Losing your watering can is way too easy in Stardew Valley

Like many individuals excited for the most recent Stardew Valley replace, I rebooted my previous save file that I hadn’t touched in a few years to prepare for brand new content material.

Stardew is a kind of video games I decide up, spend just a few weeks in a haze always enjoying, after which put down once more in favor of all the opposite video games on the market. This time, I used to be away a little longer than different instances (what can I say? Baldur’s Gate 3 got here out). So after I loaded my recreation it took me a second to even keep in mind what season it was.

Most of it got here again to me, however I performed a full day with out realizing that my watering can was lacking. And holy cow, was it a bitch to determine the place it went. In spite of everything, on my Yr 4 farm, I’ve a ton of sprinklers to deal with watering my crops, so I barely even use my watering can. I might get up, kiss my husband, and go about my life. I harvested crops, checked on my animals, fished, and puttered into city.

It was solely throughout the subsequent day, after I thought of making some progress on Ginger Island, that I spotted my watering can had mysteriously disappeared from my stock. One of many gimmicks of Ginger Island’s volcano is utilizing the watering can to get throughout the new lava, so after paying for boat passage, I spotted my whole journey was ineffective.

However this became an entire conundrum exterior of my wasted gold: The place the hell was my watering can?

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I checked the blacksmith, in case I had dropped it off for an improve. Nothing. I seemed on-line and realized that if I by accident bought or deleted it, I may discover it in both the mayor’s lost-and-found or my fridge the subsequent day (that’s a really humorous little gameplay element, kudos to ConcernedApe). It wasn’t there. That left checking each single crate in my recreation, and since this was Yr 4, I had a lot, all full of assorted knickknacks that I had collected throughout in-game years that I didn’t wish to show in my home or hold in my stock. I swore I checked all of them, however nonetheless couldn’t discover my watering can…

…till I lastly checked the one second closest to my residence’s door and located it amongst an assortment of seeds, hats, and different random Stardew Valley Issues™.

Stardew Valley is a fantastically dense recreation with so many little particulars that assist coloration out the farming sim mechanics. There are hidden areas, attention-grabbing characters, and the whole lot else you would need from a farming sim, taken to the subsequent stage. And the sport solely continues to develop, with developer Eric “ConcernedApe” Barone including an increasing number of updates over time, with new dialogue, areas, objectives, and past.

However as a result of it’s so dense, with so many new additions through the years, which means choosing it again up after a while away is sort of like being tossed overboard. I’m a robust swimmer, however I nonetheless must flail a bit and gasp for air earlier than I discover a comfy paddle to get pleasure from my swim. It’s, in any case, one in all my favourite video games, even when trying to find my watering can became an entire separate aspect quest.

Stardew Valley is stuffed with little surprises, and a few of these surprises are unintentional, like my nice watering can quest, or kissing my in-game husband and having him inform me I’m pregnant. Guess I additionally forgot I did that earlier than placing my recreation down.

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