Thanks for your reply. I think I'll just keep doing it the old fashioned way (farming for books and stuff, then making anti-gloom). Not too hard to stay in front of it.
The first two bases I converted to red fruit farms, and that keeps me supplied with resin which I turn into amber. So all my girls have VERY high instinct, and I've given them a bunch of skills to have them find stuff for me constantly. The last girl I got I turned into a farming maniac (only missing entomologist).
A few complaints (or confusion, if someone can help me out with them). One is that when I try and change anything about a girl, it say "registering" on her card and won't let me save over it. Sometimes I can get around this by clicking quit and it gives me the option to save and quit, which seems to work. Another work around is saving as a new character, then swapping the two out.
Another is my pets seemed to have disappeared. I didn't delete or move their beds, I didn't even edit the base. I had a dark spirit and a fairy. The fairy was following me (but would also start following the others sometimes). The I noticed that it wasn't catching up to me anymore and I checked the pet beds. Both appeared to be empty. Do pets only live for a short time or something? Was I supposed to be feeding them and they died of starvation?