Harvest Moon DS Cute ~ Walkthrough

Harvest Moon DS Cute ~ Walkthrough

A. General Tips and Tricks (GTT)

1.  Littering (LTR)

2.  Picking Wild Items for Easy Money (WEM)

3.  Making Easy Money in the Dig Site  (EZM)

4.  Opening the Mines (OPM)

5.  Buying Things (BYT)

6.  Animals and Buildings (AML)

7.  Crops (CRP)

8.  Leveling Up Crops (LVL)

9.  Mining (MNG)

10. Upgrading Tools (UPT)

11. Fishing (FSH)

12. Weather (A Trick for Controlling it.) (WTH)

13. Leveling Up Tools (LVT)

14. Getting a Kitchen so You can Cook!

15. Making Friends (FRD)

16. Unlocking the Hot Springs (HTS)

17. Misc Tips (MSC)

B. Cooking (CKG)

C. Rescuing the 101 Sprites (101S)

D. Bachelors (BCH)

Valley Guys:

Marlin

Rock

Griffin

Gustafa

Carter

Mineral Town Guys:

Gray

Cliff

Trent (Doctor)

Kai

Rick

- After Marriage

E. Festivals (FST)

F. Credits and Notes

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 A. General Tips and Tricks (GTT)

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I will avoid spoilers as much as I can, so this should be safe to read even

if you are just starting out.

1. Littering (LTR)

For God's sake, don't litter!  Littering is throwing anything on the ground

outside of your farm.  Yes, even weeds!  Each time you litter, EVERYONE'S

affection for you drops.  So a day of careless weed pulling can undo months

of hard work at making friends.  Just hit Y to put it in your backpack, and

you can throw it in the shipping bin when you get home.  Everything counts

towards your shipping totals, so why not ship even junk?

2. Picking Wild Items for Easy Money (WEM)

Speaking of weed picking, the clearer that the fields around town are, the

more wild stuff that will grow in them.  So if you have some time to kill,

clear out what you can.  This is very helpful at the beginning when you need

money, a lot of weeds (for easily upping your shipped item numbers,) and

branches and small rocks both for strengthening your tools and building up

lumber.  A bag full of colored grasses can bring in a good amount of money.

3. Making Easy Money in the Dig Site  (EZM)

Another way to make money early on is to dig in the front room of the dig

site.  Save your game while inside, then dig around with your hoe.  You can

either remember each spot and then reload and dig them all right up (it's

good memory practice) or reload when you find each one and go right to it,

dig it up, save, and keep on going.  You will save A LOT of energy this way. 

The jewelry you find ships for 2000G each, and sells to Van for even more. 

Save the other stuff (face packs, lotion, etc) for gifts, since they only

sell for 50G.

4. Opening the Mines (OPM)

"I need ores to upgrade my tools!  Where can I find them?"  is a common

question.  There are four mines in the back of the dig site.  To open the

first one, you need to go to the dig site after 8pm (when no one is there)

with your Hammer equipped (some people say this is not necessary.)  A scene

will happen and the first mine is opened.  This mine has 10 floors, with ore

available by breaking the rocks.  To open the next mine, you have to reach

the bottom and then visit the dig site late at night to break open the next

mine.  More information about mining is available later in the FAQ (search

MNG.)

5.  Buying Things (BYT)

There are not many shops in Forget Me Not Valley.  Vesta's shop is on her

farm and is open from 4-7pm.  They sell seasonal seeds.  Van opens up shop

upstairs in the inn on days that end in 3 and 8 (3rd, 8th, 13th, etc.)  He

sells miscellaneous items.  There is a shop in the sprite casino (see Easy

Sprites for how to do that.)  They sell special seeds and accessories, as

well as cookbooks.  For all other things, you need to use the phone in your

house.  You can call

Chicken Lil's (poultry and feed)

Yodel Ranch (livestock, feed, and related tools)

Saibara's Blacksmith (upgrading tools, some tools for sale)

Gotz Construction (building new buildings on your farm.)

Supermarket (seeds, cooking staples, rucksacks, basket)

There is also a TV Shopping channel.  To unlock that, buy something from

Karen for 10 days.  They do not have to be in a row, just 10 total days. 

Channel 2 will then open.  Mostly, they show silly products that you can't

actually buy (a wallet that steals money from other people?) but once a week,

it will be something good.  Watch the program, and then use your phone to

call and buy it.  It will arrive in 2-3 days. 

6.  Animals and Buildings (AML)

In most previous Harvest Moons, your farm would come with barns.  In HMDS,

you have to ask Gotz to make barns, silos, and lumber sheds.  They cost a lot

of money.  Ready the tips in #2 and #3 to get enough.  You will save a lot of

money if you chop and smash your own materials, but that takes time too. 

Chickens - To get chickens, you have to build a bird shed and then buy a

chicken from Chicken Lil's.  You can grow your own chickens by hatching the

eggs they lay in the incubator in the bird shed.  Chickens hatched from eggs

will start out with more affection for you than bought chickens. Each shed

holds 4 birds.