Use Legacy Randomization

[Shrub]

This is in options under world seed. Just curious what it function is. Yes I read its discription. Not sure what it means by random choices?

[wilky]

If you've ever seen the Youtubers do the clay farming trick, it refers to how the community figured out that you could previously predict this game's RNG.

[Shrub]

Originally posted by wilky:

If you've ever seen the Youtubers do the clay farming trick, it refers to how the community figured out that you could previously predict this game's RNG.

oh ok thanks

[Captain Zoinder]

Some systems such as the location of clay, results of crab pots, and some other various systems that "appear" random actually followed some patterns due to how the old randomization worked.
With clay especially if you performed the digging correctly you could farm several dozen or even upwards of a hundred clay in a single day from the beach/farm alone - look up "Clay farming in stardew valley" for details - but with the new 1.6 randomizer this no longer seems possible but to preserve speedrun capability, concernedape has left the "legacy" randomization in as this and other exploits were quite valuable for certain categories.