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SDV: A Blogger Escapes the Real World, Part Ten

Posted on 09/28/202009/22/2020 by margrad80

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.

The next morning, I remembered it was the day of the egg festival, so I didn’t bother to watch the fortune teller. It wouldn’t have any effect on the day’s activities. I didn’t have long at the farm to work before I would get the notice that the festival had started. After tending the garden and the cat, I tried to burn up as much energy as I could before I was to go into town.

When I cut down a tree I have to run my avatar over the area were things have fallen to pick them up. Here you can see the wood, pinecone, and sap from the tree I just cut down. The stump next to the cat is leftover from the night before. It had been so dark, that I missed the stump. When you cut down a tree, there are two stages; cutting the tree and removing the stump.
The Pelican Town Egg Festival
I meant to buy five strawberry seeds. You can’t buy them at the general store. When I got home, I realized that I hadn’t clicked the buy button.
I click on every villager leaving the mayor for last. This triggers dialogue with each one, which may or may not contain information that helps your game play.
Talking to the mayor starts the egg hunt.
In all my lives in Stardew Valley, this was only the second time I won the egg hunt.
After this you will see me wearing the straw hat I won.

No mater how little time you spend at the festival it is still way after dark when you get back to the farm. I went to bed hoping for a lucky day so I could head back to the mine for more loot.

No such luck. I decided that the day would be better spend above ground, as I headed out to do my chores.

Robin was busy working on my silo, while I watered the cat.
The new green beans are showing some green.

Heading south out of my farm, to get away from the ping ping ping, of Robin’s hammer, I triggered a cute cut scene where Vincent and Jas are examining the sewer gate. Having seen that there were spring onions in the cut scene I headed that way when it was over, to get them.

Twice a week, the peddler’s cart is in this position next to the lake. When you click on the peddler the box below opens up.
The peddler has a rotating stock. His prices are out the roof, but there are a few things you can only buy from him. Other things are just overpriced ways to speed up the gameplay.

Seeing that there was nothing in the peddler’s cart I needed, I head over to the river, to spend the rest of the daylight fishing. I know that it probably has no effect on the fishing mini game, but I find myself doing things that I would do in real life, like looking for the deeper water and casting my line near to rocks or logs.

This is one of my favorite places to fish for river fish.
It was quite dark when I got home and put my fish in the shipping crate, before going to bed.
Dang, no going into the mine today.
The silo was finished.

Though her job was finished, Robin was running rapidly around my farm. This is one of the glitches I mentioned earlier. If I were to go over to her shop, she would be there conducting business. This apparition cannot be spoken to. It remind me that I was supposed to be doing something for Robin.

This was the first day of Salmonberry Season. It took me a few game-lifetimes to realize that Salmonberries are not something the game developer made up. They are real. See this article. Somehow I managed not to take any screenshots of the bushes filled with salmonberries. It is a bit of a mad dash to get as many berries as you can. Part of me wants to get them all, but the other part of me knows that they don’t sell for very much and since at this point in the game there is only one berry per bush, it really isn’t worth the effort.

I found Robin’s ax, but it was too late in the day to take it to her.

The first time I tried to take Robin’s ax to her, she was in the kitchen of her house. When I tried to approach her, she ran very quickly into her room, where I couldn’t follow because I am not that good friends with her. That wasn’t normal, it was more of the glitching.

The next day was a neutral luck day, so I spent it foraging and chopping down trees. salmonberries are not worth much, but you can keep eating them while you work. I was able to cut down all the trees south of the river by eating a constant stream of berries. Nothing much interesting happened. Don’t get me wrong, I really enjoy the foraging and fishing, it just doesn’t add anything to the blog. I did manage to finally give Robin her ax and get my reward.

The next day was another day of the Salmonberry season, so I skipped the fortune teller. I had enough wood from the day before to rebuild that bridge at the beach, so I headed that way gathering what berries came my way. I decided that it would be a good idea to gather the berries to eat in the mine to supplement my field snacks.

I rebuilt the bridge, harvested the stuff on the other beach, and sold most of it to Willy, before continuing with my foraging.
This is the bridge that finishing the “rebuild bridge” challenge will rebuild. I would really love to get at all that rock and ore.

After one more day of picking Salmonberries, the season was over. I just wasn’t catching a break on lucky days, so I head to the mine despite the luck forecasts. I started on level 15 and worked my way down to 19. It was already 5:40 pm, and I wanted to make it to 20 or maybe 25 by the end of the day, when I came to a thick cluster of rocks below.

I set a cherry bomb down just above the the right hand most reddish rock, and ran away.
This blew up a good number of rocks and uncovered the ladder down to level 20.
A steel smallsword, just what I needed.

I went up to my storage case and left my old sword and my loot before returning to mining. It wasn’t long before I found myself on a monster floor. This was the first time in the game-life that I had seen the large slime monsters, which break apart in to several small ones when you hit them with a sword.

I thought I would try to clear them all out, but when I got the notice that I had killed enough to be taken into the Adventurers Guild, I headed to the surface to visit guild headquarters.
The guild headquarters is open from 2 pm to 10 pm.
I was able to sell my old sword while I was there. If you have the guilder, you can buy weapons and other things.
This is the first page of the kill tally, which is posted on the bulletin board in the Guild office. When you finish the number of kills of each type, you get a reward. After checking my kill status, I went back to the mine.
I had a full backpack when I headed home, including a Dwarf Scroll which I can donate to the Museum.
Another level up in Mining.

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