What is the earliest you finished the game?

[LanFour]

I've been trying to finish the game with the least moons, my best was 16, well, I didn't actually win I was 1 hit away from victory.

[dholland]

32 moons with normal settings. There's a lot of RNG, but I'll see if I can go faster.

[i deserve hmc]

I've gotten 9 long moons. Would be around 13-14 moons on normal.

[dholland]

Originally posted by Stack Man:

I've gotten 9 long moons. Would be around 13-14 moons on normal.

I've seen your video -- this method doesn't work with the current version of the game, as rock packs are worth 0 currently, not 1 as in your game, which I think you mention in your guide. Also, you can't kill the demon currently with 5 militia -- even 5 swordsmen will fail (7 will probably work) with auto-attack unless there is some interaction I'm missing. But I learned a lot from your video, anyway :-) Not sure I can be lucky enough to get catacombs from graveyard first try, but impressive speed in your video.

[Flare Nemesis]

actually tried it on short. Beaten it just before day 20. You might be able to do better as I had to wait a while for the temple to build.
On another attempt I was on queue to winning as soon as day 17 but I never got the artifact. And I thought I went mad with 5 people on explorations (2 in catacombs). I tried to see I I get it by day 25 and still nothing - hilarious in a way.
Curious to see where you guys get to!

[Flare Nemesis]

Btw am I right in thinking trees used to give three items? Could have sworn everything used to give 3.

[i deserve hmc]

Originally posted by dholland:

I've seen your video -- this method doesn't work with the current version of the game, as rock packs are worth 0 currently, not 1 as in your game. Also, you can't kill the demon currently with 5 militia -- even 5 swordsmen will fail (7 will probably work)

I was able to get similar times with the new patch, but it's a lot more RNG.

There's also RNG involved in the demon fight, so 5 militia, or even 5 swordsmen, do have a chance of failing.

[i deserve hmc]

Originally posted by Accer:

Btw am I right in thinking trees used to give three items? Could have sworn everything used to give 3.

I feel like I remember that too, but looking at older videos, they only ever gave 2 resources.

[LanFour]

I did 16 on long nights, my strat is to starve the second villager (the one you get from the pack) twice, so I can get a cemetary then hopefully catacombs from it, then maybe the artifact, this strategy never worked because the travelling merchant always spawned first, and I got the arrtifact from him. So far I played two games trying the least moons, I'm quite busy IRL right now.

[hokomili]

Originally posted by Accer:

Btw am I right in thinking trees used to give three items? Could have sworn everything used to give 3.

I have thought that too! Idk why I remembered that way but it seems only apple tree and berry bush give 3...

[dholland]

Finally made a fast win. I had 2 swordsmen, and two people died fighting the demon, so there does seem to be RNG, and probably you can do it with 5 militia, but it's a bit risky.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2811037742
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2811039089

I made some mistakes, so quite a bit faster is obviously possible as in Stack Man's video, but I got really lucky with getting the Catacombs after 2 tries and the Goblet after 3 tries. Because of the length of time to build the temple, much quicker than 9 Long Moons is tricky but who can say.

[LanFour]

Nice one dholland, I won against the demon with 5 militia, but they healed mid-fight, 'cause the moon ended, yet I lost one man.

[dholland]

That shows there's quite some RNG! I also starved 2 villagers before breeding up to 5, but if you get "lucky" a 2nd villager could die to a rat or some such and short cut waiting for 2 starvation moons. I had 2 houses and 1 quarry, 1 lumberyard before I sold them. Not sure if it's worth having more than 1 of any building besides houses, but there was nothing for my militia to do whilst the temple built, so I made swords.

[hokomili]

6 long month
If you count constantly pausing a legit play.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2811588498
It's also not a cleared save so i did bought a few later booster packs :p

[dholland]

Wow!

[LanFour]

Amazing, was that before some cards' price got reduced to 0?