Lew you are about to hit perfection in a meh style playthrough *tsk tsk*
No really you go Lew!
You know what? Meh playstyle helped this along quite a bit. I don't get things and then sell them as I don't need the g. Which means almost everything just accumulates in Chests, which comes in handy later. With a slower playstyle, g accumulates more slowly but the play also moves more slowly so the g accumulates on it's own anyway. I have 5.7M right now before the Starfroot Wine sell and I'm just doing regular Farm stuff:
• 3 Crops/season and Winters off
• Pet and process animal products once every other day, just let 'em outside on the between days.
• Grab Treefroot and scythe Greenhouse twice a week
• Scythe Ginger blobfarm twice a week (LOL it's more Trees now!)
That leaves quite a bit of time for side things (in order of importance):
Visit Sandy every day for rotating Shirt selection
Any Festivals/Events
Visit Robin for another Fish Pond (6 now?)
Tailoring
House design and rearrangement
Raccoon quests
Qi Quest if it's one I like (I have 154 Qi coins and a Chest full of Qi Stuff I'm not using)
Special Orders Board
Help Wanted Board
So I started looking at doing all the things I'd never done before, frankly I'd been ignoring them, especially Cooking. LOL did you know that Jodi has special dialog if you start doing a lot of cooking? That was fun!
I was at about 40% Perfection when I looked at the list and frankly it was:
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Shipping was where it started and was the most daunting so I needed to try this first. It took a WHILE. I had lots of things but freakin' IDENTIFYING the missing stuff! Small Goat Milk was the toughie as I never saved one. I had to mildly annoy the Goat for like a season and a half before it produced a small one. I even tried to pelt it with Blueberries (the renewable Ammo!) from the Sling but you cant hit your animals! Sorry for that, I was desperate but the game saved me from myself.
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Monsters needed finishing (I picked up 3 of these just from doing Qi quests and getting those monsters along the way). Had to grind for the Pepper Rexes but that's an excuse to BOMBBB Skull Cavern, so no biggie.
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Cooking. This was surprisingly easy because of keeping everything (as mentioned above). I was only missing 4 Fish and 4 Crops so I bought Pierre's Missing Stocklist (those extra Qi coins coming in handy) and fished Summer to Fall and at Ginger to get missing Fish. Planted crops at Ginger (loads of extra space) and done!
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Crafting. This was tougher as the game doesn't track it in a visual way. So I just made everything I knew I hadn't made (again, keeping/not selling everything
really helped) and put them in 2 Chests to make sure. But hm, still missing some so checked Stardew Checkup and they were 3 recipes from Ginger. Facepalm, I remember now thinking I'll never need those! 2 from Qi (easy, have extra coines, poke), and 1 from Dwarf. Done.
• Had 2
Obelisks for a while so make the other 2 a few seasons ago and even used them a couple of times to go Fishing for the Cooking!
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Walnuts. Yeah didn't go too badly, not my favorite though. Hm, was it worse than Shipping? Edit: because the Walnuts are an active thing, I'm going to give Shipping the Worst™ label, but I think the Walnuts may be the most Wiki-requiring part of this.
The rest I'd already done anyway or was very close (Fishing, Museum, Friends) and I was up to 67% and then 85% pretty quickly. Just waiting on the Clock and it's time will come. The key thing here is TIME. I have the time. You have the time. You can choose to make the time.
That's what I choose. Make a Farm that takes a small part of my day and includes fun things every day (visiting Sandy, attending all events, etc.). Allowing myself to kill an entire 2 days in a row in the Farmhouse rearranging things. Everything will keep.
I will spend a glorious day at the summit with Emily but it will come when I feel like it and that could be years, which is fine. I still gotta house to design better.
And the Farm is still undesigned. I have ideas but I don't like to commit to them until I fall in love with an idea. Year 5, Year 6, we'll see, lotsa future out there just waiting to happen.