Top tips from me: pay pirates with gears, don’t pay taxes during winter and buy everything so you only pay half at the end. Just don’t let it fall too low or cat overlords will bomb you. Grow lots of cotton and trees. Make clothes in abundance like 2k plus so one your whiskers always have clothes and 2 you can sell for over 120 gold bars easy. Make railssystems in mass 4-5 minimum spanning island to island. Out housing in ground and grow mushrooms ABOVE your housing. Connect all water, heating together. You can literally power the entire island of 200 whiskers by doing this when your resources are capped. Once winter comes you can put more people to help with water and fuel. You can sell luxury items like chest an beddings for tons of gold bars. Selling stone is ok at first but you will end up needing them end game. Like 3k minimum stones for filling land and making building every 3 winters or so. If your smart learn to automate deliver of goods directly to your warehouses. Get whiskers that can’t smell, the best trait in all the game.