Summer, Year 1 [NSUMMER1]=-=-=

1st Summer

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Season's Goals:* Get 1 Power Berry (it's okay if you miss it, though)* Upgrade the chicken coop* Start the honey tree* Upgrade the house* Upgrade the axe to Mystrile* Get the Large Rucksack* Get the Basket* Get a cow

Daily Chores:* Take care of the animals* Tend to the chickens* Harvest and sell ripened crops* Forage (just sell the 2 Red Grass, and chop down all of the tree stumps)* Water the crops* Clear up the farm (there shouldn't be much left to do by now)

Predicted Season's Expenses: About 35,000GPredicted Season's Profits: About 40,000G

NOTE: Sometimes, hurricanes occur during summer! These nasty storms willrip up crops, and prevent you from taking care of any animals! If youdon't want this to happen (who WOULD want it to happen?), then use thedouble save trick (listed in the Bugs and Exploits section) to evade thesenasty weather occurrences. You can also use my own crafted GameShark codesto evade the storms. Just be sure that you evade a storm on the dayBEFORE the storm hits, not on the day OF the storm.

Summer 1

Today is Opening Day. Get the daily chores done (not much at this point),then head for Mineral Beach. The swimming contest is one of thosedeceptive minigames, in that it sounds easy but is really very difficult.The trick is to press X about once every .3 seconds; the timing is reallyhard to explain. If you have a turbo controller, then feel free to use it.Just set turbo for X, and hold down X until your character spouts an angryred bubble. Then let go of X and hold down the triangle button until theface turns happy again. Hold down X until you hit the finish line (youmight have to do another breather session near the end). The prize is thisseason's coveted Power Berry, so if you possibly can, win the festival!

Summer 2

Now you can actually start doing the whole planting gig for the season.Expand your existing plots out to 9 squares now; you'll be able to waterfull 9-square plots now, so there's no need to limit your productioncapabilities any longer! Plant your Pineapple and Pink Cat Seeds (put the

Pink Cat Seeds some distance away from the Pineapple Seeds), and then headinto town and buy 3 bags of Tomato and Corn Seeds from the supermarket.Once 10:00AM rolls around, pay Saibara a visit, and pick up your new andimproved watering can! Fill it up (Saibara emptied it), and water your newcrops and flowers. You should also start the chicken coop expansion today.Finish all other chores for the day, then head for bed.

Summer 6

The chicken coop should be fully expanded today! Be sure to take fulladvantage of both incubators. Other than this, today is a normal day.

Summer 7

Today is the Sumo Chicken Festival. If you bought your chicken by Spring12, and took care of it daily, then it should have 9 to 10 hearts by now.Have it participate in the festival, and keep redoing the day until yourchicken wins. Why? Because winning the festival means that the winninghen produces Golden Eggs! This won't change anything just yet, but onceyou get the Mayo Maker, you'll be glad you won! Anyway, daily chores,yadda yadda yadda. Tomorrow should mark the sprouting of your Pink CatFlowers, which will get the beehive going! When that happens, be sure totake your first harvest of honey to Louis (he lives at Gotz' cabin) andgive it to him; this will make your honey worth 60G each (instead of 50Geach).

Summer 11

The first tomato harvest is today. Ship them out. All of them. Sorry,I couldn't resist. Other than the harvest, this is a normal day. Dochores, go to sleep.

Summer 12

Today is the Tomato Festival. And the first batch of tomatoes came inyesterday. Coincidence? I think not. Anyway, you can participate if youwant. Winning is mostly a matter of picking a solid team, since thisminigame relies more on luck and skill than ability to mash a button reallyfast. If your team wins, then everybody at the festival will like youbetter. If you lose, there's no penalties. I usually just skip thisfestival, since it's probably the hardest one outside of Opening Day towin, and the reward is far less.

Summer 15

Another tomato harvest is today! Harvest them and sell them, of course.Otherwise, this is a normal day.

Summer 16

Harvest numero uno of corn should be ready today. Send them all out, andcomplete the day's chores. You should spend your gains on the LargeRucksack come tomorrow.

Summer 19

Another harvest of tomatoes. Save the profits up this time. Normal daybeyond the harvest.

Summer 20

Corn harvest number two is today, and today is the Cow Festival. You canattend this festival if you wish, but there are no benefits in doing sojust yet, since you don't have any cows.

Summer 22

Today will be your favorite day of the season, I guarantee it. Thepineapples are finally ready! Ship the pineapples out. Come tomorrow, buythe Basket from the supermarket, and have Saibara upgrade your axe toMystrile form. Hire Gotz to expand your house today, too.

Summer 23There's another batch of tomatoes ready for shipment. Pretty patheticprofit after the pineapple harvest, but still, every G counts.

Summer 24

Today is a corn harvest, and the Fireworks Display. Once you've gotteneverything done on the farm, go to Mineral Beach to watch the fireworks.You can ask any of the girls to watch it with you, but I don't thinkthey'll agree unless they like you at least a bit.

Summer 26

Your house should be expanded now. The expanded house has several newfeatures: a cupboard (which can hold any non-food item), a refrigerator(which can hold any food item), and a kitchen (which you can use to cookin). Since you don't yet have any kitchen utensils, your cooking optionsare limited as of now. However, your new fridge could come in handy.Start putting Red Grass in it instead of shipping the grass.

Now that you have the first house extension, there's a new TV station,called TV Shopping. You can order kitchen utensils off of it! Today'soffering is the Knife for 3000G. That's actually a good deal, so be sureto stop by the Inn today and order it via the phone there. Otherwise, thisis (of course) a normal day.

Summer 27

There's a harvest of tomatoes today. Use the basket to gather the cropsin; you'll be surprised at how much time this saves. Sell the tomatoes, ofcourse, but save the profits up. Since there won't be another harvest oftomatoes, once you've harvested all of the outer ones, cut one of theplants away with the sickle so you can reach the inner tomato in each plot,and ship those out (or save them in your refrigerator). You obviouslydon't need to water the tomatoes any longer.

Summer 28

Another harvest of pineapples today! And corn, but that's second prioritynow. Gather and sell all of the fruits and vegetables. Now for a bit of arisqué investment: come tomorrow, you're going to be getting your firstcow! Yep, you're already buying livestock. Makes ya proud, doesn't it?Be sure to buy some fodder to feed the cow with, as well. You just have tobe sure to talk to your cow and feed it daily, and of course, you shouldbuy more fodder if you start running low. Use the cut-to-the-center trickon the crops to get those last fruits and vegetables, and either ship themor save them in the fridge. Now you have no crops left to tend to for therest of the season! Yay?

Summer 30

The last day of the season is today, obviously. It is a normal day, butit's worth noting that you'll want at least 3,500G for next season. Oh,and cut down the remaining crops on the field, since they're not going todo anything but take up space next season.

End of Season Profits: Around 5,000G