Hello!
After 151 hours I finally hit perfection on my farm (Inaba 
). In no way would I consider myself an expert of this game, but I’ve definitely learned a lot about it when researching the best way to go about this and generally just being a big fan. If anyone is trying to get perfection, just start a farm, or whatever feel free to ask!
Before anyone asks anything, I’d like to share resources that helped me 
- Stardew Valley Wiki (highly recommend having this open whenever you play)
- Summerstarfisher’s fishing guide (reddit link)
- T4C000’s loved gift guide (reddit link, missing Leo who loves oranges)
- Generally speaking, the subreddit has an incredible amount of information
- Salmence’s youtube channel (excellent video guides)
For easy early game money, sell tea saplings. They sell for 500 gold each! You’ll need to get Caroline to two hearts (gift her daffodils) and you’ll need to collect the seasonal foragables as well.
To hit that final 10 mil gold for the golden clock, I used ancient fruit wine. I kept casks aging at max capacity in the basement and had just under 200 kegs to sell regular wine in the meantime. This can definitely be expanded much more, but I cba and was still doing other things at the time so I didn’t mind it taking a bit longer. Grow the ancient fruit in the greenhouse and use the seed maker until you have as many seeds as you want.
Along with the standard requirements for perfection, I also forged the infinity weapons, got everything from Mr Qi’s shop, got the return scepter from Krobus, and enhanced all my tools / weapons in the forge. At this point I’m going to give this file a break until the 1.6 update drops. Just need to do a Joja run for the last steam achievement.
Anyway, go play Stardew if you haven’t already. It’s a wonderful game 
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That’s wild. I typically mod Stardew and stop playing it a bit after I am done hyperfixating on reaching the bottom of the mines as quickly as possible.
tbh my favourite parts of this game are skull cavern runs and remixes mines runs, so I weave them in between all the other stuff to keep things engaging
I just finished my 2nd year, finished the community center, not sure if ill keep going or if it will start getting repetitive.
oh you should at least get to ginger island! that’s so different from the base game. the volcano dungeon is tough and has some of the best music in the game and the general vibes feel like adventure game there more than farming game (tho you can farm ofc)
what farm did you pick? who did you marry?
Will you 100% 1.6?
yes absolutely! highly looking forward to whatever CA adds
How did you do it? I always give in to my worst perfectionist tendencies and restart the day over and over again so much that I’ve never made it past the first year, so I’m genuinely impressed
yeah I get that. I think planning out the season helped me for sure. once I get the important stuff done early, I can be more loose and with the rest of the month. this is particularly important for crops and fishing. originally I set a lofty goal of being done in 3 years, but I finished spring year 5
Was your in game spouse supportive?
she was very unhappy when I slept through half a year without talking to her
Holy cow
thank you :>
Its not an achievement (should be) but I wanna do a run where I see every 14 heart event for every spouse in one run.
For real bragging rights this would mean marrying them, seeing the event, and divorcing them, then on the next
But i might wimp out and just use the polyamory mod.
Did you beat Legend of the Prairie King without save scumming? Those are the last two Steam achievements on mine, and I think they’re staying incomplete.
yeah I had to save scum haha. it’s still hard on its own and CA even said he regrets the original achievement, so it’s nbd. I think it’s very doable with space scumming fwiw
dang im literally playing right now, the only thing im missing is the golden walnuts
okay here’s my question, did you date anyone & who ?
exciting! I saved those for last too. I almost always married Leah previously, but this time I did Abigail and I think she’s my fav now. how about you?
How much strength did it take to do a Joja playthrough?
that is the very last thing I need to do for all steam achievements. I’m about to start that farm tonight lol 😔🔫
Do you like any other similar games? My wife and I loved playing Story of Seasons: Pioneers of Olive Town.
this is actually the first game like this I’ve played! how similar is story of seasons?
Pretty similar since ConcernedApe based Stardew off of the original Harvest Moon, which turned into the Story of Seasons series. Better graphics but not as much depth, since games are released every few years instead of one person iterating on his one game.
I’d give Friends of Mineral Town or Pioneers of Olive Town a whirl if you’re looking to scratch the same itch.
