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Fancy your self a Stardew Valley nerd? Do you’re feeling like you recognize the sport in and out? We’re right here to problem that, with 25 area of interest and stunning issues that you could be (or might 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 means of varied means, are all a bit bizarre. Some are apparent references — aliens, the dwarf from the mines — however others embody references to ConcernedApe’s favorite films, apparently!
Simpsons reference
You can also make your self a pair of Radioactive Goggles by combining Material and a Radioactive Bar. These goggles have the outline “Does not really present any safety from radiation” — a reference to the notorious Radioactive Man episode of The Simpsons, through which Rainier Wolfcastle will get splashed within the eyes with acid, crying, “My eyes! The goggles do nothing!”
Previous names
Penny was named Dana, Alex was Josh, and Willy was… Dick. Yeah.
Secret animations
You may click on on NPC sprites to make them animate!
Gown like trash
Actually! Put a bit 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 attractive Rubbish Hat, which appears like a bin lid and will be present in (you guessed it) the bins round city, and you may 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) dwell with their mother and father or grandparents. The hire scenario is hard over there, perhaps? There are solely a handful of homes to dwell 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 if you happen to promote a ton of meals to Pierre, you may get this dialogue over and again and again.
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 may be an merchandise known 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 purple water
Lava Eels, Tremendous Cucumbers, Slimejacks, and Void Salmons change the color of the fish pond water to purple, blue, inexperienced, and purple, if you would like 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 might be sporting the cucumber as a prime. That is trend, child!
Steppin’ within the rain
Do you know that the climate in Stardew Valley just isn’t random, however as a substitute 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.
Effectively, it is really slightly extra sophisticated 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, if you happen to’re the type of speedrunner that loves manipulating variables, then all you want is to know which seed you are utilizing, after which you possibly can reproduce the identical “random” output constantly. Cool, huh?
The mayor’s underwear are scrumptious
If you happen to 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 personal merchandise for this sick objective”… however the Governor, whom you are making an attempt to impress within the first place, has the next to say:
“Hmm… It’s kind of tangy… however really, the flavour is sort of good! Only one minute… there’s one thing in my bowl… what’s this?”
Good soup.
Different underwear alternatives
You may as well show the purple shorts within the grange show as a part of the Stardew Valley Truthful (you may be supplied Star Tokens to take them down), and you may even put on them (Lewis will probably be upset, however Marnie will giggle). If you happen to’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 seaside!
The sport will do not forget that
Stardew Valley tracks what number of occasions you’ve got launched the sport, and each once in a while you may see messages within the lower-left nook if you hit an essential quantity. Launch the sport 20 occasions, and you may see slightly coronary heart; 30 occasions and you will be instructed to “Beat Journey Of The Prairie King with out dying”; 10,000 occasions and you will get a particular message from ConcernedApe (which we cannot spoil).
Your participant will be actually unhealthy at music
…For no purpose! In case your randomly-assigned ID in multiplayer is divisible by 111, any music your character performs will probably be off-key. This consists of 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 — apart from Sunflower Seeds, which value 200 gold at Pierre’s and solely 125 gold at JojaMart. If you 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! If you harvest Sunflower seeds, you get additional seeds again from the flowers, and you may then promote these again to Pierre for 20 gold every — until you acquire them from JojaMart within the first place, through which case Pierre will purchase them for 100 gold as a substitute. 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 it is going to be a pleasant little man, greeting the townsfolk by identify. 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 known as Wumbus World. You may as well see Wumbus within the sci-fi film “Wumbus” on the Film Theater and by getting the Wumbus statue within the crane sport. You may 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 brief silent movie ‘A Journey to the Moon’, through which a rocket crashes into the attention of the person on the moon. Therefore why he is sporting a monocle.
Shrimp Fanatic
If you happen to 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!
If you happen to marry Alex, he’ll merely refuse to work on the ice cream stand throughout summer season, presumably as a result of he is aware of he can mooch off you as a substitute. Boo.
Trendy urchins
You in all probability know you possibly can put hats on youngsters and horses, however do you know you possibly can put hats on sea urchins within the fish tank in your home? It’s totally cute. You may place hats on the Alien Rarecrow, too!