Beginner’s Tips?

[slender coral]

Hi! I tried to use key words to try to find my answers but I’m also trying to avoid as many spoilers as possible 😅😭 I am in Year 1, Spring 16? Could you believe it took me to Spring 5 to find the carpenters house, and Spring 8 to figure out how to pull up the map? 🫩😂 Yeah, a little behind. I know there’s no “wrong” way of playing, but I don’t like feeling like I’m not in a place I need to be.

(Other games that I have been told that may have similar mechanics: I’ve never played stardew valley, only Palia and Animal Crossing, so that’s my only experience I can draw to not be completely clueless!)

1. Obviously, we’re farmers so our main point is to sell crops. So I shouldn’t be hanging onto the crops, I should be selling them. But I’m doing the ocean quests, clearing my farm from debris, catching bugs, etc— and my energy goes down pretty quickly, so how do I min-max that?

2. What’s the best things to sell early game other than crops? I’m hesitant to sell trash because, well things that usually are abundant early on that don’t respawn usually become more valuable down the road- so I feel like I’m stuck twiddling my thumbs while the day quickly passes me. So now I barely have two corals to rub between my fingers and I’m missing out on potential events I could have been ready for had I not been lacking. (Thank you, Cherry Blossom Festival + Judge Ross + my poor Turnip 🫩 )

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, even if you could point me in the right direction! Thank you!

[ashen inlet]

Without spoiling anything I will advise that you should keep at least one of everything for quests and other things 🙊 And https://coralislandprofits.info Is a good site for min/maxing your crops. also the wiki is a godsend

[slender coral]

I appreciate it! Do you suggest making a lot of makeshift chests? I only have one bag upgrade right now 😅

[ashen inlet]

make as much as needed

[gaunt trench]

You can make a lot of money making your farm big but it will consume your stamina from watering. When you unlock craftable ||water sprinkler|| from farming lvl 2, you should use that so you can save stamina doing other things. Also food to recover stamina, some food is better than other. The one I like to get is the vegan taco close to the blacksmith.

If the time feel too fast, go to the pause menu>setting>game time speed to 50%.

[slender coral]

I can do this? omg!!!! yes! that was my main gripe 😭 thank you so so much

[slender coral]

So the food, I tried to get the cookware/receipts but they all say out of stock? || I watch the shows on Friday to unlock recipes || but I can’t do much with it right now.

[dense hill]

POTATO!
potato are to gos to plant at first year spring

(This one is a bit cursed) but... Sell the starting window, carpet, and fireplace
it can give you a headstarter money, then buy and plant potato :>

And get kitchen house upgrade asap! cooking really helps with energy

bug jerky are the easy and effective one to cook

[dense hill]

That's cause you don't have a kitchen yet

[slender coral]

Ah okay! That makes sense— one more hair brain question 😭 Because I started so late getting to the cavern I started with the Earth shaft, I’m not sure if that’s always what I’m supposed to start with or if it’s random? The first time I went in, it had different sparkled ores, and now every time I go it’s just colored stones— I don’t know if I bugged it; then it says get the elevator to work but it is working— & I don’t even know how to move up and down a level because there literally nowhere else to go? (This is the only thing left I’m stuck on, I swear!) Maybe it’s just user error, and I’ll sift through the wiki more

[gaunt trench]

You start Earth. Every 5 lvl is a new floor the elevator could go to. You go to next floor by hitting stones till you find the next floor entrance.

Spawn of ores and entrance are RNG, you can go to next floor immediately if you have ||rope|| but those are expensive to craft.

You're doing fine, just make sure to hit that lvl 5 checkmark if you can. Upgrade your tool and/or bring food to hit that lvl 5, 10, 15, 20, etc.

[slender coral]

Aha! 😤 I asked a friend and a friend asked a friend (well you know how that goes) and they said something along the lines of staring from fire shaft but that didn’t feel right but I didn’t want to restart my save 😭 so thank you for that

[slender coral]

Thank you all soo much!!! I’ll update everyone in a few days Wish me luck

[gaunt trench]

There is no checkpoint on lvl 35. It go to lvl 40 for first mine(so checkpoint elevator on 1, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 40). I think it's like that for the other mine. Good luck and have fun!

[fresh frost]

if you want to minmax on energy recovery I suggest the use of sugar from sam's shop, it's the most bang for buck recovery, if you don't have a kitchen yet I highly recommend it and not sleep until 1:50am if you have stuff to do

[slender coral]

I’ll pass out and get charged a medical fee, is it worth it every time? 😅

[zealous laurel]

Don't pass out, just make sure you're home in time to sleep

[fresh frost]

yeah just get home by 1:40 to clean up your inventory for the next day, you're basically buying 2 hours for 125 coins that kelps bugs and ores could buy back in 30 minutes or less early on