SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Six

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 five of spring, the first year, turned out to be a nice sunny day. Weather is randomized in the game. When you watch the weather report, it will be the report for the following day. The fortune teller gives you your luck for the same day as you are watching. It makes it easy to plan for weather, but hard to plan for luck.

I see that I forgot to put my watering can back in my pack last night before bed.

Stepping out my front door, I trigger a cut scene with Clint, the blacksmith.

Once he gives me the plans for crafting a furnace it triggers an new Journal entry. At this point you can sort of feel overwhelmed at the number of things you have to do. Just remember than any task in the journal has no time limit.

Once the cut scene with Clint is over, I check my mail to see that Pierre’s general store is now selling just the thing I need, but I am short on cash.

Checking my garden, I find that the parsnips are ready to harvest.

I harvested 13 base quality parsnips, and one each of the silver and gold star quality. Though I am short on cash, I don’t think I am ready to sell my parsnips. It turns out that I have just enough mixed seeds to fill the places left in the garden by my harvest. I needed to go into town with the three geodes and the rib bone artifact I had found digging on the farm.

Once the mixed seeds are planted, you can see that there are several different types of seeds.

After planting the new seeds and watering them, I have to take care of my new cat. I have to pet him until he has a heart over his head, and fill his bowl with the watering can.

Not wanting to go back to the mine with the smallest backpack, I decided to go fishing to get the funds for the size 24 pack. I headed to the blacksmith to get some geodes broken, planning to stop to make donations to the museum before going to the beach. Passing by the bus stop I stopped at some wiggly worms and dug up a bent spoon. When I entered Pelican Town a cut scene with the mayor was triggered, and I found myself with him in front of the derelict Community Center.

Mayor Lewis tells me how once the Community Center was the focus of life in the town, but fell into disuse. Things in town changed after the Joja Mart was build on the east side of town.

He means, to sell the Community Center to Joja for a warehouse.

When when the cut scene was over, I saw that the enclosure next to the Community Center was filled with weeds, which I could cut for fiber, and maybe find some more mixed seeds.

When I finished with the weeds I still had time to make it to the blacksmith and the museum before going fishing.

Somehow or another, the mayor made it to Clint’s before me.

Clicking on the front of the counter, gives me these choices. I clicked on Process Geodes.

Everything in my backpack, except the geodes was dimmed out. I had to drag each geode up to Clint’s anvil for him to break it. The broken geodes gave me a piece of petrified slime and two mud stones.

Before leaving the shop I sold an extra mud stone to Clint and then went to the museum to donate the others along with the two artifacts.

Now I have added five items to the collection.

I could either chose to collect my reward for the donations, or leave and pick up the reward later. I wanted my reward right away.

I received a packet of nine cauliflower seeds.

At the beach I foraged a clamshell, one rock, and another artifact. before going fishing I placed everything, but my fishing rod in the chest I left at the top of the beach.

In the spring, on windy days flower petals float through the air.

With my extra stuff stowed, I took up position near the front door of the fish shop, so that just before closing time I could run in and sell all my fish. I started fishing, keeping a good eye on not only the time, but my energy level. Fishing can eat up your energy. Just before it was 5 p.m. I stopped fishing and ran into the fish shop.

I went back to fishing a little longer before going back to the chest to take as many things home with me as I could. Once back at the farm, I realized that the exclamation point in the upper right hand corner of my screen was pulsating. I clicked it and saw that I had finished the Getting Started quest.

I had never noticed in any of my other game lives that you could cancel the Raising Animal’s Quest. I guess this for folks who don’t want have animals on their farm.

Harvesting my Parsnips that morning garnered me a reward.

Before going to bed, I placed the fish I had caught and some of the foraged items into the storage chest. I hesitated over selling the artifact until I opened up the hamburger menu and clicked on the tap which looks strangely like a bomb. That opens up a page with tabs running down the left hand side. The icon on the third tab down is supposed to be a broken pot. I clicked on it to see the artifacts, and make sure that I had already given a Trilobite to the museum.

It showed that I had found two Trilobites, one bent spoon, and one fossil rib. things yet to be found are grayed out.

With shipping taken care of I went into the cabin to find the cat asleep on my bed. This is no problem, I was able to slip under him and go to sleep.

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