Fastest Completion Yet! (For me, at least.)

[Cronomancer]

So, managed to break my original record for how long it took me to complete the main story, which was sometime around late fall/early winter(my first playthrough)on year 1. Now, in my second playthrough, I managed to complete the story on Summer 12, Year 1.
Now I'm wondering... What are your fastest completion records? (By which I mean restoring the Lighthouse)

[SlackerBoe]

Winter year 2

And I only completed it because they locked animal reskins behind game completion.

The way the main story locks characters into position is very helpful.

For example near the beginning Sam gets locked into a spot in the village and you can literally access his shop 24/7 as long as he is story locked in that position.

Then you hit the end game and all the harvest sprites, the god, the goddess, and Edmund are all in the mountain shrine. This makes chasing down these annoying characters way easier and forces the harvest sprites to spawn on days they normally wouldn’t be available.

Congrats on the speed run though. A month and a half ain’t bad at all.

[Cronomancer]

Originally posted by SlackerBoe:

Winter year 2

And I only completed it because they locked animal reskins behind game completion.

The way the main story locks characters into position is very helpful.

For example near the beginning Sam gets locked into a spot in the village and you can literally access his shop 24/7 as long as he is story locked in that position.

Then you hit the end game and all the harvest sprites, the god, the goddess, and Edmund are all in the mountain shrine. This makes chasing down these annoying characters way easier and forces the harvest sprites to spawn on days they normally wouldn’t be available.

Congrats on the speed run though. A month and a half ain’t bad at all.

Thanks friendo! OwO

[tifftaffy]

I've completed the main story line- the fastest i think was 28th of Spring Year 1. I did a lot of save/reset in the mines, when picking up flowers (to get enough tulips to build the house of the fisherman), got lucky with rain for my crops. I also used the trick of getting the farm field full of cabbage with free seeds from Jeanne to help with the fast gold & unlocking red cabbage.

[Cronomancer]

Originally posted by tifftaffy:

I've completed the main story line- the fastest i think was 28th of Spring Year 1. I did a lot of save/reset in the mines, when picking up flowers (to get enough tulips to build the house of the fisherman), got lucky with rain for my crops. I also used the trick of getting the farm field full of cabbage with free seeds from Jeanne to help with the fast gold & unlocking red cabbage.

Holy heck dude. O_O

[charlesgreen1145]

the quickest you can do on the switch version is 24 days, that means cabbedge plant trick on both days, buying stone for every building, if you get one cow, making sure to get the upgraded milk to substitute for 2 milks, makeing sure to plant every flower for doc insurance, i've seen him ask for a sunflower and a red rose.

my order is
day 1, plant in every nook and cranny, no weed pulls available,
day 2 de weed, plant everywere, save scum 3 tulips. a small thing, if you do not get the tablet put in the next day you will still have infinite energy, this is an option because on day 3, you gotta wait for day 4 cabbage anyways, sometimes when you put the tablet in though, day 3 is raining instead of sunny
day 3, talk to a few people.
day 4, loot the fields for cabbage, sell, buy stone, cut trees, eat cabbage to keep energy, use the 3 tulips, the money from cabbages and the stone bought to fix the fisher's house on the right side of the map, and fix every house you can, which is all but the restaraunt and maybe the wizard and witches houses. also buy bait
day 5, get the next sprite, flower shop, get all the cabbage, and sell as needed, since fisherman gives you the fishing rod, get the perch or yellow perch, 2 of either one, fix the restaraunt, always make sure to chek the flower shop for new flowers, they get new stuff every tablet, then stick the 2nd tablet in, make sure you got a ton of wood extra, at least 35, but i just cut all my trees till i got full before putting the tablet in as putting the tablet in ends the day, and if you do end it after 12, you still get the debuff energy.
day 6, fix the bridge, the smithy house and the mines, do as you please. buy all flowers needed for the next steps, remember, she gets more after every tablet, and the normal shop does too. for the sake of easier mining, buy the bread recipe for bread, then use some money to get great flower and salt, great bread is about 2 hearts and 25% of a heart, its well worth it to make the bread rather then buy it, its also worth 18000 in the cooking contest later in spring
day 7, do whatever, its sunday, you can't start smelting till monday, but you can get the stone to make material stone, the glass and iron, and maybe grind floor 11-16 for more gemstones for money, 11-16 does NOT offer ores, which makes gems more often
day 8, refine, sell, use gem money and material stone to fix livestock dealer in bottom right of mountain area, and iron glass and 10 material stone, for docs sciency building, i am posting a place were most repair materials are listed
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1202608177
day 9 get cow, always make sure to be on top of flowers, the day you can get sunflowers and the day later you can get cosmos, do so, you need 20 of both. the posted page has mining tricks as well for easy mining. from then on, as long as you keep on top of product production, and your animals, mostly the cow, you can win sooner then summer. ALSO make sure to give the livestock lady, bamboo and sea shells, both are big loves, and make her offer animals of rarity sooner, i think shop dealers music notes/ likes are locked till after tablets are all gotten as i could not get my shop keepers above 1 like, but everyone else i could. might be because like can affect whats available. get a horse, its fast and effective, eat bread breakfast lunch and dinner, and if you got extra time but not enough to mine, try fishing at the farm, fishs offer money, not as much as grinding 11-16 for gems, but its pretty good if you save scum catch the best fish and sell the ones you can to the restaraunt, once you got the upgraded hammer, loot mithril as often as you can. you can get blue roses after the 4th tablet.

and as for plants, they can survive any season as long as they have fertilizer.

also, you can use soliel to freely fertilize once he/she is unlocked, which is sometime after day 13 if you go as fast as you can and give it the attention every day, well worth it, read the tips on soliel