I recently learned that crows only eats your crops if you have 16 or more tiles planted. That means you can plant 15 crops early without worrying about the crows at all.
What are other small tips and tricks you guys know?
I recently learned that crows only eats your crops if you have 16 or more tiles planted. That means you can plant 15 crops early without worrying about the crows at all.
What are other small tips and tricks you guys know?
19 Comments
sag@lemm.ee · 11 pts · 1y
I founded this pretty late in game. That you can shake trees for seed. No need to chop.
katkit@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Adding on to that, this works with tree stumps as well. This is useful especially in the beginning of the game when you're low on energy - you can chop a tree and leave the stump (stumps give very little wood for the energy it takes to chop them) and still come back to shake it for your daily seed chance.
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 1y
HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
I see this sentiment a lot about silos, and I don't agree.
I used to be the same. Always get a silo before a coop to... what, exactly? A silo does three things:
But those three are the vast minority of an animal's time on the farm, and by the time you get to winter you'll have one anyway.
The 500g is much better spend on seeds or an earlier coop. The animals can eat grass anyway, it gives more friendship than hay.
Buy the silo when you have money, like after the first harvest in summer
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, but why do we want to store food? The few days of early friendship isn't worth it, and you'll only really be seeing the benefits way down the line
lvxferre@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
HollowNaught@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
In other words, you're better off saving your money unless you get 10 very early rainy days
Even then, a 500g investment in seeds will make you more money in the long run
Hugin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Early game mining is about energy management. The odds of a rock spawning a ladder go up the fewer enemies are on the floor. Combat doesn't use energy like mining does. So kill as many enemies as possible before mining rocks without ore. This decreases the energy cost per floor by a lot.
A lot of the early game is limited by your energy.
Spring onions in the forest to the south of the farm are a great source of energy early game. They grow in the area near the gated sewer pipe.
If you don't hate the fishing game it's a good way to recharge energy by eating the catch.
If you are eating for energy silver and gold crops give more energy per coin value. So I eat gold then silver then regular for a given crop.
A big cash boost for the start. Not recommended for your first playthrough.
Plant 2 cauliflower on the first day. The extra is for crow insurance. That plus a potato, parsnip, and green bean gets you the spring crops bundle.
Planting cauliflower on day 1 means it's ready on day 13 the egg festival. Plant two seeds for each of the other 3 plants as soon as you can.
For the first 12 days Do the spring foraging bundle (to unlock the crops bundle) and earn as close to 2500 as you can. On day 13 till and water a tile for every 100 gold you have up to 25 tiles.
Make sure you have one of each of the 4 veg in inventory when you head to the festival. Buy 25 strawberry seeds or whatever you can afford.
As soon as you leave the festival head to the community center and finish the spring crops bundle. You get 25 speed grow.
Head back to the farm and plant the strawberries and use the speed grow on them before bed. Time is tight but for every one you plant and fertilize on the 13th you get 3 harvests instead of two that season. It's worth passing out to get them all planted.
morphballganon@mtgzone.com · 8 pts · 1y
Don't bomb your mayonnaise machines like my wife did
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
How else are you supposed to get the eggs to emulsify correctly?
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Good tip
katkit@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Pay attention to the rotating stock in the different shops - Oasis, Desert Trader, Krobus. I was too lazy to check regularly on my first runs and thought it was mainly decorations and all the useful stuff is available permanently.
Krobus sells one IRIDIUM SPRINKLER on Fridays! Amazing when you don't have enough iridium yet. He also sells mixed seeds on Thursday (always running low on those to make tea bushes) and buff food on Saturdays.
Oasis has Speed-Gro for 80g on Thursdays instead of Pierre's 150g and 3 Omnigeodes on Wednesday.
Desert Trader has stairs for jade on Sundays.
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 1y
You can place museum rewards in to the left of Pam's house door and again in the middle of the path near the bus station to get her there faster than 10am.
Just watch out:
::: spoiler Later Game Spoilers Make sure to grab the item by her house before doing the community project to upgrade it from mobile to permanent, as it gets destroyed otherwise :::
This works on any villager getting blocked in their normal pathing, I just found it helped me when doing skull cave dives in the early game.
anamethatisnt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
That's a hilarious and wonderful solution! How much quicker is she with that trick?
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
Its been a minute (I've been on a Timberborn tear for the last several months), but I recall a 30 "minute" speed up, so its minor but if you don't have a lucky day every minute counts in those mines!
katkit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
On Fridays around 7pm, there's 17 people in the saloon. Perfect to get your friendship levels up. I have a chest in the saloon with favourite gifts and just pass them around. The bar also sells coffee (universally liked by all adults) and some loved gifts: Salad (Leah), pizza (Sam & Shane), spaghetti (Robin) and beer (Pam & Shane).
anamethatisnt@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Oh, as someone who hates doing gift runs this is a great tip!
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
I've been meaning to try this game for years. Thanks for all these tips!
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 1y
Seconded, it'd be fun to follow along a new player!
sag@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Feel free to post your journey
katkit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
The coffee speed buff works while horse riding! I just figured this out and it's such a difference.