One tip: Set the game speed to 0.6

[Zentun]

Setting the game speed from 1.0 to 0.6 was the best decision that i made after i started playing this game, the game has become so much more pleasant, before doing it i was always in a hurry and it was making the game less fun for me, now i have time to collect resources, finish the commission and interact with the NPCs and improve my house, now the day lasts longer and makes everything better.

I just wanted to share my experience and thanks the Devs for creating this mechanic.
Sorry about my english.

[aleksandar_ivanov]

+1

[DarknessShallFall]

Agreed. I keep my game speed at the lowest setting, otherwise its too much of a rush...

[Revannia]

I honestly forgot we could change the game speed; I did that in Portia. I haven't felt too pressed for time yet but it's a good option to have. Thanks for the reminder!

[SimuLord]

I dropped it to 0.7 because I found 0.6 just a little too slow for the amount of stamina you get to work with, but the principle is the same...the default speed is too frantic for a game like this.

[Zentun]

Originally posted by Revannia:

I honestly forgot we could change the game speed; I did that in Portia. I haven't felt too pressed for time yet but it's a good option to have. Thanks for the reminder!

[Bored Peon]

Originally posted by SimuLord:

I dropped it to 0.7 because I found 0.6 just a little too slow for the amount of stamina you get to work with, but the principle is the same...the default speed is too frantic for a game like this.

Yeah with .6 you can easily be out of stamina quickly. Especially in the begining.

You cna kinda fix this quickly with:
- Making stamina foods which I found the sweet and sour pork ribs were great. Remember you can send Civil Corps to farm ribs. A constant long duration request can go a long ways.
- Eating at the Blue Moon
- Play dates are instant compared to Portia. Take someone out to lunch and get relationship points.
- Sitting on furniture brings back a minor amount of stamina.
- Get the refining machine and upgrade your Pickhammer and Axe which increases tool strength (more harvest damage) and has a chance to restore stamina.
- Invest in the perks to restore stamina mining, harvesting, and logging.

[Zentun]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by SimuLord:

I dropped it to 0.7 because I found 0.6 just a little too slow for the amount of stamina you get to work with, but the principle is the same...the default speed is too frantic for a game like this.

Yeah with .6 you can easily be out of stamina quickly. Especially in the begining.

You cna kinda fix this quickly with:
- Making stamina foods which I found the sweet and sour pork ribs were great. Remember you can send Civil Corps to farm ribs. A constant long duration request can go a long ways.
- Eating at the Blue Moon
- Play dates are instant compared to Portia. Take someone out to lunch and get relationship points.
- Sitting on furniture brings back a minor amount of stamina.
- Get the refining machine and upgrade your Pickhammer and Axe which increases tool strength (more harvest damage) and has a chance to restore stamina.
- Invest in the perks to restore stamina mining, harvesting, and logging.

Nice tips buddy, i like to use the Dried Sandacuda to recover some stamina, it recovers a fair amount of Stamina and it's really easy to get tons of it, i will test the pork ribs as you suggested.

[SimuLord]

Originally posted by Bored Peon:

Originally posted by SimuLord:

I dropped it to 0.7 because I found 0.6 just a little too slow for the amount of stamina you get to work with, but the principle is the same...the default speed is too frantic for a game like this.

Yeah with .6 you can easily be out of stamina quickly. Especially in the begining.

You cna kinda fix this quickly with:
- Making stamina foods which I found the sweet and sour pork ribs were great. Remember you can send Civil Corps to farm ribs. A constant long duration request can go a long ways.
- Eating at the Blue Moon
- Play dates are instant compared to Portia. Take someone out to lunch and get relationship points.
- Sitting on furniture brings back a minor amount of stamina.
- Get the refining machine and upgrade your Pickhammer and Axe which increases tool strength (more harvest damage) and has a chance to restore stamina.
- Invest in the perks to restore stamina mining, harvesting, and logging.

I've done all of those except for taking NPCs to lunch—the social bits in the game aren't really my jam, I just bribed my way to universally loved by checking the wiki for favorite gifts. Even the camel loves me.

It's just real easy to bomb right through all the stamina the game can give you, even if you're munching on pork ribs and veggie stir fry in quantities that would make a sumo wrestler blush. Contrast Portia, where you really don't have to worry about running out of stamina unless you're deliberately blowing through it by drilling and/or chainsawing everything in sight in the lategame (and Portia's even easier than Sandrock to get all your stamina back in a flash, making things even more ridiculous.)

[Piperbird]

I never lowered the time in Portia, probably because I had played for so long before they added the option, I just got used to the flow of the day.

But it is 100% recommended in Sandrock. I love the time to get so much done. And there's always the option to speed time back up again if you're just sitting there waiting for something like a town meeting.

[Yanphi]

I'm just getting back into the game since EA release and I was wondering if there are any other consequences or problems people have encountered when turning down the game speed?

(Cause I read on the wiki that some festivals may bug and that NPCs will arrive at their destinations too soon/sooner than the original time if it was too slow.)

[Gnasty Gnorc]

Originally posted by Yanphi:

I'm just getting back into the game since EA release and I was wondering if there are any other consequences or problems people have encountered when turning down the game speed?

(Cause I read on the wiki that some festivals may bug and that NPCs will arrive at their destinations too soon/sooner than the original time if it was too slow.)

I haven’t had any issues with it whatsoever.

[SilverLightning]

No game slider settings for us playing multi?

[Sketch Elder]

Correct, no game speed slider for multiplayer.

[样]

Nice tip! Yup, please give it a try if you're new to Sandrock. It will help you get used to the rhythm of the gameplay faster.

[PrplGrl]

Yeah, I always set the time to the absolute lowest, cause otherwise it's feeling like it's speeding by too fast to get everything done in my day. Only time I speed it up, even to the absolute fastest, is if I've done everything I needed to do earlier on in the day, and have nothing left to do, but can't just sleep the day away, because I have to attend a fireside meeting hours later, helps to speed the time up to that point, then.