Losing your watering can is way too easy in Stardew Valley

polygon.com:

Like many people excited for the newest Stardew Valley update, I rebooted my old save file that I hadn’t touched in a couple of years to get ready for new content.

Stardew is one of those games I pick up, spend a few weeks in a haze constantly playing, and then put down again in favor of all the other games out there. This time, I was away a little longer than other times (what can I say?Baldur’s Gate 3 came out). So when I loaded my game it took me a second to even remember what season it was.

Most of it came back to me, but I played a full day without realizing that my watering can was missing. And holy cow, was it a bitch to figure out where it went. After all, on my Year 4 farm, I have a ton of sprinklers to handle watering my crops, so I barely even use my watering can. I would wake up, kiss my husband, and go about my life. I harvested crops, checked on my animals, fished, and puttered into town.

It was only during the next day, when I thought about making some progress on Ginger Island, that I realized my watering can had mysteriously disappeared from my inventory. One of the gimmicks of Ginger Island’s volcano is using the watering can to get across the hot lava, so after paying for boat passage, I realized my entire trip was useless.

But this turned into a whole conundrum outside of my wasted gold: Where the hell was my watering can?

I checked the blacksmith, in case I had dropped it off for an upgrade. Nothing. I looked online and learned that if I accidentally sold or deleted it, I could find it in either the mayor’s lost-and-found or my refrigerator the next day (that’s a very funny little gameplay detail, kudos to ConcernedApe). It wasn’t there. That left checking every single crate in my game, and since this was Year 4, I had a lot, all full of various knickknacks that I had accumulated across in-game years that I didn’t want to display in my house or keep in my inventory. I swore I checked all of them, but still couldn’t find my watering can…

…until