new challenge ideas?

[Snowy Sprout]

The update has me thinking of replaying some old challenges, to see how the changes affect them.
The new random seeds mean a "boycott Pierre" run could be a lot more interesting.
The starter chickens could mean a "no selling crops" run could work easier.
The new types of rod, bait, and tackle could make some sort of fishing run interesting.

What other ideas spark from the new changes and possibilities?

[xicewindex]

New ones? fffftttt, I'm stil waiting for the mods to iron out the bugs to start my megamodded farm with a zillion crops/artisan/craftebles/cooking to play to perfection. ^^

But yeah, a no-buying run could be fun.
Only boycot Pierre seems to easy to be called a challenge now tough.
How about only buy for gold from the traveling merchant (very overpriced) and buy from traders that exchange for goods like desert trader and the one on Ginger island. And the raccoon in 1.6 ofc.
Should be possible to pay gold for services so Robin can build you stuff and maybe a pair of animals from each?
I gess bag upgrades and recipes need to be bought aswell.
No wood/stone/ore buying tough! I know you like that idea! ^^

You could combine it with only selling processed goods or maybe only sell gold/iridium and rest have to be processed

[kyree.mcmahon]

I think no animals would be interesting...

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by xicewindex:

New ones? fffftttt, I'm stil waiting for the mods to iron out the bugs to start my megamodded farm with a zillion crops/artisan/craftebles/cooking to play to perfection. ^^

But yeah, a no-buying run could be fun.
Only boycot Pierre seems to easy to be called a challenge now tough.
How about only buy for gold from the traveling merchant (very overpriced) and buy from traders that exchange for goods like desert trader and the one on Ginger island. And the raccoon in 1.6 ofc.
Should be possible to pay gold for services so Robin can build you stuff and maybe a pair of animals from each?
I gess bag upgrades and recipes need to be bought aswell.
No wood/stone/ore buying tough! I know you like that idea! ^^

You could combine it with only selling processed goods or maybe only sell gold/iridium and rest have to be processed

Oh! I think we miscommunicated. "Boycott" means to avoid, and not buy anything from Pierre. I think you were reading it as ONLY buy stuff from Pierre and not anyone else. Which ... idk but maybe that'd be another interesting challenge to try? Your ideas about how it would affect using Robin and the Traders etc. sound interesting, though brutal.

[xicewindex]

Originally posted by Snowy Sprout:

Oh! I think we miscommunicated. "Boycott" means to avoid, and not buy anything from Pierre. I think you were reading it as ONLY buy stuff from Pierre and not anyone else. Which ... idk but maybe that'd be another interesting challenge to try? Your ideas about how it would affect using Robin and the Traders etc. sound interesting, though brutal.

Wound't that mean the only challenge is low bagspace? Cos everything else can be bought at Joja's.
Altough annoying but not really challenging with chests placed all over the place?

As for fishing..... what if you can only sell processed fish?
The new smoked fish for the more expensif ones and fish recipes from cooking for cheap fish.

Chicken/mayonaise imperium is probebly done by alot of people atm.

Uhm, can't really see more challenging stuff that is entwined with the new stuff in 1.6....

[Crater]

I play on vanilla, but I try to min max as much as possible. The new spring festival creates a very tight challenge to get the bus repaired by Spring 14, but the payoff is super-charged SC dives via the luck/speed dish.

[TamanduaGirl]

When I saw the tent I thought of your homeless run because you could do it with tents now instead of always passing out but you'd need to cheat a bunch in to have them from the start to sleep anywhere. But then you could literally never go to the farm.

I thought of a challenge idea the other day but I forgot now. If I remember I'll post it here.

Originally posted by kyree.mcmahon:

I think no animals would be interesting...

I saw the opposite suggested. With the new farm do a animals only run and no farming. You might need to go joja to do that.

[nanami]

smoked iridium lava eel with fisher angler and artisan from farming sells for 5880 gold. if you used fish ponds to spam them 1 at a time every 4 days still get 2940 gold from normal fish. also can get roe, gold ore, cave jelly, spicy eel, and magma geodes from the pond.

[NBOX21]

No Eating Challenge

How much progress can you make within whatever time frame you decide to play for without eating any food at all? I guess a good alternative name for this would be the "Hungry Challenge".

Restricting the use of drinks is optional.

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by NBOX21:

No Eating Challenge

How much progress can you make within whatever time frame you decide to play for without eating any food at all? I guess a good alternative name for this would be the "Hungry Challenge". :kaze_corn:

Restricting the use of drinks is optional.

OMG OOF! That sounds incredibly difficult. I don't know if I'd be willing to give up eating. Eating is one of the FUN things. But I can see it would be a good challenge category anyway.

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by xicewindex:

Wound't that mean the only challenge is low bagspace? Cos everything else can be bought at Joja's.
Altough annoying but not really challenging with chests placed all over the place?

Low inventory space is one feature usually, of the boycott pierre challenge. I do buy the backpacks, because my belief is that Caroline sells the backpacks, since they are not bought from Pierre's register. But in boycotting Pierre I also meant but forgot to say boycotting Joja as well. Most people take boycotting Joja as given since they see Joja as the devil. But even so, there are a few things that Pierre sells which Joja does not, like fruit trees and some recipes and condiments.

But yes, the main point would be to only plant wild seeds, mixed seeds, seeds you get from the travelling cart, or seeds you create from a seed maker. That sort of thing.

Originally posted by xicewindex:

As for fishing..... what if you can only sell processed fish?
The new smoked fish for the more expensif ones and fish recipes from cooking for cheap fish.

I haven't tried making a fish smoker yet. I'd probably want to get a riverland farm for that challenge, to have one at the start.

I have done "don't sell anything unprocessed" before, but fish and mushrooms didn't count since they couldn't be processed before. But the dehydrator and the smoker could change that.

[Snowy Sprout]

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

When I saw the tent I thought of your homeless run because you could do it with tents now instead of always passing out

Yes! That was the first thing I thought too. Although figuring out how to deal with losing cash every night was a cool part of the challenge at the time. But cheating in tents isn't something I'm prepared to do, so idk how to get them yet, aside from winning one at a festival. And just one isn't really worth so much.

Originally posted by TamanduaGirl:

With the new farm do a animals only run and no farming. You might need to go joja to do that.

I've never tried no crops at all. I've done no SELLING crops, but idk how it would be to never get to use or gift crops. Not selling them is actually fun, because you get to explore other ways to make money. But not even being allowed to grow them might be sad, because few things are as nice for gifts and cooked dishes.

[ULTRA]

It's not really a challenge per se but I'm currently playing the game ONLY cultivating things that are native to Oregon and throwing back fish that are native to Oregon or making fish ponds out of them

'cept for CC requirements of course

[Snowy Sprout]

I found a challenge I'm enjoying right now. I'm playing a fresh save with the idea that I'm going to invite multiplayer joins as soon as I finish one goal: to complete the Joja Community Form. My target is to complete it before the end of first spring.

My strategy is to fish like crazy, and ignore almost everything else to quickly earn the $140k it takes for the membership and bundles, plus pay for certain extras like a backpack, fishing rod, bait, etc. I know I've fished up as much as $172k in first spring before, so this should be doable. The difference is, this time I'm intending for the save to continue past that one season, so I'm paying some attention to certain details which might slow me down.

Stuff I'm doing besides fishing includes:
Caring for chickens (I'm on Meadowland farm and have 4 chickens to tend);
Clearing debris and green grass to let blue grass grow;
Buying or fishing up enough ore to make mayo machines and recycling machine;
Trying to befriend Caroline;
Starting a tree farm/tapper area.

I'm deliberately NOT planting anything, mining at all, or foraging the map. I fished up an ancient seed, so I planted and am watering that ONE plant, but that's all. I also pet and water the dog daily.

I'm doing all of this BEFORE opening my game to multiplayer because time stops while fishing in solo, but not during multiplayer games. The only way to reach my goal quickly is to do it solo. Then anyone who joins will have the experience of starting a fresh game in summer instead of in spring, with all the bonuses opened up like greenhouse, bus, minecarts etc. and the farm being cleared, but nothing at all planted and no mine elevators opened up. I won't have any money left over after I buy the bundles, but I will have an upgraded rod and be level 10 fishing.

I'm interested to see what people will make of this opportunity. It's a huge leapfrog ahead in progress, but still very early game with everything left to do! It's kind of like playing with a weird sort of mod on, I guess. (But it fits within my "no-mods" style.)

Right now it is Spring 14 and I have just hit level 10 fishing. I sold all the fish I've been saving (because I wanted the 50% cash bonus for being level 10) and bought the Joja membership. I have $40k left over, and will start buying bundles daily as cash allows. I have just a first upgrade of backpack and fishing rod, so I'm not going to be vastly overpowered compared to other players.

I'm so excited to see how this will turn out!

[michaelbnx]

I'm playing a no seed buy atm, quite funny. So it's mixed seeds until u reach lvl9 farming, and you can start to make seeds from fruits or veggies you can buy from the travelling cart. End of year 2 and I have almost everything, except that darn bokchoy. Bought one from the merchant, but it turned into ancient seed...
I also had in mind a restaurant, where you can only sell cooked food. Not sure how i'll proceed with that one, but start is going to be rough.

[monkeypunch87]

Originally posted by michaelbnx:

I also had in mind a restaurant, where you can only sell cooked food. Not sure how i'll proceed with that one, but start is going to be rough.

This sounds nice. You could start with selling "Field Snacks" and "Bug Steak" early on.