1) Why Mine? Mining is another way of providing yourself extra income. Specially during the winter season where your income should decrease by 1/10. Mining requires two distinct tools. A hammer and a hoe. The hoe is needed to go deeper or find a way to go down the mine for better ores as the hammer is used to destroy rocks and possibly acquire ores from it as well. Basically, If you mine you get easy bucks and in an unlimited ways. Also this is a requirement for you to upgrade certain tools or make certain items. Sometimes you'll find money (10G.) as you mine. If you'll mine you should be ready as having a basket and perhaps medicine for restoring fatigue would help a lot. At an early stage mining is not actually a good way to earn money as some forage-able items gives you a lot more money rather than mining.
Picking up items A basic skill that is very essential all through out the game. Simply face the item and press the A button to pick it up. This automatically makes the item on use or equipped so you should store them in your pack before you could throw them away. Equipping items gives you several choices:
(1) The beyond Do you know that time doesn't expire when you're inside a house? The shipping bin is located at the top left of the farm map but what about those you've planted away from it? There's the barn and the coop as an answer. You could use the bins in them to ship produce as well. Just pick as much crops and just hop in their hood and ship it there. This avoids spending 10 to 30 minutes of farming time by just shipping goods! This also helps if you're situated far from it.
(1) Throw it Simply hit the A button to throw the equipped item away. This is rather frustrating if you're supposedly be shipping goods. Some items are not destructible in your farm. Meaning throwing them in the vicinity of the farm won't destroy them. Also, dropped goods are no longer available for selling or being picked up again.
(2) Fishing Tips + Throwing Trash(I think weeds/destoyable is one) around will decrease the chance of fishing out a fish, + A bin or a basket is where you should throw your trash. + There are fish in the hot spring. but you won't be able to catch it without Cursed Rod.
(2) Advance Shipping Equipment There are things that makes shipping easy as well. You've got the Horse's Saddle and a Basket.
The Basket is perhaps the best tool you'll ever need. It could store 30 items in it and shipping them of just requires one shot. The basket is really expensive but with the help of constant farming you could avail of this early on. This'll cut your shipping time and focus more on harvesting. To use the basket simply treat it as a normal shipping bin. One's you've filled or ready to sell the things inside just pour it over the bin much like selling normal crops. Items thrown in the bin can never be retrieved. It's much like a blackhole >.< They could also be taken anywhere and be left there for you to come back the other day. Even storm or bad whether couldn't tore them apart!
The horse's saddle is given when you've made your pony like you enough. The horse moves by itself and so using the horse as a bin should be just a second option since if you're not careful enough you can throw good money away as the horse suddenly move when you think he wouldn't.
1st Mine - Cave near the Spring At the hot spring area there's a cave just near the Pond. It's pretty easy to spot and it's almost very open. It's not hard to spot as it's just standing there. Possible Ores are: kuzu(I don't know what it is either), Copper, Silver, Gold, Mythril, Orihalcon, Adamantite, Sage's Stone (Only after you've got all the Cursed Items), Goddess's Stone(9 in all)
Mining Basics In Mineral Town, there's a total of 2 mines. If you're a begineer you better just mine when you'll be needing an ore for upgrade if not it may take a lot of fatigue from you also certain items are adviseable to mine successfully.
Fishing Basics Fishing is another way of earning extra income though the process itself is tedious and frustrating at times luckily you won't be starting the game to fish ASAP. You'll be needing a fishing rod (Of Course!). You can acquire it on the beach. Fishing could be done on bodies of waters only excluding ponds, and hot springs. Simply equip the rod and cast them out. Wait for the rod to vibrate a little then pull it in. There are ways to easily pull out fishes just refer to the stuffs below.
Fishes had a couple of purposes as they come in to the mineral town. Either sell them, give them as gifts, or cook them.
(2) Dumping Garbages This skill is related to cleaning up your farm. You could easily view this tutorial through the 'How' option on the menu screen. Here's the list of those you cold find in your farm. Branch (A orange branch) Stone (A small stone) Weed (Green grass like plant) Lumber (A Vertical chopped log) Tools are needed to destroy them. Weeds for example could already be removed by simply pulling it out and throwing it away. Branches are destroyed by an Axe and it'll automatically add up to your number of lumbers. Lumber and Branches could easily be destroyed by throwing them at the green portion of your field or in your pond. Destroyed Lumbers and easily dealt much like stones, simply hitting them with a hammer destroyes them or could easily be thrown in your pond.
(3) Ores are us! Here are the items you could find they're arranged already. Junk Ore 1G Money Bag 10G - instant money Copper Ore 15G Silver Ore 20G Gold Ore 25G Mystrile Ore 30G Orichalcum Ore 50G Adamantite Ore 50G
(1) Why Fish? Fishing is fun. Is that not enough? Also, some people likes fish for present or simply they sell for a good price. They'll be ranging from 100 - 300G. according to their size. Fishing is a good way to burn time.
2nd Mine - The Mine across the lake This mine is and can be located and accessible near the mountain path and during Winter only. It could be seen on the map as well. During winter the lake would be frozen hard enough for people to walk on it. It's in the middle of the lake. Possible Ores are: kuzu, Moonstone, Sandrose, Emerald, Ruby, Topaz, Amethyst, Diamond, Pink diamond, and four other kinds of ores I couldn't translate properly. and Kappa's Stone(9 in all) ** you can get a Power Berry in 29th layer underground. ** one thing more to go, the coin bag you dug contains a random amount of money.
(3) Fished Out? Unused Can Boots Fish Bone Small Fish 50G. Medium Fish 120G. Large Fish 200G.
(2) Mining Tips + Upgraded tools has no effect on the mine so they still cover a block per use. + To go deeper smash/plow as much blocks as you can and find a hole. You could go deeper into the mine from there. + The hole changes position everytime you enter them though the odds are like 15:85. + A better pack or a basket is a great idea to be earning big bucks from it. + Pull out of the mine if your face has turned blue. + Bring along a medicine if you'll be mining long and hard.
Taking Santa's Place
This is merely like Gift Giving and Making friends. Sure it's just a waste of good money but do you know that even if you befriend a normal villager they'll be of some use? Like if you befriend the old lady that lives near the Mayor he could give a recipe for you. Some of which could give you cool farming tips or give you hints on what to give a girl.
(4) Store in backpack Simply hitting the 'B' button automatically puts items on hold in your pack. This should always be done if you should be careful when shipping lots of goods.
(3) Gifts Items equipped could be handed as a gift. Simply go up to the certain person you wish to hand the item to and just talk to them like the usuall. You'll automatically hand it over to him/her. Some items that isn't available for selling is good for giving gifts.
Shipping The Shipping bin is the place where you sell your goods. Just throw them in and you'll notice it to budge a little. There are 3 shipping bins in total 1 situated in your farm and the other 2 are inside the chicken coop and the barn. There are an advanced way of shipping and it mainly makes your shipping job easier specially when you've almost filled your farm with crops.
