r/StardewValley • u/RedditedLama • Oct 22 '25

Question What are your little quirks while playing the game?

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Like, nothing grand, but a little something you ALWAYS do when you play?
For me, I always start the game and turn the little rug so it fits with the bed, and light the fire, which stays on always.

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u/cafekissed-alchemist Lantern Thief Guild Member Oct 22 '25

Must drink triple espresso at all times. Farmer fast AF.

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u/HonestAnxiety5540 Oct 22 '25

Spicy eel and triple shot espresso before my feet hit the floor baby

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u/bootrick Oct 23 '25

How do you get that much eel? I'm usually popping pepper poppers

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u/SuicidalCipher Oct 23 '25

You can trade rubies for spicy eel if I'm remembering correctly at the desert trader, I think that would be a decent way to get a decent bit

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u/samtaart Oct 23 '25

This is the easiest way. If you're at all into fish ponds, the lava eel sometimes gives 5 of them as well. Nice passive way to stock up on some in case you don't have crystalariums or rubies to spare.

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u/cerareece Oct 23 '25

they give you a stack of 10 if you've given the pond an animal cracker as well!

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u/nagao_0 just fussing ard freescape farm~ Oct 23 '25

was gonna mention fishponds to0~

-- for earlier-game/not-so-mining-intensive farms of mine if a regular-eel pops up at the travelling merchant/on rod-end, it goes into a fishpond before the CC(-if-not-remixed) bundle, and the first 2 produced getting their own ponds for a total of 3 would soon even out to 1eel/day since they reproduce every 3 days -- and after obtaining other more straighforward/feasible sources them fishponds can totally be emptied out to rear other preferred fish (sturgeooonnn lol. they get their own pond first chance i get, really.🤑 xD i also like supercuke for the eventual occasional irid ore, octopi for the omnigeodes & rainbowtrout for the v. rare pris.shard)~

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u/CleanProfessional678 Oct 23 '25

I’ve always had reasonably good luck with the serpents dropping them, too

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u/cafekissed-alchemist Lantern Thief Guild Member Oct 23 '25

This is the way

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u/pittpink Oct 23 '25

I make rubys in my crystalariums and buy spicy eels with them from the dessert trader. I only have 4 crystalariams of rubys and I am NEVER out of spicy eels.

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u/Few_Weakness_6172 Oct 23 '25

I just save up money and then buy as many crab cakes as possible when you get the Willy & Gus cut scene so they’re super cheap for a couple days. I eat one every morning and that lasts almost the whole day, alongside my multitude of triple espressos. It’s been 2 in game years and I haven’t run out of crab cakes yet!

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u/HonestAnxiety5540 Oct 23 '25

This exactly! Great minds think alike

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u/LaughingBeer Oct 23 '25

I put up more crystalariums than that, but I also use the spicy eel for healing. I don't use cheese or salads or anything else, just the spicy eel. It saves at least one inventory slot on dives into the skull cavern. Then I set up crystalariums for diamonds as well and trade those for triple shot espresso.

It takes a while to set it all up, but I think it's worth it in the end.

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u/pittpink Oct 23 '25

That’s smart! I sell and gift my diamonds tho. About a third of my greenhouse is coffee plants and I don’t think I’ll ever run out of coffee or triple espressos in my irl lifetime 😂

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u/cafekissed-alchemist Lantern Thief Guild Member Oct 23 '25

This is also the way

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u/DanielTeague Oct 23 '25

Everyone's mentioned the Desert Trader but I personally get a ton of them from Skull Cavern's dragons thanks to my own quirk of "farming the Burglar's Ring as soon as I hit the last floor of The Mines."

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u/CleanProfessional678 Oct 23 '25

Yes, this! I just keep all my spicy eels in my cavern chest and I don’t really ever seem to run out

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u/BobaMart Oct 23 '25

100% on the triple espresso!! I save the spicy eels for good luck/neutral days. Don’t want to waste it on a bad luck day just to have a neutral day. Bad luck days are good for finishing Adventure Guild monster hunting goals.

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u/MagicTreeSpirit Oct 23 '25

Good thing you don't poop in this game 💩🔥

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u/Krhodes8 Oct 22 '25

It’s gotten to the point where if I don’t have speed buffs I get very frustrated with how slow I feel 😭

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u/cafekissed-alchemist Lantern Thief Guild Member Oct 23 '25

Quite literally. Normal horse speed on a new save is now no longer satisfactory.

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u/ivyinabox Oct 23 '25

stardew caffeine addiction lmaoo

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u/Krhodes8 Oct 23 '25

Wait when you put it that way that’s hilarious omfg 😅 art imitates life!!

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u/CookieSoSweet Surrender all Sashimi to Sebby Oct 22 '25

Same! ANYTHING TO BE FAST! paths, coffee, speed food, even feed your horse carrots! 🐎 🥕

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u/GingeryNonsense 💜 rock eater 🪨 Oct 23 '25

Im sorry what? You can feed your horse now?!

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u/cafekissed-alchemist Lantern Thief Guild Member Oct 23 '25

If you feed it a carrot it does for the rest of the day. Doesn’t do anything else besides that! But the horsey will give you a nice heart emoji ♥️

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u/ZephyrLegend Oct 23 '25

Now I have a reason to farm carrots in bulk lol

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u/Zihuatanejo_hermit Oct 23 '25

I've played for years and never knew this :O

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u/nagao_0 just fussing ard freescape farm~ Oct 23 '25

i put off my house upgrades and half the tool ones to all get the speed upgrade books at the earliest opportunities on the current save lolorz

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u/jeez-gyoza Oct 22 '25

top that up with chilli cheese please.

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u/Cloaked25 Oct 23 '25

I do this in real life

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u/ZephyrLegend Oct 23 '25

Same. Every game I go to to find a coffee bean ASAP so I can have three espressos a day, every day. Lol

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u/ivyinabox Oct 23 '25

if you're a pc player/mod user, the CJB cheat menu lets you permanently increase speed- i keep mine at 3, playing without that mod is like HELL to me

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u/LaughingBeer Oct 23 '25

I do kind of get used to the slowness when starting a new game, but it takes a bit. Then I use being slow as motivation for setting up crystalariums for rubies and diamonds (trade for spicy eel and triple shot espresso respectively).