Just started
Meet the first townspeople and open the systems you can reach on day one.
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Start farming with Farmer Hans
This opens the farming progression and gives you the first crop objective.
Open this step →Welcome to Elderfield
Guide & Player Helper
Find your next progression step, quest requirements, item sources, NPC locations, farming and fishing help, and fixes for things that haven’t unlocked yet.
What Are You Trying to Do?
What should I do next?
Where do I get this item?
Why can’t I get or craft this?
How do I unlock something?
Try: Copper Bar · Helping Molly · Alice · Catacombs · How do I unlock the Workshop?
Where Are You in Your Playthrough?
Pick the point closest to where you are. The recommended step and what it opens come straight from the progression data.
Farming started
Your crops are growing. Crafting and the Workshop are usually the next wall.
Already open: Farming · The Farmer's Path
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Finish The Farmer's Path
Finishing this quest opens the Recipe Shop and moves the farming chain forward.
Open this step →Workshop open
You can process materials now. The Ranch and the Lakefront both open up from here.
Already open: Workshop · Forge Shop · Furnace progression
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Open the Ranch
The Ranch opens animals, buildings, animal products, and several production chains.
Open this step →Exploring secrets
Normal progression is running. The Catacombs chain is where the hidden routes are.
Already open: Laundry Room hidden stairs · Catacombs 1F
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Establish your Catacombs tool supply
Small Hammers are the first reliable tool for opening the Catacombs stone-door progression.
Open this step →Major Progression Unlocks
What each headline unlock needs, and what it opens once you have it.
Start farming with Farmer Hans
This opens the farming progression and gives you the first crop objective.
- Unlocks
- Farming · The Farmer's Path
Help Molly and open the Workshop
This opens the Workshop and Forge Shop, which removes a major crafting bottleneck.
- You’ll need
- Copper Ore
- Unlocks
- Workshop · Forge Shop · Furnace progression
Open the Ranch
The Ranch opens animals, buildings, animal products, and several production chains.
- Waiting on
- Reach Day 5
- Unlocks
- Ranch · Animal Shop · Building Shop · Tentacow · Black Goat · Giant Crow
Unlock fishing at the Lakefront
Fishing opens another repeatable source of fish, treasure, bait-related resources, and later item requirements.
- Unlocks
- Lakefront fishing
Unlock the Catacombs through By the Gods
This opens the legitimate secret route into the Catacombs.
- Unlocks
- Laundry Room hidden stairs · Catacombs 1F
Why Can’t I Do This Yet?
The usual blockers, and the specific thing that clears each one.
Why can’t I open the Workshop?
Bring Copper Ore to Molly on the Farm Path.
Open the full answer →Farm Path / Farm Mine
Why can’t I craft Copper Bars?
You need Copper Ore and Furnace. Make Copper Bar using the Furnace.
Open the full answer →a placed Furnace
Why hasn’t the Ranch opened?
Once you reach Day 5, use the Ranch gate from the Farm area.
Open the full answer →Farm / Ranch gate
Why can’t I start fishing?
Talk to Fisherman Herb and complete Casting Your Line.
Open the full answer →Lakefront
Why can’t I enter the Catacombs?
Talk to Pete, investigate the shrine in the Mall and the shrine in the Sewers, then return to Pete.
Open the full answer →Laundry Room / Mall / Sewers
Why can’t I get an Iron Bar?
You need Treasure Map 3 and Shovel. Find Iron Bar in Buried treasure in Ranch.
Looking for an Item?
The items that block the most progress, with their best known source and what needs them.
ItemBest known sourceUsed for
- WheatSource: Grow · Grow Wheat Seed (Farm crop plots)Used for: Finish The Farmer's Path
- Copper OreSource: Find / loot · Copper Ore (Farm Mine — Floor 1)Used for: Help Molly and open the Workshop
- Pumpkin SeedSource: Buy · Farming Shop dynamic stock (Farmhouse)Used for: Complete The Skull Chalice
- Corn SeedSource: Buy · Farming Shop dynamic stock (Farmhouse)Used for: Complete A Fast Food Fiend
- Living BonesSource: Battle reward · Battle loot: CE585 Catacombs Low Loot (Catacombs F2)Used for: Complete Feed the Mold
- Small Mine KeySource: Buy · Mining Shop (Mall Mine)Used for: Open the deeper Catacombs Mines
- Iron BarSource: Treasure · Buried treasure (Ranch)Used for: Bee House · Blade of Darkness · Blast Kiln
- WoodSource: Find / loot · Small Log 1 (Farm)Used for: Bark Armor · Basic Scarecrow · Bat Box
Explore Elderfield by System
Counts below come from the same acquisition data that powers the item pages.
Farming
Seed sources, crop requirements and what farming unlocks next.
- 23Seeds mapped
- 15Grown items
Fishing
Find fish by location, rod and availability.
- 24Fished items
- 28Lakefront items
Mining & crafting
Ore and component sources, then what you can make from them.
- 69Mine-area items
- 160Recipes mapped
- 55Processor outputs
Ranch
Animals, buildings and the products they produce.
- 4Animal products
NPCs & relationships
Where characters appear, when they move and what they unlock.
- 5NPC pages written
Quests & areas
Objectives, prerequisites and what each location contains.
- 25Quest pages written
- 5Area pages written
- 939Item pages mapped
Secrets & Mysteries
Hidden rooms, strange encounters and Catacombs discoveries. Spoilers are marked before you open them.
Steam 1.0 Coverage
Steam 1.0 is live. Guides are based on confirmed pre-1.0 progression and are being re-checked against the full release now.
Items & Shops
Being re-checked for 1.0
Farming
Checking progression changes
Fishing
Checking fish and location changes
Quests
Checking quest changes
NPCs
Checking NPC changes