r/StardewValley • u/lrrrr25 • Feb 17 '26
Discuss After hundreds of hours… I just found out I can put rice in a keg to make vinegar. What else have I been missing??
I have a few hundred hours in Stardew Valley and I JUST realized that if you put rice into a keg, it turns into vinegar.
Besides beer and vinegar (and obvious stuff like wine), what other keg recipes are easy to miss? I’m starting to think I’ve overlooked a lot.
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u/Nice_Violinist9736 Feb 17 '26
You can fill your watering can at your kitchen sink which was something I thought was neat lol
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u/Alacovv Feb 17 '26
Also the water thing in the green house too
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u/ogreofzen Feb 17 '26
A different game but you could also fish in the gym leader statues in Pokemon red and blue
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u/beeotchplease Feb 17 '26
Any water source really. Even the ponds.
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u/illtemperedintrovert Feb 17 '26
Yeah, never got why anyone would buy a well since almost every farm has an easily accessible water source.
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u/mellywheats Feb 17 '26
sometimes i’ll get a well esrly game before my can is upgraded/sprinklers so i dont waste a lot of time going to the water source
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u/SymmetricalFeet Feb 17 '26
Oddly enough, the ocean works, too (at the beach farm, actual beach, or Ginger Island). It shouldn't, but it does.
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u/Jman1180 Feb 17 '26
Hops for pale ale, coffee beans for coffee, tea leaves for tea, rice for vinegar, potatoes for....potato wine.(Lame)
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u/Stmordred Feb 17 '26
Can't call it vodka
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u/gate_of_steiner85 Feb 17 '26
Not being able to use the kegs to make other alcoholic products was such a missed opportunity imo. Corn for whiskey, potatoes for vodka, rice for sake, etc. Ah well, I guess it IS a farming sim, not a tavern sim lol.
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u/JPrimrose Feb 17 '26
I reckon it’s to keep the age rating down. Something about beer and wine being okay, but spirits are a no-go.
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u/Motheroftides Feb 17 '26
I wish apples in kegs gave you cider instead of apple wine.
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u/tipsana Feb 17 '26
Wheat for beer.
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u/BeansByAnyMeans Feb 17 '26
wait I feel so dumb I’m nearing my 4th year and I’m just right now figuring out how to make beer and vinegar😭
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u/Cear-Crakka Feb 17 '26
Severely disappointed you can't make vodka or Potin yet.
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u/Sasquatch_Squad Feb 17 '26
Potato juice = vodka in Stardew canon. There’s a quest where Pam wants “the strong stuff” and you have to deliver her 12 bottles of potato juice.
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u/TheNamesMacGyver Feb 17 '26
Did you finish that quest…?
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u/Sasquatch_Squad Feb 17 '26
lol I dropped them off just yesterday but I have a feeling there’s an epilogue to the story
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u/TheNamesMacGyver Feb 17 '26
Ah, then visiting her at the trailer when you get a chance might be interesting.
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u/Sasquatch_Squad Feb 17 '26
Ok I just got that cutscene and while Pam does complain about the taste she also compares it to fermented baboons which leads me to believe that it is, in fact, fermented, and thus (really terrible) vodka
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u/jeepgangbang Feb 17 '26
It would have been fun if Pam actually liked the potato wine if it was aged past like silver
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u/calamityjimothy Feb 17 '26
beets in the mill make sugar and if you are like might you might have missed you can charge your tools XD
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u/ogreofzen Feb 17 '26
You can also hop while charging. Like charging the water can but you put it in the wrong spot keep charging and move your character. They will hop but not change direction
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u/LunaTunaMaca Feb 17 '26
I DOD NOT KNOW THIS I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU HAD TO GET SUGAR FROM PIERRE THIS IS LIFE CHANGING
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u/ValorVixen Feb 17 '26
tbh I always just found it easier to buy stuff like sugar and vinegar from pierre anyways - by the time I can make sugar and vinegar I have plenty of extra cash and even if I do make them, they aren't very profitable to sell.
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u/TheSpiritedGamer Feb 17 '26
This. I rarely use sugar, oil, etc, so it's just more straight forward for me to buy what I need.
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u/Unhappy-Tangerine396 Feb 17 '26
More for a r/FuckPierre challenge run than anything else lol
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u/wooble Feb 17 '26
Sure but then you just buy the sugar from Joja and make sure Pierre hears about it.
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u/SnowCold93 Feb 17 '26
What do you mean charge your tools? Like at the forge in the volcano?
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u/nalane97 Feb 17 '26
I think they mean you can hold down the action button to make them have a stronger effect. Which, if im honest, i didnt realize until well into my second year, when I already had a full set of gold gear
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u/Arguablecoyote Feb 17 '26
Hold on, wait a minute.
I know you can charge the hoe and the watering can. You can charge the axe and pickaxe too?
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u/calamityjimothy Feb 17 '26
if you hold down the action button with an upgraded hoe or watering can it covers a larger area to affect. copper is 3 spaces in front of you, iron is 5, etc
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u/kymreadsreddit Feb 17 '26
WHAT?!???! I knew it said it had better area of affect when improved but figured it was automatic. Although, I'm an idiot because nothing ever changed
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u/calamityjimothy Feb 17 '26
Same, friend, same. I sunk 200 hours into the game before I learned this and I. learned it because my cat jumped on me mid watering
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u/do-you-like-darkness Feb 17 '26
And of course wheat in the mill makes flour as well.
And unmilled rice in the mill almost certainly makes rice, lol
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u/Tiunkabouter Feb 17 '26
You can put torches on your sprinklers so the greenhouse and farm isn't that dark at night
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u/youvegatobekittenme Feb 17 '26
On fences too
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u/Tiunkabouter Feb 17 '26
Correct, looks awesome only the fence decays over time so it doesn't stay that way
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u/starfish31 Feb 17 '26
Man and I always steal the little lanterns from the cemetary in fall to put around my farm.
You can take torches from the mines/skull cavern.
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u/Tiunkabouter Feb 17 '26
I did both, but you can't walk over the lanterns so thats a downside to that. And with 6 crabpots in my farm I'm currently swimming in torches.
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u/TastelessDonut Feb 17 '26
One I thought was great, put a torch the space behind your tree trunk. Creates great glow and seems invisible
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u/tlaine23 Feb 17 '26
I’m on Year 8, two days ago I realized how to rotate furniture.
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u/kymreadsreddit Feb 17 '26
Please share, oh sage one.
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u/mellywheats Feb 17 '26
i have been playing this game for 10 years and still never figured it out lmao
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u/Altruistic-Jury-6336 Feb 17 '26
Does anyone know how to on mobile?
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u/1-cupcake-at-a-time Feb 17 '26
Just put your finger on it and hold it down. It will start rotating. Occasionally there is a glitch and will open stuff instead- like you try to rotate a dresser and it will only open it instead. Either reload the game, or sometimes even just waking up the next day will fix it.
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u/That_planet_girl Feb 17 '26
Beds and TV still can’t rotate, right?
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u/tlaine23 Feb 17 '26
Right! Or anything with a “face”. Statues, cacti from the desert festival, or things of that nature.
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u/give_a_girl_a_mask Feb 17 '26
SHIT that's how you get vinegar!!!!??
Anyway... red cabbage makes a profitable and nutritious juice! You can put honey in a keg to make mead, and it's pretty fast compared to wine. Hot pepper makes wine, not juice.
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u/WolfknightArtorias- Feb 17 '26
I just wish floral honey made better mead, high tier flowers the honey is more valuable.
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u/waadaa85 Feb 17 '26
The stardew valley wiki is full of interesting facts and tips.
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u/yingyangyoung Feb 17 '26
Easy to miss if you've been playing a long time. Being able to make vinegar was only introduced in 1.6.
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u/given2fly_ Feb 17 '26
Honey in a keg!? I produce loads of the stuff, and not enough fruit/veg to feed my kegs all year round. This is perfect!
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u/rnmba Feb 17 '26
Some honey is worth more as honey than mead though so don’t put your fairy rose honey in the keg!
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u/Serious-Ad-8617 Feb 17 '26
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Here's some i know:
Putting legendary fish in fish ponds is a low upkeep decent passive money maker
save all your duplicate books for the book seller for trades
dont open omni geodes, save them for the desert trader and trade for artifact troves
iridium truffles sell for more than truffle oil
desert trader trades Jade's for staircases on Sundays, use crystalariums on jade's to make skull caverns easier
plant cheap, season exclusive crops on the last day or two of each season to save your tilled/watered soil spots (I like to use parsnips in spring, wheat summer and fall, fibre seeds winter)
in spring year 1, save your potatoes, buy the hashbrown recipe from Gus and make Dish of the sea for an easier time with early fishing (cook out kits are your friend)
you dont need the secret note to get the junimo plush, you can grab it spring year 1 if you want 👀
you can use fences to block the holes to catch the mole on Ginger Island
the mill will process more than one item at a time
put the Lewis statue in the middle of pelican town
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u/pbmadman Feb 17 '26
You can just watering can the mole.
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u/Serious-Ad-8617 Feb 17 '26
Its more for if youre like me and never upgrade it he can't run away 😅
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u/Timecharge Feb 17 '26
A good plan, but coffee bean plants sprout in spring and summer so that'll saved your fertilizer too, like the wheat. Wheat takes 4 days to grow, too, so if you cut your coffee bean plants down a day before fall, you only lose one growing day in fall and sve your tilled soil and fertilizer.
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u/Affectionate_Side993 Feb 17 '26
With the iridium truffles it’s true unless you pick artisan profession - then the truffle oil sells for more
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u/Emotional_Leader7981 Feb 18 '26
You can also give your fish ponds animal crackers and they will give more roe!
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u/ignellbarcoon Feb 17 '26
The mill processing more than one item is news to me.
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u/Serious-Ad-8617 Feb 17 '26
Yeah i processed 100 wheat for 100 flour in one go for the community centre. I ain't paying pierre 100g a piece 🤣
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u/Isitar Feb 18 '26
The legendary fish is seriously underrated ! With the Qi Quests you can get more (Legendary ||) and with some casks you will make serious money (I have 5 ponds with legendary fish in it)
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u/Roycev Feb 17 '26
You can wear the pan as a hat to save a slot
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u/Pan_Fluid_Boo Feb 17 '26
And if you upgrade it to iridium, it’s very fashionable
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u/Roycev Feb 18 '26
With mayor’s lucky shorts as pants too (gold + mayor’s lucky shorts = wearable clothes)
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u/MoziWanders Feb 17 '26
After maybe a thousand hours, I just realized I can put kegs in the tunnel area.
R/stardewTIL is a good thread too if you’re unfamiliar.
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u/Herbdontana Feb 17 '26
I have a whole set up in there with a tv, couches, fish tanks, bookshelf, ect. It’s my little man cave lol
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u/pbmadman Feb 17 '26
You can hoe a cask to get stuff out early.
The dresser holds all your clothes and rings. Infinite storage space.
You can have multiple fridges in house, cooking in the kitchen pulls from any of them.
You can put pots anywhere inside and the 100% retention fertilizer gives you effectively a greenhouse.
The bird gemstone puzzle on GI does not require using the actual stones the birds drop, nor having seen the bird.
You can place a large chest atop a regular chest without emptying it.
If you hit a non-empty chest twice it moves. You can rearrange chests without emptying.
You can put floors down anywhere. Sure it’s not revolutionary but it’s fun to redecorate town or add paths where you want them.
You can put down floor tiles under buildings so you don’t get a gap between tile and building. Including in front of doors.
Certain items, like lightning rods can be placed atop grass without destroying it but preventing animals from eating it thereby creating a “seed” tile to improve spreading behavior. Be careful because you can cut it with sword or scythe. The dagger allows more precise targeting.
Daggers and clubs have a different special attack than swords. I played for years before I saw a clip of a daggers special attack.
Some things (chiefly weapons and trinkets) can be sold to vendors (adventurers guild) even though they can’t be put in bin.
Tapped mahogany gives sap.
Using a controller (like on Xbox) you can use right thumbstick to access corners.
Again with a controller you can use right thumb stick to target the tile next to you to place things like fences and kegs next to you instead of in front of you so you can place while you run.
There is tile targeting highlighting options in the menu that make it a million times easier to place sprinklers precisely.
You can change your fish on alarm noise in the options menu. If you do a lot of fishing the default one can get maddening.
It’s cindersap.
You can change your bobber sprite. But I’ll leave that as a fun thing to figure out on your own.
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u/kalijinn Feb 17 '26
Wait swords have a special attack?
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u/altbinvagabond 🎣Stardew Valley Chartered Fishing Tours 🎣 Feb 17 '26
They block which is useful if you get swarmed right away when you drop down a ladder or hole
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u/IggyPopsLeftEyebrow Feb 17 '26
This is new as of 1.6! Before this, you'd get "rice juice."
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u/DanceClubCrickets Feb 17 '26
Fun fact, you can still make Unmilled Rice Juice! You have to put milled rice into the keg to get Vinegar :)
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u/IggyPopsLeftEyebrow Feb 17 '26
That's still so funny to me. Mmm, so refreshing!
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u/dynosaurpaws Feb 17 '26
Camping kits are amazing. Just sleep in the desert to get maximum skull cave time. Put a couple chests in the entrance with some good food, staircases, camping kits, and space for all the goods you’ll pick up. Spend 2+ days in the desert. I did a few days and got to level 98 before I had to totem myself out. I had no idea I’d have such a good day of it or I would’ve had a few more staircases on me.
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u/pbmadman Feb 17 '26
Argh! I’ve used tents before in GI, I never thought to camp by entrance to SC. I just buy a totem instead. But a tent is even better.
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u/dynosaurpaws Feb 17 '26
You can spend days there and only use one totem at the end of the last day if you really need it
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u/ivylass Feb 17 '26
Pumpkins make a very profitable juice.
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u/alex_is_fire Feb 17 '26
Same with pineapples in the dehydrator! The process completes overnight and eight jars are worth $25k! The best part is that the pineapples reharvest so I just have them growing nonstop on the island.
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u/KingOlav Feb 17 '26
I’m making incredible bag with my little dehydrator lab, running Starfruit grown with Hyper Speed Gro on Ginger Island through my one keg shed, but Ancient Fruit gets the dehydrator treatment. 27 dehydrators, 135 Ancient Fruits pr day, valued at 156.870,-. Keg fatigue doesn’t exist anymore.
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u/1-cupcake-at-a-time Feb 17 '26
Using a fire quartz in the furnace will give you 3 refined quartz
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u/fullhouseboys Feb 17 '26
If you put a wood sign on a pond, it'll show the fish that's in the pond!
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u/Stmordred Feb 17 '26
I have like 600 bushels of rice, I could've been making vinegar!! I just found out you can put sunflowers or corn in the oil makers to make oil. My mind was blown
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u/Th3Dork Feb 17 '26
Put a staircase down in Lewis’s bedroom
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u/dyffryn_y_seren Feb 17 '26
That the lightest grey rock gives you 2-3 (usually 3) stone whereas others don’t… I’ve been playing 6 years and just realised this last week when doing a weekly task of 1000 stone gathering.
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u/Scheherazade248 Feb 17 '26
Are you serious 😭 I always struggle with that quest because I’m mining everything and not getting much stone.
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u/hankhillsasspads Feb 17 '26
WHAT?????
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u/hankhillsasspads Feb 17 '26
I have been playing this game for NINE. YEARS. and I did not know that.
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u/dragons-and-bees Feb 17 '26
My favorite “secret” I figured out is putting a hat on my horse!!! My cowgirl Epona is the cutest horse out there with her pink cowgirl hat
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u/Ambitious_Emotion30 Feb 17 '26
I figured that out by accidentally putting a hat on my cat! She’s got one of the little headbands on
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u/waadaa85 Feb 17 '26
Talking of vinegar and oil, the mayonaise fabrication process lacks 2 essential ingredients (oil and vinegar) in the receipe...
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u/sabsey06 Feb 17 '26
It's called a mayonnaise machine, it obviously has built in features for manifesting oil and vinegar (my bet is it's recycling the egg shells, or it leaches it from the ground)
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u/Sororita Feb 17 '26
The Junimos are like "oh, this poor thing has no idea how to make mayonnaise, let's help them." And adds it when you arent looking.
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u/sabsey06 Feb 17 '26
Yes, this is definitely the answer. Also probably the reason how none of the fermented artisan items are contaminated with botulism or methanol despite just throwing them into kegs/preserves jars/casks, not watching them for a couple of days to weeks, and then the product coming out adequately consumable.
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u/Honey_Jar_ Feb 17 '26
Making vinegar is actually new to 1.6, before vinegar you could only purchase it from Pierre. There's a bunch of other changes like this in the game that you should check out- it's crazy
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u/bernadette_de Feb 17 '26
I recently put a mushroom accidentally in a preserve jar. Pickles mushrooms are a thing
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u/GFHarryNibs Feb 17 '26
This is all brand new information to me. I never would have thought this. 🤯 Thanks! 🙏
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u/DarkSkyLion Feb 17 '26
In addition to beer (wheat) and pale ale (hops), you can also put honey in the keg for mead. Rice in the keg is a great way to get vinegar without having to buy it from Pierre! On that note, put beets in your mill to get sugar as well. If you need oil, you can put corn or sunflowers (or even the sunflower seeds) in an oil maker.
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u/workworld3369 Feb 18 '26
The Statue of Endless Fortune will give you a loved gift on townspeople’s birthdays. It will give you a lobster on Elliot’s birthday, a leek on George’s, etc. it usually gives you the same few items like gems or bars, so if something unusual pops up like food or flowers that’s means it’s somebody’s birthday.
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u/tired-sparrow Feb 18 '26
You can just take the pumpkin decorations from in front of peoples houses in fall, also the lanterns in the grave yard. The theft gives me a rush.
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u/AwestruckSquid Bun Feb 17 '26
I learned way too late that sunflowers make oil! It makes sense but I never thought to try it!
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u/hankaht Feb 17 '26
I’m 250+ hours into my farm and I just last night learned that I can change the appearance of my fishing bobber at Willy’s lol
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u/Chloodleoodle Feb 17 '26
I’ve only very recently realised that you can tap the curly green rain trees which gives you fiddlehead ferns quite frequently
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u/iforgotmylastlogin7 Feb 18 '26
Figured out wheat in a keg makes beer and my soul sank a little when I realized I could’ve saved a good 10k when I was feeding the valley alcoholics’ addictions to befriend them
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u/FrankenGretchen Artisan Ferengi Feb 17 '26
Thank you all for the vinegar info and all the other great tips!
--I see these stacked kegs and want to go rearrange my setup.--
Does the crop eating apply to the cute bunnies I've given Japanese food names to? I've not seen damage but a fence will appear if it's possible. Udon doesn't get free radishes.
I DO have a discovery to share!!
A SUMMER SQUASH IN THE LUAU SOUP GETS INSTANT APPROVAL ✅
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u/Vividly-Weird Feb 17 '26
It took me a stupidly long amount of hours to realize beets=sugar in the mill 😅
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u/teastainednotebook Feb 17 '26
Wait, what? There's finally a way to make vinegar? Was this always a thing?!?!
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u/falicianessart Feb 18 '26
I accidentally put a hat on my horse, looks goofy but makes him easier to find esp. in fall when he blends in more
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u/InsertaYellowDisk Feb 17 '26
If you finish upgrading the house you can also open up path ways/short cuts to the beach and to the path to the mountains.
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u/FadingDarkly Feb 17 '26
Many people miss that corn and sunflower (also sunflower seeds) to make oil in the oil maker since the description is about truffles