What to do when out of Stamina?

[Kargor]

I've only just started the game a "few days" ago, and things are starting to somewhat clear up -- also, fandom.com; the game is super-bad at explaining things.

However, because of that, I'm basically out of Stamina in "no time". Like, today I finally upgraded my axe (even though the upgrade kit had a really high market price) and went out to get some hardwood, and I was out of Stamina in the middle of the afternoon.

Sitting on my sofa isn't really much of an improvement, and getting hooked to potions will be far too expensive -- so, other than trying to hunt down some NPCs to increase "relationship", which is difficult at night, is there really nothing that can be done, other than going to sleep early?

[james64468]

Fill up wood that what I do. Sometimes I just sit at bench around Portia.

[Kat Ballou]

Since you just started the game, have you fully repaired the floor in your workshop? If you haven't, you won't start the day with a full stamina bar. To restore stamina, you can buy a Massage Chair from Paulie that you place in your house and sit on to restore stamina. Its not incredibly fast, but at least you aren't using up potions and resources. As James mentioned above, you can also sit on the benches around town (not as convenient when you're trying to gather resources in the abandoned ruins, but at least it's free). You can add furniture to your house that will increase your stamina, and your stamina will increase as you level up and use your skill points to select traits that help with stamina. As soon as you can, buy a large planter and apple tree seed from the Church and get it started growing in your yard. You can craft a drying rack and turn your apples into dried apples, which you can carry with you and use to restore stamina. It won't be long before you'll find that you have stamina available even in the late evening, so you'll want to run around and chop trees or hit rocks before you call it a day. Good luck and enjoy the game!

I almost forgot to add that you can go to the Round Table and order some food, which also restores stamina pretty reasonably. The higher your relationship with Django, the more discount you get on your food. He loves paper flowers (buy several from Alice when the prices are down).

[worstcase11]

If you constantly run out of wood, you can just go mining and trade some stone for wood at Gusts counter at A&G construction.

If you want to go all out and have cash to spare (for example because you got lucky and caught a king fish) you can also buy an expensive massage chair from Paulie's furniture shop - it recovers your stamnia way quicker than sitting on the normal benches or couches.

To improve your stamnia pool, you can put some furniture items into your house, equip some accesoirs which improve stamnia (you might get something useful, if you accept a commerce commission at the guild that has a small doodle on the mission sheet) or buy some better clothing from Carol's tailor shop.

By any means you should take part in the fishing contests in spring - it will cost you 1200 Gol to apply for all 6 contests and you'll need a fishing rod and ~100 bait from Sophie's farmer store, but you can win 3 sorts of food, one of those foods can recover your stamnia too. You don't even need to win, but the better your placing, the better your prizes.

For later build some drying racks and buy planters and apple seedlings from the church store - dried apple slices are the best for recovering stamnia, but you need a level 2 workstation and the trees need a most of a month to grow and bear fruit, after that you can harvest apples all 8 days.

[Kargor]

I see. Most options seem too far in the future, though :-) I don't have a whole lot of money, or a whole lot of relationship points, or a whole lot of furniture items I can build. And while I have learned skills that reduce Stamina usage, I've not (yet?) added the skill that adds 2% -- I don't know what the other tiers give, but 2% felt like a bad joke.

I've done one fishing contest so far, but they aren't exactly cheap either. The most interesting result was a fish that gave me +15 on every relationship when I donated it to Gale for another thing, but I'm going to skip the fishing "today" (I think I saw it announced again). Don't know how many of those bait worms I have left anyway; collecting those was never on my "how to spend my stamina today" list.

I'm more concerned with getting that bridge thing done -- no matter where I go, I don't get any "marble" which is already needed on some stuff, so maybe the bridge opens up new areas... fishing doesn't really progress anything. Also, the entrance fee to the ruins only lasts for a few days, and I can't go there every day, but...

Stamina "improvements" seem rather ridiculous; the numbers I've seen on furniture items are quite pointless, so at least for now I wasn't going to bother with that. But yes, I did notice that I can fix the floor in the house, and I completed that quickly since it just needed some wood.

And I'm generally staying away from buying stuff. My best/only income, so far, is selling the honey-stuff from kicking the big trees, but that just trades stamina for money, so I don't want to spend money for stamina :-)

[Halcyform]

As mentioned, massage chair. You can easily afford this if you go fishing.

When you go fishing, don't sell the fish that sell cheaply - save those. Sell the fish that sell for more. You use the cheaper fish to make stamina recovery food (cooking) that you use out in the field/ruins.

Pay attention to market prices (as shown on vendor menu). Sell when you have to, but try and wait for advantageous market conditions to get maximum return on goods. Buy when market is down.

[worstcase11]

You can find marble, if you mine the rocks outside the city wall with a pickaxe.

And to have enough bait for fishing - you really should buy it from the farmer market, else you waste too much stamnia collecting them by chance.

Fish really sells for a lot of gol so you could have easily gotten all the invested money back with interest and fish to spare from the contests (on the two contest days you can apply 3 times each for 6 contest, if you are at the fishing spot early enough in the morning. )

The last contest I even managed to pull a rare king fish out of the water a single one of those sells for 5,000 gol, though I admit it is near impossible to net them with a starter fishing rod.

[Maia Sim]

Buy a pumpkin pie at Sophies (only in spring) eat it than sit on a bench - it will recover your stamina twice as fast as sitting on a bench without. Also don't forget you can buy a meal at Djangos once a day.

[ KARR™]

50 hours in and i learn that you can regain stamina by sitting on benches....

[Halcyform]

Originally posted by  KARR™:

50 hours in and i learn that you can regain stamina by sitting on benches....

It isn't much, but you also gain some stamina when you use Dee Dee Transport service to travel around the map.

[Maia Sim]

Buses too - its funny if you have a horse or llama as a mount and it has to follow you!