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'''Note:''' This page contains content based on player opinions, such as advice on the best way to play ''[[Everafter Falls]]'', and is written as such.

==Moneymaking==
Keeping [[bee]]s and processing [[Honey]] is the best (and mostly passive after the initial setup) way to earn money in the game. To get started on it early:
*Shake as many mature [[tree]]s as you can; early on every chance to get another bee helps. It also gives extra [[Silkworm]]s that means more [[Silk Rope]] for constructing [[Bee Hive]]s.
**A free Bee Hive can be grabbed in the community gate south of [[Freya's]] early.
*Even unprocessed [[honeycomb]]s sell well during early game, and processing them in a [[Fruit and Honey Press]] bring even more profit.
**Processing requires [[Empty Bottle]]s, so make several [[Tapping Kit]]s as soon as you can and place them on [[Pine Tree]]s and [[Box Tree]]s to get [[Super Glue]] early. (Two tapping kits can be grabbed in the community gate south of the [[Museum]].)
**As soon as you get two Super Glue, craft each type of bottles in the menu and use the bottles to make [[Bottle Attachment]] to eliminate the need for super glue when it comes to bottles entirely.
*Catch a [[Soot Puff]] and keep it in [[storage]] for growing, then get a [[Soot Grower]] for one Museum Credit at one of the museum terminals. Start growing the Soot Puff as soon as you can: getting the museum soot to 300 in size will give you [[Artificial Sunflower]] that will get you a consistent supply of bees.
*Consider making several [[Delicate Tapping Kit]]s and placing them on [[Cherry Blossom Tree]]s as well. When you get the Artificial Sunflower, [[Cherry Blossom Syrup]] can be used to coat it to attract [[Pink Bee]]s that produce very lucrative [[Pink Honeycombs]].
**Once you get your first Pink Bees, don't put them all in one hive yet! Put one pink bee and three regular bees in each hive; these hives will produce Pink Honeycombs as long as there's at least one pink bee in them.
**When you get enough pink bees, you can put four of them in one hive to make [[Giant Pink Honeycomb]]s and watch your profits skyrocket.

When you have the honeybee farm set up, all involvement it requires is harvesting honeycombs that can be sold right away or made into honey.

==Pixie hunting==
[[Pixie]]s are cute! And using them will make your life in the Falls much easier.
*Repair the [[Town Shrine]] right away. (It's cheap.) Start putting anything in there: even a small chance to get a pixie is better than nothing. Try to use [[mushroom]]s if you can.
**A free [[Pixie Shrine]] can also be grabbed from the community gate next to the Museum early. Use both.
*If you get a rarer mushroom patch to spawn, don't harvest it right away: put a green pixie on it, then use the mushrooms it gathers to attract more pixies.
**In general, try to clear out most mushroom patches every day, especially the cheaper one: there's a limit to mushrooms spawns and the more of them you gather the more space there is for rarer ones to spawn.
**In your first summer, your best option is getting a patch of [[Nightcap]]s and harvesting them with a pixie.
**In autumn, [[Illuminal Shroom]], [[Valley Shroom]], or [[Wurly Shroom]] are all excellent options for maxing out your pixie hunting chances.
**When you first winter comes, focus on getting the best pixie offering in the game: the elusive [[Pixiecap]]. The earlier you get one, the better; once you see it, put a pixie on it and you're set on pixies for the rest of the game. 
*Get your [[axe]] upgraded, then chop the huge stump at the entrance to [[Pixie Cave]]s. Start releasing pixies to get pixie [[card]]s and blessing, too. (I especially like ''Pigeon Ally'' as the first blessing, but more on that in the sections below.)
**One early pixie card can be received from ''[[Grass Cutting]]'' if you're not opposed to savescumming for it.
*Do not destroy ore nodes, rainbow rocks, or round stones in town. When you get enough pixies, pop them on these stones to get an early start on rare and shard [[mineral]]s.
**Round stones in the tunnels and in the fenced animal pen outside [[Animal Center]] will give you a steady supply of [[Strange stone|geodes]] when harvested by pixies to use the minerals inside for crafting and museum donations.
**Rainbow rocks in the tunnels and gated area next to the [[Tree of Seasons]] give shards for late game projects and upgrades.
*Put some pixies on both Great Dream and Great Wisdom trees when you can, too.
*[[Evaporator]] is a good first machine to put your red on rainbow pixies on since it will allow you to process tree sap more efficiently (and sap takes quite a while to produce). Pixies on honey presses will increase your profits.
**Pixies can also be moved to other machines when the machine they're on aren't in use.

==Equipment and stats==
There is no leveling or experience in the game, so the primary way to increase [[stat]]s is by using [[equipment]]. Stats can be divided into combat and non-combat ones, so it might be useful to have separate equipment sets for different uses.
*HP, Attack, and Crit are not useful outside of combat.
*Luck is not useful in combat.
*Move Speed has uses both in and out of combat: high movement speed will help you dodge enemy attacks more easily and spend your time more efficiently when running across the map.

All equipment drops in the game are random, with a very small chance to get powerful legendary items from all sources.
*Black [[pigeon]]s are the only guaranteed way to get a legendary piece. You can keep the reward letter in your mailbox overnight and reroll it by reloading the game until you get the legendary of your choice.
**The legendaries I recommend to watch for are [[Elderune Star]] for combat and [[Eternity's End]] for general use. Some more common good legendaries are [[Dawn of Gaia]] and [[Gizmo's Ring]] for combat and [[Everafter]] for general use.
*All equipment can be enhanced by slotting [[orb]]s into it.
**If you get an especially good legendary random drop (like Elderune Star or Eternity's End) with no orb slots, keep it until you can afford to use the Slot Creator at the [[Blacksmith]].
**If you would like to separate your combat and non-combat equipment, use orbs that match the purpose of the item you're slotting them in: combat stat orbs for combat jewelry and movement speed or luck orbs for general purpose jewelry.
**Remember that orbs cannot be replaced and can only be removed by destroying the item they're attached to! It might make sense to keep the slots of your rare legendaries empty until you get orb + versions that grant more significant bonuses per slot.
**Get the [[Rainbow Orb]] from the [[Museum]] [[Soot Puff]] tank and don't slot it in yet! (Or slot it into an item that you wouldn't mind destroying when the time comes.) Bring the orb to [[Bram]] after completing ''[[An Orb Upgrade]]'' to turn it into the plus version that is not available elsewhere.

Permanent stat potions are another way to increase the stats. However, these potions are rare.
*Clear every pillar dungeon entirely and save all Pooklets you find to get stat potions as a reward.
**Pooklets can offer [[Strange Locket]]s or stat potions. The reward choice every Pooklet offers is random and can be rerolled by reloading the save. I don't find most Strange Lockets particularly good (unless it's a particularly great stat increase with a penalty to the stat you're not using) and would reload if you're not averse to savescumming. The process can be made easier by clearing the path to a pooklet room and saving, then running to that room right away in the morning.
*Buy the [[HP Up Potion]] for [[Pink Prize Key]]s at [[Dawn's Potion Shop]] every year.
*[[Cid]] has three most common stat potions for trade for Bottles of Snow during the [[Snow Fest]].
*Random levels of ''[[Meal Service]]'' minigame can have any stat potion as the 10 point reward. (As with most random drops, the reward can be rerolled by reloading the day of the minigame.) So complete ''[[Helping Hersha Cook]]'' as soon as you can afford buying the ingredients and start chipping away at the minigame every time it comes up to get to the random levels.
**It is much easier to hit the highest score in the minigame with higher move speed, so consider equipping some move speed jewelry if you're having trouble.
*Some [[quest]]s also give stat potions as their reward.

==Combat==
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Pillar [[dungeon]]s are not optional: not only they give you access to ores and minerals, they are also required to progress with the main story.

==Side quests==
Do side [[quest]]s! Most of them are easy to complete and have good rewards. Some notable side quests are:
*''[[A Difficult Task]]'' is available immediately and gives you a free card. I prefer [[Petrichor]] since more rainy days means more mushroom spawns, and more mushrooms means more good pixie offerings.
*It might be worth buying the ingredients to complete ''[[Helping Hersha Cook]]'' as soon as you can afford it to unlock ''[[Meal Service]]''. The cooking minigame can only be done twice a month and has some really good rewards.
*Do the task in ''[[Grass Cutting]]'' but save the game before handing the quest in to [[Pete]] to have an option to reload the game and reroll your rewards; it's the only quest in the game that has a chance to offer [[Pixie Synergy]] or [[Pixie Friendship]] cards, otherwise pixie cards can only be obtained from the [[Pixie Guardian]].
*Complete ''[[Missing Files]]'' as soon as you get it, too, to get access to gold cards in the Print Shop ''and'' a free [[Small Barn]].

==Other tips==
*I recommend starting on the Moat Farm layout for some extra shell spawns and an easily accessible water body to grow giant [[lotus]]es in.
*Make sure to adjust the game speed in the options. None of the actions in the game cost stamina, so time is your most valuable resource.
*Try to complete two Museum collections right away to get two credits. Tree seeds are easy enough to complete if you keep cutting grass; fish and shell collections are not season dependent, so some of these can be completed early, too. Once you get two credits, get the [[Master Key]] and open all community gates.
**A [[Soot Grower]] is another good first purchase.
**Use the free [[Critter Terrarium]] inside the museum until you get your own, too, to speed the process up.
*Learn what to keep and what to sell. Use the overview pages like [[fruit]], [[crop]]s, [[fish]], or [[mushroom]]s: the lists on these pages have a ''Used in'' column that lists recipes, quests, and projects they're used in.
**Additionally, keep at least two of each type of Giant [[critter]]s for breeding. As tempting as it is to donate them right away, giant cocoons, tadpoles, and especially nymphs are very hard to get so it's helpful to have adult critters for breeding.
**Keep ten [[Ruby|Rubies]] and ten [[Arcane Shard]]s for late game trading, too.
*Don't chop [[tree]] stumps when logging. Every tree stump (both on your farm and in other map sections) has a small chance to spawn a wood shroom every morning; they're good for earning some extra money early game, starting on your wood shroom collection, and attracting pixies if you don't have a steady supply of decently priced ground shrooms yet.
**Plant the common tree seeds you get to get even more trees for chopping for stumps.
**Rare tree seeds ([[Fire Tree|Fire]] and [[Water Tree|Water]] in particular) are very rare are worth planting on the farm for [[tapping]].
**Don't chop [[Cherry Blossom Tree]]s and other rare trees in and around town; plantable cherry blossom trees in particular are an endgame item that takes a long time to get, so losing even a single tree in early game means losing one source of valuable Cherry Blossom Sap.
*Keep the [[fishing]] minigame on; use fishing mods to make it easier if necessary. It gives you more fish per cast and has better drops in general.
**Also, always keep processing on your [[Spinning Wheel]]s even if you have nothing but [[Grass Fibre]] and don't currently need any [[rope]]. [[Golden Rope]] has a very small chance to appear even with the cheapest materials, and getting one will allow you to craft [[Epic Fishing Rod|the best fishing rod]] early.
*Getting ''Pigeon Ally'' as your first pixie blessing will give you many more [[pigeon]]s what can be handed in for free [[letter]]s that can be [[Paper Shredder|shredded]] into [[Organic Paper Fragment]]s and then glued into [[Blank Organic Card]]s. The cards can then be printed in the [[Print Shop]] for a modest price. It's pretty easy to max out most [[card]]s this way.
**Free seeds or chests from pigeon rewards are also nice. Keep an eye for the rarest pigeons, too: black (free [[legendary equipment]]), white (free baby [[animal]], including late game ones like [[Black Alpaca]] or [[Neon Cow]]), or pink (free tree saplings; most of them will be common but there's a small chance to get [[Orb Tree]], [[Durian]], or [[Avocado]] saplings).
*Start working on giant [[lotus]]es early if you'd like to eventually complete the museum collections and get the related [[achievement]]. Fish out wild [[Lotus Pod]]s and leave the pads so they can regrow. Plant nine lotuses in a 3x3 grid (moat farm is great for that), wait until they blossom, remove both flowers and pads of the wrong color and plant pods in their spots again.
**A [[Label Signpost]] placed next to your planned giant lotus will help you remember the color you're aiming for.
**[[Lotus Luminescence]] can be worn when throwing pods into the water to speed the process up a bit.

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