Harvest Moon DS: Sunshine Islands

Harvest Moon DS - Sunshine Islands (NA) - FAQ/Walkthrough - v1.0

written by:

JungleJim

Harvest Moon DS - Sunshine Islands (c) Natsume (c) Marvelous Interactive

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This guide will be heavy with mechanics and analysis, therefore probably more geared toward advanced players. First time or casual players should consult a different guide.

Weather is determined six days in advance. For example, if you make a save on Summer 17, the weather is determined up to and including the 23rd. The 24th won't be determined until you sleep the night of the 17th. You can always make a save, and sleep six times in order to figure out what the weather will do for those six days. This information is useful for planning when to water crops. Because the weather is determined so far in advance, you can't just reload to change the weather like some other Harvest Moon games. The only exception to this is when starting a new game. If you don't like the weather for Spring 1 through Spring 7, you can just start over.

Typhoons are a type of storm that happens only in summer, and blizzards can happen in winter. If a storm hits, you cannot leave your house for that day. The day after the storm hits, you will find a large amount of debris in your field, including possibly tree stumps and boulders. Unlike normal weather, storms can cause debris to appear on planted crops, destroying them. Storms also cause higher than normal amounts of foraged items to appear around town.

Here are the probabilities for each type of weather in each season:

Like previous Harvest Moon games, stamina represents your energy. Using any tool uses up stamina. If your stamina reaches 0, you pass out and lose a day, so you should do everything you can to prevent that from happening. Different types of food recover varying amounts of stamina. Going to sleep at night recovers stamina depending on how much sleep you get. You can also purchase upgrades for your house that recover stamina over a period of time. Stamina starts at 100 but can be increased to 250 with accessories. The following table shows the stamina loss for using tools under various conditions:

For example, if you use a tool with 2 Green Wonderfuls and it's a cloudy day before 10pm, you lose 0 stamina. Use that same tool after midnight on a rainy day and you would lose 4 stamina.

Unlike the fatigue mechanic of some other Harvest Moon games, Sunshine Islands uses fullness. If you are completely full, you lose about 1 point from the fullness gauge every hour. But if you are very hungry, you can lose up to 5 points per hour. Eating food replenishes fullness by an amount depending on the type of food. If you eat a couple of times a day then usually you won't have to worry about the fullness gauge. If you let fullness reach 0, you pass out and lose a day. The fullness gauge starts at 100 but can be increased up to 250 with accessories.

There are six hidden scores that the game keeps track of. Combined, they total up to your overall farm degree. The scores are:

• Animal degree
• Cooking degree
• Crops degree
• Fishing degree
• Mining degree
• Other degree

You can raise your farm degree by performing various actions as detailed below.

Relationships with villagers, harvest sprites, pets, livestock, and wild animals are measured by friendship points (fp) which correspond to 0 to 10 hearts.

If you talk to a villager or sprite, you will earn 100 fp that night when you sleep. You can only get these points once per day per person. If you don't talk to a villager, there is a 30% chance to lose 100 fp overnight.

You can give up to one gift to each villager/sprite per day. They will only accept gives from you if you've talked to them the previous four days, or if it's their birthday. The points awarded vary depending on the person and the gift. Birthday gifts are worth triple. Giving gifts also counts as talking.

Talking/giving a gift to one harvest sprite of each color is all you get points for. You can't give multiple gifts in one day to harvest sprites of the same color. To raise fp with Red Sprites, talk to the one on Meadow Island.

You can raise friendship faster by using Friendship Pendants.

Note: To get credit for talking to Kirk, you have to stand in front of him and press A. Bumping into his boat and taking a ride doesn't count.

These colors are seen when talking to bachelors/bachelorettes.

Unfortunately, Friendship Pendants don't affect animal affection.

Pets and livestock have a different heart scale than the villagers:

Wild animals gain fp by feeding them, depending on the type of food. You can earn up to +9 fp per day with the right food. More wild animals within a family will show up as their fp increases.

Wild animals have a similar heart scale to pets/livestock except it's divided by 10.

Note: all tools including seeds require 2 stamina under normal conditions.

Used to chop branches and tree stumps to get Lumber.

Source: Receive a basic Axe from Gannon on Spring 3. Buy from Gannon's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful slot.

Used to call your animals so that you can get them inside the barn.

Source: Buy from Maribelle's shop for 500 G.

Used to brush your large animals (horse, sheep, cows). This raises affection and lowers stress.

Source: Buy from Mirabelle's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful slot.

Used to shear your Sheep to get Wool.

Source: Buy from Mirabelle's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful slot.

Used to catch fish. Unfortunately the Fishing Pole cannot equip any Wonderfuls.

Source: Buy from Gannon for 5000 G.

Used to smash rocks and boulders to get Material Stone, and in the mine to get gems and ore. You can also smash tilled soil to make it untilled.

Source: Receive a basic Hammer from Gannon on Spring 3. Buy from Gannon's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful slot.

Used to till the soil in your field, greenhouse, and rice paddies. In the mine the Hoe is used to uncover coins, Black Grass, Stone Tablets, stairs, and pitfalls.

Source: Receive a basic Hoe from Taro on Spring 1. Buy from Gannon's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful slot.

Used to get Milk from your cows.

Source: Buy from Mirabelle's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful slot.

Source: Buy from Chen's shop or use the Seed Maker.

Used to cut down dead crops at the end of a season, and to harvest grain crops.

Source: Receive a basic Sickle from Gannon on Spring 3. Buy from Gannon's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful slot.

Used to water your crops and trees. In the mine, you can use the Watering Can three times on lava to make it disappear, and sometimes it leaves behind Gelatin.

Source: Receive a basic Watering Can from Taro on Spring 1. Buy from Gannon's shop for 1000 G per Wonderful Slot.

Wonderfuls are items that have different effects when placed on your tools.

Function: Increases the range of a tool in front of your farmer by 1 tile.

Max: 8

Orange Wonderfuls increase the power of the Brush and Watering Can, and for other tools let you obtain more materials when using the tool.

Function: Increases amount of stress reduction by 3 points. Max: 3

Function: Increases water capacity. Max: 5

Function: Increases how much stuff you get when using a tool. Max: 4

Yellow Wonderfuls increase the power of your tools. Specific effects vary by tool.

Function: First one lets you chop stumps, subsequent ones reduce the number of chops needed. Max: 7

Function: Increases affection by 1 point. Max: 10

Function: First one lets you smash smooth boulders, second lets you smash rough boulders, subsequent ones reduce the number of swings needed. Max: 7

Function: Lets you till rice paddies. Max: 1

Function: Lets you harvest grain crops. Max: 1

Function: Increases water points per tile per use. Max: 5

Function: Lose 1 less stamina when using a tool. Max: 2

Function: Increases the left and right range of a tool by one tile. Max: 9

Function: Increases the number of slots on a tool by 5. Max: 5

Function: Earn 2 G per tool usage. Max: 30

At the beginning of the game, Chen will sell 1x Red, 1x Yellow, and 1x Blue Wonderful. After that he will sell Wonderfuls in Winter if certain conditions are met. The table below shows two categories of farm degree. If the last two digits of the categories match, the listed Wonderful will be sold in Chen's store. If multiple matches occur, only the most expensive will be sold. I believe that once you buy a Wonderful from Chen in Winter, he won't sell another one for 4 days. Chen also sells a Wonderful Piece on the 10th of each season for 30,000 G.

If you participate in a festival competition, you'll win one of the following:

The color of the Wonderful is determined by the day of the week the festival takes place, and the weather two days after the festival.

Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday

Friday/Saturday/Sunday

If you reach floor 255 of the mine, the Harvest Goddess will give you a Wonderful. The color is determined in the same way as the festival Wonderfuls.

Wonderfuls can be made in your kitchen, but they require a very high cooking skill and a large amount of raw materials to make. See the Recipe section.

Once you are married, you'll get a Wonderful on your anniversary each year.

You can have Charlie combine 7 Wonderful Pieces into a Wonderful, but I've never heard of anyone getting a color besides Purple from this.

Since you can't control the weather, you will have to adjust your play based on what happens in your game. The walkthrough shown here is just one possibility but it illustrates some general principles, and shows what is possible given a fairly typical weather pattern. The general goals I pursued were to unlock stuff and make money as fast as possible. Fair warning: optimal play requires a ton of reloading and time investment.

At the end of this season I had the following accomplished:

• Earl Veg Lv74
• 377,847 G in pocket
• 73/100 Sun Stones
• All islands except Sunny Island
• All bridges built
• 15/45 Harvest Sprites
• 4 adult chickens (2 hearts highest)
• 3 calves (2 hearts highest)
• 3 lambs (1 heart highest)
• Horse 3 hearts
• Dog 2 hearts
• Cat 1 heart
• 4 mice/rabbits/badgers (1 heart)
• Girls 1-6 hearts (highest is yellow heart with Sabrina)
• Other villagers 1-5 hearts
• 39/366 shipped
• 59/238 recipes known
• 39/143 fish caught (degree high enough to catch medium fish)
• 6/40 mushrooms found
• 21/21 mine items found
• 8% of upgrades done
• 17% house
• 15% coop
• Coop built with 4 feeders (medium coop in progress)
• 30% barn
• Medium barn built with 6 feeders
• 6 wonderfuls
• 2 red (one from Chen, one from mine)
• 1 green (for winning crop festival)
• 1 yellow (Chen)
• 1 blue (Chen)
• 1 orange (mine)
• All tree seeds unlocked and 16x trees planted
• Rice paddies planted
• Cucumber, strawberry, cabbage, onion, pumpkin, pineapple, wheat, rice seeds unlocked
• Fridge, cabinet, beauty box, tool box, kitchen, teleport stone, large rucksack purchased
• Turbo Shoes, 2 blue Friendship Pendants, blue H. Goddess Pendant made
• Fishing pole and all 3 slot tools purchased

The weather was fairly typical: 5 Hot, 12 Clear, 7 Cloudy, 3 Drizzle, and 3 Rain. I did reload a few times at the start to get a good weather pattern for the first week. This is a good way to get an early edge if you don't mind reloading. Note that it's possible to get a better weather pattern than I got, and gains can be correspondingly better.

The gold amounts shown for each day are the amount in pocket at the end the day. In the crop layouts, I show an idealized version (i.e. no stumps or boulders). Make adjustments for your stump/boulder pattern. Until you've unlocked seeds and the dog, you should buy from Chen and Mirabelle one thing at a time, no stacks.

The plan is to learn 29 recipes from Nick and 28 from Haila this season. There's no good option for Haila on Spring 8. Here are the items to give them beginning on Spring 2:

745 G

Shipped/sold:

• 5 Green Herb

Set birthday as Spring 1. Reload if the boulders or stumps are really bad. Pickup all trash in the field and save it. Plant two 3x3 plots of turnips two squares apart and water them twice. Make sure you water after planting otherwise it won't count. Hoe the field in this pattern:

1. is tilled soil, T is the turnips, and . is untilled soil. Save and check the next six days of weather; reload if unfavorable.

805 G

Shipped/sold:

• 5 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed
• 3 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Toyflower
• 1 Sea Urchin

Bought:

• 12 Turnip Seed
• 1 Potato Seed
• 1 Curry Powder

Don't ship herbs, save them for stamina recovery. Talk to the following people each day from now on:

• Carol
• Charlie
• Chen
• Denny
• Eliza
• Elliot
• Felicia
• Gannon
• Haila
• Julia
• Kirk (face him and press A, riding boat doesn't count)
• Lanna
• Martin
• Mirabelle
• Natalie
• Nick
• Pierre
• Ray
• Regis
• Sabrina
• Taro
• Vaughn (Mondays and Tuesdays only)

Plant turnips and potatoes like so:

3,204 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 0 slot hammer
• 0 slot axe
• 0 slot sicklet

Bought:

• 1 Pet Food
• 1 Chocolate

Gannon will bring you 0 slot axe, hammer and sickle for free. Sell them to Chen since we'll buy better ones later. Be sure to pound 5 rocks for Material Stone first, we'll need these for gifts for Gannon. Normally people don't accept gifts until you've talked to them four times, but birthdays are special. Today is Vaughn's birthday so give him a Pet Food.

4,136 G

Shipped/sold:

• 2 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Toyflower

Bought:

• 1 Oil
• 1 Chocolate

With the basic water can you can't water the center sprouts but don't worry, we'll get them later.

627 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed
• 1 Moondrop Flower

Bought:

• 30 Turnip Seed
• 2 Pet Food
• 2 Oil
• 4 Chocolate
• 1 Curry Powder

From now on give the following gifts daily:

• Gannon: Material Stone
• Mirabelle: Pet Food
• Taro: Pet Food

16,157 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed
• 110 Turnip

Bought:

• 6 Pet Food

Be sure to water the center sprouts after harvesting the turnips. Today is Julia's birthday so the Pet Food you give her will be worth more than usual. Soon the water can will be upgraded, so plant turnips in the pattern below. The middle 3x3 groups will only plant 6 squares because the center line is untilled.

New gifts:

• Eliza: Chocolate
• Elliot: Chocolate
• Felicia: Moondrop Flower
• Kirk: Weed
• Julia: Pet Food
• Natalie: Chocolate
• Pierre: Oil

Skip Lanna's gift for today because it'll save money and her sun stone can be put off a day.

2,411 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed
• 14 Turnip
• 0 slot watering can

Bought:

• 15 Cucumber Seed
• 1 Oil
• 4 Chocolate
• 1 Curry Powder
• 2 Miso Soup
• 3 slot watering can
• Red Wonderful
• Blue Wonderful

New gifts:

• Lanna: Chocolate

Reload if Gannon isn't selling the 3 slot water can. Install the wonderfuls on the new watering can. After watering, Cucumber Seeds should be available at Chen's.

774 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed

Bought:

• 9 Potato Seed
• 3 Pet Food
• 1 Oil
• 4 Chocolate
• 1 Curry Powder
• 2 Miso Soup

Meet a harvest sprite when you exit your house. Go to their island to meet the rest. From now on talk to them daily.

1,183 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 5 Potato

Bought:

• 6 Turnip Seed
• 30 Strawberry Seed
• 3 Pet Food
• 1 Oil
• 4 Chocolate

477 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 198 Turnip
• 1 Sea Urchin

Bought:

• M House Expansion
• 2 Pet Food
• 1 Oil
• 1 Chocolate
• 2 Mashed Potato
• 200 Lumber
• 3 slot hammer
• Medium Rucksack
• Fishing Rod

Sun Stones:

• From Agete during event (1/100)
• Ship 100 spring crops (2/100)
• Ranch Island - windmill (3/100)
• Lighthouse Island - stone wall in the back (4/100)
• Verdure Island - bush between Chen's and Mirabelle's (5/100)
• Sprout Island - well by Gannon's (6/100)
• Harvest Sprite Island - back of fence (7/100)
• Ride boat to Meadow Island until Kirk gives you this (8/100)
• Volcano Island - lava next to sign (9/100)
• Boat to Volcano Island (10/100)

New gifts:

• Charlie: Amethyst
• Chen: Gelatin
• Denny: Fish (S)
• Martin: Fish (S)
• Ray: Fish (S)
• Regis: Amethyst
• Sabrina: Amethyst

Reload if Gannon isn't selling the 3 slot hammer. Raise Volcano Island once you have 8 sun stones. From now on get enough Amethysts, Gelatin, and Fish (S) for daily gifts. With some people, other gems can be substituted but Amethyst works for everyone that likes gems and it's on the first floor. Try to put wonderfuls on the hammer before going mining for extra mining degree points. For today and tomorrow only, give Mirabelle Amethyst instead of Pet Food. Switch Felicia to Amethyst. Switch Elliot, Natalie, and Lanna to Gelatin. Save some Turnips for the yellow sprite who will accept gifts in a couple days, and to cook for Carol. From now on, talk to Agete every day to raise red sprite hearts (the one on harvest sprite island doesn't count).

1,138 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 36 Turnip

Bought:

• 2 Pet Food
• 1 Oil
• 1 Chocolate
• 1 Curry Powder
• 2 Mashed Potato
• Refrigerator
• Kitchen

Sun Stones:

• Ship 100 mine items (11/100)

New gifts:

• Carol: Pickled Turnip (substitute other cooked items as you see fit)

A good way to build up cooking degree is to substitute weeds into other recipes to produce Failed Dishes. Ship these one at a time. Give Mirabelle Amethyst for her birthday then back to Pet Food tomorrow.

1,493 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 2 Seaweed Paste
• 2 Moondrop Flower

Bought:

• 5 Pet Food
• 2 Oil
• 2 Chocolate
• 1 Curry Powder
• 3 Mashed Potato

Sun Stones:

• Sprout Island - behind barrel on Will's ship (12/100)

New gifts:

• Orange sprite: Pet Food
• Yellow sprite: Turnip or any crop
• Green sprite: Pet Food
• Blue sprite: Amethyst or any gem
• Purple sprite: Fish (S)

From now on turn Seaweed into Seaweed Paste before shipping. Save before making it because right now you have a good chance to fail. From now on talk to Will, Lily, Isaac, and Slater each day.

3,425 G

Shipped/sold:

• 2 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Toyflower

Bought:

• 11 Pet Food
• 6 Mashed Potato
• 3 slot brush

Mirabelle brings you a horse. Reload if she isn't selling a 3 slot brush. Keep the horse outside during dry weather. Each day feed it, talk to it, brush it, and do the festival practice. Give Pierre Oil for his birthday.

18,952 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Sea Urchin
• 1 red Kappa Pendant

Bought:

• S Coop
• 6 Turnip Seed
• 1 Oil
• 1 Chocolate
• 1 Curry Powder
• 17 Mashed Potato
• 150 Lumber
• Tool Box
• 2 red Friendship Pendant
• 1 red Kappa Pendant
• 1 red H. Goddess Pendant
• 3 slot axe
• Cabinet
• Yellow Wonderful

Sun Stones:

• Eliza 5 gifts (13/100)
• Martin 5 gifts (14/100)
• Ray 5 gifts (15/100)
• Lanna 5 gifts (16/100)
• Pierre 5 gifts (17/100)
• Regis 5 gifts (18/100)
• Sabrina 5 gifts (19/100)
• Gannon 5 gifts (20/100)
• Denny 5 gifts (21/100)
• Mirabelle 5 gifts (22/100)
• Julia 5 gifts (23/100)
• Kirk 5 gifts (24/100)
• Charlie 5 gifts (25/100)
• Chen 5 gifts (26/100)
• Taro 5 gifts (27/100)
• Felicia 5 gifts (28/100)
• Elliot 5 gifts (29/100)
• Natalie 5 gifts (30/100)
• Boat to Mystic Islands (31/100)

New gifts:

• Harvest Goddess: Turnip

Raise Mystic Islands. For today only, throw a weed into the Goddess Pond to meet the Harvest Goddess, then give her regular gift of Turnip. Mine to floor 24, save, go down a floor, reload if you don't get 7 Orichalcum. Allow yourself two strikes of the hoe per floor. You have a decent chance to find the stairs down. As I said before, optimal play requires lots of reloading. Hit rocks on floors 11-19 to score lots of gems. Do 5 trips for a total of 35 Orichalcum and have Charlie start making some accessories. The Friendship Pendants need to be in separate equip slots to take effect. From now on always have those equipped when giving gifts and before falling asleep. We're being aggressive with Orichalcum so that we can unlock the Time-Slowing Ring as soon as possible, which is about halfway through summer. Use the 3 slot axe with yellow wonderful to get rid of the stumps in your field, but don't get other stumps yet.

29,546 G

Shipped/sold:

• 4 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Toyflower
• 10 Mushroom
• 7 Mushroom Cluster
• 3 Poisonous Mushroom
• 68 Potato

Bought:

• 9 Potato Seed
• Chicken
• 99 Pet Food
• 99 Chicken Feed
• 1 Oil
• 1 Chocolate
• 3 Mashed Potato

Sun Stones:

• Carol 5 gifts (32/100)
• Boat to Mushroom Island (33/100)
• Mushroom Island - base of right mushroom (34/100)

Pause gifts:

• Kirk

Stop giving Kirk gifts for now. Doing this with some villagers saves money until you have access to the best Friendship Pendant. Raise Mushroom Island. Sell all the mushrooms you forage so you can unlock the pet pig, which will take a long time. Mirabelle will bring you a free chicken, but it's still a chick. Buy an adult chicken from Mirabelle. This is the one you want to raise to win the chicken festival next year. Keep it outside on cloudy, clear, or hot days. A good way to keep it safe is to put it between columns of crops with a few rocks on either side to keep wild dogs away:

You could keep more chickens outside but I wouldn't bother.

32,375 G

Shipped/sold:

• 2 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Toyflower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster

Bought:

• S Barn
• 1 Oil
• 16 Mashed Potato
• 200 Lumber

Sun Stones:

• Mystic Islands - left lamp post of Witch's house (35/100)
• Mystic Islands - church bell (36/100)
• Gannon and Eliza 7k FP (37/100)
• Lanna 7k FP (38/100)

New gifts:

• Lily: Gold
• Will: Moondrop Flower
• Isaac: Amethyst
• Slater: Amethyst

Pause gifts:

• Eliza
• Gannon
• Taro

Mirabelle gives you the dog. From now on keep it outside in dry weather, pick it up, feed it, and practice for the festival each day. Do 3 mining trips, and also hit floor 26 for Gold for Lily.

16,557 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Toyflower
• 1 Mushroom

Bought:

• Barn Feeder
• Cow
• 99 Fodder
• 1 Oil
• 8 Mashed Potato
• 100 Lumber

Pause gifts:

• Mirabelle

Do 2 mining trips. Mirabelle will give you a free cow. Buy an additional cow. From now on feed, talk, brush all livestock each day. From now on talk to Shea each day. Give Chen Gelatin for his birthday.

5,012 G

Shipped/sold:

• 2 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster

Bought:

• Barn Feeder
• 6 Turnip Seed
• Sheep
• 1 Oil
• 1 Curry Powder
• 12 Mashed Potato
• 100 Lumber

Sun Stones:

• Denny 7k FP (39/100)
• Harvest Goddess 5 gifts (40/100)
• Martin 7k FP (41/100)
• Ray 7k FP (42/100)
• Animal Island - pond (43/100)
• Boat to Animal Island (44/100)

Raise Animal Island. Leave one turnip in the ground to harvest on the 27th for the crop festival.

29,497 G

Shipped/sold:

• 2 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 2 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster

Bought:

• Bridge to Link Island
• Cow
• 2 Curry Powder
• 2 Mashed Potato
• 100 Lumber

Sun Stones:

• Pierre 7k FP (45/100)
• Mirabelle and Julia 7k FP (46/100)
• Ship 100 fish (47/100)

Pause gifts:

• Denny
• Martin
• Pierre
• Ray

Do 5 mining trips. Make sure to go to the Sheep Festival by 6:00 pm. This is a good opportunity to fish so catch at least 100 plus whatever you need for gifts. Also save Empty Cans for the Witch Princess. Raise Link Island.

23,228 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 2 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster
• 100 Fish (S)

Bought:

• Bridge to Rice Island
• 4 Mashed Potato
• 100 Lumber

Sun Stones:

• Isaac 5 gifts (48/100)
• Slater 5 gifts (49/100)
• Will 5 gifts (50/100)
• Lily 5 gifts (51/100)
• Taro, Felicia, Natalie, and Elliot 7k FP (52/100)

New gifts:

• Alisa: Gelatin
• Nathan: Fish (S)
• Witch Princess: Empty Can (or other fishing trash)
• Witchkin: Pet Food
• Indigo sprite: Strawberry

Pause gifts:

• Elliot
• Felicia

Switch Harvest Goddess to Strawberry. From now on leave Cucumber for the wild animals each day.

18,146 G

Shipped/sold:

• 2 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 2 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster
• 0 slot hoe
• 2 red Friendship Pendant
• 1 red Witch P. Pendant

Bought:

• Coop Feeder
• 1 Curry Powder
• 2 Mashed Potato
• 100 Lumber
• 3 slot hoe
• 2 green Friendship Pendant
• 1 red Witch P. Pendant

Sun Stones:

• Link Island - left bridge post (53/100)
• Chen and Charlie 7k FP (54/100)
• Regis and Sabrina 7k FP (55/100)

New gifts:

• Shea: Fish (S)

Pause gifts:

• Chen

See Sabrina's purple heart event. Raise Rice Island.

48,311 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 2 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Mushroom
• 27 Potato
• 100 Cucumber

Bought:

• Chicken
• 1 Curry Powder
• 12 Mashed Potato
• 16 Rice Seed

Sun Stones:

• Harvest Goddess 7k FP (57/100)
• Carol 7k FP (58/100)
• Will 7k FP (59/100)

Pause gifts:

• Carol
• Charlie
• Harvest Goddess
• Regis

Do 2 mining trips. See Lanna's purple heart event. Plant rice.

53,444 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Toyflower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 red H. Goddess Pendant
• 1 red H. Goddess Pendant

Bought:

• M Barn
• 1 Curry Powder
• 6 Miso Soup
• 23 Mashed Potato
• 500 Lumber
• 3 slot sickle
• 1 green H. Goddess Pendant

Pause gifts:

• Will

Do 5 mining trips. Mirabelle will take your horse for the festival.

97,829 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Toyflower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster
• 100 Strawberry

Bought:

• Bridge to Fruit Island
• 1 Curry Powder
• 2 Miso Soup
• 4 Mashed Potato
• 100 Lumber

Sun Stones:

• Vaughn 5 gifts (60/100)
• Alisa 5 gifts (61/100)
• Nathan 5 gifts (62/100)
• Witch Princess 5 gifts (63/100)
• Witchkin 5 gifts (64/100)
• Lily 7k FP (65/100)

Do 6 mining trips. Go to the horse festival by 6:00 pm. It's very unlikely to win but you still get FP with your horse. Take the opportunity to fish. Raise Fruit Island.

69,042 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster
• 235 Fish (S)

Bought:

• Barn Feeder
• 10 Miso Soup
• 20 Mashed Potato
• 100 Lumber
• 1 Peach Seed
• 1 Banana Seed
• 6 Orange Seed
• 4 Grape Seed
• 4 Apple Seed
• Teleport Stone

Sun Stones:

• Horse 3 hearts (66/100)
• Shea 5 gifts (67/100)
• Fruit Island (68/100)

Pause gifts:

• Isaac
• Slater
• Witchkin

Do 10 mining trips. See Natalie's purple heart event. Plant trees. No need to water them this season.

139,845 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster

Bought:

• Barn Feeder
• Sheep
• 100 Lumber
• 3 slot milker

Sun Stones:

• Slater 7k FP (69/100)
• Isaac 7k FP (70/100)

Pause gifts:

• Shea

See Sabrina's blue heart event. Raise Greenhouse Island. The 2nd harvest sprite of each color shows up so now is a good time to do some enchanting:

• orange: barn - charm
• yellow: ranch - till
• green: Chen's shop - material decrease S
• blue: Regis - less lava

Do 2 mining trips as follows:

• Floor 100
• 25: 7x Orichalcum
• 50: 5x Mythic Stone
• 51-74: Adamantite, Orichalcum, gems

You can't pitfall past 100 the first time because the Harvest Goddess congratulates you.

• Floor 200
• 25: 7x Orichalcum
• 50: 5x Mythic Stone
• 51-74: Adamantite, Orichalcum, gems
• 125: 1x Alexandrite
• 150: 10x Diamond, 1x Pink Diamond

You can't pitfall past 200 the first time because the Harvest Goddess congratulates you.

242,654 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Poisonous Mushroom

Bought:

• Bridge to Greenhouse Island
• Sheep
• 100 Lumber
• 3 slot clippers

Sun Stones:

• Witch Princess and Witchkin 7k FP (71/100)

See Julia's purple heart event. Give Gannon Material Stone for his birthday. Pick the turnip you've been saving and keep it in the fridge. Mine to 255 for a wonderful, I got orange.

490,438 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 2 Toyflower
• 1 Poisonous Mushroom
• 2 green Friendship Pendant
• 1 green Witch P. Pendant

Bought:

• Coop Feeder
• 10 Oil
• 10 Chocolate
• 100 Lumber
• 2 blue Friendship Pendant
• 1 green Witch P. Pendant

Sun Stones:

• Greenhouse Island (72/100)
• Nathan and Alisa 7k FP (73/100)

New gifts:

• Wada: Fish (S)

Enchant:

• Violet: Lanna - fishing

See Lily's purple heart event. Resume all gifts since you have the best Friendship Pendants now. Mine to 255 for a wonderful, I got red.

380,724 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Bamboo Shoot
• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Toyflower
• 1 Mushroom
• 1 Mushroom Cluster
• 100 Soybeans

Bought:

• Chicken
• 99 Pet Food
• 101 Soybeans

Mirabelle brings you a cat. Treat it like the dog. You should easily win the crop festival. I won a green wonderful. Do some fishing.

377,847 G

Shipped/sold:

• 1 Seaweed Paste
• 1 Moondrop Flower
• 1 Toyflower
• 1 Mushroom
• 300 Fish (S)
• 1 green H. Goddess Pendant

Bought:

• M Coop
• 27 Pineapple Seed
• 15 Pumpkin Seed
• 6 Corn Seed
• 6 Onion Seed
• 6 Tomato Seed
• 11 Mashed Potato
• 400 Lumber
• Beauty Box
• 1 blue H. Goddess Pendant

From now on talk to Chelsea each day. See Sabrina's green heart event. Catch any spring fish you still need. Use the sickle to cut down the cucumber and strawberry plants. Get your field to look as much like this as possible:

The optimal farm layout is dependent on your equipment and whether the crop is renewable or not. For now let's assume you have access to the best equipment other than the Godhand. What would the best layout be for each type of crop?

Non-renewable: This is the easy case, it's simply the entire field planted with crops with no empty spots. If you have a watering can with enough blue and red wonderfuls, you can water the entire field in just a few uses of the watering can. You'd probably also need the time slowing ring for harvesting. The field is 42x15 so it would look like this:

It takes 70 bags of seeds to plant this layout, and results in 630 total plants.

Renewable: We can't use the above layout for renewable crops because we'd never be able to reach the interior spaces for harvesting. So right off the bat we know we'll have to poke some holes in the layout to allow access to the interior. I believe the following layout is optimal for renewables:

Again it takes 70 bags of seeds but you only get 574 plants. Each . in the above diagram represents a spot where we'll have to plant a single grass square. This is to prevent debris from appearing on the field and cutting off access.

This is the basic harvesting pattern:

S###S
S#.#S
 ###

All those plants can be reached by standing on the dot. Harvesting with the stylus is required for plants marked S.

Watering either layout requires very specific combinations of wonderfuls on your watering can. More details in a future version of this guide.

-Thanks to www.gamefaqs.com for hosting this guide

-Tomomi on fogu.com for letting me know about shipping price multipliers