stardew valley hot takes

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last updated - january 20th, 2026

welcome to the stardew hot takes blog🌶️⭐️

🌶️ obviously anything stardew valley related is fair game, and controversial takes are very welcome. this includes sfw and nsfw submissions

🌶️if your submission is not related to stardew it will not be posted. you can deal with beef off anon and keep me the fuck out of it.

🌶️ if you post off anon, i will post as is so if you want to remain anonymous please select that when making an ask

🌶️ doing standard tags for each post (ie #🌶️ #stardew valley, #sdv, and then whoever is included in the ask (my common tags are below)) i won’t be marking anything as “negative” so if that bothers you or how i post bothers you ✨block me✨

🌶️ i don’t want to create any discourse with my opinions on submissions, so i will not be giving my opinion on submissions. i disagree with a lot of my posts so you won’t want to hear it anyway

🌶️ if you’re just here to insult the blog/what i post expect to be blocked

🌶️ i will post asks as i see them - i am a human who has a life outside of the internet, but i am pretty consistent with when i do

🌶️ finally please remember these are people’s opinions, but at the end of the day - it’s a game about pixel people in a pixel town. it’s not that deep

🌶️taken anons below the cut

❤️‍🔥with love and spice - stardew-hot-takes🌶️

est march 2025

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Getting so fucking sick of this fandom's entitled bullshit.

"Waaah this character doesn't look like how I want them to!" "Waaah I can't break up established couples!" "Waaaaah I didn't get the romance options I wanted!" "Waaah waaah waaaah!!"

FUCK THE HELL OFF AND GO PLAY THE SIMS IF YOU WANNA HAVE COMPLETE CONTROL OVER EVERY LITTLE THING SO BADLY, YOU ENTITLED BRATS.

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I really wish we could have more Fields of Mistria characters converted to Stardew Valley. I would love for Valen, Balor, Olric, and Dozy to be in the valley.

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I get not liking Clint as he is currently. I get wanting a different candidate (I would’ve wanted Willy.) Every one of his cutscenes is about Emily, and other than being an anxious introvert, his only trait is that he likes her, so there isn’t too much depth to him canonically.

but the way I’ve seen people talking about him is insane. Like, if you don’t like him because of personal reasons, because he talks about her when the player is married to her/dating her, or because he reminds *you* of a stalker or incel, just say that! You don’t have to pretend he’s canonically like that. (Him talking about Emily even if she’s married to/dating the player seems like a coding oversight because he won’t have his cutscene asking her out if the player has enough hearts with her, and in the cutscene where people say he was stalking her, he hid because he got anxious for a second when he went to ask her to the carnival (we can assume he’s not lying because he has the tickets, plus I doubt ConcernedApe would make a stalker a romanceable character))

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I don’t mind the chubby Sebastian headcanons, but it sometimes feels off to me.

It’s like everyone with an inactive lifestyle HAS to be chubby/fat when Clint is right there!! A blacksmith! One of the most labor intensive jobs in the valley belongs to a fat man!!!

I don’t care how people headcanon him, but if you think “lazy”/inactive=fat then that’s a problem.

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That one Dance Moms Meme that goes “the two bitches are left!” Is so Haley and Abigail coded. The fandom loves to pit them against each other as though they even interact. It’s such forced misogny because people assume they’d hate each other off of their opposite aesthetics and nothing that canonically actually happens between them. But I like to think they’re besties fr

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I can’t find the post I’m referring to but it was about an anon wishing for more mods geared towards masculine people (not even like men specifically js like more masculine clothing options n shit like that) and ngl what delayed me from modding SDV was that most if not essentially all mods are geared towards feminine people and every mod is too cutesy for me so I like for a long time didn’t mod SDV cuz I couldn’t find anything I liked and now all I have is an auto fishing mod and like the mod that shows you the fish in the water and that’s literally it

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I don’t like any SDV content creators I had to block one of them cus I kept getting their content and it felt rlly like every video they made abt the bachelor/ettes was “I don’t like this bachelor/ette!!!!! And I actually don’t like any of them cus acktually krobis is the best!!!!” Then stop making bachelor/ette content sweet jegus fuck ik it gets engagement but goooggggggggggg it’s so annoying

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I honestly got so irritated how people constantly made fun of Sebastian and who couldn’t stand him; Especially a SDW YouTuber Fiona Sangster.

She made me so angry and upset whenever she sometimes talked so negatively about him in her analysis. Like, what? Don’t insult my bestie!! >:(

It honestly left me a bad taste in my mouth, bc I honestly heavily related to him like: having a emotional distant step-father, my mom who mostly takes his side, me dealing w/depression, loves the rain, loves board games, mostly wears black hoodies, a bit introverted, anxious around people, feeling jealous towards my very likable younger sister and probably so much more! However,

I was very happy when Fiona made a long 4 hours video of Sebastian and I honestly appreciate it sm. She admitted that her biases and not wanted to admit that she related to him as well, clouded her judgement. Sometimes we don’t want to admit that we used to be angsty teenagers and that’s understandable XD

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As an Asian woman who loves Stardew Valley and appreciates CP (ConsurnedApe) hard work. However, I think it’s a shame that it’s only few poc and there’s literally not a single Asian person there 😭 (except MAYBE other npcs or the desert trader, but their ethnicities hasn’t been confirm from my knowledge)

I have heard from a podcast that CA are in a process to make new characters in Stardew and I HOPE there’s finally an Asian person with good representation. I also hope there’s more poc, like PLEASE DO IT!!

(Btw the host from the podcast is an Asian man, who asked CA if an Asian character could be added and I thank him for that! My new fav sdv YouTuber 🥺)

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Linus needs to be institutionalized.

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why don't you publish my brat submissions? i thought nsfw was okay here? (genuine, not looking for a fight, just confused)

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bullet point #2 on my pinned post mentions that if your submission is not related to stardew it will not be posted

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It's so insanely bothersome to scrounge up money for Starfruit seeds, set them up, harvest them, process them, sell them, and watch as the resulting money disappears because you have to buy more seeds. I'm team Ancient Fruit all day every day, because farming Bug Kills or lvl9Fa for Seed Maker is infinitely less annoying than any part of the SF cycle, and then it just syncs up with kegging once a week, which is nearly impossible to do with SF (Qi's Speed-Gro+Agriculturist is such a hassle just to achieve what AF does by itself).

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I could definitely be the minority on this but I'm kinda tired of seeing the bachelors all be drawn as these totally ripped/scrawny guys. I think Shane is definitely a bigger guy and yet I still see tons of art that make him super built or skinny as if he's not an alcoholic with a beer belly lol. I truly think the only bachelor that'd be ripped is Alex and that's because he has the means to do so (exercise equipment and the motive to go pro)

I was gonna make this post anonymous but apparently you can't add images if it is LOL so I'll just post it from my acc, but for example Sam's beach sprite!

Maybe it's just how I see it but he looks like he's a pudgy guy lol. Especially in the 2nd sprite on top and the 4th sprite on the top.

I've been a fan of Sam since 2017 like he's my favorite in the world, and I have yet to see an art that depicts him as a bit pudgy, I always see him drawn as a skinny guy or insanely ripped (which I definitely don't think he'd be at all.)

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Everyone talks about how sad it is that so many sdv bachelors/rettes basically give up on their interests and goals once married (valid criticism I agree with). But I think it’s equally disappointing that so many sdv love interests have their storylines cut off bc you aren’t dating them. I wish that there were alternative versions of cutscenes for characters you aren’t dating.

It’s just a shame how much emphasis is put on romance only when friendships are just as meaningful connection. (Yes ik it’s bc there’s a whole romance system in sdv so it makes sense it’s so fleshed out).

I hope that in 1.7 in addition to the socializing update that friendships get some added depth. Imagine if you could even become official besties w characters and other characters remark about it!

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Everyone’s discussing Clint becoming a bachelor n all that but none of it will distract me from my true enemy in sdv….

Those walls in the second floor middle/right room. SPECIFICALLY that one wall barrier w that nasty baby wallpaper that you can never remove. no npc nor gameplay mechanic will ever come close to pissing me off as much as that one wall bro.

- sincerely, a mf who spends way too much time decorating n is forever tormented by that wallpaper clashing w my gothic mansion.

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Hot take: the reason Sambastian/ Farmer is a thing is because Sebastian has no real personality but is hot and Sam is more personality than looks. So if you smash them together it's almost 1 good candidate.

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