Village in the Shade: our own guides to events and how to play, starting with the Fox Shrine's seasonal offerings.
40 Things to Know at the Start — which choices you can't undo and what to do first: modes, saving, farming, money and tool upgrades.
What Village in the Sunshine mode changes — what Village in the Sunshine mode changes: horror and late nights, villager hearts, the extra recipes and outfits in the shops, cut-price magatama and mirrors, and the 142 items you can't get.
31 Tips for Later On — money, sprinklers, the greenhouse, giant crops, hunting and late-night exploring once you're settled in.
Making Money: What to Do Early and Later On — 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.
The Quarry: What Each Floor Holds and How to Go Down — which pickaxe each quarry rock needs, how to dig efficiently, which floors the ores and gems come from, which gems to keep, and the floor 120 boss and the hot spring.
Villager Hearts: How to Raise Them and What They Give — how villager hearts are read, what talking, gifts and requests add, the event and threshold of each stage, the dinner and night-over conditions, and every villager's birthday and likes.
Crop and Livestock Quality: Reaching Gold and a Brand — how crop, flower and fruit quality is decided, how many of each to harvest, branding after gold, which crops to go for first, and where egg, milk and processed-goods quality comes from.
Seasonal Festivals and Evaluations: When and How to Join — the dates and hours of every seasonal festival and the Evaluation, how taking part and leaving work, and what the badminton, sweet potato roasting and mochi pounding minigames give.
Rin's Requests: What Each Group Asks For — what each of Rin's nine groups of requests asks for, the reward for each request, the building catalog each group earns, and the Timber and Minerals for the five Crossroads Hokora repairs.
Health and Stamina: How to Raise the Maximum — how the Lord's Scale raises max health and Fox's Fried Tofu max stamina, how many cursed things each scale takes, and Tagami General Store's prices in Village in the Sunshine mode.
Fox Shrine: What to Offer Each Season — what the Fox Shrine asks for each season, how many offerings appear, the rewards (seasonal scarecrows, Fox's Fried Tofu, Decorative Komagitsune) and where the fox and the shrine are, with maps.