Sixthfore: Personal Game Log

Minecraft Apotheosis Enchanting Guide / Help

2024-12-14T19:45:00.004-05:00

Apotheosis guide specifically for: FTB (Feed the Beast) Direwolf20 v1.21.

Around updates 1.7.0-1.8.0 (and counting).

[edit: posting this while guide is incomplete because there is a good chance I will put this off and never post it if I don't, and I think the information provided is still useful as is.]

Having come back to Minecraft after ever only playing semi-casually, I found myself determined to tackle a lot of the mods that had previously been intimidating. I found Google to be relatively unhelpful in turning up information on a number of mods, such as Apotheosis, Mekanism, or how to set up an energy system. Most results listed were videos, which Google or SEOs seem to be prioritizing (to this video-averse person's dismay). Social media posts and even some wikis generally assumed I knew a bunch of things that I did not already know. Even though I eventually skimmed a few videos, I compiled everything I learned onto my Minecraft spreadsheet, which I use to track all the mods I've been learning about. I decided to share what I found, since if it's not on the internet already, I might as well be the one to put it out there on the off chance this helps someone.

Anyway, Apotheosis.

Enchanting Table Basics

Why use Apotheosis? Better enchants than Vanilla (allegedly. I've forgotten what Vanilla enchanting was like), more enchants, more control over enchants. Is this the only way? No. Is it a fun option? Yes.

Three new stats for enchanting. It's not that scary, though. Yet. You can upgrade and enchant (aka infuse) bookshelves and ingredients now.

To enchant/infuse items, your enchanting setup will need to meet the required stats, and you will need to be at a sufficient player level to proceed.

Example: To get an Infused Seashelf from a normal Seashelf requires 45 eterna, 15 quanta , 10 arcana. Additionally, you need to be level 45 (you gain level from activities like mining ore, fishing, killing mobs, among other things), and it will cost you 3 levels to infuse this object. This means if you are level 45 and you infuse one shelf, you drop to 42 and have to level up again before you can infuse another shelf. I have found that the level requirements seem to have increased slightly each time I infused a shelf when I tried in Creative mode. Will need to confirm this and figure out why if that is the case.

A maxed-out set up would have 100 in each category. Optionally, the bonus buffs from several specific bookshelves (more below).

Eterna Determines the Max level you can enchant at. With Apotheosis, you can enchant items at levels up to 100.

What it looks like if you are below level 100 but are able to enchant at level 100 at a maxed-out Apotheosis Enchantment Table setup.

What it looks like being level 100+ at the same maxed-out setup.

At level 100+ at a basic Enchanting Table with no bookshelves of any sort.
Capped at enchanting at level 3 for low-level spells.

Quanta How random enchants are*. To be perfectly honest, I do not know what more or less random means and have not found a satisfactory answer online yet... Please let me know if you have one!

Arcana Makes rare enchants more common and increases the number of enchants applied in one use of the table. As seen in the screenshots above, 1 enchant vs 5 enchants on a book. Below, 6 enchants.

Enchanting Clues I admit I do not know what this is yet, but it seems to be a desirable thing.

*Rectification is supposed to reduce negative possibilities of randomness, but the bookshelf called "Shelf of End-Fused Rectification" and the Rectification stat entirely seem to be omitted entirely from this modpack. I could be wrong, but I could find nothing. I saw it mentioned once in passing, but no implementation in sight.

New Shelves

There are five categories of new shelves now, in addition to the original Bookshelf, which boosts your enchantment table when placed within one block away at level. See https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Enchanting_Table#Usage for more detail. The enchanting table also seems to acknowledge the one level directly above the base level as well, if you place a candle or bookshelf on top of the first bookshelf.

My max-stat setup in Creative mode in which bookshelves are 2-blocks high.

To get to a maxed-out setup, apparently you cannot just skip a bunch of middle-tier bookshelves by directly getting the best materials, because to enchant progressively better bookshelves now requires your current setup to be sufficient enough to craft the next tier materials.

I found Fiddlestic's picture guide to be useful when going in blind. It is worth noting that not everything in this guide is present in the Direwolf20 1.21 modpack (for example, Reforging, Salvaging, Unique Gems are not present). So please search the JEI (Just Enough Viewing mod user interface) recipe catalog, which you can access with hotkey "E" to be sure if you read the guide (if you do not see it, press the green book under your player crafting squares). Left clicking tells you how to make an item, and right clicking tells you what it can be crafted into (yes, I had to relearn everything coming back to Minecraft, so I am sharing these basics).

Tiny thumbnail of the guide ^ . Read the guide here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/allthemods/comments/1cw7dnn/complete_apotheosis_guide_everything_you_need_to/#lightbox

In order of ease of crafting, the categories are:

Hell Shelves - Boosts Eterna and Quanta.
Sea Shelves - Boosts Eterna and Arcana.
Deep Shelves - Boosts all three stats.
End Shelves - Only way to max out Eterna to the cap of 100.
Weird Shelves - Variable stats and effects.
Misc items - Singular props that slightly affect stats. Helpful to boost specific stats when you cannot afford to build another shelf yet since they are easier to make/find.

Each category from 1-4 has different level of shelves that you can gradually upgrade into.

Example:

Sea Shelf (3 eterna, 3 quanta) --> Infused Shelf (5 eterna, 5 quanta).

Infused Shelf --> Crystalline Shelf (5 eterna, 3 quanta, 5 arcana)
Infused Shelf --> Heart-Forged Shelf (15 eterna, 20 quanta)
Infused Shelf --> Seashelf of Aquatic Filtration (put one enchanting book with certain spells you do not want to show up in the random roll pool when you enchant).

Examples of Weird shelves: Beeshelf, Melonshelf, Stoneshelf, Geode-Encased Shelf of Stability.

Examples of Misc Items: Candle (1.25 arcana), Large Candle (4 arcana), Wither Skeleton Skull (10 quanta), and the heads of Zombie, Piglin and Creeper (5 quanta).

Leveling Up Your Setup

As in Vanilla, leveling up your setup allows you to access higher-level enchants, but also more enchants per cast. I am not sure if negative enchant chances are decreased in the absence of the Rectification stat for this modpack. Feel free to share if you know.

Example of a max setup for the Direwolf20 modpack.

	Quantity	Eterna		Subt	Quanta	Subt	Arcana	Subt	Clues	Subt	Notes
Enchanting Table Default	1	0		0	15%	15%			1	1

Seashelf of Aquatic Filtration*	2										Allows you to exclude certain enchantments (and curses) from appearing in your table.

Echoing Sculkshelf	4	10	max 80	40	10%	40%	15%	60%	1	4
Soul-touched Sculkshelf	4	10	max 80	40	15%	60%	10%	40%	1	4

Deepshelf of Arcane Treasures*	1	10	max 70	10	-15%	-15%	-15%	-15%			Enables Treasure Enchantments to appear in your table (Enchantments normally only found as loot)
Echoing Deepshelf*	1	5	max 75	5		0%	15%	15%			Negates Arcane Treasure's bad stats.

Geode-encased Bookshelf of Stability*	1	10	max 60		-15%						Enables Quantic Stability.
Soul-touched Deepshelf*	1	5	max 75		15%						Negates Bookshelf of Stability's bad stats.

Draconic Endshelf	1	20	max 100	20		0%		0%			Need this to get to 100 Eterna

TOTAL	13		max 100	115		100%		100%	3	9

*Optional buffs. If you don't want them, omit the respective asterisk shelves.

To get here, you will need to craft a number of the lower-quality shelves to have sufficient stats to craft the better ones. "Kaimonick" has a guide to show how to do this on another modpack I think. It's useful to understand the concept of how it works—it does not seem to work for the modpack I am using now, possibly due to some rebalancing? The numbers do not add up when building from the Sea Shelf to Deepshelf as there is not enough Quanta to craft the next set of shelves after I did the math. But maybe I can just add a few of the Quanta-boosting Wither Skeleton Skulls to bridge the gap? Either way, figuring it out myself is fun too.

Enchantment Library

You can also build these things to save and strip for more control over exactly which enchantments you want to isolate and use. What are these things?

Per the (a?) developer of Apotheosis:

"The enchantment library is a storage solution for vast amounts of enchanted books.

Inserting a book into the top slot will store every enchantment on that book in the library. Enchantments themselves are stored as "Points" (each point is equal to a single level 1 enchantment, so each level is worth an exponentially increasing amount of points).

When you insert an enchantment into the library, it also records the max level of that enchantment it has ever seen, and you can only extract up to that level.

To remove an enchantment from the library, simply click on that enchantment's tile. If the output is empty, it will generate a new enchanted book with that enchantment on it (starting at level 1). Subsequent clicks will increase the level on the output book. Shift-Clicking will attempt to extract the max level available to the output book.

The library can only interface with books, so you'll still need other solutions to move enchantments between books and other items."

Apotheosis Developer "Shadows_of_Fire", 2021. https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/pihc2h/preview_of_the_new_apotheosis_enchantment_library/

To upgrade the Enchanting Library to Library of Alexandria which "increases the Level Capacity of the library from XVI to XXXI" (16 to 31), you need:

Eterna at exactly 100
Quanta between 45 and 50
Arcana at exactly 100

With my setup above, I did this:

+2 Melonshelves
+1 Geode-encased Bookshelf of Stability
-1 Soul-touched Deepshelf (using Silk Touch axe!)

If you did NOT include the Geode-encased Bookshelf of Stability / Soul-touched Deepshelf buff combo, do this instead:

+2 Melonshelves
+2 Geode-encased Bookshelf of Stability

I do not know what "increasing the level capacity from 16 to 31" means yet, I have only figured out how to upgrade and that the resulting UI looks same:

I inserted some books containing these enchants and am now able to pull them out one enchant at a time for a point cost. You get more points by putting enchants in. If you insert a Fortune VIII enchant, you can pull Fortune I-VIII. I just played around in Creative to get a basic idea and have not experimented further yet.

Spell Colors

I am not sure about the significance of spell colors as they appear in text, so this section is not as fleshed out. From going through the lists of spells, I have come to the conclusion that:

Gray: Common spells. They're the basic enchantments.

Light blue: Common spells turn light blue when they get to higher levels. Ex: Loyalty 3 is gray, 4 is blue. Shield Bash 4 is gray, 5 is blue.

Light red: Curse or negative enchant. I don't know what the "Intentional Game Design" curse does, though it seems to reference some immortalized incident regarding beds exploding when trying to sleep in some advanced areas of the game.

Dark red: The two I found were Life Mending and Berserker's Fury, so my guess is a spell that enhances and hurts at the same time.

Green: Special spells - I only found a small handful of these briskly scrolling through the entire list. Crescendo of Bolts 1-5, Knowledge of Ages, Boon of the Earth. I'm not sure why there are so few of the green spells.

Purple-blue: Apothic Enchanting and Destruction were the only two I found for this category from a thorough and I have no idea.

Magenta: Miner's Fervor and Worker Exploitation were the only two for this category as well, and I also have no idea.

References:

"Kaimonick" et al., first posted around 2023, updated around Sept 2024.

https://allthemods.github.io/alltheguides/atm9/apotheosis/

By "Fiddlesticc", approx May 2024.

https://www.reddit.com/r/allthemods/comments/1cw7dnn/complete_apotheosis_guide_everything_you_need_to/

Ninja Village Tips, Tricks, Strategy

2018-11-08T12:22:00.002-05:00

While the initial gameplay made me question the depth of Ninja Village, by the end, I can firmly conclude that this game is about resource management as much as it is about strategy.

You play a feudal lord in charge of a small ninja village -- surprise! As you build up your village, the shogunate asks you for your help unifying the country.

The game is structured so that you'll be hard-pressed to beat the game in your first playthrough within the 16 game-years score cutoff. However, you can continue playing afterwards without contributing to your score. This means you can take your time, enjoy the game for its theme and get to know the road in your first playthrough.

Even so, beating the game within the timeframe of 16 years (in game time) takes some strategy and planning.

Tips

Focus on layout efficiency.
Good layout efficiency means money saved on leveling your dedicated worker-villagers.

Collect your "stipend."
As long as you're fairly sure you can beat the Imperial training army, duke it out as often as you can when it's available to offset the monthly cost of maintenance. I battled as often as could while multitasking, but only got up to around level 70/100 by the end of the game.

In addition to padding your pockets, you can get some important rewards such as permanently increasing the number of ninja you can send out each battle and calvary.

Give your worker-villagers basic work-gear early on.
The scythe and tenegui are cheap, and the sooner you get them, the quicker they'll turn around and turn that extra work stat into profit from shop sales as the game continues.

Keep your balance low.
This shouldn't be hard. If you're not increasing the Shogunate army to keep plowing forth, you should be increasing key villager's levels, researching new shops which yields exponentially increasing income as the game continues, or upgrading your villagers' gear. At any given time, you should be aching for cash unless you know you're saving up for something soon (e.g. you're about to ensue in a battle that would unlock cavalry).

Stack buffs on each army unit.
You can gear up and level up your village ninjas, but stacking buffs entire units with strategically placed ninja is the game-changer (literally) when you're up against armies larger than your own.

Check out your villagers' stats and plan ahead of time.
How do you know which villagers to invest in? Make sure you're not barking up the wrong tree by using this table to sort villagers by skill, attack/defense, strength, marksmanship, work and hp.

Invest in the high-buff, low-attack or the high-attack, lower-buff ninja? You decide!

Skip unnecessary upgrades.
You got the completionist's itch out of your system in your first playthrough. If you can beat an army without researching that armor/weapon, skip it. Chances are, by the time you need gear upgrades, you'll have unlocked much better pieces.

Upgrade your buff-ninjas, and only them.
Use that money you saved to level up ninjas which will contribute a buff to your armor. Stop when you've unlocked the desired buff unless you are having trouble with side quests.

BUFFS
- Infantry take the blunt of bullets. Invest in Bullet Resist for your Infantry.

Suggestion: Galapagos's forte is Marksmanship, but sticking him in Infantry late game with Bullet Resist 4 (Only guy who can learn this. Attained level 9) can let the unit pack a bigger punch. As an alternative, Ishida has extremely high Strength and Attack, making him great as infantry, but only buffs Bullet Resist 3.

Tricks

There are a few non-obvious tricks I've noticed. Take advantage of these gems when designing your layout.

- When crossing to and from their own homes, villagers can walk through each others houses.
- Villagers can walk through the flat part of Lumber and Ore depots.
- After using a workshop, villagers can exit out the other side from which they entered, thereby crossing through. They cannot normally walk through the workshop otherwise.

Save before playing with layouts. If you mess up big time, you can save hundreds in construction fees.

Cheats (sort of)

- If you save before sending your guys out to battle and lose, you can load your saved game, thereby saving you lost time and money. That said, the game seems to discourage this by compensating your loss with 3-5 of a random unit.

Why do I keep Tripping?! and a Guide to Increasing Luck and Fortune in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

2018-07-18T01:45:00.000-04:00

Increasing your Chances of Good Luck Each Day

You can increase your chance to have this sort of good luck by:

Utilizing Feng Shui, placing green items to the south.
Displaying plenty of lucky items* in your house:
Don't wear the King Tut Mask, which grants you automatic bad luck.
Do obtain and wear the Tingle Hood and Celebration Hat, which both act, equally and regardless of what Katrina suggests, as your daily lucky item.

* After she has set up a permanent shop in your town, both these items are somewhat rarely obtainable from Katrina for 10,000 bells (so always have at least that amount on you when you visit!), when you have very high luck (Feng Shui, Item Luck Fortune, etc).
She will say something like "Do you want a special charm for 10,000 bells?" after you get your reading, so be careful you don't mindlessly spam B too quickly. You will randomly receive either the Tingle Hood or Celebration Hat.

Myth Concerning Lucky Items

According to Liquefy, avid and dedicated Animal Crossing follower, researcher and contributor on GameFAQs:

"Contrary to popular belief, Lucky items, by themselves, do not increase Feng Shui. Lucky items behave like all other items: if they are designated as yellow, green, or red, they can increase Feng Shui if properly placed in Feng Shui space.

Just as in prior versions, wearing a Four-Leaf Clover has no effect on in-game
luck or any other gameplay."

What lucky items will do, is greatly increase your HHA points.

What Time Does the Day Reset?

12 AM:

Your luck for the day is determined.

6 AM:

Flowers breed (hybrid chance).
Money and ore rocks respawn.
Buried items respawn.
Items in trees respawn.
Special event visitors leave.

You may have noticed that with this system, if you have poor or average luck one day (you're getting much less money from trees, rocks etc), you could hold out shaking trees / breaking rocks / digging up items until after midnight (when your luck/fortune dice is rerolled) to see if you get a money/item fortune this next day.

What does this mean? It means there's a chance you can earn twice as much money, two days in a row if you wait for a Good Money Luck roll after midnight.

Bells per Iteration	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Total
Bad Money Luck	100	100	200	300	500	1000	2000	4000	8200
Neutral	100	200	300	500	1000	2000	4000	8000	16100
Good Money Luck	200	300	500	1000	2000	4000	8000	16000	32000

Part of the fun is figuring out how you can increase your income, whether it is worth the change in your daily routine, and playing with the mechanics, so I'll lay this subject rest.

Different Types of Fortunes / Luck

Every day, at 12 am in your game, a dice is essentially tossed, and you have a chance of inheriting the following fortunes:

Luck Type	Good Luck	Bad Luck
Wealth	Trees drop 200 instead of 100 bells.	Trees drop fewer than 100 bells.
	Money Rock drops 200, 300, 500, 1000, 2000, 4000, 8000, and 16000 bells.	Money Rock drops 100, 100, 200, 300, 500, 1000, 2000, and 4000 bells.
	Villagers give you more money for items they request from your inventory.	Villagers give you less money for money they request from your inventory.
Friendship	Friendship with same-sex villagers increase more quickly per positive interaction.	Friendship with same-sex villagers increase more slowly per positive interaction.
	Special conversations with same-sex villagers are more likely.	Special conversations with same-sex villagers are less likely.
Romance	It's easier to increase friendship with opposite-sex villagers.	It's harder to increase friendship with opposite-sex villagers.
	Special conversations with opposite-sex villagers are more likely.	Special conversations with opposite-sex villagers are less likely.
Item	If Saharah is in town, chance to receive her exclusive decor is increased.	If Saharah is in town, chance to receive her exclusive decor is decreased.
	Chance-based events yield better results (increased frequency for Easter, Fireworks Fest, Snowmen rolling; increased quality for playcoin fortune cookies).	Chance-based events yield poorer results (decrease frequency for Easter, Fireworks Fest, Snowmen rolling; decreased quality for playcoin fortune cookies).
	Seashells respawn more frequently.	Seashells respawn less frequently.
	Villagers more likely to offer something for sale.	Villagers less likely to offer something for sale.
	More likely to get rare items in Leif's weeding mini-game.	Sitting in a chair will occasionally produce a sound...
Health	Bees move more slowly, so it is easier to avoid being stung.	Bees move more quickly, so it is tougher to avoid being stung.
	Mosquitos less likely to appear/sting.	You will often trip and fall while running.
	Jellyfish less likely to appear/sting.	Jellyfish more likely to appear and sting.

How Do You Determine Your Luck / Fortune?

Good Luck / Good Fortune

"I see good fortune upon items"

"I see good fortune upon friendship"

"I see good fortune upon love"

"I see good fortune upon wealth"

"I see good fortune upon health"

Bad Luck / Bad Fortune

"I see disasters and broken hearts"

"I see disaster upon your health"

"I see disaster upon your items"

"I see disaster upon relationships"

"I see disaster upon wealth"

What Does the Lucky Item Do?

After getting your fortune told, Katrina will tell you what type of clothes you will need to wear as your Lucky Item. This lucky item can specify any of the following:

Clothes intended for a particular gender (e.g. men's, women's, unisex)
Fashion pattern (e.g. argyle, plaid, fruit-print, animal-print, dotted, h-striped, v-striped)
Subset of clothing (e.g. hat, cap, sunglasses, glasses, tee, tank, long-sleeved, shorts, boots)

If you were told a good fortune, the lucky item activates the good luck until midnight. Without wearing this lucky item, your luck will be determined solely by your feng shui.

If you were told a bad fortune, the lucky item negates the bad luck (which unfortunately activates at midnight, when your luck is determined) until midnight. Without wearing this lucky item, you will have whatever poor fortune Katrina read in addition to whatever positive feng shui you may have.

Increasing your Chances of Good Luck Each Day

This can get lengthy, so I've started a new post on this subject.

Rune Factory 4: Tips, Tricks and Not Really Cheats

2016-05-22T01:31:00.001-04:00

Potentially Confusing Things Explained

That quest to raise friendship levels to 5?

Doug's friendship will be capped at 3 hearts for a good while. It's not a bug. Despite the quest appearing early, you won't be able to complete it for a long time until you complete the 2nd arc, which is well after you unlock the Floating thing (keeping it vague so no spoilers), so don't worry too much about it.

Mildly irritating that he's just capped at three this entire time.
A number of people are at 9 and one's at 10 already.
Doug needs to get his act together!

Soil. How does it work. Like seriously.

This subject deserves a post of it's own. See my Soil and Crop Stats Guide.
But the key takeaways are:

HP = needs to be above 0 or plants will disappear (use fertilizers)
Growth = faster growth (use formulas)
Growth+ = increase quality of crop (use greenifiers)

Screw soil. I'm just going to farm how I like, when I like.

As long as the health of your soil is above 0, go for it. If your soil health is 0, plants won't grow, or they'll die instantly.

Farming different crops on different plots will just mean your plots will level and gain stats at different rates. Understanding how soil works simply allows you to control how your crops turn out in terms of level, size and grow time.

Typhoon late Spring or early Summer

A particularly bad RNG typhoon will destroy the crops you've been leveling, your trees, your house, your family, your kids - ok not really. But the damage can be real. I had a typhoon destroy about 90% of my crops, including all my trees. This is when I restarted the game and looked up how to protect myself.

You won't be able to reload a save to avoid the typhoon, but you can reload for different damage outcome.

Effort A) You can keep your plants safe BEFORE the typhoon by using Wettable Powder* to increase your Soil's defense stat**.

If you have the Chemistry Set, you can craft this level 30 item with Charm Blue and Cherry Grass.

Effort B) If you've progressed enough in the storyline (this is hard to do unless you nose to the grindstone), you can unlock it at the Flower Shop, though it sells for 2,000g, and you need 2 powders for every 2x2 plot you wish to protect, so it can get pretty expensive at 4,000g a plot.

Effort C) You can ship your higher level crops and complete the quests that ask you to ship higher level crops so that the shops will start selling higher level seeds for your respective crops and effectively serve as a backup of your cultivating progress. Then, around late spring, early summer, be careful which seeds you plant.

Defense at 32 will help keep the worst of it out, but well-
aimed typhoon RNG will still harm your plots.

*Wettable Powder increases the Defense stat on a 2x2 plot of land. You can use the magnifying glass from the Flower shop to see the defense on each 2x2 square of land.

**You need 32 defense (two uses of Wettable Powder), to qualify to fend off one -8 hp "attack" from the typhoon. If your soil's defense drops below 32 defense points during the typhoon, it is once again susceptible to debris destroying your crops and trees.

Dungeon Seed, Sword Seed, Shield Seed -- Where Get?

Map of Sercerezo Hill added by user snowsiren on Rune Factory Wiki

1) If you've unlocked Sercerezo Hill AND the current in-game date is between the 1st and 5th of the season, go to C4 shown on the map above, and the path south to D3 should be unblocked.

2) Beat the boss to get a Dungeon Seed. Plant this in a field. Best to plant in plot with decent stats to keep it safe and to get the most out of it later when you use it.

Spoilers on how to reach boss: To reach the boss, even if these are not true, jump down the pits that indicate: you are a woman, you can cook, you are a sight to behold.

3) When the seed is ready, complete the Field Dungeon and the boss will drop either a Sword or Shield Seed.

4) Armed with the seeds, you know what you must do.

Runey Weather...

...is where you see a bunch of colorful runeys rise up from all over the screen. This increases the growth rate multiplier for all your crops by 4 for that day, cutting down on total grow time of your crops.

It is my understanding that all crop effects occur at once at 6am, so This weather does not seem to increase rune spawns, crops or seeds and has no other discovered effects.

What are Free Farming Shoes?

Relatively early in Accessory Crafting, you may come across these shoes. Wearing these shoes allow you to plant seeds without the 2x2 grids within each plot to constrain where your seeds scatter.

Using Free Farming shoes, sources say it is possible to grow:

two gigantic crops on a single plot instead of one,
four trees on a plot and still have space to walk between the trees instead of four trees and no walking space,
your crops into different patterns and shapes for simply visual pleasure.

However, I have not personally verified these yet (still working on finishing the story first).

Twinkle Tree. What Is It Good For?

They're the only way you can you get the Glitta Augite ore, one of the two range-increasing item upgrades (the other being Raccoon Leaf which you get much later).

Chop it for lumber and there's a moderate chance the Glitta will drop. As long as you ensure the tree's HP (not to be confused with the tree's soil's HP -- see my Soil Guide to learn how to distinguish between the two) doesn't hit 0, you can keep tapping that tree.

My party member has a treasure icon over their head, but I don't see any chests.

This means there's a hidden item somewhere near them. Poke around near where they were standing when this happened until you see a red cursor mark that you can interact with. Finding hidden items levels up your hidden item skill.

General Tips

Know Your Control Shortcuts

L + R + Start : Soft reset to main menu.
Hold R : Puts you into walk mode to sneak past most monsters.
Hold A : Continuously pick up more items identical to the one you're holding. Good for clearing fields of sticks, weeds, etc.
Hold Y : During conversations to speed through them.
From your notebook in the bottom left touch screen, press L for calendar, R for shipping list.

Sleeping Explained

Sleep before 1am to gain sleep skill experience.
Sleep before 6am to fully replenish HP/RP the next day.
Sleeping after 5:59am will give you the fatigue status.
Sleeping late after getting fatigue status from lack of sleep (as to from items or monsters) will give you a cold.

Raven's Shop - Skip the Farm and Just Buy It

Raven will sell anything from low level to boss drops - as long as
you've shipped at least one of it.

The game doesn't tell you, but after you've shipped an item, there is a chance Raven will begin selling it at the item's sell price. Don't want to farm Old Bandages? Hard to come by Invisible Stone? Ship one and she might just begin selling them (at full price).

This goes for boss drops too, but boss drops often carry a much heftier price tag.

Arthur's Shop - Basically the Black Market

At this point in the game, I had just upgraded to a 370ish ATK weapon.
And then I saw this.

Arthur will sell items even if you have not shipped them -- including advanced armor and weaponry that can really help you slingshot ahead in the storyline without waiting for your crafting and forging levels to catch up.

Early to mid-game, be sure to redeem your Play Coins when you do catch him in his office. I generally accept the offer if the going rate is above 220 gold per Play Coin because what else am I going to do with my capped out Play Coins?

Shady guy Arthur is, you'll rarely find him in his office when you need him. Get that slimy git to work by having him join your party, drag him into his office, and talk to him. All kidding aside though, Arthur's a great guy.

Higher Level Seeds at Shops

Once you've completed the quest to unlock higher level seeds you can ship a higher level crop or seed to be able to buy seeds at a higher level. The quest will be something like "Ship a Level 2/6/10 crop."

E.g. You ship a level 7 turnip. You should be able to buy level 7 turnip seeds provided you completed the respective quest.

Leveling trees requires you to scythe the tree and ship the leveld up seeds. You can harvest the fruits before scything and still obtain seeds.

Things to Save

Withered grass. Use other cheap grasses for your fertilizer bin, but save these to increase your soil's HP, cause corn and clover are expensive and hard to come by.
Charm Blue and Cherry Grass. Ship one as you increase their levels to increase the seed levels at the Flower Shop, but if you plan on protecting your crops and trees from Typhoon, you'll need these to craft Wettable Powder at your Chemistry Lab.
Lumber and Material Stone. I grab these when I see them, save them up, and still find myself badly wanting after a few Orders. Mostly for convenience upgrades like expansions for Monster Barn, Farm, Room, Storage Chest...etc.

Monsters to Tame

How to tame:

Have a monster barn with space open (four to a room).
Brush monster 15 times (or until music note stops appearing when brushing)
Use item produced by monster on monster for max efficiency (can obtain by killing other monsters prior to attempt).
Alternatively, use any cheap junk laying around like rocks, grasses. Lower success chance, but works.
Keep feeding monster items until speech bubble yields a Heart permanently.

In order of appearance, I found these to be most helpful.

Selphia Plains
Buffamoo x4 (Milk) Used very often in cooking.
Cluckadoodle x4 (Egg) Used very often in cooking.
Wooly (Wool) x1 A single one eventually yields 2-6 high level wool daily with clipping. Great for upgrade spamming to level forge/crafting.

Yokmir Cave
Killer Ant x1 (Pretty Carapace) Can spam crafts for leveling. Can release when not useful.

Yokmir Cave
Hornet x2-4 (Honey) Sells for 600-1000g. Good money until cooking reaches ~40ish. Can release some later in the game when the honey is less useful.
Silver Wolf (Wolf Fang) Can spam crafts for leveling.

Obsidian Mansion
Spider (Spider Thread) x1 Can spam crafts and upgrades for leveling. Can release later when less useful or upgraded monster.

Delirium Lava Ruins or Sercerezo Hill
Flower Lion or Flower Blossom x1 (Root) Hard to find early game, needed for a number of crafts.

Making Ends Meet Early to Late Game

- Play Coin exchange from Arthur for 2k-3.5k a day when you catch him in the office

- Honey from a Hornet

nets 700-1k each, daily.

- Cooking lvl 19 via Pot: [ Milk + [Chemistry level 5: Apple for Sweet Powder] ] for Yogurt
800-900 each and levels cooking
- Cooking lvl 28 via Frying Pan: [Egg + Milk] for Omelette
850-1k each and levels your cooking.
- Cooking lvl 20 via Oven: Yam
240-300 each. Yam harvests in large quantities and grows fast. Save your yam, and if you have extra RP before bed, spam it on these.

If you run out of rune points, there are rune flowers east of the Summer Fields and two south of the City.

After I got my cooking around level 52, this tip marked my emergence from poverty because I had to buy telecommunicators cause they were shiny. Ok, but really, this tip was very agreeable:

"I buy all of the carrots, potatoes, rice, curry powder, oil, and flour I can from Blossom's shop (in equal amounts of course.)

I then cook it into curry rice in my pot. (recipe: Rice, Curry powder, Carrot, Potato. Lvl 54)

I cook the curry rice with one flour and one oil in my frying pan and poof. Curry bread. (lvl 59 recipe) Total price to create: 4670 g each

Curry bread sells for 6k at lvl 1 to the box.

Leveled potatoes and carrots can increase the profit margin, assuming you're able to overcome all of the lvl 1 flour, oil, rice, and curry powder bits.

Myself... I sell them at my shop for a tidy markup, making about 9k each and effectively doubling the money invested, all while raising my cooking and bartering skills. Fun times." - Caidryn

Potatoes are super quick to grow and harvest in large quantities as well, so those came at a large discount. And I had carrots. I stock up the rest of the materials during one of Blossom's 10% sales.

Then I made use of that rune crystals mine near Autumn Field a whole lot cause at level 52, each Curry Rice ate a chunk of my Rune, but also satisfyingly leveled my cooking a whole lot as well.

I ground Curry Rice til around level 56 before switching to Curry Bread and made bank at the next festival.

Growing Giant Crops

Say you want a giant-sized Turnip. Use your magnifying glass and identify a 2x2 plot of soil that has the highest "Sz." (size) stat. This plot will give you the best success chance at a giant crop.

Plant the same crop in all four plots - regardless of seed level. After they've all matured and are ready to harvest, let them sit for several days longer. With luck and care (you'll still need to water them), you'll have a giant crop.

Gigantizer isn't necessary, but will greatly enhance the gigantizing process.

Tricks and Not Really Cheats

Fight Bosses More Than Once a Day

If you're reading this, you probably already know this major one. If you down a boss and use the Escape spell just after a boss drops (or doesn't) their items, but before the barriers keeping you from leaving the room disappears, you can farm the boss over and over for loot.

Immortality

Once you've unlocked the aptly named Revival Cave*, go to the room past the bone dragon boss where various grasses grow and look for the item Ayngondaia Lawn. Having this in your inventory will revive you the next time you die from causes like overusing RP while crafting or peddling, and therefore HP.

I have been transported back to the clinic while the flower was in my inventory in dungeons, however. Not sure exactly what this flower covers.

This item seems to be a semi-rare spawn.

*From the Autumn Road save point, go south twice, west once, north.

Check your Crop/Soil Stats With Other Tools

If you upgrade any tool at the Forge with a Magnifying glass, you don't have to switch between, say, your scythe and magnifying glass all the time.

Advanced Cheating

You can make all your romantic interests your girl/boyfriend simultaneously. Even if you ask one to be your boy/girlfriend while two of your current ones are sitting across the table from them eating lunch. Yay.

After establishing about four relationships, however, it appears to be a lot more difficult to take on the last fifth and sixth. This basically allows you to see all the candidate's dialogue/dates without playing the game six times or breaking up with each one.

Full List of Eliza's Requests

So you can accomplish them ahead of time for when they unlock.

From Ganhur on fogu forum:

01. Eliza: First Task! - Turnip seeds.
02. Eliza: How to place furniture! - ???
03. Eliza: Make Lumber! - Lumber/Stone Box
04. Eliza: Make a Shipment! - more seeds at General Store (Potato, Spinach)
05. Eliza: Give an item! - Cheap sickle
06. Eliza: Purchase Rice! - Toyherb Seed
07. Eliza: Make Material Stone! - Stone
08. Eliza: Try fishing! - 300g
09. Eliza: Harvest Toyherb! - more seeds at Flower shop (pink cat, moondrop)
10. Eliza: Make a Fertilizer Bin (collect fertilizer)! - Fertilizer Bin
11. Eliza: Build a Monster Barn! - Brush
12. Eliza: Befriend monsters! - Fodder Box
13. Eliza: Ride on a monster friend! - Iron Waltz
14. Eliza: Harvest 3 (types of) flowers! - More flower seeds at Flower Shop (charm blue)
15. Eliza: Harvest Potato! - More seed at General Store (Radish)
16. Eliza: Mine Iron! - Amethyst
17. Eliza: Befriend an item monster! - Clippers
18. Eliza: Give monster a task! - Striking March
19. Eliza: Give Amber a Toyherb! - More flower seeds (pom pom grass)
20. Eliza: Harvest 9 Charm Blues! More seeds at Flower Shop (cherry grass)
21. Eliza: Harvest 20 Turnips! More seeds at General store (pink turnip)
22. Eliza: Harvest 5 Radishes! More seeds at General Store (yam)
23. Eliza: Ship a level 2 Turnip! Raise level seeds at store.
24. Eliza: Raise friendship levels (1 or higher)! - Greeting Magic
25. Eliza: Harvest Cherry Grass! - More seed at Flower shop (lamp grass)
26. Eliza: Harvest 5 (types of) flowers! - More flower seeds (clover)
27. Eliza: Harvest 6 (types of) veggies! - More vegetable seeds (carrot, corn, strawberry)
28. Eliza: Get an Airship License! - Exchange coins at Arthur
29. Eliza: Till a 4-Leaf Clover! - More flower seeds (ironleaf)
30. Eliza: Ship a level 5 veggie! More seeds at General store (pumpkin, cucumber)
31. Eliza: Till Corn! - More flower seeds (green pepper)
32. Eliza: Give Dylas a Carrot! More seeds at General store (leek)
33. Eliza: Look at illustrations! - Leveliser
34. Eliza: Check difficulty level - Recovery Potion
35. Eliza: Get a Cooking Table! - Cooking Bread
36. Eliza: Start Cooking! - Flour
37. Eliza: Get a Forge! - Weapon bread
38. Eliza: Forge a Weapon! - Bronze, Iron
39. Eliza: Make a farming tool! - Farming Bread
40. Eliza: Get a Crafting Table! - Crafting Bread
41. Eliza: Make some armor! - Aquamarine
42. Eliza: Get a Chemistry Set! - Medicine Bread
43. Eliza: Make some medicine! - Toyherb
44. Eliza: Raise (one of) skill levels (20 or higher)! - 3000G
45. Eliza: Raise weapon skill levels (15 or higher)! - Rush Attack
46. Eliza: Upgrade a weapon! - Bronze
47. Eliza: Raise Magic skill level (15 or higher)! - Water Laser
48. Eliza: Upgrade some armor! - Silver
49. Eliza: Use a nutrient! - Greenifier
50. Eliza: Raise (10%) shipment rates! - Backpack upgrade order
51. Eliza: Get a Shop License! - 5000G
52. Eliza: Prepare for a typhoon! - Wettable Powder
53. Eliza: Befriend (5) monsters! - Lumber, Material Stone
54. Eliza: Upgrade a staff! - Ambrosia's Thorn
55. Eliza: Give Dolce a Moondrop! - Heart Pendant
56. Eliza: Fight using an Ironleaf! - More flower seeds (Autumn Grass)
57. Eliza: Harvest a large flower! - More seeds at Flower shop (fireflower)
58. Eliza: Harvest Autumn Grass! - More flower seeds (noel grass)
59. Eliza: Harvest 12 (types of) veggies! - More vegetable seeds (bok choy, cabbage, onion)
60. Eliza: Harvest Sword Flower! - More seeds at General store (sword seed)
61. Eliza: Harvest Shield Flower! - More seeds at General store (shield seed)
62. Eliza: Complete field dungeon! - More vegetable seeds (dungeon seed)
63. Eliza: Ship a level 10 veggie! - More seeds at General store (eggplant, hot-hot)
64. Eliza: Harvest certain veggies (20 bok choy, 20 cabbage, 20 onion)! - More seeds at General store (tomato, pink melon)
65. Eliza: Harvest a large veggie! - More vegetable seeds (pineapple)
65. Eliza: Harvest 20 Oranges! - More seeds at general store (orange)
66. Eliza: Cut down a Shining Tree! - More seeds at General store (shining tree)
67. Eliza: Harvest non-gold veggies! - More veggie seed (gold potato)
68. Eliza: Harvest 50 Grapes! - More seeds at General store (grape)
69. Eliza: Harvest 50 Apples! - More seeds at General store (apple)
70. Eliza: Harvest Blue Crystal! - More flower seed (blue crystal)
71. Eliza: Harvest Green Crystal! - More flower seed (green crystal)
72. Eliza: Harvest Red Crystal! - More flower seed (red crystal)
73. Eliza: Harvest White Crystal! - More flower seed (white crystal)
74. Eliza: Ship level 10 flower - Greenifier
75. Eliza: Raise Friendship levels (5 Fp or higher) - Vital Gummi
76. Eliza: Befriend a boss monster - Rune Crystal
77. Eliza: Gift (pineapple juice) for Margaret! - More seeds at General store (gold pumpkin)
78. Eliza: Get 25% shipment rate! - More vegetable seeds (gold cabbage)
79. Eliza: Raise total shipment fee (1million G)! - Turnip Heaven recipe
80. Eliza: Give a Turnip Heaven - More vegetable seeds (gold turnip)
81. Eliza: Harvest almost all crops (except emery)! - More flower seeds (emery)
82. Eliza: Harvest a large gold crop! - Ultimate & Royal Curries recipe
83. Eliza: Harvest all crop! - Union Stew Recipe
84. Eliza: Ship gold level 10 crop! - Gold Juice recipe
85. Eliza: Raise skill level to 50! - small crystal
86. Eliza: Befriend 50 monsters! - Fried Udon recipe
87. Eliza: Raise friendship level (10 FP or higher) - Love Potion recipe
88. Eliza: Get 50% shipment rate! - Courage Badge recipe
89. Eliza: Raise skill level to 80! - Protein, Intelligencer, Vital Gummi, Heart Drink recipe
90. Eliza: Complete Sharance Maze! - Leveliser recipe
91. Eliza: Prepare for Marriage! - Engagement Ring recipe
92. Eliza: From Eliza... - ???

Get out on the Right Side of the Bed

Save before bed if and if you don't like the weather that day, soft reset (Left + Right + Start) and the weather may change.

Exceptions are Typhoons, Runey weather, and festival days, which are predetermined/hardcoded for your game.

You can also do this if you're not happy with the number of seeds that drop, the number of fruit that spawn on your trees or if a number of withered plants appear.

Reuse Field Dungeons and Twinkle Trees indefinitely

Till withered grass, corn and/or clover into the plots containing these to ensure that the CROP Health Point is high to save on time growing another.

10k Gold Mushroom

From the Idra Hill save point, go east twice.

There is a chance the HIDDEN mushroom (not a visible drop) that sells for 10k near the big mushroom at the top right, just above the west exit. If you can't find it, try bringing a pet or person so the little red chest indicator will tell you if it's there.

Some source says you can leave the screen and come back and it might respawn, but the mushroom did not respawn after multiple tries. If it does, but just has a very low respawn rate, it doesn't seem to be worth the time wasted running between screens.

Regardless, the 10k is really useful up until end-game if you happen to be in the area.

More to come later as I remember/discover.

Rune Factory 4: Soil Stats and Crop Stats Guide

2016-05-21T21:57:00.002-04:00

Two "number" stats?! Speed vs growth?! Two "quality" Stats?! What is going on in the information windows?!

Once you break it down, it's actually not so bad! Ok, it's still bad, but not as bad.

Soil Stats

Grab a magnifying glass from the Flower Shop and use it on an untilled part of a plot, making sure the entire tile is highlighted in red, to see the plot's soil stats:

Targeting the entire plot shows you the stats for all of the soil in the highlighted plot.

[Overall] 16.36

[Spd.] 8.81 [Ql.] 8.93

[No.] 8.33 [Sz.] 9.11

[Grw.] 2.2x [Ql.]+0.17

[Health] 113 [Def]. 32

All crops in a 2x2 plot share the same soil stats. These five soil stats increase with successful harvest of crops anywhere on the plot.

In our example:

[Overall] 16.36

[Overall]

Level of the soil. Increases base Speed, Quality, Number, Size, which is said to be what the plot gravitates to when left to fallow. (Will have to verify since I'm not clearly seeing this.) Increased with successful harvest. Maxes at 16 regardless of decimals following.

[Spd.] 8.81 [Ql.] 8.93

[No.] 8.33 [Sz.] 9.11

[Spd.]	Base speed at which crops grow on this plot. Multiplied by Growth Rate and added to crop progress every day.
[Ql.]	Base quality points. Multiplied by crop Quality Rate and added to crop progress every day. If enough Quality accrues during a crop's time growing on a plot, the crop may level up.
[No.]	Max number of crops that can be harvested with Bumper Crop.
[Sz.]	Boosts progress towards Gigantic Crop every day when conditions are right (four fully grown same plants in single plot). Might involve other factors such as in-season, level, etc.

Soil Stat Modifiers

These stats affect the soil stats and can be temporarily manipulated by chemicals such as Formula A, B, C, Wettable Powder, and Greenifiers.

[Grw.] 2.2x [Ql.]+0.17

[Grw.]	Multiplier for soil Speed from using Formulas. Growth. Increased by using Formula up to 5.00. Decreases when crops harvested from the plot. Normalizes to 1.0.
[Ql./No./Sz.] +	Added to daily soil Quality/Number/Size increase. Quality+ increases from Greenifiers up to 2.00. Size+ increases from Gigantizer, decreases from Minimizer. Unsure where Number+ stat comes from, but it's there sometimes. Decreases when crops harvested from plot. Normalizes to 0. Ql.+ stat is particularly important when making the jump from Level 9 crops to level 10 crops.

Soil Health

Last but not least, the two numbers that keep the wheels in motion.

[Health] 113 [Def]. 32

[Health]	HP of soil. Allows crops to grow healthily. Decreases when crops harvested and when chemicals are used. Normalizes to HP respective to soil level. Increased up to 255 by fertilizers (withered grass, corn, clover hoed onto the plot).
[Def.]	Protects this plot from typhoon damage if above 32 defense. Increased up to 63 by Wettable Powder. Normalizes to Defense respective to soil level. Decreased by 8 points each time a typhoon's RNG selects the plot to be damaged.

Crop Stats

Then use the magnifying glass on a crop to see the crop's stats:

Don't be intimidated by all the information! The top two line are unique to the crop.
The bottom four lines are just the plot's soil stats rounded down.

[Crop Lv.] 2 [No.] 3

[Grw.] 31% [HP] 185

[Overall] 16 [Spd.] 8

[Ql.] 8 [No.] 9 [Sz.] 9

[Grw.] 2.2x [Ql.]+0.17

[Health] 113 [Def]. 32

In the crop stat info box, the actual value are simply rounded down.

[Crop Lv.] 2 [No.] 3

[Grw.] 31% [HP] 185

[Crop Lv.]	Crop level. Increases sell price and effectiveness of crop as an upgrade or ingredient.
[No.]	Number of crops expected upon harvest. Decreased if plant has withered, or if Poor on Harvest report. Increased if Bumper Crop.
[Grw.]	How far crop is into being harvestable.
[HP]	Health point of the crop itself. If HP of trees or Dungeons seed reaches 0, they will die/disappear upon next use. Increased up to 255 by fertilizers (withered grass, corn, clover hoed onto the plot).

How Much Each Crop Increases Soil Stats

This is where I must stand on the shoulder of giants and refer to someone else's research.

User Anketam posted an extensive table on the increase each crop gives to your soil. The guide discloses that some numbers may be slightly inaccurate due to plots changing after harvests, but this is the most comprehensive foray I've come across in my external research.

Seed Type	Overall	Speed	Quality	Number	Size
Turnip	0.50	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.00
Potato	1.00	0.00	0.03	0.25	0.00
Spinach	0.03	0.25	0.03	0.00	0.00
Radish	0.75	0.00	0.25	0.00	0.00
Yam	0.25	0.00	0.03	0.50	0.00
Pumpkin	1.00	0.00	0.03	0.00	0.25
Cucumber	0.25	0.00	0.03	0.25	0.00
Carrot	1.50	0.00	0.25	0.00	0.25
Corn	0.25	0.00	0.03	0.25	0.00
Strawberry	0.50	0.25	0.25	0.25	0.25
Leek	1.50	0.00	0.25	0.00	0.00
Pink Turnip	2.00	0.00	0.06	0.00	0.25
Green Pepper	0.25	0.00	0.03	0.50	0.00
Eggplant	0.06	0.00	0.03	0.75	0.00
Hot-Hot (Hot-Hot Fruit)	2.25	0.00	0.03	3.00	0.00
Fodder	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Bok Choy	0.50	0.75	0.03	0.00	0.00
Cabbage	0.75	0.00	0.75	0.00	0.00
Onion	2.50	0.00	0.50	0.25	0.50
Tomato	0.13	0.50	0.13	0.50	0.00
Gold Melon (Pink Melon)	0.75	0.25	0.25	0.00	0.75
Pineapple	4.00	0.00	0.25	0.00	0.75
Gold Potato	3.56	0.75	1.00	3.12	1.25
Gold Pumpkin	3.50	1.75	1.75	2.00	3.12
Gold Cabbage	3.12	1.56	3.12	1.56	1.56
Gold Turnip	3.72	2.50	2.50	2.50	2.50
Orange	2.50	0.31	0.31	0.31	0.31
Apple	3.13	0.50	0.50	0.50	0.50
Grape	2.81	0.43	0.43	0.43	0.43
Sword	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Shield	1.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Toyherb	0.25	0.00	0.25	0.00	0.00
Pink Cat	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.25
Moondrop	0.75	0.25	0.03	0.00	0.00
Charm Blue	0.50	0.00	0.03	0.75	0.00
Cherry Grass	0.75	0.00	0.03	0.00	1.00
Pom-Pom Grass	1.25	0.00	0.03	1.25	0.00
Lamp Grass	1.50	0.75	0.03	0.00	0.75
Ironleaf	1.75	0.00	0.03	1.00	1.00
Clover (4-Leaf Clover)	0.31	1.00	1.00	0.00	0.00
Autumn Grass	2.25	0.00	0.03	0.00	3.00
Noel Grass	2.25	0.00	3.00	0.00	0.00
Fireflower	2.25	2.50	1.00	0.00	0.00
Emery Flower	6.24	3.75	3.75	3.75	3.75
Blue Crystal	3.00	0.50	0.50	0.50	3.74
Green Crystal	3.12	0.50	0.50	5.64	0.50
Red Crystal	3.12	0.75	5.64	0.75	0.75
White Crystal	3.12	5.64	1.25	1.25	1.25

Source Credit: Anketam

The amount of effort put in to obtain such extensive amount of data is impressive, and a lot of the explanations have been very helpful towards explaining what each stat means.

That said, I do disagree with some of the conclusions drawn in the guide (such as the definition of the "Overall" stat, and Speed and Growth being interchangeable), but unless someone has knowledge of or dissects the actual source code, all information regarding these stats is simply a player's interpretation of a term and conclusion drawn from theorized testing, and I thank Anketam for posting this information.

Fire Emblem Fates - Tricks, Tips and Not Really Hacks

2016-05-06T23:06:00.001-04:00

Tricks

Recruit or buy skills from more than one character from a Castle in a day

Say you found a castle where you want to recruit more than one character's abilities.

On the battle preparations screen, save to a slot before invasion.
Proceed to seize the castle/clear battle, buy a skill/recruit a unit.
Save in a new slot.
Restart game from Battle Prep screen.

Repeat as needed. The character / abilities will be in your logbook.

Visit a castle more than once a day

If you visit something between 25-30 castles after visiting a target castle (you can just enter one and leave immediately), you can visit the first target castle again. This is presumably because your game maintains a list of recently visited castles and the first castle was kicked off.

This does not work if you try to access the same calling card twice in a day though. Enter via Castle Address search. Will update this after I've done more experimenting.

*Thanks to Useless Gross for telling me these two tricks.

Tips

What generally makes a castle a good visit?

set of harder-to-come-by skills for characters you have access to
easy to navigate layout
resources
not having to fight tooth and nail if you just want a quick skill-buy/recruit (referred to as "easy seize")

Visit castles based on rankings. The super high ranking ones are almost always "easy seize", translating into character good abilities and harvests with minimal effort. Get Calling Cards for castles you want to save to revisit later by talking to the owner.

Searching online through threads can also yield players who post their easy-seize, rare-skill castles addresses. Some are hit or miss though, as players change up their defenders and landscape since their posting.

Character planning: Public Spreadsheet in progress

Marriages - Children stats: Public Spreadsheet in progress

How reclassing and leveling works in Fates: Coming soon

Hacks

How do people hack and use cheats in Fates?

The short answer: 3DS Flashcarts. These are replacement cartridges loaded with software that you can modify to change how the 3DS reads games. These flashcarts, which allow you to play game images (ROMs), can be purchased from third party retailers, and may require a bit of research to get started up.

This is a whole other can of worms which I won't cover here. But to my knowledge, this is why some castles you see have all resources unlocked, characters with abilities they're not supposed to have (as in they're technically not supposed to be able to reclass to obtain the abilities), etc.

This all comes with a certain risk, and if you've updated your 3DS too often, some of the software/cartridges may not work with your system. If you brick the 3DS using the flashcarts, no warranty will cover it - it's all on you.

If you're interested in hacking, here's a comparison of several flashcarts compiled by Gbatemp.net .

For those who have already gotten their feet wet, a thread to get started with the hacking community is available on Serenesforest.net .

I don't hack. Will I be affected?

Because some hackers released characters with otherwise unobtainable abilities (most commonly - but not limited to - aptitude, which is only obtainable by Mozu and her child), there is a good chance you may accidentally buy or recruit characters with these hacked abilities.

Furthermore, castles with more than four resources are almost certainly hacked as well, and harvesting beyond four resources would mean you've benefited from hacking.

Links and Helpful Sources

Fates can be a real complex game if you want to theorycraft and number crunch for best stats, etc. Serenes Forest has a great compilation of detailed character/class statistics and other fine information. More verified sources to come.

Advanced Kairosoft Hacking (Android)

2015-05-23T04:00:00.002-04:00

Is this guide for you?

This guide is written for Android device users who want more from a game, and thrill in taking it apart (softcore) to examine how it works. While this guide will guide you through the rooting process, you may be required to do some of your own research. This is because every device is different and may require different tools to operate. Research, take precautions, step out of your comfort zone and enjoy the risks and rewards of hacking!

After reading this guide, you should be able to:

root your device, if you have not already done so.
understand, install and run an APK (Android Application Package).
understand how to search and edit memory addresses to modify apps.
efficiently hack any game through critical thinking.

As with all hacking, there is a risk you will hose your game as you explore - you’re taking short cuts anyway though, so bear with it and try again. ;)

Root your device.

You will need your device’s micro USB cable (usually the charger), access to a computer, and access to the Internet (if you have not already done your research and downloaded any necessary software).

Research. Look up your device’s specific model and how to root it. Instructions will vary, but it will generally involve the below.
Precaution. Charge and backup your device.
Enable USB debugging. Some devices will “hide” this option to make it difficult for people to accidentally break their phones. For example, to enable USB debugging on my Nexus, I tap “Developer Info” several times before it gives me a message like “Congrats, you’re a developer!”
Unlock bootloader, AFTER MAKING SURE YOUR PHONE ALLOWS TAMPERING WITH THE BOOTLOADER. Some phone makers have installed software that will brick your phone if the bootloader is messed with. For some systems, there are hacks to get around the bricking software (at your own risk). This step will vary greatly depending on your phone and preferences. Unlocking the bootloader allows you to select what system to boot up your phone with (you will install this next).
Do your best to ensure the site you are using is trustworthy. Now that you have allowed external devices to interact with your device, plug your Android device into the computer. Restart your device in Bootloader mode.
Download the bootloader from the site (should be a small collection of files). Follow instructions and run the files you just downloaded while plugged in.
Download and install SBGameHacker, GameGuardian or your preferred memory scanner/hacker (I prefer SBGameHacker) on your device (you can use a browser or transfer it from your computer).
Play around and verify that everything works fine, and you’re good to go.

Hacking Kairosoft’s Bonbon Cakery

Since this game is free, the developers have made this game particularly difficult to hack (still not too bad though!). Consequently, this has been one of the more enjoyable games to hack for me.

I have purchased every single one of Kairosoft’s games at least once - over two iPhone devices and one Android device - and heavily contributed to the community over the years. I highly suggest you support the developers one way or another if you enjoy their games, though the decision is up to you.

Getting Medals:

Prep: Unlock Lucky Spin by playing for a while. Make sure you have at least 600 SP (Sweet Points) by selling some recipes or through some other means. You only really need 400, but as safeguard against bad luck, 600+ is best.

Open your preferred memory scanner (I will be using SBGameHacker.)
Make sure you are searching a single known value if there is a settings option (the Normal mode, or NM in SBGameHacker).
Search for the current SP balance.
Hit the Android “back” button so as not to wipe the results. Spin the SP Lucky Wheel so that the SP balance decrements.
Open the scanner again (doesn’t matter if you stop the spinning or not) and search the new SP balance. There should be only one result listed as a memory address and integer balance. If there is more than one, repeat steps 6 and 7.
Change the value stored in the memory address up to the maximum of 9999. On SBGameHacker, do this by holding down the result until additional options pop up and hit “Value edition.”

Optionally, lock the value when you set it to keep it from changing. You will have to relock this value if you exit the game, as the memory addresses will be reset.

Spin to get as many medals as you want. Note that if you follow the rest of the guide, you will not really need that many medals to accomplish anything in the game.

Duplicating items.

Prep: Unlock the Items and Truck tabs by playing for a while. Obtain at least three of an item (most likely Candy, Product POP, or Pocket tissues - each of which you begin the game with one of). One way to do this is by running your truck a few times.

Open “Upgrade Ingr.” under the Items tab and pick any ingredient to upgrade.
Open your preferred memory scanner and search the number of any item you have 3 or more of. e.g. If you have 3 Candies, search “3.”
Use one of the selected item and search the new balance in the scanner. If there is still more than one result, repeat step 3.
Change the value stored in the memory address up to the maximum of 99. On SBGameHacker, do this by holding down the result until additional options pop up and hit “Value edition.”

Optionally, lock the value when you set it to keep it from changing.
Note that, technically, you can set the number greater than 99, but it will reset to 99 by default upon exiting.

Getting money.

Prep: Unlock the Truck tabs by playing for a while.

Send your truck out for any amount of time - 30 is quickest.
Search the balance the first time your truck makes a sale.
Search the balance after the truck has made other sales.
Change and lock the balance to however much money you’d like.
Wait for truck to return.
Profit.

Buying items you don’t have yet.

For SBGameHacker. Including rare Recipes, Staff Up, Shelf Up, Sweets Up, Add Training, Macaron Tower set, etc:

Prep: Unlock a recipe such as Shortcake or Chocolate cake by creating it in Sweets Creation. After Pumpkin Product stocks three or more of the dessert, perform steps 1-3 under Duplicating Items, by searching and buying the dessert.

Optionally, adjust the settings and make the scanner’s window opaque and open Pumpkin Products so you can instantly see any changes you make.

Hold down the resulting memory address to show additional options. Select Nearby Memory List. [Screenshot pending.] You should see a list of memory addresses with the memory address you searched in blue. Syntax should be something like “X.X.X.X” where X is the balance of the item you searched.
For any address where the syntax is “Y.Y.Y.Y”, where Y is an integer from 0 to 99, you may raise the value to up to 99.
Be warned: changing any other address falling outside of this pattern may permanently hose your game, lest you wipe your game data and start over.

I would also suggest you stick to memory addresses in the vicinity of the address you searched.
If you are new at this, check Pumpkin Products frequently to keep track of how you are doing.
Values near the beginning of the list will include Japanese recipe bases (that do not show in Sweets Creation) and items such as Staff Up, Shelf Up and Skill Up, which are very notable. However, you will still need Premium tickets to buy applicable items.
Values following Platinum XP will be items you can buy with medals.
At the very end of the list, you begin unlocking items purchasable with medals. Unless you want to buy these via medals, there is an easier way to obtain these items (explained below in Having every item in your inventory.).

Having every item in your inventory.

Perform steps 1-3 under Duplicating Items.
Perform steps 1-2 under Buying Items you don’t have yet.

The first and last usable items are Candy and Platinum XP. Memory addresses beyond these two bounds seem to contain garbage values, though you are free to explore at your own risk (I think one value solely decreases calories, but I will have to verify.)

Leveling Ingredients.

This should be a no-brainer by now. Save time and medals this way.

Use Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum XP to level your ingredients. Lock the values at 50+. You may need to exit to the Ingredient selection menu to reset the count.

Getting Premium Tickets.

Create one of every recipe separately to earn 20 tickets each. Earn up to 60 tickets by collecting the Kairo Club game of the day. I have not needed to try this yet, but supposedly, wiping the cache of Kairo Club allows you to collect tickets again, that day.

Level your staff and suppliers quickly.

For SBGameHacker.

Prep: Have around 20 medals per staff you wish you level, to be safe.

Optionally, buy “Add training” from Pumpkin Products by following the instructions in Buying Items You Don’t Have, above, to make this process easier.

i. Staff

Change your search setting to Combine (CB - for searching several values in a setting range.)
Go to train a staff. Search the staff’s three stats in the syntax “[PREP],[SPEED],[STOCK],” e.g. 60,90,120 without quotes.
Train your staff and search the staff’s new set of three stats.

Using any of the new training from buying “Add Training” will change all three values, increasing the chance of finding the exact three addresses containing the selected staff’s stats while using a minimal number of medals.

Once you have narrowed it down to 3 values, change the value to something like 600. Too high, and the staff may glitch.

ii. Supplier

Friendly reminder that your Creativity Points (CP) are refilled once you hit Level 2 of any supplier.

Same deal as Staff, except search [VOLUME],[TASTE],[AROMA] when the bars for the suppliers are displayed. Ideally, there should be six results. You can set all the results to whatever you want when the bars stop rising.

There is a chance the results may be inaccurate, or you may get more than 6 results - you may need to try again to fine tune, or take a risk.
You can save the 6 memory addresses once you find them by hitting ‘save’ on the scanner. The addresses will be the same every time you create a dish.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Hybrid Flowers Guide

2014-02-02T23:23:00.004-05:00

Slightly refreshed 7/12/19

Kitty of Mittens Dream Address: 5D00 - 00E7 - 5874

Flowers in ACNL

There are a total of 42 flowers in Animal Crossing: New Leaf. Twenty hybrids, twenty basic flowers, one 'perfect town' flower, and I'm going to include the oft-ignored dandelion. You can use flowers to:

Grow in town.
Display in your home
Obtain the Perfect Town* status.
Gift your animal villagers.
Wear on your person (in hair, or as accessory).
Display in your personal museum exhibition.

*Having the Perfect Town status for 15 days in a row earns you the coveted and symbolic Golden Watering Can, which waters flowers in a 3x3 square instead of a 1x1 square or cross shape (normal and silver cans). The status also allows the Perfect Town flower, Jacob's Ladder to randomly spawn, and unlocks the Flower Clock public works project.

Jacob's Ladders only spawn in a perfect town.

Getting All Types of Flowers

Basic flowers are flowers you can obtain without cross-breeding. You can definitely play and progress in Animal Crossing: New Leaf (ACNL) without ever having an hybrid in town. As a matter of fact, you don't really ever need to do anything in this lax, free-for-all 3DS game.

If you do decide you want more variety in your game, however, you'll need to start with the basics.

Basic Flowers in Town at Start of Game

Colors: Red, White, Yellow
Flowers: Tulip, Pansies, Cosmos, Roses

Misc: Dandelion (yellow or white puff - you can use these as you would basic flowers)

Basic Island Flowers

After you unlock Tortimer Island by paying off your first home loan and talking to ex-Mayor Tortimer by your docks, you can collect the following flowers while on island tours and bring them back to your town:

Red, White Yellow Lilies
Purple, White, Yellow Violets

Alternatively, there is a random chance for these flowers to spawn every day, despite not going to the Island. Villagers will also sometimes plant a random basic flower next to an existing one of the same type.

Basic Carnations

Second Sunday in May: Pink Carnation from Mom
Third Sunday in June: Red Carnation from Dad

One of each flower in game, in Kitty's personal museum exhibition.

One of each flower in game, continued.

Jacob's Ladder

If you achieve the Perfect Town status, there is a chance for a Jacob's Ladder flower to spawn. Despite being called Jacob's Ladder in game, the flower looks far more like a Lily of the Valley. Aside from obtaining this flower from another player, this is the only known way to get this flower.

Keeping your Flowers Safe

As long as you have fewer than 10 villagers in your town, your flowers are not safe!

The last thing you want is to spend much time and effort breeding your flowers, just to have a villager move in on top of your prized hybrids, crushing and wiping them off the face of the map.

Villager Move-In Behavior: Why it Matters for Hybrid-Breeding

First, there are several things to note about villager move-in behavior.

Villagers will settle in any spot 5 spaces across and 5 square spaces back.
They will not make extra room for cliffs, rivers, ramps or bridges, leaving you just one space to squeeze by.
They will make sure to be one additional spot away from buildings so there will be two total spaces between their house and another building.

A villager's house only needs one space between a cliff and itself, and two spaces between
another building and itself. This wasn't a safe spot for my hybrids. :( Thanks, Rizzo.

I made the mistake of thinking the space between the town hall and the cliffs was small enough that a villager would not move here because I thought they needed an extra space for the cliffs. I was wrong, and Rizzo crushed a few black and orange hybrids when he moved in!

Using Public Work Projects to Make Safe Spots

Armed with the 5x5 spaces knowledge, you can place Public Work Projects (PWP) to create a space smaller than that.

This public works project creates spaces where villagers cannot settle - therefore safe for flowers!

I placed a stone tablet at the corner of a cliff to create a safe spot. This creates a 5x5 safe spot.
Note that the red and gold flowers on the top left would not be safe if I did not have another project to the left (not shown).

The most straight-forward use of the fence Public Work Project.
Flowers can crossbreed in the fence, BUT only if there is space for a new flower to pop up adjacent.

Spaces directly next to buildings or public work projects are guaranteed to be safe
from being crushed by villager houses. Take advantage of this!

Although your house is not a public works project, it is a building you chose to place. Placing a house strategically can create ample flower safe-zones. I placed my house on a narrow strip of land between two rivers so that there's 4 spaces in front and behind my house. Since 5 spaces are required front-back for a villager's house, these flowers are safe!

I placed my house on a narrow strip of land between rivers so that there's 4 spaces
in front and behind my house so both sides are safe from villager move-ins.

Hybrid Combinations

If you're lucky enough to have one, Jacob's Ladders increases the chance
of two flowers spawning a hybrid instead of a basic flower.
This arrangement allows for pink (red+white) and black (red+red) hybrids to spawn.

Even if you knew nothing about cross-breeding flowers for hybrids, it's easy to accidentally breed hybrids simply by placing same-type basic flowers next to each other.

Two of same-type flowers of the combinations below must be touching. Side-by-side or corners.
There must be at least one empty space in the 8 squares around either flower for a new flower to spawn.
Spawn chances are calculated at 6am every day, when the town refreshes.

Jacob's Ladder to Encourage Hybrids

Planting a Jacob's Ladder increases the chance two flowers chosen to breed will produce a hybrid, instead of a basic flower. The exact percent increase is not currently proven or available.

List of Hybrids Using BASIC Flowers

This is a list of hybrids using BASIC flowers. For flowers that require two levels of breeding or special conditions, see the Advanced Hybrids section below.

HYBRID	PARENT A	PARENT B

TULIPS
Pink	Red	White
Orange	Red	Yellow
Black	Red	Red

PANSIES
Orange (Red/Yellow)	Red	Yellow
Blue	White	White

COSMOS
Pink	Red	White
Orange	Red	Yellow
Black	Red	Red

ROSES
Pink	Red	White
Orange	Red	Yellow
Purple	White	White
Black	Red	Red

LILIES
Pink	Red	White
Orange	Red	Yellow
Black	Red	Red

VIOLETS
Blue	Purple	White

CARNATIONS
White	Red	Pink

In the appropriate cases, it is also possible to breed Black flowers using Orange flowers instead of Red, but it seems to me the chances are slimmer because the Orange flower counts as half Yellow.

This way, if selected for cross-breeding, only a purple and white will
be paired up to maximize your chance at a blue violet.

To ensure you don't get unwanted combinations, such as purple violet + purple violet for yet another purple violet, arrange flowers you want to breed so that only they touch, as shown above.

Since there is space nearby, a blue violet can appear if you're lucky.

Note that the chances for each flower varies.

Advanced Flower Breeding: Two-step Hybrids, Hybrid Parents

Some colors require using hybrids (from Basic Hybrids section above) to breed more hybrids!

HYBRID	PARENT A	PARENT B
Purple Tulip	Orange Tulip	Orange Tulip
Black Cosmo	Orange Cosmo	Orange Cosmo

Special Red Pansy*	Blue Pansy	Red Pansy
Purple Pansy	Special Red Pansy	Special Red Pansy


Special Orange Pansy*	Blue Pansy	Orange Pansy
Purple Pansy	Orange Pansy	Orange Pansy

Special Red Rose*	Orange Rose	Purple Rose
Blue Rose	Special Red Rose	Special Red Rose

Gold Rose	Water a wilted Black Rose (you'll need the Beautiful Town Ordinance inactive for it to wilt) with a Golden watering can and wait til the next day.

* Breed "Special" basic-colored flowers on a beach where no wildflowers spawn to prevent confusion with Ordinary Basic-color flowers.

Breed "Special" basic-colored flowers on a beach where no wildflowers
spawns prevents confusion with Ordinary Basic-color flowers.

Aside from the Gold Rose, any same color flower can breed with its own for a CHANCE at
another of the same color. For example, two purple pansies has a chance of yielding a red pansy instead.

Arranging Flowers to Maximize Hybrids and Minimize Undesired Cross-Breeding

You can arrange your flowers to your liking while encouraging hybrids at the same time.

I go for a controlled natural/wild look in my arrangements. With this arrangement,
I most often find red and pink lilies, occasionally white, and rarely black lilies.

Maximize the chance desirable breeding occurs by isolating flowers you do not want to breed.

I do not want any more yellow flowers, but I do want them in my town. To do this, I arrange the flowers so that no two yellow flowers of the same type touch. This allows me to have them on display without the risk of them being randomly selected as one of the flowers to breed each morning.

You can display flowers without risk of them breeding.

You can also display multi-color flowers together without risk of them
breeding as long as no two of the same type touch!

Extra: Watering Your Flower vs Rain

Having the Beautiful Town ordinance in effect means you don't need to worry about watering your flowers to keep them from wilting and then dying/disappearing on you.

If you do not have the Beautiful Town ordinance in effect, watering flowers:

Prevents watered flowers from wilting the next day.
Revives wilted (grey) flowers and prevents them from dying the next day.
Increases the chance watered flowers will breed with another flower next to it the next day.

Rain will revive all wilted flowers, prevent flowers from wilting the next day, but will not increase the chance for existing flowers to breed.

Flower Spawning Rarity

The number of flowers that can spawn each day is random, but is affected by a few factors:

Beautiful Town ordinance. Having this in effect will increase the number of flowers that spawn every day. This can mean normal flowers or hybrids, again, calculated randomly.
The day following rain. More flowers appear than usual on days following a rain. It is not known for sure if these effects stack.
Watering your flowers. Doing so increases the likelihood two adjacent, same-type flowers will cross-breed and produce a new flower the next day.

Flower type also affects the chance it will spawn. Here is a list of rarity based on flower type from Liquefy's Acnl guide on GameFAQs. Liquefy generally provides very detailed and accurate information based on official guides and resources for a variety of games.

Most common

Red, White, Yellow Tulips; Red, White, Yellow Pansies; Red, White, Yellow Cosmos; Red, White, Yellow Roses; Red, White Yellow Lilies; Purple, White, Yellow Violets; Red, Pink Carnations
Pink Tulips, Purple Tulips, Purple Pansies, Orange Pansies, Pink Cosmos, Orange Cosmos, Purple Roses, Pink Roses, Orange Roses, Pink Lilies, Orange Lilies, Blue Violets, White Carnations
Black Tulips, Orange Tulips, Blue Pansies, Black Cosmos, Black Roses, Black Lilies, Jacob's Ladders
Blue Roses

Rarest

Adieu, Animal Crossing: New Leaf

2014-01-18T00:59:00.001-05:00

It's been a while since I've been so engaged in someone as intimately as you, Animal Crossing: New Leaf. But the time has come to move on to a past lover.

I was first introduced to Animal Crossing for Game Cube - albeit on an emulator. I didn't like it too much. The main character's face looked too geometrical. While browsing Reddit about five years later, I began seeing a lot of screenshots from Animal Crossing pop up on /r/gaming. It released June 9, 2013.

In late September, I was browsing Best Buy with M. Picked it up with no fanfare. My first venture into Acnl was exactly opposite that.

Lots of wonderful time with other ACNL-ers from the Reddit community.
This is a giveaway I hosted.

Kitty's House

Main character's entrance room. Having lost my game once,
I decided to keep names simple.

Entrance room. Lucky, my first favorite villager.

Right wing room - the Street Pass room for in-real-life passerbys to order from.
Contains most orderable DLCs, Gulliver items and most campsite items.

Right ring room, continued.

Back room. Cherry Blossom room featuring the minimalist series, blossom-wedding theme.
Tribute to an affectionate pair from my first game (lost during travel).

Cherry Blossom back room. Had really enjoyed collecting all ten bonsai in the set in my first game.
My in-real-life interest is still there, but I realize I'd need a lot more space and equipment than before.

Left wing room, featuring the sleek series and jazzy music room.

Left wing room, my cello corner. I like snacks. All the time.

Upstairs, featuring the astro series and a future-ish something something theme.
This is my banking corner, complete with modified matryoshka and piggy banks.

Upstairs, some of my favorite villagers, from left: Doc, Lolly, Peck, Cranston.

Upstairs, I really liked this series. The set comes the same shade of orange as the floor,
but you can customize just about everything to one degree or another.

Basement, snowmen series and two other favorite villagers. I got Rosie (right)
from a visitor from Reddit. Purrl (left) came from my alternate town, to my delight.

Ruby (the white bunny) was the other gift from the same Redditor.

Bunny's House

My other character on the same game. Bunny's entrance room featuring the complete 7-11 set.
Exclusive to Japanese games. There's a thread on Reddit dedicated to utilizing
a duplicating glitch and sharing otherwise unobtainable items.

Bunny's right wing, Rococo room. Created my own Matisse-style "La Bunny Danse"

Rococo set comes default brownish. Pink was okay I guess, but probably should have
tried out the other colors too, in full. Looks nice with carnation touch.

Bunny's house, left wing. This was supposed to be a restaurant-theme, in line with the 7-11
commercial zone. Bunny's house is also located next to Retail, near the station, adding to the
commercial zone idea.

Incomplete jazz cafe lounge upstairs, Bunny's house. Other rooms even less completed.

Last character on my main ACNL game is Puppy. Used mainly to feature seasonal
series pertaining to what a dog would see on walks / experience at home. Entrance room was
Autumn harvest themed.

Shopping Strip and Museum Exhibitions

For my record, I did unlock the T&T Emporium, three levels of shops,
including an especially snooty fashion giraffe I patronize for the sake of completing the catalog
(having had almost every item in game in your inventory at one point in time).

Also unlocked Katrina the Fortune Teller, which means completely
opening every shop possible on the strip.

Personal museum exhibit. Supposed to feature one of every flower, including hybrids I bred.
I keep forgetting which I've brought up, so there are a few missing, including the
final hybrid I cross-bred two weeks ago - the purple pansy.

Complete gyroid collection, Set 1/3.

Complete gyroid collection, Set 2/3.

Complete gyroid collection, Set 3/3.

In Closing

So what do I take from all this? Believe it or not, Animal Crossing: New Leaf is probably one of the most educational games I've ever played -- applicable to real life.

Went to the Science Academy in San Francisco. Was surprised I recognized a handful of the fish because I'd fished them up numerous times in game. Dab. Olive flounder. Dace. You name it.

Went to a creature-parts fossil-y collector's boutique in New York City. Recognized the tiger and goliath beetles immediately. Could put a name to that vibrant blue emperor's butterfly, and more.

Item names too. Gulliver is a traveling seagull in game that flies to various countries, states and continents. Pick stuff up to. I learned those stacking Russian dolls are called matryoshka. I learned about the Bocca della Verità, the Mouth of Truth, in Rome, Italy. I saw an electronic game machine on a recent trip abroad and recognized it, thanks to ACNL.

New Leaf also got me real interested in coffee. I'm generally not a coffee person, but working at Roost Cafe got me exploring the streets of New York, trying out various types of coffees before establishing, a few months later, that coffee's still not my cup of tea.

Complete 13-piece series: 36 out of 37

Gyroid Collection: 131 out of 131

ACNL street passers passed: 300+ (adding those from lost game)

Alright, so I'm not a total completionist. I can't bring myself to sit around and
fish / catch bugs endlessly. Twice. And more. But the buck stops here.

Map of my town. One guy moved out recently. I've filled the right side with
public works, which seems to do well deterring newcomers from making me
run across the map to make my rounds.

Coming up...

The Essential ACNL Flower Hybrid Guide.
As I impart my know-too-much-about-this-game wisdom.

Animal Crossing: New Leaf - The Stalk Market Strategy Guide

2013-09-16T18:28:00.002-04:00

On Sunday mornings, Joan, a brown boar, visits your town from 6am to 12pm to sell white turnips. Turnips serve primarily as a way to invest your money in the game's Stalk Market.

Easy money, right? There's a catch though! You have until close of business Saturday night of the same week to sell all your turnips at Re-Tail or all of your turnips rot at exactly 6am the next Sunday morning, reducing your valuable turnips into mere profit-less ant-traps.

Buying Turnips

To buy turnips, look for Joan walking around your town Sunday between 6am to 12pm. She will be selling her turnips for between for anywhere from 90 to 110 bells each, in units of 100 turnips.

So if you buy a single unit from Joan at 90 bells per turnip, you will be buying 100 turnips total costing 9000 bells.

Ten units stack to fill a single slot in your inventory, which is comprised of 16 slots. In New Leaf, turnips cannot be placed in envelopes.

To fill a completely empty inventory with turnips selling at 90 bells each, you would need 160 units of turnips, or 1600 turnips, costing 144,000 bells.

Storing Turnips

If you've been doing the math, a single full inventory of turnips, even at the maximum price of 110 bells each, would cost between 144k and 176k bells.

If you're new (like me), here's a bird's eye of costs in game: a second floor upgrade is 298k, and the most expensive upgrade to expand other rooms to 8x8 is 598k each. If you invest your money wisely, get lucky, and/or figure out some money-spots, you can accidentally/easily make a million by day 10.

So what?

1 million bells / 176k bells = ~5.68 full inventories of turnips.
~5.68 x 16 slots = 91 full item slots.

"Sure, I can manage to make that space," you say. "I have a gigantic locker, din'cha see? I'll stick em next to my clothing, my hats... oh here're several spaces next to my partial sets of furniture."

See where this is going? I have several million bells now... that's... a lot of turnips. Let's talk storage.

Storing Turnips, the TL;DR

ACNL UPDATE: Locker and storage space has been greatly increased in a more recent ACNL update. Feel free to disregard this section if the extra storage space has been made available to you in game already.

In your locker.

Pros:

Portable and ready to sell; don't need to gather up all the turnips before traveling.
Less chance of overlooking turnips, come time to sell.

Cons:

May have to boot out furniture/clothing/ore etc to make space.

On the ground.

You can drop stacks of turnips on the ground anywhere, like fruit, and they won't rot until Sunday 6am.

Pros:

The edges of the map is the limit. Ground is free, ground is everywhere.
Easy access, any time.

Cons:

Your villagers will see them as eyesores and complain about litter.
If you have internet strangers visiting for trades, etc, you risk losing investment if you are unfortunate enough to encounter wandering people with sticky fingers.
If you leave them in the Plaza, and a traveling visitor sets up camp on top of your turnips, you might as well have eaten your turnips.
If you leave them in a clearing, and someone moves in on top of your turnips, you might as well have eaten your turnips.

In your house.

Pros:

Safe.
Easily accessible.

Cons:

Extremely limited space.
Personal eyesore.

Second character.

Use your other character slot's house and inventory to store items/turnips.

Pros:

"Natural" storage integration.
Out of sight, safe-ish storage.

Cons:

Reasons vary from person to person (siblings, time consuming to switch, etc)

Second New Leaf game:

Pros:

Have all the perks of a second game (separate turnip prices, premiums, fruit, trade etc).

Cons:

Additional monetary investment: another game, access to another 3DS.
Additional time to move/access items at a whim.

Selling Turnips

Trends

1) the "constantly-decreasing" pattern,
2) the "large-spike" pattern,
3) the "small-spike" pattern, and
4) the "random-price" pattern.

The constantly-decreasing turnip price pattern starts Monday morning with a
price less than 100. Each successive price is a few bells less.
Here are some examples:

M T W Th F Sa
99 95 91 86 82 78 73 70 65 60 55 51
93 87 82 79 74 71 67 63 58 55 50 46
92 88 85 80 76 72 68 64 59 55 52 47
83 78 74 70 66 61 57 54 50 45 42 38
81 77 74 70 66 63 59 55 51 48 45 42

The large-spike turnip price pattern is a constantly-decreasing pattern that is
interrupted with five prices: a two-price run-up to a spike followed by a two-
price run-down. Usually, a constantly-decreasing pattern resumes after the
interruption. Here are some examples:

M T W Th F Sa
96 93 124 215 577 163 150 51 45 85 97 90
94 89 86 82 77 72 67 144 180 626 160 137
84 81 77 131 139 478 159 90 65 79 85 71
81 76 73 92 180 295 132 111 79 44 40 42
80 76 73 70 65 62 89 134 465 154 122 52
77 74 71 108 157 216 159 106 48 59 80 ??

The small-spike turnip price pattern also involves an interrupted constantly-
decreasing pattern. The maximum price is the fourth price after the
interruption (as opposed to the third price with the large-spike pattern).
Here are some examples:

M T W Th F Sa
126 142 150 152 149 68 64 61 56 52 48 43
93 90 86 82 101 133 188 211 205 89 85 81
79 75 72 106 122 153 160 154 66 62 58 52
65 62 57 89 103 128 132 129 46 42 38 34
53 50 46 43 40 36 32 113 89 145 180 168
38 34 30 128 119 163 168 152 77 73 69 66

Notice above that the "interruption" can start at the beginning of the week.

The random-price "pattern" really has no pattern; the prices jump up and down.
Here are some examples:

M T W Th F Sa
139 77 66 101 99 123 131 69 64 55 127 148
136 100 128 115 117 63 54 44 98 67 62 101
90 118 95 69 63 93 119 103 61 55 48 95
85 124 100 90 95 125 70 64 98 60 51 42
71 66 89 65 62 57 92 90 94 113 93 113

Riding the Market

I've found that a good place to find places to buy and sell turnips is on www.reddit.com/r/acturnips, where you can interact with other people playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf. While most people are civil and fair, there will/may be scammers/thieves. Participate at your own risk!

Note: it is general courtesy to leave a gift or tip for their time and efforts.

Determining Your Trend

The only way to tell what trend you have this week is to check in on prices every now and then. Turnips are sold at Re-Tail. Prices change twice a day: once at opening (9am; 6am with the Early Bird ordinance), and then again at noon.

Every time the price changes when you check, add the new price to the text line, separated by a comma. Obviously, the more data points you have, the more accurate and meaningful your results will be!

Kurt Boyer created a prediction tool to help you determine which trend you have.

Sims 3 Cheat Sheet and Sims Exchange

2013-02-26T22:08:00.001-05:00

Basic and "Official" Sims 3 Cheat

Press [control] [shift] [c]. Type " testingcheatsenabled true ".

Nothing will visibly happen. To activate cheat commands, shift click anything and play around carefully! Most useful commands such as refilling all need bars, making needs static (meaning they don't change), will be accessible by shift clicking your active household's mailbox.

Some things you can do in this mode:

top off all need bars for everyone in the active household
freeze all need bars for every in the active household
hard change a sim's career and career level (if they do not have the qualifications, they will perform poorly at work)
make a sim know everyone in the sim world
teleport your sims almost anywhere
buy/build on a community lot
delete objects

No more spoilers. More fun to explore. :) I personally use this to focus my time on getting through the content more quickly. You can only direct your sims to eat, sleep, bio and walk around so much before you get bored. At least for me.

Buy Special Items

Press [control] [shift] [c]. Type " buydebug "

Opens a new tab with bug, fish, meteor and such spawners. Depends on which expansions you have, but may also include lifetime happiness objects such as weather changers, hoverbed, various magic gnome, various items usually not for purchase. I use this when I don't feel like walking all over the place to catch bugs etc. It's also nice to have if you'd like fish in a pond on your lot, though you technically can fill a pond without cheating as well.

Sharing My Main Household

I'd worked on my main household for countless hours. Fourleaf was played and uploaded with:

World Adventures,
Ambitions,
Late Night,
Generations and
Pets.

Stuff packs include:

High-End Loft,
Fast Lane,
Outdoor Living.

If you don't have some of the stuff packs, items will just be replaced by something you have (a fancy-schmancy bathtub would be replaced with one you have).

This household consists of:

3 female (young?) adults: Emma, Tenya, Maid
1 female toddler: forgot-her-name
1 horse: Seacookie
1 kitten: Satie
1 puppy: Preston

You can view and download via the official Sims3 exchange site.

I wanted to focus on exploring content while building character depth, so I kept romantic relationships out of the picture to keep the three "tight." The main characters possess large and diverse skill sets - most of which are maxed out - include nectarmaking, writing, martial arts, photography, sculpting, guitar, gardening, fishing, painting, and some other skill sets.

Biography

Emma is more of a humanities type because I had my fill of the exact opposite with a super-scientist-tinkerer-and-stuff couple years ago (a male and female robot eventually joined their family). She first hit level 10 writer profession, but upon uploading, that history is lost, so she's a sculptor right now. She's closest to Satie the kitten.

Tenya focused on a life of balance and martial arts. At some point, she had too much time to think, and now she's a level 10 mastermind in the criminal career track, earning the golden fox item that grants her +mood for admiring it. She's the disciplined, athletic and composed type and enjoys being outdoors. She's closest to Seacookie the horse, and in a now-lost save file, she was level 10 riding.

Maid is ... well you know. Actually, since she's done her duties so well and hit level 10 in the gardening profession, she was able to become a level 10 head chef person dude, earning the family a fancy fridge in which food never spoils. Additionally, being in the same room as the fridge gives you a +moodlet for a few hours, and since the kitchen and living area in the room is connected, you can bet that happens a lot.

The House

This lot features an extensive garden-garden. I don't mean flowers and stuff, I mean like fruits and veggies. Most of the crops are perfect-quality, though it seems the crops version I uploaded have just excellent and outstanding qualities as well, making this household perfect for those who want to start off somewhere higher and have room to grow. Crops include cheese plants, death plant, life fruit, flame fruit, the ones from world adventures as well as the usual lot.

To recap features:

one complete artifacts set from World Adventure
several incomplete sets
completed tomb obstacles, this and all the above obtained via exploring legit tomb raiding
character with complete recipes up to Pets
perfect-quality garden, with some missing as a result of extended game play / didn't feel like planting constantly
inventory with plenty of high quality crops, fish, gems, travel items
huge wine cellar area that instantly fulfills a bottomless cellar lifetime wish (tested myself)
photos throughout the house with photos and paintings taken by the sims who live there.

O! Edo Town Spreadsheet

2013-01-09T17:05:00.001-05:00

I've started up O! Edo Town again, which I play during down time (really!). I tried moderately to look up combo lists and spreadsheets, but just sort of love to put together my own sometimes, so I've started up an Edo Town spreadsheet.

~~If you like working on spreadsheets or adding your findings, feel free to edit the spreadsheet! :)~~ Here's the link. Spreadsheet work suspended. Link still available for data salvaging.

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Notes: Looks as if crafts combos are not necessarily based on solid numbers. Several trials revealed that craft gains are based on the overall yield of the shop. For instance, if a dumpling shop is over 245 yield, it cannot gain any more yield points via crafts.

However, using crafts on people seem to have a solid pattern. For instance, artisans always respond positively to arita bowls.

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Edit Feb 25, 2013: Turns out I'm not a big fan of Kairosoft's random points system. It makes more sense to me when golden chopsticks and fancy bowls would boost a restaurant's stats, and less when they're given to so and so that's unrelated. Maybe something was lost in translation, maybe I'm missing a reference. I beat the first scenario and dedicated the rest of my time in game trying to get everyone to buy a white horse (I got maybe 12-20 people riding these faster mounts) and figuring out how to turn more than one house into a small castle.

After Edo Town, I downloaded the trial version of the Kairosoft cruise game and Kairobotica. I didn't like either of them very much, but to be fair, I didn't give the cruise one much time. I read some reviews, and didn't like the idea of having no choice over what goes where beyond rooms and such.

As I draw near the end of my Kairosoft adventures for now, I would say my favorites would still be, in loose order:

Hot Spring Story
Game Dev Story
Grand Prix Story
Mega Mall Story
Pocket Academy
Pocket League Story
Sushi Spinnery
Venture Towns
O! Edo Town
Beastie Bay
Cafeteria Nipponica
Pocket Clothier

I haven't played most of the new ones, and I haven't dedicated enough time to pass judgment on Kairobotica or World Cruise Story.

I've spent my game budget on:

Ni No Kuni

The Sims 3

and some gourmet chocolate -- first time trying these.

The Denpa Men: They Came by Wave

2012-12-10T13:28:00.003-05:00

The Denpa Men: They Came by Wave ("denpa" in Japanese, "electric waves") is a 3D game you can download from the eShop on the 3DS.

The story:
Denpa men "live" in electronic waves around us. With your wireless turned on - you don't have to be connected to the Internet - you can catch Denpa men by aiming at any floating on your augmented reality screen. You'll find different Denpa around you depending on the electronic waves around you.

Denpa you catch live in a house, ready to venture into dungeons and have adventures. Ethics of catching guys and forcing them to fight for your pleasure aside, I've found this to be a nice casual game. It encourages me to go out more often to find Denpa guys everywhere and is a nice pastime for longer commutes or waiting in lines.

The catch:
Any Denpa you catch can be shared with others. If you found a really awesome / cute Denpa you'd like to share, you can put it's QR code online, and anyone scanning the code will be able to download a copy of the Denpa. As such, there are communities floating around with people sharing everything from QR codes for all sorts of special abilities to 'hacking' QR codes (basically changing the bits around manually).

I personally want to try catching more on my own first, since I think that's a big highlight of the game.

Anyway, for those interested, here's a forum with a list of every Antenna type in the game (don't worry about this if you haven't already started to game yet!)

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Sly 2: Band of Thieves Vault Locations & Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

2012-12-10T13:04:00.001-05:00

A friend introduced me to this game these past two weeks and I've been watching them play. I really like the storyline, art style and overall game design. It requires some skill to play, has excellent character development for such a kid-friendly game, and has all sorts of missions.

Vault locations for the second Sly Cooper game on PS2 (or PS3). Openable after all clue bottles have been collectioned on each level.

Level 1
Dimitri - In the Dimitri's office where the golden picture was replaced with the Sly golden picture, through the window.

Level 2
Rajan - Near where the code was written under the table and the area with red lasers.

Level 3
Rajan - In Rajan's office where you placed the Egyptian Water bug to bug his office.

Level 4
The Contessa - Near the bridge where you posed as a statue there is a building, not the Contessa's house. When you find it click L3 and a blue safe beam should pop up. You must crawl under to get to the safe.

Level 5
The Contessa / Constable Neela - In one of the crypts that you traveled through with Bentley. You can also go from Neela's side: go down by the water and go under where the Sly stole keys to get the voice modulator.

Level 6
Jean Bison- In one of his 3 cabins: the one where you stole the first blueprint out of the prized trophy fish.

Level 7
Jean Bison / Arpegegio - Inside the building where Sly had to point the laser outside of the window to unfreeze the log chopping book and the wooly mammoth.

Level 8
Arpegegio / Neela / Clockla- Inside one to the buildings that Muarry and Sly had to get rid of the oil.

Pressing L3 also causes a beacon with the blue safe to pop up, the same way it highlights your missions.

For those interested, someone uploaded a Sly Cooper comic (looks official) onto a Gaia forum. You may need to page past a few comments to see them all, but I thought it was a tastefully juicy read. :3

Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time

This is also a great source for Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time mask, treasure, clue bottle and safe locations. It includes maps, screenshots and reasonably detailed instructions on how to get each of these.

Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar - Girl Heart Events Schedule

2012-11-30T01:20:00.003-05:00

Stalker snowmen everywhere.

I've made a spreadsheet for HM - Grand Bazaar. It includes:

a) Weekly heart event calendar - See what days and times you should visit which locations, keep track of your heart events with each candidate (cross out each event as you encounter them)!
b) Searchable recipes list - Search which fish you can cook, what recipes use strawberries, etc! If you do not see a complete list here, filters may have been applied - check this post to learn how to use filters to narrow down your search. :)
c) Crop tracker - Keep track of when you can expect to harvest your crop with a pre-made table.

CSV file text if you wish to import the data yourself.

,Black,Purple,Blue,Yellow,
Freya,"Zephyr Café
» 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm - Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday
","Walk from Zephyr Town to the Waterfall Area
» 1:30 pm to 6:00 pm - Saturday or Sunday
","Zephyr Café
» 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm - Tuesday, Wednesday, or Friday
","Freya's house
» 10:15 pm to 12:00 am (midnight) - Sunday
","ALL: » Sunny, Cloudy, or Snowy weather"
Antoinette,"Walk from Zephyr Town to the Waterfall Area
» 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Friday, Saturday, or Sunday

","Walk from Zephyr Town to the Hotel Area
» 11:00 am to 2:00 pm - Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday

","Claude and Antoinette's house
» 6:27 pm to 9:00 pm - Friday

","Walk into your house
» 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm

",
Daisy,"Walk into the Hotel
» 7:10 am to 4:00 pm - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday
» 8:00 am to 12:00 pm - Saturday or Sunday

","Walk from Zephyr Town to the Hotel area
» 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday

","Walk into the Hotel
» 7:10 am to 4:00 pm - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday
» 8:00 am to 12:00 pm - Saturday or Sunday
» Stewart has 5000 FP (0 heart) or more
» Ethel has 5000 FP (0 heart) or more","Walk from the Waterfall Area to Zephyr Town
» 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Saturday or Sunday

» Not on a Bazaar day",
Sherry,"Walk from the Waterfall Area to Zephyr Town
» 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm - Saturday or Sunday
","Walk from Zephyr Town to the Waterfall Area
» 12:00 pm (noon) to 2:00 pm - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday
","Felix's house
» 7:00 am to 12:00 pm (noon) - Saturday or Sunday

» Sherry is at a blue heart color (20,000 FP) or higher
» Felix has 20,000 FP (3 hearts) or more","Walk from Zephyr Town to the Waterfall Area
» 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm - Saturday or Sunday
",
Emiko,"Enter the waterfall shrine
» 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
","Enter the waterfall shrine
» 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm

» Not on a Bazaar or Festival day","Walk through the waterfall
» 12:00 am (midnight) to 2:00 am
» Sunny or Cloudy weather
» Not Winter season"

Pocket Clothier Cheats, Tips, Tricks

2012-11-14T17:16:00.002-05:00

Extended Idea Room Research Time

Strategy A)

Have only one register at the top floor (or whichever floor is least convenient for your poor shoppers). This will result in less "style" points for each shopper because most will have to wait longer to be checked out, but it will greatly increase the amount of time your employees work overtime.

(This is so conceptually evil TT.)

Unlike Cafeteria Nipponica, where customers automatically leave at the close of business, time in Pocket Clothier will freeze at 22:00 until the last customer leaves.

Strategy B)

Have two registers in your store. At 22:00, when there are still customers in your store about to check out, delete one of the registers after one of the customers holding a green basket enters the elevator.

When the customer(s) exits the elevator, they will keep walking in place in front of the elevator for a long long time. This allows your employees to keep researching well past when the last customer should have left.

Strategy B is best used when there are almost no customers left to check out, since I don't think those customers ever get checked out.

(Don't do this if you work retail in real life please! D: )

Drastically Increase Revenue

After unlocking the Large Register, place the register and two employees with speed over 900 (not 9000) on a sparsely furnished floor to ensure the two employees will be the only two to constantly work the register (as to spending more of their time restocking etc).

After some time, you will get a notice saying customers really like the employees working behind the large cash register and are paying much more! You should then see customers paying, surprise, many times (not sure how to verify an exact increase) for their purchases.

Keep Employee Salaries Low

Early on, when an employee asks for a raise, you can turn that offer down at the cost of a loyalty point. You can earn that loyalty back using A) a loyalty manual you get from the Idea Room or B) agreeing to a raise later when the employee asks for a raise.

This means if you're at 10/10 hearts, you can reject a raise, lose a heart, and earn it back later. If you agree to the raise, you won't gain over 10 hearts anyway.

(This is such a terrible guide for real life managers-to-be. :sniffle: )

Elevator

In my opinion, the purchase of an elevator, if you don't care for using strategy B above, actually slows customers down, rather than make it faster. I've seen crowds stand in front of elevators for game-hours while the elevator ferries people to and from other floors.

More to come as I discover...

Other Tips

I'm not going to reinvent the wheel -- namely, I'm not going to write a guide for this when others have already done so, so I am going to redirect this section to Happy Enna's blog.

Sneak preview of Happy Enna's pocket clothier posts!

"Those are all the useful links related to Pocket Clothier on Happy Enna's blog.
Compatibility Guide - A spreadsheet and an image to help you match the clothes

Fixtures - Some fixtures unlock special items, some give good boost.
Shelves and Racks - The requirement and best position for shelves and racks.

Job List - You get some bonus if a matching outfit is recommended to your customer for their job interview.
Carry Over - Always good to know what gets carried over to your next playthrough so you can plan ahead.

Trophy List - Have you got all of them?
12 Month Sales Record - It's easy to make a profit but it requires a bit of planning to increase your profit every month for a year.

How to Earn Heaps - If you have trouble keeping up with the tax, then you want to read this. It's not about avoiding tax. It tells you the tricks to make lots of money easily. :)

Enna's Thoughts - Auto Stock is Not Perfect - I just had to complain a bit when I had trouble dealing with tax. But, it's true, it doesn't make sense. :p" - Enna

Creation and Sales of 3D Game Boards

2012-10-31T14:35:00.003-04:00

On the topic of legality of creating 3d printed Settlers of Catan pieces.

A perhaps more important thing to consider is to ask — as you would with music, movies, anything —
if you like something, would you support its creator(s) for what they have created? Especially if it’s not necessary for day-to-day life.

Those who would go so far as to acquire or create 3d pieces will most likely have played the game first (presumably on a non-3d set). While not necessarily true, creating a 3d set additionally generates publicity and attention for this board game.

If we’re looking at copyright from a monetary point of view (from company ‘losses’ from additional ‘copies’ of games being sold outside their jurisdiction), 3d printing is the equivalent of open source game code. Players are improving a game experience and facilitating its popularity – it would be suicide to stifle your consumers’ passion for your product.

Alternative solution: if the demand is great enough that it would be a problem, the company officially produces competitive quality 3d pieces and gets a slice of the pie.

G-Squier's laser cut Settlers of Catan set.

Harvest Moon: A New Beginning

2012-10-25T12:17:00.001-04:00

Having been tracked from Cali to east coast, My Harvest Moon: A New Beginning 15th Anniversary edition game finally arrived yesterday! Natsume announced a soft release, so they began shipping games out Oct 19th, instead of sometime Nov.

I like some of the changes they did make. Namely, picking up items automatically bags them, and (though I'm not able to yet), being able to change the placement of everything on your farm and customize your person's appearance, clothing aside. The giant crops are fun to grow, and you can get animals early again in the game.

Perhaps I'm spoiled by World of Warcraft level customer service and developer response (admit it - it's pretty top of the line stellar compared to any other developer-customer relationship out there of that scale).

In short, the tutorial / intros are sooo slow! I'd much rather explore on my own than spend 30 minutes being lead around (that wouldn't be so bad if the scenes shifted more quickly / people walked faster!). I also sort of don't like how streamlined the paths are. In Tree of Tranquility, you could walk on the grass on the other side of the fence and grab mushies and stuff, but here, you're only allowed on the path you're given, even if you're so sure your guy can definitely fit between that tree and rock. ~_~ Just a little frustrating. The 3D also seems to drain power rather quickly, so I play my 3DS docked.

Anyway, my greatest satisfaction comes from the plushie cow.

Enjoying new toys.

Although I realize I'm too impatient to play HM straight up, I love it anyway, and make do with what tools I have.

Harvest Moon: Tale of Two Cities - Action Replay Item Code

2012-10-25T12:00:00.001-04:00

Haven't used these for my game yet, but item hex codes for Harvest Moon Tale of Two Cities.

0 - 0000 - Nothing
1 - 0001 - Blue Feather
2 - 0002 - Gift Box: Red
3 - 0003 - Gift Box: Blue
4 - 0004 - Gift Box: Yellow
5 - 0005 - Konohana Outfit ( Male )
6 - 0006 - Bluebell Outfit ( Male )
7 - 0007 - Work Outfit ( Male )
8 - 0008 - Casual Outfit ( Male )
9 - 0009 - Urban Outfit ( Male )
10 - 000A - Classy Outfit ( Male )
11 - 000B - Wild Outfit ( Male )
12 - 000C - Konohana Outfit ( Female )
13 - 000D - Bluebell Outfit ( Female )
14 - 000E - Work Outfit ( Female )
15 - 000F - Casual Outfit ( Female )
16 - 0010 - Hip Outfit ( Female )
17 - 0011 - Classy Outfit ( Female )
18 - 0012 - Cute Outfit ( Female )
19 - 0013 - Delivery Cart
20 - 0014 - Picture 1
21 - 0015 - Picture 2
22 - 0016 - Picture 3
23 - 0017 - Dummy 5
24 - 0018 - Failed Dish
25 - 0019 - Turnip Salad
26 - 001A - Tomato Salad
27 - 001B - Onion Salad
28 - 001C - Potato Salad
29 - 001D - Herb Salad
30 - 001E - Caprese Salad
31 - 001F - Mimosa Salad
32 - 0020 - Boiled Spinach
33 - 0021 - Asazuke
34 - 0022 - Cucumber Namul
35 - 0023 - Tofu Salad
36 - 0024 - Pasta Salad
37 - 0025 - Daikon Salad
38 - 0026 - Mixed Salad
39 - 0027 - Dummy 6
40 - 0028 - Dummy 7
41 - 0029 - Dummy 8
42 - 002A - Dummy 9
43 - 002B - Dummy 10
44 - 002C - Vichyssoise
45 - 002D - Gazpacho
46 - 002E - Bouillabaise
47 - 002F - Corn Soup
48 - 0030 - Onion Soup
49 - 0031 - Pumpkin Soup
50 - 0032 - Soy Milk
51 - 0033 - Miso Soup
52 - 0034 - Herb Soup
53 - 0035 - Asparagus Soup
54 - 0036 - Radish Soup
55 - 0037 - Egg Soup
56 - 0038 - Soybean Soup
57 - 0039 - Shark Fin Soup
58 - 003A - Tom Yum Goong
59 - 003B - Pho
60 - 003C - Dummy 11
61 - 003D - Dummy 12
62 - 003E - Dummy 13
63 - 003F - Dummy 14
64 - 0040 - Dummy 15
65 - 0041 - Sauteed Turnips
66 - 0042 - French Fries
67 - 0043 - Potato Pancakes
68 - 0044 - Hash Browns
69 - 0045 - Boiled Potato
70 - 0046 - Cabbage Rolls
71 - 0047 - Popcorn
72 - 0048 - Corn Cereal
73 - 0049 - Boiled Egg
74 - 004A - Fried Egg
75 - 004B - Roasted Mushroom
76 - 004C - Steamed Mushroom
77 - 004D - Sandwich
78 - 004E - Herb Sandwich
79 - 004F - Fruit Sandwich
80 - 0050 - Raisin Bread
81 - 0051 - Jelly Bread
82 - 0052 - Curry Bread
83 - 0053 - Toast
84 - 0054 - French Toast
85 - 0055 - Butter Roll
86 - 0056 - Croquette
87 - 0057 - Cream Croquette
88 - 0058 - Cheese Croquette
89 - 0059 - Foccacia
90 - 005A - Quiche
91 - 005B - Galette
92 - 005C - Fish and Chips
93 - 005D - Honey Toast
94 - 005E - Canape
95 - 005F - Arancini
96 - 0060 - Dolma
97 - 0061 - Roasted Corn
98 - 0062 - Miso Eggplant
99 - 0063 - Roasted Eggplant
100 - 0064 - Baked Yam
101 - 0065 - Egg Custard
102 - 0066 - Sashimi
103 - 0067 - Fish Paste
104 - 0068 - Vegetable Stir Fry
105 - 0069 - Chop Suey
106 - 006A - Steamed Dumpling
107 - 006B - Pot Sticker
108 - 006C - Chinese Dumpling
109 - 006D - Curry Dumpling
110 - 006E - Cheese Dumpling
111 - 006F - Tempura
112 - 0070 - Spring Roll
113 - 0071 - Tofu
114 - 0072 - Okara
115 - 0073 - Fried Tofu
116 - 0074 - Deep-fried Tofu
117 - 0075 - Dried Tofu
118 - 0076 - Boiled Tofu
119 - 0077 - Cold Tofu
120 - 0078 - Yuba Tofu
121 - 0079 - Dashi Egg
122 - 007A - Simmered Potato
123 - 007B - Boiled Pumpkin
124 - 007C - Ganmodoki
125 - 007D - Boiled Daikon
126 - 007E - Shredded Daikon
127 - 007F - Tuna Yukhoe
128 - 0080 - Tteokbokki
129 - 0081 - Dummy 16
130 - 0082 - Dummy 17
131 - 0083 - Dummy 18
132 - 0084 - Dummy 19
133 - 0085 - Dummy 20
134 - 0086 - Omelet
135 - 0087 - Omelet Rice
136 - 0088 - Cheese Fondue
137 - 0089 - Tomato Fondue
138 - 008A - Pink Fondue
139 - 008B - Raclette
140 - 008C - Gratin
141 - 008D - Pizza
142 - 008E - Meuniere
143 - 008F - Marinated Fish
144 - 0090 - Risotto
145 - 0091 - Doria
146 - 0092 - Farmers Breakfast
147 - 0093 - Macaroni & Cheese
148 - 0094 - Penne Pasta
149 - 0095 - Dry Curry
150 - 0096 - Curry Rice
151 - 0097 - Vegetable Curry
152 - 0098 - Spicy Curry
153 - 0099 - Seaweed Curry
154 - 009A - Milk Curry
155 - 009B - Rainbow Curry
156 - 009C - Ultimate Curry
157 - 009D - Supreme Curry
158 - 009E - Sapghetti
159 - 009F - Mushroom Pasta
160 - 00A0 - Paella
161 - 00A1 - Stew
162 - 00A2 - Herb Spaghetti
163 - 00A3 - Spaghetti Soup
164 - 00A4 - Lasagna
165 - 00A5 - Pizzoccheri
166 - 00A6 - Moussaka
167 - 00A7 - Tofu Burger
168 - 00A8 - Egg Rice
169 - 00A9 - Egg Rice Bowl
170 - 00AA - Sushi
171 - 00AB - Sushi Bowl
172 - 00AC - Grilled Fish
173 - 00AD - Fish Stew
174 - 00AE - Rice Ball
175 - 00AF - Grilled Rice ball
176 - 00B0 - Rice Porridge
177 - 00B1 - Fried Rice
178 - 00B2 - Mixed Rice
179 - 00B3 - Mushroom Rice
180 - 00B4 - Shimeji Rice
181 - 00B5 - Tempura Bowl
182 - 00B6 - Inari Sushi
183 - 00B7 - Okonomiyaki
184 - 00B8 - Udon Noodles
185 - 00B9 - Kitsune Udon
186 - 00BA - Tempura Udon
187 - 00BB - Fried Udon
188 - 00BC - Cold Soba Noodles
189 - 00BD - Tempura Soba
190 - 00BE - Yakisoba
191 - 00BF - Tofu Steak
192 - 00C0 - Fried Rice Noodles
193 - 00C1 - Chestnut Rice
194 - 00C2 - Natto Rice
195 - 00C3 - Bamboo Shoot Rice
196 - 00C4 - Milk Stew
197 - 00C5 - Natto Roll
198 - 00C6 - Kappa Roll
199 - 00C7 - Tekka Roll
200 - 00C8 - Oshinko Roll
201 - 00C9 - Soy Milk Stw
202 - 00CA - Kimchi Stew
203 - 00CB - Crab Stew
204 - 00CC - Crab Omelet
205 - 00CD - Oden
206 - 00CE - Bibimbap
207 - 00CF - Dummy 21
208 - 00D0 - Dummy 22
209 - 00D1 - Dummy 23
210 - 00D2 - Dummy 24
211 - 00D3 - Dummy 25
212 - 00D4 - Yam Desert
213 - 00D5 - Pumpkin Pudding
214 - 00D6 - Chocolate Banana
215 - 00D7 - Stewed Apple
216 - 00D8 - Apple Pie
217 - 00D9 - Pineapple Pie
218 - 00DA - Strawberry Pie
219 - 00DB - Sponge Cake
220 - 00DC - Pudding
221 - 00DD - Cheesecake
222 - 00DE - Pancake
223 - 00DF - Donuts
224 - 00E0 - Cookies
225 - 00E1 - Chocolafe Cookies
226 - 00E2 - Ice Cream
227 - 00E3 - Cake
228 - 00E4 - Honey Cake
229 - 00E5 - Chocolate Cake
230 - 00E6 - Party Cake
231 - 00E7 - Chocolate Party Cake
232 - 00E8 - Party Cheesecake
233 - 00E9 - Chocolate Fondue
234 - 00EA - Trifle
235 - 00EB - Baumkuchen
236 - 00EC - Churros
237 - 00ED - Mont Blanc
238 - 00EE - Scone
239 - 00EF - Choco. Ice Cream
240 - 00F0 - Strawb. Ice Cream
241 - 00F1 - Matcha Ice Cream
242 - 00F2 - Choc. Sponge Cake
243 - 00F3 - Chocolate Donuts
244 - 00F4 - Chocolate Pudding
245 - 00F5 - Fondant Chocolate
246 - 00F6 - Fruit Parfait
247 - 00F7 - Soft Chocolates
248 - 00F8 - Strawb. Soft Choc.
249 - 00F9 - Matcha Soft Choc.
250 - 00FA - Tiramisu
251 - 00FB - Rice Pudding
252 - 00FC - Honey Pudding
253 - 00FD - Soy Milk Pudding
254 - 00FE - Egg Tart
255 - 00FF - Strawberry Candy
256 - 0100 - Sweet Dumplings
257 - 0101 - Bamboo Dumpling
258 - 0102 - Fruit Shiratama
259 - 0103 - Chestnut Bun
260 - 0104 - Green Rice Candy
261 - 0105 - Soba Dumplings
262 - 0106 - Soybean Rice Candy
263 - 0107 - Almond Tofu
264 - 0108 - Cherry Pie
265 - 0109 - 3 Color Dumplings
266 - 010A - Dummy 26
267 - 010B - Dummy 27
268 - 010C - Dummy 28
269 - 010D - Dummy 29
270 - 010E - Dummy 30
271 - 010F - Cooked Rice
272 - 0110 - Bread
273 - 0111 - Apple Jam
274 - 0112 - Strawberry Jam
275 - 0113 - Grape Jam
276 - 0114 - Blueberry Jam
277 - 0115 - Straight Tea
278 - 0116 - Herb Tea
279 - 0117 - Honey Tea
280 - 0118 - Rose Tea
281 - 0119 - Milk Tea
282 - 011A - Royal Milk Tea
283 - 011B - Russian Tea
284 - 011C - Spring Tea
285 - 011D - Summer Tea
286 - 011E - Fall Tea
287 - 011F - Gold Tea
288 - 0120 - Hot Coffee
289 - 0121 - Cafe au Lait
290 - 0122 - Cappuchino
291 - 0123 - Hot Milk
292 - 0124 - Hot Chocolate
293 - 0125 - Honey Shake
294 - 0126 - Yoghurt Shake
295 - 0127 - Green Tea
296 - 0128 - Matcha Tea
297 - 0129 - Sencha Tea
298 - 012A - Puer Tea
299 - 012B - Oolong Tea
300 - 012C - Buckwheat Tea
301 - 012D - Ginseng Tea
302 - 012E - Peach Juice
303 - 012F - Banana Juice
304 - 0130 - Apple Juice
305 - 0131 - Mandarin Juice
306 - 0132 - Mixed Juice
307 - 0133 - Mixed Smoothie
308 - 0134 - Plum Juice
309 - 0135 - Plum Wine ( Glass )
310 - 0136 - Apricot Wine ( Gls )
311 - 0137 - Sangria
312 - 0138 - Red Wine ( Glass )
313 - 0139 - Chicha ( Glass )
314 - 013A - Beer ( Glass )
315 - 013B - Honey Wine ( Glass )
316 - 013C - Chestnut Wine ( Glass )
317 - 013D - Spring Wine ( Glass )
318 - 013E - Summer Wine ( Glass )
319 - 013F - Fall Wine ( Glass )
320 - 0140 - 4 Seasons Wine ( Glass )
321 - 0141 - Fruit Wine ( Glass )
322 - 0142 - Rose Wine ( Glass )
323 - 0143 - Dummy 33
324 - 0144 - Dummy 34
325 - 0145 - Dummy 35
326 - 0146 - Cheese
327 - 0147 - Good Cheese
328 - 0148 - Great Cheese
329 - 0149 - Herb Cheese
330 - 014A - Good Herb Cheese
331 - 014B - Great Herb Cheese
332 - 014C - Yoghurt
333 - 014D - Good Yoghurt
334 - 014E - Great Yoghurt
335 - 014F - Fruit Yoghurt
336 - 0150 - Good Fruit Yoghurt
337 - 0151 - Great Fruit Yoghurt
338 - 0152 - Butter
339 - 0153 - Good Butter
340 - 0154 - Great Butter
341 - 0155 - Herb Butter
342 - 0156 - Good Herb Butter
343 - 0157 - Great Herb Butter
344 - 0158 - Mayonaise
345 - 0159 - Good Mayonaise
346 - 015A - Great Mayonaise
347 - 015B - Herb Mayonaise
348 - 015C - Good Herb Mayo
349 - 015E - Great Herb Mayo
350 - 015D - Chocolate Pack
351 - 015F - Miso
352 - 0160 - Natto
353 - 0161 - Dummy 36
354 - 0162 - Dummy 37
355 - 0163 - Dummy 38
356 - 0164 - Dummy 39
357 - 0165 - Dummy 40
358 - 0166 - Red Wine
359 - 0167 - Chicha
360 - 0168 - Honey Wine
361 - 0169 - Chestnut Wine
362 - 016A - Plum Wine
363 - 016B - Apricot Wine
364 - 016C - Fruit Wine
365 - 016D - Rose Wine
366 - 016E - Spring Wine
367 - 016F - Summer Wine
368 - 0170 - Fall Wine
369 - 0171 - Four Seasons Wine
370 - 0172 - Beer
371 - 0173 - Green Tea (Can)
372 - 0174 - Matcha Tea (Can)
373 - 0175 - Sencha Tea (Can)
374 - 0176 - Puer Tea (Can)
375 - 0177 - Oolong Tea (Can)
376 - 0178 - Buckwheat Tea (Can)
377 - 0179 - Ginseng Tea (Can)
378 - 017A - Black Tea (Can)
379 - 017B - Herb Tea (Can)
380 - 017C - Rose Tea (Can)
381 - 017D - Spring Tea (Can)
382 - 017E - Summer Tea (Can)
383 - 017F - Fall Tea (Can)
384 - 0180 - Gold Tea (Can)
385 - 0181 - Coffe Pack
386 - 0182 - Cocoa Pack
387 - 0183 - Dummy 41
388 - 0184 - Dummy 42
389 - 0185 - Dummy 43
390 - 0186 - Dummy 44
391 - 0187 - Dummy 45
392 - 0188 - Pickled Cucumber
393 - 0189 - Pickled Onion
394 - 018A - Pickled Carrot
395 - 018B - Pickled Radish
396 - 018C - Mixed Pickles
397 - 018D - Cured Turnip
398 - 018E - Cured Cucumber
399 - 018F - Cured Watermelon
400 - 0190 - Cured Eggplant
401 - 0191 - Cured Daikon
402 - 0192 - Cured Bok Choy
403 - 0193 - Cured Veggie Mix
404 - 0194 - Cabbage Kimchi
405 - 0195 - Cucumber Kimchi
406 - 0196 - Daikon Kimchi
407 - 0197 - Bok Choy Kimchi
408 - 0198 - Mixed Kimchi
409 - 0199 - Umeboshi
410 - 019A - Dummy 46
411 - 019B - Dummy 47
412 - 019C - Dummy 48
413 - 019D - Dummy 49
414 - 019E - Dummy 50
415 - 019F - Yarn Ball
416 - 01A0 - Suffolk Yarn Ball
417 - 01A1 - Great Yarn Ball
418 - 01A2 - White Alpaca Yarn
419 - 01A3 - Brown Alpaca Yarn
420 - 01A4 - Dummy 51
421 - 01A5 - Dummy 52
422 - 01A6 - Dummy 53
423 - 01A7 - Dummy 54
424 - 01A8 - Dummy 55
425 - 01A9 - Dummy 56
426 - 01AA - Dummy 57
427 - 01AB - Rice
428 - 01AC - Flour
429 - 01AD - Bread Crumbs
430 - 01AE - Rice Flour
431 - 01AF - Soy Flour
432 - 01B0 - Buckwheat Flour
433 - 01B1 - Shiratama Flour
434 - 01B2 - Dummy 58
435 - 01B3 - Dummy 59
436 - 01B4 - Dummy 60
437 - 01B5 - Dummy 61
438 - 01B6 - Dummy 62
439 - 01B7 - Honey
440 - 01B8 - Royal Jelly
441 - 01B9 - Spring Honey
442 - 01BA - Summer Honey
443 - 01BB - Fall Honey
444 - 01BC - Fruit Honey
445 - 01BD - Rose Honey
446 - 01BE - Dummy 63
447 - 01BF - Dummy 64
448 - 01C0 - Dummy 65
449 - 01C1 - Dummy 66
450 - 01C2 - Dummy 67
451 - 01C3 - Dummy 68
452 - 01C4 - Oil
453 - 01C5 - Curry Powder
454 - 01C6 - Chilli Pepper
455 - 01C7 - Edamame
456 - 01C8 - Rice Candy
457 - 01C9 - Sea Urchin
458 - 01CA - Seaweed
459 - 01CB - Truffle
460 - 01CC - Dummy 69
461 - 01CD - Dummy 70
462 - 01CE - Dummy 71
463 - 01CF - Red Boquet
464 - 01D0 - White Boquet
465 - 01D1 - Blue Boquet
466 - 01D2 - Sunflower Boquet
467 - 01D3 - Casablanca Boquet
468 - 01D4 - Colorful Boquet
469 - 01D5 - Dummy 72
470 - 01D6 - Dummy 73
471 - 01D7 - Dummy 74
472 - 01D8 - Rose Perfume
473 - 01D9 - Citrus Perfume
474 - 01DA - Herb Perfume
475 - 01DB - Flower Perfume
476 - 01DC - Ocean Perfume
477 - 01DD - Pumpkin Perfume
478 - 01DE - Snow Perfume
479 - 01DF - Dummy 75
480 - 01E0 - Dummy 76
481 - 01E1 - Dummy 77
482 - 01E2 - Dummy 78
483 - 01E3 - Dummy 79
484 - 01E4 - Stamina Booster
485 - 01E5 - Stamina Saver
486 - 01E6 - Angler's Dream
487 - 01E7 - Night Vision
488 - 01E8 - Feline Friend
489 - 01E9 - Canine Companion
490 - 01EA - Dummy 116
491 - 01EB - Alpaca Pal
492 - 01EC - Wild Animal Friend
493 - 01ED - Dummy 117
494 - 01EE - Dummy 118
495 - 01EF - Dummy 119
496 - 01F0 - Dummy 120
497 - 01F1 - Dummy 121
498 - 01F2 - Turnip
499 - 01F3 - Potato
500 - 01F4 - Cabbage
501 - 01F5 - Cucumber
502 - 01F6 - Asparagus
503 - 01F7 - Strawberry
504 - 01F8 - Tomato
505 - 01F9 - Corn
506 - 01FA - Onion
507 - 01FB - Watermelon
508 - 01FC - Pineapple
509 - 01FD - Pumpkin
510 - 01FE - Radish
511 - 01FF - Eggplant
512 - 0200 - Carrot
513 - 0201 - Yam
514 - 0202 - Green Pepper
515 - 0203 - Spinach
516 - 0204 - Daikon
517 - 0205 - Bok Choy
518 - 0206 - Pink Rose
519 - 0207 - Marguerite
520 - 0208 - Carnation
521 - 0209 - Casablanca
522 - 020A - Red Rose
523 - 020B - Sunflower
524 - 020C - Nadeshiko
525 - 020D - Gerbera
526 - 020E - White Rose
527 - 020F - Snowdrop
528 - 0210 - Gentian
529 - 0211 - Blue Rose
530 - 0212 - Wheat
531 - 0213 - Rice Stalk
532 - 0214 - Buckwheat
533 - 0215 - Soybean
534 - 0216 - Coffee Beans
535 - 0217 - Cherry
536 - 0218 - Peach
537 - 0219 - Banana
538 - 021A - Grapes
539 - 021B - Apple
540 - 021C - Mandarin
541 - 021D - Cocoa
542 - 021E - Spring Tea Leaves
543 - 021F - Summer Tea Leaves
544 - 0220 - Fall Tea Leaves
545 - 0221 - Fodder
546 - 0222 - Milk
547 - 0223 - Jersey Milk
548 - 0224 - Golden Milk
549 - 0225 - Egg
550 - 0226 - Black Egg
551 - 0227 - Golden Egg
552 - 0228 - Wool
553 - 0229 - Good Wool
554 - 022A - Great Wool
555 - 022B - White Alpaca Wool
556 - 022C - Brown Alpaca Wool
557 - 022D - Dummy 83
558 - 022E - Dummy 84
559 - 022F - Dummy 85
560 - 0230 - Dummy 86
561 - 0231 - Dummy 87
562 - 0232 - Snowball
563 - 0233 - Weed
564 - 0234 - Rock
565 - 0235 - Material Stone
566 - 0236 - Branch
567 - 0237 - Lumber
568 - 0238 - Moondrop Flower
569 - 0239 - Magic Blue Flower
570 - 023A - Magic Red Flower
571 - 023B - Bamboo
572 - 023C - Elli Leaves
573 - 023D - Chestnut
574 - 023E - Walnut
575 - 023F - Blueberry
576 - 0240 - Plum
577 - 0241 - Apricot
578 - 0242 - Bamboo Shoot
579 - 0243 - Shimeji
580 - 0244 - Shiitake
581 - 0245 - Trumpet Mushroom
582 - 0246 - Coral Mushroom
583 - 0247 - Brown Mushroom
584 - 0248 - Poison Mushroom
585 - 0249 - Mint
586 - 024A - Chamomile
587 - 024B - Lavender
588 - 024C - Honeycomb
589 - 024D - Small Coin
590 - 024E - Adamantite
591 - 024F - Amethyst
592 - 0250 - Emerald
593 - 0251 - Orichalcum
594 - 0252 - Gold
595 - 0253 - Silver
596 - 0254 - Copper
597 - 0255 - Scrap Metal
598 - 0256 - Sandrose
599 - 0257 - Diamond
600 - 0258 - Topaz
601 - 0259 - Pink Diamond
602 - 025A - Peridot
603 - 025B - Fluorite
604 - 025C - Mithril
605 - 025D - Moon Stone
606 - 025E - Agate
607 - 025F - Ruby
608 - 0260 - Jade
609 - 0261 - Stone Tablet
610 - 0262 - Mythic Stone
611 - 0263 - Ore Stone
612 - 0264 - Dummy 88
613 - 0265 - Dummy 89
614 - 0266 - Dummy 90
615 - 0267 - Dummy 91
616 - 0268 - Dummy 92
617 - 0269 - Brown Cicada
618 - 026A - Kaempfer Cicada
619 - 026B - Spring Cicada
620 - 026C - Princess Cicada
621 - 026D - Grass Cicada
622 - 026E - Opal Cicada
623 - 026F - Screeching Cicada
624 - 0270 - Chattering Cicada
625 - 0271 - Singing Cicada
626 - 0272 - Sitting Cicada
627 - 0273 - Evening Cicada
628 - 0274 - Bear Cicada
629 - 0275 - Rhinoceros Beetle
630 - 0276 - Pincer Beetle
631 - 0277 - Big Pincer Beetle
632 - 0278 - Atlas Beetle
633 - 0279 - Elephant Beetle
634 - 027A - Stag Beetle
635 - 027B - Anubis Beetle
636 - 027C - Hercules Beetle
637 - 027D - White Beetle
638 - 027E - White Morn Beetle
639 - 027F - White Hill Beetle
640 - 0280 - White Giant Beetle
641 - 0281 - Red Dragonfly
642 - 0282 - Risi Dragonfly
643 - 0283 - Sunrise Dragonfly
644 - 0284 - Amber Dragonfly
645 - 0285 - Crimson Dragonfly
646 - 0286 - Blue Dragonfly
647 - 0287 - Common Skimmer
648 - 0288 - Azure Dragonfly
649 - 0289 - Cobalt Dragonfly
650 - 028A - Ancient Dragonfly
651 - 028B - Yellow Damselfly
652 - 028C - Golden Dragonfly
653 - 028D - Pacific Dragonfly
654 - 028E - Aegis Dragonfly
655 - 028F - Emperor Dragonfly
656 - 0290 - Japanese Firefly
657 - 0291 - Black Firefly
658 - 0292 - Candle Firefly
659 - 0293 - Lantern Firefly
660 - 0294 - Pacific Firefly
661 - 0295 - Cabbage Firefly
662 - 0296 - Yellow Firefly
663 - 0297 - Mustache Firefly
664 - 0298 - Princess Firefly
665 - 0299 - Spotted Firefly
666 - 029A - Summer Firefly
667 - 029B - Emperor Firefly
668 - 029C - Tree Frog
669 - 029D - White-lipped Frog
670 - 029E - Red-eyed Tree Frog
671 - 029F - White's Tree Frog
672 - 02A0 - Spotted Pond Frog
673 - 02A1 - Small White
674 - 02A2 - Scarce Large Blue
675 - 02A3 - Nymph Butterfly
676 - 02A4 - White Swallowtail
677 - 02A5 - White Morpho
678 - 02A6 - Swallowtail
679 - 02A7 - Pale Cloud Yellow
680 - 02A8 - Comma Butterfly
681 - 02A9 - Ringed Butterfly
682 - 02AA - Oki Butterfly
683 - 02AB - Purple Emperor
684 - 02AC - Miyama Swallowtail
685 - 02AD - Purple Brush-foot
686 - 02AE - Velvet Brush-foot
687 - 02AF - Helena Morpho
688 - 02B0 - Longheaded Locust
689 - 02B1 - Piggyback Locust
690 - 02B2 - Kobane Grasshopper
691 - 02B3 - Kutsuwa Katydid
692 - 02B4 - Migratory Locust
693 - 02B5 - Cricket
694 - 02B6 - Spotted Locust
695 - 02B7 - Dirt Grasshopper
696 - 02B8 - Hira Grasshopper
697 - 02B9 - Emma Field Cricket
698 - 02BA - Spiked Locust
699 - 02BB - Eastern Locust
700 - 02BC - Cornered Cricket
701 - 02BD - Ant Hill Cricket
702 - 02BE - Dummy 93
703 - 02BF - Dummy 94
704 - 02C0 - Dummy 95
705 - 02C1 - Dummy 96
706 - 02C2 - Dummy 97
707 - 02C3 - Fish Bones
708 - 02C4 - Old Boot
709 - 02C5 - Old Ball
710 - 02C6 - Fish Fossil
711 - 02C7 - Legendary Treasure
712 - 02C8 - Letter in a bottle
713 - 02C9 - Sweetfish
714 - 02CA - Small Sweetfish
715 - 02CB - Large Sweetfish
716 - 02CC - Char
717 - 02CD - Small Char
718 - 02CE - Large Char
719 - 02CF - Eel
720 - 02D0 - Small Eel
721 - 02D1 - Large Eel
722 - 02D2 - Carp
723 - 02D3 - Small Carp
724 - 02D4 - Salmon
725 - 02D5 - Small Salmon
726 - 02D6 - Special Salmon
727 - 02D7 - Shishamo
728 - 02D8 - Small Shishamo
729 - 02D9 - Special Shishamo
730 - 02DA - Icefish
731 - 02DB - Small Icefish
732 - 02DC - Large Icefish
733 - 02DD - Sea Bass
734 - 02DE - Small Sea Bass
735 - 02DF - Large Sea Bass
736 - 02E0 - Loach
737 - 02E1 - Small Loach
738 - 02E2 - Large Loach
739 - 02E3 - Goby
740 - 02E4 - Small Goby
741 - 02E5 - Large Goby
742 - 02E6 - Funa
743 - 02E7 - Small Funa
744 - 02E8 - Large Funa
745 - 02E9 - Black Bass
746 - 02EA - Small Black Bass
747 - 02EB - Large Black Bass
748 - 02EC - Bluegill
749 - 02ED - Small Bluegill
750 - 02EE - Large Bluegill
751 - 02EF - Trout
752 - 02F0 - Small Trout
753 - 02F1 - Large Trout
754 - 02F2 - Killifish
755 - 02F3 - Small Killifish
756 - 02F4 - Large Killifish
757 - 02F5 - Masu Salmon
758 - 02F6 - Small Masu Salmon
759 - 02F7 - Large Masu Salmon
760 - 02F8 - Blotch Snakehead
761 - 02F9 - Small Snakehead
762 - 02FA - Large Snakehead
763 - 02FB - Smelt
764 - 02FC - Small Smelt
765 - 02FD - Large Smelt
766 - 02FE - Blue Crab
767 - 02FF - Crab
768 - 0300 - Small Crab
769 - 0301 - Small Blue Crab
770 - 0302 - Bonito
771 - 0303 - Tuna
772 - 0304 - Ocean Sunfish
773 - 0305 - Dogfish Shark
774 - 0306 - Moray Eel
775 - 0307 - Mackarel
776 - 0308 - Flounder
777 - 0309 - Giant Huchen
778 - 030A - Giant Salamander
779 - 030B - Dragon Carp
780 - 030C - Giant Catfish
781 - 030D - Snapping Turtle
782 - 030E - Dummy 98
783 - 030F - Dummy 99
784 - 0310 - Dummy 100
785 - 0311 - Dummy 101
786 - 0312 - Dummy 102
787 - 0313 - Spring Sun
788 - 0314 - Summer Sun
789 - 0315 - Fall Sun
790 - 0316 - Winter Sun
791 - 0317 - Red Wonderful
792 - 0318 - Orange Wonderful
793 - 0319 - Yellow Wonderful
794 - 031A - Green Wonderful
795 - 031B - Blue Wonderful
796 - 031C - Purple Wonderful
797 - 031D - Magic Water
798 - 031E - Dog Bone
799 - 031F - Cat Bell
800 - 0320 - Animal Medicine
801 - 0321 - Chicken Feed
802 - 0322 - Treat
803 - 0323 - Vegetable Treat
804 - 0324 - Grain Treat
805 - 0325 - Nutra Treat
806 - 0326 - Pet Food
807 - 0327 - Owl Food
808 - 0328 - Horse Treat
809 - 0329 - Fish Food
810 - 032A - Pot
811 - 032B - Frying Pan
812 - 032C - Spice Rack
813 - 032D - Dummy 103
814 - 032E - Dummy 104
815 - 032F - Dummy 105
816 - 0330 - Dummy 106
817 - 0331 - Dummy 107
818 - 0332 - Dummy 108
819 - 0333 - Dummy 109
820 - 0334 - Dummy 110
821 - 0335 - Hoe
822 - 0336 - Watering Can
823 - 0337 - Sickle
824 - 0338 - Axe
825 - 0339 - Hammer
826 - 033A - Milker
827 - 033B - Clippers
828 - 033C - Brush
829 - 033D - Bell
830 - 033E - Sthetoscope
831 - 033F - Fishing Rod
832 - 0340 - Master Rod
833 - 0341 - Snowboard
834 - 0342 - Skateboard
835 - 0343 - Blue Umbrella
836 - 0344 - Striped Umbrella
837 - 0345 - Ruby Red Umbrella
838 - 0346 - Indigo Umbrella
839 - 0347 - Dummy 111
840 - 0348 - Dummy 112
841 - 0349 - Dummy 113
842 - 034A - Dummy 114
843 - 034B - Dummy 115
844 - 034C - Turnip Seeds
845 - 034D - Potato Seeds
846 - 034E - Cabbage Seeds
847 - 034F - Cucumber Seeds
848 - 0350 - Asparagus Seeds
849 - 0351 - Strawberry Seeds
850 - 0352 - Tomato Seeds
851 - 0353 - Corn Seeds
852 - 0354 - Onion Seeds
853 - 0355 - Watermelon Seeds
854 - 0356 - Pineapple Seeds
855 - 0357 - Pumpkin Seeds
856 - 0358 - Radish Seeds
857 - 0359 - Eggplant Seeds
858 - 035A - Carrot Seeds
859 - 035B - Yam Seeds
860 - 035C - Green Pepper Seeds
861 - 035D - Spinach Seeds
862 - 035E - Daikon Seeds
863 - 035F - Bok Choy Seeds
864 - 0360 - Pink Rose Seeds
865 - 0361 - Marguerite Seeds
866 - 0362 - Carnation Seeds
867 - 0363 - Casablanca Seeds
868 - 0364 - Red Rose Seeds
869 - 0365 - Sunflower Seeds
870 - 0366 - Nadeshiko Seeds
871 - 0367 - Gerbera Seeds
872 - 0368 - White Rose Seeds
873 - 0369 - Snowdrop Seeds
874 - 036A - Gentian Seeds
875 - 036B - Blue Rose Seeds
876 - 036C - Wheat Seeds Seeds
877 - 036D - Rice Seedling Seeds
878 - 036E - Buckwheat Seeds
879 - 036F - Soybean Seeds
880 - 0370 - Coffe Tree Seeds
881 - 0371 - Cherry Tree Seeds
882 - 0372 - Peach Tree Seeds
883 - 0373 - Banana Tree Seeds
884 - 0374 - Grape Tree Seeds
885 - 0375 - Apple Tree Seeds
886 - 0376 - Mandarin Tree Seeds
887 - 0377 - Cocoa Tree Seeds
888 - 0378 - Tea Tree Seeds
889 - 0379 - Fertilizer
890 - 037A - Water Fertilizer
891 - 037B - Speed Fertilizer
892 - 037C - Bounty Fertilizer
893 - 037D - Last ( actual item name )

Harvest Moon: Grand Bazaar - Action Replay Item Code

2012-10-25T11:58:00.001-04:00

Was searching for the items list forever. Item hex for HM Grand Bazaar. This is for the mod code below. THIS WILL REPLACE THE ITEM IN THE FIRST SLOT, so make sure it's not valuable.

Inventory Slot 1 Mod Code

94000130 FFFB0000
1215B180 00000XXX <-- Item Value
2215B18A 000000XX <-- Amount (For the max of 99 items, hex code is 63.)
D2000000 00000000

Here's one I modified myself - this gives you 66 of the first item in your bag. Edit the hex '42' to adjust the number of items (if you just want fewer items).

94000130 FFFB0000
2215B18A 00000042
D2000000 00000000

For both, press Select to activate the effect.

Action Replay Item Numbers:

001 blue feather
002 gift box: red
003 gift box: blue
004 gift box: yellow
005 dummy
006 dummy
007 dummy
008 dummy
009 dummy
00a dummy
00b dummy
00c dummy
00d dummy
00e dummy
00f failed dish
010 mixed salad
011 turnip salad
012 potato salad
013 paprika marinade
014 onion salad
015 macaroni salad
016 tomato salad
017 caprese salad
018 pasta salad
019 herb salad
01A dummy
01B dummy
01C dummy
01D dummy
01E dummy
01F vichyssoise
020 gaspacho
021 bouillabaisse
022 corn soup
023 onioun soup
024 pumpkin soup
025 herb soup
026 asparagus soup
027 radish soup
028 egg soup
029 soy milk
02A miso soup
02B spaghetti soup
02C dummy
02D dummy
02E dummy
02F dummy
030 dummy
031 sauteed turnips
032 french fries
033 potato pancakes
034 hash browns
035 boiled potato
036 cabbage rolls
037 roasted corn
038 popcorn
039 corn cereal
03A miso eggplant
03B roasted eggplant
03C baked yam
03D boiled egg
03E soft-boiled egg
03F fried egg
040 egg custard
041 sashimi
042 fish paste
043 cauliflower saute
044 roasted mushroom
045 roast p. mushrooms
046 steamed mushrooms
047 vegetable stir fry
048 chop suey
049 sandwich
04A fruit sandwich
04B herb sandwich
04C raisin bread
04D jelly bread
04E herb bread
04F curry bread
050 toast
051 french toast
052 steamed bread
053 butter roll
054 croquette
055 cream croquette
056 cheese croquette
057 steamed dumpling
058 curry dumpling
059 cheese dumpling
05A pot sticker
05B focaccia
05C quiche
05D stew
05E tempura
05F galette
060 chinese dumpling
061 seaweed stew
062 spring roll
063 tofu
064 okara
065 fried okara
066 dried tofu
067 fried tofu
068 boiled tofu
069 cold tofu
06A yuba tofu
06B dashi egg
06C fish & chips
06D scone
06E dummy
06F dummy
070 dummy
071 dummy
072 dummy
073 omelet
074 omelet rice
075 egg rice
076 egg rice bowl
077 cheese fondue
078 tomato fondue
079 pink fondue
07A oil fondue
07B raclette
07C gratin
07D pizza
07E sushi
07F sushi bowl
080 grilled fish
081 fish stew
082 meuniere
083 carpaccio
084 marinated fish
085 rice ball
086 fried rice ball
087 rice porridge
088 herb rice porridge
089 milk rice porridge
08A fried rice
08B risotto
08C doria
08D farmer's breakfast
08E macaroni & cheese
08F penne pasta
090 mixed rice
091 mushroom rice
092 shimeji rice
093 tempura bowl
094 inari sushi
095 dry curry
096 curry rice
097 vegetable curry
098 spice curry
099 seaweed curry
09A milk curry
09B rainbow curry
09C ultimate curry
09D supreme curry
09E okonomiyaki
09F udon noodles
0A0 tempura udon
0A1 fried udon
0A2 cold soba noodles
0A3 tempura soba
0A4 yakisoba
0A5 spaghetti
0A6 herb spaghetti
0A7 tofu steak
0A8 fried rice noodles
0A9 milk stew
0AA paella
0AB chestnut rice
0AC dummy
0AD dummy
0AE dummy
0AF dummy
0B0 dummy
0B1 yam dessert
0B2 pumpkin pudding
0B3 chocolate banana
0B4 stewed apples
0B5 apple pie
0B6 pineapple pie
0B7 cherry pie
0B8 strawberry pie
0B9 blueberry pie
0BA strawberry sweet
0BB sponge cake
0BC pudding
0BD soy milk pudding
0BE egg tart
0BF cheesecake
0C0 pancake
0C1 donut
0C2 cookies
0C3 walnut cookies
0C4 herb cookies
0C5 chocolate cookies
0C6 ice cream
0C7 cake
0C8 honey cake
0C9 steamed cake
0CA chocolate cake
0CB sweet dumplings
0CC party cake
0CD choc. party cake
0CE party cheesecake
0CF toasted rice candy
0D0 bamboo dumpling
0D1 fruit shiratama
0D2 chocolate fondue
0D3 trifle
0D4 baumkumchen
0D5 churro
0D6 mont blanc
0D7 kurikinton
0D8 dummy
0D9 dummy
0DA dummy
0DB dummy
0DC dummy
0DD red wine (glass)
0DE white wine (glass)
0DF rose wine (glass)
0E0 champagne
0E1 strawb. wine (gls)
0E2 tomato wine glass
0E3 chicha (glass)
0E4 pineapple wine gls
0E5 peach wine (glass)
0E6 banana wine (gls)
0E7 orange wine (gls)
0E8 cherry wine (gls)
0E9 apple wine (glass)
0EA berry wine (glass)
0EB beer (glass)
0EC honey wine (glass)
0ED chestnut wine gls
0EE spring wine (gls)
0EF summer wine (Gls)
0F0 fall wine (glass)
0F1 4 season wine gls
0F2 sangria
0F3 matcha tea
0F4 sencha tea
0F5 puer tea
0F6 oolong tea
0F7 straight tea
0F8 strawberry tea
0F9 pineapple tea
0FA banana tea
0FB orange tea
0FC cherry tea
0FD apple tea
0FE grape tea
0FF muscat tea
100 blueberry tea
101 mint tea
102 chamomile tea
103 lavender tea
104 spring tea
105 summer tea
106 fall tea
107 gold tea
108 milk tea
109 royal milk tea
10A russian tea
10B apple jam
10C strawberry jam
10D grape jam
10E blueberry jam
10F hot coffee
110 cafe au lait
111 cappuccino
112 hot milk
113 cooked rice
114 bread
115 white bread
116 green tea
117 peach tea
118 dummy
119 dummy
11A dummy
11B cheese
11C good cheese
11D great cheese
11E herb cheese
11F good herb cheese
120 great herb cheese
121 yogurt
122 good yogurt
123 great yogurt
124 fruit yogurt
125 good fruit yogurt
126 great fruit yogurt
127 butter
128 good butter
129 great butter
12A herb butter
12B good herb butter
12C great herb butter
12D mayonnaise
12E good mayonnaise
12F great mayonnaise
130 herb mayonnaise
131 good herb mayo
132 great herb mayo
133 miso
134 red wine
135 white wine
136 rose wine
137 strawberry wine
138 tomato wine
139 chicha
13A pineapple wine
13B peach wine
13C banana wine
13D orange wine
13E cherry wine
13F apple wine
140 blueberry wine
141 honey wine
142 chestnut wine
143 spring wine
144 summer wine
145 fall wine
146 four seasons wine
147 beer
148 champagne
149 pickled turnip
14A pickled potato
14B pickled cabbage
14C pickled asparagus
14D pickled onion
14E pickled pumpkin
14F pickled radish
150 pickled carrot
151 pickled spinach
152 cauliflower pickle
153 pickled eggplant
154 pickled yam
155 pickled pepper
156 pickled y. pepper
157 pickled olive
158 mixed pickles
159 green tea (can)
15A matcha tea (can)
15B sencha tea (can)
15C puer tea (can)
15D oolong tea (can)
15E straight tea (can)
15F strawberry tea can
160 pineapple tea can
161 peach tea (can)
162 banana tea (can)
163 orange tea (can)
164 cherry tea (can)
165 apple tea (can)
166 grape tea (can)
167 muscat tea (can)
168 blueberry tea can
169 mint tea (can)
16A chamomile tea can
16B lavender tea (can)
16C spring tea (can)
16D summer tea (can)
16E fall tea (can)
16F gold tea (can)
170 coffee pack
171 citrus perfume
172 flower perfume
173 herb perfume
174 tea perfume
175 blended perfume
176 ball of wool
177 ball of good wool
178 ball of great wool
179 olive oil
17A herb oil
17B nut oil
17C grape seed oil
17D pumpkin seed oil
17E bottled walnuts
17F honey
180 bottled chestnuts
181 flour
182 bread crumbs
183 white bread crumbs
184 rice flour
185 dummy
186 dummy
187 dummy
188 dummy
189 dummy
18A soy flour
18B buckwheat flour
18C shiratama flour
18D curry powder
18E oil
18F rice
190 chocolate
191 soba noodles
192 soybean
193 chili pepper
194 edamame
195 rice candy
196 sea urchin
197 seaweed
198 shimeji
199 truffle
19A shitake
19B poison mushroom
19C dummy
19D dummy
19E dummy
19F dummy
1A0 dummy
1A1 turnip
1A2 potato
1A3 cabbage
1A4 cucumber
1A5 asparagus
1A6 strawberry
1A7 tomato
1A8 corn
1A9 onion
1AA pineapple
1AB pumpkin
1AC radish
1AD eggplant
1AE carrot
1AF yam
1B0 green pepper
1B1 spinach
1B2 yellow pepper
1B3 cauliflower
1B4 fodder
1B5 wheat
1B6 coffee beans
1B7 olive
1B8 peach
1B9 banana
1BA orange
1BB cherry
1BC grapes
1BD apple
1BE muscat
1BF blueberries
1C0 spring tea leaves
1C1 summer tea leaves
1C2 fall tea leaves
1C3 milk
1C4 jersey milk
1C5 golden milk
1C6 wool
1C7 good wool
1C8 great wool
1C9 egg
1CA black egg
1CB golden egg
1CC dummy
1CD dummy
1CE dummy
1CF dummy
1D0 dummy
1D1 snowball
1D2 weed
1D3 rock
1D4 material stone
1D5 branch
1D6 lumber
1D7 moondrop flower
1D8 pink cat flower
1D9 magic blue flower
1DA magic red flower
1DB toy flower
1DC chestnut
1DD walnut
1DE mint
1DF chamomile
1E0 lavender
1E1 honeycomb
1E2 small coin
1E3 bronze coin
1E4 silver coin
1E5 gold coin
1E6 adamantite
1E7 amethyst
1E8 emerald
1E9 orichalcum
1EA gold
1EB silver
1EC copper
1ED scrap metal
1EE sandrose
1EF diamond
1F0 topaz
1F1 pink diamond
1F2 peridot
1F3 fluorite
1F4 mithril
1F5 moon stone
1F6 agate
1F7 ruby
1F8 ore stone
1F9 dummy
1FA dummy
1FB dummy
1FC dummy
1FD brown cicada
1FE kaempfer cicada
1FF spring cicada
200 princess cicada
201 grass cicada
202 opal cicada
203 screeching cicada
204 chattering cicada
205 singing cicada
206 sitting cicada
207 evening cicada
208 bear cicada
209 rhinoceros beetle
20a pincer beetle
20b big pincer beetle
20c atlas beetle
20d elephant beetle
20e stag beetle
20f anubis beetle
210 hercules beetle
211 white beetle
212 white morn beetle
213 white hill beetle
214 white giant beetle
215 red dragonfly
216 risi dragonfly
217 sunrise dragonfly
218 amber dragonfly
219 crimson dragonfly
21A blue dragonfly
21B common skimmer
21C azure dragonfly
21D cobalt dragonfly
21E ancient dragonfly
21F yellow damselfly
220 golden dragonfly
221 pacific dragonfly
222 aegis dragonfly
223 emperor dragonfly
224 japanese firefly
225 black firefly
226 candle firefly
227 lantern firefly
228 pacific firefly
229 cabbage firefly
22A yellow firefly
22B mustache firefly
22C princess firefly
22D spotted firefly
22E summer firefly
22F emperor firefly
230 tree frog
231 white-lipped frog
232 red-eyed tree frog
233 white's tree frog
234 spotted pond frog
235 small white
236 scarce large blue
237 nymph butterfly
238 white smallowtail
239 white morpho
23A swallowtail
23B pale cloud yellow
23C comma butterfly
23D ringed buttlerfly
23E oki butterfly
23F purple emperor
240 miyama swallowtail
241 purple brush-foot
242 velvet brush-foot
243 helena morpho
244 longheaded locust
245 piggyback locust
246 kobane grasshopper
247 kutsuwa katydid
248 migratory locust
249 cricket
24A spotted locust
24B dirt grasshopper
24C hira grasshopper
24D emma field cricket
24E spiked locust
24F eastern locust
250 cornered cricket
251 ant hill cricket
252 dummy
253 dummy
254 dummy
255 dummy
256 dummy
257 empty can
258 fish bone
259 long boots
25A fish fossil
25B legendary treasure
25C letter in a bottle
25D black carp
25E amur minnow
25F red-spotted trout
260 sweetfish
261 ayumodoki
262 char
263 dace
264 eel
265 pale chub
266 large eel
267 aucha perch
268 sculpin
269 dark chub
26A crucian carp
26B gin-buna
26C big head carp
26D salmon
26E icefish
26F sea bass
270 grass carp
271 bitterling
272 silver goby
273 loach
274 amur stickleback
275 dark sleeper
276 barbel steed
277 rainbow trout
278 silver carp
279 three-lips
27A kokanee
27B black bass
27C bluegill
27D willow gudgeon
27E striped shiner
27F killifish
280 topmouth gudgeon
281 masu salmon
282 blotch snakehead
283 smelt
284 bonito
285 tuna
286 ocean sunfish
287 moray eel
288 mackerel
289 flounder
28A giant huchen
28B giant salamander
28C giant carp
28D giant catfish
28E dummy
28F dummy
290 dummy
291 dummy
292 dummy
293 dummy
294 dummy
295 dummy
296 dummy
297 dummy
298 spring sun
299 summer sun
29A fall sun
29B winter sun
29C red wonderful
29D orange wonderful
29E yellow wonderful
29F green wonderful
2A0 blue wonderful
2A1 purple wonderful
2A2 magic water
2A3 dog bone
2A4 cat bell
2A5 animal medicine
2A6 chicken feed
2A7 pet food
2A8 horse treat
2A9 dummy
2AA dummy
2AB dummy
2AC dummy
2AD dummy
2AE dummy
2AF dummy
2B0 dummy
2B1 dummy
2B2 blue necklace
2B3 purple necklace
2B4 black necklace
2B5 green bracelet
2B6 purple bracelet
2B7 blue bracelet
2B8 blue ring
2B9 purple ring
2BA yellow ring
2BB green ring
2BC ping brooch
2BD blue brooch
2BE green brooch
2BF yellow brooch
2C0 light blue brooch
2C1 purple brooch
2C2 dummy
2C3 dummy
2C4 dummy
2C5 dummy
2C6 dummy
2C7 dummy
2C8 dummy
2C9 dummy
2CA dummy
2CB dummy
2CC hoe
2CD watering can
2CE sickle
2CF axe
2D0 hammer
2D1 milker
2D2 sheep clippers
2D3 brush
2D4 bell
2D5 stethoscope
2D6 customer bell
2D7 short fishing rod
2D8 medium fishing rod
2D9 long fishing rod
2DA snowboard
2DB skateboard
2DC turnip seeds
2DD potato seeds
2DE cabbage seeds
2DF cucumber seeds
2E0 asparagus seeds
2E1 strawberry seeds
2E2 tomato seeds
2E3 corn seeds
2E4 onion seeds
2E5 pineapple seeds
2E6 pumpkin seeds
2E7 radish seeds
2E8 eggplant seeds
2E9 carrot seeds
2EA yam seeds
2EB green pepper seeds
2EC spinach seeds
2ED y. pepper seeds
2EE cauliflower seeds
2EF grass seeds
2F0 wheat seeds
2F1 coffee tree seeds
2F2 olive tree seed
2F3 peach tree seed
2F4 banana tree seed
2F5 orange tree seed
2F6 cherry tree seed
2F7 grape tree seed
2F8 apple tree seed
2F9 muscat tree seed
2FA blueberry seed
2FB tea tree seed
2FC fertilizer

Adventure Bar Story Recipes List

2012-10-10T10:42:00.002-04:00

Adventure Bar Story Recipes List

Just started playing this game. Seems okay. Still prefer Kairosoft games and certain other mmorpgs that I may have gotten back into... TT But taking a peek after my curiosity was piqued via Happy Enna's blog.

Credit to Fade to Slack for compiling this list. I simply put it into a searchable spreadsheet for my, and other players', own use.

Cafeteria Nipponica Cheats, Tips, Tricks, Recipes

2012-08-16T16:20:00.001-04:00

Using Filters

Using filters can help you easily find the highest-stat-yielding ingredient/combos to help you max out dishes most efficiently. Using filters also easily allows you to sort by recipes based on dish, ingredients used, price and stats -- all on one page! You can use filters on this spreadsheet.

How to use filters: To sort by highest price or highest total stat,
select the dropdown arrow under the category and "Sort Z --> A"

How to use filters: To see dishes created only from Curry n' Rice,
"Clear" the selections and check Curry n' Rice, or sort alphabetically.

"Instantly" Max out Floor Employee Job

Change the target's job to a level 5 Chef of any kind and wait for two or three months to pass. Then, change the target's job to Performer. Within the next month, the target will rapidly max out the Performer job.

To make the most of this, switch the person's profession back to the same level 5 Chef position, and repeat to achieve your target job (for instance, Popular Staff or Kairo Staff).

Example of optimal employee rotation:

Rookie Chef Lv5
Trainee (Instant Lv5)
Chinese Chef Lv5
Manager (Instant Lv5)
Japanese Chef Lv5
Service Master (Instant Lv5)
Western Chef Lv5
Performer (Instant Lv5)
Expert Chef Lv5
Recipe Master, Popular Staff, Roller Skater, Musician or Ninja (Instant Lv5)
5-Star Chef Lv5
Recipe Master, Popular Staff, Roller Skater, Musician or Ninja (Instant Lv5)
5-Star Chef Lv5
Possibly ~ Kairo Staff Lv5

If you want to keep your costs down, and don't care to promote the employee past Performer, simply alternate only between your level 5 Rookie Chef and the Floor job.

This works because kitchen employees level up a lot more quickly than Floor employees.

Perfect or Near-Perfect Dishes

First, to understand how ingredients affect dishes, read Happy Enna's well-written post. In a nutshell, dish quality are determined two ways.

1) Price, Taste, Appeal -- Depending on the dish, these usually have a cap, meaning some dishes cannot be better than grade A, B, C .. etc.

2) Health, Brain (Brilliance), Texture, Aroma, Appearance, Volume, Rarity, Charisma -- Increasing these generally increases Taste and Appeal EXCEPT when the ingredients used are incompatible with the dish.

A good way to max all stats is to go to this Ingredient Effects page where I've summed the totals, and use ingredients with the greatest total stat gain to boost up the lowest stats. Be sure not to leave Aroma and Appearance for last, as these are the most difficult to raise! When everything is mostly in or around the 90s, use Aged Cheese to top off the dish.

Starting the Second Game with High Income

Since dish stats and prices carry over, near mid to end-game, it may be a good idea to level up one of the starting dishes in prep for the next game -- if you think you might play a second game.

Price of Dishes
65 Chicken Bowl
65 Karaage
62 Veggie Stir Fry
55 Fried Rice
55 Shumai
52 Omelette
45Toast
42 Spaghetti
35 Seafood Soup
35 Udon
30 Salad
25 Rice

All dishes and their max price/scores can be found on this page highlighted in blue. Leveling a starting dish up to high price ensures that you can quickly start a new game with a lot of money coming in, provided you select the theme with the dish you leveled up.

Lower Stocking Costs Each Month

If you're going for a high score or just love making money, serve just one high-quality, high-priced dish, the monthly stocking cost of the dish is usually negligible so long as you're making more money per serving than the dish with a lower stocking cost. Customers do not care if you serve just one dish and will buy just as much food.

Conclusion

Kairosoft has not offered official "cheats", but I'm not sure these were intended to work the way they do - so tricks or cheats, whatever you want to call them.

If you don't mind registering for yet another website, a good beginner's guide is this one by Arcfox.
If you do mind registering, visit Enna's blog for more regarding Cafeteria Nipponica.

Questions? Other tips / tricks? Let me know!

Hot Springs Story Layouts: Improved Based on Popular Layouts

2012-07-16T17:19:00.003-04:00

Intro

Began: 2 years ago
Love: Pixel art style, attention to detail, content, control, world.
Comment: The company's games truly follow guidelines set up in its first game Game Dev Story!

About this Build

This layout is intended for the first playthrough in which Large Baths are available before the game ends, and sets us up for the future games. At the end of the game, your two Large Baths will:

1) Have the most effects it can carry over to the next game - see below.
2) Have some of the difficult-to-obtain effects - ones that require a large amount of space.
3) Emphasize Large Male Bath quality because:
a) Chimpan Z and Kairobot, the hard-to-satisfy characters, are male.
b) Female baths are easier to upgrade in each game, with less space requirements for more effects and Milk for extra Spa each game.
4) Maximize surrounding room bonuses with spread-out shops/facilities
5) Minimize spa-goer walking time to shops/facilities/baths.

Effects to be carried over at the end of the game:

Large Male Bath (+6)
+1 Senior (Jacuzzi; 2 stone, 1 vending )
+2 Youth (In-Crowd; 4 souv, 4 azalea )
+1 Adult, Senior (Forever Young; 2 fortune, 2 plum, 1 pond )
+2 Male (Springerade; 4 cafe, 4 vending, 2 bamboo )

Large Female Bath (+8)
+2 Senior (Jacuzzi; 4 stone, 2 vending )
+2 Women (Silky Smooth; 2 salon, 2 azalea, 2 stone, includes + milk )
+2 Groups (Fast Friends; 4 karaoke, 2 pingpong )
+1 Youth (In-Crowd; 2 souv, 2 azalea )
+1 Adult, Senior (Forever Young; 2 fortune, 2 plum, 1 pond )

Fame Pill adds 3 additional effects, depending on which bath you use it on (not included above).

These screenshots aren't completely accurate / final products. There needs to be an extra Karaoke room, and some other things. See the diagram below for a more accurate diagram.

Most Updated Diagram - Fixed some errors. 5/1/2013

* Four souvenir stands in a row. If you want people to access the two in the middle, read Shops and Facilities below. Maintenance isn't high for two inaccessible stands, and you can make much more use of an entire row of path space to make money back. If this bothers you like it initially bothered me, just think of it as a very large souvenir store. ; )

** Flexible - Start the road right outside the cafe and souv. stands or boost their satisfaction by adding scenery. Since the rooms are directly opposite the path above, I emphasized quality of visit over quantity of visits here.

! Move scenery around any of the free spaces on respective sides of the two rows between the baths.

*** Ping pong rooms stick out like the souvenir stands stick out.

**** Optionally add inaccessible facilities in the free spaces to boost effects before the end of the game.

Where most layouts position similar facilities and stores right next to each other, I position mine apart from each other to allow spa-goers to walk the shortest path to their desired destination.

I chose this slightly awkward build so that I wouldn't have to worry about squeezing 6 souvenir stands and 4 ping pong tables into my builds in later games. With some luck, the Fame Seed would make it easier for me to max my facilities (to be honest, I may not get around to future games, but I like to be prepared ^^ ).

Entrances and Rooms

I made a impromptu layout to demonstrate the logic behind my placements. For the second diagram at the bottom, grey arrows show people checking into their rooms. Teal arrows show them walking to facilities. This layout minimizes the time it takes for people to walk to their rooms and then to facilities. This usually generally allows late-comers to visit at least one facility before going to bed, increasing the rate of satisfaction and income by a lot over the course of the entire game.

Chimpan Z and Kairobot: I personally opt for quality over quantity. I tweaked the townhouse-style rooms many popular layouts use - the top right western room was where both Chimpan Z and Kairobot stayed. I boosted the Large Men's bath and surrounding facilities with a bit of popularity seeds and I was able to pass.

At the start of the game, I carefully counted out the location of where I'll be placing my baths, so that I wouldn't have to waste money later rebuilding everything. The receptionist has only been shifted back a tile or two after I unlocked it to make room for the Men's cafes.

The placement of scenery helps direct where people stay. If you want people to prioritize areas near baths for easier access, place your best scenery items near rooms there. This ensures that people won't leave rooms there empty and opt for an obscure corner room (as with the bamboo and rock above).

Green knobs show bath entrances. Spa-goers don't have to walk far between shop/facility visits, allowing for them to visit more places before going to bed (or going broke... I always feel bad when old couples go broke. Hope social security works in their world TT ).

Other Shops and Facilities

I began to build the Large Baths area after I purchased all the land deeds, made enough money, and unlocked enough shops/facilities. But I began with normal baths (below). Having rooms place directly before bath entrances maximizes satisfaction and income from spa-goers living there. After some deliberation, I decided I would rather have two inaccessible souvenir stands than forsake this row of rooms.

The bottom cluster of baths were the ones I used at the beginning of the game.

The only changes I made after building the large baths was remove some facilities that gave effects to the smaller women's bath. However, having the souvenir stands placed right above gave both baths the Youth Up effect! This way, we make the most of the large stands.

Effects on smaller baths:

Women's Bath

+2 Senior

+1 Adult

+3 Women (with Milk)

+1 Youth

Men's Bath

+2 Senior

+1 Adults

+2 Men

In the top left corner, I added a men's bath since the male baths were least accessible there.

I chose to maximize the number of effects, since I couldn't control who would visit which bath anyway, instead of target just one age group.

Improve this Build!

Have a better layout? Think you can improve this one? This is a copy of the spreadsheet I used to create this build - you may use it to plan your own layout and share with everyone!

Some sources I used to give me ideas for my personal build:

GameFAQs : Most complete guide I've come across to date. Has easy-to-ctrl-f format all on one page. Has some good layout ideas.
Videogameholic : Has layouts only. Liked this cause it has screenshots from actual game.

Pokemon: AR Cheat Codes

2012-02-24T17:51:00.000-05:00

--------------Personal notes on Pokemon AR----------------

Will find a forum about these later (still looking). In example below.

This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x900 Master Ball. Press L + R to Activate
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 03840001 d2000000 00000000

This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x100 Fire Stone. Press L + R to Activate.
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 00640052 d2000000 00000000

Difference is in number of an item, and item. I used this to find the hex value for 100, and then 900.

Decimal to hex for 900 = 384.Decimal to hex for 100 = 64.

In the 4th section of either, you see these number. So that's where the number of an item is determined. Only other diff in the memory thing are the next four digits. Therefore, we can assume 0001 = master ball and 0052 = fire stone.

Now just going to find what I can do to not just replace an item, but to add a list of items, and not 900 of every item.

Trainer's Bag
These cheats are for changing the contents of your bag in the game. Press L + R to activate any of these codes.

Items - 1st Slot (x900 Master Ball)
This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x900 Master Ball. Press L + R to Activate.
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 03840001 d2000000 00000000

Items - 1st Slot (x100 Fire Stone)
This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x100 Fire Stone. Press L + R to Activate.
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 00640052 d2000000 00000000

Items - 1st Slot (x100 Leaf Stone)
This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x100 Leaf Stone. Press L + R to Activate.
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 00640055 d2000000 00000000

Items - 1st Slot (x100 Moon Stone)
This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x100 Moon Stone. Press L + R to Activate.
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 00640051 d2000000 00000000

Items - 1st Slot (x100 ThunderStone)
This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x100 Thunder Stone. Press L + R to Activate.
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 00640053 d2000000 00000000

Items - 1st Slot (x100 Water Stone)
This code replaces the 1st slot in the Items bag to x100 Water Stone. Press L + R to Activate.
94000130 fcff0000 02233fcc 00640054 d2000000 00000000

--------------Turning AR Code Off----------------

So I turned on a code so when using an item, the item number would increment, not decrement, and was stuck with it on, even if I turned it off. O woe. I finally found a post someone made about how to turn off an AR code for good.

"TO TURN OFF THE CODE, you must save your game (within the game, not with a savestate), turn it off, and turn it back on."

--------------Bulbapedia Resources----------------

Bulbapedia has some good info about how the binary in game works. For instance, how personality works, or how the Pokerus virus works.

Aardwolf Quests, Task, Goal Guide

2012-02-03T08:50:00.001-05:00

For the MUD Aardwolf.

Why? Couldn't find a dedicated help site on this topic and Aardwolf wiki does not seem to allow editing. If someone searches enough, hopefully this will be helpful to someone in the future.

Who am I? Played MUDs long ago. Got back into it recently. Just beginning with Aardwolf.

How can I help? Further development may come if people actually use this. Please comment if you have anything to contribute! This is one of the few sources available, and it would be nice to expand it! Just leave a comment below.

What? Left out details to keep the game fun. you'll still need to figure out some parts yourself (story, actions, etc).

Quest / Task / Goal research resources:
Item / Equipment finder

1) listen [npc]
2) say key words -- names, items, 'yes'
3) nod
4) check 'task' for hints
5) find items in the room to read or examine
6) whenever you see "other" as an exit, type exits to see the custom exit command

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Task: Get a feather - necromancer assistant
Location: Necromancer's Guild
Task Start: guy at front -> spirit

drop a wheat seed before a white chicken -> chicken eats seed -> drops large egg.
pick up egg -> find animal keeper -> kill all cats in room -> drop large egg.
leave room -> return to room -> kill hatchling -> get feather from floor.
the necro's assistant is the mage to the north of the pens, not the priest's assistant.

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Task: kill weeds and ants at a farm
Location: the place you get the apple for the beginner's quest
Task Start: left west, in the farm, talk to lady

you kill a lot of ants and weeds on the farm and get a really really nice quest reward:

| Keywords : farm tangleweed breastplate
| Name : a tangleweed breastplate
| Id : 739578560
| Type : Armor Level : 1
| Worth : 500 Weight : 5
| Wearable : torso
| Score : 80
| Material : plant
| Flags : unique, hum, magic, V3
| Notes : Item has 1 resistance affect.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
| Stat Mods : Hit roll : +1 Damage roll : +1
| Constitution : +3 Intelligence : +1
| Wisdom : +1
+-----------------------------------------------------------------+
A full appraisal will reveal further information on this item.

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Task: Lidnesh : End the poaching in Li'Dnesh.
Location: Li'dnesh Forest
Task Start: Far west, open door, listen to ranger.

Trap the poacher on the log.

leather apron - poacher in camp
hares foot - hare
skinning knife

Trap the poacher in a tree.
tree root - in burrow
tree branch
bear claw

Trap the poacher with a bear trap.
crayfish claw - crayfish
leather wrist - poacher northwest or up tree east.
wildflower - bees hovering mid map

Trap the poacher who hears natures call.
leather cap - in tree to east
boar tusk - boar
dagger

Trap the poacher in the burrow.
antlers - moose
vine - tree to east
honeycomb - open honeycomb

Trap all the poachers.
Remember to check for a good spot to place your trap. - type "set trap" all over the map until you find the spots for the task. When you find the location for a trap, either a message will say you don't have all the items (they must not be in bags), or you'll place the trap.

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Task: Beer Gardens - Help seal the fate of Brewington's Elect.
Location: Beer Gardens
Task Start: west of entrance

Listen to ___. say laporta

go to brewington fountain, open door west. then go east again to find laporta.
"challenge laporta"

go west to brewing vats. go up to find jod the brewmaster. say "THE STRONG STUFF" in caps (took my friend and I forever to find out via a nice respondee).

Find binky the ogre in northern woods - his name's not in the description when you first walk in. say "the strong stuff".

get yeast, hops, blood and something else in the area below where you found jod. after you kill mobs, sometimes an object appears in the room. type "gather [the object]" for a chance to find one of each of the required items.

return to binky. he'll want money and a keg. go back to area below jod to find a keg. give keg 1000 gold and he will accept the keg at the same time and give you your bottle.

[trivia: after this point, if you go to jod, as long as you do not have a bottle of "the strong stuff" in your inventory, jod will give you another bottle]

return to laporta. challenge him again. if you pass out and fail, get another bottle and try again.

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Task:
Location: Dhal'Gora Outlands
Task Start: Ruarail (at Apothecary)

** Task Added : Return all the items requested to Ruarail.
** Task Added : Collect the body of a leech from the swamp.
** Task Added : Collect the croak of a frog from the mountains.
** Task Added : Collect a death blossom from the forest.
** Task Added : Collect the legs of a spider from the forest.

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Task:
Location: Necromancer's Guild
Task Start: a spirit on the right side of map

for a step where you need to sabotage elixirs and powders, when you find the storage room, you need to clear the room entirely and 'get all' from the shelves. if there are people in the room, you will not be able to do so.

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Misc hints:

Type "daily blessing" daily to receive nice bonuses.

"daily blessing
You bow your head to Ayla and receive your daily blessing.
You have the following daily blessing active:

Blessing Time Left
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Next 72 mobs killed will reward double experience 18:00:00
Ayla blesses you with 10 bonus quest points.
Ayla blesses you with 3 bonus training sessions.
Ayla blesses you with a Trivia Point Token."