You’d be selling harvested goods in shops and getting plenty of diamonds for your need, but running out of coins really fast. Your main limitation in the beginning is coins.Livestock and fish are no match for crops at this stage. Few trees and flowers can deliver competitive ROI in the beginning. As your net worth grows you’ll realistically get reduced ROI.

In the beginning crops will give you the fastest ROI.

Make a copy, calculate ROI and ROI/hour and optimize your crops:

The following spreadsheet is incredibly useful.

carrots provide theoretical 128% ROI/hour but if you have 200k coins you won’t realistically plant and harvest 4,400 carrots every 20 minutes)

So judge crops based on the ROI you can get, with realistically employing your entire capital (e.g.

In the beginning your net worth will limit you before you run out of land.

Profit per crop matters in the end game when you have so much wealth your limitation is the maximum farm size.

If you put all your 10k in one of these, you’ll end up with 18.3K with potatoes or 11.7K with white mushrooms.

To illustrate, If you have 10k coins and 3 hours you can choose between.

Many guides talk about profit per crop but that’s not optimal for building wealth.

You should be thinking about maximizing ROI (return on investment, ratio of revenue/cost) and ROI/hour.

The diamonds are not worth the opportunity cost at this stage.

Avoid crops that DESTROY currency (like peppercorn that takes coins and returns only diamonds).

Net worth = currencies available now + value of currencies sunk in buildings (what you get back when you recycle the farm).

The goal is to level up the farm and build net worth.

And if you found an even more optimized strategy, please let me know! However, if - like me - you just started this game and would like to get the fastest progress to the end game with the least effort, hopefully this guide will be useful to you. This is a really chill game and you can play it however you like (and have almost no way to mess it up no matter what you do). My language in this guide is prescriptive, but I’m not trying to imply this is the only way to play.

There are many guides to this game but I haven’t seen one yet with a comprehensive strategy from start to end game.

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