• calliope@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I played maybe 20-30 hours years ago (around when the first game came out) but put it down because I tend to over-optimize farming, and then become annoyed or stressed in a silly way.

    I picked it up a couple weeks ago again because the fishing map sounded like fun, so I’ve been concentrating mostly on fishing and it has been quite fun! For some reason it feels a little less easy for me to fall into the optimization trap than planting stuff and making sprinklers.

    I haven’t actually done a lot of fishing on other games but I’m really enjoying the variety and slightly different challenge.

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      3 days ago

      Once you have the money and resources to do so (probably not in year 1), consider investing in animals. I’m increasingly convinced that they are a better option in terms of the gold return on your time/work input, which frees you to explore other parts of the game. You can still grow crops in the greenhouse when you need them.

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        3 days ago

        I love having chickens too! I think every playthrough I realize how easy it is to make the mayonnaise machine and the chickens are cute.

        I also see that there are fish ponds, and that sounds like a fun animal option too

  • BlueSquid0741
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    3 days ago

    I just got to Ginger Island for the first time and can’t find more than one golden walnut.

  • Raffster@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Bad; local mutiplayer with mods does still not work anymore. Linux/Proton. Would love to play again with my daughter:(

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    3 days ago

    I’m getting back into it after a hiatus. Went back to a farm in progress rather than start new. One of these days I’ll actually finish the game (whatever that means for me, I know you can play a farm for hundreds of in-game years if you want to).

    Trying to finish Ginger Island, and for the life of me I cannot find the last golden walnut in the west — even with the help of the Wiki map revealing locations. I think I’m going to have to pay the bird for that one, which is pretty unsatisfying.