SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Five

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.

Getting up, I watched TV then headed out, only to find Marnie at the door, with a stray cat she found. (Remember my picking out my pet at the start of the game?)

Notice the letter hovering over the mailbox. Even though this is a cut scene, all the changes I have made to the play area show up in it. The letter will be there when the cut scene is over.

You do have the chance to opt out of having a pet at this point. I have never done this. I wonder if they give you another chance to change your mind later in the game if you turn down the pet?

Your incoming mail helps guide you in the game play.

The mail consisted of a letter from the Joja Corporation. Now I know what the worker was doing hammering on the rocks. I will have to go up to the Mountain area and check this out. But the first thing I need to do is gather the makings for Field Snacks. I need Acorns, Maple Seeds, and Pine cones. You might nave noticed little dark bumps around the various trees on the farm. If you were to hit one of these with a pickax, hoe, or ax before getting the recipe for field Snacks, nothing would go into inventory. After you have the recipe you will get one seed from each bump. You can also gather seeds by chopping down tress, but cutting tress consumes a lot of energy.

Between my avatar and the large stump is one of the bumps. There are three shapes of seeds, one for each type of tree. Here you see two maple seeds in my inventory.

To craft an item, you have to have at least one empty space in your backpack. After I had gathered all the seeds I needed to make a few snacks, I found that my inventory was full. I headed back to the cabin, moved some things into my storage chest to make room, and preceded to craft three snacks.

You have to have an open space for the crafted item before you start, even if crafting them will open up a space.

You move the slider to pick how many items you would like to craft.

Once I had the field snacks crafted, I was able to place the foraged items in the shipping crate to generate some more gilders. Then it was off to the Mountain area to follow up on the morning’s mail.

The rocks and the worker are now gone, but that is that? Another cave? No look at those wooden beams, it must be the opening to a mineshaft.

Entering the mine triggers a cut scene with Marlon, the head of the adventures guild who gives me my first weapon.

Once the cut scene with Marlon is over I was given the chance to turn on auto-attack. Since I am not good with fast twitch gaming, I turned it on.

With my rusty sword I head down in the mine.

I tried to go down using the elevator on the back wall. It wasn’t working, so I climbed down the ladder. To forage in the mine you use the pickax tool to break rocks. Besides giving you rocks, they sometimes yeld ores.

On the first level of the mine, I broke a few rocks before deciding that I needed to go back to the farm and build a chest to place at the top of the mine. There is no need for me to have my ax nor fishing pole down in the mine. The scythe is handy but not all that necessary. The less you take down with you, the more space you have in your pack for things gathered in the mine. Notice that now that I am down in the mine a Health Gauge has been added to the Energy Gauge.

To leave the mine, you click on the very bottom of the ladder. As I leave the mine, I have 14 rocks, a geode, two lumps of coal, and one copper ore.

One problem I have playing on the iPad, is that I sometimes flip the wrong thing out of my inventory. This time after going back to the farm building a chest and returning to the mine, I found that I was carrying the excess wood in my backpack not the chest. By the time I went back to the farm and returned it was too late to be going down in the mine. I placed the chest in position, and added the sword since I wouldn’t be needing it until I did go down.

Villagers never walk in the mine, so this whole area is safe to store things. However, anything you leave in the other levels of the mine will not be there when you go back, including crafted staircases.

I did have time to make a couple of casts for fish before it was getting too late. The bubbles in the water show a place where, if you land the line right, the fish strikes will be faster. Unfortunately the training rod doesn’t cast far enough from me to take advantage of the bubbles shown here.

Back at the cabin, I found my new cat asleep on the floor.

I got a level up, even though I did very little in the mine.

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