Man, I love this game because it's so easy to break, haha. A few tips from a powergamer: 1) Not only does time freeze at night, but you can use it to get infinite work done. There's a hot springs up in the mountain. Every time you jump into it, it restores a bit of stamina. If you have enough patience, you can clear your entire farm plot of all debris the very first day of the game! If you REALLY want to min/max like a crazy person, you can earn a cool 900~1200G and still end up with I think three or four power berries, a completely cleared farm plot, 999 wood, max dog affection (you don't even have to pick the dog up 100 times on different days, just doing it 100 times in a row works just fine), and completely maxed out hearts with Eve before the start of Day 2. 2) Wild animals attacking your livestock is based entirely around if you have any broken fence pieces or not. Which means that, ironically, having NO fences at all on your entire farm actually makes your livestock immune to being attacked. That said, yeah, it's completely pointless to let your animals out so it's kind of a moot point. Also an interesting point about the dog - leaving it outside or bringing it in, even leaving it outside during a hurricane, doesn't reduce how much it likes you at all, but if you leave it outside, it will bark during the night if you have any broken fence pieces. It doesn't actually scare the wild animals off or protect your livestock, but it can make you aware of any broken fences if you're still using them. Personally, I always leave it inside, because it can get in your way and block your movement when you're trying to harvest your crops, wasting valuable daytime. 3) This may be kind of obvious, but you can put fences back into the wood bin to recoup the wood. Combined with the above tip, since fences are completely decorative, it can be handy to 'recycle' all of the pre-placed starting fences to get a head start on your housing upgrade wood. Also also obvious, but the tree stumps on the mountain respawn just by leaving and re-entering the area. So, again, combined with the infinite nights and hotsprings, you can always chop as much wood as you want in a single day. 4) Again, this seems kind of obvious, but since time doesn't pass while indoors and you get infinite time at night, the first thing you should do every day is tend to your animals inside the coops, then harvest all crops, then tend to relationships you're working on. Everything else can be done at any time and it doesn't matter, but shipping and talking to people are the only time-sensitive tasks. 5) If you want to get an estimate of how you're doing, you can hold L+R+Select when you go to sleep at night and the game will skip you right to the credits, then give you all of your ratings at the end. If you reset, the game will put you back at the next day as if you hadn't skipped. If you're trying to go for a "perfect game" or get all ending cutscenes, it's handy to check your progress.

Thanks for watching even when I upload videos about a 26-year-old game! 😅🥰

I know this is a year ago but the game came out on snes nintendo switch online AND THIS GUIDE HAS SAVED ME as a person who never played the old games

A few corrections, animals outside will eat mature grass, if they don't find any, they starve, meaning chickens will not lay eggs and cows can go sick. If you want to keep animals outside, best way is to make an enclosure of logs that has enough grass inside. You can actually go to sleep while holding something, so you can do one last trip to the mountains at night and get something to ship first thing in the morning.

Something I think is important to note is that the horse is bugged and will not count items as shipped unless your character is in contact with him when placing a crop. It plays a little animation of the saddle bags getting bigger. If that animation doesn't play then you just wasted an item

Tip Number 3 isn't as cruel as you think: The reason you don't need to feed the Chicks of Calves because the Mothers feed them until they're grown up.

I've been having a surprisingly good time playing this on the switch online release! I'm a long time fan of the series but my first HM game was on the GBA so I missed these earlier additions. I can't believe how well it's aged! There's a few quality of life things I miss like an inventory and character sprites but overall it's still been an addicting, fun experience. Thanks for these tips!

Watching for tips since it’s now on Nintendo Switch Online 😁

I'm 28 and grew up on this masterpiece. Got it around 4-5, and watched my mother play it and had a huge love for it. It's still so well made for a game from that time.

a couple of tips destroy any wood fencing seen as wild dogs only appear with them on the ground also do any farm work like planting watering and rock and lumber collecting at 6 pm seen as night is infinite

This was where it all started for me. I probably still have my print out of the walkthrough from Game FAQs. I can't believe it has been 21 years (for me).

My favorite game of all time. I wish there was an updated version of this game with just a backpack add on. It's so good! I wonder if anyone's released the code for it so we can mod it?!

My dream game would honestly be features from FoMT with these SNES graphics. There's something so cozy about it that couldn't be matched.

Hey Josh! I watched your video and started playing the game! 🙌🏻

Just started playing, this is very helpful. Thank you!

I forgot so much of this stuff. I played it so many times on the SNES that the OST is burned in my memory. Stardew Valley has been a great successor to this game and I never knew about the marriage bug. That would have been so useful to know for repeat playthroughs

harvest moon always was a special game to me grew up on the n64 one it was amazing

Thanks I just started playing this. Found it was a new snes game on my switch

One thing I also learned, I think your overall score at the end of the game as well as an ending(I could be wrong about this since it's been a while) is influenced by how much land you used. I remember having planted grass for the farmland that I wasn't using crops for in order to increase my score when I was playing this.

I knew most of these, I played the game when I was younger, Now 29 years old, I'm replaying it again, I'm already halfway through the game in 2 parts. I remember almost every heart location. I even speed ran harvest moon friends of mineral town in 7 hours, I got all 10 power berry's. + 1 ice berry, this was my type of game, I was really good at, along with Pokémon & golden sun/zelda/dragon warrior/Final fantasy.

I hope they put it on the SNES simulator on the Switch. I really want to play this game. I am a 00 kids, so I basically grew up with DS design. People are complaining that Legens has bad graphic but I just want my pixels back.

The chance that wild dogs will come and eat your chickens is dependent on how many broken fences you have. They tend to break after it rains. If you have no fences then wild dogs wont come at all, so fences are just for if you like how they look. You can destroy broken fences with a hammer and you can get more fences in the shed beside your house that has a sign telling you how much wood you have. If you don’t want a fence that isn’t broken, you can pick it up with A and then either throw the fence in the water or walk off screen.

My first harvest moon game was Harvest Moon 2 GBC because I was obsessed with all things farming, zoo, and animal related (I was mostly obsessed with farming related stuff xD). Like my grandpa got my twin brother Harvest Moon 1 GBC and Harvest Moon 2 GBC for me so that we can both trade animals and whatnot via the link cable and that's what we did. But I did get to play this game once I got into emulating games and I really appreciated everything this game brought to the table, the fact that it started a whole genre in the gaming world is amazing. I also appreciate that Ellen is the old lady in Harvest Moon 64 (and possibly back to nature and friends of Mineral Town).

Omgosh this takes me back! Love seeing this!

Best time to clean up farm is nighttime. Eve gives you wine each time you talk to her in the bar which restores your stamina.

Dude this was so helpful I’m loving this on the switch

Cant wait to play this one

great work.

Also you can get a bell tree for 20000G

pro tip: animals only get attacked when the fences are broken. That is, if there is a broken fence on your property, there is a chance of losing an animal outside. I notice that LOTS of your fences are broken. Also, you can solve this by having no fences :P

Now that this game has been added to the switch online, let me just share that rocks can be used in place as a fence and do not break. That way you can have your animals outside. ;)

Im having some problem to pick wood 😢 my axe is a total garbage and i dont know how to improve it fast.

Hoe do i put items in my bag?

Já joguei muito esse jogo.Like 👍

Thanks!

Love this game but hate country life irl, the irony lol

Man I literally just discovered this game today and dang he look fine and agr too well I'm going to download him on my emulator

I love this game!!

YOU MISSED THE HARVEST MOON SPIRITS!!!

This game is so cute~

How do I sell things ? Press A ? 😅😅

they should have made a brothel in the town as well

Tip 8 and 9 is cheating