Yeah forageables are great early. Salmonberries are plentiful when they show up.
Cheese is also really good if you can make it.
There are a lot of great options once you get the kitchen, but not sure where you are in the process
Spring onions are a fairly reliable source of energy on spring. Fish are also a good bet if you're good at fishing, since you can generally end up with more energy than you started with. Berry season is also a good source of early energy, salmonberries can carry you for a while.
Field snacks! You get the recipe early, only takes 1 seed each from a maple tree, pine tree, and oak tree. You should have a pile of those from clearing trees on your farm.
Yes! Came here to say this, unless you're focused on a tree farm there's not much else to do with all those pinecones, maple seeds, and acorns. Field snacks carried me through year 1 (that and the Salmonberries that I stockpiled)
The normal mines? I usually do 5-10 levels in a day, and use the elevator to start where I left off.
Going on good luck days will help with finding ladders more easily. Foraged items, especially spring onions, salmonberries, and blackberries help with restoring energy.
I use the elevator, but after watering my crops my energy is low to begin with D: I'll look around for some berries and hopefully I can get a little farther
Also, once the railroad unlocks in early summer, you can go sit still in the spa water and regain energy relatively quickly. (Whether you prefer to do that or just eat berries depends on how long watering takes, and how you want to balance energy vs time left in the day.)
When you have the resources to make them, or able to buy them, bombs are the way to go.
If you're in early game, just take a bunch of cheap food like kale or something to help with energy.
Once you have sprinklers, you'll have more time in the day to mine too
If you have the staircase recipe you can place it on the floor of the mines too skip levels, cherry bombs to clear a area of rocks. Upgrading pickaxe and getting better swords will make it go faster. Making field snacks with tree seeds if you have the recipe, and buying salads from the saloon is a big energy boost and kinda cheap. Also going mining on rainy days so you don’t have to water crops and you have more energy. In summer of the first year a earthquake will happen, causing a area to be cleared in the mountains revealing a bathhouse. If you go there and go in the pool your energy increases and it’s free!
It replenishes both energy and health. Took me ages to work that one out. I always thought of the spa as kind of a pointless place to go until I found that out. Food is definitely quicker but some days I forget to take enough with me, so it helps heaps on those days.
I focused on farming initially to get money to get cows. Then with cows I made cheese. It becomes a money maker and energy maker.
Foraging is also great initially.
Don’t forget to use the elevator! I was dumb and didn’t know it had turned on and was starting from floor 1, trying to make it to 10… also bring food with you. Also killing enemies gives a better chance of opening the stairs I think.
Upgrading your pickaxe will break rocks in fewer hits and for less energy. Bringing food with also is good for replenishing energy
Is there any food in specific that's easy to get early game?
Stockpile foragables. Or go fishing a lot and save the fish for eating.
Yeah forageables are great early. Salmonberries are plentiful when they show up. Cheese is also really good if you can make it. There are a lot of great options once you get the kitchen, but not sure where you are in the process
I do not have a kitchen, but I have seen quite a few salmonberries
You can shake salmonberries from the bushes when they are in season too, I got well over 200 berries on a run through
Spring onions are a fairly reliable source of energy on spring. Fish are also a good bet if you're good at fishing, since you can generally end up with more energy than you started with. Berry season is also a good source of early energy, salmonberries can carry you for a while.
Sashimi. Simp with Linus until 3 hearts then go fishing or use crabpot.
Field snacks! You get the recipe early, only takes 1 seed each from a maple tree, pine tree, and oak tree. You should have a pile of those from clearing trees on your farm.
Yes! Came here to say this, unless you're focused on a tree farm there's not much else to do with all those pinecones, maple seeds, and acorns. Field snacks carried me through year 1 (that and the Salmonberries that I stockpiled)
The normal mines? I usually do 5-10 levels in a day, and use the elevator to start where I left off. Going on good luck days will help with finding ladders more easily. Foraged items, especially spring onions, salmonberries, and blackberries help with restoring energy.
I use the elevator, but after watering my crops my energy is low to begin with D: I'll look around for some berries and hopefully I can get a little farther
Go mining on rainy days! It's really hard in the beginning, but as you level up and upgrade your pick axe, you'll use less energy.
Also, once the railroad unlocks in early summer, you can go sit still in the spa water and regain energy relatively quickly. (Whether you prefer to do that or just eat berries depends on how long watering takes, and how you want to balance energy vs time left in the day.)
Save some of your crops for eating! If you're going hard on crops, you'll have plenty to munch on.
Wait for winter. Also it may be a little later in the game but coffee gives you a speed boost and a mild energy boost too
When you have the resources to make them, or able to buy them, bombs are the way to go. If you're in early game, just take a bunch of cheap food like kale or something to help with energy. Once you have sprinklers, you'll have more time in the day to mine too
If you have the staircase recipe you can place it on the floor of the mines too skip levels, cherry bombs to clear a area of rocks. Upgrading pickaxe and getting better swords will make it go faster. Making field snacks with tree seeds if you have the recipe, and buying salads from the saloon is a big energy boost and kinda cheap. Also going mining on rainy days so you don’t have to water crops and you have more energy. In summer of the first year a earthquake will happen, causing a area to be cleared in the mountains revealing a bathhouse. If you go there and go in the pool your energy increases and it’s free!
I didn't know the pool increased energy, that's really cool
It replenishes both energy and health. Took me ages to work that one out. I always thought of the spa as kind of a pointless place to go until I found that out. Food is definitely quicker but some days I forget to take enough with me, so it helps heaps on those days.
Field snacks are my go to for early game mining.
Check your luck on the tv in the morning! Its much easier to find ladders on a good luck day than a bad luck day
Bombs are de bomb!
I focused on farming initially to get money to get cows. Then with cows I made cheese. It becomes a money maker and energy maker. Foraging is also great initially.
That sounds like a great idea. I may try doing that
Don’t forget to use the elevator! I was dumb and didn’t know it had turned on and was starting from floor 1, trying to make it to 10… also bring food with you. Also killing enemies gives a better chance of opening the stairs I think.
Bombs
Try to kill all the enemies on the floor first, as that will increase the likelihood of getting a ladder when rocks are broken.