Harvest Moon GB isn't just about developing a
farm and gettin rich, it's also about the quest
to save your Grandfather's farm, and finding the
road to happiness. This interesting game rates
you on how you treat your animals, raise them, and
manage a farm all at the same time. You can be a
boy or a girl and choose a cat or dog as your pet.
There are four new kinds of produce since
Harvest Moon for the SNES, an underground cave
that's inhabited by little gnomes, and new and
improved tools.
Table of Contents:
1) Revisions/Updates
2) Hints and Tactics
3) The Items
4) The Gnomes
5) Spring
6) Summer
7) Fall
8) Winter
9) The Crops
10) Legal Junk
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Revisions/Updates
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Version 1.0 - First Revision. Most of the
writing. If you have any questions
or comments, please e-mail me at:
_ lroth@sk.sympatico.ca _
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Hints and Tactics
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- You shouldn't waste your valuable energy on
breaking up small rocks and pebbles with your
hammer. Simply pick them up and toss them
into the pond in the lower left corner for an
energy free way
- In your house, beside your bed in the dresser
door is 1000G. Use this to buy extra seed or
get a headstart on saving up your money
- You should plant your crops as close as you can
to the shipping crate until you have a fully
matured horse that can carry saddlebags
- How you enter your name dtermines what crops
you are able to grow and buy. Capitalizing the
first letter in your name allows you to grow
eggplant and carrots. Leaving the first letter
lower case will allow you to grow peanuts and
broccoli. To grow all the crops, make the first
letter in your name a symbol.
- You shouldn't bother expanding or adding
additions to your house until you have a very
steady cashflow or lots of extra cash
- When you plot your plots, think strategically
when you plant them. Some various patterns are
below:
Square plots will use all the seeds
in each sack, but the middle square won't
be accessible to water.
Rows are the quickest to water when
you use a sprinkler, but you'll only be
able to harvest 66% of what you sow.
C-shaped plots are wasteful
designs that you can only grow
55% of a whole bag of seeds from
each sack you sow.
U-shaped plots are very productive
and easy to water, allowing you
to harvest 89% of your planted seeds!
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The Items
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Axe/Super Axe - Use the axe to chop up stumps.
Tell the truth to the Harvest
Goddess after the earthquake.
Hammer/Super Hammer - Use the hammer to smash
large rocks. After
remodelling your house you
will receive the super
hammer
Hoe/Super Hoe - Use the hoe to till your fields.
The harvest sprite will turn it
into the super hoe if you are
nice to it and are helpful.
Sickle/Super Sickle - Use the sickle to cut tall
grass. You will eventually
get the super sickle if you
keep helping the gnomes.
Watering Can - Use this to... water the crops and
grass. You get it upon your first
purchase of seeds at the flower
shop
Sprinkler - Look in the tool shop on the 19th day
of sprinng. This nifty item is 2000GP.
Umbrella - Only a true harvest master can make it
rain on a sunny day. Just simply open
the umbrella.
Lumber - You can get lumber by chopping up the
stumps on your farm or by forking over
500GP at the carpenter shop
Cow Bell - You get this by purchasing a cow your
first time. It calls the cows.
Brush - The brush is sold in the Tool shop for
800GP. Always brush your cows every day
to keep them happy.
Milker - Get this at the tool shop for 1800GP.
Buy it for mature cows.
Cow Food - Feed the cows with it. It costs 700GP
at the animal store.
Chicken Feed - Use this only when your silo is
completely empty because this
item can quickly drain your cash.
It costs 500GP
Medicine - Your cows get sick if you neglect them.
If this happens, buy it at the animal
store for 1000GP to cure them
First Aid Kit - An improved medicine vaccine.
You can buy it in the second
year for 2000GP.
Cow Potion - Use this to breed a baby calf. It
costs 4000GP but farm bred animals
are happier than store bought.
Pick Axe - You might get this as a gift at the
end of the year. Only a true harvest
master may weild it.
Saddlebags - The saddlebags work like a portable
shipping crate. You can buy it in
the second year for 2500GP
Butter Churn - Ann will make this some time
during the second year. It costs
30000GP
Cheese Maker - Ann will also make this for you
during the second spring. It costs
30000GP
Fishing Pole - You can't get this unless you're a
true harvest master. You can fish
inside the caverns
Meat Dumpling - Restores 10 stamina points
Rice Ball - Restores 20 stamina points
Croissant - Restores 30 stamina points
Cake - Restores 25% of stamina
Lunch - Restores 50% of stamina
Milk - Restores 10 stamina points
Green Tea - Restores 20 stamina points
Wild Grape Juice - Restores 30 stamina points
Apple Juice - Restores 50% of stamina
Orange Juice - Restores stamina points
Power Berry - Extends your stamina bar by
5 points. These are found by
digging around your field.
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The Gnomes
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Have you ever seen that door at the back of your
tool shed??? Living under your shed are tiny
little people called gnomes. Visit them often,
and pick them a mushroom every time you visit.
If they need help, be sure to help them because
remember, no good deed goes unrewarded...
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Spring
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Plant your first batch of crops near the shipping
crate. Add lots more plots of grass as you get
more livestock and chickens. Clear small portions
of land daily, starting with near the shipping
crate, be sure to have one chicken before summer.
EVENTS:
1st day of spring - Make a trip to the flower
shop and buy seed. Clear
just enough land to plant
five fields and some grass
10th day of spring - You get a horse
24th day of spring - Last day to plant potatoes.
25th day of spring - Last day to plant radishes.
27th day of spring - Go to a picnic. It will
greatly improve your
happiness score. Make sure
to feed your animals before
the end of the day.
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Summer
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Work into the night to prepare your fields for
corn or tomatoes. Make sure to get all your crops
picked by the first day of fall. Expand the plots
around your shipping crate. Stay up late planting
fields and plowing grass. When you have a steady
income, buy cattle, then improve your house.
EVENTS:
1st day of summer - Buy a sprinkler
- Sometime between the 1st and
tenth day of summer, an
earthquake will occur. Be
prepared.
- A monsoon will strike every
year at least once in the
summer. Watch the weather
reports to be prepared for
the worst.
26th day of summer - Last day to water tomatoes
and harvest a crop before
fall.
27th day of summer - Last day to water corn and
harvest them. Now concentrate
on cutting grass for the
winter.
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Fall
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Help a neighbour to improve your happiness score.
Concentrate mostly on cutting grass because you
can't make that much profit in the fall with
crops. It's the best time to raise a calf if you
want to.
EVENTS:
9th day of fall - Raise a cow if you want to.
It's the best time.
10th day of fall - Be sure to stock your pantry.
You can buy up yo 99 dumplings,
rice balls, and croissannts.
15th day of fall - Clear the rest of your farm to
raise your farming stats at the
end of the year. Dispose of
all rocks and tree stumps.
20th day of fall - Last day to plant and harvest
grass before winter.
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Winter
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If you haven't stocked up on food and grass,
this winter will be the hardest 30 days of the
year. Carrots will turn a winter profit, if
you have enough money for the seed.
EVENTS:
19th day of winter - Last day to plant broccoli
and harvest before spring.
20th day of winter - A neighbour girl has lost
her bird. Finding it will
raise your over-all
happiness score in the
game.
23rd day of winter - Last day to plant carrots
and harvest before spring.
24th day of winter - Someone may stop by your
farm and invite you to a
party. Attending will raise
your happiness score.
30th day of winter - Your evaluation. Your
Grandfather will visit you
and tel you how you've done.
He may give you some gifts
as rewards.
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The Crops
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Potatoes - Price: 150GP Yield: 80GP
Potatoes take longer to grow than
turnips, but are the best cash crop
in spring.
Turnips - Price: 120GP Yield: 60GP
You'll get fast cash with turnips, but
potatoes are better.
Tomatoes - Price: 200GP Yield: 100GP
You won't earn a pile of money growing
tomatoes instead of corn, but these
ripen extremely fast.
Corn - Price: 300GP Yield: 120GP
Corn is expensive, but it's the cream of
the crop because you can keep harvesting
this without buying more seeds.
Eggplant - Price: 150 GP Yield: 60GP
Eggplant grow in five days. There isn't
much demand for these though, so you
won't make a great profit.
Peanuts - Price: 200GP Yield: 60 GP
Peanuts mature in seven days. Peanut
seeds are more expensive than eggplant,
so your profit margin is less.
Broccoli - Price: 500GP Yield: 120 GP
Broccoli is expensive and slow to grow,
and it has the lowest profit margin.
Carrots - Price: 300GP Yield: 120GP
Carrots are a good cash crop that grow
almost as fast as eggplant, but the
seeds cost as much as corn.
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Legal Junk
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This document copyright (c) Cam Roth, 1999
If you would like to use this in any way, please
e-mail me at _ lroth@sk.sympatico.ca _ for a
written consent. This document is not to be sold.
Credits:
Me, for wtiting it
GameFAQS, for posting it
