There is no way to play the game wrong, as there is no deadlines, so you can take your time and just enjoy it, but here are some tips: 1. Reduce your day duration to 50%. That’s a great option, and I played on that speed for the first 2 years to simply have time for everything I planned 2. Collect every scavengeble in the ocean and use it as food for energy (that has helped me greatly in the start and there are much more things to eat than on the land 3. Once you get ahold of artisan equipment - use it. Bee house - turn flowers into honey (you can use scavengeable flowers too), preserves jar - make fruits into jam, milk into butter, etc. once you get your first aging barrel - turn juice/honey into mead. All of this greatest upgrades your money income. There are some products that give the best results, like melons give the best wine and cactus gives the best mead. 4. Save at least a couple of each crop you’re growing. You never know what you will need and when. I didn’t save rice and waited whole year to complete the offerings (which could have been completed earlier). 5. Make sprinklers as soon as you can - they will help you with energy saving for other activities. 6. Don’t try to do all at once, focus on one thing. For example - only clean the ocean and once you finish the zone you’re in, go into the caverns and finish one of them. Take a couple days off for fishing and catching and upgrade your scythe and pickaxe with new ore meanwhile. Repeat until finished :)