Spend the first Journal point: stamina, rotation or hand control?

Stamina when the hand keeps tiring

Open the Journal after a rank increase and spend a rank point on Stamina if you keep pausing between potatoes. It reduces the drain while you peel and improves recovery between potatoes. Compare two consecutive cuts with the same knife. If you have energy left and the blade still wanders, use the hand-control branch instead.

Auto Rotate when turning interrupts each cut

Select Auto Rotate if you keep interrupting your strokes to turn the potato. The pictured Journal shows a one-level skill. Try it on one potato and watch the surface turn while you keep the blade steady. You still need to place the blade and inspect the last patch. If your problem was exhausted stamina, the turning assistance does not replenish it.

Tremor Treatment when the blade drifts

If the blade wanders even with energy in reserve, use Tremor Treatment. The Journal lists three tiers, and its benefit applies across knives. Test the same tool before switching blades. For a change to the displayed hand shake without spending a rank point, check the separate hand-shake intensity setting added in hotfix 1.0.1.

Decide whether to take Hard for this run

The community difficulty comparison reports half the normal payment per potato on Hard. For the same accepted output, plan on roughly twice as many deliveries to fund the same purchase from potato sales alone. Assignment rewards and other payments are separate. No listed Steam achievement explicitly requires Hard. Choose Standard if your goal is to fund the machines quickly.

When an old guide says No Mercy

Golden Horn changed Hard to Strict peeling in hotfix 1.0.1. If an older guide describes No Mercy as the Hard preset, check your build first. On newer builds, inspect and rotate the potato when a cut leaves skin. The 1.0.2 description for Muscle Memory specifically warns that the last spots can still require a hand pass.

When the first potato stops responding after three swipes

Release the peeling control and allow early stamina to recover before pressing again. In the discussion a player reported that holding through exhaustion did not restart the cut. If a new press works, use shorter strokes. If recovery and a fresh press still do nothing, make a short clip and include the input device and build with your report, as the studio requested.

When Auto Rotate stays out of reach after selling a batch

Leave the cash supply window and open the Journal. Check your unspent rank points, select Auto Rotate there and confirm the point is spent. At the board, bring the blade close enough to see the surface rotate. Selling another batch can increase your cash balance, but the unlock consumes a skill point. If the Journal already lists one level as owned, Golden Horn confirms the skill is complete at level one.

Steam discussion: SERIOUS ISSUES TO THE DEVS, A LITTLE LONG. SORRY BUT COMPLAINTS (BUT SUGGESTIONS ALSO) ↗

Steam discussion: Auto rotate misleading ↗

A Hard tutorial potato reads clean but the task never advances

Check what is still in your hands. If the board has released a peeled potato, carry it to the water inlet and deliver it. An early player reported a different failure: the Hard tutorial kept the potato at 100 percent while a Normal start let it through. Check that your build includes the switch from No Mercy to Strict in 1.0.1. If the potato is still locked at the board, record the percentage, difficulty and active tutorial objective together. Keep the Hard save when trying a separate Normal run for comparison.

Steam discussion: Can't clean potatoes! ↗

Golden Horn Studios: hotfix 1.0.1 ↗

Studio instructions for peeling and delivering to water ↗

When the board accepts a potato with a little skin left

Look at whether the board releases the potato and brings up the next one. A player on Normal saw this happen at roughly 97 percent, with a small patch still visible. An accepted potato can be delivered. If you want to work on a difficult end before handoff, rotate to that end early in the next cut instead of leaving it until the finish. The precise percentage in that one run is not a universal cutoff. If the same potato stays at the board, look for remaining skin or a spot requiring attention.

Steam player review ↗

Player review from Steam’s tchinese review feed ↗

Studio notes for hotfix 1.0.1 ↗

Full Peel and a stronger blade change different parts of the job

The opening playthrough describes Full Peel bringing in potatoes with awkward ends already cleared. On a long potato, look at the tips before you spend time rotating and cutting them. Skin left on the body still needs your blade. Choose this skill if the ends take most of your time; it does not load or operate the machines.

If you have just moved from a rusty blade to steel and your old stroke takes a deep chunk, release sooner. Try a short pass along a broad strip and compare its depth with a pass made using the old blade. Keep the point away from the middle while you learn the new cutting distance. This adjustment is about the tool change, independently of how much stamina you have.

Opening playthrough observations: tool changes, Full Peel and contaminated potatoes ↗

Steam discussion of knife movement and blood spots ↗

Translate the skill row when the controller replaces keyboard labels

Once the skills are available, look at the lower-right edge of the board. The Japanese PlayStation-style capture places a triangle beside Auto Hold and a right-stick click (R3) beside Auto Rotate. In the keyboard example the corresponding row uses T and R. A padlock on a skill in an early shift means you can still cut and rotate manually using the prompts on the other side of the screen. If the glyphs differ on your controller, use the ones the game actually displays.

Keep peeling manually after unlocking Muscle Memory

Finish or set aside the potato you are working on and release Space. For the next potato, use the normal board controls and guide the blade across one visible band of skin. Watch whether the blade follows your movement. Holding Space invokes the assisted motion again when you want it. A player who found the perk too passive described holding that key to make it work. Keeping the skill lets you choose the manual input for this potato and the assisted input for the next one.

Muscle Memory maybe a bit too much? ↗

Muscle Memory and Peeler Bug ↗

Turn the potato back by hand when the automatic spin carries a patch away

A Steam player requested an option to reverse the spin. The developer describes Auto Rotate as a single-rank skill; spending another point cannot add a reverse direction. If the automatic turn carries the patch past you, lift the blade and use the board’s manual rotation control to bring that area back before resuming a short cut. Check the current on-screen bindings for your input device. Neither the published description nor the request confirms a separate permanent reverse-spin setting.

Auto Rotation Direction ↗

Auto rotate misleading ↗

Player’s illustrated Japanese skill and equipment guide ↗

Arrange the work before switching from Hard to a Normal achievement shift

A player who finished Hard and then cleaned up achievements on Normal reported being able to afford tools earlier. For a new achievement shift, list the milestones still missing and identify equipment you will need before choosing a difficulty. For money-gated equipment, Normal reduces the amount of selling needed; for hand-peeling milestones, stay at the cutting table even after the machines open. Use your existing completed save for available repeatable tasks before starting over for an early event you missed.

Steam player review, November 12 ↗

Steam discussion: What counts as "Peeling by hand" ↗

Use the gamepad action for continuous assisted peeling

In the English controller screenshot the lower-left prompt is Hold A: Auto peel. The distinct right-side Y prompt is Auto Hold, and R3 is Auto Rotate. At the board with Muscle Memory available, hold the action your lower-left legend labels Auto peel and watch the tool move on its own. Release it to return control to your hand and finish a remaining strip if necessary. A different controller mapping may show a different glyph, so match the action name.

Steam discussion: Hand auto cleaning bug ↗

Find the Lenient option when the current difficulty locks it

Golden Horn’s reply to a player who could not finish hand delivery says that the Lenient peel setting is unavailable on Hard. Check the active difficulty first. If you want adjustable acceptance on a Normal run, open Settings and look for Peel Strictness, select Lenient, then test a single ordinary potato. If you are preserving a Hard run, keep its enforced strictness and inspect the remaining surface before handoff. Lowering the global mouse sensitivity changes movement, not the acceptance setting.

Steam discussion: Как продать картошку? ↗

Steam discussion: Can't clean potatoes! ↗

Read the work rank fraction without confusing it with a cash reward

An English screenshot shows Rank 13 at 958/1122 under a separate wallet of 82.03. Subtract 958 from 1122 for the remaining progress on that displayed rank: 164. This does not promise the next 164 potatoes will each grant one point. Watch the rank counter after a small batch on your own shift and open the Journal when the promotion notification appears. The reward printed on the equipment assignment at upper left pays for completing that order and is a separate figure.

Read exactly which income the difficulty card changes

The English 1.0.4 selection screen says each potato pays 50% less. Its wording establishes the ordinary potato rate. Do not halve every listed letter amount or objective reward in advance based only on that card. To check a specific order on your Hard save, record the reward printed on the page and the wallet before and after it advances, away from other sales.

MJun.21: equipment prices, prerequisites, letters and Journal task rewards ↗

Related field notes

• Why the next skill row is locked in the Journal