#You should note I've never bought the Golden Clock so. Grain of salt etc.

[therealslimstrider]

hey dirk, i'm trying to get my last 5mil for the golden clock- i've got truffles being made, golden eggs making mayo (item ID name glitch my beloved), i'm working on converting my island farm into a fairy rose honey farm... do you recommend anything else to make it go faster?

Before I get started on my tangent - If you're doing truffles, make sure you maximize your friendships with the pigs. Truffles are also affected by these two perks, as well as the Artisan perk.

If you've already chosen different perks, you can change them at the fatassed inflation fetish KK Slider statue in the Sewers.

The key thing to consider when playing at all is exponential growth. If I were give you 500 gold, you should be thinking about how you can turn that into 2000 gold, or more. And then you want that 2000 to make you 10k, and 10k to make 50k. You're looking for a high profit margin - meaning the gold you make is much more than the gold you spend.

This may vary depending on what you have available to you, but the tried and true method of raking in cash is as follows.

Go to the desert and spend a couple hundred thousand on Starfruit. You'll make it all back, don't even sweat it. You want enough for a couple harvests. As much as you're willing to plant.

There isn't much of a point to fertilizing since your farming is probably maxed out. Cover your farm with Starfruit. (If you're not already decked out with iridium sprinklers - Krobus sells one every Friday.)(They don't work on sand.)

Harvest it all and drop another crop. I think you have enough time in one Summer for two harvests. Sell all the Gold and Silver quality ones. Drop the others in Kegs to make wine. (I wouldn't bother with Casks. Two month payoff.) Between a Big Shed full of Starfruit Wine and Iridium Max-friendship Max-perk truffles, that should get you going.

I find it also helps to do little things around the area that help make money or even craftables along the way. I have several beehives in the Backwoods area behind the farm, because they produce honey there.

Also for my Greenhouse I have 4 iridium sprinklers. Three are watering a crop of Ancient Fruit (Toss Ancient Fruit in the seedmaker until you can fill all the plots.) and coffee. The coffee is mostly for speed boost + schmoozing villagers though. (As it's an Artisan Good, it's Universally Liked.)

If you're in Spring: replace Starfruit with Rhubarb. Fall: Cranberries. If you have the Ginger Island farm, Starfruit and Pineapples are your best friends.

There aren't a whole lot of options for exponential growth in Winter, as your pigs are just going to chew through your hay. Winter Seed crops do actually sell pretty well. Otherwise, spend every good luck day in the Skull Cavern. (Jade in a Crystalarium; take a stack of it to the Desert Trader on Sundays for staircases to save stone.) And sell your gems + iridium bars if you can spare them.

If you fish a lot, or use crab pots often, turn all the fish into Sashimi before selling. (Some exceptions apply but obviously for Normal Quality crab pot items this works wonders.)

Take the Master Slingshot and Explosive Ammo into the Skull Caverns. My god. You won't regret it.