Welcome to Stardew Valley

You want to make your grandfather proud but you're not sure how make the most of your first few season. Let's take a look at a few checklists for completing the bundles in a timely fashion. For the complete bundle list and requirements, check out the wiki.

Introduction

Trees

• Tap early and tap often: Pine, Maple, and Oak tree taps are profitable and the extracts are important for crafting
• Fruit trees take a whole season (28 days) to mature and they are expensive so I've put tree fruits in the Year 2 lists

Fishing

I put some of the fish on the year two lists as well because they require higher skill levels to catch. Always be fishing but know you're not likely to check certain fish off the list until year two.

Crab Pots

The easiest way to complete the crab pot bundle is to collect the shellfish off the beach and get the crab from rock crabs in the mines. Upon completing the crab pot bundle, you get 3 free crab pots.

Spring of Year 1

Congrats on your farm. It's covered in branches, wild grass, and rubble. Only clear enough to plant that initial set of seeds. You can easily get carried away trying to clear the whole farm. When you start out, you just don't have that much energy each day and getting extra is a challenge at first.

Spring Foraging

• Leek
• Dandelion
• Wild Horseradish
• Daffodil
• Morel Mushroom
• Spring onions (forest south of the river for extra cash & energy)
• Salmonberries from 15th to 18th (extra cash/energy)

Spring Crops

• Parsnip
• Green Bean
• Cauliflower
• Potato
• 5 Gold Star Parsnip (Quality Crops Bundle)
• Save a gold star cauliflower for the Luau

Spring Fishing

• Sunfish (River) (Day)
• Catfish (River) (Rainy)
• Shad (River) (Rainy)
• Carp (Lake)
• Sardine (Ocean)
• Crayfish, if you can

Summer of Year 1

The sun is bright over head and Pierre's has the summer seeds available. Did you survive the Spring Dance?

Summer Foraging

• Grape
• Spice Berry
• Sweet Pea
• Fiddlehead Fern, from the Secret Forest (Chef's Bundle)

Summer Crops

• Tomato
• Hot Pepper
• Blueberry
• Melon
• Poppy (Chef's Bundle)
• 10 Wheat (Fodder Bundle)
• 5 gold star melon (Quality Crops Bundle)
• 5 gold star corn (Quality Crops Bundle)

Summer Fishing

• Sunfish (River) (Day)
• Carp (Lake)
• Shad (River) (Rainy)

Fall of Year 1

Fall Foraging

• Wild Plum
• Hazelnut
• Blackberry
• Common Mushroom
• Blackberries from 8th to 11th (for extra cash/energy)

Fall Crops

• Corn
• Eggplant
• Pumpkin
• Yam
• Sunflower (Dye Bundle)
• 10 Wheat (Fodder Bundle)
• 5 gold star pumpkin

Fall Fishing

• Carp (Lake)
• Shad (River) (Rainy)
• Walleye (River) (Rainy) (Night)

Winter of Year 1

Don't be like me and confuse this for the new year. New Year happens at the end of Winter and before Spring. There's not much to do crop-wise your first winter. Focus on mining, upgrading your tools, and fishing.

Winter Foraging

• Winteroot
• Crystal Fruit
• Snow Yam
• Crocus
• Nautilus (Beach Sell)

Winter Fishing

• Tiger Trout (River)
• Sardine (Ocean)
• Tuna (Ocean)

Year 2

Congratulations on completing your first year in Stardew Valley! Keep working hard and you'll have these bundles done by the end of the year.

Spring

• Apricot
• Cherry
• Eel (Ocean) (Rainy) (Night)

Summer

• Red Cabbage
• Peach
• Orange
• Sturgeon (Lake)
• Tuna (Ocean)
• Red Snapper (Ocean) (Rainy)
• Tilapia (Ocean)
• Pufferfish (Ocean)

Fall

• 4 Apple (Fodder Bundle)
• 2 Pomegranate (Enchanter's and Artisan Bundles)
• Tilapia (Ocean)
• Tiger Trout (River)
• Eel (Ocean) (Rainy) (Night)

Keep Playing

Did you do it? Did you get all the bundles done? Keep playing! There's so much to do in Stardew Valley and generally just a great place to hang out.

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This is a rework of a post from "Winewood Farms," my old Stardew Valley blog. I hope to bring the rest of the posts over, too. Stay tuned!