How to get the ‘Perfection’ achievement in Stardew Valley
Memorize the Starfruit life cycle. Judge time by the number of iridium-level wine bottles in your cellar. Work the same soil again and again. Faint on your stoop after planting three hundred strawberries in one day. Catch gruesome-looking fish. Quest for obscure lamp-post schematics. Sleep seasons away. Only wake up to shove more ancient fruit into kegs or to check your stingray ponds for dragon teeth. Watch your friendship with your spouse decay. Decide that it’s a necessary sacrifice. Become as economical as possible. Stop attending egg hunts and buying fairy rose seeds to sprinkle over your porch railing in the fall. Drag your bed beside the front door. Don’t eat anything apart from the grounds grouped at the bottom of your coffee mug. Optimize your greenhouse layout. Lay thick wood across every patch of earth that isn’t growing something useful. Buy obelisks, a clock. Dig up walnuts and pan for fossils. Revitalize the entirety of Pelican town. Harvest crops until your hands are hard to the touch. Bear your grandfather's legacy as well as you know how.
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