PerfectionWhaleFarm
Tiller
Finally got the Living Hat on my second save! - here's a revised breakdown on how to get the living hat (without mods) using the quickest grinding methods..
1. No Wilderness Golem strats - The 0.01% probability is deceptive. At a 10:1 ratio probability, weeds are just much more abundant (than 10:1) and they don't require you to wait until nighttime. Furthermore, the appearance of Wilderness Golem is random, the appearance of weeds in the overworld is static.
2. Maximize Weeds spread in the overworld, and reset day after emptying out the overworld of weeds. The Mines has infinite weeds yes, but the time it takes to get there and find weeds is too long. To quickly grind for Living Hat, clear out any debris or obstacle and allow weeds to grow all over. Once there are enough weeds, just clear them all and if no Living Hat reset the day and redo again.
3. If you don't have a farm type of Riverlands, don't have a Golden Clock yet, and don't have too much things in your farm, the fastest grind and repeat method is to grow weeds til fall on your farm. Everywhere else requires travel time, and the yield to travel time makes it undesirable.
On my second save, I chose to have around ~500 weeds on my Beach Farm by the end of fall (Y1 25), and then started mega bombing (fastest weeds clearance method [vs. Sword, Scythe, etc.]). When the weeds are all cleared out, I "Exit to Title" and start over again. Not sure how to attach a video of this (doesn't look like the forum accept video formats), but here's an image (didn't miss the footage of getting the actual Living Hat this time...)
This is all super exciting, I can finally start my quest on finding all other items in this save :D Arguably there are no more grindy type items, which are the worst..
1. No Wilderness Golem strats - The 0.01% probability is deceptive. At a 10:1 ratio probability, weeds are just much more abundant (than 10:1) and they don't require you to wait until nighttime. Furthermore, the appearance of Wilderness Golem is random, the appearance of weeds in the overworld is static.
2. Maximize Weeds spread in the overworld, and reset day after emptying out the overworld of weeds. The Mines has infinite weeds yes, but the time it takes to get there and find weeds is too long. To quickly grind for Living Hat, clear out any debris or obstacle and allow weeds to grow all over. Once there are enough weeds, just clear them all and if no Living Hat reset the day and redo again.
3. If you don't have a farm type of Riverlands, don't have a Golden Clock yet, and don't have too much things in your farm, the fastest grind and repeat method is to grow weeds til fall on your farm. Everywhere else requires travel time, and the yield to travel time makes it undesirable.
On my second save, I chose to have around ~500 weeds on my Beach Farm by the end of fall (Y1 25), and then started mega bombing (fastest weeds clearance method [vs. Sword, Scythe, etc.]). When the weeds are all cleared out, I "Exit to Title" and start over again. Not sure how to attach a video of this (doesn't look like the forum accept video formats), but here's an image (didn't miss the footage of getting the actual Living Hat this time...)
This is all super exciting, I can finally start my quest on finding all other items in this save :D Arguably there are no more grindy type items, which are the worst..