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View submission: Stardew Valley MC vs Terraria MC
My innate need to conserve potions disallows me from touching those potions, yknow? What if I need em later
Comment by Waru23 at 14/01/2024 at 20:05 UTC
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Always felt that way, so I spend hours setting up a crispy honey generator, scour the seabeds of multiple worlds for coral, and a massive amber gem tree farm. By the time I make over a hundred of each potion I don't even want to fish anymore.
Comment by bloody-pencil at 14/01/2024 at 20:36 UTC
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Drink it now and it’ll be later
Comment by TankieRebel at 14/01/2024 at 21:06 UTC
32 upvotes, 2 direct replies
I typically don't use a lot of QOL mods but one mod I always use is the one that makes potion effects permanent at stacks of 30. You still go through the farming, harvesting and fishing associated with potion making but instead of doing it all the time, you only do it one time. I kind of imagine that the terrarian literally uses some kind of spell to slowly apply the effects of the potions kind of like a medical IV drip while replenishing it so it isn't insanely immersion breaking or anything
Comment by dragonace11 at 14/01/2024 at 21:56 UTC
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Thats why I use Fargo's mod, can buy the potions directly instead of worrying about hording them.
Comment by blueorchid14 at 14/01/2024 at 22:15 UTC*
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You'll be able to craft them later.
In the meantime, fishing potions are minor enough that you might as well use them; it's not a big deal if you run out. Crate potions are too good *not* to use. You really want every second of fishing time to be spent with the higher crate chance, and you get a decent amount of them (just barely not enough to use them every time, iirc) from quest rewards anyway.
Sonar potions' whole purpose is saving bait (skipping a junk fish doesn't speed up/improve the next bite or anything, other than the fraction of a second to recast the line), so you should always use them if you're using good bait. You get enough bait from quest rewards that only ever using master bait (another thing it's natural to be hesitant to use, but the worst case scenario is having to go back to journeyman bait which is not bad at all, and you use less of it than you think because better bait has a lower chance of being consumed) will still accumulate it faster than you use it if you have sonar potions, so these are worth rushing a farm for early.
The normal logic of wanting to save things you can't make more of doesn't apply here; you'll just wind up finding out you spent all your fishing time suboptimally if you don't use them, and you *do* get more of them regularly even though you're not told so explicitly.
Comment by faerox420 at 14/01/2024 at 21:14 UTC
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Just craft more
Comment by LunaticPrick at 15/01/2024 at 10:50 UTC
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This IS the later when you need to use them. Trust me, you ain't running out of them that fast.
Comment by coksucer69 at 30/01/2024 at 02:37 UTC
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no way you're also doing this for something as cheap as a sonar potion