Harvest Moon: Magical Melody - Strategy Guide (Page 02)
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Terry) Birthday: Winter 21 Adores: Mushroom. Likes: Fish, Egg Hates: ? Tim) Birthday: Fall 12 Adores: HQ Spinach/Eggplant Likes: MQ Corn, Rare/Gold/Silver Ores, Fried Veggies, Toadstool. Hates: Very Berry Soda Theodore) Birthday: Spring 4 Adores: MQ/HQ Potato & Stewed Yam. Likes: Sunnyside Egg, Gold Ore. Hates: ? Woody) Birthday: Summer 21 Adores: HQ Eggplant, Pickled Turnip, Very Berry Soda Likes: Branches, Moonstone, Good Milk. Hates: ? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Tips -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This section will help you: >Regain / increase your Stamina & relieve your Sleepiness >Find various Ores, Jewels/Gems, & Minerals >Learn about animals, crops/seeds/saplings, etc. >Discover various/miscellaneous TIPS. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III-A) Power Berries & Your Health -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 5 & you'll get them for: >Winning the swimming festival >Returning 30 Musical Notes to the Sprites >From Tim when you reach the 100th floor of Moonlight Mine >Donating a pumpkin and going to the pumpkin festival >Winning 3rd category Horse Race w/ Power Berry as the Prize Each Power Berry you receive will make your Health Bar longer. Ultimately you won't lose your strength & become tired as quickly. It doesn't take much to drain your Health Bar & become sleepy; especially at the beginning of the game. Eating & drinking certain foods will help you get back on your feet. Some foods are much better than others. Here are some tips that I've found very helpful: Toadstool Saute: Frying Pan + Butter + Toadstool. This meal will recover 100% of your Stamina & change "sleepyhead" to "fine!" & possibly "Very Tired" to "fine!". No more droopy eyes! If you continued to work while "Very Tired" then you may only improve to "Sleepy Head". Toadstool looks like Purple-spotted Mushrooms & are easily found near fence-posts/Stakes. If you can't make your own Butter than buy it from the Blue Sky Ranch. Buy the Frying Pan from the Junk Shop. You'll be making tons of money with it. Both the Frying Pan & Butter are well worth the expense. Herbs: Eating one Herb (any color) will slightly fill your health bar, but completely restore you to "fine!" even if you were "Very Tired". How long it helps you seems to depend on how full your health bar was before eating it, by how many hours you've been awake, & how hard you've been working. Curreal cooked on your Bonfire cures sleepiness & also fills your Health Bar a little. You don't even need to buy anything for this meal. Just use your fishing pole in the River & hope to catch a Curreal. Make a Bonfire by using your "Bonfire Kit"; which looks like a box of wood matches. Then face the fire, hold the Curreal in your hands, press "X" & then "A". Herb Tea: Green Herb + Pot Buy the Pot from the Junk Shop & pick the Green Herb wherever you find it The Mtn. path is a good place to look. Herb Tea fills your Health Bar a little, but relieves your sleepiness a lot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III-B) The Mines -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two Mines in Flower Bud: The Moonlight Mine & the Lake Mine. Be sure to bring your Hammer or you'll never get past the 1st level. Also bring your Hoe if you need to find Good Clay &/or Pontata Root; both of which are in the soil. Each level in both mines has a hidden hole that will lead to the next lower level. Use your Hoe to find it. Look for a square of soil that "flickers" or somehow looks different as you walk around. It's edges may look jagged or "pixilated" as you move around. You'll only go down a single level, but you'll never be pushed back up to the levels above; which is what can happen with the cracks you just walk over. The Ores, Limestone, & Gems are found in both the rocks & blue crystals. The blue crystals will sometimes emit a colored gas-cloud. Each colored gas has it's own temporary effect on your character: Purple: Will confuse you. Your controls won't work right. Yellow: Makes your character move very fast White: Nullifies the effect of the other gasses Pink: Restores some of your Health Bar Black: Narrows your vision. Orange: Paralyzes, but you can still change tools, eat, etc. The Moonlight Mine is in the Cliff to the right of Jamie's Ranch & is open all year. You must bring your Hammer to find the hole leading to the lower levels. Also bring your Hoe if you want to find Good Clay or Pontata Root. Both Mines hold the same things, & the deeper you go the better the items. TIPS: Limestone) can be found in the Rocks (not blue crystals) on any floor. I've only found a single Limestone per floor. Ship 10 in order to buy Fertilizer from the Spring Farm. Rocks vs. Blue Crystals) Although both can hold treasures I've found better results by crushing the Blue Crystals. The Rocks seems to have a higher chance of being empty or only giving less valuable treasures; although they'll rarely "gas" you. The Blue Crystals seem to have a higher chance of giving much better treasures, along with a high probability of being "gassed". Lvl 1 Pontata Root in the soil is most common Lvl 2 Good Clay in the soil is most common Lvl 10 Better chance of finding Moonstone Lvl 20 Better chance of finding Rare Ore Lvl 40 & deeper: Better chance of finding Gems/jewels Lvl 85 Diamond is more common Lvl 100 Tim gives a Power Berry the first time you reach this floor. The Lake Mine: You can only reach the Lake Mine in Winter when Sunny Lake freezes over. Better quality items are easier to find here compared to the Moonlight Mine. Lvl 5 All Moonstones Lvl 10 Dead-end, so start over or dig for a hidden hole leading to the next level down. (Tip: look for the patch that "flickers" or has pixilated edges). Lvl 5 All Moonstone Lvl 15 All Amethyst Lvl 20 All Aquamarine Lvl 25 All Topaz Lvl 30 All Sapphire Lvl 35 All Emerald Lvl 40 All Ruby Lvl 45 All Limestone in the rocks Lvl 50 All Diamond Lvl 100 Underground Lake where a King Fish can be caught, so bring a pole. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III-C) Animals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TIP: Hand-feed, talk to, & brush all your animals to raise their affection more quickly. Your Dog: Ellen will give it to you on the very first morning of your game. The quickest way to raise it's heart level is to pick it up & feed it once each day. Animals that require a Barn: TIP: Be sure to enter your new Barn before you buy any barn-animals. If you buy a barn-animal before having first entered your barn you may lose your chance to get your pet Pig. TIP: When you buy your first animal Hank will visit you the next day & give you a free set of Reigns; which can be used to lead a single animal in & out of the Barn. Therefore, you can postpone buying the Bell if you're poor. Some items to buy from the Blue Sky Ranch: Bell, Brush, Clippers, Milker, Cow, Horse, Sheep, Fodder (cow/sheep), Chicken, Chicken Fodder, & Miracle Potions to get each animal pregnant. The Horse: Buy your first horse (colt actually) from the Blue Sky Ranch. Brush, talk to, & hand-feed, it every day. You can start riding it when it is full grown (takes around 20 days) & has 2 hearts. You must be outside, face your horse & press "X" in order to ride. Use either the Bell or the Reigns to get your Horse outside. The more you ride it the more Training Stars it will get. The more Training Stars your horse has the better chance it will have at winning a race at the Spring or Fall Horse Races. TIP: How to ride your horse) Page 2 of the game's instruction pamphlet says, "X Button: Tap the X button to equip a selected rucksack item. Press the X button again to use the equipped item. Push the X button to ride the horse". Page 21 says, "It takes 2 hearts to ride. You won't be able to saddle up and ride your horse until you see two hearts by the horse's name on the Animals menu. Regular riding is important because it improves your horse's chance at winning a spring or fall horse race." What is not mentioned is that your horse must be full grown, you both must be outside, & you must stand next to it when pressing the X button. If you still have trouble (e.g. only take out an item) then also point your (left, gray) analog stick toward the horse while pressing X. The little Pig: Buy a barn & enter it. You'll be surprised to see a quivering piggy & a hungry Gourmet. The Gourmet will give you the pig. The Pig seems to think it's a dog, because it'll always end up inside your house. Raise it's affection up to 3 hearts & it'll find Truffles for you. Truffles can only be found in Fall wherever Mora trees grow. A Mora tree looks like any fruit tree, but it's leaves turn golden in Fall. You'll never find fruit or Chestnuts under it. Take your Pig outside, watch for an exclamation point to appear over it's head, pick up the Pig, put it out of your way (behind you is fine), dig the spot with your Hoe & pocket the Truffle. Cows: You'll have to buy your first cow & the Milker from the Blue Sky Ranch. Hand-feed, brush, & talk to your Barn animals every day to raise their heart level most quickly; which improves the quality of their products. Cows take about 20 days to mature, so in about a season it'll start producing Milk. Cows only give one bottle of milk per day & must have eaten before being milked. They also only give Milk around the 24th hour since their last milking. Buy the Butter Maker & Cheese Maker from the Junk Shop. The shipping price of Butter & Cheese is much higher than Milk. Butter & Cheese is also used in many worthwhile recipes. Sheep: You'll have to buy your first Sheep (lamb actually) & the wool Clippers from the Blue Sky Ranch & should buy the Yarn Maker from the Junk Shop. Hand-feed, brush, & talk to your Barn animals in order to raise their heart level most quickly; which improves the quality of their products. It takes about 14 days for a sheep to mature. Clip a Sheep's wool & it'll be ready for another clipping on the 8th day afterward. Turning Wool into Yarn greatly increases it's shipping price. Buying & using a Dye Pot (Junk Shop) to make Dyed Yarn is the most profitable Sheep product. Just don't dye Shiny Yarn, because it actually sells for less than any type of Dyed Yarn. Sheep will give birth on the 14th day after being impregnated with Miracle Potion. Chickens & the Chicken Coop: TIP: After your Coop is ready just buy an Egg from the Blue Sky Ranch & put it into the Incubator. In about 6 days you'll have your first chic. This process takes longer to start getting Eggs, but it's a lot cheaper than buying a Chicken. TIP: If you build a Windmill you can grind Corn into Chicken Fodder. It will save you money in the long run. Windmills are cool anyway! Chickens adore being hand-fed weeds; which raises their heart level more quickly. They will never lay Eggs if not kept in their Coop overnight. You can buy a Mayonnaise Maker from the Junk Shop. Personally, I don't think it's worth the money until later in the game. Wild Animals & Woodland Creatures: You can raise the heart level of any Wild Animal by picking it up & feeding it food it likes. The Rabbit, Squirrel, Raccoon, & Weasel all like weeds. The Mallard Duck, Dolphin, & Cat like fish. The Monkey likes various berries. I'm sure there are more food choices, but I haven't bothered to find them. >The Dolphin is most important, because once it has 3 hearts you can ride it to the ocean island for great fishing. >The first Wild animal to reach between 4 & 5 hearts will show up at your door. You'll earn a Musical Note too! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III-D) Farming -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are 3 different levels of soil: >Most Fertile (Dark brown) seeds grow most quickly with highest profit. >Med. Fertile (Med. Brown) seeds take a day longer with medium profit. >Least Fertile (Light Brown) seeds take longest to grow with least profit. Crop Growth-Rate: When you buy a bag of seeds from the Spring Farm you'll see a description which includes how many days it takes to grow; which is accurate if planted in Most Fertile Soil (dark brown). If planted in Medium Fertile Soil (Medium brown in color) it will take one day longer. If planted in Least Fertile Soil (light brown) it will take 2 days longer than described. TIP: Ship 10 Limestone & to unlock Fertilizer for purchase from the Spring Farm. One portion of fertilizer improves a 9X9 plot of land by one level, e.g., Least Fertile becomes Med. Fertile. Fertilize it again & it'll become Most Fertile Soil. Limestone can be found in the Mines' Rocks. See section " III-B) The Mines " for more details. Most profitable crop of each season: Spring: Strawberry (400/200/140G) Ship 50 Cabbage to unlock. Spring: Breadfruit (300/150/105G) if you can't buy Strawberry yet. Summer: Corn (300/150/105G) Fall: Eggplant (240/120/84G) Winter: N/A, go Mining! (Renewable crops earn more money by the end of their season compared to higher selling one-time-only crops. Breadfruit earns a higher profit than Cabbage, because you'll harvest & ship tons more & make more money. Bust out your calculator & see for yourself.) See each season's Calendar of Events to see more info on each crop. TIPS: >Cooking a crop greatly increases the shipping profit. The only exception I've found is that HQ Pumpkin & HQ Strawberry sell for more raw compared to any that are cooked. Breadfruit is a little different, because it's actually used in more complicated recipes. But, recipes using Breadfruit usually sell for an excellent/above average profit. Grass: >Grass seeds & Tree Saplings never ever need to be watered. >Can be cut about every other day. No need to wait until full grown. >Grass dies in Winter. You'll have to replant it the next Spring. Crops: >Crops will die if left un-watered for too many days in a row. Keep this in mind when you upgrade your Watering Can. >Full grown crops can be left on the vine or in the ground, but still must be watered or they'll die. (If I don't have room in my refrigerator I'll just leave some ripe crops in my field. I left some full grown Carrots & Spinach without watering them & they died within 4 days. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III-E) Miscellaneous Tips -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Control the Weather! >Avoid Typhoons, etc. by saving the night before you go to sleep. Then check the weather channel for the following day's weather forecast. If you don't like the weather then simply reload your game from the night before. This is just like the Mineral Town "weather trick". Find forage-able items without spending any “time”: >Go to Woody's, choose "Relocate", select the watering hole/well, move it all over the entire town map & you'll see all the forage-able items of the day, as well as the people's outdoor locations. This has really cut down on my "blind wandering"! Oh yeah, you don't actually have to go through with the Relocation request, so you can do this as often as you like & it's free. Gifts: >Cooking/preparing food with a lower quality crop will often be as adored as giving an adored HQ crop. Saibara adores Stewed Eggplant made with LQ Eggplant as much as he adores HQ Eggplant. >Giving 4 adored gifts seems to raise one heart level. >The adored/liked gifts I've mentioned are probably not the only choices, but they have been confirmed to have the described effect. >Many townsfolk will give you a recipe, but there are two requirements. You must have raised their heart level to the appropriate level & already own the cooking utensil used in their recipe. Quicker Fishing: >Find a spot where a fish only moves forward & then floats downstream (not in a circular pattern). Position yourself in such a way that you'll cast just in front of it when it swims as far forward as it will go. When you hook it be sure to hold your "X" button down until you're holding in your hands. After putting it away don't take a step or move away from your position. Only face the water & then re-cast. The next fish will reappear exactly where you caught the last. I regularly catch fish one after the other in quick succession this way. Tools: >Pedometer: serves no purpose after you've received the Musical Note for taking 10,000 steps. Don't bother taking up room in your Rucksack with it after accomplishing that goal. >Tai/Blacksmith,"...charges by the stages (levels) you want to make it into. Such as if I had a normal Axe, upgraded it to silver it would take 3 days and 1,500G, and the same with anything that goes up two stages. (such as normal to silver, copper to gold, silver to goddess) And if you increased it one level it would be 2 days and 700G. And the last two charges would be, the level 1(normal) to level 4 (Gold) 4 days and 3,000G, or level 1 to level 5 (goddess) 5 days and 4,000G." quote from AlexL576 of HMOtaku. >Any level tool can accomplish any task. Lower level tools (like Iron) take more swings/uses to get the job done; which uses up more time, stamina, & causes fatigue. >I'm not yet sure, but suspect that higher level tools use up more of your Health Bar compared to when it was a lower level. I upgraded my Axe from Iron to Gold & it sure seems like 10 single/non powered-up swings of a Golden Axe uses up more of my Health Bar than 10 swings when it was Iron. I'll test this theory out & let you know what I discover. >The "detection" in Magical Melody is tricky when people & animals are close to each other. I've tried to milk my cow & yet my horse shows "!?" over it's head & loses a heart. Make sure your animals are far enough apart before using animal-specific tools. >Using an inappropriate tool too close or on an animal will really upset it. I've accidentally "watered" my horse with my fully charged Goddess level Watering Can & lowered it's hearts from 7 down to 1 with a Skull icon over it's name! I've accidentally "milked" my horse & caused it to lose one heart. Lowering Heart levels: >It is possible to lower the heart level of all the characters & animals. Giving a gift of a hated/disliked item or using an inappropriate tool on them will cause them to lose hearts. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IIII. The Boring Stuff -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IIII-A) Personal Comments -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It always bugs me when I have to scroll through what seems like pages & pages of mundane & unimportant crap like "version history" & an "introduction" to the obvious; which is what you already see in the table of contents. So, rebel that I am, I've decided to put all this silliness at the very end of my own FAQ. Nobody actually wants to read this stuff anyway. This is my very first FAQ/Guide, so please be kind. I'll be adding more info as I advance through the game. Please do not email with general questions. I’ll never be able to reply to the amazing number of emails asking “how do I use my watering can” or “how do I get so-&-so to move in?”. I completely understand how you would want to ask (we all have questions), but please, please post your questions in your Forum of choice. My favorite Harvest Moon forum is HMOtaku.net. Harvest Moon Evergreen & Ushi No Tane (fogu.com/hmforum) are also great. Don’t forget that CheatCC.com, Neoseeker, & IGN also have forums where you can post all your questions. If (after reading that last paragraph) you still want to send me an Email then be sure to include “ZCG’s MM FAQ” in the title. I’m forced to delete any new Email that doesn’t include ZCG’s MM FAQ in the title. Sorry, but my in-box is already full & I need to find a way to resolve this growing problem. Natsume owns the Copyright of Harvest Moon: Magical Melody & Nintendo owns the license. I'm merely passing on info I've acquired simply by playing this awesome game. I've no idea if I'm required to point out this glaringly obvious detail, but I've seen other FAQs mention this type of thing & thought I'd do the same. Kind of a CYA legal thing I guess. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IIII-B) Credit where credit is due -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While practically all of this FAQ/Guide is an expression of my personal experience with the game I have indeed been greatly influenced by several people; whether by their direct input or simple kindness & support. Please take a moment to share my acknowledgment of the following people: >Captain Bones from HMOtaku.net discovered that Martha adores Good Cheese, Saibara's gifts & required heart levels. >Chuck, Phantom (both from HMOtaku.net) & Kyle from Harvest Moon Evergreen: pointed out that Basil adores Pontata Root. >Miyah from Everpine Village relayed the tip to find the hidden hole in the Mines. >Nathaniel from HMOtaku.net asked Natsume how to get Henry & then shared the official answer. >Phantom from HMOtaku confirmed: Ray loves Yellowtail Stew/Teriyaki/Sashimi Nina loves HQ Strawberries, Strawberry Milk, and Herb Tea. Dia loves HQ Strawberries and HQ Cocoa. Katie loves HQ Sweet Potatoes. Maria loves HQ Cabbage and Stewed Cabbage. Eve loves Sodas and HQ Strawberries. Gina loves HQ Onions. Basil loves Herb Tea, Pontata Roots, HQ Strawberries. Dan loves HQ Strawberries. >AlexL576 from HMOtaku made sense of Tai's varying charges & amounts of time taken to upgrade tools. >Nguyen_Dragon from HMOtaku confirmed that Jamie adores Special Milk. >I've found an enormous amount of help & support from everyone at HMOtaku's forums, Kyle's Harvest Moon Evergreen & Everpine Village. There are too many people to name, but y'all are awesome! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IIII-C) Version History -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're looking at the very first version & I'll let you know when it's updated ^.^ (4/14/06) 4/26/06 updated/added info about some of the characters . Added Meryl & Saibara’s Birthdays (doh!). Added quite a few things along with an alphabetical list of all the possible characters. If you printed this FAQ & don't see "II-D)" then you may want to toss it out & print this one. Might as well call this “Version 1.5".
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