31 Tips for Later On

Village in the Shade: money, sprinklers, the greenhouse, giant crops, hunting and late-night exploring once you're settled in.

How can you be more efficient once you're settled in?

Once your farm is running steadily, use these to earn, explore and collect more efficiently.

01 / Money and shopping

How do you make money, and what shouldn't you sell?

  1. Faster ways to make money1. Grow the priciest crops: Cabbage in spring (¥ 200), Melon in summer (¥ 240), Lotus Root in autumn (¥ 145), Napa Cabbage in winter (¥ 190).2. Brew Hops and make Soybeans into Miso. For example, Hops are ¥ 10, but brewed into Beer they sell for ¥ 190.3. Once fruit trees are grown, you can pick them every day in their fruiting season, and brewing the fruit doubles the price. For example, Grapes are ¥ 144, but as Wine they sell for ¥ 295.4. Putting flowers in a Beehive Box for Royal Jelly (¥ 374) pays well, and made from brand flowers it sells for ¥ 748. Grow plenty of flowers in every season and store them to process slowly through the year.

    ※ Cabbage only goes on sale in Year 3; Poppies, Melons and Lotus Root in Year 2.

    Further readingMaking Money: What to Do Early and Later On

  2. Higher quality sells for moreCopper is 1.25×, silver 1.5×, gold 1.75×, and branded 2×. Pricey single-harvest crops reach gold at 200 harvested in total, while regrowing crops like Tomatoes and Hops need 900. So pick one single-harvest crop and keep growing it until it's gold, then get an S at the Evaluation to brand it.

    ※ Processed goods keep the ingredient's quality: gold Wheat makes gold Wheat Shochu.

    Further readingCrop and Livestock Quality: Reaching Gold and a Brand

  3. Sell good ingredients as they areDishes have no quality, so high-quality ingredients pay more sold as they are.

  4. Don't sell these yetTourmaline, Glass Rods, Big-Game Bones, Rain Magatama, Bronze Mirrors and Swords are all needed later, so keep them when you get them.

  5. Visit the general store oftenFurniture and small items change every day it's open, and there's only 1 of each, so buy what you want when you see it. It's closed on Fridays.

    Related dataTagami General Store

  6. Make good use of Public StorageKeep Fish Bait in the Public Storage near the fishing spots, and wood and ore in the one by Kiki Construction, so you don't have to run back and forth. Keep Trapping Bait and Hunting Certificates in the one by the hunting area, and trade them in the next day when the Hunting Lodge opens.

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02 / Fields and greenhouse

How should you plan your fields?

  1. Keep the 8 tiles around fruit trees clearA fruit tree won't grow if any of the 8 tiles around it has a crop, weeds, a Rock or a placed object. Empty tilled soil is fine, and paths don't affect growth.

  2. Plant trees in front and back rowsTrees outside the village and in the mountains may not give you enough wood, so early on you can plant your own on the left side of your fields, where they won't block your view. Put evergreens in the back row and seasonal trees in the front so you can see better when gathering. Trees outside the village and in the mountains grow back after you cut them down, stumps and all.

  3. Plan sprinklers aheadLeave room for the center spots and walkways of their 3×3, 5×5 and 7×7 ranges.

  4. Sow Dorotabo Seeds early in the seasonThey grow into the season's cursed crop. For a giant cursed crop, plant a Dorotabo Seed in the middle of a 5×5 plot.

    ※ Four can grow giant: Turnip in spring, Corn in summer, Taro in autumn and Napa Cabbage in winter.

  5. Grow lots of Edamame in summerHarvest early for Bean Sprouts and on time for Edamame, and leave the Edamame until autumn to harvest Soybeans.

    ※ Soybeans are what Tofu is made from, and late at night in autumn the Tofu Kozo trades Magatama for Tofu.

  6. Stock up on greenhouse materials early200 Hard Wood, 150 Glass Rods, 30 High-Grade Fertilizer and ¥ 80,000. Glass Rods are the hardest part, so make them first.

    ※ Hard Wood only comes from Cypress trees, about 15–23 per big tree; if you're short, plant your own Cypress.

03 / Quarry and late night

What should you watch for in the Quarry and late at night?

  1. Head out at midnightMost late-night main story steps must be done before 5:00, so chase only one goal a night. The ghosts go back at 5:00, and their related pickups stay until 6:00.

  2. Clear the Haunted Thicket's fallen trees by dayThe fallen trees blocking the Haunted Thicket need a Golden Axe or better, or the Rockrending Machete, and take 3 hits each. If you plan to pick things up there at night, cut them all down by day and getting around at night goes much more smoothly. You can also cut them when you're short of wood: one round of all 79 gives about 400–630 Wood.

    ※ The Pickaxe can't break them, and Copper and Steel Axes aren't strong enough. Fallen trees you cut down grow back later.

  3. Go deep into the Quarry with an empty bagPast floor 100 there's more Meteoric Iron, and floor 120 is the boss fight. Beating it opens the hot spring, where a soak fully restores your stamina.

  4. Find the Fox Shrine each seasonCompleting its offerings raises your max stamina. Where the shrine appears changes with the season.

    Further readingFox Shrine: What to Offer Each Season

  5. Throw everything into Okami Pond at onceFor each scale, you can throw in all it needs in one go (1, 3, 6, 10, 15), so there's no need to go every day. You can throw them in by day or late at night from 0:00–4:59, but the reward can only be collected late at night.

    Further readingHealth and Stamina: How to Raise the Maximum

  6. Why it pays to clear the story soon1. The "Rockrending Machete" makes mining and chopping wood easier.2. "Clear the Farm's Back Road" brings the Quarry closer; Kisuke's shop does it for ¥ 50,000.3. The "Miracle Whistle" stops time on your farm, so farm work takes less time; from 1.30 it keeps going when you step into your house, an animal shed, the storehouse or the greenhouse.4. Once you've reached Year 2, you can set your birthday from the day after clearing the story.

    Related dataClear the Farm's Back Road

  7. Nandina isn't much useBuy it at the general store and plant it at set spots in the village and the mountains. Late at night you can hide in it from ghosts, but they wait right beside it, so it's not much use. Buy it when you have money to spare.

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  8. Short on Coal? Burn CharcoalMaking lots of ingots leaves you short of Coal; burn Charcoal in a Charcoal Kiln instead. Boulders in the Quarry also drop Coal.

  9. You can leave flowers at Piro's graveLeave flowers at Piro's grave and something drops right away: mostly things like Empty Cans, Wood, Coal, ore, Magatama, Bronze Mirrors and Swords, and now and then an Incense Burner.

    On the mapPiro's grave
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04 / Animals and hunting

What should you watch for with animals and hunting?

  1. Animals go in at duskThey go in at 18:00 in spring and autumn, 19:00 in summer and 17:00 in winter, and come out a few at a time after 7:00 in spring and autumn, 6:00 in summer and 8:00 in winter. Don't let fences block their way, and in winter remember to turn on the heaters.

  2. Don't rush to cut Pasture GrassBuy Pasture Grass at the general store. Once planted, it spreads a little every day, so don't cut it right after planting.

  3. Send the Ghost Cow awayWhen you hear a cow mooing late at night, go to the slope behind your farm and dig up the clump of soil in front of the Ghost Cow with your Hoe. It leaves, and you learn the Livestock Whistle.

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  4. Put Auto-Ranchers in your coop and barnThe street vendor sells them. Put them on the wooden boards inside the coop and barn, and collect every few days. In winter, swap one out for a Livestock Heater.

    ※ Coop Lv1–2 and Barn Lv1 hold 2; Coop Lv3 and Barn Lv2 hold 4; Barn Lv3 holds 6.

  5. Max out your barnAutomatic feeding only opens up once the coop and barn are at their top level.

    Related dataLarge Barn

  6. In the Fish Tank, more of one kind is betterFish only breed with Fish Bait in the bait slot. Each kind gains at most 1 fish a night, and 1 bait is used only when it works. Leave 1 space free in the tank. The more of one kind, the better the odds: for ordinary fish, about 13% with 2, about 37% with 10, and about 66% with 29 in the large tank.

    ※ Deluxe Fishing Bait raises the odds for ordinary fish a little more. White fish are hard to breed, so sell them as you catch them.

  7. Set traps first when huntingTraps need Trapping Bait to draw animals in. Cage Traps catch small animals, Snare Traps catch tanuki, foxes, boars and deer, and bears take a Bow only. Boars and deer won't be caught if you leave the trap overnight; wait nearby for one to step into the snare.

    ※ Cage Traps break after 4 uses and Snare Traps after 3; you can set up to 3 of each kind. Caught animals don't run off, even after 20:00.

05 / Important reminders

Which days should you prepare for?

  1. Buy every festival recipe on Summer 15Buy 3 from each of the three food stalls to learn their recipes, ¥ 5,400 in all.

    Further readingSeasonal Festivals and Evaluations: When and How to Join

  2. Stock up before Winter 4 of Year 1From the story event on the night of Winter 4 until Winter 6, every shop is closed and you can't mine.

  3. The trading yokai under the bridgeEach season, a yokai to the right of the "Crossroads fishing spot" trades you MagatamaSpring: the Raiju takes 1 spring crop (not forageables or fruit), and you pick the Magatama; 1 trade per night out;Summer: the Kappa takes 30 Cucumbers and gives a Jinbei (clothing) the first time; just 1 trade all summer;Autumn: the Tofu Kozo takes 1 Tofu, and you pick the Magatama; 1 trade per night out;Winter: the Nekomata takes 1 fish (not shrimp, crabs or cursed fish) and gives something at random; 1 trade per night out.

    ※ When picking a Magatama, the swirl-shaped one is Rain Magatama, the pair is Twin Magatama, the one with legs is Child Magatama, and the remaining one is Magatama.

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Related

More guides

All guides
40 Things to Know at the StartWhich choices you can't undo and what to do first: modes, saving, farming, money and tool upgrades.Making Money: What to Do Early and Later OnFishing and requests early on; later, flowers into royal jelly, mulberry leaves into silk and crops into drinks, and how to plan the year.What Village in the Sunshine mode changesHorror, hearts, what the shops sell and what you can't get.The Quarry: What Each Floor Holds and How to Go DownWhich pickaxe each rock needs, how to dig efficiently, which floors the ores and gems come from, which gems to keep, and the boss and the hot spring.

Data updated: 2026-11-03