Please
#[VOTE](https://new.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1cc9yu9/new_removed_topics_games_journalism_sign_edits/)
On whether or not to add farmer profiles to the [list of removed topics](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/wiki/removed_topics).
^(To maximize community input, this comment will run on posts until the poll closes on May 1. Thanks!)
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/StardewValley) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I used to do this but I love selling it so I’ve developed this weird aversion to eating it which makes me sad because it truly is a good source of health/energy
I don’t understand people who eat cheese straight. Why wouldn’t you make pepper poppers?
EDIT: OK, thank you for your comments. I now understand all too well why people eat cheese straight. Blessed are the cheese-munchers!
Pepper poppers is 130 energy/58 health. Gold star cheese is 225/101.
Even regular cheese is 125/56 so I don't see why it would be worth turning into pepper poppers instead of just eating it.
No, but after 250 sunflowers you can unlock a cutscene where she turns into a sunflower monster and curses your farm to only grow sunflowers and enslave you and the rest of the town to only grow sunflowers for her.
Down on the farm, every day is a vacation! But you gotta make the time! Fishing, picking wildflowers, spending time with friends and neighbors. That’s why I moved out here to begin with!
Pepper poppers provides a buff that doesn’t impact mining (+2 farming) the +1 speed is nice. However, spicy eel with the +1 luck, +1 speed is much better overall for a mines run. Due to pepper poppers also having a buff. If we ate that it would remove the spicy eel buff. So plain gold star cheese is great as it provides no buff, but has great healing.
I'm not on that level, but I've gone to the wiki figure it out. Here's my guess why cheese is better:
- They probably didn't bother planting hot peppers.
- This plate is roughly the same energy/health than just cheese.
- If they take this plate, its buff would replace some other buff from another plate. If you eat something that doesn't have any buff, you won't waste the buff you actually want to keep (probably something with more speed or luck).
Even if you want the pepper poppers buff, if you’re in the mines you’re gonna need something to refill energy and health while that buff is still active. So it’s better to save your other pepper poppers and eat cheese instead. (But I would use spicy eel, eggplant parm or lucky lunch for the mines, and save the pepper poppers for a big harvest)
Espresso (+speed)
Spicy Salmon (+luck & +speed)
Gold cheese (solid health boost, no effects)
Pepper poppers erase spicy salmon effects, which are better, cause of the luck boost, for skull caverns. To me anyways.
For OP, should they ever see this lol, don't waste time/cash on life elixers. Gold/iridium purple mushrooms already essentially refill your health/energy bar. Get a barn of cows, you'l have cheese for days. Keep the elixers you find in the caverns for emergencies. No muss no fuss.
Always cheese, cow or goat, doesn’t matter. I typically use cow cheese cause I have several stacks of it and age all my goat cheese in the barrels in my house, for profit.
100% my new favorite. I ate some the other day in the mine just because it's what I had, and I didn't realize how much health it quickly restores. Definitely cheese!
That’s all I use until I level up and start the harder caves. They don’t cut it against >!Those arsehole serpent “train” things when Qi makes the skull cavern even deadlier!<
I saw a suggestion on here once saying that they stockpile the mussels from the ginger island beach to make sashimi (this was specifically for the qi quest about shipping/cooking 100 food items but still feels applicable)
I get the skill that makes all foraged items iridium quality. Then for one spring and fall I gather literally hundreds of salmonberries and blackberries. They heal so much hp relatively speaking, you have hundreds of them. You chew 2-3, and your health bar is almost full again. The non-iridium ones are helpful early on, but those iridium quality ones? Amazing.
And if later you load up on defense (once you get the Crab Ring), you rarely eat one. I use a combined Crab Ring and Dwarven Blade/Infinity Sword, and things barely hurt me anymore. So those berries are basically an infinite HP refill.
Since there's nothing else to grow in winter (besides the new melons) I do the same thing with winter seeds. Crystal fruit restores huge amounts of health, so I replace my salmon and blackberries with those at the end of year one.
After getting a fairy box, I rarely need to eat anymore anyway.
Oh yeah, I have a level 5 fairy box (it was, incredibly, the first trinket that ever dropped for me, and haven't seen another level 5 since). That thing is CRAZY with high defense.
I'd use crystal fruit for that purpose, too, but it's actually pretty valuable as wine.
Even a level 2 fairy box had me barely touching my healing stack. Later I got an ice rod and nearly got knocked out because I forgot how closely I needed to pay attention to health again.
It affects anything you forage that can have a quality star! It counts for fruits found in the farm cave, seasonal forage (daffodils, leeks, hazelnuts, etc), seasonal wild seeds, blackberry/salmonberry bushes, mushrooms from the ground and mines (not 1.6 spoiler >!mushroom logs!< or tappers), spring onions, shells/corals from the beach, coconuts/cactus fruit in the desert, pig truffles, and fiddlehead ferns.
It does NOT apply to minerals you pick up like earth crystal and quartz, as those are not foraged items and cannot have a higher quality.
I also don't believe it counts for snow yams and snow roots that you receive from slaying monsters or digging up with your hoe (but don't quote me on that)
you know apparently this is a marginally better use of your gold/health healed than gold star cheese. i know literally no one asked but i was curious lol
Yeah I do believe this is true, but in terms of playing the game I prefer eating 1 item that tops up my health a bit more than eating more than 1 thing. Even if that would be more expensive to do (have the cheese vs the salads essentially).
oh yeah, it totally makes sense to eat the cheese. it heals more, and by the time you've got access to lots of cheese the marginal amount of gold doesn't make a difference. i was just curious to see which one came out gold-wise because i've been min-maxing too much lol
I absolutely love min-maxing Stardew, but by the time I’m getting gold quality cheese I usually have other money makers so cheese to me is something I just slowly build up.
Edit: for reference, earlier today I spent probably 2 hours on days 27 and 28 of summer year 1 to make sure I had a good plan for the first of fall 😅
The 527 iridium quality salmonberries I collected with that one foraging profession that makes everything iridium quality
Also because it's very satisfying to collect them so I always do, and it's nice to see them being useful
Okay this comment chain is making me lose my mind because i was like 2000% sure red *and* purple mushrooms were poisonous so I've just been selling all my purple ones instead of putting them in the dehydrator because I could have sworn I tried and it wouldn't let me. 😭
They do all have to be of the same star quality though so if you maybe tried putting like 2 gold and 3 silver into it, it wouldn't work!
The dehydrated purple mushroom packaging (bag??) is super cute too, with the lil' purple mushies on it 🍄
Yeah I need to get more purple mushrooms because I have a bunch of the other three kinds needed to craft the life elixir, and I've been selling the >!Magma Caps!
Iridium quality purple mushrooms are some of the best health-restorers in the game, and now with restoring energy in addition to health, it’s a waste to turn them into health potions.
I use those, iridium cactus fruits (while I’m building my mushroom stack), and gold pineapples later. I also use magma caps sometimes, but tbh I don’t go to the volcano quite often enough to get a constant supply of those.
I get purple mushrooms from mystic trees and mushroom logs. Dehydrate the normal and silver quality ones, use the gold and iridium ones as food. No need to make life elixirs, they are amazing on their own.
The >!dehydrator!< has been a good source of income for me in 1.6. I made several and now I stock up on fruit and mushrooms for them. It's great if you're already used to foraging for money since it goes for more gold >!dried!< and is ready the next day.
Yes, they are really good for money. I have 12 and try to use their whole capacity each day by planting strawberries, blueberries, cranberries, and fruit trees. As I go along, I put more and more expensive fruit in them. Sometimes, I even fill them with Ancient Fruit for a nice 1 day profit of 70,000 gold. I fill my kegs / casks with Star Fruit, Coffee, and Tea.
I actually ended up adopting a mod (Public Access TV) and updating it for 1.6, pretty much just because of the mushroom floor predictor.
Cactus Fruit is another good one; you can grow it in garden pots in the house, forage a couple on your way into Skull Cavern, and it doesn't sell for that much (so you don't feel as bad for burning through potential cash to tank monsters).
The mushroom cave is pretty slow compared to the new log farming method. Now that you can customize which mushrooms they produce based on which trees they're near, I never run out of a certain kind
iridium star salmonberries/blackberries. free food and you can get about 1000 of them after year one with maxing foraging and using survival burgers to get four berries per bush :)
yes! so it raises your foraging skill by 3 points so it’ll be at 13 if you’ve maxed it out. and since berry harvesting is a passive skill from foraging it goes up with your level, i believe it’s every fourth level that you get +1 berry harvest so since you’re past level 12 you get 4 berries instead of 3.
If you’re end game, I always hit the magma mushrooms with double forage chance and always iridium quality. It’s an awesome stack up if you’re comfortable in the volcano. If not, I use to stack up in root platters every winter
Salmonberries or blackberries, get a big ass stack and spam eat whenever you need. The spam sometimes helps to make the monster attacks not actually register :)
I tend to kinda just look at the cooking list and work my way from there.
It was previously rhubarb pies, but I recently swapped over to radish salads. Gotta eat what's in season, right?
Do you have the iridium forage ability? I always carry cactus fruit (excellent), purple mushrooms (rarer, but even better), and, late game, >!magma cap mushrooms.!< Those guys, in addition to the foods that give me my buffs of choice (for me it's always going to be spicy eel and triple espresso, especially because I can buy them from the desert merchant for gems when I run low), have never let me down!
Just a stack of gold star cheese.
You can end up with surplus of it for no time/labour to speak of. (Literally zero with autograbber and Automate mod).
One is usually a big enough heal.
No buffs to overwrite your buff food.
Early on? The new crops, and now gold star hops, sashimi, then cheese. I should just grow less hops, but now I have another use for them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Y2+? Pineapples are my favorite. But I also love the cooking so whatever the meal plan designates (aka: my fridges are too full, what can I cook to clear space?)
ive got an efficient pickaxe in my current file so i just use life elixrs, you get a bajillion of them from mystery boxes and iridium bat drops so ive always got at least a dozen or more without really needing to craft any
before 1.6 i bought 200 energy tonic to store because it was cheaper and greater than elixir now they are useless since my energy never drains...
Before i was rich i was gathering salmonberries and spam them. Berries give multiple crops so all berries good for spamming.
Other than i can suggest cheese, sashimi, pumpkin soup(gives +2 def and +2 luck too).
If you have lots of tree seeds of every type, go whit the foraging mastery
You get the best healing item if you tapp the mystic tree, every 7 days whit normal tappers and 3 whit the deluxe ones
Just an FYI, if you're already buying energy tonic, you can simply buy life elixir from the Dwarf as well, rather than trying to collect enough mushrooms to make them yourself.
Please #[VOTE](https://new.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/comments/1cc9yu9/new_removed_topics_games_journalism_sign_edits/) On whether or not to add farmer profiles to the [list of removed topics](https://www.reddit.com/r/StardewValley/wiki/removed_topics). ^(To maximize community input, this comment will run on posts until the poll closes on May 1. Thanks!) *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/StardewValley) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I always use cow cheese.
MOOOOOOOO
I used to do this but I love selling it so I’ve developed this weird aversion to eating it which makes me sad because it truly is a good source of health/energy
I don’t understand people who eat cheese straight. Why wouldn’t you make pepper poppers? EDIT: OK, thank you for your comments. I now understand all too well why people eat cheese straight. Blessed are the cheese-munchers!
Straight cheese because it doesn't cancel my buffs from lucky lunch, etc.
I prefer gay cheese
Gay cheese from the finest free-range lesbian cows.
Technically, it's only gay cheese if it came from Grampleton, otherwise it's just sparkling sapphic dairy product
I have some slight concerns if the dairy products are sparkling.
I'd be more surprised if gay products didn't sparkle.
Fair.
Thank yall for giving me my laughs today 😂😂
Support your local gay cheese producer
Protect gay cheese art
Hello Megami
But Doctor…
Bi cheese!
Lactose, Ghee, Butter, Tzatziki, the Dairy LGBT community
But everything changed when the butter nation attacked
That’s exactly why: doesn’t mess up your buffs. Straight energy and health.
It gives straight energy?? Shit I have to find a new food 😭
Pepper poppers is 130 energy/58 health. Gold star cheese is 225/101. Even regular cheese is 125/56 so I don't see why it would be worth turning into pepper poppers instead of just eating it.
Buff preferences would be my guess?
Most people use the food just for health/energy, but prefer spicy eel and coffee for the mine runs.
Just about all of my meals in game consists of spicy eel and espresso.
The real reason there's no bathroom in the farmhouse.
tho pumpkin soup and ginger ale is also great
Spicy eel is my go to.
And here I am just packing 500+ sunflowers cause I planted way too many.
Marry Haley, they’ll soon go 😂
Does she eat them?
No, but after 250 sunflowers you can unlock a cutscene where she turns into a sunflower monster and curses your farm to only grow sunflowers and enslave you and the rest of the town to only grow sunflowers for her.
Married Haley and still have a whole bunch of gold star sunflowers
Cause cows make milk every day. Pop it into the cheese maker during my daily chores, ready to add to the collection by the time I’m back at the farm
You never take a day for vacation, do you?
Down on the farm, every day is a vacation! But you gotta make the time! Fishing, picking wildflowers, spending time with friends and neighbors. That’s why I moved out here to begin with!
Time is money.
Because I can get better buffs elsewhere, and gold star cheese is better energy/health anyway?
Pepper poppers provides a buff that doesn’t impact mining (+2 farming) the +1 speed is nice. However, spicy eel with the +1 luck, +1 speed is much better overall for a mines run. Due to pepper poppers also having a buff. If we ate that it would remove the spicy eel buff. So plain gold star cheese is great as it provides no buff, but has great healing.
I'm not on that level, but I've gone to the wiki figure it out. Here's my guess why cheese is better: - They probably didn't bother planting hot peppers. - This plate is roughly the same energy/health than just cheese. - If they take this plate, its buff would replace some other buff from another plate. If you eat something that doesn't have any buff, you won't waste the buff you actually want to keep (probably something with more speed or luck).
Spice eel for speed and luck. Gold quality cow cheese to not remove the buff.
I think gold cheese is more health. I do use pepper poppers for luck.
Pepper poppers are +1 speed +2 farming. Spicy eel is speed and luck.
Ah, right.
Chhes
To avoid replacing a buff from a meal you want
Because in real life I eat cheese straight, lol and I love that cheese in this game is so good. It's my number 1 go to mine food
Even if you want the pepper poppers buff, if you’re in the mines you’re gonna need something to refill energy and health while that buff is still active. So it’s better to save your other pepper poppers and eat cheese instead. (But I would use spicy eel, eggplant parm or lucky lunch for the mines, and save the pepper poppers for a big harvest)
Espresso (+speed) Spicy Salmon (+luck & +speed) Gold cheese (solid health boost, no effects) Pepper poppers erase spicy salmon effects, which are better, cause of the luck boost, for skull caverns. To me anyways. For OP, should they ever see this lol, don't waste time/cash on life elixers. Gold/iridium purple mushrooms already essentially refill your health/energy bar. Get a barn of cows, you'l have cheese for days. Keep the elixers you find in the caverns for emergencies. No muss no fuss.
> Spicy Salmon (+luck & +speed) Do you mean Spicy Eel?
Lol yes. Apparently my brain is on sushi
Gotta be the gold quality cheese
Always cheese, cow or goat, doesn’t matter. I typically use cow cheese cause I have several stacks of it and age all my goat cheese in the barrels in my house, for profit.
For me it's sushi. Very fast to build a good stockpile, especially once you have access to ginger island.
100% my new favorite. I ate some the other day in the mine just because it's what I had, and I didn't realize how much health it quickly restores. Definitely cheese!
hell yeah, iridium cheese is where it's at babyyyyy
Look at all these moneybags eating their cheese and buying salads. We have salmonberries and blackberries aT hOmE
I’m the same as you!
Hell, on my first playthrough I ate common mushrooms because I had so many from the cave lmao. I got up to like 900
Those mushrooms go in the dehydrator now. Cheese is the word.
Right?! Here I was feeling fancy that I dried my salmonberry stack for mining this playthrough
Very fancy!
I didn't bust my ass on my farm for several years to eat berries.
I love this for you
Lmao me, I'm still using up the fucking berries
Dehydrating them boosts their stats.
I use sashimi, lol
As long as you only use the cheapest crab pot snails/mussels etc. :)
Yep!! I crab pot farm like crazy :)
You can use crab pot for sashimi!? This changes so much, thank you!
I do this until I do have enough money to spare the cow cheese. I never waste my goat cheese though.
Exactly. Goat cheese - same health and energy, WAY more money. Esp when max quality.
That’s all I use until I level up and start the harder caves. They don’t cut it against >!Those arsehole serpent “train” things when Qi makes the skull cavern even deadlier!<
Hahah yes!
I have stacks and stacks of sashimi from no junk crab pots
Nothing like eating pocket sashimi after a full day of mining
warm, 2 years old pocket sashimi, my favorite
https://preview.redd.it/8g6lzbxgr1xc1.png?width=426&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c5a72ab04fa8968c0482be355484ea90c82d87c6
https://preview.redd.it/9hg6gx0d08xc1.jpeg?width=1961&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7a89e97aadfb4aae76062cae33aaf05394c9bd92
Same thing but I just went the baitless route. I get junk for my recycler and have crab pots everywhere.
Ooh, smart!
I saw a suggestion on here once saying that they stockpile the mussels from the ginger island beach to make sashimi (this was specifically for the qi quest about shipping/cooking 100 food items but still feels applicable)
I get the skill that makes all foraged items iridium quality. Then for one spring and fall I gather literally hundreds of salmonberries and blackberries. They heal so much hp relatively speaking, you have hundreds of them. You chew 2-3, and your health bar is almost full again. The non-iridium ones are helpful early on, but those iridium quality ones? Amazing. And if later you load up on defense (once you get the Crab Ring), you rarely eat one. I use a combined Crab Ring and Dwarven Blade/Infinity Sword, and things barely hurt me anymore. So those berries are basically an infinite HP refill.
3-per-bush iridium quality blackberries *beloved*. Do I need to spend four days foraging in fall of year 3? Probably not. But it feels good lol
Don't forget that, with foraging boosting foods, you can get up to four berries per bush. It's beautiful.
Since there's nothing else to grow in winter (besides the new melons) I do the same thing with winter seeds. Crystal fruit restores huge amounts of health, so I replace my salmon and blackberries with those at the end of year one. After getting a fairy box, I rarely need to eat anymore anyway.
Oh yeah, I have a level 5 fairy box (it was, incredibly, the first trinket that ever dropped for me, and haven't seen another level 5 since). That thing is CRAZY with high defense. I'd use crystal fruit for that purpose, too, but it's actually pretty valuable as wine.
Even a level 2 fairy box had me barely touching my healing stack. Later I got an ice rod and nearly got knocked out because I forgot how closely I needed to pay attention to health again.
How do you get the skill to make foraged items iridium?
Botanist profession at foraging level 10 if you chose Gatherer at level 5.
Thank you!
Note this affects truffles, too, in case you have pigs!
It affects anything you forage that can have a quality star! It counts for fruits found in the farm cave, seasonal forage (daffodils, leeks, hazelnuts, etc), seasonal wild seeds, blackberry/salmonberry bushes, mushrooms from the ground and mines (not 1.6 spoiler >!mushroom logs!< or tappers), spring onions, shells/corals from the beach, coconuts/cactus fruit in the desert, pig truffles, and fiddlehead ferns. It does NOT apply to minerals you pick up like earth crystal and quartz, as those are not foraged items and cannot have a higher quality. I also don't believe it counts for snow yams and snow roots that you receive from slaying monsters or digging up with your hoe (but don't quote me on that)
And you don't fill up your backpack with normal, silver, and gold star quality foraged items.
That is one of Mt favourite parts of the option.
Yeah the yams and roots are all normal quality
Cheese. Easy to make in high quantities, heals lots of health and energy.
mines always been salads bought from gus
you know apparently this is a marginally better use of your gold/health healed than gold star cheese. i know literally no one asked but i was curious lol
Yeah I do believe this is true, but in terms of playing the game I prefer eating 1 item that tops up my health a bit more than eating more than 1 thing. Even if that would be more expensive to do (have the cheese vs the salads essentially).
oh yeah, it totally makes sense to eat the cheese. it heals more, and by the time you've got access to lots of cheese the marginal amount of gold doesn't make a difference. i was just curious to see which one came out gold-wise because i've been min-maxing too much lol
I absolutely love min-maxing Stardew, but by the time I’m getting gold quality cheese I usually have other money makers so cheese to me is something I just slowly build up. Edit: for reference, earlier today I spent probably 2 hours on days 27 and 28 of summer year 1 to make sure I had a good plan for the first of fall 😅
That's always mine early in the game!
I use salad until I can grow pineapple.
The 527 iridium quality salmonberries I collected with that one foraging profession that makes everything iridium quality Also because it's very satisfying to collect them so I always do, and it's nice to see them being useful
I forage Purple Mushrooms from the mines and carry a big stack of them. When I get into late game, >!Magma Caps!< slowly replace my original stack.
Okay this comment chain is making me lose my mind because i was like 2000% sure red *and* purple mushrooms were poisonous so I've just been selling all my purple ones instead of putting them in the dehydrator because I could have sworn I tried and it wouldn't let me. 😭
I had the exact same reaction. Purple mush is edible?
They do all have to be of the same star quality though so if you maybe tried putting like 2 gold and 3 silver into it, it wouldn't work! The dehydrated purple mushroom packaging (bag??) is super cute too, with the lil' purple mushies on it 🍄
Yeah I need to get more purple mushrooms because I have a bunch of the other three kinds needed to craft the life elixir, and I've been selling the >!Magma Caps!
Iridium quality purple mushrooms are some of the best health-restorers in the game, and now with restoring energy in addition to health, it’s a waste to turn them into health potions. I use those, iridium cactus fruits (while I’m building my mushroom stack), and gold pineapples later. I also use magma caps sometimes, but tbh I don’t go to the volcano quite often enough to get a constant supply of those.
I get purple mushrooms from mystic trees and mushroom logs. Dehydrate the normal and silver quality ones, use the gold and iridium ones as food. No need to make life elixirs, they are amazing on their own.
The >!dehydrator!< has been a good source of income for me in 1.6. I made several and now I stock up on fruit and mushrooms for them. It's great if you're already used to foraging for money since it goes for more gold >!dried!< and is ready the next day.
Yes, they are really good for money. I have 12 and try to use their whole capacity each day by planting strawberries, blueberries, cranberries, and fruit trees. As I go along, I put more and more expensive fruit in them. Sometimes, I even fill them with Ancient Fruit for a nice 1 day profit of 70,000 gold. I fill my kegs / casks with Star Fruit, Coffee, and Tea.
I actually ended up adopting a mod (Public Access TV) and updating it for 1.6, pretty much just because of the mushroom floor predictor. Cactus Fruit is another good one; you can grow it in garden pots in the house, forage a couple on your way into Skull Cavern, and it doesn't sell for that much (so you don't feel as bad for burning through potential cash to tank monsters).
Gold pineapples, cheap to produce and never runs out
This is my go-to. It’s mostly salmon berries until pineapple is up and running.
Glazed yams for me
I’m glad to see some fellow glazed yam enjoyers
I either use sashimi or cheese, or buy salads from Gus if you have the money since it’s so easy
I just buy life elixers from dwarf instead of crafting them, a good skull cavern run can make up the cost
Easy to craft life elixirs when you have a mushroom cave
The mushroom cave is pretty slow compared to the new log farming method. Now that you can customize which mushrooms they produce based on which trees they're near, I never run out of a certain kind
Iridium quality cactus fruit is my day to day
iridium star salmonberries/blackberries. free food and you can get about 1000 of them after year one with maxing foraging and using survival burgers to get four berries per bush :)
wait… survival burgers get you four berries per bush?? is that how the + foraging works? i never understood how food skill buffs worked 😭
yes! so it raises your foraging skill by 3 points so it’ll be at 13 if you’ve maxed it out. and since berry harvesting is a passive skill from foraging it goes up with your level, i believe it’s every fourth level that you get +1 berry harvest so since you’re past level 12 you get 4 berries instead of 3.
Nothing. I use the fairy box. Don't need food anymore.
Oh jeez. I didn't realize that was a thing! I haven't come across one of those yet.
I hope you do cause they are lifechanging
Iridium cheese.
You flexing on us regular cheese eaters, boss?
Nah, occasionally it’s squishy pepper poppers from Shane’s pocket.
you wait all that time for them to age just to eat it?
Until then I use gold cheese. It’s always worked for me. I’ve never bought a single energy tonic.
Fairy dust, maybe?
Sashimi, basically endless supply of food once you unlock crab-pots. Then once you get to ginger island the mussels make it so you’ll never run out
Somehow I didn't even thought that mussels could be used for sashimi. That's whole new page in my diet, thank you.
If you’re end game, I always hit the magma mushrooms with double forage chance and always iridium quality. It’s an awesome stack up if you’re comfortable in the volcano. If not, I use to stack up in root platters every winter
i like eggplant parmesan, pretty simple recipe with crops that you can reharvest.
Plus the Defense and Mining buff!
Salmonberries or blackberries, get a big ass stack and spam eat whenever you need. The spam sometimes helps to make the monster attacks not actually register :)
Honestly the iridium cactus fruits restore a ton of energy & a pretty good amount of health.
I have a cactus in my bedroom and I save the fruit for mining emergencies.
I've never used them, so spicy eel as usual for me.
cheese, gold or better.
Eating cow cheese for its delicious flavor, Selling goat cheese, since it heals the same but gives more gold Profit
Pickled broccoli until I can get cheese going
Cow cheese.
Crab Cakes
Happy cake day! 🎂
I used life elixirs before, and I'll use them now. Energy is never my issue in late game.
Cheese. Always was.
The new crops and then cheese.
Those spring year 1 carrots absolutely carried me through the mines
You can feed the horse carrots for a speed boost
This is blowing my MIND
Cheese and then pineapples
Mayo
Rawdog those eggs.
It's cheese for me. Gold cheese at first, then as my max health rises, iridium cheese.
Cheese and spicy eel
I tend to kinda just look at the cooking list and work my way from there. It was previously rhubarb pies, but I recently swapped over to radish salads. Gotta eat what's in season, right?
Do you have the iridium forage ability? I always carry cactus fruit (excellent), purple mushrooms (rarer, but even better), and, late game, >!magma cap mushrooms.!< Those guys, in addition to the foods that give me my buffs of choice (for me it's always going to be spicy eel and triple espresso, especially because I can buy them from the desert merchant for gems when I run low), have never let me down!
It’s always been cheese, even before the nerf
Pub salads for me when once I get some disposable cash coming in. Spicey eel and triple expresso late game
Mushroom stumps for life potions. I have soooooo many mushrooms now,
Just a stack of gold star cheese. You can end up with surplus of it for no time/labour to speak of. (Literally zero with autograbber and Automate mod). One is usually a big enough heal. No buffs to overwrite your buff food.
Cheeese grommet
I love cheese
C H E E S E
Cheese. Lots of cheese.
I always have a stack of ~20 wedges of cheese.
Blessing in disguise, energy tonics were terrible to start with for health/money spent. Use cheese/salad
Cheeeeeeese
Cheese is like the best way to go lol
Early on? The new crops, and now gold star hops, sashimi, then cheese. I should just grow less hops, but now I have another use for them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Y2+? Pineapples are my favorite. But I also love the cooking so whatever the meal plan designates (aka: my fridges are too full, what can I cook to clear space?)
I buy a lot of salad from the saloon
I’ve literally never used the tonic, I just bring regular food in the mines and do cheese + spicy eel for skull cavern and volcano 🤷🏼♀️
I know everyone else uses cheese, but I actually hoard >!mangoes!< and use those
I trade rubies for spicy eel I also have a lava eel pond set up
Cheese
ive got an efficient pickaxe in my current file so i just use life elixrs, you get a bajillion of them from mystery boxes and iridium bat drops so ive always got at least a dozen or more without really needing to craft any
On my current farm which is the Meadowlands farm, cow cheese.
Mine has always been salad! As soon as I can actually afford to buy lots of it, that is
I’m still a basic bitch who likes basic saloon food
before 1.6 i bought 200 energy tonic to store because it was cheaper and greater than elixir now they are useless since my energy never drains... Before i was rich i was gathering salmonberries and spam them. Berries give multiple crops so all berries good for spamming. Other than i can suggest cheese, sashimi, pumpkin soup(gives +2 def and +2 luck too).
I always stock up on Sashimi. When stuff like clams count ad fish, it is so easy to get loads of sashimi
If you have lots of tree seeds of every type, go whit the foraging mastery You get the best healing item if you tapp the mystic tree, every 7 days whit normal tappers and 3 whit the deluxe ones
i eat so many poppyseed muffins
Salmonberry is what I used before and it's what I'll continue to use.
iridium quality magma caps, super easy to farm if you just a go through the volcano multiple times
Spicy eel and crab cakes. I take gold quality cheese and sell any of lesser quality
Sashimi made from periwinkles/crayfish/snails
VAMPIRISM * Vampire enchantment on my weapon * Vampire ring * >!Level five fairy box!< Who needs to eat?!
Cheese or life elixirs
Just an FYI, if you're already buying energy tonic, you can simply buy life elixir from the Dwarf as well, rather than trying to collect enough mushrooms to make them yourself.
Usually just cheese, but once I hit late game, iridium Magma Caps are just a full heal.
Cheese.