Hoe Use

[Sassy]

I don't know if anyone else has discovered this so I'm posting it. I was using my hoe at the beach on the 2nd & 3rd days of Winter, looking for clay. I got frustrated and just used my hoe on every available square. There were no wiggley sticks present & I found a lot of Snow Yams and Winter Roots. I decided to see if it worked at the railroad on day 3. Between the 2 locations, I dug up 57 Winter Roots, 55 Snow Yams, & 34 Clay on Day 3. I only hoed the beach on day 2. Just letting you know about it.

 

[One More Day]

Even better, there's a pattern you can follow which will guarantee getting something (almost) every spot you hoe

Here's one of the several guides on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tAkpr-jV3w

This details the exact tiles you need to hit to make the most money from your available energy. It's used by players who speed run or minmax the game, to generate cash quickly. It's particularly useful on day 1 to find clay to sell to Robin for about 2,000g spending money on the first day. Another idea is you can skip straight to winter, and dig up snow yams and winter roots at the beach each day for about ten times that amount; this is the absolute fastest way to speed run the Joja route, and you can earn the 140,000g total cost in approximately an hour of IRL time.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

Yeah they sell for a bunch too, some people even do something called clay farming.

the way clay is selected to be on a tile isn’t random and forms in staircasing “threads” that change depending on how many times you have tilled the ground. Because of this you can predict where the clay (or winter root/jam in winter) spawns and get hundreds of them in a single day.

it’s not a horrid moneymaker if you have nothing to do in winter, gets you like 20k a day just off the beach alone

 

[Lew Zealand]

I've done this especially in Winter Y1 for decent profits and to make Wild Seeds for Tea Sapling g production. The area by Linus' tent and Robin's house is also good, that's where I started.

It's a Zen thing for me. Hoeing everything up when you don't actually have anything to do (Mines Level 81 can waaaaiiiilitt.....) and just taking it easy is kinda nice. It's less fun to sleep under a Tree in the Winter snow with cold water rushing by than it is in the Summer so I need to find alternate ways to feel accomplished do next to nothing in that season of searing map whiteness. The calming gray of the hoed furrows blunts my snowblindness and protects my delicate eyes from their seasonal outdoor forced napless sentence.

As I'm not min/maxing anything other than laziness, I don't use the SD Predictor to find the Clay and Root/Yam hideyspots but if you just want the profits at the steep expense of Zen loss, then I'd recommend using the Predictor like One More Day and FilthyGorilla suggested.

 

[Elenna101]

You don't actually need the predictor tool to use the patterns One More Day and FilthyGorilla mentioned above, although it helps.

 

[PoppyForPenny]

I love to hoe up vast areas in winter to get the yams & roots! I like to put the winter roots through the seedmaker to get wild seeds for outdoor winter crops. If I've already got Botanist, I save iridium crocus for Sandy and iridium crystal fruit for food. Digging roots in winter is probably one of my favorite things in the whole game!

 

[FilthyGorilla]

You don't actually need the predictor tool to use the patterns One More Day and FilthyGorilla mentioned above, although it helps.

Yeah you just need a chosen pattern to follow and to find the start of a clay/winterforage thread, ideally by rapidly tilling and untilling the same optimal spot for the pattern you are using.

 

[TonyGoetz]

Even better, there's a pattern you can follow which will guarantee getting something (almost) every spot you hoe

Here's one of the several guides on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tAkpr-jV3w

This details the exact tiles you need to hit to make the most money from your available energy. It's used by players who speed run or minmax the game, to generate cash quickly. It's particularly useful on day 1 to find clay to sell to Robin for about 2,000g spending money on the first day. Another idea is you can skip straight to winter, and dig up snow yams and winter roots at the beach each day for about ten times that amount; this is the absolute fastest way to speed run the Joja route, and you can earn the 140,000g total cost in approximately an hour of IRL time.











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[MogBeoulve]

Has anyone figured out a pattern for Switch? Just curious as I have never felt a need for more clay and don't have the attention span to carry it out.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Has anyone figured out a pattern for Switch? Just curious as I have never felt a need for more clay and don't have the attention span to carry it out.

No idea of the Switch pattern but my friend, can I interest you in allowing more Clay into your life?

You probably get enough Clay clearing the Farm early in game to make any Silos you need but I like planting things in various places in Garden Pots using Deluxe Retaining Soil and both of those use Clay. Also if I want the Farm to look like someone tends it in Winter, I love to plant lotsa Fiber Seeds though I tend to be just as short of the Mixed Seeds for this Recipe as Clay because I lovelove to plant Mixed Seeds on Ginger to see what I get!

OK that's not too exciting but remember you have 1/4 option to get Blueberry plants and those are great ammo for pelting all sorts of targets with the Slingshot. C'mon it's renewable, organic, BLUE. What's not to love?

Also Fiber Seeds (okok the Fiber plants you grow) are great for not losing your Fertilizer in Winter as Fiber plants aren't killed at the end of a Season, therefore they're still growing on Winter 1 and retain your applied fertilizer.

Win-Win!

ehm.... mostly. heh.

Well, now you gotta never collect that Fiber until Spring 1 or at least replant immediately with more Fiber. You've now locked yourself into Farming in the Winter. Or at least looking at a farm field fulla Fiber failing to go fallow for fear of future fertilizer failure.

Tyranny.

 

[Jayamos]

Or at least looking at a farm field fulla Fiber failing to go fallow for fear of future fertilizer failure.

Epic alliteration FTW.

 

[MogBeoulve]

No idea of the Switch pattern but my friend, can I interest you in allowing more Clay into your life?

You probably get enough Clay clearing the Farm early in game to make any Silos you need but I like planting things in various places in Garden Pots using Deluxe Retaining Soil and both of those use Clay.

Ah, but if I have purchased the recipe for deluxe retaining soil, I have reached the dig site already. Then I farm clay nodes repeatedly. Problem solved!