Hmm, I'm not usually searching the forest. Why should I? I've got all the seeds and artifacts just by walking through the forest if I have to.It's not super hard to get the egg/fox event by searching the forest repeatedly, but it's a pain in the butt and takes up a large amount of time. The main issue is that building fox points just feels like grinding a single event over and over.
But now you tell me I should without reason walk back and forth through forest, just hoping to get 2 fox encounters per game day (in average!)
So far I had one per eight calendar weeks.
Meanwhile I'm missing school and I'm not making any money to pay Bailey, and hitting so many bad events that the asylum is unavoidable.
How could it get grindier?
Wolf and bird is easy. Cat maybe a bit grindy and obscure, but it is still easy compatible with daily life.