Level up your Stardew Valley! Part 2: Summer Year One for Advanced Players
Building on an epic spring, master next-level advanced Stardew Valley game skills using min-max strategies via 28 demo videos showing how to: grow 3 batches of starfruit, max lvl farming, make over 450,000g, and more-all in Summer Year One!
Heidi Lathrem, MA: Homesteading/Farm & Video Games
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4.9
Number of reviews:(610)
What's included
29 pre-recorded lessons
14 weeks
of teacher support1 year access
to the contentProjects
2-4 hours per week. Learners will be playing along with their own games as they watch the videos.Grading
Feel free to send your inventory status screens and update me of progress as you go! You'll be able to self-grade by knowing how well your run is going - as well as self-assess any personal goals.Class Experience
Intermediate - Advanced Level
This advanced Stardew Valley strategy class seeks to guide experienced players through a full Summer Year 1 playthrough utilizing, adapting, and demonstrating a min-max guide. It builds on the previous class (Part 1), which guides the player through Spring, Year 1.
Kickstart your Summer 1 by:
* Planting and harvesting three batches of starfruit
* Reaching level 10 in farming
* Making more than 450,000 gold
* Upgrading your pickaxe to iridium
* And more!!!
Separated out into 28 single-day lessons, content includes video demonstrations of actual game play, following a single save game (and continuing from Part 1) that shows exactly how to go about achieving higher game goals.
The self-paced format allows players to read the guide, watch the video, and then follow along day by day with their own Stardew Valley farm – at their own pace. The demo farm uses a Meadowlands map, but any farm type can be easily adapted to achieve the same goals. The save game modeled is played on PC, vanilla, using no mods or glitches. Everything demonstrated is entirely possible through strategic and skilled game play - on any platform!
Since Stardew Valley contains multiple randomized elements, every playthrough will be different. Learners can play along with their own games, but will have to adapt based on variables such as weather, luck, and specific item drops. In short, the videos demonstrate the skill set and principles that can be universally applied, but the demo game will differ in many ways from the learner game as they play along. Also, we will be adapting a 1.5 min-max guide for 1.6 game play, which will involve a few subtle changes that will be noted along the way.
This play through uses a lot of fishing and mining, so be prepared to work on those skills. Your success will look different from the Demo 1.6 Farm. BUT, as long as you do your best, you WILL improve your early game – which WILL jump start your game and carry on into the mid and late game as you work toward True Perfection!
Video files are accessible via Google Drive shared links posted along with each classroom lesson.Learning Goals
Through the art of play, learners will work on improving skills in: Following directions, order of operations, preplanning, delayed gratification, strategy, adaptability, and perseverance.
Syllabus
29 Lessons
over 14 WeeksLesson 1:
Summer Day 1
Today we will:
* Hoe & place cobblestone
* Buy wheat seeds
* Buy starfruit seeds/deluxe speed-gro
* Plant & water all summer seeds
* Chop trees & clear farm Lesson 2:
Summer Day 2
Today we will:
* Care for chickens
* Pick up chest by Leah's cabin
* Fish off the ocean dock
* Sell fish
* Make new chest for CC/Museum items Lesson 3:
Summer Day 3
Today we will:
* Upgrade the steel axe
* Warp to the desert
* Do a Skull Cavern dive Lesson 4:
Summer Day 4
Today we will:
* Water Crops
* Buy CC seeds at Pierre's
* Fish at the ocean Other Details
Parental Guidance
Stardew Valley is a farming simulation game that was rated by Common Sense Media as 9+. Parents should be advised that there is some alcohol content, and players can brew alcohol as a farm product. One character to interact with appears to be alcoholic (but he gets better through your friendship). Players can marry any one of several characters, regardless of gender. There are a few saucy lines in the relationship dialog. There is some monster killing in dark caves, which younger players may find scary. For individual reviews, check out: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/game-reviews/stardew-valley
Pre-Requisites
This class builds on Part 1: Spring Year One. If you have not taken that class already, you may not be prepared to use the strategies set out in this class (Part 2: Summer Year One).
Supply List
Learners will need to have Stardew Valley, the video game.
External Resources
Learners will not need to use any apps or websites beyond the standard Outschool tools.
Sources
Learners will need Stardew Valley, the game. We will also frequently refer to Zamiell's min-max online strategy guide.
https://github.com/Zamiell/stardew-valley/blob/main/Min-Max_Guide.md
Joined April, 2020
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610reviews
Teacher expertise and credentials
I am a Stardew Valley enthusiast, myself. I play on PC, and with over 2100 in-game hours I have personally finished 100 percent of the game - three times, including twice before the end of Year 2! Stardew Valley stands head and shoulders above most of the games I've played, and has many valuable educational aspects to teach players while still being a ton of fun to play. I look forward to sharing this game -- and its great lessons -- with students.Reviews
Self-Paced Course
$15
weekly29 pre-recorded lessons
14 weeks of teacher support
Choose your start date
1 year of access to the content
Ages: 10-18
