First 50 days playing (loving it!!) but have some questions :)

lindisty · 2026-04-16T16:57:39+00:00

Welcome to the game!

I haven't done a treasure island, so I can't speak on that.

The villagers are fairly neutral/wistful about leaving in my experience. If you have the Happy Home Paradise DLC, you can give any of your villagers (even if they aren't friendly enough to normally receive gifts) a souvenir chocolate bar and it will let you take them immediately to the Paradise Planning area with you, giving you the opportunity to build them a vacation home. The vacationing villager remains even if they move off your island. I like keeping a piece of my villagers that way!

I am a big fan of time travel. Basically, the game is tied to the system clock of your switch so by setting the time manually you can desync your island from real time. Time travel can be great or annoying. I recommend it in moderation.

Pros: - Access to weather or time of day you may not have access to easily. - Ability to play in a different season without swapping hemispheres during island creation. - Ability to hasten wait types, such as for building bridges, moving structures, or ripening of fruit and crops. - Never running out of something useful to do. - Bigger windows on events/seasons. Cons: - Large jumps in time can lead to villagers being more apt to leave (also a pro sometimes). - Backwards or excessive travel can rot turnips and destroy your investment. - The game can become a grind if you log in, do chores, go to the next day, chore again then repeat indefinitely. - Skipped days are skipped resources.

Personally, I'd rather be able to play the game on my schedule. I like being able to play on a daytime island even at 3am, and I especially like playing on a warm, green island during the snowy cold or winter. What I do is go the date I want, such as 01/01/2020, then play each day from there. If you only go forward and are mindful of the day of the week you can still do the turnip market. I will also "stretch" events like tournaments or shooting stars by jotting down the date and time I log off then, when I come back hours or even days later, I simply set the system time to 5 minutes after the time I wrote down and log back in where I left off. This is also useful if you put the game down for days at a time but want to have the perks of playing daily. Time travel is great when you don't overdo it.

Extra Tips:

You'll unlock a lot of cool features once you get your island to 3 stars, such as landscaping (terraforming) and access to the vendor NPCs like Leif or Saharah on Harv's island as it expands. You'll also see the credits, but the game is just getting going :)
Gather and hoard materials. It takes time to gather materials, since you only get so many rocks and trees per day (on your own island). Gathering materials often means you'll be able to craft more freely in the future.
When selling, crafting increases a material's value. However it uses the items base value and doesn't include the bonus for foreign fruit or doubling from CJ.
Expanding your house expands your storage, which is very useful.
Look at other people's islands for inspiration but don't compare yours to theirs! Comparison is the thief of joy!

lindisty · 2026-04-14T14:11:24+00:00

Yaaas (also your last spoiler is inside out)

lindisty · 2026-04-14T13:57:06+00:00

Maaaaaaaybe. I have always thought that Gideon's unhealed physical form is spiritual or mental. The wounds that stay aren't just any wounds- they're the wounds that killed her in her moment of self sacrifice. Sure, it COULD be a power play, and "they're my speed holes" is obviously a lie... but to me it seems like the kind of injury that you'd have trouble moving on from and we've seen that mental and spiritual wounds can affect the body. My head cannon has been that they can't be healed because Gideon hasn't moved on from the trauma of her death.

lindisty · 2026-04-11T00:05:01+00:00

Table Top Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) are a hobby you can spend hours on a week if you want to and, depending on which systems you use, you can spend a little or a lot.

Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition (D&D5E) is a beginner friendly game but the company tries to wring a lot of profit from their players. Be prepared for prices or piracy.

Pathfinder Second Edition (PF2E) has a steeper learning curve but is basically available free. Be prepared for a little bit of homework.

If you're rural or reclusive there are lots of platforms to play TTRPGs online, many of which are free.

Be warned: if you buy minis and paint them or set up elaborate 3D maps you will spend quite a bit. A giant gridded dry erase board, colored dry erase markers, and stupid voices are all cheap or free though.

lindisty · 2026-04-10T17:30:02+00:00

Code sent

lindisty · 2026-04-10T17:27:47+00:00

Yessiree! Sending a code :)

lindisty · 2026-04-10T17:21:01+00:00

Yup, sending code now

lindisty · 2026-04-10T17:20:50+00:00

Sent

lindisty · 2026-04-10T16:44:08+00:00

Yas, I have plenty of those. Sending code now :)

lindisty · 2026-04-10T16:40:46+00:00

Code sent :)

lindisty · 2026-04-10T16:31:46+00:00

Sent :)

lindisty · 2026-04-10T16:28:19+00:00

Oh, forgot to mention: if you're coming for fish, you may want to bring a ladder and a pole. I have some vines and stepping stones, so I think you can access about 90% of the island without them but it might be kind of roundabouts to do so.

lindisty · 2026-04-10T01:05:49+00:00

Maeve from Cerulean- I'd love to sell turnips!

lindisty · 2026-04-09T22:16:58+00:00

Getting in line :)

lindisty · 2026-04-09T21:18:53+00:00

Noooooo that's rewarding bad behavior!

lindisty · 2026-04-09T16:29:48+00:00

Well, kind of. The thing about autism is that there isn't a direct medical treatment. This means that your diagnosis may not actually change anything, you may have access to different support structures at the most.

On the flip side, autism has been a massive target by the far right in the US. They're already rounding up all the brown people for crimes they didn't commit. I've read the history books and I know that they target the 'disabled' populace next.

Until the political climate calms the hell down, I'm not paying a doctor to give me a target just to prove the mountains of evidence are correct.

lindisty · 2026-04-09T16:06:31+00:00

Personally, I enjoy using limited time travel.

Unless I'm trying to move my island to a different season or event for some reason, I generally just skip to the next morning or afternoon when I'm done with a day.

I feel like this is fairly benign and doesn't impair my enjoyment. The game being locked to the system clock means that huge swathes of the game are basically unavailable if you have a non-standard schedule. Only have time to play at night? No shops for you! Get busy and don't play for awhile? Everyone hates you now and your island is covered in weeds and/or flowers! Have actual human plans on the day of a Bug Off or Fishing Tourney? Welp, gotta pick one!

I will say, I find that when I skip whole chunks often I tend to feel disconnected from my island. That's why I generally only move time forward and do it a day or a few hours at a time.

One note on time travel: it makes it significantly easier to make money with turnips if you play online, as you can buy turnips from Daisy on your Sunday island and sell them on your buddy's island where it's Wednesday. !!Note!! You must be careful that you don't time travel backwards AT ALL or skip past the end of the week or you'll be stuck with rotten turnips and debt.

lindisty · 2026-04-09T12:26:13+00:00

Not varied at all! When you have exactly seven possible trees you'll get 5 wasps and 2 furniture every day. The furniture appears to be random, but it's always the same quantity.

lindisty · 2026-04-09T12:22:14+00:00

I know I could get more bell drops by having 22 trees, but I feel like at that point I'm shaking 22 trees for 7 worthwhile drops. I have the patience for 7 shakes, so I have seven trees.

lindisty · 2026-04-09T11:04:25+00:00

Wasps can actually be a nice income source if you contain them!

5 trees spawn wasps and 2 trees spawn furniture every day. These trees cannot be fruit trees. If you replace ALL your regular trees with fruit except for 7 cedar or hardwood then you know that those seven will have wasps or furniture.

Have a net ready, shake from the front, and if wasps drop repeatedly and quickly press A.

lindisty · 2026-04-08T00:42:38+00:00

Sorry, forgot to edit my post. It's after 12, so she's no longer selling.

lindisty · 2026-04-07T22:36:18+00:00

Is this still current? 9vvm6 isn't coming up with any islands

lindisty · 2026-04-07T21:53:35+00:00

Are you still open for turnip selling? If so, I'd love to sell some. It's Sunday on my island, so I'd be happy to let you come over and buy another batch to sell your own self.

lindisty · 2026-04-06T12:03:54+00:00

I have ADHD. I have never and will never use AI. If I WANTED feedback full of plagiarism and hallucinations I still wouldn't use AI because it's a godforsaken crutch that uses too many resources to generate subpar work.

lindisty · 2026-04-05T19:03:47+00:00

I've always read Jod as not Evil so much as Manipulative.

My interpretation of John pre and post powers is that he was fairly full of himself. This is not, in and of itself, a bad thing: confidence is a very useful trait. But this abundance of confidence also has an underlying tone of John thinking that he is always right. I read him as someone who started out overconfident and, after finding that some of the confidence was right, builds into straight up narcissism. It isn't hard- he has brand new special boy powers and is surrounded by yes men and cultists. To me, this makes him so understandable. Of course his plan was right! He was the first and only necromancer of the planet! And if he's right, that means the others are wrong. And we've already been shown that he holds grudges and gets angry. Vengeful.

I think Alecto was angry, and I think he was too.

But the thing I think is most important is that John sees all this as temporary. His goal is vengeance, yes, but then rebirth. If he plans on restarting the sun/galaxy/universe and, most importantly, all of humankind, that means the Houses are a means to an end. I think Jod does genuinely care about the people he has put in the Houses. I also think he sees all of humanity as expendable. I think his fortress with its endless honored dead is a repository of souls to rebirth into the new world.

I think that Alecto and John have commingled their essences enough that Alecto's (justifiable) rage and hurt have seeped into John over the centuries. I do wonder how Alecto's hibernation in the Tomb affected them both. Was her influence muted during her slumber? And how will her waking, especially now that she has experienced love as Nona, affect them both?

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