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The ultimate "My Time at Portia" guide and walkthrough!

My Time at Portia is an open world, RPG, simulation and crafting game where y'all're put in the shoes of a newcomer to the post-apocalyptic town of Portia. Information technology's your job to take over equally the town'due south architect, befriend the townsfolk, make money, consummate commissions, grow crops and more!

I've spent over 200 hours playing this game and tin't get enough of information technology! During my gameplay, I've picked up several tips and tricks to excel in the game. Looking for ways to make money, make friends, craft, farm, beat enemies, win competitions and gain skills? Await no further than this ultimate My Time at Portia guide!

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You'll need a lot of wood! — You'll demand a lot of forest!

All screenshots are taken from my own gameplay, unless otherwise noted.

General Tips

Tiresome downwards the game'due south speed

You lot can become into the game's settings and dull downwards how fast the game-day passes in real life. I play at lxx% speed and find it takes virtually 40 minutes in existent life to complete 1 game day (from sun upwardly to 3 am). You can play around a bit to encounter which time is nigh suitable for you.

Choice up poop

Meet all that poop in the farm and the grass? Pick it upwards. Yous need the poop for fertiliser, and sometimes you can get free seeds from it, which you lot tin later replant on your farm.

Make lots of storage boxes and keep them in your abode

You'll find yourself collecting so many items, and it's all-time to hold on to EVERYTHING as you'll never know when you need it. Craft several storage boxes and go along them in the house, so you lot don't waste matter precious outdoor space. Keep one box by your crafting stations for quick access (though crafting will automatically pull from your boxes) and one by the gate also. Sadly, you tin can't identify boxes anywhere outside of the farm.

Collect lots of wood

In the commencement of the game, you'll find you never have plenty forest. You'll need it to run your furnaces which yous should take several of (more than on that below). Until you unlock the tree farm, you'll need to chop wood yourself, so spend some time chopping down copse to collect wood.

Trade 999 stone for 999 woods at A&G once a day

In one case a day you lot tin can visit Gust'south shop at A&Chiliad Structure and trade 999 stone for 999 wood. You'll notice it'southward super like shooting fish in a barrel to collect rock when you're mining Abased Ruins; a lot easier than chopping woods.

Rent a horse

While it might exist tempting to buy a stable and build information technology on your land, the cost of purchasing a stable + horse, and and so the products needed and space lost to hold the stable aren't really worth it in the early game. It'southward far more than cost-constructive and space-efficient to rent a horse from McDonald for 500 gols a week.

Use the plumage duster to pet multiple animals

If and when you practise start keeping animals, the feather squeegee object will allow yous to pet all the ones in the area with one click.

It sounds gross, but pick up poo. It's useful! — Information technology sounds gross, but pick upward poo. It's useful!

Upgrade your tools ASAP

As shortly as you have the required materials, upgrade your pickaxe, axe, and sword. You tin unlock statuary adequately speedily, but Iron materials are best (until late game when you can unlock the highest course tools). Upgrading allows yous to break open bigger rocks, chop down bigger trees, and mine faster.

You lot can unlock more inventory on your character

There are three pages worth of inventory slot on your character. Unlock a row of inventory slots (viii slots) by clicking on the padlock and purchasing them. You tin take a total of 120 individual items (stacked by 999 each, except for some items) if you unlock all slots.

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Skills and Stats

Use furniture and clothes for upgraded stats

Most furniture items (including relics establish in the mines) take bonus stats, like adding on more HP, SP, assail or defence. If y'all place them in your home, you tin upgrade your status. Check the frame on the wall in your house to see how high your stats can go. You can get an increase in stats by edifice a bigger business firm and levelling upwardly.

You can get bonuses for making friendships

Some characters in the game volition give you stat bonuses when you become buddy level relationship with them and higher.

Arlo gives set on bonus.
Remington gives extra defence points.
Sam gives more resilience stats.
Phyllis gives extra stamina points.

Use all your stamina each day and stay up late

There's no penalty for staying up until 3 a.m. in this game, so play until you laissez passer out. Use all your stamina collecting items or mining, and and then pass out at bedtime. Y'all'll wake upwardly back in your bed in the morning time with full stamina and HP again.

If you do run out of stamina, that's a good fourth dimension to organise your subcontract or craft

Information technology doesn't toll any stamina to move furniture or operate crafting stations, so if you've run out completely and still accept time in your day, use this time to redecorate your dwelling house or farm and do some crafting.

Swallow at The Round Table to replace stamina

You tin can pay for a meal at The Round Tabular array and restore your stamina (by a certain amount of points).

Use apples to replenish stamina

Apples are one of the best (and costless!) sources to replenish stamina. During the early game, merely kick apple trees and eat raw apples for v+ stamina (boot the tree takes 1 stamina, and so stamina yield is four points). Once y'all craft the blender, you tin turn raw apples into Apple Juice for 10+ points. And finally, once you lot accept a drying rack, y'all can brand Dried Apples for 10% stamina increase. Plant a few apple trees and make some drying racks once you tin can, and you'll have a steady supply of stamina!

Use herbs to supplant HP

You can pick up herbs all effectually town for free. Raw herbs restore 10 HP. Once you lot take a blender you tin brand Herbal Juice for 25 HP. You tin use Herbal Juice and Cotton to craft Unproblematic Ointment which restores a whopping 125 HP. I keep a stack of Elementary Ointment on my character at all times to restore HP while in combat.

Level upwardly to unlock Skills

Using stamina, crafting, and completing commissions give you feel points, which in turn help you level up, and each time you level up, you unlock ane point for your skill tree.

You can unlock the skill tree equally you similar, depending on the mode you like to play, but I focus mostly on gathering and social skills every bit about defense force skills tin be increased by food and weapons (more on fighting and defense below).

You can also reset your skill tree using acupuncture with Phyllis (x% bonus if yous're buddies with her) at Dr. Xu's office.

Take note that yous don't have to unlock the entire row on a tree to go down to the branch below it; you just need to spend five points per branch to drop downwards to the next level of skills, and you can spread those points every bit you wish.

You can go on dates with the bachelors/bachelorettes in the game. — You can go along dates with the bachelors/bachelorettes in the game.

Friendship and Marriage

Go on Topaz on mitt to requite as a cheap souvenir

If yous want to make friends in the game (and y'all definitely do, come across more below!), then a good way to brand friends quickly is by giving a gift each 24-hour interval. Some characters accept things they like and dislike, only in the showtime, it's very piece of cake to hand out Topaz as everyone likes it and it gives you lot +iv friendship (except to Ginger, who only gets ane point) and costs nothing for you lot to requite out. You tin can obtain Topaz past mining larger rocks with an fe pickaxe.

Talk to everyone once a day

They repeat the same lines, but it gives y'all friendship points!

Leave relics outside in your farm for friendship points

Anytime an NPC passes by and sees a relic they like; you'll gain friendship points (sometimes thirty+ points) with them. The same goes for NPC seeing a relic you put in the museum.

Give people gifts they dear

Obviously, in one case you lot're making more gols and have the money and resources to do so, you tin can gift NPCs with the items they love to increment friendship points. Check the wiki for specific characters (or try using trial and fault). Loved gifts given on a character's birthdays or on holidays are worth double points.

Complete commissions/do special quests

Other than the budgetary value of completing commissions, it's also a really great way to gain friendship points. Each time yous turn in a committee, you'll go friendship points with the NPC who posted it. The same goes for the special quests (the ones that prove upwards on the map as a blue assertion point)—they're side quests that don't advance the overall storyline, just will give y'all points for the graphic symbol who you lot're interacting with.

Most NPCs give discounts for beingness their friends

All the shopkeepers requite discounts at their relevant shops once you reach buddy level with them (Django at The Round Table, Albert at A&1000 Construction, Nora at the Church Shop, etc.).

Gale gives a discount on land upgrades, Antoine gives a bonus on gols earned for commissions, Ack gives a discount on his monthly hire fee, Dawa and Dana give discounts on subscriptions to the mining service and tree farm, respectively.

Once you make friends, you can expect lots of presents on your birthday! — Once you make friends, you tin can expect lots of presents on your birthday!

Go on playdates to get friendship points

Once you accomplish Buddy status, you can go on playdates with NPCs. You tin can gain friendship points past interacting with them, playing mini-games together, chatting, or eating at The Round Table.

How to become married

Make sure you lot're interested in a dateable NPC (sad, no marrying Gale or Ack)—you tin can tell if you can date them by looking at the Social Tab and seeing if their relationship points are displayed by hearts. If their points are displayed past stars, they tin can't be dated.

Increase your friendship with the above methods until you achieve Friend status. After condign friends, yous can give them a Heart Knot (purchased at Alice's Blossom Shop). Make sure you lot have a loftier friendship before doing so, or they can reject you!

Once they accept, they'll go your boyfriend or girlfriend. Keep increasing the relationship by going on dates, interacting with them, giving gifts and chatting. In the meantime, upgrade your house to Level ii or college.

Purchase a Wedding ceremony Ring from the Mysterious Man and propose to your partner once you're at Lover status or higher. If they say yes, you'll get married the very adjacent day. You tin buy hymeneals clothes from The Church Shop if you want, as well.

Your spouse will and then move in with you and tin can assistance around the farm (collecting crafted items or tending to animals), requite y'all gifts, spend time with y'all during the day (you tin can ask them to "follow" you) or even randomly ask you to go and practice special things together (similar go for a photoshoot or become fishing together).

Crafting

Later in the game, you can build a factory! — Later in the game, yous can build a manufacturing plant!

Have several crafting stations

At the showtime of the game, it's best to have at least 5 stone furnaces, 1 grinder, 2 cutters, and 1 skiver. You tin can so craft more than stations as you lot see necessary.

Upgrade your Worktable ASAP

This will requite you admission to more craftable items, which means bigger commissions and more than money.

Ever accept your furnaces running

Keep them making items all the time—stay on top of forest for fuel and constantly go on a steady flow of items being made.

Always keep a stack of at least 20:

bronze bars (which can be turned into bronze pipes- also useful)
steel plates
iron bars
carbon steel bars

All these items are used in large quantities and for many of the recipes in the game.

Farming

Buy at to the lowest degree 6 Large Planters from the Church Store

They cost 2 Data Disks each. They can merely exist purchased from the Church Store.

Buy and plant at least 1 of each tree

Apricot, Apple tree, Crystella, Nitra, and Zeolora Trees can all exist planted and grow twelvemonth-round. Purchase them from the Church Store using Data Disks every bit early in the game every bit you can. I recommend ownership ii Apple Trees, if you lot can beget to.

Apply 1 Large Planter for Special Giant Seeds

Yous can buy them from the Mysterious Homo. Special Seeds take up to 28 days to mature. Always have one growing, and once you harvest them, save your Giant Crop for selling or for entry in The Autumn Festival.

Craft at least 10 modest planters and plant year-round

There are some seeds you tin institute whatsoever time and some that are seasonal. Make sure you're ever planting your seasonal crops during the appropriate season (like Crimson Pepper in Summer, for example) and keep a steady supply of other crops growing besides. Rainbow Bloom is good to plant year-round, as you can use information technology to brand Pigments, which can be used to craft a variety of items. Cotton should also be planted year-round (except winter, when it tin't be planted) equally yous'll need a lot of cotton fiber for diverse items.

Apply fertiliser to double yield/chance of more than seeds

You can buy fertiliser from Sophie's Farm Store or arts and crafts it yourself using the blender.

You don't demand to h2o plants

No watering necessary, simply plant, fertilise, and harvest!

Eventually, you tin unlock a helper to practice this all for you!

Some spouses can do your harvesting for you, but if you hire Ack, he can fertilise, harvest, and re-constitute for you. It's slap-up!

Making Coin

Beating Higgins is easy with a bit of strategy. — Beating Higgins is easy with a chip of strategy.

Do commissions every mean solar day

Make sure you head to the Commerce Club at exactly 8 a.m. each day to grab your daily committee.

Choose a commission you lot can complete in ane day

In the first, it'll be tempting to accept a commission that pays the virtually- only chances are you won't accept all the goods or enough stations to craft it quickly. If you don't arts and crafts it before fourth dimension is upwards, y'all lose workshop points. So choose the commission that y'all know you tin either craft apace or already take the required item for. Try to give information technology to the NPC afterward that day. Then rinse and echo the next solar day.

Beat Higgins to the commission lath

You can shell Higgins to the board if you get to the Commerce Club at viii (he's also there at 8, but he'll walk slower than you if y'all sprint). You can and then select the highest paying commission and look at information technology until Higgins leaves—looking at a committee prevents him from choosing it, then he'due south forced to take a lower-paying ane. Once y'all have progressed in the game, you tin snatch the highest paying commission before he does and expect at the second highest one, forcing him to take a small commission instead.

Sell goods back to the vendors around boondocks

Most of the vendors in town will purchase back your appurtenances. They are express in how much money they have each day for buying. A&G Structure usually has the most gols to purchase dorsum from you, then I become there first. Y'all can likewise sell well-nigh things to Best Blood brother and Total Tools.

Craft goods and sell them back to vendors when the market is high. — Arts and crafts goods and sell them back to vendors when the marketplace is high.

Buy depression, sell loftier

The market values modify every day. The everyman I've seen the marketplace get is 74%. This is a good fourth dimension to stock up on plants, ingredients, fishing worms, or whatever other goods you want.

The highest I've seen the market place get is 134%. This is a good time to sell actress items you've crafted or spare relics. I mostly start selling one time the marketplace goes above 100% and save my most expensive goods (await in your inventory to see how much products sell for) for when the market reaches 120% or higher (just actually, hold out to 134% days when you can).

You tin can bank check the register in the commerce building to meet the market toll that solar day after you've gotten your daily committee.

Turn spare rock into stone stools and sell them

Selling pure stone is only worth .5 gol. Selling stone stools is worth 7 gols. You can craft stone stool instantaneously at the worktable for 10 stone. Yous can make a meliorate profit selling your stone as stools rather than only pure stone.

Sell spare sand and soil

You lot'll find yourself collecting these by the 999's just by doing a few runs in the ruins. Sell the spare ones for some quick and easy money and only keep one stack of 999 in your inventory. Yous probably won't fifty-fifty use 999 sand, but I like to keep some on hand, just in instance.

Sell spare furniture, relics and weapons

Pretty much annihilation you collect in the ruins tin can be sold. Once you've reconstructed a relic, save i for the museum (which is unlocked later), 1 for your subcontract, and sell the balance. About relics are worth at least 250 gols. You can but get so many bonuses for furniture and eventually you'll get tired of those pinkish couches. Sell them. And y'all but need the highest-powered weapon in your inventory- sell the spares.

Fish for coin

I don't personally like fishing, but many people do. King Fish sell for the most gols (5k) and can be defenseless in the various fishing spots. You can also craft a fish tank and breed fish and sell them.

Y'all demand two fish of the same kind for them to breed. It'due south really only worthwhile to breed Rex Fish. Feed them 3 dough assurance each day, and later ix days they will breed another King Fish, which you can sell for turn a profit. If you can't take hold of a King Fish nevertheless, at least try breeding with an Emperor Fish.

Craft and sell trap devices in late game for money

This is my favourite detail to arts and crafts for money. You unlock the recipe after the "The Perfect Trap" mission (which comes in the principal story afterward yous unlock Starlight Island). You merely need five steel frame and 4 difficult aluminium to craft 1 trap- both of which can exist crafted fairly quick. 1 trap sells for 944 gols and if you lot sell at 136% marketplace, yous can sell them for $1283 gols each. Craft and sell in bulk to Total Tools or A&Thousand one time the market gets to its highest. I normally sell at least fifty a month, just you tin can really grind more out if you need to.

Don't bother with animals in the get-go

Early game, information technology's non really worthwhile to carp with keeping animals. Only like the horses, you take to accept space on your farm (which includes purchasing land), materials to craft the necessary shed and coops, gols to arts and crafts the storage shelter with and then food to feed the animals with. They likewise take up fourth dimension, as you take to pet them each mean solar day and clean up their poop. Eggs, milk, and fur can be obtained several other ways in the game without owning animals and don't sell for much anyway. Skip animals until at to the lowest degree year 2. Once you unlock Ack, he tin can do all the tending for you (or your spouse can) and makes animals much more low-maintenance. Then you can raise and sell your animals and their goods.

Don't carp with farming

Again, farming isn't a super lucrative money-making skill in this game. While you lot certainly should take some planters and exist growing things yr-round, information technology's better to employ these items for your own crafting and resources. Selling planted goods isn't really lucrative until you unlock the South Block Merchandise Post, which volition ask for certain items (similar Rainbow Flowers or cotton wool) in majority and you can sell them for more.

Combat

I'll preface this with a statement: gainsay in this game is relatively like shooting fish in a barrel. Information technology'south mainly a philharmonic of hack and slash, just clicking the button over and over to hitting your target. The college your skills and weapons are, the faster/easier y'all can kill. But there'southward not a lot of skill or strategy required in gainsay, which is nice, in a way.

Withal a few pointers:

Utilise nutrient for bonuses on gainsay

Several dishes give temporary buffs for gainsay, either adding attack, defence or disquisitional chance (critical hits that give a major blow to enemies and kill them faster). I personally like the critical hazard foods, like Fruit Tart (xv% disquisitional take a chance), Spicy Tea (thirty%), and Bubblefish Stew (35%). All of these can be fabricated adequately easy (with few ingredients) at the Cooking Set.

It'south also good to buy Cheap Soda from The Nutrient Store (exterior of The Round Tabular array) for 10+ Attack or Rainbow Lemonade for 10+ Defense.

Food buffs don't stack with ane another (eating a new food replaces whichever vitrify you currently had), but they will stack with whatsoever Stats you already have.

Accessories and hats also add bonuses

Always continue accessories and a hat equipped which can add to your attack, defense force, critical chance, or HP.

You tin likewise hide the hats and accessories

Considering, permit'south face up it: some of them are hideous and don't go with the residuum of your character's outfit. You tin can hide the hats and accessories in the settings screen.

Use high assault weapons for fighting

You tin look at weapons in the inventory screen to find out their assault stats or disquisitional chance. Early on game, you'll discover the Knuckle weapon, which deals 90 Attack points and you should utilise that for close-range gainsay. Poison Knuckles deal 120 Attack. Later on, you lot'll unlock some pretty powerful tools from completing the master story, and information technology'll be easy to defeat enemies.

Winning the karate competition is a breeze by Year 2. — Winning the karate competition is a breeze by Twelvemonth 2.

Don't waste matter HP consumables in dungeons

There are a few dungeon missions in the game where you go alone or with NPCs to defeat enemies (i.e., the WOW Industries mission that comes during the outset year). These special "dungeon" areas commonly have free places to swallow nutrient or use medicine to restore full HP and stamina. As well, if you dice in a dungeon, you lot'll just come back with 100% HP upon regeneration, anyway, and then there'southward really no penalty for death on these missions.

Save your HP consumables for the Hazardous Ruins.

You can still die and regenerate with full health, but only 3 times per run. Afterward that, yous'll have to start over and lose 3 or more than hours of time.

How to defeat the Chancy Ruins boss

The bosses in each ruins are really only tricky if you don't have the correct weapons/materials, and actually, only the Chemical Dropout in the Sewage Found is hard as it comes pretty early in the game, before y'all might take high stats, skills, and weapons.

To beat him and the Male monarch Rat (another "tough" enemy that comes early game), hither's what I recommend:

Stock upward on herbal juice
Make sure y'all accept accessories that give you disquisitional gamble equipped (Logic Cube + Sunglasses give you lot a total of 20% critical take chances)
Drinkable Inexpensive Soda or Spicy Tea correct when you lot enter the boss' room
Equip the Knuckles to fight with (unless you have a higher weapon at this betoken)
Create a wide breadth from Chemical Dropout (since he shoots poison at you) in the beginning and run towards him counter-clockwise
Make it shut and striking them repeatedly with the Knuckles until they are defeated
If you lot're shut to dying, run back from them and use some Herbal Juice to gain more HP, so dive back in

Karate Contest

It's worth noting that you probably won't win the karate contest your first year, but you can apply the tips above to give yourself the best take a chance. By the time Year 2 rolls around, you'll exist a higher level and be a stronger fighter than all the NPCs and will be able to hands beat anyone—even Arlo.

That'due south All for At present!

Those are all the tips I have for at present! Practise yous take any tips for My Fourth dimension at Portia? Which tip did y'all find most useful? Let me know in the comments section below!

Questions & Answers

Question: Where do I get carbon cobweb in My Time at Portia?

Respond: You can discover carbon fiber mainly in the ruins; the Somber Marsh Abandoned Ruins, Ingall's Mine (Level 4) or Deepest Ruin.

Question: Where do I get blueish leather or make it?

Answer: Blueish leather can't exist crafted, merely you lot can get it from killing Slurpees in the Collapsed Wasteland!

Question: How many hours volition it take me to finish the game of My Fourth dimension at Portia?

Answer: Information technology depends on how focused you are on the main story/quests. I'd say around lxxx hours. I'm at 70 something myself and nevertheless oasis't finished the concluding storyline, but that'south because I tend to spend more time exploring/making money than the primary questline.

Nicole on February 01, 2020:

This is the best thing I've ever read. Thank you SO much!

nick on January 04, 2020:

This was a really good write upward, well washed! I've merely got around 20 hours in so far but it has really grabbed me :)

Roarst on December 17, 2019:

One of import tip for combat: dodge rolling. Dont just stand in that location taking hits and getting stunned.

flo on September 03, 2019:

It is quite easy to win the karate competition. Just contrivance their outset attack, hit them one time, then run away until the timer runs out.

Aaron on July 13, 2019:

I agree, this is a great synopsis. I'm in my get-go winter. I personally recommend going for the feel gain skill starting time. Also starting behind your opponent in the karate competition is inexpensive simply helpful.

Amelia on June 07, 2019:

Really well done postal service. Give thanks y'all. I'k about iii weeks into the game, and your post is perfect to guide me!

Brittany Chocolate-brown (author) from Sydney, Australia on May 13, 2019:

Aww, brown girl gamers unite! And happy to help :)

Shanda Renee on May 13, 2019:

This is the best comprehensive guide Ive found so far. From one brown daughter to the next, thank you!

Julian on April 22, 2019:

For the karate contest and some sparring you dont really have to hit anyone just run in circles to avoid them. Its cheap yea but early on information technology helps

Brittany Brown (author) from Sydney, Australia on Apr xix, 2019:

You're welcome! Happy to assist!

MTaPNewbie on April nineteen, 2019:

These are super helpful tips! Thank you lot for taking the time to write all this upwards :)

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