Should i build a a stable first than upgrading my house?

[needylight]

I'm currently planning to mass farm hardwood with the mahagomy seeds strat

[Nakos]

I'd upgrade the house first. Gives you more space inside and a kitchen, which allows you to cook all kinds of useful things.

[Queen Droxxanna]

agreed, house first, It also gives you a fridge to put food into.

[Giblets]

what are you going to do with all that hardwood? just sell it?

[ChrillBill]

Horsie can wait until kitchen has arrived.

[Meg]

whats the mahog seed strat?

[Spooka]

definitely prefer house upgrade over stable, if you have coffee seeds, you can make coffee and use it to semi-boost you around the town

[McJiggy]

Pepper poppers are also easily obtainable for speed boost, with milk from cows and how easy it is to stock up on peppers in summer. Also when you get a lot of money its faster to just buy coffee from Gus and turn into triple shot espressos and the best part is that the coffee stacks with the food so you get a double speed boost.

[Cobretti]

I'll go against the grain and say stable first to save time moving around. I only use a kitchen late game to get the achievements. I don't use cooked food at all, my HP food is cheese. I'm also very cautious on how I spend my money year 1 preferring to dump as much of it into buying wood at the end of year 1 before Robin raises prices. This ensures I never have to farm wood in any of my games after hitting max forage which is important to me. Kitchen is simply not important enough to me in year 1.

[Giblets]

don't know why anyone would buy wood, there's more wood around than anyone knows what to do with. lol

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Giblets:

don't know why anyone would buy wood, there's more wood around than anyone knows what to do with. lol

Opportunity cost. Wood isn't "free."

You can pay Robin gold, and she'll give you wood. OR ... you can pay the game time (hours in a day), and energy (which also costs to replenish).

Either way, acquiring wood has a cost, to you.

Sometimes, you'll have a project you're working on. That project will have a time horizon (which may, or may not, be self imposed). You might not have the time and/or energy to gather the wood yourself, but you might have the gold ... and Robin has an infinite supply.

[Giblets]

i've manged to get almost 5k or wood without even making an effort to get it.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Giblets:

i've manged to get almost 5k or wood without even making an effort to get it.

No, you haven't. That's what "opportunity cost" means.

You chose to pay the game time and energy for your wood (instead of paying Robin gold). But you still paid those things.

And you could have been using that time to do something different, and far more lucrative.

[Giblets]

Yes i have, don't tell me what i haven't done.. you're not the one playing my game.
i never used my time to go collecting wood i picked up by just going about my normal tasks, The only times i went out of my way to collect wood was to fix the boat and Robin's hardwood task. Also using up the last 15/20 minutes if the day to chop a few trees paying with game time it's using up what's left because there's nothing else to do.

[ChrillBill]

Originally posted by Giblets:

Yes i have, don't tell me what i haven't done.. you're not the one playing my game.
i never used my time to go collecting wood i picked up by just going about my normal tasks, The only times i went out of my way to collect wood was to fix the boat and Robin's hardwood task. Also using up the last 15/20 minutes if the day to chop a few trees paying with game time it's using up what's left because there's nothing else to do.

What they meant was just that it does indeed require time, effort and energy to collect wood. Therefore it does come at a cost even though it might not feel like it. I mean you can't seriously have collected 5000 pieces of wood by just chopping debris along the way to your destination? That would take an eternity @.@ If you stopped to chop down some trees however that would make more sense, but that also still comes with a cost since it requires both time, effort and energy to chop down a tree. Are you with me? It's nothing to get upset over really. I mean even if your main goal wasn't to collect wood, you still put in the time, effort and energy to do it :p We all do this kind of stuff in this game without perhaps realizing it at first ^.^

[Giblets]

buying wood uses money, making money requires time. so it doesn't matter if the time is spent making/fishing/mining stuff to sell or if the time is spent chopping... which would be a far easier and faster way to get wood.

Yes i've chopped trees, lol, what i mean is that i just did it as i went along.. either using up the last new minuets of the day, or just removing debris. one half of my farm is still a overgrown forest.