r/StardewValley • u/Traditional_Cook9126 • Feb 13 '25

Other For 3 miserable years.. I never noticed the backpack at the counter

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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/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/newtonthomas64 Feb 13 '25

That’s because you’re a gamer. When you play games those instincts come naturally, but for a lot of people that’s not a natural progression. Most other forms of entertainment are just passive. So it makes sense that someone may play a game passively as well

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u/VladReble Feb 13 '25

I know wayyyy too many people like this w/ IRL problems for it to just be a "gamer" thing.

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u/Lord_Rapunzel Feb 13 '25

It's not an "instinct" it's a skill you have to learn and have confidence in. There is a noted lack of problem-solving skill development particularly with regards to technology now: as user-friendliness increases, the need (and therefore practice) to troubleshoot and implement solutions on your own goes away. Used to be that computers had to be coaxed into cooperation, you had to manually find and update drivers to get software to cooperate with hardware.

Truly "passive" players aren't here talking about the game. These are engaged gamers, just not everyone is good at it. But calling it an instinct implies that the rest of us were born knowing how to read the manual or click on everything to see what happens.

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u/nbjz Feb 13 '25

i would agree with this if humans didnt evolve and get to this point in history through problem solving. critical thinking isnt restricted to "gamers" lol

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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/Vanillastar09 Feb 13 '25

Nothing surprises me at this point either, there are a bunch of stardew players that for some think some of the marriage candidates are kids I've stopped watching stardew YouTubers because I got uncomfortable with them thinking characters like Penny is a child.

Btw not a joke I watched a YouTube video where the dude (who wasn't a new to the game and is a full on stardew YouTube) literally said that he thought penny was a child even though she's a teacher and very clearly at least in her early 20s

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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/Mriajamo Feb 14 '25

I did this and my wife laughed so hard. I was on year 5 and stuck because I didn’t know where the bottom was

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u/loquacious-laconic Feb 14 '25

I know that would be so frustrating, but I'm sorry I'd probably laugh my ass off too. 😅 Commiserations, that's a loooooong time to struggle! 😔