Days of the Week
| Days of the Week | |
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| Type | Mechanic |
The valley runs on a seven-day week, and knowing it saves a lot of wasted walking. Shops close on fixed days, four merchants rotate their stock daily, the television changes its schedule, and the foraging across the whole map resets once a week. A season is twenty-eight days long, so every season holds exactly four of each weekday, and the seventh, fourteenth, twenty-first and twenty-eighth are always Sundays. Rain overrides several of the closures, which turns a wet Tuesday into one of the most useful shopping days there is. Planning errands around the week is one of the first habits a farmer picks up.
Overview
Monday closes Marnie's Ranch. The door still opens but nothing can be bought or sold, so animals and hay have to wait, unless it rains, in which case Marnie stays home and keeps normal hours. The Special Orders boards both refresh on Monday morning, the one in Pelican Town and the one in Qi's Walnut Room, each offering two fresh jobs to pick from, which makes Monday the day to decide what the week's side work will be. Sandy stocks coconuts at the Oasis, Krobus sells a batch of slime cheaply, the Desert Trader swaps hay for an Omni Geode, and the Island Trader takes taro for a Small Cap.
Tuesday is the exercise class at Pierre's General Store, and it takes two shopkeepers with it. Robin, Jodi, Caroline, Emily and Marnie all attend, so the Carpenter's Shop and the Ranch both stand open but idle, and no building can be ordered or animal bought. Rain cancels the class and both shops trade as usual. Sandy has Cactus Fruit, Krobus an Omni Geode at a steep price, and the Desert Trader turns stone into fibre.
Wednesday shuts Pierre's General Store completely, and the building is locked rather than merely quiet, which catches farmers who need seeds. Restoring the Community Center or earning the Key To The Town removes that closure for good and keeps the shop open all week. The television shows a repeat of The Queen of Sauce, which is the chance to pick up a recipe that was missed. Sandy sells Omni Geodes, Krobus a random fish or a Magnet, and the Desert Trader trades aquamarines for cloth.
Thursday is the quiet day for shops and the loud one for the Desert Trader, who offers a single Magic Rock Candy in exchange for three Prismatic Shards. That is a steep price, but the candy carries the largest combined buff in the game. Sandy's Deluxe Speed-Gro is the other reason to make the desert trip, and Krobus has a small run of Mixed Seeds.
Friday brings the Traveling Cart to Cindersap Forest from six in the morning until eight at night, with ten random items, a piece of furniture and sometimes something special, often out of season and often worth the inflated price. Once the Community Center is restored, villagers start spending Fridays there, and Clint is one of them, so tool upgrades and geode cracking are off the table that day. Most of the town gathers at the Stardrop Saloon after six in the evening, which makes Friday evening the best time for gift-giving and heart events. Krobus, remarkably, sells an Iridium Sprinkler.
Saturday sends Willy out fishing, so the Fish Shop is open to walk into but closed for trade, unless the weather is wet and he stays behind the counter. Sandy has Quality Retaining Soil, Krobus puts out five servings of a random cooked dish, and the Desert Trader swaps wild seeds for a different season's wild seeds, which is a neat way to stock up ahead of time.
Sunday is the reset. The week's gifting allowance clears at the start of the day, so two fresh gifts per villager become available. Any forage left standing vanishes overnight into Sunday morning, and the new batch spawns far more thickly than on an ordinary day, which makes Sunday the single best day to walk the forest, the beach, the mountain and the town with an empty pack. Artifact spots are shuffled as though three days had passed, so the dirt patches turn up in new places. The Queen of Sauce airs a fresh episode that teaches a recipe outright through the first two years. Several villagers attend morning services in the chapel inside Pierre's, and the Traveling Cart returns to the forest for its second day of the week. The Desert Trader will take a single Jade for a Staircase, which is the cheapest route to a stack of them for Skull Cavern diving.
Notes
Rain rewrites the week. A rainy Tuesday opens both the Carpenter's Shop and the Ranch, a rainy Saturday opens the Fish Shop, and a rainy Monday opens the Ranch, so a wet forecast on the television is a shopping opportunity as much as a watering holiday.
The weekly merchants are worth treating as one rotating shop rather than four. Sandy, Krobus, the Desert Trader and the Island Trader each change their offer every day, and between them they cover sprinklers, fertiliser, staircases, cloth, hay, hats and furniture that are awkward to obtain any other way.
Wild plants come up in the forest, the town, the beach and the mountain, so the Sunday sweep is a walk through the valley rather than a tour of the farm. The woods south of the farm are the richest ground, and clearing junk out of a space gives wild plants more room to appear there later.
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