@callili replied to your post “Do you have a lot of different farms in stardew...”:
What was the mushroom cave hack? :O
It's going to be hard to explain now!
But basically back in the day when you went in the Caves, between 80-120 there would be a random 'mushroom' cave. (There still is). Where red and purple mushrooms appear in greater quantities, and so do enemies.
Back in the day though, if you found the mushroom cave on level 82, got all the mushrooms, exited and returned, you would find a new mushroom cave on level 83. You could repeat the exit + return over and over again through to 84, (skip 85 - they never appeared on multiples of 5) and so on and so forth until the end.
This is why nowadays it's harder to 'reset' the caves when you leave and go immediately back in (which is frustrating for finding things like the prismatic jelly etc.). It was completely nerfed.
But for a golden few years, I could max my Forager skill to like 10 in two in-game seasons, and make bank on eventually iridium quality purple and red mushrooms. You'd end up with hundreds on a lucky day. It was the best. And almost no one seemed to know about it??? So back then I was one of like 3 people on the internet who had written about it / was teaching it to others. Eventually more knew about it, but it was the kind of thing that when I discovered it, I looked to see who else knew, and just about no one did. *cries*
I genuinely didn't realise it was something broken in the game because it was hard to find the mushroom level anyway, so you weren't guaranteed to be able to do this method at all. And then it was 'fixed' (now the algorithm is genuinely randomised) and I was sad because I'll never have that many purple and red mushrooms again lmao.
