Stardew Valley Player Calculates Minimum Gold Needed to Complete Community Center

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While farming simulator Stardew Valley is an open-ended game allowing players to choose how to spend their days in the peaceful rural community of Pelican Town, it does feature a central goal of completing Bundles to restore the Community Center. The Junimos, apple-shaped fairies who dwell in the forests surrounding Stardew Valley, require the player to donate crops, fish, animal products, and other items in exchange for refurbishing the Center's neglected rooms. Once Stardew Valley players have completed the Community Center, the nefarious Joja Corporation shuts down their warehouse and leaves town.

Completing the Community Center is a lengthy task that typically takes players multiple in-game years and requires spending a significant amount of gold to purchase crop seeds, animals, and upgraded tools such as axes and fishing rods. The Version 1.5 update of the game, which was released in late 2020, allowed Stardew players to vary up the Community Center's requirements each play-through by enabling Remix Bundles, which need different combinations of ingredients when compared to the standard bundles released in the base version of the game.

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On the Stardew Valley subreddit, a player going by u/Nellynee reported on their attempts to complete the Community Center requirements without spending any gold. Unfortunately, they learned that this is impossible, as one of the Community Center rooms, the Vault, simply requires the player to pay large amounts of money to refurbish it. Even taking the Vault out of consideration, players must purchase animals for their farm to produce milk and eggs and hunt for truffles. Additionally, some crops, such as flowers, do not drop