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As 1Erik1 said, the best food-to-go is dried fish. Talk to Qi to ressearch the Drying Rack and you can buy bait at Arvio's and the ranch's stores, or you can pick it on the region around your shop (I do both). Fishing is a lot harder than Portia, but in time we can get the gists. Movind the cursor to highlight the fish is faster with the mouse, but a controler is also good.
1. Are you trying to punch the rooster or are you using a weapon?
2. Do you actually need the leather or are you taking a commision beyond your means?
3. What game speed are you playing on (there is a slider in the Settings)?
4. Store bought (jerky, etc) will bankrupt you in the early days. You should go to the blue moon and get the special.
Take it as a learning expierience. Once you understand the Fundamentals of the game I would start over. Then again. I start over quite alot.
You are allowed to eat more items at the diner. The discount ones are obviously great, but everything else has a value equal to its price. (The buffs are tiny and last 1-2 real time minutes so they are completely useless).
Sleeping is FREE, just go to bed and start a new day. This isn't a racing game. Relax and enjoy.
I'm very early in game, about 6 days, which i have just been burning out my stamina then sleeping. I did not even know you could rest outside of a bed, and still dont know how to sit on beach for example.
I'm a little anxious about time for completion of quests that are time dependent.
I feel like i've been thrown in at the deep end without knowing that water is wet, and you will sink if you cant find a way to stay afloat. atm i feel like i'm drowning, but will \persist/ strike that, "endure" a bit longer....
I'm wanting to like this game, it appears on the surface to be a relaxing fun little game, though i feel far from relaxed right now with it.
I'm using a weapon that i got for making shield and sword quest.
I need the leather for clothes and furniture to increase my stamina/reduce stamina demands.
Speed, i've slid it all way down to 0.6
I did buy from blue-moon but could only afford 1 of the cheapest items
Deep breaths ^.^
Welcome to Alpha Sandrock. It can get a lil rough and buggy, and take a bit of adjustment diving into a new game. Starting off can be a bit challenging, but take some comfort in knowing that part of that is because you're still exploring your opportunities.
Stamina management is all about priorities. Early game there are some tactics that can set you up better than others, but you can always play it your way.
You don't have access to a couple of things that really help right away -- which is Fishing and the Drying Rack. That doesn't mean you're out of luck.
Here's some handy recommendations ::
-- Don't explore the town until you're out of stamina. Use that time to look for the Hidden Chests, socialize with NPC's, or make your run into town to do Research and if you have some coin pick up the Blue Moon Special.
-- Rocky grants you a Free Week at the Eufaula Salvage Yard ( for the Crane Commission ). After that week is up, you'll have to pay a small fee to enter, so I would highly recommend spending your daily stamina to clear as much of the Scrap as you can from that yard. It will grant you access to valuable supplies and Data Discs.
-- If you have Stamina remaining after clearing that scrap, then it's time to head over to other things ( after a brief stop home to dump some in a recycler ). Take commissions you know you can do early on. You start off only able to do one a day, ( Aside from the Story Missions ) so try to go easy on yourself. You'll likely be picking up some extra Stone / Quartz / or Wood which is great as cutting into those will also net you some Dew.
-- Choose your Early Skills carefully to best benefit you. Things like extending your Stamina. I'd also recommend taking the Mining path before the Wood Path as it's extra stamina bonuses will help you more often ( as it not only helps you while cutting rocks, but while in the Ruin Mines ).
-- Don't sleep until you've spent all of your stamina. Even if it's just a little left, hunt down some Sandberries to harvest in the wild.
-- Fighting monsters is fun, but it will take more stamina to kill them if they're higher level than you. So early on, it's better to get the levels through building, and finding materials. The roosters are really handy for making a Duster, which you'll need later, but I'd recommend allowing yourself some time before you take those on.
-- The Drying Rack is a definite goal when it comes to research, but there are other things you'll have to prioritize first to build it. You'll want to unlock the Processor and Grinder. After those, I'd likely go with the Drying Rack * it's on a different tab of the Research Screen *.
If you want some in depth tips for the early game:
Try to be friendly with Qi asap. And visit the mines every once in a while, because it will lead you to a quest where you'll get a rare stone pickaxe which is quiet nice for the early game. So spend some time with him and give him his tech-stuff gifts.
Also mines yield relics with nice furniture bonuses like attack, luck and others. Early on I'd recommend keeping them for furniture and give them to the museum later when you are more well off in terms of furniture stuff.
There will be events early on that will give you a whopping 50% discount on EVERYTHING within a certain shop. Try to abuse that as much as you can, because you'll never have prices that low again unless triggered by other events, at least I didn't so far even if we account for friendship discounts. I'd honestly recommend trying to get all the stuff that can only be purchased from vendors almost every day during the 50% off week (Item description mentions that some things can only be sourced from vendors). They replenish their stock at a certain rate like 5 items per day with a max of 20 in stock so buy them all when the daily discount is also nice or just buy 5 if they are at 20 and hope for a better daily price fluctuation tomorrow so that at the end of those 7 days you got the max amount of items/ingredients you could from that beautiful 50% off event.
Don't use your money for anything else other than the daily special from owen and the 50% off shops I'd say. Only worry about getting all the ingredients from the 50% off shops. In fact I'd even recommend crafting/gathering stuff to sell if the daily price fluctuation is high like +10-15% just so you can buy now or later more from the 50% off event. Explore what you can without money basically until the event is over.
I think that was quiet chill actually to use all my money only on one shop to abuse that 50% off event when I started. Made it easier to understand the rest of the game in the beginning if you can focus your money goal like that. And obviously think about the huge profit later when you can get comissions for stuff that need to be built by using those ingredients you got for dirt cheap comparatively.
Water is very precious, if you got a surplus keep it. Like the game tells you conserve water. There will be more and more stuff that'll need water so manage it well.
Also the refiner is a VERY good early investment because increasing the rarity of your tools and machines will make them stronger AND give them additional effects related to stamina/resource bonuses etc. and you only need quartz for instant rarity upgrades on earlygame stuff like your stone tools. Also increasing the rarity of ingredients is the only way to get certain tools to the rare quality like the one for fishing or for the feather duster. So don't think of this as a lategame machine !! It is way more useful than you'd think at first.
EDIT: You can also get new things like refiners faster by spending CDs so that Qi needs less days to research it. The earlier you give him CDs the less it will cost to shave off a day or two.
Also for food. Think of Owen menu more like buffs with stamina side effects early on. Only the daily special is worth it in terms of money-for-stamina in my point of view even from day 1.
Getting the bread icon stuff from his menu will increase XP gain for everything and meat stuff will increase your damage for a while. Up to 3 buffs from each category can be gained through the Blue Moon Menu, but you need to get a certain amount of foods from the menus to trigger more than one buff. Don't know how it works exactly. If you got more money I'd recommend using xp and attack buffs preferably. The stuff from the other menus is more defensive which I don't recommend unless you have bad defense/armor but need/want to fight dangerous enemies or have trouble dodging stuff.
Technically, it can, albeit as you mentioned VERY slowly. Sitting - whether at home or around one of the seats around town - does in fact regenerate stamina very slowly.
One quality of life improvement that'd be fun in the main game ( which was in multiplayer ) would be the NAP ability or renewal of stamina upon level up, for all of those who find the stamina management in the main game a bit too challenging. Although, I'm not sure if it would ever be implemented over.
One of the biggest ways to save stamina is to stop hunting for dew and buy water directly from the oasis shop. It restocks every day with discount water, gobble that up.
i went broke trying to upgrade my assembly thing for building the civil machines ...
Take your time to colect ressources, accept only comissions that you already know that you can done and, after spend all stamina and socialize with the NPCS (at least the ones that you want perks), go to sleep.
Sleeping are free and, except for one main quest that has time limit, the rest you can do in your own pace.
Edit: don't take Yam seriously, you'll beat him (almost literally) soon enough, There's no rush to that either.
I can also use Sandberry as bait to catch a bunch of Sandcuda and then use drying rack for +36 stamina each.
You need to choose what you want to do for the day— okay, lets go scrap gather, or wood/stone gathering, or ruin diving, etc. You can't do all of it in a single day which is totally fine and how it should be.