Harvest Moon GB isn't just about developing a farm and gettin rich, it's also about the quest to save your Grandfather's farm, and finding the road to happiness. This interesting game rates you on how you treat your animals, raise them, and manage a farm all at the same time. You can be a boy or a girl and choose a cat or dog as your pet. There are four new kinds of produce since Harvest Moon for the SNES, an underground cave that's inhabited by little gnomes, and new and improved tools.
Table of Contents:
1) Revisions/Updates 2) Hints and Tactics 3) The Items 4) The Gnomes 5) Spring 6) Summer 7) Fall 8) Winter 9) The Crops 10) Legal Junk
Version 1.0 - First Revision. Most of the writing. If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at: _ lroth@sk.sympatico.ca _
******************************************* Hints and Tactics *******************************************
- You shouldn't waste your valuable energy on breaking up small rocks and pebbles with your hammer. Simply pick them up and toss them into the pond in the lower left corner for an energy free way
- In your house, beside your bed in the dresser door is 1000G. Use this to buy extra seed or get a headstart on saving up your money
- You should plant your crops as close as you can to the shipping crate until you have a fully matured horse that can carry saddlebags
- How you enter your name dtermines what crops you are able to grow and buy. Capitalizing the first letter in your name allows you to grow eggplant and carrots. Leaving the first letter lower case will allow you to grow peanuts and broccoli. To grow all the crops, make the first letter in your name a symbol.
- You shouldn't bother expanding or adding additions to your house until you have a very steady cashflow or lots of extra cash
- When you plot your plots, think strategically when you plant them. Some various patterns are below: Square plots will use all the seeds in each sack, but the middle square won't be accessible to water.
Rows are the quickest to water when you use a sprinkler, but you'll only be able to harvest 66% of what you sow.
C-shaped plots are wasteful designs that you can only grow 55% of a whole bag of seeds from each sack you sow.
U-shaped plots are very productive and easy to water, allowing you to harvest 89% of your planted seeds!
******************************************* The Items *******************************************
Axe/Super Axe - Use the axe to chop up stumps. Tell the truth to the Harvest Goddess after the earthquake.
Hammer/Super Hammer - Use the hammer to smash large rocks. After remodelling your house you will receive the super hammer
Hoe/Super Hoe - Use the hoe to till your fields. The harvest sprite will turn it into the super hoe if you are nice to it and are helpful.
Sickle/Super Sickle - Use the sickle to cut tall grass. You will eventually get the super sickle if you keep helping the gnomes.
Watering Can - Use this to... water the crops and grass. You get it upon your first purchase of seeds at the flower shop
Sprinkler - Look in the tool shop on the 19th day of sprinng. This nifty item is 2000GP.
Umbrella - Only a true harvest master can make it rain on a sunny day. Just simply open the umbrella.
Lumber - You can get lumber by chopping up the stumps on your farm or by forking over 500GP at the carpenter shop
Cow Bell - You get this by purchasing a cow your first time. It calls the cows.
Brush - The brush is sold in the Tool shop for 800GP. Always brush your cows every day to keep them happy.
Milker - Get this at the tool shop for 1800GP. Buy it for mature cows.
Cow Food - Feed the cows with it. It costs 700GP at the animal store.
Chicken Feed - Use this only when your silo is completely empty because this item can quickly drain your cash. It costs 500GP
Medicine - Your cows get sick if you neglect them. If this happens, buy it at the animal store for 1000GP to cure them
First Aid Kit - An improved medicine vaccine. You can buy it in the second year for 2000GP.
Cow Potion - Use this to breed a baby calf. It costs 4000GP but farm bred animals are happier than store bought.
Pick Axe - You might get this as a gift at the end of the year. Only a true harvest master may weild it.
Saddlebags - The saddlebags work like a portable shipping crate. You can buy it in the second year for 2500GP
Butter Churn - Ann will make this some time during the second year. It costs 30000GP
Cheese Maker - Ann will also make this for you during the second spring. It costs 30000GP
Fishing Pole - You can't get this unless you're a true harvest master. You can fish inside the caverns
Meat Dumpling - Restores 10 stamina points
Rice Ball - Restores 20 stamina points
Croissant - Restores 30 stamina points
Cake - Restores 25% of stamina
Lunch - Restores 50% of stamina
Milk - Restores 10 stamina points
Green Tea - Restores 20 stamina points
Wild Grape Juice - Restores 30 stamina points
Apple Juice - Restores 50% of stamina
Orange Juice - Restores stamina points
Power Berry - Extends your stamina bar by 5 points. These are found by digging around your field.
******************************************** The Gnomes ********************************************
Have you ever seen that door at the back of your tool shed??? Living under your shed are tiny little people called gnomes. Visit them often, and pick them a mushroom every time you visit. If they need help, be sure to help them because remember, no good deed goes unrewarded...
******************************************* Spring *******************************************
Plant your first batch of crops near the shipping crate. Add lots more plots of grass as you get more livestock and chickens. Clear small portions of land daily, starting with near the shipping crate, be sure to have one chicken before summer.
EVENTS:
1st day of spring - Make a trip to the flower shop and buy seed. Clear just enough land to plant five fields and some grass
10th day of spring - You get a horse
24th day of spring - Last day to plant potatoes.
25th day of spring - Last day to plant radishes.
27th day of spring - Go to a picnic. It will greatly improve your happiness score. Make sure to feed your animals before the end of the day.
Work into the night to prepare your fields for corn or tomatoes. Make sure to get all your crops picked by the first day of fall. Expand the plots around your shipping crate. Stay up late planting fields and plowing grass. When you have a steady income, buy cattle, then improve your house.
EVENTS:
1st day of summer - Buy a sprinkler
- Sometime between the 1st and tenth day of summer, an earthquake will occur. Be prepared.
- A monsoon will strike every year at least once in the summer. Watch the weather reports to be prepared for the worst.
26th day of summer - Last day to water tomatoes and harvest a crop before fall.
27th day of summer - Last day to water corn and harvest them. Now concentrate on cutting grass for the winter.
**************************************** Fall ****************************************
Help a neighbour to improve your happiness score. Concentrate mostly on cutting grass because you can't make that much profit in the fall with crops. It's the best time to raise a calf if you want to.
EVENTS:
9th day of fall - Raise a cow if you want to. It's the best time.
10th day of fall - Be sure to stock your pantry. You can buy up yo 99 dumplings, rice balls, and croissannts.
15th day of fall - Clear the rest of your farm to raise your farming stats at the end of the year. Dispose of all rocks and tree stumps.
20th day of fall - Last day to plant and harvest grass before winter.
If you haven't stocked up on food and grass, this winter will be the hardest 30 days of the year. Carrots will turn a winter profit, if you have enough money for the seed.
EVENTS:
19th day of winter - Last day to plant broccoli and harvest before spring.
20th day of winter - A neighbour girl has lost her bird. Finding it will raise your over-all happiness score in the game.
23rd day of winter - Last day to plant carrots and harvest before spring.
24th day of winter - Someone may stop by your farm and invite you to a party. Attending will raise your happiness score.
30th day of winter - Your evaluation. Your Grandfather will visit you and tel you how you've done. He may give you some gifts as rewards.
******************************************* The Crops *******************************************
Potatoes - Price: 150GP Yield: 80GP Potatoes take longer to grow than turnips, but are the best cash crop in spring.
Turnips - Price: 120GP Yield: 60GP You'll get fast cash with turnips, but potatoes are better.
Tomatoes - Price: 200GP Yield: 100GP You won't earn a pile of money growing tomatoes instead of corn, but these ripen extremely fast.
Corn - Price: 300GP Yield: 120GP Corn is expensive, but it's the cream of the crop because you can keep harvesting this without buying more seeds.
Eggplant - Price: 150 GP Yield: 60GP Eggplant grow in five days. There isn't much demand for these though, so you won't make a great profit.
Peanuts - Price: 200GP Yield: 60 GP Peanuts mature in seven days. Peanut seeds are more expensive than eggplant, so your profit margin is less.
Broccoli - Price: 500GP Yield: 120 GP Broccoli is expensive and slow to grow, and it has the lowest profit margin.
Carrots - Price: 300GP Yield: 120GP Carrots are a good cash crop that grow almost as fast as eggplant, but the seeds cost as much as corn.
