Stardew Valley

UPDATE: Unfortunately since the multiplayer patch, this method no longer works. If you want to still earn this achievement through the below method, you will need to buy and install from the disc and play offline.

There is currently a cheat/bug/exploit where if you set your name to be certain characters, then whenever your name is said you will receive items. You could potentially earn over 300 million in one day, and tackle the JoJa achievement at the same time. I do recommend doing this on a completely separate save though (your "JoJa save") as it's incredibly game breaking.

This video demonstrates what you need to do - it is not my video.


In case the video gets pulled, start a new save, set your name to be [163][166]. The rest doesn't matter. You can use other numbers to get different items but there's just no point as your name isn't changeable in game.

Once you've started, head over to the Saloon and wait for it to open at 12:00, then enter and speak to Gus. After he says hi, immediately speak to him again.

Upon doing so, a large fish and a treasure chest - the two most valuable sellable items in the game at 5000G each, will suddenly appear in your inventory. Keep pressing A to spawn more (the video shows 1 spawn after each button press + Gus speaking to you each time, but for me I just received 4 per button press). You can fill up your inventory completely with three sets of 999 of each item, take it back to the chest in your house where you sell stuff, then head to bed to sleep. You will then receive enough money to get the 1 mil and 10 mil achievement, which in turn will give you enough money to buy everything in JoJa and get that out the way. Repeat visits are completely unnecessary as you'll have enough anything to buy literally everything multiple times over.

This may be patched in the future.

This achievement requires a second playthrough from the Community Center, as buying a Joja membership destroys the Community Center. I recommend going for every achievement you can in your Community Center playthrough, as you will get many of those achievements along the way.

In total, you need to spend 140,000g to get the membership and perks. You can make this money any way you want, but I recommend farming crops, as they are good short term investments. Certain crops can become giant crops if left in a 3x3 square after maturing. They produce twice the usual yield of harvesting right after maturity. I also recommend buying very little other than seeds and a backpack upgrade or two.

Below are the best crops to plant in each season based on average gold earned per day. Crops that can become giant are marked with (gc).

Crops to plant:
Any Free Seeds: This may be a little obvious, but any seeds gotten for free should be planted
Mixed Seeds: Seeds that become a random crop from the season they are grown in. Plant these in the summer or fall for the best possible profit.

Spring:
Cauliflower 7.92g per day (gc)
Green Bean 7.2g per day

Summer:
Blueberries 20.8g per day
Melon 14.17g per day (gc)

Fall:
Cranberries 18.89g per day
Pumpkin 16.92g per day (gc)
Grapes 16.8g per day

Greenhouse:
The greenhouse costs 35,000g, an I recommend buying it ASAP. It allows you to grow crops in any season. Plant a ton of cranberries and blueberries in it for maximum profit.

Good luck!

UPDATE: THIS GLITCH HAS BEEN PATCHED, HOWEVER YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO UNINSTALL THE PATCH, AND DO THE ACHIEVEMENT OFFLINE.

Since most people are going to do this on a second playthrough, I thought i'll inform everyone of an exploit that makes this achievement a little under and hour to obtain. On the 27 of Fall the Spirit's Eve event will occur at 10pm. At this event you obtain the golden pumpkin at the end of a simple maze, which can be sold for 2500g. However there is a way to duplicate the pumpkin.

*to speed to the 27th of Fall you can just sleep away the days*

1. Make sure you have a full inventory, this will not work without it.
2. When you take the pumpkin from the chest, drop it on the ground a leave the menu.
3. Open the chest again and drop another, repeat this 10 times.
4. Once you have dropped 10, open the chest to access your inventory (during the event you can't access it normally) and delete one item. When this happens the game will pick up the 10 pumpkins on the floor and glitch giving you 512 pumpkins. DO NOT TAKE ANOTHER PUMPKIN.
Doing this will take away pumpkins, for some unknown reason.
5. Now leave the festival and sell the pumpkins, granting you 1.2 million, NOTE: this will also give you those money achievements if you didn't have them already.
6. Now the next day got to the JojaMart and purchase the membership for Morris and wait a day.
7. Now the warehouse will be built and each day you will have to buy one project from Morris.
8. Once you've bought all 5 upgrades go the warehouse for a small cutscene and boom, achievement unlocked!

Also for those wanted to do the exploit in there main playthroughs, the max amount of money you can get is ~3mil. To get that much you need to take out 31 pumpkins, and you will have to trash 3 items instead of one. I wouldn't recommend doing the exploit if you are enjoying the game because it allows you to get everything really early. This is good because it can cut your time in down for a lot of achievements, but it removes a lot of the challenge.

Happy Hunting!

This is going to be less of a guide and more of a list of tips for quick ways to earn money early game that I haven't seen mentioned in the other guides for this achievement. I'll be writing just a quick draft today. I might expand on and add more details to his later.

1. Tea Saplings

Tea Saplings are worth 500g each and are fairly easy to obtain early game. This is by far the best way to earn money early game and even better than a lot of midgame ways to make money.

(Strategy Explained)
What you are essentially doing is getting wood/fiber from clearing your farm of tree/weeds and using the items you forage to make "Wild Seeds." Once you get the crafting recipe for Tea Saplings from Caroline, you make the Tea Saplings and sell them as is. It's more profitably than planting the saplings and selling their leaves.

(Strategy Expanded)
Once you make Wild Seed bags you may think it makes the most sense to just make Tea Saplings then and there, but it's actually better long term to plant the Wild Seeds and use the crops to make more Wild Seeds and repeat the process till right before the end of the season. Then once you have had your last harvest of the season, make all of the crops back into Wild Seed Bags and then craft as much Tea Saplings as you can. Then you sell all of your Tea Saplings to make the maximum amount of gold you can for that season.


You can get the Crafting Recipe for Tea Saplings from Caroline in the mail after getting her up to two hearts and then watching her 2 Heart cutscene. Caroline likes Daffodils which are a fairly common flower you can forage in the spring.


To craft Tea Saplings you need:

(2) Wild Seed bags from any season (Not to be confused with Mixed seeds)

(5) Fiber
(Wiki Desc)
Fiber is a resource obtained by destroying Weeds.

(5) Wood
(Wiki Desc) Wood is a basic resource that can be obtained by felling Trees and branches with an axe or bought from Robin at the Carpenter's Shop.


You get the crafting recipes for Spring Wild Seeds at Level 1 foraging and Summer Wild Seeds at Level 4 foraging.

What is required for crafting Wild Seeds is:

{Spring Wild Seeds require: Summer Wild Seeds Require:

(1) Wild Horseradish (1) Spice Berry
(1) Daffodil (1) Grape
(1) Leek (1) Sweet Pea
(1) Dandelion

to make 10 bags of Wild Seeds}

2. Strawberries

You can buy Strawberry Seeds from Pierre during the Egg festival during the 13th of Spring. They are the most profitable crop for the 1st Spring even if planted on the 13th. That's why I would recommend only buying and plating crops that you can sell before the 13th and saving all of the money you can for the Egg Festival to maximize how many Strawberry Seeds you can buy.

3. Fishing

If you've already finished watering all your crops, clearing your farm, and/or foraging, then the next thing you should prioritize is fishing.

Largemouth Bass go for 100-200g at the start of the game, and you can get even more for them if you choose the "Fisher" profession once you get to Level 5 for fishing. There located at the Mountain Lake. You can also get them if you choose the Wilderness Farm.

You can also get Catfish during rainy days in Spring from the river, but they are very difficult to catch, so I wouldn't recommend fishing for them. Catfish go for 200 - 400g.


Following these tips, you should be able to get this achievement by early Summer if not sooner.
I got it late Summer due to me not learning about the Tea Saplings and Fishing till later and I didn't even replant any Wild Seeds.

Feel free to PM me if you have anything you think I should add or change.