The most confusing part of island sanctuaries is easily the workshop, and your weekly agenda. In this video I will do my best to explain it in a simple and easy to understand manner, so that you can get as much of the island currency as possible.
Timestamps:
Intro – 0:00
Before You Start – 0:12
Groove & Day 1/2 – 1:20
Efficiency – 1:54
Day 3 – 2:30
Day 4/5 – 3:35
Check Mats – 4:36
Outro – 5:12
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Bro, this is amazing.
So one very important thing to make note of: Demand Shift is actually a useless part of the workshop's agenda. It doesn't measure a handicraft's upcoming change in supply; it measures the change that happened from yesterday to today. When the week starts anew every Tuesday, the entire market rebounds towards Sufficient supply. There were zero Nonexistent supply items today even though there were several yesterday, but there were also no Surplus or Overflowing supplies, again, many which existed yesterday. It tried to zero out or get close to it on Tuesday, which is why it's a really good idea, like you said, to make Day 1 a rest day, to let that initial stock whittle down.
My theory on how supply works is that every handicraft you ship out gets put into invisible storage that you can't see, and over the course of its time in that storage, invisible customers will slowly buy out and whittle the supply down. The speed that the supply falls is probably influenced by how popular the item is, at least that's how it works in the real world.
Excellent guide!!
Big question here: Why a 4/6/6/8 spread for the big ticket days instead of 4/8/4/8? Looking at value alone that would be more profitable. Is there something that gives 4/6/6/8 an edge?
Good idea to put the rest days in weekend like IRL
So the demand chart maps out the week? I was lamenting I'd have to make a new schedule every single day on account of shifting demand and supply that I read, can change by the *hour*. welp.
here is how I set up my rest day, 1st cycle and 6th cycle rest. This is to gather some rare materials that might be needed for the big production on the last day. I put the 1st day because of the same reason as you. Just to check with the popularity and also stocks.
Stopped by for the great creator name, subbed for the better info.