What should I do to make money?

[OrangePopPlayz]

I cannot fathom how you even make money in this game I love games like stardew and harvest moon and have always done well on those, but on this game I am on spring 22nd now and have 3k

[kittykat0510]

There's a trick if you make friends with Elsje, and go adventuring with her, she'll sometimes throw a really expensive dish you can sell. She'll only do it if your hp is low.
If this feels too much like cheating to you, then you should craft and cook all your stuff. Pickled turnips sell for more than plain old boring turnips.
You could also try fishing. I made a decent amount of money early game by fishing. There's also a sign post by the docks for tag team fishing, and those fish sell for a lot more than most fish.

[Huillam]

Early on farming:
When a crop is ready to harvest if you use the sickle on it you'll get a seed that is one level above the crop (with a maximum level depending on the tier of the sickle). Sell that seed and the shop will now sell seeds of that level. The buying price of the seed will stay the same but the selling price of the crop will increase earning you more money.
Your soil has various stats and level up as you harvest crops. The most important ones are the health: both the soil an crops have health. You can heal both by tilling a withered grass, a corn or a clover in a patch of soil. If you're lucky enough to get some tomato seeds you can use that to reharvest them forever (that works with any kind of reharvestable crop but tomatoes simply sell for a lot early on).
You can also turn your crops into meal to sell them even higher. Around 50 cooking and in summer simply plant Corn and turn that into Corn on the Cob in the Oven. A Corn Seed is worth 450G. A level 1 Corn sell for 1000G. A level 1 Corn on the Cob for 1860G.

As you progress the story and unlock dungeons it's easier to catch rare fishes that sell for few thousands.

[Honorable_D]

If you don't want to do the Elsje exploit that totally ruins the money progression you can fish for Tiamen near the waterfall and bridge area in the very northwest of the Pharos Grasslands region.

The Tiamen fish sell for at least 6500 and their fish "shadow" in the water is gigantic so you'll always know you're going to get a Tiamen.

[Endora]

Another thing is animal produce. As soon you got a barn you can tame chickens and cows, cook milk and eggs on a pot so the selling price will greatly increase.

By the way, you can use the free baths to craft, forge and chemistry, it's free RP.

[Tzuhsi]

The tag team fishing that you can do once a day can make you a decent amount of change as well. Check the sign by the fishing spot across the bridge from the SEED outpost and next to the bakery. Each fish I've gotten from there has been worth between 5,000 and 12,000.

[Algester]

you want easy money?! DO YOU REALLY WANT... MONEH?! EASY BUTTERUP ELSJE to FP 4-5 get her to your party fight get low HP while in combat wait for her to yeet you royal curry dodge and grab food CHACHING 50K dosh Instant

[HeraldOfOpera]

Originally posted by Algester:

you want easy money?! DO YOU REALLY WANT... MONEH?! EASY BUTTERUP ELSJE to FP 4-5 get her to your party fight get low HP while in combat wait for her to yeet you royal curry dodge and grab food CHACHING 50K dosh Instant

You dropped a 0 there; it's half a million in hilarious overkill funds.

[GameAW]

As people have said, Elsje is the queen of lazy to the point she can help you be lazy with your funds. I will add though she won't be as helpful in the very endgame when you're crafting the best of the best and buying all the upgrades in town but for basic progression through the game, she will shatter any and all financial challenge with two words: Royal Curry

[VcentG]

Just regular farming? I just hit summer, and have 3 of the dragons. Assuming you're about the same (as I had these for a while now). I just bought turnips constantly, filled the first dragon and the SEED farm up with cheap turnips. When those harvested I repeated it with pink turnips... After those all harvest you get like 50k.... This game is pretty generous on moneyI think. It feels like I'm going to "beat" it in the first year which I hope is wrong. lol

Also just upgrade your barns and tame a bunch of the cows/chickens right in the forest... the milk/day sells for $280+ so literally taming 4 is already $1k a day without doing anything...

[Algester]

in RF4 you have the perpetually efficient narcoleptic Clorica to yeet you royal curry

however all in all you need 3M-ish to upgrade all the stores to tier 3 and thats not counting the barns