Stardew Valley has a reputation as the quintessential relaxing farming sim, which means its aesops are ripe for corruption:
- Agriculture is way way more rewarding and less stressful than an office job in a nice air conditioned building.
- Stalking people to give them a gift is completely fine.
- It's alright to date everyone at once. Nobody talks about their romantic relationships to anyone if you carry a rabbit's foot.
- Watch TV every day - you might miss a recipe otherwise.
- It's entirely okay to water plants with ocean water.
- If you want to remarry someone you divorced? Just talk to a witch and they'll forget all about it. Nobody else will remember it either.
- Mom and Pop Stores are perfectly fine. Even that one who actually sells your produce and even takes credit for it.
- Closing one of the few stores that actually provide any kind of employment is actually good.
- Most people are happy not even participating in the labour force.
- Small towns are great. Even though there's nothing to do.
- Throwing underwear into the community luau soup is freaking hilarious.
- Don't give jewels to some girls - they might eat it!
- Use pufferfish as feminine hygiene products!
- Have a sore tooth? Rub some quartz on it. You'll be fine.
- Rub some cranberries on your sore ear. You'll be fine.
- A bunch of cranberries will sell more than gold bullions.
- Monoculture is fine. Crop rotation is just cycling through different cash crops.
- The value of fresh produce never fluctuates - even if you flood the market with millions of blueberries and cranberries.
- Children are useless and you would be better off getting them turned into birds because they never grow up.
- The best way to pursue a romantic relationship with someone is to bribe them into it.
- Farming is the single easiest way to become a millionaire.
- Large businesses are run by assholes, but then so are small local shops, so you might as well just buy from the Walmart expy.
- The small businessman will give you a nice discount... for everything except Sunflower seeds. So you might as well just go buy Sunflower seeds from the Walmart Expy.
- Food which you find in the bin is perfectly fine to eat, sell or even give as a gift. Same goes for food that's been sitting in an unrefrigerated chest for five years.
- The best characters are a homeless guy and a monster who lives in a sewer (according to the fanbase, anyway).
- Eating an entire wheel of cheese at once is great for your health. The Power of Cheese really works!
- Abandon your desk job and go to live in the countryside, because there's more important things than money... Oh, and while you're at it you damn well better make a profit or your grandfather will be disappointed in you.
- Most people who live in small towns are psychologically damaged in some way. Perhaps the city is a better option after all.
- Dealing with everyone's mental trauma makes for a fun and relaxing game.
- Small, inhabited islands with established cultures are ripe for the taking and the perfect getaway spot for 28 people from a coastal village.
- Enabling an alcoholic's addiction is the best way to make friends with them.
- Someone's psycho ex comes around? Don't punch them. Let her do it.
- There's nothing strange about a Shell-Shocked Veteran mailing you bombs.
- Did you leave purple underwear in your girlfriend's room? Just ask the new person in town to get it for you.
- Did your boyfriend leave his purple underwear in your room? Just leave it on the floor for months until someone comes to collect it.
- If you moved into your spouse's place? Don't bother offering your own place to the girl who lives in the trailer.
- Holly can trigger PTSD.
- Pickles, mayonnaise, jelly, and wine are for selling. Maple Syrup on the other hand? You can easily drink it.
- There's nothing wrong with giving booze to the bus driver on her way to work in the morning.
- Weather is caused by how many steps you took. So do a funny-walk and you'll never have to water your crops!
- Running a certain direction will actually cause you to pick crops faster than doing so the other way.
- Upgrading your watering can will let it water crops further away from you like a hose.
- The game is very anti-capitalist. Despite that the entire point is to make as much money as you can with the property you inherit only because of the family you were born to.
- Drinking an entire jar of mayonnaise is very good for your health!
