dont know how to do spoilers so this will be a bit long. so my little fast track mini walkthrough, that isnt super thought thru 100% but is the way i see being most efficient so far. so the first thing we are going to do is ignore the quest given to use right away. (equip your bow cause the game never tells you to)
soon as u wake up, walk outside, talk to tia to the north of the village, cut wood for her. go down to where penny is farming talk to her, get the grand tour. then we start gardening. start clearing up space we want 5 for your wheat, (for a bonus ring thats pretty useless right now pull up the big rock) do 3-4 spaces depending on your rest. look at the time, is it past 12? if not rest til noon. (this grants a tiny bit of rest but u can use that to dig another spot) once youve dug up your 5 its time to pop over to the inn, get the quest to work for a place to stay. your lust might be pretty high, this is the early game so we dont have alot to do, so go see the witch, bone her. it should be almost evening now. (but check penny if shes outside or off to the side of the fireplace and its not blue outside) then rest til evening. this adds another little rest boost. use it to plant a wheat or finish off your clearing, water the wheat if u planted it. now go to the inn. time for the potato minigame (hold down the arrows not just press them) do at least 20 but u can do more since energy is worthless to us atm. gain soup. go to bed til morning. wake up, cut wood. plant crops and water, rest til noon, more crops (till the wheat is gone) talk to penny, gain seeds. ignore them. go to the blacksmith get your dagger sharpened, go bang the witch, back to penny, rest til evening (eat if you are below 60 food), go to the inn, potatoes (you can pick take it ez if it appears). collect soup. leave. sleep at penny's til midnight. go north to where tia usually is. talk to the bianca, go back to sleep til morning. cut wood, water crops. time to go hunting with your decent 30-40 rest. if orcs come just run away. hunt animals and try skinning rabbits, (if the animals spot you then just wait a second out of their sight and they'll calm down), do this till u run out of rest or until evening. go to the bar, buy wine, bribe the guard by the river and walk behind him. discover the way into the mansion but you need a torch, go work at the inn again. sleep till midnight, talk to bianca. learn lockpicking, open your house, grab the torch. a merchant should be in town talk to him about blackjack. cut wood and follow the guide for dialogue options, sell everything u have that isnt bread. we are aiming for 1 gold in your possession at least. water your crops, bang witch, hunt. sleep til evening, go to inn, work, walk to the shiny place where the merchant is. save (this man is our fast track to wealth), play bj with him, if you lose reload, for quicker time, start bets with 1 gold and try to win, then do a gamble with 10 or 50 silver, we want that number nice and uneven from a gold coin. try to win another gold now, (if you are nervous you can leave the game and save and continue gambling right after) win all his cash and he owes u money so u gain some jewelry. (you should be at 4ish gold right now) we are aiming for 5 gold, once u get it we can buy the leather armor from the shop. continue the routine before until, A)its monday,in which case during the evening buy corven a drink and start his quest. B) tia asks your to see her mom. invite tia into your party. (from now on we are fighting any orcs that come while we hunt) you can stop sell your meat and furs at the shop. start collecting rabbit meat. we now have a new daily routine of going to see emily to give her food, level yourself to level 4ish (first talent is into perception), by now u should have a few swords, bring them to the smithy. turn them into copper bars, get a free tin bar, (smelt an brass bar and make a brass dagger goodbye old dagger) move from hunting into the northern area tia's quest wants u to go, ignore the orcs and go up, i suggest fighting raaisha but u can talk her out of it u if level int. cutscenes yada yada, go back to your routine but instead of hunting rabbits we are hunting orcs in the top map. (i suggest killing the scouts first) if u see spindly trees then cut them down, if tia sees an elder wood tree cut those down too.(we'll need em) once you have 30 wood, go back into the top village and talk to the man under the chief's hut, he'll tell you to fetch 30 wood, luckily you already have that. give it to him, talk again and trade your elder wood for a OP bow. (now u can do anything u want) i suggest doing in this order, penny, gwen (dont fight the fiend for a while grind on the spiders til u feel pretty tough),lucius (two days of reading with mira u can afford the supplies easily), ophelia whenever she is in town, mira's sister frisha, emily, then finally tia and mira, arianne can be done later. just putting the heavy combat ones last. with this in the first week and a halfish you should be where i was at during day 20ish (it may be off at points, planning on restarting and testing my new route since i fucked up the love route for ophelia. (dont have sex if u want the love route, the guide makes it seem like choosing between talking in the tavern or the cart makes the choice)