My Time At Sandrock is a nice life simulator with plenty of building and crafting elements. In this prequel to My Time At Portia, you will be able to cultivate relationships, help a prospering desert town, and battle a couple of interesting creatures. It's a relaxing game that has a little bit of everything like humour, combat, crafting, planning, and more.
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Despite the fact that it is an Early Access game that is still receiving updates and will get the full multiplayer release as well, it has a lot to offer. Now, there are plenty of beginner tips that you can find, but there aren't many tips for veterans of the game series. We aim to be the first.
10 Collecting Water Keeps Your Builder Happy
Since My Time At Sandrock is set in the desert, water is a precious and needed resource. So the first tip that all pro players know is to hoard all the water you can get. This can be done in a number of ways, like purchasing what you can from the water tower, making a couple of dew collectors, or hoping that you get some water from commissions or gathering.
Water collection is important because it is the primary way to fuel your machines. Plus, during the story, you will find yourself in need of a lot of water, so already having a supply will help in the long run. Don't wait until the water runs dry!
9 Stockpile Useful Materials For Easy Commission Completion
This point may be a little contentious, but to have an easier time playing My Time At Sandrock, you should store useful materials. If you played My Time At Portia, you might already know a few things between the two games, like which items to stockpile for future commissions.
Making more items than what you need for a mission will help in the long run. As an example, having a bunch of items stocked up is critical to completing commissions with a fast turnover. Not only will you get the rewards from completing them so quickly, but you might gain an increased amount of gols if you have upgraded your character through the skill tree.
8 Refining Crafted Items Increases Their Value
Be sure to use the refiner on your crafted items. It might be a forgotten concept to upgrade the item quality, but this way, you will earn more gols if you sell those crafted pieces. What's great about using the refiner frequently is that any furniture pieces you refine can give you higher stat bonuses.
To tack onto the item refinement, you can increase the chance to craft high-quality items when you spend points in your skill tree. There is a skill that adds a percentage chance to make a high-quality item without spending extra materials to refine the item.
7 Upgrade Everything
Upgrade your machines, jetpack, and scanner. Without upgrading machines, you won't be able to craft certain materials needed for missions. The jetpack and scanner are used for spelunking in the abandoned ruins and mines where you can get precious ores and relics.
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Specifically, the jetpack helps to get out of deep holes if you get stuck. The scanner is used to find the relics and hidden materials under the ground. Spending the items to boost all of these things will help make your gameplay experience easier and fun!
6 Character Stats Can Be Boosted With Furniture
Boost your character stats by decorating your house with furniture. This might be an overlooked point because the combat isn’t as challenging as the first game, where having any stat increase was vital to survival. However, placing furniture in your house looks cool and has functionality.
Items can increase stats like stamina, health, defense, and luck. The metal single bed will increase your stamina by a minimum of eight and a maximum of 11 depending on the quality and if it’s been refined. You might be fortunate enough to find the Meowses II Statue, which boosts your luck by 25 points! In short, adorning your house with furniture is a great idea.
5 Buy Every Pattern
Buy all the craftable items from the commerce guild quickly, if not to fulfill your missions, but to complete commissions easily. Nothing is worse than grabbing a commission that will get you a ton of relationship points with the townsfolk or the ones you want to court, but discovering that there is one component you're missing.
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If you fail to complete the commission, you won't increase your relationship with the person, and you'll miss out on a ton of gols. To make sure this isn't a problem, having all the patterns available is better than wasting time running back.
4 Complete Commissions Before Blitzing The Story
There are several reasons for taking on a few commissions before pursuing the story quest. For one thing, you will struggle to have all the materials needed if you progress too quickly. Also, you might not have had time to upgrade your machines by talking to Qi at the research center, allowing you to craft more complex items.
Another reason to focus on easier commissions first is to make enough gols to purchase many of the patterns sold by the Commerce Store. Without getting these as soon as possible, you could potentially fail the harder commissions later on. Finally, you'll need gols to buy the weekly pass into the ruins and mines.
3 Increase Reputation With Tips Learned Through Dialogue
Talk to the townsfolk in Sandrock because the dialogue is witty and holds crucial information about others. This is important because each character has unique likes and dislikes that you can use to change your reputation with them. To get the most out of the reputation gain, you will need to give characters items that they like or love.
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Once you increase your reputation to be more than acquaintances, you will gain bonuses for your skills. If you befriend the people closest to the character you’re romantically interested in, they can tell you information like a character’s birthday or their favourite items.
2 Slow Down Time To Get The Most Out Of Your Day
An overlooked point in both Sandrock and Portia that you may have forgotten about is the ability to change the time speed. This is useful because you might bite off more than you can chew. One example of this is when preparing for a date.
It’s quite easy to lose track of time by doing day-to-day tasks that lead you into the far reaches of the desert. What if there was a way to do all your tasks AND make the date? Pathea has you covered. When handling time-sensitive commissions, you can slow down time to get them done. What’s great about this is the speed change will take effect immediately.
1 Find All The Treasure Chests Around Sandrock
Keep an eye out for random treasure chests strewn about Sandrock. These chests can potentially give you high-quality items, gear, and plenty of materials. Not only that, but you can sometimes get a machine or two that you might not have unlocked.
If you are fortunate to get a new machine, progression becomes a bit easier (and faster). Also, after looting the chests, you can break them down into materials to be used in future commissions.
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