Ranking Every Farm Map in Stardew Valley 1.6

I am RIDICULOUSLY early 😭

Riverland with the fish smoker is solid income boost early on and in summer the middle island is enough to do quality sprinklers + blueberries and buy all upgrades from joja.
Forest farm with respawnable hardwood stumps is a good source of foraging exp when trying to get to mastery cave ASAP and hardwood that later can be converted to wood as well. Buildings like coops and barns could be placed vertically one below another with shared open space for grass making it very space efficient.
Beach farm leans more into mass-buildings or big forest/green tea farms… can hold a lot of animals.
4-corners is nice for organization and for never-leave-farm challenge.
Meadowlands – as coops and barns can't be rotated it makes bit annoying to place building optimally assuming you want > 10-20 coops/barns.

I made two custom maps too – small permafrost farm (permanent winter) and smallest map possible with all "features" turned on… self-promotion 😛

I use different farm maps for different play styles. Forest, riverlands and standard for challenges. Beach farm for a beachy themed perfection farm with loads of blobfish fish ponds. Four corners for being a sheperd. Meadowlands for just marrying a npc, often a modded one. Hilltop farm for playing with Ridgeside village mod. And Wilderness for just fooling around.

Does meadowlands start with a silo?

One thing not mentioned in the video is that grass doesn't spread on the non-tillable tiles.
The big grassy land, which is half of the Meadowland map, can't be used for animals to roam and eat grass.
It's not really an issue for people with <10 Coop/Barns though.

"You found a Stardrop, its taste reminds you of demonitization "

For how excited you sounded about the Beach farm, I was expecting it to be your first S-tier. As I was considering this comment, your love for mushroom logs made its B rating all the more surprising.

as a bit of a perfectionist I'd rank 4C as "S". each quadrant can be devoted to a different industry which makes the compartmentalizing part of my brain happy. Otherwise I'm in total agreement with your list.

I think CA and team should really consider a glow-up for the Riverlands, Hilltop, and Wilderness farm. In a lot of ways Riverlands gets supplanted by Beach, and Wilderness by Meadowlands, but having an in-base mining site is a really neat concept that i think is under-explored. What I think would be really cool is if the farm map got ported right out of a mines map, maybe have rock wall all the way around, with just a small ring of tillable Green in the middle with a pool at the center. Then everything outside of the green would spawn mines rocks each day, maybe with a higher chance of gems. +1 if you could get a ladder to spawn to take you to the mines, or a Hole to take you to SK direct from your farm, that way it keeps the advantage at endgame.

I just started a new 1.6 farm and ofc I had to pick Meadowlands. It's such a game changer for a casual player. I usually get my first animals in Summer and this time I was able to get a barn instead of a coop first, which feels like I skipped ahead so much. I don't think the water source is as much a problem as I've been hearing; because my routine is to water my crops then go check on my chickens anyway and the pond is right beside them. I definitely agree it's an S tier!

congrats on 2k!! your pets are so cute and i always enjoy watching your videos💚

Meadowlands farm over four corners farm is wild

Beautiful pets. The dog seems like a senior with his greybeard unless I'm horribly mistaken lol. Senior dogs are lovely in their way though with their "idgaf" attitude and chill vibes