Start with community center bundles, they unlock most other content while you get going. Doing some mining early helps fund those tool upgrades and keeping a few furnaces running makes good money. Save some universal liked gifts for birthdays, makes friendship way easier and you'll need those hearts anyway.

Finding legendary fish is rough but rainy days are your friend, grab some quality bait and be ready for a fight. While you're waiting for specific seasons or ingredients, clear the mines and stack artifacts for the museum. Might wanna save those omni geodes though since artifact troves help later.

Prairie king is honestly the worst part, pause with journal menu when things get dicey and focus upgrades on getting that shotgun first. Dont bother with perfection stuff early on but keep track using those parrot hints when you get there. Dangerous mines need community center done first so no rush there. Good to know junimo huts sound great but they're not achievement related, same with the gold clock its just for perfection tracking. Save scumming prairie king with debug commands isnt exactly sporting but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do especially after failing for the tenth time. Everything else comes pretty naturally just playing through seasons, tracking missing items with the collection tab helps keep you focused.