Tips and tricks?

[Ephemeral]

Anybody have some tips and tricks that they know about? For example: tricks like the grass seed trick, things that make a lot of money, areas with good foraging/fishing/etc., techniques for getting the most profit at the bazaar, whatever. Also what is your daily schedule/year/season?

[Alyx]

For daily schedules see this topic: http://www.fogu.com/hmforum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=134615

I believe there are also tips in there. I suggest foraging everything everywhere. The items are pretty random, so be sure to forage everyday. I've noticed that if you leave your farm after 9 am or so, the items seem to be gone. I try to go out before then. All fishing spots are pretty good. I like in front of Raul's shop the best. If you get any gems, be sure to turn them into jewelry (you can a lot more money). Grow plenty of crops and water twice a day for maximum growth. Cook some crops into food items, such as turnips into turnip salad or yams into baked yams. For animals, sell milk as hot milk but sell eggs raw.

[d3v1n@]

I think that you can use this info..

http://www.fogu.com/hmforum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=134784

Hope it help

[Pestilent]

.......Grow plenty of crops and water twice a day for maximum growth......

I just thought watering twice a day just made the veggies grow faster...

Anyway, pretty much what you've been already reading on this website, find stuff, grow stuff, turn it into other stuff. you'll get more than enough money before you know it...

[carebear9788]

i think i've heard when you have the basement, a good crop to grow year round is pinapples, i think they make alot of money.

[emilin_rose]

For daily schedules see this topic: http://www.fogu.com/hmforum/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=134615

I believe there are also tips in there. I suggest foraging everything everywhere. The items are pretty random, so be sure to forage everyday. I've noticed that if you leave your farm after 9 am or so, the items seem to be gone. I try to go out before then. All fishing spots are pretty good. I like in front of Raul's shop the best. If you get any gems, be sure to turn them into jewelry (you can a lot more money). Grow plenty of crops and water twice a day for maximum growth. Cook some crops into food items, such as turnips into turnip salad or yams into baked yams. For animals, sell milk as hot milk but sell eggs raw.

actually, with 8 animals and crops to care for, i often don't get out of the farm until noon, but the items are all still there.

Turning an egg into a boiled egg is worth a little more than selling it raw.DON'T LISTEN TO ME I'M STUPID. The boiled egg that was selling for more was 5star, compared to what i thought was another 5star egg but was 2 star. I'm a twit. Sorry.

In front of raul's shop you can get the dark sleeper fish, which makes fish stew, which is worth several times more than the fish itself at higher quality.

Save your chamomiles from summer, you can't get them in fall or winter, but you can use it the lavender and mint you get in the grinding windmill for herb perfume. Also in fall, if you have a tea tree, make lavender tea instead of straight tea, it sells for more.

If you jump into the river you have a 10% chance of getting an item. you have the same chance everywhere in the village. You can get rare items this way, like ore stones, or sometimes even Gold. You can also get straight tea, which you can brew in your kitchen and then sell at the bazaar. This is the only way to get a sea urchen until the bazaar gets its first upgrade.

If you have items for a recipe, do not cook them until the day of the bazaar or the night before. You risk losing some freshness if you do.

Here's a few other things i found in an ign faq that might help.

Any item that is not 'Super Fresh!' will be less valuable than the same item in
its freshest state. When items begin to go off, they can be sold, but they
usually are worth no more than 1G each. If, however, you are able to use the
Item either in your Kitchen to create a Cooked Dish or in a Windmill Recipe,
it will regain some of its Freshness. You therefore should use all Items
that have lost their freshness rating in a Cooked Dish or Windmill Recipe.

Storage is a problem in most Harvest Moon games, especially at the start.
There are some ways to store items temporarily outside of your Storage Room.
Crops that have ripened, for example, can be left in the Ground at least for a
day. If a Bazaar is scheduled the next day, it is better to leave all ripened
Crops in the ground overnight for two reasons. The first is to increase your
Storage space. The second is because Seeds are sold at the Bazaars. Once you
harvest any Crop, the land will revert to untilled soil overnight. If you
harvest Crops the day before a Bazaar, you will be forced to retill the land
for the Seeds purchased at the Bazaar. If, however, you harvest the Crops on
the morning of the Bazaar, you can come home in the evening to plant your new
Seeds without having to till the soil.

Leaving ripened Crops on the ground is a good strategy for a Multiplayer game
as well as every player, including the host, will be able to harvest the Crops
during the Multiplayer sesson!

Another temporary storage location exists in each Windmill. You can leave up
to 6 completed items in the Windmill. Each Windmill has six slots for items.
If a Bazaar is scheduled, leave any items you intend to sell at the Bazaar in
the Windmill if possible until the day of the Bazaar.

Diving for Items in the River is a good way to find valuable Ores and Sea
Urchins, but it takes Energy. Using the Multiplayer option will allow you to
dive to your heart's content as you can play through more than one day in
Multiplayer Mode. Make certain that you have sufficient slots in your Bag
before you embark upon your adventure, as you will not be able to give items
to other Characters in Multiplayer Mode.

You can sell items at the Neighbourhood Bazaar in Multiplayer Mode. This is a
method by which you can obtain more space in your Bag or sell items to obtain
funds on a day when Raul's Shop is shut. If you need money on any Friday, try
to enter Multiplayer Mode.

Multiplayer Mode is unlocked on Tuesday, 17 Spring in a visit from Mayor Felix.
Until then, you will be unable to use the option.

Note that any items that appear on the ground on the morning of any Bazaar Day
will disappear by the time the Bazaar ends at 7.00 p.m. Sometimes the Items
will disappear earlier than that. The strategy of shutting your Stall
temporarily in order to forage outside the Bazaar may be fruitless. Be
careful, especially when storage space is limited to collect at least the most
valuable items from the ground before you open your Stall at the Bazaar.

You can open and shut your Stall at any Bazaar repeatedly. Your options are
not limited to exploration of other Stalls. You actually can leave the Bazaar
and return with more items if you wish to do so. Knowing the shortcuts from
screen to screen is very helpful in this respect.

The little stone pathway to the left of the Bazaar leads directly to the Town
Screen to a plateau above the houses. Leap down from there and take the path
east to the Mayor's house. Leap onto the Barrel to find yourself on a plateau
above the top tier on the Waterfall screen. Now you can walk east to the
entrance to the Farm screen. This saves a lot of time on the day of any
Bazaar.

If you have found any Ore Stones in the River, do not sell them either to Raul
or at the Bazaar! Wait until you have a Hammer (sold at Felix's Stall the
week after you purchase a Sickle from him), then smash the Ore Stone to find
an Ore/Gem inside. Note that the result is random and is loaded at the moment
you smash the Ore Stone. You therefore could wait until 6.00 a.m. on the
morning of a Bazaar or any other morning after saving your game. Smash the
Ore Stone. If it contains only Scrap Metal, reload your game and try again.

Multiplayer Games offer a wonderful opportunity to dive for items in the river.
If you do not have access to Multiplayer Games, you can dive in the river in your own village in order to find Gold Ore or other items. Be careful though, you lose 8 stamina for every time you jump into the river. If you jump in with no stamina in your blue bar, you'll faint and lose the opportunity to save for the day.

Fairly worthless items can be processed to create useful or valuable items. 1
Weed + 1 Branch creates Fertiliser in the first Windmill, unlocked on 24
Spring. Any Branch when chopped with an Axe becomes Lumber. Any Rock when
smashed with a Hammer becomes Material Stone. Items retain their rank when
processed.

One more point should be made with respect to fairly worthless items. Almost
anything placed on your Stall at the Bazaar WILL sell. It is best to place a
variety of items on the Stall, however, as customers are more likely to buy
one if you have three different types of items on display. In other words,
for example, rather than selling three types of insects, it would be better
to display one Cooked Item, one Insect and one Crop or Flower. As soon as one
slot is empty, fill it with another item, even if all you have are Weeds.
Some one will buy... Customers even buy Rotten items at the Bazaar.

Another Bazaar strategy is useful in terms of current Sales Goals. Although
meeting your Sales Goal is no guarantee that the Bazaar will expand the next
week, it certainly brings Zephyr Town closer to expansion. In Multiplayer
Mode, it is better to buy expensive items, depleting your own income, to sell
at the next Bazaar than to be in a position where all the Items that you
possess, if sold, would not allow you to meet the Sales Goal. Agreeing with
other players to sell items at half-price is the best way to make certain that
every one can afford to buy the Items on display.

Another tip for Multiplayer Mode is to sell raw ingredients to a Player who has
unlocked all the Windmills if you have not done so yourself. Once you quit
the game, the buyer can process the items, then sell them back to you in a new
Multiplayer game. Good communication is the key to a profitable Multiplayer
Neighbourhood Bazaar. You can sell items at the Stalls of other Players at a
Neighbourhood Bazaar, but remember always that any item sold is one less item
that can be sold at your Weekly Bazaar.

As far as catching insects is concerned, many Insects are caught only if your
Character walks instead of running. To catch any Firefly, you should stand in
front of the location where its light appeared and, when the light winks into
view again, catch the Insect. There are Insects that can be caught only if
your Character leaps into the air. A double leap or somersault, followed by a
press of the B Button can allow you to catch flying insects that could not be
reached from the ground. This is a strategy for catching the Insects that
you spy on Tree Trunks. Walk slowly to position yourself in front of the Tree
Trunk. When the Insect begins to fly, leap into the air to catch it. See the
section devoted to Critter-Catching for more details about every type of
insect.

Note that you will have the option when you first catch any Insect either to
place it in a cage or to release it. This is the only time when you have the
option to release an Insect. Once it is placed in a Cage, you must sell it or
give it to some one in order to rid yourself of it.

The third Windmill is the equivalent of a Seed Maker in other Harvest Moon
games. Although you can sell Seeds to another Player at your Neighbourhood
Bazaar in Multiplayer Mode, you can sell Crops instead. The player who
purchases the Crops can convert them into Seeds.

Although Seeds are stored in the same location as all other items in Grand
Bazaar, they do not deteriorate over the course of time. If you have not
found a specific type of Seed at your Weekly Bazaar, try to obtain the Crop
from another Player and then convert it into Seed in your Windmill.