A Complete Guide for your First Summer – Stardew Valley [1.5]

A Complete Guide for your First Summer – Stardew Valley [1.5]

So you did well in spring you did your homework and watched a guide for it like the one in the card in the top right of the screen you took care of your bundles upgraded your tools got some money and worked your way a bit into the mines now what

Well you’ve got to keep the momentum going i did say that spring is the most important season but summer can still make or break your first year we’ll be going over which crops are the most lucrative everything you’ll need for the bundles and what milestones you should be hitting for the season

Let’s go over the crops first if you have any coffee you left over from spring keep it in summer will be the last season they’ll grow so make the best of your coffee plants so for straight money blueberries will be your best bet not only do they have the

Highest gold per day raw but since you get three of them per harvest they’re a great candidate for getting jellied i feel like i gotta mention that starfruit are better if you have the desert unlocked but since you’re watching a guide i’m gonna assume you don’t for bundles you’ll need to plant at

Least one melon poppy sunflower blueberry tomato hot pepper and corn yeah it’s a lot on top of that you’ll need 10 wheat and 5 gold quality melons and corn also let’s talk about the red cabbage if you’ve gotten lucky and gotten a seed from the traveling

Cart now’s the time to plan it otherwise you’ll have a chance to plan in winter as long as you complete your main crop bundles in the meantime make sure to check the traveling cart every friday and sunday if you don’t have the fruit batcave you’ll want to look into planting a

Pomegranate and apple tree as soon as you can even if you do have the fruit bat cave you’ll probably still have to plant an apple tree since it’s pretty rare you’ll need three apples and one pomegranate plus optionally one extra each for the artisan bundle this season you’ll want to focus on

Planting a lot more crops than you did in spring craft your sprinklers as soon as you’re able to spare the materials and go ham to get enough gold to supply your upgrades a good goal by the end of the season would be to have both a big

Coupe and big barn to set you up for animal bundle items later one last thing when you have a fully grown poppy don’t pluck it instead put a bunch of bee houses around it and the honey they produce will be worth 380 gold instead of 100 don’t forget to water it though

I don’t think it needs to be said but remember to donate the three seasonal forageables spice berries sweet peas and grapes other than that for foraging items you’ll need to craft at least three tappers and upgrade your axe to iron tap one of each tree so that you can get

Maple syrup pine tar and oak resin oak resin is required for the enchanter’s bundle and maple syrup is required for the chef’s bundle and then all three are optional for the exotic foraging bundle you can use your steel axe to get into the secret woods at the top left of

Center sap forest only in summer you’ll be able to find fiddlehead ferns in here red mushrooms will also spawn less commonly if you have the forest farm this is less important since you can find fiddlehead ferns there in spring you’ll still need to open up the woods eventually though

It’s a good source of hardwood since the stumps will regrow every day As always fishing is a go at your own pace skill go fishing more if you want the money and if you don’t enjoy it there’s plenty of other ways to get money if you do want to fish however the ocean will yield the best profit unless it’s raining between 6am and 5pm

Mostly due to the red snapper being found in the ocean in the rain being only worth 50 gold in that case fish in the mountains it’s also very possible to catch the legendary fish of summer the crimson fish at the east pier of the beach it only requires level 5 fishing and isn’t

Too terribly hard to catch i’d still recommend a fairly high fishing level though as with all the legendary fish it isn’t required for bundles but it fetches a base 1500 gold for the fishing bundles you’ll need in the lakes a carp at any time and a sturgeon from 6am to 7pm i also

Recommend catching a sturgeon to put in a fishpond since one of the items it produces will be required later from the ocean you’ll need a tuna from 6am to 7pm a tilapia from 6am to 2pm and a red snapper from 6am to 7pm only in the rain for the specialty fish bundle you’ll

Need a pufferfish found in the ocean 12 pm to 4 pm only in the sun and a wood skip from the secret woods at any time if you complete the vault bundle and unlock the desert you can find the sand fish in the pond there from 6am to 8pm

Also i went over this in the spring video but if you don’t have it yet the ghost fish is caught in the pond on floors 20 and 60 in the mines at any time also as a special little bonus if you’re wondering what the most profitable fishpond fish is it’s the

Lava eel caught in the lava lake at floor 100 of the mines it’s very difficult to catch but you only need one to start up the pond the row it produces is worth 380 gold each they also have a chance to produce the spicy eel food

Item which is great for going into the mines speaking of which I know it might be tough but i highly recommend completing the mines this season all of that gold will be required to make a good amount of quality sprinklers to get your auto farm going if you find yourself struggling stockpile some good food for a serious

Trip in the mines and only go on great luck days noted by the gold pyramid on the fortune teller channel if you complete the 2500 gold vault bundle you’ll get chocolate cake and always keep an eye out for the changing item for sale in the saloon it could be

Something really good as far as items for the bundles go just know that these can be done whenever but frozen tiers are forged on floors 40 to 79 fire quartz is forged on floors 80 to 120. you’ll find iron nodes on floor 40 and above gold nodes on floor 80 above i

Recommend going for the 10 bat wings dropped from bats and a solar essence easily obtained from ghosts for the adventurers bundle you’ll also need a frozen geode from floors 40 to 79 for the field research bundle and you can often find cave carrots red mushrooms and purple mushrooms through the whole mines used

For multiple bundles i suppose it’s also useful to mention that you can find winter roots crystal fruit and snow yams on floors 41-79 but they’re much easier to find from foraging in winter plus since you can’t find a crocus you can’t complete the winter bundle anyway

Let’s go over a few things that aren’t associated with any given skill first for the holidays neither has anything important or worth it for sale unless you want a decoration the luau is super important for building up relationships you’re able to put one item into the pot to add to the stew if

You want the best result some of the easiest to obtain items would be a gold sturgeon a gold super cucumber a gold catfish or a gold cauliflower a lot of the other items that would count are gold wines which are both extremely difficult to have this early

And also worth way too much to use here by the end of the season you can get money any number of ways but what should you put it towards as i said for the farming section getting a big coop and big barn is important especially since

You’ll need a pig by the end of fall they’ll run you 10k plus a bit extra to buy the animals for tool upgrades at this point upgrading your hoe watering can or trash can is optional you’ll absolutely need the steel axe and getting a pickaxe to gold makes the last

40 floors of the mines a lot easier assuming you’re starting at copper at the beginning of the season the axe and pickaxe upgrades will run you 20k then for the lower priority upgrades 10k towards the second backpack upgrade will save you a lot of hassle you’ll need 10k

Towards the house upgrade to get access to cooking which will eventually be required for the maki roll and fried egg it helps to start saving up for the vault bundles which you’ll want done by the end of fall then you’ll need around 10k to buy fall seeds

Add all this together and you’ll want around 70k made not counting money for all the small purchases like summer seeds or fish ponds that you’ll want as well this is really the first season you’ll genuinely want to be concerned about your output but plan enough crops and set up enough sprinklers and you

Won’t have to worry about it at all i hope this video has helped you as usual i’ll be posting these guides alongside my let’s play if you want to see a more in-depth look into my thought process into building a farm and going down the progression trees thank you for

Watching and i’ll see you soon You

Surprisingly, Summer’s not nearly as complicated as Spring, as such, we don’t go week by week, just a summary of goals for each part of the game: Farming, Foraging, Fishing, The Mines, and then everything else!

Birthdays have been omitted since those will be in their own guide!
Sections:
0:00 – Intro
0:28 – Farming
2:05 – Foraging
2:53 – Fishing
4:37 – Mining and Combat
5:34 – Holidays and Events
7:26 – Outro

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