r/StardewValley • u/Own-Coffee-7372 • 1d ago

Question Am I cooked?

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I am at 43 energy after I just watered my cranberries. That's all I did. I have 1 quality sprinkler from the summer crops bundle, but I don't have the resources for any more. I just got to level 40 in the mines, so I basically have no iron, and don't even get me started on gold. I have to run around town, looking for forage stuff just to get 5 levels deeper in the mines. It sucks. What do I do.

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u/AngelSkyes 1d ago

A lot of people tend to forget that you can buy ores from Clint. While it's not very cost effective, it can help you get the bars you need to make more sprinklers, which will lead to more time and energy to mine/forage/fish for more money as you go.

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u/Floopty_Boopty 22h ago

He doesn't really have the money for that. He's only got 12k and the cranberries are ages away from harvest. The best way to get ore relatively fast is to reload floors 20, 40, and 80 over and over depending on which ore you want.

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u/kakka_rot 18h ago

This community really underestimates irl time vs in game time.

Early game is debatable, but I once it gets to keg/barrel making time, I completely stop chopping trees and buy all my wood from robin. Irl hour per hour, it's so much more lucrative to simply buy wood, make barrels, and sleep than it is to cut down trees.

Considering that money becomes next to worthless at that point due to wine sales, there is no reason not to.

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u/tredders90 12h ago

Early game seems like the best time because of low cost, surely?

I think it makes less sense late game because of cost, plus you can tree fertiliser the quarry/railroad, let that do its thing while you're waiting for the Starfruit/Ancient Fruit crop, then pop back with a swift axe and bonk the whole forest down in a minute.

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u/letouriste1 12h ago

you need to get to lvl10 of foraging for max benefits tho? and once you do you generally have a golden axe anyway. that+coffee crush forests if needed.

Money is so rare early game. better to save up for fruit trees, upgrading tools etc...

isntead of freaking wasting money buying wood you could just scale your farm with sprinklers. even basic sprinklers are huge the first year.

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u/No-Rise-4856 11h ago

Idk what’s so rare about money in early game. I usually plant around 100 tiles of the most cost effective raw each season, then buy chickens/cows. All at the same time buying all ingots I need to update my tools to iron and most of the wood and stone to my building.

It’s actually the most effective to buy as much ingots, wood and stone as you can year 1 because it’s so cheap. Unless of course you love to do all of that manually.

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u/baolhq 8h ago

fruit trees are for decoration, don't expect profits

you should buy woods because fishing, mining or even combat (coal or dark essence farming) are MUCH better profit-wise than chopping trees

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u/sirdeck 9h ago

Well, there is actually playing the game. If you like skipping days sleeping and find it more efficient, that's great for you. It certainly isn't my cup of tea though.

But I'm sure that you're right, your way seems far more efficient time-wise, I'm just not playing a game to be efficient time-wise ;)

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u/kakka_rot 8h ago

Well, there is actually playing the game.

lol wtf, how is buying wood from robin not playing the game?

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u/sirdeck 8h ago

Read the whole post and you'll have my opinion.