Echoes of the Plum Grove Beginner Survival Tips – Since this game is newly launched, it is appropriate for someone to develop a survival guide for beginners. This guide will cover basics, trees, food, farming, and a lot more.
Echoes of the Plum Grove Beginner Survival Tips
Basics
So you’ve created an adorable character and they’re left clueless on the plot. Here are some tips and some general information to get you started.
There are little tutorials when you start doing things, but there are also some useful tutorial pages in the rightmost tab menu.
If you need to use something other than a tool on the toolbar, press the space bar. Space is how you fill the kettle, eat food and read recipes/designs.Don’t want to worry about food, sleep, or illness? Turn off these options in the menu. I would recommend trying it with them because it makes the game unique and fun.
Things you can interact with have a darker outline. If you don’t get anything from shaking a tree/bush, it may not be the season.
A few useful things can be found on the Family tab in the menu on the left under your character’s portrait.
Here you can: turn the lamp on and off (and use the mini button next to it to add oil if you have one); see what level your various skills are; attach lures to your fishing rod; and check the calendar.
Trees!
Always shake trees twice when you pass them in the world.
Not only is wood useful for building things, but it also earns you a decent amount of money – each piece is worth 10 gold, so a pack of 50 is worth 500.
It’s an easy and simple way to make money in the beginning.
Food
At the beginning of the game in the spring, the easiest food is to cook a survival salad, which you can prepare with plantains and violets that you can forage from the ground.
The best way to continue feeding (indefinitely) is to put the fruit/vegetables/fish on a drying rack or in a preservation container.
This produces an item that fills 10-20 hunger. And all you need are fruits that you can forage from bushes, some crops from your garden or some free fish.
If you have 3 of any combination of drying racks and preserving jars, it will more than satisfy your hunger needs and provide you with leftovers.
To cook, you need recipes, which can be obtained through quests or by improving your cooking skills.
They are fun, but require a lot of ingredients and don’t satisfy that much hunger.
If you’re crafting food or getting it as a quest reward, it’s probably worth selling it instead, as it’s worth more to you that way.
Follow the dried fruit diet, it will lead you to victory!
Agriculture
You need seeds that you can buy from people working in the fields in the area to the left of your farm.
Come back on different days – they may have different seeds. You can also get a lot of starting seeds by looking for people for the mayor.
When you harvest them, the crops are likely to produce more seeds of this type.
You have to water each plant or tree separately – if you miss a day, the plant will turn brown, but it will still be alive. If you miss another day, he dies.
Ripe and dead crops are harvested with a sickle – when you hover over them, you’ll see a yellow selection square if they’re ready.
Fertilizer recovered from rotting in the compost bin can help improve the quality of your crops. It won’t make them grow faster.
Items gradually go from gold to silver to bronze quality and then rot. First, eat/sell your bronze-quality food. But the rot is still useful because you can add it to the composter.
Trees and rocks you remove from your farm do not currently grow back (also the odd brambles are cleared with a hoe). Once you’ve cleared your farm, you’ll need to use alternate sources of these materials.
Quests
Be aware that you’ll often be offered quests that you can’t complete yet – they may require out-of-season items, crafting skills/equipment you don’t have, or things you’d have to buy that wouldn’t be worth the reward. Don’t worry that you won’t finish the task if it’s too hard.
Favor quests that give rewards according to a plan or recipe. Once you have a comfortable amount of money, take on these quests, even if you can’t craft the items you need now you can buy them – it’s worth getting the blueprints.
When you have the items you need for a quest, that person’s icon will appear on your map.
Make friends
Talk to everyone! You can talk to people 3 times a day (until their talk button goes out).
Once people become friends with you, they will send you gifts in the mail – sometimes very expensive and useful.
If you see a question mark above someone’s head, it could be because they’re offering a task, but they might also want to give you a gift, so it’s worth clicking on.
Insulting people annoys them on that day, but if you were friends, it would only hurt your relationship a little.
Giving gifts can also end up losing friendship points as people can be very picky about what they like – cooked food always seems to get a good response.
Craftsmanship
Sometimes you need to put a few items into the crafter to make it work – ie. 3 Wheat to Flour Mill, 3 Iron Ore to Smelter to get Iron Bar.
Don’t think you have to make everything! You get a crafting station, so you can expect to do a lot of crafting to get all the items you need – just like in other farming games.
But one thing that Echoes does really well is emphasize that your default character is a farmer.
You don’t have the skills or equipment to make your iron nails, even though you need them for a lot of things and your first thought might be that you should make them yourself.
But first, you have to unlock the anvil (crafting skill 6 or quest) and the furnace.
This will take some time. So accept the game. Be a farmer. Go to the blacksmith and buy nails.
It may seem like a lot of money at first, but you will soon have enough and take your time.
Gradually build your crafting empire – your child can always do what you couldn’t.
Carpenter
Your initial options with the carpenter are to build a chicken coop, a barn, or improve your house.
You can then further upgrade all of these.
Make sure the entire area you want to place your chicken coop/barn/house is clear before visiting the carpenter, otherwise, you will have to travel back and forth several times.
Build Requirements (may change with game updates):
Chicken coop: 999 gold. 80 Wood, 30 Stone, 15 Nails, 20 Straw, 4 Iron Bar.
Large Chicken Coop: 2100 gold. 59 stone, 30 nails, 160 wood, 40 straw, 3 copper rod, 4 iron rod.
Barn: 1200 gold. 100 Wood, 40 Stone, 25 Nails, 20 Straw, 7 Iron Bar, 4 Glass.
Large Barn: 2700 gold. 57 Stone, 30 Nails, 2 Steel Rod, 10 Brick, 200 Wood, 4 Glass, 40 Straw.
Saltbox Home: 1699 gold. 40 stone, 30 nails, 5 iron rods, 122 wood, 8 glass, 5 paint.
Atlantic Home: 4999 gold. 57 stone, 50 nails, 3 steel rods, 35 brick, 300 wood, 20 glass, 10 paint.
Disease
As soon as you have some money, ask the doctor about vaccinations. Smallpox can wipe out half a town, and you don’t want your character to be one of them.
Being friends with a doctor means they’ll send you medicine for free, which is great, and likewise quests for them will have medicine as a reward.
It’s nice to gradually build up your meds because if you get sick the doctor may diagnose you but they may not have what you need in stock that day or they may be closed.
When you are sick, make sure you eat regularly and spend most of your time sleeping to increase your chances of survival.
Marriage and children
You don’t have to upgrade your house or your bed to get married and have kids.
Befriend the villager and give him the bouquet bought from the lighthouse. This triggers what the game calls a “date” but is your opportunity to propose.
Make sure you have a ring ready for the date. Hopefully, a nice one because they have the option to decline.
Your husband will live in your house and you can follow him on the map (enable on the family page). If you want 24/7 access to a builder, blacksmith, or doctor, maybe marry one!
Once married, there is a ¼ chance of inducing a pregnancy each night you go to sleep. Click on it to take care of your child.
The kids will go to school by default, but you can also talk to the leader of any profession to get them a learning sheet there.
You can adjust what anyone in your family spends their days doing in the drop-down menu under the Family tab in the menu – here, select a farm helper to help out on the farm instead.
You can also adopt orphaned children with adoption papers purchased from the mayor.
You can tailor your entire family’s clothes/hair if you select the sewing option where each family member will have a separate tab.
Lifespan
If you play with normal aging, your character will remain an adult until the end of their first year, after which they will become older.
This gives you some time to make life decisions.
But on the other hand, you could die horribly from the disease, so don’t wait too long with the heir!
Normal life stage = pregnancy 3 days, baby 3 days, child 2 seasons, adult 4 seasons, elder 2 seasons (I’m not 100% sure about elder).
Changing the aging to short will halve the duration of most life stages.
More Info
Festivals: Give it your all in the spring fishing competition because you can win a really good rod as a prize. Most events don’t require any preparation, but for Autumn Harvest, there is a farmhouse display where you can place 9 of your best items and compete. Don’t forget to prepare some in the days before and take them with you!
Businesses: If you’re desperate to improve a house or buy fish, the people in charge will helpfully do these things for you, even if it’s their day off – just track them down.
Paint: To improve your house, you will need paint, which you can buy from the ship captain at the docks during the weekend.
Winter: Provided you have some dehydrators/tins, you’ll be fine all winter long as you can stock them with fish. Mining a little, going to bed early, admiring the snow.
Livestock: If you have any two of the same species, there is a chance they will breed, which can get you free livestock! All animals are marked as male when released, but will still breed.
Tools: Tools made from harder materials provide increased durability but no special abilities. Level up when you feel it’s worth it, or else take your tools to the blacksmith for repair right before they break!
Echoes of the Plum Grove Beginner Survival Tips – What to focus on?
The game is very slow-paced and there is no rush – if your character runs out of time, you can always continue as your child. Explore and drill at your own pace. But based on my own experience, here are my recommendations for the first year:
In the first few weeks, prioritize farming and buying a fishing rod from a fisherman. Along with your vigorous tree shaking, this should start earning you some money.
Especially useful items to craft are: Well, Drying Rack, Preservation Container, Flour Grinder, Composting Container, Furnace, and Small and Large Ice Containers (prevent items from degrading / rotting. Don’t forget to fill them with ice!).
Upgrading your house will give you more space to place additional items, but otherwise, it’s not urgently needed. Until you start making more crafting machines and need the space, you can prioritize other things. But it looks very cool!
Coop and Barn: Which do you prefer? Chickens or cows? By the time you can afford them, you probably won’t be using animal products as a source of income as much to get high-quality cooking items. I found the barn more useful because the products are more versatile.
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Written By: T_Spacemonkeys
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