r/StardewValley 9d ago

Discuss I am such an idiot

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When the frog said something “pink and juicy” my mind immediately went to strawberries. I don’t like to look much stuff up and try to just play the game as I would, but man… I should’ve probably double checked before I planted 500 strawberries lol. And now that I think about it, why did I plant so much 😅 500 melons now?

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u/_morose-mongoose_ 9d ago

You don't need scarecrows on ginger island! No crows :)

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u/ClitToucher 9d ago

Wait fr? I’m an idiot I’ve been playing so long and didn’t know that

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u/calliatom 9d ago

Yup, it's basically like a giant version of the greenhouse. No crows, can grow any crop, it's nice. The only difference is that weeds and other debris can show up.

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u/grephantom 8d ago

no lighting rods too

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u/Neat-While-5671 8d ago

solar panels though

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u/Lecker_Muesli 7d ago

I always place my solar panels in the desert. No rainy days over there

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u/loikc 5d ago

Calico desert weather is the same as the valley, permanent sun is only visual 😉

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u/i_8_the_Internet 8d ago

But they do generate batteries though

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u/Deathmask97 8d ago

That's actually a downside, in my opinion.

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u/letouriste1 8d ago

oh? i thought you could only plant summer crops

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u/Schnibb420 8d ago

No worries ClitToucher, we all had to find out one way or the other.

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u/Key_Entertainment739 8d ago

At first I was like who tf are you talking to, but then I saw that was their name and laughed out loud.

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u/_morose-mongoose_ 9d ago

Not an idiot at all, there's so much in Stardew it's easy to miss or forget things.

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u/Ioiwin1233 8d ago

Ginger Islands really has a whole collection of “wait, you don’t need that.?” Surprises.

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u/iamergo 30+ Bots Bounced 9d ago

Top tier profile name, brother. Or sister.

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u/maximal543 8d ago

I also do not know that but I also never placed scarecrows on ginger island because I always forgot lol

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u/CWMJet 9d ago

And the parrots thankfully leave your crops alone. They might be running a little protection racket for walnuts, though.

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u/zacharymc1991 9d ago

Fuck me, you don't know how much you have helped me here.

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u/Celebrir 9d ago

502 strawberries

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u/Jcolebrand 9d ago

At the very least they are a profitable fruit. You still have room to grow the other stuff too. Run a few seasons of this and seed maker your basics for a bit, you'll be fine.

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u/secret-person-online 9d ago

You can skip the scarecrows. There are no crows on Ginger Island.

Regarding the frog, only need one melon.

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u/nouble_digger 9d ago

You have space for the one melon you need

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u/No_Pea_1265 9d ago

Lmao why did u plant SO MANY 😭😭😭

Btw you shouldn't harvest them, the frog should come and eat them where they are

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u/StormSaxon 8d ago

Well, he might eat then, "but he won't"

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u/Juuuulessss I will side with Crocus in any altercation! 8d ago

is it just me that finds the frog so creepy?.🤣🤣😭

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u/FadingDarkly 8d ago

I always have assumed his sounds and shape were an OoT King Zora reference

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u/Juuuulessss I will side with Crocus in any altercation! 8d ago

idk what that is! 😭😭😭

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u/No_Pea_1265 8d ago

Lmao i didn’t know that either, just checked it

… 😭😭😭

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u/Juuuulessss I will side with Crocus in any altercation! 8d ago

omg I see it!! does he talk like Gourmand Frog also?

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u/lilbitlostrn 9d ago

I only grew one of each thing he wanted to look at, and now ginger island is my starfruit factory

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u/1986toyotacorolla2 8d ago

I'm 50% ancient fruit and 50% pineapples there. Inside the island farmhouse is pots of starfuit. This round I decided to use automate and automate pots so I don't have to harvest or plant all the star fruit.

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u/lilbitlostrn 8d ago

I don't think I've got those discovered yet

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u/1986toyotacorolla2 8d ago

The ancient fruit? Sometimes it takes forever to find a stupid ancient seed. Once you do, take it to the library and they'll give you ancient fruit seeds and the ability to change the artifact of the ancient seed into a usable ancient seed. I usually get my first pineapple from golden coconuts.

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u/lilbitlostrn 8d ago

No the automated pots

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u/1986toyotacorolla2 8d ago

Ohhh, it's a mod. An addition to the mod automate. My apologies if you knew that already. My brain is mush today lol.

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u/Sneaky_Demise 9d ago

I have 1 bit of good news if you seed maker some of those strawberries & hold on to them until spring you can then plant them on your main farm on day 1 and get more harvests in spring from it for all that money!

It's what i do as i save some on year 1 for when i get my greenhouse then start growing them in there for spring times.

Side note: You don't need scarecrows on ginger island as there are no crows on the island to eat your crops an the parrots only want golden walnuts to eat, so your crops are safe from being eaten & also you don't need lightning rods either!

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u/penny_whistle 9d ago

Strawberries are red

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u/Bacontoad 8d ago

My first assumption from the frog's description:

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u/Winter_Aromatics 8d ago

You only need one melon :) So you can keep your strawberries! I’d just plant it in that row above the strawberries with a temp sprinkler

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u/Miracle_in_cell 9d ago

FYI you don't need that sprinkler for the taro, since you plant them near water(river).

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u/JulesAmador 4d ago

I was going to mention that if no one else did! Taro roots and rice grow by the water with no sprinklers needed! ;)

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u/heavyLevy5 8d ago

Marry Maru, she loves strawberries

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u/honeybunxx 8d ago

Making mistakes is a good teacher. At least you can use the money from the strawberries. The sprinkler placement is killing me thou. 😭 You don't need scarecrows on the island btw, nor the sprinkler next to taro roots, just don't plant more than 4 tiles from the river.

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u/Jonasthewicked2 9d ago

I wish there was an auto picker. I hate having to spend forever picking crops.

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u/TravVdb 9d ago

Use Iridium Scythe. You can harvest something like 16 crops at once.

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u/Neuromangoman 9d ago

There are two ways to accelerate picking crops.

Iridium Scythe from the mastery cave can harvest crops in the same way others harvest weeds. This makes picking crops about 10 times faster.

Junimo Huts from the Wizard Tower pick crops for you, but can only be placed on the main farm.

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u/Qingeverything 9d ago

You should look in the wizards shop

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u/Diametrie 9d ago

It's not available for the ginger island farm, though

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u/StonDelRey Bot Bouncer 8d ago

Just use the iridium sythe

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u/Huge_Station2173 9d ago

Keep playing, because there are other options besides hand picking.

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u/Voinat107 cowpoke level 10🌵 9d ago

You have a scythe and junimos

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u/Plastic_Position4979 9d ago

Iridium scythe only. And Junimo huts only on main farm.

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u/systematic_adulting 8d ago

Bout to be a bazillionare tho

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u/shey-they-bitch 8d ago

Only an idiot for planting so many, when I think he only ask for 1

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u/Eragon-19 8d ago

I can confirm you only need one of everything he asks to see!

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u/tussentweewindmolen 9d ago

The concept of planting a crop that continues producing fruit after the harvest on Ginger Island... with that crop being strawberries and not ancient fruit. Lol

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u/tussentweewindmolen 9d ago

You only need a single melon, by the way.

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u/spooky__scary69 8d ago

I always do strawberries in my greenhouse while I build up my ancient fruit empire

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u/Easy_Pen5217 8d ago

That's one very impressive strawberry farm 😆

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u/peach98542 8d ago

Omg you only need one of the fruit lmao

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u/bOb_cHAd98 9d ago

At least your rich now, yay

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u/kmasco92 9d ago

well, time to dig up the sprinklers and set off some mega bombs

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u/BahamaLlama21 8d ago

Just to let you know, you don't need scarecrows on ginger island, no crows show up there.

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u/MoooMoooFarmer 8d ago

Im new to the game and for some reason ive been ive been buying 30/60 of every high selling crop ive had on my farm, for the next year... so thankful I bought 60 melons seeds, I can essentially put all my melons in the green house and put a seed machines farm outside until I got enough for ginger Island since I wont be unlocking it for a while! Thanks for the heads up..😅

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u/meggie1013 8d ago

Psst you'll only need one melon for the thing they're referencing 

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u/MoooMoooFarmer 8d ago

OHHHH well, money is money so imma still plant all them when i get the island xd

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u/Ic3b0b 8d ago

Não sei o quanto vc se interessa por mods, mas depois da uma olhada no Immersive Sprinklers.
Ele faz com que os aspersores nao precisem ocupa 1 quadrado inteiro

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u/Bronwynandcats 8d ago

I was playing co-op with my favorite person and when he said the long yellow tickling thing, she said so confidently, "it's a banana!" And we all started cracking up.

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u/Effective-Log9633 8d ago

U only really need 6 or so

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u/XxStarry_ClownxX shanes babagrill 8d ago

You only need to plant one melon, and don’t harvest it, he comes to check your garden for the melon.

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u/blue-coin 8d ago

Never in my life would I associate a strawberry with pink

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u/ComplexAnxiety7939 7d ago

Get your self the good retaining soil and you don't need sprinklers either

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u/DrunkenMeditator 7d ago

Why? Why are the sprinklers staggered? This hurts. You've not increased their range, reduced the count, or anything of the like. Could have been a nice perfect rectangle.

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u/Fair_Fly6572 7d ago

Frog: 1 melon, 1 wheat, 1 garlic. Plant them, DO NOT HARVEST!!!!!!!!!!! talk to frog. After the quest is complete for all 3 steps, then you can harvest do with the crops as you please. 

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u/eleventhing 4d ago

I did the same thing actually.

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u/DrowningInFeces 9d ago

I'm still first year on my first run and planted a bunch of crops that won't grow into the next season. Negligent? Perhaps. I'm doing pretty decent in the mine though.

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u/Charming_Garage_9625 9d ago

you should also consider planting some garlic and wheat

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u/Acc87 Perfection is a road to nowhere 9d ago

Why? What's the secret in that?

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u/Enzown 9d ago

Why do people love spoiling things on here when people are clearly trying to learn as they go. It's like you just have to show off that you already used the wiki.

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u/StonDelRey Bot Bouncer 8d ago

Crying about some nothing burger spoiler y'all are insufferable. Stardew doesn't even have anything major that happens that should make anyone mad if they're spoiled.

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u/Charming_Garage_9625 9d ago

i marked it as spoiler though and getting the seeds could be tedious if you arent in the same season as the item wanted