{"id":1535948,"date":"2026-03-25T23:10:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wySmtYT86Zr8eZ2xTdD3AC"},"modified":"2026-03-25T23:10:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:10:40","slug":"stardew-valley-farmer-takes-advice-from-ai-ends-up-brewing-136-useless-bottles-of-rice-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/stardew-valley-farmer-takes-advice-from-ai-ends-up-brewing-136-useless-bottles-of-rice-juice\/","title":{"rendered":"Stardew Valley farmer takes advice from AI, ends up brewing 136 useless bottles of rice juice"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In today’s episode of “innocent AI usage goes wrong,” a Stardew Valley player wastes a bunch of time and resources because a Google AI summary lied to their face.<\/p>\n

“Don’t listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar,” warned user WonderfulScholar6171<\/a> on the Stardew subreddit this week. “If you want to avoid a mass amount of rice juice that is.”<\/p>\n

Scholar shared a screenshot of their Google query “how to make vinegar stardew” and its generated answer: “In Stardew Valley update 1.6+, you can make vinegar by placing 1 unit or Rice (or Unmilled Rice)<\/strong> into a Keg.”<\/p>\n

The error lies in the parenthetical. You do, in fact, have to mill your rice before throwing it into a keg if you want vinegar. Skip that step (or be misdirected by a machine that only pretends to produce reason) and, well, “now I’m left with 136 Unmilled Rice Juice.”<\/p>\n

Don’t listen to Google and mill your rice for vinegar<\/a> from r\/StardewValley<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n