You know the one. You’ve come back from the office, the sun has already gone, you just missed the train, and the next one was packed. Eventually, you arrive home, an hour later than you expected, and you just want to relax, for the little time you still have left in the day.
Well, your quaint little farm in Stardew Valley is waiting for you! Those crops aren’t going to water themselves after all… unless you have Sprinklers, of course!
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While it might seem odd to some to come home from work, only to start virtual work, there’s something very satisfying about making progress in Stardew Valley. You get to skip the real-life struggles of having an actual farm and rake in the fortunes. Let’s take a look at some of the most therapeutic things in Stardew Valley that’ll help you chill out after a tough day.
10 Watering Your Crops & Letting the Animals Out
Sun’s Up! Time to Hustle, Farmer!
It’s Spring, you’ve just planted a whole host of Strawberry Seeds, and you’re waiting for those meager, yet wholly important Year 1 profits to start rolling in.
Maybe you’ve just invested in a coop and are saving up for an upgrade, all in good time. Why not let those chickens out to feed on some good old, nutritious grass?
I’m a person who likes a routine, and honestly, when you water your own crops or tend to your animals, it feels even better when you come to sell the produce. While it’s great to automate the process using Sprinklers or Auto-Petters over time, that new-beginning feeling when starting a new farm is pretty iconic.
9 Mining Early-Game Ores
No Such Thing as Too Much Copper
In the early game, mining ores and breaking rocks in the mines can feel like a bit of a chore, especially when everything takes several swings of your pickaxe to break.
However, when you’ve got your Iridium pickaxe, and you return to the early mine levels, it’s an amazing feeling being able to break everything in 1 single swing. In addition, if you’re on a good luck day, sometimes you’ll get long snaking veins of ore, netting you a huge amount of copper or iron all at once!
Or if you’re totally rich, you can just bring a load of bombs and blow everything to smithereens instead! That’s pretty satisfying too!
8 Harvesting your Hand-Grown Trees
I’m a Lumberjack, and I’m OK
At some point in your Stardew journey, you’ll realise you need a pretty ridiculous amount of wood. Whether that’s for crafting a massive amount of Kegs, Tappers or even just for general building upgrades.
While at first you might be collecting wood from Cindersap forest, that won’t quite cut it in the long run. Instead, you’ll need to start planting your own seeds and cutting down row after row of trees.
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All you need is a good couple of Axe investments, and you’ll be chopping down those trunks like a pro. And, of course, listening to the satisfying Shloop as you collect hundreds of drops all at once.
7 Getting Rid of the Clutter
If Only It Were This Easy in Real Life
Have you ever been so focused on something away from your farm that you completely forget about the actual farm itself? Maybe you got into a multi-day streak trying to get to floor 100 in Skull Cavern, or maybe you’ve just spent too much time on Ginger Island.
When you eventually get back to your main farm, you realize that it’s kinda gone to ruin. Wood everywhere, seeds and half-grown saplings, rocks, fields of grass and weeds encroaching on your hard work.
Well, nothing’s better than taking a scythe to the grass, a pickaxe to the rocks, and your axe to those pesky saplings and cleaning up that farm till it’s all good and sparkling new. It’s easy to lose time when you’re sorting out your land, a type of therapy where the world fades and all that matters is your little virtual farm. Simple pleasure, ey?
6 Handing out Everyone’s Favorite Gifts
Rabbit’s Feet for Everyone
It’s easy to ignore your fellow villagers early in the game. However, when you realise you either want a partner or you need some of those recipes, you’ll quickly start building up a little supply of all the townsfolk’s favourite gifts.
Now, suddenly, instead of your previous morning ritual of watering crops and releasing animals, you’ll have a new routine where you go around to each villager and give them their favourite things.
Occasionally, they’ll be impossible to find, and then suddenly they’re all inside the tavern, and you can cross off half your list at once! And then, when the gift lands on someone’s birthday, and you gift them an Iridium quality item, their hearts shoot up, and everything seems worth it!
5 Cracking Open Some Geodes
1 Stone? You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
Ever had a whole month where you go to the volcano or Skull Cavern pretty much every day? You might be collecting Iridium, Prismatic Shards, or even ticking off some of Mr Qi’s crazy Walnut challenges.
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However, something you’ll notice you’re getting a lot of, blasting your way through thousands of rocks, is Omni Geodes. And there’s almost nothing better than heading over to Clint and breaking open all those Geodes at once!
It’s easy to collect most of the minerals, but there’s always one or two that just evade you for ages! The hunt, that’s what keeps me going. And you know, when I’ve done the minerals, I’m going to be cracking open Artifact troves to complete my museum collection!
4 Hanging Out in the Saloon
A Couple of Cans With the Fellas
Stardew Valley can be weird at times. Sometimes you have days that absolutely fly by. And sometimes you have those days that just seem to go on forever!
Whatever you’ve been up to, sometimes it’s nice to finish early and head over to the Saloon. More often than not, the Stardew Pub is full of life, villagers chatting and relaxing, taking a load off and having a few beers.
You can take this time to give some folks their daily gifts, or just to hang out and enjoy the vibes. Not every single hour of your day needs to be dedicated to finishing some task. Or, if you’re a bit of a masochist, you can play some Junimo Cart… but does anyone actually enjoy that game?
3 Organising Your Farm (and Your House)
There’s No Place Like Home
So you’ve just spent a few days cleaning up your farm. You don’t seriously think you’re finished there, right?
Now it’s time to make it look nice! Tie your farm together by linking each area with nice wooden paths, and then outline each path with trees. Colour-coordinate your buildings, then place grass in specific locations to create a wild yet tailored look in certain areas. Fill in the empty areas, add decorations, and now… well, now you can finally start on your house!
Do you have a museum room? A fish tank room? A main bedroom and your kids’ bedroom? I mean, the world is your oyster here, folks. And when it comes together, well, that’s a joy that can’t be explained here.
2 Fishing in Your Favorite Spot
Let the World Drift Away
I used to be pretty anti-fishing. It can be slow, and it seems to take forever to level up. However, the longer you spend practicing this skill, the more the pieces seem to fall into place.
At some point, you’ll fall into a kind of fishing-zen, where you basically don’t even focus on the fishing bar anymore, and the “Perfects” come quickly and easily. Then you can find your favorite spot and relax. The fish doesn’t even matter anymore!
Whether it’s listening to the rustle of falling leaves in the Secret Forest, the babble of the waterfall at the Mountain Lake, or even the eerie stillness at the bottom of the Ocean floor, there’s a tranquillity to fishing in Stardew Valley that can’t be replicated.
1 Harvesting Plants / Kegs / Minerals
Patience Pays Dividends
But, of course, nothing is quite as therapeutic as harvesting day, right? You’ve spent all your money on upgrades and seeds, and now you’re ready for the money to flow back in once more!
Do you have 100 kegs of Ancient Fruit Wine ready to sell? Perhaps your Crystallariums have all finished producing a small mountain of diamonds. Or maybe you’ve planted an entire field’s worth of blueberries, and they’re all ready to be swept up.
It’s the anticipation of waiting days and days for your hard work to pay off that makes this wonderful harvesting so incredibly satisfying. And when you finally head to sleep, and all that delicious gold pours in… well, you know it’s time to repeat the whole process all over again!
You’ll have that Gold Clock before you know it!
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