5 Days, huh ?

[kengulnar73]

So I started a new game, collected everything that wasn't nailed down around town, raised the 150 silver, returned to the boss lady within a few hours and still my house was sold, lol
You might want to re-think the whole 5 day mourning period story hook.

Also as a side note, the game runs just fine in Linux with steam play, but crashes when I try to quit.

[D'amarr from Darshiva]

Collecting 150 silver in less than five days has worked fine for many players before. But it's not the only solution.

Quicker would be to earn a Tribal Favor. That sounds more obscure, but players who explore the Cierzo storage and are not afraid of leaving it through its back entrance, will be surprised. And once you know about it, you can apply meta-gaming whenever you start a new game, of course.

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Depending on how lucky you get with RNG chest in Rissa's house, you can get 150 silver by grabbing all the items in town + the storage area and selling it.
The thing is, you DON'T want to do that ever.
Grabbing the tribal favor is always the better option, you can leave the town through the storage area, make sure to have a bandage and/or 2 linen cloth to make one and head outside, you can literally run your way through to the injured person and avoid all enemies spamming conversation and giving him a bandage then going back to town in the same day

[HugsB4Bullets]

anyone want to team up? looking to start a 2 player game and i know how to get the favor at the beginning so u can save your 150 silver

[Angel]

5 days is more than enough if you do your first real 'quest' and if you're careful with the combat, if you know what you're doing though you can do it in the first 5 minutes with the injured guy on the beach

you can buy your lighthouse back anyway

[Cat Pondering At Yarn (mogging)]

Theres tons of ways instead of just buying back the house lol you just need to explore the close surroundings they don't make it that hard. The hard part is once the game begins and you need to choose a nation.

[Naryoril]

Originally posted by kengulnar73:

So I started a new game, collected everything that wasn't nailed down around town, raised the 150 silver, returned to the boss lady within a few hours and still my house was sold, lol
You might want to re-think the whole 5 day mourning period story hook.

A few hours ingame time? So just a few minutes real world time? Did you sleep? Did you die? What does the date at the bottom left say when you open the map?

[fieryinsane]

I just read you can get a tribal favor for making a bandage or finding one in the very beginning. Go to the beach through some storage door by the docks in the main town. Then look for a dude hurt by one of those lobsters and boom! First day... payed my blood debt and I'm a noob.

[GUARDIAN]

when i was playing outward, i could do it the same day, within the first hour of playing and had the same issue. consistency would be great.

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Just keep in mind if you don't rush for the tribal favor and decide to do things slowly, dying skips around 3 days.

Like everyone else just said, there are a lot of ways to pay your debt.
-you can gather everything in town (hatchet, felling axe, pitchfork, food, junk piles, fish, Rissa's chest, storage area items, among other things I didn't mention here) and sell it for the sliver.

-you can head outside through the storage area door almost instantly, breaking the tattered clothes you get at the start into 3 linen cloth, then going to the beach to that injured person, craft a bandage with 2 linen cloth, help him then go back. Tribal favor way seems the quickest and less taxing on your silver.

-you can do the same as the first suggestion, just instead of selling everything and settling for that, you can talk to the lady wearing green clothes and take her quest to go to blister burrows. grabbing the mushroom shield + the giant's heart is a bonus silver, around maybe 70-85 total silver for this.

-you can also just say screw it and do all of the above but not paying the debts and instead selling everything, doing the lady's quest, and selling the tribal favor (goes for about 50ish silver). roughly this is the most silver you can get out of at the start, you can also be a petty bastard and ask Yzan to give you back your money around 25/30 silver if I remember correctly.

I guess the last option is only if you really don't care about the house storage chest/beds/kitchen and Yzan lol
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Just so you don't think I'm talking nonsense, here's a fresh character album, got semi-lucky with Rissa's chest. it had a rich noble's hat, 2 rage potions, 1 life potion. All of which were sold with the garbage around town.
Got a little lucky with the hallowed out tree on the way home, too. with 2 stability potions and a trader garb.
This isn't my luckiest starting character though, you can apparently get more noble dress pieces which could sell for higher.

I also forgot to mug Yzan and sell the makeshift leather recipes. Learned everything else (Gaberry jam, Cierzo Ceviche).
which honestly wouldn't have made much of a difference, about 9 silver for makeshift leather recipes, and maybe 4 - 6 silver for the learned recipes above. Also, with mugging Yzan, which I think is around 25 silver? I forgot to mug him before handing the tribal favor lol
all in all, total would be somewhere around 288-290 silver, of course not counting the sell everything route.
that would mean 45 for tribal favor plus whatever Helen Turnbull gives you for getting the shield + selling her the giant's heart.

Easily above 350 silver total, whether you sell your tribal favor or not. You'd have some starter gear, a weapon from the trash you pick up, and that much silver to spend on skills / other essentials.

oops, forgot to post the photos:
https://imgur.com/a/gDOdzrC