What's your "lesson learned" from the start?

[Septima]

Moving on from my first (and currently only) farm, I got to thinking about all the things I know how to do now (like not picking Riverlands layout without ever playing before...). That said, what are your most prominent "lesson learned" thoughts when you really started getting into the game?

 

[Uzzlegorf]

Even if you have lots of money, do not buy too many seeds if you don't have sprinklers. Watering them all is a pain, and wastes 2 resources: Energy, and more important: time.
Time is a limited resource you can't recharge.

 

[Journi]

I learned to save everything...even though you need money CC is important.

 

[Firehoshi]

seed makers are your friends

 

[tommybob]

Gather as much wood as you can in the first year and stop about 2 weeks before Winter so all the trees around the map grow back as they don't grow in winter.
During winter i generally build, upgrade my farm and build kegs and preserves jars so wood is essential!

 

[greyfoggyday]

Energy is not your only resource, Time and Bag Space are resources as well, make sure you utilize them effectively. When leaving your farm, deposit all non-essential items into a chest to save bag space if you plan to fish, gather, or head into the mines.

 

[tommybob]

Energy is not your only resource, Time and Bag Space are resources as well, make sure you utilize them effectively. When leaving your farm, deposit all non-essential items into a chest to save bag space if you plan to fish, gather, or head into the mines.

Those first few weeks of bag space are always sucky.

 

[greyfoggyday]

Those first few weeks of bag space are always sucky.

Yep. It's why the first thing I usually do is save up and upgrade my bag. Those extra 12 slots make a MASSIVE difference.

 

[Odin]

You don't have to destroy broken fences, you can just place new fences on top of them. Took me a while to figure that out :P

 

[jacky]

uh luckily im a crazy person so i saved up with over 100,000 worth of fish in my first year and it helped out a decent bit so learning to stock up proved to be pretty important

 

[greyfoggyday]

You don't have to destroy broken fences, you can just place new fences on top of them. Took me a while to figure that out :P

Well, I just learned something new.

 

[LolitaRo]

Learn to fish. I hated fishing in the beginning and my first winter was rough. After really learning, a huge source of income during downtime or winter was based on my fishing capability.

 

[__Fishy__]

seed makers are your friends

This is literally the biggest thing I learned. Saved me so much money and eventually time because of ancient fruit.

 

[Magically Clueless]

save some forage dammit!!! save that forage!!! you'll be going for that craft master achievement when you're missing forage from the previous month!

 

[greyfoggyday]

Learn to fish. I hated fishing in the beginning and my first winter was rough. After really learning, a huge source of income during downtime or winter was based on my fishing capability.

Yeah. Fishing for me was quite a slog. I came from playing World of Warcraft and fishing in that game is insanely easy.

 

[Tom]

My very first lesson (regret)? Yeah, probably watering/overplanting. Now—many other lessons later—I plant only 15 (13 Parsnip, 1 Green Bean, and 1 Cauliflower) on Spring 1 and 40 (39 Kale and 1 Potato) on Spring 6. And I spend Spring 2-4 fishing long unfruitful hours to get to level 5 Fisher (money!).

After that, probably to never miss a birthday.

The other lessons (use a calendar (see Sample and Blank PDFs and Sample wiki version), what to save, what to sell, what to plant, what to build, how fast to mine to Floor 80, Coop vs. Barn, Pale Ale, etc.) come much more slowly.

 

[Chaya7]

Watch TV each and every day. Store a little of everything in chests even if you need money, because at some point soon, nearly everything will become important in crafting, quests, gifting, or for use in making a buff. In the mines, eat constantly, keep your eye on the clock, and know when to use staircases.

Oh...and cut the grass! I had no idea that the grass grew faster the more you cut it. So the first winter it was pretty scary for the animals...

 

[halsmiles]

this one may sound stupid, but always and i repeat always, build a silo before building a coop!

 

[Peggy77]

You don't have to destroy broken fences, you can just place new fences on top of them. Took me a while to figure that out :P

Me too! I found it out by accidentally bumping a broken spot while holding a new piece of fencing. Before that, I was using my pickaxe to first break up the broken area, lol!

 

[Helios]

always keep chests outside the mines to leave your less vital things in. i cannot tell you how many times i’ve died in the mines and had various foods stolen or my goddamn galaxy sword as well as some other tools, resulting in me having to restart the game. as a matter of fact, just keep chests anywhere you plan on collecting a lot of things. i also kept chests around the areas i’d fish when i started my second game and didn’t have a lot of inventory space.