Stardew Valley – Beginner Guide Tips & Tricks

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Welcome to Stardew Valley, one of the most relaxing indie games you’ll ever play. Unlike most strategy games and farm simulators, Stardew Valley isn’t about growing the biggest and best crops around to stay alive. Rather, the game lets players do the farming at their own pace, exploring their local town, meeting new villagers, and figuring out crop management as they go.

Stardew Valley is incredibly forgiving, and developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone built the game entirely around experimentation. While that may appear easy on the surface, players overwhelmed by the game’s open-ended structure may struggle to figure out how to make the most out of their farmland. Here’s our beginner’s tips to getting started with Stardew Valley.

This is the most important tip by far. Water your plants as soon as you wake up, every single day. Most shops aren’t open at the crack of dawn, nor are your fellow villagers out and about during the wee hours, so watering your plants in the early morning is a great way to start your day.

Don’t worry if you forgot to water your plants one day, though. Any plants that go one day without water will simply need an extra day to harvest. But after missing two consecutive days without water, plants will die.

Either way, it’s always a good idea to water your plants every day, because this lets you shorten a crop’s harvest to its bare minimum time required, giving you a shorter window to sell crops and refill your empty plots.

In Stardew Valley, players carry out actions through their energy meter. This can be refilled by eating, using items, or going to sleep at night. Once you’re out of energy, however, your farmer will move around sluggishly, making