Starting tips
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Moneymaking
Keeping bees 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 trees as you can; early on every chance to get another bee helps. It also gives extra Silkworms that means more Silk Rope for constructing Bee Hives.
- A free Bee Hive can be grabbed in the community gate south of Freya's early.
- Even unprocessed honeycombs sell well during early game, and processing them in a Fruit and Honey Press bring even more profit.
- Processing requires Empty Bottles, so make several Tappin Kits as soon as you can and place them on Pine Trees and Box Trees 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 Kits and placing them on Cherry Blossom Trees as well. When you get the Artificial Sunflower, Cherry Blossom Syrup can be used to coat it to attract Pink Bees 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 Honeycombs to skyrocket your profits.
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
Pixies 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 mushrooms 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 Nightcaps 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 Caves. Start releasing pixies to get pixie cards 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 minerals.
- Round stones in the tunnels and in the fenced animal pen outside Animal Center will give you a steady supply of 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.
Side quests
Do side quests! 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
- 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, crops, fish, or mushrooms: the lists on these pages have a Used in column that lists recipes, quests, and projects they're used in.
- 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 Wheels 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 the best fishing rod early.
- Getting Pigeon Ally as your first pixie blessing will give you many more pigeons what can be handed in for free letters that can be shredded into Organic Paper Fragments and then glued into Blank Organic Cards. The cards can then be printed in the Print Shop for a modest price. It's pretty easy to max out most cards 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 lotuses early if you'd like to eventually complete the museum collections and get the related achievement. Fish out wild Lotus Pods 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.
