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I am in awe of this Stardew Valley player’s one great trick to remember how many seeds they need916
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If you’ve ever made cautious forays into the online communities forStardew Valley, you will know they are intimidating and inspiring in equal measure. Players post screenshots of their megafarms: “Autumn farm, year 6,” they’ll say, alongside a photo of vast fields of pumpkins, the space usage finely tuned to produce maximum yield for minimum effort. “Summer Year 4,” another will announce, showing a holding with actual dozens of beehives (when I don’t even have one) - and that’s just one small part of their whole farm.
Animals need grass to eat, and some items can be placed over a square of grass so that animals can’t eat it, but it keeps generating new squares of grass for them. Grass is, in the early stages of the game, pretty annoying, because it seeds itself sort-of-randomly across your farm, unless you keep it fenced in.
ButReddit user “hslsoocjen"used grass to their advantage, however. They have what they describe as an “irregularly shaped” field, and kept forgetting how many seeds they needed to buy to re-sow it. Their solution to this was both elegant and sledgehammery:
hslsoocjen has renewed my determination to get a farm that holds almost a thousand (!) crops, as well as my awe at what people come up with when vidya games give them the tools. It’s not for nothing that Stardew Valley appears on a lot of our bestest best lists, including our list ofbest RPGs, our list ofbest management gamesand our list ofbest co-op games.
