#Stardew Valley
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How to Unlock and Play Stardew Valley’s Mobile Multiplayer Mode
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Want to farm with friends on your mobile device? Stardew Valley's 1.6 update has secretly added multiplayer support, though it's currently experimental. While it requires some setup and has a few limitations, you can start playing with friends right now. Here's everything you need to know about unlocking and using this hidden feature.
Oak Trees in Stardew Valley: Uses and How to Grow
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Oak trees are useful in Stardew Valley, as you can chop them down to get wood, sap and acorns. Place the normal or heavy tapper on the tree and it'll produce oak resin, necessary in the Community Center, two crafting recipes and for tailoring a floppy beanie. To grow oak trees, you'll need acorns. You may get them by chopping down an oak tree, in garbage cans or by digging up small growths near oak trees. Place the seed on an untilled ground tile and it'll mature into an oak tree in about 24 days.
Stardew Valley 1.6: The Giant Stump and Raccoon Quest Guide
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After you reconstruct the greenhouse, a special night event may occur where a massive tree falls and only a stump is left. With 100 pieces of hardwood, you can repair it and a raccoon will move in. He will ask for some items and will give you a reward for completing its first quest. After seven days, his wife will appear and sell seeds. He'll then ask for some other items and will give you more rewards for completion. The lady raccoon's shop will expand over time to include more items. After 8 completed quests, you'll receive the Good Neighbors achievement.
How Green Rain Works in Stardew Valley 1.6 (Explained)
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The green rain in Stardew Valley 1.6 is a unique environmental event that takes place only in summer. It usually happens in the middle of the season, but it may also occur before Summer 10th. This rain brings various bushes to the world, which can drop fiber, moss and mixed seeds. You'll also encounter two tree variants. One drops wood and sap, as well as mossy seeds. The other one drops only fiddlehead ferns. Use the mossy seeds to grow these cool tree variants. Green rain is therefore very useful for farming these basic items.
How to Adopt and Remove Pets in Stardew Valley 1.6
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Stardew Valley 1.6 update introduced ability to adopt multiple pets. You'll first need to have 5 hearts of friendship with the starter pet. When this happens, you have to read Marnie's letter from the mail. Then, go to the Robin's shop and purchase bowls. Now, purchase an animal license for the animal you want in Marnie's shop. Pets that love you may sometimes give you various gifts and you can place hats on them to make them even more cute. To remove a pet, use butterfly powder on them, which you can buy from Krobus.
How to Get Fireworks in Stardew Valley 1.6
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Stardew Valley 1.6 update introduces three types of fireworks, which you can buy via two shops. The first one is in the walnut room on Ginger Island. Here, fireworks cost 1 Qi Gem and are unlimited. The other shop is in the casino in Calico Desert, where fireworks cost 200 Qi coins and can only be purchased 20 at a time. The red firework displays a red heart, purple one a purple star and the green one displays a green Junimo. Also, the whole screen changes color for a couple seconds and the size of the display is random.
Meadowlands Farm in Stardew Valley 1.6 Explained
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Stardew Valley 1.6 introduces a brand new farm type called the Meadowlands Farm. It's pretty big and includes lots of grassy tiles where you cannot plant crops. Also, there is a coop and two chicks from the start, so you can raise animals right away. The special blue grass spawns here naturally, which will level up animals' friendship with you twice as quickly. So, focus on raising them, choosing the Rancher profession, building a barn and having barn animals quickly, as they are great money makers.
Stardew Valley Leah: Favorite Gifts, Heart Events, & How to Romance Her
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Leah is usually in one of these locations in Stardew Valley: in her cottage, in the Cindersap forest, in Pierre's store, Stardrop Saloon, on the beach or north of the blacksmith. Her loved gifts are salad, wine and goat cheese and liked ones are diamond, fruit and various foraged items. Her heart events involve around her art and ex Kel. You can start dating Leah when you reach eight hearts with her and once you give her the bouquet. To marry Leah, you'll need ten hearts with her and to give her the mermaid's pendant.
Stardew Valley 1.6 Update Now Has a Release Date; Check It Out
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Eric Barone, aka ConcernedApe, Stardew Valley creator has recently announced the release date for the 1.6 update. Mark your calendars everyone, as you can expect to play with the new features in a couple of weeks! It will first arrive for PC users. Console and mobile release will follow as soon as possible. The 1.6 update was thought to be a smaller update in the beginning, but started expanding to include new items, festivals, villager winter outfits, dialogue, late-game content, improvements, and so much more.
How to Get Prismatic Jelly in Stardew Valley
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If you accept Wizard's "Prismatic Jelly" special order quest, you'll need to venture into the mines, quarry mines or Scull Cavern, find the prismatic slime and kill it. This is a rare slime that you can find on any level. It's much more powerful than regular slimes. Once you manage to kill it, it'll drop the prismatic jelly 100% of the time in Stardew Valley. Visit the Wizard and give him this item in order to complete the special order. You'll receive 5 000 gold and a recipe for monster musk, item that will spawn more monsters around.
Stardew Valley Barn Guide: All You Need to Know
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Barn is a farm structure you can purchase from Robin for 6 000g, 350 wood and 150 stone. After three days, the barn will be built and you can put animals in it or upgrade it. To upgrade the barn, you'll need to bring additional resources and select the big barn option in the carpenter's shop. Later, you can do the same for the deluxe barn in Stardew Valley, which can hold all barn animals. These animals include cows, ostriches, goats, sheep and pigs. All of them provide different products, which will be better quality if the animals are happy.
How to Get Pale Ale in Stardew Valley
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Pale ale is an artisan good you'll need for the Pam's quest in Stardew Valley. You can make it by placing hops in a keg. Hops is a summer vegetable crop and keg is a machine you can craft after you reach level 8 in farming. Alternatively, you can buy pale ale form Gus at the Ginger island Beach Resort. It's a rather profitable item, especially if you age it. Moreover, you can give it to many NPCs who like it and if you're playing with remixed community center bundles, you may need pale ale in the brewer's bundle.
How to Romance and Marry Sam in Stardew Valley
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Sam is one of the marriage candidates in Stardew Valley that you can date and marry. To do that, you'll first need to level up your relationship by talking to him and giving him favorite gifts. Once you reach eight hearts with him, you can start dating. Purchase the bouquet item from Pierre's and give it to Sam to start dating. Then, reach ten hearts and you'll be able to marry Sam in Stardew Valley. Purchase the mermaid's pendant from old mariner near tidal pools and give it to Sam and you'll have a wedding in three days.
Sam Gift Guide in Stardew Valley
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Sam is a young guy with spikey blonde hair who's one of the marriage candidates in Stardew Valley. The gifts Sam loves in Stardew Valley are universally loved gifts, cactus fruit, maple bar, pizza and tigerseye. Sam likes the following items: most universally liked gifts, Joja cola and most eggs. The gifts Sam is neutral toward include most neutral gifts, most fruit and all milk items. The gifts Sam dislikes are most universally disliked items, most vegetables, many foraging items and seaweed. The items Sam hates are metal bars, ores, coal, mayonnaise, duck mayonnaise, pickles and most universally hated gifts.
How to Catch a Sturgeon in Stardew Valley
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Sturgeon is a fish that can only be caught in the mountain lake during summer and winter seasons in Stardew Valley. The weather doesn't matter. The sturgeon's fish icon will move rather quickly and will change the direction often. To make it easier to catch the sturgeon, make your fishing green bar longer, by leveling up the fishing skill and using food buffs and cork bobber tackle. You can place the sturgeon in a fish pond and it'll produce roe that you can turn into caviar. Also, sturgeon is required to complete the lake fish bundle in the community center.
25 Best Stardew Valley Mods
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Stardew Valley's community has created hundreds and even thousands of mods that everyone can play. In this guide, we've covered some of the best ones out there including Stardew Valley Expanded, CJB Cheats Menu, Tractor Mod, Automate, and more. These mods provide new additional content to the base game, as well as improvements to the existing mechanics, features and sprites.
Stardew Valley Modding Guide: How to Install Mods
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To download and install Stardew Valley mods, you'll need to make sure you have created backups of your worlds just in case and also installed SMAPI, app that's necessary for running mods. Then, visit Nexus Mods page and find the mod you want. After that, you can download it by clicking on the "Manual" button and then "Slow Download" button. Once the mod is downloaded, you can open its zipped file using WinRAR. After that, simply drag and drop the file inside to a Stardew Valley Mods folder. To play with mods, run the StardewModdingAPI app.
Developer Hints at New Features Coming in Stardew Valley 1.6
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Stardew Valley creator ConcernedApe or Eric Barone dropped another teaser for the1.6 update. In the image, we can see that villagers are wearing their new winter clothes. Players are seen holding and setting off red fireworks, which produce a beautiful heart image in the air. Lastly, the villagers have gathered for a reason, and we assume it's a New Year festival. This could be a major festival the developer teased in the past.