Tutorial or Guidelines Anywhere?

[JayEmm]

Sorry to bother you on what may seem very obvious to everyone else but I am already frustrated with it after only an hour after I bought it just yesterday. The text appears and disappears in the game too fast that I am not able to read what others say or game messages say before it's gone. Could you please consider adding a Continue button or arrow button at the bottom of ever speak bubble and message so we can click on that when we have finished reading it and it will advance at our own pace?
Because of this I'm unable to keep up and have missed most of the game instructions on how to do this or that on the farm. It would be greatly appreciated if you had a Guide/Tutorial on how to play, instructions showing the use of the Mouse buttons to do the basics, how to use things in our inventory. I have no idea how to eat the apples I'm carrying before I end up collapsing from starvation, but I can eat berries. Also having trouble with how to plant the crops that the tasks ask for. If the games cursor would stay up I could easily just point to what I want and that would be the one I'd plant. As it is I've been trying to understand how to use the Mouse buttons to do this but so far I just plant random things without much choice.

Well, it is a very intriguing looking game but (for me anyway) very frustrating.

[Bumblings]

hey JayEmm,

thanks for having a look into Harvest Life. Some of the players have trouble with the controls at first glance as you do. If you get used to them, the controls won´t be a big issue i hope.

At first I´ll point you to a wonderful guide written by cheekiyaya https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1437986820

it says its an achievement guide but tells you many more things about the game such as some game-mechanics.

lets have a look at some of your issues you highlighted.

Eating apples or other food from you inventory:
you have up to four inventory slots each marked with a number from 1-4. In dependance of the slot that contains your apples, just push the number of the slot on your keyboard.

for planting crops :
walk to the field you want to plant your crops. Right mouse button changes the kind of crop, left mouse button plants the crop of your choice. after planting the left mouse button is for watering the field. head to the next field to plant the next crop.

small icons in your actionbar indicate which button you should use.

hope i could help out a bit,
and thanks for playing Harvest Life
Roman, Bumblebee.

[Gingergal]

+1 so needs a better tutorial, I've just started read everything and still lost. I couldn't figure out either how to eat didn't know had to put it in keyboard I was clicking on apple not very user friendly. And the guide is more of an achievement guide not answering basic questions before you get to that stage. So have no idea how to figure out the controls.

How do you increase the bag> I remember seeing a bag in tutotrial to increase I think how much you see in the bottom bar area - or get the padlock to unlock. It's not on the plotting table.

edit= Figured it out, in the village (to right of cow pen) it's just a small ordinary house in the middle of the village with a small icon on door, (for a warehouse it's about the smallest house) if you go in there you can upgrade the inventory, (and the smithy which is more obvious in village you can upgrade other items)