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Harvest Moon DS Game Tips

Harvest Moon DS is a farm simulation game initially released in 2005. The player raises crops and animals and cooks food. Various tasks involving these gameplay elements allow the player to rescue up to 101 Harvest Sprites. These Harvest Sprites are creatures that were sent to an alternate world to rescue the Harvest Goddess. Once 60 Harvest Sprites are rescued, the Harvest Goddess is revived.

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1. Raising Animals vs. Raising Crops

   • Animals and crops each have their own advantages. Animals provide consistent products over a few years for the entire year. However, animals also require much greater care and need to be fed every day. Crops can be raised with far less care and still produce gold quite effectively. The only care they need is to be watered on sunny days. The major downsides are that crops do not grow in the winter and do not have any contests to enter into, like animals or cooking. A diverse farm is a good way to ensure consistent gold production.

   Managing Harvest Sprite Teams

   • Rescued Harvest Sprites in Harvest Moon DS can be hired to help the main character with various farm tasks. Each team of Harvest Sprite specializes in one task. The price of a team is based on two factors. The amount of experience a team has increases the price of the team. The amount of friendship the team has with you decreases the cost of the team. The price of teams always will increase, so be sure to interact with Harvest Sprites to keep the price of hiring them low. Unlocking the leader of each team prevents that team from slacking off when they should be working. These Harvest Sprites should be unlocked as soon as possible.

   Marrying the Harvest Goddess

   • The Harvest Goddess is a potential wife candidate for the main character. She has significantly larger requirements to gain each of her heart events than the other Harvest Moon DS wife candidates. Each heart event is triggered by throwing a gift in her spring once the requirements are met. The black heart event is automatically gained when 60 Harvest Sprites are unlocked. The purple heart event requires walking 10,000 steps, shipping 10,000 items, catching 10,000 fish and reaching the bottom of the first mine. The blue heart event will trigger once all nine Harvest Sprite channels have been opened. The yellow heart event requires you to have given her at least 500 gifts to trigger. You can propose to her by throwing the blue feather into her spring once her heart turns red. Strawberries are a good gift choice for the Harvest Goddess. Unlike other wife candidates, diamonds do not work well on her.