#the (real) stardew valley farm

[puppyeared]

id fumble him so bad

[justmaizey]

i really like stardew valley so far

[greenhorizonblog]

The future of farming is in danger

As we know, lot of farmers are getting old and want to retire, but the problem is, there are very few young people wanting to go into farming these days, and that is dangerous because the farmers end up having to sell their land to private equity companies who then effectively become feudal lords of that land.

I really want GreenHorizon to become an antidote to this. It will be a company/charity that is owned by regular people, not investors. The land will be transformed into permaculture food forests, tended to by volunteers and the produce will go to the free kitchens in the city and villages locally for people who need it

We have to save this land from ending up in the hands of private equity! otherwise they will trap us even deeper in what is effectively indentured servitude

[orbitsuns]

not dead just playing stardew ദ്ദി(｡•̀ ,<)~✩‧₊

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #2

A farming game but it all takes place underwater. You play as a merfolk person. You cultivate corals and algae and some sort of underwater fruits and veggies. Your cattle are oysters and jellyfish. Your mount is a seahorse. Instead of the usual mining mechanic being descending into a mine, in this game you ascend through the mine. The higher you go the more monsters you find. Sometimes you'll also find land animals, and, if you're very very lucky, even humans! Your charming lil aquatic town is near an ocean trench. A very deep and very dark ocean trench. You descend there sometimes too. The deeper you go, the rarer the creatures are. They always fetch some nice prices back in town, because very few people dare to venture into the deep darkness, and the archeologists in the museum always pay well for some of the unique specimens. There's a reverse fishing mechanic. You tie something buoyant to your pole and let it flow to the surface. The things you fish in the surface range from surface trinkets to materials or trash. There's a tunnel that leads to an underground cave with air and good soil where you cultivate some surface fungi and plants that don't need sun. Pretty early in the game a human cruise ship sinks. You're the only one that dares to go near. While the exterior chambers are submerged, there's plenty of inner rooms where there's still air, and that's where you find a human hermit. Upon befriending them you learn they stole and sank the ship on purpose. The hermit is self sufficient, and you trade stuff sometimes. They don't speak of whatever happened to the surface people. You've been told there's no danger of the tragedy spreading to your people, so you don't ask. You tend to your farm and your animals and befriend and romance npcs and keep living your best life in your lil underwater town.

Similar videogames that actually exist: Stardew Valley, Coral Island, My Time at Portia/Sandrock, Story of Seasons, Harvest Moon... and any other farming sim you can think off, basically

[itriedsohard]

hear me out: Stardew Valley but instead of a farm you work in a cemetery, clean up graves, make it look nice, talk to ghosts, still romance hot people

[the-habitat-ring]

The (Real) Stardew Valley Farm Update 2024

I’m wrapping up my third year trying to grow everything from Stardew Valley in our yard, with substitutions as needed, preferably with Midwest USA native plants.

I’m continuing to battle the invasive plants (why won’t the honeysuckle and thistles stop?????), beg for truckloads of woodchips (Google decided our address isn’t real anymore), and deal with a body and brain that makes going outside impossible sometimes (the past two years have been rough medically). But despite all of that I still managed to make a ton of progress!

Here’s how things stand as of now. If you’re looking back at previous posts you might notice some differences, but that’s mainly because things I planted died (drought + medical crises don’t bode well for newly established plants). I’ve also added the additional crops from the new update.

2021

Amaranth - Native white amaranth

Grape - Native riverbank grapes (so many grapes). I’m hopefully going to successfully propagate some cuttings from the neighbor’s green cultivated variety

Dandelion - Obviously

Maple Tree - Native silver, red, and sugar maples

Pine Tree - Douglas fir

Apple Tree - Three old apple trees of different varieties in very rough shape. I’ve been working to prune them up and two are looking a lot better. I’d love an Enterprise apple tree at some point

Coffee Bean - Chicory (a naturalized plant commonly used as a coffee substitute)

Salmonberry - Native black raspberries since salmonberries aren’t from around here, although I really want to add raspberries of various colors in the future

Starfruit - Native wood sorrel

Cave Carrot - Queen Ann’s Lace, AKA wild carrot

2022

Kale

Rhubarb

Strawberry - Both cultivated and native

Tulip

Radish

Tomato

Eggplant

Fairy Rose - Native prairie rose

Cranberries - Native cranberry viburnum

Orange Tree -Native persimmons, which produce orange fruit

Daffodil

Spring Onion - Native nodding onions

Spice Berry - Native spicebushes

Wild Plum - Native plums

Crocus

Cherry Tree - Native black cherries and nonnative bush cherries

Banana Tree - Native pawpaws, which are also known as Indiana bananas

Sweet Gem Berry - Native Juneberry (Downy Serviceberry)

2023

Garlic - Native wild garlic

Blueberries - I planted three varieties and only one survived. Don’t shortcut your bed preparation, friends

Wild Horseradish - Not wild, but contained with my mint

Hops - Teamaker hops which is good for tea since we’re not alcohol fans

2024

Blue Jazz - Native Ozark Bluestar

Beets

Apricot Tree - Native passionflower vine, also known as wild apricot

Sunflower - Both native and non-native sunflowers

Pumpkin

Cactus Fruit - Native prickly pear cactus

Melon - Cantaloupe

Oak Tree - Native dwarf chinquapin oak, which took me forever to get

Hot Pepper

Palm Tree/coconut - Native palm sedge

Poppy - Native purple poppy mallow, after other native poppies failed. I still want to grow bread seed poppies, though

Corn - Tried some gorgeous colored corn and popcorn that didn’t grow great but they did grow!

Green bean

Hazelnut - They’re supposed to be easy to grow but they do not like me. Third time’s the charm, right?

Carrot

Summer squash

Powder melon - I decided to do honeydew melon because it’s kinda powdery and I don’t really have any other ideas

Planned for 2025 and beyond

Potato

Pineapple - White strawberries (pineberries)

Winter Root - Hopniss, a native root vegetable

Red Cabbage

Artichoke - Native Jerusalem artichokes

Yam

Bok Choy

Leek

Fiddlehead Fern - Ferns do not like me

Blackberry

Crystal Fruit - Probably honey berries, which produce fruit earlier than anything else

Ancient Fruit - Native Aronia berries. They’re blue(ish) and have lots of antioxidants so you live to be ancient

Tea Leaves - Native New Jersey Tea bush. The previous ones were murdered by rabbits

Mango Tree - I thought one of our pawpaws was a variety called mango but I was wrong

Ginger - I want to try growing native wild ginger again

Rice - Native rough-leaved rice grass

Wheat - I have some gorgeous ornamental blue wheat seeds

Summer Spangle - Possibly native prairie lily? I was unsuccessful growing it from seed this year but maybe in the future

Parsnip - I can’t get them to germinate to save my life but one day I will be successful

Sweat pea

Holly - Native winterberry holly

Mushrooms - I'm just gonna ignore varieties and try some plugs or similar

Peach - Vine peach. It’s a melon, and more doable than a tree

Mahogany Tree - I think I’ll resort to mahogany nasturtiums

Broccoli

Pomegranate Tree - I could try Russian pomegranates?

Taro Root - I would have to plant it in pots

Snow Yam - Not actually a yam but maybe native sweet potato vine?

Qi Fruit - Very creepy, not sure what to do with this

Over halfway there! If anyone has suggestions for plants please let me know because I’m still stuck on a few and very open to alternatives.

In other news, I’m making Stardew Valley Fair displays with cross stitch patches for each of the items I’ve added that year. I’ll have to post pics of those at some point.

[milagrosen]

of course i play Stardew Valley i'm cultured

[justanotherjaydrawing]

Sometimes you have a bad week and just have to start another stardew playthrough. anyway meet mega emo boy Draven. this is my life now.

[evil-mcytblrconfessions]

I named my cat princezam in stardew valley cause I was thinking about him at the time. sigh

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[bluegrassfarm]

⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ Bluegrass Farm House Tour ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆

I think I finally have the house for my little farmer character looking the way I want it to right now, so have a little home tour! Closeups and discussion of all the rooms is under the cut (If you are on mobile I apologize). Since the farmer I made married Elliott, a bit of his tastes went into the home design overall too, of course.

So, let's start with: the Living Room and Dining Space!

I wanted to make the main kitchen area look as if a lot of artisan goods are being bottled and tested, given all the kegged products, aged roe, and cheeses produced on the farm. The more 'actually sit down and dine' area is right next door. As for the Living Room, I was going for a more sea themed feel to it. There are a lot of books strewn everywhere, given the characters who live in this house.

Next Up: The Cellar!

Most of what gets aged down here is actually goat cheeses! There may or may not be magic work done down here as well, but 'don't worry about all that' as the saying goes.

Going back upstairs: The Display Room!

For displaying of collected skeletons, and statues, and other oddities. It's also for some small plant cultivation, like the potted cactuses.

Upstairs Further: Elliott's Office!

A place for Elliott to write, and play piano whenever he likes. All the duck feathers, ink, and books found are actually placed in the chest within this room. Although some ink is kept separately in the kitchen fridges for cooking recipes, of course.

Nearby: The Children's Room!

It makes me a little upset that there is a much more limited selection of specifically childrens beds compared to the regular beds in this game. Regardless, a sofa chair next to the crib seemed like a good idea for reading time, and taking care of infants. You do not want to know what I, the player went through to get that gaming cabinet however. Anything for the children though...

Right next door: The Aquarium and Library!

What better way to enjoy your books then surrounded by aquatic life and a few artifact curiosities on display as well? This is also to show off the legendaries and other fish favorites from past catches.

Just below: The Bedroom!

This room is the most plant and nature oriented as far as decor goes, and that's the way the farmer I made for this play through likes it. The extra bed is specifically for if guests, like if Krobus wants to sleep over. In my head, Krobus visits on days to do paid housework/babysitting and is compensated well for his services.

Last but not least: The Bathroom!

This one took a bit of extra creativity. I was sort of hoping the carpet and tile placement combination would give the illusion that there is a walk in tub here. The amount of bottles just makes sense considering all the bathing and hair products this family has to have.

[quinnick]

The politics tag not even trending but Stardew Valley is

[dark-elf-writes]

No one tells you that video games make you do math

[stemmmm]

yeah i dont know a lick of code and i know programming is hard but i know exactly what i want to do and im really smart so i can definitely make a game

*the first piece of code i got out of following a youtube tutorial doesn't run*

[deramin2]

Every day I wake up and imagine how good a Critical Role farming game would be. It really is the perfect setting to hear about grand events but spend your days tending to the land, exploring the countryside, fighting wild monsters, and tending to local relationships and maybe love or a roommate.

[videogames-i-wish-were-real]

Videogames I wish were real #85

Oh to live in play a pixel art Pokemon farming sim. You have a cute lil house you can decorate to your liking. Every day you get to take care of your berries and apricorns. You get to feed and pet and take care of your pokemon. There's minigames where you get to bath them or play stuff like hide and seek or tag or tic-tac-toe or with them. You can pick one pokemon to follow you around. When you reach a high enough friendship level with one pokemon they'll sometimes bring you gifts and you can ask them to help you with some chores around the house or the farm. You use the wool you get from Mareeps and Wooloos to knit sweaters and socks and blankets. You make cheese and butter with the milk you get from Miltank. Once you progress enough in the game you get to open a cute lil store in the town where you sell all your homemade wares to the townspeople and also items to visiting trainers such as the pokeballs you make from apricorns. Every couple of months you turn on your tv and hear about a ten year old saving the world and half the time you know the kid because they've been to your store. Sometimes you'll find wild pokemon you can approach and befriend. No combat mechanics, you feed the pokemon or pet them or offer them shinies and they usually leave you alone except sometimes they'll follow you home. The cute lil town you live in has a ton of festivities and charming npcs. You can ask npcs to be your (platonic or not) roommates, you can marry npcs, you can have kids or adopt them (without being on a relationship) or stay single. There's no limit to how many pokemon beds you can place inside your house. You can place pokebeds, food and water bowls anywhere in the world. You can also fish and dive and mine and forage. If you leave a bunch of berries in an ancient hidden shrine to Groudon/Kyogre you can ensure that the next day is rainy or extra sunny. One time you ran into Palkia and Dialga and offered them some really tasty pokepuffs so now you have the gods of space and time at your beck and call and you can basically time travel and teleport as long as you give them treats first. You like to stay up late on the nights when the tv says there's going to be Minior showers to watch the colorful falling stars with your pokemon cuddled at your side. Life is good.

Similar games that actually exist: Stardew Valley, Pokemon, Moonstone Island, Ooblets, Monster Harvest, Critter Crops, Ova Magica