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THE FIELD GUIDE

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Browse the workshop, story and troubleshooting guides. Find help with farming, alchemy, characters, achievements and common launch issues.

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Getting started

Beginner’s guide

Build a reliable crop-to-shop routine before trying to automate everything. Keep story saves separate from your working save.

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Troubleshooting

“Seeds depleted”: what to check

Check the seeds assigned to the planting task, not just your total inventory. v1.0.1 adds an assignment shortcut in Peoplesprout Management.

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Workshop

Peoplesprouts & automation

Match workers to farming, retail and manufacturing bottlenecks. For night work, newly learned skills or greenhouse movement, check the v1.0.5 Humanwood fixes before spending on replacements.

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Workshop

Farming, crop traits & the garden

Choose crops for a purpose: an order, your shop or a planned experiment. Compare your own yield and cost figures instead of relying on an invented best-crop ranking.

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Workshop

Alchemy & the Tree of Creation

v1.0.2 removes main-story progress as a requirement for unlocking alchemy. Check the remaining requirements in your game, then record ingredients, elemental values and results before scaling up.

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Troubleshooting

How to Get Alchemical Sediment: Reported Methods

Do not assume failed Extreme Alchemy is the only reported source. Compare the safe limit, total ingredient value and active Oracle effects; the methods below are attributed guidance, not guaranteed wiki-tested drops.

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Workshop

Shopkeeping, orders & profit

Plan production around what you can sell and what an order needs. Revenue, profit and available stock are three different numbers.

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Troubleshooting

Save file location & backups

The developer lists the save folder inside the game installation: The Piper Of Dawn → ThePiper_Data → SavesDir.

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Troubleshooting

Startup & Quest Fixes: Current v1.0.5 Status

v1.0.5 targets workers, crop genes, rewards and a Blackjack freeze. It does not explicitly report a fix for the prolonged startup black screen; the last specific official status for that symptom is from v1.0.3.

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Story & world

Endings & route planning

An ending achievement confirms a named outcome, not the exact choices required. Keep route requirements separate from trust milestones.

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Story & world

Oracles, relics & rewind notes

Track the effect you actually receive and the context where you use it. A blessing’s name alone is not enough to reproduce a build.

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Story & world

Fishing & Blackjack milestones

Track fishing and card milestones, and check the v1.0.5 Queen of Diamonds freeze fix. A repaired Blackjack trigger is not a guaranteed winning strategy.

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Workshop

Raintear / Raincry Seeds: Store Names & Silver Key

The v1.0.3 English announcement says Raincry Flower Seeds are sold at the Star-Snow Shop, which opens later with the Silver Key map. Earlier notes used Raintear Seeds and Stella’s Store.

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Troubleshooting

“Failed to load il2cpp”: startup checks

For “Fatal error: Failed to load il2cpp”, check Steam-installed files, security-software quarantine and the Microsoft x64 runtime. The v1.0.2 notes list these as troubleshooting, not a guaranteed fix for all startup problems.

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Getting started

Day Cycle, Curfew & End Day

The launch-build field guide observes curfew at 18:00: customers stop, but you can still prepare the farm and workshop before pressing End Day.

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Story & world

Roadmap: Free DLC, Cat Interactions & Reunion After Story

Bone Nail has announced five future-content tracks. They are plans in development, not released features, and the announcement gives no launch dates.

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Troubleshooting

Humanwood Not Working: Night, Skills & Greenhouses

Install v1.0.5 before replacing a worker or rebuilding a greenhouse. The developer reports fixes for night work, newly learned skills and greenhouse movement; an unassigned seed task is a different problem.

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Workshop

Crop Genes: Perennial, Stop Updating & Deeply Rooted

Update before rebuilding a crop line. v1.0.5 addresses Perennial, the saved Stop Updating setting and misleading seed-gene displays; Deeply Rooted removal now has a clearer prompt.

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Story & world

Missing Friendship Rewards: Reclaiming Level Gifts

v1.0.5 allows players who already reached the required friendship level to reclaim the corresponding unreceived reward. Check the affected character and reward before grinding the level again or restarting.

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Troubleshooting

Time or Alchemy Stuck: 1.0.10 Fixes and Control Options

Update before repeating a failed craft: 1.0.10 targets Free Alchemy time/settlement stalls, missing failed Extreme Alchemy results and conditional story progression.

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