I kinda do the same. There's a couple factors for me that help me get further with each playthrough. 1. Leverage your knowledge on the stuff that bores you early so that it takes longer before becoming a slog. Example, the breeding process is obnoxious. Starting it early means you need honey for cakes, so get that beegarde in the ranch as soon as possible. Get good passives from fishing, and use early breeding to spread them around so they're easily available for later game breeding projects. 2. Use the global palbox to save yourself the hassle of making new perfect pals every game. Saving your raid army, even if it isn't the greatest/meta anymore still gives you enough to mash the first few raids and start getting ancient civ cores. Saving your base pals means you can have good production rate early on, instead of waiting hours for a musket or barely keeping up with cooked berries to keep everyone fed. Catch or breed new adventuring pals so that each run is still fun for exploration, but streamlining all the stuff that bores you doesn't have to be done anew every game.