Upon arriving in the village in Starsand Island, you’ll be tasked with mastering various important Professions to hone your skills. It’s up to you which one you choose to Apprentice first, and what order you take up the rest in, which is a crucial series of decisions to make.
Although all Professions are important, some are fundamental for early gameplay, while others aren’t really needed until later on. Choosing the best path to work through them is essential if you want to swiftly progress, so here’s the best order for learning Professions in Starsand Island.
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All Professions in Starsand Island
There are five Professions you can learn and become better at over time in Starsand Island:
- Crafting – Focuses on creating, processing, and converting items as well as gathering the resources to do so through other tasks like bug catching or mining.
- Farming – Focuses on planting, growing, and harvesting crops.
- Exploring – Focuses on fighting and surviving in combat situations.
- Ranching – Focuses on raising, caring for, and gathering resources from animals.
- Fishing – Focuses on catching fish and treasure.
Which Profession should you learn first in Starsand Island?
The Profession you should focus on first is crafting, as it’s fundamental for just about every activity you can perform in Starsand Island, including many tasks that are featured in other Professions. The learning order you choose for the rest of the Professions is a lot more flexible and open to your own preferences, but for the first one, grabbing crafting is a must.
Best order for learning Professions in Starsand Island
1) Crafting
By far the most essential Profession to focus on apprenticeship for first is crafting. Building this skill not only unlocks more items for you to craft, but also upgrades various important supply gathering activities like mining and chopping.
Stocking up on key resources is a large part of all Professions and tasks, so building crafting right away ensures you can swiftly unlock key abilities in the Workpedia tree, like Efficiency Boost, to gather more wood when chopping and ores when mining. The sooner you become an apprentice, the better, since the upgrades and unlocks you get will make long-term gameplay much easier.
2) Farming
The second Profession you’ll want to work on is Farming, mostly as a fast and efficient way of passively making money. Planting and growing crops is quite simple and very lucrative, especially when you’re just starting out. You’ll often find seeds while exploring or gain some back when harvesting, which means it can even be a pure profit activity if you’re lucky.
Buying seeds when needed is still well worth it, though, as they’re fairly low-cost and always guarantee a nice gold sum for your growing efforts. Tilling is very energy costly before you become a farming apprentice, but the first upgrade you can unlock has three stages that help make it less expensive, allowing you to swiftly improve your abilities and make the most of this skill.
3) Fishing
Fishing is quick, easy, and a superb way to make money, making it an especially useful skill to master early on so you can stock up on lots of gold. I overlooked it a bit at first, but once I got into it, I couldn’t stop, as it might be the best way to earn money. You need gold to buy new crafting recipes for just about every Profession, so honing your fishing skills early on so that you have loads of fish to sell makes upgrading all other abilities much easier.
4) Ranching
Ranching is a pretty important Profession, but it’s one that requires a lot of other resources to really progress in, so it’s not one of your top priorities early on. You may be tempted to take it up sooner since the animals you can have helping you around your house are quite cute, but if you don’t have a healthy stock of supplies and gear already good to go, taking care of them will be very difficult.
Because of this, it’s best to put it off until after you’ve put in decent work on the other three Professions listed above this one. Ranching gets you access to lots of important animal products, and apprenticing this skill does make it easier, but it’s still a lower focus than most other jobs you can work on mastering.
5) Exploring
The least important Profession to work on early on, and the one you should work on becoming an apprentice in last, is exploring. This field is essentially devoted entirely to combat, which isn’t something you’ll be doing much of early on unless you really seek it out.
There are far more important tasks to focus on in the main town, such as setting up your house, befriending characters, and finding consistent ways to make gold, none of which require you to engage in combat. You also have to venture away to a new area to even find foes, so although you will eventually want to work on becoming an exploration apprentice, you don’t need to worry about it until all of the other jobs have already been worked on.
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