Friday 29 April 2016

Day 3

Awakened at 6.00 today with full stamina and a healthy face because I went to bed last night at 11.57.  I did the field first.  36 plots take 2 hours to water and use one full stamina heart.

Bought my first chick and of course named her Sparkle.  Picked her up as one does in HM and got a BIG RED HEART from her.  I don't think one can do more at this point.

Tested Tabitha's likes and dislikes pronouncements by giving Dewy some Flour.
Dewey with cross heart:  Waaaah!  Why are you giving me something I hate?  Do you hate me or something, you meanie?

Every merchant or shop has three different tabs:

Brutus Shop:

Material Stone: 50G
Glass: 100G
Iron: 150G
Bronze: 150G
Silver: 200G
Gold 400G
Mithril: 500G
Orichalcum: 500G
Adamantite: 500G
Agate: 500G
Jade: 500G
Fluorite: 700
Opal: 700G
Crystal: 700G
Peridot 700
Moonstone
Onyx: 800
Topaz: 800
Amethyst: 800
Ruby: 800
Emerald:800
Sapphire: 900G
Diamond: 900G
PInk Diamond: 1000G
Soul Gem: 1200G

For each of the Ores, you will need 3 to make one piece... for each of the Gems, you need only 1.

Animal Barn Upgrader: 24500G
Fence: 100G
Large House: 85000G

Tools:
xxxxx

Silver Axe: 1000G
Silver Hammer
Silver Watering Can
Silver Hoe: 1000G

Each requires 16 pieces of Silver Ore to make.

Tony for Silver Ore with music:  This is for me?  Thanks!

Naomi for Mirthril with Music: Fact check: you mean I can keep this?  You're too kind!

Hunter for softwood:  Huh?  Much oblliged... ppreciate it.

Jimmu:  You're giving this to me?  To keep?  Yeah!  Lucky me!

Gilbert for Tulip with music:  Ho ho, thank you!  This pleases me!

In mining, I haven't found any pitfalls or any floors without a ladder, nor have I ever found the ladder beneath a rock that had to be smashed.  Reloading NEVEr changes the position of the ladder but will change the type of ore you obtain from the rocks.

Why does Bread give me two full hearts at one point and only 1 1/2 later?  I have been mining for awhile and this is the first time I used it and Saved... but I had one full heart and only have 2 1/2 with the bread...

Made it to Floor 46 in the Mine and found Amethyst, Topaz, Moonstone and Onyx Ores.  Had less than a quarter of a heart and no food.  You can't eat Sugar or Salt...

Came out and spoke to the girl and she said:  You look like you're about to faint!  Get some rest right away.

Fried Egg: 3

Memory is 'Worried Citizen'

I chose the spa for the second time today and got 3 Hearts... did not stay as wish to visit people.

Hanna for Fried Egg with music: Yeah!  Nice!  Thanks!
Gilbert for Fried Egg with music:  Ho ho, thank you!  This pleases me!  (He's easy.)
Luke for Fried Egg with big heart:  I can have this?!  Awesome!  I love it!

I cannot get ANY service in this place.  I  talk to every one in vain.  Evidently there IS no service.

4 Spring:

I buy my first cow and name her Melody.  I go to see Brutus but I do not have 16 pieces of Silver so have to return to the Mine.

Give Brutus 1000G and 16 silver and he makes a Silver Watering Can.

He tells me it is possible to water much land at once.  First select ground you want water and keep finger held down.  The move finger over other ground you want water.  When you release finger, you will be watering all ground you selected.

A little pictorial tutorial appears.  Upgraded Watering Can:  Tap the green square next to you and then drag the area yiou want to water.  Lift your finger to complete the action.

Brutus:  But if there is obstacle in the way, you ar not being able to do.  Just try yourself.  If you do, you understand.

I don't understand why his English is so poor!

Rain is not making difrent of my work inside forge.  But making outside work more hard.

I can buy a Golden Watering Can for 2000 or Golden Hammer 16 gold.  Bought the Warering Can.

Brutus with music for Bronze Ore:  Thanks to you!

I converted a Crystel Ore into Crystal for 700G.  Did Agate for 500 and a Peridot.

Went to see Sam to see what the profit would be.  He will give me 900G for an Agate. 250G for Agate Ore.  I paid 500G to have it processed.  So you make a little profit.

Opal sells for 1250.
Crystal 1500G

For each, a profit, so I ran back and forth from Brutus to Sam, processing gems and then selling them.  A good day's work I think.

My only question now is whether it makes any difference whether I sell to Sam or ship the items.  I saved one of each to ship tonight.

Bought the Recipes for Grilled Fish and Butter as I caught some fish today.  Will grill them at home.  Still have that Milk that was given to me... expect Butter is an ingredient for some cooked dish.

Went back and bought Fried Egg Recipe as well.

Fished by my house and caught a lot of Mosquitofish, one Perch.

The Gold Watering Can holds 200 Water.

Shipping Values;

Mosquitofish: 100G
Perch: 350G
Crucian Carp: 100G

The following are unprocessed Game prices:
Moonstone: 350G
Onyx: 350G
Topaz: 400G
Amethyst: 400G
Agate: 250G
Jade: 250G
Fluorite: 350G
Crystal: 350G
Peridot: 350G

Processed Gems:
Opal: 1250G
Peridot: 1500G
Crystal: 1500G
Agate: 900G

Processed Metal:
Silver: 400G
Bronze: 150G

Hardwood Lumber: 30G
Softwood Lumber: 30G

I would not sell any Lumber, Stone or Glass... probably need it for upgrades to buildings.

Cooked Dishes to Ship:

Grilled Bluefish: 120G
Apple Jam: 170G
Fried Egg: 170G

Ingredients;

Sugar: 15G
Salt: 15G

Half of the buying pric

Unprocessed Ores:
Adamantite: 250G
Mithril: 250G
Glass: 50G
Stone: 30G




Thursday 28 April 2016

Embarking upon a New Life

As with any Harvest Moon game, the first step is to create your Character, choosing a Name, choosing gender and then your Birthday.

The game begins on the 1st of Spring at 10.00 a.m.

You are met at the crossroads and told some pertinent facts, including 'North of here there is a mountain you can climb if you wish to see some great views.  To the east, nothing....  The person leaves but you hear some one crying and need to go East in fact to meet your first Harvest Sprite who is named Rowan.  This indeed proves to be the site of  your new home and farm.

He tells you: 'When you want to farm, switch to 'Farm Mode'.  You'll want to remember that.'

Tap the button in the lower left to switch between modes.  Use Talk Mode for conversations and Farm Mode for work.

How to Move:  You will move towards the blue icon. You can either tap on the scrreen or drag your finger across it.

Rowan:  First you need to clear the weeds to prepare the field.  When you're in Farm Mode, just tap on a square with a weed in it  For now, please clear the six squares with weeds in them.  Tap the icon on the lower left of the screen to change modes.

Now it's time to till.  Then your field will be ready.  Tap a square you want to till and you'll be able to plant stuff in it.  I'll give you a hoe.  Use it to till the same six squares you just cleared.

You did it!  Now your field is ready!  The soil looks fluffy and warm.  Now you can plant seeds!  Tap on tilled soil that doesn't have anything planted on it and you'll be able to plant seeds here.  After sleecting the seeds you want to use, you'll equip them.  When you want to equip different seeds, touch the icon in he bottom right to change them.   Now plant these Potato Seeds.  Please!  I'm counting on you!

Blossom then appears.  Blossom is a Pink Harvest Sprite.  Rowan is Yellow.

Rowan:  You need to use a watering can on the crops you just planted.  Take this watering can.  It has plenty of water, so try watering your crops.  Got Watering Can with 50 Water

Incidentally, you begin with five hearts of Energy.  when you finish watering, you will have lost one of them.

The Blue Harvest Sprite Dewy appears.  Dewy tells you to refill the Watering Can at the Well when it is empty.

Rowan:  Once your crops have ripened, you can harvest them.  Just tap on a crop to harvest it.

Your Task and Goal now is to revitalise the Farm.  The Sprites take you now to the Sprite Tree... it is weak and the Sprites suggest you ask the Harvest Goddess how to revive it.

Rowan:  From here, we go north at the crossroads and up the Mountain.  Her Spring is at that peak!

You find yourself there automatically and meet her.

Harvest Goddess:  So will you help restore the memories of this place, Freyashawk?  All you have to do is make a life for yourself of your own choice and make plenty of memories!  As you get to know the townspeople, their memories of the farm may return...

You can view the Memories by selecting the Menu.  Be sure to check it from time to time.

Essentially, each time you experience what I used to call an 'Introduction Event' with a Character, you will receive a 'Memory' and a Gift such as Seeds or Ore.

Rowan:  Want to make friends with every one?  Then take part in events, give gifts... stuff like that!  To give a gift, all you have to do is equip the item you want to give, then talk to the person.

In the upper middle of the screen are hearts that show your Stamina.  if you lose all your hearts, you'll faint.  So go home and sleep when you get low on Stamina.  It's not good to stay up late at night too ioften.  You won't be able to wake up early the next day.

The bookshelf in your house has books you can consult if you don't understand something.

He suggests you visit the town:  YOu can get to town by going west from the mountain at the crossroads.

You receive Memories, onion seeds 5 and strawberry seeds 6

I got 2 Bamboo Shoots, 1 Tulip and 1 Apple on my way to the Mine, then met a woman who failed to give her name.

Foraged for more items, including Pink Rose, Orange, more Bamboo and Apples, then went down and met Hanna  She gave me a loaf of Bread

To eat something select the Bag icon and the food tab.  Tap the item and select Use to eat it.  YOu have a kithen in your house.  You should make yourself meals there  She has a restaurant, open from 10 am. to 8 p.m but closed on Mondays and Fridays

Got apple Jam 3

Met April to the left.  Her mum runs a flower shop and she helps out.

If you give crops fertiliser, they will grow better.

Got 3 tulips, then met Mum Iris who has the Flower shop

Flower Shop 10. to 6 but closed Saturday and Sunday

Got Pink Dalhia seeds 5

Met Naomi who spoke of flowers growing along the path

Go into Ranch Shop bottom left to meet Hunter
Give me bursh milker, pitchfork, clippers and 10 pieces of Animal Feed.  YOu put feed in the box and graze outside on sunny days, use muck as fertiliser brush animals so they do not get sixk
Animal Shop open from 10 to 6 shut on Tuesday and Saturday

Got Milk 2

I have 1000 G but all he sells is animal fdd 20 G

Aimal med 5000 G
Chiciken Med 3500 G
Miracle Potion 8000 G


Cow 10000 G
Sheep 10000G
Chicken 2000G
Horse 20000G


Met the traveling salesman at top right, named Sam in this game
His shop or boutique open from 10 to 6 every day... if you want to sell, use shipping bin

Got Apple Sprout

His shop has:

 Hardwood Lumber 100G
Softwood Lumber 100G
Stone 100G



Regular Bait 50G
Good Bait 100G
Excellent Bait 300G

Grass Seeds: 30G
Cabbage Seeds: 20G
Celery Seeds 20G
Onion Seeds 30
Strawberry Seeds 20
Tomato Seeds 30G
Corn Seeds 30G
Green Pepper 40
Wheat 10G
Hot Pepper 30
Potato 20
Carrot 20
Pumpkin 90
Spinach 20
Broccoli 30
Grapefruit Spout 500
Lefy Tree Sprout 250

Cone Tree Sprout: 250G


Met Tabitha the Witch at house top right who runs a fortunetelling emporium... can tell weather and most favourites of bachelors, open Sunday through Thursday from 10 to 6

Got Bronze

She tells me the following:

Some one high above the clouds... dislikes flour
Gareth dislikes fish

Blue Harvest Sprite dislikes flour
Hunter disllikes sweet things
Tabitha hates cabbage

If you win a contest, you become more popular
Luke, the bartender, dislikes onions
Some one deep underground dilkies soil rocks and gems
Andrea, ore researcher dislikes fruit
Brutus the blacksmith dislikes fruit
Yellow Harvest Sprite dislikes flour
Gilbert the Bard dislikes spicy things
Emily waitress at the restaurant dislikes celery
Iris floirst dislikes onions
April, florist daughter, dislikes potatoes

I initially suspected Tabitha was giving me the opposite information of the truth as Sprites traditionally all LOVE Flour.  Would they have changed THAT much? Evidently!  Dewy responded with anger to Flour.

More from Tabitha:

Gareth and I are rivals... we both studied under the same master.  I'd sooner croak than lose to him.

For Silver with music:  This is mine now? thanks!

Luke for Bamboo Shoot with music:  Hey thanks!
Luke:  Aw, I can't take another gift like that from you today.  One is enough!

Catherine for Pink Rose:  Tsk, tsk!  Will do you the favour of accepting your gift.

Sam for Bmboo Shoot with music  So I can have dis, yeah? Heh he he Don't minds if I do!

Gareth Tuesday through SAturday 10 to 6
Got silver

Went into Bar.

Catherine:  This is Luke's Bar.  She works there

Giving Gifts: For Food Items, sleect Hold and then yiu can guve it tio some one.
Got Starwberry Seeds 5

Luke: tells me about Fishing Contest and Cooking Contest
Bar open from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. closed Tuesday and Thursday
Got Tomato Seeds 6

Left as couldn't be served and went down to meet Brutus the Blacksmith in his house.
Brutus can upgrade tools with ore, expand hours or farm fuldings
Forge optn 10 to 6 closed Sunday and Monday
Got Bronze Ore 10

Tony, Brutus apprentice, gives me an Axe

Tony:  If you can inspect a Tree, you can cut it down with this axe.
Got Softwood Lumber 5

Met unfriendly Jimmy

Went home and planted some Strawberries and got Tomato Seeds 5 for First Shipment of 3 Tulips.

Values are: 30G Bamboo Shoot
Orange: 300G
Apple: 150G
Pink Rose: 150G
Tulip: 100G

Only Cooked Dishes and Crops can be eaten.

If you stay up until 5 a.m. your day will end.

YOu should put items you don't need to carry round in your Drawer and Refrigerator.

Saw Gareth out in the mountain and gave him Bamboo Shoot.  He said thank you.  Got Habanero Seeds 5

Even though I used the Spa to recover all 5 Stamina, going to bed at 4.00 a.m. caused me to awaken at 8.00 a.m. with a green face icon

Met Gilbert: who gives me a Rod.  Inspect the water when your'e in Farm Mode and you'll be able to fish there When your lure sinks.  He sings at the bar

Got Good Bait 3

Today when I speak to the woman in front of the mine, I get an intro.

Andrea, researches Ores.  She gives me a Hammer.  Use your Hoe to dig to find the ladder to go down and the Hammer to smash rocks.  Better ores and gems are lower.  She tells me the boulder on the west side of the mountain placed there for a reason.... investigate from another angle.

Got Silver Ore 6

Now I can enter.  Glot Blass Material

Got silver ore and more Glass... you can reload and stairs in the same space.

How to Mine:

Use your hoe to find the ladder that goes down to the next floor, remember the square and reload without saving.  Now go directly to the square and use your hoe to find the ladder.  Go down and save instantly.  Repeat the same process....

On Floors 1 through 10, you can find Glass Material, Stone, Bronze and Silver.
On Floor 11, you first can find Gold and Mithril.
On Floor 15, first Orichalcum
On Floor 17, first Adamantite

Level 17 first adamantite

Jimmy for Tulip with music:  You're giving this to me?  To keep?  Yeah!  Lucky me!
Harvest Goddess for Tulip with music:  My my!  Your Harvest Goddess appreciates your gift!

Went to see Tabitha again:
Tabitha:  Sam, the junk shop owner, seems to dislike... milk!
Catherine, the waitress at the bar, seems to dislike... eggs!
Some one pretty at the spring... Who is it?  Well anyway, they seem to dislike... precious metals'.
Tony, the blacksmith's apprentic, seems to dislike... bell peppers!
Andrea, the ore researcher, seems to dislike... fruit!

Hanna's Restaurant:

Great Durum Flour: 290G
Great Barley Flour: 200G
Great Rye Flour: 280G
Cornmeal: 200G
Great Cornmeal: 250G
Fodder Cornmeal: 220G
G. Fodder Cornmeal: 280G
Sweet Cornmeal: 220G
G. Sweet Cornmeal: 280G
Yellow Cornmeal: 220G
G. Yellow Cornmeal: 280G
Sunset Meal: 250G
Great Sunset Meal: 300G
Blessed Flour: 500G


Bread: 330 G
Strawberry Jam: 350G
Apple Jam: 350
Mermalad: 350
Mayonnaise: 350
Yogurt: 350
Yogurt: 350
Sugar: 30G
Salt: 30G

Mayonnaise: 300G
Yogurt: 300G
Butter: 300G
Cheese: 300G
Boiled Egg: 300G
Fried Egg: 300G
Meuniere: 500G


Bought Salt and met Emily, who is Hanna's daughter.
Get Bread: 2
You have to talk to her to get the option to buy recipes from Hanna.

Bread: 300G
Black Bread: 300G
Baguette: 300G
Grilled Fish: 300G
Grilled Arowana: 300G
Strawberry Jam: 300G
Apple Jam: 300G
Marmaldad: 300G
Yogurt: 300G
Butter: 300G
Cheese: 300G
Boiled Egg: 300G
Fried Egg: 300G
Meuniere: 500G

Bread requires 3 Flour and 1 Salt
Great Bread requires 3 Great Flour and 1 Salt

Emily speaks about strawberries being delicious ... strawberry parfait and strawberry jam

Iris sells:
Marguerite Seeds: 60G
Pink Rose Seeds: 75G
Sunflower Seeds 60G
Red Rose Seeds: 75G
Cosmos Seeds: 60G
White Rose Seeds: 75G
Pink Pansy Seeds: 60G
Blue Rose Seeds: 75G

Peach Compost: 350G
Apple Compost: 350G
Orange Compost
Mosquitofish Blend
Carp Blend
Barbatus Blend
Goby Blend
Berry Blend
Tomato Blend
Corn Blend
Barley Blend
Durum Wheat Blend
Organic Compost
Berry Super Blend
tomato Super Blend
Corn Super Blend
Barley Super Blend
Durum Super Blend
Pure Organic
EX Organic
SP Organic
Organic Omega
All cost 350G

Buy Recipes for Butter and Strawberry Jam and you have:

Strawberry Jam: Strawberry 1, Sugar 1

Great Strawberry Jam: Great Strawberry 1, Sugar 1

Butter: Milk 2, Salt 1
Great Butter:  Great Milk 2, Salt 1
Ultimate Milk 2, Salt 1
Supreme Butter: Supreme Milk 2, Salt 1
Legendary Milk: Miracle Milk 2, Salt 1

Bought Salt and Butter Recipe and used my two milk

First Cooking
Got Flour 5

I could purchase Marmalade Recipe and Sugar instead.

Marmalade:  Orange 1, Sugar 1
Great Marmalade: Great Orange 1, Sugar 1

Or Apple Jam Recipe with Sugar

Apple Jam: Apple 1, Sugar 1

Values of Mining Items:

Stone: 30G
Glass Material: 50G
Iron Ore: 50G
Bronze Ore: 50G
Silver Ore: 100G
Gold Ore: 200G
Mithril Ore: 250G
Orichalcum Ore: 250G
Adamantite Ore: 250G

Sam has;
Hardwood Lumber: 100G
Softwood Lumber: 100G
Stone: 100G

Gilbert for Apple Jam with Music:  Ho, ho, thank you!  This pleases Me!
Tabitha for Bamboo Shoot with music:  This is mine now?  Thanks!