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Harvest Moon : Friends of Mineral TownHarvest Moon : More Friends of Mineral Town

Written by : Franck KnightStarted on : March 13th, 2006First Submitted on : June 4th, 2010Version : 0.2

========Foreword========

Welcome to my small guide to Harvest Moon for GBA. As I start writing this, Ihave no intention of turning this into a full blown guide. There are more thanenough character guides and methods to befriend the people, you just pick onethat seems to suit you. What I wanted to write at first is a sort of guide tostart the game. Since both games are roughly the same, with a few exceptions,the methods can be used in either versions.

Just as a reminder :Boy Version = FoMTGirl Version = MFoMTBoth way of naming can be seen in this guide.

=================Table of Contents=================

1. Basic Controls2. Harvest Moon at a Glance3. Tools4. Crop Basic

5. Animals Basic6. Mining Basic7. Fishing8. Weather9. Passing Time10. Making Money11. Mineral Town12. Harvest Sprites13. Wedding Blues14. Useful Tricks15. Festivals16. Spring First Year17. Summer First Year

18. Fall First Year19. Winter First Year20. Second Year21. Third year and up22. Gameshark Code23. End word and Disclaimer24. Version History

==============Basic Controls


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==============As the title says, I'll try to explain how to work the controls out for everytask you'll have to do.

--Menus--Control Pad : Move selection arrow, scroll up/down, turn pageSelect :Start :A : Select the optionB : Cancel / Previous ScreenL : Speed up the scrolling up/downR : Speed up the scrolling up/down

--Farm - Empty Handed--Control Pad : Move CharacterSelect : Open Earning ScreenStart : Open/Close Main MenuA : Lift up item, Check Item, TalkB : Use Equipped ToolL : Whistle for Dog/HorseR : Run/Walk

You can change the Run/Walk option in the Diary screen.

L + A : Pull item out of RucksackL + B : Cycle tool in hand from RucksackA + B : Opens Rucksack Menu

In the rucksack, pressing Start on an item will give you a choice to toss itout. It doesn't count as littering when you do.

Keeping B pressed down also lets you turn around on yourself, but when you letgo, you'll use the tool equipped.

--Farm - Item in Hand--

Control Pad : Move character

Select : Open Earning ScreenStart : Open/Close Main MenuA : Check Item (in front), Give Item, Talk,

Throw Item, Put Item in Bin, Put Item DownB : Put item in Rucksack (if possible)L : NothingR : Run/Walk

L + A : Cycle object in hand from RucksackL + B : Eat item (if edible)A + B : Open Rucksack

The A Button does alot of things, as you can see, but it depends on the

situation. For example :Holding Milk in front of the Cheese Maker will turn it into Cheese, but ifyou're holding anything else, you'll just examine the Maker instead. In certainevents, characters won't accept gifts so even holding something, you'll just betalking to them.

Some items can be put on the ground, like branches or wood pieces for fences,but only your field. Otherwise the item falls on the ground and disapears. Mostitems can't be put down thought, like food. Some items can be put down anywhere,such as your animals (Dog, Chicken).


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Holding something allows you to check your mailbox, but if there's something inthe mail, like some Wine gift, you'll note that nothing happens, not even amessage that says 'no mail'. You'll need to drop the item first.

========================Harvest Moon at a Glance========================

Harvest Moon is just another game in the long tradition of Farm caretaking gamesNatsume has made. But this is easily one of the most detailed versions there hasbeen up to now. There's lots of things to do outside of crops and animals, youwon't get bored as the seasons play a bigger role.

So what exactly can you do?

We'll get into the details in the walkthrough, but you'll obviously need to workon the farm itself at first. You need a steady cash flow to work, if only to buythe seeds needed to grow crops.

The field is in a bad shape, so to clean it you will need to improve your tools.And once its cleaned you'll have to plan on having grass for animals. And whenyou get animals you need to take care of them everyday so their affection willrise and give you better products, worth a better price everyday.

And that's only the farm, because you can get more money by digging the mines aswell. But you're not alone either, there's a whole village of people livingtheir lives everyday, that can all help you in one way or another. You'll wantto befriend many of them with gifts, including Harvest Sprites that can directlyhelp you with your crops and animals everyday.

And then you'll want to find someone, and marry him/her eventually. You'll getto help the others marry in the village as well. Everyone has their own littlelife, and you're the new addition to it.

=====Tools

=====You have many tools at your disposition, but start with only 6. The box in thelower right corner of your house is the tool box, you can hold 64 tools inthere. The box contains the starting 6 tools, but there are quite a few more toget. Here's a list of them all.

Most tools have a 'charge up' motion, when you level them up. Simply pressingthe button, even if its at max level, will still only result in a 'level 1 hit'.If you want to use the 'level 2' ability, you need to charge it up. You'll seeyour character's motion change slightly as you charge up. Every change of stancemeans a different level of power.

--Hammer--

The Hammer is a versatile tool. It breaks the smaller rocks in your field, butalso those in the mine when you go for some ore hunting. You can also use it toflatten some piece of fence. Its the only way to get rid of the rotten pieces,but it can also make good parts disapear.

At Copper, you can break the round rocks in your field too. It will take 6charged hits thought.

At Silver, you can now break the round rocks in 3 hits, but also the bigboulders in 6 hits.

At Golden, you can break round rocks in 1 hit, and boulders in 3 hits.


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At Mystrile, you can break round rocks and boulders in 1 hit.At Cursed/Blessed, all boulders on the map will disapear with a single hit.

There are a few exceptions to this I think.At Mythic, I don't know as I write this. Hopefully in the revision, yet I don't

know how stronger this can become.

Note that the extra levels of power don't work in the mines, so don't bothercharging up.

--Hoe--Another useful tool, this lets you tile your field to allow planting seeds.Throwing seeds on untiled ground makes them lost. But on tiled seed, they areready to grow. You can also retile grass when its freshly cut off, if you needto change your layout. Also, the Hoe lets you dig in the mines, for stairsgoing down, money or black herbs.

At normal, it tiles one square.At Copper, it tiles two squares in a line.At Silver, it tiles three squares in a line.At Golden, it tiles four squares in a line.At Mystrile, it tiles six squares in a line.At Cursed/Blessed, it tiles a row of 12 long per 3 wide, with you as the center

of the width.At Mythic, not sure again, bur probably even longer and wider, yeesh.

Here again, its not use charging it up in the mines.

--Axe--With only one obvious use, you don't need a manual for this. Cut wood, simply.

At normal, you can only cut the small branches.At Copper, 6 hits can clear a stump.At Silver, 3 hits clear a stump.At Golden, 2 Hits clear a stump.At Mystrile, 1 hit clear a stump.At Cursed/Blessed, 1 hit clears the whole map you're in.At Mythic, I don't see how better this can become.

--Scythe--This is your main tool to take care of grass and weeds. Wild weeds will grow onyour field randomly on non-seeded areas. You can cut them off with the Scythe orthrow them on the ground. But grass needs to be cut off. You can also use it toget rid of old crops when changing seasons.

At normal, one tile is cut.At Copper, three tiles wide in front of you, with you in the center.At Silver, three tiles wide and 2 tiles away are cut.At Golden, a set of 3x3 tiles around you is cut, with you in the center.At Mystrile, a set of 5x5 is cut, with you in the center.At Cursed/Blessed, a square of 7x7 is cut off, with you in the center.

At Mythic, I suppose its 9x9. Pretty big.

--Watering Can--Obviously, you'll use this to water the fields. The amount of water it containsgrows with the levels as well, but you also cover more ground with a singleaction.

At normal, you water 1 tile in front of you.At Copper, you water 3 tiles wide in front of you.At Silver, you water 3x2 tiles in front of you.


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At Golder, you water 3x3 tiles in front of you.At Mystrile, you water 5x5 tiles in front of you.At Cursed/Blessed, you'll water 7x7 tiles in front of you.At Mythic, must be pretty big area.

--Fishing Rod--As you can guess it, you can fish out of almost any body of water. The levels inthis case allow you to charge up to catch bigger fishes. At higher levels,you'll fish less junk and better fishes out. Some fishes can only be caught withthe best rods.

--Brush--Lets you brush your sheeps, cows and horse, once a day each. Brush them alleveryday to keep their affection rising.

--Milker--Get the milk off of your adult cows every day.

--Clippers--Get the wool off your sheeps once a week.

--Medecine--Medecine is needed if your animals get sick. That can happen if you leave themoutside when it rains, or if you don't need them for a few days. You might never

even have to buy this if you do well.

--Miracle potion--This is a potion to use on your cows or sheep to have them pregnant. They needto be put in the stall for that purpose first thought.

--Seeds--You can buy the seeds at the supermarket or Won's place at the beach. Each bagseeds and area of 3x3 with you as the center. So you must stand in the middle ofthe 3x3 formation to seed them all.

--Podometer--It just counts the number of steps while you carry it. It doesn't need to be

equipped, just in your rucksack.

--Godess/Kappa Gems--These special gems will make you recuperate your energy wihle holding it in yourhands (no need to use them). Goddess Gem will heal your Stamina, and Kappa Gemyour Fatigue. Both heal about at the same rate that the hot bath would. Itsmostly used to recuperate when out of the mine, while walking back to the farmyou can just keep it on and it will heal you.

Since time doesn't pass in the mine or in houses, its only useful outside.

--Upgrading Tools--The 6 basic tools can be upgraded. If you check your earning screen, one of the

pages lists the tools and their current levels. A progress bar tells you how faryou are from being able to reforge it. Once a bar is full, a small colored rockappears under the bar, showing which kidn of ore you can use to upgrade it.

The progress bar moves only when you use it, and slowly at higher levels. Usingit during festival doesn't work to level them up, but you can use them in themine where time doesn't pass. The best way to level them is to go to the mine,use the tool repeatidly until you turn blue, and take a dip in the nearby hotbath for 2 hours.


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Once you can reforge it, you need to get the needed ore out of the Spring Mine,and bring it to Saibara the blacksmith. He will reforge it for a price, but youwon't be able to use the tool for a few days while he's at work. Remember tocome back to pick it up, he won't deliver it back to you.

One interesting thing to note is that you don't need to level them up in order,meaning from Iron to Copper to Silver to Gold. You can skip straight to thehighest level, Mystrile. It will save you money and time in the end, because itwill take only half as much money and half as many days total to reforge it.

And yes, Mystrile is the 'highest level' to upgrade through levels, as the 3others are acquired through special means. And also, the 3 higher levels don'treplace your original tools, so you can keep your Mystrile tools. Read below forthose higher levels.

--Cursed and Blessed Tools--These are special tools, as they aren't upgraded from the basic 6 ones. You needto find the Cursed Tools in the Winter Mine, but they only appear once everybasic tool are upgraded to Mystrile (that means reforged, not just leveled up).See the Mining Section for where to find them.

Cursed Tools can't be taken off once equipped, and even worse, they drainstamina like no tomorrow when used. They aren't advisable to use at all becauseof that. The only way to take them off is waiting for a Confessional day at the

church (Monday, Wednesday or Rainy/Snowy days between 1pm and 4pm) and askCarter to remove it for 1000G.

The Blessed Tools are when the curse has been removed off them. They haveexactly the same power, but without the huge stamina drain and limitation tounequipping them. How to remove the curse depends on the tool :

The Hoe and Watering Can can be uncursed by going on those confessional days andremoving the curse 10 times. It costs 1000G every time, so all that is neededfor this is money.

The Hammer and Sickle needs to be equipped and never removed for 10 daysstraight. This can be a problem if not done in winter. In winter all you need

to take care of are your animals, so ask for a sprite to lend a hand with them.On the 11th's morning, the curse will be lifted. You don't need to equip theCursed item before the end of the day. It counts the number of times you sleep,not the number of hours.

The Axe and Fishing Rod can be uncursed after being used 255 times. Of course,with the huge stamina drain, this is almost impossible. But there is one trick.Alot of Festivals (Horse Racing, New Year Events...) have the 'unlimitedenergy' tag, which means you can use any tool as much as you want and youwon't pass out. Bring them with you on such an event, and use it over and overuntil they both get uncursed.

--Mythic Tools--

The most powerful tools in the game, are possibly the hardest to get. By thetime you got them all, they are possibly not as useful anymore either. But forcompletion sake...

You need to get all of your tools to Blessed state first, else you can't findthe needed materials. The materials are the Mythic Stones, mentionned in theMining Guide. They are rare stones indeed. Saibara will request one along with50000G (ouch) and 2 days worth of work. You probably will wait a good while forthese, but its not necessary either. Most Blessed tools are more than sufficientfor the work needed.


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===========Crops basic===========The thing to know about farming is planning a little about the space. At first,your watering can is weak, you won't be able to water more than a space at atime. What does that mean in practice? Means that you'll need to walk besideeach tile to water them. Later on you'll have means of watering more, but fornow, this is the basic.

You'll want to keep one of many formations in mind, and use the one that youfind easiest simply. Your seed bag covers this area at most :

XXXXXXXXX Block

I call it the Block formation, or 9-tile. The problem is that when the plantsare grown enough, you won't get to water the middle tile. So at first you don'twant to use this formation. Some will argue that you can water the middle whenyou harvest the rest, but how will you replant the tiles if you can't stand inthe middle tile?

So you will want to use 8- or 7-tile formations. Of course I would suggest 8

tiles for maximum profit, but you might just choose to do it differently.Possible formations :

XXX X X X XX X XXX X XXXX XXX XXXDonut Shallow-U Deep-U

I suggest the Donut or Shallow-U. The advantage of the Shallow-U is that youwon't be 'jumping' to the middle tile by accident. I find that a bit annoying,but its not that much of a concern.

In your field, you'll want to have space to walk around them, so you'll have

to tile like this :X = Crop- = Free space

--------- ----------XXX-XXX- -XXX-XXX--XX---XX- -X-X-X-X--XXX-XXX- -XXX-XXX---------- or ---------

You need at least a Silver Watering Can to reach the middle of a Blockformation, else keep it this way.

Each crop grows in a certain season and at a certain speed. Turnips for exampletake 4 days from being planted to being harvested. That means that if you planton the 1st, you'll harvest on the 5th. Some plants regrow without needing to beseeded, in which case they take less time to regrow than from being seeded. Forexample, Sweet Potatoes take 5 days to harvest, but then you'll have a newharvest every 2 days.

For that purpose, I've made several tools for you. First of, a small crop chart,giving you quick info about the kind of crops you can plant in that season. Thesecond tool, a calendar to monitor your crops harvest times, which will help you


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when you'll require the help of Sprites or to plan on certain events.

So here are the crops charts. The price is per bag. When a crop doesn't regrow,remember that you need to reseed, which you can do as soon as you've harvestedthe crops out.

The "Ripe In" lets you know how many days it takes for the first harvest. TheHarvest column tells you how many times you'll harvest it at most in the season,so you can plan on buying the extra bags. Sell for is the individual price percrop.

The last 3 columns are net profit. Net profit is calculated by each 3x3 blockyou'll seed. The number representant a single block for a whole season. Itcounts the number of bags you'll need to buy, the number of harvests you'llhave and the price per crop you'll sell.

This means that if you planted 3 blocks of Turnips, 8-tiles, you'll get 7560total in profit at the end of Spring, if planted early enough in the season. TheOptimum Column tells you which date you should plant it at most to get themaximum harvests in a month. Knowing which Crops are most important to seedfirst can be useful if you're a bit short on money for a day.

Here's an example of how the profit is calculated for Turnips :120G x 7 bags = 840G cost in seeds per 3x3 tile for the whole month

9 Tiles x 60G per turnip sold = 540G for a 3x3 set540G x 7 Harvests = 3780 G per season3780G - 840G for the seeds = 2940G profit

--Spring-- Price Ripe in Harvests Sell 9-Tile 8-Tile 7-Tile Opt.Turnip : 120G 4 days 7 60G 2940G 2520G 2100G 2ndPotato : 150G 7 days 4 80G 2280G 1960G 1640G 2ndCucumber : 200G 9 days Regrow, 3 60G 1420G 1240G 1060G 1stCabbage : 500G 14 days 2 250G 3500G 3000G 2500G 2ndStrawberry :

--Summer--

Price Ripe in Harvests Sell 9-Tile 8-Tile 7-Tile Opt.Tomato : 200G 9 days Regrow, 7 60G 3580G 3160G 2740G 3rdCorn : 300G 14 days Regrow, 5 100G 4400G 3900G 3400G 1stOnion : 150G 7 days 4 80G 2280G 1960G 1640G 2ndPineapple : 1000G 20 days Regrow, 2 500G 8000G 7000G 6000G 5th

--Fall-- Price Ripe in Harvests Sell 9-Tile 8-Tile 7-Tile Opt.Carrot : 150G 7 days 4 60G 1560G 1320G 1080G 2ndEggplant : 120G 9 days Regrow, 7 80G 4920G 4360G 3800G 3rdS.Potato : 300G 5 days Regrow, 13 120G 13740G 12180G 10620G 1stG.Pepper : 150G 7 days Regrow, 12 40G 4170G 3690G 3210G 1st

You can only buy the first 3 items on the lists from the supermarket. You canbuy the 4th item from each season from Won. The 5th item is only available fromthe supermarket when you shipped 100 crops of the first 3 kinds each season.Don't worry about that in the first year thought, concentrate on getting somecash at first.

And here are the calendars for the seasons. These calendars show if you planton the first of each month. Sometimes its not possible, like the first year,because you can't buy the seeds on the first day, so you can plant on thesecond at best. Just push 'down' every crops on these calendars as needed.


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Use this calendar to plan when you need to buy new seeds, and when you'll needto harvest. This is good for planning on the sprites' help later in the game.The list only gives the names of the crops that will need to be harvested onthat day, so check which ones you need to reseed and those that regrow.

I also added the birthdays of the townspeople for every month, so its easier totrack. Names in () are their alternate birthdays of the bachelors of yourversion (girl or boy). If you picked the first date as your birthday, theirbirthday will become the alternate. The game makes sure you don't have exactlythe same date by moving the bachelor's birthday by a few days.

And the Festivals are added so you can plan around them. Remember that shopsare closed on festivals, so get what you need on the day before.

Lastly, remember that if you the calendars work if you plant on the first. Ifyou can't, bump the list down for the needed amount of days.

--Spring--

1 New Year Festival Plant Seeds234 Bold

5 Turnip678 Harvest Goddess, Kappa Potato9 (H. Goddess, Kappa) Turnip10 Cucumber11 Saibara1213 Turnip14 Spring Thanksgiving15 Staid Potato, Cabbage, Cucumber16 Elli17 Barley Turnip

18 Spring Horse Race19 Lillia20 (Elli) Cucumber21 Turnip22 Cooking Festival Potato232425 Turnip, Cucumber26 Aqua272829 Turnip, Potato, Cabbage30 Sasha Cucumber

--Summer--

1 Beach Day Plant Seeds23 Popuri4 Harris56 Cliff7 Chicken Festival


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8 Onion910 (Popuri, Cliff) Tomato11 Basil1213 Tomato1415 Corn, Onion16 Timid Tomato17 Ann, (Kai)18 Corn19 Tomato20 Cow Festival21 Corn, Pineapple22 Kai, (Ann) Tomato, Onion2324 Fireworks Festival Corn25 Thomas Tomato26 Pineapple27 Corn28 Tomato29 Zack Onion30 Corn

--Fall--

1 Plant Seeds2 Gotz3 Music Festival45 Stu6 S.Potatoes78 S.Potatoes, G.Peppers, Carrots9 Harvest Festival10 Hoggy Eggplants, S.Potatoes, G.Peppers11 Manna

12 S.Potatoes, G.Peppers13 Mother Hill Festival Eggplants14 Chef S.Potatoes, G.Peppers15 Karen Carrots16 Eggplants, S.Potatoes, G.Peppers17 Doctor18 Fall Horse Race S.Potatoes, G.Peppers19 Eggplants20 Carter, (Gourmet) S.Potatoes, G.Peppers21 Sheep Festival, Gourmet22 Eggplants, S.Potatoes, G.Peppers, Carrots23 Anna, (Karen), (Rick)24 S.Potatoes, G.Peppers

25 (Doctor) Eggplants26 S.Potatoes, G.Peppers27 Rick28 Eggplants, S.Potatoes, G.Peppers29 Carrots30 Pumpkin Festival S.Potatoes, G.Peppers

--Winter--

1


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23456 Gray7891011 Doug1213 Ellen14 Winter Thanksgiving15 Duke16171819 Won20 Mary21 (Won)22 Nappy23 (Gray)24 Starry Festival25 Stocking Festival, (Mary)

26 May272829 Jeff30 New Year

--Grass--Grass, while are seeded like crops, fall into a different category altogether.

-They don't need to be watered (thus 3x3 blocks are fine)-They regrow on their own (even after winter)-They can be cut once a week for bushels of food for your cows/sheeps.

Thus you'll want to plant many blocks so you can plan on having animals.Leaving the the Cows and Sheeps outside, one tile of fully grown grass will beeaten everyday, which is just as much as if you cut the piece and fed it to theanimal yourself.

So you'll want more tiles just to cut them and make yourself a reserve forwinter. The fenced area doesn't need to be very big, just plan for animals x 7days tiles minimum, so the grass has time to regrow. You'll 112 squares fencedat most for all 16 bar animals, the maximum you can have. If you want to know,that's 12.5 bags of grass (considering 3x3 squares, 12 bags = 108 tiles).

If you decide to remove grass tiles, you need to wait to cut it, or the firstfew days after winter. When grass is at the lowest, use the hoe to redig the

tile and it won't grow there anymore.

=============Animals basic=============There are 5 kinds of animals that will inhabit your farm.

--Dog--Your dog starts as a pup, it'll be adult by Fall first year. It won't be ableto do much at first, so keep it outside to make it happy, but keep it out of


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the rain. Lift it up and down once every day to raise its affection (its thisgame's way of petting apparently).

When it gets to adult, you can buy a frisbee form Won, and train it at thebeach. Carry it on sunny days at the beach and check the sign near the beachhouse to start a Dog Disk mini-game. The bar starts low, but will increasethrough practice.

From my observations, the bar only increases when the dog catches the disk, andthe more distance it can catch the better. So try to aim for all near-maxcatches. Stop and save between each if you want. I would personally have madeit increase the more you farther you make your dog run but anyway.

You can only train a few times a day, depending on your dog's affection. Sosave and reload until you get a maximum amount of catches everyday, so it willincrease faster.

Your dog will also scare wild dogs away at night when trained enough at thedisk.

Your dog won't get sick in the rain, but won't increase its affection asquickly. You don't need to feed it either.

--Horse--

Your horse starts as a kid, and will be useless. But you can talk to it andbrush it everyday to increase its affection. It will become adult a full yearafter being given to you.

Once adult, it has saddle bags, which you can use as a shipping bin. You canalso ride it, but only on your farm unfortunatly. You can't talk to it anymore,but you can keep brushing it for affection everyday.

Horses don't need to be fed, but keep it out of the rain still.

--Chicken--The cheapest animal, not the best moneymaker but requires little work. Theycost 1500G each from the farm. Just lift and drop everyday to increase

affection.

You can either keep it outside, where it will feed on its own, or keep itinside, but then you need to buy feed or make some using corn and throwing iton the mill outside the coop for 30 pieces of chicken feed. Its only 10G eachto buy thought. Remember to keep any animal out of the rain thought. They canget sick and unhappy if outside when raining or if not fed for a day.

If not sick or unhappy it will produce an egg everyday. The quality of the eggdepends on its affection level. Normal, Good and High quality eggs are worthincreasingly more.

In the coop, put an egg of any quality in the basket on the lower left side

for it to turn into a chick 3 days later. So you only really need to buy asingle chicken, and use its eggs to get more chickens.

When kept outside, you need a fence, so that wild dogs won't attack them. Makesure your fence has no rotten parts everyday. But its good to note that whileinside, time doesn't flow so you can take the time needed to pet your chickensand take their eggs.

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--Cow--Cows are your best money maker as far as animals go, and costs 5000G each.Bushels are worth 20G each, but you can get some by cutting your grass patcheswhen tall enough. But you can only put them outside if you have tall grass forthem to feed on everyday. They only need one tile each day per cow/sheep tofeed on.

As with any animals, keep them out of the rain if you want them outside, orelse make sure they have their feed inside the barn everyday.

Cows happy and in good health will produce Small, Medium and Large milk foryou to ship everyday, if you use the milker on them.

If you push a cow in the upper left corner stall, and give it some miraclepotion, they will be pregnant with a baby cow. But you will be unable to getany milk from them for that time. Its a bit more profitable to buy your cowsinstead. Cows bought give milk once adult, which is a full week after beingbought.

Your barn can hold a maximum of 8 cow/sheep combination, and 16 once upgraded.

--Sheep--Essentially, everything that applies to a cow applies to a sheep too, with afew exceptions.

-You can use the clippers on them to get their wool, once a week.-You can clip their wool off the day you buy them.-They have their own miracle potion, but use the same stall for pregnancy.-You can't give the miracle potion to a sheep that you clipped the wool off.You need the wool on to impregnate them.

Otherwise they use the same food and same rules as cows for being outside.

============Mining Basic============Mining is a good side to taking care of your crops. Time doesn't pass while

standing in the mine, it only increases one minute each time you use stairs togo deeper, so unless you move down 10 floors, you probably won't see a timechange.

Mining is a complex system to explain in a few words only. So let's start withthe basic layout of the mine.

There are two mines, which contain different gems and ores. The spring mine isnear the hot baths in the mountain, and avaliable all year long. The Lake mineis only available in winter when the lake is frozen over.

Both contain 255 floors. Some items can only be found in one or the other mine,on a given floor. Both both have the same layout rules for the floor sizes and

rock density. There are three rules for the sizes, in order of importance :

1- If the floor number is multiple of 5 (5, 10, 15), it will be the biggestroom, about 2.5 screens across by 2.5 screens high. The rock density is low,so its not too hard to move around.

2- If the floor number is multiple of 3 (but not of 5) (3, 6, 9, 12, 18), theroom will be about 2 screens high by 1 screen across, but the rock densityis the highest here. You'll often find yourself trapped in rocks here.


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3- If none of the above, a standard 1x1 screen with a relatively low density ofrocks.

Both mines follow a few more rules as well :

-DownStairs never appear one tile away from the UpStairs : XXX XoX XXX-Downstairs never appear on the tiles next to the walls.-All floors are randomly generated, down to the contents of the rocks/ground.Using the downstairs randomize the next one. Thus reloading the previous floorand using the same stairs would end up with a different room with differentrock layout and content (ores, gems). It also means that reloading the samefloor from a save, the room wouldn't have changed at all.-All floors may contain more than one stairs down, but sometimes might havenone. You can test the multiple stairs by reloading the same floor save, andpurposely skipping the stairs. You might find another set on the same floor.But only one stairs can be found at a time.-All floors can contain some herbs as well, even in spots where the stairscan't be. If you're using the AS/BS method, dig everywhere to get many herbs.

Baring those, you can follow two methods to go very deep in the mine with amimimum of stamina/fatigue loss. The 2-save method (That I call AS/BS, theAfterStars/BeforeStairs system), or the 1-save method. The AS/BS is way safer

to use and is also much more convenient when looking for certain prizes inparticular.

--AS/BS procedure--

1- Save on the floor before you take the downstairs or before entering themine (BS)

2- Take the stairs down, and look for the rock formations on the new floor.You need enough diggable space that stairs might appear in (look at therules about the stairs position I mentionned before).

3- If you don't have any space without having to break rocks, reload your BSand to back to Step 2.

4- If you have enough diggable space for stairs, save your AS,

5- Start digging. Dig everywhere, including where stairs wouldn't be,looking for stairs AND Black Herbs. Just remember the position of each fornow.

6- If there were no stairs, reload the BS and return to step 2. If you foundsome, continue to step 7.

7- Reload your AS, and dig ONLY the spots with the stairs and herbs.8- Go back to Step 1

The trick will save you the most energy because you basically don't ever needto hammer your way out of rocks. You might need to reload quite a few times onthe x3 floors thought. And you will dig only 2-3 times each floor, whichyou'll quickly replenish with the black herbs. Even if you don't find herbs ona floor, you'll find 1-3 on other floors to compensate.

The trick basically means this : If you don't find what you need on a floor,you reload the previous floor to randomize it again. If you find what you need,to reload the same floor so that everything will be in the same positions asbefore.

The BS will randomize the floor again.The AS will keep the floor you're on as it was when you entered/saved.

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Then you'll add this procedure in :

4a. Instead of looking for stairs, dig or smash rocks to find the item you want.4b. If you don't find the item, reload the BS, return to Step 2 again.4c. If you find the item, reload the AS, and dig/smash on where the item is

(or a path to it if need to).4d. Save a new AS, and continue to step 5.

This way you'll ensure that you got what you wanted. Note that due to therandomization, sometimes a floor WON'T have the item its supposed to have,just like sometimes there are no stairs. So if you don't find it, reload theBS and dig again until you find it and stairs going down.

--Single Save Procedure--With this method, you're relying a bit more on luck, and you'll want to carrydown with you some energy boosting items, such as Lunch Box, Elli Leaves,Bodygizer(or XL) and TurobJolt(or XL). You won't be able to count on gettingthe stairs in a single dig this time, so this is the other way.

1- Save on the floor before taking the stairs down.2- Look for enough space to dig where stairs might appear.3- If you don't have enough space, reload your save.4- If you have enough space, dig for the stairs.5- Once you found the stairs down, return to Step 1 to save.

If you don't seem to find the stairs within a low amount of digs, reloadanyway and try again. Eventually you'll find the stairs within 2-3 digs.Don't diss out herbs if you find some, eat them right away and keep lookingfor stairs.

Since you can't 'remember' the position of items here, you'll have to rely onluck solely. And if you can't find the special item before your energy runsout, just reload until you find it quickly enough. I don't suggest findingmore than one special item at a time because of that, unless you're carryingsome means of restoring energy.

--Spring Mine--

Now for the content of each mine. The spring mine being avalable all yeararound isn't that much of a money maker. The Copper are worth only 15G, andthe best ores are found floor 10 and below, worth 50g. Which means a singletrip with a full bakset will be worth 1500G at most.

Copper 15G All FloorsSilver 20G All FloorsGold 30G Floors 3+Mystrile 40G Floors 5+Orihalcum 50G Floors 10+Adamantite 50G Floors 10+Mythic Stone 20000G Same floors as Goddess JewelsGoddess Jewels Floors 60, 102, 123, 152, 155, 171, 190, 202 and 222

Teleport Stone Floor 255

These are all found in rocks.

Power Berry Floor 100French Fries Recipe Floor 255

These are found by digging.

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which when equipped as a tool, will recuperate Stamina with time. It doesn'twork in the mine since time doesn't pass. You don't need to be carrying all 9thought. Even if some are in your house, they will still combine. As long asyou have a free tool slot! That's very important to keep a tool slot open whenyou purposely go for the Goddess Jewels. The Jewels are plain items, but theGem is a Tool.

The Mythic Stones only appear if you got every Blessed Tool first, which we'llexplain later on. So don't bother looking for these at first. They appearrarely on those floors too. Sometimes you'll find none, sometimes you mightfind 2 or 3. But they only seem to appear on the same floors as the GoddessJewels.

The Teleport Stone is a tool that appears only on the 3rd year, so no need togo that far yet either. And French Fries recipe, just get it at the same timeas the Teleport Stone, really.

--Winter Mine--This mine is only open in winter, as said previously. Beside the Junk Ore, thegem that is worth the LEAST is worth 55G. That's already better than theSpring mine. But the gem of lowest value found on the very first floor of themine is worth 60G and the best 85G, so its worth 2550G for a full basket ofthat one. More than the Spring Mine for sure.

Amethyst 60G All FloorsAgathe 62G All FloorsFluorite 65G All FloorsPeridot 68G All FloorsEmerald 70G All FloorsRuby 85G All FloorsSand Rose 60G Floors ending in -9 (9, 19, 29...)Moon Stone 55G Floors ending in -8 (8, 18, 28...)Diamond 100G Floors ending in -0 (10, 20, 30...) with some

exceptionsPink Diamond 10000G Floors 30, 70, 90, 110, 130, 170, 190 and 255Alexandrite 10000G Floors 50, 100, 150 and 200 (unconfirmed for later

floors)

Kappa Jewels 0, 40, 60, 80, 120, 140, 160, 180 and 255

These are all found in rocks. See below for additional notes on these.

Power Berry Floor 19Cursed Fishing Rod Floor 29Cursed Hoe Floor 39Cursed Ax Floor 49Cursed Hammer Floor 59Cursed Watering Can Floor 69Cursed Sickle Floor 79

These are all found by digging.

Pink Diamonds may appear on those floors, but sometimes they won't either.Sometimes you might find more than one on the same floor too. Use either savetrick to ensure that you find at least one.

Alexandrites are special floors in the manner that they ONLY hold Alexandrites,if any. That means you will find no other gems on those floors, thus why itsan exception for the diamonds. There might be more than one on a single floortoo. Use the save tricks to find at least one.


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Kappa Jewels follow the same rules as the Goddess Jewels. The Kappa Gem willheal back Fatigue with time pass.

The Cursed Tools are only found if all of your tools are upgraded to Mystrile.They won't appear if not. And a glitch apparently lets you find more than oneCursed Tool if that tool is already further leveled to Blessed, but there's nopractical use to that.

--Mining profitably--The only way to make it really worth the time is going to the winter mine and :

-Either dig down to 30 and get pink diamonds-Or stay on the first floor and use the save trick to fill your basket onlywith rubies, wasting a minimum of energy by saving on the first floor, findingthe rubies, reloading the save and smashing only the rocks with rubies inside.Fill your basket like that for 2550G per trip, with minimal item/energy loss.

Digging down for pink diamonds is worth 10000G, but it might be more boringthan just taking rubies out of the first floor. Only 4 full baskets of rubieswould cover the price of a single Pink Diamonds, and you'll only use yourhammer.

Mythic Stones are tempting, but they are very rare, and going down 60 floorsfor 1 or 2 is just as boring as Pink Diamonds, but can be done all year long.

Another way is getting Orihalcums and turning them into jewels by Saibara. Heasks you 1000G for it, but you sell it 2000G. Comparing with the 50G you'd getif you shipped it, that's still 950G more. Problem is, you can only carry 8 ata time of course. But 8 broaches will be worth 7600G (8 x 950G), so its stillworth the effort.

=======Fishing=======There's probably people finding that fishing is nice, but I find it utterlyboring personaly. You could spend a day fishing and still get scraps ofearnings. That's why my fishing rod was leveled last. But I'm not excluding

the potential of it anyway.

There are 6 main areas to fish :

-Mother Hill Lake-Mother Hill River (north of the lake)-Goddess Waterfall-Ocean (Beach)-Town River (goes along the farms south of town)-9th Floor of Winter Mine

The goal in a fisher's life is eventually catching the big ones, the King Fish.There are one of them in each of the fishing areas, but some of them require

some conditions to even have a chance at fishing them.

One of the best tricks to fish is using one of the two beach events to get afull basket of your choice. The time doesn't flow, and you have infinitestamina, so nothing will stop you from getting what you want.

Remember to avoid throwing fishes or thrash back in the ocean, it counts aslittering, and everyone hates you a bit more every time. So instead, put themin your rucksack, and go press START when the pointer is on the item. You'llget rid of it, without littering. Its a bit longer, but at least no other bad


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things happen.

Here's a list of items that I've found by area fished :

Beach=====BranchesTin canBootsFish BonesSardineHerring

=======Weather=======

Weather affects greatly your life on the farm. It's not to be underestimatedeither. People in the village also behave differently depending on the weather.Like most, they avoid going on in bad weather. Certain weather effects mightcause destruction and chaos as well. It's important to know about this.

First of all, the TV in your living room has a weather channel, when you

press Up on the TV. It gives an accurate weather report on how it will beon the next day (not today).

The different weathers :-Good weather

The good weather is the normal one, there is nothign special goingon, and depending on the season it's worded differently. Such assummer saying it will be a hot day. As such, there can be goodweather in every season.

-RainRain happens in Spring, Summer or Fall only. During Rain, variousthings are affected.-You don't need to water your crops.

-Animals left out might become sick (except Dog and Horse)-You get tired faster when using tools.-Alot of the villagers stay in their houses or meet elsewhere thanusual.-The confessional is always open on rainy days.

-SnowSnow has the same effects as Rain, except it happens only in winter.The difference is that you don't have any crops to water obviously.

-HurricanesThis happens only in summer, and causes major damage to your farm.Stones and branches are thrown randomly in your field, fences aredestroyed, crops are ripped out, and animals that were left outare possibly gone forever. In fact, during Typhoons you cannot even

get out of the house either, so your animals also will be angry fornot being fed on that day.

-SnowstormSimilar to Hurriance, but happen only in winter. While it won't destroyyour field, it will still keep you from going outside, animals might belost if they were still outside, or will be angry or sick for beingbeing fed for a day.

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Mayor Thomas, Barley or other people come to your door, except for Won.

There is an easy way of tricking the weather into your favor though. If youget to bed before 12am, it will get randomly generated when you get up thenext morning. So if you save before going to bed, you might get differentresults once you check the weather report on the next morning.

Remember that the weather report is for the day after. Thus like this :Day 1 - Save your game, get o bedDay 2 - Check weather report for Day 3 when you get up.Day 3 - Target day of the trick

It's a good habit to check the weater every morning so you can avoid Hurricanesand snowstorms. You can reload the previous night save and eventually theweather report will show a different result. It might take a few reloads toget the wanted weather.

You can also trick the weather into the weather of your choice for variousreasons.

-You can force it to rain/snow on the other days so you can use theconfessional, or to water your crops every day, reducing your work load.

-You can force it to be sunny so that your animals can stay outside without

getting sick as well, or be able to train your dog at frisbee, among others.Of course you also want it to be sunny on days you actually work your toolsoutside, like cleaning your field or wood chopping.

-You can force it to get a Hurricane if you absolutely want more stones inyour field, although I don't think the damage is worth it.

-You CANNOT force it to have any other weather than Sunny on certain days,which usually are festivals. Also, some days related to festivals mightnever get bad weather, like when Barley comes to get a Cow or Sheep forthe Sheep/Cow Festivals. In fact, most people that comes to your doorforces the weather to be good. Only Won, Zack and Gotz don't care aboutweather when they knock at your door, if not mistaken.

-Also, the weather doesn't seem to change if you went to bed aftermidnight, possibly because the game already determined the next day'sweather with the date change.

============Passing Time============

Time is easy to control to some degree. Every second is one minute passingin game. Since the game only shows digits in 10s, you'll see the time changeevery 10 seconds.

Time passes only when outside, that is on your field, in the village, atthe beach or mountains.

Time does not pass when you are inside. That includes any house in the village,the houses at the beach, your house, the barn, coop, horse shed and the twomines. It also includes the extra houses you can get in the village, mountainand beach.

Time also does not pass during Festivals. The festivals require that you talkto certain people to make it advance and eventually end.


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There is one slight exception in the mines. Time only passes one minute everytime you use stairs, wether it's going up or down. So 10 floors will equal to10 minutes in game.

All Festivals do not require you to be there at the very first hour of itstarting. You can get there minutes before the end of it, and you will seethe event in full.

The hot spring in the mountain regains Fatigue and Stamina at a rate of 1 perminute or so, so depending on your levels, 1 hour in the spring is 60stamina/fatigue restored.

The bath in your house has the same effect, but use up 30 minutes when youuse it, despite being inside of the house where time normally doesn't flow.It restores for 30 minutes worth, the same as the hot springs.

Certain items, like the Goddess Jewel and Kappa Jewel, restore either Staminaor Fatigue just by holding it, aka not in your rucksack but in your hands,like if you wanted to use it as a tool. It restores at the same rate as thehot springs, but you can still walk around while holding it.

Those jewels do not work where time doesn't flow, but it can restore 1 pointif held when you go down stairs in the mines, since time advances 1 minute

when you do.

============Making Money============There's only two general ways of making money. There is a third unconventionnalway in the girl version only.

The first method is through shipping. Anything shippable will net you somemoney when Zack comes to pick it up at 5pm everyday. The Shipping Bins hold anunlimited amount of items, but you still need to find what to ship and how toget those items.

The second way is through ploughing in the mines. Digging around, you can findsome money bags. You can also find these in your field randomly. They are onlyworth 10G each, but they are added to your cash right away. As you can guess,its not a very efficient way of making money.

The girl version as a third possible way, which is through Won. Won can buythings from you. He can buy just about any item in the game, and will offer abetter price than Zack for most shippable items too, with some bargaining. Youneed to raise the friendship with him before he offers to buy things off yourhands thought. This is an unconventional way to make money, but still worth tomention.

So obviously, you'll be mainly counting on your shipping items. But what can

you ship?

Crops that you grow are an obvious choice, but require a few days to growevidently. As seen in the charts previously, some crops are worth more thanothers. On the first year, you'll want to concentrate on making more income,and on the following years getting 100 shipped crops of each. After that itsup to you.

Your animals products are also shippable. Milk, eggs and wool come in differentqualities/quantities depending on the animal's affection, and if they won a


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contest, which then factors the total time spent outside as well.

When the barn and coop are upgraded, you can further increase the value ofthose items by buying the Makers from the blacksmith. He requires a few daysand some Orihalcum to build one for you. Those will let you exchange the basicproducts for Cheese, Yarn and Mayonaise, of the same 'quality' as themilk/egg/wool used for it. For the same quality, the products spun through themakers are worth more money everyday.

There are herbs growing in the forest, mountain and beach. All colors are wortharound 100G each, except the Black Herbs found in the mines, because they canbe found in unlimited quantities in theory. The other colored herbs only growonce a day. Also, every season have different products that can be found in theforest, mountain, beach and behind Carter's church (fall and winter only) ifyou can get that door unlocked.

You can also fish using the rod. The higher the level of your rod, the biggerand better fishes its possible to fish. But since its random, you'll still getsmaller ones of course. All fishes can be shipped, and also some of the specialitems found, like Fossils and Pirate Treasures, that are rare catches even withhigh level rods. In the girl version you can even keep fishes for later in thatwater hole near your shipping box.

The mines are also a way to get some shippable items. Every kind of ore and

gems found in either mines can be shipped. Its a good idea to bring the basketwith you when you go there. See the mining section to know where to find thegems and how much each is worth. You can also make jewels that fetch a nice sumfrom ores you get in the mine, explained in the mining section as well.

============Mineral Town============

Your obligated neighbor, your life on the farm is closely linked to this town.Befriending them is part of the life here, and one day getting married to oneof them.

--Mayor Thomas--Mayor of the town, he's also the one taking care of most festivals. He goesevery sunday to share some pie with Ellen. He asks you to take care of the farmwhen you first arrive, and then he'll come over sometimes to tell you about theupcoming festivals.

--Zack--The second person you'll meet when you arrive, and possibly the most importantto some degree, Zack is the local postman. He takes care of the delivery ofparcels and mail that arrives, and also comes everyday at 5pm to take what's inyour shipping boxes. He gives you the money right away, you don't even need tobe there to see him about getting paid, he's very thrustworthy. His house is onthe beach.

--Won--You'll eventually get him knocking at your door one morning to sell you applesor a vase for your house. He's a moneymaker, and seems to hide some not-so-niceattitude behind his merchandizing schemes. In the boy version he's mostly thereto sell you some extra seeds and flower seeds.

In the girl version befriending him will eventually allow you to sell himitems, or even play a mini-game that has chances of earning lots of money too.He lives with Zack at the beach. Its possible to marry him too in the girl


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you'll want to go. His apprentice is Gray, and he doesn't seem quite pleasedwith all the work Saibara puts him through. He's one of your potential husbandin the girl version. Gray lives in the inn, in the same room as Cliff too.

--Mary, Basil and Maria--Mary is one of the girls you can marry as well, she's a bookworm honestly. Sheopened a library so she could lend the books that her father Basil has writtenwith his many travels. Basil is seen going around town looking for herbs andnew things, often in the mountains. He looks pretty much like a traveler. Maryand her mom are seen going shopping together every few days too.

--Elli and Doctor--Don't they look cute together? Well actually either can be married, dependingon the version you play of course. Elli is helping Doctor with his clinic byselling the medecines. Doctor can be consulted if you need a checkup. He's alsothe one that picks you up if you faint out by overworking yourself.

--Gotz and Harris--The town's carpenter, he lives alone in the woods, but is visited everyday byHarris the town's police officer. Gotz is either at his home, ready to takeorders to enhance your house, or walking the forest and mountain looking formore wood to cut.

--Kai--

Kai, while being an elligible bachelor for the girl version, is possibly one ofthe hardest to marry. He comes to town only once a year, and opens the beachrestaurant for the season. Its a nice place that alot of people visit,including the sprites sometimes. Popuri seems to have a fondness for him.

--Cliff--He apparently left his mom and sister to wander the world, and ended up here.You'll find him at the church everyday, he's friends with Carter, and he sleepsat the Inn at night. By Fall in the first year he'll start to run out of moneyto live here, and if you don't offer him to help at the Winery when you areasked to, he'll be leaving town by Winter time. You can marry him in the girlversion.

--Harvest Sprites--Their house is right on the path next to the church. A small house, 7 spritesare there. Befriending them will allow you to hire them for a few days at atime, so they can work on watering your crops, harvesting them, or take careof your animals. Sprites also can send you an invitation for a Tea Party inspring.

--Harvest Goddess--It seems sometimes like you're the only know that sees her around the place.She appears in the Goddess Pond if you throw something in it, allowing you toconnect with the GameCube A Wonderful Life game, to trade some data and unlocksome items. You don't need to connect to play, but its bonus things you can'tfind otherwise. She also offers you a game on the TV from Spring 1st to 5th.

She will also randomly appear to congratulate you on certain milestonesthroughout the game.

Its possible to marry her too, given some conditions, in the boy version.

--Kappa--I'm not sure how I can describe him at all. This green creature seems to be thealter ego of the Goddess. Living in the mountain lake, tossing him somecucumbers for 10 days will eventually reward you with something. I thinkthat's the only use he has at all. You can marry him with the same conditions


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as the Goddess in the girl version.

--Gourmet Chef--Only seen once a year at the Cooking Festival, he's the judge of the contest.Its possible to marry him in the girl version too, but not sure why you'd wantto. I guess you need to have done every recipe to marry him.

===============Harvest Sprites===============The Sprites are your biggest asset and help in this game. They can make anotherwise impossible chore into a profitable cause. Befriending them is animportant part of making lots of money in this game.

Befriending them is relatively easy. They particularly like herbs of their owncolor. You can also buy the 50G a piece Flour and give some to them, they lovethat.

Boosting their affection very quickly requires giving them gifts on theirbirthdays, it helps enormously.

Bold (Purple) : Spring 4thStaid (Blue) : Spring 15thAqua (Indigo) : Spring 26th

Timid (Green) : Summer 16thHoggy (Yellow) : Fall 10thChef (Red) : Fall 14thNappy (Orange) : Winter 22th

On these days, try to concentrate your gifts on that sprite to make theiraffections very high quickly.

Sprites love herbs of their own color best, but they also like flour, whichcan be found very easily at the shop, and its pretty cheap.

In Spring, you'll mostly find Blue herbs in the forest, and Orange and Yellowherbs at the beach.

In Summer, Red Herbs and Blue Herbs in the forest/mountain, and some PurpleHerbs at the beach.In Fall, Red and Green Herbs in the mountain, and Indigo herbs at the beach.In Winter, there's only 2 White herbs. One in the forest, and one behind thechurch.

When they reach at least 3 hearts, you can do two things with them :

-Hire them to work on the farm-Play mini-games with them

Playing Mini-Games don't have any rewards, but it will increase that sprite'sability to the given task. Think of it as training the sprite. The better they

are at a task, the faster they do the work.

Making them work also increase their ability, so eventually they will getbetter at it. Its a good idea to ask them to do always the same task until theyare highly skilled at it. That way you'll have sprites for specific tasks.

When you hire a sprite, you need to tell them which work they will do : Water,Harvest or Animals, and for how long : 1, 3 or 7 days. When you hire them, theywill start working on the next day. And when they are done, you can't rehirethem right away, so there will always be a day that they won't work for you,


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their day off if you want. You can rehire them, but they will start the dayafter of course. You'll need to plan to hire another sprite for that dayinstead, so there's always a sprite doing the requested work.

Water will have them water your crops for you everyday. Two sprites can covermy 12x24 garden easily even at no watering skill. This skill will probablyincrease quickly if you keep hireing the same sprites. More skill translates asmoving faster on the field and watering them faster.

Harvest is not needed everyday, so it won't skill up as fast. When the cropsare ready, the sprites will pluck them out for you and put them in the shippingbox automatically. More skill means moving faster to pluck the crops out.Usually a single sprite should be enough unless all of your crops are ready atthe same time.

Animals is taking care of the chickens, cows and sheeps, wether they areoutside or not. They do the action of brushing and milking/clipping them foryou, and if they are inside they will also add the feed to each stall asneeded. For chickens they will gather the eggs and add the feed if they areinside.

You might want to take care of your animals yourself because Sprites never usethe makers to increase the value of the items produced. They will never shipcheese, they will automatically ship the milk instead. One sprite should be

enough to take care of all of your animals, no matter how many you have.

Use the Crops Calendars I provided so you can plan on hireing the sprites toharvest on the right days.

Also, you can talk to a sprite while he's working on your field. He'll give youa choice. "See you tomorrow" means you still need his services. "You're Done"means that you've 'fired' the sprite, and he won't return on the next day.Sometimes you might purposely fire a sprite because you won't need him on thatday, so you can rehire him for the next day.

Examples, if its going to rain on the next day, fire your watering sprites, andwhile its raining to hire them back for watering on the next. If you're not

expecting any harvests on a day, you can fire them so you can rehire them forthe next harvest.

This gives you some control so you don't miss a day of harvest/watering due totheir work schedule being over. They don't give you the option to stay or firethem if its on their last day.

If you don't want to miss a day of work, and that you have enough spriteswilling to work for you, check your Earning screen for how many days are left.When you see "1D", go see the sprites and hire new ones to replace the onesfinishing.

Lastly, the sprites are open even on festivals and holidays, unlike shops. But

they are open only from 9am to 7pm.

=============Wedding Blues=============You can marry, but not before certain conditions are respected. You need toraise your affection with your prospect by giving him/her gifts often. Thesmall beating heart's color will gauge how far along you are. You also need totrigger their heart events to progress toward the wedding. Some events willalso give you unique gifts.


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On the other hand, if you don't make the right moves, and see most of the RivalHearts events, you might see that boy/girl marry off to someone else. Here arethe pairings :

-Rick and Karen-Kai and Popuri-Gray and Mary-Cliff and Ann-Doctor and Elli

Watching their heart events (Rival heart events) will help them along gettingwed. But once you've married your choice, you should trigger those events soeveryone can marry and be happy. Certain events are only triggered when somecouples are made.

If you can't manage to woo anyone before they all are married, you can alwaysmarry the Goddess for the boy version, or Won, Kappa or Gourmet Chef in thegirl version, so not all is lost, but they arguably require more work.

=============Useful Tricks=============-The Save/Reload trick explained in the mining section can be used in many

places in the game. It allows you to retry until you get the best results. Onlya few events can't be changed through reloading.

-Forcing the weather is a good way to ease your workload by forcing it to rainso you don't have to water your plants. At least until you have sprites highenough to take care of it, or a good enough watering can to make it faster.

-Forcing the weather can allow you to keep animals outside. Animals increasethe quality of their products if they spent at least 25 days (600 total hours)outside. Those do not need to be consecutive hours.

-Forcing the weather to rain can also benefit you by using the confessional.The confessional only opens between 1pm and 4pm on Monday and Wednesday, but

also on any rainy day.

-You can only use the confessional once a day for forgiveness, but you canuse it several times for cursed tools.

-Save before using the confessional, and reload until you get a 'goddesshas forgiven you' reply. Every time you use it, it can offer 1 of 3 differentcombinations of things to ask forgiveness for :-Littering or being mean to villages : Friendship boost with everyone-Overworking sprites : Friendship boost with sprites-Not caring for animals : Affection boost for all farm animals, horse and dog.-Not enough sleep : Slight Fatigue/Stamina boost-Marrying the goddess/kappa : Only useful if you've met the requirements.

-Using the confessional to increase animal affection helps with getting betterproducts from them, which in turn increase your money making.

-On the other hand, if you want to train your dog to the disk throw, make sureits sunny everyday. The Dog's ability to catch the disk apparently risesdepending on the total distance he 'catches'. A miss doesn't count towardincreasing this, so save and make sure you get good distances on all throws. Alittle distance is better than none at all, for the little amount of throwsyou're allowed per day.


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-When its raining or snowing your stamina depletes quicker while outside (whenyou use tools), but not while inside or in the mine, so when it rains stay outof the rain to work.

-Even without tricking the weather, save before bed and after waking up ifyou can use the two slots. Sometimes you'll realize the next morning that youforgot to feed the animals, or that you should really have taken care of thatfence before sleeping.

-If you're using only one save slot, save every morning, just in case you do amistake during the day, like forgetting your basket inside the Blacksmith whenreforging a tool. Your basket is effectively 'locked in' for a few days whenthat happens.

-Rocks can replace fence, but sometimes you'll find an animal escaped. Justbring it back inside the rocked area. You can also use plain branches as fence,like rocks. You can find a few branches every day in the woods, so you canalways get some. Neither rocks or branches will decay.

-Some Festivals can be affected by a save/reload. The Horse Race mostly has thesame winners all the time, and each time you reload the odds change. So you canreload until you see that the winning horse has a x7 to x15 winning ratio, oryou can take your chance and reload if you don't take the right one. Sometimes

a horse with lesser odds will snatch the title, it can happen.

-The Chicken Festival can be won with a chicken of 0 hearts. In fact, you mightwant to offer your younguest chicken to this competition, even with no hearts,because they will live the longest. The competition itself is a bit wonkythought, and your chicken acts weirdly when the affection rate is low. But keepreloading until you nail the title.

-Cow and Sheep festival's results depend solely on your affection rate to thatcow/sheep. The results are not quite random because of that, and can vary onlyslightly if you reload. But to effectively see ANY difference at all, you needto reload the day before you give the cow/sheep to Barley, thus not veryconvenient. Since they live longer than chickens, this time you should give it

one with very high affection (8+ hearts) if you can.

-Fishing at a festival and you don't want to litter? People in the villagestart to dislike you when you do, your rucksack is limited in space and youdon't have a garbage can nearby. There's a very easy trick to get around this.Go in your rucksack and manually toss them out pressing the start button. Theitem is effectively discarded, but it doesn't count as littering! If you'reaiming for a full basket of pirate treasures, go ahead and take your time!

-Affection/Friendship levels for the people in town are a bit different thanyour animals. To increase frienship/affection, you need to give them gifts.Their reaction usually will tell you what they like. There's also anincredibly detailed FAQ on this linked later on.

-The main rule with anyone, including sprites, seems to be that the first giftyou give are worth more affection points than the rest. So you want to givethem as a first gift A- Something they Like/Love, B- Have it wrapped beforehand if you can, and C- On their birthdays preferably. That's the biggestaffection boost you can get in a day with a single gift. Wrapping increasesthe point value of the items, and on their birthday its increased as well. Theother way around is true as well. If you give Hated items, they will decreasealot faster with wrapped/birthdays.


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-All of the citizens will increase their affection if you give them more thanone gift a day, except for the bachelors. Giving them more than one gift aday doesn't increase them faster, so make that single gift count! Wrap it up!So in short, the first gift you give to anyone should always be wrapped toincrease their affection faster.

=========Festivals=========Festivals are interesting events that sometimes give you gifts and prizes as aresult. Its also a nice break from the routine work on the farm. The festivalsare at set dates every season and year.

When a time frame is given, as soon as you enter the area in that time, theevent starts. When finished you are sent back home. In some events it will be6pm, in others it will be next morning automatically.

You can get to the event area minutes before the closing time, and you won'tmiss it, so you can do what you need first.

Most of the events that requires you to get to the Rose Square, Beach orMountain Top are also unlimited energy events. You can use that fact touncursed some tools, or fish a full basket. Time doesn't pass while in thefestival either.

New Year FestivalSpring 1st, Rose Square, 6pm to MidnightSaibara, Thomas, Duke, Manna, Ann, Elli, Doug, Stu, May, Zack, Gotz, CarterDescription : Celebrating the new year with citizens of the town.Tips : Keep your rucksack empty, and you'll be gifted to a full pack of

Rice Cakes to celeberate the new year. They make good gifts too.

Spring ThanksgivingSpring 14th, variousDescription : Playing the boy version, you have to take cookies and offer

them to the girl you prefer. You can only give one cookie perbachelor thought. This gives an affection boost to them. This

is the equivalent of the White Day in japan, which the guyanswers the girl's affection that she showed by offeringchocolates on Valentines Day. Playing the girl version,you'll be offered cookies by high affections guys. They willcome to your house every 2 hours game time (8am, 10am...)

Spring Horse RaceSpring 18th, Rose Square, 10am to 6pmDescription : Horse racing at the square, bet on horses for medals which can

be exchanged for gifts. If your horse is mature, you can raceyourself.

Ann, Karen, Rick, Popuri, Sasha, Jeff, Manna, Saibara, May, Barley, Thomas,Zack, Harris, Duke, Doug

Tips : Use the reload trick to bet only on high payout horses. If you canrace, bet on yourself for a high payout. It might need a few races toget the hang of winning thought. Winning the race also gives you aPower Berry the first time. If your horse isn't old enough, you'll belimited to betting.

Bring your empty basket, and you can fill it with Broaches. 540 medals willfill the basket of broaches, and sell for a total of 60000G, making it a greatmoney maker early on. You can carry a few more in your hands.You can buy a Jewel of Truth for 1000 medals, but don't if you didn't getyour shelves yet. You won't be able to store it anywhere else. There's also a


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Power Berry for 900 medals.

Cooking ContestSpring 22nd, Rose Square, 10am to Noon, 4pm to 6pmKaren, Manna, Sasha, Doctor, Lillia, Rick, Gotz, Zack, Ann, Doug, Carter,Gourmet, ThomasDescription : Gourmet will give you a category of food to prepare. Then you

have the rest of the day to ready it, and then bring it back tothe square for its judging.

Tips : You can't participate until you get your kitchen in the second houseexpansion. Well you can, but you won't get good results even if youcould find something that fits the category. You need to go to thesquare between 10am and Noon to talk to Gourmet and get the category offood to prepare, then you go back home to cook it, and finally go backto the square with your dish to tel Thomas you're ready. If you're notthe winner, its usually a random one chosen among Doug, Ann, Lillia andManna. No Karen's black stuff will never win.

Summer FestivalSummer 1st, Beach, 10am to 6pmPopuri, Kai, Doug, Sasha, Thomas, ZackDescription : Come and enjoy the opening of the beach with everyone.Tips : Bring your basket. You have unlimited energy, so you can fish to fill

it up for extra money. If you have a mature dog, enter the Dog Disk

competition for a Power Berry as a prize. Save beforehand and try untilyou manage a perfect shot for the prize. You can fish after you've madesure you won the competition too, so you won't have to fish all overagain.

Chicken Sumo FestivalSummer 7th, Rose Square, 10am to 6pmPopuri, Barkley, Rick, Saibara, Doug, Duke, ThomasDescription : An amusing competition where Chickens try to intimidate each

other off the ring.Tips : You can win even with a chicken of 0 hearts. Try to enter your

younguest chicken so that it will give you good eggs for the longesttime afterwards. Save before entering the square. The game mechanics

are a bit wonky, but keep trying until you win. Winning gets them toproduce G-P-X brand of eggs when they reach the 'L' stage of eggs.Cow FestivalSummer 20th, Rose Square, 10am to 6pmDescription : The Cow version of the Chicken Sumo, but there's no fighting at

least, just judging.Tips : Nothing to do much here, just enter the cow with the highest affection

and it might win. Winning earns it to produce higher quality milk, sameway than eggs do.

Fireworks FestivalSummer 24th, Beach, 6pm to midnight

Cliff, Elli, Ann, Kai, Doctor, Mary, Gray, Karen, Rick, PopuriDescription : Everyone gathers at the Beach to watch fireworks near the end of

summer.Tips : Unlimited energy + beach + basket = lots of fishes once again. Fish

before starting the fireworks. Talk to Rick to start the event. If youhave at least one bachelor to Green Heart level, you can ask to watchthe fireworks together instead of Rick. You'll wake up the next morning.

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Jeff, Sasha, Karen, Mary, May, Stu, Ellen, AnnDescription : Nothing too special here, just get to the church to have you

playing music while Karen sings. Only Popuri doesn'tparticipate, for some reason.

Harvest FestivalFall 9th, Rose Square, 10am to 6pmSasha, Manna, Anna, Doug, Karen, Mary, Ann, Gotz, Carter, Elli, ThomasDescription : Come and add your food to the stew!Tips : Nothing special, just bring anything edible with you, or bring a

poisonnous mushroom for funny results as everyone gets sick. As ifKaren was helping any with this.

Fall Horse RaceRose Square, 10am to 6pmDescription : Even more Horse Racing before the winter!Tips : Same as the Spring event, same prizes too. You'll get a Power Berry if

you race and haven't won it in Spring already.

Sheep FestivalRose Square, 10am to 6pmDescription : Show off your sheep with the best wool.Tips : The Sheep version of the Cow Festival, but you need to remember that

you can't enter a sheep that doesn't have its wool on, so don't go and

clip it off for a week before the event. You can't affect the judgingother than offering your best sheep. Winning earns you better qualitywool in the same way eggs and milk do.

Pumpkin FestivalFall 31st, your farm, every 2 hoursDescription : Haloween, without the costumes.Tips : Buy 3 chocolates before this day. Every 2 hours of the morning, the

kids will come. Stu, May... and Popuri that seems to find it unfairthat only kids get some sugary treats. Indulge her and give her sometoo.

Winter Thanksgiving

Winter 14th, VariousDescrption : Valentines's day if you prefer. As per Japan tradition, thegirls offer the boy they like chocolates. On White Day the boyanswers with something if they accept. Its a sort of propositionday to date later on. Playing the boy version, you will getthe visit of high affection girls every 2 hours. Playing the boyversion you need to go give the chocolates to the girls in town.

Stocking FestivalWinter 25, going to bed after 9pmDescription : On the night of the 25th, if you have a stocking, Mayor Thomas

will come while you sleep and put a random item in your sock asa gift. Santa Thomas?

Noodles FestivalWinter 30Rose Square, 6pm to MidnightThomas, Manna, Duke, Jeff, Sasha, Ann, Gotz, CarterDescription : One of the two End of Year festival. This one has everyone throw

in a noodle banquet.Tips : Bring an empty rucksack for your fill of buckweath flour.

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In this season, you can plant Turnips, Potatoes, Cucumbers and Cabbages,althought you might not grow cabbages on the first year, since you need to buythem from Won instead, which isn't even in town as you start. If you do,consider the day you've planted it to count how long it will be until theharvest.

Your tools are at low level, and you have no sprites to help you at first, soyou'll have to plan accordingly. For crops use 8 or 7 tiles formations so youcan water them all on your own.

Start giving gifts to sprites too. They like herbs found in the mountain areaand beach, especially herbs of their color. There are blue herbs in the forest,and the beach has some Orange and Yellow herbs. You won't need their help onthis season, but pumping their friendship will help you in the long run.

--Spring 1--On the first day you unfortunatly can't do a thing. Althought in the MFoMTversion you can actually get the 'bad ending' by saying you don't want thefarm, but what fun would that be hm? So just accept the work, lazy bones.

--Spring 2 to 5--Now the real work can start. On the first day, look outside your door and theMayor and Zack will introduce themselves to you, and explain a bit of thecontrols and system. Won will appear during those 4 days as soon as you get

out of your house, possibly twice. Once to introduce himself, and once to sellyou an apple.

If you have the money and playing MFoMT, just buy it and give it back to him atthe beach house. Won is fond of things that are more or less rare, so his ownapples are considered as rare. Go figure. You don't really need to befriend himin FoMT, so don't buy what he tries to sell you if you value your money. Notyet at least.

So every morning start by peeking outside. There will be one day, as long as itdoesn't rain, where Barley will come and ask you to take care of a horse. Ifyou don't see those events on the first 4 days or work, you will in the nextdays soon enough. Make sure its sunny if you want to see them. They don't come

to your house on rainy days, so you might want to use the Weather Trick forthis.

Remember to buy a brush at the blacksmith's place for 800G as soon as you can,so you can brush your horse everyday and talk to it to raise its affectiontoward you faster. If you don't take good care of it, Barley will take it awayfrom you next year. You can only really talk and brush it, no need to feed it.

Also take care of your dog by lifting it up and down once a day, that raisesits affection as well. You can leave it out, but if its going to rain, get himback inside the house before bed.

Once you made sure that there's nothing more out your door, get back inside, go

in front of the TV and SAVE. Turn on the TV and check on the LEFT channel.There will be two outcomes : the New Year Special show, or the Harvest Goddessgame. The New Year event is nothing at all, so just keep pressing right untilyou see the Goddess appear.

The Goddess will give you a guessing game. She gives you a number and then asksyou if the next will be higher or lower. Numbers are 0 to 9, 0 being lowest.Its safe to think that betting High on 0-4 and Low on 5-9, but this game isfrustrating on the statistical chances. I've often lost while betting Higheron a 1.


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Try to win between 10 and 14 times in a row to get some Relaxation Tea Leaves.They are worth 1000 each. Play it once at a time, and reload your game if youdon't get the leaves. That's why I told you to save twice, because you'll bereloading often, and sometimes you'll save after losing. You can use the secondsave to fix your mistake.

Win 3 Relaxation Tea Leaves, drop them in your shipping bin, and go back infor more. You can only play the game 5 times, counting the ones you lose. Ifyou mistakingly pressed LEFT on the Goddess when trying to catch her show,don't worry, it doesn't count as a try until you see the first number appear.You'll get 5000G a day using this method, which means 20000G for the first 4days. And you didn't even start to work on the farm.

Once the goddess game is done for the day, you'll want to start doing otherthings. The first thing you should do is grab the Honey in the tree south ofyour house, and offer it to Gotz. He walks out of his house exactly at 7am, soyou can catch him there. Else he's back at his house around 11am if you prefer.Do that everyday until he gives you a recipe.

You can write the recipe down if you want, because the game doesn't rememberit for you unless you cook it yourself. And since you're not about to startcooking anyway, you can't use it.

While you're near his cabin, get some flowers, and go uphill to throw them inthe Goddess Pond, the one by the hot baths. You'll have to do this 10 days ina row. On the eleventh day she will give you a Power Berry, to extend yourStamina/Energy. That wasn't too hard was it?

Then move north to the uppermost section of town. The house on the left of thebench is the General Store, go inside and buy some seeds. You only start with500G, so pick what you think is better. Go with Turnips. Turnips grow fast,but you'll need to buy more seeds everytime. Cucumbers aren't worth as muchmoney, but regrow on their own if you're picky about it. You should prioritizemoney making at this point.

Get back to your farm, and use what energy you have to start cleaning your

field. You can't do anything about the big rocks and tree stumps, so don'tworry about those. If you can, clear a bit of space near the shipping bin inthe upper left corner, and tile some 3x3 areas to plant the seeds you bought.Lay it out as explained in the Crops Basic section.

The position of the blocks doesn't matter, as long you have space to runaround them and water all of them. Since there are a few obstacles that youcan't get rid of yet, try to find some space that will allow you to move toevery crop, or use a different shape that will allow you to.

Plant, water them, and use your axe/hammer/scythe to clear your field. Youcould always just pick and throw bushes, but I suggest the scythe so you cantrain it and upgrade it later. You don't need to do your whole field in a day

either. If you have time left, go in the hot baths for an hour, and clean somemore.

Don't go beyond the final 'hold head and shaking' stage of energy, the oneright before you turn blue. When you're too close to blue, you usuallyoversleep on the next day, and I've overslept even going to bed before 8pmwhen blue. Even spending 30m in the hot bath can save you from losing 2+ hoursin the morning.

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back on the shop after your daily offering and buy the RuckSack on sale for3000. Now you can carry twice as many items and tools. You won't be able onthe Day 3 because the shop will be closed, so you will have at least 10000G byDay 4, so buy the Basket while at it, for 5000G. You will be using the Basketoften, as it can contain 30 items for shipping, but you can't 'take' thingsout from it. So when put in, its going to be shipped.

If you got extra, buy a chicken at the Farm (the first on the left north fromyour far or the woods trail near Gotz's house). Its only 1500G. Use some ofyour leftover money to buy some feed, its only 10G each. You're still getting5000G a day, so don't worry about money too much yet. Buy more seeds, sinceyou have more money, and keep 4-6 tiles of turnips/cucumbers. We just need tokeep a steady flow of income for now.

If after doing your harvesting and watering you have too much time left, howabout mining? This will probably be the only thing to do if it rains on thesedays, since you'll have alot less energy to work on cleaning the field anyway.With an upgraded rucksack and basket it will be easier. Bring it to the mine,along with a hammer and pickaxe.

Check in the Mining Section for either method of saving. It will make it easierand more profitable to save your energy.

Your goal this early in the season is level 10. Every 5 floors is a nice big

area with lots of space to walk around. You could aim for level 100, where youcan dig out a Power Berry from the ground, if you want, but its still early inthe game for that. You'll have occasions into digging your way to the verylower levels for other reasons later too.

At level 3 you start finding gold ores. From level 5 mystrile ore, and at level10 you start finding Orihalcum and Adamantite. Those are the best money makersyou can find here. Level 10 isn't very long or hard to get to. Break rocks, putevery Adamantite and Orihalcum ore you find, and keep the Mystrile in your bag.

A full basket of Adamantite and Orihalcum is worth 1500G. If you feel you'reusing too much energy finding the good ones and don't fill your basket enough,put Mystrile in the basket as well, and keep Gold Ores in your rucksack. Lower

Value is better than nothing at all.

When you run out of energy, go out, dump the basket in your shipping bin, andgo back to the hot baths to get your energy back. You can do it again if youhave time. 1500G isn't amazing, but in 4 days that means 6000G more, if you doit only once a day. A trip to level 10 only takes 10 minutes of game time. Itsextra money, trust me you'll like having more of this in the start of the game.

One way to make some good profit is keeping the Orihacum in your rucksack andgoing to forge them into broaches by Saibara. It costs you 1000g to do it, butthey sell for 2000G. Even if you have only two slots in your rucksack, that'sstill 2000G profit per trip. Just beware of the closing times.

Remember to check on Carter on Monday, Wednesday and rainy days. If you don'thave animals, ask him to forgive you about the town people or about litteringthe road. It will increase everyone's friendship toward you. You could alsoask to forgive about the Sprites, that's pretty useful but not necessary thisearly. If you have animals, you might want to increase their affection instead.

Something else you might receive during Spring is in your mail, an invitationto a tea party from the sprites. Try to go on a rainy day (and a day withoutharvest if you can), and if you hired any sprites somehow, make them go backhome for the next day. Then you can go and present your invitation to one of


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the sprites before 5pm for the party itself, and you'll get some RelaxationTea Leaves as a gift too!

On the fourth, its the birthday of Bold, the purple sprite. If you have sometime, take all of the herbs in the forest, mountain and beach, and give themall to him to boost his affection. If you have some extra money, but don'tspend too much, buy some flour and give it to him as well. It doesn't takealot of gifts to max him in fact. Early start on the sprites.

You don't really need their help yet, but you can start asking them to wateryour field for some training if you want. The more they work, the faster theywill be, so they will cover more ground eventually.

--Spring 6 to 10--You can't play the Goddess game anymore, you'll have to rely on mining andharvesting. You can pick the bamboo shoots on the west side of the mountain aswell for some extra money. Just try to keep some steady income. You'll see Wonor Barley with the horse if you didn't get them yet, as long as its notraining.

If you did see Won twice and Barley, you could use the Weather Trick to make itrain, saving you the need to water the crops. But don't try to work in therain, you run out of energy much quicker. Just go mine, keep the offerings tothe goddess everyday, and take care of your chicken if any.

If you have a chicken, as soon as you can, put an egg in the incubator. You'llhave another chicken for the price of a single egg. While there's an egg there,just bring the other eggs to the hot baths, and throw them in from the topopening. You'll get a spa-boiled egg, which sells for 80G instead of 50G forregular eggs.

I suggest that you keep mining to get some money almost everyday at thispoint. You'll want some extra for the upcoming holiday. You should get aharvest of turnips during that period, so remember to buy some seeds toreplace them.

On Saturdays, check the TV

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