Way Of The Wind pt. 1
| Way Of The Wind pt. 1 | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Book |
| Location | Bookseller |
| Sell Price | 5000g |
Way Of The Wind pt. 1 is the first half of a pair that makes a farmer permanently quicker on foot. The Bookseller carries it, and one reading adds a quarter of a point to walking speed for the rest of the save, with nothing to equip, eat or remember. That matters because the valley is large and the day is short: the walk from the farm gate to the beach and back is time that could have gone on crops or on the mines. Reading it also puts the second volume on the Bookseller's table, so this is the gate every speed-minded farmer has to pass through. Later copies are worth reading too, since each one hands out a little experience in every skill.
The in-game description reads: You run a little bit faster.
Overview
The book only comes from the travelling bookseller, who parks twice a season on the rise behind JojaMart and rolls a fresh selection of titles for each visit. There is no drop, no chest and no festival prize for this one, so the wait is simply a matter of catching the right day. The calendar flags his visits in advance, which gives a farmer time to put the money together.
The speed increase is small on paper and obvious in practice. It applies all the time, in every season and on every map, including Ginger Island and the lower floors of Skull Cavern, where the clock is the real enemy. Nothing has to be held or drunk to keep it, which is the important difference from a cup of Coffee: a drink runs out, while the book's quarter point is baked into the farmer from then on. Speed buffs from food and drink still work on top of it, so a morning Coffee on a reading day is noticeably faster than a morning Coffee was the day before.
Finishing the first volume is also the only way to make the sequel appear. Way Of The Wind pt. 2 stays off the stall until the first book has actually been read, not merely bought, and the second volume then asks for more than twice the price of the first. Together the two take walking speed up by half a point, which is the largest permanent improvement to getting about that a farmer can buy. Ol' Slitherlegs works on a different problem, stripping away most of the drag from grass and crops rather than raising the base figure, and Horse: The Book only applies in the saddle, so all four can sit on one farm without overlapping.
Once the power has been taken it is listed on the Special Items and Powers tab, and any further copy that turns up shows a thumbs-up on the stall so it cannot be bought twice by mistake. Those extra copies are still useful: rereading drops a small amount of experience into every skill at once, which is the fastest way to nudge a lagging skill without doing the work. Once all five skills are at their ceiling and the Mastery Cave has been opened, that experience is converted into Mastery points instead.
Notes
On a farm with more than one player the extra speed belongs to whoever read the book, so a partner who wants to keep up needs their own copy from a later visit.
Penny loves being given one, as she does any book, and Elliott takes it kindly. Alex is the odd man out and would rather not be handed reading material at all.
Fed through the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable garment underneath, the book stains cloth an iron grey. Reading it once also crosses one name off the list the Well-Read achievement asks for.
All Books
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Animal Catalogue | 
|
2000g |
| Bait And Bobber | 
|
500g |
| Book Of Stars | 
|
2500g |
| Book of Mysteries | 
|
3000g |
| Combat Quarterly | 
|
500g |
| Dwarvish Safety Manual | 
|
1000g |
| Friendship 101 | 
|
3000g |
| Horse: The Book | 
|
1000g |
| Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Thick | 
|
500g |
| Jewels Of The Sea | 
|
800g |
| Mapping Cave Systems | 
|
4000g |
| Mining Monthly | 
|
500g |
| Monster Compendium | 
|
2000g |
| Ol' Slitherlegs | 
|
1000g |
| Price Catalogue | 
|
1000g |
| Queen Of Sauce Cookbook | 
|
10000g |
| Raccoon Journal | 
|
1000g |
| Stardew Valley Almanac | 
|
500g |
| The Alleyway Buffet | 
|
3000g |
| The Art O' Crabbing | 
|
1000g |
| The Diamond Hunter | 
|
1000g |
| Treasure Appraisal Guide | 
|
500g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 1 | 
|
5000g |
| Way Of The Wind pt. 2 | 
|
10000g |
| Woodcutter's Weekly | 
|
500g |
| Woody's Secret | 
|
500g |