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Reaching 100 percent perfection inStardew Valleyis a daunting task. This process takes many in-game years, and sometimes, you may be stuck on one aspect of the journey for a long time. If you’ve gotten 100 percent perfection in a previous save and don’t want to do the grind again, you’re in luck!
The 1.6 update of Stardew Valley introduced a new item into the game, called the Perfection Waiver. With this, you can essentially bypass a small percentage of your perfection status, putting you one step closer to reaching 100 percent. In this guide, we are going to go over everything you need to know about Perfection Waivers.
How To Unlock Perfection Waivers
Perfection Waivers are late-game content, which means that you need tocomplete the Community Center (or complete the Joja Mart route) and visit Ginger Island in order to utilize this feature.
Once you have unlocked Ginger Island, you will get aletter in the mail from Fizz,who works at Joja. In this letter, Fizz mentions meeting him in awatery cave; thankfully, this is a familiar location.
How To Reach The Watery Cave
The watery cave in question iswhere you rescuedProfessor Snail;this is also called theMushroom Cave.If you need a quick reminder, this is the cave in the Dig Site left of Professor Snail’s field office (in Island North).
If you have not saved Professor Snail from this cave yet, you won’t get the letter from Fizz. Be sure torepair the small bridge for ten Golden Walnutsand then save the professor!
How To Buy Perfection Waivers
After speaking with Fizz in the watery cave, you can begin to purchase Perfection Waivers. For500,000g,you can purchase one Perfection Waiver that increases your perfection by one percent.When purchased, the percentage will immediately be added to your perfection score, which is tracked in Qi’s Walnut Room.
You are able tobuy more than one Perfection Waiver, but keep in mind that these are quite expensive. It’s best to buy a few to supplement your activities rather than relying on the waivers completely.
If you are looking tospeedrun the game, you could focus your time on completing the main story while saving up money. Once you unlock the ability to purchase Perfection Waivers, yousimply need to just buy them all.
