tier 1 shitty sprinklers my beloved this is a tier 1 shitty sprinkler appreciation zone all tier 1 shitty sprinkler haters begone
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I've never played Stardew Valley so I don't understand but I started a new Sun Haven save so I DO understand. The energy of this post buoys me. It is time to accept that the early game is nevertheless part of the game and time spent playing through it does not magically Not Count. What if we had nice things which aren't 10000000% optimal from the perspective of what you'll be doing 135 hours in but do make now more fun, more enjoyable, more relaxing?
EXACTLY!!! It's a lesson I've been trying to teach myself a bunch lately: to prioritise enjoyment in the Current Moment over some hypothetical More Perfect Efficient Play later on. If that means tearing down a thing and starting fresh later, so be it! It's worth it for not spending hours having no fun for some perceived theoretical payoff of Perfect Efficiency later.
Also you didn't ask but I'm in an infodump mood so, the specific Stardew thing in question:
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Basic Sprinklers only water the 4 adjacent tiles (in a plus shape) while Quality Sprinklers water the 8 surrounding tiles
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This means Quality sprinklers are MUCH easier to tile efficiently and generally look nicer in big fields.
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However, basic sprinklers are available at Farming Level 2 (out of 10) while quality require level 6 (with levels being more EXP the further you go, and farming EXP only being gained when you harvest a crop)
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Basic sprinklers also only require Copper and Iron while quality require Gold - Iron shows up at floor 40+ in the mines, while gold isn't til 80+, and you'll also need to spend time upgrading your pickaxe and combat stuff to get that far or else it'll take forever to progress
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Not to mention you need to then do all this grinding while still also watering your crops manually in the meantime (because you still need to farm to get EXP to get the sprinkler recipe/money for upgrades/etc) so it's slower to progress the mines because you have less time/energy each day unless it rains...
Basically WAITING TIL QUALITY IS SUPER OVERRATED. What you gain in "efficiency" you lose in NUMEROUS OTHER WAYS that make early game MORE TEDIOUS. (In my opinion, of course.)