't see marrying them, even though I did decide to date Sam, it's just cus I can't really decide. I like Sebastian too but he is also so like, edgy and wants to move out of town so why would I marry him and have him live on my farm? Abigail came onto me pretty hard but honestly she's always annoyed me a little, although I guess it's cool she likes to fight and play music in the rain. At first I was drawn to Maru and Harvey but Harvey is so boring and while I like Maru i'm not sure I like her enough to take her away from Harvey. All the couples are pretty perfect, none of them really suits me. I asked the wizard out first but you can't date him, I know I could get the mod but mostly I guess I just want someone to help me around the farm and have some babies with. Can same sex couples have kids? There's no one I like that much, what does that say about me? :(
Really I'm getting frustrated and tired I just want to finish the game lol so who can help me around the farm, because then I can get that thing from Grandpa that spawns iridium right? My house is fully upgraded, my dog loves me, and I've saved the community and whatnot, so I think if I just get married Grandpa will be happy and then I can get some iridium, create that staff, and repair the boat, and maybe between that and having some kids I won't be so mind numbingly bored with this game.

Re: who can I marry, how can I play more boardgames with Sam and Sebastian, and .... ugh, how to make the stupid dragons not attack me so much?
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Maya-Neko Jan 21, 2024 @ 10:49am 
Originally posted by faerytech:
1. Get iridium. I need it to repair the boat and craft the wizard's staff.
2. Get to level 20/25 of the calico desert mine per Qi's challenge

There's not that much about the enemies you can do other than getting used to the. Though it is recommendable to use ladders to get to lower levels, like preferably at least 100-200 for a good amount of iridium, for singleplayer you should even be able to reach like 300-400 without problems, if you can get your hands on enough ladders.

You can get some cheap ladders by handing on Jade at the desert trader (i think on sunday) or buy stone to craft them, if you're sitting on millions of g.

Alternatively, Grandpa's grave gives you a chance to get a statue from year 3 onwards, that produces iridium daily. If you've failed to get it the first time, then you can try again when putting in a diamond.



Originally posted by faerytech:
3. Find the final dwarven scroll so I can talk to the dwarf and I'm on the last display of artifacts in the museum.

Each scroll drops in a specific way. You can look it up in the wiki or tell us the needed color, if you don't want to find it yourself in the game

Originally posted by faerytech:
4. Get married

I can't tell you who you should marry, but to make it a littlebit easier i can at least tell, that the marriage isn't as big of a change as you might think. Overall the gameplay keeps the same and the biggest change is mostly just the married NPC staying at your house and sometimes gifting you stuff. They also can sometimes do stuff on the farm, but that's mostly negligible, especially when you've already T3 animal housing and sprinklers.

And generally, if you don't like the grind or the difficulty of some things, then it's always an option to use some mods to either make stuff easier or to automate things.
Coffee Addict Jan 21, 2024 @ 10:52am 
if you do not enjoy fighting you can take some time and earn some money on the farm then buy stones from robin or mine it in the mines and use those to make staircases which allow you to skip a floor in the mines/cavern

like you said the easy way to get iridium is to do grandpas evaluation and get the statue of perfection if you cant do that however then doing the first thing i said and making stairs for the skull cavern will help, the further into the cavern you go the more likely you are to find iridium also going on a good luck day will help find more iridium

petting animals every day is a massive chore specially if you got lots of them i'd recommend buying the auto petter (this requires joja which you dont have anymore i recommend using a mod like CJB cheats to add it to your farm)

D&D was a heart event so once you see it you cant do it anymore, and yes same sex couples can have kids they are just adopted instead of biological

if you are getting tired and burnt out from the grind then take it slow and enjoy other aspects of the game, do not feel like you have to maximize time spent every day its ok to wake up check crops then go back to sleep or go fishing or whatever the game is ment to be played at your own pace so dont feel like you need to rush everything
NBOX21 Jan 21, 2024 @ 11:57am 
The serpents that fly towards you and the purple slimes are going to be your two biggest obstacles while venturing deep into the skull cavern. There's not much you can do about the first one aside from buying the strongest sword you can get for maximum damage, but as for the second, you can completely trivialise such a threat by equipping the slime charmer ring which you get from killing 1,000 slimes. While this does require a lot of grinding to get there, it is absolutely worth having as this ring makes you immune from all slime damage and debuffs.

As for iridium, the deeper you go in the skull cavern, the greater your chances of finding iridium will be. Purple slimes also have a chance of dropping iridium. If you need more staircases so you can go deeper much quicker, you can clone Jades using a crystalarium and once you have enough, trade them with the desert merchant on a Sunday for staircases.
Wintermute Jan 21, 2024 @ 12:38pm 
TBH, dives into the skull cave are not about fighting, or even mining. There's a reason serpents drop bombs. Hint hint wink wink.

Dwarf sells explosives once you're able to talk to him.
Last edited by Wintermute; Jan 21, 2024 @ 12:39pm
red255 (Banned) Jan 21, 2024 @ 4:58pm 
OK.

so you asked 3 questions... getting married isn't a question, pick a single person and romance them.

1. get iridium.. iridium only really drops on floor 50+ of the skull cavern. once we get to qi's island we can deconstruct warp totems desert for 4 iridium or get iridium from the skull cavern mine, but until then

my current file is still in year 2 and I just completed the community center, I apparently have a lava sword and 2 upgraded iridium tools and some bars in my stash. haven't done much skull cavern. I did attempt it, with the bombs from the dwarf and a stack of food, iridium blackberries probably.

what you eventually want to do is make Crystallariums and prime them with jade, then take that jade and buy staircases so that you can buy tons of staircases for rapidly decending in the mines. I have not gotten around to that at this point.

Once you get to deconstructors you can easily deconstruct staircases for the stone to make crystallariums.

so yeah lava sword, 200 bombs, 999 food and just blast down to floor 50 and get your bars. man.

3. which dwarf scroll do you need?
Last edited by red255; Jan 21, 2024 @ 4:58pm
Faerytech Jan 21, 2024 @ 11:06pm 
Okay so
1. I traded my sword (the level 10 vampiric black sword or whatever it's called) for the level 8 (i think) falchion and it really helped with fighting, they do very similar damage but the falchion gives you +5 speed and the black sword is -1 speed (I think, or maybe it's the other way?) Anyway, the speed of the falchion really really helped and I was able to get down to level 25 without using staircases but I didn't find a lot of iridium so yeah, I'm just going to go with plan B which is to get married which should give me enough points with grandpa to unlock that perfect statue thing and farm iridium at home.
2. I followed a guide to farm level 91 for the yellow scroll and got it, but it didn't really change anything in the game, haha, disappointing :(
3. I decided to marry Sam, one of my big concerns with choosing a spouse was making sure I'd choose one who would help around the farm, specifically water my plants in the greenhouse (yes I know the more efficient approach is to use sprinklers in the dirt area but I crafted enough planters to fill up the stupid greenhouse and yeah. If Sam doesn't water them for me I guess I'll just destroy them and be sad forever but whatever.) I wasn't sure what all spouses do and I've heard some of them (Abigail) are a bit lazy and others are a bit better? But anyway I just went with Sam because he's sweet and Sebastian doesn't seem ready to settle down lmao why was this such a hard decision i felt like choosing a spouse was a whole personality test.
NBOX21 Jan 21, 2024 @ 11:50pm 
Originally posted by faerytech:
I followed a guide to farm level 91 for the yellow scroll and got it, but it didn't really change anything in the game, haha, disappointing :(
If you donate one of each of the four dwarf scrolls to the museum, the reward you get from that is the dwarf translator which will allow you to understand the language of the dwarves.

Inside the mine entrance, to the right should be a boulder you can break open with your pickaxe. A dwarf lives there but you can't really do anything with him if you don't understand dwarvish. Once you understand his language, you'll be able to speak to him just like any other villager in the game and you'll even be able to buy some stuff from him like bombs.
dalgo Jan 22, 2024 @ 1:37am 
1. Save your iridium for Willy’s boat, don’t waste it on the Wizard’s quest which only gives you money and friendship.

2. The answer to skull cavern is bombs and staircases, only fight as a last resort. You can buy bombs from the Dwarf in the mines or craft them from iron ore. Staircases are made from stone or swapped with the desert trader for jade (on a Sunday).

3. I see you have found that scroll, donate it to the museum.

4. Don’t get married.
Queen Droxxanna Jan 22, 2024 @ 3:53am 
llolool, well since you are in year 4, you have been playing relaxed so far, which is fine. I got frustrated with the Skull cavern too, and never got very far until I played multiplayer and had my son join me in the mine. With 2 people going down there, you can take turns going back to the entrance to heal, then run back down the stairs to join where you left off, it was the only way I could make if to level 25 and then 100.

However, if you play alone and are frustrated, there are mods you can use to make life easier.
1. the Tractor mod, you can take the tractor to the mines with you, mine and fight while on the tractor and be invincible .
2. the Skull mine elevator mod, lets you go up and down at will, start off a new day of mining from the level you left off at the day before.

no your spouse wont water the crops in the greenhouse, but they will sometimes feed the animals, give water to the dog and water the outside crops. And make you breakfast and supper.
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Date Posted: Jan 21, 2024 @ 10:18am
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