{"id":1369,"date":"2022-07-25T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2022-07-25T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T19:24:48","slug":"feed-pelican-town-a-stardew-valley-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/feed-pelican-town-a-stardew-valley-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Feed Pelican Town &#8211; A Stardew Valley Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stardewvalley.net\/\">Stardew Valley<\/a> is an open-ended farming\/fishing\/mining\/building\/friendship game with so much to do and such loose win &amp; loss conditions that I like to work towards a goal that I set for myself, like completing the Community Center in Year 1, maxing out my heart level with every villager, or cooking every dish.<\/p>\n<p>The Feed Pelican Town challenge imagines that the farm actually provides the food that the villagers in Pelican Town eat. I&#8217;ll need to learn the villagers likes\/dislikes and their schedules, and create a diverse farm to meet all those needs.<\/p>\n<h3>The rules:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Give every villager two gifts per week<\/li>\n<li><del>The gift must be food<\/del>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Maple Syrup food? NO, it&#8217;s inedible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><del>The gift must be edible<\/del>\n<ul>\n<li>Is Pufferfish food? NO, it removes 100 energy when eaten. That&#8217;s poison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The gift must restore at least 1 health or 1 energy<\/li>\n<li><del>The villager must Love the gift<\/del>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m really broke at the start of Year 1 and only have access to a few items<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The gift must be Loved if possible, otherwise it must be Liked\n<ul>\n<li><del>Dwarf only loves Magic Rock Candy, an incredibly expensive item<\/del>\n<ul>\n<li>Look, just let me get through Spring. I&#8217;ll deal with that later.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t need to feed villagers that you can&#8217;t access, like Sandy in the Oasis, Kent who is off at war, or Krobus hidden in the sewers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Attempt 1<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1370\" src=\"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie1-1024x143.png\" alt=\"Cookie of Feed Y'All Farm, 4 Spring, Year 1\" width=\"700\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie1-1024x143.png 1024w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie1-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie1-768x107.png 768w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie1.png 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The year starts on Monday. By Saturday (after the first batch of crops come in) I&#8217;ll give everyone their first gift, so I can give them their second gift on Sunday, the last day of the week.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s that? The &#8220;two gifts per week&#8221; week runs Sunday to Saturday? So it&#8217;s already too late to give two gifts in the first week if I didn&#8217;t give the first gift by Friday Day 5 at the latest?<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAILURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Attempt 2<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1371\" src=\"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie2-1024x143.png\" alt=\"Cookie of Feeder2 Farm, day 4 of Spring, Year 1\" width=\"700\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie2-1024x143.png 1024w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie2-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie2-768x107.png 768w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/cookie2.png 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t make the same mistake twice! Six days to give two gifts to everyone, so I must give the first gift to everyone no later than Day 5.<\/p>\n<p>But the Community Center doesn&#8217;t open until Day 5. So I can&#8217;t get the letter from the Wizard and gain access to his tower until Day 6. It&#8217;s impossible to give the Wizard 2 gifts in the first week!<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAILURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is really hard!<\/p>\n<p>New rules<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Wizard only needs one gift in the first week.<\/li>\n<li>Gifts given in Spring, Year 1 must be Liked at least. No requirement for Loved gifts, even if they are available.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Attempt 3<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-1372\" src=\"http:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/foodie-1024x143.png\" alt=\"Foodie of Diner Farm, Day 5 of Year 1\" width=\"700\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/foodie-1024x143.png 1024w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/foodie-300x42.png 300w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/foodie-768x107.png 768w, https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/foodie.png 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One more time. I have my spreadsheet of gifts. I&#8217;m maximizing my income so I can spend so much on gifts and still invest in my farm. I got a lucky drop of Sashimi in the Saloon, which is cheaper than Salad, so I save some money buying gifts for people who don&#8217;t like anything I grow at the start.<\/p>\n<p>Day 1: plant lots of Parsnips. Parsnips grow in 4 days, the fastest of any crop, and are liked by all but 5 villagers. They are my main source of gifts.<\/p>\n<p>Day 5 is rainy. The Community Center doesn&#8217;t open on rainy days, so meeting the Wizard is delayed by a day. That means I don&#8217;t meet him at all in the first gift week, so that&#8217;s fine, right? He doesn&#8217;t need food if he&#8217;s not available. That&#8217;s like the rule for Krobus and Sandy. The Parsnips come in, so I harvest them, sell a few for money, and pass out the rest as gifts. Half today, half tomorrow (Saturday) and then the week rolls over.<\/p>\n<p>On rainy days, Elliott does not leave his house. I can&#8217;t enter his house because we&#8217;re not good enough friends. I can&#8217;t give him a gift on Day 5. I couldn&#8217;t give him a gift on Days 1, 2, 3, or 4 because I can&#8217;t grow Parsnips that fast. I can give him one gift on Day 6, but that&#8217;s only one for the week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FAILURE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Consulting the wiki carefully, I realize that I could have foreseen and avoided this. The weather report on TV predicts the next day&#8217;s weather. If I check the weather on Day 4 and see that Day 5 will be rainy, I can go to the Saloon, buy a gift for Elliot and deliver it on that day. Then he&#8217;s inaccessible on Day 5 when the Parsnips come in, and I give him a Parsnip on Day 6. But what if it rains both on Day 5 and Day 6? Unlikely but possible!<\/p>\n<h3>Future plans<\/h3>\n<p>i still like this idea. I imagine by year 2 I&#8217;ll have a kitchen in my house, cooking up people&#8217;s favorite dishes. I&#8217;ll stockpile some ingredients in season and grow others year-round in my greenhouse. I&#8217;ll have fish farms and a shed full of artisan goods. But this challenge is so hard at the beginning that I can&#8217;t get out of the first week!<\/p>\n<p>Next time, I won&#8217;t give any gifts in the first gift week (Days 1-6 of Spring, year 1) Every resource is precious at the beginning of the game, so relieving the huge stress of providing 55 gifts in the first 6 days will let my farm grow a lot more, and I&#8217;ll be able to start the second week giving gifts immediately, so missing one day won&#8217;t immediately cause failure.<\/p>\n<p>I could also give myself a little leeway on the rules to allow for occasional slip-ups. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=p1uCT_7Czk0\">&#8220;No hit&#8221; challenge runs<\/a> are like that. The runners start out by seeing how few hits they can take, eventually do a no-hit run, then get consistent at zero hits.\u00a0 A runner who restarts the run every time they take a hit will probably never finish. Alas, that&#8217;s not my style! All or nothing!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stardew Valley is an open-ended farming\/fishing\/mining\/building\/friendship game with so much to do and such loose win &amp; loss conditions that I like to work towards a goal that I set for myself, like completing the Community Center in Year 1, maxing out my heart level with every villager, or cooking every dish. The Feed Pelican &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/25\/feed-pelican-town-a-stardew-valley-challenge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Feed Pelican Town &#8211; A Stardew Valley Challenge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1373,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cliffnordman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}