How To Have The PERFECT First Week In Stardew Valley

I love this game but I am OVERWHELMED. I think I might have to start over lol

Have been following this. Appreciate it can be useful for those on consoles who can’t do some of the other min-max stuff. Seems like with animation canceling you can get like twice as much done in a day!

One issue I’m having though is the Introductions quest doesn’t complete after meeting Willy. I think it wants the wizard too. Is this a platform difference? Curious to know if others are seeing that too.

I hope you do more!

i’m sososo happy you included the tip to buy cauliflower and a green bean seed on day 1, the speed grow strawberries are amazing

I wait till festivals to do introductions

Hi! I accidentally deleted my hoe tool(in the trashcan) i was wondering if there's any way i can get back or get a new one?

This was a great video, it will definitely influence my next new game.

I usually do go for the Catfish as soon as possible, since i like to have the Community center finished as quickly as possible- even though you can catch the fish in a different season-

I also try to save up as much money as i can for strawberry seeds!

Nope, im gonna sell everything and buy joja.

Great video, but im a sellout

Catching catfish in day 3 is nightmare 💀

what a lovely video tysm~

PLEEEAAAASE more of this! i'm scared to go into the second week after completing the first with this run 😬

Thank you for the Introductions pathing! Also, I never thought of giving Willy a cheap gift (even one he doesn't like) just to get the Journal money.

I have a different way of following the game's narrative (which may even be sub-optimal) and I also use minor exploits, but this is giving me good ideas.

Why in the FUCK can't Clint sell me anything, frames after I ask him to upgrade my pickaxe. This doesn't even make any gameplay sense.
This guide is nice and all, but it's excruciatingly hard to pull off. Either that or i am severely mentally challenged.

Edit: if you do more of these or something similar, consider outlining the entire day in a list at the beginning of each section, because by the time I actually get the hard thing done on the 15th attempt, I forget one thing, and your warning to not upgrade the pickaxe before buying the iron comes near the end of the section. Also turn out I got an unlucky day exactly ion this Friday, and I cannot for the life of me get the 45 copper AGAIN, even though I start the day with 5.
Feels like I coulda played through an entire year at my own pace in the time I reset to attempt and replicate this guide.

Love the format of this vid, hoping to see more in the future!

this is so helpful I'd love to see more guides like this!

I really appreciate you making content that doesn't include exploits or action canceling ❤

Tip: Get Strawberries for the current AND next season at the Spring Festival. Before you go, till and water 20 spaces for Strawberries. Get 20 Strawberries for planting that day. (The rest for next Spring.) You get home from the festival at 10 PM. You should be able to go out and complete the Spring Crops Bundle (if you planted cauliflower on day 1) for which your reward is 20 speed gro. Use the 20 Speed Gro and strawberry seeds, in the already tilled and watered soil before you go to bed, and you'll get three harvests instead of just 2 for Spring of Year 1. Significant extra profit.

As a console player I really appreciate the guide not using glitches and mods. Great video and would love more like this!

I have no idea how you’re getting all the way to level 5 on day 3

Very informative video!
I am curious about a few things, though. Why do you give Willy fiber specifically? Is it just because it's a common item you'll most likely have in the beginning? Why buy the training rod when it only lets you get basic quality fish and not use the bamboo one until you can buy the fiberglass rod?
Thank you!

Don’t leave stones, branches, or weeds next to your crops, they have a chance to spread and destroy your crops. Also, kind of weird to make a video describing a perfect week 1, and have mistakes in it. You can redo days, you know? You don’t have to post your first attempt.

this satisfies my minmaxer brain to an indescribable degree. please make more videos like this!! really wonderful content and this got me to make a new stardew save to try it out <3

With the early fishing money, what I do is buy 425 parsnips seeds from Pierre and plant them in before the next rain day comes (day 3 is probably too early but the catfish money from day 3 will be enough... and day 3 is likely where you will hit fishing 5). Then just leave them there--no need to water. If you get 4 rain days total in the season (more likely than not), you can harvest them all and hit farming 6, completely bypassing basic sprinklers. Otherwise I find that watering 400+ crops makes a fine way to spend terrible luck days without wasting them.

More ambitiously, you can aim to get level 6 before Spring 16th, which is when the strawberries need to be planted so that you have quality sprinklers for strawberries--AND a lot of the ground is still tilled so you can just plant the strawberries on top of the harvested parsnips.

the first week is the hardest part of Stardew Valley

i’m really struggling to gain fishing levels 😭 it seems like i get so many fish and only level up once </3

Very very nice, exactly what I like to do (minmax the start of the game and then give up lol). Would love some more!

I would definitely watch a whole series of week by week

Floor 6 infested slime floor ruined day 5 for me lol, reloaded day with seed manip to fix it because i cba

That was really helpful! I never thought of laying out the sprinkler pattern right from the start, which always meant watering by hand until summer. I also didn't realize chubs were such great energy, or that it was that easy to make that much money early on. I feel like I'm always too busy to seriously hit the mines early on so it was nice to see it fit smoothly in. This made the first week feel so much more relaxed! I do usually wait until the egg festival to meet everyone but I might try this. Also helpful to note is that this is for the standard CC. Remixed bundles might require you to save different things.

I love the beach farm it’s so pretty

Great video! I think this is a very good way to start your first week off right

I’m still the person who won’t quit a day! I feel likes it’s cheating haha.

I want more

love the focus on vanilla play style strategy (with notes for vanilla+ things like chair hopping)!

This feels like a job. Can we just enjoy the game? 😢

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only chump who can't manage to catch catfish on day 3 of a new save lol

Cool video, I definitely won't follow it like this because just listening to it is kinda stressing me out. Usually I'm more of a minmax person than most other people I know IRL who play it, but I guess that's my limit. I find myself thinking stuff like "hey, I just wanna have fun and sometimes make suboptimal choices just because I want to". Giving a bad gift to Willy just to get the quest reward a bit faster? Never!

Also yeah, the tea sapling strategy is so overpowered it's bordering on a mistake, it's crazy how much I'm raking in the money immediately after receiving Caroline's letter with the receipe. Feels very satisfying though!

I feel like this is way too stressful for me to attempt, but definitely still learned some interesting tips!

Love this guide. Question. I see a lot of Stardew players prioritize fishing early. I get it the first 5 days where there's only fishing and foraging. Is it also better money than mining?

This was super cool to see what I've been missing. Smelting at Clint's is an amazing idea.

Can you do a guide like that but including the expansion mods?

game won't launch on my pc

I wish I had been able to see this video on the first week of my first world, I was so lost

I watched a lot of the live streams where you were testing these strategies. After watching this video, I gave it a try, but lately I’m kind of out of luck when I think. I kept forgetting my copper bars. So I found myself at the end of Day 7 with fishing 5, farming 1, zero iron, and a big pile of copper bars. I should watch this video again and take notes lol. Maybe I can do better. It’s kind of fun following a formula, like testing a scientific finding.

Great tip on the villager pathing for day 1. I've got a different pathing, but this one seems easier with more redundancies built in to it, you know, just in case you get distracted or something. Thanks!

i loved this! i would have loved for you to do one more week of this. it was very engaging and easy to follow, and it was interesting even for a seasoned player like myself

Please! Make a guide just like this for the entire first spring, heck, maybe even for every season! I absolutely love this.

Thank you for these tips! ❤

i usually don’t prioritize meetings all the villagers, because i’ll just run into them either naturally or ultimately greet everyone at the egg festival while they’re all concentrated in one spot. i think the first day is better for cutting fiber and looking for mixed seeds, then planting them. i know there’s a chance to lose the crops but the first 15 you plant are always safe, it’s any after that that are at risk of crows, and the crows eating your crops for three days (they don’t eats the seeds) isn’t really that big of a deal, so first look for mixed seeds, plant the mixed seeds and any seeds bought from pierre’s, before planting the parsnips so it’s only the parsnips that will be eaten. then, when the parsnips are done, craft a scarecrow with the extra fiber. mixed seeds are so underrated so use them!