Shops & schedules

How routines work

1. Reading the tables:
   1. Each time is when the character sets off for the next place. They walk, so give them a few minutes to arrive — longer if they’re crossing the island. Before the first time listed they’re still in bed.
   2. Goes to bed or goes home means you can’t talk to them again until morning. Students sleep in the Dorm Hall and most townsfolk go indoors, so get your errands done before then.
   3. Amka alternates two routines: day A on odd dates (1, 3, 5…) and day B on even ones.
   4. The clock stops at 22:00 until you go to bed, and anyone still out stays where they are for the rest of the night.
   5. From Winter 1, Acorn, Antoine, Azat, Celia, Codrin, Mary and Zale switch to winter routines, mostly indoors.
2. Classes, festivals and story events override everything. During classes (8:00–11:00) students are in the classroom; on festival days nearly everyone goes to the festival; and from Summer 1, on show nights many people head to the Cup and Kettle from 17:00. A quest that needs someone in a particular place also overrides their routine until it’s done.

Shops

1. Shops charge each item’s normal price, and outfits and hats can only be bought once. Selling boxes pay normal value. The exception is the Waterfall Grotto: out-of-season seeds cost double and Instagrow triple.

Outfits and hats

1. Aya gives you a school uniform for free the first time you visit Swish and Stitch — pick either style. The What’s for sale? option appears once you’ve asked both introduction questions. New outfits are added each season and old ones stay on sale.

2. Every hat costs 150. Aya’s Dad sells four every day at Swish and Stitch (green, grey, yellow and one more). The Merfolk Hatter sells the Sea Hat, Seaweed Crown and Sea Hairpiece on Spring 14 only. Shops show pictures rather than names, so pick by how they look.

Etchery students

1. The Etchery is north-west of Wisk. Its grounds are the Etchery Courtyard, and most rooms are reached through the Great Hall. Dean Clary’s office is at the top of the Dorm Hall stairs.

Etchery staff

Wisk and the countryside

1. Wisk sits in the middle of the island. The market is its main square, with Brick Alley leading off it, and Swish and Stitch and the Cup and Kettle are a short walk away. South of town are Linden’s farm and the Rosewheat Fields, then the beach and the Shell. The Ochre Woods stretch east across the river.

Characters who stay put

1. These characters don’t walk a route — when they’re around, they’re always in the same spot.

Routine changes

1. These events move people for good. If someone isn’t where the tables say, check this list:
2. In order:
   1. Spring 2: Clover moves in and most students start their routines (before that they’re at the Meet and Greet).
   2. Spring 4: Professor Sylvine starts the Potions Lab routine after the first class.
   3. Autumn 4: the Bathhouse closes; Amka and Celia use their “closed” routines until “The Briny Bathhouse” is finished.
   4. After “The Briny Bathhouse”: Chicory moves to the Wisk market.
   5. After “Fairy Ring”: Codrin stops going to the Ochre Woods lake.
   6. After “Nessa’s Curse”: Nessa leaves the Potions Lab and looks after the topiaries.
   7. “Strange Pamphlets”: the Headmistress moves into the office, Zinnia moves to the Green Sprites Headquarters and Fern spends afternoons at Kaloula’s class.
   8. After “Forbidden Potions”: the Potionmaster arrives and starts a routine; after “The Potionmaster’s Ingredients” the Potionmaster stays in your garden.
   9. “Mel’s Journey”: Lusina minds the Shell while Mel is away. When it’s over both sisters leave and a merfolk couple runs the shop.
   10. After “The Derelict Wagon”: Reed packs up and leaves.
   11. Winter 1: winter routines begin and Chicory returns to the Northern Grounds.