Playing the first Rune Factory again finally, and I think I'm going to be a LOT more gentle on Baby Peaches for never getting past the first cave. Adult Peaches who reached 100% completion in RF4 is barely able to get past the first floor of the first cave without getting killed and having to start over from my last save (I'm SO glad they changed how that works in future titles), and since there's only a handful of places to forage and watering plants takes up all of your RP before you even get off of your farm, the only real way to get money to get decent supplies is to spend all day fishing... but if you have crops, you've barely got enough RP left to fish... and by the time you're all out of HP and RP, it's noon, and the bathhouse doesn't open until 3, and then you can only use it once a day...
And using non-magic weapons still consumes your RP! But if you wanna go deeper into the caves and plant crops to create rune factories, you have to fight off a few enemies, which also drains your RP, which means you might not have enough to sustain your factories!
God, this game's such a clusterfuck. I'm determined to beat it out of little more than spite at this point, at which point I'm going to play RF4 again and bask in its Actually Fair and Worth the Heartache glory.
ngl I've always wanted to make custom haha