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Fancy your self a Stardew Valley nerd? Do you’re feeling like you already know the sport inside and outside? We’re right here to problem that, with 25 area of interest and stunning issues that you could be (or could not) already know in regards to the sport!
25 Issues You Did not Know About Stardew Valley
Rarecrow references
The Rarecrows, which as uncommon scarecrows achieved by numerous means, are all a bit bizarre. Some are apparent references — aliens, the dwarf from the mines — however others embrace references to ConcernedApe’s favorite films, apparently!
Simpsons reference
You can also make your self a pair of Radioactive Goggles by combining Fabric and a Radioactive Bar. These goggles have the outline “Would not really present any safety from radiation” — a reference to the notorious Radioactive Man episode of The Simpsons, during which Rainier Wolfcastle will get splashed within the eyes with acid, crying, “My eyes! The goggles do nothing!”
Previous names
Penny was once named Dana, Alex was Josh, and Willy was… Dick. Yeah.
Secret animations
You possibly can click on on NPC sprites to make them animate!
Costume like trash
Actually! Put a chunk of trash within the stitching machine (Damaged CD, Damaged Glasses, Driftwood, Soggy Newspaper, and Trash all work) and you will get a prime that appears like a bin. Pair these with the gorgeous Rubbish Hat, which seems to be like a bin lid and could be present in (you guessed it) the bins round city, and you will look identical to a garbage receptacle. Add a gray pleated skirt to complete the look!
Transfer out of your mom’s basement
Six of the 12 marriage candidates (Maru, Penny, Sebastian, Abigail, Sam, Alex) reside with their mother and father or grandparents. The lease scenario is hard over there, perhaps? There are solely a handful of homes to reside in, anyway…
Choosy eaters
Villagers will complain about having to eat the dishes you promote to Pierre in the event that they’re “regular” high quality. Apparently everybody on the town has actually excessive requirements, and should you promote a ton of meals to Pierre, you will get this dialogue over and over and over.
Crossovers within the farmingverse
There is a secret Stardew/Terraria crossover with Junimos, blue chickens, and Joja Cola.
Local weather change
From @lil_wage on Twitter:
“In Stardew Valley storms are helpful for battery packs, however they’re uncommon. There’s an merchandise referred to as a rain totem that makes it rain the following day, however not storm. Until, that’s, it’s used DURING a storm, prolonging it. It has been storming in Pelican City for 12 days straight now”
Blood? No, that is simply crimson water
Lava Eels, Tremendous Cucumbers, Slimejacks, and Void Salmons change the color of the fish pond water to crimson, blue, inexperienced, and purple, in order for you your ponds to match the general vibe of your Halloween/goth/sewer farm!
Cucumber trend
Place a Sea Cucumber or a Tremendous Cucumber within the stitching machine, and you will get… a tube prime. Sure. You’re carrying the cucumber as a prime. That is trend, child!
Steppin’ within the rain
Do you know that the climate in Stardew Valley will not be random, however as an alternative decided by the variety of steps that the participant has taken? This may sound ridiculously unhelpful, but it surely’s really actually helpful for speedrunners, who can take a exactly calculated variety of steps to ensure rain.
Properly, it is really a little extra difficult than that. The random likelihood can also be calculated by integers just like the participant’s distinctive ID quantity and the variety of days they’ve performed. Nonetheless, should you’re the sort of speedrunner that loves manipulating variables, then all you want is to know which seed you are utilizing, after which you may reproduce the identical “random” output persistently. Cool, huh?
The mayor’s underwear are scrumptious
In the event you put Mayor Lewis’ purple shorts within the soup on the Luau, Mayor Lewis will yell at you for ruining the soup and “utilizing my very non-public merchandise for this sick objective”… however the Governor, whom you are attempting to impress within the first place, has the next to say:
“Hmm… It’s kind of tangy… however really, the flavour is kind of good! Only one minute… there’s one thing in my bowl… what’s this?”
Good soup.
Different underwear alternatives
You can too show the purple shorts within the grange show as a part of the Stardew Valley Honest (you will be provided Star Tokens to take them down), and you’ll even put on them (Lewis can be upset, however Marnie will giggle). In the event you’ve unlocked Ginger Island and the Resort, you may give them to him whereas he is visiting, and he’ll put on them on the seashore!
The sport will do not forget that
Stardew Valley tracks what number of occasions you’ve got launched the sport, and each from time to time you will see messages within the lower-left nook whenever you hit an necessary quantity. Launch the sport 20 occasions, and you will see a bit coronary heart; 30 occasions and you will be advised to “Beat Journey Of The Prairie King with out dying”; 10,000 occasions and you will get a particular message from ConcernedApe (which we can’t spoil).
Your participant could be actually dangerous at music
…For no motive! In case your randomly-assigned ID in multiplayer is divisible by 111, any music your character performs can be off-key. This contains Elliott’s piano and the music emote.
The sunflower seed conspiracy
When JojaMart and Pierre’s exist on the identical time, Pierre’s costs undercut Joja by fairly a bit — aside from Sunflower Seeds, which value 200 gold at Pierre’s and solely 125 gold at JojaMart. If you are going to buy the Joja Membership, costs throughout the board will lower to match Pierre’s store, however the Sunflower Seeds lower too, taking them right down to 100 gold at JojaMart.
It will get weirder, although! Whenever you harvest Sunflower seeds, you get further seeds again from the flowers, and you’ll then promote these again to Pierre for 20 gold every — until you obtain them from JojaMart within the first place, during which case Pierre will purchase them for 100 gold as an alternative. Pierre, what’s unsuitable with you?
Frog hat
You may get a frog hat by fishing within the Gourmand’s Lake on Ginger Island. Who put it there? Don’t fret about it.
Espresso hipster
Put a Espresso Bean within the stitching machine, and you will get… a flannel shirt. The uniform of espresso hipsters in every single place.
Pleasant slimes
Hatch a slime on the town, and will probably be a pleasant little man, greeting the townsfolk by title. Awww.
Wumbus
The 2 “Unusual Doll” artifacts within the sport are literally a reference to ConcernedApe’s previous work — particularly, a webcomic he used to make referred to as Wumbus World. You can too see Wumbus within the sci-fi film “Wumbus” on the Film Theater and by getting the Wumbus statue within the crane sport. You possibly can even put the inexperienced doll within the stitching machine to make a Wumbus T-shirt!
You made the moon offended
Click on on the moon on the twenty seventh of any month to summon an offended little moon face, which is probably a reference to Georges Méliès quick silent movie ‘A Journey to the Moon’, during which a rocket crashes into the attention of the person on the moon. Therefore why he is carrying a monocle.
Shrimp Fanatic
In the event you love shrimp, why not make your self a T-shirt that lets everybody realize it? Put Shrimp Cocktail within the stitching machine to make this shrimp-tastic piece of clothes. Shrimp!!
No ice cream for you!
In the event you marry Alex, he’ll merely refuse to work on the ice cream stand throughout summer time, presumably as a result of he is aware of he can mooch off you as an alternative. Boo.
Fashionable urchins
You in all probability know you may put hats on youngsters and horses, however do you know you may put hats on sea urchins within the fish tank in your own home? It is very cute. You possibly can place hats on the Alien Rarecrow, too!
