What nuggets of wisdom have you learned about playing the game? Let's share tips n' tricks!

[Lorethys]

So far, there have been a few discoveries through happy accidents that I personally don't recall learning through the tutorial or loading screen tips. (possibly because there's only so many loading screens for tips to show up on or the info was a brief sidenote to the main part of the tutorial)


1. You can throw items into shop displays, assuming the display supports the thrown item's size. (You can not throw items into storage containers)

2. You can place a stack of items one at a time if you have it selected in your hotbar and open the inventory. Do not click to pick up the stack from your hotbar; it will already be on your cursor and LMB will place one item from the stack.

3. Charged axe attacks will cleave through and deal damage to multiple bamboo stalks and trees. Plant multiple bamboo or trees close together and harvest in bulk. Bank all your money in a vault or a container, or play multiplayer, because you are very likely to take yourself out when the trees get forced out due to object collision.
3a. Cleaving works with a lot of other objects. Try using a katana charged attack on a large cluster or line of bushes for extra Cool Points.

4. If you wanted to place a decoration on top of a container, you can hold Shift and it will enable placing objects on top of a container or "machine" surface.

5. You crack Coconuts open by scrapping them.

6. If a customer gets stuck at a register, often only during multiplayer, sweeping them once with a mop will almost always fix the issue.
6a. During multiplayer, if someone's character becomes unresponsive and they can't move or use any menus, a charged Mop sweep that knocks them over may fix the problem.


What nuggets of wisdom have other shopkeepers learned through their own adventures? Did this discussion teach anyone something new?

[Cereal]

Here's mine:
1. A laser katana is great at chopping people AND trees
2. Always have a knife in your hotbar. The extra movement speed is great for timed challenges
3. Placing Apex Gems in your shop is a great way to increase it's beauty level
4. It isn't stealing if they attacked you first. The same can be said if there's no one left alive to notice.
5. Scrap everything that isn't profitable, then use the scraps to make something that IS profitable.
6. Always carry a few building materials and a hammer. You never know when you gotta build up to treasure or out of trouble.

[Lorethys]

Cereal a écrit :

Here's mine:
1. A laser katana is great at chopping people AND trees
2. Always have a knife in your hotbar. The extra movement speed is great for timed challenges
3. Placing Apex Gems in your shop is a great way to increase it's beauty level
4. It isn't stealing if they attacked you first. The same can be said if there's no one left alive to notice.
5. Scrap everything that isn't profitable, then use the scraps to make something that IS profitable.
6. Always carry a few building materials and a hammer. You never know when you gotta build up to treasure or out of trouble.

Scrapping is good habits, and I often forget it's possible to build outside of shop plots.

My friends recently built a staircase of foundations up to a rune on a small mountain. And I've been working on the habit of scrapping bamboo chairs and cheap weapons I find in containers to save space both in inventory and in my shop.

[Golden]

hope these help

1.
easy 5 star anywhere (turn off night raids for the one desert plot till it is 5 stars)
Pre requisit
small shop area
1 self checkout, (2 if you want to speed up star challenges)
about 300 (100-400, mileage may vary) food and/or drink items
small displays, preferably 3+ item displays
specializations in food and drinks so npcs only want food and drinks
trash cans and a mop

to speed things up, NO baskets only add these once you need money or are at 5 stars

bonus, hide roses EVERYWHERE where customers are for high beauty

for a faster or more profitable 0-5 stars, specialize into potions. give or take 100-150 potions though this requires alot more precrafting/looting

1.A
sell bananas. the peels customers drop from selling bananas do not reduce beauty and are auto picked up from walking over them (if you have space) and can be used in gunpowder creation (double dipping here)
1.B
Dont dismiss trash, smelt or recycle into plastic ( a certain town in the south is a veritable plastic goldmine)

2.
Bamboo farming,
hoe + scythe and regular bamboo seeds (not jumbo) chests and/or production tables if needed
find a large flat spot, plant as many bamboo as possible, do something else for a few minutes, harvest with the scythe
repeat process as needed

2.A
Wood farming, cherry blossom trees, same planting method as before, save that you need a real axe to harvest. these trees in general give more seeds than what you originally planted (recently turned 8 seeds into 350)

3.
As already mentioned, Scrap everything not profitable, upgrading your favorite gear can cost alot of scrap ingots
also never pass up copper and iron ore, you will always run out of these

4.
easy early money using the tutorial zone, jumping boxes (medium size... i think) from the tutorial area. can be relooted endlessly if you pick them up, back out of the tutorial area without finishing it, place them in your proper game and save, restart the tutorial and repeat. profits can vary from 300-1500 depending on specializations, otherwise small dumbbells sell well, not the big ones though

4.A
side note, there are alot of white pick up items, just need to look around and another side note, locked doors open when npcs walk past, so lock-picking doors it not needed with patience

5.
melee weapons can receive multiple extra damage types for a price as you advance in the game, dont forget to repair these weapons if you use them alot.

[Lorethys]

The tutorial zone container reset sounds more like a cheesy exploit but hey I've done similar in other games that separate characters from world files. I'm sure someone has already furnished an entire apartment complex just with furniture snagged from rerunning the tutorial zone.

And interestingly enough, it turns out there is INDEED a loading screen tip that says you can throw items into displays. It just took me over 50 hours gameplay to get it!

[Lord Sputnik]

- Frying pans are the best backpacks, they hold 4 items in your inventory. Downside is if you die, they drop everything inside of them too.

- Need to fall down from somewhere really high? Jump then spawn your golf cart.

- You don't need an ax and a pickax, bring you best pickax and you can chop wood and ore with it somehow.

- Assuming default settings, close your shop doors when you're crafting inside unless you like getting into brawls around your expensive crafting machines or storage.

- Forgot to bring your anvil? You can use your repair hammer on gear as well. Just drop it and swing away.

[Lorethys]

Lord Sputnik a écrit :

- Frying pans are the best backpacks, they hold 4 items in your inventory. Downside is if you die, they drop everything inside of them too.

- Need to fall down from somewhere really high? Jump then spawn your golf cart.

- You don't need an ax and a pickax, bring you best pickax and you can chop wood and ore with it somehow.

- Assuming default settings, close your shop doors when you're crafting inside unless you like getting into brawls around your expensive crafting machines or storage.

- Forgot to bring your anvil? You can use your repair hammer on gear as well. Just drop it and swing away.

I had no idea about frying pans and as a habitual hoarder I am going to have to try this soon.

My friends taught me about the repair hammer and I completely forgot about it with how instinctual it became to start smacking away at visible health bars. One even found that apparently you can avoid fall damage just by dodging before you hit the ground, no need for a cart! But the cart would certainly make it safer during nighttime misadventuring.

[Lorethys]

I recently found you can hold Shift not only to disable grid snapping for structure parts, but to also reverse the direction you rotate structures and items.

[Tatsumaki Jim]

if you got the patience, you can drop an armor stand, equip it with was many armor pieces as it can fit, then pick it up and it'll only take one inventory slot.

[MolotovTimmy]

Golden a écrit :

3.
As already mentioned, Scrap everything not profitable, upgrading your favorite gear can cost alot of scrap ingots
also never pass up copper and iron ore, you will always run out of these

What do you mean by upgrading your favorite gear costs a lot of scrap? I have 4k in my chest but no reason to use it. Are you able to upgrade rarities of your items? If so I feel like a fool for crafting over 300 bamboo scythes just to get a legendary.

[Lord Sputnik]

MolotovTimmy a écrit :

Golden a écrit :

3.
As already mentioned, Scrap everything not profitable, upgrading your favorite gear can cost alot of scrap ingots
also never pass up copper and iron ore, you will always run out of these

What do you mean by upgrading your favorite gear costs a lot of scrap? I have 4k in my chest but no reason to use it. Are you able to upgrade rarities of your items? If so I feel like a fool for crafting over 300 bamboo scythes just to get a legendary.

You can use your anvil to upgrade the HP of an item and it starts to cost a good amount of scrap. All it does is just make things more durable and since, at least as of right now, repairing costs the same flat rate, you can spend less money and time repairing gear. I think you can also upgrade the HP of just about any item on the anvil, but I could be wrong.