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Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar – Tips and tricks for beginners
This guide offers 14 essential tips for beginners in Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar, covering everything from obtaining recipes and prioritizing crops to managing resources and preparing for festivals. The goal is to help new players have a successful and enjoyable start in the game.
1. 🏡 First Steps: Cooking Recipes and Initial Exploration
- ✅ Explore the villagers' houses to find initial cooking recipes.
- ✅ Interact with everything in the world, such as signs and statues.
- ✅ Buy food at Maline's Cafe to get more recipes.
00:00 - 01:25
1. 🏡 First Steps: Cooking Recipes and Initial Exploration
- ✅ Explore the villagers' houses to find initial cooking recipes.
- ✅ Interact with everything in the world, such as signs and statues.
- ✅ Buy food at Maline's Cafe to get more recipes.
01:26 - 02:39
2. 📈 Identify and Take Advantage of Seasonal Trends
- ✅ Trends are unique to each game.
- ✅ Prioritize items that are trending to maximize profits.
- ✅ Check what counts as a trend (e.g., sashimi may count as a red recipe).
- ⚠️ Trends reset every season, but you can reload your game if you don't like them.
02:40 - 03:09
3. 🌱 Prioritize Turnip Farming for an Easy Start
- ✅ Turnips grow quickly and are ideal for beginners.
- ✅ Transform turnips into salads to sell them at a higher price in the bazaar.
- ✅ Always have turnips ready to use, whether in salads or pickles.
03:10 - 03:44
4. 🌸 Process Flowers into Perfumes for Constant Profits
- ✅ Use the red mill to create perfumes with herbs or flowers.
- ✅ Collect herbs and flowers regularly to maintain a constant supply.
- ✅ Floral perfume is more profitable than herbal perfume.
03:45 - 04:12
5. 🎨 Convert Flowers into Dyes for Requests and Bazaar Sales
- ✅ Flowers are important for processing dyes.
- ✅ Prepare 15 dyes of any color to complete an early request.
- ✅ Dyes sell well in the bazaar during the spring.
04:13 - 04:51
6. ⛏️ Obtaining Minerals: Destroy Rocks and Check the Mail
- ✅ There are no mines; use the axe to destroy rocks in the outside world.
- ✅ At first, you will mainly find copper.
- ✅ Check the mail daily to find silver.
- ✅ Save two silver to unlock stalls in the bazaar that sell more minerals.
04:52 - 05:17
7. 📦 Expand Your Storage as Soon as Possible
- ✅ Expanding storage space is crucial, especially from the third week of spring.
- ✅ Upgrade your bag and your warehouse as soon as possible.
05:18 - 05:43
8. 🐄 Acquire a Cow and a Chicken in Your First Spring
- ✅ Get at least one cow and one chicken in the first spring.
- ✅ You will need one-star milk and eggs to complete character requests.
- ✅ Increase the affection of the animals to obtain higher quality products.
05:44 - 06:47
9. 💰 Recommended Products to Sell in the Bazaar During Spring
- ✅ Walnut Juice: Collect walnuts, turn them into bottled walnuts, and then into juice.
- ✅ Onion Salad: Buy onions from Miguel and the recipe at Maline's Cafe.
- ✅ Strawberry Juice: Buy seeds from Miguel and the recipe at Maline's Cafe.
- ✅ Sashimi: Use fish you catch (the recipe is available from the start).
- ✅ Wheat Flour and Vinegar (later in spring): Convert wheat and rice into flour and vinegar.
- ✅ Toast: Convert the flour into bread and then into toast.
- ✅ Pickles: Use vinegar to pickle vegetables.
06:48 - 07:22
10. 🔄 The Freshness of Ingredients Resets When Processing Them
- ✅ Don't worry too much about the freshness of the ingredients.
- ✅ Freshness resets when processing an ingredient into something else.
- ✅ Example: A spoiled turnip becomes fresh when pickled.
07:23 - 07:43
11. 🤝 Don't Forget to Greet and Give Gifts to Your Neighbors
- ✅ Don't ignore your neighbors, even if they are not romantic candidates.
- ✅ Complete their requests to obtain seeds, recipes, or decorations for your stall in the bazaar.
- ✅ Enjoy the cutscenes with voice acting in Zephyr Town.
07:44 - 08:21
12. ✨ Level Up Objects Through the Nature Sprites
- ✅ Each nature sprite levels up certain objects.
- ✅ Finley improves the quality of fish, Penny improves the quality of insects.
- ✅ Prioritize leveling up fish and collectible items to increase your profits.
- ✅ Give weeds and rocks to Ivy to speed up the leveling process.
08:22 - 09:01
13. ⭐ The Qualities of Objects Do Not Stack
- ✅ The qualities of objects do not stack with each other.
- ✅ If you have one-star chamomile and upgrade to two stars, they will not stack.
- ✅ Get rid of low-quality items by processing, selling, or gifting them.
09:02 - 09:43
14. 🌸 Prepare for the Spring Festivals
- ✅ Prepare for the Flower Festival and Honey Day.
- ✅ At the Flower Festival, give as many flowers as you can to your neighbors.
- ✅ For Honey Day, you will need wheat flour for a recipe.