A Quick Mastery Guide in Stardew Valley
Mastery is the Big New Thing, it’s going to change the way you play, so here’s just a few tips on how to get into it! This is just a short introduction to the topic, other videos are going to focus on each skill more in depth!
Sections:
0:00 – Intro
0:46 – The Mastery Cave
2:12 – Rewards for Each Skill
3:40 – Experience Making Methods
5:58 – The Best Experience Method
7:48 – Tracking Progress
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going back to read "booty butt" and the eyes while reading Grandpa's note are on different sides of the "My Feelings While Watching a Salmence Video" spectrum
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Another very useful video! Thank you!
Love the lil animation you did at 0:50!
I'm glad that 1.6 content is more adjacent to the core gameplay loop. My perfection-run attempts (I've never completed one) tend to crash out at Ginger Island because by the time I've unlocked it, I really don't want to be pulled away from my basic farming activities and Skull Cavern runs. It gets a bit overwhelming and demotivating because it feels out of place like a big swerve.
The mastery system is much more my speed as a lategame player because I've got huge plots of land under cultivation that can easily throw off thousands of XP regularly even with the half-XP nerf. I tend to hit Lv10 farming long before I hit Lv10 in the other skills. It's not something that feels forced.
I'm working on my second mastery start fall year one
anyone who was doing this before 1.6.6 came out, you were earning exp at 50% efficiency due to a bug! (except for farming, the 50% debuff was meant to apply only to farming xp so you don't kale your way to mastery 5 easily)
I think you made a slight Error. You can Unlock the Masteries in any order. You dont have to go in the order shown around 1:32
Unlocking Mastery itself is far more difficult than maxing the Mastery.
It's because most players have different playstyle and usually they focus on a few things instead of all 5, like someone who focus on farming and forage can have low fishing and combat and vice versa.
After unlocking Mastery it's pretty much just a matter of time until you get enough xp to max everything since it's shared within the same bar.
Excuse you, I am SO ready for the charts!!!!
Does using the iridium scythe on crops give u exp? And what about bombing rocks in the caves/cavern?
I'm just waiting for the update to come to console
No sleep! Pump out the vids Sal!
I was wondering when the skills guide would get a masteries bonus episode due to the update! 👀 I will no doubt be returning to this video once I reach mastery in my own save, so I can squint at my choices and overthink on the most simple and non-permanent of decisions 😂
i love the mastery system. its such a nice continuation of the skills into the late game and the perks from each (esp farming and combat) are REALLY nice, personally. and they're things i would find overpowered if they were modded, but as a mastery reward, being able to harvest all your crops with a scythe is pretty fair imo
I'll be curious to see what people think the best order is for unlocking. I'm at third unlock, and did farming, foraging, then combat, and will likely do mining next and leave fishing for last. Having the scythe was just too nice to pass up.
"Dear pesky Sal,
The Junimos and I have taken over Stardew Valley. Your hat has now become permanent monument in one of my 7 caves. I dare you to find it if you can."
The oldest 1.6 release did NOT have halved experience gain from harvesting crops. Do what you will with this information. I was on year 5 with at least 900 tiles of Ancient Fruit on my main farm, 600+ more tiles on Ginger Island and 119 tiles on Greenhouse. It only took me 2 to 3 harvesting sessions to get all five masteries. Get Iridium Scythe first. I think even with the halved experience gain, crop harvesting is still the best option for mastery experience.
„Kinda spoiler“ isn’t this the main content from… WHOLE 1.6?!?
So for mining mastery, if gems drop double, does that stack with the gemologist profession?
charts charts charts!
Can you forge 2 trinkets together?
I started playing Stardew Valley last month and your videos have been sooo helpful, and I just love your voice so much it just relaxes me. Sometimes I just play one of your videos in the background to chill.
Anyways, it would be great if you do some videos of the Ginger island and the Casino. I just unlocked both of them and I am so lost, I don't know what to do there.
TYSM anyways 🤍
New Sal video YAY!
You know it will be a good day when Sal posts.
Do you already have a video guide out for the Community Center? I'd like something concise to read off and prepare for year one community center for each season.
Love to see a new salmence video about them explaining something in stardew valley 😎
Looking forwards to the follow up vids! Thank you!
We ARE ready for the charts! Bring them on! 😀
I just started this game, i am overloaded with information
"Y'all are't ready for the charts…" BRO, I am here for them! You're charts are always nice!
Iridium scythe is priority number one! It makes gaining exp. a breeze. Try to save some strawberries from year 1 and multiply them in the greenhouse and seed maker enough for an average/big field (+100 quality sprinklers in my case). It is very satisfying to harvest a big field with the scythe, I even told my Junimo helpers to stop working since they don't add exp. By summer year 2 I've mastered all abilities 😁 Iridium scythe is op.