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This guide focuses on making the most profitable and productive Spring season in Stardew Valley for experienced players. It offers a balanced approach to farming, mining, and foraging.

This guide is not intended for a first-time player. If this is a first playthrough through Stardew Valley, I recommend wandering around and figuring everything out. Do not worry if you are playing the game wrong or incorrectly, because there is no incorrect way to play this game.

Its purpose is to make the most difficult month of the game a profitable, productive season for a second (third, fourth, etc.) playthrough. I composed it with the intent on being flexible so you can start deviating from the guide wherever and whenever you want to shape the _Farm_ according to your own vision. Having said that, Spring will be a busy month where there is little interaction with the villagers unless they happen to be in the way. It is not a make-as-much-gold-as-possible guide. (If you want that, get down to Level 80 in the _Mines_ and find and exploit mushroom floors when they appear on _Mines_ Levels 81, 91, 101, and 111, or fish from 6:00 AM until 2:00 AM: your profits will be great!) It is a relatively balanced guide although it may not initially seem like it since it focuses on one aspect at a time, for the most part.

It is long. The daily outlines are guidelines for how I prefer to play that particular day, but personal improvisation on a daily level is necessary since no two people will want the same thing from their farms. Daily outlines are the I-don't-want-to-think, quick and dirty, trust-me instructions; the section containing "A Note On . . ." goes in-depth into why I do some of the things I do. Several of the notes get lengthy, as well—too much number-crunching and rambling.

Finally, here is a link to the original guide I published on the official Stardew Forums on February 22, 2017, if you are so inclined:

• http://community.playstarbound.com/threads/year-1-spring-guide-how-to-make-money-and-underwhelm-people-tl-dr-fish-and-then-plant.130615/