Prequel Bonus:
Have the Game Boy Advance game Harvest Moon – Friends Of Mineral Town or Harvest Moon – More Friends Of Mineral Town in the cartridge to unlock characters from those games in Harvest Moon DS.
Battle mini-game:
To play the battle mini-game, inspect your dog’s house at 4:44 A.M., and the Witch Princess will appear and teleport you to the mine site. The battle mini-game will begin. Win the mini-game and the Witch Princess will give you a diploma and the title of “Battle Master”.
Memory mini-game:
To play the memory mini-game, after waking up at 6 A.M., go outside and immediatey re-enter at 6:01 A.M. Look at the set of records on the shelf to play the memory mini-game.
Infinite life in Mines:
To get infinite life in the Mines, fall in the hole and drop 100 or more, then drink a Bodigizer just before dying.
Easy money:
To easily gain money, after getting 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 each day after the first harvest.
To easily gain money, get the Miracle Gloves from the Harvest Sprite casino, equip them when 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.
To easily gain money, when you get three Fishing Sprites, make them fish at the beach to earn a large amount of money each day.
To easily gain money, 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. Try getting the prices up to 3,000 Gold or more.
Easy fish:
To fish without wasting any time, get a basement and fish in the water hole.
Easy milk and wool:
To easily get milk or wool, brush any animal (except for a dog, chicken, cat, or duck) with the Touch Gloves, and then tap “Back” and quickly switch the brush with the milker or wool cutter. You will get milk or wool. Upgrade your milker to level 99 for better results.
Easy upgrades:
To easily get upgrades, purchase lots of Bodigizers or XL and Turbojolt or XL. Then, enter the house and milk/shear/hammer/axe/sickle/fish/hoe/water the air until you almost pass out. Then, drink the Bodigizer or Turbojolt and use your tool again. Repeat this process until it is upgraded.
Easy watering can upgrade:
To easily upgrade the watering can, fill it with water a lot of times and pour it on anything. The meter will go up by at least 10 every time. Bodigizers and Turbo Jolts may be needed.
Milker leveling:
To quickly level up your Milker, once it reaches level 1, it will level up every time you use it afterwards. Once you reach level 99, every time you milk a cow you will get 99 bottles of milk.
Brushing increases milk and wool levels:
To increase you milk level, while brushing your horse, switch your brush to the milker while the brush is still moving. To increase your wool level, switch your brush to the shears while the brush is still moving.
Cheap items to sell and unlock Harvest Sprites:
Call up either of the livestock farms and buy as much fodder/feed as you can afford. Sell all of them, which is easy with the Miracle Gloves equipped. The Sprites require the following numbers to be unlocked.
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.
Can Food Maker:
Purchase the Can Food Maker immediately after getting the Maker Shed. You will increase profits by 25% by putting shipable items in it.
TV Shopping Network:
To unlock Channel 2, the TV Shopping Network, purchase items from Karen at the Supermarket for 10 consecutive days.
Changing weather:To change the next day’s weather, reload the previous day and go to bed.
Saving time:
To save time when taking care of crops, gathering building materials, etc., when you are in a building, equip a tool from your rucksack. Then, access the map using 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.
Diamonds:
You will receive two thirds more affection points by giving diamonds to girls instead of flowers or other basic gifts. After opening up the second mine, spend time mining as many diamonds or pink diamonds as possible.
Love Bangle:
To find out how much a girl loves you, purchase the Love Bangle from the Harvest Sprite Casino for 5,000 medals.
Pets:
To get a high friendship level with anyone in town, repeatedly try to give them your pet.
Speed petting:
Before you begin petting your cows, sheep, or horses, tap the Harvest Sprite Station. You can speed by the animals and give them hearts.
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 or your farm. After filling it up a desired amount of times, use it once and your experience for 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.
Eligible girls:
The girls that you can marry are:
The Harvest Goddess
Flora, Keria
Leia
The Witch Princess
Muffy, Nami
Lumina, Celia
Ann, Popuri
Elli, Karen
Mary
Marrying Leia:
To marry Leia, first befriend Daryl by going to Daryl’s lab near the beach, and repeatedly try to give him your dog. Continue to do this until your friendship level 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 also really likes jewelry which gives 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.
The Harvest Witch:
The Harvest Witch’s birthday is on Winter 29. She lives in the small hut near the mansion, and likes Red Grass and Poisonous Mushrooms. She loves Rainbow Curry.
Special children:
To get Special children that have a different appearance, marry either the Harvest Goddess, Harvest Witch, Princess, or Furen.
Field upgrades:
The following items can be used to upgrade your field houses. The corresponding is their effectiveness in preventing from rotting:
Grass/ Hay – The weakest
Lumber – Average
Stone – Good
Golden Lumber – Excellent
Lumina:
Birthday – Spring 29
800 love points – RelaxTea (Pot, Relaxtea Leaves)
500 love points – Diamond, Pink Diamond
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.
Baked Yam (Oven, Sweet Potato)
Dry Curry (Frypan, Rice Curry P)
Omelet (Frypan, Egg Milk Oil)
Omelet Rice (Frypan, Egg Milk Oil Rice)
Strawberry Milk (Pot, Milk Strawberry)
Building materials:
Fodder/Grass – Can collapse at any time under 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 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 it sells for 50,000 G each at level 10.
Fall – Sweet Potatoes (Yams) – They grow back every other day. At level 1, they sell for 100 G each, and they sell for 10,000 G each at level 10.
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
Church – 12:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closed Saturdays and Sundays
Gotz the Woodcutter – 11am to 4 p.m.; Closed Saturdays
Poultry Farm – 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closed Sundays
Saibara the Blacksmith – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Closed Thursdays
Supermarket – 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Closed Tuesdays and Sundays
TV Shopping channel – 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Open every day
Yodel Ranch – 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.; Closed Sundays