A Stardew Valley player successfully triggered a Prismatic Shard drop, one of the rarest in the game, at the worst possible time. The Stardew Valley disaster has led to a lot of sympathy from fellow players, as well as some good advice.
Stardew Valley players have plenty to keep them busy in the game, and as a result, they generally play however they see fit. While farming is a main goal in the game, it’s not out of the question for players to avoid that entirely, and to instead focus on things like mining, fishing, or even just working on building relationships with Stardew Valley‘s inhabitants. In this particular case, a player’s mining effort went wrong.
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Stardew Valley Player Says Hello and Goodbye to Prismatic Shard
On Reddit, a Stardew Valley fan called Distinct_Ad_9439 shared a brief gameplay clip of their mining efforts in the game. Technically, the Stardew Valley fan was extremely lucky and unlucky at the same time. The clip shows them setting down a Mega Bomb to clear away some rocks and an Iridium Node, which ended up yielding basic things like stones, Iron Ore, Copper Ore, and a single piece of Iridium Ore, with the big shock being a Prismatic Shard. Prismatic Shards have a 3.5% chance of dropping from Iridium Nodes, making this a rare way to come across them. However, the moment the bomb exploded, the clock struck 2:00 AM, which is when the farmer instantly falls asleep, no matter where they are or what they’re doing. As a result, all the player could do was watch their farmer helplessly pass out while their newfound Prismatic Shard sat there, uncollected.
Unlike in some games, once a player leaves the Mines and the day resets, anything that was dropped there is lost, so the player can’t go back and grab what was rightfully theirs. Fellow Stardew Valley fans have cringed at the sight of this particular experience, with many expressing how upset they would have been in the same situation, to the point that one said they would have needed to take a walk in order to stop raging. One poked fun at Stardew Valley being described as a laid-back, relaxing farming game, as moments like these can feel like anything but that.
While it’s an unfortunate situation that can’t be changed, Stardew Valley fans have shared some thoughts on how the player could avoid this happening in the future. Aside from making sure to wrap up any mining efforts before the clock hits 2, some have suggested not running away from bombs the way that the player did. While it’s true that they do damage the farmer if they go off while they’re in the radius, the amount of damage taken is usually fairly small, especially by the endgame. Players pointed out and lamented that if the OP had simply stayed closer to the rocks they had been blowing up, and provided that they were wearing a Magnet Ring, the dropped goodies would have been drawn into their inventory, preventing this loss.
Distinct_Ad_9439 obviously regrets the loss of this drop, but for what it’s worth, it’s far from the biggest mistake that a player has made in the game. Stepping away from the explosion and the nearby Serpent is a reasonable thing to do, but not every player can say the same of their own mistakes. Previously, farmers have made waves and induced second-hand cringe by doing things like overlooking the backpack upgrade in Stardew Valley for three years, or spending ages struggling to reach level 100 in Junimo Kart, only to realize that the challenge they were trying to complete was asking for something else entirely. Other players have carefully planned how to time their return home to avoid passing out, but discovered too late that the Warp Totem couldn’t be used in the area they were in. Making mistakes in Stardew Valley is something of a rite of passage for a lot of gamers, but hopefully this fan isn’t so unlucky the next time a Prismatic Shard drops.
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February 26, 2016
- ESRB
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E for Everyone (Fantasy Violence, Mild Blood, Mild Language, Simulated Gambling, Use of Alcohol and Tobacco)
- Developer(s)
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ConcernedApe
- Publisher(s)
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ConcernedApe
