Harvest Moon: A New Beginning Progress Topic, also for questions and stuff Options

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Character information:

Name: Jerome
Skin: White
Face: Normal
Hair: Wavy Perm
Color: Black
Eyes Gold
Gear: Boy's Overalls

Farm name: Beluga
Birthday: Summer 13th
Title: Egg-Stage Farmer

Current Date: Spring 15th
Money: 22329
Animals:
1 Cow, Manilo.

I think that's everything relevant... feel free to add anything I may've missed. Anyway, usually we have a similar topic when everyone's beginning to play a new game. s'fun to talk about experiences and have a place for quick questions to ask other players. Right now, I don't have too many people in town. After Neil showed up to give me my first cow, Iroha showed up a few days later. Hopefully since I have a blacksmith now I can start getting some actual work done instead of just gathering/farming stuff...

[Mizukithepanda]

Cher's guide is probably the only thing around, and what little of it there is is kind of riddled with typographical errors and minor mistakes. That said, I'm pretty sure she'll fix them at some point.

You can't put your branches and rocks anywhere until Spring 25th or later. You have to keep them in your rucksack, but trust me, it's worth losing the extra space. You're gonna need at least 100 of those Small Branches over the course of the game.

Anyway, once you make it to Spring 25th, Rebecca, the architect, will open up shop and you'll be able to buy the blueprint for a supply shed from her.

It's stupid, but the game handles itself in a very stupid manner. There's a lot of lull time before you start the Town Renovation Plans, and if you don't plan for those well enough in advance, you'll end up with even more lull time. Hell, even if you do, some of the requirements force you to wait until a certain date. On top of all that, crops don't really sell for a whole lot and unless you have a ton of livestock, animal products won't earn you much either. Normally, this wouldn't be a problem, but everything in this damn game is overpriced. Fertilizer is 100g per bag, and if you're like me and have eight fields, you go through 64 bags of fertilizer a day. When you're only raking in between 5k and 15k per day on average, that ends up amounting to quite a lot.

Of course, the only reason that this is actually a problem for me right now is because I had to spend 30k on a goddamn commitment ring to give to my girlfriend, which seriously cut into my summer surplus, and now I have to spend 100k on the blue feather to marry her. It's ridiculous.

Guhhhh. I wish Spring would come already so that I'd have more to do than attempt to raise a three star crop. I've already stockpiled most of the materials necessary for everything in the next Town Renovation Plan. All I'm missing are some Black Rocks and Black Branches.

I also miss the Bazaar. That was fun. ;w;