SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Three

Spoiler alert!
I am not even going to try to avoid spoilers. So be forewarned.

This walkthrough is for the iPad version of the game which has quite a few differences from the desktop version.

Stardew Valley is very flexible, so as you play the game your experiences will not be the same as mine. Once I am past the game basics, I will not be going step by step, but only recapping the action.

If you are looking just to get a particular question about the game answered. You can find just about every thing you need to know in the Wiki.

Day three brought me the first rainy day. The good thing about a rainy day, is that you don’t have to water the garden, so I set off to gather more wood, meaning to build some more chests.

The first time I spotted the ruins I did every thing I could think of to get rid of them, without success. That looks like a cave in the wall behind me.

Yep, a cave … an empty cave; I wonder what I could use it for? The rounding of the image is just done in my blog, not in the game.

After gathering as much wood as I needed I crafted two chests to carry with me, and headed back to the beach. I wanted to place one chest there to put fish in, when I am fishing and the fish shop isn’t open to sell them. You have to be careful where you put chests. If a villager walks over something you have placed outside the farm, it will disappear. When it is a chest, what is in it goes also. The Wiki has maps showing where you can place a chest without it being tripped over. These areas are good for other items as well.

On the way back to the beach, I stopped to pick a flower.

By pressing and holding on the icon of the daffodil I can see that it has no energy, so it is something can’t keep in my backpack to eat for energy boosts.

Back at the beach, I began gathering seashells and digging up wiggly worms. I found an artifact under some worms.

Spotting a broken bridge, I investigated and found that I had better start gathering more wood. It looks as if there is a lot of cool stuff to forage on that other beach. Here my avatar is holding a rock I just dug up from a bunch of wiggly worms.

I found a safe place for my chest, then went fishing.

The green bar on the training rod is about twice the size of the one on the bamboo pole. this makes it much easier to catch fish.

The sound effects in the game are really quite good. The funny thing is, when I am fishing in the rain and it starts to thunder, I cannot help but hear my father’s voice in my head, “Get inside, you never should fish in a thunderstorm.” After fishing for a while I filled up my backpack and had to decide if I should keep the fish I caught or not. I tossed the flower I had just picked, to make room for the fish. I stepped into the fish shop and sold the fish.

I looked at the time and decided I had better head to the Museum and donate the artifact. When I got there I went to the area east of the blacksmith’s shop and and placed a chest between the two bushes. That made room so that I could pick a replacement flower in front of the museum. I doubled back and left the flower in the storage chest.

If a storage chest is empty it is easy to accidentally hit it with the pickax and pop it into your inventory or worse, if your backpack is full, to end up losing it. If it has even one thing in it, you hit it with your pickax with no effect. I left the flower in the chest to pick up later.

The museum is to the right of my avatar, and the blacksmith is to the top.

On entering the museum, for the first time, a cut screen with Gunther was triggered.

Of course I donated the artifact. I needed the space in my inventory.

The reward for making my first donation to the museum was five times what I could have sold the fossil for.

My avatar admiring my first donation to the Museum.

Upon leaving the museum, I saw that I had some time before I had to head home, so I stopped on the bridge to fish. I caught two small mouth bass, four shad, a clump of soggy newspaper, a piece of driftwood, and some green algae. When it was getting very late, I headed back to the farm, riffling trashcans on the way. I found a good loaf of bread in one of them.

When I got back I put the fish into the shipping box. For me fishing is the best way to make gilder fast in the early part of the game.

I moved the other things I collected into my storage chest, and put the watering can back in the backpack to be ready for the morning.

I still had lots of energy left, so I worked clearing land until nearly midnight.

Once you go to bed each day, if you have reached any goals in the gameplay, you will receive a notice. There will also be a recap of of the things you put in the shipping box during the day.

Though I was using the training rod, I was still accumulating points for fishing proficiency

The little bit of fishing I did added to 340 gilder.

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