The Ushi No Tane websites specialize in information, FAQs, and guides about the Nintendo console versions of the Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, and Legend of the River King video games. These game genres are created and published in Japan by Marvelous (JP). In other regions, you'll find Natsume, XSeed Games/Marvelous (USA), Marvelous (EU), and Rising Star involved in the series' release.

The latest version of the mainstream farming series that have been released in various regions of the world are:

• Japan: Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (January 2023)
• North America: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (September 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)
• Europe: Harvest Moon: The Winds of Anthos (October 2023) and Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life (June 2023)

The latest version of River King, in all regions of the world, is River King: Mystic Valley (JP 2007, NA 2008, EU 2009).

Since 2000, Ushi no Tane has been run by a grouchy old lady who happens to be fond of video game agriculture along with two feline helpers: Intern Captain Bootu and Intern Hondo Mewnaka. The website is not officially affiliated, sponsored, endorsed, or employed by the developers of Harvest Moon, Story of Seasons, or River King. This is simply a fan site.

Latest Farming Video Game News

Trio of Towns JP eShop Sale | Posted at 10:21 AM 09 December 2016It's farm'n Friday once again! This week Marvelous announced that the Japanese digital version of Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns hosted on the Nintendo 3DS eShop will be 20% off. Starting from December 14 until January 11, the game will be on sale for 4302 Yen (~$37.50 USD) instead of 5378 Yen (~$47 USD). Since it's another quiet week in the farming world, let's go over the tool upgrades in Trio of Towns. In this version of the series, tools have up to four properties: weight, ease of use, volume, and range. You can remodel the tool in each of these properties, when applicable, to make it more efficient.

• The Weight of the tool affects the stamina that is used. A lighter weighted tool means you conserve more stamina.
• The Ease of Use of the tool is how long you've to use the tool to do what you need it to do. Increasing this level will make your tools faster.
• The Volume property is only available on the watering can. This is the total amount of water that the can can hold.
• The Range is the area the tool can cover.

Remodeling is done at Ludus' carpentry booth in Lulukoko Village, which unlocks mid-Spring of your first year. You will pay him a fee (in G of course) and supply the materials, and he will instantly upgrade the level of the property you select. Each property requires different materials and fee amounts. The weight, ease of use, and volume can be remodeled four times (to max level 5). The range can be remodeled as many times as you would like, but you can only select from specific range options. For example, you can remodel your hoe to till a 1x3 area, but 1x4 is not an option that Ludus can craft. Each of the ranges covers a full crop field, so if your watering can has a range of 1x3, it can water three fields that are aligned in a single row at the same time. A 3x3 ranged watering can would cover three fields by three fields. The last property you can remodel is the color of the tool. The color doesn't affect the tool's efficiency in any way. Changing the color simply allows you to customize your tools a bit. There are six colors you can choose from, along with the default brown/gray tool option. A nice feature about remodeling is that you don't need to have the materials in your bag. Ludus will remodel your tools (and make just about anything else) from the materials you have stored away in your farm house storage box. No need to carry all that junk around! Not every tool has a property that can remodeled. Only the watering can has the volume property, the milker doesn't have the range property, the pitchfork doesn't have the ease of use property, and so on. Until next time! - Cher (Yesterday's snow is slowly melting, huzzah!)Feedback: Add

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