Fields of Mistria Guide: Tips to Get Started

Just downloaded Fields of Mistria from Steam and I am super-duper excited. I have just started playing and the learning curve is quite easy. The pixel art graphics are cute and you will instantly fall in love with various NPCs.

If you have played farming sim games, you will love everything about this game. Not only you will have your farm to grow and harvest crops, but you will also be engaged in crafting, fishing, and foraging. Oh yes, I am looking forward to building relations with in-game characters. Yes, Fields of Mistria encourages social interactions. You can also build romantic relationships with various characters in the game. But before that, let’s get started with the basics first. It’s my first day playing and the tutorial is pretty easy to follow.

Character Customization

After the intro scene, you will be taken to the Fields of Mistria’s character customization screen. There you can change your character’s hairstyle, and use accessories, helmets, and hats to give your character a unique look. You can also change eyes, and face structure, and change your character’s name, pronouns, birthdate, and the name of their home.

Under “Character Customization” you can see various accessories, hairstyles, etc. shown in small boxes around your main character. Click on one of these boxes and a menu opens on the right side of the screen. Let’s start with hats.

Hat

Clicking on the hat icon up a new menu on the right side. it’s further categorized into hats, hair accessories, helmets, and miscellaneous hair accessories.

Under Hats, when you click on an icon, more hat styles will be displayed on the popup screen. Some of these styles are baseball caps, berets, cowboy hats, rain hats, straw sunhats, witch hats, etc. Click to choose any one hat style to equip it to your character, and it will be shown in the preview section on the left side of the character customization screen.

Hair Accessories: Under hair accessories, you have various colorful Bandanas, ribbons, and short bows.

Helmet: Under “helmet”, you have only one cloth helmet. Rest are locked. I think I could be able to unlock them as I progress through the game. Maybe I could buy or craft them.

Miscellaneous: The miscellaneous section has cool aviator goggles, fighter headbands, and hijab.

Glasses

The box next to the hat is “Glasses”. Click on it and you will see two more options on the right – glasses and face accessories. Under glasses, you can equip a colorful flashy pair of glasses to your character. Click on face accessory and you can change your character’s face to seven different types of blushing faces.

Hair

Click on the hair icon on the character customization screen and you will see three different hairstyles on the right side – short hair, medium hair, and long hair.

Short Hair: You have five unlocked short hairstyles such as buzzcut, fade, colorful pixie cuts, straight undercuts, and textured buzz.

Medium Hair: Various cool hairstyles in this category – the first hairstyle is the afro, then there’s the curly high top, curly undercut, medium length, mohawk, mushroom cut, straight medium, straight medium fluffy bangs ponytail (whew!), and straight medium ponytail. Each of these super cool hairstyles comes in various colors, so choose the best one to your heart’s content.

Eyes

Like those big anime-like eyes? Well, this section offers several unique eye styles. The first one is Basic Eyes, then there are droopy eyes, eyelashes, serious eyes, and finally small eyes.

Facial Hair

You can also customize your character by adding facial hair, such as a basic beard and thick beard. Next to facial hair is the skin tone which lets you change your character’s skin color.

Tops

Click on the “top” box on the left to open a big menu that provides a list of tops:

Sleeveless tops: You will find Camis, Tank tops, and thin-strap tank tops.

Short-sleeved tops: There are only T-shirts.

Long-sleeved tops: Baseball shirts, cropped long-sleeves, jacket/tee, and long sleeves.

Dresses: Under this menu, you will find full-fledged dresses. In the beginning, only two dresses will be unlocked for you. The first one is the long sleeve dress and the second one is the sleeveless dress.

Miscellaneous: You can choose various clothing, such as bras, cloth chest pieces, overall skirts, and overalls,

Back Accessories

Looking for backpacks? This section has a basic backpack for your character. There’s also a basic cape.

Pants

Under the pants section, you will find the following on the right side of the screen:

Pants: Choose between various colored pants.

Shorts: There are boxers, briefs, shorts, and polka-dot underwear!

Skirts: Long skirt and short skirt.

You can also customize your character and give them a new look while playing. Press “ESC” or click the diary on the lower bottom right corner of the screen. Now click on the second tab of the vertical menu on the right side of the screen.

Boots

Under boots, you can choose between long boots and short boots. There’s also a “cloth shoes” section.

Once you have customized your character with colorful tops, pants, hats, and various other accessories, you can change their name, choose pronouns, select birthday, and even change the name of your base/home. After doing this, click on the “Start Game” button on the lower-left side of the screen.

Home Sweet Home

As soon as Adeline welcomes you to the new home, you will be introduced to the basics, including farming and managing your hearth. You will also get a vegetable soup from her as a gift. Eat it only when your stamina levels are gone low.

Here are some tips on what you can do in your new home in Fields of Mistria.

Your stamina bar is green in color. You can see it in the upper right corner of the screen. Every time, your character performs an activity, such as tilling the land or fighting enemies, their stamina decreases.

You can rest in your new bed in your new home, but sleep by 2 am in-game time to keep your stamina up. Time is displayed on the top-right corner of the screen, along with the season, date, and the total amount of Tesserae, the in-game currency, you have collected so far.

Move closer to the calendar on the wall and press “E”. With the help of the calendar, you can check when the town holds its festivals. You can also find the birthdays of all NPCs you have met so far so that you can gift them, which will increase your relationship value with them.

Move near the diary kept beside your bed and press “E”. You can save your progress in your diary. Make sure you save progress at regular intervals, especially when you have completed a quest, earned a lot of coins, or have progressed quite a lot in your adventure.

The storage chest is where you can store any extra items if there’s no space left in your bag. Move closer to the chest and press E to open it. Items are displayed in your inventory on the right side, whereas the grid on the left side is the chest storage. To store items, drag and drop an item from your inventory to the right into the storage to the left. Press “G” to store all items in your chest without opening it.

Light up the fireplace. Move a bit closer to the fireplace and press E. Press E again to extinguish the fire.

Basic Farming Guide

Once you exit your home, you will be greeted by Celine outside. She lives in the cottage north of your cozy cottage. She will be super excited to meet you and will bring you a little “fieldwarming” present. It’s a hoe that can be used to till the fields. This will be your first tool to begin farming. But wait! There’s more. She will also gift 3 bags of tulip seeds.

You will need a shovel to expand your field’s size. They are available at Celine’s family general store. You will find a good selection of seeds in the same general store.

While talking to Celine, Hayden will gallop straight into you. He runs the sweetwater farm to the west of your home. He owns a lot of animals. He will give you a watering can. You need to water your crops every day if you want them to grow big and strong. You will also receive three bags of turnip seeds.

Finally, Celine will help you find the town if you want to meet Adeline. All you have to do is head north of here and the road will take you right into the city.

To start farming, follow these basic steps:

Clear the field areas first. To remove obstacles, such as grass and shrubs on the field, move your character close to them and click. You can’t eliminate logs and stones with the basic worn sword. It’s used to cut only grass and fight. Once the field is cleared, select hoe from your inventory at the bottom of the screen and click on the cleared field area to till the soil.

Select seeds from the same inventory and plant them on the tilled soil tiles. The tilled soil will look darker than the other tiles on the field.

Water your crops every day until they are fully grown. Once fully grown, move closer to the crops and press E or click to harvest them.

With the harvested crops, especially veggies and fruits, you can sell them for coins, cook and eat to increase stamina/health, and even feed them to your animals.

Map and Inventory

Press “M” to open the map. Press ESC to open the inventory menu. Click on each tab on the vertical menu on the right.

Inventory: This is where you can find all the items you currently have. Hover your mouse cursor over each item to get some info about it. In the same inventory section, there’s also a separate section for “Info”, “Equipment”, and Skills.

Character customization: Change your character’s look, name, and marital status.

Quest: Has all the details about active and pending quests.

Villagers: Here you will find a list of all the villagers you have met so far. Click on their profile pic to learn more about them, their likes, birthdays, hobbies, professions (archeologist, traveling merchant, etc.)

Animal: Here you will find a list of all animals you have kept as pets.

Magic Spells: All spells learned can be found here.

Map: Navigate to various locations with the help of the map. Will assist you in exploring Mistria.

The Almanac: Get a list of all artifacts, blacksmithing, bugs, cooked dishes, crops, and other stuff you own/have collected so far.

Now that you know how to get started playing Fields of Misteria, check back for more tips and tricks. Stay Tuned!