Summer of the first year, 9th-11th
Summer rain in Stardew Valley seems more pleasant than spring rain, cool and refreshing.
But you still ran into the chicken coop because a bolt of lightning struck the lightning rod in front of the house, almost blinding you; it was terrifying.
There's a pile of eggs and animal hair on the floor of the chicken coop that hasn't been picked up in a long time. You can pick them up casually while petting the animals, and it'll be cleared out quickly, allowing you to stay indoors for many more days.
You remember the recipe for lightning rods is refined quartz and bat wings, and we happen to have plenty of both. Let's quickly manufacture a batch to ensure safety—
Not unlocked.
The lightning rod recipe is unlocked at Foraging level 6, and you're only at level 3 now, so you're still a long way off.
In other words, you couldn't build a single lightning rod during today's thunderstorm, and the only lightning rod on the farm, a reward from the gold vault sacrifice, was just struck and is now buzzing and charging right before your eyes.
[Bombing trees is fun for a moment...]
[Foraging is only at level 3, tsk tsk, you should start planning desert greening soon!]
Cut down more hardwoods and raise more pigs.
Since things have come to this, we can only take it one step at a time. Foraging level is the hardest to raise; even with your current plan, you might not be able to max it out this year, let alone today.
Fortunately, the lightning didn't actually strike anyone. After you finished collecting the eggs, you went out of the henhouse and went to the field to pick poppies.
The rain had no effect on these blooming flowers; they weren't even wet. The raindrops passed through the petals as if passing through a wisp of mist in the mountains, only creating ripples when they fell to the ground.
Poppies are one of the items needed for the sacrifice. Later you'll also need to go fishing for red snapper, which appears during the summer rains. Add to that the fried eggs you forgot to mention earlier, and it's worth taking the time to make a trip to the community center.
You meet Elliot on your way to the beach to go fishing.
He strolled leisurely in the rain without an umbrella, and when he saw you, a smile appeared in his eyes.
"Good day, Iridium Rabbit's Foot, did it get wet?" Elliott said. "I could have left earlier, but lying in bed, I could vaguely hear the sound of foghorns in the distance."
“Perhaps it’s not hard to understand, please allow me to tell you,” Elliot said, taking the emerald green duck feather you gave him and tucking it between his fingers like a raised sail. “If you don’t look out the window, your thoughts can drift into the thick fog, searching for that lighthouse… The monster is howling at the lighthouse. The foghorn sounds. The monster opens its gaping maw full of giant teeth, emitting the same sound as the foghorn. Lonely, vast, and distant. Oh, a sound isolated from the world, an endless sea…”
Elliott tucked the duck feather into his inner pocket, his eyes turning melancholy. He murmured, "But in reality, all I can see outside the window is a hazy gray. How depressing! So I'm going to have a glass of gin. Maybe in my hazy intoxication, I can resonate with it as it sinks to the bottom of the ocean?"
You probably understand what this artsy young man is thinking, but you still can't help but advise him, "Drink less, you have a medical check-up today, right?"
Elliott dismissed it, saying, "Back pain is just an occupational hazard. The doctor always tells me to get up and move around a bit between writing sessions, but everyone knows how difficult that is. It's better to relax with a drink; it's much more beneficial to your health."
You find it hard to agree with his statement, but considering that Elliot has to go to the clinic for a check-up today according to the game schedule, you don't say anything more, turn around and walk towards the sea, watching the live stream as you walk.
[Fun fact: Gin is also known as gin. If you pass this down, Elliot will have to go on a date with gin.]
Elliot is pregnant with Gin's child.
[But was ordered to be removed]
The doctor was actually Vermouth in disguise.
[What the hell?! A bunch of Elliot moms are trying to pair people up like this! Get them out of here!]
[Excuse me, don't you know our Rabbit Feet is Grandpa Elliot?]
As you watch these bizarre comments in the live stream, your eyes gradually become confused.
Netizens these days... are so hard to understand.
You spent an hour fishing for a red snapper at the dock, then offered it as a sacrifice. As a reward, you received 5 teleportation totems. Now, if you forget something, you can teleport to the beach in one second, saving you time traversing the map.
However, once you have teleportation towers and return wands later in the game, this teleportation totem becomes quite useless; it's only a decent emergency item in the early game.
Tuesday, no need to rush to deliver gifts, and it's raining, time to mine and grind monsters!
You skillfully ride the mine elevator to the 45th floor and begin searching for the dust sprites.
You didn't get back to the farm until the early hours of the morning, and were even blocked at the door by a dog. You almost fell asleep right there. You didn't even have time to take stock of the losses until you went out for a walk the next morning and saw what the consequences of thunderstorms could be if the farm didn't have enough lightning rods.
The good news is that the only crop scorched by lightning was wheat, the easiest crop to grow, and it had already been harvested once before, so it was no longer in high demand.
The bad news is that the pine tree was also chopped down, with a sap collector hanging on it, resulting in the loss of one collector and one bottle of pine tar.
I still need to level up my foraging skills... Raising more pigs won't work. Although Robin's work schedule is now available, it takes ten days for a pig to grow and grow truffles. You also need to pet the pig to increase its affection and production. Picking truffles is also time-consuming. It's much more direct than chopping down trees.
To do something well, you must first have the right tools. If you want to upgrade your iridium axe before chopping down trees, you need to obtain 5 iridium ingots.
There are a few less common sources of iridium ore, and you can also farm iridium ingots directly, but... perhaps because I've improved a lot in combat recently, mining in the Skeleton Cave is no longer as terrifying as it was at the beginning.
Then give it a try! After all, I'm a veteran player who has challenged 100 floors without eating or drinking. It's all the same game, so my past experience can be of some use.
You go out to the bus station to take a minecart, go into the city first to get the gold pickaxe you just made, then get off at the mine and go to Robin's place. On the way, you also hang a sap collector on a pine tree.
Summer brings frequent thunderstorms, and you don't plan to hang sap collectors on the trees in your farm until you've leveled up your foraging skill enough to build sufficient lightning rods. Currently, hanging one or two on roadside trees is sufficient; avoiding being struck by lightning is the top priority.
Buy 10 sets of stones from the carpenter's shop, make them all into stairs, and add 900+ super bombs and energy potions. This is the confidence that allows a gamer to bravely venture into the Skull Cave.
Skull Cave is a nightmare for many new Stardew Valley players. It's full of dangerous monsters that can rush in and vanish your health bar in a heartbeat, sending you straight to the "resurrection point" if you're not careful.
For beginners, even if you can get the Galaxy Sword earlier, it is still more recommended to use the Bone Sword, which can be obtained after reaching level 75 of the mine, in the early stages. This sword has an obvious advantage - it is fast and it is not easy to miss monsters, making it a true guardian of your health bar.
However, using this sword to slowly fight monsters would definitely delay your journey to mine iridium ore underground. So you only built the stairs and didn't go to get the bone sword.
You stand in front of the Skull Cave, have a lucky lunch, drink triple espresso, rush in, blast any iridium ore you see, and if you don't have any, just build a staircase to get to the next floor. Your progress is skyrocketing, showing the prowess of a veteran player.
With the lucky lunch buff, the treasure chest layer was naturally indispensable. The gem-making machine, fruit tree seedlings, and other items that came out filled my backpack, and the iridium ore accumulated to three digits without me even realizing it.
But the dangers of the mine also keep you on edge, constantly wary of attacks from flying snakes and slimes.
I don't know if it's just your imagination, but the frequency and number of flying snakes appearing in the mine today are quite outrageous.
The flying snake is faster than a bat, and the sound it makes is not a continuous flapping of wings, but a short whistling sound. Combined with the slime that suddenly jumps over from nearby, it is even more difficult to defend against.
The key to dealing with flying snakes is to avoid running around recklessly. It's best to stop as soon as you notice them approaching rapidly, kill them, and then continue moving forward. Otherwise, you might not be able to parry in time. However, the problem is that if you're a modern person who doesn't like venturing into deep forests, it's hard to resist the pressure and stay put when you see such a large snake flying towards you. You'll always try to squeeze through the stairs to the next floor, only to get caught and bitten painfully.
This battle is so difficult.
However, your pain tolerance did increase significantly, and you managed to endure it until 1 a.m. before finally emerging from the mine.
Surprisingly, even though it was past the end of the workday, Shen'er was still waiting for you in the bus driver's seat instead of going home to drink first.
“I’ve thought about it,” Shen said as he started the bus after you got on, offering his terms: “Give me 1 million, and my son can marry into the family.”
you:""
Shen Er turned around and said with a hint of seduction in her voice, "Yixing Hui, sounds pretty good, right? He's really good at taking care of people. You've hit the jackpot."
You: "...So could you please explain first, and also pay attention to the road while driving, bro?!"
Shen Er sneered, "She sends me gifts every now and then and even finds me a job. Isn't it because she's got her eye on that kid? A million, not a single gram less."
[What a tragedy, Hui's father is selling his son again...]
[It only costs 500,000 to build a new house, but you could buy a perfect statue for 1 million! Hurry up and negotiate the price!]
[Pfft, Yixinghui, that sounds like a very high-quality product.]
【Is that Zixing?~】
[Sister Wuhui is furious! I do not agree to this marriage!!!]
You opened the affection panel with a dark expression, only to find that the father and son's affection levels were indeed just at the friend level, far from being at the point of discussing marriage.
Is this a moral decline or a distortion of human nature?
No matter how much you wonder, it's only a short distance from the desert to the bus station, so you can't ask any more questions. Once you arrive at the station, the driver disappears instantly.
You have to go back to the farm, throw the iridium ore into the furnace to smelt it, and then go back to the house to sleep and save your game.
The following day was the annual Pelican Town Feast, which was also the day to poison the governor... no, to share a lavish meal.
You're unsure if the governor has changed (and whether you have to drink the soup), and making delicious soup can help you get along with everyone, so you decide to be a good boy for a year and try adding the mayor's purple underwear or pufferfish to the soup next year.
Bring along fresh, large Venus eggs, and you'll be on the beach on time.
This festival seemed even more lively than the Flower Dance Festival. Miss Mingming stood on a high place, stirring a steaming pot of soup with a long-handled spoon. The surrounding tables were filled with the mouthwatering aroma of food, and the sound of energetic and passionate dance music could be heard from afar.
You can't eat the food on the table, but you can see Shen'er feasting and enjoying the free food.
The man devoured the entire chicken leg with the ferocity of a black panther, and said with satisfaction, "Ever since I spent all my savings on horse racing, Hui hasn't given me any living expenses. Luckily, the benefits at Stardew Valley are pretty good..."
Wow, what a terrible dad!
[If you have a salary but still rely on your son for living expenses, wouldn't you be living off your child full-time when you're not working?]
[Poor Tianyu the Tyrant, he has a hot body but no rich woman to rely on. Streamer, just pretend to be an SVE! For the sake of the child!]
Olivia stated: I don't want all the stocks to hit their daily limit down.
[Even if you buy the opposite, you can still get a villa by the sea.]
He could only rule out one wrong answer 2333 The stock market is too complicated.
Afraid that he would bring up yesterday's incident again, you decisively turned around and first put the high-quality ingredients you brought into the huge soup pot. Then you walked towards the dance floor, taking a roundabout route as naturally as possible to the governor and Youyou, and told them that they could start eating.
The governor was still the same governor, a chubby old man with a beaming smile, seemingly oblivious to the changes in Stardew Valley, happily waiting to enjoy his delicious meal.
Your caution in choosing the soup ingredients was correct. When Youyou announced that everyone could come and drink the soup, you also received a spoon and could go up to taste it.
Hmm... it's a bit like seaweed and egg drop soup, but the flavor is much richer and more delicious than the watery, sparse soup in the cafeteria.
The banquet was a great success!
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