Ginger Island run: Spring 1 report.

[Pixel Peeper]

Trying to explore and live on Ginger Island when you have a main farm on the mainland can be very tedious, so I've been wanting to try a playthrough where I ignore the starting farm and attempt to unlock Ginger Island to make it my main base of operations.

The first Spring just ended and I thought I'd summarize how the first season went for reference.

Starting with skills... I got level 10 Fishing for money and a head start on Artifacts, but I'm not sure if it was worth it since I stopped fishing shortly after getting level 10. Still, I got many Artifacts (including the Rare Disc), Neptune's Glaive which made progressing in the mine easier, and I caught the Legend. Buying the rods and bait cost me over 10,000g total, which ate into my profits somewhat.

I got level 5 Foraging which is one level less than I wanted (level 6 for Lightning Rods, since I need 5 Batteries for Ginger Island), but I figure I can get the last level fairly quickly, just gotta raze every tree on my farm.

I got level 8 Mining just by finishing the 120 levels of the Mine and doing a little extra mining for gold. Because Fishing is not strictly needed on this type of run, it seems like going all in on Mining could be a great alternative way to do it, takes a while before it starts paying off but then you can sell lots of gold and gems.

For tools, I upgraded my pick and axe to Gold and my can to Copper, which means I spent 36,000g on tool upgrades alone, not to mention the materials (15 Copper Bars, 10 Iron Bars and 10 Gold bars).

For town restoration I only bought a membership and restored the Minecarts, so that's another 20k spent there.

I also bought a single backpack upgrade for 2k, I'll be buying the 24-slot pack for 10k soon.

Also bought 5,000g's worth of Spaghetti for Robin because I want her Flute Block schematics for an event on Ginger Island.

All in all I must have spent roughly 75,000g during the first Spring. I only have 5,500g left at the moment, though I have about 20,000g's worth of mining stuff to sell, plus the Legend which is worth over 9,000g.

I figure I'll unlock the Desert in a few days, then the money will really start flowing in and I'll have the boat to Ginger Island repaired before the end of Autumn.

One thing Fishing has done for me is I have 55 Museum donations already. I'm just 5 away from unlocking the Sewers which will allow me to start getting extra Iridium Sprinklers without having to worry about farming more Battery Packs.

So far it looks like it's doing OK. Could be better but I didn't exactly try very hard and that's OK, I'm on schedule.

[FafnirChaos]

引用自 Sebine：

引用自 Tripoteur Ventripotent：

I did the Community Centre twice already, I can't be bothered with it anymore. All my saves are with Joja now, it's just so much better. You can do whatever you want and have the entire town restored in less than a month.

I mean, I need the achievement...
but ... christ siding with Walmart/Kroger/Target/Publix/♥♥♥♥♥♥ Corporation is just...
leaves a bad taste in my mouth

I did it, I used the settings to get the red cabbage seeds from the traveling merchant(Actually a lot of the stuff I got for the center I got from her) only planted what I needed for the month and did multiples of the gold star crops(used fertilizer and resetted the day if I didn't get 5 gold) Got most of my money fishing. Overall I had a really good run 3 Meteors, got a Diamond from fishing on the 4th day, and most of my fish where gold to iridum quailty(for w/e reason) I made it to the island the last week of winter.

[Pixel Peeper]

Well... I guess the experimental part of the run is over.

Went to the island very late on my first day there, couldn't quite unlock the cabin on the second day but I believe it's very much possible.

Went to the Forge. Got a bad enchant. Happens. I have a spare Prismatic Shard, I'll try something else.

Can't buy anything from the Dwarf because I only have the 3rd and 4th scrolls. I'll have to take the time to grab the other two.

Did the "Simon says" puzzle on my first try, pretty happy about that.

Realized I couldn't do Birdie's quest because it's time-gated to Year 2. Still, don't need all the Walnuts to unlock everything, so that's just an inconvenience.

Planted a Mango tree.

From now on I'm just casually doing stuff. Had to work close to two months to get to this island, now I'm going to take my time and enjoy it.

[BCD]

引用自 Tripoteur Ventripotent：

Went to the Forge. Got a bad enchant. Happens. I have a spare Prismatic Shard, I'll try something else.
Can't buy anything from the Dwarf because I only have the 3rd and 4th scrolls. I'll have to take the time to grab the other two.

Which enchantments are you looking for? I recall finding none of them all that enticing. I got vampiric, which isn't great either but I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.
The dwarf scrolls can get annoying. I think number 3 was the one eluding me last time. I ended up just throwing in the towel and spawning it.

引用自 Tripoteur Ventripotent：

Did the "Simon says" puzzle on my first try, pretty happy about that.

Where's the achievement for accomplishing such a great feat? It makes Fector's Challenge look like Cowpoke.

[Pixel Peeper]

Master on the rod would be the most important one, though power or speed on the pick and axe are nice.

Usually I get all the scrolls fairly quickly, and for some reason I'm always drowning in Dwarf Scroll IIIs (the blue one). This run I just happened to go for Gold Ore ASAP and simply didn't fight enough things in levels 1-80 to get the first two. I guess I can just go tilling and killing to remedy that.

I'll eventually want an Island Obelisk too.

Seems like, even when you ignore the mainland farm, you still have quite a few things to do.