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Contents 1 Easy money 2 Eligible girls 3 Flirt with most of the girls in one day 4 Field upgrades 5 Special children 6 The Harvest Witch 7 Cheap items to sell and unlock Harvest Sprites 8 Eligible brides 9 Change weather 10 Saving time 11 Easy fish 12 Easy upgrade 13 Easy watering can upgrade 14 Can Food Maker 15 Diamonds 16 Love Bangle 17 Pets 18 Speed petting 19 Rucksack 20 Watering can 21 Littering 22 Building materials 23 Recommended crops 24 Shop hours 25 TV Shopping channel 26 Leia 27 Lumina 28 Accessing the super crop field 29 Kill the mayor

Easy money

After you get the Legendary Sword from the bottom of the second mine and unlock the Super Field behind the waterfall, go there in the Fall and plant Yams. Because the Waterfall Field speeds up growth by one day and the Yams regrow every two days, there will be a new harvest every day after the initial harvest.

If you are lucky enough to get the Miracle Gloves from the Harvest Sprite casino, have them equipped while you are going through the mines. Whenever you excavate anything you do not need, such as rubble, toss it immediately so that it is shipped. This is a good method to save the Harvest Sprites unlocked by number of items shipped.

When you get three fishing sprites, make them fish at the beach. You will get a huge sum of money each day.

Dig at the mines and try to get jewelry. Then on day 3 and 8 when Van is selling his items at his store, sell them to him. However, try to get the prices up to 3,000 gold or more.
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Eligible girls

The girls that you can marry are: Harvest Goddess, Mermaid , Princess, Aafi , Arisa , Erisu , Kaarii , Reona, Marivia, Serena , Nasuka , Furen, and Muu.
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Flirt with most of the girls in one day

Note: This works if you have a kitchen and some grapes. First, take care of the farm. Get an extra chicken and do not feed it or do anything with it. Every time this chicken dies buy another one. Then, bake a cake for Celia. Make any type of meal and check if you have some new grapes on the farm. If so, keep them or make them into juice or wine. Pick a flower and hunt for jewelry, suntan lotion, and a beauty mask. Give the jewelry, suntan lotion, or mask to Muffy. Give the flower to Lumina. Give Celia the cake and rush to the Inner Inn. Give the grapes, wine, or grape juice to Nami and offer the meal to Flora. Ship lots of items such as copper and flowers to find a Harvest Sprite and tend your animals with care. Then, go to the mine after everything is done (do not ride your horse) to find more jewelry for tomorrow. Do not bring anything that gives you stamina or lowers fatigue. Make sure you pass out. Note: Do not flirt with Mineral Town girls. If you marry one you must move to Mineral Town and your game will end.

Field upgrades

The different items that you cam use to upgrade your field houses will rot away after different periods of time. The following materials can be used to upgrade:

Grass/ Hay: The weakest

Lumber: Average

Stone: Good

Golden Lumber: Excellent

Special children

If you get married to either the Harvest Goddess, Harvest Witch, Princess, or Furen, you may get a special child. This is a child that wears different clothes and looks differently instead of the child you will get by getting married to any other girl.

The Harvest Witch

Her birthday is on Winter 29. She lives in the small hut near the mansion. She likes Red Grass and Poisonous Mushrooms, and loves Rainbow Curry.

Cheap items to sell and unlock Harvest Sprites

This trick requires some patience and quite a bit of money. Having the Miracle Gloves also is recommended. Call up either of the livestock farms and buy as much fodder/feed as you can afford, usually in amounts of 99 each. Sell all of them, which is easy with the Miracle Gloves equipped. The Sprites require the following numbers to be unlocked. Note: All the sprites unlocked are part of the harvest team.

Paddy: About 500 items sold.

Fraw: About 1000 items sold.

Ridge: About 5000 items sold.

Ali: About 10,000 items sold.

Cady: About 30,000 items sold.

Eligible brides

Flora, The Harvest Goddess, Keria, Leia, The Witch Princess, Muffy, Nami, Lumina, Celia, Ann, Popuri, Elli, Karen, and Mary.

Change weather

To change the next day's weather, reload the previous day and go to bed. This works best if you save before you go to bed and check the weather the first thing in the morning so you do not loose any work. It may also require a few attempts. You can also avoid a collapsing building or animal death by doing this.
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Saving time

While in a building, equip a tool from your rucksack. Then, access your map via the touchscreen. For example, if you have your watering can while using the map, touch one of your crops with the stylus to water that specific crop. This is a great way to take care of crops, gathering building materials, etc. while wasting no game time whatsoever.

Easy fish

When you get a basement, fish in the water hole. You can get fish and it does not waste time.

Easy upgrade

Buy lots of Bodigizers or XL and Turbojolt or XL. Then, go in house and milk/shear/hammer/axe/sickle/fish/hoe/water the air (press Y) until you almost passed out. Then, drink the Bodigizer or Turbojolt and use your tool again. Repeat this process until it is upgraded. This saves lots of time.

Easy watering can upgrade

When trying to upgrade your watering can, fill it with water a lot of times. Release the water on anything. You can watch the meter go up by at least 10 every time. Also, Bodigizers and Turbo Jolts might be needed.

Can Food Maker

After you get the maker shed, try to buy the Can Food Maker as fast as you can. Putting shipable items in it increases your profit by 25%. This really helps with high level crops. If you put a level 100 pineapple in it you will get an extra 2,500,000 G.

Diamonds

Once you have opened up the second mine, spend some time in it to mine as many diamonds or pink diamonds as possible. Instead of selling them, give them to the girl of your choice. Almost every eligible girl loves receiving diamonds, which give two thirds more affection points than just flowers or other basic gifts.

Love Bangle

If you want to know how much a girl loves you, buy the Love Bangle from the Harvest Sprite Casino. It costs 5,000 medals but is worth it, especially when trying to marry Muffy.

Pets

To get as high a friendship as you want with anyone in town, repeatedly try to give them your pet. If you have the Love Bangle equipped (not necessary for the effect), you will see that every time you talk to a person with a pet in your arms their friendship score will increase one point. If you do this inside and have a lot of patience, you can get someone to as high a score as desired within one day. This method is also useful for unlocking the Channel 7 Harvest Sprite, who will appear the day after you earn at least 100 friendship points with someone. If you do not have the Love Bangle equipped, then just show your pet to someone 100 times.

Speed petting

Before you begin to pet your cows, sheep, or horses, tap the Harvest Sprite Station. You can speed by the animals and give them hearts. This is very useful if you have lots of animals.

Rucksack

Instead of putting everything in different squares, put them together. For example, if you need two of the yellow flowers put one in one square and the other in the same square. It should now read "2".

Watering can

To increase the rate at which your watering can powers up, repeatedly fill it up at any water source, such as the pond at your farm. When you have filled it up enough times for your taste, use it once and your experience with it will increase significantly. Even when it is near Mystrile level, each time you fill it will count as one value better then the three to four uses per value it took before. This is easiest if you have a basement, because you can use the watering hole in it to avoid passing time during the day.

Littering

The only place where you can litter is on your field. Anywhere else will cause people to begin disliking you.

Building materials

Fodder/Grass: Can collapse at any time and any weather.

Wood: Will stand but will most likely collapse during any storm.

Stone: Recommended material as it is much cheaper then Golden Lumber and still will not go collapse very often. You have about a 5% chance of it collapsing during a storm.

Golden Lumber: Will never collapse but is very expensive at 100,000 G each.

Recommended crops

Spring: Cabbage. High selling price, fifteen days to grow, sells for 250 G each at level 1.

Spring: Turnip. Although low selling, the price grows rapidly making it very easy to level up. In one full season of Spring you should be able to level it to about 20 to 30 which sells for 24,000 G each at level 20 and 54,000 G each at level 30.

Summer: Pineapples.- Takes a long time to level up without the basement. You can only level it up once a year. Sells very high at level 1. It sells for 500 G each and at level 10 it sells for 50,000 G each.

Fall: Sweet Potatoes (Yams).-Some of the best crops. They grow back every other day. At level 1 they sell for 100 G each and at level 10 they sell for 10,000 G each.

Shop hours

Shop in person

Vesta's Farm: 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.; closed Mondays

Van's Shop: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; only open on dates with a "3" and "8" in them.

Shop by phone

Poultry Farm: 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closed Sundays

Yodel Ranch: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Closed Sundays

Supermarket: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed Tuesdays and Sundays

Saibara the Blacksmith: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closed Thursdays

Gotz the Woodcutter: 11am to 4 p.m.; Closed Saturdays

Church: 12:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closed Saturdays and Sundays

T.V. Shopping Channel: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Open every day

TV Shopping channel

To earn the TV Shopping channel, you must buy items from Karen at the Supermarket for ten days in a row. You will then unlock channel 2 and get the TV Shopping Network.

Leia

The first step in marrying Leia is to befriend Daryl. An easy to do this is to go to Daryl's lab (located near the beach) with your dog. Keep trying to give him your dog. Every time you do this his friendship goes up by 1. Keep doing this until his friendship reaches 101. Select the basement door and you will unlock Leia and her Grey Heart event. Leia loves Sashimi and Large Fish, which gives you 800 affection. She favors other fish (they earn 300 affection). She also really likes jewelry (giving her 500 affection). In order to do Leia's Yellow Heart event you must fish out a bottle in the ocean at spring. Part of her Yellow Heart event is her returning to the ocean. This means you will no longer be able to see her in Daryl's lab. Instead, you can find her along the sea shore at midnight on Wednesdays. In order to marry Leia you must have the double bed, have found 60 Harvest Sprites, and bought back the Harvest Goddess. You also need a pond for Leia to stay in.

Lumina

Birthday: Spring 29

800 love points: RelaxTea (Pot, Relaxtea Leaves)

500 love points: Diamond, Pink Diamond

Strawberry Milk (Pot, Milk + Strawberry)

Baked Yam (Oven, Sweet Potato)

Dry Curry (Frypan, Rice + Curry P)

Omelet (Frypan, Egg + Milk + Oil)

Omelet Rice (Frypan, Egg + Milk + Oil + Rice)

Black: Mansion, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Purple: Your house after purchasing the DVD Player

Blue: Goddess Pond, 1 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Yellow: Lumina's bedroom, 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Accessing the super crop field

After you get the Legendary Sword from the bottom of the second mine, equip it and go near the pile of rocks that block the super crop field. Then, press A.

Kill the mayor

At the very start of the game, after the Harvest Goddess and the Witch Princess intermission sequence, you will meet the mayor. After you try to attack him several times, your dog will bite him and he will ask you to help him. Say "No", and he will die. Note: You will lose the game if you do this.