Starting Route for best Year 1 Farms v1.0.4

[Anti-Homeless Gay Rock]

The game starts you in Spring which is the best growing season since you can plant many different crop, but especially flax since nearly all early game sewing requires linen. The issue is that the rate of XP gain for farming is abysmal and you spend two seasons unable to plant and grow anything, so the first Spring>Summer harvest is very valuable.

The second issue is acquiring seeds, specifically flax seeds, there is no one near the start that sells flax seeds, but Uniegost sells flax which can be threshed into flax stem and seed - but you need a barn which requires 10 farming points.

I was able to place and start my set-up south of Denica, on the west side of the lake, and managed to set-up, acquire and build a resource centre, and barn with a 3x3 field of flax. I believe this the optimal starting.




Loading into the game, immediately search for berry bushes towards Gostovia, and acquire a full inventory without going overweight and head into Gostovia - sell the berries to any vendor - buy carrot seeds, onion seeds, wheat seeds, oats seeds, and flax. (or whatever you want to grow, in my opinion, no reason to not grow everything, any sort of farming is going to have manure issues, but the idea is to maximize the farming XP from year 1.

Head North West towards Baranica , there's a woodcutter with a quest to collect 6 logs in an hour, so on the way to Baranica, collect rocks and sticks from the ground to make an axe.

Complete Woodcutters Quest this should give you enough farming XP to now build a barn.

Return to Gostovia and collect berries.

Buy a Scythe

Before departing Gostovia, head towards the reeds in the river and collect 200 to prevent any other collections during First Spring.

Now you have the rest of Spring to do whatever you like. I haven't done it the fastest possible, I built my house set up some carrots and couldn't remember what quest gave me the farming XP so I did every side quest and challenge in Borowo, Denica, and finally Baranica before unlocking the barn.
Building the barn, threshing the flax and planting the 3x3 all occurred within the last 20 minutes of the season.

There's no reason you shouldn't be able to have at least 4 full seeded 3x3s by the end of the first day - spending the rest of the Spring gathering and selling berries around various towns would be most gold efficient since they sell the same in Spring and Summer (I think they refresh too).

[Peppermint]

Any reason for a 3X3 field instead of 4X4?

[GamerTeah]

Awesome guide! Much Appreciated.

[tazman1]

honestly a 5x5 field is great takes about 2 rotations but you can get onions in the first town and second day you do the quest for the tax guy and when you get to the town you have to give 40 logs to you sell all your sticks from that and buy whatever she will sell you of cabbage seed bam theres 2 crops that are 1 season both can be planted in your first field next season you sell what you can't use buy 30 manure and you are good on food forever

[Shrez]

This Guide is awesome!

[Random Zero Gravity]

Originally posted by Peppermint:

Any reason for a 3X3 field instead of 4X4?

I think, the bigger the field, the more tax you had to pay, even if the field is not used & build new then destroy. Unless the dev fix this issue.

[TeperiBlaze]

In my new game I didn't find any wood cutters with a quest in Baranica. Does he have a name?

And Alwin didn't have a quest for me either in Gostovia.

[Random Zero Gravity]

Originally posted by TeperiBlaze:

In my new game I didn't find any wood cutters with a quest in Baranica. Does he have a name?

And Alwin didn't have a quest for me either in Gostovia.

If you are still on your 1st year, I would suggest to start over from start, Alwin should have "!" on the map to give you quest. If you not taking his quest from start, it will be gone for good. I start 3x for this quest to give me.

[cleaner]

You can skip the berry grinding and the 'buy scythe' part by stealing one from the farm shed north of the starting village. You can also skip the initial berry collecting bit by stealing the rest of the tools from the shed.

[TeperiBlaze]

Thanks guys, 6 months is nothing to us hardy pioneers!

I just want those quests.

[g0815krieger]

As sewing does not pay well, I didn´t do flax, and focused on vegetables, especially cabbage.
You can buy cabagge seeds at Denica from Dagobert.
The advantage of Cabbage, you can plant it spring harvest in summer, and plant in summer harvest in Fall.

Most efficent seed to skill farming imho.

If you have a hunter cabin you can cook the meat + cabbage to soups, that make insane money if you sell the soups.
With a tavern you can even automatice a part of the cooking, 2-4 soups a day (depends on workers skill).

Cabagge + Meat = soups == cash cow !!!

[Random Zero Gravity]

Originally posted by g0815krieger:

As sewing does not pay well, I didn´t do flax, and focused on vegetables, especially cabbage.
You can buy cabagge seeds at Denica from Dagobert.
The advantage of Cabbage, you can plant it spring harvest in summer, and plant in summer harvest in Fall.

Most efficent seed to skill farming imho.

If you have a hunter cabin you can cook the meat + cabbage to soups, that make insane money if you sell the soups.
With a tavern you can even automatice a part of the cooking, 2-4 soups a day (depends on workers skill).

Cabagge + Meat = soups == cash cow !!!

Great advise!

[Anti-Homeless Gay Rock]

Originally posted by cleaner:

You can skip the berry grinding and the 'buy scythe' part by stealing one from the farm shed north of the starting village. You can also skip the initial berry collecting bit by stealing the rest of the tools from the shed.

No consequences for stealing?

[Anti-Homeless Gay Rock]

Originally posted by g0815krieger:

As sewing does not pay well, I didn´t do flax, and focused on vegetables, especially cabbage.
You can buy cabagge seeds at Denica from Dagobert.
The advantage of Cabbage, you can plant it spring harvest in summer, and plant in summer harvest in Fall.

Most efficent seed to skill farming imho.

If you have a hunter cabin you can cook the meat + cabbage to soups, that make insane money if you sell the soups.
With a tavern you can even automatice a part of the cooking, 2-4 soups a day (depends on workers skill).

Cabagge + Meat = soups == cash cow !!!

great tips. swapped my beetroots and onions for cabbages.

i'm hoping that tier 2 has a better reward for the inputs.

[tazman1]

um sewing actually if very profitable
It might be more expensive to start with I get 333 flax per harvest from a 7X8 field thats 30 linen and 2 shirts with base price 100 so sell for about 25 potage sells for 5 and wieghs more per unit then a shirt. Even the linen threads and the linen fabrics are good selling till you get a decent stock pile
but yeah thats 2 techs bought but once you have a scythe or iron not an issue

[Anti-Homeless Gay Rock]

Originally posted by tazman1:

um sewing actually if very profitable
It might be more expensive to start with I get 333 flax per harvest from a 7X8 field thats 30 linen and 2 shirts with base price 100 so sell for about 25 potage sells for 5 and wieghs more per unit then a shirt. Even the linen threads and the linen fabrics are good selling till you get a decent stock pile
but yeah thats 2 techs bought but once you have a scythe or iron not an issue

my potage has a base of 40 and sells for 14 each. im getting 4-8 cabbages with 1-4 seeds per plot, with the cabbages selling for 2 each. making runs with 40~ in my inventory doesn't put me overweight and sells for 540 total for 100 (+ seeds) inputs.

i think you make more money selling the 32 linen fabrics rather than the two shirts. fur boots sell for 105 for 36 leather which isn't too bad except 36 leather is heavy. sewing really doesn't seem to pay off until woollen items so you might as well invest in cabbages until you can start building the infrastructure for manure.

flax overall seems really really inefficient.