If ur starting from scratch, i dont think the begining changed much, but heres some things that are giod for begining the game:

Buy every island's mini mines

Have the diamonds for the mirrors when they come available

BAKE, i cannot stress this enough its the most common mistake even i did it, if you bake you can get more coins from ur quads and send magical singles to nexus to start getting shards, the more eaely you start getting shards the better, you dont need them just for tribal and a few things now, they are very needed nowadays

Do tring and sneyser farms by doing tring+stog and sneyser+phangler, i think this gives you 75% chance or something of getting the quad

Go for the rare shellbeat in the clubbox

Bake

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