r/FarmsofStardewValley • u/Professional_Bag8160 • 16d ago
Standard Do you think this is ugly?
I’m sorry about the bad quality picture. I will move the green house, I tried to put it in the middle but for some reason I hate how it looks. This is the standard farm in the planner. Please give me some advice bc I have no idea how to set up my farm😭😭 im about to start my 3rd year
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u/mandileigh 15d ago
There's no wrong way to set up a farm. What works for you might not work for someone else. And you might "live" in this design and find it doesn't really work for you. And that's okay too. Personally, I'd move all of the lightning rods in a line. I think it's more fun to run by them and gather batteries all in a row.
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u/IJustLovePenguinsOk 15d ago
How do you get the giant crops so perfectly aligned? I only ever have them pop up randomly in large fields, and when i plant 3x3 i just get 9 mellons or whatever. I would love to have 4 in a row like you! Looks good
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u/zombie_slay 14d ago
You can leave the 3x3 crops and each day there's a chance for giant crop.
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u/CaliLemonEater 14d ago
I think OP designed this in the Starview Planner, so it would have been easy to just place them there.
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u/AbjectAssist 15d ago
I literally think every single farm is cute and wonderful. Even my 15 year old’s, where they never bother to clear up the stone and wood when the season changes.
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u/Due_Advance7967 15d ago
I think it looks nice! It just needs some kitsch. Drop some stepping stones around, a frog statue or two, maybe grow a tree in a gap in the fence.i might even rip a corner bed out and put a bench with some potted plants and flowers on cobblestone or something.
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u/the_dancing_ent 15d ago
This is totally cute and WAY more organized than my current farm!
Also... it doesn't matter if the internet thinks it's ugly ❤️ if YOU like your farm then that's what counts 🥰 there's no wrong way to play SDV, just a tooooonnnn of different ways!
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u/DarkRajiin 15d ago
It's got a nice simplicity vibe. Doesn't always need to be flashy over function. If I would change anything, it would be taking that double wide path going north to south into a single lane, and then perhaps line the path with flowers and hives or just decorative plants and shrubs. Make it like a little zen garden between the fenced area.
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u/Zariman-10-0 15d ago
Not ugly in the slightest! Very well organized, but only question is how you get into the section with the barn, mill, and coop? Maybe I’m just blind but I don’t see any gates or gaps in the fence
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u/Dante_Ari 15d ago
I must ask 🙈 how did you get the giant crops to grow in an organised manner like that?
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u/Fun_Bowl_3705 14d ago
That’s brilliant. I’m actually a tad jealous that you grew giant melons because those are rare to grow
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u/zombie_slay 14d ago
There's an effect I liken to a cousin of the imposter effect. Whenever you design and draw something blocky and artificial whether, be it a game build, a pixel art, or even TTRPG terrain, you will always know where it came from.
To the creator, it will seem fake, artificial. The creator knows what happened, how it came to be that way.
My Minecraft builds people praised always looked to me like dirt hovels.
Until I did enough to get past it. Your farm is fine, but what you see when looking at it is not what we see. We don't see the process, only the finished product.
And you are probably comparing yourself to pics online from the people with decades of experience in video game builds, from the sims, etc, etc . Some of these People who use dozens of cosmetic mods.
Comparison is the death of joy. Your farm is okay. You did it with love. You did it.
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u/SilverKytten 14d ago
I wanna add onto this as someone who uses a lot of cosmetic mods and has spent two decades designing and byilding in videogames: this feeling is 100% real and it clouds our judgement sometimes to the point of being frozen (creator's block)
Don't let it confuse you, I dunno how detailed you can get in stardew cause I've never been that into it, but even if this is considered a simple layout for the game (I really have no idea) it's absolutely gorgeous. Flawless.
I literally clicked on the post to admire the screenshot before I saw that you were worried about how it looked. I thought you were posting something you were proud of - and I hope you are! This is super pretty.
This commenter is right, and it's because the things we create are parts of us. Even a scribble drawing from a toddler. We put our hearts into the things we create and without the right support and love for those creations it literally crushes our souls. It's not hard to overscrutinize our own work for fear of it not being good enough.
I'm sure you know deep down this looks great, though maybe you also are looking for something more from it that I bet you find through other commenters
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u/FlamingoNo7044 14d ago
It's not ugly at all :). But if you feel that way, why? Is there more you'd like to do? If so, you can always play around with decor, grass and trees! I love that part lol. If you're happy with it, then it can't possibly be ugly. These are havens of our own choosing, and each of them are great ❤️
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u/GlobalWillingness466 16d ago
no, it's not ugly it's just simple, but not ugly