Build Your Perfect
Life in the Valley
Plan your farm, grow profitable crops, build relationships, explore the mines, catch fish, complete bundles, and make the most of every season.
Start Your Farm
Build a steady first season with clear priorities, manageable fields, and room to grow.
Your First Spring
Learn energy management, early crops, storage, tool upgrades, income, and the mistakes that cost new farmers valuable days.
Open beginner guideClear the farm
Plant your first crops
Upgrade your tools
Build farm structures
Expand your routine
Choose Your Farm Life
Follow the activities you enjoy most, or combine several paths into a farm that feels entirely your own.
Crops, sprinklers, fertilizer, and greenhouse planning.
RancherAnimals, buildings, artisan products, and daily care.
FisherLocations, seasons, weather, tackle, and legendary catches.
MinerMine progression, ores, combat, equipment, and Skull Cavern.
ForagerSeasonal forage, trees, wild seeds, and gathering routes.
SocializerBirthdays, gifts, heart events, romance, and festivals.
Seasonal Dashboard
Every season changes the crops, fish, forage, festivals, and priorities that shape life in the valley.
Spring
Start small, meet the town, and prepare for strawberries.
Parsnip · Potato · CauliflowerSeason guideSummer
Expand irrigation and build dependable regrowing fields.
Blueberry · Melon · HopsSeason guideFall
Turn the harvest into artisan income before winter arrives.
Cranberry · Pumpkin · YamSeason guideWinter
Upgrade tools, explore the mines, and reorganize the farm.
Powdermelon · Winter SeedsExplore the Valley
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