1.6 Update What happened in your game today?

[Rahnee]

Took a break for a while, but now I'm back at it with a new save and just got Perfection - Spring 7 of Year 5 (would have made it by the end of year 4 but I dilly-dallied adding a second keg shed). This is my second perfection, and ironically is my first run with the standard farm! (whyyyyy I chose the Riverland farm for my first play-through ever I'll never know ... yeah...)

Some things I did new/differently this time:

• Prioritized combat more, choosing to slay monsters rather than break rocks for ladders. Also got combat mastery 3rd (after farming and mining), because trinkets are the bee's knees!
• Planted my own forests ASAP with just 3 'indicator' tree taps visible just above the farmhouse. Mahogany on the farm, oak at the train station (with taps for all the oak resin I knew I'd need), maple also at the train station, and pine along the river in Cindersnap Forest.
• Actually did the Qi crop challenge this time - I hadn't filled Ginger Island with ancient fruit yet, so I had the space, and I discovered that treasure totems are a fantastic source of the beans. I already had Generous on the hoe, so not only did I get plenty of Qi beans, I ended up with enough omni geodes for 200+ artifact troves!! Yeah ... finishing the museum was no problem . I'm still not done breaking them all open haha.
• Prioritized the quests because of the rewards/recipes you get (which the first time through I had totally underrated)
• Relied on fishpond and mushroom log output as much/more than animal output in the early/mid game - got a pretty reliable setup for producing 5 chanterelles from each of 5 logs (one crafted, four from the prize ticket machine) - so much less finicking with eggs and milk which is profitable but I find very tedious. I know gold cheese is a great battle food but I honestly don't eat much when mine-diving anyway.
• Dropped all the time-intensive animals once I had the raw and/or processed output stockpiled for cooking. My barn is now just ostriches and pigs, and my coop just dinos and rabbits.

Some fun things that helped:

• I got an early prismatic shard - early fall of year 1 - from a skeleton drop in the normal mines, when I was spamming the skeleton floors for Gunther's bone quest. I hadn't even unlocked the desert yet!
• Same with a dino egg (I forget where I got the first one, but I didn't have to go searching for prehistoric floors in the SC like I had to last time)
• Got two auto-petters on my first try of a high-luck treasure floor dive in the SC, which enabled me to fill out my animals (24 animals is just too many to have to manually pet every day!)
• Got a level 3 fairy box pretty quickly, with which I'm not invincible but it sometimes feels like it. Only in the dangerous SC have I gotten to dangerously low health, and that was during a serpent swarm. I only even crafted the anvil to get the completion, and I dismantled it again right away.

I'm quite pleased with my farm setup; it's not really decorated yet or max-efficiency or anything, but I have lots of space and ideas for what to do with it now (plan to make something pretty around my nice shiny gold clock this time ... my last one I basically had no room so it just got stuck off in a corner). I also just like my 'prismatic' fish ponds (sturgeon for normal color, lava eel for red, super cucumber for purple, and legend for green ). Just plain having a blast with this one!

 

[KarinL]

The Desert festival made me forget to put the kegs on Ginger Island over to a new cycle, so now they're no longer done after the keg shed, but on the same day as it. That aftermath also made me forget about the cellar long enough that it was better to wait a few days and just fairydust the casks once.

I'm waiting for my starfruit, so I can restart my kegs aftar the qi-fruit frenzy. My kegs are a mess, and so is my cellar. But at least now I had the qi-gems to get the last few recipes. It's time to start making the serious money. I never bothered with fairy dust, but I'm thinking of getting some just to clean out the mess.

I need more ponds, a larger shed, more jars, more kegs...

Today I finished my friendship goals. Gave Leo an iridium duck feather. I had some stardrop tea on me, but it turned out I didn't need it for Leo. Ended up giving it to dwarf instead, after giving him an emerald I'd fished up from the lake. The very next treasure chest I fished up contained a replacement stardrop tea, which I have absolutely no use for now.

I decided to empty out my chests and sell some metal bars and gemstones. Trying to get the clock, because I hate it when that thing's the last grind left.

Last non-building goals are crafting and killing things.

 

[Cuddlebug]

I'm waiting for my starfruit, so I can restart my kegs aftar the qi-fruit frenzy. My kegs are a mess, and so is my cellar. But at least now I had the qi-gems to get the last few recipes. It's time to start making the serious money. I never bothered with fairy dust, but I'm thinking of getting some just to clean out the mess.

I need more ponds, a larger shed, more jars, more kegs...

Today I finished my friendship goals. Gave Leo an iridium duck feather. I had some stardrop tea on me, but it turned out I didn't need it for Leo. Ended up giving it to dwarf instead, after giving him an emerald I'd fished up from the lake. The very next treasure chest I fished up contained a replacement stardrop tea, which I have absolutely no use for now.

I decided to empty out my chests and sell some metal bars and gemstones. Trying to get the clock, because I hate it when that thing's the last grind left.

Last non-building goals are crafting and killing things.

I had some stardrop tea on me, but it turned out I didn't need it for Leo. Ended up giving it to dwarf instead, after giving him an emerald I'd fished up from the lake.

I use to give at least one to my spouse at our Wedding day or keep them as a gift for Winterstar.

 

[Terdin]

I'm waiting for my starfruit, so I can restart my kegs aftar the qi-fruit frenzy. My kegs are a mess, and so is my cellar. But at least now I had the qi-gems to get the last few recipes. It's time to start making the serious money. I never bothered with fairy dust, but I'm thinking of getting some just to clean out the mess.

Starfruit wine is about the only wine that can handle fairy dust and still retain some profit. If using dust from start to finish on the casks, it would result in about 150 G profit remaining if you've got Artisan. That is if you go with the cheapest way of getting fairy dust, by trading mystic tree sap for it. 3000 G worth of tree sap, to raise the wine's value by 3150 G...

 

[Rahnee]

Today I bought the horse flute and realized I can summon my horse to Ginger Island (woo!), had the slime hutch completed and started some eggs incubating to try indoor and outdoor raising of slimes. I've got a couple fenced areas all ready for when I get advantageous color eggs.

Decided to convert my south room full of crystalaria (-ums? Seems like it should match the plural/singular like maxima/maximum) from jade to diamond because I've got two full stacks of staircases already.

Also ... crafted some ginger ale with Qi seasoning and WHAT???? I had no idea that the seasoning boosts the luck buff! Time to go finish more quests so I can buy more!

 

[Terdin]

Two weeks in a row with Extended Family quests and caught myself a few more Legend II destined for the smokers. It's definitely a balance between getting chores done, and getting enough time to fish to get more of them. Could've gotten almost twice as many, if there had been less of them that were complete yo-yos.

I've also been trying to make a theme for what the gold chickens are named in each coop. Two have mostly names from some Harvest Moon games, one has money-related names, one has names of female characters in Rune Factory 2, and I plan to make the latest one mostly names from Rune Factory 3. Kind of annoying to have to go to each coop, find the one you want to move, and then repeat the process, but I admit it does somewhat match how it's done irl.

Only made two stack replacements so far this year, and the third week of Summer is at its end. I knew it would be slower, but still...

 

[KarinL]

Starfruit wine is about the only wine that can handle fairy dust and still retain some profit. If using dust from start to finish on the casks, it would result in about 150 G profit remaining if you've got Artisan. That is if you go with the cheapest way of getting fairy dust, by trading mystic tree sap for it. 3000 G worth of tree sap, to raise the wine's value by 3150 G...

I mainly used it to get the gold wine up to iridium so I could replace the wine in those casks while filling some of the still empty casks I had. At least those 40-some casks are going to be ready at the same time now. Left the silver ones alone, though - so I guess I'll be refilling the cellar in two batches, which is fine.

I finished killing stuff. Now it's just the clock and three obelisks. And I want the return sceptre. I can't believe I'm on my seventh farm. I'm enjoying the beach farm, so much room for fish ponds, and I love ponds.

 

[Nonak]

Woke up to nothing special on the tv or calendar. Okkay, stepped out of the house, harvested a bunch of parsnips that were ready. Started replacing them with more mixed seeds. Thought of wild ones - 9 ik the chest and no leeks or wild horseradishes yo craft more. Went out to look for forage, taking one detour to pet my chickens and turn their first large eggs into mayo and another to the traveling cart. Grabbed a rhubarb seed.
Had great luck with foraging, especially horseradishes. Came home and made enough seeds to fill in all the spots and have some left.
With nothing much to do for the rest of the day, I grabbed the last of my eggplants and the newly harvested parsnips and went to the saloon to gift everyone. Then played junimo kart, which actually went really well till I got to ghastly galleon. It got me just like it always does. Came back to the farm and went to bed.

 

[Maher]

I created a new save. Farmer Ferry of Ferrous farm. It's a wilderness farm, so staggering home at midnight with 2hp is not an option.

Ferry's in fall of Y1, doing CC remixed. Just got the mine carts running. Angler has been caught and is in a pond to build the fish farming bundle. Income generation is mostly gold bars right now. He fell in love with Maru the first time she hauled his dead butt out of the mines and just hit 3 hearts with her.

 

[Terdin]

Reached Fall of year 11. The aged Legend roe is slowly nearing a full stack. It's been overtaken by the Legend II roe at least 19 times, might be a 20th depending on how soon I can get the last few...

Traded out a third stack of ancient fruit wine.

The rare seeds I had got planted outside the sprinkler systems, with deluxe retaining soil. The seasonal sprinkler grows pumpkins, hoping to get a big one since Abigail likes them.

 

[Gridball Pom Queen]

I hit a creative wall with my farm. Also, I did something out of order which I think messed up my ability to reach perfection. So I’m starting over and trying Riverland Farm for the first time (with much enthusiasm). My farmer is so slow and my tools are so bad, but just the usual early game pains.

 

[Nonak]

My farmer is so slow and my tools are so bad, but just the usual early game pains.

They seem worse than they are because of the contrast at first. I get used to running around on a horse with +2 food buffs and all three books and then start a new save with a farmer who still knows the joy of walking normally instead of zooming around. Not a joy to me but after a while it stops feeling that bad.

 

[Gridball Pom Queen]

I get used to running around on a horse with +2 food buffs and all three books and then start a new save with a farmer who still knows the joy of walking normally instead of zooming around.

Mortal speed is agony

That’s ok, it just makes the buffs and books that much more valuable and exciting when you get them.

 

[Nonak]

Mortal speed is agony

That’s ok, it just makes the buffs and books that much more valuable and exciting when you get them.

Yesss and the first Skull Cavern dives with speed buffs give that "woooow I'm soo faast" effect.

 

[Rahnee]

I just went to the Desert Festival with intention to do the Skull Cavern challenges on all three days (usually if I go at all I just get eggs from the fishing, the quiz guy, the trash, and occasionally the races). Boy am I glad I did, because I finally got a lucky ring!

In other happenings, my slimes have maxed out the hutch so getting slimeballs again (I re-jiggered the layout so I had to cull my previous population). I'm starting two pens of colored slimes outside, we'll see how they do.

I also spent an inordinate amount of time shifting and replacing stuff once I realized that I can actually put things on top of crafted flooring. Somehow I've spent this entire time leaving tiles bare underneath machines, fences, decorations, etc. I knew that I could move buildings onto flooring in Robin's shop / Wizard's pedestal, but the misleading little green "valid tile" indicator got me good until now. So, my farm will be much nicer going forward .

 

[WorstDecorator]

I hit a creative wall with my farm. Also, I did something out of order which I think messed up my ability to reach perfection. So I’m starting over and trying Riverland Farm for the first time (with much enthusiasm). My farmer is so slow and my tools are so bad, but just the usual early game pains.

i always end up missing my big stack of crab cakes (bought off Gus after reaching 6 hearts with Willy) when I start over

 

[KarinL]

I ran into an infested floor on the first floor of the skull cavern. I had my parrot with me, so I made a fortune killing slimes over and over again. I never had an infested first floor before, it was fun...

I had originally wanted to just repeat floor 1 to get stone (as my mines are set to dangerous and the stone is harder to mine there than in the skull cavern). I need to either find stone for the last few ponds I want to build, and the last few preserves jars I need - or maybe I should just give up and buy it from Robin.
Problem is, I want to get the stupid clock out of the way, so I'm not too crazy about spending a fortune on rocks...

 

[Nonak]

I never had an infested first floor before, it was fun...

Same! But agreed, reseting infested floorsis fun. Especially when the monsters are easy to kill and drop

 

[Terdin]

I had originally wanted to just repeat floor 1 to get stone (as my mines are set to dangerous and the stone is harder to mine there than in the skull cavern). I need to either find stone for the last few ponds I want to build, and the last few preserves jars I need - or maybe I should just give up and buy it from Robin.
Problem is, I want to get the stupid clock out of the way, so I'm not too crazy about spending a fortune on rocks...

Or you could make sure the quarry is clear, and go into the quarry mine daily. The side path with the dangerous type skeletons is usually littered with rocks that drop several stones, along with a lot of coal nodes.

 

[Terdin]

The stack of aged Legend II roe overtook the aged Legend roe for a 20th time. But now the Legend has been ousted and replaced with a Legend II. The last few roe I need for the stack are in the preserve jars. Now all 31 fish ponds can help each other rather than have a very one-sided competition about who produces most.

Won the grange competition at the fair, as usual.