Early game energy, movement speed and coal?

[Rallianto]

Everytime I start a new game, I always struggle with a few things the first one or two in-game years.

Never enough energy
Forces me to go to bed early. People say "field snack" but never enough. Tips for good and easily accesable early game energy source?

Movement speed
This one is annoying, character walks sooo slow. Later on I used to setup coffee or spicy eel, but is there a way to get movement speed early game?

Coal
Never.. enough.. coal! So many trips to the mine early game to farm coal. The Charcoal Klin takes a lot of preparation of fields of trees. Late game you can just buy coal ofc, but any tips on getting this early game? Seems more scares than any metal ore

[Omegatherion]

Energy: i always go for the spring onions and just eat foragebles. onec you have the mushroom cave, eat those. Comon mushs are great early on.

Movement: You have autorun activated? there is nothing you can do otherwise. There are two books now that increase your speed but they are pricy.

Coal: One of the first things i do is grind those dust sprites to get the burglars ring. after that
they drop so much of that stuff, that i never even need to buy coal.

[Rallianto]

Originally posted by Omegatherion:

Energy: i always go for the spring onions and just eat foragebles. onec you have the mushroom cave, eat those. Comon mushs are great early on.

Movement: You have autorun activated? there is nothing you can do otherwise. There are two books now that increase your speed but they are pricy.

Coal: One of the first things i do is grind those dust sprites to get the burglars ring. after that
they drop so much of that stuff, that i never even need to buy coal.

Thanks for answer.
In my 3 saves I also went to farm dust sprites to get burglar ring, and then they drop more coal, but I am still short of coal. Until late game when money is abundant. Guess there is nothing else to do, than grinding. Wanna start a new save, but the grinding is hard the first years or two

[Clovis Sangrail]

To help with coal --

1. Play the forest map. It has 8 hardwood stumps that give 2 hardwood each when you axe them. Buy some wood chippers from Robin and run that hardwood through them to get regular wood, then use the regular wood to make your charcoal.

2. Similar to item 1 -- When you whack a hardwood stump, you just might get a mahogany seed. Plant some mahogany trees, preferably using tree fertilizer. When you chop down mahogany trees, you get hardwood, which you can run through a wood chipper to get regular wood. Then make charcoal.

[EleventhStar]

fishing is a net positive energy source that is available from the get go.

movement speed not much to do before eel/coffee or horse. there are some new books in 1.6 that can help depending on how easy money is for you.

you can probably buy coal early game too if you spend some time fishing. using bombs can also help even tho they take coal to craft.

[Nakos]

Energy: Out of Energy? Go Foraging. Build up that Foraging skill.

Watch TV every morning and when Salmonberry season hits, spend the next 3 days collecting as many as you can, that's a huge stock of energy and healing.

Movement: Early movement you're kind of stuck with.

Coal: Go kill a lot of Dust Sprits, they tend to be in the 40-60 range of the mines. Personally I think bad luck days are better for that, but ... that could just be anecdotal on my part.

[EleventhStar]

Originally posted by Rallianto:

Guys I just caught "River Jelly" fishing. Seems to have given me +30 energy permanent? Can this be?

it looks like a regular food buff. check the top right of your screen for a little square box to the left of the date/time, read the tooltip of that.

[Rallianto]

Originally posted by EleventhStar:

Originally posted by Rallianto:

Guys I just caught "River Jelly" fishing. Seems to have given me +30 energy permanent? Can this be?

it looks like a regular food buff. check the top right of your screen for a little square box to the left of the date/time, read the tooltip of that.

Yeah I saw that after I asked, so deleted it. It was just a 7 minute buff. Would have been op if it were a permanent upgrade

[Queen Droxxanna]

i just make every thing easier by using the Tractor mod. The CJB cheat mod and GMCM allows you to call and use the tractor without having to pay for it or build the garage. And there is now a mod that lets you find a broken down tractor and the parts and repair it early in game so it doesnt feel like you just cheated for the tractor..

[FDru]

You can literally just grow energy. There's usually a crop that has good energy but is cheap. Keep some of those on hand.

Then obviously salmonberries.

Otherwise you can just buy salads from the saloon. They're good for both energy and health and always available. Just don't rely on them heavily cause they're not super cheap.

For speed you can also buy coffee from the saloon. Just use them only when needed (like when you're frantically searching for that jerk who's hiding on their birthday).

idk about coal cause I never have a problem with coal. I seem to get a little bit of coal from everything, and always a surplus of hundreds. What are you doing to run out of coal... just like play the game and it rains from the sky.

[nanami]

another way to get plenty of energy early on is to cut the top half a tree down on your farm for the seeds to make field snacks when you have a lot of energy later or need to expand your fields can remove the rest, could use some of that wood to make coal unless you need it for other things

[TripSin]

CJB cheats menu mod can let you set your run speed to be faster. I also use a faster path speed mod to increase speed on crafted paths.

[tikiman572]

As others have stated, use foraged fruits and veggies early on for a good way to supplement your Energy needs. When Salmonberry season happens during your first Spring? Go out of your way to pick as many of them as humanly possible because not only will you net a ton of XP for it, those berries will keep you going for quite awhile.

[Radiosity]

Originally posted by Clovis Sangrail:

To help with coal --

1. Play the forest map. It has 8 hardwood stumps that give 2 hardwood each when you axe them. Buy some wood chippers from Robin and run that hardwood through them to get regular wood, then use the regular wood to make your charcoal.

2. Similar to item 1 -- When you whack a hardwood stump, you just might get a mahogany seed. Plant some mahogany trees, preferably using tree fertilizer. When you chop down mahogany trees, you get hardwood, which you can run through a wood chipper to get regular wood. Then make charcoal.

Unless 1.6 changed it, you don't even get access to wood chippers until the beginning of winter, so that's not really a solution for early game.

[supersand]

easy early energy sources - parsnips, green beans, tulips, salad from gus, carp / green algae from the mountain lake, salmonberries in mid spring, hops in summer, blackberries in fall, mushrooms / fruit from the cave in all seasons

if you plan to eat the crops then try to put prioritize basic fertilizer or better on them for better energy, especially flowers since they double as a generally liked gift

easy mid-late game energy sources - gold star hops / grapes, life potions (crafted or bought from a store), lots of gus salads, lots of spicy eel, crab pot fish turned into sashimi, lots of gold star common mushrooms / purple mushrooms


easy coal - go to the mines and go to floor 40, kill any dust sprites that spawn while mining iron, use ladder if you find one otherwise go to floor 0 and retry. Make Charcoal Kilns too and put them on floor 0 to fill between tries. The Quarry + Quarry Mine also spawns a lot of coal now so unlocking it is a good idea if you want easy coal. Buying it from Clint is also a good idea especially in the winter of year 1.


move speed - unless you make a lot of gold you are going to have to wait for this, you spend 15k + somewhere around 30k at the bookseller for more speed and coffee at gus's costs 300. Joja Cola can provide a speed buff too but you have to fish a lot to get these early game, you can buy them for 75 at gus's but the coffee is better value.

[CaliTurian]

Originally posted by Queen Droxxanna:

i just make every thing easier by using the Tractor mod. The CJB cheat mod and GMCM allows you to call and use the tractor without having to pay for it or build the garage. And there is now a mod that lets you find a broken down tractor and the parts and repair it early in game so it doesnt feel like you just cheated for the tractor..

Mod that instantly skips to the ''you beat the game'' screen upon starting a new file when? (It's not OP it's a QOL mod, silly.)