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There's something you're wasting gold on. What are you even buying, beers for 400 gold? Just give them suitable things you find or grow. Most seasons have a forageable flower that people usually like.
Once you're already making plenty of money and have built most of the farm upgrades you can be pretty liberal with your expenses, but early on you should have a tight budget. Spend gold on seeds, let your animals eat from the grass and use that same grass to get hay, with your scythe. Do your plant supplies include fertilizer? You can make that with two sap, an otherwise useless resource that for the most part just takes up chest space.
I really wonder what these plant supplies are, cause the list of mine starts and ends with "seeds," which you should be able to make money from. Where is your gold going? What have you been planting?
Fruit trees are not start of the game investments, you're pretty much ruining your entire first year going fruit trees and loading up on animals ASAP. And BCD is right, there's 0 reason to buy gifts because a vast majority of them like/love foraging items you can pick off off the ground and in the mines.
When should I buy trees and animals? The wiki says that the villager's favorite items are items that are bought? How can I tell who likes what?
You should really only bother with fruits after you have the means to process them into artisan goods like jelly or wine imo or only when you have a comfortable income to start doing the community center bundles, if you're indeed going that rout; the same with animals. The wiki says all of their gift preferences from loved to hated and you'll notice that while not all of the favorites are easy to get a hold of, a lot of the 'liked' gifts are and that will help a lot in the first year until you're financially stable. NPCs will occasionally say what they and others like/dislike but that's not very frequent so there's nothing wrong with cross-checking the wiki, but it will do you no good to keep putting yourself int he hole trying to be the best right out of the gate because you'll just burn yourself out and... not have fun.
It's a slow burn, focus on your parsnips and get potatoes as soon as you can; potatoes are a GREAT year one spring crop. Once you have reliable income then you'll be able to branch out and do more specialized things. Take your time, the game is not a race.
No, whoever told you that is lying or misinformed. The game goes on literally forever, at the START of year 3 your grandfather's ghost evaluates your performance but it affects nothing in the actual gameplay and you can do another evaluation later at any point to get a higher score. The only reward for a perfect score is a trinket that gives you iridium ore daily.
As for telling who likes what, you could check the wiki. You're already browsing it anyway, just look at each villager's page, it'll tell you. Otherwise, you can figure some things out. The villagers will occasionally mention one of their friends' like or dislikes, Lewis will tell you he likes blueberry, and I'm sure you'll be shocked to hear that Pam likes beer.
I'd say the earliest reasonable time to get fruit trees is at the end of fall. Because winter has no seeds, you have no set expense to prepare for at the start of the season, so it's easy to spare money for fruit trees. Thereafter you can keep buying approrpiate fruit trees at the end of each season, if you are so inclined. You'll get your money's worth, as they'll produce for their entire season.
I think the only reason you have for getting fruit trees earlier than that is if you want to complete the community center by summer 2, because the friendship bundle needs 3 apples and one pomegranate and the artisan bundle accepts every fruit, but that's not a financially savvy decision. I bought apple and pomegranate saplings in late summer, but it was knowingly throwing money down the drain.
I'd say you should focus on short-term profits in the beginning of the game. Potatoes are the spring 1 meta, if memory serves. With the money from the potatoes you can buy more potato seeds after the harvest, from which you get even more money, which you can use to buy more seeds... Seeds are really important. You should buy as many as you can water. Just make sure the harvest comes within the season and that there's money to buy the next seeds.
That said, animals are worth getting relatively early. If you spend all your money on seeds you won't be able to water everything within the day, and it is worthwhile to save gold for a coop or a barn (though the coop should go first if you ask me) while you are growing all the potatoes, but I'd advise you to have mayonnaise machines/milk presses unlocked and ready to be made before you start getting your animal produce. Processing them will give you a lot more money than the raw stuff.
Not PERFECT but it's a little more than that, if anything I'd say money, CC completion, and friendships with everyone are the big parts
Right, especially not to spend all your money right out of the gate on things you can't maintain or utilize to their maximum efficiency. SDV is a slow burn, and unintentionally sabotaging yourself so that you feel pressured to use glitches or cheats to catch up will only ruin the experience imo.
Spring Y1: Focus on growing a little bit of everything. Check out the mines and the community center. Try to reach floor 40 of the mines around the start of Summer. Regularly check Cindersap Forest near the sewer entrance for spring onions. Focus on farming and fishing to get some income to upgrade your tools. Try to snowball it. If you start with 500g, buy 9 potato seeds. When you harvest them, if they sell for 3k, buy 36 potato seeds. A rough goal for Spring is to try and have a little bit of everything, and not go over 40 crops. So for example; try having 9 cauliflower, 15 potatoes, 7 green bean poles, and 9 parsnips. You'll be able to water all your crops without having to refill your watering can. By the end of Spring, try to be at least level 2 in all skills, buy the first backpack upgrade, and upgrade 1 or 2 of your tools.
Summer Y1: Have a SMALL diversified farm, like a sprinkler watering 4 tomatoes, a sprinkler watering 4 corn, a sprinkler watering 4 peppers, etc. But the vast majority of your crops should be blueberries, with a few melons as well. By the end of Summer, you should have tier 1 sprinklers unlocked, and be aiming for level 80 of the mines, even if you can't get there quite yet. By the end of Summer, you should have at LEAST a few sprinklers to lighten your load. If you've got tons of sprinklers, maybe grow some hops too. They're great food for restoring energy, and the most profitable crop to put in a keg. Beer is also a great gift for many NPCs. Summer is when you should start trying to befriend people, in my opinion. Try to have at least most of your tools copper, and at least an iron pickaxe and/or watering can by the end of Summer.
Fall Y1: Aside from the regular, (growing crops, mining for resources, adding more sprinklers,) you should focus on gathering hay and wood for the winter, as they're very scarce resources in winter. By the end of Fall, it's entirely possible you'll have unlocked quality sprinklers, so consider dedicating time to them before the season ends. Try to get more of your tools up to iron tier, and maybe a gold pickaxe.
Winter Y1: This is the slow season. You should regularly be doing forage runs, and planting winter seeds to help provide food, gifts and money. If you haven't already, and have a surplus of hay, you can build a barn and/or coop to start making some passive income during the winter, since most crops don't grow. (Plus you've got a lot more free time!) Winter is a great season to work on your Fishing and Mining. I recommend fishing in the ocean, I think, because the lingcod is... very difficult to catch, and appears very common in the river and lake, I think. And maybe most importantly of all, Winter is the best time to socialize, explore and PLAN YOUR FARM. It's not uncommon for many farms to look haphazardly thrown together in year 1. During Winter, you won't be growing any crops, so you can rip up all your sprinklers, lay down some paths, plant some trees (for tappers or wood, whichever) in a grid pattern for easy access, etc. Winter is the "planning" season. Lay down paths, build stuff, grind money and resources to prepare for Spring Y1. Finally, if you've got the cash, consider planting some fruit trees if you want for the coming year.
Spring Y2: Do Spring right this time. You've made your farm more organized during the Winter, so you're able to make more money, easier. You've got your crop fields organized perfectly. You've got tons of sprinklers, so you can be done with the farm by noon. The rest of the day is yours to do with as you please. Work on befriending people, fish for cash, or work on the community center.
Obviously, this is all very broad advice. It won't always apply to every situation. I've played over 900 hours, and there's still some files where I can't unlock quality sprinklers before Winter. My best advice is to not spend more than you have, in both money and time/energy.
If your entire crop field sells for 15k, and a tool costs 10k to upgrade, buy more seeds before you buy the tool upgrade. It's better to make another 3k the next day to pay for the tool, than to have to re-plow your entire field because you couldn't get seeds planted in time. Likewise, if your watering can only waters 40 crops, don't plant 160 crops. You'll never have any energy to do anything else. My general rule of thumb is, if you're watering by hand:
- Normal can: no more than 40 crops
- Copper can: 60-80, more only if you have a reliable food source
- Iron can: 150ish crops
- Gold can: A field of 400, if you want, but you'll likely have sprinklers by this point
It feels like I buy parsnips in the spring grow them and only get the amount for the seeds back. It feels so tedious!