How to start farming (new player)

[Kakou]

Ayo all,

I'm new on the game and I'm really confused about how we are supposed to start our first crops field 🌽.

Rayner visited my lil town and I bought everything needed to start a basic field : watercan 💦, 30 wheat crops 🌾 and a spade ⚒️.

So I set up everything right, crops started to grow. Watering everyday...but... Birds started to fly around the field.
One crop was eaten and another one . Then 2.3.4.. in few days I had nothing left in my field 🤕.

Back in time I discovered the existence of scarecrow 🎃. But we need a pumpkin for that, how do I get pumpkins ? By growing them in Fall 🍂.. but Fall is far away from the current season and when I will reach Fall , bird will eat my Pumpkin crops.. 🕵️.

Please tips me how to get out of the nightmare ⚫.

Ps : To replace the lack of farming I'm starting my mornings by killing birds 🙂🔪

[CrabbiePooper]

Heyho, i added u from Steam. It will be faster to explain.

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Fence off your farm to stop the birds.

[bekeur1]

Or a scarecrow

[Kakou]

Originally posted by bekeur1:

Or a scarecrow

Meh

[Kakou]

Originally posted by 100% Recycled Awesome:

Fence off your farm to stop the birds.

I guess I will try that. It seems it is good way to do that. But imo, it is really not obvious to put fences against birds that fly 👀

[spielerinchen]

for a new player is farming atm (Early Access) rather the most frustrating beginning. concentrate instead on collecting & selling Wattle Flowers, those give an easy money flux. next choose rather fishing as steady income source. farming beginns to make sense first since your second year, cause in the first you will be only watering & depleting your stamina if you do a bigger field. farming needs currently a lot of time & energy while all the other activities are way more rewarding.

btw, since the last update you can make scarecrows out of watermelons now.

if you really want to farm, then for a first field are watermelons anyway the best beginning (Summer), you proceed to Autum with Pumpkins, in Winter is Kale & Cabbage the most lucrative, in the fist Spring buy & plant as many Potatoes as you can, those give the great option of Chips & Fish, which make fishing easier. plant Wheat & Sugar Cane (grow all year long) only if you can't get enough of farming with the suggestions above.

[Bialy Montana]

At the start I've placed a field in the centre of village, so villagers water it every day.
Of course at the end of the day I just water rest of not watered crops. I didn't use scarecrows, but it's necessary to put a fence around field and use 1-2 gates on it- so villagers will be able to enter it (they open in by themselves and later they close it- so animals won't enter it).