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Information about Harvest Moon
For those not familiar with the Harvest Moon game series, there are four seasons and 30 days per season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Everyone starts out with 15 energy points. Every physically demanding action consumes energy
Tilling the land (1 energy per 1ft square)
Grooming beasts or gathering products from beasts (wool, milk, eggs, honey) (1 energy per beast)
Harvesting crops (1/2 energy point per crop plant)
Harvesting grass for feed using scythe (1 energy per scythe swing)
Combat (1 energy per attack)
Running (1 energy per minute)
Cooking (1 energy per product)
Blacksmithing (1-5 energy, depending on item)
Mining (1 energy per pick axe swing)
Performing medical treatment (3 energy per patient)
crfting an outfit (3-5 energy, depending on difficulty of outfit)
Chopping wood/smashing stones (1 energy per swing of hammer/axe)
If you run out of energy, you will become exhausted and be unable to perform any of the above actions. Also, you run the risk of getting sick, especially in the winter.

So how does one restore energy? Eat some food! Each harvested crop food item restores 3 energy. Cooked meals provide up to 10 energy depending on the difficulty of the dish being made.

How does one raise the total amount of energy they have to use? Work and time. for every 15 days a person works, they gain 1 energy point to thier max energy. Just remember rest is just as important as well. Don't want you to get sick wink

Magic is only usable by the town mage (who sells spells), Town guards, Dungeon explorers, Doctors and Rune Knights. These people are specially trained to see and use Rune energy, which is a different type of energy. Those people who can use these spells start out with 15 Rune energy. Rune energy is not restored in the same way normal energy is though. Rune energy only appears when crops are ready for harvest. Each plant provides 1 rune point.

There are multiple caves and dungeons along the mountain side and around the forest surrounding the town. Each cave has a particular climate which stays constant year round. However, these caves are frequented by monsters. There are spots within the cave where crops can be planted, so if you have a good sword arm and can deal with the occassional pest, you can grow certain crops in the caves year round!

In order to get married, first you have to win over the affections of your intended betrothed. You also need to upgrade your house at least once and buy a delux sized bed.

Back to the caves. In order to enter any of the caves, you need permission form the mayor. Each cave has a certain difficulty level, and only the mayor can decide if you're strong enough to survive in a certain cave. Each cave has thier requirements to enter.

How to make money
For shop owners, you make money off of what you sell. When people sell to you, you make double the amount you pay for an item on Friday (your character ships all purchased goods to the castle). However, every item has a fixed price. For the Blacksmith and apprentice, they make money crafting and selling thier crafted items. They also pay the miners who provide them with the ore needed. Ore also has a fixed price. Blacksmiths are the only onces who have fixed prices on only starter equipment. Special requests like upgrading an item or crafting a special weapon are open for the blacksmith to think up a reasonable price. Also, those comming in with special requests need to bring the required ingredients for that item.

Doctors and nurses are paid a regular salary of 100 gold per week. However, the doctor can sell medicine as well for those who want to take some medicine 'to go'. The veterinarian charges 50 gold per visit, and law requires every farmer who owns at least one beast to have 1 visit per season as a health check-up.

Farmers sell off thier crops and items gathered from tamed beasts (Wool, honey, milk, eggs). Depending on the level of the crop or item, a farmer can 'just get by' or make alot of cash. How does one raise the level of an item? a special fertilizer can be bought at the general store for 100 gold a bag. Each bag covers one square foot. only one plant can be planted in a 1 square foot spot. When that plant grows and is ready for harvest, take the crop and bring it to a seed maker machine (You need to purchase this as an appliance addition for your house) and pop it in. It will produce enough seeds to cover up to a 9 square foot area . Just repeat this process. Here's the formula for the value of a crop: Crop's base selling price x crop's level = $$ so if you grow a lvl 5 radish, you can make 300 gold per radish instead of 60 per radish, which is the base price. Do note though, crops can only be raised up to lvl 10.

Now, the beast items. There are only 3 levels, and it is all based upon affection. All beasts start at base affection of 1. From lvl 1-4, you get a small amount. lvl 5-7, you get a normal amount. From 8-10, you get a large amount. An animal's affection grown by 1 point every week, but ONLY if you groom it and feed it daily. Animals will get sick you you miss a feeding (regardless if you forgot or the weather turns nasty). If an animal is sick for longer than 2 days, it's affection will drop by 2 points a day. So as soon as you see a sick beast, call the vet and have 50 gold ready.

Just like crops, you get more gold depending on the size of the gathered item.

Dungeon explorers and miners all make thier living off of the caves and dungeons. Dungeon explorers seek out treasures and can make gold by selling loot from the slain monsters. Miners make thier living off of the ore they mine and sell to the blacksmith. Each cave has different types of ore, ranging from scrap iron to platinum. They can also unearth precious gemstones and even elemental gems.

Post office workers
and the Mayor all get a specific amount of gold for thier work. The Mayor gets 700 gold a season. Post office workers get 100 gold per week.

Construction workers, who work for Lilly D'ni, get 1000 gold per home remodelling and 200 gold per monster stable.

The Town mage gets 100 gold a week, plus what he makes off of selling spells.

Librarians make 100 gold per week plus what they make for selling books. There are four librarians in total, each one sells a different type of books. One sells cooking recepies, which are required for making dishes. One sells recepies for blacksmithing recepies. One sellsr ecepies for making jewelry, and one sells patterns for outfits.

The tailor and seamstress makes 100 gold per week plus what they make off of the clothing they sell. Unlike other shop keepers, they do not have fixed prices. However, most items are easily affordable. Only the extravagent outfits will carry a hefty price tag.

Bankers make a flat rate of 200 gold per week.

The Bank

Everyone has a bank account unless you're just comming into town, in which case you have an account somewhere else that will be transfered up to the town bank once you go and talk with them (You need to do so in order to get access to that 3000 you start off with). Thanks to the technology, gold is kept in a very safe place. Everyone has an ATM card, which they use to make purchases with and check thier balances.

If you're in a bind, or REALLY want that house expansion and you've lived in the town for at least 4 months with a seady source of income, you can take out a loan. However, you will have to pay in interest 10 gold for every 100 gold you request. And you can only have one loan at any time. If you have a loan, you must pay at least 100 gold per month (automatically deducted from your account on the 30th of each month unless you have made the minimum payment beforehand)there is no maximum limit you can pay back (say if you somehow managed to get all of the money plus interest after a very good season, by all means pay it off). To make a payment, simply talk to a banker and tell them how much you want taken out of your account to pay on the loan.

Weapons

You are not allowed to carry weapons with you inside of town unless you have written permission from the Mayor, or you are a town guard. Technology wise, the most advanced handheld weapon is a magic sword. Since Eldean is on friendly terms with Rahleeshan and thus seen as an enemy by Riven, Eldean does not have too much in the way of technological weaponry. the most common weapons carried are swords. Sometimes swords can be imbued with elemental properties or special abilities, but such things require special ingreadients as well as the proper recepie which can be bought from the Library.

Links to everything you need to know

Crops (Prices for seeds and base profit price per crop)

Fishing (Profits for selling)

Mining (ores and gemstones, profits and where they can be found)

Livestock

Cooking

Blacksmithing

Accessories

Pharmacy items

Monster Drops

Caves (Note, most requirements will be different than those listed on this page)

Seasonly Festivals

Calendar