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First, a common question I see is how you know when something's ready to be reaped or harvested or not (aka when is it fully grown?). You’ll know when they’re ready to be reaped/harvested because when you hover over them with your appropriate tool in hand (axe or sickle), it’ll say “Harvest” or “Reap Seeds” and on top of your screen, it’ll say like, “Harvestable”.

If they’re not ready, then it’ll just say “Collect” and on top of your screen, it won’t say “Harvestable”. Note that this does depend somewhat on the crop (mushrooms won’t say harvestable or whatever, for example). But the rule generally holds.

To start out with farming though, basically, use a sickle and reap the plant/crop/whatever to get their “base seeds”. You will know you’ll be able to successfully do this when you hover over the plant with your sickle out and it says “Reap Seeds”. This will give you some +0 base seeds (I call them base seeds because they’re just the most basic seed of that plant with no additional traits).

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Look at this screenshot for example.

For reference, that means I got 117 putits in a row through the hoop (well, technically you can have 4 misses before you have to reset from 0). And at that point where I was, every additional putit in gave me 1024 casino chips (it’s that multiplier next to the score).

The easiest way when starting out is to explore the wilderness in the overworld until you come across those randomly-generated shrine(?) areas(?). You’ll see an altar surrounded by multiple heavy big pillars. You can lug them back and sell them (or ship them). The reason why this isn’t worth it later on is because it takes time to find these (they’re not rare at all, but they’re not super common either? Just slightly uncommon at worst), and the amount of money really isn’t worth it. By the time you can lug all of them, you can easily make at least 10x that much from a single job request that pays in the couple thousands. And also it’s such a time waster to have to walk back and forth to drop them off and sell them. I say this because you can’t grab them all at once (early on, anyway, which is when these matter more or are more helpful) because above a certain encumbrance level, you get “Squashed” and you can’t move at all. And if you’re “Overweight”, while you can still move, you risk taking fatal damage that can kill you if you’re traveling in the overworld back to your base as you carry these, in which case you risk dropping your money (because death), so… usually, you grab one or two at a time, make the trek back, drop them off, come back, grab 2 more, repeat. It’s a massive waste of time. But this gives you a nice starting amount of money if you’re struggling.

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