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What Stardew Valley has taught me about passive income
The magic of crab pots.
For those of you who aren’t aware, passive income is the idea that you can create streams of income that will continue to make you money while you sleep. There are countless articles in all corners of the internet about how to earn more of it, ranging from legitimate businesses to total scams.
Stardew Valley is a wildly popular, and in my opinion utterly delightful, farming based RPG. I recently started playing it on Nintendo Switch, and it’s taken up far more of my time than I anticipated.
The game centres around running a farm, gathering resources, upgrading things, and creating a successful simulated country life for yourself. There’s plenty of interesting mechanics that I could go on about in numerous articles, but I want to focus on one in particular. Crab pots.
Crab pots are one of the most useful items in the game, because you simple place them in a body of water, add bait (easy to make or very cheap to buy), wait a day, and collect either fish or trash. They require basically no energy and continuously create a pretty solid source of gold.
The idea of creating this kind of system to feel my bank account in real life has appealed to me for my entire adult life, and thus I’ve gone through many legitimate how-to guides…