Oh, it was you! Well thanks, that was a very helpful comment 
And yeah the first time I did the fishing minigame I was completely “FUCK THIS” about it and wanting to never do it again. You really just gotta keep at it and get over that initial difficulty hump. The learning curve is a bit fucked up on it, but it’s worth it because fishing is one of the best ways to make money!
a great learning tool is the fall festival with all the games. i understood the fishing game there [since there really wasn’t a penalty when playing]. and i guess a game for the slingshot, too but the slingshot is traaaaaaaaaaash
and apparently there’s a glitch with the golden pumpkin from the maze but i haven’t tried it?
i know this is weird, but i get really anxious whenever i try to play it myself. i like to watch voidburger’s streams, though!
Is it in part the constant passage of in-game time? I know that gets to me.
Fishing definitely needs practice until it clicks. Unless it doesn’t and it just sucks forever for you. I hear there are mods to make it easier though? And even though I’m pretty good at it now, fuuuuuck those fish that never stay in one place for more than a second.
Stardew’s quickly approaching my most played Steam game, which is not something I ever expected, but it’s so good on its own and it’s even better with a partner who’s obsessed with organization - my wife has spreadsheeted pretty much every single aspect of the game, from crops and greenhouse layouts and the community center bundles (we just have one stupid rabbit’s foot left!) to the social aspects (literally, a sheet for every character containing their likes, dislikes, their heart event activations…) and sidequests. I swear she’s more organized than the wiki, but I’m not complaining, I don’t think my interest in the game would have gone half as far without that spreadsheet. Very satisfying to check off heart events and community center bundles.
Though I do agree with above sentiments that the game’s starting to peter out around the end of year 2, unless getting married changes things drastically. I just want to push through to the beginning of year 3 so I can get Grandpa’s assessment of the farm, at least. Please approve of me, dead grandpa. 
I love this game. It was a super good distraction in a really stressful time of my life.
I married Haley, the best girl. I’m trying to get 100% achievements but Journey of the Prairie King is an awful game and it’s also pretty hard.
I don’t even want to think about doing the journey to the prairie king achievement lol
I made two profiles. In the first one, I had to marry Fab-Elliot because his hair was so fabulous. [and his four[?] heart event is also one of my favorites as well.]
The next file I married Leah because she’s best friends with Fabio. [And I like her heart events]
I love this game. When I was a kid, I was way into Harvest Moon, but when I got older and lost all of my imagination I found it super boring. Then I tried Rune Factory, which I felt pushed things way over to the other extreme. I don’t want JRPG nonsense in my farming game! Stardew Valley really hits the spot though.
On my first file, I married Penny, and stopped right before year 3. I started another one a few months ago after the update but didn’t make it through year 1 before stopping because some other game came out to distract me. I think I was about to marry Maru. I saved the community center both times. The other choice just feels wrong. 
I am extremely interested in figuring out what the deal is with those three secret statues you can get by putting random stuff in the boxes. Seems like there is some other cryptic shit that has yet to be discovered.
I know what they are, I can tell you if you want. One of them is really fucked up, lol.
Yeah, I stopped in year 3 in my fist save file, too.
After the patch came out, I restarted a new file with the new things in it. A few days ago, I went back to my old file and I was like: oh my god, everything about this is wrong. My planting was all wrong, I didn’t have the necessary items in my greenhouse and I never built a stable. WHY past!me.
that might be it. part of it is that in most games i play, i’m always looking at the wikis, but for some reason with this one, reading about future events makes me really anxious about preparing for them
If you’re doing Skull cave dives,it helps to make a huge stack of mega bombs, they’re really easy to craft because they’re just one each of the essences and 4 gold ore. Which at this point in the game you tend to be swimming in way more gold than you’ll ever need.
I cannot find a Rare Disc, it’s the only thing I have left for the museum. Does anyone have any farming tips for this specific artifact?
i think that’s one that you have to go fishing for. : /
The Rare Disc is an Artifact that can be found by digging sand tiles in the Mines, as a drop from monsters, or from fishing treasure chests—. from the wiki page.
Grass is a pain during winter. I love that the game gives you the dungeon so you don’t just skip winter.
winter sucks until you get the greenhouse. and it’s the only time when i modify all of my main farming items except for the hoe. But like I said before, I’m having a very hard time finding iridium in the skull caves. They virtually give me nothing the majority of the time that I go into them.
Still looking for that freakin’ Green Toy, too.
I’ve shipped every item, got all the minerals, I just need two.more.artifacts.
I did it. I completed the museum. Turns out the Rare Disc wasn’t the last thing I needed. I forgot to donate a Calcite (which I got very easily by breaking like 15 geodes)
Winter can be boring, but at least it has my favorite track in the game.
My hard drive recently died and took all my steam games’ saves with it. Today I get Stardew Valley set back up, laboriously tracked down and installed my favorite mods, and started a new game.
I found an Ancient Seed and a Dinosaur Egg on Day 1.
This is a good omen.
120 hours played, according to steam.
Now I just need the two hidden achievements (I know how terrible they are), the Joja route achievement, and the “beat the prairie king” achievement.
i’m incredibly jealous right now
