Moneymaking is pretty bad

[Aquiverly]

its a farming game, i dont really think that the best way to make money should be by getting wood.. its ridiculousy cheap to sell crops and it takes so long as well, compared to wood. BUT PLEASEEEE dont lower the price of wood, just increase the price of crops cus at this rate its way too low and you can get like 25 coins for 5 crops which is barely enough for one meal

[AA]

Yea, the selling prices are really low - and then the tax is due, and it keeps going up whether you're "fortunate" or not. Mostly not. A 999 coop is looking increasingly untenable unless you shut down the tax setting.

[Informality]

The further you go the better crops you get for selling. You can also eat the raw crops if I remember correctly so you won't need to spend all your money on food. 😊

[xAlphaStarOmegax]

Money is hard to come by, thankfully you can edit the save file to give you a beginners boost of coin.

[Cruise]

I think this is because the game is a legacy builder. If you were able to get everything with the first character, there wouldn't be much for your ancestors to build up towards. I had this thought as well until I remembered that legacy building is this games whole appeal. I'm noticing I am building up more and more money as time goes on. Just trade non essentials to other villagers. I have been fishing and drying the fish on the drying rack for food. It takes about 1 day to dry. I made multiple drying racks and eventually got an excess of dried fish to sell that. That way, I have been able to sell all my crops and that gives you quite a bit of money without having to worry about starvation. Hope that helps.

[GamerGirlDK]

Originally posted by xAlphaStarOmegax:

Money is hard to come by, thankfully you can edit the save file to give you a beginners boost of coin.

How in the world do you do that?

[Tinetic]

yeah you can easily get by by selling what you forage and you get more money from selling your crops pickled or dried. Sure you won't get loads of money in early game, but i haven't finished my first spring yet and can usually maintain around 1000-2000 gold unless i buy iron ingots in bulk.
If you really don't like grinding a little bit ... just reduce spending by for example disabling taxes and tool decay

[xAlphaStarOmegax]

Originally posted by GamerGirlDK:

Originally posted by xAlphaStarOmegax:

Money is hard to come by, thankfully you can edit the save file to give you a beginners boost of coin.

How in the world do you do that?

Find where the game saves to. Then open that file through text. Use ctrl+f to search and type in "value" in the search bar. Once the value part shows up, make sure it matches your current gold so you'll know it's the right value to edit. Then just change that value to what coins you want. Then make sure to save the text file.

[garbagefangirl]

I kinda like the money grind, and I'm not having a problem living off my crops and fish. But it is pretty silly that you're given a farm to start and it's the least profitable thing you can do. And that's not even bringing up the energy it takes vs shaking trees and foraging.

[Bonekilla]

you can make easy money in the game, there are 21 free trees and 2 in the lagoon so 56 wood per day gives 560 gold, buy as fast as possible the steel pickaxt and pik the stone in the mine too get to the juwels so you can get diamants and stuff i am in middle summer now with 5k gold+

[Lexi]

Originally posted by Cruise:

I think this is because the game is a legacy builder. If you were able to get everything with the first character, there wouldn't be much for your ancestors to build up towards. I had this thought as well until I remembered that legacy building is this games whole appeal. I'm noticing I am building up more and more money as time goes on. Just trade non essentials to other villagers. I have been fishing and drying the fish on the drying rack for food. It takes about 1 day to dry. I made multiple drying racks and eventually got an excess of dried fish to sell that. That way, I have been able to sell all my crops and that gives you quite a bit of money without having to worry about starvation. Hope that helps.

How did you make multiple drying racks? They need nails(10?) which are expensive. I am not starving but I am rich if I have 100 coins...
Leveling crafting is hard because you nearly Always need bars or nails which I do not have... Heck I cant even make bars yet...
Maybe I do something wrong?

[pp]

Originally posted by Bonekilla:

you can make easy money in the game, there are 21 free trees and 2 in the lagoon so 56 wood per day gives 560 gold, buy as fast as possible the steel pickaxt and pik the stone in the mine too get to the juwels so you can get diamants and stuff i am in middle summer now with 5k gold+

This is how I make money too, but it's not really ideal and I don't think the developers meant for you to make money by farming trees. Also, makes gameplay kinda boring early on because the only way to farm good money early is to run across the entire map and shake every tree. I think they should be slightly more generous with crop sales or something so that you are not forced to live off tree shaking if you don't want to play that way early on.

[Tinetic]

Originally posted by Lexi:

How did you make multiple drying racks? They need nails(10?) which are expensive. I am not starving but I am rich if I have 100 coins...
Leveling crafting is hard because you nearly Always need bars or nails which I do not have... Heck I cant even make bars yet...
Maybe I do something wrong?

No you don't. The smelter is unlocked as your mining skill progresses, but that will take a while. just go mining every day for now.
As for the money problem ... i play vanilla (all options enabled) and i found that quest selection, foraging and if unavoidable tree abuse is a good way to get started.

1. Do not buy decorations, clothes, hairstyles, food etc. Its a waste of money. During spring focus on eating survival salad (easily made from foragables) and use any other foragables to make money.
2. Only accept quests that you can do easily and that are profitable. Quests that require high quality items like metal or nails are not worth it unless they pay out (coins not blueprints etc) more than you have to invest.
3. Wood gets you a nice financial boost. Apart from your daily tree abuse all over the map (do it, your ass is poor), you can fell some trees on your farm if absolutely unavoidable.
Personally i prefer to keep those for later though as some investments need a lot of wood.
4. Always keep an eye on your tools (if decay is active) and think before using them, repair can get rather expensive depending on which tool you have to repair.
5. Selling crops might not earn that much money, but you get 0-2 seeds when harvesting your crops, so you do not really have to keep buying seeds to get more crops. Any crop that replenishes itself after some days is obviously divine ... use it.

Any money left over after setting up a decent farm and foraging daily ... buy nails, repair your tools etc.

[pp]

Originally posted by Lexi:

Originally posted by Cruise:

I think this is because the game is a legacy builder. If you were able to get everything with the first character, there wouldn't be much for your ancestors to build up towards. I had this thought as well until I remembered that legacy building is this games whole appeal. I'm noticing I am building up more and more money as time goes on. Just trade non essentials to other villagers. I have been fishing and drying the fish on the drying rack for food. It takes about 1 day to dry. I made multiple drying racks and eventually got an excess of dried fish to sell that. That way, I have been able to sell all my crops and that gives you quite a bit of money without having to worry about starvation. Hope that helps.

How did you make multiple drying racks? They need nails(10?) which are expensive. I am not starving but I am rich if I have 100 coins...
Leveling crafting is hard because you nearly Always need bars or nails which I do not have... Heck I cant even make bars yet...
Maybe I do something wrong?

Nails are pretty cheap to me because they're only 15 gold and you can just sell wood to get nails. The most nails I've ever seen for sale at once in a day is 15 nails, and you can get plenty of wood daily to make up for that cost (150 gold.) Note that you can farm 500+ gold daily strictly from farming wood all across the map (run around and shake every single tree you can find.)

There's only a couple trees that do not drop wood but you'll figure it out quickly once you start farming it.

[Lexi]

Originally posted by Tinetic:

Originally posted by Lexi:

How did you make multiple drying racks? They need nails(10?) which are expensive. I am not starving but I am rich if I have 100 coins...
Leveling crafting is hard because you nearly Always need bars or nails which I do not have... Heck I cant even make bars yet...
Maybe I do something wrong?

No you don't. The smelter is unlocked as your mining skill progresses, but that will take a while. just go mining every day for now.
As for the money problem ... i play vanilla (all options enabled) and i found that quest selection, foraging and if unavoidable tree abuse is a good way to get started.

1. Do not buy decorations, clothes, hairstyles, food etc. Its a waste of money. During spring focus on eating survival salad (easily made from foragables) and use any other foragables to make money.
2. Only accept quests that you can do easily and that are profitable. Quests that require high quality items like metal or nails are not worth it unless they pay out (coins not blueprints etc) more than you have to invest.
3. Wood gets you a nice financial boost. Apart from your daily tree abuse all over the map (do it, your ass is poor), you can fell some trees on your farm if absolutely unavoidable.
Personally i prefer to keep those for later though as some investments need a lot of wood.
4. Always keep an eye on your tools (if decay is active) and think before using them, repair can get rather expensive depending on which tool you have to repair.
5. Selling crops might not earn that much money, but you get 0-2 seeds when harvesting your crops, so you do not really have to keep buying seeds to get more crops. Any crop that replenishes itself after some days is obviously divine ... use it.

Any money left over after setting up a decent farm and foraging daily ... buy nails, repair your tools etc.

Oh, thank you!
I did the most already (I do not buy decorations even if I have money. Its not my thing)
The wood part is interesting. I just saved it away for later in my storage box :)

So I just need to find a villager who has lantern oil. At the moment nobody has one. So I have to stalk them first :)

[Tinetic]

Yeah the lantern ... i walk down the mine all the way past the lake before lighting the lantern. Oil costs money after all. Mine real fast, get back to the lake and switch off your light. Walking back /teleporting back outside is basically a straight line and you don't have to waste oil for that :)