The ring shows your range and everything inside it swims to your float. The big ones keep to deep water, so where you throw is the whole decision.
Hold the beam on a seam and the rock gives. Depth decides what is in it — and a seam runs out as well as arrives, so the shaft you know stops being the shaft you need. Five fossils are handed over on the way.
Furnaces, benches, and out past the fog a mill, a forge and a cannery. Four things can be on the go at once, and they keep working while the app is shut.
Thirteen crops, each opening at its own level. Carrots come up in minutes; a pumpkin wants two hours and pays like it. A field grows whether you are watching.
Fishing, the market and the workshop cost nothing, for ever — a whole loop on its own, and not a timer or a trial. One payment opens the woods, the mine, the croft, the three refineries and every island past the home waters. No subscription, nothing to buy twice.