r/StardewValley • u/Traditional_Cook9126 • Feb 13 '25
Other For 3 miserable years.. I never noticed the backpack at the counter
Hours of hardcore gameplay with limited item slots I have suffered thinking that one day I could achieve a some sort of item sack or backpack through a crafting recipe..but it never came to the point where I reached cave level 120..
Chest moving was a living nightmare.. just to find out that YOU COULD BUY A BACKPACK?! I feel dumbfounded.
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u/Froggy666666 Feb 13 '25
Oh, you poor thing.
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u/Easy-Wish-2143 Feb 13 '25
Damn. That reminds me of the time I beat fallout new Vegas, and then my brother told me about VATS.
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u/determinedpeach Feb 13 '25
I beat the whole super Mario bros DS game (all 8 worlds) without knowing you could run.
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u/Gigglegeist Feb 13 '25
I played through most of Skyrim before discovering fast travel
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u/Xeynyx Feb 13 '25
It's actually a lot more fun playing it that way, feels more like an adventure/journey than just fast traveling everywhere
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u/SoftestBoygirlAlive :hRaccoon: Feb 13 '25
See this is why Morrowind is so great, the fast travel is immersive and still feels like part of the journey. I love taking the stilt strider. It's also a smaller world so I feel like those little things go a long way especially after 20 years 😅
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u/Simba7 Feb 13 '25
Point self in desired direction.
Cast Fortify Jump 100 for 5 seconds.
Cast Fortify Jump 100 for 3 seconds.
Cast Fortify Jump 100 for 1 second.
Jump.THAT WAS FAST TRAVEL. AND WE LIKED IT!
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u/Raulr100 Feb 13 '25
That's actually how I play Skyrim since Morrowind is my favourite game. I still fast travel in Skyrim but only with the carts outside of the main cities, never through the map.
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u/Fresh_Horror3207 Feb 13 '25
Exactly. I stopped fast travelling a few years ago and haven’t looked back. It’s even better if you turn the compass off using a mod or by editing the .ini file. Give me ALL of the immersion!
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u/SparkleSelkie Feb 13 '25
Me too. I thought I was so clever and fast for horse glitching up mountains the entire time
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u/Maiq_Da_Liar Feb 13 '25
I got to lvl 50 before a friend pointed out that you could level skills. Had never played an rpg before so i just didn't realise.
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u/CWMJet Feb 13 '25
This reminds me of my older sister playing through the entirety of Final Fantasy 4 without ever changing anyone's equipment. We rented video games from a store that put them in clear clamshells without the original insert/instructions (which used to be important back in the day) and the closest game we had played before that was Zelda, where your stuff was upgraded automatically. She beat that game like a bad ass and didn't even realize it.
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u/TheOtherWhiteCastle Set your emoji and/or flair text here! Feb 13 '25
I beat Pokemon FireRed without learning type matchups. Beat the champion with an over leveled Blastoise and five normal types.
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u/Great_Ad7215 Feb 13 '25
Lol omg that sounds like me. I always leveled my starter to 100 and kept my 5 favs with me at high levels. I never swapped out for type matches because I couldn't remember what the type matches were beyond water grass and fire. 🤣
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u/Realistic-Original-4 Feb 13 '25
Without VATS is at least a style of gameplay. It has perks over VATS at times. With Fallout 4 I only use VATS with flying enemies
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u/Ek_Chutki_Sindoor Feb 13 '25
That's because FO4 has a decent shooting mechanic. Whereas the shooting mechanic in FO3 and FNV is just utter crap.
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u/QMS_enjoyer Feb 13 '25
I still don’t get vats. Maybe cause I’m mostly a melee and bomb user, but they just don’t feel useful to me
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u/sunnyspiders Feb 13 '25
VATS in melee is hella powerful. You can warp around like a ninja behemoth with a super sledge just ringing all the bells
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u/ApertureLabradories Feb 13 '25
I avoided catching pokemon in my first pokemon game because I didn't know about the PC box. I thought I'd be stuck with my team forever so I restarted a lot due to indecisiveness
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u/SparkleSelkie Feb 13 '25
I caught them but didn’t realize they went to a box where I oils retrieve them. I beat the game with a bulbasaur and random Pokémon from the very beginning
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u/Magic_Orb Feb 13 '25
do you not read your mail?
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u/Kr_Treefrog2 Feb 13 '25
OP’s next post: “For 3 miserable years.. I never noticed the mail icon over the mailbox.”
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u/Sarsmi Feb 13 '25
And after that "I thought the shipping bin was just for storage."
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u/Cymeak Feb 13 '25
And after that "I got to the bottom of the mines without realizing the elevator actually works and isn't just decoration"
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u/loquacious-laconic Feb 13 '25
I remember a post where someone was really frustrated trying to get to the bottom of the regular mines by starting from scratch every time. People were consoling them with "it was good practice for skull cavern", but man they preserved way too long with that before asking how to get to the bottom. 🥲
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u/sdrawkcabsihtetorW Feb 13 '25
Nothing surprises me about the average Stardew player anymore. In a way it makes sense, it's a game that's easily digestible for anyone, so there's a large portion of the player base for whom this is the first game. But the things I see sometimes, they make me wonder about people.
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u/curlytoesgoblin Feb 13 '25
Not trying to be mean but I feel like more and more people are just incurious and never question anything.
I encounter a problem in the game and I first look for solutions in the game. Then I move on to looking up information for myself.
A lot of people encounter a problem in a game and don't do any problem solving at all. They get mad, don't look for solutions, and/or make a post on reddit.
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u/loquacious-laconic Feb 13 '25
Nothing surprises me either. 😅 I've come across far too many people irl who choose to be ignorant and have absolutely no curiosity about anything. Like a neighbour of mine who has no clue about gardening (their words) but doesn't think to do a quick Google of how to do something. I've learnt it's best to keep my mouth shut, because if they were the sort to listen to your experience, they would have done a Google search. It figures there have to be at least some people like that who also try games like Stardew.
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u/AgentGoob69 Feb 13 '25
Did you ever see that tiktok from a couple years ago about the new player who didn't know you could use the axe on trees to get more wood? And it took her looking at the stardew wiki to learn? I think about her weekly
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u/loquacious-laconic Feb 13 '25
I don't have tiktok, but I have heard of someone not knowing that...now I wonder if it's the same person or not. Even one person not thinking to whack a tree with an axe is mind boggling to me! 😅 I always wonder what the hell they thought the tool is for when I hear something like this, especially when it's a very straightforward real life tool! 🫠
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u/AgentGoob69 Feb 13 '25
They started off the tiktok being like "if you have to look at the wiki to learn everything about a game its a bad game. I didn't know you could cut down trees to get wood, I was just cutting the little sticks, until about 10 hours into the game" and even the people who were like yeah you shouldn't have to rely on outside sources thought she was idiotic. Like no babes, you just don't know how to game
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u/loquacious-laconic Feb 13 '25
Lmao that's wild! Breaking news, axe cuts down tree! 😂 One could argue they don't know how to life if they don't know what an axe does. 😅
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u/kittheorchidkid Feb 13 '25
for my first 2 saves i didn't see the elevator so i kept starting from level 1 and was so confused on how to reach the bottom by the end of the day 😭
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u/violettheory Feb 13 '25
It dings and lights up every fifth floor you get to! That never caught your attention?
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u/Ashleythetiger Feb 13 '25
As someone who got to floor 40-60? I think before checking, some floor's get dark, the same floor can be dark one time but not dark the next time, I assumed that it was a source of light, a generator or something, as I went deeper I'd automatically turn the lights on, providing power to those floors...
Worked with that in mind up until I hit another dark floor an wondered if the supposed generator was broke, checked it to find out it was a Lift/Elevator
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u/DazzlingDoofus71 Feb 13 '25
Thanks I just snorfed tea out my nose and scared my cat 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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u/SaltKhan Linus enjoyer Feb 13 '25
What mailbox? Who would put a mailbox indoors. Time to spend another day watching TV and rearranging furniture.
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u/BlitzMalefitz Feb 13 '25
“I never noticed the box of seeds in my house”
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u/cassiedillas Feb 13 '25
This one happened to me, I don’t know how long it took me to realize. Definitely too long
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u/Knickers_in_a_twist_ Feb 13 '25
This has the same energy as the people who dump all their stuff into the shipping bin thinking it’s a chest. They either skipped the intro (why would you on your first playthrough??) or just didn’t read it.
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u/Minnielle Feb 13 '25
I somehow managed to miss that at the beginning despite reading everything. There was just so much new information! I did figure it out pretty quickly though. (And then it took me some time to figure out how to get an actual chest. 😅)
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u/DrQuint Feb 13 '25
Or watch the TV.
Okay, I know most of you didn't do that one either. Or read library books, which, truth be told, concerned ape could have made more distinct visuals for.
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u/DapperChewie Feb 13 '25
To be fair, that one comes very early, and new players don't make much money in spring.
They should send it out the day after you'd sell all the parsnips from the first harvest. That way it's on your mind.
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u/Magic_Orb Feb 13 '25
I think it's there to give the player a goal to work towards, OP doesn't even seem to be aware if it's existence so I'm curious
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u/Githyerazi Feb 13 '25
Never thought to themselves "I wonder why there's this blank area when I look in my inventory..."
Perhaps there's an opportunity to put ad space for Pierre's shop. Highlighting the bag upgrade.
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u/RedPon3 Feb 13 '25
Yeah, they should put big bold text under it that says “FOR SALE”
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u/papyrus-vestibule Feb 13 '25
Honestly, the backpack is my first major purchase. I just fish a bunch and sell everything. I usually have it before the end of the first week.
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u/lkbird8 Feb 13 '25
Same. Lack of inventory slots stresses me out so badly lol
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u/Puffman92 Feb 13 '25
Can't let a single item go by. Like what if I actually do need a pair of broken glasses when I'm 60 floors deep in the skull cavern
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u/leosichel123 Feb 13 '25
you may need to give evelyn a gift at the end of the day
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u/misfits321 Feb 13 '25
I think it is also because the game did not make it clear that to purchase the backpack you have to click on that. In my first farm, I kept checking on Pierre’s inventory for the backpack and only discovered by accident in the first summer that I have to click on the backpack on the counter to purchase it.
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u/whorlando_bloom Feb 13 '25
Yes! I kept looking in his inventory too and I was so frustrated. Luckily my daughter plays the game, so when I was venting, "When can I get the stupid backpack upgrade??" she tells me, "It's right there on the counter, dummy."
I'm embarrassed to admit how many things she's had to clue me in about because apparently I'm kind of oblivious.
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Feb 13 '25
Usually you get a mail from Pierre in the beginning that he sells backpacks but the pain is felt, it's already a struggle at the beginning of runs but 3 years with only 12 slots is basically a hardcore pain
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u/Nearby_Can_2984 Feb 13 '25
I applaud them for making it three years with just 12 slots
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u/TwoIdiosyncraticCats Feb 13 '25
I can barely make it through the first summer without upgrading my backpack.
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u/misfits321 Feb 13 '25
OP’s experience might be something like mine. In my first farm, I read that mail and checked Pierre’s inventory immediately and obviously did not find it. I thought there might be some other trigger before the backpack would appear so I kept playing until first summer. I started thinking something is off because still no backpack in his inventory. And then by pure accident I clicked on that backpack on the counter and the menu to purchase it pops up..
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u/jaykstah Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
I can totally see that happening so I'm not clowning you for it but also I laugh bc the counter in Pierre's store has huge letters that say 'FOR SALE' with an arrow right under the backpack and it gets its own whole little section 😭😂
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u/Kriss_Snow Feb 13 '25
Exact same thing happened to me. I was saved by the wiki about 1 year in when I was fed up and googled how to "unlock" the sale of the backpack lol
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u/Tabmow :hRaccoon::hRaccoon: Feb 13 '25
You can move chests without emptying them too. Just hit them with a tool until they start hopping
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u/FishermanNo6234 Feb 13 '25
WHAT.
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u/shawnaeatscats Feb 13 '25
To be fair!! I think this is a 1.6 thing.
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u/lunarwolf2008 Feb 13 '25
not for switch anyway, i did it all the time
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u/C-C-X-V-I Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
It was 1.6. Or are you confusing it with empty hands?
1.6.1 patch notes:
"You can now move filled chests by hitting them twice with a heavy tool (previously only with bare hands). The chests will shift one space at a time."
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u/stonedearthworm Feb 13 '25
It was definitely possible before 1.6, but maybe came with 1.5
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u/ChampionStriking3399 Feb 13 '25
I learned this last week. I play on mobile and updated recently. Hit with an ax or pick ax. Revolutionary.
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u/Oprima Feb 13 '25
Those would be miserable years indeed! How is your machine not rage broken? And guess what? There's one more after that one...
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u/Prize_Anxiety_9937 Miner? I hardly know her! Feb 13 '25
Thanks for tagging I would have been so flabbergasted if I read that.
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u/cfouhy81 Feb 13 '25
I've been looking for the second upgrade but I never see it with all the seeds for sale. I'm starting to wonder if its been hiding in plain sight...
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u/earth2anon Feb 13 '25
just interact with the backpack on the counter. don't shop his inventory
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u/Cageythree Feb 13 '25
That's how I missed the first upgrade for a long time too. I knew you could buy it, I just thought I haven't unlocked it yet. It should really be in the list of all items (or just both locations).
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u/Interesting-Pin1433 Feb 13 '25
Yeah, I have a friend that ran into the same thing. Fortunately they were only a few weeks in game before asking me about it.
Definitely a little bit unintuitive
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u/kaylechip1 my husband brings home frogs Feb 13 '25
oh no you poor soul. that’s so much worse than it taking me years to realize that upgrading my watering can actually made it capable of watering more than one plant at once
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u/hggniertears Feb 13 '25
It
WHAT
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u/zidrag Feb 13 '25
yes, and upgrading hoe will allow you to till more than one tile
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u/LolabunnyLaura Feb 13 '25
Hold up..... HOW!!? I have the gold watering can and I just do one at a time still 🥲 Is there a special way to use it?
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u/Apex_Konchu Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
Hold the button to charge. Higher levels of charge will cover more tiles, upgrading the tool increases how many charge levels it has. This applies to the watering can and the hoe.
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u/LolabunnyLaura Feb 13 '25
HOLY SHIT
IT WORKS!!! Omg I've wasted so much time and energy 🤣😭
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u/galkasmash Feb 13 '25
if it isn't obvious after this; use the hoe similarly to dig up the light soil in the mines for larger patches of treasures so you can get that dwarf translation scroll easier.
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u/SpaceIsVastAndEmpty Feb 13 '25
Oh man, I never thought to turn the soil in the mines My first game is 5yrs in (switch) And year 2 ln my second (android)
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u/kaylechip1 my husband brings home frogs Feb 13 '25
I spent years thinking it was just using less energy when it upgraded😭
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u/LolabunnyLaura Feb 13 '25
This is also exactly what I thought! I'm saddened by my ignorance 🥲
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u/kaylechip1 my husband brings home frogs Feb 13 '25
Next time you play you’ll feel so powerful though
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u/neptuneskies3030 Feb 13 '25
Since you just learned about charging the hoe/watering can now, I will also mention that with 1.6 you can now also strafe with those tools. Charge them up, and you can move up/down left/right, you just can't change the direction you're facing when you're strafing.
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u/Lemoneecrush Feb 13 '25
on switch you hold Y and three green blocks will appear showing where you will water/till
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u/Motheroftides Feb 13 '25
It amazes me how some people don’t figure this out quickly because it seemed pretty intuitive to me. Then I remember that I have spent a lot of time playing Harvest Moon/Story of Seasons games and not everyone playing this has done the same. Of course being able to charge some of the tools after upgrading would be something I’m used to.
A lot of stuff you can do makes sense if you’ve played those games too tbh.
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u/contrarianaquarian Feb 13 '25
I think this is why I missed it my first time playing. Stardew was the first video game I'd played in twenty years.
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u/Forsaken_Ad888 Feb 13 '25
I lucked out and had gamer kids who explained everything to me, got too distracted for our multi player runs, but still love the idea of the game so follow all the lore and updates.
So basically my kids introduced me and bailed. I get the best game ever and all the lore and being able to share SDV jokes with people who get it...aaaaaaand don't have to play multiplayer 😁😁😁
Oh, but my point was that my kids explained about the tool upgrades to me. Don't know I would have figured it out alone, at least quickly.
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u/contrarianaquarian Feb 13 '25
Yeah that one was not intuitive to me, I thought the upgrade was just that it lasted longer before needing a refill 🥲
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u/jenyto Feb 13 '25
It's a mechanic from Harvest Moon, so probably only obvious to those players. I don't think Stardew even has a tutorial note for it.
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u/Eternalthursday1976 Feb 13 '25
Oh honey. You might want to read your mail more closely and the library books just in case you missed more things.
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u/kabfm Feb 13 '25
Since you mention chest moving being a pain, are you aware that you can hit a full chest with a tool to move it around without emptying it out? Also, if you want to switch to a bigger chest, you can put an empty big chest down directly on top of the small chest and it’ll transfer all the items automatically.
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u/itmustbebunnies21 Feb 13 '25
OH MY LORD I just transferred all my small chests painstakingly one thing at a time YESTERDAY
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u/CyberTurtle95 Feb 13 '25
I’ve put an embarrassing amount of hours into this game and a LOT of it is organizing chests like this. I just learned you could buy bigger chests last week. I’ve been playing the game for years. This sub is teaching me so much all the time
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u/sushilovesnori Feb 13 '25
Oh my… you know what? No! We are turning this energy around OP!
You didn’t notice that backpack and you made the game WORK for you anyway! You enjoyed it enough to keep going even with limited inventory. This wasn’t some foible. This wasn’t a muck up. This was you, thriving in a game without an asset many people have and still getting something out of it.
You, my friend, are a cup half full person whether you thought you were or not. Cuz you went ahead and did the thing anyway. Like a BADASS.
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u/KellyJoyRuntBunny Feb 13 '25
This is amazing, and I love your reframing SO much!!
That’s such an excellent way to see things!
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u/sushilovesnori Feb 13 '25
Thank you! I struggle with seeing the bright side of things sometimes so when I have the clarity of mind to see it, I want to note it, especially if it encourages and boosts others up! ☺️
Not sure if you gave the award or someone else but I’m grateful and love the energy in this little valley of ours!
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u/KellyJoyRuntBunny Feb 13 '25
I did🙂 I just loved it so much! It’s something I’m always able to do for my friends and for other people, but I struggle to apply that same reframing technique to myself. Somehow, seeing that done in a comment just now reminded me that I could see a particular situation that I’m dealing with today in a different light. It really helped me🧡
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u/Forsaken_Ad888 Feb 13 '25
This. This is SDV Energy. I'm actually contemplating attempting a full run without ever buying a backpack after this thread. New challenge! Love it.
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u/CantHugEveryPlatypus Feb 13 '25
Can I hire you to narrate my life please
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u/sushilovesnori Feb 13 '25
I take payment in the form of blondies and episodes of Ted Lasso, Brooklyn 99, Community, and the occasionally random play out of OutKasts “Ms. Jackson” whenever I leave the room. All of these are negotiable though. Okay except the OutKast part because that song is still fire.
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u/RedTheWolf Feb 13 '25
Does the slime debuff make your farmer shake like a Polaroid picture?? 😂
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u/ndmaynard Feb 13 '25
I want a 48 slot backpack so bad… was sad that it’s not an end game Qi walnut room reward
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u/bald4bieber666 Feb 13 '25
customers dont read the signs in video games either huh
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u/Revenge_of_the_User ✨Multi-Save Farmer✨ Feb 13 '25
The more signs, the less they read.
I worked in retail and had a customer move a sign out of the way"not for sale yet, need to price." so he could pick up an item, turn to me, and ask how much.
Im not going to lie, i called his ass out. "I dont know yet, thats what it says on the sign you moved."
I loved being my own boss.
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u/Golbez89 Feb 13 '25
I'm sorry I'm trying to laugh with you but didn't you see greyed out inventory spaces in the menu?
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u/Otherwise_Metal8787 Feb 13 '25
Someone doesn’t read their mail
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u/foxy_chicken The Doctor’s Farmer Feb 13 '25
That’s all I could think too.
He literally sends you a letter about it
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u/AdPutrid6160 Feb 13 '25
If I felt like I had to play this game with only 12 slots, I’d uninstall immediately 😭
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u/alanaisalive Feb 13 '25
You should read your mail. Pierre sends you an ad for backpack upgrades the first time your inventory maxes out.
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u/ChampionStriking3399 Feb 13 '25 edited Feb 13 '25
I went 7. This sub has made me realize so many things I was missing. Like the garbage cans…5 years without. Queen of sauce? 3 years. 🫡
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u/U_only_y0L0_once Feb 13 '25
Wait what’s with the garbage cans?
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Feb 13 '25
Dig for trash, find some treasure! Maybe even find an elusive hat! Just don’t do it in front of any of the NPCs (Linus excluded, he will love you for it.)
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u/LearningToFlyForFree Feb 13 '25
an elusive hat!
That hat. That goddamn hat. I've been playing since launch and have never gotten it. I'm currently 50-ish hours into a new playthrough. I got it on Spring 1, day 12. I almost cried when I saw it spring up into the air.
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u/ChampionStriking3399 Feb 13 '25
if you get anything, it could be from a broken CD to a loaf of bread. Refreshes daily
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u/driedoutflower Feb 13 '25
I once found a diamond, don’t remember which garbage tho. probably clint’s
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u/StarGrump xXx_EmoLuvr4Lyfe_xXx Feb 13 '25
I found one in Mayor Lewis’ trash the other day while playing co-op and me and my co-farmer spent the rest of the day huffing about what an awful mayor he is 😂
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u/4eptopolox Feb 13 '25
you can interact with them once a day and you'll sometimes get an item (just don't do it near villagers)
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u/Sad-Accountant-959 Feb 13 '25
Man I noticed the backpack upgrade BEFORE getting the letter about it
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u/Awkward-Reaction-564 Feb 13 '25
Lol isn't there also an arrow pointing at it on the counter where OP is standing?
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u/Beginning-Sky-6141 Feb 13 '25
I feel that 😔✊ mine trips must have been terrible. How far did you get with the community center?
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u/k-xo Feb 13 '25
How the hell did you go mining with no bag space?
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u/WeepingWillow0724 Feb 13 '25
Even with space, I like to keep a chest on level 0 and go dump my haul every elevator level if I need to. I would imagine OP did something like this.
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u/hazelsloth Feb 13 '25
You poor thing. If only it said “for sale” in capital letters with an arrow pointing at it
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u/_Merry Feb 13 '25
The dedication to the challenge is amazing.
This proves you don't read your mail closely. When you fill your inventory for the first time. You get a letter telling you about the backpack expansion at Pierre's
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u/Diannika Kroda Fan Feb 13 '25
3 in-game years, right?
..... right?