How to overcome the grind? (chapter 2)

[Etzak]

So I'm like 22 hours into the game, sitting at around 50k, have every quest completed that i can. I took my time, but now I'd like to progress and buy the furniture factory.

Ive already read up and tried out several methods.

Selling wood would take a long time. Even if i skipped the forklift part and just stored all the planks outside and time-skip several weeks to let them dry, I'd still have to make like 80 tours to sell them. Also deforesting a large area wich would become quite repetitive after a while.

Cooking I tried, with parking vehicles at shops, then port each day and buying the raw ingredients + gathering milk and eggs on the farm. But after about half an hour that only gave like 3-4k profit.

Gathering herbs i also tried, i rand over the map for over an hour, gathering every herbs and mushrooms, then crafted the shampoos and it also only made like 3-4k.

With these methods, I'd be looking at a long grind. So are there any other ways to get the money quick? I'd like to be done with that (= gathered the 150k im missing) in around 2 hours max.

Edit: Also, is there a map available with all treasure chest locations? I searched, but could only find maps for Farmers Dynasty.

[tazman1]

sadly I can't think of a way to make the grind for the furniture shop and paying uncle any less. However if you do all the random daily missions that pop up on the map you get about 1 -2k total. I have all the chickens it will let you buy and all the cows and from the gathering of eggs and milk then just cooking those down then doing the daily missions I am netting a very decent profit. Sadly I don't know of any way to reduce the grind aside from cheating

[COmtns]

When I was going through this, I figured it was going to take me about 120 driving trips just to sell wood to be able to get the factory (along with other tasks), in addition to the 25 or so already did. Do you know that comes out to over 10 hours just in driving, assuming 5 minutes a trip (which would be very conservative over the long haul)? Even if it is closer to 80, that's still over 6 hours worth. I ended up getting clued in to a cheat program from another user and used that because I would be long burned out of this game by that point.

Then, it is true that once you get the furniture factory that you wouldn't need to ever cut another tree down, so motivation to continue could fade anytime after that, and that's even before you can afford newer machines or can date someone, let alone marry them. But hey, at least they scattered treasure chests about so you can spend a few more hours tackling them for blueprints even when you have a map guide to go off of.

Almost every task that's in this game is so over the top and so out of balance, in addition to the extremely limited capacity of the new pallet truck. Want to rebuild a single building at your home place, or repaint one just to see what that would look like? Hundreds of hammer and brush icons to grind through, plus the painting is very bugged at the moment anyway (surprise!). Heck, 30 gallons of paint (1 crate) only lasts 50 strokes, if it doesn't reset that last section you were working on. It might actually be quicker to construct your own greenhouse or paint your actual house. I'm all for enjoying the journey, but this title takes that to the extreme.

[Tazmo]

If you took the grind out there would be about 20 hours of game play and you would be done. The grind extends the game play and yes chapter 2 requires too many hours.

After you finish the story line the only thing left to do is continue doing what your doing now. Log trees, deliver the logs to the river, let the sawmill process whatever you want made then sell those products. Make and sell furniture, go around the map repairing or renovating all the rest stops on the map, buy up all the land, make enough money to own all the available equipment, renovate everyone's home just because you can.

I don't really consider this a "fun" game but it does have an entertaining aspect to.

There were place holders during early access that most assumed would be for special events or county jobs but I haven't seen them since the full release and don't know if they are coming back.

[SurvivorSean]

I wrote a guide on making money in chapter 2 earlier today. 10K per log run every 10 days is about 1K a day. Add 2 to 3K in money on task days you at minimum 30K in a month. I'm close to 60K and at the end of August for example. But that doesn't count social points they add up as well and should be used on occasion to bring prices down for purchases. So after about 6 months of the game (or what counts as next July) I should be in position to buy the furniture factory. Keep in mind there is diminishing returns on find the sheep missions based on the a long respawn rate. The same can be said with apple harvests.

I agree the balance is off, and should have perhaps more things to do now in tasks that get you there quicker and perhaps slow things down in other chapters. But for me personally I don't mind the grind.

[pheno]

I feel like you, i tried quite all kind of Money gathering, but doing this still would need 50-100 Days, doing over and over the same.
If the Furnite Factory would cost maybe 50k, i would play on, but for now i skip this until they add more balancing.

[Masefield]

There are a couple of "features" right now in the game that can speed things up a little. As someone mentioned, you can actually sell at any store all but 1 of the planks in a pallet (even a wet one). Then you can sell the pallet at the lumber yard for the full price. I'm actually very glad this bug is in, as I don't think I could have endured the grind to 199 without it.

Also, you appear at the moment to be able to scoop up all the logs you neatly put in an area for one of the missions with no apparent social penalty.

I logged only three smallish properties (2x~30, 1x~45) trees and made enough by the 16th of August. It was pretty painful though, and I definitely didn't optimize well until early August.

[SurvivorSean]

So being in September on my 1st year I'm wondering if the planks dry over winter. They dry naturally under canopy slowly.

[Merck]

The time between seasons is just skipped. So same as if you sleep a week. You miss-out on gathering the produce from your livestock, since you skip a weeks time, instead of day-by-day. So I am pretty sure that the pallets don't dry any extra during this "season change jump".

[dimps]

I feel your pain too lol I've found that buying the sit on mower collects the hay you can sell that too. :)

[jeff1963]

They need to move the "Wealthy Man" Mission to Chapter two where it belongs, this would alleviate this issue.

[Tazmo]

For my second play thru I went the other way. No side quests and no extra tasks. I did not even use the driers, sold all my wet planks, chipboard and bark. Took me 4.7 hours for chapter 1 and 47.4 hours for chapter 2. I must say that was not a fun play thru but it was faster than my first run. Lots and lots and lots of driving.

[insano]

Hello new to game here all day today playing can't get it to let me finish the house remodel says all the other buildings are done and no hammers or red spots are in the house to complete the quest and get the social points

[Goldi:AI]

Originally posted by insano:

Hello new to game here all day today playing can't get it to let me finish the house remodel says all the other buildings are done and no hammers or red spots are in the house to complete the quest and get the social points

Have you checked the attic? This often gets overlooked.

[insano]

yes i have re-looked threw whole house time n time again now i started redoing it in planks hoping that will do it as that's the last thing i need to do i think so i can start chapter 2

[Goldi:AI]

If you send me your savefiles, I can offer you a pair of fresh eyes and take a look. Maybe I see something that you have missed. And if it is a bug, I can let the devs know.

It works like this:
The quickest way to find the saves is to press windows-key and "r" at the same time. This opens the run-command window. Here add this line and run it: %AppData%\LumberjacksDynasty

Now you should see a folder named "saves" in front of you. In that folder are the saves. They are numbered 0 to 9. Each save consists of 8 files with the same number. What we need is all 8 files for the right number. Make a copy, rar or zip it.

As for sending: You can either upload them somewhere from where I can download them (like WeTransfer) and post the link right here.
Or you message me on the Toplitz Discord. I'm Goldi An Drixta there and a Dynastic Guardian. We are hard to miss. ;)

And just in case, how to use WeTransfer: https://youtu.be/mZs57o8wdnw