Your first week in Fields of Mistria, day by day

Day one: seeds, tools, and the rhythm

You start with a single sword — every other tool is bought, earned from a quest, or given in a cutscene. Before you do anything else, buy seeds and a fishing rod: the Worn Fishing Rod costs 500g at Tackle Shop on the beach and pays for itself inside a day.

Spring seeds, from General Store in town, worth buying in the first week:

Seed	Cost	Grows in	Regrows	Bin price
Turnip Seed	25g	4 days	—	40g
Chickpea Seed	20g	5 days	3 days	30g
Carrot Seed	40g	6 days	—	80g
Potato Seed	40g	6 days	—	75g

Turnip Seed is the best starter crop: four days to harvest, 15g profit per tile, and a second planting still finishes inside spring. Chickpea Seed is nearly as good and keeps producing after the first harvest.

The daily loop is simple: water crops, check the request board in town, cut any fully-grown grass with your sword (you will need the hay later), fish until the afternoon, and spend the evening clearing your farm of rocks and branches.

The first week has a scripted forecast: rain arrives around day four and a special-weather day later in the week. On a rainy morning every soil tile on the farm is watered for free, so that day is the best one to spend entirely on fishing, mining or quests. The calendar shows the season at a glance.

The story quests come first

Every morning, check for new story quests before you plan anything else. The first week hands you several, and each one permanently unlocks part of the map:

• Repair the Bridge — the earliest quest, started by talking to Adeline. It needs 60 Stone and 60 Wood in the donation box on the Eastern Road, and it opens the way to the beach and the Museum.
• Find the Weathervane — Hayden‘s fetch quest, which teaches you that NPCs stand in fixed places on fixed days, where the calendar records the schedules.
• The Mill Restoration Project — a letter from Adeline that asks for a serious donation (200 stone, 150 wood, 2 copper ingots, and 1,000g). It unlocks the The Mill, where grass starters and animal feed are made. It is worth doing early, but it is a second-week goal unless you have been saving from day one.

Do not put these off. They cost only materials you would gather anyway, and the map they unlock is the difference between a farm sim and a farming corridor.

Money habits that compound

The single best money habit in week one is shipping something every day. The shipping bin pays you at day’s end, and every sale earns town renown at the rate of one point per 100g sold (renown explained). Renown, not gold, is what unlocks most of the game’s shops and upgrades.

Second habit: cook instead of eating raw. A dish restores far more energy per ingredient, and the energy you save is more fishing or mining time. The cooking guide lists the cheapest early recipes; even a single-ingredient dish beats the raw crop.

Third habit: never sell ore or stone. Both feed the blacksmith and the refinery for the entire game, and copper ore in particular gates your first tool upgrade.

Tools: upgrade order matters

Your first upgrade should be the Copper Hoe or Copper Watering Can, then the axe. The reason is not damage — it is area. The copper hoe and watering can can be charged to cover three tiles in a row in a single swing, which roughly triples how much farm you can manage in a morning.

Iron tools come from the blacksmith as your skill levels rise and your renown unlocks the shop upgrades. The full ladder and its costs are on the tools guide.

What to ignore in week one

Three things waste time in the first seven days:

1. Decorating. Furniture and paths pay nothing for weeks. Keep your gold in seeds and tools.
2. Museum donations beyond the easy ones. Donating is great for renown, but hold onto rare fish and artifacts until you know which museum sets they complete. The museum guide shows the sets.
3. Buying animals. Hayden’s animals are cheap enough, but feed infrastructure — hay, troughs, and a barn — is not. Get the mill and a steady hay source first; the hay guide covers when animals actually pay for themselves.

The first weekend

Saturday brings the Saturday Market to town, with extra vendors and seasonal stock. Even if you cannot afford much, walk the stalls once: some seeds and saplings appear only here. The market, along with birthdays and festivals, is on the calendar.

By the end of day seven you want: a few thousand gold, copper tools, the bridge and mill repaired, and a field of 30–50 tiles producing. From there the game opens up fast — the mines, the museum wings, and the villagers all become real options, and the choices get genuinely interesting.