Board 8 > Streaming Stardew MULTIPLAYER chill time with TheFD

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https://www.twitch.tv/zigzagooncub

Only the greatest farm ever, brought straight to you!
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More chill times <3
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Woo! Today was both chill and productive. Rolled into summer and got our corn/melons/hotpeppers/tomatoes going. But mostly a crapton of blueberries which will pay for the rest of our backpack and tool upgrades.

Also in attempting to duplicate our already-updated-tools we managed to create more crap versions of our tools.

Also we had a lovely time at the flower dance. ...I was on the girl side :/
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We live for Day3 of Stardew chill times!
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Farm is so pretty!!!
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We made it past Wednesday!
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We live baby with more chill times!
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Weekend bump to keep this alive. Well play again Monday morning.
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We are live with more!
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Woo! Big plans for today.
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Very productive day today!

We:

-Finished all the fishing bundles

-Finished the pantry bundles for the greenhouse. We did this one on Fall 11 which is only 1 day slower than you could reasonable expect to finish the bundle without having lucky purchases from the traveling shop.

-Both got our Infinity Swords. I expect we'll be fighting Thanos any day now.

-Are well on our way to a shed full of furnaces to streamline our smelting endeavors.

And we're just about ready in terms of resources to finish upgrading all our tools. It takes 168k (not counting metal bars) to do all the tool upgrades, and money is becoming less and less of an issue.

Tomorrow I want to finish the Furnace Shed (need a lot of copper ore still!) and get all my tools to gold at least. And once the axe is iridium I can make a push for Foraging 10 so I can take the perk to only pick up iridium quality foraging. Oh, and fall will be ending soon which means I'm going to have to redesign the whole farm layout for iridium sprinklers instead of the quality sprinklers. That's going to be tricky since we still can't move farm buildings around due to a beta related glitch.
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We live in a couple moments!!
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Do you guys have pics of your farm? I'll do that for you guys once I'm at the start of year 2, provided the whole shebang is close enough to the way I want it.

As I said in my topic, I unfortunately can't watch streams at work, else I'd join. Hence why I want pics lol
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@KujikawaRising @BlueCrystalTear

some spicy farm pics coming your way!



This is the inside of our house. Pretty cluttered still! I like to move furniture around before ermine comes to bed so he has to walk around it to avoid being late <_<



The front porch. To the right you can see our cluttered storage. Eventually we'll have a much more organized storage system, but for now we have a handful of chests and generally put things where they are supposed to go. On the left you can see the furnace shed and beneath us you can see the top of the farm area.



Left of house. We have 1 of each fruit tree. The spring trees aren't done yet but will be before winter is out. You can see more of the top bit of the farm area.



More Left. Our greenhouse has been up since Fall 11 or so. You can see my house that I never sleep in and our lightning rods.



Furthest Top/Left. Not much different from last picture. You can see the grandfather shrine (we still haven't looked at the note) and you can see the silo.



Back to the crops. This is the left edge of the crop space. Our crop area utilizes 48 sprinklers for a total of (48*8) 384 crops. The farm space has been arranged in this manner since 1st day of summer. But once winter hits it will be entirely overhauled and redesigned to plan for Iridium Sprinklers.



Right edge of the crops. We have 4 crab pots that we sometimes to collect and change the bait <_< You can also see the top edge of our animal space in this shot.



Just south of the last picture. Bit more view of the animals. The layout is a bit messed up right now, but due to it being a beta we currently can't move any buildings on the farm so the building layout is going to be a bit rough until we can do that. Typically we'd want the coop about 3 spaces left of where it is now so we could have a gate that is in between the barn and coop. But we'll just have to make do with where the buildings currently are until we can move them.



Central shot of the animal space. We currently have 2 chickens, 1 duck and 1 rabbit in the coop. And in the barn we have 2 goats and 1 cow. We will be adding dinosaurs to the coop once we find out first dinosaur egg and we may add pigs to the farm but we haven't yet determined how heavily we'll be focusing on animal products. The grazing area will need to be made larger at some point but currently it sustains itself.



Beneath the animals is our Oak Resin farm. 24 Oak trees producing resin for the absurd amount of kegs we will need. I think we're sitting around 80 or 100 resin at the moment which will be a very nice jump start to our kegs once we start building them and transitioning from raw crops to wines.



And with that you've seen more or less everything on the farm itself. Left of that is just wasteland and openness.



More left. More nothing.



Bottom/Left. We also have a barn here that will be for kegs once we upgrade it to Barn3.
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The inside of our greenhouse. Several columns of strawberries on the right which we are turning into strawberry seeds for Spring. About 2 columns of ancient fruit on the left (I've added 5 more since this picture was taken) which will also generate some seeds in time for spring 1 and will eventually produce enough seeds for a massive ancient fruit crop in year 3. The other crap is just random stuff that came from mixed seeds.



This is the inside of the Shed (left of house). It's not full yet, but eventually it will house 67 furnaces. It's more than we could possibly ever need, but ermine pulls in a ridiculous amount of stuff every day from the mines and we needed to upscale our furnace game considerably to keep up with that.



Here's our community center. 4/6 bundles complete.



The crafts room will be complete on the first day of Winter, we just need the last two winter foraging items.



The bulletin board still requires an odd assortment of goods. Most of it will be finished before winter is over, but the Dye Bundle requires a Red Cabbage which we will not have access to until Summer of Year 2. If we get lucky we will have option to buy a Red Cabbage from the travelling merchant before then, but I'm not counting on it...

And there you have it! It's a pretty good farm for a year 1 farm, especially considering the layout hasn't really changed much since the beginning of summer. This was a pretty good time to take a snap shot of our progress though, because as I said our farm layout will be getting overhauled as soon as winter hits.
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That's quite a lot of stuff you've done without ever upgrading the main house.
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I am hard MINE worker.

All day, all mines. Big Diamonds
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This stream has gotten me going crazy on trying to be a better farmer. I started a new file the other day and already want to start over because I sold off the Speed Gro for more money to get like four potato seeds. My crops are all over the place with different schedules and no rhyme or reason for why a few stayed ungrown...

But it's Spring 17 and I have a Copper Pickaxe, a Copper Axe in the shop, plenty of gold to start buying summer trees soon, and a Red Cabbage Seed from the travelling cart.

But dat speed gro for blue berries....

EDIT: https://upload.farm/1EfBzv
My old farm (now in third week of Fall). I've attempted to play about four or five times since January, but I just get frustrated with it and quit out before end of day. I should just keep at it and fix things in winter, but I'm stubborn and want the thrill of the early struggle again.

Especially since I could save sooooo much money not giving villagers gifts all the time until year 2.
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selling the speed gro isn't the most terrible thing.

Blueberry seeds cost 80 and without speed grow you get 4 harvests of 150 apiece (not counting silver/gold). So 80 gold becomes 600 gold.

using the regular speed gro gets you one extra harvest for an additional 150. So 4 speed gro gets you an additional 600 gold when used on 4 plans.

OR you can sell 4 speed gro for 80g which is enough for an additional blueberry seed, which then earns you 600g throughout summer.

So regular speed gro is actually revenue neutral in year 1.

By year 2/3 you should have enough money/tools/etc to be able to fill your ENTIRE farm with crops, and in that situation yes, you'll want to maximize profits with speed gro or fertilizer, but in year 1 you have more space than you can possibly fill with crops, so you haven't really "lost" anything by selling.

Mega Mana posted...

and a Red Cabbage Seed from the travelling cart.

....You lucky bastard. I've put a ton of hours into this game across a great many save files and i've still never had a red cabbage or red cabbage seed offered to me during year 1.

If your file is multiplayer I'd be happy to hop in and join you from time to time. I wouldn't try to take over or change anything that you didn't want done but I could be an extra pair of hands to collect wood/stone/etc for you.
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Beautiful. Way better than the current state of my farm - I still have a lot of crap to clean up! Thanks for taking the time to snap all those. (I'll do the same when I get a chance - might not be tonight because it's Survivor night and I have to watch it Wednesdays for my blog).

I'll have to wait to winter to completely redecorate the farm (going to try to get 3-4 seeds from two Ancient Fruits so I can eventually have as many as you in the greenhouse). I'm also going slowly with the Community Center (I don't know if I'm ever going to side with the bad guys - probably not)... but playing solo, it takes longer. I already got mail saying the Stardew Valley Tribune says I'm making good progress, so that's a great sign! But yeah, my farm is nowhere near as clean as yours, nor will it be until I can burst open that meteorite.

Thanks again for sharing!
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Mega Mana posted...

but I'm stubborn and want the thrill of the early struggle again.

This is a big part of what keeps me coming back.

I have a file on PS4 that I decided I would play by handicapping myself. I decided to do this file while growing 0 crops and staying level 0 in mining/combat. Essentially I want to try and complete the bundles with only foraging and fishing and farm animals. I would stay level 0 in farming as well if possible, but I gain farming experience from raising the animals so that's just not possible.

It adds a fresh struggle do it that I hope will extend past year 1. I will still need sprinklers because I intend to grow wild seeds on my farm during the seasons, but because I wont be doing any mining I'm going to have to buy all the metals from clint or receive them from fishing chests. I'm only a week or two into that farm though and so that project is on hold for now since I'm spending so much time on my farm with ermine.

But yeah, that early game progression is just so good.
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I wanted to start a new file because it's so satisfying to start out and figure everything out for a new farm again - once you know what you're doing, too. I need to hit the traveling cart more - I wish time didn't pass so fast. And then there's a money issue. That'll resolve itself.

Once my farm is reorganized in winter and everything cleaned up... it might not be a struggle anymore. Once you get kegs (I'm still a month away) and then the Artisan skill at Farming level 10... the struggle ends. Sprinklers help, too.

But even the little things feel good. Even getting a hat is satisfying!
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KujikawaRising posted...

I wanted to start a new file because it's so satisfying to start out and figure everything out for a new farm again - once you know what you're doing, too. I need to hit the traveling cart more - I wish time didn't pass so fast. And then there's a money issue. That'll resolve itself.

Once my farm is reorganized in winter and everything cleaned up... it might not be a struggle anymore. Once you get kegs (I'm still a month away) and then the Artisan skill at Farming level 10... the struggle ends. Sprinklers help, too.

But even the little things feel good. Even getting a hat is satisfying!

Travelling Cart is the best. My first few files, I was always surprised by its appearance, but I now make it a mission every Friday and Sunday to go to the lake and see what they have in stock, usually buying a Rare Seed and any late/rare bundle items.
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https://www.twitch.tv/zigzagooncub

Stream is live once more! <3
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Wish I could watch more than a few minutes... I'll get in trouble >_>

Keep up the good work, guys!
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https://www.twitch.tv/videos/259888062

Highlight from today's stream...
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Hahahahahahaha, that was funny.

The Wiki says you have to be there by 11:50, jsyk. You just missed it :(
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Zigzagoon posted...

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/259888062

Highlight from today's stream...

Oh the embarrassment :/

Im fairness we were there before midnight. It sounds like 1150 should be the last acceptable time and not the first unacceptable time.
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Stream going live in a sec!
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We had a late start because of Sleepy FD but we still got a good bit done!

Ermine loaded the game in single player for a day to move the farm buildings around (building moving is only disabled in multiplayer) and after that I put all the sprinklers, paths and scarecrows in place for the crops next season. I filled as much available space as I could. In theory I could have filled more but it would be without paths in between sections and it wouldn't look as nice, so this was a happy compromise between lots of crops and being not ugly looking.

All told our farm will contain 50 Iridium sprinklers and 20 Quality sprinklers. The quality sprinklers got placed in the small gaps where an iridium wouldn't quite fit. But that gives us a total of 1360 crop spaces for spring, which is nearly 1000 more crops than we had in summer/fall of year 1.

To that end we have about 100 strawberries in the greenhouse now and i'm going to make some more seedmakers (up to maybe 10 or so) so I can get us ready for a massive strawberry crop.

And we're up to around 130 oak resin which is nearly enough to fill our extra barn with kegs. Even still we're going to need a 2nd and maybe 3rd keg barn if we want to keep up with the supply of strawberries, but it's coming alone nicely. And we still have a couple weeks left in winter to finish upgrading tools and to make a deep push in the skull mines.
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I usually just make one keg hut and leave it at that. I had a lot of backed up fruit on my first farm, though, and was too lazy to rearrange the whole shebang to have two huts adjacent to one another. For wine, I was mostly doing Starfruit and Ancient Fruit.

Perhaps I'll double the keg huts this time. After shipping only one (toward the achievement counter), I'll amass a LOT of Oak Resin. I'll need to get a lot more wood, too. Might spend a day cleaning up the rest of the farm... after that, I'd have to get wood from the forest.

Going slow, though. I want to get home from work already to play more! (Any highlights today?)
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Pity I didn't see this before. Was curious to see how SD MP went.
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We still have 2 empty cabins on our farm >_>
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I'll use those houses for more of my children
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What time do you play?
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12-3PM EST usually
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Im up by 8:30 am pst and we typically start around 9 am pst as ermine says.

Monday - Friday only though. So we won't be playing tomorrow or Sunday
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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1383812428
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You got an iridium band from a fishing chest?
Is this the same file you got early red cabbages? You are some kind of lucky
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*Continues digging for Dino Egg...*
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

You got an iridium band from a fishing chest?
Is this the same file you got early red cabbages? You are some kind of lucky

Different file. All carts on the new one have been terrible, but farm feels a lot better on the new file. The crops are coming in mostly at once instead of every day random potatoes, catching catfish has been very rewarding (yay rain!), and I didn't make some awful pathing that angered me.

Also, spoiler warning: I totally stole your spring designs =P. Chests outside instead of inside, furnaces outside instead of inside and more than a mere three (even into Fall Year 2, I only have 3 furnaces), tapper trees controlled at the bottom instead of along random growths by my greenhouse, only fruit trees are a big difference... I AM A THIEF!!! ;_;

Old: https://upload.farm/1Fh5Su
New: https://upload.farm/1Fi1ws


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How devious!

I like your dog pen/area/thing though, that's a nice addition :D

And does that farm upload site work on multiplayer files? If so @Zigzagoon needs to get on that because that's way cleaner than spending a stardew day taking 20 screenshots. As he is the host he possesses the save file
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Oh
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That's a cool site. *uses*

https://upload.farm/1Fi7fG

Only thing I wish is that it left her hat on. She looks weird without it >_>

Notes:
1. The far left corner is meant to have more silos built as time goes on. The barn is actually being built still. Another silo will come after that. The two I have are full (hence why there's so much grass!)
2. The area by the cat's place will have beehives and other machines.
3. Like in my last playthrough, the space above the far-right exit is for the horse stable.
4. The crop areas will be redesigned with sprinklers... eventually. I only just got my first one with a few more on the way.
5. Jobs are the usual. Tiller -> Artisan, Geologist -> Excavator, Gatherer -> Botanist, Fisher -> Pirate, and Fighter -> Brute. (Why the hell do some people swear by Prospector? That makes no sense. I'm managing just fine with coal.)
6. That meteor is still there. My pickaxe is steel. The other tools are all copper.
7. Any questions?
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that farm layout is triggering me so much. clearing off all the rocks, trees, extra grass is always one of the first things I do, so seeing your farm with additional stuff like the coop, silo, and barn yet having 80% of the space still filled with overgrowth is very disturbing to my own personal sense of taste.
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It makes me anxious, but i wouldn't go as far as 'triggered'.

Im also not sure id finished clearing our farm until halfway through summer anyways.
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MariaTaylor posted...

that farm layout is triggering me so much. clearing off all the rocks, trees, extra grass is always one of the first things I do, so seeing your farm with additional stuff like the coop, silo, and barn yet having 80% of the space still filled with overgrowth is very disturbing to my own personal sense of taste.

Then you wouldn't like my Year 2 file...

https://upload.farm/1Fh5RK
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https://upload.farm/1FiaDz

Current Ermine and FD Farm.

Yes I really like the Dwarf <3
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Zigzagoon posted...

https://upload.farm/1FiaDz

Current Ermine and FD Farm.

Yes I really like the Dwarf <3

Your Yellow Slime killing skills are 1337

Your farm is gorgeous. And so much has changed in ten days!
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Zigzagoon posted...

Yes I really like the Dwarf <3

Ermine certainly has his social priorities in order

Mega Mana posted...

Your farm is gorgeous. And so much has changed in ten days!

Thanks! Its a bit on the ambitious size as far as crops go, but between the two of us we should be able to plant and water everything on the first day of spring.

I won't know until closer til the end of winter just how many strawberry seeds we will have so it might involve some improvisation on the day of.

Edit: oh and the caverns level will be changing before the end of winter as well. At least once before spring we are going to combine forces to make a deep run in the skull caverns. At least 200 floors deep i want to say.
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