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Getting Started: Quick Tips for New Players

By alts9

A collection of helpful tips I've picked up while playing, packed with ideas that can save you time and help you plan your days better!

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Category: Gameplay Basics

Languages: English

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8 Dec, 2024 @ 12:30am

8 Dec, 2024 @ 1:20am

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Guide Index

Overview

Gameplay Basics

Energy Recovery

Farming and Resources

Crafting and Stations

Money-Making Tips

Upgrading Tools

Friendship and NPCs

Miscellaneous

Final advice

Conclusion

Comments

Gameplay Basics

You can jump and swim. You can also jump from some cliffs.
Use a sword to cut bushes because there is no sickle in this game. Using a sword costs no energy.
You won't pass out if you run out of energy. You will just be unable to use any tools.
If you still wake up at 2 AM, you will faint and wake up late tomorrow with reduced health and energy.

Energy Recovery

To recover energy, you can eat. The percentage recovered depends on the food or you can go to the public bath for 100% recovery.
There's free soup every day at the inn's cauldron that recovers 20 health and 20 energy.

Farming and Resources

All trees and stones outside your farm respawn every day. Fruits, flowers, and other items respawn every 3 days.
Trees and bushes will randomly appear on your farm.
If you forget to water your plants, they won’t die. They will just lose one day of growth. Animals won’t die either and their hearts won’t decrease. They just won’t produce anything for a day.
You can buy or craft as many storage bins as you want.

Crafting and Stations

The kitchen, crafting station, anvil, and windmill use shared inventory. You can create items as long as the materials are available in your bag or storage bin.
You can purchase the kitchen and crafting station for your home from the carpenter without any requirements.
Almost all objects can be crafted /purchased and sold, including ones with special functions like beds, calendar, and diary

Money-Making Tips

The easiest way to make money in the early game is by selling fish and making wood-based furniture.
When you start, aim to get 500 gold to buy a fishing rod. Then save 1,000 gold to buy an extra 10 bag inventory. After that, you can start buying seeds for your farm.
Fish are priced around 40-50 gold each, so you can easily earn 500 gold a day.
The best food to make when you start is trail mix. It gives 12 health and 12 energy. It’s made of wild berries available anywhere and water chestnuts found in the pond in the narrow. You can gather enough to make 6 trail mixes from each trip.

Upgrading Tools

To upgrade a tool, simply craft or purchase the better one and sell the old one. Upgrading the pickaxe for mining and breaking big stones and the watering can to save time should be your priority.
The starter axe is strong enough to cut down trees.

Friendship and NPCs

You can befriend all NPCs, including all marriage candidates.
To boost friendship, talk to them every day and give them gifts. You get bonus points if you give them a gift on their birthday.
Friendship is measured in hearts. Each heart is worth 80 points. Talking adds 7 points, giving a liked gift adds 10 points, and giving a loved gift adds 20 points. Plus, you get an extra 20 points if you give a gift on their birthday.

Miscellaneous

Keep stock of seasonal items just in case you need them for quests or birthday presents.
Items you throw away won’t disappear until the season changes, so if you’re overburdened, just throw them somewhere you might pass later.
You can save anytime by going to your diary.
Using tools without their proper target won’t cost you stamina and using seeds not on tilled soil won’t consume them.
Fishing sites can be categorized into ponds in the eastern road and left of the manor's home, beaches at all bodies of water on the west side of the map, rivers at any other place like your farm, and mines. These places contain different fish.
More hearts an animal has, the more chance they have to give extra produce and the gold version of their product.
To increase your pet's hearts, feed them, pet them, and take them outside every day.

Final advice

No need to have too many things on your farm and make it a chore just to make money. There are many ways to make money and item pricing in this game is pretty reasonable. Taking care of my farm only took around 2 hours for me.

Conclusion

That's all I can think of for now. Feel free to suggest more or fix any mistakes!

7 Comments

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BennyNinjaPandaSquad 4 Oct @ 5:50pm

Thanks im new and i needed the soup

jennaithejust 8 Mar @ 9:42am

Suggestion for farming section: If you plant a seed in the wrong spot, you can dig it up with the shovel immediately, and not lose your seed!

pavilionvolant 21 Feb @ 4:27pm

Thanks, great advice for starting up!

carolb7715 9 Feb @ 6:29pm

Awesome thank u so much

jojo7777 23 Jan @ 9:07am

Thank you . Very helpful!

Niliko 20 Jan @ 1:50am

This is so helpful thank you!

BearMan 5 Jan @ 8:06pm

Thanks man! This is incredible. Thanks for the guide

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