Year 3 Blues ...

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

I've just finished my second four candle (four candle ? No Fork handle. For a fork) completion of SV and I'm a bit - meh.

The problem is to complete the community centre which is always nice you have to a diverse farm. Indeed since you can't have animals Day 1 some agriculture is pretty much essential.

I've fully upgraded the house, married to Abigail, one child. SPOILER ALERTS : I've reached the bottom of the mines, unlocked the sewers, done the wizard's quest, unlocked the casino (which I've never used).

The, err, monster farm has a large quality sprinkler agricultural area immediately below the farm house ringed by one oak, one maple and one pine tree from which I'm getting resources.

To the left of the farm is the super deluxe coop (chickens, ducks, and rabbits) and below that a smaller overflow agricultural area. To the left of the barn is the Orchard (one of each tree), below the cave. Then there's the Greenhouse and the seed maker. It's being used for Strawberries, Coffee, Ancient Fruit, Stardrops, and Cacti, having been used as well for beet until I'd grown enough sugar.

I've got the Barn with Cows, Sheep, Goats, and Pigs below my grandfather's shrine so I only had to build one wall. I've just got the stable.

I've got five err, lobster pots, on the beach - three in the sea and two in the river.

The problem is that my farm is now so big that just managing takes most of my game time.

Daily routine is: -

1) Talk to and kiss Abigail
2) Check the info on the TV.
3) Replace the coffee in the three kegs in the empty area with fresh beans and put the coffee in the chest
4) Go outside and collect any wine, preserves, oil, mayonnaise, cloth and cheese not collected the night before and restart the kegs and the preserves.
5) Collect any crops that are ready for harvest
6) Usually go back in the house and to the storage bin. Sometimes get three coffees, 15 more beans in the kegs,
7) Go to the coop, check each of the animals, get the produce. Put the eggs in the mayonnaise makers, and the wool on the spinner.
8) Gather the mushrooms
9) Pet the cat, water in his bowl
10) Go back to the farmhouse to unload inventory. Get three more coffees, put 15 beans in the kegs.
11) Go back across the farm to the greenhouse. Collect any new crops. Decide which are to be used for produce and which are going in the seed maker. Chop down one or two trees to make fertilizer from the sap and replant the seeds.
12) Go to the Barn. Pet all the animals and collect the animal products.
13) Go back to the main farm and sort produce including milk going into the cheese maker and wool into the spinner. Collect the first lot of mayonnaise and put in the remaining eggs. Clear inventory as much as possible.
14) Finally leave the farm - go to Pierre's checking for forage on the way and check birthdays and help wanted. Sometimes go back to farm to collect forgotten birthday gift. Buy replacement seeds for harvested crops.
15) Go and see Clint and get any geodes broken open. Very occasionally now drop new artefact into Gunther.
16) Go to beach - clear both sides of the bridge and empty and rebait my lobster pots.
17) Go back to the farmhouse, clear inventory, collect the coffees and refill the kegs.

By the time all these chores are done it can be 4 - 5 p.m. game time and my options are limited. Sometimes I abandon the beach and town to ensure I get to the Calico desert.

I suppose some of it is down to change of attitude on my part. Truthfully providing there's adequate fodder the crops, the cat, Abigail, the kid (Chloe), and the animals can all be abandoned for a day or two without significant harm. At least half my relationships are at ten hearts (eight for singletons) and I'm even four hearts with Sandy, The Dwarf, and Krobus. I could choose to ignore large chunks of the game now - but I could just not play it at all.

I'm not sure where I should go now. The truth is with the Iridium giving statue of perfection the last truly rare resource is now reliably accessible. I've got far enough down in the Cavern to get the $100,000 but not got to level 100 yet.

The thing is there's not much new development after the end of year 2. Year 1 you are very limited in what you can do until at least winter. Year 2 allows you to play through with all the stuff you didn't have in Year 1 - the new crops, fruit trees, animals.

But year 3 ? Other than the extremely expensive teleport devices (clearing out a big chunk but not all of inventory for the end of year 2 I had turned over $700,000 of which over $200,000 I now have in cash) is there much left to go for ? I think a Junimo hut would be very helpful but only in doing what I've already done ...

I could go and try and catch all the legendary fish - I think I maybe still level 8 as a fisherman. I could try and get further down in the Cavern and finally get Combat 10. The shipping 300 of a single crop and earning a million awards seem reasonably accessible - but I'm currently having a "been there, done that" moment. I could get a slime farm but even Dangerously Funny can't see how that works.

Any thoughts ...?

S.x.

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

Think about automation. Get an auto-grabber on the barn and it'll take care of itself until you want to make a whole batch of cheese. Jumino huts allow you similar luxury with multiple-harvest crops.

For everything else, scale back a bit. You heard me. If you need to pay attention to something every day, ask yourself if you really want to spend that kind of time. Lean towards kegs over preserve jars.

The objective here is to get more discretionary time, time you can decide "hey, I feel like going into the mine and getting some iron" or "I wonder if I can catch a pufferfish to give Abby" or "I'm going to follow Shane around drinking iridium quality salmonberry wine all day because it sounds funny."

Edit: Wait, you can't drink wine. Um. "I'm going to chase Shane around with a bottle of iridium quality salmonberry wine over my head screaming 'wiiiiiinnnnne' all day long because it sounds funny." That's better.