For new players make sure u never turn star milk into anything, no milk soup, no cheese Nor butter, star milk is more valuable than All that regardless of quality
Good tip: You can multiply your fertilizers with the fertilizer maker. The fertilizer maker accepts almost any item, including hay. You can use 1 fertilizer in the pasture to get 1 hay and then put the hay in the fertilizer maker to make 5 more fertilizers. You'll never run out of fertilizers this way, and can use them all in the fertilizer spreaders!
I would like to point out that you don't need to have befriended Takakura to 70 affection to unlock Vinnie. I didn't start giving Takakura gifts until after I'd already unlocked Vinnie. As far as I know, Vinnie is just unlocked at the start of year 2, no friendship with Takakura required.
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but Daryl will accept the same gift multiple times in a day. I was able to give him three moonlight ores and two fish all in one day. Update: it worked with Lou as well. I was able to give her two of the same milk Also I’ve unlocked the amazing field without making a crop that requires it. I think it’s based less on the level of hybridization, and more on how many times you’ve used Vinny to make hybrid seeds.
I didn’t know the rival thing was back. Very surprise but sad they didn’t go the extra step of having them be married and have their own kid for your kid to have more friends 😅
Enjoying the Wonderful Life content a bunch, here's a few things I've learned. Villagers accept way more than 1 gift per day. Giving gifts villagers accept from different categories (Cooked Meals / Digsite Items / Crops / Milk / Eggs / Flowers eg.) allows you to give up to 6 gifts a day on certain villagers. You can combine a Tree Seed with an S-tier Crop Seed to create an S-tier Tree seed and vice-versa. So you can have a steady supply of S-tier seeds for the sole purpose of upgrading seeds. For Crop seeds, Turnips work the best because they're fast growing, cheap, and grow in 3 seasons. For tree seeds, anything should be good. Each crop can be fertilized more than twice a day. In fact, you can fertilize once every 3 minutes and 20 seconds. You will know when you've fertilized enough because the crop will become a dark-green colour and you won't be able to add any more. Hope these can help!
When I use the auto fertilizer, 97% my crops go to S tier. If you just fertilize after milking your cows everyday or something, there really isn't a need to spend a day doing all that!
A little dumb thing I did: when your pregnant animals are in the isolation area, you can simply hop over the metal fence instead of opening and closing the gate door to enter.
I had a calf block me from exiting the isolation area. I was panicking and thought I was soft locked. In my panic I jumped the fence. It was a little embarrassing to be honest lol.
Here's a nice tip to add to the star bull tip: when your cow gets pregnant and isolated, keep an eye on the message it shows when you talk to her. Focus on the "give birth in some days" and in the "give birth soon". As soon as the message is the "give birth soon" and you want an specific gender, save your game regularly. If the calf is not the gender you want, just load the game and try again until you get it!
Pro tip: buy 2 sheep before the end of day 3, so you can immediately buy a Star Cow bull on day 8!! They will grow up just in time to shear. If you feed your sheep fodder+ enough this is how you get to gold wool the first time which will sell for 7,200 (120%) each at normal haggling and 8,400 (140%) each at max friendship!! We’re talking an easy 16,800 gold here so if you want the star cow, get yourself two FEMALE sheep. If you’re crazy lucky on days 1-2 you might be able to even buy a 3rd for the early game, then you can get rid when you need the space for more cows, goats, whatever. Also!! Since the game has been out in Japan for like 3 months already if anyone can translate their forums and datamines we could finally get some conclusive number answers. This is how I found out Van’s multipliers and his likelihood on haggling more expensive items. You really want to be friends with him, so give him an egg and a fossil whenever you see him! I have yet to see what meals he enjoys, but these two plus buying and selling from/to Van will max your friendship really fast. When buying, he only haggles expensive items and you have to be friends with him to do so. You can haggle with him multiple times for the same item, but it is less likely to succeed with each level of discount he offers. Plus, if he turns you down, your friendship will lower. It’s good to drop a save here if you’re planning to buy a discounted goat on year 2 spring day 3 so you don’t make Van hate you 😂
@@JackDuckGoose I like to test the limits of my time and patience what can I say 😂😂 I think it’s really interesting to see how it scales later on when you have a really good run.
dawg how you buy 2 sheeps by day 3?? since the milk in the first day don't even cost much so even if you shipped it. it wouldn't be enough to buy a sheep the 2nd day since you need 1 (tomorrow after ordering) to be able to order another animal. then day 3.. this some advanced stuff and maybe I'm just getting too old to wrap my head around it.
So I’ve tested this a few time, you can obtain the seed maker from Daryl by Spring 7 the first year. He takes 2 gifts a day and will take 2 fossils or gems without the need to vary them. Just walk back into his house after the final set of gifts and you should get the cutscene
You can give him and a few other villagers more than 2 gifts per day if the gifts are from different categories. I did a quick test and it turns out you can give him 2 dig site items, as well as 2 homecooked meals and 2 eggs for a total of 6 per day.
Anecdotally, immediately after unlocking Vinnie, I talked to Takakura before ever doing a hybrid, and he mentioned the amazing field and it showed up in my ledger. Not sure what I did to unlock it, but it definitely wasn't making a third gen crop!
Maybe you just need to unlock Vinnie then lol. When I make these videos, I tend to follow what I've heard in discord and on some forums, but I swear everyone has a different experience with how to get things lol
For the horse, you don't need to ship anything. I've never shipped anything, I just ordered some bird feed. Also, some people will accept multiple gifts from the same category, like Lumina accepts 2 flowers and Daryl accepts at least 2 fish.
That's good to know! There are so many anecdotal things out there. If someone were to put together a whole list of things I've learned from the comments, It would be 20 pages worth of notes lol
in regards to 34 grass spreading by planting grass in a checkerboard pattern it will spread faster on a old save file i used to buy 50 fertilizer but at one point i had 250 pieces of fodder at fall and my grass was spreading faster than i could cut it
I think this was true in the old game but I have not seen Muffy’s friendship fall if I don’t talk to her in the new one. I don’t know about Rock I never talk to him lol.
I've never had Rock and Muffy decrease, personally. Is it possible you tried to give them something they didn't like or or answered a heart event incorrectly?
For the amazing field, I had to max out vinnies affection (or get it in the red but might as well max it as it’s super easy to do in one go) and then talk to Takakura. He then mentions he can clear the back area if we want and then I got the option for the amazing field. Also, the fertilizer spreader 3 will populate AFTER you buy the amazing field
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Since I've played the game a lot more privately, the dig site becomes pretty meh outside of Chapters 1 and 2, so I generally pop down there once a day, dig up any obvious gold spots, and then dig up partially covered spots that aren't showing anything yet to see if they also have gold items in them.
This game is so much more accessible now and I'm so happy. I love how true to the original games it is, how much easier it is to travel and actually farm your first year, the fishing mechanic updates, etc. I can finally recommend this game to friends. I didn't want them to judge the game based only on the outdated and clunky mechanics. The only thing I would have changed is Flora. Let me LOVE HER.
Are you able to clean Nina's grave in this game? I don't think I show up at the right time, I haven't been able to do it yet. Never had milk drinking contests either.
@@marblesgonemadd Yes, you definitely can play the grave cleaning mini-game. The milk drinking contest was replaced with a cooking mini game with Grant, Hugh, and Van, but I'm 99% sure you can only do it with them after Chapter 2.
You got to pay attention on your hybrid fruits and costum fruits. For hybrids, most of them you get more money selling as fruit probably every single one! I'm still trying them all, so I can't assure which are better as fruit or seed, but for example the apricot (i cant remember the custom number) you can sell for 485g as a B fruit and for 100g as a seed
There is also a rival cutscene between Lumina and Cecilia if both girls are 8+ hearts they will have a jelousy over the player outside the villa. Also tip you can use the scyth to harvest crops faster it will only harvest dead or ready to harvest, must use a hoe to destroy a crop.
You don't need to be friends with Takakura to unlock Vinnie. He won't tell you to come over, but if you enter his hut in the evening year 2 (after having sent him to town, someone has slipped Vinnie in his bag). This happened to me on my first run where I didn't befriend him. (I'm currently doing a rerun with all my new gained knowledge 😅)
@@JackDuckGoose I checked in on Takakura on day 3 after he went in his hut, (5pm?), not sure if that matters. but I was def not in the red zone with him.
I've heard that you don't even need to make a hybrid seed. If you befriend Vinnie all the way to max, that option to buy the amazing field opens up lol
So I got a cutscene with Celia and Lumina up at the villa. It felt very rivarly so I think that might be a rival cutscene? It was made pretty clear Lumina doesn't like Celia and at the time, they were both my highest bachelorettes?
My understanding of that cutscene is that it is a "random event" that only occurs in Chapter 1. It's not a true rival cutscene because it doesn't provide a window into a different couple, i.e. Lumina/Rock, Celia/Marlin, Nami/Gustafa. It definitely provides more context into how Lumina and Celia are as individuals though lol
The only friendship level that will decay over time is Vinnie's which requires you to make sure you talk to him at least a few times every few days or he will be annoyed and won't let you make hybrid crop seeds until friendship level is back up
Calling the horse is an instant teleportation hack. So long as it’s outside on your farm, you can call it from anywhere and you’ll instantly be mounted.
I saw in another video that breeding a star bull with any other cow breed, you have a 40% chance it'll be a star cow and 60% it'll be the breed of the mom. I find this to be true because every time I bred my star bull with my brown cow, they all came out as Female star cows. XD
Great video! I'd love to see a video exploring how to influence your child's career path as well. I feel like no matter what I do, I just can't get her interested in farming 😣
8:03 you don't need to make friends with takakura to get Vinnie because I didn't give anything to takakura to make his friends level go up. mainly because I didn't know he only accepts milk or at least that's the only thing I just recently found out from my experience. But I still got Vinnie without becoming friends with him
You're 100% correct, and this is something I addressed in my Hybrid Crop Guide! Thanks to commenters like yourself, I've been able to address some mistakes I've made in subsequent videos! Thanks so much!
*Correction only turn your fruit to seeds if 2x seeds worth more than 1x fruit, Gen 1 trees mostly fit to turn into seeds, but the Blue variant and th Gen 2 ownard do NOT.
Has anyone yet figured out how to get the horse back in the barn at the end of the day when the animals are already in there? I don't know if it makes a difference whether you leave the horse out or not in bad weather/overnight, but the only way to get the horse back in the barn seems to be to ring the bell and call all of the animals outside and then ring it again to send them in. Am I missing something here?
You're not missing anything lol. Marvelous chose not to allow us to push animals back into the barn so you have to double ring if you want everyone inside. That being said, animals don't get sick or have any detriments from staying outside overnight. The only thing that matters is raining/snowing, so if it's clear, it really doesn't matter lol
@@JackDuckGoose Awesome, thanks! I seem to recall you could push animals back into the barn in the original so I was confused. Strange that you can still push the horse in SOS: AWL but not into the barn!
lol so I had 10 hearts with molly, and 9 hearts with Lumina. (I took lumina on a date to the fireworks first) in 2 days all these funny events have happened. somehow molly got 10 hearts, but we only went on a date. on another day, lumina was scared by Rock telling her there were ghosts, and she called me a ghost and ran away. later I gave her the blue feather, even though she has 9 hearts & molly had 10. I later went on another date with molly, but we still hadnt got to any marriage proposal. I went on a date with lumina then, and funny enough she wanted to go to the bluebird cafe so we had this awkward run-in with Molly. now im not sure what to do lol cause molly has 10 hearts but lumina has 9 & the blue feather. seems 10 hearts doesnt lock out other heart events. I even had a moment with cecilia by the pond during all that.
Interesting! I'll have to test some stuff personally because I was told by almost everyone that Muffy's 9 heart event locks you out of the others. Thanks for commenting!
Great question, and I haven't tested it. In the original, it seemed to have a small impact, but it might've been anecdotal. I would be surprised if Marvelous included more deterrents in the Hybridization feature since they omitted so many negative mechanics from the original games
@@JackDuckGoose thanks!! As far as I can tell so far, if there is any influence it is minimal. But having max FP with Vinnie does make a significant difference - thanks for the tip!! 😊
I just beat the game and got the technical good ending by doing absolutely nothing 😂 I'm still trying to beat it by setting up my farm, I'm sad though because I had rare seeds that took longer than 10 days for the plant to grow and it wasted them
I’m confused but I’m here to help. You can only buy the amazing field, which is the only field with highly fertile soil, the day after you create a crop that can only grow there. Once you get vinnie, I recommend just slapping some seeds you have together and check and see if the amazing field is avaliable for purchase the next day.
What helped me was saving the night(has to be before 11:59 pm) before the calf was born and then reloading the save file if the next day the calf wasn’t a star female calf.
@@shiraki8327 I'm not sure how fast the grass can spread, but I kept my animals out most of the time and having a few clumps of grass everywhere seemed to do the trick
I dont believe its a 10% chance to get a female star cow. From what i understand, you have a 60% chance to get whatever breed the mom cow is and 40% for the dad cow. Then its just 50/50 for the gender, so not much of a difference but its 20% technically. Also i recommend going through the whole birthing/naming cutscene and then just reload your save instead of closing out of the game. Its a bit faster
hey that's me :0 so if you use the flower to upgrade a crop to S rank, that crop won't turn into an S rank seed in the seed maker? ain't gonna lie, that's pretty lame haha makes the flowers more valuable tho
Honestly, I haven't been able to test that specific flower just yet. I know for a fact that the effects of the sagesoils and happy lamps don't carry over, but I would be really surprised if Upseeds don't
Is that a cow cardigan?? Or am I seeing things? I’m in year 2 and I didn’t spend enough time in year 1 wooing the candidates. Now I’m stuck with GUSTAFA 😭😭😭 he’s a bum!
You are not seeing things lol. I paid $4.99 pre tax for some DLC outfits, of which the cow cardigan is 1 of 4. Gustafa isn't too bad, better than Rock IMO lol
@@JackDuckGoose Time for me to get the DLC! I hope there’s future DLC that includes some of the bachelors from other games (like Neil in PoOT from ANB).
Maybe I never noticed. I thought you always get the horse on summer day 1…🧐 I don’t think you need to ship anything BUT I always ship stuff so I guess I’ll never know lol 😂
I've heard so many contrasting viewpoints on the horse. Some people have reported you don't need to ship, don't need to send takakura to the city, and some people have done everything and don't have a horse in chapter 3. It's tough to perfectly replicate it seems lol
lol this makes me so sad. I just spent two days shoving happy lamps into so many flowers but the traits don't carry over? grr I am assuming the goat never stops giving milk either? Oh do not shove flowers into your S rank Seeds because it turns it back into B. it' v anoying lol
I've heard conflicting reports about Goats. Some say they don't stop, some say they do. Regarding S rank seeds turning back into B, I've only had that be the case when I'm using Trick Blues, since you're creating a brand new seed with those, instead of enhancing a seed that you already have
For new players make sure u never turn star milk into anything, no milk soup, no cheese Nor butter, star milk is more valuable than All that regardless of quality
I wonder what Star Milk tastes like if it sells for so much
Like liquid star cream 🍦 ✨
Good tip: You can multiply your fertilizers with the fertilizer maker. The fertilizer maker accepts almost any item, including hay. You can use 1 fertilizer in the pasture to get 1 hay and then put the hay in the fertilizer maker to make 5 more fertilizers. You'll never run out of fertilizers this way, and can use them all in the fertilizer spreaders!
This is a huge money saver and a great way to use your extra stamina on rainy days. No need to water crops? Cut the grass on your fields instead.
Hot damn, that's OP. Seems like something they would want to patch lol
@@JackDuckGoosefertilizer can't be sold, so it doesn't break the economy at least
@@Varunic219 Fair point lol
I would like to point out that you don't need to have befriended Takakura to 70 affection to unlock Vinnie. I didn't start giving Takakura gifts until after I'd already unlocked Vinnie. As far as I know, Vinnie is just unlocked at the start of year 2, no friendship with Takakura required.
I was going to mention this too. I had given him gifts before but was nowhere near the pink section of the bar. I still got Vinnie.
Huh, that's weird. I definitely tried to get that to work, but I was never able to unless his affection was at 70. Maybe I'll try again lol
Not sure if this is a bug or not, but Daryl will accept the same gift multiple times in a day. I was able to give him three moonlight ores and two fish all in one day.
Update: it worked with Lou as well. I was able to give her two of the same milk
Also I’ve unlocked the amazing field without making a crop that requires it. I think it’s based less on the level of hybridization, and more on how many times you’ve used Vinny to make hybrid seeds.
Interesting, I had no clue about the Vinny tip. Thanks so much for letting me know!
I didn’t know the rival thing was back. Very surprise but sad they didn’t go the extra step of having them be married and have their own kid for your kid to have more friends 😅
For sure. If they ever remake animal parade, people are going to be very upset lol
Enjoying the Wonderful Life content a bunch, here's a few things I've learned.
Villagers accept way more than 1 gift per day. Giving gifts villagers accept from different categories (Cooked Meals / Digsite Items / Crops / Milk / Eggs / Flowers eg.) allows you to give up to 6 gifts a day on certain villagers.
You can combine a Tree Seed with an S-tier Crop Seed to create an S-tier Tree seed and vice-versa. So you can have a steady supply of S-tier seeds for the sole purpose of upgrading seeds. For Crop seeds, Turnips work the best because they're fast growing, cheap, and grow in 3 seasons. For tree seeds, anything should be good.
Each crop can be fertilized more than twice a day. In fact, you can fertilize once every 3 minutes and 20 seconds. You will know when you've fertilized enough because the crop will become a dark-green colour and you won't be able to add any more.
Hope these can help!
Thanks for all of these! They are definitely familiar to the original game so I'm glad that they are present in the remake lol
When I use the auto fertilizer, 97% my crops go to S tier. If you just fertilize after milking your cows everyday or something, there really isn't a need to spend a day doing all that!
A little dumb thing I did: when your pregnant animals are in the isolation area, you can simply hop over the metal fence instead of opening and closing the gate door to enter.
i found this out much too late 🥲
I had a calf block me from exiting the isolation area. I was panicking and thought I was soft locked. In my panic I jumped the fence. It was a little embarrassing to be honest lol.
Lol that was the first thing I tried after learning you could jump over the fences at Vesta's farm
Back in the old days I tried so hard to adopt those wild animals...
And trying to get into the wooden building between fields lol
Here's a nice tip to add to the star bull tip: when your cow gets pregnant and isolated, keep an eye on the message it shows when you talk to her. Focus on the "give birth in some days" and in the "give birth soon". As soon as the message is the "give birth soon" and you want an specific gender, save your game regularly. If the calf is not the gender you want, just load the game and try again until you get it!
That's definitely a great tip on top of the star bull thing! Thanks for adding!
Do you know if this could work on the day before chicks hatch, to minip getting duck or hens?
Edit. Tested, works with the chicks too.
Pro tip: buy 2 sheep before the end of day 3, so you can immediately buy a Star Cow bull on day 8!! They will grow up just in time to shear. If you feed your sheep fodder+ enough this is how you get to gold wool the first time which will sell for 7,200 (120%) each at normal haggling and 8,400 (140%) each at max friendship!! We’re talking an easy 16,800 gold here so if you want the star cow, get yourself two FEMALE sheep. If you’re crazy lucky on days 1-2 you might be able to even buy a 3rd for the early game, then you can get rid when you need the space for more cows, goats, whatever.
Also!! Since the game has been out in Japan for like 3 months already if anyone can translate their forums and datamines we could finally get some conclusive number answers. This is how I found out Van’s multipliers and his likelihood on haggling more expensive items. You really want to be friends with him, so give him an egg and a fossil whenever you see him! I have yet to see what meals he enjoys, but these two plus buying and selling from/to Van will max your friendship really fast. When buying, he only haggles expensive items and you have to be friends with him to do so. You can haggle with him multiple times for the same item, but it is less likely to succeed with each level of discount he offers. Plus, if he turns you down, your friendship will lower. It’s good to drop a save here if you’re planning to buy a discounted goat on year 2 spring day 3 so you don’t make Van hate you 😂
Lol these are some min-max strats. I definitely play the game more relaxed but I can see how playing this way can be fun lol
@@JackDuckGoose I like to test the limits of my time and patience what can I say 😂😂 I think it’s really interesting to see how it scales later on when you have a really good run.
he loves egg soup!
dawg how you buy 2 sheeps by day 3?? since the milk in the first day don't even cost much so even if you shipped it. it wouldn't be enough to buy a sheep the 2nd day since you need 1 (tomorrow after ordering) to be able to order another animal. then day 3.. this some advanced stuff and maybe I'm just getting too old to wrap my head around it.
@@No-rr9li I spend a lot of the early game in the mines until I get enough livestock!
The fertilizer spreader will stop putting fertilizer on your crops once it turns to s grade. So dont worry about overstocking the spreader
Lots of true facts being stated lol
So I’ve tested this a few time, you can obtain the seed maker from Daryl by Spring 7 the first year. He takes 2 gifts a day and will take 2 fossils or gems without the need to vary them. Just walk back into his house after the final set of gifts and you should get the cutscene
You can give him and a few other villagers more than 2 gifts per day if the gifts are from different categories. I did a quick test and it turns out you can give him 2 dig site items, as well as 2 homecooked meals and 2 eggs for a total of 6 per day.
That's good to know! I'll have to speedrun the seedmaker lol
Got mine on the 8th!
Fish would be an easier alternative. You'd need to fish over 600+++ anyways. So win win
@@Pangster He might accept 2 fish in addition to everything else so potentially 8 items a day lol
Anecdotally, immediately after unlocking Vinnie, I talked to Takakura before ever doing a hybrid, and he mentioned the amazing field and it showed up in my ledger. Not sure what I did to unlock it, but it definitely wasn't making a third gen crop!
Maybe you just need to unlock Vinnie then lol. When I make these videos, I tend to follow what I've heard in discord and on some forums, but I swear everyone has a different experience with how to get things lol
For the horse, you don't need to ship anything. I've never shipped anything, I just ordered some bird feed. Also, some people will accept multiple gifts from the same category, like Lumina accepts 2 flowers and Daryl accepts at least 2 fish.
Darryl will also accept 2 fossils!
That's good to know! There are so many anecdotal things out there. If someone were to put together a whole list of things I've learned from the comments, It would be 20 pages worth of notes lol
in regards to 34 grass spreading by planting grass in a checkerboard pattern it will spread faster
on a old save file i used to buy 50 fertilizer but at one point i had 250 pieces of fodder at fall and my grass was spreading faster than i could cut it
I had no idea about the checkerboard, but that's super interesting. More grass is good grass in my opinion lol
about the friendships not going down, the ones that do go down if you don’t talk daily is the hybrid making plant(i forgot his name), rock and muffy
I think this was true in the old game but I have not seen Muffy’s friendship fall if I don’t talk to her in the new one. I don’t know about Rock I never talk to him lol.
@@mostlyghostey when i had friendship up with all three of them it would go down every day i don’t talk to them especially vinny 😂😂 i keep spamming A
Nah, only the plant has friendship decay
I've never had Rock and Muffy decrease, personally. Is it possible you tried to give them something they didn't like or or answered a heart event incorrectly?
For the amazing field, I had to max out vinnies affection (or get it in the red but might as well max it as it’s super easy to do in one go) and then talk to Takakura. He then mentions he can clear the back area if we want and then I got the option for the amazing field. Also, the fertilizer spreader 3 will populate AFTER you buy the amazing field
Good to know! The guides I followed just said you had to make a 3rd gen hybrid, but if you don't check then you'll never know lol
The owl is also a fishing indicator for the spring. It sits in the tree the Harvest Sprites live in, but it's pretty small
I need to go looking for this owl now lol. I thought the Lizard was for the pond, chicuha was for the waterfall
The Chihuahua is for the dig site :)
There's an owl atop the Harvest Sprites tree that signifies good luck fishing in the Harvest Goddess pond ^.^
No Way! I'll have to look for that next time I play lol
@@JackDuckGoose Definitely, sometimes you can hear him hoot too!
Tips for Most Profitable Milk for Story of Seasons: A Wonderful Life
Once you can afford the Processing Room (150,000 G) and it takes 4-5 days for it to be built, turn your milk into new items!
Most Profit for Cow Milk
Normal Cows
Turn Milk into Butter or Cheese
Brown Cow
Turn Milk into Butter
Marble Cow
Turn Milk into Cheese
Star Cows
Never turn milk into any products
#sos #awl #milk #cows
People really just be raking in the cash lol I haven't even made 100k yet
Personally with digging I dig in a spot get an item and move I get way less from 1 hole then I do when I just do each hole after an item is found.
Since I've played the game a lot more privately, the dig site becomes pretty meh outside of Chapters 1 and 2, so I generally pop down there once a day, dig up any obvious gold spots, and then dig up partially covered spots that aren't showing anything yet to see if they also have gold items in them.
This game is so much more accessible now and I'm so happy. I love how true to the original games it is, how much easier it is to travel and actually farm your first year, the fishing mechanic updates, etc. I can finally recommend this game to friends. I didn't want them to judge the game based only on the outdated and clunky mechanics. The only thing I would have changed is Flora. Let me LOVE HER.
You really encapsulated how I feel about this game lol.
Just want to agree with the others, you don't need to befriend Takakura. I never spoke to that man my entire game and still unlocked Vinnie.
Thanks! I wonder why all the guides I read told me you needed to befriend him lol
@@JackDuckGoose some guides are using facts from older versions of the game.
So glad I found this video because I didn't realize you can't befriend Gary after year 2.
you can again in year 3 :)
As another commenter mentioned, he'll start accepting gifts in year 3, but that makes it harder to get the blessed fishing rod lol
Are you able to clean Nina's grave in this game? I don't think I show up at the right time, I haven't been able to do it yet. Never had milk drinking contests either.
@@marblesgonemadd Yes, you definitely can play the grave cleaning mini-game. The milk drinking contest was replaced with a cooking mini game with Grant, Hugh, and Van, but I'm 99% sure you can only do it with them after Chapter 2.
You got to pay attention on your hybrid fruits and costum fruits. For hybrids, most of them you get more money selling as fruit probably every single one! I'm still trying them all, so I can't assure which are better as fruit or seed, but for example the apricot (i cant remember the custom number) you can sell for 485g as a B fruit and for 100g as a seed
Lol I haven't gotten that far yet so that's very good to know!
You can mix s rank crops with tree seeds to get s rank tree seeds
This is a true fact
There is also a rival cutscene between Lumina and Cecilia if both girls are 8+ hearts they will have a jelousy over the player outside the villa. Also tip you can use the scyth to harvest crops faster it will only harvest dead or ready to harvest, must use a hoe to destroy a crop.
Good to know! I didn't know that was a rival cutscene. I kinda just stumbled upon it lol
You don't need to be friends with Takakura to unlock Vinnie. He won't tell you to come over, but if you enter his hut in the evening year 2 (after having sent him to town, someone has slipped Vinnie in his bag). This happened to me on my first run where I didn't befriend him. (I'm currently doing a rerun with all my new gained knowledge 😅)
Interesting, I swear I tested that and wasn't able to get Vinnie without being friends with him. Weird lol
@@JackDuckGoose I checked in on Takakura on day 3 after he went in his hut, (5pm?), not sure if that matters. but I was def not in the red zone with him.
I actually just created hybrid seeds with Vinny and talked to Takakura afterwards to unlock the big field, so it may be just that 😊
I've heard that you don't even need to make a hybrid seed. If you befriend Vinnie all the way to max, that option to buy the amazing field opens up lol
You would've been right about the milk if it was the gamecube version. They changed the milk production thing in the remake only.
Yeahhhh, that was something I am still living down lol
So I got a cutscene with Celia and Lumina up at the villa. It felt very rivarly so I think that might be a rival cutscene? It was made pretty clear Lumina doesn't like Celia and at the time, they were both my highest bachelorettes?
My understanding of that cutscene is that it is a "random event" that only occurs in Chapter 1. It's not a true rival cutscene because it doesn't provide a window into a different couple, i.e. Lumina/Rock, Celia/Marlin, Nami/Gustafa. It definitely provides more context into how Lumina and Celia are as individuals though lol
The only friendship level that will decay over time is Vinnie's which requires you to make sure you talk to him at least a few times every few days or he will be annoyed and won't let you make hybrid crop seeds until friendship level is back up
Oops said this without finishing the vid, you covered it my bad
Lol no worries. Thanks for watching!
You can give daryl 2 fish and 2 coins a day to really boost his friendship up
That's good to know! Definitely would speed up getting the seed maker lol
@JackDuckGoose I found out by accident while I was playing
I was wondering why the Suit weather man would tell me it’s going to snow in summer 😂😂
He's out of his depth lol
These tips are invaluable! Thanks friend!!
No, thank you for watching!
Calling the horse is an instant teleportation hack. So long as it’s outside on your farm, you can call it from anywhere and you’ll instantly be mounted.
That's another great tip! Thanks so much for sharing!
@@JackDuckGoose No problem! It works if the horse is indoors & on the other side of the map as well. The horse can be called from anywhere.
I saw in another video that breeding a star bull with any other cow breed, you have a 40% chance it'll be a star cow and 60% it'll be the breed of the mom. I find this to be true because every time I bred my star bull with my brown cow, they all came out as Female star cows. XD
I've heard the same. There is also the chance the baby is a male, in which chase you'd have to try again lol
Yeah I bred my normal cow with my star bull and got a star cow on my first try! 🎉
I don't remember crops dying the next day if you failed to harvest them when they're ready. What a strange mechanic to add....
I agree, it happened to me on stream and I was flabbergasted lol
@@JackDuckGoose I recall it happening in the other games.
3:08 don’t use the sickle to harvest buried crops, I did that like a dummy and then wondered where my turnips/ potatoes were 😭
I always just wait until I see the gold square underneath everything lol
Lmao. I forgot you could sell to villagers via your own stall. I remember taking so much crap about people that would low ball you.
GOD thank you for all of these tips. There are SO MANY that I didn't know and I've been playing this game *obsessively*.
Glad to be of service! Thanks so much for watching!
Great video! I'd love to see a video exploring how to influence your child's career path as well. I feel like no matter what I do, I just can't get her interested in farming 😣
I haven't gotten that far just yet, but I'll see what I can do lol
i believe Molly's friendship decays over time as well if you don't talk to her, not just Vinny.
I've heard contrasting info on this. I haven't been able to verify it for myself just yet, but I'll have to give it a look. Thanks!
8:03 you don't need to make friends with takakura to get Vinnie
because I didn't give anything to takakura to make his friends level go up. mainly because I didn't know he only accepts milk or at least that's the only thing I just recently found out from my experience. But I still got Vinnie without becoming friends with him
You're 100% correct, and this is something I addressed in my Hybrid Crop Guide! Thanks to commenters like yourself, I've been able to address some mistakes I've made in subsequent videos! Thanks so much!
You don’t need to grow a crop to create hybrids. The seeds can be mixed
This is another true fact
Dunno of its just dumb luck, but I've had a crop mix fail when they were seeds but never seen it fail with crops.
@@TheLunarLegend I haven't been able to test that lol. In the original game, S rank crops had a much lower chance of failing so that could be a reason
thanks for all the good tips xx
I'm glad these have some use lol! Thanks for watching!
*Correction only turn your fruit to seeds if 2x seeds worth more than 1x fruit, Gen 1 trees mostly fit to turn into seeds, but the Blue variant and th Gen 2 ownard do NOT.
That's true, especially those third gen tree fruits
You don’t need to create a hybrid crop to unlock the amazing field
Really? I guess I’ll have to go back and test that. Is there some other barrier to entry, or is it just available on the first day of year 2?
Has anyone yet figured out how to get the horse back in the barn at the end of the day when the animals are already in there? I don't know if it makes a difference whether you leave the horse out or not in bad weather/overnight, but the only way to get the horse back in the barn seems to be to ring the bell and call all of the animals outside and then ring it again to send them in. Am I missing something here?
Awesome video btw! Thanks for the tips 😄
You're not missing anything lol. Marvelous chose not to allow us to push animals back into the barn so you have to double ring if you want everyone inside. That being said, animals don't get sick or have any detriments from staying outside overnight. The only thing that matters is raining/snowing, so if it's clear, it really doesn't matter lol
@@JackDuckGoose Awesome, thanks! I seem to recall you could push animals back into the barn in the original so I was confused. Strange that you can still push the horse in SOS: AWL but not into the barn!
You actually can get ducks at a later point too. You just have to make sure to have enough space in the chicken House for 2 ducks
Thats good to know! When I made this video, I still was operating under the assumption that some mechanics were time gated like the original game lol
so i got the seeder maker in summer on year one o,o it was near the end of summer but i still got it eairly as heck
Plus you didn't have to pay for it lol
Taki doesn’t need to be friendly to introduce you th vinnie it just happens
Thank you for all the tips so helpful
Thanks! I made sure to include that fact in my newest video lol
thanks for the video :3 i have a hard time having fun with this game tbh :/
Thanks for watching. AWL isn't for everyone. It is definitely a slower paced game that is carried by villager interaction
lol so I had 10 hearts with molly, and 9 hearts with Lumina. (I took lumina on a date to the fireworks first) in 2 days all these funny events have happened. somehow molly got 10 hearts, but we only went on a date. on another day, lumina was scared by Rock telling her there were ghosts, and she called me a ghost and ran away. later I gave her the blue feather, even though she has 9 hearts & molly had 10. I later went on another date with molly, but we still hadnt got to any marriage proposal. I went on a date with lumina then, and funny enough she wanted to go to the bluebird cafe so we had this awkward run-in with Molly. now im not sure what to do lol cause molly has 10 hearts but lumina has 9 & the blue feather. seems 10 hearts doesnt lock out other heart events. I even had a moment with cecilia by the pond during all that.
Interesting! I'll have to test some stuff personally because I was told by almost everyone that Muffy's 9 heart event locks you out of the others. Thanks for commenting!
Thank you !
You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Quick question - does luck have anything to do with hybrid success??
Great question, and I haven't tested it. In the original, it seemed to have a small impact, but it might've been anecdotal. I would be surprised if Marvelous included more deterrents in the Hybridization feature since they omitted so many negative mechanics from the original games
@@JackDuckGoose thanks!! As far as I can tell so far, if there is any influence it is minimal. But having max FP with Vinnie does make a significant difference - thanks for the tip!! 😊
I just beat the game and got the technical good ending by doing absolutely nothing 😂 I'm still trying to beat it by setting up my farm, I'm sad though because I had rare seeds that took longer than 10 days for the plant to grow and it wasted them
Yeah, I've run into that problem a lot of times in the original lol
I am looking for ward to the new harvest moon winds of arthros
Me too!
I've made highly fertile soil but the amazing field still isn't letting me buy it
I’m confused but I’m here to help. You can only buy the amazing field, which is the only field with highly fertile soil, the day after you create a crop that can only grow there. Once you get vinnie, I recommend just slapping some seeds you have together and check and see if the amazing field is avaliable for purchase the next day.
I got a male star bull and I save and restarted 50 times and did not get anything other than a regular cow :/. Just gave up.
What helped me was saving the night(has to be before 11:59 pm) before the calf was born and then reloading the save file if the next day the calf wasn’t a star female calf.
I don't save scum, so I have no idea how the game determines the sex, i.e. if its the day of or random at the moment.
After watching this I realized messed up I think imma start over. I made so many mistakes.
I'm sure I'll never have the "perfect" playthrough, but it would've been nice to know this on Day 1 lol
Why have the ducks before summer year 2?
In the original, that was the only time you could get them,, maybe that's changed in the remake lol
@@JackDuckGoose oo okay thankyou! After I watched your video I got the ducks!
But isn’t owning a horse part of the wonders
This hit me hard fr fr
I just use like 4 fertilizer for the grass and never run out
How many animals do you have if you don't mind me asking?
@@JackDuckGoose got 1 cow and 1 sheep at that time
But a full barn right now
@@shiraki8327 I'm not sure how fast the grass can spread, but I kept my animals out most of the time and having a few clumps of grass everywhere seemed to do the trick
Same I will always keep my animal outside whenever it's not raining
I dont believe its a 10% chance to get a female star cow. From what i understand, you have a 60% chance to get whatever breed the mom cow is and 40% for the dad cow. Then its just 50/50 for the gender, so not much of a difference but its 20% technically.
Also i recommend going through the whole birthing/naming cutscene and then just reload your save instead of closing out of the game. Its a bit faster
.......I got a C in Math lmao
hey that's me :0
so if you use the flower to upgrade a crop to S rank, that crop won't turn into an S rank seed in the seed maker? ain't gonna lie, that's pretty lame haha makes the flowers more valuable tho
Honestly, I haven't been able to test that specific flower just yet. I know for a fact that the effects of the sagesoils and happy lamps don't carry over, but I would be really surprised if Upseeds don't
Is that a cow cardigan?? Or am I seeing things?
I’m in year 2 and I didn’t spend enough time in year 1 wooing the candidates. Now I’m stuck with GUSTAFA 😭😭😭 he’s a bum!
You are not seeing things lol. I paid $4.99 pre tax for some DLC outfits, of which the cow cardigan is 1 of 4.
Gustafa isn't too bad, better than Rock IMO lol
@@JackDuckGoose Time for me to get the DLC! I hope there’s future DLC that includes some of the bachelors from other games (like Neil in PoOT from ANB).
Maybe I never noticed. I thought you always get the horse on summer day 1…🧐 I don’t think you need to ship anything BUT I always ship stuff so I guess I’ll never know lol 😂
I've heard so many contrasting viewpoints on the horse. Some people have reported you don't need to ship, don't need to send takakura to the city, and some people have done everything and don't have a horse in chapter 3. It's tough to perfectly replicate it seems lol
lol this makes me so sad. I just spent two days shoving happy lamps into so many flowers but the traits don't carry over? grr
I am assuming the goat never stops giving milk either?
Oh do not shove flowers into your S rank Seeds because it turns it back into B. it' v anoying lol
I don’t know if the goat stops or not but you can both breed and sell the goat in this game. I have bred my goat and she is giving milk afterwards so.
I've heard conflicting reports about Goats. Some say they don't stop, some say they do. Regarding S rank seeds turning back into B, I've only had that be the case when I'm using Trick Blues, since you're creating a brand new seed with those, instead of enhancing a seed that you already have
THERES A FUCKIN UNDERWATER BRIDGE???
Lol there is indeed
Why don’t we need the horse?
Becuase we have legs lmao
Walking is slow af though @@JackDuckGoose
I want to get rid of my horse and dog…
But why tho?
mom i’m famous
Supa famous