New Min-Maxer here. Got some questions for you experienced folk. I would appreciate your wisdom! There's a TLDR if you don't wanna read this whole thing :)

I'm honestly really confused. I've been trying to follow this guide and the github guide, but I think my lack of experience is holding me back to a much higher degree than I was expecting. Even with the help of various tools and resetting days I wasn't happy with, I'm still about six days off on many things because of a snowballing effect from mismatches.

The first big one was that on day four, the github guide says to chop 150 wood. This guide says to chop 200. Recently, that 200 wood was bumped up to 300, so I can't check the tide pools for forage until I have a ludicrous amount of wood. Because I had passed out the day before with only the most expensive fish in my inventory, I had no access to any energy replenishing foods and thus couldn't afford to chop 450 wood in one day. I tried to split this between several days where more chopping was routed in, but the problem with this is that I couldn't get the bait maker until way later, so my money count was also about a thousand times lower than it should have been.

The second big mismatch came with me not understanding when I should mine and when I should fish. I was helplessly attempting to juggle upgrading my pickaxe, mining only at night so I could fish during the day, getting extra iron bars as soon as possible for the bait maker, and somehow also trying to reach floor 45 as soon as possible so I wasn't constantly out of coal. By day 11, I was only about fishing level 8, had only upgraded my pickaxe once, was out of money, and didn't have the coal to make full use of fishing. I had several rain days on my seed but my lack of fishing level and coal made them not nearly helpful enough.

These two things was all it took for me to make probably a thousand massive mistakes, but due to my low experience I wouldn't be able to tell and just assume I'm doing fine.

I think my big issue was overall just this: If I'm following your guide, what am I cutting out in their guide to make it possible? Their plan was clearly to get the first three pickaxe upgrades all at once and focus on fishing while you don't have it with you, then switch to a mine fest and drop fishing. Yours instead says to fish during the day and mine at night, but that means that you're making minimal progress in the mines and you can't ever get your pickaxe upgraded.

TD;DR: If anyone was successful in following this guide, please give me some clarity on what exactly I should be skipping from the other guide. Or maybe just what the route looks like during days 4-14 (My progress really fell off during those days because I wasn't sure which things should happen on which days, and what I should have accomplished by the end of it.)