Stardew Valley: The best tips, tricks and cheats

In Stardew Valley you can be very successful with the right tips, tricks and cheats. In this practical tip, you can read how you can not only start successfully, but also manage effectively in the late game - keyword winter.

Stardew Valley: The best tips to start the game

You start on your farm with just 500 gold. Read here how you can multiply them as quickly as possible.

• First buy more seeds for your bed. Potato and cauliflower seeds are particularly suitable here, as they quickly generate profits.
• You have to water fields every day. For better maintenance, you should buy a sprinkler system.
• You can increase the quality of the harvest with fertilizer. But only invest in fertilizer at the beginning of the month, as the plants wither at the end of the month.
• Of course, you don't have to irrigate your fields on rainy days. You should go fishing or gather resources on these days.
• Do not buy animals until later in the game. Farm animals need one hay bale each day, which is quite expensive, especially at the beginning.
• Use your time at the beginning to free your yard from trees, rocks, grasses and the like.
• If you see small worms in the destruction of rocks or similar, click on the tool to get rare items.

Stardew Valley: The best winter tips

Do not plant fields directly in the Wunter. You can read about alternative earning opportunities and other tips to pass the time here.

• Take care of your animals and buy mayonnaise machines. You can use it to process chicken eggs. If you have cows, you should use cheese machines to process their milk.
• Look for fruits and plants in winter, this is called "foraging" in the game.
• Find a winter root, a crystal fruit, a snow yam and a crocus. You can use it to complete the associated bundle in the Community Center to receive 30 Wild Seeds. These are the only plants that you can plant in winter.
• Go fishing in winter. Not only can you use it to feed, but you can also earn gold by selling.
• If you have set up the greenhouse, you can continue to plant all plants here.
• Cave tours are also a good winter activity. Here you collect minerals that you can donate or sell to the museum.
• Bring your tools to the blacksmith because you don't necessarily need them in winter. This then repairs them and ensures maximum efficiency in spring.

Stardew Valley: Cheating Money

If you want to speed up your progress, you can do it unofficially by manipulating the savegame. You can read how to do this below:

• In Windows Explorer follow the path: C: \ Users \ [NAME] \ AppData \ Roaming \ StardewValley \ Saves \ [CHARAKTERNAME].
• Before making any changes, make a backup copy of the folder and save the copy in a different location in the event that something goes wrong.
• You will find the files "SaveGameInfo" and "[CHARAKTERNAME]" in the folder. You have to edit both.
• Open one after the other with the "Editor" and search for the day with [Ctrl] + [F].
• This only appears once in each document. Change the value between XXX to the desired value here.
• Remember to enter the same value for both files. Save both files with [Ctrl] + [S].
• Warning: The maximum value that you can enter is 99999999.

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