First time no chance - you're meant to bumble around. And that's fine, cuz everything new. After that you can min-max hard and it's an actual game. Like the first winter you talked about, I use that for some training and try to get Muscle Man first year - but I've no clue if that's optimal. Or the classic trade-of pay to get a massage, or rest for the night? There's plenty of that, with choices and trade-ofs. I think that deserves some credit - since supposedly "superior" Akabur installments had no gameplay aside from grinding to continue.
Your digging yourself into a hole here.
Bumbling around on 1st playthrough and finishing the game under 4 years or 28x4x4 =448 days, that you keep insist of is an impossible feat. Because it is.
And what min maxing you're speaking off for it to be possible, Let's take a glance of the elephant in the room here: massing 3000 gold and I show you why it is, while possible, leaves you no room left to finish the rest of the game, while also halting your total progressing and lengthening amount of time required for completion. at the same time being counter counterintuitive:
There're also some small miscaculations from me previously
160 mornings to be able to sell your first milk
(I mixed up amount of days to explore with amount of exploration on previously, also Garden is the very Last thing to unlock
It takes 36 explorations equal full 18 days to unlock garden, instead of 18 explores or 6 days, adding 12 more to the total of 172.)
160 mornings to be able to sell your first milk
42 days of Goddess pregnancy and 7 days to get pregnant again = 49 (7 weeks) for every milk jug
Since you want to sell it only on winter to get 700g/week per jug
Safe to bring out a net of 700 gold for every 56 days
The rest of the years its 15g daily.
Top of that you get 12g/4days = 3gold daily from Jasmine
And remember, no spending. no whoring, you can put a ring on all of them in 2 years by talking alone
Also you cant progress anyone storyline, so no Sex from that neither, for the first 3 years
Why would you want that play through?
Who care there it is:
Now put it to motion.
you start at Fall first year, what you want to push first is the garden and get your first crop before 4th of winters, because it is possible.
_get that 70 gold, you'll need it
_Spam that explore button until the night of 18th, for 36 explores and 10% chance to play pint balls for 15g, you should be having at least 130ish gold now?
unlock the garden next day and start cleaning for 9 mornings
_At 28th Harvest goddess should appear, talk to her again on 1st of winter., She'll answer.
_Now build a Shrine that night and talk to her Next morning.
_....
(It appears shes finally sleeping, and if she wasnt it's alreadt 3rd of winter, you wont be able to plant anything, so my caculation was double off)
(Still you need garden ready as soon as possible)
_Now for the stall, you already unlock it at 11th of Fall
_And it takes Balsam 10 days to get to Cornelia, it's ready right now anyways
(Also remember to grab 7 gold daily at palace)
_Starts your training with Cornelia, take 2 days for introductions, then after that, every 2 days of theory and practice at third, Per stage you need 3 practices to unlock "check out with mother", which also is a practice, bringing to 4 practices equal 12 morning per stages
_Here you can skip 2/6 or 30% of Cornelia quest by only do 4 out of 6 available practices per stage (which gonna be suck since while it's lengthy, the longest questline in the game, rival only by Jasmine 4 endings when combined. And there is no reset stone.)
_For night activities, Get Max strength then farm guard job, because it's events that pay instead of 2g per night. Sleep if necessary but do not spend on anything or miss a single morning.
(In the spans of 2 years or 224 days (or around 2.5 years) you will get max relationship with everyone by saying hello alone, so dont spend a cent)
_There is 6 stages of Hornelia (while I'm pretty sure it's 7), meaning 6x12 = 72 days to complete (instead of 30 days from previous estimations), So yeah have fun.
and Remember, no spending
NO
SpenD
DING
You are here to make muhney
_when it's 1st of spring, back to garden
(Remember Gardening is triple top priority, drop Cornelia (atm) go straight to Harvest Goddess)
_ You are now able to farm (on the next morning)
_Here is the deal, 28 days for a crop to grow, -4days per when watered, so it will take 28/5 = 5.6 days = 6days per harvest.
_You can water at night, the day is for Cornelia, but:
+first and last days (seeding and watering) only happens in the morning, where you have to give cornelia that days off, meaning you can overlap 4/6 days with Cornelia training, significantly shortening amount of days required.
_You need to push out 1+2+3 = 6 harvest = 36 days, to be able to mount the Goddess.
_If everything goes soundly, you should be able to get her pregnant at 8 of Summer
_And be able to get your first milk 42 days later (28+14), at 22 of Fall, right?
Nope
because apparently the first ever pregnancy from Harvest Goddess will take the realistic route, or 84 days, 3 months = 3 seasons ingame complete. That means 8th of next Spring of the 3rd year. (no milk nor blessing this year)
You cant milk her on first pregnancy neither, additionally a week of recovery, then 42 days of pregnancy to finally milk here
_So you will have your first MILK JUG by last day of Summer year 3.
(It's not like you can see her on winters, so no time lost)
_Now for Hornelia, due to 2/6 our 30% of morning now dedicate to garden, There is now a 30% increase on amount of total time it takes to finish her.
_Remember that Lifting contest btw.
_by spring you should be able to finish the generous amount of 2 stages, assuming there is zero chances of sandstorm in 28 days of winter, so 72-2x12 = 48 days with a 30% increase = 63 days.
_You should be able to start the stall by 24 of Fall, right at the time for winter for that sweet 30g/day
_By 24 of fall you should be having 300g from lifting competition, 400 gold from Jasmine (128+24days),
and that 300 gold from Meg, from Hercules, you need like 6 days of training to him
And for the guard Job, assuming you start from last 1st last winter to 28th this fall = 4 months or a full years of 112 days
33 days to get 100 exercise xp and 7 days more to maintain lv3 strength as a round up = 40
72 days left for guard jobs, with 20 days of recruit and 20 of sergeant and the rest 32 for captain, so 20x2 +20x7 +32x15 = 660 gold
There are guards event with big money either an addition of 5g, 10, 20, 30, 60 and 70,
assuming they happen twice, kinda rare tho = 410 ,
You should get approciately 1000 gold from guard jobs
_You still gotta pay for seeds, 70g from the start should cover 2 crops and that construction last winter
_You ought to have 10 harvest by now, so 10x20 = -200 gold
So the total net:
1000 + 400 +300 +300 -200 = 1800 gold
Still I'm very sure Guards events should give you more than 410 gold, way more
You know what, round that up from 1800 to 2100
(Now your making way more than I did)
Due to Guard job RPG (I'm pretty sure the entire game is seeded like Stardew Valley since randomeness is pretty tough to code)
your net should be around from 1600 to 2100g by around 24 of fall 2nd years
+This rate I realized you kinda dont need more than 6 harvest since it's 24th of Fall with stall (2 for last week of fall and first of next spring, 4 for winters).
What do you know, you now have 2100 gold (or 1600 depends on how unlucky you are with RPG) before 2nd Winters
There wont be milk until Next fall but it's looking good now, You may not need Milk at all and get 3000 gold at all
15g from guard and 30g from stall daily = 45 daily x 28 days = 1260 gold for winters alone
At the very least you hit 3000 gold before mid spring year 3.
So that is Possible.
Money is also no longer your problem,
Apparently it doesnt take 2 years but around 80 days of daily greetings max out relationships without paying to have sex with them, So you should be able to put the ring on Meg, Vivi, and Lily now
As for Ata, Emerald and Iris, That's another story, They need quite a lot of days to training,approatedly at least 7 days spreading through months in game because there're a cooldown between them, especially Esmeralda, she has the 3rd longest storyline, in term of time to complete, in term of content, while I rate here around 2nd on how good the writing is, her is the emptiest.
And for Jasmine,... well 24x2x4=192 mornings or 1.7 ingame years, you are at year 3
Safe to say with this route you are to finish all the achievements to get the ending by middle of year 5, around time when, if you are a normal person playing it the normal way, get that 3000 gold achievement.
, and 6th for birthdays coach plays, holidays, events,.. and 7th or 8th to actually juice out everything.
Is it shorter than than a "mess around" playthrough?
Yep Significantly shorter, butt whooping 1 year shorter at most
Is it as enjoyable? Oh hell no, NO SEX for entirely first 2 YEARS, NOTHING, there technically Sex but it get absoutely boring very fast because it's ONLY Hornelia on the table while variety is a spice of life,
And HORNelia doesnt have that much SEX content neither.
and Good Luck trying to wank to guard events.
Also you mess up entire Pacing of the whole game, by doing this.
Did I attempt this? Yes I just did, I wrote this down live as I was doing the run.
Why tho? Well not answering that. This has been the worst 5 hours of my life than I cant get back.
Edit: Stall needs 9 mornings to repair, you should be able to stall stuffs by 6 of Winter, have fun because I didnt.