Gameplay Guide

## **Disclaimer**

This is a Early Game guide from a beginner to another beginner. (Veteran may edit this if they want). This is a compilation of tips that I get from my own experience while playing this game and bits from other players I found in Facebook. Disclaimer: I don't know much myself so forgive me if I spread misinformation or incomplete guidance.

I'll assume you already have these list of NPCs when you read this guide

 Brill, Jeddah, Corey and Dili  . I will also assume you don't have guild so you don't have the guild benefits and only have basics unlocked from doing the main quest stories.

## **General information**

1. You have 51 counts to trade everyday in your market stand.  So use them wisely.
2. You can get various item from exploring the world with staffs and expedition tools. For eg: Potion  which you can get from Starlight Meadow and Mt.Misty.  or
3. When you unlocked Snow White you will start unlock Quality Ingredients like white apple which you can cook in Quality Cooktop into Quality Dishes.
4. You can trade Items like potion, quality dishes, quality ingredients, expedition tools into Nmat, Gmat or Dias (Diamond)
5. Social Media Group for My Secret Bistro is your best friend to put your items to sale or buy.
6. Prices range may changes depend on events or update or according to the players.

## **Method to Money Making**

### Earliest Game

1. Sell your normal dishes to diamond. Screenshot your market trade and post it in the social media group for MSB(stand for My Secret Bistro). 5k or 10 sets normal dishes may sell for 5diamonds or less depending on the players.
2. Don't forget to join event the Developers create like halloween, christmas and etc. Complete the quest, you can turn the event coins into many things like Event PT, Event Staff, Loving Incubator, Living Flame, Fairy Branch, Magic Alloy, Cooking Time Saving Potion and Letter.
3. Pet your friends Pet in their Pet House you can find next to NPC Corey in order to get things like Love, Nmat, Ruby, Event Coins or Red Ticket. The higher the grade, better your chance to get better things like Ruby and Nmat or more Event Coins or Love.
4. When going on Expedition utilize the Mercenary properly to increase chance to get more of the items dropped. Cook the quality ingredients into quality dishes and sell them in the market trade. Post and say Open Price if you don't know the price.
5. Utilize NPC Dili to the best. For me, early game I buy expedition tools instead of other things. Since early game you don't have the money or resources to buy expedition tool from others. No tool, therefore, you cannot explore or sell anything. But some veterans prefer to buy Peter Pen Quality Dishes and sell them to other player. I must remind you that in early game, you do not have the resources like NMAT or money :3 and your goal is to make your initial fund.
6. Explore whenever you have the time. Get more expedition tools from tapping on the NPC customers in your restaurant by giving them drinks after they finished the dishes. Low chance of expedition tools will drop depending on the drink you give. Each time you level up, you will be able to restore full energy or you can use energy potion if you have them in the storage.
7. In early game, things you can sell is Potion, Normal Dishes, Quality Dishes. Avoid selling Quality Ingredients unless you don't have the time to cook since 1set Quality dishes is at least 1 time or 3 times more expensive than 1set of the ingredient.

### **Mid Game**

1. Rent/Exchange your PT, GPT or Staff for NMAT/GMAT or Dias.
2. Sell your further unlocked quality dishes or quality ingredients like Alice or Peter Pan.

(There are more but I don't really know about this game yet since I've only played since end of August 2023. )

**Tips and Warning.**

1. **TIP:**Sell your item with password instead of name of the person since more veterans player like to buy using different accounts.
2. **Warning:** Based on my own latest experience, do not put same password for everyone. Since my items that I put up for other person were stolen because my password is the same every time. If you do get scammed by someone, screenshot your guestbook and their guestbook and viral them if they refused to return your item.
3. **TIP:** Prioritize trade with the same person who you think gives you nice price since that person is more likely to buy more of the same item from you. They might also buy some other things but you have to ask them first.
4. **Warning:** Do not take advantage on other's kindness. Do not overprice or ask for things without paying. If they give you something, make sure to return their favor for helping you.

Assuming you follow the guide, you can easily build 5 normal PTs every month. This is not included the pt you applied in others.

## Rules

1. Please be respectful to each other. If other people are toxic or disregarding your rules, it is fine to block them and it is fine if people block you since maybe you broke their rules. You just need to move on and find other people to add as friends.
2. Very important. Please read quotes in the player's profile before applying their pt. Most people will say Free or [X] for certain floors. Do not forget to clean their places and ring their bells.
3. When people want to trade Dias, you have to return their Dias at the lowest price or if you used your dias, make sure to get them back before giving password to the item you sell. Do not scam others.
4. Do not block others after a trade. This is not allowed.
5. If newbies under level 50 applied to the wrong PTs, please inform them before you block them.
6. Avoid applying pts that has confusing quotes in their profile to avoid being blocked.

## Things you should know

1. Explore every island that you have unlocked. Utilize the Free Delivery NPC that resets every day to buy the Exp.Tools.
2. From the island, you will get Quality Ingredients used for Quality Dishes in the Quality Cooktop. Utilize the Quality Cooktop properly and cook sets of Quality Dishes you have unlocked.
3. Inside your market, you have 60 trade limit counts that reset every day. Utilize properly. Do not put and cancel items many times, that is a waste.
4. Shipping orders give points, avoid doing Hard difficulty orders unless you have so many ingredients with you, and do not send Easy orders if they ask for special ingredients like cinawaflia which is hard to farm.
5. Use the shipping order PTS to buy Exp. tools, delivery tickets (blue color), and flames.
6. Avoid buying gems in the early games, if you look at my IGN *ZanseN*, you will see that only three staff members have gems. It is more important for you to upgrade the staff for the trips than wasting the PTS for the gems.
7. Use your drinks, level up your avatar, and level up the research for quality dishes by tapping on your avatar whenever you have enough energy.
8. Up slots in storage are extremely important so do not sell your fairy branches or magic alloys in the early games. Also, do not sell your flames if you are a beginner. You won't be able to afford the market prices yet. Since 10 set of fairy branches for example is 60nmats.
9. Join Guild. Check their requirements. Low-level guild is okay but if you plan on being active, it is better to choose better guilds that have more benefits since they have unlocked more research.
10. Joining a guild is important, especially in events. Sometimes, MSB Official created events that require you to donate dishes which gives event points for you to trade for many things like pets, nmats, gmats, and income decor pots.
11. Right now market price for 1B is around 50 to 55nmats. Basically around 20m/2 Dias for 1 nmat. (As of October 2023 Price). 1 set of snow white can get you 1 nmat so please remember to not sell any qd you get from the market that reset every 3 hours. Avoid wasting ruby as well. Save them to up your floor and increase your trade slot up to 10 or 12.

## STAFF (credit to Elmari)

### Cafe

1. SS Grade Cafe Staff Like Tuwane or Sullivan
2. Gems Recommendation. Party Boost Gem. Beauty Gem. Combo Chance Gem.

### Trip

1. Story Series Staff like in Snow White, Red Riding Hood, Dorothy, Alice and Peter Pan.
2. Gems recommendation. Spice. Meat, Seafood, Grain and Vegetable.
3. Angel Beach Island that uses Diamond to explore. Staff Recommendation Arisha , Mint and more. Rings Recommendation.

## Acronyms

Here are the acronyms commonly used in My Secret Bistro.

Msb (my secret bistro). Pt (part-time), Pts ( points),Nmats (normal materials),Gmats (guild materials), Nd (normal dish), Qd (quality dish), Dias (diamond), Gold/Cash = Coins, Exp.tools = exploration/expedition tools, SW (Snow White), RRH (Red Riding Hood), Doro (Dorothy)

Guild Icon
13. ↑ Living Flame Used to upgrade staffs or Quality Cooktop.
14. ↑ Fairy Branch
15. ↑ Magic Alloy
17. ↑ Letter
20. ↑ Corey
SS Grade Staff recommended by Elmari