Harvest Moon DS Cute Retroachievements

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1) Synopsis

View the set here. Developed by Bryan1150.

Set Difficulty	On a scale of 1 to 10, around 3 to beat and 11 to master. Don't.
Approximate time to master	Potentially months
Minimum numbers of playthroughs needed	One, as long as you copy your save files
Number of missable achievements	52 and then some
Does difficulty affect achievements?	No difficulty settings
Hardest achievement of the set	Filled Album, or perhaps Free Spirits

(Thank you very much Dudude Dude from the authorblues community discord for this image.)

2) Introduction

Harvest Moon DS Cute is the "For Girls" version of Harvest Moon DS - a sort of Pokemon Platinum-esque release that adds new content while fixing some of the most notorious bugs and exploits of the old version.

If you'd prefer Harvest Moon DS, you can find the set for that here. It's the same developer and has most of the achievements in common. Most but not all of the advice in this guide will apply to that set.

The base conceit is that you are a farmgirl in Forget-Me-Not Valley. If you ever played A Wonderful Life, yes, same place and same characters. The Harvest Goddess got sealed away along with her 101 Harvest Sprites and you need to free at least 60 of them via doing a bunch of random tasks like "ship a pineapple" or "brush your animals 500 times" in order to release her. (This is also the set's "Win Condition".)

You can only play as a girl and only woo boys. There is a patch to replace your sprite with the male player that has been added to RA patches. I haven't tested it but if you'd prefer to woo boys as a boy, try it out! Thanks to dev kiwipatches for checking the memory values.

As a longtime Harvest Moon fan, I find it to be one of the better titles of the series. I think it's good both as a nostalgia revisit and for any hardcore farmhead who is curious about Stardew Valley's forefathers, as this was in ConcernedApe (Stardew dev)'s top 3 favorite Harvest Moons and the inspiration is obvious. The win condition is quite simple and it isn't hard to tuck it under your belt as Beaten.

However, it is full of bizarre, RNG-based activities and horrible ideas, meaning the achievement set is likewise full of tedium and questionable game design decisions. (Not the fault of the achievement dev, just the game.)

As such, 100%ing it is a foolhardy decision and not to be undertaken lightly. That's not like a "haha this game is too strong for you traveler" it's "you can spend 40 minutes resetting for a single item UNSUCCESSFULLY and there are ten of them and that's not even the worst this game has to offer". It's not hardcore gamer cred. Not even like, endurance gamer cred. It's "thou art foolish" anti-gamer cred, for clowns. If you want to 100% (don't) see here for things to know in advance.

I wrote this guide as I 100%ed it, both in order to keep my own sanity and serve as a warning.

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This guide was authored by prettypinkpansy. Thank you to Bryan1150 for making the set. A huge thank-you to Cherubae, creator of the fansite Ushi no Tane, and to her community. THE VAST MAJORITY of the information here is from UnT and you should always have the site open while playing. Thank you to the RA players who have come before me and documented eccentricities of this game's set.

Thank you to authorblues' community and discord for helping to give me the retroachievements brainpoison as well as double checking my math. Thank you to my best friend for loving, unconditional support and constantly reminding me how fucking stupid this entire endeavor is.

3) GBA connection info

Both this game and its predecessor, Harvest Moon DS, have optional connection with the Gameboy Advance cartridges for Harvest Moon: Friends Of Mineral Town/More Friends Of Mineral Town. This is required for over 30 achievements and unlocks a whole host of characters and is thus advisable to do.

You can pick either FOMT or MFOMT for the second cartridge, either one will unlock the same stuff.

Retroarch

Retroarch does not have GBA connectivity support. However, Retroarch uses the DesMuMe core, and DesMuMe STANDALONE does allow GBA connectivity. The GBA connectivity does not need to be continuous - you just have to activate the flag then save your game. And the saves are cross-compatible.

Practically speaking, what this means is that you can activate connectivity in DesMuMe standalone, make a save, load the save in Retroarch, and have connectivity there.

1. Download DesMuMe STANDALONE.
2. Open DesMuMe STANDALONE. Load the GBA cartridge into the second slot by going to Config->Slot 2 (GBA Slot).
3. Start HMDS Cute up by going to File->Open ROM.
4. Go through the intro. Save your game after going through the intro and before unlocking anything else. Close DesMuMe STANDALONE.
5. Within your DesMuMe STANDALONE folder, you should find a folder named "Battery". In there should be your save file, something like Harvest Moon DS Cute (USA).dsv. Copy this file.
6. Within your Retroarch folder, you should find a folder named "saves". Paste the dsv file here.
7. Load Retroarch up with the DesMuMe core.
8. Test connectivity.

Bizhawk

You can get GBA connectivity working with Bizhawk and the Multi-Disk Bundler! (You may need a newer version of Bizhawk if you are having trouble getting this working. This was tested and working on Bizhawk 2.9.1.)

1. Make sure you are using real BIOS files for both NDS and GBA. For legal reasons, I cannot tell you where to obtain these files. You can set these by going to Config->Firmwares...
2. Under Config->Core Settings->For Handhelds->MelonDS->Settings, under the Sync Settings tab, you must change "Use Real BIOS" to True. You may also need to change Firmware Override to True, not sure.
3. Under Tools -> Multi-Disk Bundler, name your file whatever you want. Select "NDS" under System. Select Harvest Moon DS for the first game. Select Harvest Moon GBA for the second game.
4. Go to File->Open ROM... and open the Multi-Disk Bundler XML file that you just created.
5. Test connectivity.

Thank you very much to BigBoyAdvance for helping me troubleshoot Bizhawk connectivity!

Testing GBA connectivity

You can test connectivity easily by seeing if the GBA-specific NPCs are present. Shown below is the Inn. You can find it by leaving your farm area then heading southwest.

1. Go to sleep so that it is Spring 03, a Tuesday.
2. Immediately head to the Inn. Go upstairs.
3. Head to the back of the 2nd floor. The door on the back left should be accessible.
4. If you see Karen inside, you have established connectivity!

If you have any issues getting this to work you can DM me on Retroachievements.

4) THIS GAME IS UNSTABLE IF RAN FOR TOO LONG

Though not as buggy as Harvest Moon DS, DS Cute is not the paragon of stability.

The game seems particularly unstable inside the Harvest Sprite Tree and its casino back room. This has been known for years, even on original hardware. RA user Orph noted that leaving the game running too long while using fast forward in the Tree can cause it to crash, and this tracks with my experience.

As little as 20 minutes on fast forward in the sprite tree can cause this and crashes can happen on a delay e.g. the next morning. (There are casino minigames and also a collectible card game that requires spending time in the tree, if you're wondering why someone would do such a thing.) If you want to be totally safe, reload the ROM into your emulator if you've just finished a long stint in the sprite tree and saved your game.

That said, you're probably safe as long as you don't spend too much time inside the Harvest Sprite tree, and brief visits to buy a few things or hire sprites should be fine. I've been able to spend hours in other areas, including the mines, without issue. Though I have had my cow and sheep sprites start to glitch out (harmlessly) if I spend too much time in the barn.

Why does this happen? Why does it seem centered around the Sprite Tree? No idea, could be a memory leak. I recommend saving fairly frequently outside of that just because this is a game that rewards being able to easily hop back a day in your progress.

USE BOTH SAVE SLOTS ACTIVELY AND ALTERNATE THEM. IF YOU NEED TO MAKE A "ROUTE SPLIT" WITH MULTIPLE SAVE FILES (e.g. marrying a different bachelor for the 3 marriage achievements) THEN COPY YOUR EMULATOR'S SAVE FILES, DO NOT USE THE INGAME SAVE SLOTS FOR MULTIPLE SAVES. If your game freezes mid-save it WILL wipe out the save in that slot so using both slots is vital. There are also savescum strategies e.g. for the mines that require both slots.

Other instability concerns

• The game is known to lock up during the Oven category of the Cooking Contest, so you'll have to skip it. This takes place on Year 4 and any year with the Oven Contest thereafter (there are 6 themes and they recycle in order, so the next one would be Year 10).
• Hitting the Start button during the brief moment of time talking to a villager before they change their facial expression from default to something else, or when there is a brief flash of purple on the bottom screen, may cause the game to lock up and freeze. Thanks Anna_Lynn on the UnT forums for documenting this.
• I've heard of rare instability/freezing during the rival marriage events, but not experienced any personally. Consider saving before you trigger the Orange Heart event and keeping that save until the wedding proceeds normally.
• In general, consider backing up your save at the start of every year, both as a safety measure and to have a useful rollback point for missables. I simply copy my "Saves" folder and name it something descriptive, like "Saves - year 3 unmarried griffin max heart"
• I have heard of people having instability when hitting a billion gold (1,000,000,000g) but I'm not sure if that was limited to the first game. Perhaps exercise caution when you're near that number?
• I had the game crash my emulator once while scrolling my shipped items list after completing the whole thing. I never had any issues with it prior to filling the list out, but afterwards, some of the icons were missing and then I suddenly had the crash! Maybe it's only after the list has been filled?

5) Important starting info

• On Retroarch, pressing F11 will hide your mouse cursor and lock it to the DS screen. Useful if you're having trouble with your mouse cursor being offset from your touch cursor.
• There is an ingame set of tutorials that can be accessed by using Sprite Channel 8 on your bottom screen.
• Time does not pass indoors. Use this for menu and inventory management. This is true of any indoor area including the Mines.
• You can tap various icons on your farm info page including your head, your animals, your shipped items, etc to view detailed breakdowns.
• Save every night. Unlike Stardew, you can save at any time!
• Get accustomed to the fast forward button and be shameless about using it.
• Do not throw things on the ground. Throw them in the shipping bin. Throwing things on the ground makes villagers like you less. Even weeds.
• You can give multiple gifts per day... but they must be given one at a time. Even though you can give someone a stack of 50 apples, they will only receive the affection increase of 1 apple, wasting the other 49 apples. You have to split the stack and mete them out one at a time.
• Splitting stacks is a pain. You have to "tap lightly" (read: briefly) with your stylus. Try tapping rapidly with two fingers or tapping at the end of your left mouse button. Once you have a cabinet or refrigerator from upgrading your house and TV Shopping, splitting stacks becomes much easier.
• Abuse the Casino's unlocks ASAP. It will be unlocked automatically after about a week ingame. Then unlock the rest of the casino sprites. Once you've unlocked them, buy medals, play games, abuse the High/Low game. Do this until you can buy the Love Bangle, Truth Bangle and Teleport Stone, which will respectively let you view love points, view your stamina/fatigue, and LET YOU TELEPORT ANYWHERE ON THE MAP INSTANTLY.
• Buildings can collapse and are more likely to do so depending on weak materials. Animals in a collapsed building WILL die. It is advised to save the day before a typhoon/snowstorm in case something collapses.

6) Less important but still good to know info

• Buy the rucksack upgrades as soon as you can. More inventory space is always good.
• Start breaking rocks when you see them. Larger rocks require an upgraded hammer - you can charge your tools up to use them at higher levels. Rocks will give you material stone, which you can use for buildings and upgrades.
• Those rocks and sticks you find on your farm can be used as a makeshift fence to pen in your animals. You can also use the material stone/wood stumps you get from breaking rocks and sticks for this, but unlike rocks and sticks, they will degrade over time. Build a fence around your farm and smaller pens within for your animals to prevent wild dogs from getting them at night.
• Animals do not like being out in bad weather. This includes your pets.
• The touch glove is tedious but it is the best way to raise affection. Raising affection with animals takes an absurdly long time otherwise, and your (non-horse/cat/dog) animals have a limited lifespan. The Touch Glove is also required to unlock a bunch of sprites, so get accustomed to it. Swipe your "stylus" quickly and vigorously. The highest increase is Red heart for petting and at least 7000 in washing, but it's not great for your wrist, so I go for Green in petting and 3000+ points in washing.
• Hire the Fishing Team right away. You can only hire one Harvest Sprite team at a time which makes their utility a bit limited - you can have them pet or feed your animals, but not both. The Fishing Team, on the other hand, catches and ships fish for you, which gives a constant low-income stream that is very useful early on. They also contribute to unlocking more members of their own team (most require a certain amount of fish caught). See here for more info on their benefits.
• The Mines are a great place to make money. By that I mean the Mine Entrance, the same screen where Flora and Carter are walking around. Dig around in the dirt until you find jewelry, which can sell for 2000g each. Very important early on.
• You can buy energy restoratives from Van, who comes into town every 3rd and 8th day. (13th, 18th, 23rd, etc..) Since you only have 100 stamina and this game doesn't have any means to increase that cap, having a stack of Bodigizer XLs in your inventory is extremely helpful - they restore 100 stamina each.
• Van can buy your items. Van will buy items straight from you, sometimes for more than they ship for. So using the above two tips, you could, say, sell him jewelry from the mine, teleport to the mine, mine more jewelry, use Bodigizer XLs when you run out of stamina, teleport to him, sell, buy more Bodigizer XLs... et cetera. A good way to brute force money early on depending on your patience.
• Van sells hats that drastically reduce stamina usage. He sells a Red Harvest Goddess hat (looks like a visor) for 200,000g that reduces the stamina usage for basic uncharged tool use from 2 to 1, which is super useful! After buying this he sells a Blue Harvest Goddess hat for 500,000g that reduces it to ZERO. Yes, you lose NO stamina for basic uncharged tool use. This is very pricy but invaluable for the later mines.

Do you want to 100% the game? (don't)

Look at this section for further tips on early-game tips for long-term optimization. Look at this section for an argument on why you shouldn't 100%.

7) Missables

Not all of the game's missables are marked as such.

Tool Upgrades

Copperation (2)
Get your first Copper tool

Silver Soul (3)
Get your first Silver tool

Gold Heart (5)
Get your first Gold tool

You can upgrade a tool using any metal. It goes Copper->Silver->Gold->Mystrile before getting into the more intense mine stuff. If you upgrade your tools straight from default to Mystrile, you do not unlock the levels before it. A Silver upgrade does not unlock the Copper achievement. So make sure you upgrade at least one tool one-at-a-time to get these achievements. May I suggest the Watering Can? Water in the morning, upgrade by one level, and it should be ready the next morning to do more watering.

How do you upgrade your tools in the first place? You'll need to reach that level by using your tools enough (check your progress by tapping your farmer's head on your farm status page) then get an appropriate metal.

You can get these metals by unlocking the first mine (go into the mine when no one is there, use the Teleport Stone to go there first thing in the morning or wait until after 9 PM) and digging around. More information including all mining drops here, but in short, dig with your hoe until you find stairs, then once you're at a level you're satisfied with, break rocks with your hammer. At floor 6 or below of the first mine, all the metals should be available in the rocks. Consider getting, in addition to at least one Copper, Silver and Gold, six Mystrile - one for each of your tools.

All Of The Mine Achievements Are Technically Missable

999 Cute Floors of Death (25)
Unlock the 4th mine

Why are they marked as missable? I believe there's something where mines cannot be unlocked after you get married, so make sure you unlock all four of them before you get married. UnT has a guide here on how to unlock the mines, but in short:

• Mine 1: Go into the Mine Entrance while Carter and Flora are not present. This can be done very early in the morning or very late at night.
• Mine 2: Reach the bottom of Mine 1 (10 floors) then, again, go into the Mine Entrance while no one's there.
• Mine 3: Upgrade all of your tools to Mystrile (including the Fishing Rod), then reach the bottom of Mine 2 (255 floors). Obtain the Legendary Sword at the bottom, then enter the Mine Entrance while no one's there. You cannot get the sword without your tools all being Mystrile.
• Mine 4: Meet Keira on the 255th floor of the 3rd Mine. You may have to savescum to reach that exact floor. Entering her chamber after defeating all the monsters outside will start her Black Heart Event where she asks you to bring her a curry. You do not have to finish the event by bringing her curry, just starting it is enough. Separately, reach the bottom of the 3rd mine (999 floors). Entering the Mine Entrance with no one around after both of these tasks should unlock Mine #4.

You'll know you have them all unlocked when you see 4 entrances. That's all you need to do to prevent missing them.

Achievements you may not realize are tied to mining (and thus considered missable by not unlocking the mines):

• Cursed & Blessed Tools (found in 3rd mine)
• Cursed & Blessed Accessories (found in 3rd mine)
• The Mythic Tools (you need the Cursed Tools as a prerequisite, then you find Mythic Stone in the 3rd mine to upgrade them)
• Find all the Mine Items (of course.)
• Catch and ship every Fish and Fishing Item, e.g. Pirate Treasure (requires a Blessed or higher fishing rod)
• Catch all the Fishing Kings (requires a Blessed or higher fishing rod)
• Ship every shippable item (this includes Mine Items, and also rare Fishing items, only available from Cursed/Blessed/Mythic tools)
• All 101 sprites, as several of them are tied to Blessing cursed items

Fishing

Legend of Forget-Me-Not Valley Queens (25)
Catch the 6 fish kings

Marine Exhibition (25)
Catch all 52 fish and items

Rod Variation (10)
Ship every fish item

All of these require you to have a Blessed or higher rod, as stated above, which means that you'll have to unlock the 3rd mine before you get married.

Additionally, one of the items for "Ship every fish item" and "Catch all 52 fish and items", Bottled Message, only appears in Spring and requires you to get Leia to Yellow Heart or higher, so you'll have to do that before you get married. Leia is a mermaid in Daryll's basement, so you'll have to raise his friendship high before you can meet her (you can easily do this by showing him your cat 200 times).

After that, give her a Large Fish every day til she's "Yellow Heart" (she does not have a visible heart indicator, use your Love Bangle, she needs to be 40000+ Love Points). At this point the Bottled Message will appear in the Spring fishing drop pool. You don't need to see the event for Bottled Message to show up - in fact, having one in your inventory is what triggers the event in the first place. (If you do see Leia's yellow heart event, which is an achievement of its own, it's recommended to reload afterwards, because her returning to the ocean will prevent several random events from triggering.)

Bottled Message tip: If your fishing rod is upgraded to Blessed, try fishing without your rod as charged up as it could be. For some reason I couldn't get this thing to show up unless I charged my fishing rod to Mystrile level only (the little angry vein appears on your farmer but they don't start glowing).

Marriage

You Won't Forget Him (5)
Get married to a Forget-Me-Not Valley Boy

Husband of Mineral Town (5)
Get married to a Mineral Town Boy [GBA]

Stole Your Heart (10)
Get married to Skye

These are not marked as missable, but you can only marry one boy per save. You can't divorce them or anything. So, you'll have to either reload after the wedding to before your proposal or make copies of your save if you want to get all of these!

The GBA boy one is the biggest pain because they only come around periodically, making them very difficult to raise affection for. Kai is the easiest by far, though, as he comes around every summer and stays for the entire season. See heart events for more info on all the boys.

Nostalgic Songs (10)
Have all song records *Must marry a Forget-Me-Not Valley boy [GBA]

The song records are bugged and seemingly cannot be unlocked if you marry a Mineral Town boy (Anwonu could not trigger it with Kai and I could not trigger it with Rick), so you must marry one of the Valley boys (Gustafa, Griffin, Marlin, Rock, Carter) for this cheevo. Unsure if Skye counts.

Childhood Friends (10)
Celebrate Lumina and Rock's wedding

There are 5 rival marriages that can trigger if you see all 4 of the rival heart events. They will all only trigger after 4 years on your farm to give you ample time to woo any of the boys. They are also missable by their very nature, because if Gustafa is the love of your life, Nami will never be able to get that Snufkin nookie. There are no rival marriages for GBA boys or Skye.

See rival marriages if you want more info on advice for getting these and doing so optimally.

Out for a Drink (10)
See all 4 of Carter's heart events

Sister's Approval (10)
See all 4 of Rick's heart events [GBA]

Pretty sure Heart Events stop playing once you are married, meaning you'll have to see all of them for all the boys before you marry (or the boys marry off to other girls!) if you want to 100% the game. There are 5 Forget-Me-Not boy heart event achievements and 5 FOMT boy achievements. This is alright for the Forget-Me-Not boys, but somewhat tedious with the GBA boys because, again, it can take three years or more(!) of optimal gifts to get them to Yellow Heart. Check out the Heart Events section for more indepth info.

However, 100%ing the game is, again, a wildly foolhardy task... because of the Special Bachelorettes left in from the For Boys version. You cannot marry them (or "best friends" them, they removed that in localization) BUT you can still see their heart events.

And there's achievements for that.

Scolded by a Human (25)
See all 4 of Harvest Goddess' heart events

There are 4 special Bachelorettes (Harvest Goddess, Witch Princess, Keira, Leia). Leia is the only simple one, and the rest are more like built-in challenges.

The Harvest Goddess requires a bevy of insane completionism tasks to see all of her heart events, such as giving her 500 gifts (one per day), which is over 4 ingame years. She also requires you to ship 10,000 of a single type of fish, which will take over 4 years of hiring the Fishing Sprites nonstop. And unlock all 9 channels of the Sprite Station, including the guy who requires you to ship 100,000 of a single item produced on your farm.

The Witch Princess requires you to, among other things, pass out at least 100 times, have killed 50 (!!!) of your animals, and donate a toadstool to the Harvest Festival for at least 5 years in a row.

Keira requires you to go to the 255th floor of the 3rd mine every time you want to see her, and like every other love interest, you can only raise her affection with one gift a day. Even assuming optimal gifts (her favorite is Golden Lumber which is insanely expensive, though less of a concern once you've broken the money system), you will have to go to the 255th floor of the mine dozens of times.

Don't 100% this damn ass game please. But if you must, check out the Heart Events section.

Random Events

Family Argument - Part 1 (2)
Watch Kate and Grant's first argument You are not married

There are a variety of these random events that are marked as Missable. Typically, the prerequisite for not missing them is marked in their description - the above example requires you to not be married. Events are usually a matter of being in the right place at the right time with everyone involved at high affection. Check out the Random Events section for more info.

Family (2)
Watch Nami apologize to Ruby at the Inn Nami and Gustafa are married

Some random events require you to not be married to a certain person. As I said before, if Gustafa is married to you, you obviously can't trigger a random event where Nami and Gustafa are married. If you are an idiot and want to 100% the game then you will need to copy your save files. There is also an event that requires you to be married to Marlin - the only one requiring a specific bachelor be married to you.

Also one of the events doesn't trigger if you're married to a Mineral Town boy. For no reason, the event flag is just bugged.

Mermaid's Easy Life (2)
Have a meal with Leia and Daryll

Leia is a mermaid living with Daryll in his bathtub. Her Yellow Heart event has her leave the tub and go back to the sea. This seemingly prevents a couple achievements with Leia and Daryll that only occur after you marry a bachelor, so simply reload after you see her Yellow Heart event occur.

Nina

Retired Lady (5)
Become Nina's best friend

Nina DIES after you have a kid so you have to befriend her before that.

:'(

You can befriend her easily, as with most villagers, by showing her your cat 255 times.

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That should cover all of the missables. Let's talk about the rest of the achievements.

8) Buying and Buildings-Related Achievements

Buying

Portable Shipping (1)
Buy the basket

The basket costs 5000g at the Supermarket (use the phone in your house). You can throw items into it and then dump it into the shipping bin, but since items stack and there's shipping bins throughout your farm, you're probably never going to use it much. That said, it's the only way to ship cooked items to fill out your shipping list (you have to throw them into the basket and then empty the basket into the bin). You can also unlock a sprite by tossing an item in.

Medium Order (2)
Buy the Medium Rucksack

Deep Inventory (3)
Buy the Large Rucksack

The Rucksack upgrades are very simple. Buy them from the Supermarket. The Large rucksack upgrades after you buy the Medium rucksack. Buy these ASAP as more inventory space is always welcome.

Embellishing the Interior (10)
Buy all the furniture

In order to do this, you'll have to buy everything from the TV Shopping Catalogue (sprite channel 2, unlocked by buying items from the Supermarket for at least 10 separate days, doesn't have to be consecutive). You will need to upgrade your house fully for this. You will also need to buy the TV and DVD Player from Van.

Do I Look DS Cute? (10)
Buy all the outfits [Except Bamboo forest]

Outfits, bought from May's Tailoring via the phone in your house, are unlocked according to your Farm Degree. Because the RA dev is merciful, you only have to worry about getting to Farm Chief (20,000 points) which unlocks all but one outfit.

What the hell is the Farm Degree? Well, when you tap your head on the bottom screen status display, you'll see a title, e.g. "Apprentice level 2". This title is determined by how many Farm Degree points you have. This is an invisible score, though Retroachievements keeps track of it in its Rich Presence, so when you're playing the game with RA enabled, you can see your points by going to the RA game page and scrolling down to the "Recent Players" section.

See the list of Farm Degree titles and how to increase your points by clicking here and the list of outfits by clicking here.

As outlined in the first link, your Farm Degree goes up over time from various tasks. Everything from getting pregnant to making Spa Boiled Eggs contributes. Don't worry about this until you've done everything else you want to unlock in the game, since it's something that increases passively and I had no problem getting it through normal play while unlocking other things.

That said, some of the ways you can spam points if you find yourself coming up short:

• Throwing an item into a Maker machine, INCLUDING THE CANNERY - you can throw just about anything in there including Weeds and Stumps! It seems to only count stacks as 1 point, so you'd have to mete the stack out and put items in one by one if you're desperate for points. Otherwise, throwing your daily garbage in there is a good way to get points here and there.
• Using the bathroom in your house (Ushi no Tane says this but I don't know if they mean the toilet or the bath...?)
• You get a point every time you buy an item, such as from a Valley shop or the Telephone shop - you can probably get a bunch of points just by buying 1 Flour from Karen over and over with the turbo button.

Building

You need to buy the Table from the TV Shopping Network before Gotz will let you upgrade your house.

Another reminder that buildings can collapse depending on the material you use, but if you want the achievements and nothing else, it doesn't really matter if you build your bath room out of fodder.

Material Stone is good if you want things to almost never collapse, but it can be expensive early on. Lumber is a good compromise if you want animals as soon as possible (good strategy to start raising their affection early) but make sure you upgrade it eventually... or simply save every night and reload if Takakura tells you your barn collapsed the next morning!

Don't Peek (5)
Build a bath room in your house

You have to upgrade your house to the 2nd level before you can get this. Gotz builds it for you. The Bath Room reduces a little bit of fatigue and stamina and passes a bit of time, that's it. It's like an indoor hot spring.

Deposit Time (5)
Build a toilet room in your house

You have to upgrade your house to the 2nd level before you can get this. The Toilet Room is just like the bath room but takes less time and restores less, and also raises the question of where your farmer was using the bathroom before this. If you're wondering why they're separate, it's way more common to take baths as a leisure thing in Japanese culture, so I guess a room for baths separate from your toilet isn't that weird.

Mansion Luxury (10)
Fully expand your house

You don't have to buy the Bath Room and Toilet Room for this, just get both of the House Upgrades. They'll cost a lot of money unless you get the Stone yourself. Consider mining as much stone as you can then buying the remainder if you're having trouble making up the difference.

Underground Farm (10)
Build all three levels of the basement

The Basements are extremely expensive but very worth it. Using Suns from the 3rd Mine (Gotz gives you one for free when each basement is built), you can control the climate and plant crops of a certain season there no matter what season it is outside. Underground Greenhouse, basically.

While it's tempting to build these out of Lumber, if one Basement collapses then all the Basements below it will collapse, so consider Material Stone. Combined with the Maker Machine, this is a good way to level up crops and break the money system.

Flying Space (5)
Build a bird shed

Cow Shelter (5)
Build an animal shed

Both of these are what they say on the tin. Even though animal goods are relatively pointless as far as getting you money in the long run, it's good to get them built early so you can start raising animal affection to win festivals. If the buildings collapse in bad weather, the animals inside will die, but as aforementioned, you can reload your save until they don't.

Ducky Home (5)
Build a duck pond

The Duck Pond is a prerequisite for owning Ducks. Consider building it wherever you pen in your animals so that if you take your ducks outside, they can bathe in it. I don't actually know if that raises their affection or anything but it looks cute :)

Food for my Friends (3)
Build a fodder silo

Building a Fodder silo means that, at least until you reach 999 Fodder, any Grass you cut on your farm will go into that fodder silo rather than your inventory. This also allows you to pull fodder out of the dispenser in the barn.

Lumber, Stone and Gold (5)
Build all 3 storage sheds

The storage sheds for Lumber, Stone and Gold Lumber are the same as the fodder silo in that once you build them, any time you smash a rock or chop a twig, the material from that will be instantly teleported to the shed instead of popping into your hands. Makes getting material much less time consuming and frees up inventory slots. Since Gold Lumber costs so much and you rarely ever get any of it, you can prioritize that one for last.

Making Space (5)
Build a maker shed

The Maker Shed is only available after you upgrade your house at least once and own at least 1 poultry barn and 1 livestock barn. Though expensive, it's a great investment, largely because of the Seed Maker that allows you to level up your crops. You will have to get the Makers made by the Blacksmith, though.

Crafting Machines (10)
Get all the makers

The Makers are built by the Blacksmith for 20,000g each and a piece of Adamantite, available from the 3rd Mine. In order, I would recommend the Seed Maker first, then the Cannery Maker (makes your crops sell for more), then whatever else. Getting the rest of the Makers is necessary if you're 100%ing the game because the various produces (Yogurt, Cheese, etc) count towards your shipping list.

Mmm... Shrooms (5)
Build a mushroom shed

The Mushroom Shed is required if you're going to 100% the game, but it's not very good for money. You can use the Seed Maker to turn mushrooms into spores (you can also buy Shiitake spores from Vesta after you build the shed) and grow mushrooms on pieces of lumber, but there's only 6 slots. They need to be watered daily and can grow to S, M and L, all of which are required for filling out your shipping list. Definitely something to leave for when you have spare money.

Island of Sunshine (50)
Build the cottage on the desert island

You will need 900 million gold (900,000,000g) for starters. After making this amount of money (and not falling below that), Thomas will come to your door the next 1st of the month and be like, hey idiot, wanna buy an island? Then you can get Gotz to build a cottage there, which will cost anywhere from 1 million to 300 million depending on which material you'd like. Travel to the island using the boat on the beach.

The cottage is truly, hilariously barebones, so feel free to build it out of fodder if you want.

How do you make this utterly stupid and astronomical amount of money? Seed upgrades. This section of the guide outlines pretty well how to make big money by upgrading Yams and exploiting the waterfall field/your basements, but basically, plant multiple bags of crops on top of each other to level them up, then put the leveled-up produce into the Seed Maker in your Maker Shed to make Level 2 seeds. Then plant multiple to get Level 3 produce and make Level 3 seeds, etc. Yams around level 30-35 should completely trivialize this. You can put them in the Cannery or sell them to Van for even more money.

9) Tools and Mining-Related Achievements

Ancestor's Rod (1)
Get the fishing rod

Visit Galen's home between 12 and 2 PM on a Saturday to receive this event. Make sure ALL of your rucksack spaces are empty. Even the Accessory slot. He's the house in the bottom right corner of the map in the middle of the spiral.

Mystical Ore (10)
Get your first Mystrile tool

Keeping in mind the information outlined in this part of the Missables section, upgrade a single tool to Mystrile.

Mystical Tools (25)
Upgrade all your tools to the Mystrile tier

Upgrade all your tools. Make sure you upgrade at least one through Copper-Silver-Gold for the missables. If you're having trouble getting certain tools high enough (like the Sickle or Fishing Rod), you can go inside and stare at a wall and use the tool over and over, then drink a Bodigizer XL (if you have enough money) and do it again. Leveling your Hoe, Hammer and Watering Can should be simple through regular play and the Fishing Rod is probably the most tedious.

If you're 100%ing you can multitask tool grinding with passing out 100 times for Witch Princess. Just make sure you pass out inside your farmhouse or else you'll lose money.

The Blade of Evil's Bane (5)
Get the legendary sword from the second mine

You need all tools upgraded to Mystrile in order to get the sword, including the Fishing Rod.

For info on descending the mines, see this guide by UnT or scroll down to "Mine Strategies". TLDR: bring Bodigizer XLs (bought from Van on the 3rd and 8th) and be prepared to savescum.

The second mine is unlocked after you reach the bottom of the first mine and go into the Mine Entrance while Carter and Flora aren't there (so very early in the morning or very late at night).

At the very bottom of the second mine (floor 255), clear all of the enemies. The rock blocking the exit should disappear. If all of your tools are properly upgraded to Mystrile, you can now get the Sword. It takes a lot of stamina but by god, it's a sword! It'll do a lot of damage to enemies and it can be used to destroy the big rocks surrounding the cave behind the waterfall to the left of Carter's tent, which hides a secret field that makes crops grow super fast. You have to press the A button next to these rocks with the sword equipped, just swinging it like a tool will not work.

Getting the sword will also unlock the 3rd mine.

Don't Let it Fall! (5)
Find one cursed tool

Read this guide on cursed tool locations and also this guide on savescumming the mines. They're in the 3rd mine. See above about needing to finish upgrading your tools before you even start on this mine.

DO NOT EQUIP CURSED TOOLS or you will be unable to equip them. They cost a ton of stamina to use and it's not worth it.

Curse of the Rancher (10)
Find all the cursed tools in the 3rd Mine

Pretty simple... on paper. In practice, you can spend 20+ minutes savescumming for a single tool even when they're supposed to be on that floor. I spread it out by only getting one or two tools per ingame day and doing other things at the same time.

Duplicates exist, and that is why we save on a floor before digging up the tool. Once you find an item in the ground, if it's not the one you want, you can reload from a save on the same floor and dig again to get another one.

Consider multitasking this with Keira's heart events (she's on the 255th floor of the 3rd mine, give her Gold Lumber or - more cheaply but less affection - the seasonal Suns from the mines) if you're 100%ing.

Holy Tool (10)
Bless your first cursed tool

You will need 100,000g to bless a cursed tool - equip it and call the Church on your phone (make sure he's open first before you equip it lol, he's open 12-4 pm and closed weekends). Consider putting this off until you're making money more reliably. I would definitely also prioritize blessing the Watering Can and the Hammer. The Hammer, once blessed, can break all of the big rocks by Carter's minesite and the first Hot Spring, which gives a lot of Material Stone.

Praying Worked (25)
Bless all your cursed tools

Simple. Once you've found all the cursed tools, bless them. This will cost a total of 600,000g.

Lady of Lumber (10)
Upgrade your axe to the Mythic tier

The Mythic tier is the next (and last) tier after Blessed and there is an achievement for each Mythic tool upgrade. Mythic Stone will appear in the mine only after all of your tools are blessed. It will not appear before that. I highly recommend prioritizing the Watering Can. UnT has a list of the effects of all fully upgraded tools.

Mythic Stone appears on the 3rd mine thus: From floor 0 to 255, every floor that ends in 0. From floor 255 to 999, every floor that ends in 5. 10, 20, 40, 130, 240, 255, 265, 355, 595... etc.

Unfortunately, Mythic Stone is not at all guaranteed to show up on a certain floor, so you may consider saving before going down to a floor with one on it (e.g. save on floor 29 then go down to floor 30, then reload if you don't get any). It shows up when you break rocks instead of tilling dirt. You also need one for your shipped items list.

There is no achievement for unlocking all of the Mythic tools, only one for each tool - meaning that if you want to avoid the RNG bullshit on this one, once you get a single Mythic Stone you can just use it to upgrade all your tools. Reload once you get the achievement, upgrade a different tool, etc.

100% tip: If you're trying to 100% the game, the floor Keira is on is a valid Mythic Stone floor, so consider whacking stones after you give her a gift for the day.

Cursed Jewelry (10)
Dig all the cursed accessories

Cute Adornments: Old Testament (10)
Bless all the pendant and earrings cursed accessories

Cute Adornments: New Testament (10)
Bless all the ring, shoe and hats cursed accessories

These three are not dissimilar to the cursed tools in the mine. You'll have to find the accessories through savescumming to reach certain floors (and they're not a guaranteed spawn - so you can save on the floor right before, go down, reload if it doesn't spawn, go down again, etc). More info on the floors here. Blessing each accessory will once again cost 100,000g.

There are ten Accessories in total to find: Friend Broach, Goddess Broach, Kappa Broach, Witch Earrings, Kappa Earrings, Goddess Earrings, Kappa Hat, Goddess Hat, Time Ring, and Speed Boots. Some of them are incredibly useful, especially the Goddess Earrings and Witch Earrings.

Just like the tools, there are duplicates, so use your other slot to save on the actual floor. Once you do find an item in the ground by digging, you can reload that save and dig again until you get what you want. See here for more details on optimal savescumming.

Consider multitasking this with Keira's heart events (she's on the 255th floor of the 3rd mine, give her Gold Lumber or - more cheaply but less affection - the seasonal Suns from the mines) if you're 100%ing.

Creatures of the Underground (10)
Kill all the mine creatures

You will need to kill at least one of each of these:

• Dark Butterfly
• Dark Beetle
• Dark Chick
• Evil Butterfly
• Evil Beetle
• Dark Chicken
• Dark Duck
• Dark Sheep
• Dark Cow
• Dark Hero

The spawn locations for these depend on where you are (with some of the harder monsters not spawning in the earlier mines), but all should be found in the 4th mine. See here for more information. You should find all of them except Dark Hero as a matter of traversing the mines normally (Dark Hero shows up on floors ending in 000, so 1000, 22000, etc, so hard to find on accident). If you intend to 100%, you will find multiple Dark Heroes on the bottom floor of the 65535th mine.

10 Cute Floors of Mystery (5)
Unlock the 2nd mine

255 Cute Floors of Grief (10)
Unlock the 3rd mine

999 Cute Floors of Death (25)
Unlock the 4th mine

Make sure you unlock all 4 mines before you get married because for some reason they won't unlock after that.

Each of these are quite simple. You have to enter the mine entrance WHILE IT IS EMPTY (so, Carter and Flora aren't there - a good way to accomplish this is to use the Teleport Stone to go there right at 6 in the morning) once you've reached the bottom of the prior mine - floors 10, 255, 999 respectively. Carter will ask you to break out the wall and unlock the next mine. You will get a notification from Guts/The Goddess once you reach the bottom of each mine.

For tips on navigating the mine see below.

65535 Cute Floors of Despair (50)
Reach the bottom of the 4th mine

You do not have to do this before getting married - you only have to worry about unlocking the 4th Mine before your marriage, not completing it.

Here's a guide from UnT on descending the mines. There is no practical reward for doing this aside from the Goddess clapping for you and, of course, this achievement.

See below for my own mine strats.

Consider trying to get the Wonderful Stones while you're down there. Also consider killing the Dark Hero (available on floors ending in 000, so 1000, 34000, etc...) for your "Kill all the mine creatures" achievement. There are some Dark Heroes on floor 65535.

Infinity Stones (10)
Find all the wonderful stones in the 4th mine and ask for the Goddess Gift

See here for more information.

You'll need to find these stones in the 4th mine. There are 9 colors and they spawn on floors ending in 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, and 90. You can only hold one of each stone at a time. The 9 stones can also potentially spawn in the rocks on the 65535th floor as well but you are not guaranteed to get all of them (I got like 5).

Save before you get the last stone - she gives you 3 options out of 9 possible answers, so you can reload if you don't like her choices. If you're 100%ing this game, I highly recommend selecting "Give me an item" to get the Harvest Goddess's Gift because it is required for your shipping list achievement. The rest of the wishes kind of suck anyway.

The stones themselves are NOT required to fill out your shipping list, only the Harvest Goddess's Gift you get from collecting them all.

Mine Strategies

The basic mine navigation is this: dig around until you find stairs, or until you find a hole. Stairs will take you down 1 floor. Holes will take you down a random number of floors depending on the mine you are in, ranging from 1 floor for the first mine to up to 300 for the fourth mine and you will lose stamina proportionate to the amount of floors you fall.

You will only lose enough stamina to knock you down to zero, meaning if you have 2 stamina and you fall down a hole that takes you down 300 floors, you'll only lose 2 stamina. At 0 stamina you will start losing fatigue instead, so be careful you don't fall down a hole then immediately fall down another, knocking you to 0 stamina and 100 fatigue and killing you instantly! Immediately pull up a stamina restorative after falling down a deep enough hole, even if enemies are harassing you - as long as the number of the item you're holding goes down, you've successfully consumed that restorative, even if the animation is interrupted.

Even though time does not pass on a mine floor, a small amount of time will pass going down a floor. If you're going down enough floors, this can add up into hours. For the 4th mine you'll want to make sure you start as early as possible in the day.

Mine Essentials

• Hoe and hammer, and optionally Legendary Sword (once you've unlocked it)
• Truth Bangle (to see your stamina/fatigue values)
• Large amounts of Bodigizer XL to restore Stamina (bought from Van)
• At least one source of Fatigue restorative (White Grass, Black Grass, Turbojolt XL)
• Harvest Goddess Hat (ideally Blue or Green, but Red is fine for earlier mines)

The Harvest Goddess Hat is the real important thing here, an item that reduces Stamina loss. Not to be confused with the Kappa Hats which reduce Fatigue loss instead.

You can buy the Red Goddess hat (low effect) from Van's shop for 200k, which will unlock him selling the Blue hat (medium effect) for 500k. The Gray hat (cursed) appears in the third mine and can be blessed to become the Green hat (high effect).

These items lower the amount of stamina you lose for using your tools. For default non-charged tool use (e.g. breaking rocks and tilling dirt in the mine), the Red hat will reduce your stamina decrease from the default 2 to 1 and the Blue hat will reduce it to zero. The hats also reduce the amount of damage you take from enemies in the mine - the Blue hat will reduce damage from most enemies to zero! You can do the first 3 mines with the Red hat if you want, but the blue hat is a must-have for the 4th mine.

I cannot believe I am saying this but don't equip the green hat for mining over the blue hat. It'll cut the stamina loss for other things, but for the basic non-charged use of your tools, it once again is up to 1 point of stamina instead of 0. Why? Um... probably something to do with bad math. But the blue hat is more efficient. MAKES SENSE

In short: for the 4th mine you basically want to equip the Blue hat, run around until you fall into a hole ignoring enemies, immediately chug a Bodigizer XL, then do it again. If you can't find a hole, dig until you find a staircase, then try again.

Save. A lot. In both slots. Even if you're doing well, it's possible for a floor to glitch and there not to be a viable way down. Also the aforementioned getting knocked into one hole after another.

Stamina Restoratives

How much Bodigizer XL you need depends on which Mine you're on. Mine 1 is simple. Mine 2 and 3 you should need <30 Bodigizer XLs depending on how much you stop to dig. Mine 4 I brought a dozen stacks of 99 (so roughly 1200 of them), but that was overcautious and I needed less than half that - it took only 66 Bodigizer XLs to carve through my first 10,000 floors. Still, if you've got a lot of money, why not bring more than you need, y'know?

If you're just trying to reach the bottom of a mine, a simple way to make sure your stamina never runs out is to actually keep the stack of Bodigizer XLs in your hands while you're going from hole to hole, immediately drinking one after each fall.

The Goddess Hats may prevent stamina loss, but they do not prevent fatigue loss. Occasionally check the Truth Bangle to see if you've accumulated some Fatigue from running out of stamina and getting pecked at by birds or something. This is why some kind of fatigue restorative is important. I like the White Grasses that grow in Winter for this, but the Black Grasses that you can dig up in the mine will work too. (The Black Grass description lies, they only heal 5 stamina and 5 fatigue!) Bodigizer XL restores 1 Fatigue, but obviously that's not much.

You don't need the Sword. It'll use up a little stamina even with a Goddess Hat on. But it can be nice for clearing large groups of enemies or taking out beefier ones.

If you're trying for a certain floor, e.g. to find a Cursed Tool or accessory, I suggest this strategy:

• Save on your current floor.
• Run around to try and find a hole. (If you can't, dig down another floor and try again.)
• Reload. Dig in the area you fell until you uncover the hole.
• Save again.
• Go in the hole to see if it gets you close to the floor you're aiming to. Say I'm on floor 30 and I want to reach Floor 89. I reload until the hole gets me to something like Floor 83.
• Save on that floor then dig around until you find stairs and ascend floors one-by-one, saving as you go.
• Save right before your floor of choice when you've uncovered the stairs down.
• Dig around on your floor of choice. If an item does not spawn, reload to the floor just before it and go down the stairs again.

10) Sprite-Related Achievements

The Harvest Sprites are divided into 10 teams, and you require 60 of them to unlock the Harvest Goddess, but there are also achievements for unlocking every sprite on each team. Many of their unlock conditions are things like "ship 1000 items". If you, say, had another sprite that was "ship 5000 items", don't worry - you would not need to ship another whole 5000 items after unlocking the 1000 items sprite, only 4000 more.

You can also hire the Sprites to work for you, but only one team at a time. I highly recommend hiring the Indigo Team (Fishing) from the moment you unlock them if you want to 100% this game. They're also just a nice source of early-game passive income in general.

I will be marking the sprites based on difficulty.

• Trivial: Something you can do with relative ease.
• Easy: Something that may take slight effort, but still a simple ask.
• Medium: Something that may take moderate time/effort or require money to brute force.
• Hard: Something that may take more sustained time, effort, planning and/or tedium. Most "hard" ratings are just tedious as hell.
• Unreasonable: Something best left for last.

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Red Sprites

Scarlet Group (10)
Rescue all the Red Team sprites

Unlocking the Red Team (which handles feeding your animals and shipping their produce) is a mixed bag mostly involving using the onscreen Touch Glove minigames, which can become very tedious.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Medium	Red Ribbon (Leader)	Have some combination of 10 Cows or Sheep (3 cows and 7 sheep, or 10 cows, etc). This requires 3 barns to be constructed and conflicts with Woohoo's requirements - see below.
Medium	Wooly	Ship any combination of at least 300 milk/eggs/wool, e.g. 150 milk/150 eggs, or 300 eggs, etc. Processed items (like cheese) don't count.
Medium	Laine	Ship any combination of at least 500 milk/eggs/wool.
Hard	Essa	Ship any combination of at least 1000 milk/eggs/wool. If you're 100%ing the game, don't really go out of your way to get this, since you'll inevitably get it from the sprites below that require you to get a certain amount of produce from the touch glove, as long as you ship the resulting produce.
Medium	Betty	Use the Touch Glove to cut wool 100 times. See below for wool strategies.
Hard	Chamy	Use the Touch Glove to cut wool 300 times.
Unreasonable	Ole	Use the Touch Glove to cut wool 700 times.
Easy	Sue	Use the Touch Glove to collect Milk 100 times.
Medium	Magic	Use the Touch Glove to collect Milk 300 times.
Hard	Bali	Use the Touch Glove to collect Milk 700 times. If you've built the barns for Red Ribbon, I suggest getting 10 cows for this reason - you should have this over with in 70 days.
Medium	Mick	Have some combination of 10 Chickens or Ducks, e.g. 3 chickens and 7 ducks, 10 chickens, etc. You will require 3 Bird Coops.
Hard	Woohoo	Have some combination of 20 Chickens or Ducks. You will require 5 Bird Coops which conflicts with Red Ribbon. See below.

Red Ribbon and Woohoo

You can only have a total of 7 barns and/or coops combined, meaning that having 5 coops for Woohoo and 3 barns for Red Ribbon cannot happen at the same time. But Gotz can demolish buildings for you, so consider which animals you'd like to have ahead of time. If you don't want that many animals in general, you can build cheap buildings, buy the animals, sell them once you have the sprite, then have Gotz demolish them. There is a sprite for 15 baby animal births on your farm (see Yellow Team) and having a bunch of chicken coops built is a great opportunity to get this done fast, so consider doing that while trying to get Woohoo.

Wool strategies & exploit

Sheep wool is tedious and annoying because you can only shear every once in a while instead of every day. However, you can shear small parts of the sheep until you get a S wool, back out of the touch minigame, shear another part, back out, et cetera in order to get a maximum of 6 shears per sheep.

HOWEVER, there is an exploit to make this less of a pain to get. You can let the timer run out on the touch minigame without shearing the sheep and it will count as 1 shear. You can do this over and over hundreds of times in a single day to rush the Wool-related sprites. It's still super tedious, but it works. Best strategy is to get your sheep inside the barn so time pauses, pin it up against a feeding bin so it can't move much (I did the pregnant bin in the top left), and then put on fast-forward. Every time the timer runs to zero and you're booted out of the minigame, shear it again.

BRING A TON OF BODIGIZER XLS OR OTHER STAMINA RESTORATIVES because you will need them, every Shearing uses 8 stamina so you can only get about 12 shears in before running out of stamina and needing to recharge, so you'll need over 50 Bodigizer XLs or equivalent!!! Yes your sheep's sprite might start to glitch out after a bit but it's fine, you can save and restart to fix this if it makes you nervous.

I don't know if this exploit works for Milking - I didn't try it. I just kept 10 cows around after I got Red Ribbon, partly because I needed to get sprites for Brushing as well (see Yellow Team below).

Thank you to RA user Orph for documenting this exploit!

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Orange Sprites

Tangerine Squad (10)
Rescue all the Orange Team sprites

The Orange Team are some of the easiest sprites in the game to unlock, requiring you to harvest Lumber and Stone, which is also what they do if you hire them.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Medium	Oran (Leader)	Successfully complete the Thomas' Winter Request event on Winter 2.
Trivial	Bran	Chop 100 small sticks with your Axe.
Easy	Decoy	Chop 250 small sticks with your Axe.
Easy	Woody	Chop 500 small sticks with your Axe.
Easy	Pierre	Chop up 15 big tree stumps with your Axe. You'll need a Copper or higher axe for this.
Trivial	Tilus	Destroy 100 small stones with your Hammer.
Easy	Stony	Destroy 250 small stones with your Hammer.
Easy	Rosh	Destroy 500 small stones with your Hammer.
Easy	Alpen	Destroy 5 large round rocks with your Hammer. You'll need a Copper or higher hammer for this.
Easy	Rocky	Destroy 15 large round rocks with your Hammer. You'll need a Copper or higher hammer for this.
Easy	Valie	Upgrade your axe to Mystrile (level 5) then use it.
Hard	Fen	Find the Cursed Hammer in the 3rd mine then have it blessed by the Church.

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Yellow Sprites

Gold Gang (10)
Rescue all the Yellow Team sprites

The Yellow Team governs Brushing & Petting your animals. Most of its sprites require you to do this, with and without the Touch Glove.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Hard	Canary (Leader)	Have 15 total baby animal births on your farm. The quickest way to do this is to hatch baby chickens or ducks. The problem, of course, is that you can only incubate one egg at a time, you can't hold more than 4 birds per coop, and birds must be adults to sell them to Popuri. Consider combining this with Woohoo (Red Team)'s requirements - you'll need a bunch of bird coops built anyway, so you can incubate a bunch of chickens at once.
Trivial	Kali	Brush, talk to, or pick up animals at least 50 times WITHOUT the touch glove. As far as I'm aware you cannot accelerate this by talking to the same animal 50 times a day.
Easy	Johnny	Brush, talk to, or pick up animals at least 350 times WITHOUT the touch glove.
Medium	Brushy	Brush, talk to, or pick up animals at least 900 times WITHOUT the touch glove. If you want to rush this sprite, having 20 birds on your farm with Woohoo's requirement is a good way to do it. (Did I mention birds don't need to be fed if you keep them outside on sunny days?) That said, if you're in no rush and are 100%ing the game, you're going to need to talk to your animals A LOT before you get the "max affection" achievements for the horse/cat/dog, so you'll EASILY get this on the way.
Easy	Mouton	Rub your animals using the Touch Glove 50 times. This is annoying, but again, you can get it pretty easily with Woohoo's requirement. If you're in no rush, again, you'll eventually get this just from trying to raise the affection of your horse/cat/dog.
Medium	Boohoo	Rub your animals using the Touch Glove 100 times.
Medium	Canal	Rub your animals using the Touch Glove 300 times.
Hard	Meow	Rub your animals using the Touch Glove 500 times.
Easy	Beta	Wash your animals 50 times using the Brush and Touch Glove.
Medium	Aiylee	Wash your animals 100 times using the Brush and Touch Glove.
Hard	Pompom	Wash your animals 300 times using the Brush and Touch Glove.
Hard	Zoo	Wash your animals 500 times using the Brush and Touch Glove. If you want to rush this, having 10 cows/sheep for Red Ribbon is a good time to do it. You cannot wash your dog, cat, or birds.

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Green Sprites

Lime Crew (10)
Rescue all the Green Team sprites

The Green Team manages harvesting your crops. Most of their sprites are extremely simple to unlock, meaning they're great to prioritize if you're trying to get the Harvest Goddess unlocked.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Easy	Forest (Leader)	Upgrade your Sickle to Mystrile and use the tool.
Trivial	Fraw	Ship 1000 items using the Shipping Bin. This is simple once you realize you can ship ANYTHING for this, including weeds. Spend a few days picking all the weeds everywhere in the Valley and you'll have it.
Easy	Ridge	Ship 5000 items using the Shipping Bin.
Medium	Ali	Ship 10,000 items using the Shipping Bin.
Hard	Cady	Ship 30,000 items using the Shipping Bin.
Hard	Paddy	Ship 50,000 items using the Shipping Bin.
Trivial	Veggie	Buy the Basket from the Supermarket (using the phone in your home) for 5000g. Once the basket is delivered, throw an item into the basket to unlock this sprite.
Trivial	Kevin	Once you get the horse from Takakura (you'll get this after shipping 1000 items, so once Fraw is unlocked), throw an item at the horse. It has saddlebags that count as a portable shipping bin, and shipping one item via the saddlebags will unlock this sprite.
Trivial	Kamar	Ship a Cabbage. You can get Cabbage Seeds from the Sprite Casino's backroom shop and grow Cabbages during Spring. It takes 15 days for Cabbages to grow.
Trivial	Moor	Ship a Pineapple. You can get Pineapple Seeds from the Sprite Casino's backroom shop and grow Pineapples during Summer. It takes 21 days for Pineapples to grow. They are also Kai's favorite item.
Trivial	Vail	Ship a Green Pepper. You can get Green Pepper Seeds from the Sprite Casino's backroom shop and grow Green Peppers during Fall. It takes 8 days for Green Peppers to grow.
Hard	Matthew	Find the Cursed Sickle in the 3rd Mine then have it blessed by the church.

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Blue Sprites

Cobalt Troup (10)
Rescue all the Blue Team sprites

The Watering Team waters your crops, and I wish I could say they were less of a pain than they are. Several of these are "water a secret square". What does that mean? Somewhere in the valley on the various plots of farmland are randomly generated secret squares. You have to till the square then water it to unlock these sprites. These spots are decided when you start a new game, so... I can't tell you where they are! Good luck!

These secret squares can not be on your farmland, they're somewhere in the Valley. I recommend waiting until your tools are upgraded more highly and you have some stamina restoratives to make the work less tedious, then mark off the areas one by one until you've found all three.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Hard	Ceruleano (Leader)	Water a secret square somewhere in the Valley.
Easy	Chorori	Water a total 1000 squares of crop land. Squares watered by the Watering Team do count towards this goal, but you'll have to water at least one square to unlock the sprite yourself.
Medium	Walter	Water a total 5000 squares of crop land.
Hard	Rainy	Water a total 10,000 squares of crop land.
Unreasonable	Joro	Water a total 30,000 squares of crop land.
Unreasonable	Patty	Water a total 50,000 squares of crop land. If you're 100%ing the game, you'll probably get this while raising your crop levels to break the money system. You can also just till huge tracts of land and water them - the land does NOT need to have a crop growing to count for any of these.
Trivial	Misty	Fill your Watering Can 10 times. You've start with a little pond on your farm and can fill it there.
Easy	Roli	Upgrade your watering can to Mystrile and then use it.
Hard	Maddie	Find the Cursed Watering Can in the 3rd mine then have it blessed by the church.
Trivial	Karaf	Press the A Button while next to the pond on your farm, next to the horse stable.
Hard	Eviran	Water a secret square somewhere in the Valley.
Hard	Owen	Water a secret square somewhere in the Valley.

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Indigo Sprites

Azure Lineup (10)
Rescue all the Indigo Team sprites

The Indigo Team will fish for you and instantly deposit the fish in the shipping bin. Some of them are a little annoying, but most of them can be unlocked passively by hiring the Team over and over to do the work for you, so they're very handy. In my experience it takes roughly 3 years and some change to catch the 50,000 fish required for Tricky by repeatedly hiring the Sprites.

I recommend having them fish in a few different areas per season to fill out your list of acquired fish, as that goes towards a different achievement (they can catch 49 of the 52 fish required for "Catch all 52 fish and items"). The fish they can catch depends on how high your Rod is upgraded - at least Mystrile should do it.

Additionally if you're trying to 100% the game, the Harvest Goddess requires you to catch 10,000 of a single fish for one of her Heart Events, which you'll need these sprites to accomplish. Once you've gotten all 49 fish they're capable of catching, set them to a single area.

A reminder you can unlock the fishing rod by visiting Galen, living in the house on the twisty hill in the bottom right of the map, during the rare times he's in his house - a Saturday between 12 pm and 2 pm.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Medium	Blue (Leader)	Use your fishing rod on the Hot Spring in the bottom right of the map, which is unlocked by being max affection with Flora and triggering an event. See here for details. You can use an exploit to raise Flora's affection quickly - bring your cat to her and show her the cat repeatedly, 255 is the affection cap. Once the Hot Spring is unlocked, go around on the right to reach the top of it and cast your line into the water.
Trivial	Paige	Catch a total of 50 fish. As mentioned, fish caught by the Indigo Team go towards this total. You can look at your shipped item list to view how many fish they've caught and shipped. Fish of any size contribute towards this goal.
Easy	Fry	Catch a total of 500 fish.
Easy	Rod	Catch a total of 1000 fish.
Medium	Gigi	Catch a total of 5000 fish.
Hard	Pedro	Catch a total of 10,000 fish.
Unreasonable	Tricky	Catch a total of 50,000 fish. You'll definitely need the help of Sprites for this one. Again, it took about 3 years of hiring them constantly to unlock this, which is why I recommend hiring them early and often.
Hard	Sammy	Find the Cursed Fishing Rod in the 3rd Mine and then have it blessed by the church.
Easy	Fisher	Upgrade your Fishing Rod to Mystrile then use it.
Medium	Yacht	Build the Duck Pond then cast your rod into it. Rated Medium because the Duck Pond is slightly expensive.
Trivial	Riviera	Cast your fishing line into the small pond where you fill your Watering Can next to the Horse Stable.
Hard	Reese	Cast your fishing line into the second Hot Spring next to the Goddess Pond. This Spring unlocks after you use the first Spring at least 100 times for at least 1 ingame hour at a time.

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Purple Sprites

Lavender Party (10)
Rescue all the Purple Team sprites

The Stamina Recovery Team will recover your stamina every 30 minutes, but they're a bit of an odd group to unlock. You can have them heal you once every ingame half-hour.

The sprites appear at 6 AM and will keep working until 9 PM, meaning you can get, assuming perfectly optimal restores every 30 minutes (you won't get perfectly optimal restores), 30 uses a day. This means even the easiest recovery sprite, Nette (100 uses), requires a minimum of 4 ingame days spent sitting around doing nothing but talking to them, and Sante (1000 uses) takes ten times that: a little over an ingame month spent this way. These were some of the last sprites I unlocked. May I suggest the fast forward button on your emulator?

I guess you could passively get them over time using them for their intended purpose. But they're just... not very good at their job, and you're better off buying some Bodigizer XLs.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Hard	Violetto (Leader)	Use the Hot Spring in the bottom right of the map (unlocked by befriending Flora as outlined in the Indigo Team section above) at least 200 times for at least 1 ingame hour at a time.
Medium	Nette	Hire the Healing Team and have them restore your Stamina 100 times.
Hard	Whitney	Hire the Healing Team and have them restore your Stamina 500 times.
Hard	Juna	Hire the Healing Team and have them restore your Stamina 750 times.
Hard	Sante	Hire the Healing Team and have them restore your Stamina 1000 times.
Trivial	Anime	Eat 30 pieces of wild grass. This one's pretty simple - any of the rainbow colored Grasses around the valley will do, whether they restore your stamina or not. I don't know if Black Grass counts or not.
Easy	Powery	Eat 80 pieces of wild grass.
Easy	Koto	Eat 150 pieces of wild grass.
Trivial	Spirity	Purchase 1 drink from the Blue Bar, open in the Evenings. Water doesn't count.
Easy	Souly	Purchase 50 drinks from the Blue Bar.
Hard	Carey	Use the second Hot Spring (by the Goddess Pond, unlocked by using the first Hot Spring 100 times) 200 times, for at least 1 hour at a time.
Unreasonable	Sacci	Use the second Hot Spring 500 times, for at least 1 hour at a time.

Hot Springs

Several sprites require you to "use the hot spring 200 times" or whatnot. Every use requires you to spend at least an hour in the spring for it to count. I like to wait 10 extra minutes to make sure it counted a whole hour - get in at 5 PM, leave at 6:10 PM, get in at 6:10 PM, leave at 7:20 PM, et cetera.

If you have some spare time at the end of a day you can just hop in, wait an hour, then hop back out. If you're 100%ing, I recommend multitasking this with buttering up Skye, as it's a good way to kill time until he shows up. The second Hot Spring is right next to the Goddess Pond, which is where he shows up at night every sunny day except Sunday.

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Brown Sprites

Walnut Forces (10)
Rescue all the Brown Team sprites

The members of the Casino Team work to staff the Sprite Tree and the casino inside of it and are, fortunately, all extremely simple to unlock. This will be the first team you complete in full.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Trivial	Guts	This sprite is unlocked from the start of the game. He's who you talk to in the Sprite Tree to hire Sprites.
Trivial	Jackie	Try to leave Forget-Me-Not Valley by following the path east of Vesta's farm. Once unlocked, Jackie... continues to prevent you from leaving the valley. Wow, thanks!
Trivial	Jet	If you go upstairs in the Inn you'll find the crate of oranges that Van uses to sell his wares on every 3rd and 8th day. Hit the A button while facing the top of the crate. Jet will sell you stuff for gold (!) and not medals and works at the front of the Sprite Tree next to Guts.
Trivial	Roller	This sprite takes a week to unlock. On the 8th of Spring if you walk across the bridge to Vesta's farm, Roller should appear. He runs the Casino in the back of the Sprite Tree.
Trivial	Jum	Press the A button at the Fountain below Romana's Mansion. Jum works the Memory table at the Casino.
Trivial	Tep	If you go to the left of the Inn, there's a stove surrounded by a fence. Hop the fence then inspect the stove. Tep works the Blackjack table at the Casino.
Trivial	Hops	Examine the water well next to the Blue Bar to unlock Hops, who works the Poker table at the Casino.

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Black Sprites

Obsidian Team (10)
Rescue all the Black Team sprites

The Sprite Station sprites manage the various TV stations you can watch using your touch screen. They range from "odd novelty" to "extremely useful" and are largely fairly simple to unlock... except for Pluto, the worst sprite in the game.

Difficulty	Name	Requirement to unlock
Trivial	Mercury	Mercury is unlocked from the start of the game. Once rescued, Mercury tells you the weather forecast for tomorrow. Weather forecasts are only decided one day in advance, so if you'd like to choose the weather for the 14th, you'd save the night of the 12th, then reload if you wake up on the 13th and find it's not what you want.
Trivial	Venus	Purchase an item from the Supermarket for at least 10 days. You can just buy like, a riceball or something. It doesn't have to be consecutive. This unlocks TV Shopping, which will mostly sell gag products, but occasionally sell something useful, like furniture. Check this every day and buy all the items available. Even when they look worthless like the table, they'll unlock other things (and go towards your "have all the furniture" achievement).
Easy	Earth	Rescue 20 lost Harvest Sprites. Once unlocked Earth will tell you information on the Sprites, such as their likes, dislikes, and birthdays. This is also the ingame hint system for how to unlock sprites.
Medium	Mars	Ship at least 300 of a single item that you have produced on your farm, meaning crops, flowers, tree fruit, milk, eggs, or wool. For example, 300 turnips. One of the easiest ways to get this is by having some chickens or a crop that regrows quickly, like Strawberries or Yams. The Van exploit probably also applies here. After being unlocked, Mars gives you tips on running your farm.
Trivial	Jupiter	Purchase 5 records from Jet at the Sprite Tree. This is very simple because a bunch of them are on sale from the start of the game and most are super cheap. Once unlocked, Jupiter can change your background music.
Easy	Saturn	Participate in 3 seasonal festivals. If you want to speed things up, you can enter the Cooking Festival by buying Grape Juice from the Supermarket. Once unlocked, Saturn will tell you when a Festival is being held that day, as well as talk about upcoming festivals if you check his channel.
Trivial	Uranus	Raise at least one villager's friendship to 100. This is one of the easiest sprites to get, considering you can show your cat to most of the villagers in the game over and over to raise their affection to max in a single day. Once unlocked, Uranus plays episodes of a fictional TV show. The screen flashes when playing it and it's pretty photosensitivity-unfriendly on an emulator.
Trivial	Neptune	Neptune is available from the beginning of the game and has some little tutorials you can go through if you need help with the basic mechanics.
Unreasonable	Pluto	Much like the dwarf planet he is based on, Pluto should have been excluded from this group. But instead, the developers decided to hate us very much. Pluto is the worst sprite to unlock in the game, as he requires you to ship 100,000 of a single item that you have produced on your farm, meaning crops, flowers, tree fruit, milk, eggs, or wool. In fact, Pluto deserves his own section. Once unlocked Pluto will do a little trivia game with you. Yes, that's it.

Pluto Strategy 1: The Yams

Do you want to do this legit? If so, yams. Dear god, Yams. (If not, scroll past this part.)

Grow them during Fall, grow them in your basement(s) in other seasons. Really, you could do this with any crop that regrows in 2 days, but Yams are the most optimal because of one reason: the secret fast-growing field behind the Waterfall that you unlock with the sword from the bottom of the 2nd Mine halves grow time for crops. Doesn't speed up regrow time, though - pineapples might grow in a fraction of the time but still take 5 days to regrow... except for Yams! For some reason they only take 1 day to regrow on the secret field, meaning that they can be harvested every single day of Fall once they're fully grown.

I recommend leveling up Yams as well. This is easily done using either your basements or the waterfall field's fast growth and the Seed Maker Machine. Once you have them to a level you're satisfied with (you can calculate crop prices based on levels using this calculator) you can start making BIG money and it's a good investment of your time considering you need 900 million gold for a particular unlockable.

How do you level up crops? Plant multiple of the same level of seed on top of each other. For example, sprinkling 2 bags of Level 2 seeds might create some Level 3 crops. Then you put the Level 3 crops in the seed maker, and... et cetera. You don't have to replant the entire field when you level up your crops, just keep rotating sections of it.

Here are my crop layouts that I've used, though I'm sure you can think of some more optimal ones. I just wanted to make something that wouldn't take too much time to navigate.

This allows for 53 yams per harvest. With 3 basements this is 159 per 2 days or 9540 per year, requiring over 10 years of harvests if you relied on these basements alone.

This is 78 yams per harvest. Assuming an optimal daily harvest this is roughly 2000 yams every year, which helps shave off some of the aforementioned time.

You can also grow yams outdoors in the Fall with or without the assistance of Harvest Sprites, though they can either water or harvest, not both. Basements and the waterfall field benefit from being able to harvest indoors where time pauses, but Sprites cannot help you. Because watering can be expedited with a higher level watering can, you'll probably want to have your sprites work on harvesting if you go this route.

Pluto Strategy 2: The Van Exploit

Thanks to the Ushi no Tane forums, we know of a way to accelerate this process significantly. It's still annoying, but far preferable to the alternative.

Van is the merchant who sells on the 2nd floor of the Inn every 3rd and 8th day of the month (3rd, 8th, 13th, 18th, 23rd, 28th). He opens his shop after 10 AM. He also BUYS items from you. And herein lies our exploit.

Any items you try to sell to Van then back out of selling will count towards your total shipped items. So offer to sell him a stack of 99 yams or whatever but cancel out, and your shipped yams will increment by 99.

That means for 100,000 shipped items you'll need to offer then refuse a stack of 99 a little over 1000 times. You may consider fast forward for this, but you'll inevitably sell some of them on accident, so bring multiple stacks of your item of choice. (I still recommend yams due to how fast they grow.) Again, remember that only crops, flowers, tree fruit, milk, eggs, or wool count.

Once your shipped total reaches 100,000, you'll have to throw another one of those items in the shipping bin, at which point you should be congratulated by the Goddess. If Pluto doesn't unlock, go to bed and throw another one in. At that point, he should show up.

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Harvest Goddess Saved (10)
Rescue 60 sprites

This is the game's "win condition". If you want advice on what sprites to prioritize, search the above section with "Trivial" or "Easy". This is pretty simple, all things considered.

If you desire to 100% these achievements (don't), try to unlock her as soon as possible so you can start giving her gifts. She needs 500 gifts for a certain event to occur.

Free Spirits (25)
Rescue all 101 sprites

You did it. But what did it cost? What did you gain?

11) Festival-Related Achievements

Most of these are "gimmes", requiring you to simply show up and participate, but a few require you to actually win competitions or jump through hoops.

Spring

Rice Cake Day (3)
Pound some rice in New Years Day

A simple "just show up" festival. On day 1 of Spring, visit the Beach to pound some mochi. You won't be able to participate until your 2nd year, as your 1st year starts on Spring 02.

Make sure to save the leftover Rice Cakes as they are used in some recipes.

Valentines Day (3)
Receive Chocolates from a boy in the Spring Thanksgiving

If a boy is at least Purple Heart with you, he'll give you Cookies. Exit your house during the hours of 6 and 7 AM to meet Marlin, 8 and 9 AM for Gustafa, 10-11 AM for Rock, 12-1 PM for Carter, 2-3 PM for Griffin, and 4-5 PM for Skye. Mineral Town boys don't give you anything. Don't expect to get this on Year 1.

For info on raising the boys' affections check out Heart Events.

Golduck (10)
Win the Duck Festival

On Spring 17, Popuri will ask if you want to enter a duck into the festival. On Spring 18th, the Duck Festival will take place.

Your duck will need to be something like 10 hearts (the maximum) to win. See the Animal Festival Strats section for tips on raising affection.

Baking Day (4)
Win the Cooking Festival

The Cooking Contest is on the 22nd. Show up at 10 AM to hear that year's theme then leave and you'll be booted to your kitchen in the afternoon. Make a dish then come back and enter your culinary creation. Every year has a different theme around a different utensil and they are set, not randomized. Ushi no Tane has a list of both themes and suggested recipes.

However, in order to cook you'll need to have bought the House Upgrade, the Kitchen (available from the TV Shopping Sprite channel), and some utensils. As a result, you won't be able to cook anything in your first year. But if you want to participate anyway to unlock the Sprite for participating in festivals as early as possible, you can bring a Grape Juice bought from the Supermarket.

The key to winning, I found, is to add additional ingredients to your dish (within reason). For example, a Mixed Latte is normally Milk+1 fruit+1 vegetable, and I won the third year crafting a Mixed Latte with Milk+Pineapple+Peach+Carrot+Cabbage. You can also try using higher quality ingredients in your dish, like Large Milk. Sometimes adding too many ingredients can cause your dish to become a Failed Dish, so make sure you save the game before you cook.

You will need to skip any year with the Oven theme (year 4 to start) because of a glitch that locks the game up during judging.

Summer

Beach Opening Day (2)
Take part in the opening of Kai's summertime snack shack

Just show up to the beach on Summer 01.

Feathery Win (10)
Win the Chicken Festival

Takes place on Summer 07. Have a prize-winning Chicken - your chicken will need to be something like 10 hearts to win. See the Animal Festival Strats section for tips on raising affection.

Blessed Cow! (10)
Win the Cow Festival

Takes place on Summer 20. Have a prize-winning Cow - your cow will need to be something like 10 hearts to win. See the Animal Festival Strats section for tips on raising affection.

Pyrotechnics Day (3)
Watch the beautiful Fireworks

Just show up on Summer 24. If a marriage candidate is Green Heart or higher, you can watch with them to gain some Love Points, but even if you don't have anyone there, you can still watch with Kassey and Patrick to get this achievement. Photosensitivity warning that the fireworks flash very vividly blue, red, and green in a way that may be uncomfortable to look at on an emulator, especially if you fast forward through them.

Fall

Soup Day (2)
Provide an ingredient for the Harvest Festival pot

Fall 09: another "show up" event with a twist. It's a potluck, and you have to bring something! Consider a crop or piece of fruit. A matsutake mushroom harvested from the countryside probably works in a pinch.

That said, if you're 100%ing or otherwise want to get the Witch Princess's heart events then you have to enter a Poisonous Mushroom 5 years in a row, so get started on that. You can find them growing everywhere in Fall. I've heard it said that it'll piss the town off but I actually tested it and nobody's affection actually seemed to go down which is very funny. Poison the town with impunity I guess lmao

Champion Sheep (10)
Win the Sheep Festival

Fall 21. Have a prize-winning Sheep - your sheep will need to be something like 10 hearts to win. SHEEP MUST NOT BE SHORN IN ORDER TO BE ENTERED - THEY MUST HAVE THEIR FULL WOOL. See the Animal Festival Strats section for tips on raising affection.

Pumpkin Day (2)
Play a part in the Pumpkin Festival and receive the 3 kids that come to your house

Fall 30. In the days before this, make sure to buy some chocolate from the Supermarket - at least 3 pieces. Exit your house and you'll receive Kate in the doorway, asking for chocolate. Give her some. Enter and exit your house between 8 and 9 am to see Hugh there, asking for the same. Finally, Popuri will be there if you enter and exit between 10 and 11 am. That's all there is to this event.

Winter

Gift Day (4)
Help Thomas and get a Golden Lumber in exchange

See this page for details. In short, save your game the night of Winter 01. When you step out on Winter 02, Thomas will ask you for some kind of item. If it's something you do not have or cannot easily obtain that day, reload and try again. Completing this event is also how you unlock the leader of the Orange Team, so make sure you do it at least once, but you don't have to bother beyond that if you don't care about the Golden Lumber reward.

Simple items to get for Thomas include White Grass (growing everywhere in Winter), Black Grass (get that from the mines), and jewelry like Bracelet or Brooch (get that from the opening area of the mines).

Sweet Day (3)
Give your sweetheart some Cookies in the Winter Thanksgiving

Winter 14. It says "cookies" in the achievement, but you actually have to give boys Chocolate (yes, from the Supermarket again) on Winter 14. Just give some to any (and all, if you like) of the marriageable boys. Any boy who receives them will get a little love point bonus.

Unlike Spring Thanksgiving where you require Purple Heart or higher to participate, you can give chocolate to boys no matter what their heart level is.

Starry Day (3)
Celebrate the Starry Night with someone special

On the 23rd of Winter, find a male marriage candidate with a Green Heart or higher and ask him to party with you. GBA boys don't count, though you can ask Skye by staying up late on the 22nd if his affection is high enough. You can even do it with Leia or the Witch if their affection is high enough! On the 24th, go to their place at night (or in the case of Skye and the special bachelorettes, enter your house after 6 PM then leave).

Stocking Day (4)
Receive a present from Thomas-Claus during Christmas

You must have Nina (the little old lady) at 200 or more FP then give her Yarn (made with a Maker Machine and Wool from a sheep) of any size WHILE SHE IS INSIDE HER HOUSE, BETWEEN THE 1ST AND 23RD OF WINTER. If you give it to her any other season or while she's outside it won't do anything. She'll knit you a little stocking for your house!

Then, on the 25th, go to bed and Thomas will place a gift inside your stocking.

If you made the mistake of not doing this before Nina dies (she fuckin dies after you have a kid), you can still get a stocking through this super sad event where she left one behind for you.

Noodles Day (3)
Enjoy some festive Buckwheat Noodles on New Years Eve

Winter 30. Visit the beach at night to eat some noodles. Make sure you save the Buckwheat Flour as it is used in a few recipes.

Animal Festival Strats

You need 10 hearts to ensure a win.

I've heard it said that 8-9 hearts can win, but I had a 10 heart cow take a minor affection decrease shortly before the contest (missed a day of feeding due to bad weather), knocking it just below the threshold for 10 hearts, and it lost. I also had a Duck lose at 9 hearts. So now I highly recommend you make sure an animal is 10 hearts before you enter it.

After your animal reaches 10 hearts, keep it indoors. Wild dogs can occasionally aggravate them - even if they're penned in, it can happen seemingly at random! It seems that the max love points is exactly the cutoff for 10 hearts, so losing even a single point knocks them down to 9 hearts. Keeping them in the barn/coop means their affection will never drop from these unpredictable circumstances.

You can also stop using the touch glove at this point, just normal talking/feeding should be enough.

Make sure you save every night the week before an animal contest you're going to enter, so if you get a forecast of severe weather that will prevent you from feeding your animals you can reload. Especially be aware of storms appearing the day before the festival, preventing you from entering your animal in the first place (lol why is this in the game).

So, here is what you need to do to raise the affection of your animals:

• Leave them outside every day in sunny weather. Birds will find something to eat if they're left outside for a few hours, but for cows and sheep, they need a square of fully-grown grass to graze on. Grass does not grow in winter, so I leave them indoors, but you can still leave birds outside as long as they're not snowing. Feed your animals when they're indoors, obviously. If you want to check if an animal has been fed by being left outside for long enough you can tap their icon on the bottom screen to see if there's a food icon to the right of their name.
• Pen them in so they do not get attacked or barked at by wild dogs if you decide to leave them out overnight. If your dog is outside then keep it penned in a separate section so it does not bark at the wild dogs near your animals and startle them. Sometimes they can just get annoyed by being left outside anyway, seemingly at random.
• Pet them with the Touch Glove. Try to get a Green Heart (2 FP). You can go for Red Heart (3 FP) but it's going to strain your wrist.
• For cows and sheep, talk to them. THIS IS SEPARATE FROM PETTING THEM WITH THE TOUCH GLOVE, YOU WILL HAVE TO HIT THE A BUTTON AFTER YOU FINISH PETTING THEM.
• For cows and sheep, brush them with the Touch Glove. Try to get a score of over 3000 if not over 7000. The threshold for +2 affection is 3000 and the threshold for +3 is 7000. 7000 is difficult to get with a shorn sheep, though.
• For cows and sheep, shear or milk them. Both of these seem to increase affection and shearing multiple times seems to count.

Animals have limited lifespans. Birds will die after about 5 years and cows/sheep after about 7. Because the developers thought that it was a good idea to make every heart for animals be 100 FP and every action raises only about 1-3 FP, it should take you 2-3 years of daily brushing/petting/feeding and sunlight exposure where possible to get them to max affection... as long as you're using the touch glove. Yes, the minigame is annoying, but you probably want to bother with it to guarantee you max out the affection in the animal's lifespan. Sorry.

If your animals start dying from old age before you've gotten them to the contest you can reload to the night before and sleep to try again, because it's random. Yes this feels grim as hell yes I did have to revive my duck 8 times

12) Casino and Minigame-Related Achievements

Casino-related

If you haven't unlocked the Casino sprites, see here. They have a few casino minigames and Roller sells various useful items.

Rather than focusing on the minigames themselves, you want to play multiple rounds of High or Low after you win a minigame to get the most medals. You can also use the buffer underflow glitch listed below.

Make sure to also buy 1 of each crop (Cabbage, Pineapple, Green Pepper) from Roller as well to unlock some sprites.

Matching and Pairing (3)
Get 4 matches in the Casino Matching game

If you have trouble with memory, consider writing the cards down on paper as there's no time limit.

Queen of Poker (5)
Get a Straight of better in the Casino Poker game

What's 9+10? (5)
Get a 5-Card Charlie or higher in the Casino Blackjack game

These two are largely RNG. Just keep playing and you'll get them eventually.

Teletransportation Stone (2)
Buy the Teleport Stone

Buy this at the back room of the Sprite Casino for 1000 medals. It's one of the most important items in the game, so get it as early as you can.

Rich Presence (2)
Buy the Truth Bangle

Buy at the casino for 2000 medals. This will show you your current stamina/fatigue values.

Stalking Bangle (3)
Buy the Love Bangle

Buy at the casino for 5000 medals. Shows the love points and friendship value of anyone you talk to (only bachelors and the four special Bachelorettes - the Goddess, Leia, Witch and Keira - have Love Points).

Crimson Cloak (5)
Buy the Red Cloak

Buy at the casino for 65535 medals which is not as daunting as it seems. This tool allows you to tap the map and then move your animals around the map with the stylus, but unfortunately you cannot make them go in or out of a barn.

Get Over Here (10)
Buy the Godhand

Farming Simulator 2 (10)
Buy the Miracle Gloves

Both of these require you to have bought everything else available in the Medal Shop first. Afterwards, they will both be available for 100,000,000 medals.

This is an absurd amount of medals, of course. Even buying the medals manually would take an absurd amount of time in a notoriously unstable part of the game. So! What do we do about this?

We're going to borrow from the Harvest Moon speedrunning community and do the QPG (quick purchase glitch)! Don't worry, it is EXTREMELY simple even for non-speedrunners like myself and only took me a couple tries. Huge shoutouts to: Retro Girl (a HMDS speedrunner and the current WR holder) for documenting this glitch, Exadrid (another runner from the HM speedrunning community) for discovering it, and RA user Orph who brought this glitch up in the RetroAchievements thread.

I highly recommend watching her video on the subject for a thorough explanation and visual example, but in short:

1. Make sure your amount of medals isn't super high. Enough that a stack of 99 items or less could wipe it out.
2. Buy any item from Roller.
3. After his thank-you dialogue finishes, immediately try to buy an item again - so right after you hit A to proceed his dialogue, hit A again. Ideally your A press will occur 5 frames after the dialogue finishes. If you don't get this right, just buy another item and try again.
4. If you do it right, it should show a placeholder item (Axe). The trick now is buying more of this placeholder item than you can currently afford!
5. When properly performed, your medals should instantly underflow to the maximum, allowing you to buy these two items (and anything else) with ease.

Trading Cards

Commonly Rare (5)
Have all the Common cards

Not Common Rare (5)
Have all the Uncommon cards

Parallel Rare (25)
Have all the Very Rare cards

Secret Rare (10)
Have all the Rare cards

Secret Legendary Rare (25)
Have 312 Super Rare cards

Filled Album (50)
Collect all cards

Cards are a completely worthless collectable you can get at the Casino front desk. They take agonizingly long to fill out and you get nothing for completing them. There are over 3000 cards to collect with roughly 620 cards in 5 categories ranging from Common to Super. You can buy a pack of 5 cards for 150g each. There is some minor manipulation you can perform with the number listed in the 100th location of your money slot but it's kind of pointless since you'll be on that turbo button so you'll hit all the number places repeatedly anyway.

The complication with these achievements is that the Sprite Tree, as aforementioned, is notoriously unstable.

Here's how to fill out your cards:

• Step 1: Map the fast forward button in your emulator. Make sure it is toggle and not hold.
• Step 2: Map the turbo button in your emulator. Set it to toggle and the "A" button.
• Step 3: Wait until you have enough money that you're comfortable dropping hundreds of thousands of G on cards.
• Step 4: Save outside the casino.
• Step 5: Set the game to buy cards on turbo and fast forward for a good 10-20 minutes.
• Step 6: Save outside, repeat until you either unlock achievements or the game freezes up and you have to reset.

I noticed the game starts to get unstable around 20-30 minutes of fast forward, but this will depend on your computer (fast forward is typically tied to how fast your computer can go through it) and how long you've already been playing. Once you find a good sweet spot, you can actually just reload the ROM every time you save to pre-empt crashes.

Honestly these achievements are a little absurd and I have asked the developer to remove them, but this information is included for posterity. If you are going to do these, save them for last. Once you get down to the last remaining cards, you can spend hundreds of thousands of gold and 40+ minutes trying to get a single card with fast forward and turbo.

Thanks to RetroAchievements user Orph for warning about the perils of mass buying cards.

Minigames

There are four minigames, three of which are hidden easter eggs you wouldn't find during normal play.

Girl Remembrance (3)
Win the Girl Select minigame

Wait to try this until you've bought the Clock for your house.

Save the game at 6 AM before going outside at all. Go outside for just a second then immediately turn around and go back in. Check the clock next to your calendar - it should say 6:01. If it says 6:00, go outside and try again. If it says 6:02, reload.

Once it says 6:01, walk over to the shelf that holds your records below your bed and inspect it. You will then be transported to the Girl Select minigame.

You will be shown a variety of bachelorettes facing various directions and have a brief moment to memorize them before being asked a random question - how many instances of Flora there were, how many were facing a certain direction, etc. This is obviously a little difficult, so what you can do is pause the game by hitting Start to look at it a little longer. You can even take a screenshot if you want (may I suggest the Windows Snipping Tool?).

Answer correctly and you'll get the achievement. Answer incorrectly and you won't. Either way, the game ends and you won't be able to play again until the next day.

Witch's Bears (10)
Win the Bear Shuffle minigame

Wait to try this game until you've bought the clock for your house.

This is probably the hardest minigame of the four. Save your game at 11:50 PM. Go into your house EXACTLY at 12 AM and check the clock to see if it says 0:00 (not 0:01, etc). If it doesn't, reload and try again. Once you are exactly 0:00, save your game in your home in case you screw up the minigame and need to reload.

Then, check your TV. The TV will glitch past a bunch of channels before bringing you to the Witch Princess Bear Shuffle minigame.

The Witch will place a colored spangle (blue, yellow, red) inside three bears and then shuffle them. Afterwards, you'll be asked where one of the colors is. The problem is that you need to do this for ten rounds with them getting faster each time, and she'll occasionally fake a shuffle by moving it halfway, making things even harder.

For an additional layer of confusion, there is a translation error: due to the Japanese word for blue (青) being translatable as either blue or green, when she needs the blue spangle she'll ask where the green spangle is.

Potential strategies:

1. Hit Start to pause the game to better keep track of the bears. You can mash Start to effectively play the minigame in slow-mo. Using this strategy, you can write down the position of the bears every time they swap.
2. Record your screen with a program like OBS or Gifcam and play it back.
3. Get a friend on a screenshare program with you, like Discord. (My personal favorite, and how I did this.) Have them pay attention to 1 color and you pay attention to another color. Through the power of teamwork, you can figure out where every color is (the third color being a process of elimination).

Harvest Fantasy (10)
Win the Doghouse Battle minigame

In order to initiate this minigame you will need to check the back of your Doghouse at 4:44 AM. Save your game at 4:30 AM then line up behind the Doghouse and, once it hits 4:40 AM, check it over and over until this minigame hopefully triggers. If you mess it up, just reload your game.

This is a clumsy RPG-esque battle minigame in which you face off against 3 random girls and then the Witch Princess herself. Ushi no Tane has a complete guide but the strategy boils down to this: charge your Spirit over and over until Super Attack is available. If your enemy knocks you below 120 HP, charge your Spirit until Super Heal is available, then heal yourself up.

That's all you need to do, really. Just alternate Super Healing forever until your health is at a place you're comfortable with and hitting them with Super Attacks. There is no limit to how many times you can heal yourself, so it's pretty much impossible to lose. It's just an exercise in tedium.

Once you win, you will receive a Title Bonus item. Ship this item (you may need to use the Basket to do so, I don't remember) to fill out your Shipping List.

RNGoddess (5)
Score 10 points in the Guess High/Low minigame

This requires you to unlock the Harvest Goddess (60 sprites) and then give her a number of gifts. 20 gifts will get her to play the game with you for the first time, and then again every 10 gifts afterward. She gives you some seeds as a prize so make sure your tool slot is empty.

This simple game will present you with a number from 0 to 9 and ask if the next number will be higher or lower. Simply play the odds - anything 4 or below you should answer "Higher", and anything 6 or higher answer "Lower". Obviously this is heavily RNG, so save before you throw that gift in!

Pluto's Channel 9 Quiz

Bokumono Knowledge (10)
Answer all 35 questions of Channel 9 correctly

After unlocking Pluto (ugh), he'll quiz you on trivia from Harvest Moon games, one question per day. All you have to do is answer his questions correctly, but if you get it wrong you'll have to wait until the next day to try again. You can save beforehand.

The only two games he'll quiz you on are A Wonderful Life and Another Wonderful Life for Gamecube (I have collapsed these two together for simplicity) as well as Friends of Mineral Town for GBA.

Some of these are slightly paraphrased.

Game	Question	Answer
AWL	Your son could become a professional. What sports event was televised in the valley?	Pesapallo
AWL	Romana feels ill. What tool can you receive from her?	Weird Watering Can
AWL	Wally was a competitor in what sport?	Marathon
AWL	Galen and Hardy have what hobby in common?	Bonsai
AWL	What's the name of the plant in Takakura's house that lets you hybridize plants?	Tartan
AWL	What's the instrument you can get from Gustafa?	Drums
AWL	What is the thing Van always fails at?	Dieting
AWL	What is the name of Hugh's father?	Wally
AWL	In chapter 1, what fruit did Gustafa give Nami, who looked like she wasn't (it cuts off)	Tomato
AWL	What is the name of the item that keeps newly born calfs safe?	Calf Hutch
AWL	Where is Murrey's hometown?	Po-Po Valley
AWL	What fish sells for the highest?	Huge Sharshark
AWL	The bugs flying around Murrey are named Taro and?	Hanako
AWL	What did Carter excavate to learn about civilization?	Lithograph
AWL	What do you get from Ruby?	Spice
AWL	What animal competed with Nina at Turtle Pond?	Turtle
AWL	What is Samantha's daughter's name?	Kate
AWL	What is the reason for Dr. Hardy's false left eye?	To save patients
AWL	What is Chris's job?	News Anchor
AWL	What item can you get from Grant?	Clock
AWL	What milk do you get from a cow that has just given birth?	Mother's Milk
AWL	What breed of animal does Van sell?	Goat
AWL	What kind of animal did Romana bring to the farm?	Cat
AWL	Rock named a dog without consulting you. What did he name it?	Blue Sky
AWL	What can you receive from Wally?	Clippers
AWL	At the Inner Inn, who was the champion of the Milk Drinking contest?	Hugh
FOMT	The fish in the hot spring is "King". What is it?	Catfish
FOMT	What is the name of the flower Ellen wanted to see?	White Flower
FOMT	Villagers will get angry at you for leaving something on your farm. What is it?	Golden Lumber
FOMT	What item will Ellen knit for you?	A sock
FOMT	What kind of event is performed at the Beach each year?	Dog Disk
FOMT	Cliff has a part time job. Where is it?	Aja Winery
FOMT	What does the doctor often do on his days off?	Herb Search
FOMT	What is the name of the girl from the orchard that Harris likes?	Aja
FOMT	A Kappa comes out when you throw what vegetable into a lake?	Cucumber

He may say you get "luxury goods" for winning but... you don't get anything for winning except Relaxtea Leaves.

13) Affection-based, Random Event, and Heart Event-related Achievements

Affection-based

Proper Pianist (5)
Become Lumina's best friend

There are achievements for befriending every single villager in the valley, including Mineral Town villagers and special NPCs like the Harvest Goddess. Their Friend Points cap out at 255 (this is when the achievement triggers) and this number can be viewed by talking to them with the Love Bangle bought from the Casino equipped.

You can give them gifts, but the first gift a day will give higher points than any subsequent gifts. It's +9 for their most loved gifts the first time and +3 thereafter. While this is multiplied by birthdays (see here for a birthday chart) it's still tedious.

However, there's a fun little exploit you can do to raise everyone's affection.

You see... pretty much everyone LOVES your cat. They love it so much. Showing your cat to someone will increase their Friend Points by 1. So, all you need to do is show your cat to someone 255 times in a single day to reach max affection, and this can be done with almost every villager in the valley. Get that turbo button out! Consider doing it inside if you can so time doesn't pass.

It's worth noting this does not work for raising Love Points, but Love Points do not matter for the purposes of these achievements, only Friend Points.

The villagers you CANNOT do this with, and the alternative strategies for them, are as follows:

Name	Requirement
Patrick	He's the one wearing green, don't get him twisted with his brother Kassey who wears blue. Show him your dog instead.
Popuri	Popuri hates dogs and cats because she lives on a farm with birds. Give her gifts instead. She likes Chocolate, which you can buy from the supermarket, so just get a bunch of those. Her birthday is Summer 03 if you want to optimize.
Rick	Rick is Popuri's sister and as the resident chicken boy he has a similar hatred of your pets. If you want to 100% the game you should be giving him Spa-Boiled Egg as early as you can anyway, but if you don't plan to 100% by getting his heart events, you can simply throw bird feed at him. Yes, plain old bird feed you can buy for 10g from his sister. It's his special snack. His birthday is Fall 27.
Thomas	Thomas comes to town every evening to pick up your shipments and has irritatingly expensive tastes. That said, he does like Wine, which you can buy from the supermarket for 300g. His birthday is Summer 25.
Mukumuku	Mukumuku is a weird yeti that shows up by the Goddess Pond in Winter evenings. He's a wild animal and thus does not take kindly to potential predators like cats and dogs. His birthday is Winter 01, so stock up on wild flowers in the seasons beforehand (any flower will do) and give them to him on his birthday: at 15 FP per flower, you should be able to get his affection up to max with 15-20 flowers.
Keira	Keira lives deep in the 3rd mine, sleeping on the 255th floor, and you clearly cannot take your cat there. Her favorite gift is Golden Lumber, so you may want to skip this until you've broken the money system. But she also likes Spring/Summer/Fall/Winter Sun, which you can get in the 3rd mine fairly easily. They show up in rocks on floors ending in 1, 2, 3, and 4 respectively - e.g. the 252th floor would drop Summer Suns. Her birthday is Winter 26.
Harvest Goddess	She is in a pond and you cannot throw your cat in the water you absolute monster??? Just give her gifts normally, you need to give her 500 gifts (ONE PER DAY) for one of her heart events anyway. She loves strawberries. Her birthday is Spring 08. You cannot give gifts to her until you have unlocked her by finding 60 harvest sprites.

Special considerations

You may be wondering who Barney and Mimi are. These 2 characters are only unlocked after you get married and have a child, triggering a timeskip.

Additionally, Nina is very old and will die after said timeskip, meaning that her max affection achievement is a missable. Make sure you get it before you get married (but you can delay marriage as long as you desire so long as you're mindful of rival heart events).

Random events: Introduction

Missable Concerns

As outlined in the Missables section, there are a variety of Random Events that are both missable and non. Ushi no Tane has an excellent page for random events and an additional page for events added in the For Girl version, and their names will match each Retroachievement. I have also listed considerations in the tables below.

Many of these require GBA connectivity.

Aside from being connected to the marriage status of yourself or others, or your child's growth status, there are no time-related events such as "you can only get this on your 1st year". There is a timeskip after you have a child and that is what causes a variety of these to be missable or require you to be married/have a child.

Additionally, any event involving Nina is missable because she dies post-timeskip.

Your child has 3 growth stages (toddler, child and teenager), and some of these achievements are specific to one growth stage. Each stage of growth lasts about 2 years (and they will never grow older than teenager), so you have some time.

RA user Anwonu had trouble getting Family Argument 2 to trigger while married to Kai, and I similarly could not get it to work for Rick, so presumably this flag is broken for all Mineral Town boys. If you're trying to 100%, consider having a save married to a Forget-Me-Not boy for post-marriage events. It is untested if this is broken for Skye.

Some random events with Leia require her to be pre-Yellow Heart, because her Yellow Heart event causes her to go back to the ocean, so reload after you see her Yellow Heart event.

Triggering Events

Most events simply require you to have people at 200 affection or higher, though some require 250+. Once you're through the affection-raising process outlined above, you'll have a lot of them available to you. Some have irritating requirements like "be here, on a certain day, on a certain time, while it's raining"; reminder that you can manipulate the weather of the day after by saving the night before. If you want it to rain on the 27th, save on the night of the 25th and if you check the weather forecast on the morning of the 26th and it says clear, reload.

Some achievements that require it to be raining will not work if it's snowing.

Some achievements will say "be here between 8:30 AM and 2:30 PM" and not trigger if you show up right away. Consider waiting until more like 11:30 AM and trying again. If an event says 250+ FP and it's not triggering, make sure their affection didn't drop down a little (it decays very slowly over time and at random, as well as from things like littering).

Also, I seemed to often only be able to unlock one event with a given person per day. Meaning if you have an event with Flora and Darryl then go and try to trigger one with Flora and Carter on the same day, it probably won't work because you already saw an event with Flora that day.

Random Events: Any Time

These events are seemingly not connected to marriage or child status, and thus safe to ignore. That said, consider getting them before marriage just in case there's some requirement the community is unaware of.

Icon	Ushi no Tane link	Requirement
	The Painting - Part 1	ANYTIME
	The Painting - Part 2	ANYTIME (GBA required) (after The Painting - Part 1)
	Kate's Life Advice	ANYTIME
	Fierce Bargaining	ANYTIME
	Path to Cooking Expert	ANYTIME
	Attacked!	ANYTIME
	New Trade Negotiations	ANYTIME (after Attacked!)
	Muffy's Meddling	ANYTIME
	Begging - Part 1	ANYTIME
	Pursuit of Beauty	ANYTIME
	Cody's Aesthetics	ANYTIME
	2nd Hot Spring	ANYTIME
	Murrey the Gourmet - part 1	ANYTIME
	Murrey the Gourmet - part 2	ANYTIME
	Flora's Stalker	ANYTIME
	Past Glory	ANYTIME
	Self-Defense Practice	ANYTIME
	Big Emergency!	ANYTIME
	Original Cocktail Drink	ANYTIME
	Elder Sister	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	A Visit to Romana	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Cooking Pride	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Dr. Hardy's Help	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Cooking Bonzai	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Karen's Earring	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Fireworks Shop	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Witch Data	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Socializing	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Excavation Data	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Best Friends	ANYTIME (GBA required)
	Ancestor's Pride	ANYTIME (unmarried to Griffin??) (Griffin/Muffy black heart needed)
	Tak and Vesta	ANYTIME (NOT Winter)
	Vesta vs. Van - part 1	ANYTIME (Summer)
	Secret Fireworks - Part 1	ANYTIME (Fall)
	Secret Fireworks - Part 2	ANYTIME (Winter)
	Mukumuku's Gift	ANYTIME (Winter)
	Mukumuku's Sickness	ANYTIME (Winter)
	Capture Mukumuku	ANYTIME (Winter)
	Vesta vs. Van - part 2	ANYTIME (Winter) (after Vesta vs. Van - part 1)

Random Events: Not Married

These events require you to NOT be married.

Icon	Ushi no Tane link	Requirement
	Injury Helper	NOT MARRIED (GBA required)
	Galen's Date	NOT MARRIED
	Kate vs. Hugh - part 1	NOT MARRIED
	Kate vs. Hugh - part 2	NOT MARRIED (after Kate vs. Hugh - part 1)
	Kate vs. Hugh - part 3	NOT MARRIED? (after Kate vs. Hugh - part 2)
	The Big Plan	NOT MARRIED
	Family Argument - Part 1	NOT MARRIED
	Lumina's Request	NOT MARRIED
	Popuri and the Kids	NOT MARRIED (GBA required)
	Outlook on Humanity	NOT MARRIED, LUMINA/ROCK NOT MARRIED (GBA required)

These events require bachelors not to be married to their corresponding rivals.

Icon	Ushi no Tane link	Requirement
	Somewhere, Sometime	NAMI/GUSTAFA NOT MARRIED
	Popuri Problem	NAMI/GUSTAFA NOT MARRIED
	Path to Musician	NAMI/GUSTAFA NOT MARRIED
	Memories of Travel	NAMI/GUSTAFA NOT MARRIED
	Lumina's Advice	LUMINA/ROCK NOT MARRIED
	Daughter's Tea	LUMINA/ROCK NOT MARRIED
	The Love Triangle	MUFFY/GRIFFIN NOT MARRIED

Random Events: Post-Marriage

These events require you to be married. They can presumably occur while you have a child, but do not require it.

Icon	Ushi no Tane link	Requirement
	Da-chan Walks	POST-MARRIAGE
	Da-chan vs. Mukumuku	POST-MARRIAGE (Winter) (after Mukumuku's Sickness and Da-chan Walks)
	Chris' Fortune Telling	POST-MARRIAGE (Summer)
	Toadstool Research	POST-MARRIAGE (Presumably not to Dr. Trent) (GBA required)
	A Man's Back	POST-MARRIAGE (unmarried to Griffin??)
	Love Letter	POST-MARRIAGE (married to Marlin specifically)
	Leia's Request	POST-MARRIAGE (don't see Leia's yellow heart)
	Mermaid's Easy Life	POST-MARRIAGE (don't see Leia's yellow heart)

These events require other bachelors to be married to their corresponding rival.

Icon	Ushi no Tane link	Requirement
	Family	NAMI/GUSTAFA ARE MARRIED
	Cocktail Challenge	MUFFY/GRIFFIN ARE MARRIED
	Begging - Part 2	MUFFY/GRIFFIN ARE MARRIED (post-Begging - Part 1)
	Memory Stories	LUMINA/ROCK ARE MARRIED
	Thankful Feelings	CELIA/MARLIN ARE MARRIED
	Marlin's Sickness - Part 1	CELIA/MARLIN ARE MARRIED (GBA required)
	Marlin's Sickness - Part 2	CELIA/MARLIN ARE MARRIED (GBA required)

Random Events: Post-child

These events require you to have a child. Your child has 3 developmental stages (toddler, child, teenager) and caps out at teenager. When not otherwise mentioned, an event is presumed to be possible at any stage of your child's development. Many of these are post-child specifically due to the fact that a timeskip occurs.

Icon	Ushi no Tane link	Requirement
	Bonsai Contest	POST-CHILD
	Advice for Cliff - Part 1	POST-CHILD
	Advice for Cliff - Part 2	POST-CHILD
	Ann's Hidden Skills	POST-CHILD
	Family Argument - Part 2	POST-CHILD (after Family Argument - Part 1) (NOT married to GBA boy)
	The Apprentice - Part 1	POST-CHILD
	The Apprentice - Part 2	POST-CHILD (Winter) (after The Apprentice - part 1)
	Budding Romance	POST-CHILD (Winter)
	Barney's Scout	POST-CHILD (Winter)
	Whip Practice	POST-CHILD (Winter)
	Likeable Child	POST-CHILD (stage 1)
	Education Policy - Part 1	POST-CHILD (stage 1)
	Education Policy - Part 2	POST-CHILD (stage 2 or 3) (after Education Policy - Part 1)
	Small Adventure	POST-CHILD (stage 2)
	Parent Argument	POST-CHILD (stage 3)

Heart Events

Going for a Walk (10)
See all 4 of Griffin's heart events

There are achievements for seeing all of the boys' heart events. These are Grey, Purple, Blue, and Yellow Heart, meaning you simply have to raise their affection to those levels and be in the right place at the right time. I will not list the requirements for all of them, because Ushi no Tane once again has me covered, but I will list strategies for increasing the boys' affections: an optimal gift that may be difficult to obtain, and an easier one.

Many optimal gifts require you to have a kitchen and thus the first house upgrade. It's not bad to wait until you have these things because you have no worry about the boys marrying anyone else til your 4th year at the earliest. 100% tip: get the rival events before heart events.

An optimal gift gives 800 LP, and each boy can only receive one LP increase per day. 40,000 to 49,999 is the threshold for a yellow heart, which should get you all the heart events. That means about 50 gifts (around 2 seasons) should do it! Also, the boys' birthdays multiply gifts by 5x, meaning an optimal gift on their birthday would give 4000 LP.

Heart events will stop playing when you are married, so get any of these you're wanting to get before marriage. I assume you also can't get them if they're married to their rivals, but that will only happen if you see all of the Rival heart events, and Rival marriages can only happen in Year 4 or later.

Rival events only play if they're at the given heart level OR BELOW, meaning if you never want to see Muffy and Griffin's Blue heart event, having Griffin at Green heart or above means it will never play. But if you're trying to get the rival marriages AND all of the heart events? Well... now things get tricky. See the Rival Marriages section below for more info.

Standard Boys

Name	Optimal Gift	Notes
Carter	Candied Potato	Yam+Cooking Pot and nothing else. His birthday is Spring 11. Cheap alternative: Riceballs, purchaseable from the Supermarket.
Griffin	Fish Stew	Another simple gift. Fish Stew requires a Medium or Large Fish in the Cooking Pot. Your Fishing Rod will struggle to catch higher fish until it's been upgraded more, but it's easiest to catch bigger fish at the Beach in my experience. Summer 13 is his birthday. Cheap alternative: Fish of any kind, or Moondrop Flowers.
Gustafa	Hot Milk	Milk+Cooking Pot. See a trend? Any size of milk will do. His birthday's Spring 03. Cheap alternative: Wild flowers of any kind.
Marlin	Wine	Available from the Supermarket. It actually isn't the most optimal gift, that's Elli Leaves, but good luck making those. Just give this dude wine. Spring 24 is his birthday. Cheap alternative: Wild Grapes or any kind of tree fruit.
Rock	Cheese Fondue	Cheese+Bread in a cooking pot. You'll need the Maker Shed and a Cheese Maker for Cheese, and buy Bread from the supermarket. Matsutake or jewelry from the mine entrance are alternatives - I found it easier to throw mushrooms or jewelry at him, personally. Spring 09 is his birthday. Why are these boys all having birthdays in Spring??? Even cheaper alternative: Moondrop/toy flowers or Chocolate.

Rival Marriages

Childhood Friends (10)
Celebrate Lumina and Rock's wedding

Rival heart events are Grey Heart/Blue Heart/Green Heart/Orange Heart. Grey can happen year 1 or later, Blue is year 2 or later, Green is year 3 or later, and finally Orange will not happen until at least year 4. After the Orange event takes place, they'll get married a week later, so if you have your eyes on one of the boys, watch out! However, there are five achievements for seeing each of the rival marriages.

See information on getting Rival Marriages to trigger here - this is written for the Boys version of the game but all the information on event triggers is still relevant.

These events only play if they are at that heart level OR BELOW. Meaning you can see a boy's Blue Heart rival event if he's at Grey, Purple or Blue Heart, but if you raise a boy to Yellow Heart (which you will if you want the "See all of (name)'s Heart Events") without seeing the Green Rival Event, you cannot see it unless you drop him down to Green Heart again by giving him stuff he hates. (If you want to keep a boy from ever getting married, just leave him at Red Heart so Orange Heart never triggers.)

Every boy has an item that loses 5000 love points, so if you want to get him to Yellow for his heart events then drop him down that's doable, but this can only be done once per day and not all of those items are simple to obtain. Meaning if you want to 100% the achievements, it's most efficient to wait until you see the rival heart events to raise them above those levels for your own heart events. You can do them gradually as they unlock every year, or just leave them untouched until year 4, whatever you want. Just watch out for the Orange Heart event that triggers the rival marriage!

Skye and the Mineral Town boys do not have rival heart events.

Not-so-standard Boys

Courage and Confidence (10)
See all 4 of Gray's heart events [GBA]

4 Mineral Town bachelors will appear if you have GBA connectivity set up. They all have heart events achievements, too. The problem with these boys is that they only come into town once a week, and those days will often enough be interrupted by festivals. This means roughly FOUR YEARS of optimal(!) gift giving to reach yellow heart. Ouch. Do they have birthdays? Sure. BUT... they might not be in town on their birthday :')

The 5th MT bachelor, Kai, is a bit different since he'll be in town every day of Summer, making him easier to woo, but you'll probably still need two Summers to get him to Yellow Heart. Mineral Town boys do not have rival heart events or marriages to worry about, despite their female counterparts existing in town.

A simple way to find the Mineral Town boys to give them gifts is to use your Teleport Stone to go to the Inn at 6 am. You'll find them all in the upstairs back room on the right.

Name	Optimal Gift	Notes
Cliff	Grilled Fish	Cliff's favorite gift is actually Finest Curry but uhhhhhhh nah (go look it up if you want). He likes a bunch of recipes but Grilled Fish (Medium Fish+Frying Pan) is probably simplest. He comes into town every Saturday. His birthday is Summer 06 and according to Ushi no Tane he'll be in town for his birthday in Year 7. Cheap alternative: riceballs from the supermarket.
Gray	Baked Corn	Gray is blissfully simple compared to Cliff - Baked Corn is just Corn in an oven. He comes into town every Thursday. His birthday is Winter 06. Cheap alternatives are Chocolate and, if you have the 1st Mine unlocked, he likes Copper/Silver/Gold/Mystrile as well.
Kai	Pineapple	As aforementioned, Kai comes every Summer and stays all month, GBA connectivity or not. Pineapples are his favorite, though they take a long time to grow - you can accelerate this process by growing them in the secret field behind the Waterfall once unlocked, or simply grow some in your basement if you have one. His birthday is Summer 22. Cheap alternative: Oil (from supermarket), medium/large fish, eggs.
Rick	Spa-Boiled Egg	Throw eggs of any size into a Hot Spring and receive Spa-Boiled Egg in return. You can even throw stacks of eggs in! You'll need to unlock a Hot Spring first, of course, which can be done by showing Flora your cat 255 times then walking to the waterfall late at night. Find him in town on Sunday and his birthday is Fall 27. Cheap alternative: bird feed.
Dr. Trent	Milk (any size)	He's a doctor bro, milk make bones strong. Fall 19 is his birthday and he comes every Wednesday. He'll be in town on his birthday in your 3rd year according to Ushi no Tane. Cheap alternative: colored grasses from around the valley.

Special Girls

"Don't 100% This God Damn Game" strikes again!!! So there are 4 bachelorettes that are "special", and the devs left their heart events in for fun even if you, as a girl, cannot marry them. Cool! Because these are heart events, I'm pretty sure you have to be unmarried for these.

In the Japanese version you could become (airquoting as hard as I physically can) "best friends" and "live together" and "adopt a child" but in 2008 this was considered unsuitable homo propaganda and was thus norted from the English localization. All that remains is the heart events and the single tear rolling down your cheek when you realize you can't gay marry a cute mermaid.

All of the girls are completely insane to get the achievements for except for Leia :)

Harvest Goddess

Scolded by a Human (25)
See all 4 of Harvest Goddess' heart events

The Harvest Goddess must be first unlocked through getting 60 sprites. After that, you can start throwing gifts in her pond by the Sprite Tree. Yippee! The first Heart Event is super simple. In fact, gifting her things she likes is super simple - she loves Strawberries, a crop that regrows very quickly, and also loves every type of flower. The rough part is LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE.

According to Ushi no Tane, the requirements for her heart events are AS FOLLOWS:

• Gray Heart:

1. Find 60 Harvest Sprites.

• Purple Heart:

1. 10,000 steps on your Pedometer ("Oh that's not so bad-")
2. Ship at least 10,000 of 1 type of item (It's yam time, baby)
3. Catch at least 10,000 of 1 type of fish (Hope you like the Indigo Team)
4. Reach the bottom of the 1st Mine
5. After requirements met, throw a gift into her pond
6. Goddess has a purple heart color or higher (10,000+ Love Points)
7. You have seen the black heart event

• Blue Heart:

1. Unlock all 9 channels of the Sprite Station. Yes. That means Pluto.
2. Goddess has a blue heart color or higher
3. You have seen the black and blue heart events

• Yellow Heart:

1. Give her at least 500 gifts, 1 gift per day. At 120 days per year, this will take you roughly 5 years. You can gift her things even when it's a holiday though :)
2. Goddess has a yellow heart color or higher
3. You have seen the black, purple, and blue heart events

Harvest Goddess Strategies

Shipping at least 10,000 of a single item can be accomplished via the Van Exploit. In short, any item (or stack of items) you back out of selling him will be added to your shipping list. You'll need to back out of selling a stack of 99 items roughly a hundred times.

It may count things like fish or weeds, I don't know. But you'll have to ship 100,000 of something anyway for the Blue Heart event, which requires all 9 channels unlocked including Pluto.

Catching 10,000 of 1 type of fish is perhaps the most absurd requirement, because it doesn't seem to refer to things like "small fish" and "medium fish" but rather "Horse Mackerel" or "Greenling". This is why I highly recommend you start the Indigo Sprites working as early as possible and keep them working as much as you can. Keep them in a single area and keep them working nonstop. It will take years to accomplish this.

After you catch 10,000 of a single type of fish YOU MUST TRIGGER THE HARVEST GODDESS DIALOGUE BY CATCHING ONE OF THAT TYPE OF FISH YOURSELF. The Heart Event will not trigger until you go and catch that fish so that she pops up and says "hey, congrats, you've caught 10,000 horse mackerels".

Giving her 500 gifts, 1 per day is the second most absurd requirement. Start giving her gifts as soon as you unlock her and do this once daily. You can technically throw in anything you like, including weeds, but if you'd like to be nice about it, Strawberries are her favorite. She also enjoys wild-growing flowers of all kinds from all seasons, which are simple to gather large stacks of. You can give her gifts even on festival days - any day is fine as long as it's not weather so bad you can't leave your house.

Consider preparing 5 stacks of 99 items and never adding to them so that you can easily keep track of how many gifts you've given.

Leia

Mom's Letter (10)
See all 4 of Leia's heart events

Leia is a cute little mermaid hanging out in Darryl's bathtub and is comparatively pretty simple. She's honestly more like a traditional bachelorette than any of these other three. You just need to access her by befriending Darryl to get access to his basement, which can, of course, be done by showing him your cat 255 times.

You also need to catch a Bottled Message for the Yellow Heart event, which can only be done in Spring, so that's kind of annoying. Charge your Fishing Rod to Mystrile level to catch this (where your farmer has an angry vein but isn't glowing) - I tried using it charged higher than that and it didn't work.

Read here for information on her heart events. She likes Large Fish, so that's nice and simple.

100% tip: You should reload after her Yellow Heart event triggers. There are some events with her and Darryl you can only trigger once you go and get married, and if Leia is off in the ocean (which she will be if you trigger the Yellow Heart event), you won't be able to unlock them!

Witch Princess

Dream Potion (25)
See all 4 of the Witch Princess' heart events

Leia sounded pretty normal, right? Maybe you got lured into a false sense of security, even. Maybe you started to think you could do this. Surprise. It is time for you to once again experience pain and suffering. Again, according to Ushi no Tane:

• Black Heart:

1. Exit Romana's mansion from 6 am to 12 am.

• Purple Heart:

1. Exit the Sprite Company Tree from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
2. Litter at least 10 times (throw an item on the ground)
3. Have killed 50 or more of your animals (Everyone will hate you if you do this.)
4. Donated a Toadstool to the Harvest Festival for 5 years in a row
5. Try to exit the valley at least 10 times
6. Rescued the Harvest Goddess
7. Pass out from exhaustion at least 10 times
8. Given 10 or more gifts to the Witch
9. Witch has a purple heart color or higher
10. You have seen the black heart event

• Blue Heart:

1. Visit the Witch's hut from 6:00 am to 12:00 am
2. Give her at least 1000 gifts (can be in a single day!)
3. Witch has a blue heart color
4. You have seen the black and purple heart events

• Yellow Heart:

1. Visit the Witch's hut from 6:00 am to 12:00 am
2. Know the cooking recipe for Elli Leaves
3. Pass out from exhaustion at least 100 times
4. Have nothing in your Items (green) slot of your Rucksack
5. Witch has a yellow heart color or higher
6. You have seen the black, purple, and blue heart events

Witch Princess Strategies

WP Strats: The Murdering

The animal murder is of course the hardest part here. You may be like, "how the hell am I supposed to do that?". I basically built as many chicken sheds as I could and just filled them up with chickens that would eventually get sick and die. I'm not sure if deaths from old age or building collapses count.

Make sure you count how many animals you've killed! The scene where she congratulates you may be canceled out by Takakura or other events. I am fairly sure you don't NEED to see her congratulating you for it to count for the heart event (I never did lol) but you may otherwise get stuck killing extra animals like "hmm do I have enough?". A simple way to do this is to build 5 chicken sheds, fill them up so you have 20 chickens, wait until they all die, then fill them up again. Once those are all dead, buy 10 more chickens, and you'll have gotten 50 deaths.

Each animal death will tank the friendship points of a few random villagers by 100. HOWEVER, it seems as though your Love Points (the actual important part) are unaffected. Remember that love points are a pain to increase but with 90% of villagers you can simply show them your cat 255 times to increase friendship back to cap, so: who cares when you have a turbo button?

Nonetheless, you may consider getting the max affection cheevos/bulk of random events out of the way first, of course, or even wait to do them until after you've gotten the animal murder out of the way. Really up to you.

WP Strats: The Exhaustening

You pass out from exhaustion after running out of stamina and maxing out your fatigue. You have to do this A HUNDRED TIMES. Huge pain. That said, it doesn't seem like it really negatively penalizes you in any way as long as you pass out inside your farmhouse (maybe also your farm in general?). Nobody seems upset or anything? HOWEVER if you pass out outside of your farm you can lose half of your money, so that's not great!

What I highly suggest doing is mapping your turbo button to your tool use. After you're done with the day, switch to a tool of your choice while inside your farmhouse and hit that mf turbo to quickly empty out your stamina and fatigue both. Be careful you don't blast through the passing-out dialogue and start wiping out the next day's stamina! If you leave the turbo button going and step away from your desk you might come back to 60 days gone by. Which is honestly fine, I ended up doing this for a while, but you may blast by her congratulating you for 100 pass-outs and not even know you accomplished it, so make sure you make a note of what day you started on.

Love points/friendship points for villagers may slowly decay at random from time passing without talking to them, if you care.

If you're multitasking this with other things like killing animals, her "congratulations" message may be deleted by Takakura telling you an animal died, but I don't think you need to see the announcement for it to count.

WP Strats: The Miscellany

Harvest Festival: I was under the impression that donating a Toadstool to the Harvest Festival made everyone hate you but I documented my Love Points and Friendship Points with people before and after doing so and found no change, even if they attended the event and complained about how awful it tasted. So, good news, at least you can poison people with impunity. I have heard inconsistent information as to whether or not it has to be 5 years in a row or not, but why chance it?

1000 gifts: Mercifully unlike SOME deities, the Witch is fine with you giving her a bunch of gifts in a single day. You can give her whatever you want or you can just show her your cat - each time you show her, it'll count as a gift given. I HIGHLY recommend you just take the cat with you, walk up to her, and turn the turbo button + fast forward on.

Leaving the valley: With regards to leaving the valley, you can do this multiple times in a day, so it's very simple to accomplish.

Keira

Gold Fever (25)
See all 4 of Keira's heart events

Keira's heart events, aside from the first one requiring an irritatingly complex curry, are quite simple. However, the problem is that you need to raise her affection. You know, the girl who lives on the 255th floor of the 3rd Mine. Thankfully, talking to her once a day provides a small amount of LP increase, but you can only give 1 gift to raise Love Points per day. So, dozens of daily forays into the mine specifically to raise her affection to Yellow Heart, if you use the most optimal gift (800 LP increase).

And it's Golden Lumber. That's her favorite gift. Save this for when you've broken the money system with the Seed Maker, or better yet, don't do it at all, because you should not 100% this game. But if you want to, consider multitasking it with the mining achievements like upgrading your tools to Mythic or getting all the cursed accessories. (The 255th floor of the mine, where she is located, is a valid spot to find Mythic Stone.)

I STRONGLY recommend you take the Blue Harvest Goddess Hat from Van's shop with you, which will reduce your stamina loss for basic tool usage to zero. Read more about this and other strats for mining here.

One additional small blessing is that completing her heart events will give a small boost to her affection. Also, her birthday is Winter 26, so giving her a gift on that day will give you more affection than usual. Here is the information on her heart events.

Marriage-Specific

Marriage requires the following:

• Your boy of choice must be at 60,000 love points or more (Red Heart).
• Own the Big Bed, available from Channel 2's shopping network after the 2nd house upgrade.
• Unlock at least 60 sprites, thus saving the Harvest Goddess.
• View all 4 of that boy's Heart Events. He will marry you even if you mess up all of the responses.
• Buy the Blue Feather from the Supermarket and then use it to propose.

Again, you cannot marry the girl candidates. Not even the special girls.

For 100%ing, this is basically the optimal path:

• Give high-value gifts to Mineral Town boys at every possible opportunity.
• Raise Skye's LP whenever you want because there are no time constraints and he shows up any night that's sunny.
• Wait until year 2 to raise Forget-Me-Not boys to Blue Heart.
• Wait until year 3 to raise them to Green Heart.
• Wait until year 4 to raise them to Yellow Heart. Be mindful of rival marriages. Get all yellow heart events.
• Get all the rival marriages except Marlin's.
• Save before Celia and Marlin's Orange Heart event.
• See Celia and Marlin's marriage, then the three events for them being married, here, here and here.
• Reload to before Celia and Marlin had their orange heart event.
• Raise Marlin to red heart to prevent his rival marriage.
• Trigger all the heart events for Mineral Town boys.
• Trigger all the heart events for Skye.
• Marry a Mineral Town boy then reload. (Kai is easiest).
• Marry Skye then reload.
• Trigger all the heart events for special bachelorettes (good luck).
• Reload after you've seen Leia's yellow heart event (in which she leaves) because some events require her to live with Daryll.
• Marry Marlin (warning, his love points may decay from years spent grinding out murder and death for Witch Princess).
• Trigger random events related to being married.
• Have a child.
• Trigger random events related to having a child.

You should then have all marriage and child-related achievements. Marlin is the most optimal bachelor because he is the only bachelor with an event specific to being married to him and you must marry a Forget-Me-Not boy for some events to trigger/to get the achievement for all records obtained.

You Won't Forget Him (5)
Get married to a Forget-Me-Not Valley Boy

That means Griffin, Marlin, Gustafa, Rock, or Carter. I don't think Skye counts. If you just want to pick a boy and don't care who, see above about Marlin.

Husband of Mineral Town (5)
Get married to a Mineral Town Boy [GBA]

Kai is going to be by far the easiest to do this with, as he spends the entire month in Summer rather than having to court the other boys, who will take roughly 4-5 years of optimal gifts every time they're in town to reach Red Heart. ASK ME HOW I KNOW THIS. THANKS RICK

Stole Your Heart (10)
Get married to Skye

Skye's pretty annoying. He only shows up at night and will walk all over the valley, his best gift is a huge pain to make, he has more heart events than any other bachelor, and will initially rebuff your proposal.

Ushi no Tane's guide will tell you all you need to know. If you're wanting to kill time while waiting for him to show up, it's a good time to try and unlock the Sprites for using the Hot Spring enough times, or get some fishing in. Personally, I just gave him various colored Curries rather than bothering with the max affection gift.

You're a Mama (10)
Have a child

About 30 days after your wedding your character will get pregnant as long as you haven't been feeding your husband trash or something. 60 days later you'll have a baby. Be aware:

• The game will timeskip 3 years when you have a child.
• Some Random Events require you to be unmarried. Some are tied to your child being at a certain developmental stage. Your child has 3 stages, each lasting a couple years, before capping out at Teenager.
• Nina will pass away during the timeskip, thus locking you out of the achievement for maxing her friendship if you didn't do it already, and any random events involving her.

14) Completionism-related Achievements

Shipping

The full shipping list can be seen here. A huge thank you to the very cool and smart and handsome official RA achievement developer authorblues for reviewing the particulars of the achievement logic so I could give accurate info.

Animal Goods (10)
Ship every animal product

This will require you to ship at least one of every animal product. So a Small Chicken Egg, Medium Chicken Egg, Large Chicken Egg, as well as its processed form: Small Mayonnaise, Medium Mayonnaise, Large Mayonnaise, etc. Animals will produce bigger produce as their affection increases, but you can use the Touch Minigame to get Milk and Wool of any size.

Processed produce can be obtained from building a Maker Shed via Gotz and then having the Blacksmith make you Maker machines using Adamantite from the mines. A Small Egg would create a Small Mayonnaise, a Medium Egg creates Medium Mayonnaise, etc.

Duck Eggs create normal Mayonnaise, there is no Duck Mayonnaise in this game. You'll still need a Small/Medium/Large Duck Egg for the shipping list.

Also, Spa-Boiled Egg is counted under this category. You'll need to unlock one of the Hot Springs by maxing out Flora's affection then throw an egg of any size into its waters.

Cook Connoisseur (25)
Cook and ship all successful and failed dishes

RECIPE LIST

This achievement will require, for cooking and cooking accessories:

• An upgraded house (from Gotz) as well as the Kitchen and all its utensils (Sprite Channel 2)
• A basket (from Supermarket)
• A bunch of ingredients (from Supermarket)
• A decent amount of every type of crop you can grow on your farm (try 1 or 2 dozen)
• A lot of animal products (Milk especially, for Butter). Do not need Duck Eggs
• Maker Shed (from Gotz) and its makers (from Blacksmith), for things like Cheese
• Some Red Magic Flowers (spawn randomly in Fall)
• Some of every Tree Fruit except Grape (get Tree Fruit seeds from Vesta, they will take 50-70 days to grow, growth stalls in Winter)
• Some of all edible seasonal produce, such as Bamboo Shoots, Wild Grapes, and Matsutake, as well as the wild colored Grasses
• A Mushroom Shed to grow Shiitake mushrooms (get the seeds from Vesta)
• Buckwheat Flour and Rice Cakes from the New Years festivals
• Some Relaxtea Leaves (from Sprite Casino)
• A weed

Basically as soon as you get your fridge, you just want to keep a bunch of every edible item in this game that seems like it might be an ingredient in something. The Mushrooms and Trees are probably the most annoying part because they take a while to grow and Trees can get wiped out by bad enough weather. Trees require a 2x2 square to grow and must have a border of 1 clear space on all sides.

The real cherry on top is that you can't even ship cooked recipes normally by throwing them in the bin! You have to throw them in the basket then empty the basket into the shipping bin, and every dish ships for just 1g. The Cannery in your maker shed might work too? You can just put your basket next to your kitchen and make the recipes and throw them in as you make them. It only holds 30 items at a time.

If you're not sure what you haven't already made, you can cross-reference the recipe list and ship item list. Click the shipping icon on your bottom screen at the stats screen to view what you haven't shipped already. I found it simplest to paste the recipes into a notepad file then remove them one by one as I made them.

You will also need to make a "failed dish" with every utensil (including No Utensil) and ship at least one of each. These failed dishes are also used as a prerequisite in some wacky recipes, like Elli Leaves or Ultimate Curry. Simply make a recipe that doesn't exist while using that utensil, e.g. Weed+Frying Pan.

Edible Comestibles (10)
Ship every wild or purchasable edible item

• 1 of every item from the Supermarket (Oil, Curry Powder...)
• All of the seasonal forage items (Bamboo shoots, Wild Grape, grasses...)
• Relaxtea Leaves (from the Sprite Casino)
• Bodigizer/Bodigizer XL and Turbojolt/Turbojolt XL, bought from Van every 3rd and 8th day

Excavation Transport (10)
Ship every mine item

You will need to ship one of every item in the Mines. Some items only appear in certain mines and from there, only on certain floors. See this page on UnT for more information on which floor you can find what item.

Perhaps the most annoying one is Perfume, because you have to be in your 6th year or later for it to show up, or Mythic Stone, because it's extremely RNG. 100% tip: multitask this with Keira heart events (Mythic Stone can spawn on the 255th floor).

• Junk Ore (available in every mine)
• Copper, Silver, Gold, Mystrile (available in mines 1 and 3)
• The 12 colored jewels you can find in Mine 2 (e.g. Agate, Peridot...)
• Spring Sun/Summer Sun/Autumn Sun/Winter Sun (Mine 3)
• Orichalchum and Adamantite (mine 3)
• Mythic Stone (Mine 3, ONLY found once you've found and Blessed all of the Cursed Tools, NOT guaranteed to show up on a given floor)
• Lithograph (Mines 2, 3, and 4, on floors ending in 50)
• Bracelet/Necklace/Earrings/Brooch (found in the entrance to the mine)
• Dress, Facial Pack, Skin Lotion, Sun Block (found in the entrance to the mine, changes depending on season)
• Perfume (found in the entrance to the mine on your 6th or later year)

Rod Variation (10)
Ship every fish item

This has nothing to do with the Fishing Kings or how many species of fish you've caught - it is purely the items you can obtain from fishing.

• Small Fish, Medium Fish, Large Fish (duh... found while fishing)
• Empty Can/Boot/Fish Bones (trash found while fishing)
• Pirate Treasure (caught in the Ocean with a Blessed or higher rod during Summer)
• Fish Fossil (caught in the Ocean with a Blessed or higher rod during Fall)
• Bottled Message (caught in the Ocean during Spring with a Mystrile or higher rod after reaching requirements with Leia below)

Bottled Message requires you to have Leia's Yellow Heart event available. You must see Leia's first 3 heart events by raising her Love Points, then raise her to Yellow Heart or higher (also raising enough affection with Daryll to get access to her in the first place). Her heart is invisible because she's a secret bachelorette (and can no longer be married in the For Girl version) so use your Love Bangle to monitor when she's gone above 40,000 love points. Giving her Large Fish is a great way to raise her points.

You do not have to trigger the event for it to start spawning (and in fact I recommend you don't unless you reload afterward for reasons), only have her above that point threshold and have seen her previous heart events.

After this is accomplished, fish in the ocean using your Fishing Rod. I recommend you try charging it up to Mystrile level and not any higher - so when the little vein appears on your farmer's head but before they start glowing.

Misc Elements (10)
Ship every miscellaneous item

• Weed/Stone/Branch that you can find everywhere
• Dog Ball (Yes, you have to put your Dog Ball in the shipping bin. Thomas won't be happy)
• Witch's present (receive from Witch Princess for various tasks, such as giving her 100 gifts or littering 100 times)
• H. Goddess's Present
• Wood/Stone/Gold Lumber (respectively obtained from chopping twigs, smacking stones, paying out 200k to Gotz OR Thomas' Winter Request)
• Fodder/Bird Feed
• 10,000g and 100,000g ticket, available from Jet's shop in the Sprite Tree
• The Title Bonus won from the Doghouse Battle minigame

Vegetables Harvest (10)
Ship every crop, flower, mushroom and tree fruit

This is what you'd expect.

• All the crops, including the ones you can buy from the Sprite Casino (so Cabbage, Pineapple, Green Pepper)
• All the flowers (you can just get these growing anywhere in the Valley during the appropriate season - make sure you ship both a Red and Blue magic flower)
• All 3 Mushrooms of all 3 sizes - you'll have to have the Mushroom Shed and Maker Shed and use wild Mushrooms, both Matsutake and Toadstool, to make seeds using the Seed Maker. You can buy Shiitake, the third mushroom type, from Vesta. They'll take a long time to grow but after they've grown once they'll only take a few days to grow back. Leave them growing to get mushrooms of Medium and Large for all 3 types.
• One of every tree fruit (so Peach, Banana, Orange, Apple, Grape). Bad weather can take out your trees so consider planting 2 of each if you're at a point where money isn't an object. You can buy tree seeds from Vesta's shop. Plant in a 2x2 square and make sure you have 1 square of clear space around the tree or else it won't grow.

Shipping Collection (25)
Ship every shippable item

I'll once again link the shipping list. Complete all the above achievements and you'll have this.

Fishing

Legend of Forget-Me-Not Valley Queens (25)
Catch the 6 fish kings

You'll need to have your fishing rod upgraded to Blessed or higher to catch these. See the bottom of this page for locations and seasons. Multitasking these with waiting for Skye to show up or something is a great idea.

Sometimes it can take dozens if not hundreds of casts to get one of these. That's normal and yes, it's annoying. I usually fish on fast forward with a podcast going or something.

You will also need to purchase the Island for 900,000,000g. You will have to break the money system through the seed maker for this, as outlined in this section of the guide. The Island is necessary for you to catch the final Fishing King, only available after you've caught the other 5.

Marine Exhibition (25)
Catch all 52 fish and items

The Fishing Kings are not necessary for this. There are 52 different types of fish you can catch - even if they're all lumped into Small/Medium/Large fish, when you catch a fish, it will say "I caught a Sardine!" or whatever, and that's what this is referring to. You can view how many fish you've caught on the bottom stats screen by tapping the fish icon.

Having the Indigo Sprites fish all over the valley is a great way to get the majority of fish for this achievement, because fish they catch will absolutely fill out your fishing list. The fish they catch correspond to the highest upgrade level of your fishing rod. I believe Mystrile should be enough for them to catch everything. There are 52 types and the sprites can catch 49 of them.

In order to get the remaining 3 fish, you must first raise 900,000,000g (yes, really.) to have Thomas offer to sell you the Deserted Island. You can catch the final 3 fish here: Bonito, Tuna, and Sunfish. Tuna and Sunfish can be caught all year long. Bonito cannot be caught in winter.

If you'd like to hunt the fish down one by one, or you're missing fish beyond Bonito, Tuna and Sunfish, have a look at UnT's fish location guide.

You will need a Blessed rod or higher to catch the "items" portion of this achievement (Pirate Treasure, Fish Fossil, Bottled Message) and reach Yellow Heart (40,000 LP) with Leia as well as see her first 3 heart events. Scroll up a bit to "Ship every fish item" for information on that.

Miscellaneous

Nostalgic Songs (10)
Have all song records *Must marry a Forget-Me-Not Valley boy [GBA]

You can buy records from Jet, the Harvest Sprite salesman in the Sprite Tree. Here is a list of records.

There are a total of 25 records: 10 records available at the beginning, 5 after you get married, 5 after your child grows to its second stage, and 5 for having established GBA connectivity. As stated in the achievement there is some kind of bug where marrying a Mineral Town boy will not unlock the records properly, including Kai - you must marry one of the Valley boys, so Griffin, Marlin, Rock, Carter, or Gustafa, in order to get this. I am unsure if Skye works. Thanks to the unfortunate RA user Anwonu for documenting this.

If you're not picky and 100%ing, Marlin is the only one with an event unique to being married to him.

Quality Reassurance (10)
Ship a level 10 crop

This requires you to have a Maker Barn and a Seed Maker. Plant multiple bags of seeds overlapping to level up crops. Once those crops mature, put the higher level crops in the seed maker, etc. Repeat til level 10 crop.

This is done most easily with a crop that grows very fast + the hidden cave behind the waterfall that doubles crop growth speed and/or the basement(s) that act as greenhouses.

Poultry Diversity (5)
Have a chicken, a duck, a cow and a sheep

This achievement is relatively simple. You need to build at least one coop, one barn, and a Duck Pond.

Stallion Gift (3)
Obtain your horse

Obtaining a horse requires you to simply ship 1000 items of ANY KIND, including weeds.

Feline Love (10)
Get your Cat to 10 hearts

What’s Up Doggie (10)
Get your Dog to 10 hearts

My Little Pony (10)
Get your Horse to 10 hearts

Raising your affection for animals is a painfully slow process because for some reason each heart is 100 LP for a total of 1000 LP and talking to them only gives 1 LP. At a rate of 120 days per year... you do the math.

Fortunately you can slightly accelerate this by using your Touch Glove. A blue heart is 1 LP, a green heart is 2 LP, and a red heart is 3 LP. I recommend sticking to Green Heart for your wrist's sake. The horse can be touched and additionally brushed for affection. A score of 3000+ in the brushing game is 2 LP and a score of 7000+ is 3. You can also ride it (interact without touch glove on) for an increase in affection once per day.

I believe leaving them outside (in the sun, not bad weather) also raises affection, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

Your Horse will reach max affection a lot quicker than the Dog and Cat due to being able to brush it and ride it for an additional increase. There is no penalty for letting an animal rot after you've received its 10 heart achievement (well, their LP will slowly go down over time, but who cares?).

15) Important information for 100%ing the game

• Unlock the Goddess as soon as you can and start giving gifts to her. It doesn't matter if the gifts suck. She has an event that requires 500 gifts given ONCE PER DAY, the equivalent of about 5 years worth of gifts. So... get cracking.
• Start having the Indigo Sprites work as soon as you can and keep them working even after you unlock all the sprites. There is a "catch 10,000 of a single fish" requirement for one of the Harvest Goddess's heart events. The type of fish you can catch depends on your fishing rod's current upgrade level. Also, make sure you hit every area of the valley at least once during all four seasons to bulk up the different types of fish you've caught for the Catch 52 Fish achievement. Once you've caught all 49 fish available on the mainland just have them fish in a single area until they catch 10,000 of a single fish.
• Once you get the Fridge, store 10-20 of every crop/item that seems remotely edible. This will make cooking less tedious. You'll need more milk than anything, for various Butter recipes. Make sure to save a few Magic Red Flowers too.
• A Maker shed is a worthy investment and will help you break the game's money system. There is no better way to make money than to level up crops by planting multiple crops on a single tile then harvesting the leveled-up produce, putting it into the seed maker, planting again, etc. Likewise, at least one basement (grow crops all year long, equivalent of greenhouse).
• Start giving gifts to the Mineral Town boys as soon as possible. You NEED to do this if you want to get their heart events because even at year 3 giving an optimal gift at every opportunity you can still be at Green Heart. A huge pain. They appear on Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday. You can teleport to the Inn at 6 AM and find them in the top right room upstairs. More info here.
• Use the affection exploit to max out Flora's affection and unlock the Hot Spring ASAP. It's very useful to exploit Fatigue in this way and you can get multiple sprites from this. Make sure you're in for at least an hour at a time every time you use it because "Use the Hot Spring 100 times" et al require you to be in for at least an hour at a whack for it to count as 1 use.
• Get the barns built and adopt one of each animal immediately so you can start raising their affection for festivals and your shipping list. That means Cow, Duck, Chicken and Sheep. Ducks require a Duck Pond. Baby animals start with a higher affection level so consider hatching a baby duck and chicken because it's quick to do, you just throw an egg in the incubator.
• Your animals CAN AND WILL DIE. Chickens/ducks die after 5 years and cows/sheep after 7 years, roughly. (Cat/dog/horse does not die.) Meaning yes, for the birds especially, you do have to probably bother with the touch screen minigames to raise enough affection in time to get prize-winning animals for the "win x festival" achievements. Yes it's annoying, I'm sorry. You do not have to do the minigames to utter perfection - Green heart in touching and 3k+ in brushing is fine. Deaths are random once they reach that age and can be postponed by reloading to the night before.
• It is much faster to get the Rival heart events on the way. There are achievements for seeing all 5 rival marriages. Rival heart events will only trigger if they are at that heart OR LOWER so if you, say, get Griffin's yellow heart event then want to go back and see the Muffy/Griffin gray heart event, you'd have to drop Griffin's affection all the way down to gray heart, obviously a pain. So, wait to get each rival event before raising their affection above that. Be mindful of course that seeing their orange heart event will trigger a rival marriage, so after you get that achievement you'll have to reload to a point before it if you want to get married (which you will, there is a random event unique to marrying Marlin). Some random events require people to be married, though, so make sure you get those too before reloading. More info on triggering rival marriages here.
• Start poisoning people at the potluck every year. You will need to give a Toadstool (the white mushroom that spawns around the valley in Fall) at the Harvest Festival every year for 5 years in a row for the Witch Princess's heart events.
• If you're trying to grind your tools up in the early game anyway you may consider making yourself pass out inside your farm house for the Witch Princess's eventual goal of 100 passouts. As long as you pass out in your house, the game doesn't seem to penalize you in any way.
• Make backup saves by copying your save files and labeling them. Ideally one at the start of each year.
• Marlin is the most 'optimal' bachelor. Some random events and the Records achievement require you to be married to a Forget-Me-Not bachelor like Marlin and Marlin is the only one with an event specific to being married to him. See here for more info on marriage optimization.
• Reload after you see Leia's yellow heart event because some random events are tied to her still living with Daryll.

A Final Plea Against The 100%

I understand this will further galvanize the sickos reading this, but I would not be able to finish this guide with a clear conscience otherwise. Here are what I consider to be some of the hardest achievements:

• The game is buggy and at times feels like it is held together with sticks, glue, and earnest prayer. It has crashed my emulator I think 4 times now.
• There is an achievement for getting all 101 sprites, featuring tasks ranging from shipping 50,000 fish (3+ years of daily sprite work), interacting with the touch screen minigames thousands of times, shipping 100,000 of a SINGLE ITEM (thankfully there's an exploit but it's super tedious), tilling and watering 3 completely random spots hidden somewhere in the thousands of squares in the Valley, sitting around talking to an NPC every 30 ingame minutes 1000 times, etc, etc, etc,
• You must dig down to the 255th floor of the mine upwards of two dozen times to give a gift to a girl, once daily, who you cannot even marry, until you see all of her heart events. The gift is the most expensive item in the game, Golden Lumber (though tbf it's simple to wreck the money system). This is a single achievement.
• You must give 500 items to the Harvest Goddess, once per day. This will take 5 years minimum. You must also catch 10,000 of a single type of fish for the Harvest Goddess. This can be automated with the Harvest Sprites but is partially RNG-based and will take you upwards of 5 years. You must also unlock the hardest sprite in the game, Pluto, for her. All of this is in the service of 1 single achievement.
• You must poison people for 5 years in a row, kill 50 animals, and pass out 100 times (nearly a single year's worth) in the service of 1 single achievement.
• There are 10 accessories that require you to dig around in the mines. It is not guaranteed that they will show up on the floors in question, and even then, you have to savescum until you get the accessory you want.
• There is an achievement for shipping every item in game, including 134 recipes you have to make yourself after getting dozens of ingredients, some of which take years to acquire.
• There are several achievements that actively conflict with each other, such as seeing all the rival heart events and getting married to a Forget-Me-Not bachelor, or getting married to a Mineral Town boy and various events that then don't trigger for some reason because the flags are bugged (like the Records).
• The Harvest Goddess actively taunts you for doing a lot of things, such as "wow you shipped every recipe, that's it, you get nothing, toodleoo"
• You must get 900,000,000g and then some for a single achievement.
• Dozens of random events that require you to be in the right place at the right time, many of which are missable due to stupid, unintuitive things.