Over the last few months, I've been playing a lot of Stardew Valley on the
Nintendo Switch. When I first got the system, I made a video about it here on
my YouTube channel and an overwhelming amount of people recommended this game
to me, so I figured I needed to try it. Give this video a thumbs up if you play
stardew valley as well! if you haven't played stardew valley, it's a farming
simulator with retro style pixel graphics, it's really cute and really
like, chill and fun but there are so many things in the game that you can do. And
one thing that I love about this game is that they just let you do whatever you
want. You can grow vegetables if you want, you can raise animals on your farm and
milk cows and make stuff out of the products that you get from them. If you
wanted to, you could just hang out in the mines fighting monsters and getting
different kinds of metals, you can just talk to people in the town all day if
you want to. They really don't seem to care what you do in this game and I love
that kind of freedom. So when I first got the game, I played through a couple of
days, I bought some seeds and tried to set up my farm. And I didn't really
initially understand what all the fuss was about. I felt like I was really
struggling to get enough money to actually buy the things I needed to
progress in the game and I wasn't really sure that I was going to keep playing it.
And then I blinked and probably 6 hours went by and I was still playing. And then
I realized what the big deal was and why everyone loves it so much, and that is
that the timing of a full day in the game is barely enough to really satisfy
the urge that you have to play this game and so, when you go to bed at the end of
the day and a new day starts right away, you kind of want to play through the
following day. Whether I'm in the middle of something when I had to go to bed and
I didn't want to forget what that thing was and I wanted to just make sure that
I got a chance to do it, or I just wasn't ready to stop playing and wanted to keep
going. This timed daily format of the game is just incredibly engrossing, you
don't want to stop! You wake up and there's another day right in front of
you and you want to go out and do the same thing again the next day! And I
found that once I really got my farm set up, it just got really fun and I wanted
to keep playing. Last night, I actually completed my community center in the
game, which was very exciting. I'd been working on that for a while. But in
general I really like having a consistent routine in the game and I
look forward to repeating that every day. I don't know what it is about doing the
same thing every day in this game, but it just seems really rewarding. I got my
farm set up the way I like it, it's so chill that I'm able to relax while I'm
playing it, but I also feel like I've done something. I feel like I've been
productive after a few days in the game. So I thought that today, I would go
through and tell you what a typical day looks like on my stardew valley farm.
Because I just feel like every single person is going to have a totally
different approach to how they play this game, it's probably pretty interesting to
hear how someone else plays it and if you play stardew valley too, I would love
to hear about some of your favorite things to do in the game, so leave them
in the comments below. So the first thing that I do when I turn on the Switch and
open up a new morning in stardew valley is I get up and I go find my wife,
wherever she may be, I am married to Emily in the game. She's the one with the
blue hair who works at the bar and she is super cool and kind of weird and she
also makes stuff out of fabric. So if you know me, that's probably not surprising
to you. In the game, we adopted a baby so I go find the baby and throw the baby up
in the air and catch him and then before I leave the house, I go down into the
cellar and check if any of my aged barrels are done. For a while, I was aging
cheese and wine and beer, but now I'm kind of at the point where I just want
to sell the cheese and not take up space down there, so I'm just aging wine and
beer in my cellar. Then I go outside and I can kind of choose what I want to do
next. My farm is a little bit all over the place. I have a lot of different
things that I could focus on on an individual day, but honestly, if I were to
go through and attend to every single thing I have on my farm
every day, it would fill the whole day up and I wouldn't really have a chance to
go into town and talk to people and go mining and things like that. My priority
at the moment is making sure that I go and visit the pigs that I am raising. I
have two barns with a bunch of pigs and a stone wall outside, so I let the pigs
out so they can look for truffles, which I found is the best way to make money in
this game. So I go around and I hug all the pigs and make them happy and pick up
any truffles that they've already found, and then I go and drop off the truffles
to make truffle oil and you can sell truffle oil in the game
for a lot of money so I have a ton of those little oil making machines and I
just pop all, as many truffles as I can find into those machines. Over the course
of the day, I'll go and grab more truffles that the pigs have found and
put them in and pull out the oil that's already been made and then I go and put
that in my box to sell it. Really, I don't feel like I need all of the other
animals because as long as I'm selling truffle oil, I make enough money to make
sure that I can afford whatever it is that I want to buy in the game. But I
also have chickens, ducks, a rabbit, cows, and goats. So if I have time that day I
go around and hug all of them and collect all of the different animal
products that those animals make. I'll run over and pop some eggs into the
machines to make mayonnaise and pop some milk into the machines to make cheese. So
for produce on my farm. I feel like this game got a lot less annoying and a lot
more fun once I was able to make the little sprinklers that automatically
water all of your plants. So I have spots set up around each of the sprinklers so
I'm not planting any plants in a spot that doesn't get automatically watered.
That way, I don't have to worry about them dying if I forget or if like, a tree
grows in the way of me being able to see what's waiting to be watered. I find that
that made things a lot easier in the game, so I will go around and pick up
anything that's sprouted that day. I have a lot of those barrels that make jelly
and pickled vegetables set up, but they take a while for them to finish so every
once in a while, I'll go check on them and see if they need something new to be
put in there. Otherwise I just sell my produce unless it's something that can
be put into a mill or a keg and those things, I save in a little box just in
case I need them when they're ready to go. I have a lot of those wooden boxes
that you can make set up and color-coded to remember what's in them, and I have
one box that's probably the most important one, where I keep all of my
leftover wine and beer from the kegs and any leftover hops or grapes that I have,
So that way, when some spaces in my cellar open up, I can go in and swap them
out with anything that's in that box waiting to go. I also have the greenhouse
set up now and I put one of each of the different fruit trees along with just an
assortment of year-round produce in my greenhouse. I love that it doesn't matter
the time of year, anything will grow in there and having all of the fruit trees
available at all times is pretty awesome especially if you get a neighbor who
asks for a specific one. I'll mostly go in there if I need something, but a
lot of times, I don't have time to check it. I also almost never check the cave on
my farm anymore. It's just mushrooms and the truffles are
better anyway and so I don't really look in there too often. So that's a lot going
on in my farm, so you can probably understand why I don't do all of those
things every single day. If I end up having time to leave my farm, I like
going over to the secret woods and getting all the stuff out of that area
especially because I need the hard wood in order to make more oil makers for the
truffle oil. I tend to save my mining when I have a full day with good luck
because I die down there pretty often or it gets to 2:00 a.m. and it's just,
yeah I'm not a big fan of the mines but you have to go in there if you want
metal and you need metal to make a bunch of things, so every once in a while
I'll go down there and just get as much stuff as I can and then come back out
and hope that I don't have to do it again for a while.
I don't really interact that much with the townspeople. I'll talk to the people
if I see them around and give them gifts if I happen to have stuff that I don't
really want, but that's not really my favorite part of the game. I do like that
they have all those fun cutscenes that they'll show you as you develop your
friendships with them more, but I definitely focus on running my farm and
taking care of my animals more than I focus on actually nurturing the
community around it. I don't go to the desert super often, I don't fish very
often, I found that fishing was incredibly difficult and for a while I
couldn't even figure out how to physically do it. But now I'm a little
better at it, so I just kind of only did that to fill up my community center and
complete that and I now probably will ignore fishing for a while. Obviously, there
are still so many more things that you can do in the game and I try to be
well-rounded when I have extra time on a day, if I haven't fished in a while I'll
go and do that, or I'll go pick up stuff and forage for things, but that's kind of
my approach when I start a new day in the game. So I think I'll stop there for
now. I really like that the game isn't super stressful and I can kind of make
it whatever I want it to be. I find that I like having this game around because
for a long time, I wasn't doing anything just to relax by myself and so now that
I have it, I'll sit and I'll play through a few days. It kind of calms me down
helps me de-stress, makes me feel like I've been productive even though I
haven't really been productive. So the fact that
I've been giving myself a chance to just sit down and play this game every
once in a while has been really nice. I'm looking forward to reading your stardew
routines in the comments below and if you don't play this game but you've
still made it this far into this video, what is something that you like to do to
relax and take time for yourself? Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon!
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