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

Feb 2018 Mobage Events, 20th Winners, and Nintendori News | Posted at 07:04 PM 02 February 2018Happy Farm'n Friday! The mild winter we've had means rain instead of snow, which is a-okay with me! Now even the Iris rhizomes that were divided and translated last fall are beginning to come up, though I don't expect they'll bloom this year.

Bokumono for Mobage February Events

While it might be warming up for Spring here in the Pacific Northwest, over in Japan the Winter-themed events continue in the social browser-based version of the farming game. This month there are three community prize events scheduled:

• From the 1st until the 9th, the Snow Festival is taking place. This is a harvest-style event where players grow Ice Castle trees, Snow Flower crops, and care for muffler-wearing farm dogs and ear-mittened farm rabbits. The more points collected with each harvest, the higher the overall point rank will be. This event also includes the heart exchange feature, where harvesting lots of products will allow you to give heart points to your farm friends, which can be turned in for more prizes.
• Starting on the 11th, a bingo-style event will take place. Players will grow special bingo crops in a 3x3 field and if they align up at maturity, a bingo triggers that awards points toward the festival rank. In similar past events the bingo crop seeds required real-time currency (yen) to purchase, but typically there's a few crops awarded for the daily login or watering the crops on another player's bingo field.
• Then on the 21st, a big-crop event begins. During the deka events, players grow special crops to raise a rank level. At level up, a three-card monty game begins that will award special event nuts the longer players keep guessing the correct card. Once the wrong card out of the three is selected, the nuts are awarded and can be exchanged for in-game prizes.

Natsume's 20th Anniversary Contest Results

This week Natsume revealed the winners of the art contest celebrating the 20th anniversary of Harvest Moon series' release in English. There were six Grand Prize winners and 12 First Place winners. There's some pretty neat things in there, and not just drawings! There's also a modeling clay sculpture, a crochet diorama, a cross stitched project, and even some cookies (oohh num num)! Visit the Natsume Facebook page to take a look at our fellow farmers with some pretty awesome artistic talents:

• Harvest Moon 20th Anniversary Art Contest GRAND PRIZE WINNERS
• Harvest Moon 20th Anniversary Art Contest FIRST PRIZE WINNERS

Producer Hashimoto's Last Nintendori Message

For the past few years in every issue of Nintendo DREAM magazine, Bokujou Monogatari series producer Yoshifumi Hashimoto has published a little note to fans in the magazine's monthly Marv-Fan article, letting everyone know how he's doing and giving some insights into the farming series. In the March edition of Nintendori, Producer Hashimoto has decided that this will be his last update published in the magazine. In his 72nd update, "HashimotoP" thanks the series fans for all their support and suggestions, the staff at Marvelous, and those who publish and report game information such as Nintendo DREAM. He also wrote a bit about those in the industry he's worked with and respects. Finally, Hashimoto wrote how he enjoyed putting together the recently released collaboration DLC for Futago no Mura+. Thanks for your updates over the years, Hashimoto-san! Hopefully he'll be able to reveal what's going on with the Nintendo Switch version of Bokujou Monogatari as he continues to work on the farming series. Until next time! - Cher (The new grow light arrives soon so I can start sprouting broccoli seeds! Woo Spring!) Feedback: Add | View (1)

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