User blog:Legofries/A Newbie's Guide to LT2!

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Hello there! I am legofries, and I'll be teaching you all you need to know to get the best out of the game.

Specifically, this guide will teach you how to get money quickly and what has to be bought first before anything else.

What you need to do first is DO THE TUTORIAL.

I know it's obvious, but most of the basics are right there.

Too lazy to read everything? This is all you have to know.

TL;DR
Buy the best sawmill and the best truck and everything else will fall into place. Base building, automatic wood machinery, and making your beautiful house: all that isn't necessary. The truck and sawmill is what matters.
 * 1) Buy starter axe, farm oak.
 * 2) Buy land, sell the sign.
 * 3) Buy a truck, get the shabby.
 * 4) Get the hardened axe.
 * 5) Get the fair sawmil.
 * 6) Farm birch wood.

First steps!

 * Start out with what the tutorial says. BUY THE STARTER AXE. I don't know why I had to type this, but some people just skip the tutorial and click everything and smash their keyboards.
 * DON'T BE THAT GUY. BE SMART.
 * Once you get the axe, chop a tree (preferably oak) and get cash.
 * Try this tactic out: when you're bringing the tree to the dropoff, put the trunk first into the funnel. This will make the trunk disappear, making the branches fall out, speeding the process up.

Got good friends?

 * If you have good friends who have gone far into the game, ask them for 2,000 cash so you can skip to the "2nd steps" of the game.

I got 100 cash!

 * When you get 100 cash, buy a piece of land immediately at the land store. This is the most essential part of the game and you can't do almost anything without it.


 * Go to your land. Remove the sign and SELL IT. It gives you a free 400 cash headstart.

I got 400 cash from the sign!

 * Buy a truck spawner. Put it on your land. After that, chop a few more trees until you get to 130 cash.
 * Get the Shabby Sawmill. Put your oak wood in it and you'll earn cash faster.
 * Use the truck to transport your oak wood to the wood dropoff!
 * Save up to 550.

I got 550 cash!

 * Get the Hardened Axe. It's a great axe and it'll speed your stuff up.
 * Chop more (oak) trees and repeat until you get 1,600 cash.

I got 1,600 cash!

 * Buy the Fair Sawmill. This starts you out on your intermediate journey in Lumber Tycoon 2.

Second steps!

 * Start farming Birch Wood, or in other words, that white mountain wood.
 * Use your truck and fair sawmill to farm this efficiently.
 * Optional: get a small trailer on this process.
 * Save up to 2,040 cash.

I got 2,040 cash!

 * Get the Silver Axe. Oh yes, one of the best axes in-game.
 * Farm birch wood even faster.

='NOTE: this ain't close to done. don't hurt me pls.'=