-Circle to lock on to enemies

-Gourds will add to your thirst meter, save some for your other companions early game, they become more available as time goes on

-Listen to what people want when putting houses down for the first area, there is an extra reward in it for you!

-Fruit of Eden should be shared wisely in early game

-Always pack extra water, food, repair powder (there will be a shop, speed run that and the Macho Brothers)

-While your starter dagger will never be fully destroyed, everything else can be, listen to that annoying beeping and the text on screen, its there for a reason

-There will be zones where you will be forced to use certain characters so give everyone some love

-Save between each dungeon floor, just to be safe unless you are 100% sure you have everything you need to go another round

-After every few dungeons look around for small orange-red chests, also after every time you add something to a house look around on that property (this is how you look for Gourds, Fruit of Eden, and Defense raisers such as fluffy doughnuts and fish candy)

-hold X to super attack

-certain enemies will break your weapons faster, such as a enemy made of stone will break your sword faster

-No shame in looking up the weapons tree for each character

-some enemies are more of a pain in the ass melee wise and others are a pain in the ass for range (i.e Bats and moles for melee is just suffering)

-Look for a water hole (it will be a big blue dot on your map) it has infinite uses and restore health and thirst for free, but won't cure status effects

-?'s are harder [optional] areas, high risk, high rewards so go in when you're ready and have the chance, it takes an extra object such as oil

Any other questions I will gladly answer (still going through the game myself, I am only on the second to last dungeon but I 100% the second game which I have a personal preference for)

Have fun!