Quality Sprinklers - how fast can you get them?

[Snowy Sprout]

What is your strategy for getting quality sprinklers as fast as possible, and how long does your strategy take?

I'm looking for the best blend between fast and easy, for a friend who doesn't like watering, but doesn't want to miss out on early crops.

[supersand]

plant lots of potatos / kale early on, like as much as you can water and still do other things in that day, and I mean early ignore those free parsnips and buy 15 potatos with starting gold + forage selling (plant the parsnips once you get scarecrow)After thinking about it, you have 4 extra days for other crops if planting potatos / kale, so you can plant the 15 parsnips first without any xp loss (but the potatos will give better early economy). Don't plant cauliflower unless you want gold because kale is the best xp crop early on.

potatos for better gold, kale for better xp

Lewis prize machine / traveling trader / mystery boxes can give one early too

You will need to plant 236 Potatos or 195 Kale in the first spring to reach level 6 farming with only those crops. If you really want to plant Cauliflower you will need 144 of them, however this will take more time (Cauliflower is 23 xp for 12 days vs Kale for 17 xp for 6 days vs Potatos for 14 xp for 6 days). Might as well include Parsnips too, which you'd need 413 of them (8xp each).

Keep in mind the grow time means you don't have to have a bigger field to water all at once, you get 4 Kale harvests in one season vs 2 Cauliflower harvests. You can plant 49 Kale at a time (3,430g per planting) and get level 6 at Summer 1 but with Cauliflower you'd have to plant 72 (5,760g per planting) at once. Kale will cost more overall (about 2,000g more), but will need less watering and less initial cost. Potatos have an even lower initial cost too at 59 (2,950g per planting). Parsnips are 59 too (1,180g per planting) at a time and have the lowest total cost but are probably the most work.

So basically
most work: Parsnips > Cauliflower > Potatos > Kale
most gold: Potatos > Cauliflower > Kale > Parsnips
most xp: Kale > Potatos > Cauliflower > Parsnips

[Snowy Sprout]

Escrito originalmente por maddie doodle:

hi! i'm new to stardew and the farthest i've gotten is day 7 of summer. was wondering how to get quality sprinklers, because the normal ones are pretty useless except for saving me probably 50 energy. do you find quality sprinklers or craft them? and if so, how do i acquire the recipe? please bare with me, i'm still figuring out the game lol

Once you raise your farming skill to level 6, you get the recipe which involves iron bar, gold bar, and refined quartz. So while you're farming your spring crops you should probably explore the mines and collect plenty of ores to smelt, and try to get as low as floor 80 which is where the gold ore begins to show up. (Iron starts to show up on floor 40.)

Refined quartz can be got from smelting quartz minerals, or from processing junk in the recycling machine.

The alternative to mining for ores is to buy them from Clint. But they are expensive, so you'll need lots of money for that route. Still, I like to fish a lot which gives me money to buy ore as well as treasure chests that are often full of ore.