Making Money: What to Do Early and Later On

Village in the Shade: fishing and requests early on; later, flowers into royal jelly, mulberry leaves into silk and hops and rice into drinks, how much each makes in a season, and how to plan the year.

What to Do Early and Later On

Early on your fields are small and crops are cheap, so fishing and requests pay the bills. Once you have Beehive Boxes and Brewing Barrels, processing flowers and crops before selling makes far more.

01 / The short version

Which way makes the most?

Method	About how much	From when
Fishing	About ¥ 3,500–4,000 a day	From the start
Requests	¥ 1,000 each	From Spring 8
Flowers into Royal Jelly	About ¥ 2,100 from one plot over a season; about ¥ 4,400 with brand flowers	From Spring 16 (Yuta's Errand Coupon)
Hops into Beer	About ¥ 2,800 a plant over the summer	From Spring 16 (Sazanka's Errand Coupon)
Mulberry Leaves into Silk	About ¥ 7,500 a tree over the summer	Hokora Skill Tree
Mining	About ¥ 2,000–5,000 a day, up to about ¥ 15,000 with recovery dishes	From the Golden Pickaxe
Selling pricey crops as they are	About ¥ 280 from one plot over a season	From the start

The number of machines decides how much you make: Beehive Boxes and Brewing Barrels are cheap, so build as many as you can. The Hokora Skill Tree upgrades a machine to its Mk II, which takes 3 ingredients at once and triples the output.
Short on machines? Process gold and brand first and sell the rest as it is: what processing adds is multiplied by quality too. Turning Honey into Royal Jelly earns ¥ 200 more at normal quality and ¥ 350 more at gold.
Once a crop is gold, use High-Grade Fertilizer: a 60% chance of double the harvest.

02 / Fishing and requests

What pays early on?

Season	Fish	Price	Time	Where
Spring	Satsuki Trout	¥ 225	Midday	Crossroads, Village
Spring, Summer	Eel	¥ 315	Morning, Evening	Village, Waterfall
Summer	Sweetfish	¥ 180	Morning, Midday	Mountains, Deep Mountains
Autumn	Softshell Turtle	¥ 330	Morning, Evening	Waterfall
Autumn	Rainbow Trout	¥ 240	Midday	Deep Mountains
Autumn, Winter	Stringfish	¥ 330	Evening	Village, Waterfall, Deep Mountains
Winter	Salmon	¥ 270	Midday, Evening	Crossroads, Mountains, Deep Mountains

Requests: the board gets 3 new requests every Monday, each paying ¥ 1,000 and +30 affection with the requester. The deadline counts from the day you accept: 3–13 days for crop requests, 5–7 for the rest. Ones you don't take are replaced the next Monday.

03 / Beehive Boxes

How do flowers become Royal Jelly?

Beehive Box: you can build one after Yuta's Errand Coupon. It takes Wood ×40, Sweet Tree Sap ×3 and Sour Tree Sap ×3.
How: put flowers in a Beehive Box and they become Honey (¥ 174) in 1–4 days. Put the Honey back in for 2 more days and it becomes Royal Jelly (¥ 374).
Quality: the product keeps the flower's quality; Royal Jelly from brand flowers sells for ¥ 748.

Poppy

Honey

Royal Jelly

	Spring	Summer	Autumn	Winter
Few Beehive BoxesQuickest to Honey	Poppy(from Year 2)	Rose(from Year 2)Sunflower	Dahlia(from Year 2)	Rosemary Daffodil
Many Beehive BoxesBloom in 4 days, cheap seeds	Chamomile Forget-Me-Not(from Year 2)	Morning Glory	Cosmos	Pansy

In Year 1 you can't buy Poppies yet, so grow Chamomile or Tulips in spring, and Chrysanthemums or Cosmos in autumn.

From Year 2, Poppies are best: they take just 1 day to become Honey. Grow lots in spring and work through them all year.
Brand flowers: harvest 100 of one flower to reach gold, then get an S at the Evaluation on the 27th of each season to give it a brand name. Only flowers harvested after the Evaluation are brand; ones from before stay gold (¥ 654 as Royal Jelly).

※ Keep some Honey: Rin's "Seasonings" request needs 5, and Honeyed Lemons use it too.

04 / Silk

How do Mulberry Leaves become Silk?

Mulberry Leaf

Raw Silk

Silk

Mulberry tree: the seedling is ¥ 2,000, goes in a Field only and grows in 10 days. It bears only in summer: every 2 days, 2 Mulberry Leaves and 2 Mulberry Fruit.
Plant before summer: you get 14 harvests, 28 leaves a tree, about ¥ 7,500 as Silk; planted in summer, only about 9. It doesn't wither when the season changes.
Silkworm Box: unlocked on the Hokora Skill Tree (after Rule 5); it takes Wood ×60 and Bamboo ×20. Mulberry Leaves become Raw Silk (¥ 125) in 2 days.
Loom: unlocked on the Hokora Skill Tree. Raw Silk becomes Silk (¥ 275) in 1 day.
Mulberry Leaves keep: a summer's harvest lasts you into winter.
Silkworm Boxes eat Bamboo: cut extra whenever you can. Any Bamboo Shoot you find on the hill behind your house can be planted in a field.

05 / Brewing and processing

Which crops are worth processing?

Brewing Barrel: you can build one after Sazanka's Errand Coupon. It takes Wood ×20 and Iron Ingot ×2.

Ingredient	Product	How it grows
HopsSells for ¥ 10	BeerSells for ¥ 190, Brewing Barrel 3 days	Summer, furrows. From 14 days after planting, 3 every 3 days
WheatSells for ¥ 46	Wheat ShochuSells for ¥ 196, Brewing Barrel 3 days	Summer, 4 days
Sweet PotatoSells for ¥ 74	Sweet Potato ShochuSells for ¥ 224, Brewing Barrel 3 days	Autumn, furrows, 7 days
RiceSells for ¥ 66	SakeSells for ¥ 187, Brewing Barrel 3 days	Plant in a paddy in spring, by Spring 28 at the latest; 10 after 50 days
GrapesSells for ¥ 144	WineSells for ¥ 295, Brewing Barrel 3 days	Sapling ¥ 4,000; harvest daily in summer
PlumSells for ¥ 162	UmeshuSells for ¥ 287, Brewing Barrel 3 days	Sapling ¥ 4,500; harvest daily in spring. Also makes Pickled Plums at ¥ 262 (Preserving Barrel, 2 days)
CornSells for ¥ 42	OilSells for ¥ 140, Oil Press 2 days	Summer; from day 13, 2 every 4 days
SoybeansSells for ¥ 40	Soy SauceSells for ¥ 115, Oil Press 3 days	Plant Edamame late in summer and harvest Soybeans in autumn

Hops pay best: one plant gives about 15 over the summer, which brew into 15 Beers worth about ¥ 2,850. Each takes 3 days, so plan on about 2 Brewing Barrels per plant to keep up.
Grapes and Plums: the saplings are pricey, so plant them mid-game once you have the money. They bear every year after, and 60 gets them to gold.
Dried Flowers (¥ 114): the same whichever flower you use. That flower makes ¥ 374 as Royal Jelly, so only dry flowers when you're short on Beehive Boxes.
Pickled Taro, Pickled Spinach, Matcha and the like: only about ¥ 20 more than the ingredient. Make them when a machine is idle.

06 / Planning the year

What to grow each season, and which machine it goes to

Season	What to grow	Which machines
Spring	Poppies (Chamomile or Tulips in Year 1) (grow plenty and work through them all year), rice, Plums, Wasabi; get the mulberry trees in	Beehive Boxes, Brewing Barrels, Preserving Barrels
Summer	Mulberry trees, Hops, Roses (Sunflowers in Year 1), Grapes (on sale from Year 1 autumn); Edamame in the last 7 days	Silkworm Boxes, Looms, Brewing Barrels, Beehive Boxes
Autumn	Sweet Potatoes, Dahlias (Chrysanthemums or Cosmos in Year 1); harvest the Edamame as Soybeans; Lotus Root (from Year 2) in the paddies after the rice	Brewing Barrels (Sweet Potatoes first, then the stored Rice), Oil Presses, Beehive Boxes
Winter	Rosemary, Daffodils	Beehive Boxes; the other machines work through your stock

How many machines for the late game? One setup, for reference:

Brewing Barrel Mk II×14

Oil Press Mk II×10

Preserving Barrel Mk II×10

Grinding Mill Mk II×5

Dehydrator Mk II×3

Loom Mk II×4

Beehive Box×26

Silkworm Box×21

※ Mk II machines are upgraded on the Hokora Skill Tree and take 3 ingredients at once.

07 / Mining

How much does a day in the Quarry make?

From the Golden Pickaxe: dig and gather your way through the Quarry. What you sell is mostly gems (¥ 67–112 each) and Gold Ore (¥ 20); Stone and Coal fetch only ¥ 3, so keep them. About ¥ 2,000–3,000 a day.
From the Meteoric Pickaxe: dig back and forth between floors 110 and 111 by minecart. They hold Rose Quartz (¥ 112), Amethyst, Tourmaline and Fluorite (¥ 90 each) and Meteoric Iron (¥ 30): about ¥ 4,000–5,000 a day, or about ¥ 15,000 digging from morning to night on Boiled Eggs.
Keep a few gems: Tourmaline, Sapphire, Amethyst and Rose Quartz are needed later; the Quarry guide below says what for.
Floor 120 is a boss: if you're only mining, don't go down.

Further readingThe Quarry: how to dig efficiently

08 / Pocket money

What else brings in money?

Rhinoceros Beetle, Stag Beetle: caught on trees in summer, ¥ 600 each; they take about a week to come back.
Butter, Truffle Oil: Milk → Cream (¥ 220) → Butter (¥ 304); a Pig's Truffles → Truffle Oil (¥ 404).
White fish: ¥ 2,500 each. They're rare (about 1%), about 3% with White Fish Bait. They're hard to breed, so sell them as you catch them, except one each of the White Softshell Turtle, White Catfish and White Stringfish for group 8 of Rin's requests.