Hill-top Farm Ben Kenobi on the High Ground farm

[riklaunim]

Grandpa was a better farmer than Uncle Owen, likely because he had the high ground... After fighting for the Empire in the Joja Wars Ben Kenobi decided to take it slower and take over the old abandone farm...

First day started with "redecorating" the house for max accessibility ;)

Then meeting selected villagers:

Bulletin Board quests can be given by villagers you met, so if you want to increase friendship with selected one/two, then talk to them and don't talk with other "unknown" villagers.

The first day is also good to visit Robyn to move the house and stuff:

With limited energy, I take the scythe and farm fiber in the city for changes on mixed seeds:


If you get lucky and there will be a bunch of spring onions on day 1, then that's a lot of energy for extra wood so that you have a fishing chest for the second day:


Got quite lucky with the mixed seeds:

 

[riklaunim]

Golden quality spring onions are a good gift for Linus:

Sashimi will be a handy recipe - if you go hard on fishing to bump the value of the cheapest fish, or if you aren't into fishing - improving the usefulness of crab pots.

Day 2-3, when you really want to push your fishing level up and get initial gold, it's best to fish in every bubble you see - even if it's on the beach or in the city:

Not the best, not the worst day 2 result:


But enough to buy Fiberglass Rod day 3:


The next day was quite lucky:

Day 5 was back to farming with Parsnips:

The traveling cart had a hazelnut I bought for the CC (with the fruit bat cave, you can finish autumn forage before autumn with that hazelnut)


As it was best luck day, I also started the mines:

It's really worth it to kill as many bugs as possible, as the bug eradication goal gives you a really good sword. Double so if you didn't get any weapon from fishing:

Crab eye can be seen under the rock. Getting crabs is also recommended for the Crabshell rings from the eradication + Crab for the CC:

 

[riklaunim]

As I got fishing level 5, I also sold fish caught on days 3 and 4, banking the price increase:

Ideally, you would hit it the day before, so on day 5 you have the gold and can go to the cart, able to do some bigger purchases ;)

The next day, I cleaned copper from the farm quarry:


Then went to spend 3K on 300 wood to instantly fix the bridge on the Beach (wood is quite cheap while an un-upgraded axe would take way too long to chop trees down):


Bulletin board quests are pretty important as they will unlock mystery boxes quicker (second ticket), but also the first ticket will give a lot of carrot (seasonal) seeds, and carrots are a really big energy source in spring (and good farming experience). So even with this seeweed economy, this quest will be done:


Gold quality leek has a very good use case:


Same as gold quality parsnip:


Ending day 6 - upgrading the pickaxe - if the luck is good on day 5 - go into the mines and try to get as much copper as possible - for one furnace and then 5 copper bars. The upgraded pickaxe will be way, way better for copper/iron levels of the mines. If you get lucky, you may get way more copper ore, so that the day the pickaxe is ready, you can already give the axe for an upgrade:

Hill Top pretty much only advantage - more copper on start.

Spending 300 wood on the Beach bridge will pay off with extra forage and bait maker corals/urchins:


Day 7 is Tiger Trout in the cart that can be used for the CC. The food can also be handy - a strong fishing food buff can allow catching the Legend early and profiting from the aged roe way quicker:


It's also a good idea to drop a gold quality crop on Lewis:

 

[riklaunim]

Day 8 is picking up the upgraded Pickaxe and dropping the axe for an upgrade:


I've also planted 30 spring wild seeds; they don't need a scarecrow, and with luck, a few rainy days will help with watering. More seeds can be handy for green tea saplings but also for trading for other season wild seeds at the desert trader (lots of winter ones for winter farming?)


Recycling Machine is also a silent monster - all that trash you get can be turned into refined quartz, coal... and torches.


Doing Bulletin Board quests for the tickets:


Upgraded axe can also unlock this secret ticket:


And so we got carrot seeds and an orange sapling (Gus approves!)


Book seller will sell a price catalogue, which is really handy to get:


And you can trade book duplicates for handy resources:


Remixed CC bundles can be bit tricky to do:

 

[riklaunim]

"Second" harvest:


And then 20 strawberries on speed grow by doing the crops bundle on the same day as the egg fest:


It's raining, so that's a Legend:


It pretty much requires an iridium rod, a trap bobber, and a fish food buff:


And into a fish pond it goes:

5K for the pond, 8K+ for the rod and trap bobber. Will break profit on the 3rd aged roe.

Annoying spiral level in the mines. I tend to hit the rocks at the start with the hopes of the staircase popping:


You can select a torch in your inventory to light up the dark levels in the mines:

Excess weapons and gear can be sold:


Fish pond is producing, while preserve jars will require some coal, though:

 

[riklaunim]

Iron levels can drop coffee seed from the dust sprites, just like the bugs can drop an ancient seed:

Coffee is pretty high on profitability even when sold raw and can beat strawberries in subsequent years, depends on your processing setup (and whether you will have farming mastery scythe to harvest coffee every 2 days in spring and summer).

Lots of iron ore will be needed:


First thing to build would be the silo, so that you can start getting hay from the grass on the farm. If you need more clay, hoe the ground in the mines on levels like 15 and some lower ones.


For level 10 fishing skill, I like the Pirate. It's less profit from the fish, but later on fishing falls down profit-wise if you aren't pushing some fish smoker + bait maker run ;)


Time for the steel pickaxe on the 18th of Spring:


Trying to catch an Ice Pip and got this as well:

On level 100, a lot of cave jelly can be forced with luck buffs (personal, not the daily one).

This fairy is actually useful; more than 20 strawberries will have triple harvest:

 

[riklaunim]

A steel axe and pickaxe allow you to get this secret trash book:



With a steel axe and 10+ carrots as energy, you should cut down every tree in the Cindersap forest and the mountains. Then, before green rain and again after it, repeat. Stable flow of wood and tree seeds.


Upgraded axe can also clean some bushes on the farm:

Workbench makes crafting easier as it has access to chests in a 1-tile radius:


Copper ore as well as bugs can be farmed by repeating floor 20 (21) via the elevator and when bugs eradication goal is done it's time for the sword:



Meanwhile, the Legend is starting to print money:

 

[riklaunim]

Selling raw strawberries in spring is rather expected, but this time I've decided to try early Dehydrators, especially when I'm going for mushroom logs as well. Without the "Artisan" level 10 skill, a Dehydrator will take 5 strawberries and increase their value as if they were 5 gold-quality strawberries. They do require fire quarts, clay, and wood.



Started with 5 dehydrators that can handle 25 fruit/shroom per day:


5 dehydrated strawberries from 25 normal quality strawberries:

Level 100 of the mines:

It may not always be worth it to rush to level 120, as it will increase the strength of all monsters, while we have a lot of farming to do in the mines (but also gives a really low chance for a prismatic shard drop from a monster)

Last days of spring are hard farming of steel, gold, and quartz bars for quality sprinklers for summer, but also lightning rods, which also need bat wings - so get every bat you can. Getting more than 10 lightning rods, more close towards 20, is recommended.

Level 40 (41) is good to farm iron ore, but level 60 (61) can be better with coal, as it can spawn dust sprights (especially if you get 62+ as well) for coal.

Having more and more stuff to store calls for Large Chests:


Black one is for crafting resources, blue for anything fishing, green for anything crops. Red one is for tools, gifts (as the workbench won't reach it)

 

[riklaunim]

Spring secret wood trips are not only for hardwood but more so for Mahogany seeds. Plant them spread out; fertilize when you unlock the fertilizer:

The goal is for them to grow up and start dropping seeds. When you have a bunch, cut them down and replant, fertilize, and repeat. This is the best way to ramp up hardwood.

I had to do it... Now I have to do a Joja run to feel better...


That's 20K gold right there:


Last day of spring is selling all unused fish, crops (bulletin board quests etc.):

Skills are at a pretty good level as well:

 

[riklaunim]

Day one of summer is Crimsonfish time:

Putting every legendary fish in a fish pond is a simple way to have stable side income. They don't have quests and don't require that many jars.

Quality Sprinklers and Blueberries are where summer Y1 is at. Rather standard to pull off; can be sold raw as you won't have mass kegs for mass starfruit or hops...

30 sprinklers for blueberries, and then ~10 for other crops (gold quality melons for CC, hot peppers for gifting, tomatoes for future cooking etc.)

240 blueberries will give around 120K in profits when sold raw, a bit over 200K when dehydrated or turned into seeds with the seed maker. With Artisan, the Dehydrator is better. If you had enough kegs to process 240 starfruit or hops, that would be over a million in profits.

120K in profits can also be had with 12-14 chickens (mayo), which is a much smaller volume, but daily egg processing (can be done at the mines if you are farming them). With barns, you would have to aim for sheep with a shepherd or pigs, which take way, way more to ramp up, so not really a Y1 spring/summer strategy (but doable with better game seeds).

Mahogany trees started to drop first seeds:

I've added a wheat field on the side that will be watered by rain only. Handy thing to do in summer.


An expensive, but puffy gift:


Golend axe will help with mass-cutting of Cindersap forest trees:


Also did some fish checklist. Woodskip for CC:


And Goby from a waterfall:

 

[riklaunim]

House upgrade unlocks the kitchen. Linus Sashimi is handy:


But stashing sardines and potatoes from spring can be worth it too for strong fishing food:


Mushroom logs need moss to craft, but have to be placed around trees to produce 5 mushrooms every 4 days. Pine trees for chantarelle are best before Mystic Trees for purple ones in the late game:

Dropping tree fertilizer would quicken their growth, but also make them produce moss later on over time quicker. Planting green rain trees nearby also increases the moss production rate.

Dropping 25K in CC for a Crystalarium may be worth it to scale up fire quartz for more dehydrators. That way it will be feasible to process large quantities of blueberries and cranberries, not to mention mushrooms:

So many sprinklers and crops... good for reaching level 10 farming, but long-term animals are a more compact way to go ;) (and ducks in the water for the vibe... and if they go into water they don't have to eat grass or hay)


Day of ocean fishing, and crystalarium duplicated fire quartz before bed:

In summer, after setting up sprinklers and such, you can do whatever, probably leveling remaining skills. From the fishing side, the ocean tends to be best for profits, but with bait maker you can fish sturgeons during the day and move to ocean at night for super cucumbers. This will require dumping some cucumbers and sturgeons into the bait maker, but it will be worth it (and you pretty much have to use a spinner or a dressed spinner tackle for a faster bite rate). All caught rainbow trout should also go into the bait maker if you want to do the Trout Derby as well. Save one gold quality super cucumber for the Luau as well.

Also to catch all the fish, that pesky octopus is needed (trap bobber + fish food):

 

[Cuddlebug]

After fighting for the Empire in the Joja Wars Ben Kenobi decided to take it slower and take over the old abandone farm...

You're sure about that???
It doesn't seem so from what you posted here... Looks all very nice and you do a good job, but it's way too fast to be a slow game But maybe I mistook something... Good luck anyway

 

[Lothengriol]

This is a great playthrough to follow, I never knew that you received bulletin board quests only from characters you've met. You're really flying through this game, great job!

 

[OmmycO]

Spending 300 wood on the beach bridge that early seems expensive at first, but if you’re actively collecting corals and sea urchins and using them for the bait maker or early cash, it pays for itself faster than it looks. It makes even more sense if you’re leaning heavily into fishing during the first spring.