Guide to "Scoop Farming"

The most well-rounded method of getting 5000+ Gold, 365+ days passed, and tons of water and worldpieces.

Main Goals

Scooping water is a great way to getting the following:

• Tons of Money (for 5000g Steam Achievement).
  
• Days passed (for 365-day Steam Achievement).
  
• Worldpieces (very) quickly.
  
• Tons of water (duh!).

(Note: If you only need one of the above goals, other methods may be better. For instance, having multiple wells (late-game) is more than good enough for getting clean water quickly. Likewise, If you're looking for early game food and water (with good worldpiece farming and a solid money maker), just spam-click huckleberry bushes (and cut them down afterwards for more huckleberries, as the bushes also seem to regrow quicker this way - but that could change in the future). For getting 3 worldpieces super-quickly, go to any cropfield (mid-late game) and start swinging your axe.)

Basic Setup:

The good news is that you can start scooping water very early. Make sure you got the following items, to set up a basic hut and start scooping:

• 1 log floor
  
• 1 log step (optional)
  
• 1 log wall
  
• 1 log roof
  
• 1 basic bed
  
• 1 cooking station
  
• 1 stack (30x) of, say, Huckleberry Bowls (for sating hunger; recipe: 3 Hucklerberries).

(Image below also shows some archway beams, but just ignore those.)



Be sure to have trees nearby (1-3 trees are fine) for branches (and logs) whenever you need more, since we'll be cooking the water (as clean water sells for 3g while dirty water is only 1g, and the cook ratio is 1:1 - that means 90g per 30 water scooped and cooked, which adds up over time).



Secondly, be sure to get better food (+Hunger) later on, since Huckleberry Bowls tend to go down rather quickly. For that, fishing can be really nice (although the actual fishing can take some time), if you add more lake tiles near your farming spot. I got about 10-15 fishing spots nearby, myself. (Fishing may also give you Scrap Parts and other things, not just fish.) Make sure you gut the fish first (in inventory), then cook the meat (recipe: 3 fish meat for the best recipe).

What you'll actually be doing:

The basic rotation is simple. Scoop water to get dirty water and fatigued. Then immediately sleep (you can sleep at any time while fatigued). When you wake up, your Fatigue is replenished whereas your Thirst and Hunger drops a little. Rince and Repeat.

After a few sleeps, your Thirst and Hunger goes critical. Drink some of your clean water (or cook more) and eat some food, and then just keep scooping and sleeping.

As you scoop, you get more dirty water and worldpiece progression. As you sleep, you get +1 day passed. Wait with cooking most of your dirty water until you got your inventory filled up, then cook it all in one go. The reason to wait is because lit cooking stations also replenish your fatigue (which is exactly what you don't want, if you want to farm days passed).

Once you have enough clean water, just leave it off in chests or get to the nearest trader to sell it off. If the scooping gets too boring, just start doing other things and progress the game, then come back to this method now and then throughout your playthrough. I think I had 7800g total last time I checked (the image shows 6449g, so yeah - not exactly poor).

Final Words:

I decided to write this guide after beating the game with 210 in-game days played and having to spam-sleep to get to the 365-day achievement. (Upon writing this guide, I'm currently at 301 days after maybe 1-2 hours of play. So I'll probably get the achievement tonight.)

The good thing about this method is how early it can be done. This not only means ease of access, but also that you can take breaks from it and just play the game normally, then come back to doing this once in a while. By the time you beat the game, you could very easily end up with a large world, 5000+ gold, 365+ days passed and enough water to feed a Black Hole.

I hope this guide helps. And guys, be sure to keep yourselves...
...above snakes!

Peace!

[Torxe]

Here's an extra tip, don't eat once you're starving you get exhausted faster (at least in feb 2015) this means of 5 scoops per rest you only need 3 scoops per rest.

(Also make sure you don't have the extra sanity and energy buff selected on your workbench)

[[BDSM] Baseleus]

Hepe in da Hood, thx for the help, it works.

[Hepe in da Hood]

For the hit "Happy Birthday" the quickest way I found on my own. It's to go to the Canyon village and get into a tent and get out again in a loop (you only have to spam F to get out and in normally), each time you get out of the tent a day passes, but be careful, it only works in the morning when it's just getting light. In the end, it took me 30 minutes for 265 days.

[Nneu]

For making gold it seems selling buildings would be the fastest. 1 log makes a floor or wall that sells for 5G each.

[krakowiakus]

In the fastest/optimalized way, you can spend 3,5 days/real minute, so every 100 days took 30 minutes.
Put the floor and the bed next to the water source to skip any movement need. Than you use only your mouse and F button.
After achieving 365 days, spend some time (a minute) in a game, save it, relog from the game (no need to relog from a Steam), log again and spend few minutes again. It took my game/Steam about 5 minutes to recognice and award that achievement afterwards.

[Motherbear]

thanks

[Motherbear]

I need help, were i find wheat

[J's]

Weird, I could've sworn I've commented that I think planks (worth 5 gold each) are more efficient... especialy since you can get 3 per log, so 45 gold per tree felled. Must have been a late night that I just hazily remember.

[эналаприл5мг]

@Madolite

ahh. This is my second time trying to get this achievement. I re-entered, created a new world, burned. WHY IS IT NOT GIVED?

[Madolite]

@Fresonis Some good points, cheers.

@JoelCas05 Try reloading the game or waiting some time. There seems to be a bug where the Steam Achievements don't immediately pop. I noticed similar with the 365-day achievement, I quit and relogged into the game and it still didn't pop immediately, but I got it after a minute or so. Good luck!