A One-Day Clipboard for Farm & Feast

This planner is the Farm & Feast session boiled down to rows you can copy into a notes app. It assumes the Steam demo clock: Closed mornings around 10:30, Open evenings around 19:00, six tables, hose plus pump, fridge spinner, Check Please. It does not assume a live-service daily reset, because dummy dino has not advertised one. Use it after Getting Started and beside the demo walkthrough.

Print it mentally. The game already gives you a clipboard icon; this page is the paper that icon wishes it was.

Before boot

• Machine matches system requirements
• Demo installed from Steam
• Language set
• Volume and difficulty glanced at (controls)
• Last save is a Closed-morning rollback, not a mid-queue panic

Closed morning — farm block

Goal: pantry ingredients for tonight’s two or three dishes.

• Read last night’s Menu remaining counts
• Plant tomatoes if soup or tomato pasta is pinned (crop tier list)
• Plant carrots / greens if those recipes or extras failed yesterday
• Skip new pumpkin beds unless S-tier soil is already wet
• Hose every planted tile
• Refill the tank with the Water Pump (hold Space in the red band)
• Harvest into the backpack
• Walk back before the clock looks like evening
• Do not start a beach trip while Closed time still has dry soil

If energy (flame) is still huge after this block, you planted too little or walked too much. Add one tomato bed, not a sightseeing lap.

Closed morning — kitchen block

Goal: a board you can plate.

• Open Recipes; confirm Tomato Soup still makes sense
• Open Menu; pin two or three dishes from the dish tier list
• Check extras: garlic, basil, thyme, parsley as needed
• Check cream, noodles, cheese, oil in the chest
• Check drinks in the fridge
• Drop any pin whose ingredient is a singleton you cannot replace
• Only then press Open Restaurant

A locked slot is not a task. Leave it locked.

Open evening — floor block

Goal: seats, correct extras, drinks, bills, no ignored queue.

• Seat the grass line onto tables 1–6 (restaurant)
• Take Order with extras confirmed
• Let chefs plate; do not camp the stove
• Fridge spinner for drink bubbles; Esc if the bottle is wrong
• Sweep one spill per loop
• Check Please every finished table (card terminal, receipt)
• Glance at star rating once, not every second
• When Closed hits, stop seating and finish bills

If the star rating drops, write the failure in one word: extras, drinks, bills, or queue. Tomorrow’s planner changes that row only.

Closed evening — market block

Goal: replace what the kitchen ate.

• Cream if soup lives (market)
• Noodles if pasta lives
• Drinks until the fridge looks full
• Seeds for beds you harvested
• Herbs you actually spent
• Cheese / oil only if a pinned dish spends them
• Skip Upgrade tab experiments on a thin till
• Pay the Order Summary
• Save

Basket sanity check: if the total looks like the official $51.57 example, every line needs a job on tomorrow’s farm or board. Minus souvenirs.

Optional rows (after the pantry is boring)

• Test one B-tier dish (Pho, Fettucine) on a two-table Open
• Walk the beach once while Closed (demo walkthrough)
• Screenshot the in-game keybinds for yourself
• Send one piece of friction to dummy dino’s Discord (links)
• Wishlist the 11 Nov 2026 full game if you have not

A 15-minute emergency version

If you only have a sliver of evening:

1. Water existing tomatoes.
2. Pin Tomato Soup + Spaghetti.
3. Open with four tables max.
4. Bill everyone.
5. Buy cream if you spent it.
6. Save.

Do not unlock Ravioli in a 15-minute window. The cooking guide will still be there tomorrow.

Why a planner exists

Farm & Feast is gentle until you open hungry. The clock badge is the only boss. This page exists so the boss is visible. Reuse it every demo day until the motions are muscle memory. When the full game lands on 11 Nov 2026, add rows — do not throw away the Closed / Open split that Steam already taught you.