Star Dew Grain 1.5 Solar Panels: Characteristics and How to Get Them
The solar panels are a new addition to 1.5, and you need to complete the quests Caroline posted on the new bulletin board after unlocking Ginger Island in order to get the recipe. Crafting the solar panel requires 10 refined quartz, 5 gold ingots, and 5 iron ingots; refined quartz can be obtained by duplicating fire crystals through the gem duplicator, and gold and iron can be bought outright, and that would mean it can be crafted in large quantities. In the later stages when the quantity gets high, it can completely replace the lightning rod as the mainstay of the gem replicator stream to get battery packs.
There's so little word content on the wiki right now about solar panels, so I tested it out on my own in a game and got some of the following characteristics.
1. Solar panels take 280 hours to spawn a battery pack, but as long as the next day is sunny, the time is reduced by 40 all at once, rainy days don't reduce the time. So it only takes 7 sunny days to produce one round of battery packs;
2. It can only be placed outside, not indoors;
3. It can be produced both inside and outside the farm, and can be placed on a quarry or train station (unlike a certain lightning rod);
4. It can still be produced in the winter, and battery packs can be harvested all year round;
5. The rain or shine decision for the desert area is the same as that of the Star The farm is the same, that is to say, the farm rains, placed in the desert battery plate will not reduce the time;
6. Ginger Island and Stardew Valley farm rain and shine judgment independently, the farm rains Ginger Island sunny, placed on the ginger island battery plate will still reduce the time;
Previously, to continue to play the thunderstorm days, you need to each thunderstorm can only be 24:00 to sleep after the day (or else it may be less battery packs), and Thunderstorm days are not the right time battery pack output will be much less, the new version uses solar panels to get battery packs will be more stable and less liver.