Clear Space For Your Farm
Make sure that you regularly spend time clearing the land to provide room for your farm. You'll earn crafting materials in the process, such as Stone and Wood, but it takes a lot of energy. Spend roughly half your energy making room for your expansion, especially at first, and make sure that you build a Chest to store it all. Do leave some grass growing, however, as later on you'll need it for Hay.
Play for a few days, and you'll witness a cutscene upon entering town. Check the community center, which until that point will have been locked, and you'll discover a golden piece of paper. You can't read it, but that's fine. Go home and catch some sleep, and in the morning you'll find that you now have a message from a wizard. You'll find him in a tower, located to the south of your farm. Make a visit and you'll gain the ability to read scrolls located in the community center building. They outline quests that you can complete for various rewards, including some terrific stuff further down the road.
Upgrades are tempting, but they're costly and don't work as a good starting point. Instead, spend your early days focusing on crops. If you grow a sufficient number of crops in the Spring, around your fishing and foraging activities, you'll reach the Summer season with a lot of resources. Those you can spend on additional seeds on the very first day, and their yield will give you the wealth you need to finally purchase tools and exciting upgrades.
Once you reach the second day, you'll receive a letter. You can travel south from Pelican Town after that, and you'll meet up with Willy the Fisherman. He gives you a fishing pole, which allows you to fish and potentially earn income of more than 300 gold per day (plus more besides, if you eat food and replenish your energy so you can keep at it). Early in the game, that extra income will allow you to invest in faster means of earning money.
When you reach the end of the day and your chores are completed but you still have time on the clock, make sure that you forage for a bit. Check for plants you can harvest for quick energy, or to serve as something to sell for gold at the market. Particularly early in the game, such activities can go a long way toward get you started along the proper path.
If you name your character item values surrounded by brackets. EX: [645][499][163] when game references your name, it will spawn items instead. In this example there are three items. You don't always get all three, but sometimes you do. You'll always get the first one. You can also name an animal while buying it for a one time spawn. Then you can rename the animal after. If you don't want to have a weird character name you're stuck with, then this can be pretty nice.
Halfway through Spring, you can attend the Egg Festival. Make sure that you've saved up a fair bit of money by that point, and find Pierre at his vending area. He'll sell you Strawberry Seeds, at a rate of 100G apiece, and you should invest whatever you can afford in that lucrative item. Then you should plant the seeds and harvest the berries they produce. Each berry is worth 120G when you sell it, and each plant can produce new berries every two days or so. It won't take long to recoup your investment.
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