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Another Box

There is another box behind the Jojamart. Has anyone figured out what to give it? Jeancey (talk) 00:51, 23 March 2016 (EDT)

As far as I know, there's no code linking an item to it. --NibKing (talk) 04:51, 23 March 2016 (EDT)

Shipping Screen

Adding some notes here about my findings. I had noticed that Santa appeared around the Feast of the Winterstar but never bothered to look it up. Digging in to the game's code confirms that it happens on the 25th of Winter. I don't see any randomness happening like with the UFO.

if (Game1.dayOfMonth == 25 && Game1.currentSeason.Equals("winter"))

As for the UFO, the game must pass these if statements to have a chance of it appearing.

if (Game1.dayOfMonth != 28 && !this.outro) // day is not the 28th and outro (shipping screen fade out I think) is not playing
if (!Game1.wasRainingYesterday)            // was not raining
if (Game1.random.NextDouble() < 1E-05)     // random double (number) must be less than -0.00001, not sure of what the min/max possible doubles would be

This is also based on old code and may no longer be accurate. I have no idea what version it is. --Samutz (talk) 21:14, 4 April 2016 (EDT)

It just returns between 0 and 1, approximately uniformly. (It's also 0.00001, not -0.00001). So there's a 0.001% chance of a UFO occurring. --Y120 (talk) 21:38, 9 April 2016 (EDT)

On the end of my first day in the Wilderness farm, I had the UFO cross my screen. I guess I won the lottery of Stardew Valley :-) Kazeron (talk) 23:29, 18 May 2017 (BST)

Character Creation screen

i have found that if you were to type in different keys in one of the text boxes you can produce different sounds and symbols

SlippedLyric020 (talk) 04:31, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

Some of that info is hinted at on The Player page, but not in as much detail. Nice find! I'm going to restore the image to original size, and put a thumbnail on the page, so people can see the symbols more clearly. margotbean (talk) 19:52, 13 March 2017 (UTC)

UFO Appearance

I've noticed the UFO appearing under some specific (and odd) circumstances. If I play the game for long periods of time, I often take a break while the game is on the shipping screen (the only natural pause in gameplay). After being away from the computer for 10-30 minutes, I come back and move the mouse to turn off the screensaver and get back to the game. At this point, I've frequently found a UFO flying across the screen. This happens a lot more often than the UFO appearing when I don't walk away from the computer.

This makes me wonder if the conditions for spawning it are updated in the 10-minute update function, or, if a UFO always appears eventually (if the other conditions are met -- not raining, not the 28th, not the 24th of Winter).

Any interested code-divers, or anyone else who experiences this, please comment (or edit the page if you've found something concrete). Thx! margotbean (talk) 01:26, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Error?

The Secrets page says:

"When entering Robin's or Marnie's shop, there is a chance for her to say “Lew...? Oh...”"

Is it correct that Robin says that as well?? Magsnidge (talk) 20:56, 28 July 2020 (UTC)

Yep, that text is in Strings/SpeechBubbles for both AnimalShop_Marnie_RareGreeting and ScienceHouse_Robin_RareGreeting. There's a 50% chance they'll say a greeting, followed by a 0.1% chance of saying that one (for a combined 0.05% chance). —Pathoschild (talk) 13:51, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Duplication Glitch (version 1.4)

I'm not sure if this is the right page to add this to but there has been a new duplication glitch discovered for version 1.4. Here is a sample link on YouTube (all due credit to the creator of the video): [1]

The basic premise is to put the item(s) you want to duplicate in a chest, fill up your inventory, and then pick up the item(s) from the chest and click on the sort button with the item in your hand. Each time you click the sort button, the number of items will double (so one item becomes two, then four, then eight, etc). Once you have duped half the number of items you want, empty a slot in your inventory and you will pick up the dupes, then go to your chest and pull the original item(s) out; you now have double the number of duped items to do whatever you want with!

You can do this with multiple items in the same chest (one item at a time) and it even works with stacked items (i.e. a stack of 20 items becomes 40 and so on); the quality of the original item(s) is applied to the duplicates as well. The only limiting factor is you have to have at least one of the item(s) first in order to duplicate it. Kaori kins (talk) 21:33, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Island Volcano Plaque

I've managed to decipher the plaque seen above the forge atop the Ginger Island Volcano, which is written in Dwarvish. the full text, untranslated, is:

"ait otusnats tomu htam doo smol din mopu o uy hamu duuonh snau"

which, when translated into English, with some interpretation, reads:

"our ancestors came from the sky but made a new home beneath stone"

which can be directly translated back into Dwarvish. If someone could please write a section on this for this article, I would appreciate it greatly, as I'm unfamiliar with how to properly edit articles myself. N8crafter (talk) 09:36, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

That is awesome! As soon as the wiki is stable, I (or anyone who wishes) will add it to the page. Thank you! margotbean (talk) 22:29, 6 January 2021 (UTC)