Can You Play This Game Without Mining/Combat?

[Bunny]

Before anyone dares to say it I just want to point this out first: YES I HAVE tried out mining. Don't tell me I should "give it a shot" the moment you come in after looking at the title please. I'm not a noob to the game and I have played it for a while short while. I'm very familiar with how mining works.
But once I get to the mid levels I instantly hate it because Cave Flies are the bane of my existence and I had a straight up panic attack running into my first one, and I even almost got swarmed by them. I rather not have to deal with that at all because the buzzing straight up gives me the worst chills to the point I run rather than deal with them and frankly I rather not deal with them at all. Weapon upgrades be damnned I just rather avoid them entirely, call me a wimp all you want. I just can't with that... (RIP those lovely ores though...)

Is it possible to play the game with a no-mining or at the very least sparse mining run? I heard fishing can be a decent way to make money if you bother leveling it but what about non-money purposes? Like tool upgrades and so on and all that other stuff? Every LP I see of this game has gone into mining one way or another for stuff so if it's required that's honestly frustrating for me personally.
Don't tell me to "Git Gud" either. I just don't care for combat that much in a game like this.
And I really don't want to get another mini panic attack okay...

[-Na Shagul-]

TECHNICALLY you can get all the cave ores + coal from clint but that will put a huge dent in your profits and iridium ore from the reward you get for a perfect evaluation.

I'm pretty sure it would also be impossible to complete the museum as well, since pretty much half of it is devoted to gemstones you get from busting open geodes, though there might be a way to acquire omni geodes without mining and you should -technically- be able to get all the gemstones that way but it might take a very, very, very long time.

EDIT: Apparently there are a bunch of ways to acquire omni geodes without mining but again it won't be the easiest thing to get them in bulk (from the wiki)

Crane Game in the Movie Theater lobby, during any season
Panning
Three can be purchased from the Oasis on Wednesdays for Gold.png1,000g each
One can be purchased from Krobus' shop on Tuesdays for Gold.png300g
Five Omni Geodes are the reward for completing the Bundle Purple.png Geologist's Bundle in the Boiler Room
1, 3, or 10 Omni Geodes can be produced by an Octopus Fish Pond when the population reaches 9.

[Uncoelacanth]

The other thing you'll probably want to do is very carefully plan how to use your Hardwood, if you're not running a Forest Farm, which can supply Hardwood forever.

There are a couple fairly useful items, buildlings, and upgrades that use Hardwood, You'll probably start feeling a supply crunch after taking out all the hardwood logs on your farm and the standard player solution to constantly supplying Hardwood involves repeatedly venturing into a light combat area, The Secret Woods (No cave flies, though.)

You can:
-- Take the Lumberjack option at Forrester Level 10 to get a chance of Hardwood dropping from cutting down trees.
-- Set up a Woodskip Fish Pond.

You're also going to have to write off or mod in getting any of the Wizard Buildings, as there's no standard way to complete that quest line without entering a significant combat area.

[Včelí medvídek]

Yes it is.

Everything cna be bought and fish ponds brings to game new ways how obtain various things.

However it will be VERY expensive to buy your way through game progress instead get ore for free in mine (and gems for profit etc.)

Can not 100% compelte game however as some is related to progress mine and skull cavern (including some rare fishing on bottom levels).

Good advise to combat - never risk, heal up between fights (use salmonberries or blackberries collected for free in seasons). Just stay on levels where you feel comfortable and train up (both in game and in real). i enver had troubles in mine so much but remember skull cavern I died quite often - now I am running there quite comfortably.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Uncoelacanth:

The other thing you'll probably want to do is very carefully plan how to use your Hardwood, if you're not running a Forest Farm, which can supply Hardwood forever.
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I do nto undrstand this. Already saw similar post about lack of hardwood in game - what you need such large amounts to trouble you? I would say I dont use more than like 400 over whole game ~ one dedicated season go to hidden part fo forest (or betetr just visit trade cart at friday and sunday +foraging events and use the opportunity to not make it chore)., like really I barely need any new hardwood since year 2...

[Uncoelacanth]

Originally posted by Včelí medvídek:

Originally posted by Uncoelacanth:

The other thing you'll probably want to do is very carefully plan how to use your Hardwood, if you're not running a Forest Farm, which can supply Hardwood forever.
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I do nto undrstand this. Already saw similar post about lack of hardwood in game - what you need such large amounts to trouble you? I would say I dont use more than like 400 over whole game ~ one dedicated season go to hidden part fo forest (or betetr just visit trade cart at friday and sunday +foraging events and use the opportunity to not make it chore)., like really I barely need any new hardwood since year 2...

The OP wants to avoid combat, and the Secret Woods are a combat area (admittedly a light-combat area.). There aren't likely enough Hardwood logs (8 hardwood each) and Stumps (2 hardwood each) on non-forest farms to get everything you want done.

The Travelling Merchant Cart carries hardwood randomly. Looking through my own save's RNG with Stardew Predictor: Over the next 10 game years in my save, the Travelling Cart will carry hardwood (1 or 5 units) on six occasions. If I visited on all those days, and bought all available Hardwood, I would obtain 18 Hardwood in those 10 years.

Stardew Predictor can be found here: https://mouseypounds.github.io/stardew-predictor/

[Včelí medvídek]

Ah, for this. Well I hope he will handle that few slimes around:)

[Včelí medvídek]

PS: SPOILER

if you want your progress and combat make really easy you can eventually grab strongest weapoon in game first.
All information on wikli:
https://stardewvalleywiki.com/Galaxy_Sword

[Sauron]

Going in the mines is much more easy when playing with a friend. I find you get down much slower and dont die, I am not saying that I have never died in the mines with a friend though because one me and my friend got to level 99 and both died I am just saying you die a LOT less...

[Cowlem]

all I can suggest is turn off the sound of the game when dealing with flies. I am very sorry if that is of no use to you.

[Stycfy]

you can buy ores from Clint but, you won't be able to obtain iridium ores easily, as you can't buy magma and omni geodes

[KaosReigns]

Use dupe glitch, get 1 of each ore, never mine again.

[Bunny]

Originally posted by KaosReigns:

Use dupe glitch, get 1 of each ore, never mine again.

If I even knew how to do that glitch or if it still works then maybe. :U

[IronHide]

I too have issues with coping with buzzing noises and had to resort to muting the game until I got past the first 'biome' of the mines, after you get to the 2nd area there are no more flies at all for the rest of the mines.

[I Kinda Fail]

You can, but it'll slow you down exponentially, and lock you out of the main story.

The main story is either: you repair the Community Center, or you join Joja and tear down the Community Center. You need various items from the mines, like monster parts and mushrooms and quartz.

You can also, I suppose, just grind the first 10 floors of the mines until you can craft staircases, then use those to rapidly skip those floors with bugs. (I think it's 10-30.) It'll take a lot longer, but the rest of the mines don't have flies, if those are what's bothering you. They do have other flying enemies, though. (Bats, ghosts, snakes)

If you wait until year 2, and train combat some other way, you can craft Oil of Garlic. It'll prevent infested floors from appearing, and stop swarms of flying enemies from appearing... Although you'll still get flying enemies every now and then.



If you go the Joja route, I don't think you technically ever need to visit the mines, although there's ways to make it easier to work around. For example, I'd recommend you play on the Hilltop farm map, so you get ores spawning on your farm regularly. You can buy ore and stone from Robin and Clint, but it's pricey. You can fish up a bit of ore and stone from treasure chests rarely, or hoe it up from the earth. After finishing the right bundle, you'll unlock ore panning, which lets you get a bit of ore and gems from the rivers. Robin and Clint's prices skyrocket after year 1 ends, however, so buy what you need before then.

While leveling Foraging, take the Lumberjack perks. You'll get more wood, and the excess can be turned into coal, which will let you make preserves jars and bee hives. At level 10, you'll start getting hardwood. You need hardwood for a horse stable and a house upgrade, and for... some machine, maybe a cheese maker? The area you normally get hardwood from has a few weak enemies in it, but if you're avoiding combat, that's not an option.

With Fishing, it's up to you. You can buy crab pots instead of crafting them, and regularly empty them to collect trash. The trash can be turned into coal, iron, refined quartz, stone and wood. Alternatively, you can go for the Pirate perk, and try to farm treasure chests for gold and iridium ore.

[Včelí medvídek]

Originally posted by Staycomfymybois:

you can buy ores from Clint but, you won't be able to obtain iridium ores easily, as you can't buy magma and omni geodes

You can. At certain days Krobus and Sandy sells Omni geodes. They can be farmed from octopus fish ponds too.

+ you can get plenty irridium from statues (year 2 evaluation and casino ones).

At end of day I would say limited supply of bronze and silver would be greatest issue, making something like keg shed very expensive if all has to be bought.