The latest and greatest update for Valley of the Stars was just released for console, which means many players are starting a new farm and eventually find tools. Unfortunately, starting a new save means dealing with the first days without power and many early mornings. Fortunately, there is a way to reduce your energy use: upgrading your tools.
Some decisions in Valley of the Stars’The first few games of the game are obviously big ones, like choosing Rancher or Tiller for the Farming skill. Other decisions are more subtle but it will have a significant impact on the first year of play on the farm and in Pelican Town. One of those decisions is in what order you should have Clint upgrade his tools.
Why You Should Upgrade Your Watering Can First
The most used tool for daily farming
After venturing into the mines and collecting enough copper to make five bars, the Watering Can is the first tool you should update. This is the one tool you’re likely to use every day of the year until winter, which means It is the tool that consumes the most energy every day. Depending on how many crops are planted at a time, it is enough Watering everything every day can easily use up more than half of your daily energy bar.
You should refresh your watering can as soon as possible on a rainy day to make the most of its energy in the early days of spring and summer. To ensure you don’t accidentally miss a day of crop watering, check the weather report every day and give Clint his watering can as soon as the rainy day arrives for the next day. The rain will take care of the farm that day, and Clint will retrieve the water can so that no crops go thirsty.
Why You Should Upgrade Pickaxe Second
Make the most of early game mining
If you make more progress in the first year of Valley of the Stars It’s your goal, so the Pickaxe is the second tool that needs to be upgraded. While the Watering Can is used every day for basic farming tasks, the Pickaxe is initially used to clear space on the farm and remove rocks one by one from farmland. After those first few weeks, the Pickaxe becomes the most useful tool to progress in the game.
The Pickaxe should be upgraded shortly after the Watering Can due to the importance of mining to progress in the rest of the game. Valley of the Stars.
Spend an entire day in the mines, collecting ore and unlocking new levels helps players collect items for all other aspects of their farming life. Monster loot like bug meat is bait for fishing, getting rarer ores yields better sprinklers and crafting tools for more farm profit, and finding artifacts and gems unlocks more rewards and map areas like the Sewers. The Pickaxe will accelerate progress in Valley of the Stars and allow you to get more out of your mining trips, especially if they bring you the right foods.
Why You Should Upgrade Third Ax
Prioritizing Steel Upgrades for Secret Grove Access
The Ax should be the next tool you upgrade, after the Watering Can and Pickaxe. Upgrading the ax to copper will decrease the number of hits needed to chop down a treewhich should help preserve energy levels for the first important days and allow them to cut large stumps on the farm. However, Machado’s main objective should be update it to steel using five Iron Bars
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Since the ax is made of steel, you will be able to cut large logslike the one blocking the entrance to Valley of the StarsSecret Forest. If you upgrade the Pickaxe early and make enough progress in the Mines, you can upgrade the ax to copper and immediately to steel so you can access more parts of Pelican Town.
Why You Should Upgrade Hoe Last
Smaller starting farms equal less farming
The hoe is a tool that is at the end of the priority list, at least in the first year, on a new farm. As you probably won’t have access to higher levels Quality sprinklers
for a while, there is not much reason to cultivate a large plot of land for crops in the first year. Upgrading the hoe will increase the number of pieces the player plows in one hit.
Upgrading the hoe to copper, for example, will allow you to farm three tiles in a straight line at the same time. Since farms are limited in size by energy and time in the early days, upgrading this skill is a low priority until better sprinklers and other agricultural aids are available in Valley of the Stars.
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OpenCritic
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Top Critic Rating:
90/100
Critics recommend:
99%
- Platform(s)
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PC, Xbox One, Android, iOS, PS4, Switch
- Released
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February 26, 2016
- Developer(s)
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Worried monkey
- Multiplayer
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Local multiplayer, online multiplayer
- Number of players
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1-4