Tips

**"This page is still a work in progress"**

**Tips By Shadowbane**

Welcome to the Tips Page. Here we will try to provide as much info as we can to help new and all players alike.

## **Money**

The reason I put this first is because many people who first start a new game want to know how to make it early on.

* Quite a few items are expensive, and very early on, you will not be getting very much.
* Crops do sell for a decent amount, but do take time to grow.
* Fish also sells for a decent amount, although early on you may want to use them for regenerating PE (Physical Energy).
* When you find a Bee Hive, you can craft Honey Brewing machines and make Nectar with easy to gather flower petals (100 coins each).

With my play throughs, the only really good source of money came from the Mines, the deeper floors, the better. Of course, the deeper you go, the better hammer and axe you will need.

This will be explained further in the Mines section. When you finally reach floors 81 to 99, and have a crystal hammer and axe, you will never have to worry about money again.

* The Diamonds and Ancient God Wood on those floors sells for 50k each.

## **Quests, Tasks, and Missions**

* Most of these will pop up on the map related to a certain NPC. Some will activate after reading the mail. Some will be activated by cut scenes when you arrive at certain locations and when you visit NPCs on their Birthdays.

* There are some though that you get from the mail that you will most likely want to write down, because there are no indicators on the map, and there is a chance that you may forget to do them depending on how many morning activities you are doing.

## **Saving**

There are three types of saves:

* Auto-Save
* Quick save
* Manual save.

When you use quick save, it overwrites the auto-save. **So be careful if you have more then one character profile.**

* Use a manual save on your present character before switching to another. In fact, I would advise that you do not use quick save at all.

## **Starting Tools**

* ***Hoe***: Given at the start.

* ***Watering Can***:Given at the start.

* ***Sickle***: On top of a rock on the hill west and behind your house.

* ***Hammer***: Given by Croc on your farm.

* ***Axe***: Given by Abby on your farm.

* ***Remodeling Hammer***: Given by Lori, the general store owner the first time you meet her.

* ***Fishing Rod***: About 5 days into the game, you will get mail to go see Linde at the lake at Back Hill.

* ***Shovel***: About half way into spring, you will get mail from Du asking you to meet him at the lake in Back Hill.

**Notes about tools**: Tools can be upgraded at the Blacksmith.

* Each tier of tool has a rank attached to it. If you use a tool that, for instance, is labeled Rank C, then your skill in order to use that tool also should be Rank C to use it proficiently.

* You can use a higher rank tool then your skill rank, but it will use up your PE (physical energy) really quickly.

## **PE (Physical Energy)**

You will find you need quite a bit on any given day when you are using tools. And it does go down fairly quickly.

* The earliest source of decent PE regen will be eating raw fish. You get the Fishing Rod, as stated above, around day 5.

* Later on in Spring or Summer when you have a fair amount of money, Du's Orchard will sell Drinks to help with PE regen, and if you upgrade his shop, he will sell drinks that give you more PE per drink.

* You will also be able to make your own PE drinks with the machines you unlock. The earliest machine you can unlock will be a Honey Brewing machine that unlocks from finding a Bee Hive on a tree (it is random). All you need to make Nectar with the Honey machine (for PE, and Animal food later) is Flower petals.

## **Inventory**

The backpack you have is currently limitless, meaning you can carry all items with you at all times.

* You can choose later on if you wish to put some in chests, but keep in mind that any item needed for crafting and cooking needs to be in your backpack when you go to craft or cook an item.

* You can also pick up any chest with the remodel tool and move them even if they are full of items.

## **Crops**

There is a rather large variety of crops (flowers included) that you can grow. Different ones for each season as well as crops that can grow in all seasons.

For all crops except flowers, their is 3 tiers to them, Regular, Silver, and Gold. Silver and Gold may be difficult to get, so what you need to do is Hoe the plots for the amount of crops you have on hand, then water those plots, then make a manual save. Plant the crops.

* If you did not get any silver or gold, then reload that manual save and try again. Repeat if necessary. This is what is called in the gaming world as "Save Scumming".

* Some crops only unlock after completing certain tasks given by NPCs.

* Any crop that is seasonal will have to be harvested before the end of that season, otherwise it wilts away when the new season starts, so plan accordingly.

* Flowers are different in that there is only one type of each, but using a Butterfly machine, and arranging the different colored flowers next to each other in various patterns will produce new color variants of those flowers.

## **Animals**

* Animals can only be placed in pens (animal enclosures) that are built.

* There are some baby animals you can find on your farm as well as at Back Hill.

* The ones at Back hill, you will have to pick them up and carry them all the way back to your farm, so make sure you do not do that when it is very late at night.

* You bring them back to your farm and place them in the appropriate pens, and then you can Name them.

**NOTE**: The way it works with animals is that they will mature on their own at a very very slow pace if you do not care for them at all, meaning no feeding or petting.

* If you feed them, their maturity rate will go up much quicker.

* If you pet them, their Hearts will go up. For anyone who wants to collect the small versions of milk and the small Thunder wool for the collection pages, it is vital you do this as early as possible because of your rank in Animals.

* If you want to collect small versions of the items they produce, feed them, but do not pet them at all to begin with until they mature and you have gotten all the small products you need for the collection pages, then you can start petting them.

* The reason is that you can only get small products from animals below 3 hearts. It becomes almost impossible after reaching Rank B+ in Animals to get those small products, because rank B+ gives a good amount to hearts when you feed them, meaning they will already be over 3 hearts when they mature.

* Animal pens can be a little difficult to deal with depending on which shape you chose when upgrading those pens, as the animals can be so tightly packed together, that it becomes quite a chore to pet them individually. It may be worthwhile to stick to the standard "square" shape if you can.

* Luckily though, once you can assign a worker to take care of them, they will all get petted. You do however have to feed them yourself until the Auto-feeder is unlocked.

* There are, for now, 6 types of animals. Pigs, Sheep, Sunny Crabs, Cows, Birds, and Flower Tail Beasts.

* You can buy 5 of those at Rhode and Becky's Ranches, but the Flower Tailed Beast (who will randomly be in one of those holes in the sides of the hills at Back Hill) needs to be hit with a rock to stun him so you can take him back to your farm. Remember that you will need a pen built up for them to place them in it.

* Rhode and Becky will also sell food for the 5 animals they sell. Flower Tail Beasts food is only available by using Nectar in a blender machine. You can make other animal foods with the blender machine as well.

* You can ride some mature animals when prompted. There is nothing telling you in the help section **for people who use controllers about how to get off animals. It is the R3 button**.

## **Fishing**

There is quite a variety of Fish, and most fish have 3 sizes, small, large, and huge. There are also a few Rare fish.

* When you cast your line in the water, you can "reel in" as soon as the fish bites. You do not have to wait for the "pull" prompt. When you first see the 3 fish, they may be all black in color, or one or two gold color (usually bigger fish) or one huge Red colored fish (rare).

* If you see a black colored one biting, and you see another one that gold or red, just don't pull. The fish will bite for awhile and then back off and disappear allowing the next fish to start biting. If that one is not the one you want, then do not pull. After that fish disappears, the last fish will start biting.

**NOTE**: Some fish will only show up during certain seasons, and some will only show up in the watery areas of the Mine. Some fish will only be available in certain Lakes, rivers, or ponds.

## **The Market Street and Helpers**

On the weekends there's a market around the guild with randomly generated NPCs.

* These NPCs can be befriended just like normal villagers, and then moved into the town to work on your farm, as long as they get paid each season.

* When placing workstations on your farm, you need to place them where the area of affect is within what you want those workers to do.

* If you want them to fish, then have the area of effect placed in the river or pond, and in order for the worker to collect items, the collection box needs to be placed one square away from the workstation.

* You can give higher tier tools to your farm helpers, so long as you have an extra one. So you would need to make a Silver watering can for yourself, then another Silver watering can for your farm hand.

* You can give it to them at the worker's station at the "change clothes" option.

* You will notice that each worker has A,B, or C ranks in two of the skills available in the game. It has not yet been determined that rank makes a difference when it comes to the jobs they do. If you hire a worker that has rank A in fishing, by all means make him a fisherman, and so on.

There are two other people at the Market on the weekends: Rhode and Maud.

* Rhode, through story progression, will have two tiers of what is called Rhodes Mystery Shop, which has 10 random items if you choose to buy them. Tier 2 being the better items, but much more expensive.

* And Maud runs his shop called the Gold Rush Mall which sells off season crops (some will not show up until unlocked or currently available) and small animal products, wool, eggs, milk, and bacon. He only sells 10 of each at a time.

## **Resources**

* All the trees and ores on your farm do not respawn after you cut/hammer them down, but the trees and ores in town and at Back Hills respawn.

* Regular trees spawn every day. The rarer ones (and fruit trees)respawn every few days.

* The colorful trees around Du's Orchard and Back Hill are fruit trees, and change each season. They can be harvested and turned into juice, or sold.

* At the end of the season, chop them down and dig up the stumps with the shovel to get tree seeds.

* You can also buy some of those seeds at Du's Orchard.

* Flowers respawn every day, except the Back Hills ones in winter.

* Ores and Gems respawn every 15 days in the Mines. There are plenty of ores but only a few Gem nodes.

**NOTE**: There is a glitch, or "as intended" occurrence where a Mine reset will produce Many Gem nodes on certain random floors.

## **The Mines**

The mines are currently floors 1 to 99, with each 10th floor containing Gem Nodes, each getting better the deeper you go.

* There are two ways of reaching the next floor in the Mines. One way is to find a small central ore that is away from the "walls". If you break it, it will reveal a portal to the next floor. You will need at least a silver hammer to make it to floor 99, as some of those central ores are gold.

* The other way to advance to the next floor is to jump off the edge of one of the "islands". You will lose 30 HP every time you do that.

You can use the shovel on the piles of gravel in the mines to get glass, nitrate, clay, and more.

## **The Notice Board**

The Notice Board in front of the guild will have contracts that you can complete. These are **REALLY** good to increase your rank in fishing, logging, mining, and Plant.

* They come up every Monday, and when you look at them, they will have two tabs. Items that are needed this week, and items that will be needed the following week, giving you time to get those for that week.

* You can turn them into the board itself, or the requestee for the reward plus FP (friendship points).

## **Assigning Certain NPCs**

Linde, Abby, and Kroc can be assigned to go out of town and find resources.

* At first they'll only have access to one area, but as you send them out ,and upgrade their shops, they'll eventually find maps to new areas which will allow them to find better resources. You can scum save in front of the mailbox before 18:00 to reload the items they find.

## **Clothing**

As you play you'll eventually find/buy/be given clothes and accessories.

* You can gift these to an NPC, but they'll never take them off.

## **Secrets**

There are many breakable items in town. The cauldrons in particular have ancient coins inside of them.

 JiYue's House
 Bushes left of Church
 Huan, Liv's House
 Moon Bay Restaurant

## **Events without notification**

* Talk to Rhode one day before Huan and Livs' birthday.

* Before looking for the clinic ghost talk to Abby.

* Before talking to JiYues about the Cold Noodles talk to Huan.