Getting started
Your first days on the island, level by level, with Honk the goose showing you the ropes.
Meet Honk
A short comic plays the first time you open the game, and then a goose called Honk takes over. Honk teaches in two ways:
- Lessons. A speech box that you tap through. Honk points at the button or menu it's talking about.
- Tasks. A small goal pinned under the top bar, like "Water 3 crops", with a progress count. Many tasks pay a little XP when you finish them.
Stuck on a task? Tap its box for a hint. Tap it three times and Honk steps in and does the fiddly part for you, or sets it up so your next tap finishes it.
Level gates
From level 2 to level 7, the next level waits until you finish that level's tasks. Your XP bar fills to the top and stops there, with a "Finish Honk's task" tag. XP earned while the bar is full is not saved up, so finishing the tasks is always the quickest way on. Once you reach level 8 there are no more gates.
The farming loop
- Till. Tap the hoe button, then a grass tile. Each tile costs 1 Tilling Point.
- Plant. Pick a seed from the seed pill above the hoe, then tap a tilled tile.
Wheat seed is free and ripens in 30s. - Harvest. Tap a ripe crop. Every fruit gives XP (5 for early wheat) and counts toward that crop's mastery.
- Sell. Tap the pedestal in the middle of your island, open the Market and sell. That gives you Sigils for seeds and Blessings.
From level 3 you can drag instead of tapping: with a seed in hand, swipe across tilled tiles to plant a row, or across ripe crops to pick them all.
Level by level
What Honk teaches at each level, which tasks hold the next level, and what the level-up gives you. The tag list under each level is what you get on reaching it.
L1 Your first crop
- +1 Tilling Point
Honk shows you the hoe, the seed pill and your first harvest. Then pick two more crops and you're at level 2, which takes 15 XP.
Tasks: Till a tile · Plant a seed · Harvest your crop · Harvest 2 more crops
L2 Water and the Market
- +2 Tilling Points
- +5 Water Points
Watering opens. Water a planted tile and it grows 2 times as fast for 3 minutes. Rain clouds now drift over your island: tap one to catch Water Points. Honk makes sure one shows up for the task.
The Market opens on the pedestal menu. Honk asks you to sell some wheat.
Tasks: Water 3 crops · Tap a wet cloud · Sell 10 wheat
L3 Blessings and a free pot
- +90
- +2 Tilling Points
- Unlocked Potted Plant
Blessings are permanent upgrades bought with Sigils. Honk suggests Wheat Speed, which starts at 50. See Blessings.
Once you've bought one, Honk hands you a raspberry pot. Pots need no tilling, seed or water: this one grows a berry every 20s, holds 10, and keeps going while you're away. Tap the pot to collect.
Tasks: Buy a Blessing (this one holds level 4) · Plant my pot somewhere · Pick your first raspberries
L4 The apple tree
- +160
- +1 Tilling Point
- Apple Tree unlocked
Honk gives you an apple tree. The first apple is ready moments after you plant it. After that it's one apple every 8h, and it holds 3, so it's full if you come back the next day. More on trees in Pots and trees.
Tasks: Plant my apple tree · Pick your first apple
L5 Carrots
- Unlocked Carrot
- +3 Tilling Points
Carrots take 5m but sell for 60. Honk shows you how to star a crop in the crop picker so it sits in your seed pill, then asks you to plant and water some. Keep wheat going on the side while they grow.
While you wait, Honk points you at the Field Guide, which tracks every crop's mastery. That one is a suggestion, not a gate.
Tasks: Favourite carrots · Plant 10 carrots · Water 3 carrots · Open the Field Guide
L6 Orders, the rain barrel and the goose hut
- +360
- +2 Tilling Points
- Unlocked Rain Barrel
- Home island grows a ring
Rain Barrel. A free gift that fills with Water Points on its own, one an hour, up to a day's worth. Tap it to collect.
Orders. A scroll button appears in the bottom-left corner. Your first three orders come from Honk: wheat, then wheat and raspberries, then wheat, raspberries and carrots together. Deliver the goods, then claim the reward. After these, normal orders start arriving. See Orders.
Next, Honk asks you to buy a second raspberry pot with your own Sigils (400). Then Honk moves in: place the Goose Hut and the goose paddles around that island. Now and then Honk dozes off and a dream bubble appears. Tap it for a handful of crops.
Tasks: Place my rain barrel · Fill Honk's three orders · Buy a second raspberry pot · Place my hut · Collect a dream
L7 The furnace
- +2 Tilling Points
- Furnace Unlocked
- Furnace Island unlocked (14x14)
A new island rises with the Grand Furnace on it. Open the map and sail over. Bread takes 12 wheat and bakes in 1m, and it keeps cooking while you do other things. Honk's fourth order, for bread, turns up in the Orders panel afterwards. See Stations and crafting.
Tasks: Bake 3 bread
L8 Honk signs off
- +640
Once all four of Honk's orders are claimed, the goose says goodbye as your tutor, with one last job for old times' sake. The goose still pops in when something new unlocks.
Task: Sell 1 wheat
L9 A breather
- +1 Tilling Point
No new lessons. Keep your fields, pots and furnace busy.
L10 Mini Furnace and Barter
- +2 Tilling Points
- Unlocked Mini Furnace
- Home island grows a ring
At level 10 the Mini Furnace goes on sale in Structures. Each one you place gives the Grand Furnace an extra bench and more queue space, and tapping it opens the furnace from anywhere.
Also from level 10:
- Barter. A travelling trader posts three swaps in the Orders panel each day. You can take one trade a day.
- Harvest Festival. Every Sunday crop prices go up, once your farm is also a week old.
- New Blessings, including Plot Extension I (a bigger home island) and Extra Tilling Point.
Three currencies
Sigils
For: seeds, Blessings, pots and structures, decorations, and later the island deeds.
From: selling at the Market, orders, level-ups, trophies and mastery milestones. You start with none, but wheat seed is free.
Tilling Points
For: tilling grass into soil, 1 point a tile. Tap an empty tilled tile with the hoe to turn it back to grass and get the point back.
From: level-ups, trophies, mastery milestones and some orders. The Extra Tilling Point and Sturdy Hoe Blessings add more, and Tilling Refund (L150) sometimes hands the point straight back.
Water Points
For: watering, 1 point a tile. Later also for planting sugarcane, laying rivers and grinding Green Manure.
From: rain clouds (1 point, or 5 from a big one), the Rain Barrel, level-ups, trophies and mastery milestones.
What comes next
After the tutorial, new things arrive more slowly. The next few: Meadow Isle at L14, where wheat, carrots and potatoes grow faster; 
potatoes at L15; the Storage Chest at L25; and the Mill with watercress and Green Manure at L30.
