what to build on island to make some good money? are farms good?

[charlie white]

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[opihi]

Farms can be good but tricky when first starting out. You need to have premium and use your focus to water the crops, and nurture animals if you start raising them. Otherwise you won’t harvest enough seeds or baby animals to grow a complete crop for the next day, and buying seeds and babies is massively expensive; you will spend most of your income just keeping your farm alive.

For the same reason, if you do build a pasture to raise animals, make sure you have 2 or 3 farm plots producing food for them, or else you’ll wind up buying produce at the market to cover the food shortage, which gets expensive. That goes double if you want to build a kennel to domesticate and raise wild baby animals for mounts; I got through this by saving up a big pile of livestock before I started, so I could butcher a few each day to feed the kennel instead of depending on each day’s crop to feed the next one’s.

As you earn higher levels, it takes less focus to water each crop and nurture each animal. At low levels, when your daily focus points run out faster, you want to be more careful to spend your focus on the highest-tier crops that have the most expensive seeds or babies.

I’ve read one analysis that claimed that it is more profitable to use your focus in refining resources or crafting items, and spending some of those profits when you run short on seeds etc, I have not spent the time doing math to confirm that this is true.