is it just me or is fishing way too exhausting?

[Simpson]

it's 12pm and i'm about to collapse.

[Ryika]

Fishing is pretty exhausting, but also VERY profitable in the earlier stages of the game. It's REALLY good "value per (ingame) time spent", and even though it eats a lot of your energy, still very good "value per energy spent".

To continue fishing for longer, just bring some cheap food, or eat some of the lower value Fish that you've caught.

[I Kinda Fail]

Later in the game you won't even be able to use all your energy by midnight. Drink the Joja cola you fish up. Eat the seaweed and kelp, if you aren't gonna use it for fish ponds. Otherwise eat the low value fish like carp, or the "stack breaking fish". (Like if you have 5 gold-star carp, and 1 silver-star carp, eat the silver to save inventory space.)

[TKsOpinion]

Originally posted by Ryika:

Fishing is pretty exhausting, but also VERY profitable in the earlier stages of the game. It's REALLY good "value per (ingame) time spent", and even though it eats a lot of your energy, still very good "value per energy spent".

To continue fishing for longer, just bring some cheap food, or eat some of the lower value Fish that you've caught.

How profitable? I am about 6 hours in and have made 22K from just crops. I have no idea if that's good or bad. I am definitely going to reduce my number of crops until I have sprinklers. Watering my hand takes FOREVER!

[Simpson]

you can water multiple tiles with improved watering cans, but i only had to upgrade it once till i got the better sprinklers.

[Ryika]

Originally posted by TKsOpinion:

How profitable? I am about 6 hours in and have made 22K from just crops. I have no idea if that's good or bad. I am definitely going to reduce my number of crops until I have sprinklers. Watering my hand takes FOREVER!

Depends more on the ingame date you're at than on raw hours played. You can make a few thousands every day with max level fishing, and max level fishing can be reached pretty quickly with no investment other than the upgraded fishing rods.

However, you definitely want to have crops as well, since you do need farming level 6 to get to quality sprinklers, and once you have sprinklers, farming does make a LOT more money than you could make from fishing (if we ignore Crab Pots) with a lot less effort and time investment.

A common strategy is to spend most of the first 15 days fishing (+watering the initial Parsnips) to save up money and then buying a whole bunch of strawberries on the harvest festival (~100+) since they do make a LOT of money and get you the farming experience you need to unlock Quality Sprinklers (don't waste your time on normal ones). Other than that, you just spend lucky days in the mine to farm the materials for sprinklers so you can start automating in summer.

Not the most enjoyable thing to water 100+ strawberries by hand for half a month, but it does get you ahead quite drastically and sets up for a very profitable first summer. On the other hand, since this is an open-ended game, there's really no need to hurry, especially if it just reduces your enjoyment of the game. Just doing however much farming you can stomach and filling the rest of the time with fishing/mining works as well.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Simpson:

it's 12pm and i'm about to collapse.

Eat something.

Willy sells Trout Soup. It'll restore your energy, and it'll buff your Fishing skill. But really, anything old forage you grab off the ground will restore your energy. If you've reached Summer, then grow some Hops.

[Simpson]

i know i can just eat some of the fish, it's just that it seems to take much more energy than all the other stuff.

[Ryika]

It does take much more energy, but it also produces much more value.

All main activities have their upsides and downsides. It would be really boring if they all did the exact same thing in different ways.

[Jazzmigo]

Also dont forget to place a chest by the place you fish so you do not run out of space.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Jazzmigo:

Also dont forget to place a chest by the place you fish so you do not run out of space.

As long as your POSITIVE that no NPC walks through that specific spot.

Because if they do, ever, then your chest and the contents will be destroyed.

[Black Captain]

You can also download mods that let you regen energy