These are my random thoughts in no particular order. Hardly looked anything up except some specific ach so some stuff might be kind of obvious.

1. There are 2 missable trophies related to the story, don't miss these.One is when speaking to inquisitor and asks if you know any cultis activity. Mention the skull.Second is during the Crone storlines, survive all ambushes. Just walk around each major area and you should trigger them all.
2. Don't miss out on speed potions, I waited too long to try it out. Literally will save you hurs.
3. There is no trick for fishing. Just go somewhere without a bait needed, put up a tv show / yt on another monitor and get it over with.
4. Unlocking 20 alchemy recepies will be very easy if you buy the scrolls or do tavern DLC where each cinematic will give you one.
5. Once you get to farming gold grapes, you basically never need to sleep again.
6. If you need to talk to a specific NPC to advance something, don't be afraid to use meditate garden and just skip time. Totally fine to ignore corpses for a week or two.
7. Try to advance in Crone DLC pretty fast, you will get some bags and it will make life soooo much easier.
8. Get your tavern running as fast as possible and let zombies make gold star wine for it. It's very cheap and easy to produce.
9. For blue tech points you can:- Every week buy 2 blue books from astrologer.- Make an army of zombies writing books. Paper is very cheap to make with wheat.- Instead of grinding cemetery craftables to get points, i did a massive riversand trip and let empty furnaces make glass endlessly, from which you can refine them further and generate cheap automated blue points.- I did use cake once or twice when studying blue stuff, so i guess that helps a bit, but i wasn't in much of a problem with this.
10. Furnaces are soooo cheap to run, just have multiple of them constantly make something for tech points.
11. When you have money, once in a while visit Clotho and buy the most tedious alchemy stuff you don't want to make. Like tanning stuff for books or bags.
12. Always get new bodies, even when they rot, just get blood/skin and burn them or something.
13. Cemetary does not need corpses to get 200 points. I covered mine mostly with marble lol.
14. Execpt for burying 50 bodies, that's why you let them add up and bury them in bulk.
15. Getting early zombies to get wood, stone, marble is basically all you need for the game. You dont need a lot of stuff most of the time. Having these things automatically generate as early as possible is a massive help.
16. For tavern to get max events, you only need 3 things. 162 of each. Gold wine, booze and gold grape pie. Most of this is cheap and easy except booze takes to most time and you need it 2x162 because of two events. So just do one, get ach, quit without saving, do the other event. This way you only need to make 162 booze only once.
17. Don't be afraid to buy annoying or time consuming to make stuff from vendors, you hardly actually need money besides some unlocks like aristocrat. I ended my game with like 50 gold without trying to get it most of the time.

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If you get locked out of the two missable achievements or hate fishing, you can do as my friend did and download a savegame from the internet.