Welcome to holoVillage: Our Cozy Days. This guide covers the verified Day 1 loop — what to build, what to craft, and how to trigger the First Villager Invitation Steam achievement that ends Chapter 1.

What’s confirmed about Day 1

Mayor Kumarine and her assistant Nodaka orient you to the village. Your verified Day 1 tasks (from community guide coverage):

1. Build your first house — earns the Dream Home achievement.
2. Craft a Wooden Axe to harvest trees.
3. Craft a Pickaxe to break the cave entrance and small rocks.
4. Keep a Sword ready — combat encounters begin in the Carrot Cave.
5. Start farming — place a field, use a hoe, plant seeds, fill your watering can.
6. Unlock fishing with Kuro and craft a Wooden Rod.
7. Start adventuring with Bubba (the player’s starter adventure companion).

The villager invitation loop

The core loop for adding any hololive talent to your village:

1. Build a vacant villager house.
2. Talk to a visiting talent → gain invite/exchange points.
3. Use those points to invite the visitor.
4. Sleep through the night. They move in the next morning.
5. Assign them to one of the 4 jobs: farming, fishing, adventuring, or shopkeeping.

Completing this loop for the first time triggers Chapter 1’s First Villager Invitation achievement.

Cap: only 8 villagers can live in your village, and eviction is not currently supported. Plan with the Villager Roster Planner.

Resource-management tips from community coverage

• Don’t sell raw resources. Process first (cook, smelt, craft), then sell — you make more coin per click.
• Use the workbox. It’s the shared supply box villagers pull from when working their assigned job; seeds matter most for farming.
• A good daily routine: 5 min water+harvest, 5 min restock seeds, 10 min process+sell, 10 min focused task (fishing, gathering, or quest progress).

Where to go next

• All 39 achievements — track your full 100% run
• All Talents — see which hololive members are confirmed in the roster
• All Areas & Dungeons — the 11 explorable locations
• Story Chapter Guide — the 4-chapter main story

What this guide deliberately doesn’t cover

Earlier drafts listed specific loved-gift mappings per talent and per-day friendship grinding. Both rest on a “loved gifts / friendship levels” system that does not exist in holoVillage (per Game8 review coverage). See the About page for our editorial correction.

Sources

• https://www.whisperofthehouse.com/holovillage-our-cozy-days/beginner-guide
• https://thegamesedge.com/holovillage-our-cozy-days-beginner-guide/
• https://www.whisperofthehouse.com/holovillage-our-cozy-days/how-to-invite-villagers
• https://www.siliconera.com/review-holovillage-our-cozy-days-is-a-bug-ridden-holo-indie/