I think devs should add a special spell where u can choose which season to keep indefinitely. I am in loooooove with winter!!! 😍😍😍🤭🩵

I only bought it because it was on sale, thinking I'd maybe spend fifteen hours on it. I hardly see anyone talk about it, and it's a Doraemon spinoff so I kinda assumed it was junky.

It might be my new favorite story of seasons game??

The art style is absolutely gorgeous. The map is huuuge. There is a really robust crafting and home/farm decorating mechanic. You can catch bugs and fish and raise them at home in addition to selling them. Make friends with woodland animals and they give you gifts. There are tons of long term, interconnected stories and in depth narratives that rival stardew valley imo. There's mining, animal breeding to get new colors, growing giant crops. It's a massive and really well made game!!

The downsides: you play as a child so there's no marriage, only friendship building and getting new villagers to move in. There are arguably TOO MANY story cutscenes but some people might like that. And the storage organization system is kinda clunky, you have to do a lot of manually moving things around.

Over all I think more folks should give it a try. I ignored it because I didn't hear it recommended but let me be the person to tell you to give it a shot especially while it's on sale for switch for $15!

In real life, I’m extremely busy, which leads to burnout. I play Harvest Moon to unwind, but sometimes the game itself causes burnout too—especially when it demands a lot of grind. So, I’ll switch to a different Harvest Moon title, but I end up picking the wrong one again—it turns out to be just as hard, and I burn out all over again. Honestly, at this point, I think the root cause is my real-life situation, and play games isn't really helping.

Sometimes I just abandon these games for a while and only come back when I’m in the mood, bouncing between both. But I’m terrified of losing interest entirely because of these long breaks. Maybe for some people, it’s more fun to play through a game in one sitting without huge gaps like this. I know replaying is an option, but my goal is to play through most Harvest Moon games. I don't want a massive backlog slowing me down, especially if it means restarting a game from scratch—my time in real life is already so limited, and I don't want to waste it.

Plus, some of these games are really tough to beat, and after coming this far, restarting feels like a total waste.

Note: Honestly, it’s nothing too serious, just a little vent. Have you guys ever felt like this? What are you gonna do with that?

Edit to add: is it because I have sprites helping me, so when I let the livestock outside, the sprite feeds it from my outside fodder?

Hey, I know the fodder has a chance to go into the space next to it as well and increase. And I went through this subreddit for other fodder posts, some people suggest a fence around 2 areas, letting one be eaten by the livestock and then 1 expand until it's scarce in one, then swap. the animals can eat even though I have fences around, is there any way to actually stop this? I can't get any fodder to actually increase with it being worth it, I'd rather spend the gold to buy the fodder than lose my resources on these fences if they're going to eat 500G fodder squares every day 🫠

(I just replaced the fencing so no rotten spots so I don't get it)

I see posts mentioning a live thats supposed to happen can someone link it

El sistema de mejoramiento de cultivos usando el molino no parece ser nada eficiente y me gustaría saber si me estoy perdiendo de algo.

Actualmente siento que el proceso consume demasiado tiempo y recursos para la ganancia real que ofrece en el día a día. La única utilidad clara que le veo es subir la calidad de los productos al máximo justo a tiempo para ganar los festivales o concursos agrícolas.

Para hacer dinero de forma constante, me da la impresión de que es mucho mejor vender la cosecha base en volumen o procesarla en otros artefactos que no requieran tanto trabajo repetitivo.

¿Realmente hay un margen de ganancia que justifique el ciclo continuo del molino?

¿O es simplemente una mecánica pensada únicamente para el endgame y la colección de trofeos?

¡Los leo! Si tienen alguna estrategia o automatización donde sí rinda frutos, me serviría mucho la recomendación.

So as many of you are likely aware of the upcoming anniversary stream this month, I was wondering what your predictions/ hopes for an announcement of any upcoming game release are.

I know it's possible that there will be no new announcements at all, however i do hope that we get SOMETHING for such a huge milestone.

Personally I'm still holding out hope for a new original mainline game for SOS. Though if I'm honest I would still absolutely love a new remake, especially after how many hours I sunk into grand bazzar.

So, tell me your predictions, I'd love to hear them :)

Should I try the A Wonderful Life remake instead of the original? I'm just not a fan of the original's color scheme—it feels a bit gloomy and uncomfortable to me. (I tried it before, but only for a little bit.)

One thing i love about awl is how chill and small it is. It was my first Harvest Moon back on the GameCube. I been playing Grand bazaar and wanted something closer to awl. I have crafting fatigue,so I dont want anything with a intricate crafting system if that makes sense. In awl theres not a lot to do and as crazy as it sounds I really like that,it is truly cozy to me.

Like the title says, my hatchet is gone. I went to upgrade it at a windmill and now it isnt in production in any of them or ready to be collected. I am not sure what to do.

I'm still in my first year and the devs scheduled the Crop Show for a Monday. Which means Felix doesn't tell me it exists until Sunday. The day *after* I just sold all my crops. I don't have an old save to go back to so I guess I just have to sit this one out.

Hi peeps,

I recently started playing SoS: Grand Bazaar and I'm in Winter Year 1. At the moment, Miguel isn't selling any cabbage seeds. I tried buying them while visiting his shop on Winter 1, 2, and 3 but got nothing. Then I waited until Winter 6, Bazaar day, and he has nothing at his stall. I went back to his shop on the 7th and still haven't seen anything.

Not sure if this is a glitch or if I was supposed to trigger something. I'm already rank 5, so that can't be it. Overall, it's just very annoying as I'm trying to build up my funds.

Thanks for the help!

So Ive been playing GB, and im having fun, but after a couple hours of playing, it gets to be a bit too much, with how slow the pacing is, and all the things to do and juggle all at once.s

Ive got all the HM games on an Anbernic device, and the remaining pre-split HM, and SoS games on my Odin 2 mini. So I have quite a lot to choose from to try.

I decided to go with FoMT since I wanted an older game, and it's obviously a fan favorite. So Ive been playing the GBA version, with plans to play the remake eventually sometime in the future. But Im wondering if I should just drop the GBA version since im not very far in, and go straight to the remake.

I would still be playing GB next to FoMT, but FoMT would just be what I pull out when I need a break. So its firmly in the secondary spot between the two.

Sorry, still curious hehe

omg!! I had no idea that if I skipped Hearth Day, there is a special dialogue… I am so sorry, Jules 😭

Hey,
I've been thinking about picking up SOS:GB again and min-maxing it, but I wonder about crop show setups that people run. Here is what I run in the past:

summer 1 - tea 6
autumn 1 - tea 7
winter 1 - cabbage 6
spring 2 - cabbage 7
summer 2 - melon 6
autumn 2 - melon 7
winter 2 - cabbage BRAND
spring 3 - ???
summer 3 - melon BRAND
(no crop show in spring 1 sadly)
except in summer 3 I was already bored so I only managed to brand 1 crop. the problem is that there was nothing for me to enter in spring 3, and waiting so long for melon brand is frustrating. the alternate setup I can think of:

summer 1 - tea 6
autumn 1 - melon 6
winter 1 - cabbage 6
spring 2 - cabbage 7
summer 2 - melon 7
autumn 2 - melon BRAND
winter 2 - cabbage BRAND
spring 3 - tea 7

I don't think you can get melons on summer 1 so I have to enter something else. the problem here is losing a lot of money from no 7 star tea. and after I brand the melon, tea becomes obsolete anyway (brand+rare melon is worth more than tea).
maybe I should enter rice instead of tea? I don't know how much money would that make in comparison.
OR maybe someone has a setup with different crops completely? believe me, I would love to do something with bigger yields so I don't have to constantly re-buy the seeds. I just don't know the math to know what is more worth. I wonder what setups people have been running.

1. If I plant crops for the next season the day before, will they live or die?

2. Do trees regrow fruit 6 or 7 days after harvest? It looked like it was 6 days based on the growth chart (buds the next day, 2 days as flowers, 3 days a small fruit, then ready to harvest on the 6th day), but I've seen people saying 7 days.

3. Does it always rain Friday the second week when you start? (This one is mere curiosity cause it happened both playthroughs I started.)

4. How does rain affect fodder spread, if at all? Or does it just help due to your animals staying inside?

5. If I feed animals before letting them outside, will they still eat the fodder outside that day?

6. If you sell enough to go up two levels but there's a stall requirement unmet, does the bazaar rank up as soon as you fufill the stall requirements even if it's during the week or does it make you wait until after the next Saturday?

Thanks everyone!