Arranging chests is soothing

Did I mention before that I love playing Stardew Valley? Of course I have, I guess I’ve put up a couple of articles on here about the game, ever since it released on the Switch. These farming sims are notorious however for giving you so many tasks and so little time, I always seem to be running around as quick as I can to do as much as I can.

My first winter is almost at an end, and because there was hardly any farm work I could finally take a step back and wander around town. Take things a bit slow, checking out the nice Christmas decorations that mayor Lewis put up. And I took the time to do a very soothing task: re-arranging my chests.

If there’s something I’ve learned in the Harvest Moon and Rune Factory games, then it’s that you have to hoard as much as you can. No matter that it means that you are seriously short on in-game money in the beginning, you must make sure that you save as much as you can. Because you never know when you need a certain item to make a dish or a recipe. And let me tell you, money is a real issue in this game. But I made sure that I had at least one of every vegetable I grew. 

Stardew Valley understands organizing: it lets you give a different color to each chest you make. And there’s a button to organize everything, whether it’s your backpack, your chests or your fridge! I’ve been extremely busy at work lately (real work, not in game farming work) and somehow these organizing tasks are very, very soothing. All veggies in a green chest, a blue chest for all materials like stones, wood and shells too, yellow for all seeds and foraging stuff.

And so you see, there’s things to do in gaming for every mood type. Or maybe I’m just weird, the way having all my things organized makes me feel so much better. And though it’s nothing but pixels, having all these items even makes me feel incredibly rich!