Village Rhapsody - early game tips

Village Rhapsody is a chill and cozy sim with very basic farming and gathering, plus adult interactions with women and "monster girls". There's no timer on missions and therefore no rush.

Before we get into more detail on how to quickly set up your farms for money, here are some tips:

• You get 150 energy per day to do things.
• You start each morning with 100 energy but (Slide 1) if you go home before 6pm, you can sleep till "Night" and recover another 50 energy.
• BUG: If you Sleep till Night, the game will save but that save is flawed. If you reload your save, it will be 6:30pm, you cannot Sleep till Night, and you do NOT have the 50 energy you got from sleeping. The workaround is to manually save after you get the 50 energy from Sleeping till Night.
• It's not that important to prepare food to eat for energy because time passes so quickly that you won't squeeze out that many actions with additional food.
• Later in the game when you need to do a lot of mining, then Potatoes can come in handy to extend your useful time in the mine. But farming takes a lot of time even though it doesn't use as much energy because things like sowing seeds cost no energy.
• You can save at any time.
• If you want an "undo" you can exit to the Main Menu and be careful to choose the "cancel" option so the game is not saved. Then reload your game.
• The game automatically saves and updates at 6:30pm and midnight if you are not sleeping during those times.
• Although there's no timer and theoretically the sudden loss of a day is not really consequential, it can still be irritating. So be aware that certain NPC interactions (mostly but not limited to the first time you are intimate with a character) automatically advance to the morning of the next day afterwards. If you let the cutscene finish, the game saves automatically. You can abort but forcing the game to close with Windows Task Manager.
• To track materials you are collecting, put them on the hotbar, e.g., Wood, Copper, and Iron so you can easily tell which you need to focus on collecting and when you have enough.
• When you reload your game in the Mines, all the nodes are re-randomized. So if you aren't seeing a lot of the nodes you want, just save and quit to the main menu and then reload your game instead of wandering around the mines looking for more.

Early game farm:

• (Slide 2) Fix the bridge as soon as possible to access Bamboo in the northeastern Woods area. Bamboo replaces quickly, and you can get two Bamboo Shoots per tree which sell for 50 coins each.
• There's a "secret quest" to talk to the Butcher after you speak with the Carpenter about the bridge.
• Do NOT sell any gold. You'll need it later and they are hard to find.
• Talk to the monk to the south to get a quest that rewards you a useful item.
• Focus on getting 10-20 plots going outside your house then switch to focussing on getting your Premium Watering Can (slide 3).
• If you have too many plots, watering them every day will take up a lot of time and energy. Automate it as soon as possible.
• Don't worry too much about money at first. Make up any shortfall by selling Bamboo Shoots.
• You will later be suggested to work on an enclosed farming area in town but that enclosed area is slightly less than what a Premium Watering Can can cover, although you will still need two Premium Watering Cans to cover all the space.
• Put one Premium Watering Can in front of your house and work on one or two more. If you don't want do use up land that respawns trees, then put them on the clear lands accessed by the bridge you repaired.
• Don't worry about the Cable Car yet. Even if you are farming in the Woods, you only need to go there once every few days because the Watering Cans will take care of your plants until it's time to harvest.