Summary
At first,Stardew Valleyseems like a relatively standard farming game, but as time goes on, players realizethe game’s world is more fantastic than it appears anddoesn’t always make total sense. Some elements of the game don’t make sense simply because they are strange or unexplained occurrences that leave the player with questions about the game’s world. Other instances are more mundane but still perplexing.
None of these detract that much from the overall experience of playingStardew Valley. Instead, they are more the type of questions players may ask afterspending 100 hours playing it. Players who havespent enough time in Pelican Townwill likely have questioned at least a few of these moments.
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10Marnie & Mayor Lewis’ Secret Relationship Has No Reason To Be Secret
Players Discover Their Tryst While Retrieving The Mayor’s Shorts
One of the earlier quests inStardew Valleytasks the players with finding Mayor Lewis’ missing purple shorts. Unlike Robin’s missing axe or Linus’ fruit basket, the mayor’s shorts aren’t sitting in the woods somewhere but in Marnie’s bedroom instead. When the player returns the shorts to Lewis, he asks them to keep his and Marnie’s relationship a secret. While the pair can be seen publicly hanging out on several occasions, it seems they want to keep their romance a secret for seemingly no reason.
Why Everyone Hates Mayor Lewis In Stardew Valley
Stardew Valley primarily takes place in Pelican Town, and its Mayor Lewis is one of the most-hated residents due to his rotten personality and greed.
Neither Marnie nor Lewis are married, nor are they in some sort of committed relationship with another character that would make their relationship scandalous in any way. It isn’t like Caroline’s apparent affair with the Wizard. The only possible explanation is that Lewis feels their relationship is somehow inappropriate because he’s the mayor, but it’s not like there’s an incredible power imbalance between them. After all, Marnie is a seemingly successful independent business owner. There doesn’t seem to be much reason the two can’t date openly.
9Stardew Valley’s Ghosts Seem Inconsistent
Players Encounter Ghosts In Dungeons & On Their Farm
It isn’t too far intoStardew Valleythat players start to encounter some of the more supernatural elements of the game. The town has a wizard, and there is a mine full of strange monsters like slimes or walking skeletons. This means the fact that there are ghosts in the game isn’t too far off base for the type of world established. However, what is a little strange is the game’s inconsistencies between the types of ghosts in the various mines and the one on the player’s farm.
After two in-game years, the ghost of the farmer’s grandfather will return to the farm to evaluate their progress. Grandpa seems completely cognizant of who he used to be and has retained his personality. This raises a question as to why the ghosts in the mines simply float toward the player and attempt to kill them. It just seems strange thatGrandpa is the only ghost in the game that seems to be a full personand not just a mindless floating killing machine.
8Prices For Certain Items Don’t Make Much Sense
Certain Items Cost As Much As Entire Additions To A Home
Most of the prices inStardew Valleyare pretty reasonable. Even when an object is very expensive, it often makes sense why it is. After all, two million gold doesn’t seem unreasonable tobuy a Return Scepterthat allows a player to teleport to their home from anywhere. However, certain items in the game start to push the boundaries of what would be considered a reasonable asking price when compared to other items in the game.
One example of a price that makes no sense is the Alien Rarecrow which can be bought at the Casino. The item costs 10,000 Qi coins which, converted to the game’s main currency, isthe equivalent of 100,000 gold. This is the same amount of money that players pay to have an entire cellar added to their home.
Another good example of a strange price is the town’s shortcuts. These cost 300,000 gold from Robin, though all she is seemingly doing is clearing out some existing plants to make a path. This seems like a pretty steep price when consideringit is only 200,000 gold less than she charges to build an entire house. Now, this price makes sense from a gameplay standpoint, as the shortcuts are very valuable to the player, but it seems a little inconsistent in terms of prices of other objects within the game’s internal economy.
7Abigail’s Reaction To Killing A Monster Raises Questions
Abigail Kills A Monster During Her 14-Heart Event
If players marry Abigail and progress their relationship meter with her to the full 14 hearts, they will get a scene where Abigail saves them from a monster. After killing the monster, Abigail expresses her remorse for having killed it and later puts up a grave for the monster. By this point in the game,the player has likely already traversed the mines and killed dozens if not hundreds of monsters, so it feels a little out of place to see Abigail so affected by killing one, especially when it was going to kill her spouse if she didn’t.
Abigail’s 14-heart event seems somewhat late in the game for players to be confronted with the potential sanctity of a monster’s life. The gravity of the moment doesn’t make a lot of sense when the player has been bathing in monster blood up until that point without batting an eye. This moment seems to retroactively make the player out to be a vicious, uncaring killer if they take Abigail’s concerns for the monster’s life seriously.
6Dating Multiple People Doesn’t Matter After Marriage
Players Can Date Anyone Without Consequences After Marriage
After a player gets married inStardew Valley, there isn’t anything stopping them from pursuing romantic relationships with other characters. They can give bouquets and reach 10 hearts with the remaining single characters without any of their partners seeming to mind. This wouldn’t be a huge plot hole if it was established that all the single people in Pelican Town were open to forming a polycule, but the game does make it clear that they aren’t.
If the player romances all the eligible characters to 10 hearts before getting married,they will get a cutscene where they are confronted by their many romantic interests. Unless they are carrying aRabbit’s Foot, the characters will get angry with the player, and continue being angry for about a week. This would give the impression that they aren’t open to the player dating around while in a relationship with them. However, this event never triggers after marriage, when it seems like this type of infidelity would be an even bigger deal than before.
How To Get a Rabbit’s Foot In Stardew Valley (& What It’s For)
Stardew Valley players can find a Rabbit’s Foot from the Traveling Cart or by raising rabbits, and they can use it for bundles, gifts, or profits.
5Players Can’t Romance Pam, Clint, Or Gus
These Characters Are All Single
Stardew Valleyallows players todate most of the single people in Pelican Town, but there are a few characters that are left off this list. Pam, Clint, and Gus are all seemingly single, butnone are available as potential romance partners. Instead, the game seems to limit romantic options to the younger generation in the game. As the game doesn’t give a specific age for the farmer, this limitation doesn’t really seem to make a lot of sense.
As Christopher Livingston atPC Gamerpoints out, older players might want the option to date some of the older characters in Pelican Town. Livingston rightfully points out that many of the eligible characters feel too young for an older player. This can be especially true with a character like Abigail who still participates in the egg hunt and mentions doing homework in some dialogue. It isn’t like the older characters are confirmed to not be interested in romance, as Clint expresses interest in Emily. It seems strange that none can be romanced.
4Pierre Has An Endless Supply Of Money
There Is No Limit On How Much Players Sell To Pierre
One of the main sources of money inStardew Valleycomes from players selling their crops to the local store owner, Pierre. Unlike some games that give merchants only a specific amount of gold, there is no limit on how much Pierre will buy from the player. Later in the game, this meansPierre could be handing out 10,000+ gold dailyto the player. This doesn’t seem to make a lot of sense when players think about it in the context of the game’s story.
Pierre is meant to be anxious about JojaMart putting him out of business. However, Pierre’s limitless supply of cash calls this into question. It isn’t like he’s able to flip everything the player sells to him either. Talking to Abigail will often reveal that some of the player’s crops have started to go bad, so Pierre pulled them off the shelf and served them for dinner. The fact that Pierre can always fork over any sum of money, therefore, doesn’t make much sense.
3Robin Builds Pam A House But Not Linus
Players Can Build Pam A House As An Upgrade
After players fix up Pelican Town’s community center and have fully upgraded their houses, the local carpenter, Robin, will offer Community Upgrades at her store. The first of these upgrades is building a house for Pam and her daughter Penny, who currently live in a trailer. The player brings the supplies and foots the bill for Robin’s time spent building it, so one would assume Robin could also offer this service to other characters in need, like Linus.
Linus lives very near Robin in a small tent. One would think the next logical Community Upgrade would be to build a house for Linus the same way players did for Pam. However,there is never an option to build Linus a house. This is especially puzzling as Pam did have more shelter than Linus, to begin with. Sure, her trailer may not have been as nice as the other houses in town, but it still provided a more stable living situation than Linus’ tent, which he says people have destroyed in the past.
2Parrots Build A Beach Resort
The Parrots On Ginger Island Construct Several Buildings
After players fix up Willy’s boat, they are able to go to an island off the coast called Ginger Island. While there, players can trade Golden Walnuts to parrots for favors. These start out making sense, like a swarm of birds scaring away a large turtle. However, the parrots start to do some pretty extraordinary things later on, like instantaneously building a new farmhouse or a resort on the beach.This is a prettydramatic change from the construction players are used to, which usually takes a few in-game days.
It’s also a little strange when players consider the other parrot they may have already encountered in the game. Emily rescues an injured parrot during one of her heart events, and it lives with her from then on. There is no indication that the parrot is anything more than a normal bird, so it isn’t like construction skills are just a normal thing for parrots to have inStardew Valley. That isn’t to say tropical birds building a beach resort is a bad thing, it’s very whimsical. It just doesn’t make any sense.
1A Tropical Island & A Desert Are Very Close To A Temperate Climate
Pelican Town Experiences Four Distinct Seasons
Stardew Valleyplayers know that Pelican Town experiences the same four seasons typically found in a temperate zone. The winters are cold and snowy, and the leaves change in Autumn, so it’s clear that Pelican Town isn’t in a tropical or warm climate. That’s why it’s a little strange that there is an arid desert and a tropical island that are both a short ride away from Stardew Valley.
When players hop on the bus to the desert, or take Willy’s boat to Ginger Island, not even an hour of in-game time passes. Players spend more time walking from their house to the bus stop than they do getting to the desert. It’s obviously nice from a gameplay standpoint thatStardew Valleylets players get to these distinctly different locations in such a short amount of time, but when considering how long it takes just to walk across town, it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
Source:PC Gamer
Stardew Valley
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.
