Move — WASD / arrow keys, or the stick on the left of the screen.
Dig — stand at a hay pile and hold the action button (or Space).
Sift — carry your load to the conveyor in the corner and tip it in. Sifted hay pays coins.
The needle is buried at some depth in one pile. Dig that pile down far enough and you will see it glinting in what is left — then walk over and grab it.
Digging the wrong pile is never wasted — it still pays. Needle Sense tells you how far off the needle is from where you stand, so take a reading, walk somewhere else, take another, and close in.
Spend coins on shovels and gear. Better shovels unlock as you clear barns.
The Daily Barn is the same barn for everybody, every day: fixed kit, no coins, no shop — just the clock. Come back tomorrow for a new one and keep your run going.
Odds and ends come out of the hay too. Every kind you dig up goes on the Barn Shelf — fill it and there is a bounty and a hat in it.
From barn 8 you can retire the farm: you hand back the coins, the shovels and the gear and start at barn 1 again, but you keep a rosette for every needle you found. Each one is +10% coins and +5% digging for good, and every eight of them lets you buy the shovels a barn earlier. Your farmer and your Barn Shelf come with you.
