Spring: parsnip momentum, then cauliflower
Spring one starts you with 15 parsnip seeds and almost no capital — plant them all, sell everything, and buy potatoes as soon as you can afford them. The real spring money is strawberries at the Egg Festival on day 13: every gold piece you've scraped together (including fishing income) should become strawberry seeds, because they regrow every 4 days and still pay for themselves twice over before summer.
Summer: blueberries are the year-one engine
Blueberries cost 80g, regrow every 4 days, and drop three berries per harvest — over a full summer one bush out-earns almost anything else you can plant that early. Plant them the moment summer starts. Add a few melon blocks for the quality-crop bundles, and save a patch for starfruit only if the Oasis bus is running.
Fall: cranberries in bulk, one pumpkin patch
Cranberries follow the blueberry playbook (regrower, multi-berry) and pumpkin is the single-harvest heavy hitter for bundles and gifts. If any ancient fruit seeds have come out of your seed maker or traveling cart, fall is when a mature ancient fruit field starts paying 550g every 7 days forever — protect those plants with your life.
Winter: the money comes from mining
Nothing grows, so winter income is the geode-cracking, floor-descending grind plus artisan goods aging in your jars and kegs. Whatever spring two buys with that money — starfruit fields and more ancient fruit — is where the calculator above starts showing numbers that look like typos.
