Story of Seasons, formerly known as Harvest Moon, gained a lot of traction after announcing it was remastering Friends of Mineral Town. The game brings you back to the classic Game Boy Advance title with new graphics, mechanics, and tons of quality of life improvements.
The game features two new marriage candidates, the ability to marry same-sex partners, and dialogue updates. Fans have been delighted with the changes, especially now that the game has officially been released worldwide. Just how do you make your most out of your farm earlier on, though, and what are some of the best things you can do to get started?
12 Prioritize Cleaning Up Your Farm Early On
While you might just be tempted to start planting and growing crops or even chatting up the locals, your best bet is to first clean up your farm, or at least some of it. When first getting your farmland, it’s quite clear it has become overgrown and dilapidated.
Since you do have a stamina meter in the form of hearts you won’t be able to freely clean up everything right from the get-go, however, you should at least make somewhat of an effort to clear our pervasive rocks and weeds. By doing this, you will be able to spend more time later focusing on planting crops in your field.
11 Sell Anything Extra Each Day In Your Shipping Crate
That previous point nicely leads into this one. Anything extra you may find yourself carrying around can and should be sold daily in your shipping crate. This shipping crate is your friend and allows you to quickly make a profit, even off of random stuff like rocks and weeds.
You, of course, don’t want to get rid of all random items since many of them are required for crafting, however, you should at least sell anything you don’t plan on using right away so that you can get money to buy supplies, seeds, and the like.
10 Buy Some Chickens
One of the easiest ways to ensure you start earning an income is by purchasing a chicken. Chickens are easy to breed; all you need to do is place an egg in the incubator. They can graze outside if you ring the bell, which limits how much food you will need to buy for them a year.
On top of that, your first chicken is only 1,500 gold, which is a pretty low price for animals that can multiple after three days.
9 Limit Farming
While your first instinct may be to till your whole field in preparation for crops, this won’t work in your first few seasons. Your stamina is incredibly limited, and stamina medicine is pretty expensive at the start of the game.
You will also quickly learn how much watering your crops one by one can take up your day. Try to make no more than nine crop squares to start off with.
8 Make Use Of The Hotspring
Since you know that your stamina will most likely run out during your first few seasons, acquaint yourself with the hot springs. The springs are located on the mountain down for your house, and, within a few in-games hours, can completely restore your stamina back to full.
This is a great mid-day stop, especially if you need to add in a mining session.
7 Make Upgrades A Priority
One way to quickly raise your energy is by getting some copper and silver ore from the mines. These can be found on the first few levels, and an upgrade only takes a single ore.
The first few upgrades are also incredibly cheap, but you will have to go a day without the tool. One of the best moves you can is to check the game’s weather for a rainy day to feel this gap.
6 Feed Your Animals Outside
As mentioned with the chickens, you can feed your animals outside, and this includes cows, alpacas, and rabbits. By ringing the bell outside of your coop and barn, the animals will come out to graze on non-rainy days. At 8 pm each night, the bells will automatically ring again to bring them outside.
As an added bonus, not feeding your animals in this game won’t make them sick, but they won’t produce milk, eggs, or wool.
5 Check Your TV
The TV in your house is a great tool that you should get used to using. Every channel can help you out in the game, especially the weather channel that can help you better plan out your days.
The Education channel can give you tips, and, on certain days, the entertainment channel will give you recipes. Additionally, the news channel will remind you about upcoming festivals.
4 Upgrade Your House
The first house upgrade is relatively cheap and something you should start working on ASAP. The house upgrade will give you a kitchen that you can prepare stamina-boosting food in. This is a big help when your stamina is getting drained from all your farming.
Just remember that many cooking tools will need to be bought from the general store.
3 Get A Bigger Bag
Your inventory and tools space is incredibly limited at the begging of the game. To fix this, you simply need to gather 3000 gold and take a trip up to the general store to unlock the second row of items slots. This is a huge help if you love to forge or go into the mines. After the first upgrade, a final one will become available for 10,000 gold.
2 Save Your Wood And Stone
While it’s tempting to place everything you can in your shipping bin, hold off on the wood and stone. It will cost you a ton of materials to finish upgrading your house, and you will need to save all the supplies you can get your hands on. Wood and stone automatically stack in your house’s storage, so don’t be afraid of running out of space.
1 Forge For Gifts
Believe it or not, many of the townspeople will have a loved or at least liked forge item. Brandom, for example, loves to receive honey, and this can quickly help your relationship. Just about all of the villagers are tolerant of eggs, and you will need to supply Kai with fish to win his heart. Consider stocking up on forage items to easily develop friendships with the town.
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