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Harvest Moon Boy & Girl PSP General Guide

by Freyashawk

email: castleenchanted aol

Created 6 March 2008

Last updated on 19 March 2008

Note on 6 March 2008: This is a work in progress and updates will be made

regularly.

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Table of Contents

This is a preliminary Table of Contents which I hope to organise better when

time permits.

Introduction

Affection and Friendship

Raising and Maintaining Affection and/or Friendship

The Effect of the Death of an AnimalAttending Festivals

Littering

Special Characters

Kappa

Harvest Goddess

Saving your Game

Controlling the Weather

Mineral Town Shops and Homes

Saibara's Smithy

Improving your Tools

Buying Accessories

Other Tools

The Makers

Aja's Winery

Library

Ellen's House

Thomas' House

The Supermarket

Cooking Corner

Wrapping Corner

Other Items

Medium Rucksack


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Large Rucksack

Bin/Basket

Fish Food

Blue Feather

Seed Corner

The Inn

The Telephone

Won's Seed Corner

The Hospital/Clinic

The Church

Harvest Sprite Hut

The History of the Harvest Sprites

Rose Square

The Beach

The Pier and a Fishing Rod

Kai's Seaside Lodge

Yodel's Farm

Care of Livestock

Gotz the Woodcutter

Building Upgrades

Quick Guide to Building UpgradesCost of each Upgrade with Lumber

Cost of each Upgrade if Gotz supplies Lumber

Chicken Li'l's Poultry Farm

Care of Poultry

Map of Mineral Town

TV Shopping Channel

Cooking and Recipes

Easy Recipes

People who like these Items

Complete Basic Cookbook

No Utensil Recipes

Knife Recipes

Frying Pan Recipes

Pot Recipes

Mixer Recipes

Whisk Recipes

Rolling Pin Recipes

Oven Recipes

Item Values

Spring Crop Values

Spring Wild Items Values

Summer Crop Values

Summer Wild Items Values

Autumn Crop Values

Autumn Wild Items Values

Hothouse Item Values

Ranch Item ValuesProcessed Ranch Item Values

Values of Items from the Mines

Values of other Items

Mining

Spring Mine

Lake Mine

Mining Tips

Energy and Sleep

Profitable Events


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Animal Care and Festivals

Chicken Strategies

Livestock

Cows

Sheep

Power Berries

List of all Power Berries

Mystic Berry

Fishing

King Fish

Shipping List

Other Items that can be shipped

Heart Events and Marriage

Special Events

1st Year Special Events:

A Horse from Barley

A Fishing Rod from Greg

Thomas' Crop Request

May and the Church

May and her Past

First Meeting with KaiFirst Corn Harvest

First Flower and Honey

Anna and the Power Berry

Apple Pie Event

Ann's Birthday Party

Harris and Aja

The Anniversary of a Death

Duke's Drunken Episode

Chicken-Sitting for Rick

Cliff and the Grape Harvest

Cliff's Drama at Rose Square

The White Flower of Happiness

2nd Year Special Events

Miscellaneous Tips

The Flashing Hand

When to Cook

Raising the Values of Items

Introduction

Harvest Moon Boy & Girl essentially is the old 'Back to Nature' Harvest Moon

game for Playstation, revitalised and recrafted for the PSP. There are

those who therefore would not consider the game to merit a new guide, but I

obviously disagree. 'Back to Nature' was one of the best Harvest Moon games

produced and even now can compete successfully with the newer Harvest Moon DSand Magical Melody. It may be more difficult than newer Harvest Moon games

in

many ways, but it nonetheless is enjoyable.

It is an extraordinarily detailed game, given its relative antiquity.

Players

of 'Friends of Mineral Town' and 'More Friends of Mineral Town' will find

that

much of the dialogue and many of the events are the same. There are fewer


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exploitations in Harvest Moon Boy and Girl, however, and it is possible only

to save the game when one goes to bed at night. This is one of the more

annoying restrictions in the game, actually. It is balanced by the fact that

the PSP allows many different save files. One can save the same game in

multiple slots at different points, allowing one ultimately to marry five

different girls in a game with a single foundation. In other words, in the

boy version of the game, bring all five girls to red heart level and fulfil

all other requirements for marriage, then save your game in five different

slots before you propose to ANY girl. You then can branch off in each slot

to

create an entirely different game with different spouses. In the girl

version

of the game, the game will end if you marry, but you can save your game

before

you propose and then marry each of the bachelors to experience five different

endings before you return to a continuing game as a single woman.

The basic premise of the game is one that is at the heart of all traditional

Harvest Moon games. You must restore a failing farm to success while making

friends with all your neighbours and every one in the area. You can but need

not marry. As a boy, you will have a choice of five eligible girls. As agirl, you can choose between five eligible bachelors.

This guide attempts to cover both the Boy and the Girl versions of the game.

Wherever both versions are the same, no special reference to the gender of

the

player's character will be mentioned. Where the two versions differ, I will

try to give specific relevant details for each version.

For example, when your character tosses an offering of a crop grown on your

farm into the Goddess Spring, the Harvest Goddess will appear and thank you.

When you toss the fifth crop offering into the Spring, she will reward you in

both versions, but here the reward differs depending on the gender of your

character. As a Boy, the first reward will be a Red Power Berry. As a girl,

the first reward will be a piece of Lumber for which Gotz will pay 3000G.

The

other two rewards are obtained when you toss a total of 10 crop offerings and

20 crop offerings into the Spring. The rewards essentially are the same in

both games, but given in a different order.

The second reward in both games is the 'Sweetheart' reward. After a total of

10 crop offerings have been given, the Harvest Goddess will ask you if you

have a Sweetheart. If you say that you do, the eligible girl/bachelor with

the highest heart level will be waiting for you at the foot of the steps.

In the boy version, a rather hilarious event then will occur if you enter the

Hot Spring. A monkey will share the bath with you and the girl will confront

you only when you come out of the Spa. Her heart level will increase,however, with your attempt to bathe with her.

In the girl version, the bachelor with the highest heart level will be

waiting

but there will be no talk about sharing a bath! He may present you with a

flower instead.

There are both 'Heart Events' and 'Rival Heart Event's in Harvest Moon Boy &

Girl, hereinafter referred to as HMBG. Experiencing any Heart Event with an


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eligible girl or bachelor and giving the correct response will raise his/her

affection level substantially. Please refer to my Courtship and Marriage

Guide for information relating to romance and marriage, as well as all likes

and dislikes, schedules of eligible girls/bachelors and all heart and rival

heart events. You will find it at:

Harvest Moon Boy & Girl PSP Courtship and Marriage Guide

Giving gifts that an individual likes will raise affection and/or friendship

levels as well. A wrapped gift, presented on an individual's birthday will

boost affection and/or friendship enormously. Even if given unwrapped, it

will raise the levels of affection and/or friendship far more than a gift on

any other day.

As in FoMT and MFoMT, speaking to an individual, even if you cannot give a

gift, raises affection and/or friendship a little. It is far better to take

the time to speak to every one during the course of a day, even if you have

no

gift items in your rucksack, than to ignore them. Speaking to an eligiblegirl or bachelor will raise his/her Affection level overnight. Thus, for

example, even if you have no items that Ann would like in the first half of

the first Spring, simply by speaking to her each day will raise her heart

level.

You will see the icon of an eligible girl or bachelor's heart level in the

lower right corner of the text screen when you speak to that individual. As

the affection level increases, the colour of the heart icon will change.

Courting more than one girl or bachelor will not affect the heart levels of

the others. In other words, feel free to court ALL eligible girls or

bachelors in your game.

Affection and Friendship

Raising and Maintaining Affection and/or Friendship Levels

As in most Harvest Moon games, you need to interact with eligible girls or

bachelors as well as all other villagers in order to raise affection and

friendship levels. In HM DS, simply speaking to some one will NOT raise

his/her AP and/or FP, but in Harvest Moon Boy & Girl, as in FoMT/MFoMT, it

will. The increase will be greater, however, if you give the person an item

that he she especially loves. There are a number of different categories for

items: Most Favourite Items, Liked Items, Items to which the person isIndifferent, Disliked Items and Most Detested Items. Speaking to some one is

better than giving an item that the individual actively dislikes but giving

an

item that he/she particularly loves is the best option.

In order to maintain heart levels and friendship levels, you must not neglect

any one. If you do not have a gift, simply speak to the person. Otherwise,

you may find that his/her affection and/or friendship actually will decrease

overnight.
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The death of any animal in your care will cause a huge decrease in heart

level

and friendship. Try to take care of your animals.

Attending Festivals will raise Affection and Friendship levels a little with

every one to whom you speak. Even with respect to the Fireworks Festival,

choosing the option NOT to invite an eligible girl or bachelor to watch the

fireworks with you does not LOWER affection levels but you do need to speak

to

every one before you choose the fortunate girl or bachelor with whom you wish

to stand at the end of the pier to watch the display. You will receive an

extra boost in affection by asking an individual to watch the show with you

but you receive an increase in affection or friendship simply by speaking to

each person.

Attend every Festival and make an effort to visit every one as often as

possible. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you only should

experience

the Heart Events of the girl or bachelor you ultimately intend to marry. It

is best to experience as many events as possible.

In the Boy version of the game, for example, Ann's Blue Heart Event will give

you an opportunity to sell 3 eggs directly to the Inn for a period of seven

days, provided you never miss a day. She will pay 450G for eggs that,

shipped

in ordinary fashion, only will net 150G. Popuri's Blue Heart Event will give

you an egg that, when it hatches, adds a Chicken to your Farm. A Chicken can

be sold for 500G or kept for egg production. Karen's Blue Heart Event can

unlock the sale of Moondrop Flower seeds at Won's Seed Corner.

These are only some examples of the benefits of experiencing events in

Harvest

Moon, whatever your ultimate ambition in terms of marriage may be.

Special Characters

Kappa

The Kappa lives in the Lake in the Mountains. Players familiar either with

the original Japanese Kappa Legend or with the Kappa in Friends of Mineral

Town/More Friends of Mineral Town will know that he responds solely to

cucumbers as gifts. The reason for this is the original Japanese folklorebelief that if you carve your name into a Cucumber and throw it into a river

or lake, the Kappa will not vex you or your animals. In this game, throwing

three Cucumbers into the Lake will bring you the gift of a Mystic Berry. In

order to do this properly, it must be done AFTER 12.00 p.m. noon and you

throw

them at a very specific location on the shore.

With respect to the Harvest Goddess and her awards for offerings, Boy and

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versions differ in the sequence of rewards. With respect to the Kappa, both

versions are identical.

Go to the top of the Lake. You will see two trees growing side by side and a

stump growing southwest of them. Between the trees and the stump, there is a

little area of the shore that juts out into the water. Stand there and face

the water, then throw the Cucumber into the water.

The Kappa will appear and give you his usual response:

Kappa: ..............

Do not be discouraged by this.

Repeat the performance.

He will reappear. This time, he will speak to you.

Kappa: You're so persistent. Stop following me.

Throw one more Cucumber into the water.

The Kappa now will give you a very rare gift.

Kappa: ... I'll give you this. Just don't follow me anymore.

He will give you a Mystic Berry which you will eat promptly.

N.B. In FoMT/MFoMT, the Kappa would give you the only Blue Power Berry in

thegame, and in HMB&G, he will give you a Blue Mystic Berry with much the same

effect Red Power Berries increase Stamina, but the Kappa's Berry increases

your resistance to Fatigue. The Kappa will define its effect as making

you 'tougher'.

The Harvest Goddess:

In order to meet the Harvest Goddess, you need to stand behind the waterfall,

near the entrance to the Mine and throw a crop that you have harvested into

the water. There will be a flash of white and the Harvest Goddess will

appear.

In the Boy version:

Harvest Goddess: Well, if it isn't Frey. How do I know your name? That's

just the way I am. Thank you for your offering.

Throw another crop into the water and she will appear again to say;

Harvest Goddess: Well, if it isn't Frey again. Thank you for your offering.

Repeat this performance until you have thrown five crops into the Goddess

Spring. After the fifth offering, the Harvest Goddess will reward you by

saying:

Harvest Goddess: Well, if it isn't Frey again. I'm glad to see you come sooften. Here, have this. Eat it.

She will give you a Red Power Berry which you will consume on the spot. A

Red

Power Berry will increase your total Stamina by 10%.

You can obtain only a single Red Power Berry from the Harvest Goddess, but

continuing to toss crop offerings in the Goddess Spring will bring other

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Please note that the Power Berry is the first reward only in the Boy version

of the game. In the Girl version, you will receive a piece of Lumber after

making 5 offerings. Gotz will appear and ask you to give him the lumber,

promising to pay you. In fact, it is an ordinary piece of lumber, but he has

not been feeling well and cannot cut wood... he will pay you very handsomely

in fact, giving you 3000G.

There are three different rewards, obtained after a total of 5, then 10, then

20 crop offerings. Any offering other than a crop produced on your own farm

will not be recognised.

The rewards are:

1. a Red Power Berry

2. a chance to share the Spa with the girl/bachelor who has the highest

heart

level

3. a piece of Lumber for which Gotz will pay 1000G in the Boy version and

3000G in the Girl version.

In the Boy version, the Power Berry is the first reward, requiring only a

total of 5 crop offerings. In the Girl version, the lumber and consequent

3000G payment by Gotz is the first reward. The Power Berry is the THIRD

reward, requiring a total of 20 crop offerings.

Saving Your Game:

As previously stated, the PSP tends to be far more generous with save slots

for game files than the GBA or DS. Players accustomed to the typical

limitation of two files for Harvest Moon games will be delighted by the

ability to save the same game at different points in almost a dozen files.

On

the other hand, an annoying aspect of this game is the fact that it can be

saved only at the point of going to bed at night.

When you stand in front of the 'diary' on the bedside table, you will have a

number of options:

To sleep without saving in your diary

To sleep AFTER saving in your diary

To Read your Diary

Controlling the Weather

Read Diary: This is the option to use if you wish to reload your game from

ANY saved file. If you are a player who likes to control the weather, this

is

the option to use in the morning if you discover from the weather forecast on

the television that a great storm is brewing the next day. It is very

important to keep one file saved on the previous day for this reason. It is

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the present as well as one that is saved on the previous day. This allows

you

to correct any number of errors: those that you perform immediately as well

as

actions performed in the past that you did not realise WERE errors until

later. Some players may be appalled by this god-like control of events, but

I

personally like to attempt the best results in my game and like every one, I

make mistakes or forget details such as birthdays, despite my best efforts to

consult my own Calendar Guide.

Mineral Town Shops:

Success in Harvest Moon partly depends on judicious use of time. If you do

not have an adult horse, your only mode of transport will be walking. Even

when your horse becomes an adult, you will not be able to ride him outside

your farm area. Walking consumes time and the amount of time in a day is

limited. Zack will pick up your shipment at 5.00 p.m. It therefore is

important to harvest crops and gather all wild items before 5.00 p.m. if youwish to benefit as quickly as possible from their sale. You can place items

in the Shipping Bin after 5.00 p.m. and on Festival days but they will not be

shipped until 5.00 p.m. on the next ordinary business day.

It is important to know the business hours of every shop in the Village and

the hours and locations where all individuals can be met. When you have

achieved a good relationship with every member of a family, the doors to

homes

and most businesses that are homes as well will open earlier in the morning

and stay unlocked to you later at night. The only exception to this is the

Supermarket. Even if you have the highest affection/friendship levels with

Jeff, Sasha and Karen, the Supermarket will remain locked throughout Tuesday

and Sunday. You will be able to enter the private living area during other

days, however, when you have a high level with all members of the family.

Here are the locations and business hours of the shops in Mineral Town as

well

as lists and prices of items offered:

Saibara's Smithy:

Location: It is the first building if you take the path that leads north

from

your farm.

Hours: 9.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.Shut: Thursday

Options:

Improve Tool

Buy Accessory

Buy Tool

Improving or Upgrading your Tools:


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Improve Tool: This option is used if you wish to upgrade a tool. As Saibara

will instruct, you need to equip the Tool and hold the ore you wish him to

use

for the upgrade in your hands. Interestingly enough, when you do this, you

will see a list of options:

Ask to level-up a tool

Give metal ore as gift

Nothing in particular

The cost of tool upgrades is as follows and each will take three days to

complete:

From basic to copper: 1000G and a piece of copper

From copper to silver: 2000G and a piece of silver

From silver to gold: 3000G and a piece of gold

From gold to mystrile: 5000G and a piece of mystrile

In other Harvest Moon games, very often a tool upgrade that 'skips' levelstakes longer than an upgrade from one level to the next. In this game, ALL

upgrades of tools take three days to complete. It therefore may be

advantageous to increase the level of the tool as much as possible in a

single

upgrade as you will lose the use of the tool for three days irrespective of

the level of the upgrade. In other words, provided you have the necessary

level of experience, it may be better to ask Saibara to increase the level of

your Basic tool to Mystrile than to upgrade it only to Copper.

In this game, although you cannot order a new upgrade or task from Saibara on

Thursday when the Smithy is shut, you can fetch your upgraded tool from the

Smithy if it has been completed.

Please note that Saibara will lock the Smithy directly after the order of any

upgrade or task. If, therefore, you need to purchase other items from him,

you had best do so BEFORE you set him a new task!

Buying Accessories:

Buy Accessory: Use this option if you wish to order jewelry from Saibara.

To

do this, you need to have a piece of Orichalcum. Transforming the Orichalcum

into jewelry will cost 1000G. Once you have upgraded all your tools to

maximum level and purchased all Makers, this will be an option to use

frequently with Saibara in order to increase your profits.

Orichalcum can be found only in the Lake Mine during the Winter season when

the Lake freezes and you can cross it to the little island in the centre. It

can be found on ANY floor of the Lake Mine. You should have upgraded your

house at least once by the start of your first Winter. If you fill both

Basket and Rucksack with ores from the Winter mine on a daily basis, then

save

at least 3 Orichalcum in your Shelf each day, you will have enough Orichalcum

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Jewelry takes three days to make, you will be able to order approximately 10

pieces of jewelry per season. The three seasons for which you will need to

store Orichalcum in the shelf are Spring, Summer and Autumn, requiring a

maximum of 30 Orichalcum. This amount is saved very easily during your first

Winter.

I always make certain to stow at least three pieces of Orichalcum in my

rucksack during each trip to the Lake Mine in Winter. Remember that ores

placed in the Basket cannot be removed, and you therefore need to place

Orichalcum in your rucksack if you intend to keep it.

The Jewelry that Saibara makes from a piece of Orichalcum is random. It can

be a pair of earrings, a necklace or a bracelet. Each piece takes three days

to complete and ships for 2000G.

Buy Tool

Saibara sells some tools that are important to your ranching success and

whichcannot be purchased elsewhere.

Buy Tool: Use this option to purchase the following:

Brush: 800G

Milker: 2000G

Clippers: 1800G

N.B. The Brush should be purchased immediately in order to be able to raise

your Horse's heart levels sufficiently to enable you to keep him when Barley

comes for his assessment in early Spring of your second year. Speaking to

your Horse will not raise his Heart Level; only the Brush will do so until he

is an adult and you can ride him. 800G would allow you to purchase at least

4

bags of seed in your first Spring, but the money MUST be used to buy the

Brush

if you want to keep the Horse. Remember that an adult horse can be ridden in

the Horse Race and this gives you an opportunity to win Medals that can be

exchanged for a Power Berry or jewelry that can be shipped for 2000G each.

Incidentally, as stated elsewhere in this guide, if you fail to raise the

Horse's heart level and Barley takes the horse with him in the 2nd Spring,

you

can regain him by planting 40 plots of grass. Although grass can be cut for

fodder, 40 plots represents a very significant expenditure of earnings as

seeds cost 500G each. It is MUCH cheaper to buy the Brush in your first

Spring!

Makers:

The Makers will be available for purchase only when you have expanded your

Henhouse and/or Barn. Each Maker costs 20000G and requires a piece of

Adamantite to make. The project takes five days. In this game as in FoMT

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MFoMT, once a task is ordered, the Smithy will be shut until it is completed.

It is the Mayonnaise Maker that will be available first and you MUST order it

in order to be able to buy any other Maker. Once you have the Mayonnaise

Maker, the option to order the Cheese Maker will appear. When the Cheese

Maker is completed, the Yarn Ball Maker will be available.

You therefore cannot choose which Maker you wish to purchase. You must

purchase all Makers in sequence. The same rule holds true for building

upgrades in this game. It is far more rigid than other Harvest Moon games in

this respect.

Whenever an item that you order from Saibara is completed, you must go to the

Smithy to fetch it. In the case of a Maker, you must go to the Smithy to

organise delivery of the item by Grey. If you do not visit Saibara, you will

obtain no announcement that the task is completed. It is your responsibility

to visit the Smithy to discover if your order has been completed.

Mayonnaise Maker: 20000G (requires Henhouse expansion)

Cheese Maker: 20000G (requires Barn expansion and order of Mayonnaise Maker)

Yarn Ball Maker: 20000G (requires Barn expansion and order of Cheese Maker)

Aja's Winery:

Location: Take the path that leads north from your farm. Directly north of

Saibara's Smithy, you will find the Winery. The two buildings in fact are

connected. The vineyard is north of the actual Winery. This is where Cliff

will work ultimately if you help him find a job.

It is where you will have the opportunity to work part-time for a week in

Autumn when the grapes are ready for harvest. Each grape cluster that you

pick is worth 50G so, with 16 bunches of grapes on the wines, you have the

chance to make 800G per day during the Harvest week.

Incidentally, although Manna will tell you to come at 10.00 a.m. each day to

harvest the grapes, you can arrive as late as 4.50 p.m. to do so, thereby

losing no time at all with respect to your own working day. (Just make

certain that you complete your shipments before you go to the Winery.)

From 1.00 p.m. to 4.40 p.m., the Winery will be locked as Aja will go to

Rose

Square as usual each day. You therefore either need to arrive in the morning

or between 4.40 p.m. and 4.50 p.m. in order to be able to perform the harvest

tasks for Duke and Manna.

Business Hours:

Business Hours: 9.00 a.m. to 12.00 p.m. (noon)

Shut: Saturday

Items Offered:


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You can purchase only two items at the Winery from Manna, Duke's wife. They

are:

Grape Juice: 200G

Wine: 300G

Library:

Location: Take the path north from your farm and you will pass the Smithy and

Aja's Winery. The path will end at an intersection. If you go left, you

will

arrive at the Library and Basil's house. The door on the left is the door to

Basil's house, where Basil, Anna and Mary live. On the right is the entrance

to the Library. As Mary is the local librarian, you will find her at the

Library during all business hours. On Monday, when the Library is shut, Mary

will spend the morning with her family in the Mountain area provided the

weather is fine. In the afternoon, she will visit the Supermarket with her

mother, Anna. On rainy Monday mornings, you will find the entire family at

home.

Library Hours:

10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Shut: Monday

The Library is at the end of the path going north. You now must follow the

path to the right or east in order to continue.

You will pass two houses before you reach the next business. These are

Ellen's house and Thomas house respectively.

Ellen's House

Ellen always will be found in her house as she cannot walk. Stu, her

grandson

either will be found in the house or on the path outside the house. After

you

have experienced May's first event, both May and Stu will be found outside

the

Church on every afternoon except Monday and Wednesday. Elli visits her

grandmother on Wednesday morning when the Clinic is shut.

Thomas' House

Thomas lives with his son Harris and a roving photographer named Kano. When

you visit, you usually will find Thomas and Kano at home during the day, but

Harris will be out on patrol. Harris visits Yodel's Farm and Gotz' house in

the woods before going to the Inn in the afternoon for a 'break' in his

patrol.


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Supermarket

To the right of Thomas' house is the Supermarket. The Supermarket has living

quarters to the left of it, but these are accessible only from a door inside

the Supermarket. Jeff, his wife Sasha and their daughter Karen live there.

Supermarket Hours:

9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.

Shut: Tuesday and Sunday

The Supermarket has three different sections: the Cooking Corner, where

ingredients can be purchased, the Seed Corner, where seasonal seeds can be

found and another area where miscellaneous items, including both Rucksacks, a

Basket and ultimately a Blue Feather are offered when you have made a certain

amount of progress in the game. The Gift Wrapping Corner is situated here aswell. Gift-wrapping only enhances the Affection/Friendship value of a gift

on

an individual's birthday. At other times, it appears to have no effect.

Cooking Corner:

Game Description:

Everything you need for cooking is in the Cooking Corner, so if you ever need

something, take a look there.

Bread: You can use Bread for cooking or you can eat it straight. It cost

100G Want to buy some?

Rice Ball: You can use Rice Ball for cooking or you can eat them straight.

They costs 100G a piece.

Curry Powder: Curry Powder is essential if you ever want to make curry. It

costs 50G.

Flour: Flour is used for baking sweets. It costs 50G.

Oil: Oil is one of the basics, used for deep frying and stir frying. It

costs 50G

More succinctly, the Items offered are:

Bread: 100G

Rice Ball: 100G

Curry Powder: 50G

Flour: 50G

Oil: 50G


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Wrapping Corner:

That is the Wrapping Corner. If you want something wrapped, just leave it

there.

Other Items:

That's a rucksack. It can hold twice the amount of your own rucksack. It

costs 3000G.

That Bin can hold a lot of stuff for shipments. It costs 5000G

That's Fish Food over there. Just add food to the Fish Pond once daily. How

many do you want to buy? 20G for a portion

More succinctly:

Medium Rucksack: 3000GLarge Rucksack: 5000G

Bin (or Basket): 5000G

Fish Food: 20G

Gift Wrap: 100G

The Medium Rucksack contains 4 tool slots and 4 item slots, doubling the

storage space of the original Rucksack. The Large Rucksack contains twice

the

storage space of the Medium Rucksack.

The Bin or Basket can store a total of 30 items. Once an item is placed in

the Basket or Bin, however, you will not be able to access it again. You

must

dump the contents of the Bin/Basket in any Shipping Container. Do not place

items that you wish to give as gifts or otherwise use in the Bin/Basket!

Gift wrap enhances the Affection/Friendship value of an gift item ONLY on the

recipient's birthday. A gift-wrapped item has no more value than the same

item unwrapped on any other day of the year.

When you have purchased the Medium Rucksack for 3000G, the Large Rucksack

will

be offered usually between 21 and 23 Spring.

Large Rucksack: 5000G

N.B. The Large Rucksack has 8 tool and 8 item slots, as Karen will tell youin so many words if you speak to her at the Supermarket at Black Heart Level

Fish Food: 20G

Fish Food is a very useful item in this game. Any fish thrown into your Fish

Pond will become a Large Fish and spawn (randomly) provided that you throw a

portion of Fish Food into the Pond on a daily basis. In Winter, the Pond is

frozen and the fish hibernate, but feed them daily in every other season and

you will find it to be profitable indeed.


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When any eligible girl reaches Orange Heart Level in the boy version of the

game, the Supermarket will offer the Blue Feather, an item that MUST

accompany

any proposal of marriage:

Blue Feather: 1000G

(N.B. Won will offer the Blue Feather as well at an extremely inflated

price. Buy it from the Supermarket!)

If you are playing as a girl, it is the bachelor who will have the Blue

Feather and who will propose to you in a special Proposal Event after the

last

Heart Event.

Seed Corner:

Game Description:

Those are fruit and vegetable seeds. The seeds we have now are for Spring

planting but if you have a hothouse you can grow them anytime. Each bag has

nine seeds. You can eat or sell the fruits and vegetables you harvest. Do

you want to buy any seeds?

Available in Spring Season:

Grass Seeds: 500G

Turnip Seeds: 120G

Potato Seeds: 150G

Cucumber: 200G

When you have shipped 101 of all of the above Spring crops, you will unlock:

Strawberry: 150G

Please note that you must ship 101 of each crop rather than a combination of

crops.

Available in Summer Season:

Grass Seeds: 500GOnion Seeds: 150G

Tomato Seeds: 200G

Corn Seeds: 300G

When you have shipped 101 of all crops listed above, you will unlock:

Pumpkin Seeds: 500G


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Please note that you must ship 101 of a single crop, not a combination of

more

than one crop.

Available in Autumn Season:

Grass Seeds: 500G

Carrot Seeds: 300G

Eggplant Seed: 120G

Sweet Potato Seeds: 300G

When you have shipped 101 of all the crops listed above, you will unlock:

Spinach Seeds: 200G

Please note that you must ship 101 of each single crop rather than a

combination of the above.

Path to the Inn

From the Supermarket, you have a choice to continue east or to go south along

a new path. If you go south, you will find the Inn.

The Inn:

The Inn is owned by Doug and offers both food and lodging. His daughter Ann

works there. From 11.00 a.m., you will find her first upstairs cleaning the

guest rooms and then downstairs serving lunch. She returns upstairs to clean

the rooms again before returning during the evening hours to serve in the

dining area. Doug will be found at the counter serving food. The menu will

change between afternoon and evening.

The Telephone in Mineral Town

Please take note of the telephone to the right of Doug. This is the

telephone

you will use to order items from the Shopping Network. The Shopping Network

will not be aired on television until you have expanded your house. It then

will air on Saturdays. In this game, you MUST order the item by telephone on

Saturday. Even when a Festival intervenes, as in the case of the first year,when one Saturday will fall on the day of the Music Festival, the game will

not allow you to make your order on Sunday. The only day on which you can

use

the telephone is Saturday.

From the Inn, you can go south then east to enter Rose Square, or you can

retrace your steps north along the path to return to the Supermarket. The

only access to the path where the Inn is located are these. You cannot go

directly from your farm to the Inn.


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Inn Hours:

8.00 a.m. to 9.00 p.m. daily

Please note that Ann will not be found at the Inn on sunny days before 11.00

a.m. as she visits the Goddess Spring each morning.

N.B. When you experience Ann's 3rd or Blue Heart Event and she requests that

you sell her 3 eggs daily at the Inn, you must bring the eggs in your

rucksack

to the Inn between 11.00 a.m. and 5.00 p.m. You will be able to do this for

an entire week if you do not 'break the chain' by failing to deliver on any

day.

There are two exceptions, apart from ordinary Festival days, to the regular

business hours of the Inn. One is Ann's Birthday. The other is the day of

the Anniversary of the Death of Ann's mother and Doug's wife.

Ann's Birthday is 17 Summer. Look for an Invitation in your postbox. TheBirthday Party will occur between 11.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m. If you take your

Invitation to the Inn at any point during this period, you will be able to

attend the Party. The Party ends at 6.00 p.m. so make certain that all your

shipping has been completed BEFORE you go to the Inn. Take a Spa-boiled Egg

to the Supermarket to have it gift-wrapped for Ann before you go to the

Party. After 6.00 p.m., the Inn will be open for business as usual and no

mention will be made of the Party.

The Anniversary of the death of Ann's mother and Doug's wife is 5 Fall. On

this day, you will find Doug at the Peak. Speak to him about his deceased

wife in the morning. If you visit the Inn after 11.00 a.m. on this day, Ann

will be there alone and will speak to you about her mother.

Lunch Menu:

Set Meal: 500G (+50 Stamina, -10 Fatigue)

Salad: 300G (+10 Stamina, -20 Fatigue)

Apple Pie: 300G (+30 Stamina, -1 Fatigue)

Cheesecake: 250G (+20 Stamina, -1 Fatigue)

Cookie: 200G (+10 Stamina, -1 Fatigue)

Water: 0G (+1 Stamina, -0 Fatigue)

Evening Menu:

Grape Liquour: 500G (+0 Stamina, -20 Fatigue)

Pineapple Juice: 300G (+0 Stamina, -15 Fatigue)

Milk: 200G (+0 Stamina, -10 Fatigue)

Water: 0G (+1 Stamina, -0 Fatigue)

There is another option at the Inn if you wish to shop. Won, the wandering

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1.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Won's Seed Corner

Hours: 1.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m. daily

Items offered:

Cabbage Seeds: 500G

Toy Flower Seeds: 500G

Pineapple Seeds; 1000G

Pink Cat Flower Seeds: 200G

Green Pepper Seeds: 150G

Magic Red Seeds: 600G

Orange Cup Seeds: 1000G

Unlocked by Karen's Blue Heart Event:

Moondrop Seeds: 300G

Although Won's Seeds are sold in every season, they are season-specific as

are

the crop seeds at the Supermarket. It is only when you have the Hothouse

that

you will be able to grow crops in ALL seasons, including Winter.

Incidentally, Orange Cup Fruit only can be grown in the Hothouse.

There are other 'special' items that Won will offer in a different fashion.

They will not appear in the Menu when you visit his 'Corner' at the Inn but

he

will come to your farm at 6.00 a.m. to ask if you wish to buy them. Each

item

will be offered once. The item that is truly worth buying from him in this

fashion is the Pink Dog Ball which he will sell to you for 100G. If you want

to buy the Vase for aesthetic or sentimental reasons, you can do so... In the

future, in Harvest Moon for the DS, Van will attempt to sell this Vase to

Romana for a truly exorbitant sum, declaring it to be a rare and wondrous

antique.

N.B. Although Pinkcat Flowers have no shipping value in this game, it is

important to have at least 91 blooming Pinkcat Flowers in your field in your

first Summer if possible in order to obtain a Red Power Berry from Anna,

Basil's wife. Each Power Berry increases your Stamina by 10%.

Furthermore, Pinkcat Flowers are the favourite flower of many individuals andindeed, a 'Most Favourite Item' for some. It is a good idea to store as many

Pinkcat Flowers as you can in your Cabinet for use throughout the year.

The Clinic or Hospital

If, instead of taking the path south from the Supermarket, you continue east

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you will find both the Doctor and Elli most of the time.

Clinic/Hospital Hours:

Open: 9.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. daily

Shut: Wednesdays

At the Clinic during business hours, you will have two choices when you speak

to the Doctor:

Exam

Buy Medicine

An Exam costs 10G and is useful mainly because it increases the affection of

the Doctor a little in the girl version of the game and increases friendship

with the Doctor in the boy version of the game. Elli's affection level may

increase a little when you order an Exam as well.

The Medicine sold at the Clinic is as follows:

Bodigizer: 500G (+50 Stamina -0 Fatigue)

Turbojolt: 1000G (+0 Stamina -20 Fatigue)

When you have shipped more than 50 Blue Grass, you will receive a letter from

the Cllinic announcing a stronger version of Stamina Medicine for sale. When

you have shipped more than 50 Green Grass, you will receive a similar letter,

announcing the sale of a stronger type of Fatigue medication. These are:

Bodigizer XL: 1000G (+100 Stamina - 0 Fatigue)

Turbojolt XL : 2000G (+0 Stamina -50 Fatigue)

All these Medications are very expensive in your first year and once you have

a Kitchen, you will be able to cook dishes that will restore energy levels

sufficiently. Even before you have expanded your house to include a Kitchen,

you always can use the Hot Spring to restore energy levels completely.

To the right of the Clinic/Hospital is the Church.

The Church:

The Pastor of the church is Carter. When you speak to him at the Altar, he

often will give you useful information and advice. After 1.00 p.m. on

specific days and all rainy days, Carter hears Confession. Confession is

particularly useful if you have been guilty of littering. If the Goddess

forgives you for littering, you will not be punished by loss of affection or

friendship.

Cliff will be found most often at the Church until the middle of Autumn in

the

first year. If you help him obtain the job at the Winery, you will enable

him

to remain in Mineral Town as well as improving the quality of life for Duke

and Manna. Even if, in the boy version of the game, you wish to marry Ann

yourself, it is a good idea to help Cliff. Likewise, in the girl version of

the game, even if you have no interest in marrying Cliff, it is advisable to


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help him remain in Mineral Town.

The Harvest Sprites

The home of the Harvest Sprites is northeast of the Church. You will find a

narrow path to the right of the Church. If you follow the path, you will

arrive at a small circular hut. This is the home of the seven Harvest

Sprites. In fact, you will find seven volumes at the local Library

containing the tale of how the Harvest Sprites came to live in Mineral Town.

The Harvest Sprites can be hired to help with farm work. Each Sprite must be

hired separately and you have a number of different options. Any Harvest

Sprite can be hired to harvest crops, water crops or take care of your

animals. At the time when you solicit the help of any Harvest Sprite, you

must decide if you wish to hire him for a single day, three days or an entire

week.

In this game, once hired, Sprites will continue to work through Festival

days, although you will not be able to hire them on any Festival day.

For each day that a Sprite works, his heart level will decrease a little.

Make certain to give every Sprite a gift at least once each week in order to

maintain good friendship levels with all the brothers. All Sprites LOVE

flour, but they like all flowers. In other Harvest Moon games where flowers

can be shipped and therefore have monetary value, it is best always to give

the Sprites Flour, but in this game, flowers can be given instead. Their

heart level will not increase as much with the gift of a flower as it would

if

Flour were given, but be faithful in giving and you will have no trouble with

your Sprite work force.

Sprites begin as inexperienced labourers and there are no mini-games in

Harvest Moon Boy & Girl to help them increase their skill. The only way for

them to increase their speed and expertise is 'on the job'. As you continue

to hire them for any given task, they will work faster and make fewer errors.

Incidentally, if you hire a Sprite to water your fields but have left dead

crops standing, the Sprite is as likely to water the dead crops as he is to

water growing crops. It is important, therefore, to use your sickle to cut

down ALL dead crops at the end of any season! Otherwise, you may find that

all your dead crops have been watered while all your new seeds have been

ignored.

Note that the Sprites will not work during the Spring Season as they are very

busy having an endless Tea Party during Spring. When Spring ends, you can

hire them again.

If you wish to attend the Tea Party, speak to a Sprite first, then give each

Sprite in the Hut a gift. When each Sprite has received an item, the Party

will begin.

Sprite Labour Anomaly: Sometimes when you go to the Sprite Hut in ANY

season,

you will have no option to offer work to any of them. It is possible that,

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Hut on any given day to try to hire other Sprites, you will not be given the

option. In one file I did not have the option to hire Sprites after speaking

to Bold at my farm. In the same file replayed from 6.00 a.m. I did not speak

to Bold and then did have the option to hire Sprites when I visited the Hut.

The only difference I could find was the fact that I had spoken to a working

Sprite.

Harvest Sprite Tea Party

As in FoMT and MFoMT, the Harvest Sprites have a Tea Party in Spring. The

party lasts all month in this game and you will not be able to hire any

Sprites to work for you until Summer arrives. You will hear dialogue about

the tea party whenever you visit the Sprite Hut during Spring, but you will

not have the option to attend the tea party unless you enter the Hut between

3.00 p.m. and 4.00 p.m. You must have gifts for all 7 Sprites and you must

speak to one of the Sprites BEFORE you give out any gifts. Give a gift after

you speak to the Sprite and you will be told to give gifts to 'the others'.

When you have given the last gift to the seventh Sprite, you will be invited

to the Tea Party. You will find yourself at the Table with the HarvestSprites. Afterwards, you will be given some Relaxation Tea Leaves as a gift

in return for the gifts you brought to the party. The party will end at 4.00

p.m. and you will find yourself outside the Sprite Hut at that time with the

Relaxation Tea Leaves in your hands.

Relaxation Tea Leaves are required to make Relaxation Tea but in the first

Spring, if you have not expanded your house, you will not have a Kitchen in

which to make the tea. You either can carry it in your rucksack until you

have expanded your house to obtain a Shelf or you can ship it for 1000G.

Only one Tea Party can be attended by you each year, incidentally. Although

the Sprites hold a party each day in Spring from 3.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m., once

you have accepted the Invitation and joined them, you will not receive

another

until the following Spring.

'The 7 Brothers That Live in the Forest:

When you visit the Library, you will find a seven volume set of books that

deal with the history of the Harvest Sprites. When you access the bookcase,

you will receive a message:

These books were not written by Basil... It looks like they were written a

long time ago. They're titled 'The 7 Brothers in the Forest' volumes 1

through 7...

'The 7 Brothers That Live in the Forest - 1'

A long time ago, there were 7 little brothers who lived all apart from each

other. The brothers were not very friendly with the villagers becasue they

were small and the villagers seemed big and scary. Each brother had a

different favourite colour and liked a different favourite thing, so they

figured they would always live apart.


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'The 7 Brothers in the Forest -2'

One day Chef, whose favourite colour is red and who likes to cook, realised

he

had a problem.

'I love to cook, but there's nobody to eat my delicious food...'

Hoggy, whose favourite colour is yellow and who loves to sleep, also had a

problem.

'I love to sleep so much I don't want to geet up and cook, but then I just

get

hungrier and hungrier.'


You can hear the sound. Hoo Hooooo, at night. Something sparks in the

darkness.

'Ahhhh!' Shiver-shiver-shiver... Timid likes the colour green because it's

easy for him to hide in the forest. But even then he's scared. You can hear

the sound, Hoo Hooo, at night. Something sparks in the darkness.

'Hai, Yaaaa!'Crumble-crumble-crumble...

Bold loves purple because he can hide in the shadows and use his battle

cry 'Hai, Yaaa!' to defeat large enemies.


Stylish Aqua loves the colour light blue.

'Sigh... I'm ruinning out of provisions fast. I like being stylish, but when

I work I don't have the time...

'Ughhh... That's as much as I can do... Ahh!'

Staid is very serious and a hard worker. He likes the colour blue and

everything he wears is blue, so he is easy to spot.

'Staid, said Aqua, 'let's live together. It's got to be better than living

alone.'

'Aqua', said Satiad, 'what brings you here, and with a story like that?'

'Well you see,' said Aqua, 'whisper...whisper... whisper...

'The 7 Brothers in the Forest - 5'

'Ha ha ha, so that's it,' said Staid. 'Sure, let's live together. But what's

the point of everything being clean if you're still hungry?'

'Even when your stomach is fully, your heart remains hungry if things are not

clean,' replied Aqua.

'OK, so you do the chores like the cleaning and the laundry.'

'So, all I have to do is eat?' asked Hoggy.

'Yes, all you have to do is eat. I enjoy watching you eat my food and being

told it is delicious,' replied Chef.'I don't understand, but that's fine by me.'

'Ha ha ha, what a mess you are,' laughed Bold.

'Oh, it's you Bold,' squeaked Timid.

'Who did you think I was?'

'I don't know, but I'm scared of everything in the forest.'

'Well then, you should stay with me. I 'm not afraid of anything.'

'OK, if that's what we do...'

'If we're going to live together...'

'We'll need a bigger house...'


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'Let's leave the forest for a bit...'


So Chef and Hoggy, Staid & Aqua and Timid and Bold all decided to leave the

forest for a while. The first one to find the house was Staid.

'Hey, I found a house that's just right for us.'

'Yes, it's a lot smaller than a human house, but it's just the right size for

us.'

'But there's a light on inside.'

'Let's go in.'

'Hey, wait... Aqua'

... Crash!

'Oh...'


'Hello brother, long time no see.'

There in the house was the youngest brother, Nappy.

'Oh, it's you Nappy. You surprised me. How did you get this house?'

'The people of the village built it for me.'

'What?'

'I always thought there'd be a time when we would all live together, so I hadthem make 7 beds.'

'What made you think that?'

'Because look, all of you are here.'

'What?'

When Staid and Aqua turned around, they saw the rest of their brothers

walking

toward the house.

Rose Square

If you continue south along the path from the Church (and Harvest Sprite

Hut),

you will reach Rose Square. This is the location of most Festivals

throughout

the year. The exceptions are the Opening Day Festival at the Beach and the

Cow and Sheep Festival which are held at Yodel's Farm. Other than these, all

community festivals are held at Rose Square. On the western side of the

Square, you will find a billboard on which Mayor Thomas posts information

about upcoming festivals. In the centre of the northern side of the Square

is

the village rubbish bin. You can dispose of all rubbish items here without

fear of incurring the penalties attached to littering. When you are fishing

at the Beach, you will find this to be the closest place at which to dispose

of the many empty tins, old boots and fishbones that you drag from the water.

Rose Square has four entrances/exits. To the north, the path leads back to

the Church. To the west, it leads to the Inn. To the east is a staircase

that leads to the beach and to the south is an exit that leads to Yodel's

Farm.

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The beach is the location of the Opening Day Festival on the 1st day of

Summer. This is the day of the Swim Contest. If you are interested in

fishing, you will find that you catch the largest fish at the Beach or from

the pier. Zack's house is at the northern end of the Beach. To the right of

his house is the pier. In this game, you will not be able to use the boat

at

the pier to travel anywhere.

The Pier and the Fishing Rod

Go to the end of the Pier before 8.00 a.m. or after 6.00 p.m. on Friday,

Saturday or Sunday to meet Greg, an expert Fisherman. He will give you a

basic Fishing Rod, provided that you have no tool equipped in your hands.

When you have 50 Fish in your Fish Pond, Greg will visit your farm to offer

you a Fishing Pole, the highest level of fishing tool in this game.

To the left of Zack's house is Kai's Beach Shack. He serves food here in theSummer. The restaurant is shut throughout the other three seasons.

Kai's Seaside Lodge

Business Hourse:

8.40 a.m. to 11.30 a.m.

1.00 p.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Only open in Summer

Menu:

Snowcone: 300G (+0 Stamina -10 Fatigue)

Roasted Corn: 250G (+10 Stamina -1 Fatigue)

Pasta: 300G (+20 Stamina -1 Fatigue)

Pizza: 200G (+15 Stamina -1 Fatigue)

Water: 0G (+1 Stamina -0 Fatigue)

If your character has high fatigue, the Snowcone is the best item to purchase

here. Otherwise, the most powerful item in terms of energy restoration is

the

Pasta.

From the beach, take the stairs in the west to return to Rose Square. From

there, take the path south to arrive at Yodel's Farm.

Yodel's Farm

Yodel's Farm is the home of Barley and his granddaughter May as well as the

location of the local livestock business. It is from Barley that you will

purchase Cows, Sheep, Fodder and the Miracle Potion that can impregnate your

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second stage of growth and adult Sheep. You can sell any fully-grown Cows

and

Sheep to Barley if you no longer wish to keep them. The price he pays for an

ordinary Cow or Sheep is half the price for which he sells them. Only a Cow

or Sheep who has won a Crown at a Festival has a higher value and it is

foolish to sell them when the product they produce, once processed in the

appropriate Maker, is far more valuable than ordinary ranch product.

Hours of Business:

9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m.

Shut: Mondays

As Yodel's Farm is both a business and a home, you will be able to enter

often

to speak to Barley outside ordinary business hours. You will be able to

access the business menu only from 9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m., however.

Yodel's Farm Menu:

Fodder: 20GCow Miracle Potion, aka C.M. Potion: 3000G

Sheep Miracle Potion, aka S.M. Potion: 3000G

Buy Cow: 6000G

Buy Sheep: 4000G

Sell Cow

Sell Sheep

Bell: 500G

Animal Medicine: 1000G

A Cow purchased from Barley is at its second of three stages of growth. She

will not give Milk until she reaches her full adult stage a fortnight later.

A Sheep, on the other hand, can be sheared on the day of purchase. Sheep can

be sheared only once each week, however, while adult Cows can be milked

daily.

Care of Livestock

Each animal requires a full portion of fodder daily. If you keep your

animals

outside, you will need to have a fully ripened square of grass for each.

Grass can be cut with a sickle for fodder. It really is easier to keep all

animals inside the barn. Animals do not like bad weather and if you leaveany

animal outside in the rain or snow, you will lose heart levels with the

animal. Animals who are unhappy can become sick. An unhappy animal will not

give product. A sick animal MUST be treated with Animal Medicine or it may

die. If an animal dies, you will lose, not only the animal itself, but the

affection and friendship of every one in the village. You can prevent this

by

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The Bell is used to call animals back to the barn. It will not bring the

animal INTO the barn but only to you. You then must push the animal through

the doors. An animal with low heart level will not respond to the Bell at

all.

To the left of Yodel's Farm is a narrow path that leads south to the Forest

area where you will find Gotz' log cabin.

Expansions from Gotz:

Gotz the Woodcutter is in charge of all building expansions. You may be

interested primarily in expanding your house in order to be able to have a

kitchen and other 'mod cons', but Gotz will not offer this option until you

have expanded your Henhouse. Once your Henhouse expansion is completed, the

first House Expansion will become available. You then will not be given the

option to expand your house a second time until you have expanded your Barn.

Gotz Business Hours:

11.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.

Shut: on Weekends (Saturday and Sunday)

Find Gotz during working hours if you wish to order a building expansion from

him. Sometimes you will be able to order an expansion when he is outside

his

house but only during ordinary business hours. The expansions that are

offered will change depending upon your situation and previous upgrades you

have made to your farm, but Gotz ALWAYS sells lumber:

Lumber: 50G

N.B. It is a good idea to have your Axe upgraded at least to Copper as soon

as possible in the game, as the Basic Axe will NOT cut stumps. One stump

equals 6 pieces of Lumber. With a Copper Axe, you can chop a stump in 6

strokes. Make certain that you do not move when you are chopping wood. Each

stroke must be made from the same position in order to count. If possible,

complete the job! If you hit the stump five times, then leave and return,

you

will be required to use 6 more strokes.

Another note: In FoMT and MFoMT, cutting every stump in any area would lower

Gotz' friendship level a little. You will find 5 stumps outside his house

and

two at the Goddess Spring. I always try to leave one stump standing outsidehis house even in HM BG, although I have not confirmed the effect on Gotz'

friendship levels in this game.

When you find him on the mountain, however, he will warn you: Before you go

cutting trees let me tell you this. Don't act thoughtlessly. We humans are

blessed by the mountains.

He could be referring to the Magical Tree in the centre of the Meadow that is

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can obtain a Power Berry. I think not, however.

Costs of Building Upgrades:

Henhouse Expansion:

500G plus 420 pieces of lumber

First House Expansion:

4700G plus 370 pieces of Lumber

Barn Expansion:


Second House Expansion:


Hothouse:


Quick Guide to Building Upgrades

I am including a list of all upgrades and the cost of each in the order in

which they appear. Two prices are given here, the price if you supply the

lumber and the price you pay if Gotz supplies the Lumber. Each piece of

Lumber costs 50G.

Henhouse Expansion: 5000G + 420 pieces of lumber

Total Cost if you purchase the Lumber from Gotz: 21500G

1st House Expansion: 4700G + 370 pieces of Lumber


Barn Expansion: 6800G + 500 pieces of Lumber


2nd House Expansion: 10000G + 750 pieces of Lumber


Hothouse: 30000G + 580 pieces of Lumber


Cost of upgrade from basic Axe to Copper Axe at Smithy: 1000G + 1 piece ofCopper Ore

With the upgrade of an Axe from basic level to Copper, you will be able to

cut

all stumps on the map. Each stump will take six strokes of a Copper Axe and

will yield 6 pieces of lumber. There are 5 stumps in the Forest next to

Gotz'

house, 2 stumps near the Spa and 2 more in the Lake area. If you chop all

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these daily, they will yield 54 pieces of Lumber. If you do this, however,

you will lose friendship with Gotz. It is best to leave one stump standing

each day, but doing this, you still will gain 48 pieces of Lumber each day.

If you chop 8 stumps each day, it will take 8 to 9 days to collect the amount

of Lumber needed to order the Henhouse upgrade. In this game, building

upgrades are offered in a rigid order that cannot be changed. You must order

the Henhouse before the 1st house expansion will be offered. You then must

order the Barn Expansion before the 2nd house expansion will be offered.

The reason I am including this information in the Calendar Guide is because

building expansion must be a primary goal in the game if you wish to marry or

even own a kitchen. The kitchen is included in the 1st house expansion but

all Kitchen Utensils must be purchased from the Shopping Channel which will

begin to air only after you have the first house expansion.

In any event, it is a good idea to upgrade your Axe to copper at least as

early in the first Spring as possible, so that you can chop Stumps. By

chopping all Stumps daily, you should be able to order the Henhouse Upgrade

well before the end of the first Spring and possibly even order the 1st House

Upgrade before the beginning of the first Summer season.

N.B. At the start of the game, you will find a random number of branches and

stumps on your own farm. I have not factored these into my calculations but

chopping all of them should yield at least a total of 40 lumber.

As you can see, it is far better to invest 1000G in the upgrade of your Axe

as

early as possible than to be forced to resort to Gotz for the supply of

Lumber

for your Building needs.

Chicken Li'l's Poultry Farm

If, instead of taking the narrow path south, you continue west from Yodel's

Farm along the main path, you will reach Chicken Li'l's Poultry Farm. This,

like Yodel's Farm is both home and business. Popuri, her brother Rick and

their mother Lillia live and work at the Poultry Farm.

Hours of Business:

11.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m.

Shut: Sundays

Poultry Farm Menu:

Chicken Feed: 10G

Buy Chicken: 1500G

Sell Chicken:

Animal Medicine: 1000G

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Each Chicken requires one portion of Chicken Feed daily unless you keep the

Chickens outside. The danger of keeping chickens outside is from attacks by

the stray wild dog who actually will devour them in the night. You can build

a pen for your chickens using Wood Lumber or Stones. Although Stones

arguably

are better than Lumber for use in Pens in FoMT and MFoMT, in this game, there

are rumours to the effect that the Wild Dog can reach through the cracks

between stones. If your dog is fully trained, he can protect your animals to

some extent from the Wild Dog. Winning the Dog Race is a sign that your dog

is well-trained.

As with Cows and Sheep, an ordinary Chicken if sold to Lillia will bring far

less than the price you would pay for another Chicken. Lillia pays only 500G

for an ordinary Chicken.

Animal Medicine

Animal Medicine is sold both at the Poultry Farm and at Yodel's Farm. The

same medication is used both for Livestock and Chickens. In this game, you

only can purchase a single bottle of Animal Medicine. Once purchased, you

will not find another at either shop until the Animal Medicine in your

possession has been used.

Map of Mineral Town

Continue west (going left) from the Poultry Farm to reach your Farm. You

will

discover that Mineral Town is built in the form of a large square.

Saibara's

Smithy, Aja Winery, Basil's House and the Library are on the west or left

side

of the square. Ellen's House, Thomas' house, the Supermarket, the

Clinic/Hospital, the Church and the Sprite Hut are on the northern side of

the

square. Rose Square occupies the right side and Yodel's Farm, the Poultry

Farm and your own farm are on the southern side of the square that forms the

outer edge of the City Centre. The path to the Inn bisects the square from

north to south in the centre. As previously stated, you cannot reach the Inn

directly from your farm.

You can access a Map of Mineral Town with your current location at any time

bypressing the Select Button. This can be quite useful especially when you are

unfamiliar with the game. The explanation given for each location on the map

unfortunately does not include the hours of business but you can find that

information here in this guide.

TV Shopping:


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As in many Harvest Moon games, there are a number of vital items that only

can

be ordered by telephone and which are offered solely on a television Shopping

Network.

The TV Shopping Channel will not air until you have expanded your house. In

this game, a Refrigerator, Cabinet/Shelf and Kitchen automatically are

included with your first house expansion. As soon as your first house

expansion is completed, the TV Shopping Channel will begin to air on

Saturday. It is the Channel on the television that is accessed by means of

the Left Direction button or control. Watch the programme and then walk to

the Inn to use the telephone there for 10G.

Here is the order in which the items are offered as well as their prices.

Only one item will be ordered each week and only on Saturday. If you do not

watch the programme on Saturday, you will not be able to use the telephone to

order anything. As previously indicated, if you do not use the telephone on

Saturday, you will not be able to use it on any other day, even if a Festival

intervenes. Furthermore, you must watch the programme from beginning to end.

If you cut it short, the option to use the telephone will not be given.

Knife: 3000G

Frying Pan: 2500G

Pot: 2000G

Mixer: 2500G

Whisk: 1000G

Rolling Pin: 1500G

Oven: 5000G

Seasonings Set: 5000G

Power Berry: 5000G

As you can see, the last item that is offered is a Red Power Berry. It is a

good idea to purchase all items, however as completing your Cookbook is one

of

the subsidiary goals in this game and cooked items usually restore more

energy

than raw crops. Furthermore, cooked items make great gifts... provided

always

that you know which individuals love them!

If you fail to purchase an item when it is offered, it will go to the end of

the list and be the last item offered by the Shopping Network. In other

words, if the Frying Pan is the item offered on Saturday but you are unable

to

order it because Saturday is the day of the Music Festival and the Inn is

locked, the item ordered the next week will be the next item on the list, the

Pot. The Frying Pan then will be the item offered AFTER the Power Berry.

Local Horse Races

In the Boy version of the game, there is only one date on which there are

Horse Races and that is 18 Spring each year. In the Girl version of the

game,

there are Horse Races both in Spring and in Autumn on 18 Spring and 25 Fall

respectively. The races are held in each case in Rose Square from 10.00 a.m.


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to 6.00 p.m. You can arrive as late at 5.50 p.m. in order to witness and bet

on all three Races.

The Horse Races offer an opportunity both to bet on three different races and

to participate in the third race provided you have an adult horse. In your

first year, you will not have an adult horse and therefore your only option

will be to bet on the races.

There are three races in the Spring Horse Race. In order to bet, you must

exchange your gold for Medals. At the end of each race, you have an

opportunity to exchange your Medals for Prizes. The best prizes are the ones

with the highest prices, as one might imagine. In fact, the REAL Prize is a

Power Berry costing 1001 Medals.

Here is a list of the Prizes:

Mystrile Ore: 3 Medals

Truffle: 12 Medals

Bodigizer XL: 15 Medals

Turbojolt XL: 21 Medals

Earrings: 33 MedalsNecklace: 35 Medals

Bracelet: 42 Medals

Power Berry: 1001 Medals

500 Lumber: 97 Medals

Each Medal costs 50G so it is not really a good idea to trade gold directly

for Medals in order to purchase prizes with them. It is far better to bet

judiciously and then use your winnings in order to purchase specific prizes.

The prizes that are worth purchasing are:

Earrings: 33 Medals

Power Berry: 1001 Medals

You probably will not be able to purchase the Power Berry until the Horse

Race

in the second Spring. At that point, you should have made all Building

Upgrades, including the Hothouse and will have no further need of Lumber

apart

from the occasional piece that you throw into your furnace in Winter to

restore energy or the creation of a new pen for chickens or livestock.

Unless

you have NOT made all buildling upgrades, the purchase of Lumber with Medals

will be unnecessary.

Once you have the Power Berry, your future purchases with Medals should beEarrings. All Jewelry items ship for the same value of 2000G. You therefore

are best advised to trade 33 Medals for Earrings rather than 35 or 42 for

other Jewelry items. You then can ship the Jewelry. Always go to the Races

with an empty Rucksack in order to bring back the maximum number of items in

the form of Earrings.

Mystrile ships only for 40G and can be found easily in the Spring Mine on the

lower floors. It is foolish to trade medals for Mystrile. A Truffle may be

worth an investment of 12 medals in your first Spring as it ships for 500G.


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On the other hand, 12 Medals is the equivalent of 600G so you will not make

a

real profit by shipping a Truffle purchased with Medals. 33 Medals, on the

other hand, is the equivalent of 1650G. Even if you convert gold into Medals

in your first Spring in order to buy Earrings to ship, it will give you a

small profit of 350G per item. That is not a bad profit in the first season

of gameplay. If you can win the medals by betting successfully, so much the

better.

Cooking and Recipes:

Recipes in this game can be obtained through a number of different methods.

You can use 'trial and error' to experiment. Every successful dish will be

recorded in your Cookbook. Once a recipe is recorded, you can refer to it

and

when chosen in the menu, it will be made automatically.

Failed dishes are called 'Food Fiasco'. You can eat them or give them as

gifts, but it generally is unpopular with individuals!

Other methods of obtaining recipes are by watching 'The Delicious Hour', the

cooking programme that airs on the television each Tuesday, or by speaking to

various individuals. When you have reached a certain level of friendship

with

Ellen and give her another gift, she will impart to you the secret of making

a

good sandwich. (Sandwiches feature in a number of events and conversations

in

this game. Elli's Blue Heart Event involves three occasions upon which you

are required to test her Sandwiches!) Recipes given by individuals are

included in my Cookbook Recipe Guide.

There is a book in the Library that gives a few Recipes as well. All recipes

are included both in this guide and in the Cookbook Recipe Guide.

Like the 'Basic', 'Better' and 'Best' Recipes in my Cooking Guides for

FoMT/MFoMT and Harvest Moon DS, you can make a recipe using only the Basic

ingredients, utensils and seasonings or you can make the 'Best' Recipe by

adding Optional ingredients, utensils and seasonings. The 'Best' recipe will

have a higher value in terms of restoring energy. In this game, Cooked

Dishes

cannot be shipped and therefore have no monetary value whatsoever.

As soon as your house has been expanded for the first time, TV Shopping will

begin to air on Saturdays on the Channel accessed with the Left direction

button. As in FoMT and MFoMT, once you have watched the TV Shoppingprogramme

on television, you will be able to use the telephone at the Inn by paying

10G. If you do not watch television, you will not be able to buy an item.

If

you cannot make it to the Inn on Saturday, you CANNOT use the telephone to

make the order on Sunday in this game, annoyingly enough. In your first

year,

the Music Festival will occur on Saturday, 3 Fall. The Shopping Channel will


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air on television but the Inn will be locked. When you go to the Inn the

next

day, the phone service will be unavailable! Quite unfair really.

Furthermore, if for any reason, you fail to order the item offered on

Saturday, it will not be offered again on the following Saturday. The TV

Shopping Network will offer the NEXT item on the list. Any item that you

failed to order will be the last item to be offered.

Items ordered by telephone take 3 days to arrive. If you order the item on

Saturday, Zack will deliver the item on Tuesday morning at 6.00 a.m.

The first item that will be available on the TV Shopping programme is the

Knife. The Knife costs 3000G.

The first recipes that you will be able to make, therefore, are those that

require either no utensils at all or those that require use only of the

Knife.

Players of Harvest Moon DS and Harvest Moon Cute DS will not be familiar with

the 'Seasoning Set' beloved of players of Friends of Mineral Town and MoreFriends of Mineral Town. In this game as well, the TV Shopping Network

offers

a 'Seasoning Set' that includes Salt, Sugar, Miso Paste, Soy Sauce and

Vinegar. Many Basic Recipes actually REQUIRE the addition of one or more of

these Seasonings. I have tried to distinguish between required Seasonings

and

Optional Seasonings in any Recipe. Where any Seasoning is required, failure

to add it to the dish will result in a Food Fiasco. Where any Seasoning is

optional, the addition of it merely will add to the energy value of the dish

but you can make the Basic Dish successfully without it.

Easy Recipes:

Here are the first recipes that you can make in this game. Raisin Bread,

Mushroom Rice and Bamboo Rice require no utensils at all. Salad, Sandwich

and

Sashimi require nothing more than a knife. Oddly enough, I compiled this

list

BEFORE I read Lillia's book about Cooking in the Library that you will be

able

to order from Mary in the Girl version of the game. Some of the recipes

included in this section are given in Lillia's Book as well. Great cooks

think alike perhaps?

Raisin Bread:Ingredients: Bread, Wild Grapes

Utensils: None

Seasonings: None

Bread can be purchased from the Supermarket for 100G. Wild Grapes are

available in the wilds in Autumn. You can find two daily near the western

shore of the Lake.

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Ingredients: Bamboo Shoot, Rice Ball

Utensils: None

Seasonings: None

Optional Seasonings: Salt, Soy Sauce

I have included Bamboo Rice as technically it would be one of the first

Recipes you could make, provided only that you saved a Bamboo Shoot from the

Spring season. If you did not save any Bamboo Shoots and you did not expand

your house before the end of Spring, you will not be able to make this Recipe

in your first year. The Rice Ball can be purchased from the Supermarket for

100G.

Mushroom Rice:

Ingredients: Mushroom, Rice Ball

Utensils: None

Seasonings: None

Optional Seasonings: Salt, Soy Sauce

You should have no trouble making Mushroom Rice once you reach your first

Autumn, as four Mushrooms can be found daily in the Wilds during the Autumn

season. Rice Balls can be purchased from the Supermarket for 100G.

Truffle Rice uses almost the same recipe as Mushroom Rice and Bamboo Rice,

with the difference only of a Truffle instead of Mushroom or Bamboo Shoot.

As

a Truffle is more valuable than a Mushroom or Bamboo Shoot, it is better to

ship it usually than to make it into a Cooked Dish.

Salad

Ingredients: Cucumber, Cabbage, Carrot and/or Tomato

Utensils: Knife

Seasonings: None

Optional Seasonings: Vinegar, Salt

Once you have purchased a Knife from the TV Shopping Channel, you will be

able

to make a Basic Salad. You can make a successful Salad using only one crop.

Cucumber and Cabbage are Spring crops. Store them in your Refrigerator to

use

year-round until you have a Hothouse to grow them in any season. Tomato is a

Summer crop and Carrots are an Autumn crop. Again, try to store all crops in

your Refrigerator until you can order the Hothouse from Gotz.

Sandwich

Ingredients: Bread, Cucumber or Tomato

Utensils: Knife

Seasonings: None

A Sandwich can be made once you have purchased the Knife from the TV Shopping

Channel. Buy Bread at the Supermarket for 100G. Cucumber is a Spring Crop.

Store it in your Refrigerator for use year-round. Tomato is a Summer Crop.

Again, it can be stored in your Refrigerator year-round until you have a

Hothouse and can grow crops in every season.

Sashimi:

Ingredients: Medium Fish or Large Fish


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Utensils: Knife

Seasonings: None

Sashimi is a wonderful Recipe, requiring only a Knife and a Medium or Large

Fish. Unfortunately, fishing is more a matter of catching rubbish than fish

in this game until you have the best Fishing Rod, a gift from Greg once you

have caught 50 Fish. Until then, you will be forced to be extremely

determined if you wish to catch fish in sufficient quantities to allow you to

make Sashimi regularly. Remember that a small fish placed in the Fish Pond

will grow larger, provided always that you feed it Fish Food daily.

Individuals who Love Easy Dishes:

This section may be useful to players who cannot wait to cook and who wish to

be able to give their Cooked Dishes to people who appreciate them. I have

made lists of the eligible girls, bachelors and villagers who like the Cooked

Dishes that can be made when you first begin to cook. I added Bamboo Shoots,

Apples and Spa Eggs simply because they are plentiful and popular although

they are not items that are prepared in your kitchen.

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Love Salad: Ann

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Like Salad: Elli, Karen, Cliff, Doctor, Kai

Villagers who Love Salad: Gotz

Villagers who like Salad: Jeff, Basil, Duke

Eligible Bachelors/Girls who Love Mushroom Rice: Ann, Mary, Cliff

Eligible Girls/ Bachelors who like Mushroom Rice: Popuri, Doctor

Villagers who love Mushroom Rice: Basil, Ellen, Louis, Zack

Villagers who like Mushroom Rice:: Jeff, Saibara, Doug, Barley, Duke

Eligible Girls/ Bachelors who Love Bamboo Rice: Ann, Mary, Cliff

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Like Bamboo Rice: Popuri, Bamboo Rice

Villagers who love Bamboo Rice: Saibara, Basil, Duke, Ellen, Zack

Villagers who like Bamboo Rice: Jeff, Sasha, Doug, Barley, Kano

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Love Raisin Bread: Mary

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Like Raisin Bread: Ann, Cliff, Rick

Villagers who Love Raisin Bread: Manna, Gotz

Villagers who like Raisin Bread: Sasha, Basil, Ellen, Harris, Louis, Zack

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who love Sashimi: Karen

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who like Sashimi: Elli, Cliff, Kai

Villagers who Love Sashimi: Thomas, Duke

Villagers who like Sashimi: Doug, Barley, Manna, Greg

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who love Sandwich: Popuri, CliffEligible Girls/Bachelors who like Sandwich: Elli

Villagers who Love Sandwich:Harris, Stu

Villagers who Like Sandwich: Jeff, Basil, Duke

Eligible Girls/ Bachelors who love Spa Egg: Ann, Popuri, Cliff, Doctor, Rick

Eligible Girls /Bachelors who like Spa Egg: Karen

Villagers who Love Spa Egg: Basil, Barley, Duke, Harris

Villagers who Like Spa Egg: Jeff, Carter, Thomas, Louis


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Eligible Girls/Bachelors who love Bamboo Shoot: Mary, Doctor

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Like Bamboo Shoot:

Villagers who Love Bamboo Shoot: Jeff, Saibara, Doug, Thomas, Ellen, Kano

Villagers who Like Bamboo Shoot: Manna, Harris, Zack, Basil, Barley

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who love Apples:

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Like Apples: Ann, Cliff

Villagers who like Apples: Kai, Jeff, Sasha, Saibara, Doug, Carter, Anna,

Lillia, Manna, Harris, Greg, Stu, May, Duke, Ellen, Gotz, Zack

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Love Honey: Popuri, Rick

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who like Honey: Doctor, Kai

Villagers who Love Honey: Doug, May, Manna, Ellen, Kano, Louis, Stu

Villagers who like Honey: Jeff, Sasha, Carter, Basil, Anna, Barley, Thomas,

Lillia, Gotz, Harris

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who love Bread: Kai

Eligible Girls/Bachelors who Like Bread: Ann, Popuri, Grey, Cliff

Villagers who Love Bread: Carter, Duke, Louis

Villagers who Like Bread; Basil, Ell

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