SimCity fans may remember “Magnasanti”, where the same rules and principles were applied: Tesselations of constructs designed for maximize people per square, with the bare minimum of infrastructure necessary to deliver that. The first map shown is a gloriously efficient honey farming operation: you have to plant a flower within the beehive’s radius, and you have to be able to walk up to the beehive, so this layout meets those rules, while doing so in a way that’s pleasing to the eye. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then go to and scroll down to the “Useful” collection maps. Once you progress to advanced sprinklers, you don’t need this algorithm as much as you need a tesselation pattern that fits within the game’s constraints, and that’s what shows up in the player-built maps linked above.
#STARDEW VALLEY SPRINKLER LAYOUT GENERATOR#
The python script linked here is a useful programming exercise for trying to start developing these layouts by code, and many improvements could be made to improve the aesthetic - but if you just want to write a quick layout generator and grow some crops, it’s perfectly sufficient as-is for basic sprinklers. If the player fertilizes the Garden Pot with Deluxe Retaining Soil, the crop only needs to be watered once. As a result, players must water crops in Garden Pots on a daily basis with a Watering Can, or less often if they use a type of Retaining Soil. Scarecrows are necessary to keep crows from stealing crops, and have their own protection radius - similar to sprinklers, but wider. Garden Pots cannot be watered with sprinklers. For those wondering “What is Stardew Valley and why are sprinkler layouts relevant?”:ġ) Stardew lets you grow crops, but it’s time consuming to water themĢ) Sprinklers water crops for you, but starter sprinklers water 4 squares onlyģ) Better sprinklers are your reward for growing lots of cropsĤ) So having an optimized basic sprinkler layout is time-efficient and useful
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