Some sweet people asked for prints, so uh, my Redbubble is updated with Stardew artworks I drew! ♥
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A homework for a game designer class, we were supposed to plan a new level into our favorite game!
Walkthrough and notes:
ENTRANCE
This is inside of the little cave on your farm. There are three hollow places in wall, shaped for Ruby, Emerald and Aquamarine. Find those and place them in to open secret passage...
INNER CAVE
Its very dark here, but you can see eerie green glow of slowly rippening Glowberries in bushes. To the west, path is blocked by violet crystals, north path is blocked as well. To the east stands a strange statue of a dwarf. "His hands hold shrunk, rotten fruit".
While the Glowberries in here arent ripe yet, a glowing waterfall reveals a fully bush with a berry ready for harvest.
Once you place the glowing fruit into the statues hands, it comes to life.
This dwarf has been cursed by the pesky witch! He says he needs to find his wife, and runs to the west, revealing path in crystals and also clearing way to the east.
CAVE FARM
This is a place where you can grow mushroom crops, cave carrots and moss for fiber. The pink crystal house is not build yet.
DWARF HOME
In this area full of large crystals, you find another dwarf statue. Using another Glowberry, you bring to life dwarf lady.
The reunited dwarf pair stay here witjin their crystalline home. They introduce themselves as crystalsmiths - the husband works as an undeground "carpenter", may build you an underground geode house and even a ladder leading to your farm house.
The wife is a trader and may trade you mushroom spores, used as seeds. They will grow only underground.
You absolutely can tell the pair about Stardew mine dwarf - turns out they are his long lost parents! While the witch cursed them, she also saved them from attack of shadow people.
The dwarves mention also there is a benevolent dragon somewhere underground.
STAIRCASE AND DUNGEONS
The newly opened room on north shows shallow hole in the middle, and three currently dry paths for water, leading into three hallways.
Each hallway leads into a string of ten dungeon rooms. Red, green and blue dungeons have specific color pallette themes, stone, ores and gem themed enemies. They are darkened, lit by many Glowberry bushes. At the end of each dungeon lies tiny room with strange bush like stone in it - activate it with Glowberry to reveal its true form as a large red/ green/blue blossom, which also opens a water spring. You can hop into the water to activate WHEEEE animation while going down a waterslide, spitting you back in Staircase room and adding some water into the shallow hole.
Once all three dungeons are beaten, the hole fills with water coming from the three streams, screen shakes and floor reveals a staircase!
AXOLOTL CAVE
The staircase leads to underground lake, out of which opens a large grey mouth. Throw a nearby growing final Glowbery to revive a large axolotl - he is the kind king of the cave system, and dwarves confuse him for dragon.
As a reward for saving his kingdom, he rewards you with crystal seedlings - you can later trade for more at Dwarf home.
The crystal trees work like fruit trees, but they frow gems! They are the only plant from the caves that you can plant on surface, but there they bear "fruit" only during winter.
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Thank you for reading, I might work more on visuals if you guys like it :D
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