Making Money in Winter

[Marry]

Hey! Im quite new to the game and still in my first year. I saved some money in fall to invest into crops in winter- but read that its impossible to plan any that season. I still would like to make some profit this season. I thought about investing into the bus stop but im not sure if thats worth it. Could anyone help me out?

[ehyder]

plant wild winter seeds, you will get the recipe after completing the winter forage bundle, and you can send the winter root (from monster drops in the mines) to get winter seeds early. If you get the bus stop you can collect coconuts and cactus fruit, which can get decent money (have to pay bus ticket) if you put through the preserve jars. You will also get access to other seeds in the desert, but will not be able to plant them until the appropriate season, or until you open up the greenhouse

[eerynthril]

If you like to make money with mining and fishing then sure because there's an exclusive mining and fishing spot there in the desert. There are also exclusive forage items there so if you like to make money with that then go ahead.

But if you prefer farming then you should invest on the greenhouse instead. Or level your forage skill so you can collect the four winter forage items to make winter seeds. Those you can sow and farm even during winter and even without a greenhouse.

[Marry]

Originally posted by ehyder:

plant wild winter seeds, you will get the recipe after completing the winter forage bundle, and you can send the winter root (from monster drops in the mines) to get winter seeds early. If you get the bus stop you can collect coconuts and cactus fruit, which can get decent money (have to pay bus ticket) if you put through the preserve jars. You will also get access to other seeds in the desert, but will not be able to plant them until the appropriate season, or until you open up the greenhouse

Is it possible to buy the winter seeds too?

[pipleonwater]

sorry no you cant buy winter seeds
if you want, we can start a new game and i can show you some things

[Ryvaken Tadrya]

You get the wild seeds recipes through foraging skill. The four seasonal bundles just give you 30 units of seeds. While that's a bargain, as each bundle costs the same of crafting 10 units, it is only a one-time purchase.

Winter shuts down outdoors crops, but not indoors. Greenhouse, coops, and barns keep working. Likewise, mining and fishing are uninterrupted.

[Marry]

Originally posted by pipleonwater:

sorry no you cant buy winter seeds
if you want, we can start a new game and i can show you some things

I would kinda like to stick with the current load I have since I already invested a couple of hrs into it /:

[Valdorel]

I've noticed that winter tends to have a higher number of high-luck days, as such fishing can be a massive money maker. Typically winter in year one I can pull about 7000g per day fishing on the beach with a luck neutral or better day.

[Muerte]

Originally posted by red255:

As an vetran player i went into winter

I unlocked the green house in fall and was converting it into ancient fruit and peach trees

Thats a decent chunk of change but not really ready for winter in a major way

I had gotten winter roots of frost slimes in the mines and elsewhere ran them thru seed makers and grew those seeds in the greenhouse

Donated to the community center to get 30 winter seeds and turned the rest into winter seeds

Ended up with around 300 winter seeds to start the season and ended the season with around 600 of each forage at irridium rank.

Which my math is counting at around half a million in value

Compare to the green house with 116 ancient fruit turned into wine is twice as much a month once it gets going

You get ancient fruit seeds from running crops thru the seedmaker. Odds are around half a % or 1 in 200

But once it gets going its a quarter of a million everyweek

Yeah that foraging trait and winter seed spam is a pretty good combination...

[Perigryne]

In the first year, personally, I default to my old Harvest Moon knowledge and just delve in the mines, or fish all Season. While I'm doing that, I take all the tools I'm not using in that season and have them upgraded at Clint's. If your lucky enough to have animals in your second year, it'll be that much easier to gain money as long as you have stashed a bunch of food away... Doubly so if you watched TV in the early mornings on some days and learned new cooking recipe's, and had built some tools to make the ingredients for all the cooking food you could make. Its all about variety, but there's no rush to have anything at a certain point in the game unlike Stardew Valleys inspiration of Harvest Moon where if you hadn't made enough by Year 4 it was game over

[landscape]

generally you wont get much profit in the first year of winter compared to future winters but the first winter is when you set your self up for massive money come next year.

the winter seeds generally you replant what you get and extend by planting more it takes 4
crops to make 10 seeds so every harvest is 2.5x the number you had. they take 7 days to grow.

first winter what you should be doing is completing what quests you can that you havent gotten to yet. fish for money as stated above. but more importantly repair the bridge to mine across the
bridge and mine the mines get tons of silver/gold/crystals to make a ton of sprinklers. save at least 17,000 for spring crops the rest you can use to upgrade weapons or get a better rod or buy some fruit trees. you want at least 33 if not more sprinklers by spring that means 33 gold bars, silver bars, and crystals.

the bus stop wont help you much that early if you dont have at least a gold pickaxe and a decent weapon your only end up dying where the bus takes you + you cant go there til the mountain
mine you reach the last lv. its best to get the bus stop after you have excess money.

going for what else is there isnt worth it and it will drain all your money.

people above talking about the green house. you wont have that unlocked in year 1 winter.
not til year 2 at least unless there an op way to get it that quick but general playing wont get
you it that soon so ignore those posts.

for future winters those posts are helpful but not your first winter.

if you get those sprinklers and have around 17,000 money come spring buy a few things you want and spend at least 12,000 on potatos and save about 25 to 27 thousand for summer and
likewise for fall. any extra you get year 2 buy whatever you like with. next winter save around
35,000 your spend some on the festivals and other stuff but if you have around 28,000 for spring
3 it will be when your around your max. if you have expanded your farm even more.

hopefully i didnt go overboard (in my explaining) if im did im sorry.

also if you feel you dont have 17000 or you spent some before reading this is all good.
just use whatever you got or just plan for next year starting from a lower amount.

fishing is a good way to get some money though.

[Valdorel]

Originally posted by red255:

apparently you can get a coffee every 10 minutes during the nightmarket which sells for quite a bit if you collect them all.

around 75,000 according to the wiki. I did the night fishing in the submarine caught the 3 fish, so I got master angler 3 fish early.

it works.

Minor correction.

Wiki actually states that you can gain 24,300g only with the coffee trick. Because you can only claim coffees between 5pm and 2am.

[Feed the Kat]

Working on the mine level/quests is what I did. Its a good way to stock up on raw metals for tool upgrades/building later, stone especially if you want to do house expansions. Then you can sell other things you grab in there. I would try to bring enough food to do my whole day sunrise/sunset for bed in there...

Apart from that fishing and foraging are also how you can make money.

[🌸Happysalad🌸]

upgrade hoe and hunt around the tillable soil all over the town . you can make lots of money in a day just by doing this

[arti_llery]

Processing anything extra grown during the other seasons.
Animals are a decent source.
I usually use winter to help clear more trees out of the way.
Also, you can plan out farming areas for spring. By placing pathways around the area to be tilled.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Hi Gamer,

If this is your early run through you'll want to spend winter stocking up on iron bars, gold bars, and refined quartz. That's because come spring of year 2 you'll want sprinklers to take care of your crops which saves a lot of your time. Refined quartz is best obtained by recycling CD disks and glasses from fishing (so you'll need a high enough fishing skill to get a recycler). Otherwise you spend most of the day every day watering crops. By the time you get animals you get other chores. Feed the animals, pet the animals, check the cave, put the eggs in the mayonnaise maker and the milk in the cheese maker, collect the mayonnaise and cheese.

So basically for you during Year 1 you want to be getting to the bottom of the mines. You will learn to hate slimes. The green ones are sword fodder, the blue ones not much tougher when you have decent armour, but the red ones are nasty, and the purple ones (not in the mines) are total gits.

The bus stop takes about 50,000 GP plus to open which is a lot of money early in the game. I'd focus on doing the easier stuff for the community centre.

Experienced players build a storage silo early in the game. They're cheap and use basic resources. In autumn cut down all unused grass to fill the silo. Then if you get a coop you don't reduce your profits by having to buy a couple of hundred GP of hay every day from Marnie. Chickens if you put their eggs in a mayonnaise maker generate significant profits especially if you look after them and you're getting gold quality mayonnaise. If you upgrade your coop you can incubate new chickens from eggs. Huge tip. If a witch turns an egg black make sure you incubate that egg.

Mining if you're selling gems can make profit as well as supplying essential building supplies. I always keep some back from help requests on the noticeboard.

Fishing provides saleable fish as well as boosting your fishing which you are going to need to complete the community centre.

SPOILER ALERT - You'll also want to upgrade your axe to iron, smash your way through the cylindrical log above the wizard's tower then go through the gap.

But in reality in your first game there's so much you don't know that you'll want to replay to make better decisions.

S.x.