Outstanding hints:
- Big Key to Thieves' Town: Locked behind Surf (or two badges and just beating Red).
- 16 REP: Same as above: Surf or two badges.
- Rocket Launcher: No access to Summers.
- HM 06 Rock Smash: Missing the Hieroglyph Copy.
- Big Key (Skull Woods): Could snag it tomorrow. Requires smelting up some bars that take a while. Prefers to save-scum that.
Update 3
Stardew Valley
Popped in yesterday for some stuff. Happened to get a Keg and Ginger Island access right about at the same time. Took a while, in in-game days, because of each wine bottle taking about a week. Planted some Starfruit in the meantime. Returned a healthy supply of cash.
Has not played 1.6 Stardew Valley Archipelago before. Stuffed a lot of checks into the Desert Festival. Gave the chef 6-ish checks for some reason. Repeated all the combinations until it paid out.
Felt quite thankful to have turned on easy festivals. Requires you to get a rating of "Real Calico Egg Hunter" from Gil. Means a rating of 25+ of normal festivals. Got...maybe a rating of 10? Sufficed. Looped in getting to level 25 of Skull Caverns before bailing. Considers that pretty good for just a Copper Pickaxe.
Nearly missed the Spring 17 Pot of Gold check. Never knew about it. Happens during the Desert Festival.
Completed one of the most irritating Special Orders: Leeks for George. Knocks it down to 7 Leeks on easy. Still hates it. Had 14 days to finish it. Ran allllll over Stardew Valley looking for these things. Swears on no leeks spawning some days. Cannot stockpile them either. Forces you to grab 7 during the quest. Thankfully received all four Movement Speed increases. Zips around with all four. Rewarded the effort with a Doom level, at least. Feels a little better about it.
Moved onto Summer next. Married Penny, largely for being the first birthday at the time. Held steady at 8 hearts during all the time wasting. Chose someone that cannot count, though. Proposed on Sunday the 7th (probably). Planned to hold the ceremony in 3 days. Waited for something to happen. Nope. Went to the Luau on the next day. Finally got married on the 12th. Turned out to be for nothing (so far?). Removed the check for having babies. (Could have been a Friendsanity-exclusive thing.) Has not looked to see if the Stardrop is still in or not.
Watched the days go one-by-one. Waited for the green rain event. Came about a day or two after the wedding. Themed one of the bundles after it. Also happens to be a good source of (non-dietary) Fiber. Needs a stupid amount this seed: 200 for the Green Rain Bundle, 99 for the Construction Bundle, 200 for the Forest Bundle (avoided this one in favor of easier stuff), and a monstrous 999 for the Raccoon Journal. Occasionally needs some for other things too, like making a Scarecrow for a quest.
Hacked and slashed through all the overgrown trees. Turned the stuff into the bundle. (Chose not to do Mossy Seeds. Only got 5.) Rewarded that with the Storm Badge for Crystal. Allows Fly. Already had the HM in hand. Hoped to get that before heading back into Crystal.
Kind of dislikes the raccoons. Highlights how annoying the items/inventory system in this game is sometimes. Two points:
- Wanted 5 eggs. But no, not those filthy brown eggs. White eggs only. Cannot choose what chicken you get when buying. Bought a total of four brown chickens before the white
whale chicken appeared. (Extra note: Requested brown eggs AND white eggs just afterward.)
- Asked for a bundle of dried mushrooms. ...Fine. Bought the expensive Dehydrator recipe. Requires 5 of the same item in order to dehydrate. Held onto 5 common mushrooms, fortunately. Oh, but wait. Had 4 regular quality Common Mushrooms and 1 silver quality Common Mushroom. Cannot do that because reasons. Set up mushroom logs and hoped for the right quality of mushroom to appear.
Realized something at the end of Summer. Completed a lot of bundles already. Arguably makes sense to pivot from checks to completion. Mainly needs the last fishing rod (for really hard fish) and Foraging Mastery (for a Golden Mystery Box). Received the latter minutes later. So...just the Fishing Rod. Hinted for it a few hours later (Alex_Among_Foxes's Level 7 boss in Zelda 1).
Technically wants more free Qi Gems to avoid doing one of those nasty Special Orders. (Already got 15 from someone.) Likely winds up doing the legendary fish Qi quest.
Looked into the Cooking Bundle. Started making some of those. Realized something annoying: Milk. Needed Milk for two recipes. Required zero barn animals prior to this for anything. Is not
that much of a hassle, to be fair. Wanted to not mess with it is all.
Poked into Winter for a hinted item. Declined to go any further. Had plenty more stuff to do in other games.
Edit: Currently at about 15 hours of playtime in Stardew Valley alone. Needs to start thinking of this as three games instead of two, in terms of length.
Pokemon Crystal
Briefly popped in to get some hinted Shovel Claws yesterday. Woke the level 50 "Snorlax", who is only one level below Entei. Happened to be Gengar. Definitely caught that. Turned out to be Entei Jr, though. Featured about the same Special Attack, but worse everything else. Was not worth having Crunch for that. Kept it on the team, of course.
Returned to some new items. Checked the TMs: Ice Punch and Bite. Solid. Taught both to Entei, significantly boosting its combat capabilities. (Tossed Razor Wind and Bonemerang.)
Handled Brock without much fuss. Pulled up the map to fly out. Allowed access to Blackthorn City with the free Fly point, which led to SonicThrust's Cascade Badge. Cleaned up some other stuff in Johto (Goldenrod Underground Basement, Mystery Egg for Elm, the rest of the Blackthorn area) too.
Challenged the Elite Four last. Presented little challenge with items and a 10+ level advantage. Did not stop them from being annoying with Flash while setting up or critting through boosts for pretty solid damage. Claimed an Ultra Ball for Cherrim from Elm (normally the SS Ticket to Kanto).
Ended up blocked there. Received Strength a little later, which was only 5 more checks. Returned to BK Mode. Needs Surf for nearly everything left in the seed. Could also get 2 of the remaining 3 badges and challenge Red.
Technically could stumble through Rock Tunnel in the dark. Eh. Got two of the quick ones. Good enough.
Certainly wound up with a doozy of a seed. Placed Bugsy and Sabrina in the same sphere (2). Placed the post-Elite Four item in Sphere 6. Uses Flash in Sphere 29 and the Pokegear + Radio Card + EXPN Card in Sphere 26. Got Flash in Sphere 15. Indicates a late Zephyr Badge.
Earthbound
Cue another 30 minute inventory session. Gives you 66 or so extra spaces in storage. Is not enough with Shopsanity on. Filled it with useful gear (that cannot be bought anywhere), Monkey Cave items, PP-restoring items, and some key items. Also sat through approximately 15 photograph traps. Sits pretty on money, on the plus side.
Welcomed Jeff to the party. Entered at level 48, slightly above Ness and Poo. Nice. Equipped a +102-ish offense gun (roughly 2nd/3rd best in vanilla). Hit about as hard as Ness.
Decided to clear Winters first. Ended there previously. Just got the Eraser Eraser for the base there too. Rarely enters the base. Mentions nothing particularly dangerous there. Found something great there: Teleport Twoson. Why?
- Finds tons of shops in Twoson. Contains a department store and an outdoor market.
- Had the Police Badge for Onett access and the Pencil Eraser for Happy-Happy Village access. Even more shops, in other words.
Cleared out more inventory space. Received Paula for the full party while doing so. Came in at level 41, which is very useable. Geared her up immediately with, essentially, the same stuff as Jeff.
Lacked the time to do everything. Settled for high-density for now. Focused on shops. Bought Alex_Among_Foxes's Raft in Scaraba, for one.
To-do list:
- Giant's Step
- Peaceful Rest Valley
- Monotoli Building
- Magicant
- Maybe Fire Springs?
Currently at 3 Sanctuaries out of 8 total. Needs 7 to challenge Giygas. Could get to 5 with Giant's Step and Fire Springs. Lacks the Tiny Key (new key item), the Carrot Key, and the Jar of Fly Honey for the other three. Feels pretty far from the goal in this game.
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Just got the other two Progressive Coops and the Silo. Could have used those earlier. Still needs some cash for Qi Coins, but how much more? Costs 100000 for the full amount. Takes a while for those golden chickens to come online. Is that faster than just planting Starfruit? Hm. Potentially throws money at the Qi Gem problem. Although, is that viable in Archipelago? Maybe not. Limits shop stock, unlike in vanilla.
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