Ooblets: 10 Helpful Tips For New Arrivals

Ooblets, after being available in early access for over two years now has its 1.0 form. You will be restoring a bizarre village back to its glory with the cheerful combination of farming simulation and monster collection (the Ooblets). Though an overall laid-back experience, there’s a lot of spinning plates involved, and it can take time to figure out how to maximize each day to keep your farm brimming with valuable crops, your roster full of different Ooblets, and your wallet stretched with Gummies (the game’s currency). That’s where I come in. I’ve spent many hours playing the final version of the game, and I’d like to offer some helpful tips to make your early hours in Badgetown as enjoyable and efficient as possible.

You should keep a variety of crops growing at all times

In addition to the Ooblets themselves, crops are essential to completing the game’s most important and lucrative tasks. You’ll always need a healthy variety of produce on hand because obtaining wild Ooblets requires players to have specific crops, or dishes made from them, to challenge them to dance battles, the game’s humorous take on combat. You can also earn good money by delivering boxes of specific fruits or vegetables.

For gardening success, it’s crucial to always set aside funds to routinely purchase new seeds from the various crop stores in Badgetown and beyond. Your farm should never remain inactive or barren for too long. Crops can take days to grow, and it stinks when you need a veggie to progress you haven’t grown or even planted. Create as much extra yield as you can, and you’ll cruise through objectives much faster.

Don’t Skimp On Clearing Your Farm Of Junk

It’s easy to awaken each morning and feel tempted to neglect to clear the yard once you see it full of weeds, logs, and rocks day after day. Don’t get lazy. These bothersome eyesores, specifically stones, and wood, reward nurneys and plankets, essential crafting ingredients that you’ll always need. Sometimes you might even get a seed from the process of removing these materials. Your farm is a goldmine of building materials that can be replenished whenever you need it. Take advantage of this opportunity as much as possible. You will be grateful you did.

The Art of Fishing

As someone who generally ignores fishing minigames, Ooblets’ version became an integral activity. For one, this isn’t even a minigame since you don’t do any manual work. You just cast your line, and you’ll automatically earn a random prize. You can use different types of bait to net useful items like fertilizer, extra plankets and other items.

Prioritize Automatic Watering Tools and Inventory Upgrades Early

You collect a plethora of different things in Ooblets, meaning your pockets quickly fill up. This game has you running around to find materials so it’s easy to become bored. This can be achieved by purchasing backpacks and fanny packs at Kibbonbonbon (the local clothing shop). Be sure to also upgrade Kibbonbon’s selection by spending Wishies, the game’s secondary currency earned by completing special tasks, at Badgetown’s wishing well. You can unlock backpacks that have more space by doing this.

Also, you can buy extra storage chests to store your belongings. The starter briefcase only has six spots, and you’ll quickly fill it with items you won’t have a use for early on. Manatwee is the furniture shop that sells chests.

Manually watering your crops isn’t a tough task, but it does eat up precious time, especially as your farm expands. You should invest in the right equipment, like sprinklers and water guns that are turret-style. You’ll have to unlock blueprints for these tools at the wishing well, then craft them using the “fabricuter” at Manatwee.

Don’t Try To Cram Everything Into One Day

Ooblets recommends that players take their time, despite my suggestions on efficiency. Because the game is based on a day/night rhythm, you will find your energy decreasing over time. However you can also replenish this by eating. And you need to go to bed at night. Thus, it’s smart to know where to focus your efforts during your waking hours. Chipping away at everything on the to-do list helps, but I found it more effective to spend days focusing on one or two big things, such as acquiring/planting crops, assembling new equipment/buildings, or completing a campaign quest. Your attention becomes increasingly divided as more jobs arise, and it’s often better to focus on knocking out big priorities one or two at a time than slowly grinding everything on your to-do list.

It is possible to take short napping in order to replenish your energy

For the first few hours, I thought going to bed early would instantly skip to the next day. Turning in at night is considered a nap. This allows you to advance time by an hour while replenishing your energy. This is a nice method of regaining extra stamina when you’re low on snacks or want to save money on buying them. You’ll probably need to rest. 

Keep checking The Wildlands and Dance Barn regularly

Ooblets’ long-term restoration efforts include the Wildlands, a nature preserve. It is a daily job that aims to make the preserve livable again. You may have to help with the release of Ooblets to nature, or water dying plants. After you have completed your task, it is necessary to wait for tomorrow’s next assignment. Because this mission unfolds at such a drip feed, the fastest way to get through it is to check the Wildlands’ mission board each day. This became part of my morning routine; sometimes, I can bang out a job on the spot, or it’s something I can complete en route to another destination.

The Dance Barn won’t unlock until you’ve leveled up a few times, but it hosts daily dance battle tournaments to earn a prize. This reward changes each day, and a nifty schedule reveals in advance the prizes offered every day of that particular week. Keep an eye on this schedule regularly to avoid missing out on winning valuable, hard-to-get prizes, such as important crafting blueprints and food recipes.

In the face of so many other short-term goals, it can be easy for these two destinations to get lost. Keep them in your mind.

Make sure to check out interiors often

Shops and buildings often contain hidden goodies such as recipe pieces, crafting materials, Gummies, and more. You can also find special club coins, which are used for later games. It’s easy to forget to do this in the wake of all of the outdoor activities, and poking your head into every building every day can be tedious. But try to do it every other day if you can, because you’ll likely be rewarded for your nosiness. The same goes for this…

Hidden Ooblets for Lost Ooblets in Buildings

Townsfolks often lose Ooblet friends, so they will always be asking for your help to locate them. Badgetown is large enough that I assumed for a good while that they’d be hidden outside, frustrating me when I poked around every bush or tree with no luck. Lost Ooblets can often be found outdoors, but they’ll also hide inside the many shops and homes, so be sure to poke around interiors too. You’ll thank me later.

You Can Only Open Your Store Once Per Day

This is more of an example of my stupidity than a warning tale. Eventually, you’ll open your own store, which allows you to sell your inventory for profit. You can sell whatever you want, but there’s a weekly event schedule listing the desired item for each day.

One example is that I had opened my doors on Sunday which happened to be figurine day. After I opened my door, all my figurines had been stored back at home. The shop was closed. I ran back home and got my figurines. That’s when I learned you can only open once per day – there’s no stepping out for lunch or running errands. Basically, make sure you have exactly what you want/need to sell before you flip that sign, otherwise, you’ll wind up losing an entire day that could have been spent raking in Gummies.

These tips are sure to make you more productive in your Ooblets early morning hours. You can pick up the game now on Xbox Series X/S, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via The Epic Games Store.