-Open those 4 planting plots ASAP and Knowing your seeds ! not knowing your seeds means wasting your precious time as seeds are the main source of FOOD for camp activities especially Merchantry. Seeds have Tiers that corresponds their Time harvest, making it easy to understand and adjust based on your Personal Schedule. Seeds varies from White grade (1 minute) , Green (10 minutes) , Blue (3 hrs), Purple  (8hrs), Yellow (20hrs) and I will give you the best seeds that gives off the MOST FOOD gain every Tier.. White (BARLEY) , Green (CARROT) , Blue (RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, wait, whut ?), Purple(Saguaro Seeds), Yellow (Prickly Pear).

PA gives FREE 3 days Camp Manager mostly (not always but mostly) after a patch maintenance and it helps new and seasoned players A LOT ! but if you dont have 4 planting plots ? you are simply wasting your camp manager. To maximize your Camp manager , My advice is to put TONS of Barley and you will not have any problems for food for the whole 3 days as it gives more than 200,000 foods each day by doing that! 

-Workers Stats have you ever wonder why workers have STATS ? Strength , Vitality, Dex ?  well it goes like HIGH STR workers can finish certain BUILDING crafting/Upgrades for lesser time,  DEX workers Decreases food required and lesser time for crafting items on camp, and Vitality proves More gain on Resources if you send them on world gathering. So better balance your workers. Better have atleast 3 STR main workers , 5-7 workers with DEX main and rest of the workers with VIT mains.

-WHERE WILL I GET THE RESOURCES TO UPGRADE ALL MY BUILDINGS! well, I maxed out my camp as early as a new camp update landed to Global servers but I'll have to admit it was HELL TOUGH MAN!  but what I noticed is, if you do your MERCH regularly ? Not only you can gain lots of ITEMS you will really need for your adventure but, THIS IS THE MAIN SOURCE OF THOSE RESOURCES , ranging from all types of logs, Forage, mining stones ... name it.. I can send you a screenshot where I spend like 100 - 200k per day of those resources but I still have 2 million each of those resources just sitting around. That is how BROKEN MERCHANTRY can be. So, instead of spending tons of stamina just to gain PINCH AMOUNTS of resources to upgrade your camp and which you can spend on other important stuffs like desert and ocean, just do your daily merch ! 
b.2 THE GOD MERCHANTRY...  Oh yes, you heard me. Merchantry is GOD especially to BROKE PLAYERS like us :3 Ranging from Free BP to Boss rush stamps, Ancient tablets, Tower of trials passes, and the list will go on and on. Having the freedom to Spend atleast 5-6k BP every month all those came from Merchantry. But THIS IS NOT EASY AS WHAT YOU THINK. Merch will reward you first with lame rewards and mostly only for the camp resources you need to max upgrade your Camp buildings on which you will see merchantry boring. BUT BUT BUT, as your progress more and more, STAKES comes MORE AND MORE , TEN FOLDS. (Tho' it is still RNG :/ ) but dont worry here are some QUICK TIPS I can give you to maximize your merchantry as early and as fast as possible !

1. have a dedicated Workers for Merchantry for their Skill levels, Higher skill levels means more rewards on merchantry (camp resources, appraisal boxes, etc.)

so having a permanent 4 workers for merch (I have my dedicated workers NAMED merch1 merch2 merch3 merch4)  so it is easy for me to know and find them incase I needed them for other stuffs temporarily.

2. Sell those not needed Orange crystals to the wandering merchant, it gives the best EXP for merchantry but just bear in mind that as your Merchantry level goes up! daily Food needed increases also , so bear that in mind.

3. Plan your Route and make it permanent. Not only it will max out your chance of exchanging great items like Black pearls on rappor Exchange tab but it also gives you less time doing merch on a daily basis.

4. ASK... Joing BDM Discord discord.gg/Blackdesertmobile... There is a HUGE COMMUNITY willing to help you out on merch more and more and HEY ! it is interracting with other fellow adventurers even. You can also find friends , guilds or maybe "special someone" just by asking about more on Merchantry on discord. Now who says Merchantry ain't interractive ? ~wink* wink* (to be continued.... )