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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:

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


Stardew MP, Farm Folks 100%, and LDC Daily Activities | Posted at 12:12 PM 27 July 2018
Happy Farm'n Friday! It has been very hot here for the past week. The weather reports have classified it as a heat wave, with temperatures in the mid-90s (35° C), with next week reaching the 100s. I've added more umbrellas to protect the raspberry and marionberry plants to prevent their new-growth leaves from becoming crispy. The blackberry and blueberry don't seem to mind the heat. Unfortunately, something has been stealing the tomatoes. Earlier this week I noticed all of the tomatoes were gone from the Black Vernissage plant, and this morning the ripening tomatoes on the Tappy's Heritage vine were gone. Tree rats typically don't swipe tomatoes. I'm assuming this culprit is a black-masked furry bandit. Doesn't appear that we'll have tomatoes this year either! The plants were damaged due to my overuse of herbicide anyway. I was hoping to harvest what tomatoes has started before the herbicide impact, but now there's nothing left. At least someone enjoyed them... That gardener's trick with growing Marigolds to keep tree rats and other varments away doesn't seem to work. Or maybe the Marigolds aren't stinky enough? Must grow more Marigolds!

Stardew Valley Multiplayer

On August 1st, the PC, Macintosh, and Linux versions of Stardew Valley can be updated for free to support multiple players. When utilizing the multi-player functionality of Stardew Valley, you and up to three friends can visit your farm, either on an existing save file you have or on a newly created farm. Each of the friends will have their own cabin on your farm, with a maximum of three cabins for each of your three friends. All of you share the same money, farm, festivals, and can even compete for villager marriage candidates. Players can even marry each other! Visiting another player's farm will require you to make a new character in their game. Likewise the host-farm needs to be active for the other players to join in. There are plans for the Playstation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch versions of the game to support multiplayer at a later date.

Farm Folks Funded

The crowdfunded farming game reached 185% of its funding goal, but it wasn't enough to reach the stretch goal to develop the game for XBox, Playstation, or Switch. This means the game will move forward on Windows PC, but no confirmation for Mac or Linux. A nifty feature the developer, Overgrown, revealed this week is the option to fashionably decorate your farm animals. I always like it when a dress-up feature is added in a farming game. Because the animals typically all look the same, it would be great to add bows or hats to a cow to tell the difference between all the look-alike cows. In Farm Friends you'll be able to add bows to your animals to spruce up their style. Another feature is the addition of a little reptile called a Galdrie. This alligator-looking fellow like to hang with human companions. Looks like these little guys might become a pet of some sort. If you're still interested in funding this game, the game is now available for pre-order on their publisher's website, Crytivo.

A Day in Little Dragons Cafe

The official Little Dragons Cafe website updated with a general overview of how players might spend their days in the game. After waking up at 6:00 am, you can spend the morning updating the menu at the cafe, harvesting ingredients from your garden plot, or perhaps triggering events. In the afternoons you can help out at the cafe or go out and search for wild ingredients that are requested by the customers and characters. The cafe closes at midnight, though you can still run around the island after the cafe is closed for the night. Each night you'll see how well the cafe did that day such as the number of guests (and in comparison to the previous day's visitor count), the reputation of the cafe, how many recipes you fully learned or if you know pieces of a recipe, and how well the staff worked that day. LDC will be released for Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch on August 28 August 24 in North America, August 30 in Japan, and an undetermined "Summer" date for Europe. Until next time! - Cher (The heat wave here continues into next week. Since it's too hot at night to go for our after-dinner walk, I get some extra video game time!)
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