Rune Factory Discussion Options

[Pumpkin Patch]

Oh wow those are nice pictures. I would get that if it came out in English (but I doubt that will happen). I mean since it is a picture book it being in Japanese wouldn't make that much of a difference, but I just don't like ordering abroad.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Moar scanz

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[Pumpkin Patch]

I really like the first and second pictures (also how big is this book?)

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

About 130. The last 30 however are pretty text heavy as there's an interview and stuff. If we still had active Japanese reading members I'd probably try to get them to translate it, but for now, it's kinda low priority for scanning.

[Pumpkin Patch]

Wow that's a bunch a pictures. I wonder how they came up with so many random pictures.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Most of the pictures aren't as awesome as these. There are a lot of them of art we've seen already like the basic character art and the portraits that show their emotions.

[Pumpkin Patch]

That makes sense it would have been crazy if they filled an entire book with all new art. It still sounds cool.

[Noviwan]

That is pretty darn cool if I do say so myself.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

So apparently, the voice actor for Micah is going to be coming to Animazement this year.

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Welp. Natsume intends to announce a greatly anticipated title for PS3 and Wii at E3. Also, X-Seed does not have a booth at E3 at ALL.

I wonder what that means.

[Noviwan]

thanks for the update darth I wondet=r wj=hat that title could be can't be about

Spoiler:
Oceans

[Darth-Paper-Boy]

Marie has started to put some more RFO stuff up on her youtube. Check it, yo:

http://www.youtube.com/user/AkieAutumn98

[Noviwan]

holy fudegmurs DPB thanks that channel just got book marked!

[Pumpkin Patch]

I can't look. I am done with spoiling things >.<. But that is cool to hear that someone is uploading videos.

[Biri Biri]

We should add items or weapons article to rune factory oceans.

Core:
Dual Swords
Spears
Longswords (Greatswords)
Katana
Staff

Sub-Core:
Hammer
Axe

Learning Weapon Techniques
Basic Combo - > Charge Attack(Launches monsters to allow aerial combo) - > Dash Attack - > Aerial A+B Combo - > Ultimate Technique

Ultimate Technique for Dual Swords are learned at level 13.

Fun Tip : With Katana Dash Attack, you can spam it to move around places faster at the cost of RP. (attack, immediately cancel attack into an "Evade", spam attack to perform 3 dash attacks in the direction you want, repeat)

[Noviwan]

Don't worry biri I am working on it

[Biri Biri]

I had a thought. I notice for most of the rune factory oceans info, it says Rivals. I'm not up to date on harvest moon, but I'm pretty sure that there was no rivals for the rune factory series, only for harvest moon. Can someone clarify this? I was gonna max out friendship levels for all the candidates before making separate save files for each of them P:

Also, is max friendship level 10? I seem to be stuck on level 6 with maximum bar on Lily, and no matter how much I talk to her, she refuses to say "do you have time for something?" or something on the lines of having a talk. I may never know if Odette was successful on teaching Lily to cook... :c

Monster Happiness caps at 10. More Happiness, more chance of higher quality crop product and more abundance. Monsters travel in groups and eventually will start "raising" the crops and increases the growth if you stick around to watch them. Possibly faster than waiting a day, but consumes time. Group travel only applies if monster shares common interest. (Crop maker vs Tree maker vs Harvester, etc.)

Easy Money : Oak Trees w/ happy Giant Beetle. Farm up Oak Trees and convert them into level 4 wastebaskets through carpentry. You can sell the wastebackets for 1.4k on days that furniture is on sale, haggle twice successfully and mass all the money you could want. Only do this if you want to beat the game as it demotivates you from farming if you do this. (I gave up on farming since money is kinda worthless now... still do it for flowers, fruits, and ores though)

Season Islands

Spring - Crops and Trees? (Not sure about fruit, but you can grow Oak, Maple, etc.)
Summer - fruit trees? trees? something to do with trees?
Fall - I'm guessing either fish or fall crops like pumpkin. cannot advance due to water shrine boss.
Winter - Ores.

Lots of things you guys probably already know, but just some ideas we can stick into the wiki!

[Noviwan]

Yeah don't worry biri im writin as much as I can and the only reasson the rival box is there becuase in Rune Fatory 2 there were marriage candidate rivals but that was the only one.

[Pumpkin Patch]

When it comes to marriage candidates Friendship stops at 6 until you separate Azel/Aden and Sonia/Sonja. Then at that point only marriage candidates can progress to 10. The non marriage people are stuck at 6 forever. So you won't be able get Lily to 7 unless you separate the MCs and choose to stay as Azel/Aden.

I am not sure about villagers though. They might be stuck at 6 o matter what you do. I hope not. That would be lame :/.

I haven't unlocked Fall island either. But you have to be able to plant crops on Summer Island otherwise it would be impossible to get non fruit Summer crops. Perhaps you just need to bring more spirits to unlock crop planting spots. Summer island id my favorite one so far (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaevil.gif) .

And yeah Novi is right, only RF2 has official rivals. But in RF1/RFF it implied certain guys liked certain girls.

[Biri Biri]

I haven't unlocked Fall island either. But you have to be able to plant crops on Summer Island otherwise it would be impossible to get non fruit Summer crops. Perhaps you just need to bring more spirits to unlock crop planting spots. Summer island id my favorite one so far (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaevil.gif) .

I actually realized you could grow stuff on summer island when I let my "Summer Flower" roam around on it just yesterday OwO. I'm assuming that you can grow any crops on both spring and summer islands based on the symbols that the monsters exhibit, but learning that I have to split will help me avoid wasting time and items! It's too bad friendships end at 6 though :c I'll have to research some more about the islands in the future...

Thanks Pumpkin Patch!