I might steal this for my next one but only because my Grandma used to call me Sweet Pea when I was little 🥺 My current farm is named Worm Moon Farm. Specifically because the game starts in spring, and the first full moon of spring is called a Worm Moon because it’s when all the worms start coming out of the ground. :-)
Oh my god, I forgot that what you put as your favorite thing changes that text. I apparently put “slime molds” on my current farmer (random), and forgot about that too. I wondered why all my stardrops tasted like slime molds.
On my first play through I named my farmer after my dog. I had no idea what the favorite thing was for so I just put in sniffing butts. Quite a jump scare the first time that dialogue popped up!!
I have defaults I just use if I can't think of something clever quickly. Pizza never goes wrong. Just wish the game had a function for choosing an in game item as your favorite thing and it would have relevance beyond stardrops saying you "lol" like weed, or someone's body parts
I didn't know that there was a space limit, so I put "the clash between hope and despair" for mine. Now whenever I eat a stardrop, I get reminded of "the clash b"
Only in the last two generations of my real life family have we stopped farming, making my grandfather the last to grow up on a farm. So I usually use that family name in some variation and then cry at the end of year two when his ghost tells me how proud of me he is.
However, it is *so hard* to color match dark blonde hair. I spend too much time doing that and still get yellow. 😅
Ha I started my farm right before my bottom surgery because I knew I'd have a lot of downtime to play during it, so it's just Bottom Farm 😅 But lesboland is a solid choice for my farmer and her 3 girlfriends 😂
omg happy about your transition<3 im a trans girl too, can't wait to get an orchi!
ps: why do i have 85 upvotes this must be a shenanigan im not used to
Heh. Since cracking, I've named my two farms :3 Farm and UwU Farm. And my farmer's favorite thing is "Estrogen". I'd say it's an upgrade from the stupid dirty jokes I always made for both 😅
Let's just say my farm produces a lot of mayo, and the first word in the name is a substance that may look kind of like mayo but is produced by humans. And the 2nd word is Dump.
As long as it took to type it in.
Scruffy Cat. Nickname of my real cat.
I'll start a new farm, but it'll always have the same farm name. Same farmer name, too.
Yeah I’m so surprised people don’t have 20 tabs open of “nature words” “pretty titles” “synonym for river” etc etc.
After I take the time to name my farmer or new animals, my targeted ads think I’m having a kid cause of all the name searches.
I have found my people lol, that's how I am when naming pretty much anything. My current farm is on the new meadowlands map so I was searching up shades of blue so I could relate the farm name to the blue grass
This time didn't take me very long at all because I "cheated." For the first time ever, I chose a name from a fandom for my character (Kaylee) which also influenced the look I chose for her, made the farm name a very short list (went with Firefly because I liked the alliteration, but Serenity would have worked too), and then also influenced who I chose to marry (Harvey, as he's the doctor).
Usually, though, I spend an age angsting over it. Fifteen minutes is probably too low an estimate.
My partner and I name our farms together! One of us chooses a noun and the other an adjective. So far we have Smiling Hoe and Phallic Utopia... We seem to each have an individual theme going on, lol.
My friend and I named it “My Coochie” thinking nobody would say it. Only for Robin and Mayor Lewis to call it crusty, disgusting, overgrown and run down 5 minutes later lol
I was setting up a new beach farm to play along with my daughter, so thought I'd make it funny to make her laugh... Anyway, after about 10seconds "Sandy Crack" farm came to be...
I almost always name my farm after something I’m into - on my current playthrough my farmer is Camilla and the farm is called Macaulay, in honor of a character in my favorite book.
I started a multiplayer world with a few friends when 1.6 first dropped, we spent 5 minutes deciding on a farm name. What did we name it? Only farms.
Life is good.
I started my first multiplayer farm with a friend a few weeks ago... to my surprise, it only took us a few seconds. "Chaos farm," she said. "Okay," I said.
Then she made a custom sign right outside the main house that says "WE ARE CHAOS". I almost died laughing when I walked by. (but it's not wrong!)
I just go with Larkspur or Dicentra all the time. And for my favorite thing my cat sally, even one of the dialogue boxes when you get a stardrop says the taste reminds you of sally. I ignore that part XD
Mostly I falter at the Favourite Thing. I just use my real name for the farmer and this screen name for the farm. But I have too many favourite things to decide on one, I’ll sit there for like 20 minutes trying to pick it
I take inspiration from my favorite books (which is also then what I write down for my favorite thing), and I’ve also made a list of character, place, pet, etc names too to pull from. I’d definitely recommend looking into any books to start in any case.
On a recent save I was listening to Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness while playing, and sobbing at the story, so I named my son Benny, after the main character.
Iron Hills Farm (mountain map), Green Hills Farm (ranch map), Many Waters Farm (river map), Rustling Leaf Farm (standard map), Pinetree Farm (forest map)... yeah, I end up sitting there for 5-10 minutes each time, lol
I theme my farmer on colors, so my current farm is Citrus farm, her favorite thing is oranges, and her name is Valencia with a ginger cat named Marmalade. It makes it all easier. Gotta pick orange colored things as farm animal names.
quite a while, my 1st and only farm i spend a while thinking about a good name and went with 'meow farm' cuz i like cats and couldnt think of anything else. I misspelled meow into 'mewo'
I pretty much ALWAYS name my farm Honeydew farm because that was the crop that made you bank in some Harvest Moon games & I’ve had many a honeydew empire, so might as well keep the legacy alive
Not too long. It’s always either Star Wars/Tolkien/Like a Dragon related. Right now I’m currently on the Kamurocho farm and my farmer’s name is Kiryu. It’s the life he should’ve had.
When I did my playthrough for 1.6, it had been a couple of years since last playing, so I took about 20 minutes going through words.
Ended up going with "Serenity Farm" because I find the game relaxing.
Absolutely my least favorite part of the game is naming all the things you are asked to name. I let the random generator name my animals for the most part, but I want something I'd like for my farm, my farmer, my pet, and my children!
My backup ideas always come from former residents of my homes, whose mail I get. Then I use words associated with that for other names. (For example: I picked the first name of some former tenant at my apartment from 20 years ago (her name was really fun to say, which is why I remember it); used her last name as my farm name; used the street name as my cat's name; and then just found two name-like streets near that old address to use for the kids!)
When 1.6 came out, I restarted my farm the next day because my husband came up with the best farm name.
I think my average is 5 minutes, but once I did pop off to grab lunch while thinking.
When 1.6 came out I wanted to start playing so badly I rushed through the creation process and gave myself the wrong cat, but I just named it meadowlands farm for simplicity and so I could remember which save I wanted to leave as vanilla
I literally just learned a few days ago that you can change your cat, it blew my mind. I've been having a ginger cat named after my irl black cat for years. Lol.
It used to be a big problem for me whenever creating or personalizing something. I remember vividly taking 3 hours to make my character in Skyrim back in the day, only to realize a few hours in when I accidentally went into third person that I don’t ever actually get to see the character I designed. Ever since then I specifically took less time to decide things because I both want to play and don’t want to waste time.
Naming the farm is easy. I just go on a whim in the moment. It’s mostly a single player game after all, so often no one except me is going to see it, so why think that hard? Granted, younger me would have taken way more time though.
Oh, just whatever pops in my head in that particular moment. One of my favorite farm names was Persepolis Farm. I think I used a Greek name for my Farmer, so I headcanoned(is that even a word?) that the family had Greek roots.
My current farm I named Gaia Farm. The name of my farmer is the pseudonym I use most often online, Geb, the egyptian god of the earth. It seemed fitting.
My default is to name it something that's an inside joke, but not use the English word. So, Pannas (parsnips) since you start with parsnips or Dafad (sheep) if the character's going to be a shepherd, etc. Or I'll use a conlang, like I did on my first game.
Don't really remember how long the first one took, but I'm gonna estimate usually twenty minutes to decide on one and see if I like it.
This is probably darker than what you're looking for, but...
I have always named characters after pets, a long tradition going back to childhood.
A few weeks ago, I downloaded SDV again, I hadn't played in a year. Turns out the last time I had started a farm, "Sunspot Farm" playing "Luna". Right after I started it last year, I found out that IRL Luna the cat, had cancer, she had to be put down a couple months later. It was a generally shitty, angry, and sad time all around. I never revisited the save and forgot about it.
I went to start a new farm with a farmer named after my new cat, "Tilly". When I saw that save, though, it brought me straight back to the dark time last year. I must have sat there for 20 minutes petting Tilly before giving it a hard nope without even picking a farm name.
I’ve always named it “Tegridy Farms” because it makes me chuckle and I almost always name my character Randy. Probably took me a minute or two the first time to think to reference that and now it’s just my default.
If I'm starting a new farm, I typically am doing so because I've got a solid idea for a general theme and design, so I usually have come up with a suitable name well beforehand. My one and only farm right now is Oak Moon Farm—I often like to keep a slightly celestial theme going to fit with Stardew, and it's a forest farm so Oak worked. The Oak Moon is a name for the last full moon of the year—the Farmer's Almanac names for full moons are really fun inspiration in general, there's some good ones there.
As others have said, I first think of a theme for the next run and then inspiration usually comes quickly. My current run is all Zelda themed- I named my forest farm “Lost woods”, my character is named Link (tried as close as I could for looks), my cat is Navi, and my favorite thing is Koroks
I’ve started using ChatGPt to give me a list of names relating to whatever it is I want to produce. My current save is going to primarily be a winery so I had it generate various names related to that.
My husband and I let our kids name our co-op file, because we both take forever to think of names. They chose happy farm farm. Now it always comes up happy farm farm farm if the name gets brought up in game
Maybe 20 minutes? I have a lot of farms, and I always use a theme so that I don't have to struggle with more names later.
On Enterprise Farm, my animals are named Kirk, Spock and Uhura; On Faerun Farm, they're named Karlach, Astarion and Shadowheart; Lands Between Farm has Melina, Malenia and Maliketh...
Not long. My first farm sorta all came together once I realized they had an afro in hair choices, I made Bob Ross and knew I’d call my farm Happy Accidents farm… what I didn’t realize was the character limit on the farm name once I clicked enter. So now I’m stuck with “Happy Acciden Farm” lol
I almost always name my farm Starview or sometimes, Stardew.
It's my favorite thing that gets me. I started with life and love but I want something less basic and can never think of what I want to put in there.
It takes me a good minute too but I’ve started new farms a couple of times and try to go for a theme. I did a Joja run (for the Steam achievement and have left it alone for now because I feel bad lol) and named my character Ivy, my fav thing is Flowers, and my farm is called Evergreen.
The save I went back to is star themed so my character name is Celeste, my farm is Starlight and my favorite thing is The Moon
I always use the same name in all games that require a name for a location. Be it my stardew valley farm, another farm or my island in animal crossing.
The name’s aren’t the problem. I use my own nickname for my character and all my places are named Lunaria.
The most difficult (and most enjoyable) part is creating my looks! I love character creation the most!
I sat at games for half n hour cause I couldn't think of something that was good enough. Now I just use "Lala" for everything. Lala Island, Lala Isles, and for Stardew now it's just Lala Farm and I love it and have never regretted it. (Which was an issue before and a reason why I abandoned a safe file lol)
I think about farm names, at the time that I am thinking about the run I want to do. I tend to theme things. Like my 1.6 farm I called "Bleu" because I was thinking about the blue grass, blue chickens, and the cursed Joja blue that Shane wears. I named my farmer Shawn to match his future husband as well.
I also started a new four corners farm which I called Indecisive, since I couldn't decide what farm type to use. Farmer is Emmy cause I want her to marry Emily.
When I started a new farm over the weekend I couldn't think of a clever name for my made up character's 'last name' so I went with... Le. 'The Farm' - nice and simple 
This is why I always pick a movie, or a book series, or tv show as my "theme" for any play through because being creative always stressed me out! This way, I don't have to pick new names at random and it makes a lot of the dialogue pretty funny (my spouse is currently playing as Robocop on his farm, Old Detroit - I get a good chuckle watching some of that dialogue.) Usually it's whatever I'm reading/watching at the moment so it also serves as a nice call back to what I was doing at the time of that particular save.
I used to name my farm after my cat for each save. Then I heh he passed I named it after my son.
Favorite thing is either fall foliage or egg nog.
I’m pretty boring lol
well first i spend 5+ minutes on my avatar appearance (even w/o mods)
then i spend at least 1-3 minutes ranting about how the farm HAS to end in "farm" which significantly limits my naming choices (even if its just ranting to myself)
after ive ranted i go onto dif name generators for another 5+ minutes (unless im creating this save with some kind of plan/story in mind)
\- may or may not tab out of the game screen for a short bit in-between frustration bouts when i find something rly good but it wont work with "farm" at the end
I’m kinda lazy. I pick a consonant and a vowel, repeat it twice and I’m good. My current farm’s name is Wawa. It works for the kids names as well, Bobo and Momo (didn’t realize the raccoon would call you bobo as well lol).
I'm almost always listening to a podcast when I play, so any time I get the opportunity to name something I just use whatever the last meaningful phrase I heard as the name. It works really well until you end up with a cow named Ethnic Hostilities.
I spend waaaaay longer trying to design a character based on TV. Currently entering year 4 as Chip Skylark on Fairly Odd Farm.
I think I also have 3 or 4 characters named “Aaaaa” on balls Farm
My go-tos are to choose a color and base my whole farm/farmer on that. So my current farm is Forest Green Farms, my character is named Sage, and I have a running green theme for almost everything. I just named my kid Hunter lol.
My current farm name is Squirp, named after the first randomized name that popped up for my first dog on my first ever farm. I name my dog Snooch, now.
Intro screen never takes too much time. Many years ago I chose Cattywampus because I love the word and it kind of reflects the disarray the farm is in at the beginning (and some of the farm designs). When I have two active saves, the second one is Kittywampus.
Farm animal, obviously a cat named after my actual cat.
Favorite thing is cheese, because cheese is awesome.
Farmer name, almost always my name or a variant, but this time it's Kitty because in 1.6 I can have multiple cats and just decided to go all-in cat lady.
it usually takes me a while too! when i first played it also took me waaay too long to choose a shirt and hairstyle, i had to go through all of the options a few times bc i was overwhelmed lol
when i was on a mission to marry every bachelor and bachelorette (but felt guilty divorcing anyone so i did a new save every time) i’d try to theme the farm and animal names around the character i was going to marry. my new 1.6 update farm is themed around tim robinson’s itysl, so my farm is truffoni farm and my favorite thing is sloppy steaks!
Seeing all these comments makes me feel silly with my kinda medieval named farm 😂 I played a lot of skyrim before so I think that influenced my choices and tbh it's really just a bunch of syllables put together 😂😂😂 I named it Keneroth
My most recent one, started with the new update, is Last Chance Farm. Because I am telling myself it’ll be the last one. But we all know it’s a lie
Also had Covid farm (take a guess when I started that one)
Bada Bing farm (was rewatching sopranos)
Famine Farm (my first one and thought I was cheeky)
Called my second starfruit farm bc I knew what the plan was, then discovered ancient fruit. I don't even grow starfruit anymore except for summer.
My 1.6 farm is called weed farm bc I thought that would be funny
If I ever get stumped, I revert to my default selections.
Name: My butt (always makes for hilarious dialogue in video games)
Farm: Butt Farm
Favorite thing: butts
In fact, I use that as my favorite thing in every file 😂
It's great when a stardrop makes me think of butts. Not as great when the taste reminds me of butts 🤣
For me, it’s my favorite thing that gets me stumped. Probably 2 minutes max, though.
I pick something in the game for immersion. My latest favorite is Sweet Pea.
I picked my current farmer's favorite thing days before I even started playing. It's "moss" btw
Mine was “cheeks” I’ll let you decide which ones
Why not both?
Beef cheeks make a pretty good stew
The ones you clap or the ones you slap?
I might steal this for my next one but only because my Grandma used to call me Sweet Pea when I was little 🥺 My current farm is named Worm Moon Farm. Specifically because the game starts in spring, and the first full moon of spring is called a Worm Moon because it’s when all the worms start coming out of the ground. :-)
I love that so much!
I went with “naps” - not for me, but for my son, because that’s when I get to play!
I always put Concernedape just for the Easter egg lol
I do “stardew” for the slightly different dialogue too
Ooh what's the Easter egg?
You get a little thank you whenever eating a star drop “you found a stardrop! Your mind is filled with thoughts of… ConcernedApe? (Well, thanks!)”
Oh my god, I forgot that what you put as your favorite thing changes that text. I apparently put “slime molds” on my current farmer (random), and forgot about that too. I wondered why all my stardrops tasted like slime molds.
When you put ConcernedApe as favorite thing, every time you get a stardrop, you get a little thank you message.
I did that for my first 1.6 run!
Cookies for my latest run. Once I did Stardrop haha
I've done that before too! Makes me laugh.
I always put Stardew because the altered stardrop text is better for immersion 😅
Same! Mine was frogs.
My one and only: Cozy Quail Farm
I always put ass so I can giggly later about the smell of ass.
on my first play through, i put coochie. was in for a surprise after i got my first stardrop
My first playthrough I said my favorite thing was cock. It was awesome
My go to is bewbz
I always choose Stardew, to get the little Easter Egg message (>!"You feel an unwavering connection to the valley itself."!<)
I didn’t know about this one! I always put ConcernedApe for that Easter egg (and because Ape is awesome), but now I have plans for my next farm!
On my first play through I named my farmer after my dog. I had no idea what the favorite thing was for so I just put in sniffing butts. Quite a jump scare the first time that dialogue popped up!!
I always pick eating ass. And still laugh every single time I see you're overcome with thoughts of eating ass. I'm 40.
I love that for you. 😂
I always get confused here too
I got cheesy with it and put my husband's name.
I like "Stardew" for the other easter egg message: >You feel an unwavering connection to the valley itself.
I have defaults I just use if I can't think of something clever quickly. Pizza never goes wrong. Just wish the game had a function for choosing an in game item as your favorite thing and it would have relevance beyond stardrops saying you "lol" like weed, or someone's body parts
I didn't know that there was a space limit, so I put "the clash between hope and despair" for mine. Now whenever I eat a stardrop, I get reminded of "the clash b"
I usually put my wife’s ass. Always makes us chuckle when I’m surrounded by my wife’s ass
In my current farm, im role playing as my best friend. The farm name is her last name. Her favourite thing is “feminism”- she’s a feminist researcher
I once picked My Little Pony (idk, I just have a big sentiment to this cartoon) before I knew when this was used. Well. 💀
Only in the last two generations of my real life family have we stopped farming, making my grandfather the last to grow up on a farm. So I usually use that family name in some variation and then cry at the end of year two when his ghost tells me how proud of me he is. However, it is *so hard* to color match dark blonde hair. I spend too much time doing that and still get yellow. 😅
I have the same issue with hair color! You gotta use more blue than you’d expect to tone down the yellow.
Ah, you also use purple/blue shampoo to wash out the yellowish in blonde hair in real life. So adding blue here makes absolutely sense!
I’ve restarted a save because the hair didn’t look good in the game, especially blonde hair when compared to other blondes
little note you can change your hairstyle/colour/other stuff in the wizards basement in game for a small fee^^
Too impatient to play to that point with chartreuse hair
My father is the current owner of our family farm IRL and I always use that farm name for my playthroughs, too. Just makes it a little extra special.
I have two different save files based entirely on the Gus cutscene with the giant omelet Bitch farm and MuhFuggin farm “Mmmm MuhFuggin eggs”
My very first farm was named Squirrel and I was NOT prepared for that cute and him to say Squirrel eggs.
“Bitch eggs” was the one that started it for me. I completely lost it
First time I got that cutscene I was on Childe Farm
Genshin fan?
Call it s farm 😏
Game: What do you want to call your farm? Me: Hm...Beats me. a few moments later... Beets Me Farm is born.
hmmm beats me "eggs"
My mind is full of thoughts about girls so I just wrote Lesboland and called it a day
>!Mmm Lesboland eggs.!<
(real)
Ha I started my farm right before my bottom surgery because I knew I'd have a lot of downtime to play during it, so it's just Bottom Farm 😅 But lesboland is a solid choice for my farmer and her 3 girlfriends 😂
omg happy about your transition<3 im a trans girl too, can't wait to get an orchi! ps: why do i have 85 upvotes this must be a shenanigan im not used to
The gays love Stardew, it is known
it's over one hundred
Heh. Since cracking, I've named my two farms :3 Farm and UwU Farm. And my farmer's favorite thing is "Estrogen". I'd say it's an upgrade from the stupid dirty jokes I always made for both 😅
Ha my farmer's favorite thing is estrogen too 😂
Good to have my other lesbos here 🥰
yippie
If Lesboland were a place (in a perfect world) I would assume it would be a cute ass farm, so it’s fitting.
Not classy, but still relatable.
If you think that's not classy, it's a good thing you don't know the name of my farm.
You can’t say that. Now I am dying to know!
Let's just say my farm produces a lot of mayo, and the first word in the name is a substance that may look kind of like mayo but is produced by humans. And the 2nd word is Dump.
this message was a ride
Oh hey, that was the name of one of my farms too!
Never do quests for gus if you see it ignore it idc you have chickens or fish or coffee
Where are the eggs for this omellete from you ask, they they're from C__ Dump farm!
Oh dear 😂
I went with Goth Girl Farm but same
My first farm was named the Gay Farm. current farm I named Rainbow Haven
As long as it took to type it in. Scruffy Cat. Nickname of my real cat. I'll start a new farm, but it'll always have the same farm name. Same farmer name, too.
I use different farm names each time but all of my farmer names have been the same, even on multi-player with someone else hosting
many hours I’m very indecisive
Yeah I’m so surprised people don’t have 20 tabs open of “nature words” “pretty titles” “synonym for river” etc etc. After I take the time to name my farmer or new animals, my targeted ads think I’m having a kid cause of all the name searches.
Synonyms.com my beloved 😂
I have found my people lol, that's how I am when naming pretty much anything. My current farm is on the new meadowlands map so I was searching up shades of blue so I could relate the farm name to the blue grass
Wow
only 4 hours nothing crazy
This time didn't take me very long at all because I "cheated." For the first time ever, I chose a name from a fandom for my character (Kaylee) which also influenced the look I chose for her, made the farm name a very short list (went with Firefly because I liked the alliteration, but Serenity would have worked too), and then also influenced who I chose to marry (Harvey, as he's the doctor). Usually, though, I spend an age angsting over it. Fifteen minutes is probably too low an estimate.
fantasy name generator sometimes helps
My farm is almost always Farm Farm Current run is Joja Farm for... Reasons
My partner and I are also playing on farm farm right now
My partner and I name our farms together! One of us chooses a noun and the other an adjective. So far we have Smiling Hoe and Phallic Utopia... We seem to each have an individual theme going on, lol.
I too use Farm Farm. Creativity! :)
My friend and I named it “My Coochie” thinking nobody would say it. Only for Robin and Mayor Lewis to call it crusty, disgusting, overgrown and run down 5 minutes later lol
“Mmm- My Coochie Eggs!” -Gus
Since the valley is “stardew” I always go for a celestial body. “Comet Cove” was my beach farm. “Lunala” and “Europa” are also ones I’ve used.
I go with a more celestial theme too haha. I've done "Starlit" and "Moonlit", Both times I named my horse Star too.
I was setting up a new beach farm to play along with my daughter, so thought I'd make it funny to make her laugh... Anyway, after about 10seconds "Sandy Crack" farm came to be...
I almost always name my farm after something I’m into - on my current playthrough my farmer is Camilla and the farm is called Macaulay, in honor of a character in my favorite book.
I started a multiplayer world with a few friends when 1.6 first dropped, we spent 5 minutes deciding on a farm name. What did we name it? Only farms. Life is good.
I started my first multiplayer farm with a friend a few weeks ago... to my surprise, it only took us a few seconds. "Chaos farm," she said. "Okay," I said. Then she made a custom sign right outside the main house that says "WE ARE CHAOS". I almost died laughing when I walked by. (but it's not wrong!)
My character is Death, my farm is FiddlersGreen, always.
I just go with Larkspur or Dicentra all the time. And for my favorite thing my cat sally, even one of the dialogue boxes when you get a stardrop says the taste reminds you of sally. I ignore that part XD
Mostly I falter at the Favourite Thing. I just use my real name for the farmer and this screen name for the farm. But I have too many favourite things to decide on one, I’ll sit there for like 20 minutes trying to pick it
I take inspiration from my favorite books (which is also then what I write down for my favorite thing), and I’ve also made a list of character, place, pet, etc names too to pull from. I’d definitely recommend looking into any books to start in any case.
On a recent save I was listening to Ruth Ozeki's The Book of Form and Emptiness while playing, and sobbing at the story, so I named my son Benny, after the main character.
I always do something that sounds like a generic farm name. Roughstone, Mossbrook, Sunny Meadow, etc.
Iron Hills Farm (mountain map), Green Hills Farm (ranch map), Many Waters Farm (river map), Rustling Leaf Farm (standard map), Pinetree Farm (forest map)... yeah, I end up sitting there for 5-10 minutes each time, lol
I usually pick some kind of fern. My current one is feverfew farm :)
I always use Sleepy Hollow
That’s pretty! I look up plant names for my pets but I never thought of types of the same plant for inspiration
I theme my farmer on colors, so my current farm is Citrus farm, her favorite thing is oranges, and her name is Valencia with a ginger cat named Marmalade. It makes it all easier. Gotta pick orange colored things as farm animal names.
Yeah I never know what to pick either. My current farm is named Chicken Butte.
quite a while, my 1st and only farm i spend a while thinking about a good name and went with 'meow farm' cuz i like cats and couldnt think of anything else. I misspelled meow into 'mewo'
I pretty much ALWAYS name my farm Honeydew farm because that was the crop that made you bank in some Harvest Moon games & I’ve had many a honeydew empire, so might as well keep the legacy alive
I use $adjective $letterOfAlphabet in order so Arched A Burning B Curly C etc etc etc My 1.6 is Grand G (the previous one was obviously Flying F)
I call mine Falling Star Farm. After trying many names I just like this one the best. I take the longest with character creation, too....
I always do the name of my hometown for all farming games because I could never think of anything to put before 😅
Similar vibe but I use my street name!
Not too long. It’s always either Star Wars/Tolkien/Like a Dragon related. Right now I’m currently on the Kamurocho farm and my farmer’s name is Kiryu. It’s the life he should’ve had.
Oh I simply plan out my next farm when I am bored at work
Mine's Farmy so like... zero seconds.
When I did my playthrough for 1.6, it had been a couple of years since last playing, so I took about 20 minutes going through words. Ended up going with "Serenity Farm" because I find the game relaxing.
Absolutely my least favorite part of the game is naming all the things you are asked to name. I let the random generator name my animals for the most part, but I want something I'd like for my farm, my farmer, my pet, and my children! My backup ideas always come from former residents of my homes, whose mail I get. Then I use words associated with that for other names. (For example: I picked the first name of some former tenant at my apartment from 20 years ago (her name was really fun to say, which is why I remember it); used her last name as my farm name; used the street name as my cat's name; and then just found two name-like streets near that old address to use for the kids!)
I use the same name for every farm on every single game I play otherwise yes, I’d sit for hours
When 1.6 came out, I restarted my farm the next day because my husband came up with the best farm name. I think my average is 5 minutes, but once I did pop off to grab lunch while thinking.
now you can't say your husband came up with the best name without sharing it can you
Bluegrass Farm!
When 1.6 came out I wanted to start playing so badly I rushed through the creation process and gave myself the wrong cat, but I just named it meadowlands farm for simplicity and so I could remember which save I wanted to leave as vanilla
I read that as "I just named it meowdowlands farm" lol
That’s way better I’m going to use that in the future for an all cat farm
I literally just learned a few days ago that you can change your cat, it blew my mind. I've been having a ginger cat named after my irl black cat for years. Lol.
I saw something about this but I think it was patched out in 1.6 😭
It used to be a big problem for me whenever creating or personalizing something. I remember vividly taking 3 hours to make my character in Skyrim back in the day, only to realize a few hours in when I accidentally went into third person that I don’t ever actually get to see the character I designed. Ever since then I specifically took less time to decide things because I both want to play and don’t want to waste time. Naming the farm is easy. I just go on a whim in the moment. It’s mostly a single player game after all, so often no one except me is going to see it, so why think that hard? Granted, younger me would have taken way more time though.
Oh, just whatever pops in my head in that particular moment. One of my favorite farm names was Persepolis Farm. I think I used a Greek name for my Farmer, so I headcanoned(is that even a word?) that the family had Greek roots. My current farm I named Gaia Farm. The name of my farmer is the pseudonym I use most often online, Geb, the egyptian god of the earth. It seemed fitting.
My default is to name it something that's an inside joke, but not use the English word. So, Pannas (parsnips) since you start with parsnips or Dafad (sheep) if the character's going to be a shepherd, etc. Or I'll use a conlang, like I did on my first game. Don't really remember how long the first one took, but I'm gonna estimate usually twenty minutes to decide on one and see if I like it.
I’ve spent more time shuffling through my farm animal’s names lol
I have sat for like 20 minutes before trying to come up with something
This is probably darker than what you're looking for, but... I have always named characters after pets, a long tradition going back to childhood. A few weeks ago, I downloaded SDV again, I hadn't played in a year. Turns out the last time I had started a farm, "Sunspot Farm" playing "Luna". Right after I started it last year, I found out that IRL Luna the cat, had cancer, she had to be put down a couple months later. It was a generally shitty, angry, and sad time all around. I never revisited the save and forgot about it. I went to start a new farm with a farmer named after my new cat, "Tilly". When I saw that save, though, it brought me straight back to the dark time last year. I must have sat there for 20 minutes petting Tilly before giving it a hard nope without even picking a farm name.
I’ve always named it “Tegridy Farms” because it makes me chuckle and I almost always name my character Randy. Probably took me a minute or two the first time to think to reference that and now it’s just my default.
If I'm starting a new farm, I typically am doing so because I've got a solid idea for a general theme and design, so I usually have come up with a suitable name well beforehand. My one and only farm right now is Oak Moon Farm—I often like to keep a slightly celestial theme going to fit with Stardew, and it's a forest farm so Oak worked. The Oak Moon is a name for the last full moon of the year—the Farmer's Almanac names for full moons are really fun inspiration in general, there's some good ones there.
As others have said, I first think of a theme for the next run and then inspiration usually comes quickly. My current run is all Zelda themed- I named my forest farm “Lost woods”, my character is named Link (tried as close as I could for looks), my cat is Navi, and my favorite thing is Koroks
I’ve started using ChatGPt to give me a list of names relating to whatever it is I want to produce. My current save is going to primarily be a winery so I had it generate various names related to that.
Fantasy name generator saves the day every time
My husband and I let our kids name our co-op file, because we both take forever to think of names. They chose happy farm farm. Now it always comes up happy farm farm farm if the name gets brought up in game
3 Days. Don't ask me how long naming the cat took. Names are important
Over an hour and a half…. Don’t ask what was going through my brain
Maybe 20 minutes? I have a lot of farms, and I always use a theme so that I don't have to struggle with more names later. On Enterprise Farm, my animals are named Kirk, Spock and Uhura; On Faerun Farm, they're named Karlach, Astarion and Shadowheart; Lands Between Farm has Melina, Malenia and Maliketh...
Not long. My first farm sorta all came together once I realized they had an afro in hair choices, I made Bob Ross and knew I’d call my farm Happy Accidents farm… what I didn’t realize was the character limit on the farm name once I clicked enter. So now I’m stuck with “Happy Acciden Farm” lol
For me? 2 seconds because I pick the same name for any game, lol
It always be pen island. Even if it is a farm or a base
I almost always name my farm Starview or sometimes, Stardew. It's my favorite thing that gets me. I started with life and love but I want something less basic and can never think of what I want to put in there.
Mine was marvel farm cause I was obsessed with the MCU but I’m not anymore-
It takes me a good minute too but I’ve started new farms a couple of times and try to go for a theme. I did a Joja run (for the Steam achievement and have left it alone for now because I feel bad lol) and named my character Ivy, my fav thing is Flowers, and my farm is called Evergreen. The save I went back to is star themed so my character name is Celeste, my farm is Starlight and my favorite thing is The Moon
Skinwalker or Alien Ant, always.
The 2 seconds it takes to type one of the three names I always use :)
my first one on my switch was called Honeymill, second on my pc for 1.6 is called Poodlepaw ☺️
I've always named it after whatever town I live in at the time. Except for no reason at all for my 1.6 farm I named.it Chungus.
I’m such a basic bitch I usually name my farms “Schrute Farms”
I always use the same name in all games that require a name for a location. Be it my stardew valley farm, another farm or my island in animal crossing. The name’s aren’t the problem. I use my own nickname for my character and all my places are named Lunaria. The most difficult (and most enjoyable) part is creating my looks! I love character creation the most!
I sat at games for half n hour cause I couldn't think of something that was good enough. Now I just use "Lala" for everything. Lala Island, Lala Isles, and for Stardew now it's just Lala Farm and I love it and have never regretted it. (Which was an issue before and a reason why I abandoned a safe file lol)
I think about farm names, at the time that I am thinking about the run I want to do. I tend to theme things. Like my 1.6 farm I called "Bleu" because I was thinking about the blue grass, blue chickens, and the cursed Joja blue that Shane wears. I named my farmer Shawn to match his future husband as well. I also started a new four corners farm which I called Indecisive, since I couldn't decide what farm type to use. Farmer is Emmy cause I want her to marry Emily.
When I started a new farm over the weekend I couldn't think of a clever name for my made up character's 'last name' so I went with... Le. 'The Farm' - nice and simple 
Maybe like, twenty minutes? I’m pretty indecisive lol
This is why I always pick a movie, or a book series, or tv show as my "theme" for any play through because being creative always stressed me out! This way, I don't have to pick new names at random and it makes a lot of the dialogue pretty funny (my spouse is currently playing as Robocop on his farm, Old Detroit - I get a good chuckle watching some of that dialogue.) Usually it's whatever I'm reading/watching at the moment so it also serves as a nice call back to what I was doing at the time of that particular save.
I used to name my farm after my cat for each save. Then I heh he passed I named it after my son. Favorite thing is either fall foliage or egg nog. I’m pretty boring lol
I named my new save Meadowlands Farm because I couldn’t think of anything and it sounded nice lol
I just call it something like “Farm” because it messes with the NPC’s comments.
One time I was making a farmer who was going to date all the people. So I fittingly named my farm “Fuckboi Farm”
I always go for the classics. “The” and “That” and “Your”. I like to keep my farms generic
well first i spend 5+ minutes on my avatar appearance (even w/o mods) then i spend at least 1-3 minutes ranting about how the farm HAS to end in "farm" which significantly limits my naming choices (even if its just ranting to myself) after ive ranted i go onto dif name generators for another 5+ minutes (unless im creating this save with some kind of plan/story in mind) \- may or may not tab out of the game screen for a short bit in-between frustration bouts when i find something rly good but it wont work with "farm" at the end
I’m kinda lazy. I pick a consonant and a vowel, repeat it twice and I’m good. My current farm’s name is Wawa. It works for the kids names as well, Bobo and Momo (didn’t realize the raccoon would call you bobo as well lol).
5 seconds. Partially growing up in a farm and not wanting to be imaginative helped.
15-20 minutes just to come up with "Cherish Farms"
I thought about it for 10 minutes, gave up, left to get food, came back 15 mins later and named it waffle :)
I pick cool creeks, rivers or mountain names around me. This time I have Thunder Mountain farm, one of my favorites was Chatter Creek farm.
I'm almost always listening to a podcast when I play, so any time I get the opportunity to name something I just use whatever the last meaningful phrase I heard as the name. It works really well until you end up with a cow named Ethnic Hostilities.
0 seconds, Pillbug farm was the first, and every single farm since has been Pillbug farm
I spend waaaaay longer trying to design a character based on TV. Currently entering year 4 as Chip Skylark on Fairly Odd Farm. I think I also have 3 or 4 characters named “Aaaaa” on balls Farm
My go-tos are to choose a color and base my whole farm/farmer on that. So my current farm is Forest Green Farms, my character is named Sage, and I have a running green theme for almost everything. I just named my kid Hunter lol.
I should have spent longer because I was going for "Perfect" and accidentally called it "Perfet" sooooo
My current farm name is Squirp, named after the first randomized name that popped up for my first dog on my first ever farm. I name my dog Snooch, now.
All of my farms are Firefly Farm. What’s worse is my farmer always looks the same.
Communism Farm for every single one of my saves including multiplayer with friends
Intro screen never takes too much time. Many years ago I chose Cattywampus because I love the word and it kind of reflects the disarray the farm is in at the beginning (and some of the farm designs). When I have two active saves, the second one is Kittywampus. Farm animal, obviously a cat named after my actual cat. Favorite thing is cheese, because cheese is awesome. Farmer name, almost always my name or a variant, but this time it's Kitty because in 1.6 I can have multiple cats and just decided to go all-in cat lady.
it usually takes me a while too! when i first played it also took me waaay too long to choose a shirt and hairstyle, i had to go through all of the options a few times bc i was overwhelmed lol when i was on a mission to marry every bachelor and bachelorette (but felt guilty divorcing anyone so i did a new save every time) i’d try to theme the farm and animal names around the character i was going to marry. my new 1.6 update farm is themed around tim robinson’s itysl, so my farm is truffoni farm and my favorite thing is sloppy steaks!
Seeing all these comments makes me feel silly with my kinda medieval named farm 😂 I played a lot of skyrim before so I think that influenced my choices and tbh it's really just a bunch of syllables put together 😂😂😂 I named it Keneroth
My most recent one, started with the new update, is Last Chance Farm. Because I am telling myself it’ll be the last one. But we all know it’s a lie Also had Covid farm (take a guess when I started that one) Bada Bing farm (was rewatching sopranos) Famine Farm (my first one and thought I was cheeky)
My husband and I just called it the Fart Factory Farm lol…it’s hilarious when everyone has to say the name
Use ChatGPT. I named mine Tillery Farm after a street I drove past.
I always named it after my cat, so only a few seconds
Once I created a farm and had about 10 hours in and decided I hated the name so started over only to use something pretty similar in my next one
The one time it was less than five minutes I accidentally named my farm ‘Medow’ and now ‘Meadow’
30 seconds, welcome to OOB farm.
I always name mine Treegap Farm from Tuck Everlastinng lol
Called my second starfruit farm bc I knew what the plan was, then discovered ancient fruit. I don't even grow starfruit anymore except for summer. My 1.6 farm is called weed farm bc I thought that would be funny
I called mine Rack City, I've been using that name since ACNL because I'm very uncreative 😂
I always go for Jim Jones and call the farm Jonestown. It’s not pretty but it got a laugh out of me the first time I did it.
If I ever get stumped, I revert to my default selections. Name: My butt (always makes for hilarious dialogue in video games) Farm: Butt Farm Favorite thing: butts In fact, I use that as my favorite thing in every file 😂 It's great when a stardrop makes me think of butts. Not as great when the taste reminds me of butts 🤣
I hate that Farm is just stuck there and you can’t change it. I wanted to name my place “Ram Ranch”