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Ranking Every Farm Map in Stardew Valley 1.6



Ranking Every Farm Map in Stardew Valley 1.6

I rank all of the Stardew Valley farm maps on a tier list. Which farms are great, and which ones are just trying to slowly drive the lifeforce out of you? Let’s take a look and find out!

Chapters
0:00 Thank You!
0:32 Intro, Background, and Criteria
1:58 Standard
2:47 Riverland
5:04 Forest
6:30 Hill-Top
7:35 Wilderness
8:54 Four Corners
10:04 Beach
11:55 Meadowlands

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23 Comments

  3. @riklaunim on

    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 😛

  5. @Storm-li1re on

    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.

  9. @plantszaza9002 on

    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.

  10. @joshuasmith9061 on

    Since I first started playing, I've always been a fan of Hilltop farm. I know it's not good for space, but the cliffs and stairs are cool to me. Meadowlands has replaced Forest challenge runs since you can now eat mayo for energy. I do disagree about 4 Corners though, it's so good for organization for scatterbrains like me.

  12. @thomtom3070 on

    I have some tier list ideas you can do:

    Tier list of all mastery rewards

    Tier list of all items/recipes you can buy from the walnut room

    Tier list of all the books

  13. @benrichetti1360 on

    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.

  15. @bobnewkirk7003 on

    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.

  17. @mimmikyute on

    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!

  18. @CivilWarMan on

    I'd personally place Forest Farm in my personal S tier, because the specialized forage of that map makes it very reliable for a quick and easy Community Center completion. You need 2 Purple Mushrooms for the base bundles, and I've found that personally the way that most reliably gets it in year one while requiring the least amount of work is to pick the Forest Farm and wait until Fall. I could get it quicker by rushing level 80+ in the mines or picking the mushroom cave, but both of those require a lot more work and/or upkeep, and going with the bat cave instead also allows me to get off-season fruit for those bundles if I don't get saplings planted in time.

  20. @mariannegrochol8384 on

    I only play on iPad and I have the Riverlands farm. When I started the game, I didn't know what I was picking and that was the first suggestion. I am waiting to see what the update will bring and how it will change what I can do there. The limits of it are a puzzle and a challenge to me and fun to try to solve. When I get to the point after the update of wanting a new farm, perhaps the Forest or Meadowlands. Thanks for the video – this is the type of comparison I needed to find.

  23. @od1401 on

    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

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