Just some helpful beginner tips! Some are obvious while some are a little more obscure! Either way, I hope you find them helpful! Some are my opinions, so if you don’t find them helpful, or have a better way to play that’s okay! Feel free to share your tips in the comments~
Beginner Tips!
Here is a list of small helpful tips that you may or may not know! If you have any other tips for others, put them in the comments! This is not at all an extensive list, but might be helpful nonetheless.
- (For Keyboard) Binding the Enter Key to something like the “R” key can make interacting much easier.
- (For Keyboard) Holding down L-CRTL will allow you to “walk” instead of run. This will allow you to sneak up on bugs and other critters to catch them!
- Jump! Jump Everywhere! There are many shortcuts throughout the town! Including: Behind the Cafe/Mayor’s house, and behind Diana/Jules houses which can cut out the entire pathway into and through town! You can also hop over the water from the piers to get to where you’re going faster!
You can also jump on special barrels to get a higher jump!(Examples of a few shortcut locations:)
- Turn your flowers into perfume/dye. Utilising the windmill as soon as you get it can nearly double your income, as processed goods sell for much more than the raw materials. (Just save some flowers for the festival in Spring!) Many forageables can be put into the windmill and will free up space for your bazaar stall while adding even more G to your pockets.
- Use your windmill as storage… kinda. While you can’t add items to the dispenser, you also don’t have to take it out. If you don’t need the processed items immediately, just leave them in the dispenser to avoid clogging up your main storage until you can expand.
- When processing goods that take a long time in the windmill, you can process them in smaller batches to get them finished faster! Instead of making 10 Lumber in one batch, make 3 smaller batches at once to get it done through the night.
- Some food have special buffs! Including Stamina Buffs, Friendship chat buffs, speed buffs and more! Some food however doesn’t have a buff attached, so read the description.
- Freshness! Many items have a freshness rating. Leaving it too long in your inventory/storage will make thing slowly get rotten. The lower the freshness, the less they are worth, so don’t hoard perishable items for too long. (It does take a little while for things to lose freshness)
- Recipes can be found by eating food and receiving that dish’s recipe. Some recipes can also be found in villagers book shelves!
- If the weather is clear put your animals outside to let them graze. It will save you money on animal feed and they will be happier for it. If you ring the bell they will follow you to where you are standing (if they are in range). Standing right by the barn door will make them path into it and go inside. You can plant more fodder with fodder seeds and planting it out in the grazing field. (Not the crop field)
- Watch the wind. Once you have a glider, you’ll only be able to glide in the direction that the wind blows, and the strength of the day’s wind will determine how fast you go.
Strong winds will also increase the speed of the windmills for the day, so keep an eye on the weather alert. - Unlock the Bazaar Decor stall as soon as you can! You will receive a quest after your first Bazaar to hand over 10 Iron, 10 Lumber and 10 Stone. You will get access to Bazaar Decor which will allow you to buy furniture for your stall and give you some good bonuses to your sales.
- Upgrade storage or backpack at the first bazaar. Having this extra space will be very helpful while you are saving up inventory for the next bazaar. (I also recommend buying a calf on your first bazaar)
- Felix can offer special “techniques” at the Bazaar. For a price he can teach you things like double jump and fishing techniques. Once you have purchased the double jump, more will become available.
(Once you have Sprites)
- Get them to Lvl 4 as quick as you can for a quality buff to ★1 on items that they correlate with. It will give you a slight value increase on those items for every quality bonus they receive.
- Get as many Happiness points as you can to buy helpful bonuses from the Sprites at the Bazaar!
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Updated Tips: - Use the Hoe to till upraised dirt and find ore and other items.
- In the tutorials it tells you that jumping when doing farming for watering, harvesting, and planting allows you to interact with 3 crops at once. (More after upgrades)
This also works for: Chopping Wood/crushing stone and cutting flowers/long grass. - (Submitted by Hera Vynch) __ Interacting with sign posts can drop Medals. (may be a one time thing. Still testing.)
Medals can also spawn on the ground behind the cafe. - (Submitted by Hera Vynch) __ You can manual save/load the game before sleeping on 31st of the month to change next season’s trend
- (Submitted by Hera Vynch) __ If your item is going bad soon, throw it to windmill or cook something with it to reset its freshness. Better than losing the item all together.
- (Submitted by mmmKay) __ To catch Butterflies you need to walk AND jump
- (Submitted by Vega) __ Throw away objects by selecting an item while in the inventory and open the “Item Menu” (F on keyboard) and throw away. (Note: Trash items may have a use later, and rotting items can be used for fertiliser)