- ## Before You Start Organizing
- Don't rush to sort everything randomly. Since abilities that improve carrying, searching, and movement unlock as you play, prioritizing efficient early routes over frantic bottle-grabbing pays off once your capacity and search tools improve.
- If you're coming from a similar game like Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library!, expect the controls and core loop to feel very familiar -- the main adjustment is bottle categorization by variety instead of book sorting.
- ## Choosing Your Pace
- Decide early whether you're playing for the relaxing experience or aiming for Speedrun Mode. The two modes reward different approaches: methodical, thorough organizing for the standard mode, versus optimized routes and minimal backtracking for speedrunning.
- ## Common Mistakes
- * Ignoring ability unlocks in favor of manually carrying bottles the whole game -- the carrying/searching/movement upgrades exist specifically to make later stretches of the 2,448-bottle count manageable.
- * Sorting bottles into approximately-correct locations rather than their exact proper rack -- with a collection this large, sloppy early organization compounds into real confusion later.
Related guide: How Sorting, Abilities, and Speedrun Mode Work in Cellar Keeper