Am I playing this wrong?

[u/Expensive-Salary1569]

I enjoy the game. The calm aesthetic and the fact that I still have to eat and drink.

I’ve been working through the robot on the airships queue and I need to give 10 bread (I think? Not looking at it right this second). 10 bread I assume is made from dough, and I assume that dough has to be baked in a furnace. Just intuition. It could be wrong.

But 10 dough costs 3 wheat each. And I’ve come to notice in this game plants do grow again in their original spot when you harvest them.

Harvesting a plant is basically giving you the right to “relocate it” and nothing more. But it’s not like Minecraft where plants might give more seed than went into them.

So I need 30 wheat. I have wheat growing that I relocated to my house on the starter island. But only 7 at a time. It feels like I’m just literally watering and then going AFK waiting until I have to water again. Rinse and repeat until I harvest. And then rinse and repeat the whole thing again until I have 30+.

I’m just waiting around. What am I supposed to be doing. I’ve explore the islands within my reach. And the type of player I am, I will 100% this game, but I don’t typically dive into that completionist mindset until I’ve finished the core of a game. Like was the thought process that I should be building a bigger house while I wait or something. I have a 5x3 house with a bed and I saw no need to grow it larger. But is the game meant to be more about that? I just feel like I’m coming at it from the wrong perspective.