ULTIMATE Rice Farming Guide for Beginners (+ Timestamps) | SAKUNA OF RICE AND RUIN

[@Swrinny]

I've added custom subtitles to make sure to turn them on! Also let me know what you think or if you have any questions. And thx for all the feedback, based on your questions and comments I've written down some more information: Cracked rice might be caused by too much dehydration or drying the rice for too long after harvesting. It can also be caused by harvesting too late (autumn 3 for instance) and excessive use of fertilizer that maxes out the nutrients in the soil. (Thx AnzuP for this information!) Cloudy Rice might be caused by exposing it to not enough water throughout the year, a high water temperature for a long period of time and harvesting it before it too early. So make sure to keep the water levels in check, pray for coolness or rain when you have too many sunny days and to not harvest in summer, but in autumn instead. (Thx AnzuP & Tae Young Ahn for this information!) Make sure to equip the Sedge Hat when doing farm work, this increases your farming XP by 20% which means that you'll unlock farming-related skills, like planting more seeds at once, at the same time. Thx YukoValis Sword for pointing this out! Fertilize once or daily? The most important thing with fertilization is that there is a green glow active within the triangle. When that is the case - the plants will grow. You can fertilize more often though to increase the stat growth, but in order to do that you will need the extra stat-boosting items like rotten food/powders/flakes/medicinal base. When it comes to applying more fertilizer you can do that daily and it's recommended to do in the morning. So to answer this question: Once, if the triangle is fully green and you don't want to invest more items for extra stat growth. Once a day, in the morning, in case you have spare stat-boosting items that you want to apply in the same harvest. Bear in mind that the game advises to add fertilizer differently if you're focusing purely on Yield or Heartiness. Check the action lists below for more information on this. Written steps for the Balanced Rice and all areas of focus can be found below. If you didn't get enough points to unlock the trophies/achievements, try to add fertilizer every day and adding items that give +100 to that stat every time. All steps for Swrinny's Balanced Rice: [Winter/Spring] Fertilize only once, but before tilling [Winter/Spring] Sort rice thoroughly with mud [Winter/Spring] Sow seeds thinly [Winter/Spring] Plant seedlings sparsely [Spring/Summer] Unleash ducks [Spring/Summer] ~20% water during 1st & 2nd offshoots stages [Spring/Summer] Dehydrate the field during 3rd offshoots stage [Spring/Summer] Lock up the ducks during 3rd offshoots stage [Summer/Autumn] ~30% water during sprouting stage [Summer/Autumn] Pray for dry weather [Summer/Autumn] Once ripe, drain field in the morning [Summer/Autumn] Harvest field early afternoon [Summer/Autumn] Thresh & Polish rice when it's cool (night/morning) [Summer/Autumn] Create white rice for better growth All steps for focusing purely on high Yield (Mass Production trophy/achievement): [Winter/Spring] Fertilize before tilling [Winter/Spring] Sort the rice lightly using mud (~50% mud) [Winter/Spring] Sow the seeds thickly [Winter/Spring] Plant with balanced space (1 seedling per grid) [Spring/Summer] Unleash ducks [Spring/Summer] Focus on root & kernel fertilizer [Spring/Summer] ~20% water during 1st & 2nd offshoots stages [Spring/Summer] Dehydrate the field during 3rd offshoots stage [Spring/Summer] Lock up the ducks during 3rd offshoots stage [Spring/Summer] During sprouting stage, focus on leaf fertilizer [Summer/Autumn] ~50-70% water during sprouting stage [Summer/Autumn] Drain the field and then harvest All steps for focusing purely on high Heartiness (Glutinous trophy/achievement): [Winter/Spring] Fertilize before tilling [Winter/Spring] Sort rice thoroughly using mud or salt [Winter/Spring] Sow seeds thinly [Winter/Spring] Plant the seedlings sparsely [Spring/Summer] Unleash ducks [Spring/Summer] Focus on root & kernel fertilizer [Spring/Summer] ~20% water during 1st & 2nd offshoots stages [Spring/Summer] Dehydrate the field during 3rd offshoots stage [Spring/Summer] Lock up the ducks during 3rd offshoots stage [Spring/Summer] During sprouting stage, focus on leaf fertilizer but only halfway at most [Summer/Autumn] ~30% water during sprouting stage [Summer/Autumn] Pray for dry weather [Summer/Autumn] Once ripe, drain field in the morning [Summer/Autumn] Harvest field early afternoon [Summer/Autumn] Thresh & Polish rice when it's cool (night/morning) [Summer/Autumn] Create white rice for better growth All steps for focusing purely on high Aesthetic (Pretty Paddy trophy/achievement): [Winter/Spring] Fertilize day after tilling [Winter/Spring] Sort seeds thoroughly using mud [Winter/Spring] Sow seeds thinly [Winter/Spring] Plant the seedlings sparsely [Spring/Summer] Unleash ducks [Spring/Summer] ~40% water during 1st & 2nd offshoots stages [Spring/Summer] Dehydrate the field during 3rd offshoots stage [Spring/Summer] Lock up the ducks during 3rd offshoots stage [Summer/Autumn] ~50-70% water during sprouting stage with both gates open (flowing water) [Summer/Autumn] Drain the field and harvest the rice early in Autumn [Summer/Autumn] Thresh & Polish rice when it's cool (night/morning) [Summer/Autumn] Create white or brown rice All steps for focusing purely on high Aroma (Aromatic trophy/achievement): [Winter/Spring] Fertilize before tilling [Winter/Spring] Sort rice thoroughly using mud or salt [Winter/Spring] Sow seeds thinly [Winter/Spring] Plant the seedlings sparsely [Spring/Summer] Unleash ducks [Spring/Summer] ~20% water during 1st & 2nd offshoots stages [Spring/Summer] Dehydrate the field during 3rd offshoots stage [Spring/Summer] Lock up the ducks during 3rd offshoots stage [Summer/Autumn] ~30% water during sprouting stage [Summer/Autumn] Pray for cool weather [Summer/Autumn] Drain the field and harvest the rice early in Autumn [Summer/Autumn] Create brown rice to maximize aroma

[@albertogarciasuarez6881]

Thanks for subtitles, my english os very very poor.

[@KainYusanagi]

Hey Swrinny, just wanted to let you know that the herbs also are really great single type fertilizer fodder before they rot, so great if you're trying to shore up a particular type of stat!

[@Swrinny]

@@KainYusanagi Hey - thx for the reply! Which herbs are you referring to? I can check them out later ingame :)

[@KainYusanagi]

@@Swrinny The ones that you can randomly find around your farm in the Spring; mugwort, seven herb, horsetail, etc. each of them provides a good early-game boost of 5 of a stat for a single one at only the cost of some Pesticide levels (which you can't deal with until you have garlic or salt by luck early game, anyways).

[@Swrinny]

@@KainYusanagi Ahh you mean those. I think I used most of mine in food processing or let them go bad haha, thx for the tip though!

[@Zamfyel]

Came here as a gamer... Left as a professional rice farmer degree

[@sivartb7273]

*Osomatsu whistle theme plays in the background *

[@EriChannelvt]

Coming from a family of rice farmers who still actively plants and trades rice, I played this game with skepticism after they say it's damn good. Though not truly accurate cause it's still a game, the process and details of managing paddy fields are scarily realistic.

[@Swrinny]

Hey - that's really cool to hear! I've read up a bit about the development process in this game and they went above and beyond with their research which is rare for such a small studio.

[@EriChannelvt]

Yeah, even to the point where the guide was even posted on Japan's Ministry of Agriculture too.

[@rizalalbar]

Did your family play this at home after they done farming the field? 😂

[@mustard466]

"After a hard day's work of farming rice, i come home to play a videogame about farming rice"

[@williambarnes5023]

@@mustard466 "After a hard day's work of farming rice, I come home to play a video game where your hard work in farming rice turns you into a god, as opposed to turning you into someone too tired to move and too poor to travel."

[@0tterp0pz]

I’m three harvests in and finally gave up on trying to figure it out on my own. This was so helpful! Thanks for uploading!

[@Swrinny]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@wongwaijeremy]

1980: Game in the future will be realistic and full of futurism 2020: rICe

[@loveliestfawn]

Doubt people thought about gaming in the future back then

[@Patrik1st]

@@loveliestfawn Atari came out in *1977* 😐

[@ShillenP]

Thank you, great guide. I am not really into the "figure it out on your own" style the game has but love all the rest of it.

[@Swrinny]

Glad to help!

[@UshadowsU]

thank god someone took this game seriously .. thanks alot for making this great video !

[@Swrinny]

Glad you like it! :)

[@werdna1969]

“Cloudy rice” is caused by harvesting rice too early (e.g., Summer 3). Wait one more day (Autumn 1) to prevent the condition.

[@Swrinny]

Cool, thx for letting me know!

[@MeditativeHandle]

Thank you sooo much for putting this together. This game is a true hidden gem. I made sure to just wing it for a few seasons before I followed a guide.

[@Swrinny]

Np, glad you like it! Winging it is a great way to learn too :D

[@mortaldragon2]

I'm 6 hrs and 54 minutes into them. Not very long but I'm at year 3 and only level 9. I noticed myself struggling quite a bit through the areas. I somehow crawled to chapter 3 and hit the next area when I finally knew I was missing something. After watching this video I found out that something was quite a lot in the rice growing process. I didn't understand the fertilizing process because I honestly didn't know what to truly add to it and I completely did NOT do the preparing seeds with mud........wow!!!! It's no wonder I only leveled up ONE time during the harvest!!! Lol!! Thank you so much for posting this video!!!! Not super difficult but a huge learning curve. :)

[@Swrinny]

Haha, no problem and yeah it's easy to miss these things. Even though the game teaches you about rice farming step by step, it can take a while to understand what actually works or you might miss or forget something. Glad this video was helpful. Hope you'll level up a lot more during your future harvests :D

[@mortaldragon2]

@@Swrinny Thanks!! And yeah after following the steps in your video, I went from 9 to 12 and it wasn't the best I could do. Haha

[@Swrinny]

@@mortaldragon2 Sounds like a good improvement! It's been a while since I've played but I think 3-5 levels is normal to gain until you're level 40-50 or so. If you later on find special items like Medinical Herbs, 'flakes' and 'powders' make sure to add them to the fertilizer to get some extra levels :)

[@mortaldragon2]

@@Swrinny Awesome. I'll make sure to remember that!!

[@PuchimonExtreme]

There is at least one more level above well-rounded planting. You plant everything in your hand (all 32) RANDOMLY. As the description phrased it "it's utter chaos"

[@Swrinny]

Haha, that sounds like great fun! Thx for letting me know :D

[@Dr.Sho_Minamimoto]

Question is, do they go a step even further? Would putting up with the chaos lead to you to a level where planting all of the seedlings in a perfect way as a reward for finding a method to the madness? I’d like to think so.

[@kidaf]

Cracked rice is caused by a few things. First, lack of water, which can also be caused when you dried the rice too long. Also, if your rice is overripen, due to late harvest. Lastly, too much nutrients can also cause that, so make sure you don't max out the nutrients when you apply fertilizers. Cloudy rice is also caused by a few things. First, harvesting before it's ripe. Second, low water level. Finally, exposed to high temperature for an excess amount of time.

[@Swrinny]

Hey - big thanks for the info! I've added it to the pinned comment up top so more people can find it :)

[@Gamemaster-64]

how long is too long? Usually the next day or so she does say it dry enough and when it done the dryness bar goes to 100. is the 100 bad?

[@rgenc42721]

Pro tip for people with a keyboard: During hulling, hold the up key and spam the down key. During threshing, hold the down key on keyboard and do the swipe action with your gamepad

[@PunishedDad]

"beginners guide" I just started downloading this game and now I'm wondering what the hell I've gotten myself into here...

[@Swrinny]

Haha, it can be a bit overwhelming :p Your first 2-3 harvests are going to suck and if you follow the steps in the video you can make the others good enough to progress at a good pace. Hope you enjoy the game!

[@PunishedDad]

@@Swrinny I'm definitely enjoying the action gameplay so far, I can see the charm

[@AirSkyyy]

Idk what to do

[@PunishedDad]

@@AirSkyyy Where are you stuck brother?

[@AirSkyyy]

Idk how to get the percentage of water cuz it dint show up especially the grid as well... I don’t even know where i can find an oil so i can explore at night

[@agent_447]

My day job contract doesn't allow having another job. Ill have to keep my rice farming business a secret.

[@Shuttima]

I went into this game as an engineer and came out as a farmer

[@agk5631]

200% best initial guide for Sakuna for sure. Concise, friendly to farming newcomers, and good gameplay~

[@Swrinny]

Aww thanks, appreciate it and glad you find it helpful! :)

[@rainshimikaze7625]

Very informative video, thanks for this. The game really wants you to find stuff yourself, I just want to relax when playing so this video is very helpful to skip the trial and error for the farming parts.

[@Swrinny]

Glad you found it helpful! :)

[@RandoomDude]

The most important thing is actually getting good stats at the very beggining, you can do a max of 100 for all the stats on your first fertilizer, Swriny barely gets 300+ on his stats cause he probably didn't use enough spoiled food/medicine boosters, all that quality mostly goes to waste without them

[@DevoBlade]

Saw this pop up in my recommended videos. Clicked it with no idea what game this was but your review sold me on the game!

[@Swrinny]

Aww that's cool to hear - hope you have a good time playing it! :D

[@DirectorOfChaos9292]

I like how you essentially gain your godlike powers/combat prowess back as you work the fields and fight monsters

[@vulpesamores1783]

Hey I don't know what difference this really makes in the long run or if this as been covered but in my experience pumping fertilizers into the soil cause rice blight to skyrocket. Rice blight is just annoying regardless and I'm still getting a handle on it in year 11 haha. Awesome guide!

[@BobaVett]

Man, I just picked this game up on a whim, mainly due to the art style. Was not expecting to be sucked into it as much as I did. I absolutely adore this game. Incredibly fun.

[@Swrinny]

Right! It was really surprising to see the amount of depth and character the game actually has

[@shiro2646]

This Video Make Uncle Rogar Happy

[@mgsxmike]

I'm glad this came out for the ps4, I'm really enjoying playing this

[@mehlover]

Haven't picked up the game in over a year and forgot how to farm. This is very helpful! Tysm!

[@mk7893]

Thank you so much for this video! this game needs more attention

[@Swrinny]

Glad you enjoyed it! :)

[@SojaWtf]

Mate so much effort! God bless u man! I were searching for that so hardly!

[@thisisntthewholesomefuture649]

Grabbed this title on sale for $34. It caught my eye a few months back but I wasn't entirely sure it'd be something I'd be into. So far so good. 👌🏻

[@Swrinny]

Great to hear and hope you'll have a good time. Do you like both the combat and the farming so far?

[@CHAukodaMaN15]

I only bought this game foe the RPG element and because the artwork/music reminded me of Odin's Sphere and Muramasa. The rice element elighted me that rice is a b*tch to make. Thanks.

[@DogginsFroggins]

Wow this is in depth, at first I was kinda annoyed that you slowly unlock things but looking at the totality of all the mechanics its probably for the best, there is so much to learn! Awesome guide, I'm actually going to bookmark it because of the depth of knowledge contained.

[@Yoshiaki48CIV]

Thank you for making this helpful video! You know, the developers didn’t know how to make good gaming balance of the farming, so they just put the actual data.

[@Dr.Sho_Minamimoto]

One thing that I’m conflicted with is wether my mix of fertilizer is good or bad. I follow the exact method of amber and the 5x hoof, manure, and leaves but, my main departure is adding 388 rotten food which nets me 100 on all stats and -100 pesticide. I then add 30 salt which brings pesticide to 0 (and immunity and herbicide is 100). From there, I add 10 renowned water until toxicity is -1 (I would use spring water, but I neither have that built up nor do I know how much of either water I would need to put to avoid salt damage) From there, I add 10x Flame core to make pesticide 100. In a perfect world that might be a good mix however, I get the feeling that it’s not only extremely expensive in the salt, renowned water, and flaming core departments. So I’d like to get other peoples opinions on this mix as well as what others usually do for their fertilizer mix.

[@Swrinny]

It is a good mix but as you say it's veeery expensive. The issue with the additional components is that they have diminishing returns. The more rotten food you add the more you will need to increase the stats further. If you're going for the trophies/achievements you can go all out with the fertilizer but if you want to make something good consistently when playing through the game I'd look at increasing the stats on your fertilizer between 25-40.

[@imperitur]

Thank you so much! You gained a subscriber. Please, continue to make these useful videos! Rice farming in this game is deep!

[@Swrinny]

Thx, glad it was helpful! :)

[@fenyno5155]

I am only in for 3minutes and i found the information so helpful already! Thank uuuu!

[@Swrinny]

Glad to help! :)

[@wamengxiong0409]

After the round planting is chaos planting...don't do it. To change it back to one of the other planting methods, go to the skills when on the field, highlight the planting, then press the left on the d-pad and you will revert back to the previous levels and press a

[@lhyycious]

Tried to figure out by myself for 2 first harvests and only got 11 rice and didn't turn out well. After following this, got more than 60 rice and it turned out waaaay better lol TY !! still got some practice to do tho ;)

[@Swrinny]

Great to hear :D The more you progress and unlock the better and easier it will get so keep at it!

[@nescapre1640]

thanks, now i know how to increase my luck, gusto and magic cuz im lvl 28 with very high str, vit and hp, wanted to balance my stats

[@bordsbordo]

Thank you for making such an informative video! I've been wondering how to get better quality rice and stumbled upon your tutorial. It really helped us noob rice farmers a lot.

[@Swrinny]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@ztek0r924]

Very good in depth guide! very informative and straight to the point with demonstrations really helpfull!

[@PlatinumCyGirl]

Wow my dude thanks for this guide which I will be going thru back and forth 🙃☺️ it helps a lot! I have no idea what I'm doing; luckily I just started the game and I'm doing the how to till tut area😽

[@nurcahya7895]

this game worth for u to buy on first trailer i thought this gonna be boring game, after i bought this game man im really into this game kekw...and yeah i was wrong for said boring game, this game truly awesome

[@Swrinny]

Haha, I had my doubts after watching the trailers too but was so impressed when actually playing the game. Hats off to the developers to make action + rice farm simulator work so well

[@nurcahya7895]

@@Swrinny yeah it is indeed bro

[@zeonztan4424]

Thank you for the guide! I was able to get the achievement for Aroma! I will try to get Heartiness and Aesthetic next!

[@Swrinny]

Great to hear! Make sure to check the top pinned comment with some extra info about obtaining those achievements. And if you have those powerful additional components like powders, flakes & medicinal herbs now is the time to use them in the fertilizer. Good luck!

[@zeonztan4424]

@@Swrinny Question bout the 3 types of remedies vs the 3 types of fertilizer... I found using just Branching Flower/Flaming Core/Aquarous Droplet is not as strong as the remedies as in I can't really eliminate the rice disorders until I put 1-2 remedies and either the 3 materials.. like if I have pesticide, so is Eradicating remedy 1x + Flaming Core 2x. I feel like the remedies are like the based item while the other 3 materials are like booster.. is this true? Cause I'm running low on remedies after getting Aroma achievement.

[@zeonztan4424]

@@Swrinny Also one more thing.. Regarding the Salt Damage, using Refreshing water as in Spring/Renowned Water? And if I didn't add any salt in all fertilize.. but Salt Damage still increases even if I put like -100 Toxicity (combination of Spring Water, Renowned Water 1x-2x + Moonlit Stones) How do I counter this situation?

[@Swrinny]

@@zeonztan4424 Remedies are for curing and boosting the resistance through items, even if you'd do this via remedies, is for preventing. So when starting out I'd add additional components like salt to prevent and reduce the impact of diseases. If during the harvest you see your plants being ill, you can add a remedy to the fertilizer to cure it or weaken the disease. You can check the current strength of the disease by talking to Tauemon. Hope this clears it up a bit!

[@Swrinny]

@@zeonztan4424 Yes that's right - the waters help reduce the toxicity that you get from adding salt which reduces the amount of Salt Damage the plants will take. Salt damage also increases quite a bit if you sort the rice with Salt during the sorting process - have you done that perhaps? Other than that it could be that salt damage will always be there and increase slowly, but the more salt you added or if you sorted using salt it increases at a very quick pace. From what I've seen in this game you cannot fully counter damage/diseases to the extent that they fully disappear - but you can greatly reduce the impact

[@meiselle]

This is so helpful!! Very well organised and explained

[@Swrinny]

Thank you so much - glad it was helpful! :)

[@kingnamor777]

I started all over. My save game data because I used all the important items that are used for weapons and my rice balance. It similar to your balance when I reached around Level 42. But it didn't have a lot of Aroma, Sickness and Aesthetic.

[@wickeddelight]

Additional tips: Gatherables in the home area do not spawn right when it becomes day, so if you are looking for them first thing they are not going to be there yet. If you want to avoid or reduce the amount of salt you are using, garlic is the only thing you can gather in the early game that is a natural pesticide, and a strong one. Garlic spoils every 2 days, so you should gather two days' worth and use it every other day for best efficiency. On days you have no green onions, salt+moonstone is pretty efficient. Moonstones are available as soon as you are strong enough to fight throuth the very first level at night. Or, if you have lots of herbs and bamboo that need herbicide instead you can skip the rotten food entirely and instead do an herb/herbicide batch. Once you can buy things from the capital green onion is the same. You can use two days worth of purchased green onions to make your tilling batch of fertilizer during the winter, then potentially you can use a second batch of green onions to make your planting batch of fertilizer. Sadly green onions are not always available to buy.

[@horsesattack]

Very nice guide 😄 I love this game a lot. I hope we get more sim/ rpg combat games in the future

[@Swrinny]

Thx! Same here, was pleasantly surprised at how well these 2 playstyles worked together :D

[@quateho4329]

u should try rune factory, u will love it!

[@Swrinny]

@Quate Ho I've been looking into that actually! Gonna wait for the 5th one to release and probably try that 😀

[@To_Rue]

Man there is so much info, mah smol brain doesn't have space anymore. Thanks for the video!

[@agustrimaulidyanto9439]

Hoped they update for planting grid to view from the top/plan mode

[@melkhiordarkfell4354]

As much as I love this game. The rice farming is both the most fun but also most confusing element. On a side note, it bugs me that the "Obtain X material to release power" only applies when you are wear the outfit. Even if I have 50 of the item, I have to go gather 50 again since the ones I have don't count.

[@Swrinny]

Yeah that gets pretty annoying. Also needing x amount of an item to unlock, but it's an item that spoils after a while like meat.

[@sebastianjr.4714]

Thanks for the Video. It really helped me a lot ,while just starting to play this game. Thx😁

[@kingnamor777]

Also I been thinking of putting more focus on my rice during the Spring and Summer seasons of the game. It does help to keep the rice balance. But it would mean I have to do combat at night. I'll probably do something like during the mid and near ending of the game.

[@jdaliveplay1308]

This is awesome and useful information, thank you very much for sharing!

[@Swrinny]

Glad it was helpful! :)

[@MrSnowi88]

Great guide, good work bro!

[@ambi_ow]

great video! very informative and super helpful

[@Swrinny]

Glad it was helpful!

[@rozenchannel]

Many thanks for your guide, there still somethings that i dont quite undertand clearly, but i think with some experimentation will undertand more. (or maybe is becasue i need to grow and polish more my english)

[@VeryLargeDuck]

Thanks for this video! Appreciate the work you put into it.

[@Swrinny]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@dukenukem7043]

you should make a video that explains what players need to do when starting the game. i can't bring myself to continue this game because i dont know what to do, i can't plant more rice, i can't harvest the ones i planted, i can't beat the levels that i'm on, etc

[@FoxTenson]

Depends on where you are at, if you've already beaten the first boss area the second areas will be hard without your first or second harvest behind you at least. There is some pacing there between harvests, so focus on upgrading your equipment through ores, wood, and textiles along with your rice raising. As you eat and visit your hut quests will pop up and you'll be able to make a forge and weaver's hut to make said upgrades. Long as you take care of your rice you'll gain new combat skills to reach new areas and chests. Also the best way to deal with enemies early on and get through areas is to crash attack/smash attack. Use the skill that lets you smash enemies into each other, or a charged side attack, or the raiment throw, or just the basic combo of up quick attack into following into the air then spam quick attack and you'll diagonal slam enemies into others. This out damages early game skills and weapons and you can beat bosses and areas earlier than intended that way.

[@rgenc42721]

Rule of thumb is to never pick fight if you are 3 levels lower than the stage level. You will get your ass handed to you, unless you are proficient with the combat. Just play, the game will give out guides later, and in stages so you won't be overwhelmed by having to take in everything at the same time.

[@millabasset1710]

You're the Heisenberg of rice farming

[@Swrinny]

This comment made my day :D

[@millabasset1710]

@@Swrinny I got my third yield from 10 to 12.. I followed your advice. I'm assuming it gets better later in the game.

[@musclesglasses5790]

You goddamn right.

[@Swrinny]

@@millabasset1710 Yeah at the start your harvest is bound to be weak. During the 4th harvest you unlock sorting and I think it start picking up from there

[@kirara4953]

Rice is power!

[@b00marrows]

11:31 "i do not know if there are more" Oh boy are you in for a surprise. EDIT: Ahahaha! there it is I was hoping to find info on cloudy/cracked rice. Seems we are have the same issue on that, ingame not giving good info. I have found cloudy rice can fester when the rice is drying or while in storage, which means the ingame tip about it is false and has nothing to do with it ripening? Cracked might be related to it being too dry when you hull? i dont know, it doesnt make much sense. i thought 100% dryness was key. A followup of more info when you have it would be great, am subbing.

[@Swrinny]

Haha - there's even more after that apparently. Just keeps on giving :D And yeah I've checked with some other people on Discord/Reddit/GameFaqs but it's really untested assumptions. People are speculating it can have something to do with the temperature throughout the harvest, if you start too early/too late and if you polish the rice too early/too late. If I end up finding out more I'll definitely let you know!

[@b00marrows]

@@Swrinny It would be interesting to hear what people find. The games lack of detailed feedback is both fun but also a curse. It allows for but doesnt explicitly reward experimentation and without being able to look back at what you did (without writing things down out of the game) its hard to tell what was right or wrong. Anyway, another thaught on cloudy rice might be going back to "ripeness", like the tooltip says. maybe when the games says "its ripe" maybe only ~30% of it is ripe. Leaving the rice "ripe" for an extra day might allow for the full field to become "ripe". This would make sense as even the games input isnt 100%, like when sakana says the rice is dry, its ~80-90% and leaving it for another 4-6 hours can result in 100% dryness.

[@Swrinny]

@@b00marrows Yup you're right. Had to change my mindset quite a bit as I'm kind of a perfectionist when it comes to these things. I wanna know it all and try to execute it in a way to get the 'perfect rice' but there's just too many variables that work together. And as you said, the information on those variables isn't 100%

[@b00marrows]

@@Swrinny I saw the ammount of veriables in the first few harvests and at that point decided im not gonne be a happy min-maxer when it comes to the rice and just went with the flow. Right now my rice gives yield out the wazoo, 5K yield (5021, i got around 700 white rice last harvest?) but all other stats are suffering going down clockwise (3.3k, 3.5k, 2.4k, 2.7k) with aroma (magic) being the lowest being 2114. My biggest gripe right now is the gatherers not getting remedies. I could see the remedies being super helpfull stepping stone to better rice, but maybe 1/10 attempts get one and i only have 3 dogs so far so im maybe getting a remedie a month. Sadly i cant fight a boss for a remedy, how easy that would make it... Anyway, my last test was leaving the rice to "ripen". I left the rice "ready to harvest" for an entire day after it said it was ready and saw little to no cloudy or cracked rice. I dont know if it did it or something elce, but it might be it. Small note on fertaliser, it is by dafault "sustained" for 10 hours, so if you really want to you can put in 2 sets per day, but i belive the later in the day you use fertaliser the less effective it is. And small note on illnesses, from what i can tell they only have a serious/actual effect when the bar fills all the way up and/or is red. That possibly meaning if the bars green, its not terrible. EG: A partial bar of dehydratin or salt damage is not gonna do anything and might even go away with time or a bit of fertaliser, but a full bar of spindly wont go away and the damage is done, atleast from what i am seeing. Anyway, sorry for the novel. Looking forward to what you have gathered on all this if/when you make another video on it.

[@Swrinny]

@@b00marrows No need to apologize for the novel lol, it's fun reading something passionate :D Yeah at night the rice barely grows and thus doesn't use much nutrients from the fertilizer, but you're right it is theoretically possible to do. Have to agree with you on the remedy items, and honestly the same for other items like medicinal herbs, flakes and powders. It's a big reason I tend to settle for one fertilizer too. And good to know about the illnesses, it's just a shame you can't really see how big the impact really was in the harvest results for instance. I don't think I'll be making another video on it though, been busy with work and slowly moving onto other games.

[@pscully608]

Perhaps cloudy/cracked rice isn't the polishing but rather the drying? Possibly sending the harvest to the shed before it dries or leaving it out long enough for the cold to get to it. Anyways, great info, and thanks for the video.

[@Swrinny]

That sounds plausible. Another user also suggested that cracked rice could be when the rice is out there during the winter. Might check it out in a later harvest and glad the video was helpful! :)

[@thanhng948]

As a person living in a farming country and have a little knowedge about farming, this is still hard for me, hope I'm not turn farming level to low. Anyway thanks for the guide.

[@Swrinny]

Glad it's helpful and good luck!

[@Maris_Likes_Games]

Thank you very much for this amazing guide. I really appreciate you😊

[@MeditativeHandle]

I'd kill for a Sakuna funko pop.

[@Swrinny]

Same! Her character design is actually perfect for it haha

[@yusuke_anime1101]

I would 100% buy it

[@MeditativeHandle]

Dude, sakuna figurines exist now!

[@YukiChristy]

I noticed 3rdoff shoot required dehydration, but not entirely dry, it will cause the status "dehydration" Keeping water around 5-8% is better than draining all the water.

[@Swrinny]

Cool, I'll have to give that a try during my next harvest

[@YukiChristy]

@@Swrinny Just did a check with the dehydration status. It is best to keep 0% like what you mentioned (am sorry about my status earlier haha) but need to keep both water gates open to lower down temperature for better quality harvest.

[@Swrinny]

@@YukiChristy hey - np and tnx for letting me know! Makes a lot of sense about the water gates, the water becomes hot really quickly when it's really shallow

[@Lian9921]

Thank you, this really help me

[@Swrinny]

Glad it helped!

[@cadaverouspawn]

Great vid. Gonna be refering to it alot, i think.

[@Swrinny]

Thx, glad it helps! :)

[@bonkai09]

How do i chose how much i put in the fertilizer, it might be me but I don't know how to add the quantity of how much i want to use, every time i tried its always zero, can you tell me how

[@TenHorizons]

Hey Swrinny, I’m new to the channel. I really liked your review and guide video on Sakuna, but don’t want to watch the others because I don’t want spoilers. Could you do a playthrough? I’d love to watch it!

[@Swrinny]

Glad to have you here and also happy that you liked the review and guide! :) For now I'm sticking to reviews and guides because I think those are the most valuable for viewers, but in the future I might do more playthroughs/let's plays of certain games. Really depends on the type of game though.

[@gartsur84]

This video has been very helpful. Thank you

[@joegt123]

I've heard that the fertilizer added before tilling can as salt toxic as you please. No need to use water. It won't damage the rice.

[@mystory2914]

Incredibly helpful thanks so much.

[@luluciel532]

Thank you very much . This guide is very helpful .

[@Swrinny]

Glad it helped! :)

[@ShinkaoftheXIII]

This helps greatly. Thanks.

[@Swrinny]

Glad to hear it!

[@ValTheMad]

Saving this one for later, this has all the info I need for figuring this stuff out

[@Wooden_Hammer]

Best video ever

[@warcatbattalion]

I've been playing for 4 hours, then watched this video. Very nice video, I'm now convinced that I should skip this game and play something else. Everything about this game is such a chore, from farming, crafting, gathering, everything. I just want a side scrolling hack and slash game, man...

[@nosearches8340]

This is what maple story 2 should've been like Design wise and keep all those blobs and mushrooms etc

[@MrPureownage123]

Lol I came here by accident after watching a rice harvest video. Good stuff though man

[@Swrinny]

Haha, thx! :D

[@velvetringo1657]

You can get the weather that you want by simply load save file so its always sunny or raining

[@haytham1411]

Great video man

[@Swrinny]

Thx, appreciate it! :D

[@troigrl]

I need to buy the game now I know what to do

[@auhjo8406]

Very helpful thank you for making this video

[@Swrinny]

Glad it was helpful!

[@seantan9793]

How often do you have to apply fertilizer, and how often to apply remedies (eradicating, reducing and revitalizing)?

[@Swrinny]

Sorry for the delayed response! I just apply it once a year, as shown in this video. I've added a bit more info on fertilizing in the pinned comment of this video which may help you!

[@lw1391]

There's an even more dense planting category after the circles and it's a bloody mess to try to get that one far apart

[@Swrinny]

Yeah haha noticed that one after making this video. Thankfully you can swap between planting styles to pick the one you like most

[@wyabings]

Hi there! Thanks for the video! I was wondering if the English release has other language options on the cart? Was hoping to play it in Japanese or Chinese. Thank you!

[@Swrinny]

Np, glad you like it! :) Yup in the main menu you can change the langue. The spoken language can either be Japanese or English and the text language can either be Japanese, English and another Asian language, but I can't tell whether it's Korean or Chinese :c

[@junaidiamet3273]

Need help. Now im at 4th year and I don't have sorting & sowing stage. The steps straight from tilling to planting(waiting the seed to mature) without any sorting process. Is there any requirement to unlock this step? Im using nintendo switch btw. Thanks in advance.

[@Swrinny]

Heya - the unlocking could also be related to the story progression. They usually somewhat go hand in hand - so try and see if you can clear a few more stages before your next harvest. Hope this helps!

[@sondiganteng]

awesome tips, thank you very much

[@justinebatac1753]

Please upload some of the trophy related stuff about the game. That would be great! :)

[@Swrinny]

Hey - sorry I'm done with the Sakuna videos for now, but if you have any certain questions I can try to help! I've added a bit about the rice trophies in the description for what it's worth

[@Non-qp5kb]

Hey Swrinny thankyou for this guide can you also make a combat tips

[@Swrinny]

Hey - sorry won't be making that guide due to a lack of time. But I'd say: - Take out ranged enemies first. - Use the raiment to dodge, you can't be hit during the dodge animation and you can use it twice before touching the ground. A lot safer than parrying. - Make good use of collision damage in large groups (combat skills Frontal Smash & Wild Top help with this, also Raiment skills Crescent Toss & Windmill). - As for good combat skills to use, Swallow Slice - Rising Carp & Thundering Magnitude are by far my favorites to use because they deal big damage and stun/toss enemies around. - Always go for the strongest weapon you can craft. - Always have a food buff "Natural Healing" to heal between fights. Hope this helps!

[@ZeroXTRL]

how much level you got for a year? in this video i see 3? i read topics people reach 8-12 levels a year?

[@Swrinny]

Ohhh it's been a long time so I'm not fully sure. It also changed as you usually need more EXP at higher levels. I think between 4-7 is average

[@PaleVoyager]

Any advice for getting a "Glutinous" rice crop?

[@Swrinny]

Yup! More people asked for that so I've posted extra info in the pinned comment on this video. Hope this helps you out!

[@Karasca]

very helpful thanks

[@ricku7765]

Can you make a video about combos or skills of how can you use them? I like the combat of this game but it's pretty hard to execute in the fight because there is no specific guide or controls on how to use them.

[@Swrinny]

Hey - sorry but I've moved on from this game for new projects so I won't be making that. I can give you a few tips to make combat easier: - Make good use of collision damage (use skills that knock enemies into other enemies). - While attacking with regular attacks, make sure to hold the movement stick up so your combo transitions into an aerial combo. Other enemies won't be able to hit you as easily, your combo will be longer and at the end you can knock the enemy into other enemies. - If you see an enemy come, like a charging boar, you can double-tap the movement button in that direction to parry and/or dodge the enemy. - Use your raiment dodge (where you grab them with the scarf and you pass through them) as much as you can. During this time enemies can't hit you. You can use it twice before having to land on the floor. - Always take out the archers/bombers first as they can deal a lot of damage and are hard to dodge. - Once you unlock Swallow Slice & Rising Carp, make sure to equip these. They make your life so much easier. If you don't have them yet, you will need to level your rice field further. Hope this helps a bit!

[@ricku7765]

@@Swrinny thanks man

[@Charren]

Thanks for the tips

[@LightningCake]

Well done! Thank you! 💕

[@zner9376]

I saw you applied fertilizer before tilling but after you tilled the field it showed you did not apply the fertilizer. Why is that?

[@Swrinny]

Hey - the clips were cut together as I was recording multiple things for the videos. It shows I didn't apply the fertilizer because 10 hours have passed between me spreading it and tilling. It's the best practice to spread it right before tilling and you will see that it will say "yes" once you do that.

[@zner9376]

@@Swrinny I see so it's better to apply before you start the tilling process?

[@Swrinny]

@@zner9376 Yup, just spread it right before you jump into the field to start the tilling process

[@ThePhuNetwork]

Doesn't filling up the fertilizer triangle bring up problems like overgrowth and spindly rice? Isn't it more important to follow the scrolls when it comes to considering the amount of what type fertilizer to use?

[@Swrinny]

If you want to get the most out of it, yeah you can fertilize more often and keep an eye on the amount of nutrients in there depending on which part you want to focus on. If I recall correctly the most detrimental part for your rice harvest can be having too much fertilizer during the third offshoot stage as it makes more leaves appear which leads to the problem you mentioned - overgrowth. But for the sake of having a step-by-step guide for beginners that will allow you to not stress too much about the rice harvest, fertilizing only once at the start is the easiest imo and still gives you good results.

[@yggdrasill-7428]

Please add water BEFORE planting rice. This is a very important process.