Shachi Starts Stardew Valley Summer With a New Silo, Sprinklers and 20 Color-Coded Chests

INDEPENDENT — Shachi spent a long Stardew Valley session on the first stretch of summer, starting from the last day of spring. She said she was unsure whether her previous session had saved, and she redid part of that day before moving into the new season. Her priorities were the summer seeds, a bigger backpack and a farm that waters itself.

Her first sprinklers disappointed her. She learned they cover only the four adjacent tiles, said they were useless until upgraded, and looked up what the better version needs: farming level 6, plus an iron bar, a gold bar and a refined quartz. Checking her skills, she found she was only at level 3. She planted blueberries, corn, sunflowers and starfruit regardless, and set herself the goal of reaching level 6 this summer.

“I like Stardew. I feel like I’m learning. Kind of. Not really. But it’s fun.” — Shachi, near the end of the stream

Much of the middle of the stream went to housekeeping. She built a recycling machine, sorted her storage into 20 chests and gave each a different color, chose fruit bats over mushrooms for the cave on her farm, and bought and built a silo next to the coop. She also took her pickaxe to the blacksmith for an upgrade, a decision she settled by asking chat. Once it came back, a fortune that promised good luck made for a strong mining run, and she said she would check her fortune every day from now on.

Between chores she talked about naming children after U.S. states, ran through the state list and settled on Carolina, Dakota and Virginia as the workable ones, and played chat a short clip of two Saskatchewan comedians whose tagline is “There’s always something to do.” Near the end she said she might play Stardew Valley on Twitch if she felt like more, and mentioned a drawing-Pokémon-from-memory stream planned for the next day at around the same time, though the time might change. She then signed off to give her dog its medicine and eat.