Stardew Valley Player Shares A Huge Find, But Fans Are Too Worried About The Horrific Inventory To Care

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While fishing, a Stardew Valley player got one of the luckiest possible drops - but when they shared it online, the community was so baffled by their use of inventory space that they barely even noticed. In Stardew Valley, one of the greatest challenges is managing your limited inventory. You start with one row of 12 items, but can eventually unlock a second and third row by purchasing the Large Pack for 2,000 g, then the Deluxe Pack for 10,000. Both are pretty expensive in the early game, but are still important investments because of how much time they save.

But some players just don't know what to do with all that extra space. Reddit user WolfyKing1823 recently shared a screenshot of their Stardew Valley game, showing their incredibly lucky haul from a treasure chest they found while fishing: both a Dinosaur Egg and an Ancient Seed in just one shot. But their fellow community members focused instead on their overstuffed inventory, which included items as diverse, bizarre, and useless for fishing as ten mugs of beer, two scythes, and no fewer than six slingshots. And the Stardew community responded with a little good-natured clowning.

Stardew Valley Player Finds A Dinosaur Egg In A Pond, But Their Inventory Is Nightmarish

Too Much Dead Weight

Occasionally, while fishing in Stardew Valley, a treasure chest will appear alongside your fishing bar. If you manage to hover your cursor over it for long enough to fill its own mini progress bar, then catch the fish you're currently angling for, you'll get a few random items. It's usually useful, if nothing to write home about - things like a little bit of wood, a few pieces of Bait , maybe, if you're lucky, an artifact or two. But once in a blue moon, you'll get something really nice, just as this player did: a simultaneous Dinosaur Egg and Ancient Seed.

These items are so sought-after because they're key to two of the most lucrative farm operations you can set up in Stardew. Dinosaur Eggs will let you start raising dinosaurs in your coop, which, in turn, gives you access to more Dinosaur Eggs, which you can process into Dinosaur Mayonnaise and sell for up to 1,120 g a pop. After you donate your first Ancient Seed, you'll get a plantable version, which you can cultivate in your greenhouse, age into wine with a keg, then mature to iridium quality to sell Ancient Fruit Wine for up to 4,620 g a bottle.

Suffice it to say that the original poster is very fortunate, and, if they use these materials right, will probably be set for life as far as farming goes. But most players could only focus on their abysmal use of inventory space, which meant they didn't even have room for all the items they had just been lucky enough to find. What's more, they brought several items along with them that have absolutely no use for fishing - even an unfinished book, which there's no point in saving.

"I Think This Screenshot Gave Me Hives"

Many players barely even acknowledged the original poster's lucky find, instead choosing to emphasize just how rough their inventory really looked. They'd have to throw out three items just to cram in their fishing haul. One user, shmelse, said it all with this skin-crawling comparison:

Other commenters attempted to be more helpful. There's a clear remedy to inventory overstuffing, user stardewandsmoke1225 explained, and that's building a few chests. While they suggested going out and planting some new wild trees, the original poster had 911 pieces of wood in their inventory - planting wouldn't even be necessary, as they could build 18 Chests just with what they already had.

Look, at the end of the day, we're all guilty of a little hoarding. Somewhere in the deepest, darkest recesses of my farm, I have a chest full of almost every iridium quality fish I've ever caught, which I save every year for the grange display. All these jokes come from a place of genuine care for a Stardew Valley player, hoping that they can improve and stop wasting so many materials every time they go out fishing.

Stardew Valley is a charming indie farming scene that took the world by storm. After inheriting a run-down farm from their grandfather, the player moves to Stardew Valley to start a new life away from the city. Grow crops, raise animals, befriend the villagers, and discover the secrets the valley has to offer.

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