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Wizard (Rasmodius)

The Wizard is another character who I think is similar to Willy. He has a unique and interesting appearance, some funny dialogue and moments, as well as helping the character early on and having a few cutscenes of his own. I tend to ignore Rasmodius for most of the first year until I have dozens of Void and Solar Essences in stock, then I go bring him one as often as possible for a while until he's my best friend.

The Wizard will let you use some of the magic devices on his property, and also kickstarts your ability to access the magic items owned by the Witch. While doing stuff like altering your appearance is useful, I've never really felt any kind of desire to turn my children into doves and get rid of them. So, yeah, some of his functions are pretty bizarre.

The special buildings he can construct for you are really cool -- like giant pillars that allow you to warp from your farm to any location, a clock that prevents debris from spreading across your farm (this one is expense), and a junimo hut that allows junimo to live and work on your farm. I actually need to test the junimo hut to see if it gathers from animals or just crops. I'd be curious to see. Maybe I'll try to get one soon on my 1.4 farm.

All in all the Wizard provides some useful functions, is a colorful character who definitely adds something different to the cast, and he's not all that hard to befriend. You won't be able to get his favorite gifts as easily early on, but later you will be absolutely drowning in them.

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Demetrius

Some people think Demetrius can kinda be a dick, but I don't think he's nearly as bad as some of the other main offenders. I also have a bit of a special place for him in my friendship rankings just because he was one of the first villagers I ever befriended to 10 hearts on my first playthrough. As it turns out, a guy who likes the berries you can find 80 of in a matter of days, is pretty easy to befriend. He also has the perfect mix of schedule where he's generally always in the same region, but ventures out into locations that are close to areas you'd already be running through normally.

I think the tomato = vegetable/fruit scene is probably one of the most cringe cutscenes in all of Stardew Valley, but hey, what's life without a little cringe. My favorite thing about Demetrius is, of course, the cave! Man the funniest thing is that I always used to think that the mushroom cave was the best. Sure the fruit cave would sometimes produce more rare fruits, but it usually just gives you a bunch of forage junk that you can easily find anyway.

While it's true that the mushroom cave can give you red and purple shrooms, those aren't really as useful as the ability to produce specific fruits without needing to plant a bunch of trees on your farm. Especially if you're trying to fill out the bundles. The only annoying one is the 3 apples needed for the fodder bundle. Honestly you may as well plant apple trees as soon as possible, because, uh, your odds of 3 apples all the same quality dropping in the cave are pretty low. It could take a year or more by the time it happens. And yes they have to all be the same quality to donate them to the community center.

The other thing I liked was that it mostly drops a bunch of the same brown mushrooms which stack, and can be brought into the mines for health and energy. Thing is, I've realized by now that there's much better things to bring with you as food into the mines. On top of that, while the ability to have fewer stacks of items is somewhat convenient, you can easily just place a chest outside of the cave and throw all of your fruit in there until you're ready to sort it out.

Anyway I spent way too much time talking about caves and fruits and mushrooms, and not really talking about the person I was supposed to talk about. Which, in a way, feels exactly like something Demetrius would do!


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